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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, May 31, 1988 Chatterbox by Cathy Olliffe -- - | (From page 4) "North Bay." She rinned, | gratefully used the facilities, and must have said "Merci" about 50 times afterward. Vald'or, what a place. Like other neighbouring communi ties, Vald'or's economy is all based on mining. With a popu- lation of 35,000, you might imagine a town a lot more pro- gressive than Port Perry--but Port Perry looks like Rosedale compared to Vald'or. Everything looks so temporary there. You just don't see the old brick homes you see everywhere in southern Onta- ro. Aluminum siding or clapboard is everywhere, and almost as common as the trailers that serve as homes. The main street is wide, lined with many storefronts, many of which are empty. A bar featurin strippers along with its cold ones, blatantly pictures a voluptuously nude woman right in the downtown core. Doug and | have breakfast (while Uncle Howard sleeps) in what looks like a French version of Hank's. The restaurant is jammed with working men having hearty meals before head- ing off to their shifts at the mines. And talk about hearty. meals! Toast isn't just thin slices of bread--it's thick, and just dripping with butter. The sausages are real, and served up with biting mustard. The coffee is thick and good. The conversation all around us is French, a constant hum that's completely foreign to me and Doug. We feel left out, we feel guilty for not knowing the language, we feel exotic, like tourists from another world. It's a neat feeling. We stum- ble through what bits of French we can remember from grammar school, while the waitress laughingly encourages us with the few words of English she knows. _ We feel like we've travelled a million miles--we can't be- lieve we've only been away from Toronto for 10 hours. _ After wandering around Vald'or for a few hours (stagger- ing, not actually wandering--1 hadn't pulled an all-nighter like this one since college), we met up again with Uncle Howard, ready to roll after a couple dozen winks. What a great adventure. Perched up high as a kite in that truck, eyeballing cars that looked like toys, with red-legged passengers (who had obviously spent the weekend out- side) heading back from the cottage. Listening to Uncle Ho- ward meet new folks on the CB, including a couple of youngsters in smaller wagons, who breathlessly took ad- vantage of being able to talk to a real, live trucker. Jobs are plentiful Farmers need workers Students and young people in the Scugog Area should have little trouble finding work on farms this summer, Eleanor O'Neill, co-ordinator of the summer work program with the Agricultural Employment Ser- vices Office in Port Perry, said last week there is a demand for workers at such jobs as haying, strawberry picking, grass cutting, stone picking and general farm work in this area. Most of the farm jobs will pay about $5 per hour (more for exceptional workers) but strawber- ry picking is paid on piece work basis. Ms. O'Neill, a graduate this spring from the Ontario Agricul- tural College in Guelph, has been visiting schools in the area to in- form guidance departments of the job opportunities for summer stu- dents. The Agriculture Employment Office is located at 170 Queen Street in Port Perry. It is open regular business hours during the week. For more information about summer job opportunities, or for farmers wishing to hire students, the phone number is 985-3831, or 1-800-263-3825. JOHN COUGAR DEF LEPPARD -- WWF -- WRESTLING Book Now ... 571-1444 COLLEGE HILL TOURS a ea ws SOT Eleanor O'Neill Is the summer work co-ordinator with the Agricultural Employment Services office in Port Perry. There are lots of job'opportunities this year on area farms for young people willing to work. For more info, contact Eleanor at 985-3831. | | PORT PERRY £2 LIFESTYLE 700 PLAZA = | 985-8054 TOTAL HEALTH & BODY CARE UNWANTED HAIR REMOVED Permanently and Painlessly at LIFESTYLE 2000 Call for a FREE Consultation Allen's Siding P (FORMERLY CHRIS ALLEN ALUMINUM) ALUMINUM & VINYL WINDOWS -- Tilt for easy cleaning -- Install in existing frames 'Cause there's a lot of people out there who envy truck drivers. Who want to experience their way of life, the free- dom of the open road, the status of handling such an im- mense machine. There's not too many other jobs that allow you to experi- ence the eerie stillness of north country at 4:40 a.m. And for this experience, | owe my Uncle Howard a hearty thank-you from the bottom of my heart. Scugog Choral Society AUDITIONS -- for -- 'OLIVER' WED., MAY 25th & JUNE 8th 7:30 PM -- TOWN HALL 1873 Queen & Lilla Street, Port Perry YOUNG CHILDREN, ADULT LEADS & CHORUS Performance - First two weeks in November. For more information call 985-7183 CHORAL SOCIETY roducts vm. REACH INDUSTRIAL PARK -- Casement Bay, Bow Side Sliders Enjoy the PR Ml Try more shes summer surrounded ls pi SHUTTERS - WINDOWS by sunshine! 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