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; 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 23, 1996 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 7' PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Subscription Rates; _ 1Year-$32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Forelgn - $90.95 ELEY | Joanne Brambrough, Deb McEachern, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Includes $210 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST @he Povt Povey Stax EDITORIAL BUSINESS OFFICE Con) N Publisher................ J. Peter Hvidsten ~~ Office Manager... Gayle Stapley wn | General Manager ....Don Macleod Accounting ees Judy Ashby, Louise Hope # CNA =r {HR 1] 3 Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee suid? CIELO] Sports Editor........... Kelly Lown PRODUCTION Morbo of To . AWARD ADVERTISING Rhonda Mulcahy. A bell Harri Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Advertising Manager... Anna Jackman DIA Mulcahy, Anna amson, Ontario Community Newspaper ASsoc. Advertising Sales........ Myra Park Trudy Empringham, Published every. Tyesday by the ! Port Ferry Star Co. Ltd. - Telemarketing..Cindy Jobin Nancy Hvidsten 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Editorial Comment Shining the bright light Early this week, Durham Regional Police are hosting a symposium on one of the most troubling problems of our age: Hate crimes. They come in many forms. Hate crime ranges from the printing and distribution of pamphlets, the scrawling of racist graffiti, and messages on the computer Internet. And they are. manifested in the flesh, with beating, threats, and slurs. Most of us in the community at large cringe at these messages, or even the hint of them. In Canada in the 90's, we consider it a community standard: People should be free to live their lives and pursue their goals without fear of harassment or retribution, so long as they are not harmful to others. A segment of our society, though, doesn't want that to happen. We see it in the form of Wolfgang Droege"s Heritage Front, a seemingly innocuous name for a sinister organization, whose goal is White supremacy. We see it in the eyes of skinheads, tragically misguided youth who, feeling powerless, lash out at those they feel stand between them and ... what? Power, prosperity? Who knows? It's hard to say just what compels the hate monger to do what he does. And for us to stop it requires more than reaction. The heart of the matter must be found, and, as a Durham Regional Police detective said last week, have a "bright light" shone on it. "Our hope is our kids," he said. He couldn't be more correct. It's with the younger generation that hope for a tolerant and fear-free future lies. It is they who should be the targets of police community service campaigns, and who should be taught by their elders that no bias is right. .. AND WE CAN STILL MAKE LAST CALL AT 2AM... NOW ALL - THEY HAVE T0D0 15 LEGALIZE DRINKING AND DRIVING AND NY Trees fall to axe for longer fairways To the Editor: astounded to watch as they clearcut nearly two We have a new development called thirds of this majestic forest. Canterbury Common in our community. It will This is to extend two fairways. Even I, as a consist of a nine hole golf course, with homes golfer, could have accepted a slightly shorter bordering the fairways. fairway, with a path under the canopy of this When I first viewed the model of the subdivi- majestic forest to reach the next tee. sion I was impressed with the fact they were At a time of environmental awareness, the incorporating a walking trail around the peri- removal of this habitat is alarming. meter, following the lakeshore into Cawker's For most of us nature is something 'out Cove and ending at a mature hardwood forest. there.' Appreciating it generally involves pack- This was labeled a protected woodland. ing up the family car and driving to the country, As the development has progressed I was REMEMBER PHOTO COURTESY OF LAWRENCE NICHOLLS \"Y} H I= N Y, [BN BN BN EN 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 26, 1951 The service club successfully undertook the staging of the first Port Perry Fashion Show to raise funds for the local community hospital. Mrs. Badour was the Mistress of Ceremonies and commentator was Mrs. Ronald Peel. Local stores taking part were the Elizabeth Shoppe, Port Perry Drygoods and F. W. Brock and Son. Many locals were listening to the Breakfast Hour and heard the familiar voice of Mrs. I. R., Bentley saying hello to Bent and Joan. Mrs. Bentley, Mrs. George Holmes, Mrs. George Jackson and Mrs. David Carnegie on a bus trip to California, hit Hollywood about the time of the broadcast. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 28, 1961 Port Perry rejected the licensing of a local dining lounge by a large majority. 629 of the 1,044 ballots cast were against it. The finance committee of Ontario County Council headed by Ed (Sam) Oyler made a recommendation .for a $400,000 grant to Port Perry Community Memorial Hospital . Ed Mulholland, president of Branch 419, Royal Canadian Legion, Port Perry, represented the local branch as accredited delegate to the 21st National Convention at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Myrtle Station may soon be a station in name only, Whitby Township council learned. A move was afoot to have the present railway station removed. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, April 29, 1986 A Blackstock family sought an apology from police after they were forced from their home by police who mistakenly raided the home looking for a murder suspect. Jennifer Fletcher, a Grade 8 student at Cartwright Central Public School, was named the first Student of The Year by the A TH 6 went yh The ice officially left Lake Scugog ip the afternoon of April 20. Thursday, April 28, 1966 30 YEARS AGO was owned by Ed Rich. me an annual event. rham Board of Education. The award was Pictured is the causeway bridge in the early 1900s. The Packard car pictured usan Bainbridge, Kim Oke and Shelly Bourgeois were the top fundraisers at the Cornish Multiple Sclerosis read-a-thon. !