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a I 9 6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 17,1992 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" The Port Perry Star 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - LOL 1B7 PHONE (416) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: 6Months-$17.72 includes $1.22GST AWARD 1992 1Year-$32.10 Foreign -$90.95 includes $2.10GST includes $5.95GST 21:]={6] NM Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Advertising Sales - Jackie McDonell Production - Pamela Hickey, Barbara Bell EDITORIAL Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten News Editor - Scott Anderson Features Editor - Julia Dempsey BUSINESS OFFICE ns Office Manager - Gayle Stapley ) Accounting - Judy Ashby : CN A | fit | Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Marlene Moore PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham Robert Taylor, Barbara Lachapelle y/ ~ Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario * GST included in price Editorial Comment SHED Ca Oa Ch fe Depressing News A Ministry of Labor report released last week un- veiled some depressing figures. According to the report, almost 14,000 jobs have been lost so far this year when 104 large businesses shut their doors. A further 9,500 jobs were lost due to partial shutdowns and reduced operations, the report stated. The report showed that most of the jobs lost were in the manufacturing sector in Ontario. This area has been hardest hit by the recession and the free trade agree- ments. More than 15,514 manufacturing jobs have been eliminated in the first 10 months of this year. The second highest number of job losses were in the retail sector which saw the loss of more than 4,500 positions for the same period. : In 1991, some 23,491 jobs were eliminated due to cut backs and closings. In the first 10 months of this year alone 23,491 jobs have been lost. ~ The Township of Scugog has seen the same sort of numbers. Approximately 140 jobs were lost when John- son Controls shut its doors last year. A further 70 jobs were lost this year when Gerry's Distributing went into re- ceivership and eventually closed down. Further jobs have been lost due to cutbacks and closings. Not to mention the further jobs that could be lost if and when General Mo- tors makes an announcement. These gloomy statistics come a day after Prime Min- ister Mulroney admitted to the Canadian Press that he and his government, as well as other world leaders, failed to recognize the scope of the recession. He also admitted that he mis-timed some important economic measures. Admitting to misjudging the scope of the recession and mistiming some economic measures is only the first step in the recovery process. It is a well known fact that admitting a problem is half the battle. Now that the government has admitted the problem and after a long period of denying that we were in a re- cession, it must now take measures to get the country out of the worst economic times since the Great Depression. Government spending, employer programs and re- training must be initiated by the federal and provincial governments to spur the economy towards recovery. They must encourage development to create jobs and en- courage spending. The government received the message loud and clear from the people during the October 26 referendum that they wanted more done on the economy. Perhaps they should listen to the people and start the wheels of re- covery Flac ging Spirit For the first ime since its inception, Township of Scu- gog has a flag and with the flag also comes a unique iden- tity. Residents can now show how proud they are to live in the township by displaying it. How impressive it looked when Canadian flags were flown during the Canada cele- brations. Scugog residents can show this same patriotism with the new flag. Paul Livingston, the flag's designer, took elements of the township which he felt important and incorporated them into the design. The blue represented the waters of Lake Scugog, two stylized S-shaped symbols represented High- way 7A and the red represented the spirit of the communi- ty, which he says is very prevalent. The township's history is based on the notion of spirit and has always been known for its incredible spirit in all that it does. Mr. Livingston has captured this in the flag for eternity. Let's show our spirit by adopting the flag and fly- ing with it. HUT Nou gn GET A 1! \CKET FOR SELLING WITHOUT A PROPER AMATs €eal WNNY On / Life's Like That by Julia Dempsey When | was a young lass of 16 | made a promise to myself that when | had children | would never say all those stupid things parents say to their kids. You know, like in the winter, when you'd leave the front door open, and your parents would scream, "What are you trying to do? Heat the outdoors?" So you'd take whatever free foot you had and kick the door shut, to which they'd respond, "Don't slam the door!!!" Or how about when you wanted to have a drink and would slurp the milk straight out of the container. Their response, "What's that? Your own personal milk container? Get yourself a glass." And then they'd have the audacity to scream at you when you left the glass on the coffee ta- ble. Their response, "What's this? You think we have a maid service here? Put that glass in the dishwasher." Parents tend to flip out at the tiniest of cir- cumstances. You'd have thought they'd be hap- py when you took the initiative to do your own laundry. But oh no. They criticized you for using a full tub of water to wash one pair of jeans that had only been worn once, or for throwing a wrinkled blouse in the dryer with a wet towel instead of pressing it with the iron. Their response, "You'll do things differently when you're paying the bills." Then, of course, there was the social life. "Where are you going? Who will you be with? What time will you be home?" NAG, NAG, NAG! Ah yes, the carefree, childhood years, touted among many as "the best years of one's life" -- if you're an orphan. One day, after hearing too much of this "Just wait till you're out in the real world, missy" ban- ter, (as if I'd been living in some fairytale para- dise), | turned to my parents and told them just what | thought of their parenting techinques. Oh, I laid into them like only a defiant 16-year- old can. | told them | would never be so cruel to my own children. They'd have the best of every- thing. And if they wanted to take 20 minute showers or talk on the phone all night, well that would be just fine with me. More than a decade has passed since those spiteful words were spoken and the scary part is | turned into my parents literally overnight. Everything | said | wouldn't do or say, I'm doing and saying. Oh, there were tell-tale signs, but | was too blind to see them. Things like setting the ther- mostat just high enough to keep the water pipes from freezing, cooking dinner over an open fire instead of using the energy-sucking oven, and (doing the unforgiveable) washing the whites in the same load as the colors and then hanging the clothes out to dry. But the biggest realization that | had become my parents came when my husband and | "in- herited" his 17-year-old cousin. To make a long story short, Ryan is living with us until he finishes his education and en- ters "the real world." At this rate, it looks as if he'll be around when our grandchildren come to visit. In all fairness, I'm sure my parents felt the same way about me. What makes this situation so difficult is that Clay and | didn't have nine months to get used to the idea of being a "parent figure", especially to someone who can look eye-to-eye with my 6' 2" husband. We only had about three months, and there was no way we could watch every Cosby show rerun in that amount of time. So we have succumbed to the pressure and become our parents, spewing out words of wis- dom that have been passed down from genera- tion to generation. Things like "If Chad jum off a bndge, would you?", "A penny saved is a penny earned", and "Go to your room." The classics never die. My parents didn't say much when | told them of the arrangement with Ryan. | could tell though, that behind those poker faces, they were chuckling.