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14 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 4, 2000 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 255 Queen St., Port Perry (905) 985-5302 1ST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 20% OFF all "Russ" Easter Plush Helse ~ NS } RICEN IEG rN | Nf Time for a Spring clean-up in Scugog? To the Editor: How about a clean-up? In the fall the township provides a leaf pick-up ser- vice for about four weeks. While this is greatly appre- ciated, there is no provi- sion for the spring when we rake up leaves and twigs etc, and are left holding the bag (pun intended). I bundled up four bags, (all from our neighbours trees of course) and placed spring them out with the garbage on Friday. The boys on the truck cut the bags open and when they saw the leaves, left them and drove away. | know that if we hauled them up to Reach Street and paid $2 they would take them, but there are many people who do not have access to a truck or even a car. So what can we do - eat them? They won't disap- pear. Taxes in our town are every bit as much as when we lived in the city. | don't think a similar service is too much to expect here, so let's start with one or two pick-ups of garden waste each spring. It might encourage home owners to tidy up a bit more. Reta Taylor, Port Perry Enter our «~ § Theories represent narrow views From page 7 minimal set of tools that only allows us to scratch the surface and the scientific proof or disproof often lags far behind the accepted beliefs of the time. (In a recent poll it was found that 85 per cent of the population believe that there is life on other worlds yet there is no scien- tific proof). The process of science too is evolving yet scientists like religionists can be caught up with static words writ- ten long ago. Both argue about antiquat- ed precepts while the rest of the world moves with the flow of unfolding knowl- edge. | believe all chapters; Darwinism, the Bible, the Native American, Greek, Roman, Viking, Hindu, Islamic, etc., and current belief systems should be taught in school, not as cast in stone truths but as chapters in man's evolving under- standing of nature/God and the cosmos. Creation never stops, it is an infinite con- tinuum, and the evolutionary process is a way of seeing how it works. | like to view it as an all-encompassing creative contin- uum. To consider the development of human life on this planet or wherever else it might occur as happenstance is as dumb as to think woman was created from man's rib. The creationist/evolution- ist arguments are divergent views by two minority groups caught in counter rotat- ing eddies in the river of knowledge. I believe this argument has little rele- vance to the majority of students in this " millennium who have been raised on Spielberg, Lucas and the likes. I have to go now, have an appoint- ment with my channeler. Bill Lishman, Blackstock Classified Robert & Carolyn Hall 126 Water St., Port Perry (905) 985-4300 RESIDENCE 985-7718 PLATINUM PLUS AWARD BAAR EDAARAL AN LEER EEE A TS EIR ED AL ts fu : ga x AL § A X 14 ia Yi \{4 EL ENE EL FR PERT VER TP ER ae informed first! TE a Tt A A To AE al aa ATE