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A \ ¥ N hts 9X W es D0 To = Fates br Cs pl SE " > +3 3 ! WX y ~ 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- 'Wednesday, Feb. 7th, 1973 Scugog News We are hoping for a good attendance at "Grace" Church on sunday, morning when the two Island U.C.W. willcombine for a U.C.W. 'special service. The ladies will assist in the usual order of Service and present a special skit obtained at a Presbyterial meeting. Rev. Pogue will give the message. Anyone who has old hymn books containing the hymn, "Will there be any Stars'? please bring them to the Service for use. After church the ladies hope to again present the skit at Manches- ter Church. There may be extra music too. To-night the '"'Grace' U.C.W. meets at the home of Mrs. Muriel Buttons at 8 p.m. Please bring pennies saved during Jan. also used stamps or Christmas Cards. INVEST NOW! VICTORIA & GREY TRUST Guaranteed Investments 7 2% For 5 Years Interest is payable half yearly or may EMMERSON INSURANCE AGENCY LIMITED 191 Queen St. Port Perry Telephone 985-7306 The "Head U.C.W. meets al the home of Mrs. Marie Clark in Port Perry. The "Head' 'recently sent a bundle of used stamps to the Leprosy mission in Toronto and received the following information: In 1972, they went over the top with a grand total of $10,371. The goal for 1973 is $12,500. the Leprosy Mission has started a pioneer effort in West Irian by establishing the first Christian 'leprosy hospital clinic. Proceeds from the sale of stamps will help to purchase equipment for this clinic, supplies and medicine as well as contributing to the support of a missionary nurse. "Every stamp counts." On Sunday, Rev. Pogue told the children about Algerian children and other poor children around the world who can afford few clothes. He said we must and are trying to help these people by packing bales, sending money to overseas relief and training them so that they can develop their own countries. The United Church is in the 2nd highest place among the various organizations that help. Rev. Pogue is going to give a series of sermons on the subject -- "What is man?" It wasn't until about 1900 when we began to look at the Nature of Man. Thro' this social scientists believe that Christianity has to change and find new answers to save man. First there was great fear of the atomic bombs, crime increases and there is serious trouble through out the world. We think of the whole man but as one who has many needs. He has two parts earthly of flesh and spiritual. We study the findings of 2 men; a French Canadian and Abraham Maslo. The first said man has 4 levels of activity, the electro-chemi- cal process, the self moving and preserving functions of man, emotional processes and finally thinking pro- cesses. All of these affect the whole body as in paying a bill or breaking an arm. The second was a study of what motivates people to do things ,such as physical needs, security neds, social and ego needs and a conclu- sion of what life is all about. At heart man is a creature of the earth. But we move above the realm of the animal world. On Monday, the Carters went to a 60th wedding anniversary at Brougham in honour of the brother of the late Mrs. Russell Carter and his wife. REPORT The Whitby detachment, Ontario Provincial Police, report that during the week of January 29 -"February 4, 1973. There were 23 traffic accidents which resulted in 9 persons injured and $7,835 dollars damage. There were 7 cases of break and enter reported including three Port Perry breakins. One assault charge was investigated. There were 9 thefts, 4 disturbances, 6 impaired drivers found and nine persons were charged with liquor offences. $100 awards to Ontario scholars Education Minister Tho- mas Wells announced re- cently that the Ontario Government will this year award $100 to all Ontario Scholars. In re-instituting the mone- tary award for Ontario Scholarship winners, Mr. Wells said that the Govern- ment had originally intended to divert these funds into programs which would pro- vide more financial aid for the general student awards program. Speaking to the Ontario Secondary School Headmas- ters Council, he said it had become evident that the full significance of the financial part of the Ontario Scholar- ship awards had been under- estimated, both as a recog- nition of achievement and excellence, and as an in- centive to our young people. "We have listened to what we believe is a majority expression of opinion, and we are acting upon that expression of opinion," he said. 'The Ontario scholarships will retain the significance which they have always had for our high school students, and assist them in launching their post-secondary studies." Ontario Scholarships are awarded to those secondary school students who attain their Honour Graduation diploma with an average of 80 per cent or better. That groundhog may have done in our Winter Carnival. He did not see his shadow last week, which is supposed to mean that spring is upon us. Unless we get a reprieve the carnivals main event may have to be renamed mudmobile races. RALPH FAIRMAN MOTORS LIMITED 12530 Dundas Street East Whitby - 668-6843 Dial Direct 985-302] 1970 on rear window. black stripe. Lic. #46597. 1972 PINTO radio, with low mileage. price. Lic. #P99867. MUSTANG 351, V-8, 4 SPEED, console, louvers White with A real sharp car. $2895 2 DOOR 4 cyl. engine, 4 speed, A real economy car at a real economy Where Every Transaction means Satisfaction 1970 console. GRANT ME 2 DOOR HARD TOP, V-8, auto- matic, p.s., p.b., radio, buckets and Royal blue with white vinyl roof and white interior. Priced to sell. Lic. #436700. $2595 1970 LeMANS SPORT 2 DOOR hard top 350 V-8, automatic, p.s., p.b., radio, buckets and console. in silver exterior and a contrast- ing red interior. Lic. #71841A - NZIES DUSTER Tastefully finished $2595 As | see It by Bruce Arnold Regent Park, in Toronto, was the first public housing project to be undertaken in Canada. Built shortly after World War tw» it floundered for 20 years as the world's largest bad example of planning. It crammed a population the size of Por{ Perry's, most of them children, into a four square block ghetto with no recreation facilities at all - no medical facilities - no anything. the people were merely, to quote a popular government phrase, 'adequately housed". That means they had some sort of a roof over their heads. All that is changed now. Three years ago the people of Regent Park organized a residents group. They did not picket anyone. They threw no, stones. They placed no blame. They broke no laws. The federal government gave them a grant to hire someone who would help them define their problems and proceed through proper democratic channels to seek solutions. They hired me. That may be interesting, but it is not particularly important. No matter who they had hired, so long as they worked with him toward a positive goal, the results would have been the same. Today Regent Park is in the final stages of a 4 million dollar program to construct more than adequate recreation facilities. The Regent Park Services Unit provides medical and other facilities. The people are developing a pride in their community because they got together and worked out plans for improvements themselves. One million, seven hundred and fifty thousand Ontario people live in poverty. For years poverty in this province was like the weather. Sooner or later everyone got around to talking about it. No one ever did anything. Last year-the federal government gave a Toronto group a L.I.P. grant to hire some people to organize a province wide citizens group which would go about tackling the problem of poverty in a businesslike manner. The group hired me. My co-workers and I did not, of course, do anything ourselves to elliminate the cancer of poverty from Ontario's apparently prosperous physique -- we simply contacted people all over the province and invited them to get together and work out the problem for themselves. In the past year encouraging steps have been taken which indicate that society is ready, at last, to take possitive action to cure its major disease. Next week thousands of people representing all four political parties, most major religions, labour unions, governments and, most important of all, the poor themselves will gather at the Lord Simcoe Hotel for an Anti Poverty conference which will put the finishing touches on a program to get rid of our worst poverty once and for all. is They said it could not be done. We did it. We did it because we were willing to forget our differences, our ambitions, our petty jealousies and concentrate on the one thing we had in common - the desire to solve a serious social problem. Normally, a lot of us would never have gotten along at all. There are people in Regent Park and in the anti poverty movement who, quite frankly, I can't stand. But they shared my desire to cure an ill. We forgot about personalities and worked successfully toward a common goal. We reached that goal. Tomorrow night people in the Port Perry, Cartwright, Scugog and Reach area will attempt to get together to work for another common goal -- the imporvement of this community. I am still a stranger here. I can not presume to know the human differences that may tend to divide people in the Port Perry area. But I will claim that I know enought about people to suspect that there ate groups here, just' like everywhere else, who do not particularly like each other. What is more important, I know from my own experience as an evengelist, as a community organizer, as a news reporter, that people are able to overcome these disagreements. And I know that good things always happen when they try. I am not yet sure what all the issues are that a residents and ratepayers group in this community might need to resolve. I only know that I intend to be at tomorrow night's meeting. I have been thrilled to many times in he past by the ability of common people, to get together for good to miss this one. 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