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"A Family Tradition for 133 Years" @he Por! Povey Sta Question of the Week... How did you weather the first Jeff Morden Lance Peters Tom Keeble Courtney Ristow big snow storm of 1999? Mark McConkey Gas attendant Outside worker, Scugog Outside worker, Scugog Durham Police officer Snow enthusiast We made it through all Lumber Lumber Certain days were a little I liked the storm because right, but I must have The contractors have We were kept pretty busy busier for us, but over all we gol sway home from Do you have a suggestion that heard 'cold enough for been in for lumber just as shoveling and hammering people seemed to be tak- SCHOO "was nh. LIke you think would make a good you?' 20 times. One day steady as always, so it lumber so we could get at ing it easier on the roads. question of the week? we did run out of window didn't slow them down. it. It just took three times The road crews did a good Call us at 905-985-7383. washer fluid, though. We just tried to keep up. longer to do anything. job. LETTERS Snowmobiles disrupting residents To the Editor: Copy of a letter to Mayor Doug Moffatt, Township of Scugog I was under the impression that when you took office, we would have a bylaw passed for- bidding snowmobiles on our sidewalks and streets, and that snowmobiles were not to be seen or heard after 1 a.m. This does not seem to be the case. I would not want to annoy our police by reporting snowmobiles that night after night interrupt our sleep. Due to a health problem, I have to be at the Oshawa Hospital by 7:15 a.m., which means we must be up.no later than 6 a.m. When one's sleep has been disturbed Kudos to Scugog's roads ¢ Tothe Editor: ~~ A Kudos to Ronn McDonald, and the snow removal crews of Scugég Township. Thanks very much for your efforts. ~~ by noisy snowmobiles from 1 to 3:30 a.m. it is very difficult to get back to sleep. ~ Unfortunately there is a stop sign near our property, which is generally ignored as the snowmobile driver heads for the sidewalk in front of our house and revs his engine, I'm cer- tain to make sure nobody sleeps. The person crosses over to the all night gas station, gets what he has to and then reverses the process, so we get the noise twice. Snowmobiles can be a lot of fun in the right places, but not on our sidewalks and streets. They can be taken by trailer or some other means of transportation to the lake or groomed trails. I am certain you have received other com- plaints with respect to snowmobiles, and I hope that something will be done. Port Perry is fast becoming a town and we have suffered in silence for 19 years. But now, due to ill health we feel, as taxpayers, we have the right to complain and hope something will be done. : Inez Morley, Port Perry You can e-mail your letters: port.perry.star @ sympatico.ca lsland Rd. in March 1940, when snowbanks were pushed back higher than his truck. Yo i ST PHOTO COURTESY JACK AND ALLENE KANE : Yes, we've had a lot of snow this winter, but look at this. This delivery truck of John Sweetman, of the Seugoa Island Store, makes its way south along a narrow one lane Scugog by Jeff. Mitchell THE NASTIEST BUG YET A letter writer in one of the daily papers recently raised this most interesting and disturbing point: We can put human beings in space, but nobody can come up with a solution for this Y2K problem that's supposed to cause such chaos for us in 11 short months. Darn good point, eh? I've always enjoyed that we-can- put-a-man-on-the moon-but paradox. For instance, We can put a man on the moon, but we can't cure the cold or the flu or cancer. Or, We can put a man on the moon, but we can't get Buffalo past Dallas in the Super Bowl. Or, we can put a man on the moon, but we can't convince the dog to drink out of his dish instead of the toilet bowl. Yes. If we're so smart, how come we have come to rely so utterly on a computer system that is so obviously obsolete? Did no one think of this? Or is it planned obso- lescence? For instance, I'm sure they can build cars that don't rust, but why would they want to? ...They came dan- gerously close with the Valiant, all of which would still be on the road today, if they didn't look the way they did. | think rather that we, being humans, just got so caught up in admiration of our own cleverness and our thirst for accomplishment and power that we chose to ignore the obvious perils at hand. Our hubris made us willfully oblivi- ous to the cliff toward which we have been hurtling, and anyone who dared mention the possible drawbacks has been hushed, or thrown in asylums. ~ "Onward! or, as Buzz Lightyear says, To Infinity! And Beyond! have been our cries. We have set out on a long and perilous journey on a dark night without checking the gas. Ah, well, what else is new, eh? What other species could expend so much energy coming up with ways to exterminate itself? The Manhattan Project: Yes, it involved a bunch of right smart fellas, whose work hastened the end of the war in the Pacific. It also made possible catastrophic war among feuding Asian countries, and is largely the reason for Pickering being there, | reckon. Even the things we invent to improve our lives have served largely to hasten our demise. Television. Fast food. Automobiles. New Country. The list goes on. And now computers, damn them, which leads one to conclude that the only solution to this Y2K thing, whatever the hell it is, is to depend less on technology and more on one's God-given smarts. So when Dec. 31 rolls around this year you'll find me in the kitchen, warmed by a wood fire, sipping wine cooled in the snow bank and strumming on a six string. No worries.