The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i Boe buts shia iS L fal fi ln lb iad a SE ESS sa 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 25, 1995 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: 6Months-$17.65 includes $1.15GST 1Year-$32.10 includes $2.10GST Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. | The Port Perry Star LoL 1B7 Foreign-$90.95 includes $5.95GST BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1994 esr -- EDITORIAL Publisher - J. Peter Hvidsten General Mgr. - Don Macleod Managing Editor - Jeff Mitchell Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - Anna Jackman Advertising Sales - Rhonda Mulcahy, Joanne Brambrough, Sandy Dunham, Debbie McEachern BUSINESS OFFICE PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Office Manager - Gayle Stapley Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee Telemarketing - Cindy Jobin Pamela Hickey,Susan Milne Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario Editorial Comment Budget fall out begins Just weeks after the release of federal finance minister Paul Martin's long-awaited | budget, the hens are coming home to roost. The minister warned in the weeks leading up to the document's release that it would be ruthless, and some if not all of us would be left smarting by its debt-chopping measures. Well: Here's the first slap. Word came this past week that the Agricultural employment Services office, which has served Scugog and its farming community for more than 20 years, will be dealt a hefty blow, to the tune of 35 per cent of its funding. And management says the office, which helps local farmers and job seekers come together and also provides a local link to Employment Canada job banks, will eventually close. Is this the kind of measure we wanted? Apparently. In the weeks and months before the budget it seems everyone across the country jumped onto the No New Taxes bandwagon, warning government that they are taxed to the eyeballs now and can't take any more. That's fine, and one would be hard pressed not to agree. But such budgetary measures come with a cost: Services to local communities are being cut, and will continue to be cut. It's part of the leaner, meaner government we have demanded, and now we will have to live with it, it seems. But one wonders: How much sense does it make to cut back on services providing employment opportunities at the local level, when there remain so many other questionable expenditures? We maintain that the cuts can occur elsewhere. And local farmers likely do too. J LE UE AA REE I= URIS ERX) FOOL SY " oS To the Editor: I am writing in regards to the Canterbury Common Development. As a local contractor, I would like to see this project get underway as soon as possible. I can't understand why the developers or the town- ship are playing with this golf course issue. If in this day and age of water conservation and green space conservation the developer wants to abandon the course, I feel the town- ship should jump on the opportunity of promot- ing local conservation. If they are worried PHOTO COURTESY SCUGOG SHORES MUSEUM about who is going to look after the green space, I would suggest that they either do it or hire local people to do it. Or even better, since this is an adult style community, why has no one thought or men- tioned that each resident in this area may be retired or professional persons? With this in mind, may I point out that some of these people may not want to or be able to look after their OWN green spaces. In many adult style communities this is TurntoPage9 REMEMBER 35YEARSAGO Thursday, April 27,1950 When Harold Avery was cleaning up a pile of scrap metal behind Mrs. Bolton's house on Perry Street he came across a bomb. It was turned over to police chief G. Holmes who in turn handed it over to the R.C.A F. at Trenton. Two inspectors investigated and found it to be a live smoke bomb, but that it had not been dropped from the air. Port Perry Baseball Club was organized and elected Les Virtue, president, Irwin Boyd, secretary treasurer, Jim Tease, ;,manager, Bill Harper, coach and Sam Naples, assistant coach. 30YEARS AGO Thursday, April 29, 1965 A Cancer Panel discussion held in St. John's Presbyterian Church to start the April campaign was made up of Mrs. M. B. Dymond, president of the local branch; Dr. G. 7. KF Siaton, Port Perry, Ont Frank Beale of Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto; Miss Patricia Leslie., VO.N. and Dr. M. B. Dymond, Minister of Health. The ice went out of Lake Scugog this year on April 28. WHEN....? 20YEARS AGO Wednesday, April 30, 1975 Councillors Jerry Taylor and Robt. Brinkman took the challenge of Bill Brock and were the council's official entry in the Canoe the Nonquon. It was the first time in a canoe for the two. In the afternoon of April 23 the remainder of the ice on Lake Scugog disappeared. "Infernal", a standardbred horse owned by Warren McMillan, Donald Wade and Nelson Cochrane, was the highest paid horse sold ($30,000) at the Northern Standard Bred Sales held at the C.N.E. in Toronto. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, April 30, 1985 Township council unveiled its budget which would see $4 added to the average tax bill. Local water was tasting terrible and the Works Department found that there was hydrogen sulfide gas getting into the water Palmer Park, will be featured on a stamp to be released later this year to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of chiropractic by David Daniel Palmer, who was born in Port Perry and the park was named after. supply which is pumped from three deep wells south of the community. The Lake Scugog Task Force issued 7,000 questionnaires asking for comments on residents concerns about lake's weeds. oad bois, EI aI NL. i SS Ir OL 0