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i ea an, 'A Family Tradition for 127 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 13, 1993- 7° Thanks for fireworks, but... To the Editor: | - We would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce and oth- ers involved for the wonderful fireworks display again - this It was disap i inting that the Chamber of ommerce could 'not arrange to have. all the lights turned off so that the fire- works could be enjoyed to their fullest. The lights on the tennis - courts were still on well after 'the fireworks had begun. After about 15 minutes of their an- noying light, one of our friends. politely asked the tennis club if they could be turned off. She Thanks To the Editor: On behalf of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of North Durham, we would like to 'thank the Port Perry Star for your generous do- . nation and support in advertis- ing for the agency in our time of need. . Co - The coverage for our Baby Contest is just great; and the full page stories of our "cry for help" are outstanding. Peter, your column under "Random Jottings" was superior:and we are very hopeful that citizens of this community will take it to heart! Also, a special thanks for placing our baby ad in the Port was told that they would be once the match was completed. We were wondering when that might be, when someone else walked over and just turned off the lights. The crowd raised a cheer - obviously very grateful: Is there any reason why, on this one special day each year, that tennis matches, etc. cannot be scheduled around this won- derful event? It is unfortunate that a small group of people can take away from the enjoyment ofsomany. 37 at Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. D. Young Port Perry, Ontario Star for support to see this paper back in circula- tion. ~ . You have and will continue to play an important role in this agency's success to enable us to carry on the services required to place "Bigsand Littles." We. will certainly acknowl- edge to the public to patronize your supportive business and make it known, that we need their continued help through themedia. ~~ Once again, thank you on be- halfofthe children we sérve! _ -uE. Sincerely, ~~ Patti Goreski, Executive Director GS Je AA A AR, vt Ae N- te PF , . Thursday, July 1§, 1948 . - bpgaioaed. yg. Hundreds of people watched the Liong Club Parade which was . headed by the Port Perry Band. - ~~ = © © °° ii oo .. The Port Perry Lions ball teéam'thrilled the home crowd with a 2- '1 victory over Yelverton. Thee next two games against Millbraok and Janetville gave Port Perry two logses.. ~:~ The Scout's Father and Son Banquet was held'in the Port Perry United Church. The highlight of the evening was the production of a record to be heard on the radio program "Did I-Say That?" = 35 YEARSAGO Thursday, July 10, 1958 - . ~ with the government. Port Perry Reeve J. J. Gibson formally inaugurated the new dial telephone system in the village. The reeve spoke with Ivan Kerry of Charlottetown, PEI, a former Port Perry resident. The Port Perry Brownie Pack held a Pet Show with Dr. D. John Price officially opening the show and assisting in the judging. Winners included Joey the Crow as noisiest pet, shown by Jeanne Williams; Blackie, the blackest cat, shown by Barbara Taylor; and Sport, the fattest dog, shown by Brown Owl. Members of the Crosier family from Port Perry and Epsom attended the 27th annual family reunion in Stouffville Park. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 11, 1963 Local 4-H club members participated in the annual bus trip. - Points of interest were the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto, Malton Airport, Pioneer Village at Black Creek and Pindlay's + Dairy Farm at Maple, Ontario. Miss Elaine Medd and Mr. Murray Prentice of Epsom have - successfully graduated from Toronto Teachers College. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 11, 1968 Sharon Sweetman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sweetman, Port Perry, has been seleeted to represent Branch 419, Royal Canadian Legion, Port Perry, in a beauty contest to be held in + Whitby. Shelley Lascombe and Patty Davidson, both of Caesarea, found an 11 V2 pound aerial bomb while swimming in Lake Scugog. The bomb was used by student pilots during World War 11. The practice bomb failed to explode upon hitting the ground and when found the safety pin was corroded but still intact. . 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 11, 1973 Lorne Johnson of Loyal Orange Lodge 2697 Whitby, rode his horse through the streets of Port Perry as 2,000 Orangemen gathered for the annual parade in honor of the Battle of the Boyne of 1690. A local real estate firm advertised the following for sale this week: Hobby farm, 7 1/2 acres, three bedroom home, wall to wall fireplace, broadloom. throughout, $55,900 with terms. Another home in Blackstock, listed as follows: three bedroom brick and aluminum backsplit, two car garage, sliding patio doors, $36,500 with terms. a " Port Perry Kinettes received the Kinette Service Banner for 1973 at the recent 8gnvention in Haliburton. The Port Perry club has just completed its first year in existence and was chosen over 50 other clubs in the district. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, July 12, 1983 A recent report from Statistics Canada indicates that the Durham Police 'crime clearance rate' is tops among 46 other forces in the country. The work of artist Catherine Delhaise of Raglan is on display at the Scugog Memorial Public Library. | Carol Wilson won the Ontario Al'Balding for Timmy Tournament of Champions held at Rolling Hills Golf Course in Scarborough. Letters to the editor | Misconceptions about AIDS research To the Editor: As a student of immunology ; and a biomedical researcher was quite frustrated by the points of view which M. McCaf- frey expressed about AIDS in a recent letter (June 22), In par- ticular, there were explicit mis- conceptions about AIDS . re- search funding and the current status of the pandemic which need to be corrected. . AIDS, a communicable dis- ease, should not be compared to North America's current num- ber one killer, heart disease. The etiologies of the two diseas- es are entirely dissimilar, as are the future implications which they both will have on society. Funding for AIDS research "should not be considered to be in competition with funding for ~ cardiovascular research. The groups are funded independent- 19 by various agencies along AIDS is not a disease in- volved solely within the bounds of the homosexual community, nor should homosexual men be considered responsible for cata- lysing the present spread of AIDS. In fact, many recent epi- demiological studies sight a de- cline in the rate of spread of in- fection in the homosexual ~ community. (1,6,7) As suggest- ed by others, declining HIV ac-_ quisition rates among homosex= ual men may have contributed |. to a lower prevalence, suggest. ing a response to intensive edu- 'cational campaigns and "adop- tion of safer sex practices. (2,7) - The human immunodeficien- cy. virus has"resultéd in a world- wise pandemic of infection, By - 1992 more thqn:1,000,000 full- blown AIDS cases had been re- - ported to the World Health Or- ganization (WHO), but it is esti- mated that there are now in excess of 10 million people in- - fected worldwide. (2,6) HIV can rapidly spread in new popula- tions: The pandemic is com- posed of multiple smaller epi- demics. This includes, most frighteningly, the heterosexual opulations of Europe and 'North America. In the United States. it is estimated that over 1 millien people are infected with HIV. (2,3,6) Minorities continue to be over-represented among those infected, and the prevalence of HIV in women Concerned From Page 6 If, as a concerned Canadian, this is not your idea of justice--- --Please, send by mail, your concerns to: National Parole . Board, 5616 O'Connor Drive, Ste. 100, Attn: Ms. S. Pilgrim, Kingston, Ontario. K7P 1N3. Bruce Zimmerman, R.R. 3, Newmarket. and teenagers has increased henley than 20-fold since 1982. tial to. financially ripple and destroy Western health care ) Teenagers represent their ' systems. This is why it is so vi- society's future. Infected moth- ers have borne over 1 million in- fected children, over half of who have developed AIDS or 'died. Another 2 million uninfected children are AIDS orphans. (6) tally important that AIDS re- seatch groups receive the prop- er funding. If a proper cure or ~ vaceine. is not successfully de- veloped, the economic and so- cial ramifications of the disease In serosurveys, it has been Will be absolutely devastating. found that as HIV prevalence This is no longer mere conjec- rates rise, the ratio of infected = ture -- it.is fact; and fatalistic =~ males to infécted females ap- proaches 1:1; suggesting an"in- though it may seem; it is. no longer something we can choose creased proportion of hetero- to ignore, Without large scale soxual transmis: 5, Worldwide, 75 percent of all transmission. : .(};5)" changes in soctal'values and an - increased understanding of this HIV infections in adults thus ~ disease through intense re- v _ search and with the possibility - far have been due to heterosex- ual transmission, and this will increase to over 90 percent by the year 2000. (4) The epidemi- . )S control dur ology of HIV-related illnesses is. ing the-1990's will need to.con- also changing, as can be seen of reaching' a vaccine or cure, the stage has already front not only the traditional lo- AIDS 'control programs dur- : ia with current patterns of tuber- gistical, technical and resource tries and, as. McCa gests, with other cofactors ey sug- tious disease programs, but gn additional major: challenge. transmitted disease Africa where basic health, care 'through blood and perinatally. providers struggle against the It's control, therefore, poses the YE ning to play itself out in North ALL need to be:held accounta- American and Europe. Having" 'ble int oF L figh inst AIDS. With aggressive national ~ 'sexual population, the spread programs that: do not shrink worked its way into the hetero- resent fight against of HIV continues. Worldwide, from the: public health chal- WHO's current conservative lenge of 2 projection is that by the year lions: of people may:be spared 2000 a total of 30-40 million infection bythe year2000, men, women 'and children will have been infected with HIV. since the start of the pandemic. (2) A lack of proper education, 'primarily the result of the me- dia which in the early 1980's la- belled HIV as a homosexual dis- ease for which the heterosexual population should have little immediate concern, has left much of the general public, health-care workers among them, at risk and unable to un- derstand the full implications of this disease. As the real con- sequences of the pandemic be- gin to show themselves, the ma- Jority of society is both unwilling and unable to make lifestyle changes, burying its Pky ost ° "The Neurosciences -. "Research Group, "Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Stands by ~culosisin underdeveloped coun- ~~ challenges facing other infec- 2 (illnesses related to the HIV in- .. AIDS is essentially a sexually -fection). The devastating conse- 1 _ 3 | quencés of this have already which like some other STD's | come into play in sub-Saharan' 'can "also. be. transmitted -- 'already huge increase in cofac- challenge of informing, educat- . .. tor diseases associated with the - ing, and supporting sexually ac- _ underlying HIV epidemics, (6) tive. people to protect them- A similar scenario is begin- selves from HIV infection. We. = S prevention, mil: | " 3 ? fr rr» ap 3 ~~ aa i EEE a v - tag iti. fi ai, ery NA tS AD Nl, } r JURA MEL LIL tm SA SAN LT Arne sin a ---- statement | othe Editor: - 1s you read my letter again. Your statemerits do not appear in my letter at all. Pick up any news- paper. Notice the child abuse, and just think how many are not reported. TY I have tried -to find out how fear in past misconceptions of many. children are in foster the disease. HIV kills. Every person who contracts HIV will die at the hands of the disease itself or by AIDS-related ~. illnesses. (1,2,3,4,5,6,7). It knows no eth- nic, sexual or socio-political _ bounds. We are all at risk. There is no vaccine, treatment or cure. At the International AIDS conference, held in Italy earlier this summer, it was stated that within a mere dec- ade, infections that are asso- { \) ' gn Wr er rn 2% 2 | % " = 5 a ' Uh % 3 3 5% EE a homes and C.A.S. homes but to no avail. Social services guard that information and will not i giveitout.. I stand by my létter, prove to methatlamwrong. a Yours truly, T. Harris, Nestleton Open letter to 'Open Letter to Mike Harris: Mr. Harris, is the Tory Party broke? Can they not afford an 'election? Premier Bob Rae's So- -cialist Party must be brought | down now! 5 oo) > ¥ AN or no now any of m friends and relatives quit voting Tory when Bill Dav d reasons! Every- ig business, | small'business, Ontario Hydro. +. health system, best doctors and nurses. are leaving and NDP st Mr. Madsen that iated with HIV have the poten A Aflea kari: A ; bila . " . 1 M / ke Harris ill Davis was Premier | body inching Beeman, oon © "body including firemen, police- . men, teachers, b re voters want this socialist gov- "ernment defeated! =~ Db this and you 'and 'your Tory past have our vote! De- in48, gi feat B 8 ¥ A Sincerely ours, Ronald L. Colvin