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I i I SE 2 = es. ee TI Te TI I A NY NF ME SE 0 em Erni a en nn ni gg TO Ry i aa ee, meme mm. mem em meme 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 17, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LIL 187 PHONE (905) 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: 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST 1 Year - $32.10 Includes $2.10 GST | 1000 PRIZE ¥ NNER CIRADIAN COMMU > & CNA ¢ | 4 Slug Wola JAZ ERS a3305 148 S/SPAPERS LO revere ree -------------------------- EDITORIAL: Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten ADVERTISING General Manager ....Don Macleod PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don Macleod Managing Editor ..... Jeff Mitchell News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. BUSINESS OFFICE OFC MG. ioovsicicssssrsmissens Gayle Stapley Accounting....... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Retail Sales...... Kathy Dudley, f Heather Callan Trudy Empringham, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew won (B) Sales: Deb McEachern, Barb Hillier, Reh Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc Published every Tuesday by the Pont Perry Star Co. Ltd. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. VERIFIED [ST VINCA gle 10) Editorial Comment At least we fight peacefully, eh? This flag business that's taken place in Ottawa over the past couple of weeks -- it's been predictably dubbed the "flag flap" -- has served to galvanize a couple of aspects of our Anglo existence: our distaste for sep- aratist, and a grudging recognition that we don't really wave our flag enough. With that said, maybe we owe the Bloc Quebecois members our thanks for making ridiculous assertions about the presence of the national standard at the Olympics and such. For even as we sneer at their latest slight or snub, we are forced to evaluate ourselves as Canadians, and identify with our country. Canada is a country carved from unfor- giving wilderness by a number of founding nations, among whom agreement has been rare over the centuries. French and English settlers may have had a predisposition to disagreement given their history in Europe, sure... and they didn't exactly get off on the right foot with the Natives they found dwelling here as they stepped off their ships, either. However trite it sounds, adversity can help to make us stronger as a nation. And you might argue that if that's true, we are a true super power. In the midst of all this, it's important to remember that even after 130 years, we remain a country in the midst of self-defini- tion. And at least, despite our differences, we fight our battles with words, eh? SEEMS TO ME THAT THE BLOC CAN BE VERY PATRIOTIC WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING OUR MONEY! "100 iid CANAD! FLAGS." SEZ RLO0CM.P, IN |WHiLE IN > PoRT PERRY Rapdh STAR Star Letter Of The Week To the Editor: "Only in Canada, you say!" Ah yes, where else in the world can traitors and mentally handicapped adults have legal political power and draw substantial salaries to boot? The word "bloc" says 1t all. Block sanity, block reason, block cooperation, block history, block common decency, block a whole country's progress. When wizened old ladies rant and rave like clients in a hospital for the infirm and get paid by taxpayers to embarrass a whole country in front of the world, there 1s some- </ Only In Canada, you say? thing terribly amiss with the people who openly support such a possibility and waste valuable time dealing with it. The rest of the world is coming apart and the Canadian Parliament is debating the crisis of when 1s too many flags too many! How does this happen in an otherwise highly respected country? Only in Canada, they say! And do "they" smile when they say it? Owen R. Neill, Port Perry Pl JAR So on wot 3 » S30 AAI BO A 0S, 8 28 YEARS AGO - MARCH 1971 Remember When? t 55 YEARS AGO March 11, 1943 A $10,000 fund to erect a memorial in Port Perry to D.D. Palmer, founder of chiropractic, was aunched at a meeting of the Association of % \ Chiropractors in Toronto. Gunrrer Merl Dowson, R.C.A. has been sta- ioned in Debert, N.S. 45 YEARS AGO March 12, 1953 cost of $1,150,000. The projects are the new hos- pital, the Immaculate Conception Church, the United Church Christian Education Centre and Flamingo Pastries. The staff of the local Simpson Sears store hon- ored Alma Cox who retired after 15 years as man- ager of the store. 20 YEARS AGO March 15, 1978 More and more merchants are opposing the or : tm all fl _ U | EN -- This is how Lake Scugog Lumber looked in 1971, when it was located at the lakefront in Port Perry. The Scugog Library now stands approximately where the Building Centre stood 28 years ago. Jean Samells, a 16-year old Port Perry High School student was one of 13 Ontario girls chosen to spend a month in Britain and will get special seats to see the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The appointed manager of the Simpson Sears order office is Mrs. D. Banon. Private Lloyd Evans was one of 22 members who recently qualified as clerks in an army test. 40 YEARS AGO March 14, 1958 Port Perry High School won the COSSA Senior "B" Title, defeating Albert College. Grant MacDonald and Ray Litt were among six local teachers enrolled for a course on Guidance Counseling at Lindsay Collegiate Institute 30 YEARS AGO March 14, 1968 Four major building projects under construction in Port Perry are expected to reach an estimated formation of a BIA for Port Perry. Two thirds of the merchants have to be in favor. Leslie Forder earned first place in the United Nations for Youth public speaking contest. Port Perry Post Office added another 250 boxes, bringing the total to an all time high of 1,458 boxes. 10 YEARS AGO March 15, 1988 Council rejected a proposal by George and Willie Stone for the Honey Heights 70 lot subdivision located near Castle Harbor. A concrete seawall being constructed around the Conway development was completed. The staff of the Port Perry Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce celebrated the banks 100th year of service to the residents of Port Perry. It opened as the Western Bank of Canada on Tuesday, March 8, 1888.