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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 10, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 187 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authérized 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 AR COMM, ry ¥ CNA EDITORIAL: Heather Callan Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten ADVERTISING General Manager ....Don MacLeod PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod REN Managing Editor.....Jeff Mitchell Trudy Empringham, Sales: Deb McEachern, Barb Hillier, News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew -- BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. ......cccoccvviiiiranns Gayle Stapley Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Retail Sales...... Kathy Dudley, Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont.' Deborah Tiffin Editorial Comment Budget woes a high price to pay As this brand new year progresses, you're sure to be reading more stories in the pages of this paper about the budget process being undertaken by Scugog Township council, and the challenges it presents. It appears all but certain that there's a tax hike due for township home and business owners, who have enjoyed a number of years during which taxes have been under tight control. That is the stuff of days gone by. Municipalities like Scugog are seeing that control wrestled away. They have watched as grants from the province have been steadily slashed, then had fall into their laps the fiscal responsibility for services they previously did not carry, or had subsidies for. Downloading will spell disaster for many municipalities, where councillors will for the first time have to do more than just talking about cutting back on services, or going to user-pay schemes for everything from are- nas to garbage pick-up. Municipal jobs, once secure, will be in question across the province. So far Scugog has managed to avoid having to slash away at services, and big- time layoffs haven't come about. Neither have big tax hikes. But it's all changing, and it's nearly all attributable to changes introduced by a gov- ernment that got elected on twp key promis- es: a provincial tax break, and a stern crack- down on social spending. Nobody talked about closing hospitals, or raising municipal taxes. But everything has a price, doesn't it? PoRT TERRY STAR Paper ought To the Editor: Like all the other media in southern Ontario, your newspaper carried headlines and lead stories when snowmobile operators were plunging into the frigid waters of Lake Scugog this past January. Editorials every- where called for something to be done. Your newspaper and the citizens surround- ing Lake Scugog can indeed do something. Following is an idea. Provide a two-inch space on the front page of your newspaper from mid-December to April each year. Title this space, "Ice Conditions on Scugog." You would report not the safe conditions of the ice, but the unsafe conditions. I know the Port Perry Snowmobile Club will notify you when they consider the condi- tions to be unsafe. I am sure there are many knowledgeable people who live on the lake who are concerned enough to notify you weekly about conditions, unsafe or otherwise. Remember you are not sanctioning anyone to use the ice, but acknowledging that it will be used and giving people a weekly warning. You could warn of the dangers of riding at night and recall the deaths of 1998, but most Please see next page - JANUARY 1973 - Reach Township co uncil poses for In front are Reeve Art Catton (left) and Armour McMillan. In back row from left are Reg Foster, Neil Hunter, and Fred Christie. meal a photograph. 55 YEARS AGO February 7, 1943 Miss Grace Rose won second prize in a Province of Ontario art competition. Miss Irene Spence received an honorable mention. Flight Lieut. George Howsam won the Military Cross for bravery. ' The Hydro Electric Power Commission said it wasn't practical to change the distribution system in Port Perry because the cost would be too great. 45 YEARS AGO February 5, 1953 An Oshawa firm, Kenting Aviation Ltd. honored Port Perry last week by testing its new "Hillier 360" on the snow on Lake Scugog. Miss Audrey Kent of Port Perry is entenng the Hobby and Homecraft show at the CNE. 40 YEARS AGO February 6, 1958 The grade 9 and 10 boys toured the plant of the Steel Company of Canada in Hamilton, accompanied by teacher Mr. Jefford. The two truck from Beare Motors ran head on into a sedan during a blinding snow storm. Don Anderson and Ross Hutchinson were uninjured. 30 YEARS AGO February 8, 1968 Mrs. K. Hook was presented a silver tray by Mrs. Jean Gray on behalf of the hospital staff on the occasion of her retirement as administrator. Harold Kyte, Bob Howsam, Garnet Warriner and Bill Cornish won the "Bad Boy Bonspiel" held in Oshawa. 20 YEARS AGO February 8, 1978 The establishment of a BIA for downtown Port Perry was the order of business when more than 100 merchants jammed the Port Tavern. Helen Hadden, Alice Edgar, Louise Haugen and Jean Robertson won the Marj Tripp Ladies spiel. 10 YEARS AGO February 9, 1988 Harvey Graham announced his intention to run for mayor of Scugog Township in the next election. ; Robt. B. Coleman was sentenced to life in jail for the murder of his Port Perry wife Ingrid Kazin and her eight-year-old son Gregory. Hospital administrator David Brown announced the Health Ministry has advised that its Therapeutic Abortion Committee are no longer requited. The Port Perry unit of the local fire depart- ment is actively seeking new recruits who could attend calls during working days of the week.