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VALOR Cr sammmatnnd yahaao¥ | GAT UARMSA TRAC 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 17, 1996 @he Pout Peven Stay 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment obpostage. Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Subscription Rates: # 1 Year -$32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign -$90.95 Managing Editor..... Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Sports Editor...........Kelly Lown Editorial Comment ~The irony of board's prize Down at the Durham Region Board of Education offices this week, they've got to be revelling in the irony of it all. Mere months after being told their budget would take a cut in the millions; soon after struggling to arrive at a budget our local trustee said amounts to "butchering" the system, and about a year after Education Minister John Snobelen plots to create a crisis, this happens. This, of course, is the selection of the Durham board as the best in the world by the Carl Bertelsmann Foundation. That body each year identifies an outstanding public institution, and this year education was the focus. It was praise enough when the local board was chosen as the nominee for North America, and as such the best on the continent. It was the coup de grace to win the award, and the $300,000 that comes with it. The irony comes into play when you realize that at home, our school boards are being targéted as inefficient, wasteful, and too costly. Provincial government members have made no secret of their contempt for the public education system, and their intent to tear it down, then erect a bare-bones monument to Coat of Arms claims uttel . thoughtless austerity. The children, educators To the Editor: Arms are finally and parents who hold the largest stake in the In his most recent letter headed "Another move The motto "Ad Mari system are forgotten, as is the pursuit of to appease the separatists" (Sept. 4) Dean Kelly to sea) remains in its u y S b quotes Financial Post editor Diane Francis: "The of the device. The only : : " The 0 excellence. All is forgotten in the quest for a That a Te. his coun. the metip pie appearance of economy, and voter approval. Ty's coat of arms - toa a caharaticte™ the shiel : The folks at the Durham board should be Me Elly goes ort 10 Gm Giat ou otto "From i The of the Order of Ca proud of their award. So should we the people. Sea to Sea" has been replaced by "They deserve a "Desiderantes Meli And we shout savor. the moment, for itis gone better country. better country). The forever if the assault on education continues. Utter rubbish! The fact of the matter is that Her those Canadians who ha Majesty the Queen approved this change to elevating the status of ou re would trade Canada's Arms in 1987, six years before the nations, or who have enriched quality an i ; Liberals came to power, and now the changed 45 YEARS AGO : ENCES iv Yael Thursday, September 20, 1951 2 EE f= En Rev. R. H. Wylie, minister of Wesley ve Hi United Church, Pembroke, accepted an | [80 To : ! Dymon. Crowell, . invitation to the pulpit of the United Church | [#8 he i ; "a 3 Howard Hall were all ur in Port Perry. . a ; Sak : ; : | | of running for council. Kae Philip, Utica, won the special school a. a = A A Tacelfit for downtown] prize for girls at the Port Perry Fair - a 9 Mei MRP : g. || the stage of ishing c fountain pen. > ; 3 i, EE , Ting oe Miss Barbara Hooey, daughter of Mr. and | {BSS i 2 i ga Cs ee ioral Mrs. Keith Hooey is attending business y : college in Oshawa. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 22, 1966 ki: iF ' 5 Lorna Wright of Blackstock was awarded ot i Memorial Hospital to a scholarship providing her with free tuition ks : test their EV. for four years at Waterloo Lutheran . . a University. Mr. Roy Leask and son John of Greenbank were runners-up in the Premier Breeder and Exhibitor at Port Perry Fair. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 22, 1976 Port Perry High School students took part in the Great Trek West, a 10.5 mile walkathon organized to raise money to help the students council project fund overcome Pictured is Ray Hobb's Garage, in Manchester, which was destroyed by fire in October of 1955. glimpse of teen heartthrob ee a) § official opening of its pl: Ruth Cox, of Port P unveiling of the Statue on the anni of h at Parliament : of Scugog Island Diefenbaker Estate.