I a A Lo i the EL LEE TY ial Ai ARE WIL BN IX E LI - . teow" ERT 4 . PY ve J PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper AsSOCiation Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Assoc. at or Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB News & Features Department Ottawa and for ¢ of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Port Perry Star Co Lta Port Perry Ontario Authorized as second class mai by the Post Ottice ash payment 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 ot the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the pubhshers letters Pranks a disrespect for dead Dear Sir Better late than never In regards to Pine Grove Cemetery, my stepfather died in 1981 On sever: | occasions my family and I have gone and put flowers on his grave site. gone back a few days later and they had just disappeared. The first time we thought maybe it was just a child's prank. even soit upset us very much Once there were even empty beer bottles ving around. not only at my steptather's grave. but on others too The last straw was a cou ple of davs atter Decora tion Sunday. my mother went back toremove the PORT PERRY STAR -- July 23, 1985 -- 5 pranks will have a few gutlt teehngs and at wall flowers, and everything had disappeared. flowers. vase. ete Ma stop As tas disrespect point as. when SOMEeone tul to the dead. and also has decorated or planted very tough on the lowers. people should tamihes leave them alone Hopetully the persons responsible tor these Sincerely. Debbie Karn. Blackstock Violence no age limit Dear Sir Are vour loved ones sate today" Currently our Canadian court system is backlogged. a plementation ot the still a erime Close the Young Ottenders Act loop holes and bring sate: Underthe Y OA even ty and justice back into the most violent our society A petition criminals could spend has been started by con: problem that has been compounded by the 1m remember LLP, = less than three years in a detention centre only to be unleashed upon socie ty once again Sumilar to most legislation, there are many grey areas left cerned citizens to have thas legislation changed. If vou care and are will- ing to help. contact: Barbara Campbell, Shela Sansome, "to the Directorate of the Canadian National Ex- when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 23, 1925 Mr. F.A. Kent, Port Perry, has been appointed hibition to fill the vacancy on the elective board brought about by the elevation of past president Robert Miller to a Life Directorship. Mr. Kent represents the Hertieultutal Section. On Thursday last week, Dave Dowson collid ed with an automobile while riding on a wheel along Queen Street at the Library corner. His wheel was badly broken and the auto wheels pass- ed over his legs. Mr. I.R. Bentley has purchased the McKee Jewellry and Stationery stock and has moved in- to the McKee store. On Thursday last, Greenbank made one more step toward keeping itself on the map as a place where real accidents happen. Mr. C. Whitter and Mr. R. Till had what proved to be a very serious misfortune. When turning back on the road after meeting a buggy, the car made a leap for the ditch and only stopped after it had smashed a telephone pole. Both men were quite seriously injured. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 20, 1955 The other day on Milner's farm, Scugog Island, Ralph Milner picked up a stool of rye wheat with 97 stalks grown from a single kernel of seed. The stool was four feet tall. Monday evening a boat burned at the water line along side of the Port Perry wharf. Mr. Frank Honey was checking spark plugs on the motor in replaced an ignition wire to a plug, a spark ignited gas furnes and caused an explosion, blowing K. Bateman and Frank Lyle intu the water. Frank, Honey had three finger badly burned and Frank Lyle received slight burns. New telephone rates will be in effect in Port Perry on July 22 according to A.A. Gillespie, Bell telephone manager. Individual residential line will go up from $2.40 to $3.00 and business line from $3.10 to $4.50. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday. July 21, 1960. According to a report from Ontario County Assessor Gordon Hepditch, the population of the County had increased by 3,000 during the year 1958-1959 or from 64,882 to 67,959. The population of Port Perry in 1959 was 2,210, Uxbridge 2,311. Final word Dear Sir: Please have the writer of the article Sex Ver- sus Sex' check her facts. I am an active full-time farmer hving in Scugog Township. -1 bank and shop in Port Perry and even subscribe to the Port Perry Star Surely the purpose of "letters to the Kditor "as for readers to express their opinions without be- ing labelled "so-called" whatever. Judy Jensen, R RS. Sunderland, Scugog Township Editor's Note: Your points are well taken. We think itis time to put this issue to rest, for the time being, al least. to the judge to mterprel Box 47. Acts of violence have Lombardy, Ontano, no age hmits' Acrmme ts KOG 11.0 STARDAZE TNT iB YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN (T'S SUMMER ' IN PORT PERRY... THE Towers / / 1S SWARM ING wilh I Ia BAGE BALL PLAYERS 2 ro SP Oo, Pa NN tin CL a a. ~--F + =f (0) 2 (J 8 \ CARL, 8509] bill smiley MESMERANDA SUMMER Summertime in this country is a mixture of so man. wonderful things that I would happily leave for the next world. at once, if someone said to me, "Sorry. old boy. but you'll never be able to spend another summer in Canada = Perhaps the fascimation of a Canadian summe- might be compared to falling in love. once a year. with a passionate. unpredictable woman ) Just as vou are never quite sure where voure al with such a dame. vou are never sure of what a Cana dian Summer has in store for vou She maght greet vou with the warn? seductive scents of June and. just as vou are about to seize her retreat into a frame of mind so chilly that youre dn ing for vour recently discarded woolhes In July. she turns on the charm full blast. clutching vou in a sizzling embrace that makes vour head reel and vour feet falter But when vou throw caution to the winds and submit yourself entirely to the affair in short when vou go on vour hohdayvs she has a change of mood and weeps for two weeks without pause When August comes. her murmurous langor. the sheer. delectable sight and smell of her. sends vou run ning once more into her round. golden arms and he perfume gives vou havfever On Labour Dav. leaving vou frustrated. ex asperated. exhausted and broke. she smiles once engmatically. and heads south to look for fresher lovers 5 and bigger bankrolls Ah. she's a bad one, old Mesmeranda Summer She dehghts in making kids whiny or sick. giving them sun burn. and directing them into patches of poison ivy This for the sake of tormenting their mothers. She doesn't hike women. you see That 1s. young women And her malice towards them is easily grasped by looking at the costumes she persuades them to wear at the beaches and in town 1 wouldn't be surprised to hear her chorthng merrily about the topless swims! silhness. which she doubtless started Teenagers she hikes to tease She fills them wath mysterious urges and yearnings which make them drive hke retarded orangoutangs. dance in their bare feet amid broken bottles and rattlesnakes. and tall in love with people who should be put away in institutions She's not pure evil, though She has a rather soft spot for the older folk She warms their arthritic joints with her hot tender hands She fills their lonely hearts with pleasures in her loveliness And she reminds them. in subtle fashion. of the days when they knew her long ago. when they were young and passionate themselves Everytime I feel the cool. smooth hands of children after swimming. evervtime I walk a lonely beach and see lights across the bay. everytime | hear the silken rusthng of her garments in the evening trees. I know [ am once again in thrall to that wonderful witch the Canadian summer And I'm glad chatterbox by Cathy Robb (From page 4) "Tollowed this Camaro trom the house and itwent all over the place Then Hostit and started following ANOTHER Camaro. and And Iwas in stitches He'd tollowed MES and I didn't even know it But losing the best man is not the least of my talents At cach wedding I've done. somethig werd has happened Talk about gomg above and bevond the call of duty At one wedding 1 was asked to pick up przza for the bride and her attendants who were too dressed up to dot themselves At the same wedding. the bridal party had borrowed an old classic Cadillac and enroute from pictures to the reception. the Caddy died and evervone was forced tocramantomy dirty Lada, beautiful dresses. tuxes and all Or there's the time the ring bearer impatient Iv waiting for his tur to have his picture taken. lost both the wedding rings in the bride's garden Luckily the ring were found in time for the wedding. or there would have been a dead kid and a bride-to-be up o.. murder charges One thing's for sure. I've learned a lot since I ve been doing weddings And af I ever get the urge to tie the knot it's going to be the knot in the noose around my own neck I.ither that, or City Hall. here I come -- --