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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 28, 1990 WE CAN HELP GET CUSTOMERS INTO YOUR STORE BUT THE REST IS UP TO YOU! PRICE - SELECTION - CONVENIENCE They're all important factors when a customer is ready to buy, but in the end it really comes down to SERVICE. Let the Star help make your business known to over 20,000 potential customers each week. "We can deliver the message, but we can't close the sale....that's up to you!" For advertising Made Easy call the PORT PERRY STAR - 985-7383 Letters io the editor To the Editor: There is no time when Cana- dians think more about democratic process, and about just how much influence they really do have on our govern- ments than at the time of an elec- tion. It is easy to become cynical and say that we have virtually no voice, that politicians all make the same promises and as soon as they are in office, they break them, until the next election. Perhaps there is some truth to this, but it is also true that we never have so much influence on Life's Like That by Julia Ashton My father no longer believes his daughter was switched at birth by some cold-hearted nurse. My father now knows that the daughter he has raised since birth is really his daughter and not the daughter of some city-slicker. You see, | was Shays sort of a disappoint- ment to my dear old dad. Keith Ashton is a farmer from the top of his insolated hat to the bottom Mg of his rubber boots. But as fate would have it, God gave him a daughter that hated the country way of life. | despised the stench of the barnyard. | hated to get my hands dirty. And hard la- bor didn't agree with me. The bamyard was about 200 feet from the house. | never came within 100 yards of the barn. " So when my parents pegged me to enter the Dairy Princess competition |. many moons ago, | laughed | in their faces. : "Right! Like I'd really make |: a good ambassador for the |' ry industry." 5 Being the only daughter, | was their only kick at the can when it came to the coveted Dairy Princess title and | re- stills one emotion into the hearts of the Port Perry Star staff. community celebration. known to cause ulcers to the staff at our be- loved newspaper. Blackstock Fair was coming up and that in- FEAR! its not that we don't like the fair. It's a great But one event over the years has been And that's the media milking contest. Every year some guinea ig at the Star gets hog-tied nto entering the teat pulling test and every year we've lost. So when editor John in- formed me that | was this year's competitor, | immedi- _| ately began to panic. In fact | was so fear- stricken that | blasted John for taking his holidays when he did. "Fifty-two weeks in the year and you've decided to take your holidays now. You planned this, didn't you?" A sly smirk formed on his face and | knew | was doomed. John figured that since | don't mind making a fool of fused. From that moment on, it was pretty tough to please dad, no matter what | did. Until Saturday. After 24 years of being the disgrace of the family, | findiy pulled my proverbial rabbit from the hat and | am happy to say my father is PROUD of me. It all started early last week. Editor John McClelland was divvying up the assignments for the week before he left with his family for some well deserved holidays. myself at work everyday, | certainly wouldn't mind doing it in front of hundreds of spectators. know what you have to milk. It's not always a cow. And most of the time, they milk them dry right before the competition." to pull on a cow. That much | learned from living on a dairy farm. "Oh by the way," John continued, *| don't Much to my relief, it was a cow. | knew what But horror flooded over me when | pulled and Turn to Page 12 our governments as at election. time. This is the time when all the candidates and all the parties are most sensitive to the voice of the constituents, you and me. This the time when new laws are - ed that actually reflect our wishes. And this is the time when it is most important for us to get involved, to become aware of the issues, to decide which ones are priorities for us, and to tell the candidates, all of them, what issues we are going to vote on. In this way, we really can exercise rd constitutional rights to the full. Right now, I firmly believe, there is no issue facing our pro- vince, our country, or our world that is as important as the issue of environmental protection. If we do not act, and act fast, to save our environment, then our children and theirs will not have an opportunity to vote for anything. We may not even have grandchildren. Although there are a lot of things that we personally can do in our everyday lives to protect the environment, there are also things that only the government can do. If we care about the en- vironment, this is one of our big chances to tell our candidates that we care, and want them to do something about it. We should take every oppor- tunity we get, when candidates come door to door, when there are all candidates meetings, maybe even writing letter to party leaders, to tell all the candidates that we will be voting on en- vironmental issues. We should ask each candidate what their party plans to do, in specific terms, about overpackaging, clear cut logging, the logging or irreplaceable old growth pines at Temagami, pollution of our water and air by big companies, energy Help needed To the Editor: We are seriously concerned that some young people in 1st Scugog Boy Scout Group are go- ing to miss out on a Boy Scout Program this year. The reason: lack of help! Scouting is for boys - and adults. Scouting teaches skills and in- terests in many fields for all ages, Scouting builds friendships and, Scouting creates good citizens! To carry on this type of pro- gram, willing adults must take an active part. We need your talent, expertise, and time. We all have a responsibility to our young people and to ourselves. If you are prepared to take this challenge, please call 985-9039. Delia Taylor Port Perry Canadian environment and politics efficiency, nuclear energy, alter- native energy sources, increased money to expand recycling pro- grams, and all the other en- vironmental issues that are close to our hearts. Perhaps if enough of us speak out, we may be able to convince our politicians that this-is an im- portant issue, that people do care about it, and that they should take action, even if it does mean a few financial losses over the short term. We are in the position right now to influence our government. Let's not waste the opportunity. Sincerely yours, Michelle Bull, Port Perry View from bus To the Editor: Richard Mackie of the Globe and Mail reports that on Aug. 15th Mr. Peterson avoided angry U.A.W. workers in Windsor. Remember Louis XVI, the last King of France, who stayed in Versialles, while the Parisians ex- pressed their discontent? We now see the King on the Bus, watching discontented peasants mouthing epithets from a comfortable distance. Get off the bus Mr. Premier. It's a rough little world in Ontario in 1990. Come and meet and greet -- the people: the hungry children, the elderly poor, Native people and the unemployed. Get off the bus. It's no longer the Ontario depicted in those saccharine videos with their insipid jingles. Today we have racism, homeless young people, overcrowded and underfunded schools, drug addic- tion and garbage dumps near out backyards. We don't all live like the (Yuppie) Cleavers of Leave it to Beaver any longer. : Will no other party present the people with a coherent response to our growing social problems? Oh, and Mr. Premier, no politi- cian worth his salt has. hired goons to throw out mouthy hecklers from election meetings: "If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen...." Yours Truly, Valdi Inkens Willowdale, Ont. More bricks From Page 7 I don't expect anything to come of it, because we are still waiting to see those fantastic barriers erected in the Hwy. 7A walkway. (I just couldn't resist commenting about my pet peeve). Yours truly, I.N. Thompson, Port Perry EMMERSON INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED 193 QUEEN ST., PORT PERRY, ONT. LIL i389 PHONE (416) 985-7306 ALL LINES OF GENERAL INSURANCE *» HOMEOWNERS - FARM - AUTO COMMERCIAL * »