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rT HE In Blackstock, August 25 ' Best little Fairany is | 1 This is it folks, the best little country fair ever jam-packed into just one day. Saturday morning, that's this Saturday August 25, the famous Blackstock Fair gets off to a rousing start with a parade at 11 a.m., to be followed immediately ~ with a bed race and the Hoskin Stable's Musical Ride. Early comers would have already toured the buildings by this time, however, 'cause they open up to the public at 9:30 a.m. And in addition to the fine concession displays in the arena, there'll also be the ever-popular Old MacDonald's Farm. The Canada Packers Quilt display will be up for all to see in the Rec Centre, right next to the many homemaking exhibits and a pioneer kitchen display. Where's the beef? Well, during the morning, a 4-H Achieve- ment Day will be held for the beef, swine and sheep clubs. And then there's the frog jumping contest, a balloon-a-thon, a tug-of- war, a garden tractor pull and a champion cake auction (can't you just taste it now?). In ' the Town Hall you can catch a puppet show, an amateur show and an old-fashioned spelling bee. Don't forget to check out the light and heavy horse pull classes in the afternoon and you won't want to miss the group of high school students where from Wales, who will be entertaining the crowds with ethnic singing and dancing throughout the day and night. Everything will wind up with a dance for all ages to the lively music of Herb Vine and Dur- ham County. Early birds can catch the demolition derby Friday night at the Blackstock Fair- grounds at 7:30 p.m. For more inform- ation, contact fair secre- tary Joyce Kelly at. 986-4257. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. August 21, 1984 -- 5 ----_~-- Newser sew Dai the PORT PERAY STAR CO LWNNNTED 239 QUEEN STREET (GC CNA PO 80X90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO ' LO8 WO . . (410) 98% 138) [GE | EA J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Pe tar C .P | CATHY ROBB r rey Star Co. Ltd , Port Perry Ontario News & Features oo OVAN Comp or AS Uni p) 3 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash A Second Class Mail Registration Number 026% 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 without the written permission of the publishers remember hen? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 21st, 1924 Rev. Cameron Dyer was inducted as Minister of the United Church of Canada at Greenbank. Mr. W.A. Evans and Mr. Jno. Murray both returned after their trip across the ocean to Scotland. The second community dance was held on the new pavement, on Queen Street. The music was furnished by Ross Roaches' Orchestra. At the Reach Council meeting, Ralph McIntyre was appointed Collector for 1924. 35 YEARS AGO : Thursday, August 18th, 1949 The Port Perry Lion's Club held a "Variety Show" at the Fair-grounds. Mr. Ron Peel, president of the Club, made a short speech, and then introduced Al Harvey, the Master of Ceremonies, who announced at the end that they had collected $3,300.00 Miss Nancy Gibson and Mr. William Brock, pupils of Port Perry High School, received seven first class honours at the Upper School examinations. The Hospital Board, have negotiated the purchase of a building in Ajax, and will have this building moved to a new site in Port Perry, because this area is in need of a new hospital. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 20th, 1959 Mr. Donald Pargeter, of Port Perry, was a winner in the coast to coast "Demonstration Drive Contest". Platten Island Ratepayers Association held a social evening at the cottage of Mr. J.L.. Horne. Mr. G.A. Mahony, is chairman of the Association. Leanne, Heather and Janis Dorrell, entertained at the W.M.S. meeting of the United Church in Blackstock, with their singing. Mrs. Ed. Fines of Port Perry, saw her youngest sister, Mrs. Fred Wackett of England for the first time as Mrs. Wackett was born after Mrs. Fines left England. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 20th, 1964 The Central Ontario County District High School Board of Education's Scholarship was awarded to Edwin McCaig for the highest marks for nine papers. William Diamond won for the highest mark for eight papers. Anna Forder and Richard Stephens were declared Senior Pairs' Champions during the Central Ontario Figure Skating Competition. Catherine Stainton of Blackwater, has been selected to represent her club (the 4H Homemaking Club) and Ontario County at the Canadian National Exhibition. The Junior Farmers Quartette provided special music at the combine congregation service of the members of the St. John's Presbyterian and United Churches. Mrs. Frank Hastings, director, was supervisor of the get-together. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 21st, 1969 - Sonia George, a 16 year old Allentown, Pennsylvania girl has been the guest of Celeste Briggs and Mary Ann Goreski for the past two weeks. Sonia was one of a group of 46 Canadian and American youths who took part in an exchange program organized by District A-3 Lions of Ontario and Districk K-14 of Pennsylvania. Due to a higher enrolment of pupils at R.H. Cornish Public School this fall, and consequently overcrowding of classrooms, a portable classroom is under construction. In June, 701 pupils were registered and it is expected that this number will increase again by the time school opens. Grades five and six will be taught in the portable room and the teacher will be Don Postill, Manchester. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 21, 1974 While building a new entrance to his basement, James Cookson found a rusted broken can with a newspaper and a letter in it contained in the two foot thick foundation wall. The letter was too faint to read but the newspaper was in fine shape. It was the March 22nd, 1894 edition of the Nor- thern Ontario Observer printed at Port Perry every Thurs- day by a Mr. H. Parsons. An 1886 medal was mailed to the "Secretary, Port Perry Agricultural Society', by an Englishman last year has local citizens mystified about its origin. Fred Christie, an active member of the Agricultural Society said they received the bronze medal last May along with a short letter from Mr. H.C. Taylor of Leeds, Britain. Mr. Taylor said the medal had been in his family for 70 years and he wanted to hand it back to the society for preservation. Marilyn MacTavish, daughter of Gerald MacTavish, Port Perry and Helen MacTavish of Port Carling, recently graduated from Scarborough Regional School of Nursing. Marilyn has accepted a position at Scarborough General Hospital Port Perry and area were well represented at the Canadian National Exhibition in the Horse Shoe Pitching Competition. Dean McLaughlin of Oshawa won the Can- adian Championship, Mr. Roy McLaughlin placed fourth in the AAA Class and Walter Pascoe of Port Perry won the 4th place in the A Class. bill smiley YOU CAN FIGHT CITY HALL One of the cynical, apathetic remarks of the 20th century is, "You can't fight City Hall." I think it's American in origin, as are so many of our colourful expressions, but it reflects a conception that has contributed to the skepticism that permeates many aspects of our life. In essence, it betrays a weariness of the individual spirit in a world that is growing ever more corrupt, violent and treacherous. It means basically that the individual hasn't a chance against the burgeoning bureaucracy, the petty patronage, the you-scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch- yours philosophy that has always been with us, and always will, but should be resisted stoutly and sturdily whenever it rears its ugly head. Jesus fought the City Hall of His time, and won, though He lost His Life. Sir Thomas More fought the City Hall of his time, which included his king, the nobility and the clergy, and refused to nudge an inch to save his life, because he was right, and City Hall was wrong. Joan of Arc fought her City Hall, in the form of her own king, traitors to her vision, and an opposing army. She wound up being burned at the stake, and became a saint. Her opponents are mere footnotes in history Oliver Cromwell fought his City Hall, won his fight, and taught British Royalty to mind its pees and queus, if you'll pardon the expression. William Lyon Mackenzie took on the City Hall of his day, and though his only battle with it was a typical Canadian charade, he left it smarting. I could name a hundred others who cocked a snook at City Hall, and lost many a battle, but won many a war. The United States is a classic example. Another is the Republic of France. Mahatma Ghandi practical- p had the British Rmpire begging him to go change his iaper and leave it alone. Well, it's nice to be in the company of such, even if only for a little while, and only in the imagination. The Fourth St. Fusiliers, of which I am a proud, wounded veteran, has fought many a skirmish, several sharp encounters, and a prolonged war of attrition against the local town council, and the will of the peo- ple triumphed to the extent of a dozen trees being un- 'cut, a new sidewalk installed, and a desert of pot-holes turned into a paved street. You've heard of the 30 Years War, the 100 Years War, the War of the Roses, the War of Independence, The Boer War and The Great War, followed by that sickening euphemism, World War II. Not to mention Korea and Viet Nam. Well, a lot has been written about them, and millions died in them, but for sheer intensity of emotions, I think the Fourth St. War outdoes them all. That's the reason for this bit of history. In three or four hundred years, the Fourth St. War maybe almost forgotten, were it nor for some humble scribe to get it down on paper. It has lasted between seven and nine years, and the veterans will even argue hotly about the duration. I do remember that the hundreds of children who were going to be slaughtered by traffic if the town coun- cil achieved its insidious ends are now replaced by grandchildren in many cases. I do remember that the first rush to the barricades was about as organized as the French revolutionaries' attack on the Bastille. I do remember that one lady threatened to chain herself high in the branches of a maple tree if the town engineer carried out his plan of massacreing maples. There were other threats of a similar but unlikely nature, such as everyone lying down in front of the bulldozer, blowing up the town hall, while council was in session, or Kiiuaphing the town engineer and giving him a cement-barrel burial in the hay. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. After half the street was ruined, the works department ran out of money. Over the years, they tip-toed around the potential explosion, filling in the odd pot-hole and letting the street turn into the semblance of a long-forgotten country lane. But this spring, falsely feeling that the ancient hatreds had cooled, with new people moving in, and old people dying off, they foolishly raised the desescrative idea again. Cut down thé trees. Tear up the sidewalks, make it a one-block thruway to nowhere. Like an old, dormant volcano, the people rose in their might and descended on the works committee, like a disturbed hornet's nest. The air was filled with vituperation, calumny and blasphemy. Council cooled off like a bull confronted by an angry elephant. Another meeting was called. Again The People rose in their wrath. They formed a committee. It consisted of a brilliant mathematician, a contractor, a doctor, a lawyer, and an indomitable nurse. Not just a few angry people to be baffled by engineering jargon. I don't want to go into the brilliant counter-attack, the superb tactics, the incredible strategy of The Peo- ple. It's too exciting. You wouldn't sleep tonight. But we won. The trees stay, the sidewalks will be rebuilt, the thruway will continue to be a residential street, thousands of children will not be cut down by thundering trucks, and the road will be paved. You can fight City Hall. - rape EE EEE EE EE ERE 2 5 EEE