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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 18, 1997 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" BY Ben Si 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 Member of the ® BUSINESS OFFICE | Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Eon Office Mgr. ...........ccournurens Gayle Stapley de CNA Published every Tuedday by the RTH Tw Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Port Perry Star Co. Ld. - Retall Sales...... Kathy Dudley, 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Heather Callan The Port Perry Star is authorized as second il b EDITORIAL: Post Office 4 dul udy Ottawa, for cash Ng ass mo Ly de Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten PRODUCTION ADVERTISING Second Class Mail Registration 0265 General Manager .... Don MacLeod : Advertising Mgr. .......... Don Macleod Subscription Rates: Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, gales: Myra Park, Joanne Bambrough, eh 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Deb McEachern, Cindy Jobin, CIRCULATION Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin Editorial Comment Important election Some readers no doubt will be saying "it must have been a slow week for news." Why else would we be carrying a story on the 1997 municipal elections in Scugog Township when those elections are still some nine months off, in November? All elections are important. But this one. is critical because of the massive change in municipal structure coming to Ontario over the next three years. Witness what transpired for the people of Metro Toronto in the last three months. They were forced into a shotgun marriage of a mega- city, a marriage that most don't want, if the recent referenda are any kind of barometer. And many believe that more changes, especially in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are inevitable. That includes Scugog Township, even though Scugog remains a small, mostly rural and isolated municipality within the GTA. THERE. NOW WELL BETHE gu GOOD GUYS 40 NYY YOUBETHE Wks J Er = : ARRAN 1 7 -- Nobody knows that lies ahead at this time. N . ZN 77 a HI =] --_-- However, the feeling is that the status quo is not NY AN NS : § = DRAGAN. an option. The council elected in November may be afforded the opportunity to come up with changes itself, or it will have change forced down its throat. Some of the suggested scenarios include an amalgamation with neighbours like Brock and Uxbridge; an amalgamation into a much larger entity of all Durham; or perhaps even being swallowed up into a GTA-wide "super city" stretching from Hamilton to Cobourg. The people we elect in November may have a say in our future. The decisions they fail to Worry about people, not buildings To the Editor: Competition is good, but not when it ruins peo- I'am an employee of Port Perry IGA. Our town ples' livelihood. Now our council is letting anoth- council has recently let a third grocery store into er food store open on 7A in the west end of town, our town. IGA has served Port Perry for many which will cause more layoffs, not only at IGA, years. but the other two stores as well. Owner Jim Grieve has given to our hospitals, Our council should look at what will happen in schools, churches, clubs and other organizations the future. They seem to worry about what a asking for donations. He is also sponsoring hock- building looks like instead of the people in our make could have far-reaching and decidedly ey, ringette, soccer and baseball teams. community uncomfortable consequences for the citizens of The new store which invaded our waterfront I am not crying in my soup, I am telling you the Scugog. has forced Jim to lay off 10 full time employees facts. 2 ia : with families. The rest of the employees have Reid Stainton, Slow-news week? We believe it's anything been cut back on their hours and/or wages. Port Perry but too early to start thinking seriously about who we elect nine months hence. JBM REMEMBER ESSSSSCTITIIT-SS-- \\HEN....? 55 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 19, 1942 Mr. William Newman was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Farm Bureau held at Port Perry High School. M. A.C. Buckley, of the Attorney-General's Department in Toronto has bought the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Lucas. Rev. Tristram of the veteran's Guard is home for a few days. Mr. Robert Simpson of Chapleau has started to work in Parrish's Hardware store. 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14, 1957 The Port Perry fire brigade was called to a chimney fire at the home of Mr. Keizebrink, Prince Albert. Sergeant Arthur James of Port Perry, who is stationed at the R.A.F. NATO Air Division is teaching a Hungarian refugee who intends | coming to Canada. Misses Muriel Lamb, Carol Midgley and Ted | | | : i | local Lions Club was elected Zone Chairman | of District A3, Zone 10S at the Zone Meeting held in Oshawa on March 12. §| A boys choir and a mixed choir from Cart- i | wright P.S. won two firsts in the Peterborough Kiwanis Festival under the leadership of Mrs. ® | R. Turner, Mrs. Wannacott and Mrs. Venning. 20YEARS AGO Tuesday, March 16, 1977 Vernon Asselstine was elected president of the Durham Region Family and Children's Services at the annual meeting. Scugog approved a bylaw for the rezoning of the "Murray House" to accommodate a Chimo Youth Services home for up to six emotionally disturbed youths. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, March 17, 1987 Durham Bd. of Education began looking for a new five acre site to build a new 90,000 sq. ft. headquarters building. ---- TT -- Four year old Lisa McClure was the first Four well dresse ntlemen, smoking cigars, pictured standing at the comer place Wingy of the Miss Pee Wee Sunburst 30 YEARS AGO of Perry and Queen St. Port Perry In the early 1900s. Note the decorative | Z29°ant held atthe Oshawa Centre. Wednesday, March 16, 1967 brickwork on top of the bulldings, which has since been removed. A transportation service for physically Past President Lion Storey Beare of the Lo " an a eg Lamb of Manchester attended the Junior Farmer's Conference at Guelph. ' Four well dre handicapped residents of Scugog and Uxbridge residents will be ready by April.