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I RA an a he TS bls rT RL Se hoi i BORD Ms Nil =o a i OY et Ee ----------e ------ A 6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 30, 1993 "Scugog's Conimunity Newspaper of Choice" The Port Perry Star (cha 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - LoL 1B7 FAX 985-3708 PHONE (416) 985-7383 The Port Perry Star Is authorized as second class mall by the EDITORIAL BLUE RIBBON AWARD Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten News Editor - Scott Anderson Features Editor - Julia Dempsey Sports Editor - Kelly Lown BUSINESS QFFICE Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Marlene Moore Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. ADVERTISING PRODUCTION Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Annabell Harmison, Subscription Rate: IRSISPA Advertising Sales - Jackie McDonell Trudy Empringham 1Year-$32.10 GMonths-$17.72 Foreign -$90.95 Production - Pamela Hickey, BarbaraBell Robert Taylor, includes $2.10GST includes $1.22GST includes $5.95GST Editorial Comment Representing By Population Over the course of time, history re- peats itself. It appears history is about to repeat gself again -- this time in the re- gion of Durham. More than 100 years ago ""representa- "tion by population" was a controversial is- § sue in Canadian history as two sides fought desperately for more power in the country. . Now, not quite on the same scale as Canadian politics, Durham's regional council is experiencing a similar debate. In an effort to garner more representa- tion for his growing municipality, Ajax Councillor Roger Anderson wants to see a greater emphasis placed on represen- tation by population. Under the current system 32 members sit on regional council. Oshawa has 11 reps, Whitby, Pickering and Newcastle four seats, Ajax three seats and Scugog, Uxbridge and Brock, two seats each. But Councillor Anderson claims the seats are stacked too heavily in Oshawa's favor and he would like to see the city surrender some of its power. Oshawa councillors are defending their powerful position saying the seats are fair. They argue that instead of taking seats from Oshawa, the northern munici- palities, which represent less than 20,000 residents each, should give up a seat. The councillors also argue that the size of council could be reduced by eliminat- ing the mayors from serving on regional council. While reducing the number of council- lors from 32 down to 24 would be a fiscal- ly responsible move, it will not be in the best interests of the northern communi- ties which will suffer as a result. -~ If the three northern municipglities lose one of their representatives, ofie council- lor will be left to represent the wishes and needs of the residents in thé community. Under the present system, the mayor and the regional councillor share the tasks of serving on the various commit- tees. They divide the committees among the two of them and keep each other abreast of the affairs. Should the communities lose this rep- resentation it will place them in a serious deficit position. The size of the regional council should be looked at and proposals should be in- troduced to facilitate this change, but it should not be done at the expense of the northern municipalities who are constant- ly ignored by the larger southern commu- nities. Letter to the editor a --. L NH Z50RE , 50 WE REDUCE \ {HEM TO TNE Pony JERE We CAN'T REAR TWEM Ru... V4 ji \ , BY 9. NEWS VTEM SoME OF THe Counit MEMBERS OF DURHAM REGION ARE PROPOSING REPRESENTATION BY OPwATIoN MERE BY Reducing Tite ALREADY SHALL REP OF UXBRIDGE, SCUG0G AND Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting = Judy Ashby, Louise Hope db A Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Assodlation Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry, Ontario * GST included in price Wants newspaper boxes in Cannington To the Editor: I am more than pleased to have this opportunity to be able to receive your paper weekly. I try to get it as often as | can but weather conditions and quite of- ten other things do come up that I'm not always able to get down to Port Perry to get a paper. | enjoy your new "Market- place" very much also, it is very well put together. husband and I used to live in the area for nine years and faithfully bought your paper every week, usually Wednes- day or Thursday when we went shopping for our groceries, etc. Since moving to Cannington it has got- ten a little more difficult and quite often Fhave to go without. Could you people not put up a couple of your metal boxes up here in Cannington - one with the Port Perry Star and the other with the Marketplace papers so other people up here like myself could purchase same? I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated! We get the Lindsay papers delivered here (no charge) which I read and to keep up with what's going on in Port Perry. We get the Lindsay Post and Lindsay This Week. I enjoy the editori- als and the classified, the only drawback Turn to Page 8 Sin | Life's Like That by Julia Dempsey | NOT JUST A CLIENT:. SHE'S THE PRESIDENT I went to one of those functions recently where eve- ryone was expected to wear one of those "Hello, My Name Is..." tags. | There was this woman ahead of me in the reception line up. She wrote her name on the tag provided and was about to tear off the protective backing when she stopped dead in her tracks. She kept looking herself over with a real distressed expression on her face -- the kind of expression one has when one suddenly realizes they've been walking around for hours with part of their lunch encrusted on their shirt. So, being the kind, gentle person that I am, I pushed her out of the way, picked up a "Hello, My Name Is..." tag and wrote Miss Universe 1993, as if my natu- ral beauty didn't make it blatantly obvious. (An aside: I really hate "Hello, My Name Is..." tags. One time I wrote Joan Ovark and this overly eager hostess went around introducing me to every- one. I don't think she ever clued in to what we were all laughing about. Other personal favorites include Ima Payne for a woman and Yuri Clodd-fox a man.) Anyway, back to my original story. I've got my "Hello, My Name Is Miss Universe 1993" tag and I'm about to pull off the protective backing when I real- ized why the lady in front of me is in such a tizzy. Written on the protective backing was a sort of Surgeon General Warning that read: "Attention: Do not apply (tag) to silk, vinyl, leather, suede, velvet, cordur- oy or plastic. Not heeding this advice could significantly shorten the lifespan of one's clothing." God as my witness, the woman was wearing a silk blouse, velvet blazer, cor- duroy pants, suede boots, and was car- rying a leather purse, and a leather-like (read "vinyl") briefcase. Now, I know what you're thinking. Not only does this woman have no fash- ion sense, she also has no where to stick the tag, short of her cotton undér-got- chies. If you're thinking she could have stuck it to her face, try again. That wom- an looked as if she had financed her plastic surgeon's in d pool and the 3,000-square foot addition to his Rosedale mansion. * That left only one option. She peeled off the protective backing and, ever so carefully, she tried to stick the tag to a barrette in her hair. But as she was doing that, she was bumped into from behind. (I swear it was an accident, honest!) Had I not bumped into her that day, she would never have become the first pres- ident for the Hair Club for Women. But has she ever thanked me? I think not. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR