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de a ml I yy - - te - ro il veg GTR Ree RT IR Weel ETON Eee a" 3 es = = . = pa es x 18 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 15, 1986 ' Take a Look Back oe 1 Reflections of a golden age by Mabel M. McCabe You know | get many of my ideas for these columns from the newspapers and the advertisements on TV. There is one ad runn- ing now that sets me to laughing. They seem to be telling us about a new product but if they would go to the older people they'd be told it was around years ago. Just let your mind float back to those days when you strolled - with a special one and eventually found your way to the nearby phar- macy. You know as well as | that they all had soda fountains and for just five cents you ordered yoursolt a Cherry Coke. Now do you get it? Both Coca Cola and Pepsi are naw flogging cherry flavour as if it was something that they had just discovered and we courted over it and gossiped with friends over it and even cried into it at times. These Ad-men are sure off the beam on this one. Writing about those marvelous drug stores of the past makes me a little sad. Why do all the good things have to go to make way for the large impersonal chains. You could always find one with its foun- [§ tain and the small metal tables and fancy backed chairs. Almost every | corner had one and if you happened to walk too far you did not miss out because there would be the sign right around the next corner. Those Cherry Cokes sure were good and they were not the only thing on the list. You could get Verner's Ginger Ale, or Lemon Coke, or a super Banana Split. Then there was the friendly Soda Jerk who could be counted on to bring you up on all the latest news in his area. He was always a young lad who had trouble keeping his apron clean, and his hair stuck out like bristles from his funny cap. | wonder how-many memories I've stirred up? | know | can even recall the faces, but some of the names have evaded my memory. Those were the wonderful carefree days before the war and before the cares of life and living had quite caught up with me. It's so good to wander back to that time of my life now and then. To know that many out there probably have some similar thoughts is good. This week's photograph shows A.C. Elliott's delivery truck in 1915. Elliott had his general store and home on Baldwin Street, where the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce stands to- day, for many years. As a service to his customers, Elliott would load groceries into his truck and tour the surrounding rural areas of- fering his wares to the farm women. In the background, you can see the side of the old Brooklin Hotel which was built around 1885 or 1886. The building stayed a hotel, through various owners until 1967 when it was purchased by Brooklin Legion. . Viewpoint by ROXANNE REVELER I have just returned from the funeral of a person who was very dear to me ... more dear than I realized until it was too late to tell him so, and it made me realize how we take people for granted, particularily our relatives. In the past, I have read in the column of my friend and colleague Mabel McCabe, her concerns over the way families today are drif- ting apart. I now realize that this is only too true and that I am just as guilty as anyone else. The man who died was my husband's Un- " cle Tom, a kind, loving and overly generous man of 94, who many would say had 'lived a long life." As though the loss of someone who is old is any less heart-wrenching than that of a younger person. No one wants to die, and no one wants to see anyone die, but that is the way it is. It is inevitable and there is really nothing that can be done about it. What can be done to change things is the short interim time we have to spend with those with whom we share blood ties, no matter how long, or short, the time alotted. But Uncle Tom's death was for me more than just another death. It was the death of history, the death of times gone by and a dynamic and productive family. You see, the Revelers are a part of the history of Eastern Ontario and therefore a part of Canada itself. Originally of French Huguenot stock, the ancestors escaped the Protestent persecutions of France, cinigrating to the British Isles. From there, when the persecution of their religion again caught up with them, it was again time to emigrate. This time it was to the United States, in particular, Upper New York State. After a while, it was trouble again. This time in the form of a country struggling for independence, and so, with the United Empire Loyalists, the Reveler clan migrated nor- thward, across the mighty St. Lawrence and into the Ottawa Valley. Once situated in what they hoped would be 'home' forever, they purchased land in the valley in the early 1800's, one of the original settlers we might add, and over the years developed one of the most prosperous farms in the area. From the one man and two young sons that survived the original trek, a large family grew. Over the years, it was the Revelers who brought the first electricity to the area, who had the first tractor and paved the way for many other "modern" inventions designed to make the farmers job easier. From this large family, it dwindled down to a family of four children. Uncle Tom, his younger brother, and my husband's father, James, and two sisters, Jennie and Eva. It turned out that James, or Mac as he was more commonly known, had the brains in the fami- ly. He graduated 'from high school at age 16 with honours and entered the University of Toronto where he completed his degree in dentistry, then became the first dentist in East York and made his home there. It was Uncle Tom's job to hold down the fort at the farm. When Jennie married and moved into the other family farm across the road, things * were rosy until her husband died at an early age leaving her with two small boys. Uncle Tom not only took over the responsibilities of looking after his sister and raising her two boys, but he also worked the farm so they would have a living to fall Lack on. Well they all passed away, one by one, Un- cle Tom played father to each niece and nephew in turn; to my husband and I for near- ly 20 years. Through circumstances of adop- tion, marriage, the birth of daughters rather than sons, my husbaad is the only original pro- duct to bear the family name, and in turn, our son the last who can carry on this old name. But although there are not many Revelers left, there are many relatives, scattered throughout Southern Ontario. And this is the point that makes me sad. With so many cousins, aunts etc. around, my children know but a small handful. They are mainly comprised of the immediate side of the family produced by my husband's father and Turn to page 19 | hope by the memory of them they can relive some good days. Youth gets six months in criminal negligence case From page 17 In his summation, Bagg sug- gested the accused was "a person who puts on a facade for the court" and who is really a "callous per- son,"' as showed. by the way he treated his victims at school. He stated it was a privilege to drive on the highways adding that when those privileges are abused it calls for the maximum penalties. "The events that.ed to this tragic accident were simply a matter of 'race and chase' at over 100 kilometers an hour, not simply a wrong choice in going through the stop sign," said Bagg, adding that the accused was driving a big truck at the time, not a small car, and should have been more careful. '"He (Martin) knows this area...he has lived in Brooklin all his life," said Bagg. "He knew there was a potential problem at the stop sign and he: chose to ignore it." Bagg introduced as evidence Mar- tin's driving record which indicated tickets he had received in May 1984 for driving 75 in a 50 km. zone; August 1984 for driving 109 in an 80 zone, for which his licence was suspended for one month; October 1984 for unnecesssary noise; and in April 1985 for driving 65 in a 50 zone. | SURGERY _--> Bagg also pointed to the presentencing report, saying the ac- cused spent most of his leisure time building and repairing trucks. "He likes 4-wheeling at reckless speeds on vacant land north of Brooklin and I suggest the accused was also driving recklessly at the time of the accident," said Bagg. '"'He had every opportunity to end the chase and chose not to do.so." Bagg asked for the maximum suspension of Martin's licence (three years) and fof an incarcera- tion of two to three years followed by a maximum of probation. Greenaway, on the other hand, stated his client should be given a sentence which would "allow him to continue with his life."' He asked for a period of incarceration within the maximum of temporary absence along with probation, and substan- tial community service. But Judge Lovekin chose to sentence Martin to six months in jail, while suspending his licence for the maximum allowable time. _ After the sentence was given, one of the parents stated the verdict was "the pits," indicating they had no problem with the jail sentence, but felt the maximum time allowable for suspension of a drivers licence should be increased.