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pr -- GR i UA nl AEN i HEATER 0 Ws go AY a Catal Ll pou ny Eh } ---- ---------- TT hadihaiates canate ran a Ll LLL My -r - 6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 5,1993 The Port Perry Star 188 MARY STREET + PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - L9L 1B7 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star Is authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 PHONE (416) 985-7383 EDITORIAL BLUE RIBBON AWARD ADVERTISING Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten News Editor - Scott Anderson Features Editor - Julia Dempsey Sports Editor - Kelly Lown Advertising Manager - Anna Jackman "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" BUSINESS OFFICE Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Marlene Moare PRODUCTION cena Annabell Harrison, Subscription Rate: 1 993 Advertising Sales - Jackie McDonell Trudy Empringham, 1Year-$32.10 6Months- $17.72 Foreign -$90.95 Production - Pamela Hickey, BarbaraBell Robert Taylor, - Includes $2.10GST includes$1.22GST Includes $5.95GST : Susan Milne PAID Editorial Comment Assessing Our Kids' Potential If you've ever wondered how Ontario students stack up with the rest of the country, you will soon find out. Canadian students will face regular testing in math, science and literacy as part of an initiative devised last week by Canada's education ministers. The ministers met in Victoria for two days last week and agreed to take charge of the country's $55-billion educa- tion system. They are seeking to make the educational system more accountable to parents and more responsive to the needs of the students. In a joint declaration the ministers agreed to a number of policies. The min- isters said they would: - Begin development of a science test that will be written by students aged 13 to 16. This test will be ready by 1996. - Spend more than $1 million a year to make national tests in math, reading and writing and science permanent fixtures in Canadian schools. - Measure the performance of schools by developing a program that tracks the number of dropouts and the: number of graduates gaining employment. ] - Examine ways of making curriculums more consistent across the country. - Convene a national education confer- ence next year which brings together poli- ticians, teachers, students, business ex- ecutives and parents. Results of the first national test con- ducted last April will be released in De- cember. More than 55,000 wrote the test in math and problem-solving areas. A similar test will be conducted in April to assess the reading and writing skills of the students. When implemented in 1997, the three- subject test will be conducted on a three- year rotation. The implementation of the national test is well overdue and is needed in this country. The educational system, as is the job market, is becoming increasingly - - competitive. Educational standards are not considered when a person is hired for a job. It is the best candidate that is cho- sen. To make the system fairer, we must all be given the opportunity to play on a level playing field. Standardized testing across the coun- try will ensure that all Canadian students receive similar education and training and are all equipped with the necessary skills needed to make us competitive and ca- pable of handling the changes in the dec- ades ahead. 'Excuse HE Ms, vo you HAVE A COPY OF WAR AD PEACE? PEEL 7 AANA SL TTT .. oir] -- -- eT ec nD . 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 14, 1948 Commencing October 15, there will be daily interruptions in hydro service for one hour in hopes that the consumption is reduced to quota. The children of Centre School are having a one-week holiday as their teacher, Miss Anne Melynchuk was married to Mr. Ralph Milner and she is away on her honeymoon. Mrs. W. S. Taylor and Mrs. John Starkey and son Glenn have returned home to Port Perry after spending several months in Scotland. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 9, 1958 Mr. Walter Sharp, an immigrant boy from England, now a resident of Winnipeg, spent a few wecks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pogue, Scugog Island. Mr. Sharp worked for the Pogues for 18 months before heading west to find his fortune. G. Marlow and Chas. Venning flew to New York on Friday to sce the World Series ball game. The Prince Albert Sunday School students and teachers held a bonfire and sing-song at the edge of Mr. E. Martyn"s woods. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 10, 1963 Eleven-year-old Larry Reesor of Bigelow Street presented a $10 cheque to Mrs. M. B. Dymond of the hospital auxiliary for equipment. The money was raised through the sale of liquid fertilizer. A new Baldwin organ will be dedicated in the Greenbank Church service on Sunday. The Senior Citizens enjoyed a bus trip to Orillia to see the brilliant changing colors of leaves. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 10, 1968 Mr. William F. E. Armstrong, born in Cartwright Township in 1878, celebrated his 90th birthday on October 10. Mr. Armstrong presently lives on Casimir Street in Port Perry and has a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Hicks, who resides in Nestleton. Archer Motors Limited recently changed ownership as Bob Archer handed over the keys to the new owner urn to Page 8 Letter to the editor Writer's knowledge of pesticides shallow To the Editor: A little knowledge is a dangerous ing. In their letters, both Brenda Ste- thing. (Sept. 28) and Pam Beadle (Sept. 21 and 28) demonstrate an understand- ing too shallow to assess the pros and cons of various cultural methods and ag- ricultural pesticides. I am responding (as was Dennis Yellowlees - Sept. 28) from the perspective of one with a degree in etre and several years of prac- tical experience in farming. Contrary to Ms. Beadle's statement, pesticide use in Ontario is actually de- creasing; farmers reduced pesticide use by 17.4 per cent between 1983 and 1988 ("1988 Survey of Pesticides use in Onta- rio" OMAF). The goal of OMAF's "Food Systems 2002 Program" is to cut this a further 50 per cent by the year 2002. Brenda Stevenson referred to inci- dents of unsafe use of pesticides in urban areas. While farmers must be licensed to use pesticides, urbanites may purchase many of the same chemicals from garden centres, and use them with no instruc- tion, or knowledge of possible hazards. In her letter of Sept. 28, Brenda Ste- venson has confused organophosphates with organophosates. Organophas- phates are not herbicides; they are per- Turn to Page 8 Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope "by J. Peter Hvidsten 'winter, to use the waste [1/5 oe (WCNA Canadian Community Ne or Association Published every Tuesday bythe . = 'Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Pont Perry, Ontario * GST Included in price ss Random Jottings ONE MORE STEP IN RECYCLING I've had occasion the post couple of weeks, while getting my garage ready for. transfer station located on Regional Rd. 8, just outside of town. Having never taken anything there to get disposed since the dump was changed over to a transfer station, I was unaware of the regulations which allow residents only one trip per day. So on my second trip to the station that Saturday, a very courteous employee con- sented to my dumping again only after assuring him I was unaware of the rule. But this column is not about my dump- ing garbage, it is more about recycling. i The transfer station is a cling. _ advocates paradise with special bins and ("areas for glass, cardboard, paper, batteries, old tires and oil products. Unfortunately they don't have (at least I didn't see) an area for recycling good, used household : items. : It seemed to me that if an area was set aside for disposing of old furniture, freez- ers, TV sets, cupboards, lamps, toys etc., there would be plenty of people happy to pick through these items and get some more use out of them before they really ------ Op -- ~ became garbage. During my trip I saw a good lazy-boy chair, skateboard, some old kitchen cup- boards and numerous other smaller items being tossed into the large containers, which I assume were then hauled and dumped at one of the Region's dump sites. Undoubtedly if these had been set aside someone would have been able to pick them up and get some more use out of them. : I know the dumps and transfer sites of today don't allow "picking" through the garbage anymore, but setting useful items aside just might save a little more room in our oro. ri Just a thought! WELL PLANNED SHOW Election "93 is in full swing, and having covered the arrival of two party leaders in the area I've come to the conclusion most of the personal appearances by the candi- dates, as they crisscross the country, are well orchestrated shows for the media. The timing for the leaders' arrival in a community is willingly adjusted to meet the demands of the media, who must be in place and ready to roll before they appear. If a candidate arrives too early, they'll wait patiently in their campaign bus until notified the media are ready. Quite often it appears that many of the people in the audience asking questions or making statements have been hand picked, or staged for the cameras and newspaper people attending. ere's no doubt when a tough question is asked, one that the candidate can't answer quickly and intelligently, it can have a devastating effect. Unfortunately, the national media seems to take great pride in finding flaws and making our leaders look foolish, so it's no wonder they do a lot of preparation and rehearsing before standing up in front of the cameras. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Port Perry Star encourages our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column to express their opinions and viewpoints on just about any subject, as we feel a lively letters column helps make us a better community newspaper. We insist, however; that all letter writers sign their name and include a phone number for verification. Sorry, no anonymous letters will be published. The Port Perry Star also reserves the right to edit with respect to libelous comments or length of letter. bee