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HEA 5 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 20, 1996 Che Poel Reve Shae 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LoL 187 y PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 The Port Parry Star is authorized as second class mail by the 25% PRIZE WINN . RNADIAN COMMU V-- Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. EDITORIAL: Second Class Mail Registration 0265 Publisher.....cewreres J. Peter Hvidsten Subscription Rates: General Manager.... Don MacLeod 1Year-$32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign-$90.95 Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell includes $210 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST "Sports Editor........... Kelly Lown Editorial Comment [ Merger was Inevitable It was inevitable. News this week of a merger of hospitals in Port Perry and Uxbridge might cause alarm. That's understandable, given the fierce allegiance communities feel toward their hospitals. Equally fierce is our opposition when any of the services to which we have become accustomed are taken away. But we must give the board guiding this amalgamation of Community Memorial and Cottage Hospitals a chance. Because it's the only chance for the continued survival of the two institutions. 3 Administrators at both hospitals have been struggling for some time now with greatly reduced funding. We've seen holiday bed closures at Community Memorial, and elimination of services at Cottage. And it's got to the point now where mere penny-pinching won't do the trick; deep cutting has to occur, because that's what's been handed: the local institutions by a provincial government which will not waver from its agenda of deficit elimination. At least the boards running our local hospitals have acted on the realities they face, ------ rather than awaiting direction from the province. With the deal being worked out now, we have local people, aware of local concerns YoU Know You CAUSED THIS BY BUYING THIS THING J 1 11 Motorists must-sha To the Editor: - : and needs, handling the delicate division of services that the merger will bring about. That's far better than having a ham-handed bureaucrat dictate from on high, with an eye on the bottom line rather than the human factor. The times continue to chdfige, and anyone who would rather opt out and attempt to believe that cuts -- and even closures -- couldn't happen here is being tremendously naive. The challenge now is to provide north Durham with quality health care, for less. REMEMBER | 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 23, 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Redman, Scugog Island, opened their home to celebrate a surprise party for her sister and brother-in- law Mr., and Mrs. W. J. Fry's 40th anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Luke of Leaksdale, who recently returned from a trip to the Pacific Coast, called on his mother Mrs. P. Luke of Epsom. Mr. and Mrs. Parks of Perth purchased the Bright farm, north of Epsom. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 25, 1966 Recent visitors at the Mansfield home, Queen Street, Port Perry were Mr. and Mrs. E. C. MacArthur, their son Ronald and Miss Wilhelimna van Daalen of Tilburg, Holland. Mrs. Don Beatty, RR 2 Cannington, a member of the Beaverton Jr. Farmers, represented Ontario County in the preliminary Dairy Princess competition to be held at the Canadian National Exhibition. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 25, 1976 PHOTO COURTESY GUY LATREILLE Pictured is the Seagrave Public School class of 1958. Front: Bill Lloyd Bruce, Brian Keen, Larry Moase, Roger Moase, Ron Phinney, second: Jean Sturman, Glen Stone, Carolyn Hurst, Gordon McMillan, Ada Newlands, Ron | late Abraham, Sharon Monahan, George Bright, Harvey Monahan, third: John Bright, | « Nancy Wanamaker, Elizabeth Nodwell, Ron Payne, Sharon Short, Christal Monahan, Sylvia Wanamaker, Marilyn McMillan, Doug Barns, Donna Bruce, Wendy Monahan, back: Mr. Tom Venner, teacher, ivan Stone, Nora Stone, Rosemarie Nodwell, Ross Stone, Maureen Tobin, Jack Short, Gerald Drinkwater and Kay Drinkwater. our horses north on Old Simcoe, approaching the colt, so we all had to walk the pace to where we were going. All of us relaxed having fun and in total control. x : Several drivers drove by us yielding to us, as we indicated to--them to slow down as they approached, only because of the young horse we had with us. ahead on the road coming towards us at a high 5 Be On Saturday, Aug. 10, three of us were riding 4th Concession. One lady was walking a yearling Coming up to the 4th Line, we noticed a car the