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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 6, 1994 - 7 The Port Per r y Star (CATES), OA eter Hvidton BLUE 211s] 10) AWARD 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO LoL 187 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: 6Months-$17.65 includes $1.15GST 1Year-$32.10 Foreign-$90.95 includes $2.10 GST includes $5.95GST 1994 General Mgr. - Don Macleod Managing Editor - Jeff Mitchell Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - Anna Jackman Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Advertising Sales - Rhonda Mukahy Production - Pamela Hickey BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Susan Milne, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew *CNA | Member of the oo Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry, Ontario CCNA 4 VERIFIED [SAT [OTS N gle] > I ETTERS Ball supporters still seek answers To the Editor: In response to Leanne Lang's letter to the editor, Tuesday, Oct. 25; the group of people who, as you stated displayed a "con- frontational attitude" were not in attendance at the Cartwright Minor Ball General Meeting to simply complain about the way the executive ran the ball sea- son. They had a very real and serious mandate. I truly hope, Leanne, that you are not aware of the serious situation which exists between the Cartwright Minor Ball League and the Scu- gog Baseball Association, and that your letter was not just an- other attempt to discredit our group and cover up this season's discrepancies. There is nothing that we would like or support more than to have a well organized, well run, communicative hardball league for our kids! We were at that meeting for our kids, to at- tempt to change the CMB liai- sons, who have failed miserably in communication and coopera- UNICEF drive collected $58 in Scugog area To the Editor, I'd like to say a belated thank you to all the people who donated coins to UNICEF boxes in local stores around Halloween. A total of $58.58 was col- lected -- no great fortune, but a whole lot better than noth- ing! Thanks to the Borelians, Earthdance, Greenbank Lions club Halloween party, Kountry Bulk and Deli, Lakeview Dry Cleaners, and Mac's Milk for displaying UNICEF boxes. Janet Banting Greenbank tion with Scugog Baseball. We were there to try to add to the constitution a provision to provide a head umpire and com- mittee to handle protested games. Protested games are a matter of interpretation of the rules of baseball, not a personal- ity conflict, as CMB would have you believe. We wanted to change the conflict resolution clause to allow for a sit down, face to face meeting with all parties involved in a conflict, in an effort to get to the core of a problem, which we feel would better facilitate a resolution. You were at that meeting, Leanne. You saw what can re- sult from the present conflict resolution system. We wanted the Constitution to identify what constitutes membership in CMB for voting purposes. We wanted to ques- tion the executive regarding the transferring of surplus season funds to the future develop- ment fund. This year $4,000 of registra- tion and/or sponsorship money was transferred to this fund. Last year $1,207 was trans- ferred. From the very begin- ning, we had understood that only donations and fundraising money would be used for this fu- ture development fund. We wanted to know why a de- cision regarding surplus regis- tration/sponsorship money was not brought to the General Membership for a motion and vote. We are not saying that we do not support future develop- ment; of course we do. We were asking for a say in the process. After all, the money does come from all of'! Four thousand dollars is a lot of money to pull from the regu- lar season and we wanted to make sure that the executive's mandate was not to scrimp and save during the regular season, at the expense cf the kids, in or- der to make transfers of these substantial amounts to the fu- ture development fund. The quality and quantity of the hardball equipment used this year brought this in to question. Please don't insult us by saying that Scugog Baseball decides what kind of balls to purchase; we are all well aware that only $5 of our $50 registra- tion fee per child goes to Scugog Baseball for insurance, and with $4,000 left over at the end of the season, we know there was definitely enough money! The question of two umpires came up several times during the season from the peewee di- vision to the bantam division. None of these coaches were polled regarding this!! I would like to know how any human be- ing can make a second base call from home place when it is over 100 feet away!! Again, we all know that there was enough money! We wanted to have future ex- ecutive meetings open to the public. Do you not think that open meetings would improve communication to the general membership? We wanted to be involved in the voting process to accept the CMB Executive's proposed amendment to the constitution preventing future executive members from "benefiting mon- etarily from their position while serving in any capacity with CMB." As you are well aware, this year's executive had passed a motion to spend $100 on a bar- becue for themselves; only one executive member objected to this purchase, but the motion 'was carried anyway. The expenditure was later re- scinded due to a petition which was circulated amongst the general membership objecting to this expenditure (164 signa- tures were collected). This "confrontational" group of people you refer to are coach- es, sponsors, umpires, players and parents; these people are already pitchingin!! What exactly are you suggest- Turnto Page 10 Remembe 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 8, 1949 Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Peters celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, messages were received from King George and Queen Elizabeth. Six thousand chicks left Peel's Poultry farm for Campbellford, New Brunswick, a trip of 800 miles. This is the largest offer of Peel's Fast Feathered Barred Rocks to be shipped at one time in a single shipment. Mr. Grant Christie of Manchester attended the Warden's banquet at Brougham. } Mr. Wesley Jackson obtained a position with the hydro office in Toronto. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 10, 1964 The members of the Official Board of the United Church honored Mr. Roy St. John who had been caretaker of the church for eight years. Mr. Jon Hamilton was elected deputy-reeve of Cartwright Township at the election. : Mrs. Bert (Lucille) Gray received second highest in the voting for councillor in Reach Township and is the first woman ever to sit on council in the history of Reach Township. Mrs. A. Fisher was elected president of the Ashburn W.M. at the December meeting held at the home of Mrs. Edgar Heron. Mr. and Mrs. Tuscan purchased the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Holtby of Prospect. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 4, 1974 Damage was estimated at $6,000 to a tractor-trailer owned by Hancock Sand and Gravel after the truck, driven by Gary Beddows of Sunderland, swerved to miss a car. The tractor-trailer flipped onto its side and the driver sustained minor injuries. Options had been taken on five pieces of Scugog Township property so that test wells could be drilled. Port Perry had to find additional water if further development was to take place. Mrs. Iva Phoenix was a delegate to the Womens' Institute Convention for three days at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Also attending was Mrs. Roberta Baird and Mrs. Betty Stone. 10 YEARSAGO Tuesday, December 4, 1984 In an effort to reduce costs the transfer station in Blackstock had its 24-hour policy cut back. Any hopes of constructing a municipally owned marina on the Port Perry Waterfront faded. Street lights were being considered for two intersections. The first the corner of Highway 7A and Durham Road 57 into Caesarea and Highway 12 and Durham Road 8. Scugog Memorial Public Library's librarian Judy McColl was attending the cast party for Birdseye Centre when she was presented with copies of Jimmy Frise's Birdseye Centre cartoons dated from 1926 to 1947. The handsome bound volumes were presented by Birdseye Centre producer Lynn Relf as a thank you for the library's help in the production. Mesquite's Tasha, an award winning mare owned by David Adams of Nestleton had to be destroyed by a veterinarian after being badly injured by a gunshot wound. Hunters were being blamed for the tragic accident. You can fax your letters 985-3708 Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell the moment with another one of those Americanization-of-Canada jokes: "It's Free Trade," he mugged. "It's got to be." Neither Pete nor I laughed. We sat contemplat- ing our mugs of beer; a melancholy set in that was impossible to shake, so we said good night to one another early, and went our separate ways. Here is the most striking memory I have of today, this woman is afraid of men. Not just me, a slightly drunk, ill-kempt newspaper hack in old workboots; all men. I remember a distinct sorrow washing over me as the realization struck me. And I was powerless to do anything about it. It occurred to me to run to her, touch her should- er and say, "OF Sister... I'm so sorry..." But I did not. I could not. She would have freaked. REMEMBERING A DARK DAY It's December Sixth again. Each year when this date rolls around I harken back to five years ago, when I first heard about the massacre at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. I was sitting in the Kingston pub my buddies and I frequented. Outside the cold of December pressed against the window panes, but we were fine and hearty and warm indoors, with our froth- ing pints and smoldering butts and laughter and camraderie. My friend Pete, a law student at the time, shared the news he'd heard on the radio before coming out to join us. Dave, also a law student, tried to make light of \ December 6, 1989: It was after I had left the pub and was walking along the steaming streets toward my home. I turned north, off the main drag, to cut up a nar- row, one-way street I habitually took. It was lined with towering row houses where students lived in their own ghetto. It was ill-lit, and sinister, I guess, given the times. Ahead of me a young woman walked. As I turned the corner and the slap of my workboots reverber- ated along the pavement, she glanced back. Fearfully. Her pace quickened as we both advanced along the dark street, and she threw more glances back over her shoulder. I realized with a shock that she was afraid of me. It was then that the magnitude of the event came crashing down: After what has happened And it occurs to me now she would have had eve- ry reason to. The quiet warfare waged for so long had burst forth in a noisy and bloody eruption that day, and left us reeling. Our suspicions and fears and contempt were laid bare, and we were ugly to ourselves. To this day I feel profound shame for what hap- pened on that December 6 in Montreal, and for the fear I struck in the heart of that young woman as she innocently made her way home on a dark win- ter's night. And what can I do about it? Remember, I guess. And encourage others to. And I can tell my children about it, when they're ready, and try to explain, if I can figure it out for myself... Sorry. No jokes today. j