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0 EF IRE ENR he ¥ PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. February 17, 1982 -- 5 Commerce. over the Post Office. Bentley. Over two hundred persons in Port Perry have signed contracts for hydroservice. 35 YEARSAGO Thursday, February 20, 1947 Scout Week was ushered inby an impressive ceremony held at the Church of Ascension. The Scout flag was flying The C.G.LT. girls held a successful Valentine's Tea in the United Church Sunday School rooms, with the help of their leaders Mrs. Cornish, Mrs. Starkey and Mrs. Smith and pouring tea were Mrs. Z.M. Jackson and Mrs. L.R. 25 YEARSAGO - Thursday, February 21, 1957 This year marked the Golden Anniversary of Scouting founded by Lord Baden-Powell. Port Perry celebrated National Scout week with a father and son banquet held in the Scout Hall. AttheOratorical speech finals held at the High School the winners were Jr. Girls - Jacqueline Edwards, Jr. Boys - Martyn Rennick, Girls - Mary Lynn Hodgins and Senior Boys - Bruce Taylor. Inthe Holstein Junior Judging Honours 338 4H boys and girls from all over Canada took part. The top score by an Ontario competitor was 124 points made by Lawrence Medd, Port Perry. or 20YEARSAGO Thursday, February 15, 1962 Dr. and Mrs. S. Kandel were the first winners of the Nelson Challenge Award for open pairs play at Ferndale Park, Duplicate Bridge Club. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Dr. J. Price was elected as president and Mr. J. Porter as 1st Vice President. Olive Honey and Ella McGregor won the Peggy Wilson trophy at St. Petersbury Women's Lawn Club. Burgess J. Beare was recently appointed Sales manager for Miami District (Florida) Cadillac Motor Car Division. renember when? 60 YEARSAGO Thursday, February 16, 1922 The outstanding event of this week in the district was the organization of a Holstein Breeders Association for the County of Ontario. Manchester Orchestra provided excel- lent music. Recognition and honour was awarded to Mr. Robert Walker who was elected president and to Mr. R.M. Holtby elected as Secretary-Treasurer. The Dominion Arsenal at Lindsay was closed down throwing 146 men out of work. Mr. Aylmer Tennyson left for Madoc where he has been transferred to the Madoc Branch of the Canadian Bank of 15YEARSAGO Thursday, February 16, 1967 Teen Town youngsters donated $500. towards the Hospital Building Fund. Burns Presbyterian Church, built in 1858 was complete- ly destroyed by a fire which was believed to have been started by an overheated chimney. Brooklin Legion, Branch 152 elected their first execu- tive consisting of Alex Brough, Les Smart, Fred Evans, Fred Phillips,, Jack Yorke, Mel Lakey and Ray Craddock. Two ladies Laura Lakey and Lois Yorke are also members of the branch. 10YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 16, 1972 Council members voted themselves an increase in wages to $25 for each council meeting they attend, $15 for each committee meeting. A Dance-Marathon was held at Port Perry High to raise money for support of the school's overseas child, eleven year old So-Ling Chenin Hong Kong. Sergeant Jack Scott, O.P.P. retired after completing 33yearsserviceinlaw enforcement. The card party held at R.H. Cornish School was a tre- mendous success with 25 tables set up for euchre and five bridge tables. Ninety prizes were given out during the evening of entertainment. bill smil to get the car started. A DAY OFF It's an eerie feeling, sitting here in this vast shoe factory writing a column, completely alone. i It's not really a shoe factory, but a high school. However, I always think of it as the shoe factory, and it looks like one, from the outside. Two stories high, miles of red brick, and churning out a product that ranges from classy to shoddy to cheap to 'seconds' that have flaws but will do for knocking around in. The school, for the first time in my association with it, is closed on a week-day. Blizzard, high winds, drifting snow and choked roads have done the job. Usually regardless of weather the school is open, even when only a tenth of the students are able to get here. Days like that are euphemistically called "snow days", and are greeted with delight by both staff and students. On those days we go through a charade in which those students too dumb or too keen to stay at home, and teachers are in the same categories, are supposed to carry on meaningful work. Students are supposed to go and get help in their weaker subjects. Teachers are supposed to be on hand to help them. But everybody spends most of the day talking about the weather, and feeling slightly heroic about - plunging through drifts, getting noses frost-bitten, trying Today, after a weekend of wild weather, I actually listened to the radio and was stunned to learn that our school was closed. First time in history. But teachers are supposed to go to work, even though they are in a plane on its way back from Hawaii, or a nuclear war was begun. So I went to work. I and two custodians, and one little girl who didn't know the school was closed. And I've had a most enjoyable day. No rotten kids to teach. No rotten teachers bugging me about their latest hang-nail, or whatever. No memos from the administra- tion categorically stating that this must be attended to yesterday. : Read my morning paper, which I seldom get to see between my wife yammering during breakfast, and my teachers snatching up sections the moment I arrive. Enjoy a cup of coffee. Realized I should go home and get at the weather-stripping I'd bought in October. Laughed aloud several times. Went our and had a leisurely lunch, with a pre-prandial drink. Nobody to smell my breath when I got back. Amused during lunch by a group of adjacent truck drivers telling me of the horrors they'd been through in the storm, while they slogged down the beer. Back to the shoe factory at two. Prepared some lessons without a single soul interrupting to whine about his Grade 9 four year level who can't even read. Thought briefly about the English department meeting I'd had planned for the first Snow Day, and promptly dismissed the silly thing from my mind. Wrote a letter to my brother, the retired colonel, who seems a little frantic in retirement, his big moment of the day walking his dog on the beach in Florida, after a lifetime of working about 18 hours a day and playing the other 16. Banged out a note to old friend Don McCuaig, ex-new- paperman, ex-army private, who has withdrawn from the whole hurly-burly. . And sat down and read with-immense pleasure a book I'd brought along just in case the incredible were true, and the school was closed. Why do airmen wait until they're practically doddering before they write a book? This one was "B oys, Bombs and Brussell Sprouts," by Doug Harvey and it's a treasure of wit, warmth and piognancy. Doug went overseas as a sergeant pilot when he was in his teens, and with what seems like total recall, conveys the flavour of what it was to be young, virginal, and a little rough around the edges, a typical Canadian kid in war-time England. N . If he'd written it 20 years ago, it would have sold like the proverbial hot-cakes to all the ex-bomber-force types in Canada. Trouble is, half of them are dead now. But I think it will sell anyway. It gives a marvellous feeling of what (Turnto page 6) | letters PM shows no concern for Canadians Prime Minister Trudeau's rejection of an aid plan to boost housing and jobs is typical of his hypocracy and indifference to the problems of Canadians. Our million- aire P.M. seems more obsessed with Third World countries than with his own. We have 12.5 per. cent inflation, near 50 per cent higher than the United States; we have over 1,000,000 unemployed with daily layoffs in the thousands and plant closings, bank- ruptcies at an all time high, yet the government will not back down and bring in a realistic budget to spur the economy. . Our globe-trotting Prime Minister has billions for foreign aid but nothing for the unemployed or destitute at home. Three million Canadians live in poverty according to governments own figures. McEachen's salary is $102,000 and his pension said to worth $1 million. The Prime Minister pledged to "wrestle inflation to the ground". Its at a 34 year high. We have a $3 billion car parts deficit with the U.S. -- parts that could be made here providing thou- sands of jobs for Canadian workers. 'While Ottawa cuts back billions to the provinces, it increases foreign aid with $1.2 billion in wheat for Poland and over $1.1 million in cash, most of which will end up in the hands of the Communist army-controlled government, and on the black market like most foreign aid. Our schizoph- renic Prime Minister is now (Turnto page6) Where are Children? Dear Sir Last week, the school buses were cancelled for a day, a lovely sun shiny day, and I drove around looking for children playing in the fresh snow. There were none. } A couple of boys were shovelling a driveway; a couple of toddlers were watching their father shovel- ling the driveway, but as far as a group of happy kids, actually playing in the snow -- I didn't see any! Is this what TV and organ- ized games has robbed them of? Betty Kendell Port Perry, Ontario port perry star Company Limited (*Cha | = J.PETERHVIDSTEN J.B. 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