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' 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 9, 1997 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice ly By] Io a pS Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. | (rir Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 Heather Callan INE "The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the EDITORIAL: . ADVERTISING Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Publisher. sassssnssssscsce J. Peter Hvidsten PRODUCTION 3 y si M Don Macleod cCcnNA Second Class Mail Registration 0265 General Manager....Don Macleod : Rhonda Mulcah Advertl ng Mg. Deb McEach m Subscription Rates: Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Trudy Empringham, 0 a Y Sales: Myra Pua, Sail a : 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Pam Hickey, Barb Bell, Rol Bion Barb Hillier, Cl ly Jobin, Ga 5 Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.16 GST Includes $5.95 GST Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Richard Drew, Scott Ashby Deborah Tiffin, Gini Todd Editorial Comment Ce DID You R Relevancy for THIS ARTICLE ON Canada Post CHRISTMAS FIRE Did you notice how it seemed during the recent postal strike, as workers on the line -- y or argued about money and job security, that [5 "SS , the rest of us were debating the relevancy of Canada Post? Many of the folks you talked to during the interruption of mail service remarked that the effect on their lives wasn't as great as it has been in the past; that's because anyone who saw which way the wind was blowing made other arrangements -- that's couriers - - and had little to worry about. That's not to say there weren't people and businesses affected by the strike in a serious way. There were. But with each strike -- and they occur with regularity -- peo- ple switch to an alternate method of delivery. And you know what? Many of them, by the time the strike ends, are gone forever, as Rpoof -- i -- : far as Canada Post is concerned. PoRT PERRY Wn i = Add to that the strike fatigue we in Ontario STAR A -- NN are feeling -- it seemed our reaction to the posties hitting the bricks was, Here We Go Again -- and you've got a climate that is way less than forgiving or sympathetic. That's why Canada Post -- both workers and management -- had better get together J before it's too late, and focus on customer [etter Publicity pProl ) pted return of flags satisfaction. Not profitability; not lifetime job I if ! 7 ((s % 17 RY) / @ \ 3 way LG \ \ security. The corporation could be a relevant ; To the Editor: I thank this mother for taking the time to and effective means of communication, I would like to thank you for the interest look into where her son got these flags. even in this computer age. What's needed is O shown when I wrote about the flags being I personally feel it must be hard to have action and innovation that will help Canada stolen at the various locations in town. to march your son into a crowded room, as Post shed its "Snail Mail" image and get with A few days after the article appeared in it was at the legion that night, and return the times, by providing a service we want the the papers a concerned mother came to the the stolen flags. and need, and making it better than all the Legion with her son. It was nice to see that I do believe that she has taught her son a alternatives out there. he as returning three of the missing flags. very valuable lesson. Co ey left only to have this same youn ank you. : The time is now. Canada Post can either Week man return approximately 45 minetes late y Rory J. Thompson join the rest of the world, or continue to sink with yet another flag. President Branch 419 in a bottomless bog of its own creation. ~--p---- REMEMBER WHEN. 7 55 YEARS AGO Sam Oyler has been re-elected as Reeve in Pilot or ee pete wings | Hh RN Reach pth a total of 648 votes. The opposing last week at Uplands. He is spending a few gab cate, Larry Doble, received 336 votes. days at home before leaving for Rivers t meager ez cont of Scugog Township Nanfiooa for furifier tral an voters cast ballots in Saturday's Municipal on hv Grah J ted t elections and returned Victor Aldred as Reeve. Dorothy Graham Gomp oy o course a Lawrence S. Malcolm defeated Merrill Canada Business College in Toronto. VanCamp in the race for Reeve of Cartwright 45 YEARS AGO with a voter turnout of onl y 29 per cent. Thursday, December 11, 1952 20 YEARS AGO The official opening of Community Memorial Thursday, December 7, 1977 Hospital will take place on Wed., January 7th. Gale force winds reaching velocities of 80 Murray Williams, owner of Williams Motor Sales for the past 30 years announced the yc ines and aousen mea knocked down sale of his business to Art and Vern Bryden. A spokesman for the Bank of Montreal con- Ernest Hays resigned as Reeve of Port firmed a branch of the bank will be opening i pening in Perry, after six years at the post. Harry Peel Port Perry in the spring of 1978. took over the position at a regular meeting. 10 YEARS AGO 40 YEARS AGO Tuesday, December 8, 1987 Wednesday, December 12, 1957 5 it) Kath iol TR a Ohh, y and Mark Malcolm officially opened a Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Haugen, daughter Sharon new post office at their garage in Nestleton. and son Bruce last lost We Jor at trip ¥ Sev An interesting photo of the Sunderland train station with a group of men Central Seven Assoc. applied for a re-zoning ou Poker al the Lions ger of Oslo, decked outin suits and top hats waiting on the platform. The rail line was © allow the opening of a variety store in its guest spea "part of the Toronto Nippissing Railway and came through Stouffville, Workshop to raise money and train clients. Norway, his hor count 'AGO Uxbridge, Sunderland and went on to Lindsay. The picture was found on ,, "ee Scugog youths, Steve and Scott Thursday, December 12, 1967 the front of a 1¢ post card. McEachern and Mardy Edwards opened a non-alcoholic nightclub for local teens.