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6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 6, 2001 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" PUBLISHER, GEN MGR though the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) towards our makng costs E-MAIL editonal@portperrystar com adverusing@portperrystar com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 Year - $37 45 (includes GST) ~~ Six Months - $19.79 (includes GST) EDITORIAL POLICY: Opinions expressed by columnists, contributors and letter writers are not necessarily those of The Port Perry Star Letters must be signed and the telephone number (which will not be pubbshed) brought 10 the editor's attention. We reserve the nght to edit or refuse publication of any matenal submitted. ADVERTISING POLICY The publisher is not hable for slight changes or typographical errors that do not les subsequent issue or the refund of any monves paid for the adver usement. All daims of error in publication must be made by Wednesday, noon, por 10 the next week's publication, and, if not made, will not be considered. No dam wal be allowed for more than one insertion Don Macleod iy \ Re MEMBER SENIOR REPORTER © Chns Hall (GO| PORT PERRY ST 'AR common {oe CNA OFFICE MANAGER Gayle Stapley 2001 , J \ NEASPAIRR ADVERTISING MANAGER Deb McEachern BLUE he -- ot Soe A MEMBER CREATIVE MANAGER Pam Hickey conser [A ONTARIO REPORTER . Rik Davie NEWSPAPERS Publications Mail Registration No. 07881 OC CONT Y COMPETITION We adinowledge the finanaal support of the Government of Canada, ASSOCIATION PHONE 905-985-7383 FAX 905-985-3708 -- Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Company Limited, 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ontario - L9L 1B7 Foreign 1 Year - $96.30 (includes GST) BUSINESS OFFICE: Judy Ashby, Kathy Dudley, ADVERTISING: Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Freelance Waiters: Heather McCrae, John 8 McClelland, Kay Langmun included Requests that a name be withheld will be honoured only sen the value of an advertisement. The pubkisher 1s not kable for o if there 1s a compelling reason to do so Errors will be corrected if ther errors or omissions In connection with any advertisement in any Janet Rankin, Lesley West Gail Morse, Linda Clarke, Lisa Monk, Janet Archer, Lon Bradbury, Bill Watson PRODUCTION: Trudy Empringham, Daryle Wright, Arlene Cheel Editorial Comment Skating on thick ice Sometimes there is a plan to build something that everyone seems able to agree on. The second ice pad at the Scugog Arena seems to be one of those. Groups gathered last week to begin to plan the strategy needed to raise a half-a-million dollars for the user groups' end of the $3 million cost of the project. Community groups are already either on board or making plans to get on board. Ward 5 Councillor Paul Michel is telling the general taxpayers what they want to hear... which is that developers will foot the largest part of the township's end of things and the province's 'Super Build' program to meet community needs for such recreation items as the ice pad, will hopefully kick in as well. Scugog Council has made a move they will do well to repeat. Making sure that the reason for another ice pad -- developers build more houses, more kids to play hockey, so let the developers pay some of the cost for recreation for the new families they bring in -- is costed out to those who help create the need. Development in Scugog will change over the next few years as we of little Oak Ridges Moraine land are seen by developers as the place to go, are forced to fill the infrastructure needs of that new development. Scugog has long had a plan that basically said, 'if you can't flush it, you can't build it', to keep water and sewage abilities ahead of builder's bulldozers. The plan has worked and now needs to be taken the step further that council is headed. If you can't supply the recreational needs, the shop- ping needs and the ways to keep the dollars of new residents in Scugog, you can't build it. Growth in Seugog is held fast at about 2 per cent. With ideas like the unding of the ice pad, council will "a o CRY) It was around February of last year when Stan decided it was time something was done about the snowmobile routes through town... A AAA 9 eo | RIT SAAS \) keep that growth manageable. Remember When? Historical photo feature by J. Peter Hvidsten This large gathering took place on Queen St. in Port Perry during the early 1900s, just outside the W.H. Letcher furniture store, and undertaking. The building is now owned by Myles O'Riordan. Just what the celebration was has never been determined, but it must have been an Important occasion as the men and women are dressed in their "Sunday" best. The building to the left is where the Royal Bank is located today. LETTERS Durham MP contradicts his own statement To the Editor: I would like to respond to Alex Shepherd's article entitled, "Media should stick to the news, and not trivial stories". | am an 18-year-old student that attends Port Perry High School and I am an aspiring journalist. I just wanted to say that Mr. Shepherd's article was a contra- diction in many ways. He states that we should, "turn off the T.V. and stop studying the newspa- per" but he wrote in this news- paper to get our attention, thus proving that the media is effec- tive or his story would never have been told. I also think that Mr Shepherd should have been there for Gwynne Dyer's presen- tation at Port Perry High School as then he could see what a well educated journalist can do. Mr. Dyer explained the events since Sept. I'l in a truthful manner which made every student in that gym have a new understand- ing of what is happening and the possible events to come. Mr. Shepherd also stated that when headlines come up every fifteen minutes that it is mean- ingless, this is untrue as it is called "breaking news", and it is just what the journalists have found out at that present time, whether it be true or not comes out later in the evening news. | feel that if Mr. Shepherd dis- likes the media so much then he should have enough faith in mature Canadians to decipher between truth or fiction Let us decide whether or not we should shut off our televisions and throw away our newspapers. Lindsay Cole Port Perry