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letters agreement Dear Sir: I am in complete agreement with the' editorial 'Snow Woes" in the January 17 issue of the Port Perry Star. It is impossible for home owners to remove the snow after the plow has deposited all the snow from the road on the sidewalk. All of us living in the area of the Nursing Home, the Villa and the Cesaroni apartments, in- cluding home residents and visitors to the homes, must find a safer path to walk (mainly in the street). They probably share' my indignation at the Township not removing the snow from the sidewalks on Lilla and Perry Streets. Yours truly, Helen Mathieson Port Perry wr. TT TT PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. January 24, 1984 -- § Have you seen this woman Dear Sir: - On November 15, 1983, my beloved wife, Ida Marie Boulter, disap- peared from our home near Maple, Ontario (just north of Metro Toronto). Evidence is sparse but she apparent- ly embarked spon- taneously on a walk, like- ly in an emotionally distraught state amplified by flu symp- toms. She was wearing a middle-brown cloth, 3; the . PORT PERRY STAR CO LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET PO 801 90 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO LO8 WO (416) 983.738) oO {» CNA cn J. PETER HVIDSTEN aA Publisher Advertising Manager Meniber of the . Canadian Community Newspaper Association J.B. MCCLELLAND - and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Editor Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd , Port Perry, Ontario CATHY ROBB 3 News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office AOVAN Commy, Rag \) Py Department, Ottawa, and tor cash payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35° QC -- cw 40 3 aati vw (Turn to page 6) remember w hen? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 24, 1924 At the first meeting of Scugog Council, Mr. Dowson instructed the clerk to purchase 100 dog tags for 1924, and $4 was paid to Mr. Cory Wood as sheep valuator. Myron Martin and his sister Edith of Manitoba paid a hurried visit to friends in Port Perry last week. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Thompson, Blackstock, on the birth of a baby boy. , Young people of Ashburn are favoured with good skating on the pond owned by Mr. Lane. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 27, 1949 Approximately 45 friends and neighbours gathered at the public library to honour Mrs. Keith Mark (nee Ruth Story) who was married December 27, 1948. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer and son Bob, Seagrave, visited their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Martyn. Little Beatrice Marie Mass has returned home to her parents in Hamilton after spending three weeks with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Durham, Prospect. Mr. Gordon Carnegie, who has been with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Bowmanville has retur- ned to Port Perry where he will be employed with Car- negie Hardware. 25 YEARS AGO ' Thursday, January 22, 1959 Port Perry Council gave approval to complete the ad- dition of 6 classrooms, a combination gym and auditorium and a cafeteria to the local high school. Reeve Walter Beath, of East Whitby was elected Warden of the County of Ontario. Also running were Reeve Anson Gerrow of Scugog Township and Reeve John Mills of Ajax. The barn on the farm of Steve Edwards, Manchester, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday. A number of pigs were lost in the blaze. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 23, 1964 The sensational defenseman for the Oshawa Generals "Bobby Orr' and the team's manager Wren Blair have promised to be present at Minor Hockey Night in Port Perry. Over 200 Oddfellows and guests welcomed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ontario, Bros. Earl Fox, at a supper held in his honour at the Masonic Temple, Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Paton from Champagne, Illinois, are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Love. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 23, 1969 Possibly the closest and most exciting vote. in the "history of Ontario County elected Ed (Sam) Oyler, reeve of Reach Township, Warden for 1969. It took five ballots to decide the winner, and even then remained in a tie. Reeve John Williams, Pickering Township was given the task of breaking the tie and claiming the winner. The community of Caesarea honoured Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Randall with a surprise party on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. The Randalls have been residents of Caesarea since moving from Toronto 10 years ago. The local high school news "Hilltop Herald" reported a number of basketball games played against Suttofi | teams. Led well by cheerleaders, all three Boys' Basket- ball teams hosted games with some of the best turn-outs any game has had in the past years. Oshawa Police have charged an Oshawa woman with possession of a colour television set stolen from Ted Jackson Appliances on Queen Street in Port Perry. En- trance to the building was obtained by breaking the front entrance lock with a crowbar. Port Perry Firemen have recently joined the Ontario 'Fire Fighters Association. Port Perry Skating Club will be holding a reception in the Masonic Temple to honour Anna Forder and Richard Stephens on February 1st. (Turn to page 7) bill smil WHO'S FOR LASTEMBER? January is a trying time. For one thing, it's so dang sudden. There you are, tottering along a day at a time, thinking you must get the snow tires and storms on one of these Saturdays, and throw some firewood into the cellar, and get some boots and replace the gloves you lost last March. And then -- bang! -- you look out one morning and there's January, in all it's unglory: a bitter east wind driving snow, and a cold chill settles in the very bones of your soul. Winter wind as sharp as a witch's tooth, sneaks in around uncaulked doors and windows. There's a terri- ble draught from under the basement door. You in- vestigate and find one of the basement windows has been blown in and smashed on the woodpile. You clamber up over the wood, knocking pieces off shins and knuckles, and jam some cardboard in the gap. Creep cautiously outside, and nearly bust your bum. There's ice under that thar snow. Make it into the garage, and find that your car doors are all frozen solid shut. Beat them with your bare fists until the latter are bleeding and your car is full of dents. Finally get them open with a bucket of hot w..ter and a barrel of hotter language. Slither and grease your way to work, arriving in a foul mood and with bare hands crippled into claws, bootless feet cold as a witch's other appendage. Come out of work to go home and find a half-inch of frozen rain and snow covering your car, and no sign of your scraper, and another deep dent where some idiot slid into your car door on the parking lot. I could go on and on, but it's only rubbing salt into the wounds of the average Canadian. Get home from work and find that the furnace is on the blink, and the repairman is tied up for the next two days. Surely, there is some way around this suddeness of January. Is there not some far-seeing politician (if that is not a contradiction in terms), who would introduce a bill to provide for an extra month between, let's say, Nov. 25 and Dec. 5? I wouldn't care what he called it. It could be Lastember, referring to your fast-dying hope that there wouldn't be a winter this year. Or Last Call, or Final Warning, or She's Acomin! Anything that gave us a good jolt. It would be a good thing for merchants. They could have special Lastember sales of gloves and boots and snow tires and ear muffs and caulking guns and weather stripping and antifreeze and nose warmers. It would be great for the Post Office, which could start warning us in June that all Christmas mail must be posted by the first day of Lastember, if we wanted it delivered before the following June. It would make a nice talking point for all those deserters and traitors and rich people who go south every year. Instead of smirking 'Oh, we're not going south until Boxing Day. Hate to miss an old-fashioned Canadian Christmas," they could really shove it to us by learing. "Yes, we thought we'd wait this year until the last day of Lastember, you know. Avoid the pushing and vulgarity of the holiday rush." If nothing else, it would give us a break from the massive nauseating volume of pre-Christmas advertis- ing, which begins toward the end of October and con- tinues, remorselessly, right into Christmas Day. Best of all, perhaps it would give dummies like me a chance to avoid looking like such a dummy. Pro- crastinators, who flourish during a sunny November, would have no more excuses. All their wives would have to do is point to the calendar and say: "Do you realize it's only three days until Lastember? Isn't it time you did your Lastember chores?" In fact, if that fearless politician who is going to in- troduce the Lastember Bill in the house wants some ad- vice, here is codicil for him. Somewhere in the Bill should be the warning, in bold type: "Procrastinators will be Prosecuted!" Jeez, why not? They prosecute you for everything else! If such a month were added to calendar -- maybe we could start it with Grey Cup Day -- people like me w In't go on thinking that Christmas is weeks away. Instead, on the last day of Lastember, with all their winter chores in hand, they'd know that Christmas was practically on top of them, like a big, old horse blanket, and they'd leap into the proper spirit, lining up a Christmas tree, laying in their booze, tuning up their pipes for the carols. Ag it is now, we know that Christmas is like a mirage. It's way off their somewhere, and no need to panic. Then, with that startling Suddeness, it's Dec. 22, all the Christmas trees have been bought, the only re- maining turkeys look like vultures, and the liquor store is bedlam. Who's for a Lastember?