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14 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 21, 1990 Horticultural Society will Brooklin Horticultural Society will hold their annual show and general meeting on Wednesday evening of this week at Brooklin United Church. The meeting begins at 8:00 p.m.. All entries for the show to be placed from 6:30 to 7:45. This is our big show for the year with a total of 59 classes for flower specimens, fruits and vegetables, as well as 5 classes in the decorative class. According to the year book '"Weeds" will be the main topic for the evening, and I'm sure all of us have just too many pesty weeds in our garden. Sounds like a good evening. Come out and join us. Congratulations and best wishes to Bill and Bernice Gard- ner on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Many relatives, friends and neighbours gathered together at their home last Sunday afternoon in honour of the happy couple. Delicious Cleaning meet in Brooklin on Wed. | refreshments were served, and everyone enjoyed visiting together with friends of long stan- ding. Many more happy years, Bill and Bernice. Mrs. Carol Bradley of Tory Hill visited with her mother, Evelyn Lynde for a few days. Theo and Joan Knight enjoyed a few days last week with Hervie and Olive Painter at their trailer on Gull River near Norland. Doug and Florence Ashton visited with Mrs. Edna Kerry of Port Perry last Thursday evening. Margaret Davis, Sandy and Irene Moore from Prince Albert and your correspondent attended the annual iris auction at the Civic Garden Centre last Saturday. That seems tosbe all I have for this week folks. Any news you would like to share with us, do give me a call at 655-4240. 852-6711 Pick up & Delivery LOOSE RUGS A SPECIALTY We also clean Broadloom & Upholstery FORDER-PARKS INSURANCE BROKERS INC. 34 Water St., Port Perry, Ont. 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The new program entitled Bike Back was invented hoping to promote the importance of registration, and to convince more riders to register their bike. The bikes that are not re- turned to owners are sold at a police auction. Police would like to return more of the bikes, which would be an easier task if more cyclists participated in the registration program. The reason so many bikes are sold, and not returned to their ownersis because most people's descriptions of their bikes are far too general. The majority of bike thefts oc- cur during the summer months, and are usually just taken for a short joy ride and quickly "dumped" into a nearby ditch, or creek. Police estimate that only about 20 per cent of bikes are registered. This figure comes from the fact that only one in five that are found display the registration sticker. This only amounts to 25,000 bikes in Dur- ham Region that are using the program. The registration includes a special identification sticker which is placed on the frame of' the bike, and the serial number of the bike is then keyed into the computer. The cost for reg- istering a bike is free. The Oshawa Optimist Club donated a computer to police to make the job quicker to identify ihe owner, and return it to im. Registration forms are avail- Information can be updated ableat most bicycle sales shops, daily, something which wasim- and at all Durham Regional Po- possible before. Currently lice Stations. there is an officer who basically The Bike Back program only works full time trying toreturn works for those owners who stolen bikes and apprehend the register their bikes. This only theives. takes a few short minutes at your local police station. rr > » » # Constable Peter Wraight places the registration sticker on Joel Van Veghel's bike. Durham Regional Police were on hand at the Scugog Library last Thursday to register resi dents bicycles as part of the new Blke Back program. Please see story for more details on this program. 7 \ THANK YOU | 1 would like to extend a sincere thank you to all my customers for their patronage over the last 4 1/2 years. Also my best wishes to Kerry and Roselyn of Gold 'n Glow, the new owners of ... | IMAGES by Gold 'n Glow LYNDA MENZIES Images wR