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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 17, 1996 @he Poi Pevep Stace 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, psy Sle 187 PHONE (S05) 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 of postage. Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Subscription Rates: 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Editorial Comment Taxpayers trashing fee With one vote, politicians in Durham Region have angered the people of Scugog Township. People here, as we predicted in a comment that accompanied the original story last Friday, are upset that the region will charge a $2 fee to take a load of trash to the region's transfer stations. Those stations serve a lot of people here, and our dependence on them became apparent a while ago, when there was talk of shutting one down. Scugog's representatives at the region, Mayor Howard Hall and Regional Councillor Marilyn Pearce, are voting in favor of the fee. it means that as of next March, the charge applies when you take your waste to the stations. Mrs. Pearce says she can live with the two bucks, because the region has to find ways of generating funds in this day of dwindling provincial funding. Mr. Hall also sees the writing on the wall, and said he will support the policy when the full council votes on it. They are in a sticky situation. They know full well that their constituents will be angered by what they see -- quite rightly -- as a charge on top of the taxes they now pay. But they see no choice but to hit the taxpayer twice if the™ service is to continue. Is it the right decision? ...Probably not. But it is, in the eyes of the politicians, the only course to be taken. There's a chance that if they had been more creative, the regional politicians who sit on the committees which generated the new policy could have come up with an alternative to the new charge. it's not nice to have a provincial government which cuts back on funding, but at least it's convenient. And we'll see and hear of more such charges as time goes on. REMEMBER 45YEARSAGO Thursday, December 13, 1851 Five men forced entry into the apartment of Canadian Bank of Commerce manage Mr. Helm, on Saturday. After tieing up Mr Helm, his wife and son, and caretaker Mr T. Asher, the robbers attempted to blow up the bank safe but were frightened off by the ringing of the phone. Mr. C. A. Glass, a long-time employee of the Port Perry Creamery, which is a branch of Silverwoods Creamery, won a second group prize in the butter competition at the Canadian National Exhibition. 35YEARSAGO Thursday, December 14, 1961 Whe grade 7 and 8 students of Port Perry Public School turned in a cheque for $158.30 to the Ball Park Floodlight Fund. % The money was raised from the | iim, "The [3% Absent Minded Professor" shown at the 8 school Saturday 30 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 15, 1966 The only new member elected to Port Perry Council in the 1966 election was Phil Orde. This picture taken in the spring of 1960 shows Laverne Marty : returning to his home on Scugog Island after making the trip across | the flooded caugeway by row boat. EDITORIAL: ; . Publisher. ........c.. J. PeterHvidsten ~~ ADVER General Manager... Don MacLeod Advertising Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Sales: Myra News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Freelance - Heather McCrae, John 8. McClelland Cindy Joti, To the oe : I hate Santa Claus, rode foHom a sure that you're all thinking, ° ih fore you get the feathers and bu tar, 3 i Please listen to my reasons, you'll gone so far. Each year I ask my children, what they'd like. 1 comb the stores and malls on foot t tykes. But every year that special gift, the PHOTO COURTESY DOROTHY MARTYN Photo courtesy Dorothy Martyn