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# ¥ 3 p "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1994 - 7 W PHONE (905) 985-7383 1Year-$32.10 includes $2.10GST The Port Perry Star (CES Eb io Witton 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO General Mgr. - Don Macleod LoL 187 Managing Editor - Jeft Mitchell BLUE FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: 6Months-$17.72 includes $1.22GST RIBBON AWARD 1994 Forelgn-$90.95 includes $5.95GST Sports Editor - Kelly Lown ADVERTISING Advertising Manager - Anna Jackman Advertising Sales - Bill Eastwood Advertising Sales - Rhonda Stevens Production - Pamela Hickey BUSINESS OFFICE SE Office Manager - Gayle Stapley i Accounting - Judy Ashby, Louise Hope 9) CNA |JiE Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. Port Perry, Ontario * GST included in price Retail Sales - Kathy Dudley, PRODUCTION Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Susan Milne, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew CCNA ~ VERIFIED (12 [UTR N gle LV] ~ LETTERS Separatists are traitors to country To the Editor: Quebec has never been in- dependent; it has always been either a colony of srance or a province of Cana- a. It has no more right to se- cede from the nation than the city of Quebec has to secede from the province. Those who want to make Quebec independent are rev- olutionaries and traitors, and should suffer the penalty for treason: Death or banish- ment. The division of the territo- ry of Quebec, as proposed be- fore (Port Perry Star, Nov. 3,1992)is still advocated. Warren T. McCready Greenbank No meeting for council candidates From page 6 um in order that voters can clearly understand exactly who they will be sending to the coun- cil chambers for the next three years. Unless an organization, such as a service club, comes forward to accommodate us, I am fully prepared to initiate an all- candidates meeting specifically for prospective councillors in the near future. Candidates and citizens who share my concern are urged to assist. My telephone number is 985-1612. My business number at The Oshawa Times is 723- 3476 (Sports Department). ~ Wally Donaldson, Candidate, Ward 5 MP's gun stance wrong The important issue of gun control versus crime control is a very hot topic these days, and well it should be. My concerns are about M.P., Dan McTeague and his points of view on more gun control; I do not support his ideas. A recent survey asked the question, What's more impor- tant, Crime C ol or Gun Control. The Piers 80 per cent in fact¥said that they thought crime control is more important than gun control. How can he suggest that more gun control is a method of controlling violent crime? If a person wants to own a handgun solely for the purpose of target shooting they must go through a special training program and involves an eight to nine month process to obtain five separate permits, two police investiga- tions, and six trips to the regis- ter. How does he imagine that taking guns away from profes- sional target shooters will make Canada any safer? The fact remains that hand- gun crime is done by criminals that use smuggled or illegally obtained guns. So the issue still points to more crime control. The criminal that points a gun in your face and demands your money is likely to have a crimi- nal record and is using an un- registered semi-automatic handgun. A study done in Metro Toron- to, states that of the 60 people who were charged with killings, 65 per cent had criminal records, 20 per cent were await- ing trial on other matters and 13 per cent were on parole or probation at the time of the murders. In a sample of 272 cases of armed robberies, 65 per cent of those arrested had criminal records. What this tells me is that there is a strong need for more crime control and the quicker the better. The safety of the public should be the most im- portant issue here. They should stop wasting valuable time with useless study groups and get to the job at hand swiftly. More must be done before many more innocent people are shot and killed while the government sits back waiting for some sur- vey to be done. Ask the people what they think instead of some appointed group of highly over paid, politically correct bleed- ing hearts. Andrew Cobean, Pickering Support UNICEF To the Editor: Halloween is fast approach- ing and at this time of year I al- ways like to try and give Unicef (The United Nations Children's Fund) abit of a boost. As the average reader knows, Unicef does its work for chil- dren worldwide who are much less fortunate than most of our own tend to be. For example, they are now working in Rwan- da to build schools and change curriculum so that future disas- ters can be prevented. Small amounts go alongway in the de- veloping world! We can all help out by donating small change to the orange boxes our kids carry on Halloween night, and also by putting boxes out at other - events such as dances, parties, or even in our local stores | around Halloween. I have a supply of the large size boxes and would be happy to drop one off for your event or store - just give me a call at 985- 3225. I'm willing to roll the coins too (luckily, my kids and some friends always help me with this) and will make sure to let people know how much our efforts have raised. It all adds up! Janet Banting, Greenbank 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 13, 1949 Rev. John Thomas Coneybeare was inducted as the new Rector of the Church of Ascension, Port Perry and St. Thomas' Church at Brooklin. A total of $237 was raised on a draw for a calf, to raise money for the Port Perry Memorial Recreation Centre. Mavis Lucretia Kerry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kerry, of Port Perry, graduated from Oshawa General Hospital. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 15, 1964 Ontario County contestants Bob Tran of Claremont and Barry Timbers of Mount Albert, placed first at the International Plowing Match. Clerk-Treasurer John Raines, says Port Perry's population increased to 2,361. Health Minister Matthew Dymond announced that the Ontario Government will now pay drug and treatment costs for needy children with Cystic Fibrosis. Mrs. Rose Philip, R.R. #4 Port Perry, was awarded the Scanlon Bakery Trophy at Scott Agricultural Fair held in Uxbridge. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 17, 1974 Sixteen-year-old Sue Gribbon, Port Perry, won the North American Women's Senior Judo Championship held in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Port Perry Yacht Club had to move from its location by the end of the year. An alternative site was north of Birdseye Centre. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Spencer of Greenbank, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Teacher Jack Fisher and family of Port Perry were spending a year in Casselmaine, in the state of Victoria in Australia, as part of a Victoria Teachers Exchange Fellowship. Three brothers Harold Honey, Port Perry, Dr. Morley Honey Thornhill and Dr. Lee Honey, Fenwick, were presented with pins for 50-year membership in the Fidelity Lodge at a ceremony at the St. John's Church in Port Perry. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, October 16, 1984 All of Scugog's political celebrities were on hand to celebrate Cartwright's Bicentennial-Sesquicentennial. It was a sad day for Ralph and Leona Sadler, of Nestleton, as items belonging to the family for four generations were auctioned off, including one of Ontario's most prestigious buggy collections. Three Port Perry residents were the winners of a draw held at Taylor's Gulf Station. Diana Quaas and Lloyd Short each won a trip to Florida and Deana Sims won the free use of a Ford Bronco for one week. By a vote of four to one councillors voted in favor of scaling down a proposcd subdivision for Stephenson's Point on Scugog Island. New Christmas lighting was installed along Queen Street to prepare for the Santa Claus parade. Township council was unable to make a decision on a 22-lot subdivision proposal for Gerrow's Beach on Scugog Island. 'Weekend Star' coming Friday The premier issue of The Port Perry Weekend Star will arrive in newspaper boxes around Scugog Township and in the mail at your home this Friday. Watch for the bright new look! It's loaded with lots of local news and features, columns and sports. Check it out and let us know what your think? Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell MORE TRUE TALES OF TERROR SEEING RED THROUGH SLEEPY EYES: This actually happened. I'm not happy about it, but it happened none the less, and, what the hell, I thought maybe you'd enjoy hearing about it. It was last Friday morning and, as usual, I was in a hurry to get to work and finish up a bunch of things before the day got completely out of control and left me babbling at my desk and firing spit balls at passers-by in the hallway. So I was out of the door early and into a frosty car, coffee steaming on the dash and making ridic- ulous the noisy efforts of the defroster. In the passenger seat beside me, yammering happily away and ignoring all instructions, was The Kid. It was my job, as usual, to drive The Kid to the bus stop at the end of the street and watch him toddle aboard before striking out for work. No pro- blem. We sat there in the early morning cold, him yakking and grabbing at everything within his limited reach and me pulling sullenly on rapidly- cooling coffee. Then the bus hove into sight. "Okay, pal," I said, opening my door and getting out, "time to catch the old bus." to her. I dashed to the other side of the car and had just put my hand out to open his door when -- CLICK-- The Kid hit the child safety lock button, securing all four doors. And then sat smiling at me. "Open the door, pal," I smiled back, as the bus pulled up to the shoulder of the street beside us. And he sat smiling at me. I tossed a wave and a cheerful grin to the bus driver, who observed us curiously. "OPEN THE DOOR, PAL," I said once again, gri- macing this time as I tried to sustain my smile. And he cackled, just a wee bit. "What's the matter?" called the bus driver. "He's --- he's, uh -- he's locked the doors," I called "All of them?" she asked. "Yes, #@$*&% it, all of them, what the hell do you think!?!" I had blurted before I knew it. I turned back to the car window and looked at The Kid. "OPEN -- THE -- DOOR!" I roared, and the sound of my wrath in the early morning calm set the neighborhood dogs to barking. "OPEN -- THE -- DOOR!" And The Kid threw back his head and launched into an uproarious peal of laughter that continued even after he lost his balance and fell off the seat. I could see his sneakers kicking as he convulsed there on the floor. The bus driver stared at the scene for a few moments longer, then closed the door of the bus and drove off. By this time of course I was simply standing there seething, expelling little bits of spittle onto the window of the car with each breath, and feel- ing my heart hammer away in my chest. The Kid recovered himself and clambered back up onto the seat. "Whoop!" he said when he saw the bus was gone. Then he opened all the doors and sat there calm- ly, staring straight ahead, as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred. Amazing.