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Spor raw COT ee the POR! PLREY STRE CO (MUTED 23S Quit STREET PO 80290 OR! 2tREY ONTARIO LO8 INO 410) 98% 738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association J.B. MCCLELLAND Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB News & Features Port Perry Star Co Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for cash payment = Com Ty, ADVAN Mu dO oC ' 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 without the written permission of the publishers. A proposal to con: struct a 375 seat banquet hall at the Scugog Arena received approval in principle from Scugog Township council Mon- - day afternoon. Members of council expressed their favourable sentiments to the project when the plans were unveiled by Ron Deeth and Greg Heffereing, two mem- bers of a steering com- mittee that has been 60 YEARS AGO September 10, 1925 The committee in charge of the Fair Night concert feel fortunate in having been able to secure Harry Bennett and his company to put on the entertainment. He is a Prince of Entertainers. All seats 35 cents. Port Perry people will be pleased to hear that Mr. Wm. Cutts was awarded first prize on his marine picture shown in the art exhibits of the Central Fair, Oshawa. A pleasing feature of the award was the fact it was made by popular vote, each person viewing the picture given a ballot. 50 years ago, Cawker Bros. purchased the but- cher business from Mr. L.G. Hall of Port Perry. And here is a suggestion of 50 years ago: cats should be kept in at night, for the protection of birds and prevention of annoyance to neighbours. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 14 The bowlers of Lindsay, Peterborough, Can- nington and Port Perry attended an honour night for W.M. Letcher of Port Perry. Mr. Letcher, chairman of the league for two years, and in ap- preciation of a fine job done, Mr. Letcher was given this recognition. The task of marking off the parking areas on Queen Street has been completed and the council wishes to remind citizens of the two hour parking PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985 -- § studying the expansion project at the arena for the past several months. However, they both stressed that even with the tentative endor- sement from council, ° the project is still very much in its infancy with many details yet to be worked out, including how to pay for it. The plans as presen- ted Monday call for con- struction of the facility on ground level to the east side of the present arena building with an entrance through the committee room. Mr. Deeth said the design would utilize one of the existing walls of the arena and constr- uction would be kept "fairly simple' to keep costs down. Mr. Deeth, who was actively involved in building the arena facility in 1976, estimated the cost of the banquet hall would be in the $225,000 range. He Board and he said when and if the Fair is moved from the present gounds to a new area north of the arena, the Fair would be able to make use of such a banquet hall. Mr. Heffering told council that financing for the project could come from three sour- ces: provincial and Win- tario grants; service clubs and groups who would use the facility; and the municipal treasury. Regional councillor Lawrence Malcolm suggested that if the project gets off the ground, the fund raising drive should be held over a two year period, with actual construction starting in the second year. While the project received a favourable Proposal for banquet hall gets endorsement endorsement from council Monday, final approval will be up to the new council which takes office after the November 12 municipal elections. The arena expansion steering committee has considered three dif- ferent proposals for the arena. The first was a banquet hall above the existing lobby area of the building. The second was a smaller 1600 square foot lounge and viewing area above the dressing room, and the third is the ground floor 6600 square foot hall presented to council on Monday. Mr. Heffering said committee members are pretty much in agreement that the third proposal is the best on to meet the needs of the community. STARDAZE limit which was recently imposed by By-law. noted that services such | ~T Plate umpire Bill Harrison, Port Perry, as water, sewer and / / Ly IT SEEMS TO received injuries while officiating at Manilla dur- hydro are already in 0 ST Rc oT ing the play off game between Little Britain and place. J THE LEVEL, THEREFORE, LES Manilla. He was struck in the neck by a foul tip He is also a member Ls © (( viS1BLE WEEDS WI! and received injuries which placed him in Oshawa of the Port Perry Fair J Hospital for treatment. 7 25 YEARS AGO HOSPITAL REPORT 7 Co! Thursday, September 8, 1960 For Week of Aug. 23-29 2 0 / The registration at the Port Perry Public School is up again to an all time high of 460, an in- Admissions .............. 26 / crease of 25 over last year. Births ........................ 2 / Between 6,000 and 7,000 people attended the Deaths ..................... 1 0 0 I Port Perry Fair making it an all time high. The Emergencies .......... 221 py Black and White Show could also boast of record Operations .............. 13 p) participation. Discharged .............. 24 / ; Mr. George Munro, R.R 4, Port Perry, suf- Remaining ............ 32 ¢ / fered a broken hip and face cuts when his car over- ? ' turned at Jim Wilson's corner, on the Island Road. 2 The accident occurred early Sunday monring and od » a § Fug 8 iw has been attributed to tire failure on the rear of er ¢ y oo the car. <4 Mee >, 3 As A urn to page 6 wo a P-- SUP PR---- &£ bill smiley WE'VE CHANGED There has been a tremendous change in the man- ners and mores of Canada in the past three decades. This brilliant thought came to me as I saw a sign today in a typical Canadian small town: "Steakhouse and Tavern." Now this didn't exactly knock me out, alarm me, or discombobulate me in any way. I am part of all that is in this country, at this time. But it did give me a tiny twinge. Hence my opening remarks. I am no Carrie Nation, who stormed into saloons with her lady friends, armed with hatchets, and smash- ed open (what a waste) the barrels of beer and kegs of whiskey. I am no Joan of Arc. I don't revile blasphemers or hear voices. I am no Pope John Paul II, who tells peo- ple what to do about their sex lives. I am merely an observer of the human scene, in a country that used to be one thing, and has become another. But that doesn't mean I don't have opinions. I have nothing but scorn for the modern "objective" journalists who tell it as it is. They are hyenas and jackals, who fatten on the leavings of the "'lions'" of our society, for the most part. Let's get back on topic, as I tell my students. The Canadian society has roughened and coarsened to an astonishing degree in the last 30 years First, the Steakhouse and Tavern. As a kid work- ing on the boats on the Upper Lakes, I was excited and a little scared when I saw that sign in American ports Duluth, Detroit, Chicago. oo I came from the genteel poverty of Ontario in the Thirties, and 1 was slightly appalled, and deeply at- tracted by these signs: the very thought that drink could be publicly advertised. Like any normal, curious kid, I went into a couple, ordered a two-bit whiskey and found nobody eating steaks, but a great many people getting sleazily drunk on the same. Not the steaks. In those days, in Canada, there was no such creature. The very use of the word 'tavern' indicated iniquity It was an evil place. We did have beer "parlours" later exchanged for the euphemism "beverage rooms." But that was alright. Only the lower element went there, and they closed from 6 p.m. to 7:30 or some such, so that a family man could get home to his dinner. Not a bad idea. In their homes, of course, the middle and upper class drank liquor. Beer was the working-man"s drink, and to be shunned. It was around then that some wit reversed the old saying and came out with: "Work is the curse of the drinking class,' a neat version of Marx's (?) "Drink is the curse of the working classes." If you called on someone in those misty days, you were offered a cuppa, and something to eat. Today, the host would be humiliated if he didn't have something harder to offer you. Now, every hamlet seems to have its steakhouse, complete with tavern It's rather ridiculous. Nobody to- day can afford a steak. But how in the living world can these same people afford drinks, at current prices" These steakhouses and taverns are usually pretty sleazy joints, on a par with the old beverage room, which was the opitome of sleaze It's not all the fault of the owners, though they make nothing on the steak and 100 per cent on the drinks (minimum). It's just that Canadians tend to be noisy and crude and profane drinkers. And the crudity isn't only in the pubs. It has crept into Parliament, that august institution, with a prime minister who used street language when his impeccable English failed, or he wanted to show how tough he was. It has crept into our educational system, where teachers drink and swear and tell dirty jokes and use language in front of women that I, a product of a more well-mannered or inhibited, your choice, era, could not bring myself to use. And the language of today's students, from Grade one to Grade whatever, would curl the hair of a sailor, and make your maiden aunt grab for the smelling salts. Words from the lowest slums and slummiest barnyards create rarely a blush on the cheek of your teenage daughter. A graduate of the depression, when people had some reason to use bad language, in sheer frustration and anger, and of a war in which the most common four- letter word was used as frequently, and absent- mindedly, as salt and pepper, have not inured me to what our kids teday consider normal. Girls wear T-shirts that are not even funny, mere- ly obscene. As do boys. Saw one the other day on an otherwise nice lad Message: 'Thanks, all you virgins for nothing." The Queen is a frump, God is a joke. The country's problems are somebody else's problem, as long as I get mine. I don't deplore. I don't abhor. I don't implore. | merely observe Sadly We are turning into a nation of slobs