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CW EE NY TY MEY TTR YY FY OY YY YY WY YM DW RYMY YY YY TE MW TY YT TY TTY YY Mw = VEG fF } \ FAS: Bat "qr 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 13, 1989 0ff The Top Rob Streich Lacey lady lilacs like light, lavender liqueurs The lilacs are killing me (and it's not just the alliteration). No, they haven't animated and begun lurking outside my Shartient waiting to throttle me with their roots late at night. e effect they are having is more in tune with choking me via their sickly, cloying odour and feelings of love in the air. Cycling along the miles of country road throughout Scugog Township one cannot help but notice the heavy, syrupy fra- grance on the breeze, and see the brilliant purples and pinks. While | do and am suffering from allergies, It's not the lilacs. In fact the problem the lilacs are causing relates entirely to a part of my body only distantly associated with my sore, runny nose and itchy, watery eyes - my heart. | know that many people are familiar with the expression, 'in the springtime a young man's fancy turns to love'. Well, it is not spring that turns my fancy but the grape soda smell of those fields of lilacs. Somehow they always make me think of a crush | went through in senior public school. Her dime store perfume used to remind me of the thick odour of lilacs in spring. : The effect is really quite unconscious. First, | get a tingling in my nose, and without thinking, my diaphragm twitches and ~ my lungs fill up with l'essence de lilac. | usually think how nice it - smells, and immediately slip into a daydream or two, imagining ~ what it would be like to be happily wed with rugrats of my own. Remember that this occurs while | am riding a bicycle and, thankfully, there are frequent other distractions which pull me out of my musings before any permanent damage can be done. Cynical you say. Not at all, | just happen to feel that | am at ~ a stage in my life re it is great to be single - most of the time. But with my friends dropping like flies into the bonds of mar- . riage, some days | wonder just what it is that | am doing wrong. And | am not the only one who thinks that way, oh.nol that | should at least be seeing someone. - before it's too late! Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against the institution of marriage. I've even been involved in a long term relationship where the 'M' word was discussed, and lived to tell the tale. ; But what is wrong with being selfish for of your life? Spending your earnings on yourself alone. Taking time to do at you want. Glorying in your independence and enjoying such simple pleasures as running around your apartment in your underwear, face unshaven, with a pile of laundry in one corner, the television blaring, dishes sitting on every available surface, bed unmade, hair held out of your eyes with a bandanna, pa- pers and books stacked on half of the couch, and several bottles of potable liquid arranged on top of the stove. That is living! If | wasn't single, many simple pleasures would be lost. I'm not that self-centred, but it's nice not to care what other people think and to avoid catering to them. Can you imagine me with kids, feeding and cleaning and disciplining them? Not this cat! But those blinkin' lilacs keep catching me off guard and generating this warm feeling in my heart, that | enjoy too much to run away from. Good thing they. only blossom once a year! - Many of my so called friends and relatives must seem to think . that my time is running out, (my biological clock is ticking) and FALSE PROMISES? When your thinking about advertising, don't be fooled by falsé promises and large circulations. Many newpapers are given away FREE, thrown at the bottom or your driveway, or in the ditch. But how many of these are actually read? The Port Perry Star has a paid circulation of 7,000 copies per week. Our readers want the Star and the pay to make sure they have it in their homes. By advertising in the Star, your message will reach these potential customers. For Advertising Made Easy call the STAR at 985-7383 Pineridge District New Scout Commissioner | On Saturday evening the Pine Ridge District Council for Scouts held an Appreciation night at the Oddfellows Hall. Dedicated volunteers from all aspects of Scouting were invited to enjoy music, dance and have refreshments. During the evening a long awaited announcement was made Letters to the editor naming Len Skidmore the new District Commissioner. Len has been Cub leader with 1st. Ux- bridge for seven years. Len has a good knowledge of the Scouting movement and has been very ac- tive in Uxbridge and at the district level. Pine Ridge district has a new- ly elected executive council - Ruth Collin, PiSsidem, Alf Huggin - Vice President, Ellen Greenough - Treasurer, Butch McCellan ana Betty Williams - directors. We would like to see all Scouters out Thursday June 15, 7:30 at the Kinsmen Hall to welcome our new District Commissioner and council. Open letter to China's president To the Editor: As I do not have a mailing ad- dress for Deng Xiaoping, China's president, would you be so kind as to print this letter that I wrote to him? Perhaps through some cryptic channels, he'll receive my message. Dear Mr. Deng: How are you feeling? Have you washed the blood from your hands yet? Does your back hurt from digging all of those graves? I suppose your hands must be gloved in blisters from pulling all of those triggers. Well, my heart goes out to you. Mainly because you don't have one of your own. I saw you on television recent- ly. 1 watched as you drove the tanks over the students, while Garbage group? To the Editor: I attended Scugog Town- ship's most recent council meet- ing because I knew that Art Leitch, director of operations for Durham Region, would be there to talk to the council about waste management, present and future, in the Re- gion. Surely everyone is aware that disposal of garbage has be- come a critical issue for our soci- ety as a whole, with our own Township being no exception. I am aware of a few other people locally who have become interested in starting an envi- ronmental group, the purpose of which will be to raise public . awareness in general about these issues, and to provide spe- cificinformation to the "average citizen," as to how all of us can help fight against waste and pollution. Would anyone who is inter- ested in helping to get such a group off the ground please give me a call at 986-3226. Yours truly, Janet Banting, Greenbank. they stood before you in defiance, unprotected. I watched as your fingers pulled the trigger of every gun that sent a bullet ripping through the body of someone's young son or daughter. Was that a smile I saw on your face? What an accomplishment for you! The world will never forget you, or the terror you wrought on the students in Tiananmen Square. Why? That is my only question, Mr. Deng. Why did you do it? Please explain the motives behind your actions, because I'm afraid that I don't understand them. You said that even one million people is a small loss to a country as densely populated as China. But, for the family of three that was, until recently, a family of four, the loss is a great one. By the way, Mr. Deng, I saw something else on television that might interest you. It was a very thick trail of blood, and do you know where it led to, Mr. Deng? It led straight to your front door. Sincerely, Kim Griffin Port Perry It's tax time again! (From page 7) bage and the vandalism left be- hind by tourists. Maybe our busy mayor can find a moment in his busy schedule on garbage surveys to have a look-see. Signs put up might put a stop to this, if there were the threat of fines and reprimands. .~ . Possibly the promoters of the myth could connect these tours of interest and help en- force the laws. Ican'tunderstand why peo- ple would want to come out to a lonely road on Scugog Island to see a ghost when I understand they could stay in town and see the Queen Street ghouls down by Palmer Park by the wharf. Legend has it, I am told, that there has been a family of ghouls living underground by the pier for many centuries in peace. But with all the work on Water Street, there have been rumblings from the ghouls. If you put your ear to the ground near the pier, you may hear the rumblings, and if you sit long enough and are fortified with a few drinks, you may see them rise out of the water in the form of mist. What a sight to behold, plus you are helpingthe town merchants by keeping your business in town. I will leave you with this thought. A man was leaning on his donkey smoking a cigar when he said these are the things that burn my a--. Yours truly, M. Appleton, Port Perry. ter to the editor. 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