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| Vol. 121 No. 4 from the management and staff at the Tuesday, December 23, 1986 Copy 35° 52 Pages RTH JT% JTS FN SR JR 7% RAR ROTR ROG YERTh JOTh Rh Jk Rk urdk Jk RUTh ROR dh Ru RO ch se There's no busier time of year than Christmas and nobody knows it better than the folks at the Port Perry Star. Due to limited space and an immense amount of material, the Star cannot publish all Christmas-related stories, letters and photographs in this issue. Articles and pictures not featured this week will be featured in the next paper, our New Year's issue. In the meantime, enjoy the many stories we have published about - this special time of year, as well as the holidays themselves. And from all of us at the Star to all of you, have the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years! ) Teacher Lynette Nastich poses with three Reaction among local business people has been generally favourable to the Supreme Court ruling handed down last Thursday which upholds the Ontario Retail Business Holiday Act. Essentially, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that certain stores in . Ontario may not be open for business on Sundays and holidays, while other stores may stay open if the portable they study in. From left is Robert of the students in her class who worked together Bradley, 12, Robbie Martyn, 9, and Tara Mollon, to create an exact scale gingerbread replica of 10. See story for details. they meet certain specified criteria. "I think it (the decision) is just great," said local furniture dealer | and Ward 2 councillor Howard Hall. "The fact that the decision was 6-1 ° (among the Supreme Court Justices) tells me it was the right decision," he stated. Mr. Hall, who has never opened his store on Sundays or holidays and says he never will, suggested however, that the provincial govern- ment likely will be forced to make some changes in the legislation. He said the regulations need to be clarified and also broadened slightly. Bill Barr, owner of the Stedmans Store in Port Perry said he was pleased with the Supreme Court I Merchants pleased with ruling on Sunday vlosings decision. However, he said it is now up to the province to either *"'enforce the law or change it." He suggested that the current fine of up to $10,000 may not be enough of a deterrent for - a large department store in a metropolitan area. Mr. Barr said he has no plans to open his store on Sundays, although in the past, he has been open on a Boxing Day and on the Sunday just prior to Christmas. That will not be the case this year. "Personally, I won't be open on Sundays. I like to have that day off," he stated. Chic Carnegie, a partner in Homestead Furniture also said he was pleased with the court's ruling (Turn to page 2) Gingerbread portable? Kids get in the At Christmas it's not unusual to see families creating gingerbread houses--it's part of a North American holiday tradition that dates back hundreds of years. But it is unusual to see a group of students create, to scale, an exact replica of their classroom in gingerbread. That's what the students of teacher Lynette Nastich have been doing over the last few weeks at Prince Albert Public School. Together with the help of Lynette and parent Sue Bradley, the youngsters have built a gingerbread portable, uncannily similar to the Christmas spirit portable they study primary junior language in day after day. Chocolate bars represent file cabinets, cookies take the place of desks, and inside the portable are enough tiny gingerbread men to represent each student in the class. What's more, everything about the structure was made from scratch. Sue Bradley helped make the dough, the children measured the real portable and produced pat- terns made to scale, and everybody helped put it together and decorate. And more than likely, when Christmas is said and done with, everybody will help eat it too! TT |,