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TY -- @BRY Nand veahsenT -- RAT? YO Yq vann 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 6, 1989 Letters to the Editor Hastily made garbage (From page 8) landfill alternatives: (1) Metro (G.T.A.); (2) Metro ash with an energy from waste facility; and (3) Durham only, you will see they break down about evenly. Depending on your priorities, one has the choice of short term finan- cial gain or Durham's autonomy coupled with the capacity to safeguard our environment. By aligning Durham with G.T.A., Council has hitched our wagon to a bull with a belly-ache and we will surely find ourselves impal- ed on its horn. I have little doubt that there has been a measure of collusion in- volved in Council's decision. A collusion necessitated out of con- cern that a vote against the recommendations could ultimate- ly result in a Metro landfill sitein one's own municipality. This is understandable but that fear was exacerbated by the misconcep- tion that a dump had to be a Metro dump with its horrendous volume of garbage. A Durham only alter- native would have meant smaller, more manageable landfill sites and a much reduced possibility of environmental impairment. By voting in favour of G.T.A,, you have committed yet another municipality to a Metro landfill site in all too near future. Your decision has only temporarily School Band. Fair last Saturday. Congratulations to Mr. and Remember When? | (From page 7) 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 11, 1964 The Boy Scouts and Cubs of Scugog Packs "A" and "B"' held their annual Church Parade on June 7th at Grace Church, Scugog Island, led by drummer, Susan Roach from the Port Perry High "Tony Worthy" a race horse owned by Ivan Cochrane of Nestleton, crossed under the wire in the winner's position in the first heat of the 400 Classified r Mrs. Albert Wright, Blackstock, who will be married 50 years on June 17th. Mr. Grant Christie, Manchester, attended the Ex-Warden's dinner at Beaverton on Wednesday evening. ace held at the Brooklin Spring \--- Mrs. Neil Malcolm, President of the Blackstock U.C.W. cor- dially welcomed over 300 ladies to a luncheon held in the Blackstock Recreation Centre. Guest speaker for the event was Mrs. Betty Kennedy, well known television personality. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 12, 1969 Charles Nelson won the 2nd place trophy in the intermediate over 176 Ibs. category at the Hamilton Open Judo Championship held at Stoney Creek District High School on Saturday, May 31. Charles is a member of the Port Perry Maple Leaf Judo Club. Ratepayers in Cartwright Township will have to face a con- siderable increase in the mill rates this year. This is due to in- creased cost in education, a trend that occurred in most municipalities. Residential rates will increase from 99.03 to 108.5 and Commercial from 109.14 to 121. mills. Entries for the 1969 "Canoe the Nonquon" are numbered at 22. It is reported that the course has plenty of water in the up- per reaches and only one beaver dam shows to be a problem. Congratulations to Mr. K. Wilson, Epsom, who received his Master of Science Degree at Toronto University and is now employed as a research chemist at Fiberglass of Canada at Sarnia. The largest set of half trusses ever to leave Lake Scugog Lumber was transported to McCaskell Lumber in Pefferlaw for the Shier Bros. dairy farm, last Monday. The Mono Trusses spanned 47°3"', 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 6, 1979 Durham Northumberland M.P. Allan Lawrence has been handed dual responsibilities as solicitor general & minister for consumer & corporate affairs in the new Progressive Conser- vative cabinet. Port Perry Star sports reporter Danny Millar received a special award at the High School Athletic Banquet last week in recognition of his contrubition of high school athletics through his sports reporting. Janet Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.G. Watson, Port Perry, received her Honours Bachelor of Music from McMaster University. A fire last Sat. afternoon caused about $1000 damage to a 26-foot cruiser moored at the Port Perry Marina. The weather obliged beautifully for the official opening of the Seagrave Ball Park on Sat. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Elliott celebrated their 65th Wed- ding Anniversary on June 2. The couple were married in Clare- mont and lived most of their lives in Brooklin. Colin Wackett & Kathy Smith were named male & female athletes of the year at the Port Perry High School Athletic ban- quet held Wed., May 30. George Burnett of Port Perry was selected in the third round by London Knights of the OMJHL during the annual.draft of midget-age players. Rose Baxter of Port Perry received the Guide All-Round Cord, Sunday in a ceremony at the Catholic Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Medd celebrated their 45th Wedding An- niversary at a special dinner with family. decision was a serious error forestalled the day when Metro garbage will be coming to your backyard. Pickering, and lately Durham, are often referred to as dormitories for Metro. You have now invited them to also use it as a trash can. Finally, I ask you to question the action of Premier Peterson who has apparently brushed aside policy statements of two of his ministers (the pledge of a full EAA and the non use of provincial land for waste disposal). It tells you what little protection your municipalities will have when your turn comes. Consider as well the callus disregard he displayed toward the seventeen years of uncertainity and dislocation in- flicted on this area by stupid, ar- rogant and insensitive govern- ments. Mr. Peterson has in- gratiated himself to Metro at the expense of people who have already endured much pain and distress at the hands of govern- ment. He has compounded his contempt by compromising the credibility of our M.P.P. Nora Stoner to the degree that if she is to maintain her integrity she may have to cross the floor of the legislature and sit as an indepen- dent. I say independent because the two opposition leaders duck- ed the issue. Mr. Peterson has no moral right to do what he has done and every card-carrying member of the Provincial Liberal Party in Pickering should par- ticipate in a card burning of Pickering. This decisior is wrong. You can change it. You can frame a motion to rescind as readily as the original was con- spired. You can ensure that your legacy as a representative of the people of Durham is something other than another monstrous garbage dump. However, should you persist with this atrocious plan, which caters to rather than confronts a societal sickness, I can only muse as the mountain of garbage, the ceremony at the P-1 site. Mr. Vesuvius of Whitevale rises Peterson's intervention made Council's decision much easier than another alternative may have been initially, but the strings are many and long and the web is exceedingly tangled. You, the members of Durham Regional Council, have been caught up in a contrived urgency and bamboozled into making a decision that represents a traves- ty against the people and the land Controversial film will be released on video To the Editor: In the Toronto papers last week, there were several articles concerning video stores not will- ing to carry the 1988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ." This is, of course, the same film that sparked vicious religious debates when released late last summer. So strong was the film's impact that many countries banned it, director Martin Scorsese receiv- ed death threats, angry and abusive picketers marched out- side theatres showing the film, a theatre in Paris was bombed for showing the film and many faiths were claimed to be damaged over the film. It is safe to say, that no film since "Last Tango in Paris' caused such outrage. As the film's release date on video draws closer, it seems that some of the controversey is about to turn up again. I saw the film last fall, not because of the debates over it, but because Martin Scorsese is an im- portant director, and I try to see all films. What I saw was nothing like what I had expected, and I still feel strongly that "The Last Temptation of Christ" was 1988's best film. Critics were split on their views of the film, although the best and most literate film critics (Jay Scott of the Globe and Mail, Pauline Kael of the New Yorker, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, Janet Maslin of the L.A. Times, and Richard Schikel of Time) raved about the film and Scorsese's direction. Myself, admittedly was stunned by the film's raw power and beau- ty, and found myself drawn into this strange tale of Christ whether I wanted to be or not. Jesus Christ has been por- trayed on film before, in many different ways, but never as honest and as strongly as Willem Dafoe portrays him here. Usual- ly Christ is done as a holier than thou being surrounded with special effect lighting and garbed in white. Franco Zefferelli"s TV epic "Jesus of Nazereth" did this, and very well, but I never felt close to the actor (Robert Powell) portraying Christ. The Christ that Willem Dafoe and Martin Scorsese have created is someone we could understand. He is afraid of who he may be, and at the film's beginning does not quite understand his purpose. Throughout the course of the film -he grows into a powerful figure, (Turn to page 12) before us, that eventually we will have a ski hill. We can name it Peterson's Peak. On the other hand we may have a subdivision where every home boasts a methane gas barbeque. It may be appropriately called Herrema Heights. Then of course we have the air- port as a coming attraction. When the Sheraton and Hilton and others ascend to many stories along Highway Seven, the guests will be able to view from their balconies the gulls and the trucks and the bulldozers busily pro- ceeding with the Greater Toron- to Area waste management Master Plan - Dump it in Durham! Sincerely, Al Ward, Box 425, Markham, Ont. their jobs. noise. act until the case is heard by A couple of months ago, schools is out the window. respo votes come election day. nonsense. They want to see Viewpoint by John B. McClelland (From page 7) dos are running the courts and the jails, hiding behind the Charter to snub their noses at the justice system and the beleaguered cops, many of whom live in constant fear of being dragged in front of some tribunal just for trying to do Hardly a week or day goes by that | don't get into a conversation with somebody in this community who can't figure out what seems to be happening in the country. Somehow in the last couple of decades, we have be- come a nation of wimps, spineless jellyfish all too eager to pour the oil over the wheels that are making the most We have a Young Offenders Act that is driving police forces around the bend. Just last week, this paper received information about proposed changes to the 1 the changes go through, any shop owner will have to give written reasons to remove an ) : unwanted person, and if that person responds in writing, th e shop owner is powerless to some court. somebody in Ontario objected blic school system at the start f court and the result was pre- dictable: the Prayer, a time honoured tradition in our to the Lords Prayer in the pu of the day. The case went to To use a time worn cliche, the tail is wagging the dog, and that is what has people so damn ticked 0 The silent majority is just that: silent. And politicians, the Peeple who make the rules, laws and regulations don't to silence. They respond to organized noise, out of fear that organized noise will turn into an organized block of A lot of people are wonderi emerge in this country that will understand the silent maijori- . and stand up and say a big the ' resounding NO to the rest of them, courts that hand out sentences that are more than a joke, a bit of respect for some of the institutions and tradi- tions that have been around for a few years in this country, such as an oath of allegiance to the & i all parts of the nation where needed and justified. vernment trim its spending, rather than pay the bills by hik ng their taxes. They want someone to get tough on the environment and those who environment. They want decent schools and hospitals. And possibly most of all, they want a bit of respect. respass Act. If f these days. ng when a political party will own, bilinguals pollute the FIER WS ER SRE Gs Cees