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by J IR -- Sh CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 headquarters of Innes Motor Sales was removed by order of the Department of Highways. Mr. John Roach and his mother of Windsor visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. Roach. Miss Thelma McEachern and Miss Donna Samells represented the 4-H Homemaking Club of Port Perry at the Canadian National Exhibition. Th 380 TRARY AGO \ ursday, September 28, 1961 : J.C. Read of Port Perry was one of 77 High School students who attended a science seminar and lectures at Ontario Agricultural College. More than 1,000 students throughout Ontario competed in the examinations to qualify for this seminar. Ontario County Warden, Mr. A. Gerrow was honored at the county annual picnic held at Fern Cottage, Lake Couchiching. A flag raising ceremony was observed at Palmer Memorial Park to mark the birthday of the founder of Chiropractic, D. D. Palmer. Mr. Ray Ormiston won the Grand Championship at the Part Perry Fair. 25 YEARS AGO September 29, 1966 Mr. Tripp sold his Supertest Station to Mr. Charles Reesor, also a well-known member of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fralick, Scugog Island, were given a 25th Wedding Anniversary party, attended by friends and relatives. A turkey buffet supper was served in their honor at Grace Church. New additions to Port Perry Arena have begun as workmen from Lake Scugog Lumber Company added on two dressing rooms, showers and an office to the building. Port Perry Masterfeeds held its official opening this week with lucky draws of merchandise plus free coffee for those attending. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 29, 1971 Aylmer Ploughman, an area farmer and gardener for the past 50 pounds. Mr. Ploughman is going to freeze the squash for eating during the winter months. Village Foreman Peter Crawford submitted a cost report on Queen Street water main repairs and estimated that the total cost for the repairs would be $2,500. Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Black, of Port Perry, returned home from a visit to their native country, Scotland. Rev. Black shared his experiences with the Star readers in a column headed "The Lure and Lilt of the Homeland." High Point Reflection Brenda, a purebred Holstein cow owned by Smith Bros. of Port Perry was awarded a Gold Seal production certificate for her totals on twice-day milking of 175,571 lbs. milk containing 6,867 lbs. fat. Average test 3.90 per cent butterfat. Murray Empringham, Greenbank, recently wed the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brawn of Epsom, Trudy Brawn. The couple was recipients of many lovely gifts during a number of showers. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 30, 1981 Durham Region is enjoying a banner year in new development and Scugog Township is ahead of several other regional municipalities. The Township issued 82 permits for new single family homes in the first six months of the year. Len Goreski of Scugog Island won the Canadian Enduro motorcycle championship in the Junior 200 class at the national championship held in Haliburton on Sept. 19-20. Team members Kelly Goreski and Ross Carter placed second and seventh respectively. Residential rental units are in demand in Port Perry. One landlord received 71 calls from people wishing to rent a two bedroom apartment. Seagrave United Church celebrated its 75th Anniversary. Many former church members were in attendance during a special service held to commemorate the special occasion. Mr. Irwin Tripp retired after 33 years in business in Port Perry. years found a squash in his garden that weighed a hefty sum of 68 This week is Waste Reduction Week. This week we have a chance to really concentrate on reducing the garbage that we and our families create. Considering that Canadians produce more garbag per capita than any other country in the world, this is probably a good thing for all of us to pay attention to. Sending things to landfill sites creates a lot of problems, starting with the problem of where to put them, and leakage, etc. in the area. It also 'means an incredible waste of our material re- sources, since a lot of the stuff ending up in dumps is reuseable or recyclable, and much of it wasn't needed in the first place. For the next couple of columns, we are going to look at "garbage" and what each one of us can do to reduce it. No one will be surprised to discover that we will be looking at the three Rs, in their right order. The first R is Reduce. When we are thinking about buying things, we should ask ourselves a few questions. Do I really need this thing? If you're like me and like most of us in this consu- mer society, over half the things you think . about buying are totally unnecessary. Often you already have a perfectly good one at home. In the case of kids' toys, you may already have several dozen perfectly good ones. If you don't need it, consider the radical option of not buy- ing it. Is this thing made to last longer than a week? If not, don't buy it. Is it overpackaged? If we do not buy things that are overpackaged in the first place, we won't have to dispose of the packaging. If you want to be really radical, write down the name of the company and its address (which is usually found on the package some- where) and write and tell them "I wanted to buy your product, but when I saw all that packag- ing, I decided to do without it." A few letters like that and you'll see a dramatic reduction in packaging. We have all been taught that consuming is a virtue; it is almost our duty to the economy. Well, it doesn't seem to have helped the econo- my a whole lot, and it is destroying the earth. Perhaps we need to start thinking of thrift as a virtue. Not only will this save material and ener- gy resources and reduce garbage, it will also save us a bundle of money. Maybe even enough that we'll be able to slow down our lifestyles and enjoy ourselves a little more. The next R is Reuse. This is not the same as recycling. When you reuse something, you use Community Calendar Page 6 of Real Estate a & Competitive Pricing é Furnace Protection Plan & High Efficiency Oil Burners é Seniors Discount é High Efficiency Oil Furnaces é Budget Plan é Olco Furnace Finance Plan & Automatic Delivery Service OLCO PETROLEUM (416) 427-6526 or toll free 1-800-263-2726 [NS SHEE. Fuel Oil » Stove Oil » Diesel HWY. 7A at 24 hour emergency service - IT OT od FEI W187 Scugog st. Wilson Burner Service Port Perry. Open 7 Days A Week until 10:30 pm 985-4459 Serving Port Perry and surrounding areas for over 20 years. - by Michelle Bull THE PALERMO CONNECTION rips open the drug-infested streets of New York and gives the audience a fighter (Belushi) tough and courageous enough to take on anyone and anything to clean up the Mafia. Filmed in Palermo, Sicily, The PALERMO CONNECTION takes an intimate look at that ancient exotic and violent city... it as it 1s. When you recyele something, you have to use energy to break it down and to re- make it in another form. Glass jars are an ex- ample. To reuse them, you just put something else in them. To recycle them, first you throw out the lids, which are not recyclable. Then you collect the glass, crush it, and remanufacture it. In the end, you have a jar, without a lid. You need to use more steel and energy to make a lid for it. Obviously, it is better to reuse things than to recycle them. It takes less energy and materi- al resources. All of us have plenty of reuseable things in our houses, like glass jars, plastic bags, rags, old clothes, beer and pop bottles, etc. If we have a use for these ourselves, fine. But if we don't, what can we do with them? There are lots of possibilities. For years and years, people have been saving beer and pop bottles and taking them back for the deposit. This way they can be refilled in- stead of thrown out. Give yourself a pat on the back for an environmentally sound habit you probably didn't even know you had. Lately yard sales have become even more pop- ular than they were before. This is a way of reusing things. Next time you have a yard sale, ut out those old glass jars you have no use for, bor free. I got rid of two boxes of them that way to someone who makes jam. People have been giving away baby clothes to their neighbors for generations. Here's another environmentally sound practice that just arises from neighborliness. Used women's and chil- dren's clothes can go to women's shelters (phone first). And, of course, Goodwill and the Salvation Army will take used clothing, furni- ture, small appliances, linens, toys and a lot of other things too. And we can reuse things we used to throw out, like plastic bags. Take you own bags to the grocery store, including the little clear produce bags, and you'll be reusing. Reuse milk bags for freezing things. The area of reusing is one of the main areas where we can start applying our ingenuity. The possibilities are nearly endless. This is where the beautiful heirloom patchwork quilts our great-grandmothers made came from: They wanted to use up the good left in worn out clothing, and create beauty. Let us put on our thinking caps and see what wonderfully creative things we can come up with for reusing things instead of junking them. and the Mafia that rules it. fo Great Home Savings! i , } +4 EERE LEER IEEE 986-4964 | ) ) | } } J ) ) } ; ) J