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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 2, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. .......ccoceviinennen. Gayle Stapley Accounting....... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Cia 'Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Heather Callan Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by th EDITORIAL: Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash ran of hv din Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten ADVERTISING Publications Mail Registrations No. 07881 General Manager ....Don Macleod PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod Sales: Deb McEachern, Barb Hillier, Subscription Rates: - Managing Editor .....Jeff Mitchell Trudy Empringham, Pam Hickey, | Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin cInEOVAToN 1 Year -'$32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Robert Taylor, Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15GST Includes $5.95 GST Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Richard Drew Editorial Comment ~~ Teachers, board should unite They're laying teachers off. They're not laying teachers off. There's a staffing shortage. Staffing is just right. Confused? It's hard not to be these days, when the issue of staffing levels at public schools -- particularly Port Perry High School -- comes OH RELAX! HE'S HARMLESS! up. On one hand we're being told that a I'M LOST - number of teachers at the school have WHO'S TELLING Zz SN been declared redundant and face layoffs; ANY then the board tells us the number of teach- THE TRUTH AN > DRNO IDEA! ers opting for early retirement packages will probably eliminate that threat. Then there's the contention that even so, the high school is understaffed. We're being warned that teachers are being pushed to the limit just to keep up with their classroom obligations, and that extracurricular pro- i i grams are jeopardized. D . . B Now comes news that secondary school ISCUSS ng involved in bringing about a change in There is a lot of talk today about high Blackstock. teachers in Durham have voted 95 per cent in favor of a resumption of bargaining, To the Editor: which could lead to a strike vote in the near future. the furor over Bill 160 is eroding, and tensions are boiling over once again. We rates of crime and juvenile delinquency. Parents, sthools, welfare systems and law enforcement are all targets of the "what went wrong" scenario. But no one seems to be offering up any responses to this problem. It is one thing to speculate about what can be done but it is quite another to stand up to the plate. To my The false calm that came in the wake of Lately this paper has published a number of articles on the incidence of crime and com- munity unrest in Blackstock, one of the letters being my own. What has not been said is that Blackstock is not unique. What I mean is that we are not unique in the incidence of crime and youth violence; there are numerous com- munities, villages and centres where the can only hope that locally teachers will be able to forge an alliance with their board to take their fight to the real culprit in the current dispute: The province. knowledge, the politicians are still scratching same or greater problems exist. their heads while individuals in the Our uniqueness lies in our willingness to Cartwright school system and members of the declare our difficulties in an effort to seek Port Perry division of the Durham Regional help, and search for positive resolutions to actively and personally become pm --------,L Don't let them divide, then conquer. Please see page 7 55 YEARS AGO Thurs., June 6, 1943 Dr. W.A. Sangster received a letter stating he had been made an honorary member of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. ===] Dr. Sangster has been in practice for 50 years. 45 YEARS AGO Thurs., June 4, 1953 Mike Butson of the Port Perry Rod & Gun Club won a prize for the largest fish in the Carp dig wad | Derby, landing a 14 |b. Carp. © +4, mo Officers of the Lions Club are: Pres. Stan LAE | Bruton, 1st Vice Archie Farmer, 2nd Vice Ivan Haugen, 3rd Vice Irving Boyd. 40 YEARS AGO Thurs., June 5, 1958 The new Blewer's Retail store just west of Port Perry opened on June 2. Jeanne Williams was presented Guiding's highest honor, the "Gold Cord". 30 YEARS AGO Thurs., June 6, 1968 The Hospital Building fund received a cheque for $576.68 from the students of Port Perry High School. Raymond Hillier, Miss Purvis, Muriel Bryant and Mr. J. C. Barton presented the cheque to Joel Aldred, campaign chairman. Miss Margaret Stewart of Port Perry was awarded a Centennial Medal Remember When? 67 YEARS AGO - MAY 1931 Bad d sxd he cac 4 CR ela Latamie I By 1 FC En GET OO iy © TT RO Or SPREE. « CU SMT SN lbs 456.4 Photo of the children of Seagrave Public School taken in May 1931. That's teacher Margaret Hicks at the far right in back row. Glenn Malcolm, the first Queen's Scout in Cartwright, was honored at a ceremony in Blackstock Rec. Centre. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 7, 1978 Scugog Township ratified a 'first ever contract' with outside employees giving them a pay increase amounting to six per cent. A group of north-end Port Perry residents filed formal objections against re-zoning of a parcel of land for a 35-unit 'geared to income' apartment building for senior citizens. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, June 7, 1988 OPP laid 38 charges against drivers in the Port Perry area during a 5-day RIDE blitz. Mrs. Caroline Bright of Utica unveiled a cross with the name of her son, Trooper Joe Bell, in Stouffville, in honor of the Korea Veterans ASSOC. Leanne Philip won the coveted Bronze Medallion and $450 at the Canada-Wide Science Fair. Port Perry IGA partners, Alex Ramey and Jim Grieve officially opened their newly enlarged store with Mayor Jerry Taylor cutting the ribbon. A total of 80 competitors Canoed the Nonquon this year raising more than $3,600 for the museum.