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mn "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 31, 1995 - 7 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO LoL 1B7 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 Foreign -$90.95 includes $5.95GST 1Year-$32.10 L ifcludes $2.10GST The Port Perry Star &u EDITORIAL Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten General Mgr. - Don Macleod Managing Editor - Jeft Mitchell Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Advertising Sales - Rhonda Mulcahy Production - Pamela Hickey BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope BLUE Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee RIBBON AWARD Dun Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Susan Milne, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew CCNA 1994 VERIFIED CIRCULATION I EFTTERS All kids have right to participate To the Editor: _ Re: "Coaches make tough de- cisions" Star, Jan. 24: I would like to respond to Shawn D. Parker, or maybe he thinks of himself as Pat Burns Parker. You have missed the point. In nine years of coaching you don't seem to have learned much about kids. A first year player has no ego; he just wants to play. There is a Bylaw Book and Canadians To the Editor: Finance Minister Paul Mar- tin has warned taxpayers he may increase taxes in his up- coming budget. Canadians already are taxed to the limit. We pay on average about 50 per cent more taxes than do Americans. The Liber- als promised in pre-election statements -- by Prime Minister Chretien himself to scrap the GST. Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps said if they didn't Keep them coming, Paul To the Editor: We would like to thank Paul Arculus for his most interesting series "Historical Sketches of Scugog." Each segment has been most enjoyable - even surprising. For example, Port Hoover - who had heard of this portion of Scugog history? Hopefully" we will see the whole series in print under one cover -- because I'm sure we have missed some pieces! Thank you Paul. Sincerely, John and Betty Cincurak, Ashburn Constitution. You should get one and read it from cover to cover. On Page 1 it states for boys and girls without regard for race, creed, color or ability. This is house league, not all star. I see so many coaches want to win; they have an ego. Go and see the president and ask for a Bylaw Book. And note at the end it states the coach may in the last period put out the best players and that's only in the playoffs. I've got a few years coaching, in fact four times plus two more years than you. And I have re- spect from all the players and their parents, from Atom Pee- wee to Bantam. I sign off with, it's not that you win or lose but how you played the game. That applies to you as well. Also, learn to have some fun with your team. F.J. Oxley, Port Perry are taxed to the limit keep the promise she would re- sign within the year. Neither has happened! Instead of cutting taxes they threaten to increase them. Threatened are RRSPs and dental insurance plans etc, even a new gasoline tax. No increase in taxes would be necessary if Ottawa would cut official bilingualism, multicul- turalism, and golden hand- shakes, no funding for special interest groups, cut out unnec- essary trips, limit frivolous spending on government trips, no free airline tickets for politi- cians' families, no funding to ethnic groups for supposed dis- crimination, and millions for outside consultants and poll- sters and limit the costs of con- stituency offices. Defer politi- cians' pension until age 67, same as proposed for pension- ers. By cutting official bilingual- ism we could save $30 billion a year and cut 35,000 bureau- crats from the federal payroll. That according to former depu- ty Prime Minister Erik Neilsen. French Immersion alone cost taxpayers in Durham Region about $35 million a year. Not to mention cost of core French. All to no avail. Sooner or later Que- bec will separate! Despite the uncertain politi- cal climate in Quebec, the feder- al government is paying $107 million to fund the construction of a five-storey National Ar- chives building in Gatineau, Quebec. According to International Law, if Quebec secedes, Canada will no longer own its National Archives. The Vienna Conven- tion on Secission of States, an agreement signed by 54 nations at a United Nations Conference in 1983, decreed that a new state inherits all the properties of its predecessor situated with- inits territory. According to this "principle of - territorial sovereignity," if Que- bec separates it would automat- ically acquire title to all land, buildings, military bases, air- ports, wharves, prisons, nation- al parks and post offices within its borders. Compensation for these properties may be nego- tiated with the federal govern- ment if Quebec is so inclined, but the transfer is not negotia- ble, according to International Law. Even if Quebec lets Ottawa have the historical records, the separatists will still take pos- session of the land and building worth $107 million paid for by the Canadian taxpayer. Sincerely, Dean J. Kelly, Port Perry York. caution. truck went into receivership. 10 YEARSAGO Tuesday, February 5, 1985 Marg Wilbur announced she would be secking the New Democratic Party nomination for the provincial riding of Durham- Port Perry's annual Snowarama fell a bit short of its $30,000 target as 158 snowmobilers took part raising just more than $17,000. Although the weather and trail conditions were near ideal, organizers are unsure of why the turnout was so low. Officials with the Trent Severn Waterway told the Lake Scugog task force that any move to raise the water level of Lake Scugog to control the weed problems would have to be done with extreme The Scugog Fire Department learned it may have to wait several months for a new pumper truck because the company building the Scugog firefighters from Hall 1 were kept hopping handling two consecutive barn blazes, one on Scugog Island and one in Utica. As of January 21, 1985, the Cartwright Transfer Station would no longer be open 24 hours a day. Spending is too high If we ever get back on our feet From page 6 This practice of aid and loan forgiveness was fine when we were rich, but now that we are poor and there's no one left to help us out. It's time we said, I'm sorry, we can't afford it. It's time to stop trying to keep up with the Jones. I've personal- ly cut my expenses to a mini- mum. I buy only what I can af- ford and what I need. It's time that governments at all levels did the same. Accolades To the Editor: Please find enclosed my pay- ment for the renewal of my sub- scription to the newspaper. I look very forward to receiv- ing the Star and keeping up to date on the happenings in and around Port Perry. again as a country then we can be philanthropic and play with the big boys, until then, think "small." Large corporations have had to do it to survive; gov- ernments are supposed to lead, not follow. I'm very very concerned for my country and for my chil- dren's future. Yours sincerely, IK. White, Nestleton for Arculus Also I enjoy reading the His- tory articles by Paul Arculus. . Thank you. Yours truly, , Joan Hartwick, Kincardine Fax your letters...985-3708 Editor's revoked. the policy statement. "Henceforth, Schools of Journalism and other related facilities shall be disbanded, and funding 25 pounds, and I have to learn to keep the sled from becoming bogged down, but we're on our way. We're off to the races. In the meantime, it's incumbent upon me to Notepad by Jeff Mitchell LEFT OUT IN THE COLD LITTLE KNOWN FACT: Recommendation 136 of the much-ballyhooed Royal Commission on Learning deals specificially with the people who labor to bring you your news each week. And we at The Star have obtained secret docu- ments that indicate the government will move swiftly to take action on that and the other 135 recommendations contained in the report. Here it is: "Be it resolved that journalists, edi- tors, photographers and anchor people" -- there the government gives a nod to political correctness in avoiding gender-specific terminology -- " are incapable of learning, and therefore deemed to be unreachable under the terms of this report," says "But no one will notice a difference." Well. Yours truly marched directly to the offices of Gord Mills, MPP, secret government document in hand, to confront the local member. But his office was closed for lunch. So yours tru- ly spent the afternoon in a Bowmanville tavern, sipping Moosehead and yukking it up with the locals, and dropping change into the juke box and. an illegal cigarette machine. Just thought you should know. 'SNOW PROBLEM: Things are looking up for the Snow Flake Festival in Port Perry. It's all but stopped raining, there's a blanket of fresh sparkling white stuff on the ground, and the huts have ceased their descent through the ice of Lake Scugog. Otto and I have been in training for the sled dog races, in anticipation of whooping the butts of all those yappy huskies and malamutes and whatever those bushy-tailed wussies are. Oh, our regimine is rigid. He needs to drop about remind you to purchase your festival buttons, and get ready for a whale of a good time. A little-known fact -- it's been hush-hush, actual- ly -- is that a new event is planned for this year's do. Yep -- Nearly Naked Snow-Rolling. Participants will be encouraged to doff their clothes and frollick in bathing suits in the snow of Palmer Park, competing to see who can build the biggest snowman in the shortest amount of time. We have entered our Publisher, J. Peter Hvidsten, and wish him all the best. There will also be a celebrity event, I hear. Watch This Newspaper for details on the time of the event and the best vantage points. BACK TO NORMAL: Is it a relief to see hockey on television again, or what? It was a weird and empty feeling, walking into someone's house on a Saturday night and not hearing the play-by-play of Leafies' matches, "Classic" reruns notwithstanding. For now, though, it's playoff time for our own Mojacks. Get out there and root. ---- ---------- pt § er ne 208 i mm, Se Alc at A -- to cog ---------------- --------" ts tt og "ess me * SA "ong bl gh nt ttt onal ems a St ri gb RH on Gis es