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A nN R200 oF TENE AE ™ rad. Sells 5d 05 WHS EIA a se dary h asd oliviels Kids get unexpected holiday as buses grind to a halt For the second time this winter, a lot of school kids in Scugog Township had a holiday Monday as poor driving conditions - kept the buses off the roads. A spokesperson for the Durham Board of Education said Monday afternoon that no buses buses off the road due to bad driving conditions is made early in the morning by the Board of Education transporta- tion department, based on consultations with police and municipal roads departments. All parents with students who are bused students only lost a couple of days of school because of bad weather, but so far this season, it looks like Old Man Winter is'making up for it. Meanwhile, Durham Region Police say there have been several accidents in the last was extensive, police say there were no serious injuries. HOSPITAL REPORT Week Ending December 8 oS -_s AVA Spt PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. December 13,1983 -- 5 ' "oo Xe yt SLE Sok Fy Poy Id > 5 . ry LA hes LVS okt AP LE REE 2 aS NE ad ty Tt 7 -y bind ab tl tii ldbi ii Asn in AT A Fp Codi I ' Yr whe 5 ' oy) the stor PORT PERRY STAR CO (VTUTED 239 QUEEN STREET (> Cha J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor CATHY ROBB News & Features £0 BOX SO PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 INO (416) 985.7383 (> | cn (=) Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd . Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department Ottawa and for cash payment of were operating in Scugog and Uxbridge Township, Brock Township to the north there was limited school bus service. to school have been notified about which radio stations carry information on school bus operations during the winter months. Last year, Township while in The decision to keep some of these accidents 2s cd RIZE WIN . postage in cash week or so in Scugog Admissions ............ 26 Townshi P, where Births 2 AS sch A ne Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 weather and driving Deaths TT ---- 1 Dove, Gon oi Cama $15.00 conditions were a Emergencies Tren 159 grazers as30 Ce Sikseripionans in Sen era es Voor: i EWSpaApERS CON sewhere .00 per year. 1350 factor. : Operations ............... 19 Although damage in Discharged ............ 27 Remaining .............. 35 remember when? + 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 20, 1923 Scugog Council moved that $12.15 be paid to Mr. C. Hardy for gravel and $3.00 for work on a road. Mrs. Jas Paton, Toronto spent a few days with his sister Mrs. N. Wilkinson, before leaving on a trip west to visit his sister, Dorenlee of Alberta. Miss Sprague, Prince Albert, is erecting a large poultry house and intends to go into the poultry business extensively. The Port Perry Fuller Brush man, Leslie P. Dodd is leaving on December 24th and wishes to have any new or- ders or repairs brought to his attention before he leaves. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 16, 1948 Prospect Women's Association honoured the Holliday family who have moved from the Prospect community to Brooklin. _ The Hospital Board hopes to open the Institution as soon after New Year's as possible. It also plans to proceed with necessary additions to obtain a certificate as a Public Hospital. Miss Carrie Cowan and Miss Helen Crosier, of Toron- to, returned to their homes in Manchester on Sunday. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 18, 1958 Port Perry Chamber of Commerce is offering a $15 first prize for the best decorated house this Christmas. Mrs. Audrey Hall, Port Perry, won $2,249.00 on the TV program, "Love or Money' coming to Port Perry from WBEN, Buffalo. New Year's Eve dances at Blackstock Rec Centre and Utica Hall are $3.00 per couple. : Dr. M.B. Dymond, Minister of Transportation for On- tario and Mr. R.H. Cornish, Principal of Port Perry's Public School, both members of the Lions Club, will be featured on the Sunday morning broadcast of CKLB, Oshawa. They will be talking about the Lions Club and work with boys and girls. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 19, 1973 Only 25 percent of the Port Perry ratepayers turned out to elect the council for 1964 and all three councillors were re-elected from 1963. Ivan Parkinson, Bruce Beare and Bob Kenny were returned. Anna Forder, 12, and Richard Stephens, 15, both of Port Perry, will be competing in the 1964 Novice Pair Championship for Central Ontario in Peterborough. Some 1,200 persons were present at the opening of the Vocational Wing at Uxbridge Secondary School. Jim Smeltzer, Port Perry, has been appointed Super- vision of Chemical Analysis at the new Research & Development Centre of the British American Oil Com- pany, Toronto. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 19, 1968 At a regular meeting of Port Perry Hydro Electric Commission, Larry Mabley (superintendent) made a presentation on behalf of the Commission's staff to retiring members, Arthur Cox, chairman; Ted Jackson andreeve J.J. Gibson. Reeve Chester Geer of Reach Township has tendered his resignation and Mrs. Lucille Gray has been named to fill in for the remainder of term. Stocking the shelves for Christmas dinner in 1968 was advertised in a local grocery ad featuring Canada Grade A Turkeys at 41 cents per pound; Mincemeat pies (family size) were 49 cents each and stuffed olives at 75 cents for a 12 oz. jar. Smoked hams were selling for 69 cents per pound. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 19, 1973 During a council meeting on December 11, Councillor Grant McDermott greeted an announcement that Reeve Robert Kenny had taken it upon himself to turn off the Christmas lights in Port Perry as "darned nonsense'. The move by Reeve Kenny was made in connection to a reported hydro crisis. The grade 3 class of Prince Albert Public School helped make a "Christmas House of Candy" and promised the Star photographer on duty to record the event "we are going to eat it after you leave". : bill smiley THE BANE OF THEIR LIVES Glad I'm not a small-town downtown merchant these days. I'd probably be developing an ulcer and not sleeping too well at nights. : Bane of the small town merchant used to be the big town or small city not too far away, where there was more variety for the customer. : ; Despite the most rigorous attempts of the s/t d/t merchants to educate the people, in their arbitrary for fashion, went sashaying off to the larger centre on a Saturday to spend their shekels. They still do. But another bogey, three times as fearsome, has ,come out of the woods to give the s/t d/t merchants nightmares and cold sweats. : It began as the supermarket, usually built on the edge of town where taxes were much less, and there was lots of room for parking. . 'The supermarket bit heavily into the sales of grocery stores, drug stores and hardware stores, to mention a few of those afflicted, selling everything from toothpaste to lawn chairs. Mind you, the supermarket didn't give the per- sonalized service, the follow-up on repairs or returns, that the little merchant did. But it was kind of exciting: lots of people to gawk at, a veritable cornucopia of goods to choose from, easy parking. Fighting what, in many cases, was rear-guard bat- tle, the family business, the small merchant, moderniz- ed his store, joined with his fellows in sprucing up the downtown area (helped by government grants) and finally realized that he had to advertise, after years of believing there was no need, that everybody knew where he was and what he sold. : In many cases, and in many small towns, it was too late. Despite what became desperate efforts to fight the trend, there began a sort of rot downtown; a big tur- nover of small businesses that lasted only a short time; the closing up of old family businesses as their owners saw the light; the "for sale" signs on downtown proper- ty. It was rather sad. Then came: the real crusher: the development of malls. Every small town or village with any self-respect suddenly required a "mall." ) At first, these were neighbourhood affairs; just an acre or so with half a dozen shops. A drug store, a dry- cleaing outfit, a take-out food restaurant, and two or three other service shops. Then the big boys moved in. Sniffing the wind, they knew a golden-egg goose when they smelled one. They bought or leased, huge chunks of land just out- side the town, where taxes were minimal. Often it was bush or tough, useless land. In came the bulldozers; down went the trees. The big paving machines followed, and virgin territory became a vast expanse of asphalt. As the downtown merchants shivered in their boots, the wheelers and dealers, the mall-builders, lined up customers who would rent or lease space in the "grand, new mall," Within an incredibly short time, the jerry-built . edifices went up, the mall blossomed into a combina- tion of the old Saturday night in a small town, and a fall 131r, ang many a-downtowner experienced the kiss of eath. What is the attraction of a mall? Why do hundreds, then thousands of shoppers pour into the malls, like cat- tle being led to the slaughter-house? Well, they have something for every taste. Video games for the kids, A place to meet and ramble and shoplift for the teenagers. The heavy scent of hot junk food in the air. A certain excitement at being part of a moving mob. And, of course, a huge grocery store, dozens of small boutiques, and vast chain department stores, where you can buy almost anything, and which can undercut the small merchant on prices, because of their volume buying. Add to this, easy parking, where even the most maladroit motorist can find a space. Even though the shopper must walk a quarter of a mile from his car through rain or snow. And then there is the allure to the pig in most of us. Make out a careful list of essentials. Talk to yourself. Steel yourself against all blandishments. And, after all this, I'll bet you spend far more at the mall, flourish yor credit card more often, than if you had shopped careful ly downtown. Human nature. We can't resist all those goodies. The shopping mall is the ultimate monument to a materialistic society. And let's face it, the price is very often right. Aside from the shopping, the mall is a crowded, noisy, exciting place, on the surface. For the home- bound housewife, the glitter and the gaudiness and the canned music represents an escape from the dull drudgery of house and kids. There are gimmicks and sales and specials and a place to sit down, rest the aching dogs, and have a cof- fee. There is a variety and colour and there are sounds and smells that take the individual out of his little rut. And, after all, if all those other people are shopp- ing at the mall, it must have something going for it. Right? And those clever devils who set up the malls don't miss much. They jam in a drugstore, and a hairdress- ing salon, and a trust company or a bank, so there's real- ly no need to go downtown, is there? Personally, I hate malls. They are too impersonal and noisy and crowded for me. I feel like an animal, in amall. I have a sense that I am being manipulated by some socio-psychologist who first conceived the idea. I'll go on shopping downtown. But hundreds of thousands won't.