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-- -- us 16 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, October 10, 1990 60th Wedding Anniversary On September 3, 1990, William and Idella Young of Scugog Island celebrated their 60th Wedding An- niversary. Their daughter Bar-- bara Willmore and son Don Young, along with their families hosted a dinner party for the couple. Best wishes were received from The Queen, The Prime Minister and The Mayor of Scugog Township, plus many local dignitaries. Get Cozy with 0% Financing' No ashes to clean! No logs to carry! Just flame, glowing logs and warmth. Models available with conventional vent, direct vent or power vent in free standing, zero clearance or insert models, and ranging in sizes from 5,000 to 32,000 BT U's. A perfect added touch that will also help lower your heating costs. 2 PRESSING MA ~ ) il ' by John James "CANADIAN CULTURE VS. THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE" Fascinating times...America intends to do something about their $3 TRILLION deficit. Sn h , readers of this enjoy a unique Pitepachus on Uncle the to the Coastal atch in downtown Amityville. We are close. In fact, America is one mile from Amity- ville's shoreline on the "The Big Muddy" (Detroit River). They stare us right in the kisser. Naturally, it impacts on our lives. For exam- ig 'rabbit ears' deliver 12 Detroit and Toledo channels, plus one tiny Canadian station...the CBC outlet in Windsor. No Global, no CTV. Ask the Locals to identify Lloyd Robertson; they'd guess he lived in" London and sold shipping insurance. As you can imagine, with five million De- troiters located 20 miles up the creek, a number of Locals are tempted to 'do bidness' with Amer- ica. Not an unpatriotic act, you should under- stand. Far from it. Amityville {pop. 8500} boats roughly 55 drinking and dining establishments, with good reason. The States may have won the War of 1812, but during the mid-Eighties the Ca- nuckbuck offered Yanks a 40 cent bonus. Amity- villers got even. Purely for patriotic motives, of course. We digress. America's deficit reduction "compromise' was reached at the last second, avoiding sadistic spending cuts in the original Gramm/Rudman legislation, which "seemed like a good idea at the time." Americans are funny people. They're furious because - - gotcher valium ready? - thanks to Iraq, gas already went from $1 flat to $1.25/gal. Think about it. The Ar $3 a QUART for mineral water, $2.50 a a3 T for milk, and $15 to $20 for a QUART of booze..., but add two FIVE CENT per gallon increases to s in the next year..and kaboom!, the cowpoo ts the air conditioner. The Iraq crisis now assumes the near- fanatical status of a religious crusade. Would 150,000 American kids be getting sand in their Sch, if Kuwait's economy was based on broc- QO. | Canadians are paying about THREE dollars a gallon. Bad enough, but consider the problem from Amityville's perspective: It ain't easy, living close to such a price spread. A lot of Amityvillers have big gas tanks in their vehicles, and one guy carries two bathtubs in the bed of his pickup. Again we digress. : Further deficit reduction disasfers threaten the U.S. marketplace because the" 'Giverment' (that was NOT a typo) also plans to tax cigar- ettes. Gasp! Do You know what a pack of smokes goes - for, across the border? Roughly $1.50, tax or no tax. For the clean-living segment within our readership, the same pack is over four bucks here. (Say, have you anti-smoke fanatics careful- ly considered the ramifications of living LONG- R these days...i.e. being around to enjoy life un- der "Prime Minister Audrey?"} Our neighbours will need more wages for -the same amount of darn near any sin you can liticians will increase the tax on a six-pack of from 16 cents to 36 cents. Tax on a bottle of wine goes from 3 cents to 24 cents, and tax on 'hard' pl goes up $1.20 on the cur- rent $12.50 a GALLON. (That's why they call it 'hard' liquor.) A case of 24 Canadian beers, bought in Can- ada, costs you roughly $24 dollars. (VERY hard beer, eh?) The S case of 24 CANADIAN beer can be bought across the creek from Amity- ville, for NINE dollars and change. Honest. If Americans adhere to these 'strict' meas- ure, they'll wipe $500 billion off the deficit in the five years. Gee..maybe WE should swap Mike Wilson's GST tax for their plan (Not quite that simple, since they've a few hundred zillion more bucks and people to crank out thiose results.} - The point is: a] Americans are having a her- nia over tax increases which look like Sunday Moming Hockey, compared to the Major League gouges we've suffered for years. And b] remem- that 'mammoth' deficit of theirs is peanuts compared what we've run up on Canada's credit card. Their chances look better than ours. But rest easy, the country is still secure for a couple of years, and our version of "kindler, gen- tler" isn't threatened by Uncle Sam. 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