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nauk Re a SA Js ® "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, Oct.4, 1994 - 7 The Port Perry Star @WS muse Shih Sou Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, wCNA Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry, Ontario * GST included in price 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO LoL 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second dass mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: 6Months-$17.72 includes $1.22GST Managing Editor - Jeft Mitchell =I: 1cTe]Y} Sports Editor - Kelly Lown SUBS ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - Anna Jackman 1 994 Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Advertising Sales - Rhonda Stevens Production - Pamela Hickey PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Susan Milne, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew CCNA _ VERIFIED (SIS [AUTH gle] N] 1Year-$32.10 Forelgn-$90.95 includes $2.10GST includes $5.95GST I ETTERS Can Canada survive ridiculous legislation? To the Editor: Can Canada survice govern- ments that create such ridicu- lous legislation? A government that lets criminals into our country and then pays legal aid. Tax money to fight to keep them here. Does it make sense? If it wasn't true, it would be a joke. To me, it's sad that we have allowed this to happen. It's time Canadians say enough is enough! # Another government-created problem is a multicultural soci- ety that has done nothing but cause trouble in other parts of the world. We have in Canada a Sikh, Italian, Greek, Macedoni- an, Korean, Chinese, Caribbe- an, African, Jewish, Pakistan, Canadian Aborigines, etc., etc., and yes, the French and Eng- lish communities that seem to have their problems. I believe that Canadians have to be Canadians first and our background is secondary. Cana- da is one of the best countries in the world. We should fight to keepit that way. People are coming from all over the world, but are they coming tobe one of us or tobring us their problems? The Sikhs have tried to change our traditions in two places: the Legion and the RCMP. This does not create harmony. These so-called Cana- dians seem to want to keep their own traditions but have little respect for ours. The government is still bor- rowing money to send our sol- diers to police the world and be- ing given a shakedown in places like Rwanda. This is a switch from Canadians being shaken down in Canada by people from More comments on lawn spraying To the Editor: I was just drafting a letter to the editor about people hav- ing their lawns sprayed when Jay Thibert beat me to the punch last week. I have only a few remarks to add to his com- ments. I wonder how many peo- ple realize that even Environ- ment Canada has admitted "Pesticides are poisons - other- wise, they wouldn't work"? Or that the Attorney General of New York State has created a handout which says "Some of these (six named pesticides) and other pesticides have al' ready been found to cause long- term health effects in laborato- ry animals or humans, includ- ing birth defects, gene muta- tions, nervous system damage or liver and kidney damage.? In answer to the question "Are pesticides safe?", it replies, "No one can give you that assu- rance". Personally, I'm inclined to agree with the comment in the American Cancer Society pamphlet (the one which says right on its cover "Warning: The use of pesticides may be hazard- ous to your health!") that, "the benefits of a healthy family and ropulace outweigh the cosmetic benefits of a picture perfect lawn". Isn't this just common sense? I'd be happy to pass along cop- ies of the materials I have quot- ed and/or information about the CAP (Citizens for Alternatives to Pesticides) group in the Mon- treal area and its phenomenal efforts to educate citizens about pesticides. Give me a call (985- 3225) or check out the handout unit at Scugog Library. Janet Banting Greenbank around the world. When are we going to wake up to these facts? Our immigration policies are ridiculous and as a born again Canadian, I believe we should demand better. We should have no responsibility to pay legal aid to protect an illegal immi- grant in our country. Deport them, no questions asked. I would like to ask people that read this letter to write to their member of parliament to cor- rect the mistakes that have been made by them or their as- sociates. Vallie Lovering Port Perry No parole for offences From Page 6 of firearms in the commission of a crime. NO parole for this of- fence. 2. 10 year mandatory sen- tence upon conviction of a theft of a firearm(s). NO parole for this offence. 3. 10 year mandatory sen- tences for knowingly receiving or being in possession of a stolen firearm. NO parole for this of- fence. 4. The above firearms offens- es are not plea bargainable, and must be dealt with before any other charges. 5. Young offenders to be con- sidered as adults in firearms of- fenses. 6. Non-Canadian citizens to be deported immediately after serving their time in prison. Hopefully with the imple- mentation of these laws and not gun laws, criminals will finally be where they belong: behind bars. Sad to say, but if we had stiff- er laws like these maybe the murder of Roger Pardy might have been avoided. Ewald H. Bengel, Prince Albert 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 29, 1949 Mr. W.R. Hillier, of Port Perry, was appointed the position of district manger in the Nipigon District with the Long Lac Telephone Company. Thé Port Perry High School elections were held and the results were as follows: Bob Helm, president, Kay Prentice, vice president, Fred Denure, secretary-treasurer all for the student council. Mr. WH. Peel donated a General Electric refrigerator for the Recreation Centre to sell tickets on. Proceeds for the tickets were $1,033.50, which went towards the recreation centre. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 1, 1964 Canadian Pacific Railways Dayliner that travels between Toronto and Peterborough was discontinued. Only four trains, two freight and two passenger will now continue to use the tracks. Dianne Hall obtained the highest mark in the Grade IV Singing Examinations of Oshawa and District at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Marie Snooks was the winner of the Low Gross at the Sunnybrae Golf Course. She won the IGA trophy donated by Jack Hope. Roy D. Wolfe, president of the Oshawa Wholesale Ltd. was elected president of the Independent Grocer's Alliance Ltd. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 2, 1974 Mrs. Emily Gibson lived all her life near Cadmus and played the organ at the United Church there for 25 years. The organ, which is considered to be an antique is now on display at Scugog Shores Museum and Mrs. Gibson took time out to play} again when she visited the museum. ) Area residents received a shock Tuesday morning when the first light snowfall fell in the area. Coming on October 1 it was one of the earliest snowfalls in history. Doug Buller, of R.R. #2 Port Perry, held the lucky ticket in the snowmobile draw at the Port Perry Snow Show. Epsom news-Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Prentice attended the Golden Wedding Anniversary of her brother Kenneth Noble and Mrs. Noble of Uxbridge. A new single-pad arena located at the new Port Perry Fairgrounds is the major recommendation of a committee of five set up to ir. vestigate the matter, 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, October 2, 1984 The Trailer Place, at the intersection of Water Street and Highway 7A was gutted by fire which caused more than $30,000 in damage. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Baker of Port Perry were the guests of honor at a dinner at Emiel's to celebrate the couple's 50th anniversary. A fashion show sponsored by the Eastern Star raised $800, which went to the organization's $1,500 pledge to Community Memorial Hospital. The Greenbank Gamblers won their playoff series three games straight to claim their second straight league championship. Clem Jeffrey, of Port Perry, was Vegas bound after he won an all- expense paid trip through a draw sponsored by the Oddfellows and Rebekah Lodge. You can fax your letters! 985-3708 Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell KLEENEX FUTURES LOOKING UP CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD: Autumn is scratching at the window pane, tossing leaves and sticks and bits of debris against the Star Building. Outside the sky is a roiling blue-grey, and there are breaks of brilliant sunlight that set the orange er, "a mustard plaster, all over your chest, is the only way to break it up and get the phlegm really moving." To which we all reply: "Oooooh!" Then I pipe up: "Personally, I recommend the Sleeman's at the Antrim. It's cool, frothy and pleasant. And it cures The Common Cold." So that's where they all are now, I guess, with their Kleenex and cough drops and sweaters. SPEEGIN® UB DE CODE: Ever notice how dif- ficult it is to communicate when your entire head is clogged with a cold? Here's a conversation that occurred just today at my house, where we've got a viral outbreak that has levelled all of us at some point or another during the past week: "Gud bordig," I say to my wife. "Huh? Oh -- 'bordig," she replies. with unfeeling lips, brushing chafed noses. "Hab a dood day, dweedie," she says. "Huh? Oh. Yeah. Yoodoo." "Goodoo led out de gat?" "Huh? Oh -- ture." Please, God. The Cure! WAVE OF THE FUTURE? ...It would seem there will soon be no reason at all for owning a television. I will be without the penants and World Series, call me here and plug your ear before I answer -- and now hockey seems doomed. Saturday nights without Don Cherry and Ron McLean? Good God! what's a man supposed to do? Talk to his family or something? Raschel] ic cone -- for the first October in my life and if you want to know how I feel about that, just That means -- without some kind of quick resolu- tion to this hockey thing, like Gary Bettman fall- ing in front of a subway or something -- that when the Super Bowl comes to its usual dreary conclu- sion in January, I will no longer have any use for my tube. So, I'll let it go cheap. I'm accepting offers now, and will require half down and half in January. And if a subway does hit Bettman, the deals off. "Care vor dum covee?" "Huh? Oh. Ture. Dags." "Huh? "Dags." "Oh," I say. "Welcome." It continues like this until it's time for us to get off to work. Sniffling briefly into our respective Kleenex -- common courtesies are so important in making a relationship last -- we kiss one another and yellow leaves glowing. oo And everyone inside has a miserable, dripping, itching cold. We have been discussing our cold remedies as we shuffle about, knocking over telephones and sweeping wadded Kleenex off our desks. "Tea and honey," suggests one worker. "Or lemon tea," adds another. "No, no," insists some department head or anoth- Ls