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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 25, 1998 "Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 E-Mail: port.perry.star@sympatico.ca Publications Mail Registrations No. 07881 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 BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. ....................... Gayle Stapley Accounting....... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Retail Sales...... Kathy Dudley, Heather Callan EDITORIAL: Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten General Manager....Don Macleod Managing Editor ..... Jeff Mitchell News Reporters ... Chris Hall Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland PRODUCTION Trudy Empringham, Pam Hickey, Rhonda Mulcahy, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew, Barb Bell VERIFIED ciAcuLaT oN fi Editorial Comment What we'll miss about summer With this issue, we've reached the 25th of August, and many of us are no doubt finding ourselves looking at summer in ret- rospect... and wondering where it went. So before it's over altogether, let's take a moment and consider what we'll miss about summer, while some of it still lingers. 1 Baseball: What says summer better than the shape of a diamond, cut into the pristine green of the grass? Baseball's been amusing to watch this year because of the run for Maris' record by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa -- a sideshow to be sure, but what baseball needs is an element of fun... before the pursuit of money takes over the pursuit of excellence altogether. 4 Sunrise over Scugog: Especially this summer, with its accompanying humidity. Many mornings have presented the lovely sight of pink mist over a totally becalmed lake. Perfect. J Barbecues: C'mon, fellas, admit it: You like being in charge of the menu each night, huh? What's better than being on the deck, beer in hand, while the day cools and the steak sizzles? Hungry? Oh, yeah! 4 Joyful children: Kids are never happier when they've spent the day doing nothing, and putting lots of energy into it. Hear that screaming up and down your street? It's kids having a ball. | 1 Warm, starry nights: Sit out long after the kids are asleep and just listen. Bliss. 1900 Member of the Canadian & Ontano Newspaper Assoc Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry. Ont ADVERTISING Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod Sales: Deb McEachern. Barb Hillier, Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin TIE MARY, WHEN YOU SAID YoU SPOTTED A DOPE FARM, WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU ise > Ve | TREY: < SRILA 7775 pooh "% he Tort TLRRY ARN STAR Star Letter Of The Week To the Editor: "Ontario's most watched news channel" If this is true of CFTO, then what kind of warped interests control the direction of Canadian TV watchers? This much touted newscast pursues daily every bloody act of violence, deliberate and accidental, with an eagerness one can only call ghoulish. This is in fact Canada's Number 1 ghoul channel. With smug, somber faces the male and female broadcasters seem to revel in gore and suffering to the last bloody detail, incident after incident, day after day after day. If anything positive turns up in the Remember When? Spare us the blood and guts news news it always comes after the murders, the fires, the accidents, the robberies, the sui- cides. It is really sickening to witness this daily roster of gore, and certainly depressing to know this is the favorite channel of Ontario viewers. What is wrong with us? Sometimes [ watch, hoping for a positive change in direction, but always I am disap- pointed; so I end up shutting off such nega- tivity and turning on the radio. At least there 1s a choice. Owen R. Neill Port Perry - a yu Beare Motors (circa 1920) was the Dodge-Desoto Dealer in Port Perry, and was located on Queen St. Beare's later became a Chevrolet - Oldsmobile dealership in January 1960, and underwent a major renovations After serving as the home to a car dealership for the best part of the century, the building torn down to make room for Shopper's Drug Mart, who built its new store on the Beare Motor's property at the corner of Queen & John St.