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AN] ~ N CC + "yp +A 6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 15, 1993 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" The Port P St EDITORIAL BUSINESS OFFICE e ry a I Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten Office Manager - Gayle Stapley (| 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - LoL 187 Pow Editor - Scott Anderson a Aco uise Hope A BX PHONE (416) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 ; psvy ' RIBBON Sports Editor - Kelly Lown Marlene Moore The Port Perry Star Is authorized as second class mall by the INVTN:1o) Member of the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. ADVERTISING PRODUCTION Canadian Community Newspaper Association Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Annabell Harrison, Ontario Community Newspaper Assodation Subscription Rate: : | 99 3 Advertising Sales - Jackie McDonell Trudy Empringham Published every Tuesday by the 1Year-$32.10 6Months-$17.72 Foreign -$90.95 Production - Pamela Hickey, BarbaraBell Robert Taylor, Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry, Ontario Includes $2. 10GST Includes $1.22GST Includes $5.95GST Editorial Comment es oy / 2 yl o 'Jl'. // ; / Libs 7 ( 7, ya /4 ait a Wl No Winners, [57 7%" All Losers Despite what one group is saying about the recent demise of the Operating Engineers' proposal, we are all losers in this case. Last week, the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario' announced it was no longer interested in locating its * GST included In price Random Jottings o J. Peter Hvidsten or BIG BROTHERS APPEAL FOR HELP Last week I was shocked to learn the Big Brother /Big Sister Association of North Durham is in a finan- cial crises. A crisis which could force them to cease operation in a few weeks if they cannot raise some much needed finances. Big Brothers /Big Sisters has contribut- Ti [7 7 GR IME 4 \ if! Om iia A A a : 7 rts BPN 22 training school in the Township of Scu- 2 7 / 7 777 hr 7 7 ed an important service in the community gog and had made plans to relocate to a A 72 7 7 7 of for more than 15 years, providing loving community in eastern Ontario. / 7 es 7 qi [ companionship to iedts of area The union had planned to build a per- (Ne 2 NIG As OPERATING outh, who for one reason or another, are manent training facility on a 140-acre site 0 A B11 7: NY A ENGINEERS 4 ing raised without either a mother or on the 12th Concession, east of Regional z WNL nas TTR, (% { father. Big Brothers/Big Sisters are dedicated volunteers who generously offer their time to fill this gap in the children's life by x ZONA |, NEE ~ RR Road 23. The facility was to offer both Sa ie ty. A classroom instruction and on the job EE SA 3 ®) NE Hk ¥ training in heavy construction machinery. CL en Han i a RI - - Aas SE , . The school would have induded a | <= = GQ A + | etm tho tang them places, ai 125,000-square foot administrative build- Tey = and offering them the guidance and love ing, a shop building, machinery storage TTT aH needed to full) {heir young lives. and craning area. 5 © "Bigs" and "Littles" fill an important Both Scugog and Regional Council had 9 oH. void in youngsters lives, one that is not approved the project earlier this spring. SQ addressed by any other agency. They need But SCOPE, a local environmental group, ' our help, and they need it now. Elsewhere in this issue of the Star you has opposed the project since Day 1, cit- ad : : : : will find a large ad appealing to the com- ing environmental concerns involving an munity for help, and a story about the ser- adjacent wetlands, as well as dust and vices the Big Brothers /Big Sisters provide - noise problems. to our community. The organization has vehemently op- Let's all get behind this worthwhile posed the development and has been a organization and see if we can prevent a constant thorn in the side of both the de- disaster from unfolding. The kids will velopers and the various levels of govern- appreciate it more than you can image. ment. DREAM TRIP FIZZLES After more than 30 months of negotia- Two weeks after striking out for the tions the union made a decision in early west coast of California by motorcycle, June to pull the plug on the Scugog site which incidentally we never reached, I've and take the project elsewhere. returned with absolutely no interest in Basically the union lost patience. As AEIPINE a . sion the one representative put it "time is money" trip was a total disaster, but was much and they could not afford to wait any longer. It could not wait the additional less than I expected. When relating this to friends, they year for all the appeals to be heard. As a result of this the Township of Scu- often ask, "what did you expect?" Unfortunately I can only answer by say- gog is the ultimate loser in this decision. It is estimated that approximately ing I'm not sure what I expected, but this $100,000 worth of taxes would have trip definitely came up short. So to keep it brief, I spent about 10 days been generated by this project, a portion of which would have gone to the town- on the road, covering a little more than 3,300 miles and travelling through eight ship. A number of spin offs would have been realized as well including the crea- states. Weather became the main stum- bling block as we experienced extremely e high winds, rainstorms, overcast skies tion of additional jobs and the relocating of some families to the area. But more importantly it sends out a and at one point temperatures in excess of negative message to potential developers 100° F. My vision of bright blue skies, moun- that Scugog may not be the most attrac- tive place to do business as there are too tains, deserts and meandering rivers were all dashed as we crossed the flatlands of many roadblocks to overcome. The demise of the project casts a dark the mid-west, encountering weather con- cloud over the township. There are no ditions not conducive to an enjoyable motorcycle trip. In fact, the weather played such a part in the trip, the tents, sleeping bags and winners in this latest battle. We are all other camping gear we planned to use for : Pictured above is Murry McLaren. Date and place are unknown. Note the we p ; 0sers and we will all suffer as a result of beautiful crazy quilt-style pillow on the rocking chalr. 5 iast half the trip never saw the light The journey home ended with a 580 mile ride from Indianapolis, under cold, | § windy, overcast skies and rain that fol- Letter to the editor a sowercast skies and rain that fo To say driving into Port Perry after more than 13 hours in the saddle was a A recession affects all, but some more than OIhErS "Te wy pms rome To the Editor: provincial government for the massive Liberal government. I would like here to I wish to rebut some of the remarks layoffs that we are now experiencing in quote some figures released in a report The Port Perry Star encourages our readers Cindy Jamieson made in her reply to my this province. This is a misrepresenta- published by the University of Toronto's to make Use of the Jotiers 10 the editor column to letter of June 8. tion of the facts. The recession has been Institute of Policy Analysis (an econom- OXPICSS § Opinjons a ewpoints on just about any subject, as we feel a lively letters Having been self-employed for most of felt in the U.S.A. and Europe as well as icthink tank). column helps make us a better community my working life and never been a mem- Canada; Ontano being the province The Institute claims that the Canadi- newspaper. We insist, however, that all letter ber of a trade union, I make no apologies most severely damaged. The closing of an and Ontario recession was exacerbat- writers sign their name and include a phone for supporting the CCF/NDP for approx- branch plants and the resulting unem- ed by policies initiated by the federal number for verification. Sorry, no anonymous imately 50 years and card carrying ployment was well underway during the Conservatives of which Ross Stevenson letters, will be published. The Port Parry Star also reserves the right to edit with respect to member for 25. last year of the Peterson Liberals, al- Turn to Page 7 libelous comments or length of letter. You seem to be blaming the Rae NDP though I attach no blame for that to the