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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 1, 1996 The Poul Perey Stay [FFE 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 The ONE ws 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 'ort Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by th , Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash ES Ty pe. EDITORIAL: » Second Class Mail Registration 0265 "PUBS cer cerrsnrnn J. Peter Hvidsten Subscription Rates: General Mgnager....Don MacLeod - 1 Year -$32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign-$90.95 Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Editorial Comment At last the plea is heard The people whose kids dare each day to | cross Hwy. 7A on their way to school at R.H. Cornish are right to contend that it is the province's reponsibility to provide them safe passage. For years the parents have lobbied the government, demanding that a safe pedestrian crossing be put in place on the busy street, east of the intersection with Old Simcoe Rd. Their pleas have fallen on deaf ear at Queen's Park until now. Durham East MPP John O'Toole has convinced the minister of transportation that his intervention is necessary, and the minister has responded with a promise to cover one third of the cost of lights. That's if the township and the school community kick in the other third. 3 Has the province gone far enough? No. But the need -- which is the safe passage of the children -- is being served through the arrangement hammered out here. It's a stark lesson in the new method of government operations in Ontario: If you want it, be prepared to put up, or shut up. It's not nice, and it's not even fair, but it's reality now. So the parents can be happy in a major accompishment, really. How many other small lobby groups -- they could be called a special interest group, couldnt they? -- have managed to wrestle dollars from the tight fist of the Harris government? We salute their perseverance and commitment, and remind them to keep knocking on the doors at Queen's Park to ensure a timely conclusion to this long sipry. And we acknowledge Mr. O'loole's fulfillment of a promise to do all he could to help the local group, although he disagrees with the focation of the crossing. Good job. REMEMBER 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 4, 1951 Dr. G. M. Rennie attended the Ontario Public Health Association meeting in Toronto as part of Medical Health Officer's duties. Quite a few people from Utica attended the shower-dance at Manchester for the former Dorothy McCartney and Joyce McKee. Lawrence Medd and Clifford Boyington from Epsom were guests of the Shriners at the Shrine Circus held at Maple Leaf Gardens . To the Editor: \ 1 see J.V. Clay objects to a sign at the new Port Perry grocery store. Does this person know that this is 1996, not 1886 as this person would have us think? Take a look at the Food Basics store; that is a great color scheme. The new grocery store is way back on the lot. Putting up a sign lets others know that they are tuk there. What's the problem with that? «oe ha re es This village has enough small-minded peo- ; ow ~ In the annual m of the Canadian ( announced that the raised $9,410, aln David Andrews of GM worker shared award after a su dealers for the $3 30 YEARS AGO into each U.S. built Thursday, October 6, 1966 10 According to the census 1966, the : population of Port Perry is 2,624, an Kelly Sesiiay Re increase of 123 people from 1965. International Six-Day Mrs. Gordon MacDonald of Port Perry : 1 rs EY Jia 8 p= The race is said tobe t brought four of the largest potatoes from her | p= : % : = : : 3 garden to the Star office. The total weight of the four was ten pounds 4 ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mitchell of Manchester returned from a two-month vacation in England. 12 it was built in 1897. 20 YEARS AGO