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: the i PORT PERRY STAR I ; anim (@ CNA H PO 804 90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 nO p (410) 98% 738) [ED | -- = Cn : [= | 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 CATHY ROBB Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry. Ontario News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Otfice . . Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment ' Nash PRIZE WINN Fd of postage incash. | PRnAO AN COMMUp ; Hl ha 4 . 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 without the written permission of the publishers. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 23, 1985 -- 5 letters Beer in the stores Dear Sir: . In proposing the sale of wine and beer in Ontario grocery stores, Liberal Leader David Peterson is ignoring vital research conducted by the Addic- tion Research Fbunda- tion of Ontario. A 1981 Addiction Research Foundation Study found that such ex- A Ne ee dO AM 0 by pansion of current 60 YEARS AGO Thursday,- April 23, 1925 Reeve Figary dies in his fifty-sixth year. The Star quoted that Port Perry had lost one of the best municipal officers that had ever given themselves unstintedly in the interest of the community. Mr. N. Sweetman was appointed acting Reeve of Port Perry during the vacany of the Reeveship. Misses Annie VanCamp, Elva Wright and Margaret Swain will attend thé Girl's Conference in Guelph. They will represent the Victorian Women's Institute. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 20, 1950 . The degree team of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge travelled to Toronto to confer the degree on can- didates in Parkdale Lodge. On the following week, they were in Brooklin conferring the degree on members there. ' Howard Forder, one of Mr. Summer's Durham Club Boys of Blackstock, who won a trip to Chicago, gave a talk on his trip at a Junior Farmers meeting in Campbellcroft. Among those attending the Bach Festival in Toronto this week were Mrs. Florence McClintock, Mrs. J.E. Jackson, Mr. Alan Reesor and Mr. Robert Rowland. This year the ice went out of Lake Scugog on April 18. 25 YEARS AGO " Thursday, April 21, 1960 Mr. William Brock won the Canada Council Fellowship award. The category under which Mr. Brock won the $2,000 prize is for Secondary School Teachers and Librarians. The Port Perry causeway is under water, it has reached 30 inches at different spots and has been been this way for almost a week. Mrs. F. McClintock and Mrs. J.E. Jackson were in Niagara Falls attending the Ontario Registered Music Teacher's Association convention. At the Cartwright council meeting a motion was passed that a grant of $100.00 be voted to the Cartwright Ball Club. ~ (Turn to page 6) outlets would result in in- creased alcohol con- sumption, adding bet- ween 2,650 and 14,260 - 'more heavy drinkers to - Ontario's population. Alcohol, already our Number One public health problem accounts for one in every 10 deaths - and half of all trafffic fatalities. Can society tolerate an increase in alcohol abi because of a poorly'eon- ceived political notion? Sincerely; Karl N. Burden, Executive Director, _~ Alcohol and ~ Drug Concerns, Scarborough, Ont. Don't forget that music Dear Sir: It was with special in- terest to read of the many awards presented to members of the Borelians and credits to the outstanding in- Group goes for On Saturday, April 20, Jazzmerize performed at the Ontario Vocal Jazz Festival which was held - this year at O'Neill Col- legiate in Oshawa. There were twelve choirs par- ticipating and Jazz- merize as well as two choirs from O'Neill were awarded gold medals for their fine performances. These choirs and several other groups have been invited to represent On- tario at the Canadian Stage Band Festival which will be held this year in Quebec City from May 15th to May 20th. The O'Neill choirs are directed by Russ Baird and Jazzmerize is directed by Charles White. Jazzmerize is Port Perry High School's vocal jazz ensemble. dividuals. ilations! However, a very im- portant acknowledge- ment seems to have been overlooked. My con- gratulations go, also, to the members of the or- chestra who presented a very fine performance for the production of "Birdseye Center," especially to George Beare who composed the Congrat- music and to Eva Hunter who did the arranging. Many hours were spent practising prepar- ing for the seven presen- tations. Without the or- chestra there would not 'have been such an ex- cellent Musical. Yours truly, Reta M. Glasgow, Port Perry. STARDAZE bill smiley & A GRUESOME WINTER In many ways, it has been a rather gruesome winter. To begin with the little things, around our neck of the woods, we had about fourteen feet of snow in about ten weeks, beginning on New Year's Eve. That creates a survival course, all by itself. But that's nothing to an old, retired guy like me. In fact, it gave me something to do: just getting myself in and out of the house, and my car in and out of the garage. On really bad days, there was a tendency to just lie in bed with a good book, take an occasional glance through the window at the white whirlwind outside, and hope your neighbours with the snowblower would have you dug out in a couple of days. My only problem was a short but fierce battle bet- ween my car and my garage, won by a knockout in the first round by the garage. And the ice backing up on the roof, creating a spooky stain on my bedroom ceiling and some sagging plaster here and there. And two nearly broken elbows when I took the garbage out one night, got one leg up to the hip in a drift, couldn't move, and fell on some stones because I wouldn't let go of the gar- bage. The only moral to this is, "What does it profit a man if he cling to the garbage can and break both elbows?" But any red-blooded veteran of a Canadian winter can hack this sort of stuff. Do we not live in the "temperate zone," according to the old geography lessons? No, it wasn't this type of minor misery that made the winter of 1985 a sour one. 1 There was the continuing war between Iraq and Iran, with two Moslem neighbours fighting a four-year conflict with no sign of peace, and a quarter of a million casualties, about something we in the West don't begin to understand. Sick. There was the dreadful Bhopal disaster in India, with thousands killed or poisoned due to a failure in "technology," our latest god. Sick. There was the concurrent horror of Beirut, in Lebanon, where everybody, regardless of religion, com- mon sense, or economias, wants to kill someone else. Sick. There was the on-going fighting in Central America, with thousands of innocent bystanders killed, or burn- ed out. Sick. There were the endless pictures of children in Africa, with bloated bellies and flies crawling over their faces, dying in a world where we Canadians debate whether we'll have chicken or steak or "Oh, no, Mom, not hamburg again." Sick. Of course, that was a media mecca. The starvation had been going on for years. Suddenly it was NEWS. And almost as suddenly (I'll swear I saw the same baby with the same flies and same swollen belly twenty times) it almost ceased, though millions of conscience- stricken North Americans contributed millions of dollars for relief, it was like spitting in the ocean. Sick. Back home, despite our comparative luxury, we had trouble with (what else?) the Canadian dollar. Every day we were told breathlessly that the dollar had media coverage of a couple of little twerps who have - yard start, and devil take the hindmost. Sick winter. "plunged" to a new low, or "'surged" to a new high, com- pared with yesterdy. The dollar never dropped slight- ly, or rose a quarter of a cent. Sick. Before the last election, the cry from all parties was "Jobs" as first priority. Seen any drop in the unemploy- ment figures? Nope. Only warnings of cuts in this or that program or of increases in expenditures for this or that, a euphemism for higher taxes. Sick. We have a new government, with a tremendous ma- jority, and a mandate to make some major, courageous: changes. What has it done in six months? Cosied up to Ronald Reagan, put out some tribal balloons about slashing social securities, and spent millions on patronage, bigger everything in Ottawa, and a general feeling that the new Tories are the same old gang we've had for fifty years, with a different label. Sick. + And speaking of sick, I've almost thrown up by the captured much of this winter's news in this country. One is Dr. Henry Morgenthaler, strutting like a ban- ty rooster toward his next battle with the courts, with ordinary sensible Canadians booing or cheering, much to his gratification, as he strives to set up more abor- tion clinics. The other is Ernst Zundel, the blatant Nazi, who says Hitler was a gentle man and the holocaust was a hoax. He was convicted of sométhing or other, appeal- ed the conviction and looked like the proverbial cat who swallowed the canary as he left court, surrounded by his hard-hat goons. Best publicity he could have hoped for, for his warped views. Sick. If I could be a dictator for a day, I'd deport Morgen- thaler to Ethiopia to set his clinics. Too many babies there. And I'd deport Zundel to Israel, give him a fifty-