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"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" vy 1995 BLUE |GET AWARD EDITORIAL BUSINESS OFFICE i py | | BhioA el arene J. Peter Hvidsten Office Manager...Gayle Stapley * CNA | iT | "General Manager... Don Macleod - Accounting......Judy Ashby, Louise Hope = "Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee -- Ors EGItOr.........Kelly Lown PRODUCTION Member of the | ADVERTISING . : Production Supervisor - Pam Hickey Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. {| 'Advertising Manager... Anna Jackman Annabell Harrison, Rhonda Mulcahy, Ontario Community Newspaper Assoc. 'Advertising Sales easing Myra Park Trudy Empringham, Published every Yuosdy by the Joanne Brambrough, Deb McEachern, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Port Perry Star Co, Ld. - ll! Telemarketing..Cindy Jobin Nancy Hvidsten : 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Editorial Comment Any hope for new year? The New Year has arrived, The Christmas holiday, so long Hhticipated d planned for, is thankfully for most a thing of \the past, the last reminder the Christmas that has been discarded by the curb), a few forlorn bits of tinsel still clinging to its branches. Itis in the cold light of January we look now at the year ahead, and in some cases shudder, given the year just gone by. It can be difficult to feel much optimism in these nasty times we call the 90's, The decade is now half over, and has left us so far with a 'legacy of ruin. Downsizing, downturn, ethnic cleansing, economic indicators... phrases that have become ingrained, and will, it seems, forever be part of the horizon. Virtually no one feels totally secure in his or her job, and we approach the business pages of the daily paper with trepidation, fearing we will find declared what we have felt all along: The economic doldrums into which this part of the country has sunk remain, and it seems there is no relief in sight. Even in these times, when our country's officials strive to assure us the turn-around is approaching or has come, layoffs and closures and cutbacks are the order of the day. We and our neighbors struggle to make a living which seems constantly under attack from factors far beyond our personal control. In the midst of this gloom, let's look for a spark of hope, though. One could say 1996 has to be better... how much worse could it get? Plenty. We still live in the best country in the world. We still have some jobs, some money, some hope. We still have each other. As we embark on this new year, let's try not to forget we're all in this together. FATHER TIME, THE BABY NEW YEAR 15 NOT WELL. IT APPEARS HE HAS CAUGHT IT RT TEST / iri Sf. Sar XN ay Pe Tt ED i A -_--, { 0 TR 00 FSMD A amr amt Sem Wome sa DoLiGHAN PEAR . » Snow machines set nerves a-jangle CLIMATE Lake Scugog is frozen quite solid and the landscape's increasingly solid. It's peaceful out there in the mid-week air ~ but noisy weekends turns life squalid. The whine of speed-freaks ice dashing going nowhere and back without smashing sets nerves all a-tingle as we think of a jingle that rhymes with a word meaning trashing. think only of crossing ice plains. The faster, the better - | no reason, just let'er - while townsfolk's patience wanes. - Still business is good for retailers who service these eager ice sailors. There's money to burn as eager eyes yearn when packing up flatbed sport trailers. Owen Neill, Port Perry. Sn -- But the boys with throttles for brains PHOTO COURTESY SCUGOG SHORES MUSEUM VILLAGE REMEMBER 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 4, 1951 Three hundred and two voters in Reach Township voted in the affirmative in support of the Community Memorial Hospital to the tune of $12,500, 259 voted against it. Elected to the 1951 council were T. H. Harding, Reeve, Harry Phoenix, deputy-reeve, Malcolm Bailey, Elmer J. Gibson and Leslie Smith as councillors. Chicken pox, mumps and the measles were almost of epidemic proportions according to correspondents in Utica and Epsom. : ' 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 6, 1966 Three babies were born within seven hours of each other on December 29. Two boys and one girl competed for being the one closet to New Year and the winner was the girl Kimmerly Michelle Faulkner, of WHEN....? Mr. Leslie Smith of High Point Farms, Reach Township, was to appear on the television series This Business of Farming on January 11. : 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 7, 1976 Mandy White became Scugog's New Year's baby when she was born at Community Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 Ibs, 8 and a half ounces and was born January 5 at 8:11 a.m. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norm White of Prince Albert. Peter Hvidsten took over the ownership of the Port Perry Star from father Per on January 1 after Mr. Hvidsten decided to retire, ending a 40-year career in the newspaper business. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, January 7, 1986 Shawn Michael Parish was the first baby born at Community Memorial Hospital in g ------------------ 7 lo 3 AR BSR ai 4 pas HER Blackstock. Rev. R. Rose took over the duties of minister for St. John's Anglican Church in Blackstock. He arrived in Scugog in 1965 taking over the charge of the Church of the Ascension in Port Perry. This photograph (Circa 1900) shows ice damage to the causeway between Port Perry and Scugog Island during a spring thaw. : 1986. The son of Ron and Karen Brown weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was born at 4:30 p.m. on January 2. About 400 people turned out to the Town Hall for a New Year's soiree, put on by MP Al Lawrence.