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6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, October 7, 1986 Letters Dad says "good luck" To The Editor: I read with much interest, your comments .in Viewpoint about the open air rink. I recall the one that you skated on - it was about 50'x30' and had a high spot on one end but that didn't seem to matter. The Town provided and erected the boards and a counle of floodlights and the Fire Department looked after the initial flooding. (Mr. Mayor please note.) A game of shinny hockey, with ten or twelve on each side, no blue lines or off sides, was to behold as were the carnivals with all the young ones trying to stay upright until the judges had picked the win- ners. There was just one rule for skating - no sticks or pucks on the ice. Cleaning the ice after a snow storm was no problem - by 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday or 4:00 p.m. on a weekday it was all done. None of the boys and girls who made good use of this rink ever made it to the N.H.L. or the Olym- pics but they did learn to stay on their skates and "cut corners both ways" which helped them to become nice skaters. Your home town still has two of these rinks, much larger than the earlier ones with an area divided off for casual skating. They are very popular and much used by both young and old. Best of all they are still Free. Good luck with your proposal. Sincerely, Your Dad, Borden McClelland, Deep River, Ontario. Just a snarky letter Dear Sir: What with the weather we've been - having there's not much else to do but write a snarky letter to the editor. First, I'd like to take off on Kaaren Johnston's delight in Port Perry as a movie set. What's so great about being disguised as an obscure, fictional town in the United States with the Stars and Stripes (a foreign flag, at the moment) flying over the post office and the hard- ware store? It seems pretty tackey to me. How right Johnston was to put the words of stardom and notoriety in quotation marks. And while we're at it, perhaps she'll let us in on the wickedness for which she finds our town notorious, i.e. "widely and unfavourably known for something reprehensible or scandalous?" The second irritant was the careless cutline on the picture of Eliza Fralick's magnificent poster for the fair of 1886. This was hardly the "first ever." There was a Reach and Scugog Agricultural Society as early as 1853 and it held fairs sometimes in Port Perry, sometimes in Prince Albert and oc- casionally in Manchester. The first annual fair in Port Perry was held in the year of Confederation (not a quiver of interest in the township) and was housed in Paxton and Tate's brand new implement fac- tory before the machinery was in- stalled. This was on the railway line at the foot of Paxton street where to- day your devoutly respected publisher lives in neo-nineteenth century splendour; lacking only a hitching post for his prospective Jaguar van den Plas limo. Yours truly, Bill Graham Greenbank SGIVING DINNER Sunday & Monday OCTOBER 12th & 13th Turkey & All the Fixin's -- SCUGOG ISLAND -- (R.R.3) PORT PERRY Mile Island RESORT D DURHAM THE REGIONAL - MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM HOLIDAY CLOSURE OF SANITARY LANDFILL SITE The SCUGOG WASTE DISPOSAL SITE AND CARTWRIGHT! TRANSFER STATION will be closed on Monday, October 13, 1986, due to the Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Normal operations will continue on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1986. W.A. TWELVETREES, P.ENG., COMMISSIONER OF WORKS 'Be a blood donor... Give the gift of life The Sunderland Lions Club and Brock Branch 141 Royal Canadian Legion are holding a Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic on Friday, Oc- tober 17, 1986. "We need your type' A. O.B & AB. You will donate about half a litre (or one pint) and your body quickly replaces this small amount. About one third of your donation consists of blood cells and the rest is a fluid called plasma. More than 90 percent of plasma is water, the remainder is made up of protein, salts and sugar. The old saying goes, "blood is thicker than water," but the truth is most of the unit that you give is ac- Hospital Week Ending October 2, 1986 Admitted............. .................... 26 PHOTOCOPIES? We can do them for you! Letter, Legal & Ledger. Reduced & Enlarged. PORT PERRY STAR 235 Queen Street 985-7383 Paula Lishman invites you to visit her studio and experience the comfort and luxury of a knit fur. Knit Fur jackets, capes, sweaters and full length coats. Fur yarn also available. Come wrap yourself in comfort. Paula Lishman Ltd. 62 Old Scugog Road Blackstock, Ontario 686-1935 986-5096 Monday to Friday9am to4 p.m Saturday 10am to 5 pm tually water, but a mixture more precious than gold. The Red Cross makes every drop count by separating the blood into components, and therefore the hospital is able to give only the com- ponents a patient requires. Over twenty separate components can be made from your donation. The supply of blood never seems to be enough. The Red Cross, and in turn the hospitals, depend on people like you to share this "Gift of Life." Most persons in good health bet- ween the ages of 17 and 66 find it quite easy to give blood. It only takes about 30 minutes to register, give blood, rest, take refreshment and be on your way. Donating blood does not transmit any disease to the donor. The equip- ment used is new, sterile and disposable. It is used for only one donor. Donors are urged not to take aspirin or similar medications 24 hours prior to attending the clinic. Have something to eat before you come and drink plenty of fluids after. Avoid strenuous exercise and smoking for several hours after giv- ing blood. The Red Cross is concerned for the well being of the donor and for the person who will receive the final component of the blood. This con- cern for donor and recipient deter- mines whether a donation will be taken. If not, the reason will be ex- plained and decided if the deferral should be temporary or permanent. Although every drop of blood you donate is used, shortages persist and the only source for this magical fluid is you and me. The target on October 17th is 200 units. Give the Gift of Life and help realize this goal. Chatterbox (From page 4) game world, with celebrity players, formal dress, a referee straight from Parker Brothers, real bank tellers to act as bankers, and armed guards to deliver the cash. A screenwriter has already pro- mised to vanquish a CBC reporter; Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor is confident of whupping Uxbridge Mayor Gerri Lynn O'Connor; Port Perry Star Publisher Peter Hvidsten has vowed to get Uxbridge Times Journal Publisher Harry Stemp; and our new MPP Sam Cureatz | hopes to beat them all. Nothing's been confirmed yet, but I'm hoping to see Toronto Rocks star Brad Giffen shooting the dice, along with MP Allan Lawrence. Heck, maybe we could even ask Matt Dillon. But maybe not. After all, we can't have too many celebrity types playing the game because it is limited to only 25 players. That means, if you want to play, you have to be among the first 25 people to call the Port Perry Star, ask for me, and register for the Championship. First come, first serve. If you're the 26th caller, you're out of luck. There are a couple of catches, however. To offset the cost of running the Championship, each player must pay a ten dollar registration fee before the preliminary round begins. Even celebrities must pay. And each player must be will- ing to dress up for the occasion. Several of the politicians I talked to are going to wear the best . tuxes. Which doesn't mean you have to run out and spend a hun- dred bucks for a tux. It dows mean, however, that you have to dress up to the best of your abilities. We want this to be a glitzy af- fair. And you'll want to be dress- ed up too, because we're inviting every newspaper, radio and TV station within 100 miles of here to cover this prestigious event. We're still not sure where in Port Perry the Championship will be held, but I'll be able to tell you next week. So watch my Chatter- box for further details. Yes, spectators and cheering sections are welcome. The more the merrier. Refreshments will be on hand for everybody in attendance. As I've said, it's going to be a terrific event. But if you want to play, call me immediately. I know there's going to be a lot of people dialling my number (985-7383), so catch a place in the excitement while you can. And may the fiercest com- petitor win. P.S. Anybody aged 12 and up is eligible to play. So call now. 985-7383. Our operators are stan- ding by. Editorial (From page 4) the next two meetings, but maybe, just maybe there will be progress, no matter how small. And talking about confusing signals from Moscow. Last week, as the Soviet foreign minister paid a courtesy call on Canada's Joe Clark in Ottawa, he was greeted by demonstrators waving signs to protest the treatment of Soviet Jewish Citizens. Mr. Chevardnadze surprised many people when he actually went out of his way to talk to the demonstrators and then asked them for a list of people in the Soviet Union who are prohibited from leaving that country. The cynics scoffed at this gesture on his part, saying it won't result in one Soviet Jew being allowed to emigrate. They say it was nothing but a cheap P.R. trick for the TV cameras. Maybe so. But how many times in the past have you ever seen any high ranking Soviet official come face to face with protesters in the West. A few words and a smile may be cheap, but it may be bet- ter than nothing. In any event, the world has no choice but to be optimistic that the Soviet leadership is telling the truth when it says changes are needed. A change in atmosphere, a change in the climate of rela- tions between Moscow and Washington may be the necessary first step.