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letters The Bicentennial Celebration .... Dear Sir: I suggest that we all ask the question: "What ~ are we celebrating in 1984; and why?" I am sure that it is not for the happy and prosperous state of affairs in Canada today. I believe that we are recalling many impor- tant events that hap- pened in the past 200 years, and especially in the year 1784. About that time Canada became known as a place of freedom and opportunity. Thousands of people from Europe . in particular, gave up their homes and migrated to Canada to start a new life. In 1784, Britain declared Cape Breton Island a separate colony and New Brunswick was split from Nova Scotia. Many villages, towns and cities in Eastern Canada, such as Fredericton, Belleville and others had their beginnings in 1784 when these immigrants came and settled on land near our lakes and rivers. These places have a good reason to celebrate. The celebration, this year, will also throw light on a special kind of immigrant who did not choose voluntarily to come here. In the U.S.A, they were called rebels, but in Canada they were called United Empire Loyalists. In 1789, an Order-in-coun- cil was passed stating that those Loyalists who had adhered to the Unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard before the Treaty of Separation in 1783, and all their descendents are to be distinguished by the following capitals after (Turn to page 6) _without the written permission of the publishers. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 12, 1984 -- 5 the SC Of == ee. PL 80190 PORT PERRY ONTARIO 108 INO a (416) 985.738) 'al Ch (a= | J. PETER HVIDSTEN EE CE Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. MCCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tussday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., ; i0. CATHY ROBB rry Star td.. Port Perry, Ontario News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for 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° © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department' of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 12, 1924 'Mr. Wm. McKay has acquired the right to produce and sell F.P.A. Finish, also No-Rub Metal Polish and a Silver Plate Polish. Sunday School Anniversary service was held at Bethel Church with Rev. H.F. Howard preaching. Cartwright Council received a grant for the School Fair. S. Jeffrey, T. Smith and R. Willan applied to have a walk extended. Aura Lee's Ice Cream Parlor is celebrating their 10th Anniversary. The Union Church in Greenbank has invited the Rev. Wm. Dyer of Mount Albert to be their minister. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 10, 1949 The Maybelle Rebekah Lodge celebrated their first birthday in the Port Perry High School. A farewell banquet was held for Miss L.M. Harris, a teacher at Port Perry High who is retiring at the end of the school year. - The Service Club held its last meeting at the home of Joan Godley. Port/Perry Scouts and Cubs Possession Ceremony meeting was held at their new site on Perry Street for the raising of the Union Jack. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Junell, 1959 A barn on the property of Russell Hood burned to the ground. Miss Jean Samells graduated with honours from the University of Toronto with a degree of Bachelor Arts. Also, a graduate of Toronto General Hospital was Shirley Anne Crozier. At the Port Perry Rod & Gun Club annual meeting, At the Port Perry Rod & Gun Club annual meet, Rick Snooks won top prize for a 13% 1b. carp. At the town council meeting, Ted Griffen suggested that the fairgrounds be kept under more police control because of the considerable damage being done. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 13, 1964 Ivan Cochrane of Nestleton won first prize when his race horse "Tony Worthy" crossed under the wire first at the Brooklin Spring Fair. At the U.C.W. meeting in Blackstock, Mrs. Betty Kennedy was the guest speaker and Mrs. Harold Kyte sang two solos. Congratulations to Miss Ina Kiezebrink who graduated from the nursing class at Oshawa General Hospital. The Girl Guides held a Garden Party at the Scout Hall and raised $50.00 for the Children's Ward at Port Perry Community Hospital. At the last regular meeting of Port Perry Council it was decided to reduce the two hour parking on Queen Street to only one hour. Building permits were approved for the following: Mrs. E. Nicholls, Ash Street, repairs and aluminum siding; Wes Lane, to erect a sign at 286 Queen Street and Ron Rankin of Mary Street for the construction of a new residence. Charles Nelson won a 2nd place trophy at the inter- mediate (over 176 lbs.) category at the Hamilton Open Judo Championship, held at Stoney Creek District High School. Charles is a member of the Port Perry Maple Leaf Judo Club. Mr. C.T. Dyer, of Port Perry, entered nine of his New Zealand white rabbits at the Brooklin Fair on Saturday. This was his first attempt and of the nine entries he received three firsts, three seconds and one third. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 12, 1974 After 20 years of nursing service to this community, Mrs. E. Jean Gray, Director of Nursing is retiring. A din- ner was held in her honour at Emiel's Place when sixty five of her colleagues gathered for the occasion. Mrs. Gray joined the full time staff on October 1, 1953 at the old hospital. NDP candidate for Ontario Riding, Bill Lishman will be the honoured guest at a picnic to be held at Herongate Country Club on Sunday. Council has decided to allow the Port Perry Yacht Club to stay on at their present site on the waterfront for another year on the condition it pays an annual rental of $1,250.00. bill smiley JUNK MAIL Because I write a syndicated column, I've been put on the hit list of some public relations outfits in New York. As a result, I receive a stream of garbage mail containing fascinating material about some product or other that is being pushed by the PR firm. Usually, I spot it right away and toss it in the round filing cabinet without even opening it. Today came one of these missives, and, distracted by something else, I had opened the thing and read a paragraph or two before I realized it was just another piece of puffery. It was headed NEWS FROM: The Hamburg Group. For Release: Immediately. All press releases say the latter. Anyway, I thought it would be a pitch for Mac- Donalds' or a string quartet. It wasn't. It was a series of little articles about Hamburg and Germany, touting that city's great variety of attractions. Such junk has about as much place in this column as an account of the origins of bee-keeping in Basutoland. And I'm supposed to print it free. What dummies these PR people are. However, I'd already read enough to hook me on the first article, entitled: Brewery's Waste Energy To Heat Hospital. It didn't make sense at first. Why should breweries waste energy to heat a hospital, unless they're trying to make amends to all the people who wind up in hospital with cirrhosis of the liver from drink- ing their poison? # I onl gion SI look at the heading, spotted the apostrophe, and now it made sense. A brewery will deliver heat and hot water to a hospital. As part of its brewing process, the brewery used to end up with a lot of excess heat that must be cooled before it is released into the air. Now, instead of being wasted, that heat will be channeled into the hospital where it will be put to good use. Cost of the deal, equipment and stuff, is about 400,000 marks, to be assumed by the city. The debt will be liquidated through the savings on energy that would otherwise have to be purchased. Are you listening, Labatts, Molsons et al? Instead of pouring money into sports and all these phoney ads, about as subtle as a kick in the ribs, indicating that beer- drinking will make your life macho, full of fun and beautiful girls in skimpy swim suits, why don't you channel your heat into hospitals? Think of the free publicity! - Ain't them Germans something, though? If the didn't start a war every so often, and get Booher they'd own half the world, with their resourcefulness and hard work. Last time I saw Hamburg was in 1944, and it was literally hamburg. The RAF had firebombed it by night and the USAAF had pounded it by day until it was a heap of rubble. I was a prisoner of war and saw it from a train window on my way to an interrogation centre in Frankfurt. . Forty-odd years later, it has risen from the ruins like a phoenix and it is a booming city, visited by over a million travellers in 1981. But Hamburg-Schmamburg. I'm not going to urge my readers to go there. It was the article on heating that caught my eye. Aside from the breweries in Canada, this country has another industry that could produce enough heat so that, if it were property channeled, we could thumb our collective noses at the Arabs. I'm talking about politics. Town and city councils produce enough hot air to heat at least one hospital within their limits. Provincial legislative produce enough hot air to replace half the oil used in their provinces. And from that vast deposit of natural gas known as Ottawa issues daily enough hot air to heat Montreal's Olympic Stadium, even though it has no roof. And that's only touching the bases, without going to the outfield or the infield. Think of all the hot air produced by teachers and preachers, union leaders, abortionists and anti- abortionists, public relations people, medical associa- tions, school boards. And there's lots more where that comes from. The squeals of those caught with a mortgage to be renew- ed, the moans of farmers, who are losing their shirts, the bellows of angry small-businessmen: all these are wasting energy by blowing hot air into our rather frigid climate, there to be dispersed into nothing. Add to this all the hot air that is poured into our telephone lines, that is batted back and forth over business luncheons and at parties and over the breakfast table. It's perfectly simple. All we need is a means of bot- tling the stuff somehow, and distributing it to the right places. If our scientists can send a missile to Mars, sure- ly they can find a method of storing and channeling the incredible quantities of hot air that rise in clouds over our country. Peter Lougheed might have to cap some of his oil wells, but if somebody came up with the solution, we could not only tell the Arabs what to do with their oil. We could probably buy Saudi Arabia. Maybe I'll drop a line to the Mayor of Hamburg, see what he suggests.