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) A ¢ 8%. 9% i306 SC + --- AETI Vea NATE] 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 30 1988 Ladies, bake those pies Utica and Area News by Vera Brown Yesterday's Memories (continued) and Mrs. Keith Johnston, had an average of 83.3 percent in seven Grade 13 subjects. Mrs. M.B. Dymond, President of the Central Seven Associa- tion for the Mentally Retarded, accepted a cheque from the local Chamber of Commerce for $154. and from the Maple Leaf Judo Club, a cheque for $139. This money was raised from the recent Carnival Weekend and from a Walk-a-thon from Whitby to Port Perry. The new bridge being constructed at Seagrave will be open for traffic by mid-September. Estimated cost of this bridge is $56,000. In addition to this will be another $30,000. for road construction. Miss Bonnie Cawker, Grade 13 student of the Port Perry High School, an Ontario Scholar with an average of 85.5 percent has qualified for a Queen's University 125th Anniversary Scholar- ship valued at $200. Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cornish visited Miss May Walker and Mrs. Florence Nelson, of Brampton, former school teachers in Port Perry. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 30, 1978 The planned demolition and reconstruction of an old bridge across the Nonquon River north of Port Perry has been scrap- ped for this year because the two bids for the project came in away over the cost anticipated by the Township. The last parking meter in Port Perry will soon swallow its last dime as council endorsed a report from the Roads Commit- tee that all remaining meters in the community be removed. The final figures for the cost of repairs to the Blackstock arena and the installation of artificial ice equipment is $75,990. With the help from Canada's National 4-H Council and John Deere Limited, Doug Larmer of Blackstock, and Malcolm Cairns, Lower Freetown, P.E.I., exchanged work and homes for five weeks this summer. Several business people in downtown Port Perry have public- ly voiced their anger at the condition of the sidewalks along Queen Street and feel they have not been getting full value for their tax dollar. The drug store at the corner of Queen and Perry Streets was broken into some time during the night of August 22 and close to $900 worth of merchandise was reported missing. A reminder to the U.C.W. ladies. You are to supply pies for the auction sale at Chris. Rhul's this Saturday. Please have them there before 10 a.m. There will be a euchre in Utica Hall this Friday at 8 p.m. All are welcome. There will be a community presentation for bride-to-be Miss Tina Rhul on September 10th at the home of Jenny Watson in Ep- som. Anyone in this area who would like to contribute towards a gift, please get in touch with Elva Kerry or Jenny by this com- ing Saturday. Jeremy Gerrow of View Lake spent 3 days this past week with his grandparents Bill and Vera Brown. The Browns were guests on Saturday evening at the Ger- row home for a pre-birthday celebration and corn roast in honor of Dennis and sons Jeremy and Justen. Saturday visitors with Mrs. Irene Fielding were Mr. and Mrs. Merv. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Murphy and children, all of Scarborough. It's the time of year again when our young people are packing up to go to University or College and I'm sure the readers would like to know just who is going where. Please give me a call so I can pass that information along to them. 985-7564. New (From page 7) because I wouldn't let her attempt it. Many communities, much smaller than Port Perry, have wonderful playground equipment which is geared for all ages. Hopefully, next summer the lit- tle people of Port Perry will have something more to enjoy. Wendy and Jim Bates, Port Perry. '6ROWING UP eet TN ao. Trea Lee. a Ca - \ > t N VaR | » MW > A - . | . \ A \ . I'S * - . SRN . t EVEN MOTHER NATURE'S GOING HIGH TECH. y ~ - ® » t P{ASTINGS Chatterbox (From page six) figured | was in for something the same. But from every- thing I've heard lately, those horrific scars just don't happen anymore. These days apparently, surgeons can take the of- fending bladder out with just a trace of a scar left to remind you of where your spare parts used to be. Which is good. | mean, with all this dieting I've been doing, it would be a shame to finally fit into a bikini, but not be able to wear one because of a scar. But | shouldn't really care about a scar just yet. Actually | haven't even seen a surgeon yet (I have an appointment this week) but I'm fairly certain I'm going to go ahead and have the gall bladder out. Some people have said you can live your whole life with gall stones if you watch what you eat and take care of your- self, but frankly, | don't want to chance going through any more attacks. One bout of pain was enough, thank you, and | don't want to do it again. So probably sometime this fall I'll be shipped off to the op- erating room to get my guts yanked out (should be good for a couple of lost pounds, anyways). Which means F'll be off work for a few weeks at the least. Just think--you won't have to subject yourself to my mean- dering column for a while. | guess there's a bright side to everything. Random Jottings by J. Peter Hvidsten SUNDAY MANNERS Last week, the Standing Committee on the Ad- ministration of Justice held a public hearing in Pe- terborough to discuss the governments proposal to allow municipalities the option to regulate Sun- day shopping | took the time to attend the hearings on Thurs- day and must say | was disappointed with the pro- ceedures. In a dimly lit, hot room in the Red Oak Inn, a com- mittee made up of representatives from the three political parties of Ontario listened to delegations as they explained their concerns about the "option" being given to the muncipalities. I'm sure those parties giving their presentations to the committee must have felt more than a little slighted on many occassions, as the MPP's talked amoung themselves, got up from the table, and left the room, all while the delegataion was making their pitch. I know | was surprised at the lack of respect for these people who had gone out of their way to be at the hearings to let their feeling be known. While realizing that the proceedings must get rather boring day after day for the MPP's, this is no excuse for poor manners. Time after time, with eve- ry delegation they hear the same concerns and fears about the "domino effect" and the "common day of rest," but these people are there to explain their concerns and they deserve full attention. | In faimess to the MPP, | did note on a couple of occassions, when some new information was pro- duced, they did appear to be more interested. As far as Sunday shopping goes, personally | don't think that the revised Retail Business Holi- days Act will cause much to change. There will still be some stores allowed to open Sundays, while others are not allowed. That's the way it is now! Although the old legislation has been tighten- up a little, limiting the size of pharmacies (not over 5,000 sq. ft.); increasing the penalties for offend- ers (from $10,000 to $50,000); and replacing Box- ing Day with the term "26th day of December", little has changed in the legislation. The main change, and the point | object most strongly to is giving the local municipality the right to decided whether their stores are allowed to stay open or not! | agree that the "local" municipalities should have that power, but the new legislation is not giv- ing it to the "local" municipality in the case of Port Perry. Durham Region will have the last say in our community and many others like ours who are in the regional system of government. This is wrong! If the Liberals are bound and bent on giving the decision making to the local mu- nicipalities, then give it to the people who are living in that community, not to a larger government body who have no feeling for the small community. Towns like Port Perry, Uxbridge, Bowmanville and Beaverton have nothing in common with the lakeshore communities of Oshawa and the likes, so ak the Regional government, of which many of the members come from these urban areas, have no feel for the needs and desires of the northern mun- cipalities. And the same holds true for the southern communities. The northern representatives should not be making a decision on whether Oshawa and Whitby open on Sunday. While it is true that a community like Port Perry can petition the Region to be allowed to open on Sunday, chances are pretty slim they would be giv- en the green light. This is where the "domino ef- fect" comes in. Municipalities to the south would fight against Sunday openings in Port Perry or any other nothern municipality if they could not have the same right. And this is the "check and balance" of the whole process. No Regional government is going to allow one of its municipalites to open Sundays for the fear of having all out Sunday openings throughout the Region. Ironically, from what | have read and heard, if the Liberals back down on the new legislation, there is a good chance that "wide open Sunday shopping" may just happen at any rate, as there is a lot of sup- port in the party for Sunday shopping. Regardless of what happens, Sunday shopping in Port Perry may continue, because if there is one area in the Region of Durham that does cater to tourism, it is this beautiful little town on the shores of Lake Scugog. But, we'll just have to wait and see!