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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, December 28 1994 - 7 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO PHONE (905) 985-7383 LoL 1B7 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 The Port Perry Star (CTS) 0 by RIBBON AWARD General Mgr. - Don Macleod Managing Editor - Jeff Mitchell Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Advertising Sales - Rhonda Mulcahy Production - Pamela Hickey BLUE 1994 PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Susan Milne, shi Robert Taylor, Richard Drew BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee =e @ Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Oniario CCNA includes $5.95GST By Judie Cooper Merry Christmas, Port Perry, and thank you for your support in our Mint Chocolate Cookie drive. You certainly do enjoy those cookies and we thank you. A great deal has been hap- pening in and around town and much is in store for the next few months. The 1st and 2nd P.P. Sparks were very busy getting ready for Christ- mas making crafts, Advent Calendars, singing carols and visiting Santa in his down- town castle. I hope Santa remembered all those requests. I've heard he has a great memory though. The downtown windows were much enjoyed by all. The 2nd P.P. Brownies made friendship bracelets for each other, a wonderful gift, and planned a trip to the Lo- blaws in Whitby to make Gin- gerbread Houses. The Sea- grave Brownies were also busy with Christmas crafts and a planned trip to Cullen Gar- dens to visit Santa. The 2nd P.P. Guides have been working very hard on the Guide program this fall but made time for a trip to the Sy- denham Museum in Oshawa. The 2nd P.P. Pathfinders Great year for Guides here in Port Perry have kept very busy visiting «he Uxpool, working on fitness and health with some line dancing lessons and talking about skin care. I'm sure the girls have enjoyed these ses- sions immensely. Christmas crafts ended the year. The leaders enjoyed a won- derful Chinese food dinner and received a Christmas wreath each. What a wonderful sur- prise. Thanks Bev and There- sa. January and February look tobe avery interesting months with hopeful visits to the Ice Palace, Snowflake Festival and skiing. We'd better all think "Snow." Some camping trips are scheduled as well. Ap- plication forms for Camp Ade- laide will be available at the first of February and Cookie orders will also be taken this month. Guide and Scout week will be February 22nd. The Girl Guides will be cele- brating their 85th year and we are pleased to see so many girls involved now considering it started with only a handful back in 1910. Way to go girls. I'd like to take this opportu- nity to wish all the girls and leaders as well as the people of Port Perry all the best for a Happy New Year. Merry Christmas-and have a wonder- ful holiday. Party was From page 6 his departure our waiting school buses weré loaded with well fed, tired and happy people ready to be taken home. Christmas is traditionally a time for family, friends and sharing. The staff and drivers of Stock Transportation Ltd., en- joyed the opportunity to give back to our community with this very worthwhile endeavor that encompassed some of the less fortunate families in our areas who may not otherwise have the terrific Everyone who participated went home feeling somehow dif- ferent, perhaps more apprecia- tive of their own family and more content with how much we all have is so often overlooked and taken for granted. We look forward to next year's party and the chance todo it all again. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all the generous busi- nesses in our communities, far too numerous to mention. We obviously live in an area that really knows the true meaning of Christmas! Katie Van Camp awarded Kent Farndale Bursary By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Twelve-year-old Katie Van Camp was awarded the Kent Farndale Art Bursary at a ceremony at the Scugog Public Library last The Kent Farndale Bursary is awarded once a year to a deserving Scugog Township resident who wishes assistance in pursuing a specific field of art. The bursar established in 1992 in honor o | Katie, saying she was very | dancing since she was | three years old, was a ! were chosen to attend the was Mrs. Farndale, who for several years introduced Scugog residents to a wide spectrum of artists. The fund is supported by donations from area residents. Katie, along with her father and grandparents as well as Mrs. Farndale were on hand for the ceremony. Both Mrs. Farndale and Jim Wills, library chairman praised the program and deserving of the bursary. Katie, who has been member of the Inta-Kids Dance Troupe in Whitby for four years when she earned the right to attend the school after auditioning for a spot. Three from a group of 28 school. The auditions were left and Kent Farndale. week. other countries. held throughout Canada, | i the United States and Katie Van Camp, centre, was awarded the Kent Farndale Bursary last week. The ballet student Is currently studying her art in Winnipeg. Pictured with Katie are Catherine Hall, She called the summer program tough and at the The Port Perry girl began taking classes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in the fall after being accepted into the intensive program after a five-week summer camp at the school. program at Royal Winnipeg were slim. A jubilant Katie later found out she was accepted at the school and the former R.H. Cornish Public School student was off to Winnipeg this past fall. time thought her chances for being accepted into the New support group for juvenile arthritis The Arthritis Society has re- cently organized a new support group, the Juvenile Arthritis Support Group. Meetings are held at the Grandview Rehabili- The topic of the meeting will be "Ability OnLine Support Network", which is a computer network that puts children and adolescents with disabilities in please call Patricia Brightwell at (905) 434-7032; Laurie Ma- cAllister at (705) 437-3622; Katherine Crawford or Robyn Heaney at The Arthritis Society opportunity to celebrate this festive season. Lubke Storry tation and Treatment Centrein touch with each other. office (905) 434-7221. the Conference Room. Meetings If you have any questions or There is no fee to attend, and are held every other month. require more information, refreshments are served. Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell NAKED HOLIDAY COFFEE BREAKS CHRISTMAS DOWN SOUTH: At last, I got a Christmas gift I really, really wanted. See, I've always had this secret desire to enjoy Christmas in Florida, or some sunny clime like that. I say secret because I know it wouldn't be a good idea to verbalize my yearning around my house. Pamela, my wife, is a traditionalist, who wants Christmas with all the trimmings: Burst water pipes, windows caked with ice, fingers and toes stinging and turning black with frostbite after a skate on a lake amid the arctic breezes. She would shout me down and call me a traitor or something like that. So Sunday, Santa or whomever brought me a gift I won't soon forget. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, after the crack-of-dawn mayhem that accompanies Christmas when you have kids. There, on the porch, sat Jeffrey, enjoying a coffee with fancy French booze in it, the kind you can enjoy in the morning without feeling guilty. I wore my shorts, a sweatshirt, and sneakers. The sun beamed down warm and sweet, and the steam from my coffee curled pleasantly about the rim of the cup. The dog -- he too sought refuge from the flying wrapping paper and assorted ear- ly-morning squeals -- lay snorting and passing wind at my feet. Neighbors out for their Christmas stroll did dou- ble takes as I waved and hollered season's greet- ings to them, a man far too close to naked on a porch with a dog a few days after the winter solstice. It was over too soon. But it was sweet while it lasted. Thanks, Santa. READY FOR EASTER? ...Once again I find myself amazed at the virtual collapse that occurs as Christmas winds down. It's an exhausting event, really. Weeks of hype gather the velocity of a boulder tumbling down a mountain side: Buy, Buy, Buy!!!! Children, through no fault of their own, become raving loonies as the day approaches, so convinced are they that a fat leering man in a red suit will come and deposit on the living room floor every item they ever could have wished for, and more. Their hysteria builds and peaks on Dec. 24, by which time there's no talking to them at all. "Cameron, what are you doing up there? You can't climb the Christmas tree!" "Jill! Get down! I don't want you to ride on the ceiling fan any more!" My poor son was so overwhelmed that by the time the sun was going down he was convinced Santa was on the way and monitoring his move- ments, so that every time he committed an atroci- ty he would wail that he had surely been caught, and blown his chances at receiving anything. In the aftermath Christmas Day as I lay exhausted amid the shards of decorations I won- dered: What ever became of Christmas? Is this rampant materialism right? No. We've missed the point. Completely.