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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" The Port Perry Star &w 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - LOL 1B7 BLUE PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 RIBBON The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the AWARD Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, EDITORIAL Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten. General Mgr. - Don MacLeod News Editor - Jeft Mitchell Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman wCNA CCNA Canadian Community Newspaper Assocation Ontario Community Newspaper Association PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, ' Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Trudy Empringham, Published every Tuesday by the 1Year-$32.10 Wun Forelgn-$90.95 1 994 Advertising Sales - Rhonda Stevens Susan Milne, Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry, Ontario includes $2.10GST includes$1.22GST includes $5.95GST Production - Pamela Hickey Robert Taylor, Richard Grew * GST included in price i Ais Riders of the purple loosestrife? To the Editor: The American writer, Zane Grey, was famous for novels of the American west. His Riders of the Purple Sage sold 1,800,000 copies. Here in Ontario, east of Highway 12 on Concessions 8 and 10, Canadians can get their own copy of Riders of the Purple Loosestrife. There are millions of them, and they are free! Warren T. McCready Greenbank Youth Corps thanks for volunteers To the Editor: We would like to take this op- portunity to thank the volun- teers who participated in the clean-up attempts on the Pur- ple Loosestrife along the cause- way on Tuesday, Aug. 9. With your help, the south side of the causeway has been almost completely cleared of the plant and with another attempt being planned for Thursday, Aug. 18, hopefully the north side will show the same progress. you are interested in help- ing with this clean-up, or would like further information on Pur- ple Loosestrife, please call 985- 7346. Please bring your weed clippers and meet us on the causeway at 6:30 p.m. Yours truly, Andy Ross and Jodi Hunter, Environmental Youth Corps, Township of Scugog Rwanda benefit was success: organizer To the Editor: From the first moment that I thought of holding a bake and yard sale in town to raise money for the Rawandan Relief Effort, I knew it would be a huge suc- cess. I never doubted, for a mo- ment, that it would not succeed. On the few occasions that I was allowed to step out on the street on Friday, I was over- whelmed by the sheer numbers of people here to support this event. May I take this opportunity to thank the hundreds of people who baked, and the hundreds of people who contributed yard sale items and the thousands of people who kindly bought and contributed to the fund. Your generosity is so much appreciat- ed, and I am happy to announce that we contributed $5,021.72 to the Red Cross, and I am still receiving contributions to the fund. Thank you again. Pamela Palmer, | Ashburn JEFF MITCHELL / PORT PERRY STAR Family and friends came out Sunday (Aug. 14) to wish Edna Forster a happy 85th birthday. Here, she receives a kiss from son Rob and daughter Marion Wallace. Looking on at left Is husband Jack Forster. You can fax your letters! 985-3708 Ad Li 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 11, 1948 Mrs. Hugh Espie, Mrs. H. Durkin, Mrs. Grant Gerrow, Mrs. Chas. Brignall, Mrs. T. Palmer and Miss Mildred Palmer, were in Toronto attending a Hawaiian Pageant, in connection with the 26th Triennial Assembly of the Order of the Eastern Star. Rev. C. Waggoner, of North Carolina, occupied the church pulpit at the United Church, Seagrave, while he and his family were visiting the area. Sunderland Tigers beat the Port Perry baseball team 7-3. Bill Harper was on the mound while Cawker, Healey, Martyn, McGill, Williams, G. Demara, Christie, M. Demara, Reader and Naples were in the field. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 13, 1964 The four-room school at Epsom was built. Children from Epsom, Chalk Lake, Bethesda and Utica will be attending. : Port Perry Lions Club Bantams baseball team lost their first game of the OASA playoffs. Reg Manns started on the mound , but was replaced by Bill Wanamaker. Lynda-Jean Kandal, 17, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Kandal, of Port Perry, was at the Summer National Championships of the American Contract Bridge League. Miss Beatrice Lea and Mr. Ron King, members of Port Perry Junior Farmers, represented Ontario County at the Junior Farmers Provincial Camp at Geneva Park. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 14, 1974 Jayne Puckrin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Puckrin, of Sunderland, graduated on July 18 from the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in Toronto. Jayne joined the staff of Wellesley Hospital in September. A family reunion took place at the home of Rev..and Mrs. J. C. Grier, R.R. #4 Port Perry Four generations were present and photographed together. They included the senior member Rev. J.C. Grier; his son Dr. W. Robson Grier; his grandson John Robson Ross; and great-grandson Robson, three. A 1927 issue of the Port Perry Star was sold for $5 at a large public auction sale that took place in the former Letcher house on Mary Street. Several hundred buyers swarmed around the grounds bidding heavily in one of the most expensive auctions this year. Mr. Jack Forster had an extremely "green thumb." He nurtured a geranium plant for nine years and was rewarded with 147 blooms and breaking buds. Each fall Mr. Forster digs it up and puts it in his basement for the winter. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, August 14, 1984 Stan Grills, of Prince Albert, was selected as the winner of the Bicentennial Ontario in Bloom flower competition, sponsored by the Pine Ridge Garden Club. Police ruled out foul play in the shooting death of a young Oshawa man who was found dead behind the wheel of his car just east of Port Perry. Children at Blackstock playground, including Tanya Mappin, Carleton Lewis, Sherri Masterton, Scott Davies and Janet Kelly dressed the part as they celebrated 50s day. Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell the summer. YOU'LL SAY YOU KNEW ME WHEN... THIS MYSTERY briefcase business that came up last week has given me the great idea that will be a novel that writes itself, and propel me into the stratosphere of literary stardom. You remember the story: A local police officer was trying to track down the person who dropped off the briefcase belonging to a Boston University professor at the Port Perry police station. The officer wasn't jumping to any conclusions about the situation, but contended -- with reason -- that it's peculiar the guy's briefcase wound up in Port Perry when he's supposed to be in Indonesia for There's nothing much new on the case at this ohn -- it's Thursday afternoon -- except that lice have learned the professor who owns the briefcase was likely vacationing for a while up in Fenelon Falls, which at least puts him in the vicinity. But there may be more on it. Anyway: As I was saying, I think there js the premise here for a great mystery/suspense novel that could become a major theatrical release, or at least a Movie of the Week on a Major Television Network. It would star me, or somebody who looks like me -- have I mentioned that I'm often mistaken for that Alec Baldwin guy? -- and a bunch of other beautiful, talented actors and actresses. It takes place in a small town in Ontario, see, that's situated on the shores of a scenic lake. There's this newspaper guy who, during the course of his day, stumbles onto this story about a profes- sor's briefcase that was left at, say, the local police station, and nobody knows how it got there or why it's there or anything. The newspaper guy doesn't think much of the story at first, but as time goes on, things keep hap- pening that he just can't ignore. You know -- the professor's galoshes could be found at the firehall, and then his eyeglasses turn up in a restaurant. The newsapaper guy could be really alarmed when he find's the professor's pipe -- right in his OWN DRIVEWAY! There's lots of other stuff -- a few harrowing chases, fist-fights won by the newspaper guy, a torrid love affair involving the newspaper guy, a soundtrack by Sting, numerous tacky subliminal product endorsements, all the trappings. When the picture finally comes out (after a cou- ple of weeks of location filming right here in Port) and I win Oscars for Best Screenplay and Best Actor, you can say you knew me when. CONCERTS FOR GOOD CAUSES: The fields were alive with the sound of music in the area Saturday night, as local country musicians tuned up and put out for a good cause. Out by Blackstock, it was the 7th annual Musicians' Corn Roast, hosted by Paul Wasson. His show, in memory of Larry Dee, raised money for the Heart and Stroke people. An estimated 600 or so turned out for the evening, which was fine and wari despite a really, really rotted day preceeding it. Well done. Meanwhile, a bash planned for a field on the 12th Line to help local food banks had to be moved and didn't fare so well. Maybe next time.