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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 10, 1996 @he Pocf Peven Sta PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 : The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the EDITORIAL: . Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten Second Class Mail Registration 0265 General Manager... Don MacLeod Subscription Rates: Managing Editor ..... Jeff Mitchell 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15GST Includes $5.95 GST Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Cindy. Editorial Comment It's time for Sunday sales Well, it finally happened: The province allowed our local beer and liquor stores to open on Sunday. And guess what? We behaved ourselves pretty well. No mass displays of public drunkeness, no epidemics of impaired driving. In fact, it was rather quiet at the stores, considering Ontario's beer and wine drinkers have waited so long for the event. Makes you think that perhaps it's about time. And so it is. That's why the response of customers to the opportunity to shop on a Sunday was perfect this past weekend; availability of a six-pack for the afternoon barbecue or wine for dinner is no big deal, just a convenience. Ora p And it's one that's been denied us as a result VY ny / of archaic liquor laws for a long, long time. j 7 7 Do We all realize that the province is trying nh out the Sunday shopping concept, and found : Christmas a convenient time to do so. After this test, theyll look at the numbers and, pretty quickly, come back with legislation that will make seven-day availability permanent. So opponents will have to get used to it, while patrons can become accustomed to Tr ; : To the Editor: being treated like mature, responsible Or Teesday afterfioot people. ; : Hoty shocks. A white van that I ; There is a chance for increased revenue, as |= along Reach Rd. decided tl well, as long as the LCBO is maintained by school bus, even though the the province, at least. And there's cause for and one child had exited the b hope: Maybe the Tories will see a profit from one shld was sel in the pro Sunday sales, and decide the revenue Yet and the read, in dis warrants hanging on to the venture. That would be stupid enough to p preserves existing LCBO jobs, and keeps the obviously any thought about the management of liquor sales in the hands of After all the articles you read the government, where most agree it ought about children being injured or kil to be. 9 k. WY) - \Y| B - 1% PHOTO COURTESY DOROTHY MARTYN aa STO COURTESY DOROTHY ELH 35YEARSAGO Thursday, December 7, 1961 AL Gibson was elected Reeve of Cartwright, defeating Lawrence Malcolm, 397 to 281. Merril VanCamp was returned as Deputy-Reeve by acclamation Fire completely destroyed the barn, contents and crops of Mr. Milton Fisher, Caesarea. Forty two head of cattle were also lost and three were badly injured. Arnold Kerry and Mac Couperthwaite of Morrow Farm Equipment in Port Perry are attending a one week advance technical course at Massey- Ferguson service training centre in Detroit, Michigan. 30YEARSAGO Thursday, December 8, 1966 Joseph Dowson was elected the first deputy reeve of Scugog Township on December 3. He defeated Ray Fralick in a two-way contest by a margin of 40 votes (193-153) Robert D. Carnegie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Carnegie of Port Perry, received his M.A. from the University of Michigan. He is presently on the teaching staff at Queen's University, a position he has held for three years 20 YEARS AGO