8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 14, 1990 GM announces appointment of new vice-president It was announced Aug. 7 by George A. Peapples, president and general manager of General Motors of Canada, that effective September 1, 1990, Michael H. Erdman is appointed vice presi- dent marketing and elected to the Board of Directors of General. Motors of Canada Limited. Erd- man succeeds William J. Atkin- son, who will be pursuing a General Motors retail franchise opportunity. Erdman, a graduate in Business Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, joined the Chevrolet Motor Division in 1962. He advanced through increasingly responsible positions within the sales and marketing staffs at Chevrolet, and was appointed to zone manager positions at Syracuse in 1974 and Chicago in 1975. In 1976, he was appointed regional direc- tor of customer service for the Chevrolet Division and in 1980 he e regional manager for the Atlantic Coast. Continuing with Chevrolet, he was appointed sales manager trucks in 1981, and then in 1984 was appointed marketing manager trucks at C-P-C Head- quarters in Warren. In 1985, he was appointed assistant general manager for passenger cars and trucks. He was appointed to his most recent position of general marketing manager for Chevrolet Motor Division in 1988. Atkinson joined General Motors of Canada in 1956 as a GMI stu- dent at the former Scarborough Frigidaire plant. Upon gradua- tion in 1961, he transferred to the GM of Canada sales department where he held increasingly responsible positions, including promotion to Ottawa zone manager in 1974, and to general service manager in Oshawa in 1976. In 1978, he was promoted to vehicle sales manager at GM to Brazil in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Atkinson was assigned to the Corporate Marketing Staff as director marketing, policy and dealer relations in 1981, and in 1983 was appointed assistant general sales manager at Pontiac Motor Division. Atkinson became general sales and service manager of Buick Motor Division in October 1984, a position he held 'until his appointment to the posi- tion of vice president marketing at GM of Canada in 1987. Remember When? (From page 7) Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow, With silver bells and cockell shells, And pretly maids all in a row. Move over Mary. You may still have the best legs in town but | have a garden that would make the bees come flying from your silver bells without so much as a second look back. Okay, perhaps I'm exaggeratirig a bit -- I've been known to do that from time to time -- but for a first time effort, | think my garden is pretty darn good. "Why am | doing this," | asked myself back in June when | was planting the garden. I've been known to kill plastic house plants. But | continued on. As they say, nothing ven- tured, nothing gained. Boyfriend Clay was quite impressed by the finished Droge that day, but | could tell what he was thinking: | wonder how long these poor suckers will live! : In fact | wouldn't be surprised if he walked around the neighborhood taking bets on the flowers' longevity. It was a shock to everyone, including myself, when the flowers grew -- and grew -- and grew, until the flowerbed fillethed over. Sweet alyssum, petunias, marigolds, impati- ens, these things | call fire shoots, and some nd grey-colored stuff that | don't know what to it all lived. Even through the caterpillar days of summer when the creepy fur-covered crawl- ers covered the leaves of almost every plant. And, more recently, through the earwig infesta- tion. A few leaves were lost in this battle but the flowers are blooming on. The more my garden grows, the prouder | grew. Not a day goes by when | don't pick out the weeds and pluck off the wilting blooms. In fact I've been late for several engagements be- cause I've been sidetracked the garden when I'm supposed to be on my way. Life's Like That by Julia Ashton But as everyone knows, not every story has a happy ending, and I'm sorry to say there has been a fatality in my garden. | planted -- from seed -- black-eyed Susans around some pipes that stuck out from the house. It took ages for the fuzzy leaves to sprout from the ground, and to be honest | wasn't quite sure when they started to grow that the dandelion-looking plants were what | had sewn in the soil so many weeks previous. But since the plants grew only in the area where | had planted black-eyed Susan seeds, | figured that's what they had to be. You can probably imagine my shock when it was brought to my attention that all of the black- eyed Susans had been ripped from the ground and were laying lifelessly beside the walkway. "Hey, why'd ya pull these things?" Clay asked. | looked to the ground and saw a few wilted blooms | had picked the previous day. "Oh, they were dying," | told him, adding that if you pull the old blooms off, more food will go to the new flowers. "No, not those," Clay stated. And then he pointed to the patch where the black-eyed Su- sans had first found life, and then to the pile where they experienced death. "Those!" he said. "My black-eyed Susans!" | exclaimed repeat- edly, while sucking in all the available air in the atmosphere. "How? Who? Why?" | wanted to know. No one is ever near my flower garden except for the very few people who visit. And then it hit me. "He wouldn't, he couldn't, HE DID." A friend, who will remain anonymous for friendship's sake, mistook the black-eyed Su- sans for weeds and decided to help me out by weeding my garden. A couple of days later, a beautiful potted plant was waiting on my doorstep when | re- turned home from work -- a wonderful peace of- fering from "the flower killer." competitions while .in Scotland and won first prize at Auchterarder, a second and third prize at Iveraryd and a second at Luss on Loch Lomond. Rosemary is a member of the General Motors Pipe Band, and winner of more than 30 medals in previous competitions. Jane Hampton, 24, of East Hampton, Connecticut, stopped in Port Perry for a short rest. Miss Hampton is trekking alone across the North American continent with her two horses "Sam"' and '"Kim" as companions. Mrs. Donna Barkey of Claremont, Ontario County's entrant in the Dairy Princess Competition at the C.N.E. is still a strong candidate. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 27, 1970 Miss Melodie Cannon, 11 years old, of 45 Caleb St., Port Perry, was crowned "Playground Princess" for 1970. Blackstock News - Congratulations to Mr. Roy McLaughlin on winning third prize in the AA Class at C.N.E. Horse Shoe Pit- ching on Saturday. Do Greenbank News - Miss Nan van Waart ot Amsterdam, Holland, has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. several weeks this summer. , Dr. John D. Hammett, who has been practising in Toronto for the past year, has joined the Medical Associates of Port Perry. Dr. Hammett graduated from the University of Toronto in 1968 and interned at Toronto Western Hospital. He and his wife ., Elaine, a public school teacher, now live in Port Perry. Three Port Perry boys were among a group of 24 Junior Members of the Ontario Regiment who took part in the Warriors' Day Parade at the Canadian National Exhibition on Saturday. The boys attend Port Perry High School and all three are members of the High School Cadet Corp. They are John Mur- ray, Dave Parry and Morris Vader. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. George Barthau of 1 Cochrane Street, who will celebrate their 25th anniversary on Tuesday, September 1, 1970. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 13, 1980 Patience paid off for muskie fisherman Lloyd Batchelor of Kitchener who latched onto a 25 pound trophy size lunker to win the first annual Western Weekend Muskie Derby. Brent Hoag is leaving the Port Perry Branch of the Bank of Montreal for a position in Germany. Cathy St. Amour, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel McGee, Greenbank, graduated recently from Durham College with her R.N.A. diploma. Cathy has been accepted on the staff of Women's College Hospital in Toronto. i The Carnegie House, one of the finest historic homes in the Port Perry area has been sold to a Bank of Montreal executive who was transferred to Toronto recently and Bill & his wife Laura will be moving out the end of the month. Thirty-eight ladies competed at Crestwood Golf Course on Friday, August 8. There were ladies from Lindsay, Oshawa, Whitevale and Crestwood. The Port Perry Tennis Club hosted an Eastern Regional Identification clinic at the lakefront courts on Wednesday,' August 6. Dana Gibson, six, of R.R. 2, Seagrave and her.pet pooch "Skunky" who is just six weeks old, won "The Best Show" for the Mutt Show sponsored by the Port Perry Kinettes. Friday morning was an exciting one for youngsters as they took part in the Western Weekend kiddies parade on Queen St. Winners were: Tricycle - 1st place - Lynn Mahaffy; Carriage - 1st place - Tamara Empringham and Costume - 1st place Susie & Lori VanDerhyden. Graham for | For Better or For Worse® {LL BE OUTSIDE, MOM. 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