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th acta diid assign onan odes 0 2 CL ER Sil 4 6 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 22, 1993 Editorial Comment Economic Hardships The Township of Scugog is batting 0 for 2 in the great economic development game and it looks like it will be some time before it pulls out of this slump. In early June the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario announced it was pulling out of the township and head- ing to an eastern Ontario community. The engineers had planned to locate its permanent training facility on a 140- acre site in the Marsh Hill area. The site was to include a 125,000-square foot ad- ministrative building, a shop building, ma- chinery storage and craning area. But they decided to pull out after facing much opposition and up to another year's wait before it could begin operating. Two months earlier a hi-tech company with plans to set up shop in the vacant Johnson Controls building also opted to take its business elsewhere. Environmental Waste Management Corporation had planned to use the build- ing as an international sales showroom, creating approximately 100 jobs. But it pulled out after having difficulties firming up the lease arrangements. An even bigger blow than the ones that were never here, is the one that got away. Johnson Controls is a classic ex- ample of this. Two years ago the automo- tive parts manufacturer closed up shop in Port Perry throwing hundreds of local people out of work. It left behind an emp- ty but fully-serviced building that has yet to find another company to take it over. . Gerry's Distributing also closed its doors last year putting other long-time employees out of work. These losses are crushing blows to the township which is struggling to find its ec- onomic identity. It is also sending out a message to the investment community that perhaps Scu- gog is not the most compatible location to do business. An Economic Development Committee was established late last year to map out the direction the township should be tak- ing in attracting new businesses to the area as well as promoting what is already in the township. This group has a monu- mental task ahead of them. Never before has anything like this been done. And although the three-man committee has been given the task of mapping out the future, it is up to the residents to get involved to determine what direction they see the township taking. Without the co- operation of everyone, Scugog will not advance economically. Letter to the editor The Port Perry Star G2 Eons... es CT 1 . ey ! 5 - Scott rson . Lo A (D1) MARY SInEet PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - LoL 187 [ETRY] Features Editor - Julia Dempsey Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, ~~ = = ERE In HO he) 985-7383 FAX 985-3708 SIEIEIOIN Sports Editor - Kelly Lown © SL Marlene Moor le Post Ofica Deparimart, Ottawa, for can payment ponte. TOMAS ADVERTISING PRODUCTION = Canadian Communi Newspaper Association Second Class Melk Roglvaion Numpor o26s 1993 Advertising Manager . Ana Jecinan arvishel Haison. o unity Newspape Jasodation u ption : Advertising Sales-JackieMcDonell. ~~. Trudy Emp m : ublished every Tuesday by the 1Year-$32.10 6Months-$17.72 Foreign-$90,95 Production- Pamela Hickey. BarbaraBell Robert Taylor, Port Pany Star Go, Ud, Pont Reny, Ortatlo | includes $5.95GST _"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" BUSINESS OFFICE /TW sue Yuk wi | handom Jottings OF TesTiNG THE WATER 1 rd Patwrsuiston. - 15 FASTER -- BWI T'i DINO-MITE "0 2 Astonishing amaz- STK 10 Me OLY ing, WEL exhila- | LAB METHODS THANKS. a NT inspiring. : i . These are just a few A - of the superlatives' = - | 'written about Steven - Spielberg's latest movie gem, Jurassic Park. A movie which inthe first nine days became the most watched movie in history, bringing in more than $100 million at the ~ box office. f~ Cod Tg es And the critics are absolutely right. This | movie bring to life reptiles which lived and roamed the planet over 100 million years ago with such realism it's hard to believe they were not filmed in the wild. . Even some of the world's leading leontologists are amazed how peilbérg's computerized dinosaurs look, move and act as they would expect them . | to. One American professor of paleontolo- "|. 8Y. who is reported to have seen the movie three times already, goes 'so far as to rate the movie "seven stars" out of five. There is little doubt Jurassic Park will be the box office smash of the summer, but unfortunately it's a little too harsh for J those most attracted to the fascinating age -of dinosaurs......the kids! Ny . With some reluctance, we took Matt to see Jurassic Park over the weekend, after | considerable discussion and concern about | thefrightening scenes and how they might { effect him. We're not prudes when it comes to movies, and we know he proba more foul language around school than he - would in most films he's allowed to see, - but never-the-less we are very careful about what we let our eight-year-old watch. fad rn Cn Cd eb But Matt, like millions of kids his age, is awe-struck by dinosaurs and he pleaded with us to let him see Jurassic Park. Finally we relented, even with the knowledge. Steven Spielberg, who has four children : under nine Jears-okage, won't allow his kids to see the movie for another couple of years. © Se fF TERR While sitting waiting for the movie to begin, we scanned the theatre as it began to fill and guessed that about two-thirds of the audience were children, many of them quite young. In fact, the family in front of us had three children who I would estimate ranged from a year and half to six years of age. The mother and the terrified toddler left before the movie was half over. Even Matt, who is not one to frighten easily made four hasty exits to the wash- room during some of the most exciting, although frightening scenes of the show and at one point jerked his legs up into his seat and huddled under my armpit as a dinosaur on the screen jumped up to grab a young girl's legs during one of the life- like attacks. GTR For anyone fascinated about the age of dinosaurs, or curious about how these monstrous reptiles must have really looked and acted, you won't want to miss this movie classic. ; Redefining poverty instead of helping the poor To the Editor: } First the federal Conservative govern- ment took aim at the unemployment in- surance system, at a time when 1.6 mil- lion Canadians are out of work. Now, instead of doing something to help the 4.2 million poor Canadians, they're try- ing to redefine poverty. fo an shocked to read recently how a : 1 ernment develop a new way of measur- ing poverty. For the record, it is estimat- ed that Canadians living in poverty went from 877,000 people in 1980 to 4.2 mil- lion in 1991. Of these, 1.1 million are children, or an estimated one of every six childrenin Canada. only solution to reducing poverty is to billion. The top 20 per cent (over. | letters will be published Port Perry Star oyocotted, ; find, another, way to meashire it, rather Tui 10 Page 7 also reserves the right to edit with respect to ded that the gov: | < than addrdaatheissues thatcause it. Tum 10 Pag iboloos comments. ar length of letter. My one caution would be to leave the real young ones at home, This movie was not made for the youngsters or the faint of heart, no matter what your age. It is also interesting to note that while Canada's poorer have become even poor- er in the last decade, the rich are getting richer. According to the National Forum on Family Security, the bottom 20 per cent (incomes below $25,200) experi- enced a decrease in income from 6.5 per It seems to me that this government's cent to 6.4 per cent, a loss of about $0.4 att i fap El bly hears J I Ar A -------- ---- |