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Editorial Comments Let's Get On With It We trust that the controversy swirling about over moving the Port Perry Fair to a new location near the Scugog Arena will soon die down, and all parties concerned - the Fair Board, the Township council and the opponents -- can get on with making the move as smoothly as ~ possible. We have talked to numerous people who attended the stormy Fair Board directors meeting March 12, who are upset about the fact that the Fair will soon be moving to a new location. » While we can understand some of the concerns that have been rais- ed, we are frankly very surprised that one crucial point seems to have been overlooked by those opposed to the move. Namely, that Scugog Township and Port Perry are in desperate need of a new elementary school, and the Durham Board of Education has decided that seven acres of land at the present Fairgrounds would make the best location for this new school. The School Board and the Township council, with the blessing of the Fair Board, have negotiated the sale of the seven acres at a price of $115,000. The School Board has given its assurance that construc- ic- tion of a new school will start late this fall and the building will be open for students in September 1987. What this means is that the 1986 Port Perry Fair will be the last at the present location. From people we have talked to over the past few days, there seems to be several reasons for the opposition to the move. The horsemen are upset because there may not be a race-track at the new location. But that is not cast in stone. It may prove to be possible to build a track at the new location in the not-too-distant future. But there's no question that the horsemen who now stable their animals at the Fairgrounds and use the track for exercise are going to have to find other arrangements. Surely, it is unreasonable to hold up the move for this reason. / Others have said they don't like the move because it will break a tradition of where the Fair has been held for 100 or so years. True, but to oppose change for the sake of opposing change is folly. Besides, the real tradition of the Fair is not where it's held, but what goes into it, and what people get out of it: the enjoyment of a Fall Fair. As for those who say the decisions have been made 'in the dark," moving the Fairgrounds has been discussed for years. it's not a new thing, and last June the Fair directors at a meeting voted unanimously . to seek a new lease with the Township for land north of the Scugog Arena as the site of a new Fairgrounds. Events did move quickly in the past few weeks, because the Board of Education made a concrete offer for the land for the new school. But sooner or later, the Fairgrounds would have moved anyway. We do not believe for a minute that the Township council is going to 'hang the Fair Board out to dry' and not contribute financially to creating the new Fairgrounds site. That would be utter folly on the part of the council. Members of council recognize that the Fair has been and always will be an integral part of life in this community. The council has pledged to co-operate fully with the Fair Board to create the new site. One former president of the Fair Board said he would prefer to see the Fair left where it is, but if it has to move, so be it. We're sure there are others who feel the same way. Now that the issue of a new School has forced the move, so to speak, most of the directors agree the major concern now is to get on with it and make the move successful. As for the $115,000 the Board of Education paid to the Township for the seven acres, sure Township might have hung in there and demanded a few thousand dollars more. 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R642 ) oO 0 , 0 0 v \ i» [+] [+] [7] 0 / by Cathy Robb * oo] Chatterbox GOIN' TO THE CHAPEL I wasn't going to write about this, really, but The other day I cornered him in the garage it's cheaper than a wedding announcement. doing something that looked suspiciously like There's nothing more selfish than using a polishing a ladder. i newspaper space to broadcast your personal life My mother wasn't particularly thrilled when or more boring, perhaps, than hearing about so- 1 told her about our plans. I suspect she thinks this meone else's wedding plans, but I can't help is just another one of my crazy ideas, or perhaps myself. just a stage I am going through. He popped the question (HOORAY!) and I'm Thankfully, Doug's family is thrilled about all in such a dither I can't think about anything else. this. Every time we've gotten together since the Yesterday morning I curled my hair announcement, it's wedding this and wedding backwards and forgot to wear deodorant, which that, plans ad nauseum, and so far we're not sick was a relief. Instead of thinking of MARRIAGE, of it. I kept thinking how I looked like Shirley Temple The way I'm going, with my enthusiasm run- with perspiration problems. ning almost as high as my adrenalin, I'm afraid Work has been entirely uninteresting since I might get tired of the whole idea in about six The Big Day, March 8th, when my fiancee (oooh, weeks. Either that or I'll eventually self-destruct I love that word) Doug Olliffe asked for my rather at the altar. large, indelicate hand in matrimony. (I suspect he As my Dad would say, I'm shook up like a bag was inebriated at the time but he made the of chips. I've taken the whole Total Bride Concept mistake of telling his mom ---- now there's no to heart and am devouring Bride's magazine each way he can get out of it). ~ and every chance I get. Who can work with romance in one's head? It's such a useful magazine, revealing how to I have to force myself to ask relevant questions choose your china pattern, what kind of salad during interview sessions. I've had to swallow my forks to invest in, what wallpaper your dream tongue in order not to ask each and every subject house should be done in and what hotel in the of my stories how they got hitched. Poconos has the biggest heart-shaped bath tub. Probably if I were to interview the Prime Already Doug and I have made up a tentative Minister tomorrow I'd ask him what he did on his list of people to invite and are furiously debating honeymoon, rather than what he thinks of thenew whether we should have a free or cash bar. The budget. other day I actually tried on a few wedding gowns Besides, me getting married (oooh, there's and even picked up a tuxedo catalogue. another word I like) is far more newsworthy than Doug, poor Doug, is over-whelmed with all anything else I've read lately. At least, it's news this activity. to me, Doug and our respective families. He works at Emiel's Place, see, and it's his "I never thought I'd see Doug married," said job to take control of the bar. He needs respect, one of his sisters. and when I come whirling in the door loaded with "I thought I was going to have to pay someone tuxedo catalogues, new ideas and my eyes all to marry you," said my Dad. , aglow, he becomes the laughing stock of the whole Dad, you see, has had this fetish about me get- place. ting married ever since I turned 19 years old. He "Know how you feel, buddy," said one co- married my mother when she was 19 and he thinks worker. "Don't worry, it gets worse." any woman older than that who is not married will All these macho guys look at me bursting with be a spinster for the rest of her days. enthusiasm, and at Doug (trying to look cool about We'd sit around the dinner table yapping the whole thing), who is gainfully attempting to about this and that and he'd invariably bring up do his job, and they giggle with all the old jokes the subject of marriage. about another sheep being led to the slaughter. "'No one's going to marry you when you have That sort of thing. blue hair," he'd say. "Pass the potatoes." Doug really is enthused about all the plans "Dad," I'd counter. 'I don't care." that need to be made, but I suspect he's been "Well I care. Damned if you're going to live thinking he's bitten off more than he can chew. here 'till you're eighty." Hell may have no fury like a woman scorn- These little conversations, thank goodness, ed, but that's nothing compared to a girl with a have now officially ended. 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