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wan a ae SINTON ASR Tans as N Sf I a RPE Ea a -- the POE" VLulY STRE (OM Te 23S Qutt~ TRE 4 8d vC ET Ope ~T RE 8 nC ac 48% C18 J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND CATHY ROBB News & Features haas PRIZE WINNS © 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 Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd Port Perry Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Departme t 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° etters PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 30, 1985 -- 5 An open letter to council Dear Councillors: The Port Perry Lawn Bowling Club is arrang- ing to move. Much as | am sorry to see the bowlers leave their pre- sent site on Queen St. | certainly understand and support their wish to bet- ter the game on a regula- tion green in a dryer location. My regret iii the Bowl- ing Clubs vacating The when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 30, 1925 Arrangement has been completed by the Board of Education to buy the Baptist Church and grounds. The board have been renting this building and an offer to purchase for $1,000 has been ac- cepted. The building will be used for the domestic sciences class and physical culture. Mr. Fred Schell caught two muskalonge, one weighing 12 lbs. and the other 15. In this issue it was stated that one person out of 14 of Canada's population, now owns a motor-car. Over 6,000 persons attending the General Motors picnic held at Lakeview Park this weekend. Misses Winnie Niddery of Prospect, and Alpha Crosier and Aletha Barrett of Manchester, left to spend a week in Bobcaygeon as delegates atten- ding the Bay of Quinte summer school. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 27, 1950 Some 85 persons attended the Carter-Hood family picnic. The oldest person there was Mrs. Cory Hood of Oshawa and the youngest was Rick Ballard, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ballard. - The main plans for the new hospital have been approved. Mr. Herb Brooks was the chairman, Mr. Gordon Reesor, secretary. Neighbours and friends of Mr. and Mrs. An- drew Marshall, nee Verna Niddery of Prospect, held a party in their honour on the occasion of their recent marriage and before leaving to make their home in Brampton. 7 Mr. Merlin Bailey, Blackstock, has been transferred from the bank in Sunderland to the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Brantford. At the annual picnic ot the Durham tr edera- tion of Agriculture, the federation presented Mr. E.A. Summers a Rolex wrist watch and his wife, a bouquet of flowers, in appreciation of his 20 years of service to the Durham farmers. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 28, 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forster celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with their family in the dining room of the Flamingo Restaurant. Maybelle Rebekah Lodge held a very suc- cessful Fun Night on the lovely lawns at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Snelgrove, Prince Albert. The Shirley Women's Institute celebrated (Turn to page 6) Bowling Green on Queen St., is the choices that are possible for the future use of the property. You know of the at- tractiveness of The Bowling Green. It con- tributes heavily to the at- tractiveness of this town. It is an integral part of that certain something that invites people to visit 'that pretty town of Port Perry,' that causes people to move to' that pretty town of Port Perry,' to start Pass the buck! Dear Sir: Regarding your article "Video Owner Asks for Investigation:" the prime requisite for a salesman is to know what he is selling! A vacuum cleaner salesman not only has to know what he is selling but how it works! This-surely applies to all salesmen. So for Mr. Hoffman to "lay the blame for his conviction at the feet of his distributors' is just passing the buck. Other salesmen go to the manufacturer when things go wrong. Why not him" Sincerely, Mrs Betty Kendell, (formerly of Port Perry) businesses in 'that pret- ty town of Port Perry' and to shop in 'that pret- ty town of Port Perry' What is attractive is coming 'down the hill with big trees, big houses, big churches, Town Hall 1873 and sud- denly a change in a lower that low level, all green, small creek trickling by, white cottage clubhouse, all nestled in shrubbery and the mature dignity of the Anglican Church and Old Library. Still to come are the high substantial buildings of the business section and the Post Of- fice with the town square in front before it runs in- to the park and the lake. Town planners would give their eye teeth to have green park land and buildings in such an Durham Region offices. Surely the Bowling Green could be left green and at the same level. The property now doesn't earn revenue and the Township of Scugog has managed over these years without income from it. At the time of the expansion of the Library, the site was deemed un- fit for building. Parking seems to be developing on the south side of businesses, toward Mary St., avoiding heavy-laden shoppers crossing Queen St. unsafely close to the traffic light at Lilla St. As for upkeep, the grass as a park would not be kept up to the stan- dard for bowls. If left to become ordinary, regular park-type mow- ing would be sufficient. Around the edges" Some (Turn to page 6) arrangement. Ask the ones we employ at the STARDAZE 7 / ABOUT TIME SOMEONE STARTED A CONTEGT TO fROMOTE WORLD PEACE. | tl bill smiley &- GARAGE SALES Garage sales are quite the fad these days Many people make them part of their lives They troop around town watching for hand-made signs and check the ads in the classified section. Drive around any small town and you'll see a cluster of cars, in front of a house. "Must be a wedding or a funeral," you muse Then you see a pile of junk with a horde of human magpies darting around it. snatching up bits, beating each other to another heap of rubble, like seagulls diving and screeching for a slice of french- fried spud It's no wedding There are no vows exchanged. ex: cept that you takes what you gets. 'for better or for worse" It's no funeral, except for those who pay six bucks for something that cost three 10 years ago It's a garage sale This phenomenon resembles a mini-auction-sale minus the auctioneer The garage sale allows tiie pro- prietor (often abetted by some of his neighbours to get rid of all the useless items overflowing the garage, the tool-shed, the basement and the attic It sometimes brings in two or three hundred dollars to the vendors. and the garage-sale groupies go home all excited because they have bought a three-legged chair. a horse-drawn sleigh, an umbrella with only one spoke missing. or six paperback novels for a dollar One of my contemporaries, an habituee of these bizarre events. was more than a bit thunderstruck when he found at one sale that he could buy text books from our school. duly stamped as such. dirt cheap He remonstrated with the owners. pointing out that the books belonged to the school and had been stolen by their children. but they'd have none of it They wanted cash. So much for human nature These were taxpayers who had helped buy the books their kids had stolen, and now wanted to sell them back to the system so that other kids could steal the books they were still paying taxes for. May I disagree for a moment" Kids do steal books Regularly They don't consider ic "'steahng "It's just taking something from a big institution. That's not steal ing. according to about 50 per cent of them It's just like dad not declaring something on his income tax or mom ordering a dress from Eaton's, wearing it to a party. then taking it back to the mail order office and return- ing it. claiming it was 'too small" or had smudge marks in the armpits (after she'd discoed in for four hours) They wou! In't steal from a friend They might steal from their parents But they have no compunction about "ripping off" a department store or the government This is fact, not fancy, as I've learned in discussions about morals Back to the garage sales There is no suggestion of stealing here Both parties, buyer and seller, are perfectly aware of what's going on The seller is trying to get rid of something he doesn't need The buyer is buying something he doesn't need It's a classic exam: ple of our materialistic age We want to get rid of some of the garbage we've bought. and the buyers wants to buy some more garbage The epitome of a garage-sale-groupie would be a person who goes to four garage sales, buys a lot of junk. then has a garage sale to dispose of it. preferably with a small mark-up But they're fun A friend of mine, who'll make a bid on anything, even though he doesn't know what it's for, has bought two old-fashioned horse-drawn sleighs He has worked on them until they are serviceable All he needs now is a couple of beasts to haul the things. He'll probably wind up with a camel and a Shetland pony and will make a fortune hauling people around when we run out of gas) Well. I should have a garage sale rst, I'd sell the garage. a venerable institution. None of this electronic eye, or press a button and the door opens. It has a vast door. weighing about 800 pounds. You hoist the door and it shdes on pulleys and cables, and at the right moment, on a good day. it stops rising just at the height to tear off your radio aerial The balances filled with sand, aren't quite enough from crashing down on your hood, but I've fixed that To one, I've added an axe-head, to the other. a quart of paint Perfect balance A real buy Behind the garage is a sort of tool shed [say "sort of because when I've sailed into the garage on a slip- pery mid-winter day, I've sometimes gone an extra foot and crashed into the tool shed, which now leans about 35 degrees to the north I'll throw in the tool shed with the garage, but not its contents Migawd, the stuff in there would bug the eyes of either an antique dealer or a garage-groupie We have garden tools in there that haven't been us- ed since Sir John A MacDonald's wife told him to get his nose out of that glass and go out and stir up the garden We have at least four perfectly good tires for a 1947 Dodge We have enough holy tarpaulin (or is it holey? I've never known) to build a theatre under the stars. There's a perfectly good set of golf clubs, a wee bit rus- ty There's a three-legged garden tool that must have come over with Samuel de Champlain. There's a three- whéeled lawnmower (mechanic's special) Six hundred (Turn to page 6)