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yo "A Family Tradition for 126 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 1, 1992 - 7 Quite often, as I travel around this great country of ours to make sure my passport is still valid in all 10 provinces, somebody will ask: "So Bob, is Wainfleet really as neat a place as you say it is and is it true that at Wainfleet weddings they do the chicken dance with real chickens?" Well, yes and no. That is, I'm not entirely sure I live in Wainfleet. You see, location-wise, Wainfleet is a bit awkward. Original plans called for Wainfleet to be Toledo, Ohio until a glacier ripped across this part of the continent creating a huge basin known as Lake Erie, forever wiping out the dwindling numbers of noma- dic dinosaurs and slightly injuring our present mayor, Mayor Stan. Although my address and postal code are officially assigned to the nearby town of Port Colborne as is my telephone number which remains unlisted so that Mayor Stan can't call me after he reads this, I pay taxes to Wainfleet. And I am listed as a resi- dent of Wainfleet on my dump pass. by William Thomas WAINFLEET -- AN I.D. TEST We don't have Port Colborne street numbers out here, we have Wainfleet emergency fire lot numbers, a digit, a letter and two digits. As if Canada Post needed one more little complication to help them reroute mail marked "Wainfleet, Ontario" to Wayling, Ohio. For all this you have to admire Wainfleet -- they let Port Colborne provide the goods while they operate the till. I for one am proud that our little community is known through- out the land as a municipal mugger. Hence our motto: "Our real crop is coin." Our town council is currently working out a deal with Dunnville whereby residents of that town will receive HBO by feeding parking met- ers in downtown Wainfleet. Wainfleet does not have a profes- sional fire department nor do we have professional call girls. In both cases we rely on a small but enthu- siastic group of volunteers -- and really, isn't that the charm of country living? However, the best way to describe Wainfleet and at the same clarify some of the confusion between over- lapping municipalities is to partici- pate in a kind of personality profile test. If you're not on the border of Wainfleet and Port Colborne then simply substitute the name of your small town and put a check mark at the end of each of the following state- ments that may apply to you. YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM WAINFLEET IF: 1. You attend a Hank Williams Jr. Concert and you pass out before Hank Williams Jr. does. 2. Your front porch collapses and three stray dogs are killed in the accident. 3. You've taken a leak in a sink and convinced yourself it was an emergency. 4. You've ever described a kid as "so ugly his mother borrowed the neighbor's baby to take to church." 5. Your personal financial policy is: "Never sign nothing by neon." 6. You put on cowboy boots and a stetson and refer to an inanimate object as "that thang." 7. You've ever described the local church choir as "the reason dogs get headaches." 8. You show up at a Buddy Holly Hop hoping to meet Buddy Holly. 9. You're trying to find a mate by placing personal ads in Tractor & Combine Monthly. 10. You cried when Elvis died and again last week at his wedding. 11. You phone radio gardening shows and give your right name. 12. You meet somebody from Toronto and you say: "You know a guy named Bert? Big guy, kinda quiet?" 13. You think people speaking a different language must be from another country. 14. You hate to see rusted old car wrecks on a front lawn but you've just been so damn busy... 15. The passenger window on your pickup truck is an A & P bag sealed with duct tape. 16. You feel good about the fact your plumber makes more money than your kid's teacher. 17. You recently bought a house and renovated the dining room by replacing the chandelier with patio lanterns. 18. You think Greenpeace is a lawn care service. 19. You own guns and they have names. "20. You miss Eugene Whalen a lot more than you thought you would. Achieving a score of 15 out of 20 or better indicates it's time to go back to work Stan. ? Lette I'S to the editor Asking more questions To the Editor: If you have all the answers it seems as if you have not asked all the possible questions. Two questions for Michelle Bull: If you buy white sugar, what do you do with the con- tainer? What are your qualifica- tions to assume you can make sure assertive statements? With all due respect for the people who are necessarily ac- tive I would like to ask: Do you Dangers of weed spraying To the Editor: It was noted that on Monday, August 17, 1992 at ap roxi- mately 6 a.m. a Region of Dur- ham truck was spraying weeds along Simcoe Street north of Port Perry. When it was investigated Re: type of chemical being used etc. I found out that the chemical that had been used was 2-4D (a byproduct of Agent Orange). | was astounded, 2-4D is a lethal, toxic, carcinogenic chemical. It was being sprayed into the ditches. Children play in the ditches as well as animals. Itin- volves the whole ecosystem. I was advised that the chemical was mixed 20:1 by a specialist, and that on that Monday the spraying had been completed. | was also told that the munici- pality must spray these noxious weeds. and that the region 1s very picky about the weather conditions when spraying. Also that the spray is not harmful to think zero garbage is really pos- sible? Is interim waste a red herring or a foible of Ruth Gn- er? One last question: What's wrong with bringing off the shelves studies that have been made or offers tabled studies for a creative positive approach to the problem? M.Jehnston, Port Perry, Ont. the majonty of people, possibly only to those that are extremely sensitive. When I mentioned about the cutting of the weeds, | was told that it was too expen- sive to do that. "The Hazards of Pesticides" "In Ontario alone 7,200 met- ric tons of pesticides were used on farmland in 1988." In addi- Remember When ? HISTORIC PHOTOS COURTESY SCUGOG SHORES MUSEUM VILLAGE BR ¥ Ls | oh £3 Rs . o A 3 oe 4 # tion to agriculture there 1s a large urban use of pesticides. Per acre, the urban use of pesti- cides is 15 times that of the agn- cultural use, especially since homeowners, municipalities, school boards, hospitals and other institutions use them. So whats the problem? Aren't these agents safe and approved by our federal government? "Safety 18 often based on the study of single pesticides in the laboratory" There 1s no re search on what happens to the human body when traces of the 500 or so active agents are Turnto Page 10 Thursday, August 28, 1947 Mr Helm, manager of the Bank of Commerce, has announced that banking hours will be from 9- 11 a.m starting September 1 A chivari, large and nosy, was staged in honor of John Maw and his new bride at Myrtle Station Mrs Nelson Baird, Miss Annabell Baird and Mr. Edgar Leask have returned home after a long holiday trip through western Canada. Thursday, August 29, 1957 A bylaw was passed by Port Perry council for a vote on liquor and beer outlets The vote is to be held November 20 45 YEARS AGO 35 YEARS AGO The corner of Main Street and Pine Street in Nestleton Station, circa 1910, is pictured above. Notice the Farmer's Bank of Canada on the left hand side of the photo. in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Wylie who are leaving the area to take up residence in Toronto. The formal opening of the new community hall in Utica is scheduled for late October. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 30, 1962 Miss Donna Johnson of R. R. 4 Uxbridge, a teacher at Port Perry Public School and member of Uxbridge Junior Institute, was the winner of the Dairy Princess competition held at the CNE. Morley Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Davidson, Blackwater, was selected as one of the seven 4H Agricultural Club members to represent the province at the National 4H Club Week. Mr. Robert Jeff of Prince Albert has returned Mr Ott Hamilton. secretary of the Rod and Gun Club, made a presentation to council of a life preserver to be hung on the end of the wharf house Mr Walter Moore of Pine Point, Scugog, hauled in a 22 pound muskelunge. Prince Albert community held a farewell party from Longlac where he has been stationed as a Junior Forest Ranger. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 31, 1967 The top student at Cartwright High School for LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Port Perry Star encourages our readers to make use of the letters 10 the editor column to express their opinions and viewpoints on just about any subject, as we feel a lively letters column helps make a better community newspaper. We insist, however, that all "I" writers sign their name. Sorry, NO anonymous letter will be printed. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8 Lee = en A A ----