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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 27, 1996 Th =) J 4 ry | 444 - f+ 4 3 Che Poel Pecen Shae SA \ESIOIFICE GveSarel 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LoL 187 Asetiinting y " Hop PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905).985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as seconiclass mail by the Retail Sales z....Kathy Dudley, Nancy Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. EDITORIAL: ADVERTISING Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Publisher................J. Peter Hvidsten Advertising Mgr. .......... Subscription Rates: General M#nager....Don MacLeod Sales: Myra Park, Joanne B 1Year- $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign -$90.95 Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Deb McEachern, Bob Osbome, Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Sports Editor...........Kelly Lown Editorial Comment Left out of the express line | The federal government's message to Canadian doctors meeting for their annual convention in Nova Scotia recently was that a two-tier health care system is not on. Right on. : In delivering that strong wording to the doctors, the government confirmed, for now at least, its comsnitment to timely universal health care, regardless of financial status. And that's the way it should be. Discussion of two-tier care -- creating an express line for those patients with money to pay up front for services and procedures -- may appear harmless. But when serious consideration is given the practice, it means our health care system is in crisis. : It's not as if providing the wealthy with a streamlined system is the only option available, even though proponents would have you think so. The Ontario Nurses' Association, for instance, has released a ; 'vision' for community health care. The union Defi He says consideration of demographics and : needs and the health and social network in place in a community can result in strategies for care which are cost-effective, and provide optimum levels of service for patients. We've been repeatedly given the message that Canadian medicare is in need of revision to ensure its survival. That's fine, but it makes no sense to claim to be saving the system when the method employed is dismantling of that same system. The government is right to flatly say no to user-pay health care, and it should continue to do so. In the rush to be seeg.to be ruthlessly cutting expenses, governments are forgetting the people, most of whom won't be in the express line of a two-tier system. REMEMBER 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 30, 1951 Present at the first reunion of the Gael McConnell relatives were Mr. and Mrs. Norman McConnell of Lansing, Ontario and Mrs. Ella'Collins, Port Perry, brother and sister who form the last remaining link of the original family chain. Forty-four of an estimated 95 relatives gathered to celebrate this reunion at the Port Perry Fairgrounds. Mr. M. Bailey of Epsom showed some of his fine Aberdeen Angus cattle at Peterborough Fair where he won 13 firsts. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 1, 1966 Peels Poultry Farms' new hatchery located west of Port Perry, was slated to be completed in about six weeks. The hatchery, built by Lake Scugog Lumber, is one of the largest and most up to date hatcheries in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. James Doupe, owners of Carload Food Market, in Prince Albert retired, passing their business down to their daughter Margaret and her husband Ross Sweetman. Mrs. Dorothy Naples and Mrs. Rose Philp Criminal Code section nee To the Editor: been involved Last Feb. 17, 1995, our eldest son and his wife were killed in a car accident in Duncan, B.C. leaving behind twin boys eight years of age. The girl who killed them crossed over three lanes of traffic and smashed into them as they were heading out for a Valentines weekend together. They were killed instantly. This has been beyond words for my family and I. The thing that would have helped me tremen- dously would have been to know, beyond a doubt, that the person who hit them had not WHEN....% won a prize at the ; ! The Saintfield Myrtle Wallace, Mabe! Beaton, Miss Kerr, teacher, James Paul, Don Boe, Murray Beaton, Les Faun, George Beaton, Mildred Beaton, Gertrude Taite, Ola Stone, second, Eva Boe, Hazel Blakely, Merva Brabozon, Floris Stone, Bernice Wallace, Lex Gordon, Clarence Collern, Bruce Beaton, Mayora Boe, Ruth MacDonald, Mae Hackett, third, Margaret Innis, Hazel Hackett, Mildred Prentice, Elmer Lee, Cecil Fi Ronald Lee, Lloyd Lee, Gelhert Innis, Myrtle Blakley, Enid Wallace, Edna Blakley, 3 3 Mabel Blakley, Myrtle Faux, lla Stone, Jean Bae, Nora Rhandress, Ruth 2, ? | jaded school bus Phendrens, front, Bill Holdershaw, Ivan Wallace, Morley Raines, Edith ley. Twenty-three Sarianston, Aileen Raines, Grace Raines, Mabel Faus, Edith Woodroff, Ralph Valley. Wallace and Bob Brown.