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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 20, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" BUSINESS OFFICE Canad o bud the \ Office Mgr. ......cccceueunnnnnne. Gayle Stapley anadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. SR Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin J CNA di vty Aug the 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - L9L 1B7 Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Heather Callan 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 -------- y+ -- ------------------ a se si BAS EDITORIAL: ADVERTISING Publications Mall Fsglateatione N yy Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod Subscription Rates: General Manager... Don MacLeod Trudy Empringham, Pam Hickey, Sales: Deb McEachern, Ginni Todd, 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 ad Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Rhonda Mulcahy, Robert Taylor, Barb | ayrie Thompson, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST | Ia News Reporters .....Chris Hall Bell, Richard Drew, Karen Dynes Deborah Tiffin Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Editorial comment HI MAYOR Impact of tax MOF FAT | changes sinks in It may have taken some time, but by now the effect of the massive revisions in the property taxation system should have registered with home and business owners here. Taxes. They're like trips to the mechanic's S and medical diagnoses, eh? Even if we C have a hint of what's wrong, the final verdict -- and the costs associated with a solution -- can be jarring. Such has been the case with home and business owners throughout the township, some of whom received strong shocks upon opening their bills this fall. The township, once again on the front line and enforcing policy not of its own making, is phasing in some of the more whopping increases -- and decreases -- which can help to soften the blow. But the double whammy of downloading and a revised assessment system will remain. « 3 : ; | Crea ting institutions IN CrISIS | The province is hinting at relief for some ~~ DRAT 1 WAS 1) HOPPIN NO ONE WOULD 0 RECOGNIZE ME! TOWN MEETING TONIGHT 7 7, Wi, XK poph Port PERRY 5TAR 7% & = NOLL Na of the harder-hit small businesses, andwe To the Editor: system then males the person "not crimi- poy folie om Deinstitutionalization of Ontario psychi- nally responsible" ( ). can only hope that comes to pass. Anyone Li (8 Ley [| atric patients is producing a different kind The NCR psychiatric patient then re- involved with a small business knows that a deg of institutionalization of some of the very enters the Ontario psychiatric hospital profit margins are slim, and added overhead i ea - same psychiatric patients. again in a much more costly, labour intensive a Ey Of ol Psychiatric patients who, in another way - not criminally responsible. costs such as soaring taxes are a serious time, would have received more service and Not criminally responsible patients are detriment, enough to close some ventures down. support from provincial psychiatric hospitals beginning to fill up the already short supply are now being released into the community of Ontario's psychiatric beds, and use scarce and at times, when needed, are not able to resources. This means the beds become Another result of all this will likely be access mental health beds. blocked by NCR patients and other psychi- higher tax arrears, which affect the township. When psychiatric patients discharged atric patients are denied access. It's up to provincial and municipal govern- into the community commit a crime, they Joan Gates, : . ter the Ontario | 1 tem. The l ] OPSEU, Local 331, ments to be creative and understanding enter the Untario fega ll em. the lega | meee n 0) \ . Yin 7 1989 a i Cs i A 1989 An 1 50 5 an ROR gd i 8 It's hard to believe it's been almost a decade since the old Creamery in 1989 just as work began to tear the building down. Above, Creamery can be building at the corner of Water St. and Casimir was torn down. In its latter seen at left, and the house at right was occupied by Frank Real Estate before it years it was converted into apartments and offices. Above left, the creamery was torn down to make way for the Water St. condominiums and stores.