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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 21, PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Subscription Rates: 1 Year - $32.10 Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST he Port Povey Shay 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT - LoL {87 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 Includes $5.95 GST 1995 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" EDITORIAL BUSINESS OFFICE Can) Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten Office Manager..,Gayle Stapley NA BR | General Manager ....Don Macleod Accounting......Judy Ashby, Louise Hope CC | aS BLUE Managing Editor .... Jeff Mitchell Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Nancy Lee \ Z MHL ]'R | Sports Editor........... Kelly Lown PRODUCTION : Member of the AWARD ADVERTISING Production Supervisor - Pam Hickey 1995 Advertising Manager... Anna Jackman Advertising Sales...... .. Nancy Bongard Joanne Brambrough, Deb McEachern, Telemarketing..Cindy Jobin Trudy Empringham, Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Nancy Hvidsten Annabell Harrison, Rhonda Mulcahy, Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Community Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Editorial Comment Don't look now, but... Don't look now, but ... That's right: Hardly have we wished summer an appropriate farewell, it seems, and along comes the Christmas season. If it seems the season is sprung upon us earlier and earlier each year, that's likely because it is; Christmas catalogues began arriving in September, and the television has launched a full-scale attack on consumers, each company and product racing to get to our wallets first. It's enough to make one want to turn away and forget about the whole thing. But wait: There's another side to the season. And it will become evident this weekend, when Port Perry launches its Yuletide celebrations. Friday night at 7 p.m., the Christmas tree in front of the BIA-Chamber of Commerce offices on Queen St. will be lit, and everyone is invited to come out, sip some hot chocolate, and enjoy the spectacle. The following day Santa Claus comes to 'town for his annual parade, and will take up residence thereafter with Mrs. Claus to visit with the kiddies. . Volunteers have worked long and hard on both projects, and they deserve your participation and appreciation in return. For the spirit in which the work is carried out is the same that should prevail during the season: Giving, sharing, and enjoyment. So take time out from the mounting frenzy of the coming commercial blitz, and relax with your family and community, celebrating instead of enduring. And make plans to enjoy other special events such at the Scugog Island museum's Victorian Christmas, coming up in a couple weeks time. Together, we'll all get through this. WELL, TODAY YOU HAVE AN INTERV] "THE FOX NETWORK AT 9aM, 7. THE OPRAH SHOW AT 9:30, - : AT 10:00 YOURE GUEST APPEARING ON JANE FONDA -: MICKEY MOUSE T0 DISCUSS MERGING CHRISTMAS WITH DISNEY... WORKOUT -- THEN LUNCH WITH AT 1.00 YOURE iN PORT Perey... Co SOMETHING ABOUT PUTTING i y= CHRIST BACK iN i Wie LO) | Q, CHRISTMAS Hirt ABouT BEING . ! 3 \ Q J YOR STO is Going P AGAIN SIR - it ALwiNs THis Ting of To the Editor: How typical and how short-sighted 1s the com- ment of Durham East MPP, John O'Toole, who is reported to have said, "It's nice to have read Tolstoy but it's not necessary to get a job." It is also frightening to think that all "society" is interested in is producing a worker population whose only function will be to labor and consume and make business owners happy manipulators of our human resources. We are not ants in an ant hill - yet! Of course we must prepare ourselves for gainful employment; we have to eat. But there is a large, AND THEN DINNER WiTH THE POPE. EW WITH PR? _ 6i2 MADONNA 15 ON LINE 2 - Shik WANTS T0 KNOW Wy SHE Gor (ol ci aX § Coston J { service 0 V sre ML ENC \ important part of humanity called culture that. requires thoughtful nurturing th rough other forms of education so that our lives can be rich and fulfill- ing, and not leave us to feel we are merely numbers in a complex, sterile, impersonal system. Full lives may not necessarily include reading Tolstoy, but literature and art and music and physi- cal enjoyments round us out into happier creatures, less prone to chopping off the heads of politicians who have lost their vision. Owen R. Neill, i i Cir | Port Perry REMEMBER AGO Thursday, November 16, 1950 Mr. Walter Thompson of Ajax was the new leader of the Liberals. Commencement exercises were to be held in the United Church Auditorium and scholarship were presented by Doris Denure, Mary Wilkinson and Howard Garvey. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 11, 1965 Valedictorian this year at the high school commencement was Miss Linda Stone. Rev. Douglas Pilkey was the speaker. At the regular meeting of council it was moved by Deputy-Reeve I. Boyd that Frank Haddleton have the job of dog controller. It was recommended that a retainer fee of $12.50 a month be made plus $5 per dog picked up to compensate the dog controller for boarding the dogs. At a meeting of LO.D.E. a life membership was presented to Mrs. Maclarlane. Mrs. Dymond spoke on her trip to Russia and showed pictures, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gibson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The Curts and Henderson store and the Observer Printing Office on the north west corner of Queen Street before the fires. a WHEN....? 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 19, 1975 Council met to open tenders for the new Scugog Community Arena. Eight builders gave the proposal specifications. Local artist Lawrence Davis presented the Seagrave Beavers with a carved beaver. Accepting the handcrafted work were Mark Sturman, 9, and Tony Bertrand, 6. Victoria County planner William Power said Scugog, Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes are in "bad shape" and Lake Scugog appears to be the "least clean" of all the lakes. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, November 19, 1985 First class constables with the Durham Regional Police Force received a six per cent hike in their earnings through an arbitration ruling. Pathfinders Jill Parry, Jane-Ann McGill, Cathy Elford, Tamara Elliott and Janet Rowland all received their Canada Cords. Ian Combden, of Seagrave, along with Todd O'Connor and Scott (Gales, of Uxbridge, were presented Province of Ontario plaques from MPP Ross Stevenson for becoming Chief Scouts. Ls Nib TE SOTSERIGRL EG Gee i RRR Sy ral Je A VRE Ls i risa Bae ds eisai