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Letters rio Hospital needs municipal funds To the Editor: As a faithful reader of the Port Perry Star, it is my main source of information and knowledge of our . township activities. Specifically, regarding Council activities. I offer this clarification and comment: Two of the responsibilities of our municipal government are: 1. To provide the basic welfare need of its citizens (no homeless families). 2. To provide for the needs "aggregately" that cannot be met on an individual basis (such as safe roads, police, hospitals). However, recent reporting (Apr. 18) states that the Council feels the hospital is basically a provincial respon- sibility, and therefore has reduc- ed to $150,000 the request for $400,000. Note: The province has already picked up two-thirds of the cost. In clarification, it is a "'general municipal service and responsibility." However, tradi- tionally a hospital has always been more costly than a municipality could afford so has become a "cost-shared" funding program with the province. It is 'not private property which is to be funded by individual citizens. Included in the budget is a grant to the Historical Society and Soccer Club which is not on the list of locally financed respon- sibilities, and could very easily be donated to by individual citizens, thus, $33,000 which could have gone to the hospital fund! Grants should only be given out after the council has covered its prime responsibilities. Also an ex- Trucking business ~ (From page 18) have lived here. Mr. Sutton has applied to have a 4.6 acre parcel re-zoned to INDUSTRIAL and severed off this prime agricultural land. Agricultural zoning means farms, residential zoning means buildings (fac- tories) and wholesale and retail sales. We voiced our objection over two years ago when this was first proposed; and have personally told Mr. and Mrs. Sutton in our own home that we would welcome them as neighbours, but cannot accept this re-zoning. The re-zoning to INDUSTRIAL will give Mr. Sutton the opportuni- ty to utilize his snowmobile dealership license and also become involved in the sale of bricksand and topsoil on evenings and weekends. These are facts Mr. Sutton himself mentioned. However, even further ramifications of re-zoning exist should Mr. Sutton decide to ex- pand, retire or sell; perhaps a small factory or two? This is a distinct possibility, and one of the reasons for 'Industrial Parks." These Industrial Parks keep in- dustry from encroaching on our ever-diminishing rural agricultural land and a proper distance away from residential land. These are the Facts from our point of view, and it seems to me that if people are interested enough in an issue to write to the paper, they would be interested enough to attend council meetings to find out submissions from all parties concerned. Yours truly, F. Beatty Nestleton, Ontario Strongly disagrees with super mail boxes To the Editor: Having been away when the news broke, I was unaware of why the "Super Mail Box" was blocking the hallway entrance to the Post Office. This evening I was informed. A healthy community is part of the basis for a healthy society, it helps to reinforce, and enhance, those things taught in the family. Although a community is made up of a myriad of components, the most important of these is the feeling of belonging. As we all know it is much easier to feel at home in any setting if we know or recognize the faces around us. I would proport that "the" most effective way of hav- ing people get to know and recognize each other's faces, is through repeated casual meetings. What better place for this than "THE POST OFFICE!" It is much too easy in today's western world to insulate one's self from the community at large. Our relative wealth limits our dependence on neighbours, televi- sion, huge shopping centers, and jobs outside our communities keep us unknown. With these negative reinforcers in place we need to fight for those positive aspects within our community which provide us with the reason and impetus to get out into it. There are many problems to be overcome in providing mail ser- vice to our growing community. It is time for us, as a community, to lobby our politicians to block this attack at the heart of Port Perry. It is time for us, as in- dividuals, to think about, discuss, and put forward practical alter- natives to this ill-conceived plan. In response to the letter of Anne Franklin, Tues. May 2nd. 1 STRONGLY DISAGREE. Respectfully yours, Gordon Humphrey Port Perry Repairs Available DRIVEWAY TUNE-UP Air-Cleaned & Sealed M. MeGyinness 985-9806 985-9490 trom $49.95 (60 x 10) cessive increase was given to the library. This is a new building which has received top priority over the last few years. It would seem time to let the library fly on its own wings and reroute its in- crease to the hospital fund also, or to an affordable housing program. It is my conclusion, especially now since the Federal Budget An- nouncement, that the council had better face the reality that the Province can no longer bail out the poor municipalities, as in the past and face their prime respon- sibilities of serving all the residents not just a few elite groups is the community. I would prefer my tax dollars pay for a hospital that will serve everyone. Debbie Short Political Sciences Student Trent University Scugog Pt. presents... Scugog Per Night Proceeds to be used towards the THE KINSMEN CLUB OF PORT PERRY FRIDAY, JUNE 2nd DAVID COST: $11.00 per person in advance $13.00 per person at the door Tickets available at: Marlin Travel, Circular Records, Cine-max, AA Records -- Oshawa further development of our community parks. *Held under the authority of a Special Occasion Permit. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, May 9, 1969 -- 19 Saintfield just isn't boonies compared to Masset B.C. To the Editor: After returning from a 3 week vacation in the Port Perry area, visiting family, I decided to share this secret with my friends and family at home in Port Perry. While growing up in Saintfield for 15 years, I used to refer to by home as being in the "Boonies." I used this word often as I really believed I was in the 'Boonies' I thought 45 minutes to Oshawa or an hour to Toronto to see a movie was a long haul. Or 45 minutes for a burger at McDonalds - WOW! What a drive. Boy was I wrong! ! Last spring after I married, my husband an- nounced we'd be moving to C.F.S. Masset B.C. (as he is in the Navy) I thought great! I've never seen B.C.. But he didn't mention we'd be living in the boonies. And this Memorial Arena PORT PERRY, ONTARIO June 2 & 3,1989 "en SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd TRES HOMBRES ~ RUMOURS OF Tribute to "'Fleetwood Mac" ALL HEART COST: $10.00 per person in advance Per Night time I do mean "Boonies." Masset is a small Indian Village and Navy Base on the Northern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands. They are located off the coast, in- between Alaska and Vancouver Island. Now I must travel 7 hours by ferry, one way, toseea movie and have a burger - or 1% hours by plane. I now realize what a mistake it was to say Saintfield (10 minutes N.E. of Port Perry) is the boonies, because it certain- ly is not. And now after living here in Canadas rain forest for a year, I can honestly appreciate growing up in the beautiful Port Perry area. Sincerely, Louise Sterkenburg nee: Giannini Masset, B.C. Tribute to "ZZ Top' NICKS Tribute to "Heart" $12.00 per person at the door