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PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 21, 1995 - 7 @w' "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" The Port Perry Star 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - L9L 1B7 EDITORIAL Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten General Mgr. - Don MacLeod Managing Editor - Jeff Mitchell BUSINESS OFFICE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retall Sales - Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 Sports Editor - Kelly Lown Telemarketing - Cindy Jobin | The Port Perry Star Is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of ADVERTISING PRODUCTION Canadian Com NG radian Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Advertising Manager - AnnaJackman Annabell Harrison, Ontario Community Newspaper Association Subscription Rate: Advertising Sales - Rhonda Mulcahy, Trudy Empringham, Published every Tuesday by the 1Year-$32.10 6Months-$17.65 Forelgn-$90.95 Joanne Brambrough, Sandy Dunham, Pamela Hickey, Susan Milne Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario includes $2.10GST includes$1.15GST Includes $5.95 GST Debbie McEachern, Bill Eastwood Robert Taylor, Richard Drew I_ETTERS Letter campaigns spread hatred (From page 4) cars and a tow truck were stored in the building by Williams To the Editor: edge can be dangerous". work to school to sports to poli- | Motors. I have read with great inter- Hate mongering is a very tics. I do not believe that free- Ralph Honey, a first year student at Guelph won the award for est the many intellig nt, in- dangerous and crippling socie- dom of speech extends to the | the Reserve Grand Champion Showman. formed responses to Ms. Switz- tal disease; even more danger- spreading of views which incite Evelyn Moore was chosen At Home Queen at Port Perry High er's views. One writer really hit ous if presented under the guise hatred of any one or the nail on the head by stating ort School. Student council president was Ken Hallett and Wes the old adage "a little knowl- Lifestyles sexuals didn't seem to like it then either. People can teach their chil- dren what they like but for them of Christianity. Incomplete statements and uninformed opinions are both irresponsible and misleading. These tactics will serve no useful purpose and will certainly not assist public education of the issues in any way, shape or form. However, Ms. Switzer is not alone in her views. She has many supporters who live and work amongst us all; many of groups of visible minorities; however subtle. It is immoral and most definitely not Chris- tian! Society as a whole would do well to recognize these tenden- cies and do all that is necessary to prevent the spread of this most debilitating disease of the mind. Beware of wolves in sheeps' clothing! Jackson and his orchestra supplied the music. | 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 26, 1975 Robert Scott Kenny, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kenny, Port Perry was among the graduates from the 1975 class of the Niagara Parks: Commission's School of Horticulture on Saturday, March 22. After 40 years of banking, eight as bank manager in Port Perry, Don McRitchie has retired. Mr. McRitchie and his wife Eleanor were honored at a dinner held for the couple at Conway Gardens. The Beare Motors 16th annual bonspiel winners were: Robert Howsam, skip, Donald Carnegie, vice, Arthur Panabaker, second to teach my children their filthy whom are active in almost all M. Boccaccio | 2nd Gord Prentice. Bill and Storey Beare were on hand to make the lifestyle is another matter, aspects of our daily lives; from Nestleton | Presentation. } thank you. . In the U.S.A. there are more and more children having ba- bies; education seems to be working more for the educators than anyone else. My father fought in WWI to help keep this country free, and had I been old enough I would have been in WWII to help it stay that way so gays can walk the streets of towns and cities half naked with leather chains, whips and artificial genitalia strapped to their bodies looking like something that may have come from outer space. I would like to ask Mayor Hall to declare a "gay free week" so we proud heterosexuals can pa- : on re rade up and down the streets pam yt telling the gays how proud we : are tobestraight. I really don't care what people do as long as they don't involve me or my family. If that means being gay I don't care, but for the sake of heterosexuals go about your life as you see fit, but we don't have to likeit. Keep up the good work Carol, and don't give up the fight to keep your children from what Port Perry Railway Station and the Paving Of Queen Street 4 I Shink Is wrong. finelady and This old photo of the railway station at the lakefront in Port Perry was probably taken in the early 1900s. it appears to a good mother. have been taken when the paving of Queen Street was just getting underway and gravel in the rail cars was being unloaded by men and hauled by horse and wagon to a Koenring Paver (centre). Two storey building in background, Vallie Lovering, which was the railway station, Is now located on Water Street and is occupied by Ives Florist. Photo courtesy Dorothy Port Perry St. John, Uxbridge. Anyone who knows when Queen St. was first paved, please call the Star at 985-7383. TT _m from the Airborne jarheads. ...And now a regional road crew caught in the act, according to a local woman, of completing a leisurely lunch on a Scugog roadside and then casually tossing garbage into the nearby ditch. Before you guffaw, remember: These guys are paid to clean up our local roads. If what appears to happen on the tape is borne out and proven, some- body's going to have some explaining to do. And the rest of us better just watch it. For me, littering, non-smoking-area smoking and surrepti- tious nose-picking are out. For good. MAY I SEE YOUR LICENCE?: Startling news for beer-drinking John Deere owners this week from Norway, where a man was convicted, and subsequently had his sentence suspended, for drunk driving on a lawn mower. A Canadian Press dispatch from Oslo said the guy was pulled over by the coppers as he drove his lawnmower from one lot to another while cutting grass for the municipality, and found to have quaffed three beers, which is way over the legal limit there. The 54-year-old man was hauled into court -- if you can believe this -- where the powers that be were told there was nothing suspect about his driving; he was just caught in a spot check. The poor sod was fined the equivalent of $1,130 Canadian loonies, and sentenced to 24 days in jail.- ~ But those harsh measures were suspended because, in the view of the court, the vehicle upon which he was perched at the time of the offence was not sufficiently speedy to inflict much dam- age on anything it encountered. MORE SIGNS OF THE APOCOLYPSE: a McDonald's hinting about setting up shop in Uxbridge; 0 A warning from Star movie critic John Foote that controversial director Oliver Stone is about to | make a film about -- gulp -- Richard Nixon; a Les Nordiques taking over first place in the NHL -- Wendell, We Hardly Knew Ye; a Famed American Liar and Failed Politician Oliver North becoming a sensation ofnTalk Radio; 0 The alarming number of kids wearing bell-bot- toms and little round mirror shades; a The courts ordering the Metro school board to hire back Marc Lepine fan Jag Bhaduria; 2 The O.J. Simpson Trial; 0 The continuing popularity of New Country radio stations; 0 Photo Radar. Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell HEY! | SAW THAT! EYES IN THE SKIES: If it hadn't yet occurred to you that life as we know it has been irrevocably altered by the advent of hand-held movie cameras, perhaps it's time you pay heed. They're everywhere, these handycams, camcor- ders, and related video doo-dads, waiting to seize any moment or occurrence and make it a bit of undeniable history -- or evidence. First it was the police stomping of Rodney King -- or perhaps, farther back still, those fuzzy images of Bigfoot striding into the Pacific forest and look- ing back over his shoulder in annoyance at an ogling motorist -- and then the images kept com- ing, up until the recent spate of nauseating antics nm