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EE a ae. Sua. bes. cts "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice be c. 1991 by CRAIG NICHOLSON - All Rights Reserved Water, Water Everywhere Water is essential to cottaging. Without it, there'd be nothing to dive into, ski on or swim through. Or any shoreline to build beside. Docks wouldn't flood, boats wouldn't float, fish wouldnt bite and loon cries would truly be forlorn. Like all of us, I took water for granted. Until I bought a cottage and realized how many kinds of water there are. Most obvious is lake water. That's the large body of wetness the cottage overlooks. This is the kind of water used for recreation, plumbing, and scenic appreciation. It is also the kind of water that fish swim in, beavers defecate in, worms drown in, plants rot in, and organisms die in. Which explains why I wanted another kind of water to bath in. Although water tests showed an acceptable bacteria count, holding a glassful up against the light showed plethora of swirling particles. Wanting to drink not eat, I installed an elaborate triple filter system. Now my tap yields the drinking kind which is also the bathing kind and the dish washing kind. The wife says I should do the one more often and be so kind as to join in the other. Standing water is like sitting water except higher. Both tend to be the shallow and stagnant kind and thence are the breeding ground of mosquito hordes. This kind of water is one step removed from the swamp kind which is gaseous, nauseous and yucky. Inert water has a tendency to have a very close best- before date, a slimy consistency and the color of the Incredible Hulk. Which explains where he bathed. And why he's always so mad. Probably had to wash dishes. Moving water is how it gets from one place to another. Spring run-off, streams, creeks, rapids and water falls. Also, flooding, pumping, splashing and portable containers. The moving kind is generally a good thing except if it's where black flies breed or it's in the basement. Or if it makes you seasick. Dam'd water is not the opposite of holy water. Beavers, hydro, flood control, and navigation are all dam causes. Which result in high water or low water, two kinds not bad on their own, but insufferable when juxtaposed indiscriminately. This is the kind of water that floats boats higher than docks one day and docks higher than boats the next. It is why water level has become an issue on so many lakes. | thought water was always that way unless the earth was leaning into a turn. Well water is not a cure. Some cottagers by-pass the lake kind to get their drinking kind from the ground kind. Charged by the drilled foot, the well kind is usually the most reliable except when the well runs dry, is polluted temporarily by excessive run- off, or the submersible pump breaks down. Water in an uncovered well can quickly become the stinky kind as one neighbor doing laundry discovered when a wandering skunk stopped by for a drink, fell in and couldn't get out. Talk about laundry freshener. Frozen water is what happens in the winter. As ice, this kind has the power to shift boat houses, crush docks, send pressure cracks groaning across the lake and support the frozen feet of hundreds of anglers. It is also the bridge that opens snowmobile routes to places unreachable in other seasons. The wife prefers this kind in her drink. Rain water 18 what's left after a down pour. Usually it's rung out of the clothes | was wearing at the time. It pools on tarps, in depressions and in open containers and is the cause of mud puddles and drowned mice. Another variety called acid rain water i8 primarily an American export. Emergency water is the kind I hope will come out of the fire hose. Any of the other kinds can become the emergency kind, although some are more solidd than others. Emergency water is more effective pumped than carried by a bucket brigade. Then it becomes heavy water. Water 1s considerably more complex than [ had imagined, The wife says that's because [ never had to work to get it Or to keep it. It's just always been there for the taking. Now that I'm more water aware, there is one other kind that I'm trying to avoid Letters to the editor The polluted kind. ) \. MEMORIAL MEMORIALS OF DISTINCTION GRANITE MARBLE BRONZE CEMETERY LETTERING & RENOVATIONS CUSTOM DESIGNING & LETTERING UXBRIDGE | Quality & Satisfaction assured by our own Written Guarantee PERSONAL SERVICE Fr on sownoou 108 BROCK ST. WEST 45 YEARS OF HOME APPOINTMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION BY REQUEST Having trouble accepting change To the Editor: Canadian society is changing rapidly. And one of the good things about us is our ability to accommodate that change with generosity. But Mr. Colvin, who wrote to you recently from Pringe Albert, is having trouble accepting change or even the basic precept that this is a plu- ralistic society, offering full re- ligious freedom to all people of all religions. His views were expressed with passion, even anguish. He apparently thinks he's being generous when he tolerates Ro- man Catholics. And then he says, "and the public school sys- tem should have the same right to teach our religion during school hours." What does he mean by "our religion?" His re- ligion is not mine. It is a public education system. This is not a Christian country and the school system is not the proper- ty of some particular brand of protestant Christianity. Mr. Colvin seems to want some sort of state religion which would be unfair to Islam, Judaism, Bud- dism, humanism, etc. - and to a wide variety of Christians. As to the role of the current Ontario government, it is sim- ply acting in line with estab- lished law upholding the non- religious nature of our public No dump! To the Editor: I am writing this letter out of a deep concern for the seeming- ly lack of interest, awareness and just plain complacency of the majority of people with re- spect to several proposed dump sites in Scugog Township. Notwithstanding the insidi® ous erosion of prime farmland, the contamination of drinking water and the pungent stench and toxins that will drift with the winds, has anyone consid- ered what this does to the auto immune system to humans, ani- mals and all living creatures? For example, five years ago my ife developed environmental illness which is a dysfunctional immune system affected severe- ly by the water we drink, the air we breath and the food we eat. This chronic disorder is now recognized by the Ministry of Health as a disease and can also be verified by contracting sever- al doctors in Toronto who are working in this field. We as individuals bombard our earth every year with chem- ical pesticides, herbicides, in- secticides and pollution of every kind and now they want to in- clude landfill sites to this on- slaught. How can you sit back and take the attitude that this landfill site cannot become a re- ality? That it will be placed in a site closer to Toronto. There are five proposed sites in our town- ship! Think about it, five' Our children shall inhent this earth. Their message is al- ready loud and clear - they want a cleaner planet We must all stand firmly to protect their i1n- hentance "No dump' Post a sign. write to your M P.P and the Ministry of Environment Information will be available at a public meeting Sunday, July 19. 7 p.m., Town Hall 1873. Be there. Stand up and be heard - don't let your head be buried in someone else's garbage. Gary Beadle, Prince Albert schools. I'm grateful. Sure, Canada has changed and it continues to change rap- idly. It is a cosmopolitan, di- verse and complex society. Changeisn't easy, but it's neces- sary and the test for us is whether we can be generous to one another, tolerant of all rac- es and religions. Those of us brought up as Christians, what- ever we've become over the years, had better try to recap- ture the spirit of the man from Nazareth. PN Sincerely, Bruce Rogers.' CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 » teachers examinations. 30 YEARSAGO Thursday, July 12, 1962 Mr. Ray Medd has been teaching school at Manchester and will continue teaching next year at Epsom School. The pupils of Manchester School presented him with a silver plate. Saturday night will see the official opening of the new Ball Park. NHL All-Star softball team will play a nine inning game against the Port Perry Merchants. Eleanor and Allan Cawker of Scugog were honored by neighbors and friends before leaving for their new home in Oshawa. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 13, 1967 Port Perry Fire Department was called to the home of Mr. Ira Carr in Reach Township where a fire broke out in his garage. A welding torch spark ignited a pail of grease causing severe smoke damage. International Water Supply Ltd. of London has been busy working on the drilling of a new well for Port Perry and construction should be completed within three weeks. A total of 204 children registered for summer swimming lessons at Poplar Park. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Patricia Marjorie Bray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bray of R. R. 1 Oshawa, graduated with honors, receiving a Bruce Pin from the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing, Toronto. Pat is a former graduate of Port Perry High School and Raglan Elementary School. Mr. and Mrs. Don McRitchie and Mr. and Mrs. Storey Beare have just returned from the Lions International Convention held in Mexico City. W. Frank Real Estate Limited has joined Coast to Coast Real Estate Service, a group of more than 100 top realtors operating across Canada. Mrs. Dorothy Koch was presented with some farewell gifts from her co-workers at General Motors of Canada, upon her retirement after being employed there for 29 years. } Two Eskimo youth recently visited the Port Perry area as guests of Mr. Ray Skinner, Prince Albert. The boys live in Pangnirtung, a community of 650 people located 200 miles north of Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. Jacoposee Tiglilk and Gyta Eeseemailee are on a two-month educational vacation to southern parts of the country. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, July 13, 1982 Fifteen Grade 13 students at Port Perry High School received Ontario Scholarships for obtaining an average of 80 per cent in six courses. Jennifer Simmonds of Epsom was the top student, obtaining a 94.7 per cent average for the year. The condition of Birdseye Pool is deteriorating rapidly and it is likely the pool will have to be replaced by the end of the season. - Mrs. Lottie Kersey of Cacsarea celebrated her 90th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson Munro of Sonya celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The Port Perry Tennis Courts received a $12,000 refurbishing when a crew of workers from Court Contractors of Toronto spent four days at the courts. A sealer coat was applied to the asphalt before two coats of rubber compound and two coats of paint were applied to the surface. Weve V[ovED Dr. Nelson Cheung & Dr. Paul Lehman are pleased to announce the relocation of their FAMILY DENTAL PRACTICES to 96 Brock St. W., Uxbridge 852-1818 or 852-3161 New Patients & Emergencies Welcome -------- -- cu gr 0 tl pit Tl" l,l, ath