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{ ! Hl { 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, December 4, 1990 Remember When? (From page 7) The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brignall, Port Perry, was the setting for the double wedding of Beverley Anne and Susan Jane, daughters of Mrs. Audrey McNeil and the late Thomas McNeil, Port Perry. Susan was united in marriage to Mr. Carl Stevenson of Udora and Beverley was united in marriage to Mr. Ralph Forsythe of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Hervey Painter recently attended the Golden Wedding Anniversary of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Painter (nee Violet Smith}, of Uxbridge. F. Roy Ormiston of Brooklin paid $15,200 to Floyd and Or- ton Eby of Ebydale Farm, Kitchener for Sunny Spruce Reflec- tion Kerk, a six-year-old Holstein, who was Grand Champion at the Canadian National in 1964. This is the highest auction sale price of the year for a Canadian Holstein. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 16, 1970 Rub-a-Dub, Three Men in a Tub, was the theme of the win- ning float entered by the staff of the Port Perry Star. The well disguised characters on the float were Joe Jordan, Bruce Beare and P. Hvidsten, Sr. Miss Janice Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wil- liams, won the Ethel Chapman Women's Institute Scholarship for the County of Ontario at the 4-H Homemaking Club Achieve- ment Day at Uxbridge on Saturday, November 28. Blackstock News - Congratulations to Dale VanCamp who placed second in the Junior section of the Dairy Calf Club. This was a fine showing in Dale's first year in the calf club. He re- ceived his award at Award's Night in Orono last Saturday eve- ning. Seagrave News - The new brick home on Riverside Drive will soon be occupied. The Wannamakers plan on moving this week. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 3, 1980 About 15 members of C.U.P.E. local 1926 staged an ""infor- mation picket" Monday afternoon at Port Perry Hospital to protest the fact that the Ontario Hospital Association has decid- ed to seek binding arbitration for a new contract. The inaugural meeting of Scugog Township Council was held at the municipal offices in Port Perry Monday afternoon and the new council headed by Mayor Jerry Taylor was sworn in. Hundreds of Scugog Township children and their parents were treated to an hour of make-believe last weekend as the Bo- relians staged their annual Christmas play. Miss Heather Kemkaren, a former Canadian Senior Ladies champion and a competitor in the Lake Placid Olympics, put on an exhibition at the Scugog Arena on Saturday, November 29 as the crowd of about 300-400 afficianados was generous in its ap- plause. Scott Stone of Port Perry, was recently awarded the Junior Conservationist Award for Zone 5 of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Magill celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on September 6, 1980 with Open House at the Ma- sonic Temple in Lindsay. Financial and Business Planning Corporations - Farms - Small Business Income Tax Planning and Preparation rr For Better or For Worse® | JUST WENT INTO YOUR ROOM 10 GET A TAPE, MIKE, ANI NEARLY PASSED OUT FROM The FUMES | --How CAN YOU LINE | PLE THE DISHES NEXT TO THE DOOR, ANYTHING | HAVEN'TUSED IN A VEAR GEIS CHUCKED IN THE CLOSET, AN"THE REST OF THESIOFFI SHEL AROUND 10 ¢ FNOID SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION! y A > q By CLOTH ( "\» J A 4 3 " : : 3 2 IF IT DoEEN'T STINK, | WEARIT. "Na AN a hf Letters io the editor Taking the heat over dump signs To the Editor: Re: 'Random Jottings - 'Un- necessary"' - 27 November 1990. Your defence of Howard Hall in your 'Unnecessary' comments about the Zero Garbage sign cam- paign fell far short of the mark. The old phrase "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything' has never been applied to politicians, and shouldn't be. The applicable phrase is "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." We all know how thin-skinned Howard is about criticism. I know his name wasn't mentioned in your column, but the only other name mentioned on signs was that of Councillor Christie ("Mrs. Christie You Make Good Dumps'). Everybody knows she can stand the heat. She may even have laughed at the "radical protest group' put- ting up such signs. But not old Howard. Apparent- ly "Dump Hall," "Bye Bye Howie Baby," "Landfills last 4 ever...Mayors last 4 years' and other such "slurs" against loveable H. have disturbed him. When will he, and you, realize that the people putting up these signs are not radicals, but are | scared anxious people who are losing their trust in politicians. They are people who feel defenceless against a crushing bureaucratic steamrolling bunch of dumpers who don't care for them. And no namby-pamby "resolu- tion' opposing the landfill sites is the answer. His constituents want Howard to scream and yell against lunacy like they do. They want him to put up barricades against those like French not going away From Page 7 tious one. In Europe one is con- sidered backward if he or she can- not speak more than one language. In my experience, hav- ing two children who could speak French while visiting Quebec brought nothing but praise, ad- miration and friendship from both French & English speaking Cana- dians. Rather than being divisive, a second language fosters understanding and tolerance. Please wake up Mr. Kelly and" smell the coffee. It's 1990 and French Immersion has been in Durham more than a decade. It's not going away. Don't deter parents who are deciding which programme to choose for their child by trying to make them feel guilty about raising our taxes. It's just not true. Yours truly, Sandra Smith, Prince Albert by Lynn Johnston Know whieh) You ARE TTA Wii po SIAC Yelling." . \ 2A \ \ a \ y Hl 1 AccePT THAT AS A COMPLIMENT. the former Durham Waste Management Committee and they want him to declare that Scugog is about to secede from Durham. Not a bad idea that. What his constituents don't want is for Mr. Hall to sit on the Out of sight, To the Editor: Garbage seems to be the upper- most complaint on everyone's mind these days. Garbage is any misplaced refuse and should outrage us when thrown in our back yard and by that I mean anywhere in an area it shouldn't Did you know there is an "unof- ficial' dumpsight just east of No. 57, east of Burketon, spread along a quarter mile of inimproved road? It is a travelled road, though not paved. Be outraged and be angry, it fowls the sight of some pretty country. I took some fence. Or his name will get posted on fence posts. Lighten up, eh? Gord Ness, R.R.1, Nestleton out of mind pictures in October and its been there a while. Why hasn't it been reported? It is within 1 mile of some prestige homes. If it has been reported why hasn't something been done? Out of sight out of mind I guess! Maybe it should be considered for a land- fill sight. It's within a couple of miles of a proposed one. No one seems to care. How big does it have to grow before someone does? Bonnie Hudson, Nestleton LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Star encourages our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column to. express their opinions and viewpoints on just about any subject, as we feel a lively letters column helps make a better community newspaper. We insist, however, that all letter writers sign their name. Sorry, no anonymous letters will be printed. Editorial Comment (from page 6) The fact that there is no convenient rail service (for com- muters and anybody else) will be a detriment to fufure devel- "opment. New housing is going to go to areas where the people who buy those houses have access to rail service, without jumping on and off a bus. In its rationale (if it can be called that) for the bus service in this area, the NDP noted that a majority of commuters out of Peterborough ended their commute in Oshawa or Newcastle. That may have been so in 1986 (when the figures used by the NDP were collected) But this is 1990. In Scugog Township alone, between 1986 and the present, more than 400 new homes have been: built and a fair number of the people who live in those homes, work in Toronto. Pagnuelo says simply that most commuters "will gladly pay" the same fare they were charged by VIA, which was 50 per cent more than GO charged. But they will balk strenuously at paying those kinds of fares to get on and off buses. Whether he's right on this remains to be seen, of course. Time will tell if the bus proposal falls on its face. What remains difficult to comprehend is the apparent re- luctance of first the Peterson government, and now the NDP to put a Go-Train on those tracks. What are they waiting for? Don't we count up here? Or do they think we'll just squawk for a while and then take the bus. How many times can you get sand-bagged? EMMERSON INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED 193 QUFEN ST., PORT PERRY, ONT. PHONE (416) 985-7306 ALL LINES OF GENERAL INSURANCE HOMEOWNERS - FARM - AUTO COMMERCIAL LSL BY * *