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"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Chole" ~* ". From Page 6 John Majcher of Whitby. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, local grocery stores Were advertising Canada Grade A turkeys for sale for 39 cents a - pound. Pumpkin pies could be purchased at a cost of 89 cents for two. : : 20 YEARS AGO . Wednesday, October 10, 1973 Street and made off with about $2,000 worth of power tools. The lumber yard is a brand new building,"opened about three weeks ago. No arrests have been made. About 40 residents of Community Nursing Home, Port Perry, . enjoyed a color tour of the Lindsay-Minden area. The tour was organized by local Kinettes and was provided at no cost to residents of the home. WEF PERCE EF Mrs. Ruth Strong wasn't really serving up Thanksgiving dinner when a partridge flew right through her kitchen window, broke the glass, and ended up on her kitchen table. The flight proved fatal for the partridge. : 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, October 4, 1983 Scugog Fire Department, Hall 1, was granted permission from Scugog Township council to purchase 28 new pagers for the firefighters. The cost was estimated at $11,449 with trade-in of old pagers. Bryan and Louise Calloway, owners of Home Hardware in Port "Perry, won a $15,000 England dream trip at a hardware convention. Thieves broke int6 the Ballard Lumber warehouse on Scugog @® Big Brothers and Big Sisters of North Durham ¢ OKTOBERFEST __ FUNDRAISER "Dieter Heller & The Celebrity 3" Saturday, October 23rd, 1993 8:00 pm -- 1:00 am. at Goreski Summer Resort 225 Platten Blvd. {Scugog Island) Port Perry, Ontario **ELIMINATION DRAW vill be held the aalsXeistalloTe MR Iq Xe Bel g=R-Y [0 [0 No Io Nolgle igcNe [ells] 81/Nel Halal Wo ale Isto I=Nel dl S110 thers Big Sisters office, 985-3733 Only 100 tickets available. Tickets: $10.00 person Tickets available at: Bi Brothers/Big Sisters Office; Rent & Away Travel-Uxbridge, Ballinger's Better Buy- Uxbridge, Zehr's- Uxbridge. Big Brothers/Big Sister Agencies fundraise in ~N their own areas. Each Agency.is responsible for = " : their own Rad, please give Iolo" generously on behalf of the children we serve in Scugog, Brock and Uxbridge. | P There will be special guests. Your opinions will be sought. There will be a question and answer period. Joel W. Aldred dfc will be in the chair. This meeting will be sponsored by Aldred's Corner. Save; Goreski Summer Resort, Get UBLIC NOTICE || The "Save Our Scugog Island Park" meeting will be held on Friday, Oct. 15th {| at the Scugog Island Community Hall. Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30 start and the 8 meeting will end promptly at 9:00p.m. Snapshot of 1900 Island football team To the Editor: For quite some time I have been intrigued by your Historic Photo entre "Remember When." Well, I recently came upon a very old snapshot of Scu- gog Island's champion football team dating circa 1900. In those days the cameras were not great. My father, Wright Cro- sier, is the only one that I can identify and he is located in the centre of the centre row, in the centre of the picture. The men are wearing heavy quality white shorts which covered their knees. In the early and mid 1930s while I attended P.P.H.S. my mother shortened the legs of my father's old football shorts by about 10" and dyed them red and added a white stripe. These were the P.P.H.S. colors and were the shorts that I wore on athletic days, basketball games etc. I still have them in faded but fair condition. I wore them the day in 1938 or 34 when - P.P.H.S. carried the day and won (the only time ever to my knowledge) the inter high school trophy against Bowman- ville, Uxbridge and Whitby. This stellar day for P.P.H.S. was well recorded in the Star. . In regard to the photograph, I ER ™--, i A LE I I I SSP EN ruse Letters to the can clearly recall my: father . talking about this team and names such as Bill Graham, and the Hood brothers after sur- faced on these occasions. At the turn of the century as he remembered it, each village, town or locality lived to itself and a very strong loyalty exist- ed. This team enjoyed such sup- port. These were horse and bug- gy days of course and local transportation was either by horse or by bicycle. The league included such places as far away as Greenbank and Clare- mont and in such cases, as the games were usually played in late afternoon, the visiting team members were often obliged to return home in the dark. From Page 6 sistent insecticides. The orga- nophosate Roundup, is a com- monly used, non persistent her- bicide which breaks down on contact with the soil, and is less toxic than common table salt. (Pesticide Safety Handbook, Ministry of the Environment). Farmers are well aware of the problems which may arise in pesticide use. Modern pesti- cides are much more specific, less persistent, and less toxic than the early ones such as D.D.T. Farmers have the choice to mechanically cultivate the soil to inhibit weed growth, or to herbicides. Cultivation causes breakdown of the soil structure, oxidation of the or- ganic matter in the soil, and soil erosion by wind and water. The judicious use of herbicides, in conjunction with no-till or mini- mum tillage, cover crops, and crop rotation, has done much to editor My father usually used his bi- cycle and on one such occasion on the return trip from Green- bank after a rough and tumble match against George Till and his boys, he was pelting down the centre road in dim moon- light and had reached the foot of the island when he hit one of Saul Fralick's large sheep that was sleeping in the centre of the road. Fortunately for him he landed squarely on another sheep and except for temporary terror and shock he suffered no injuries. LL Trusting that the picture may be of interest to the descendents of the team. I remain. | _ Sincerely, Archie Crosier, Gloucester, Ontario. Well aware of pesticide problems control soil erosion and. degra- ! dation. Good farmers know that | the use of pest resistant varie- ties, good sanitation practices, crop rotation, and integrated | pest management techniques | can reduce or replace pesticide applications. we: Canadians are fortunate to have a safe, constant, ample food supply. Foods are tested regularly for chemical residues and contaminants. The greatest hazard probably exists in our own kitchens with our own sani- tation practices. Si 4 Coe It is difficult for a layperson to assess the quality of ipforma- tion contained in books, news- papers, and other media. Mate- rial which. appeals to the emotions or-is based on fear , rather than scientifically prov- en facts must be lodked at with ° skepticism. ! Lawrence McLaughlin, Nestleton La | ~~ Not the time to abandon NDP To the Editor: To those who are supporting and plan to vote for the Reform Party may I suggest that you take a hard look at what you are voting for. I believe that it is generally assumed that you support Reform to retaliate against the three old time par- ties and in particular against the Rae provincial Ne mo- crats. The Reform Party is in full agreement with the Conserva- tives and Liberals that the Free: Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mex- ico should be retained. It should be noted that the FTA intro- duced by the Mulroney- Campbell government is the very piece of legislation that did the most damage to Ontario's manufacturing sector conse- quently devastating Ontario's revenue base which in turn pre- v - - ow - ww cw CET IE NE cipitated the drastic and unsa- vory action the Rae government felt obliged to take. To take your wrath at the Rae provincial gov- ernment out on the McLaughlin federal New Democrats is only biting off your nose to spite your face. Please note the McLaughlin federal NDP will do all it can to abrogate the FTA and not pro- ceed with NAFTA. They will also advocate the abolition of the Senate, plug the $25 to $30 billion in corporate and upper income annual tax loopholes, cancel the helicopter deal, phase out the GST and amend the Federal pension plan lar- gesse. For the preservation of jobs in Ontario and Canada, now is not the time to abandon Audrey McLaughlin and the Federal New Democrats. hoy Cristi ort Perry ¢ » aVa we TAT aE Mn nr con oAR A