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) 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, November 21, 1989 Air water beefs at public meeting Do you nearly gag each time you turn on the hot water tap? Fed up with the foul odour from the water in your home? If so, you can register your complaints with Durham Re- gion and get some tips on how to correct the problem of "smelly water" for many Port Perry resi- dents. The Region's Works de- partment will be holding an in- formation meeting on this prob- lem No. 22 from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the municipal council chambers on Perry Street. A Works Department spokesman told the Star last week the information meeting is designed to hear the com- plaints and to offer advice on Remember what can be done. The spokesman stressed that despite the bad odour from the tap water, there is no risk to health. "The water is fine, It just smells like rotten eggs," he said. The foul odour comes from hydrogen sulfide gas which re- sults from chlorine depletion. One way of golisering the odour problems, he said, is by replacing the anti-corrosive magnesium anode in hot water tanks with aluminum anode, or have the anode removed com- pletely. This may shorten the life of the hot water tank, but it should help get rid of the bad odour. Another suggestion is to turn up the temperature of the tank to 160 degrees. Keepin the water that hot will kil odour causing bacteria that may form in the tank. As for the other problem that plagues home owners in Port Perry who have piped wa- ter--the stains on the sinks and toilet bowels-- this is caused by the high iron content in the wa- ter, and the spokesman said there's little that can be done about it. Still, the Region's Works Department wants to hear from anyone with complaints about the water, and the chance to do itis this Wednesday (November 22) at' the council chambers in the Municipal Office on Perry Street. WEDDING INVITATIONS and Accessories PORT PERRY STAR 235 Queen Street Port Perry 985-7383 When? (From page 7) Mr. and Mrs. Orr Venning celebrated their 25th wedding an- niversary on December 5th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Venning, Blackstock. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 4, 1969 Dr. M.B. Dymond, assisted by B.E. Bohan, administrator and Harry Phoenix, board chairman, laid the corner stone at the new Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry. The sealed container placed in the corner stone contained two copies of the Port Perry Star; April 24, 1969 with coverage of the "Open House" and an issue of November 20th, 1969 with a picture of three R.N.A. nurses, all trained at the new hospital. Also in the container was a 1969 silver dollar; a quarter; a dime; a nickle and a penny. Mrs. Suzanne Werner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Mac- Master, Port Perry, graduated from the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology on Friday, November 28, 1969. She receiv- ed her diploma as a Registered Medical Technologist and was presented with the Warner-Chilcott Laboratories Award and Pla- que in General Proficiency. The Christmas Tree harvest is almost complete at Burketon. Several car loads have been shipped out both by G.R. Kirk Co. and Charles Adam of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Heayn were pleasantly surprised on Sun- day, November 23 when they were entertained by their family on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 21, 1979 With a little help from Mayor Jerry Taylor, the Scugog Memorial Library Board literally kicked off its campaign to raise approximately $100,000 to help with construction of a new library in Port Perry. Work is expected to get underway almost immediately on - the new Bank of Commerce building on the northeast corner of Queen and Water Streets in Port Perry. Sharon Baylis of Greenbank and Kelly West of Port Perry were presented with the Guide Canada Cord in ceremonies on - Sunday. : Edith DeJong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hank DeJong of Port Perry, graduated as R.N. from Centennial College in June 1979. . Zoe Brooks, a medical technologist at the Port Perry Hospital has been named charter president of a newly formed local association of the Ontario Society of Medical Technologists. Horses owned by two Scugog Township residents won prizes in recent competitions at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. "Ivan's Song," owned by Ivan Cochrane was reserve champion mare standardbred and "Norfolk Reflection Starlight," owned by Ralph Sadler of Nestleton was reserve mare in the Hackney - class. Durham Region councillor Reg Rose has been named as a member of a steering committee for children's services. Victoria J. Reid graduated with honours in fashion merchan- dising during the annual Shaw Colleges graduation ceremony held at the Royal York on November 10. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has an- nounced that its Winter Road Reporting Service for the public went into operation on November 5. Life's Like That by Julia Ashton A throw away society We live in a world of convenience. If there's a faster, simpler way of doing something, we do it. And it's this attitude that has gotten us into trouble. For example, when having a large group of people over for dinner, how many of us are more apt to break out the Royal Chinette in- stead of the Royal Doulton? Why get dish pan hands when it's so easy to just toss the paper plates in the garbage? And after opening a can of peas or any oth- w er canned: good, how many of us would be more inclined to throw the empty container in the garbage rather than rinsing it out and stor- ing it for recycling? And after picking up the mail at the post of- fice, how many of us just chuck the sales bills and Junk mail straight into the garbage recep- acle? Convenience, that's what it is. up in a throw-away society. It was sort of bred into our systems and now it has come back to haunt us. Here in Scugog Township, we have no lace to dump our garbage within our own undaries. Instead we truck it to a neighbor- ing municipality. The residents of that munici- want your dirty disposable diapers, your styro- foam cups and your plastic containers." I think my grandmother must have seen this day coming. When | was younger, | spent a considerable amount of time at my grandpar- ents home. | always wondered why grandma 'never took the convenient "way out" when getting rid of the garbage. She always rinsed out empty cans, cut the bottom end of the can out, took off the label and then crushed the can flat. There were no recycling initiative programs back then. In- stead, grandma stored the crushed cans and other recyclable goods (newspapers, glass jars, etc.) until there was enough to make a | wouldn't call it lazy. S60 many of us grew pality are screaming (and justly so) "We don't worthwhile trip to a company that did recycle. But it didn't stop there. Old envelopes were saved, and then re-used for the weekly gro- cery list. Vegetable peelings, tea bags, egg shells and other compostable matter was taken out- side and placed in a compost heap. And table scraps were scraped into a bag. When the bag was full, grandma sent it home with myself or one of my brothers and we "would feed it to the barn cats. I'd run out of space it | tried to list all of my grandma's garbage initiatives. That woman can reuse, recycle, recover or reduce just about anything. She had (and still has) a pretty good recy- . cling program going. Not bad for someone who lost the vision in both of her eyes as a young woman. it would be so much easier and convenient for grandma to just toss everything in the gar- bage. Yet she insists on doing what most of us consider menial, and it may just be efforts like her own that save the world from becom- ing one big garbage dump. November 20-26 has been proclaimed Re- cycling Week. The annual event is being held province-wide to help better educate us all on the need to cut back on the amount of gar- bage we create. Please take the time to take in some of the events planned, and stop 'by some of the businesses and groups who have displays up. (A list of events was published in the Nov. 14 edition on page 16 of the real estate section.) Not too long ago, Regional Chairman Gary Herrema threatened that we may have to start dumping our garbage in our backyards if the situation didn't get much better. His com- ments may not have been too far off. 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