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{ 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 25, 1997 "Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" @heiPoul J ai Mgr. SOFPICR Liu Stapley So) atianh tsa osm oye. Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 187 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. = PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 EDITORIAL: : = Heather Callan : Port Perry second i Oe EE Te BUDS er reseed. Poor Hvidsten 0 ADVERTISING Second Class Mall Registration 0265 General Manager ....Ddn Macleod PRODUC I N Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod a Subscription Rates: Managing Editok..... Jeff Mitchell Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, gales: Myra Park, Joanne Bambrough, 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign -$90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Deb McEachem, Cindy Jobin, SITAR Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15GST Includes $5.95 GST Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin TIT --_--------------_--_mee Editorial Comment Is free-for-all gambling the solution to the province's financial woes? It appears the government at Queen's Park believes it to be. They have opened the floodgates with their announcement that soon, permanent casinos will dot the landscape in the Greater Toronto Area, including Durham Region. In all, 44 new charity casinos will be popping up across the province. Of those, 36 will be permanent gambling houses, while the remaining eight will be seasonal or part-time operations. There are to be 17 gambling halls in the GTA alone. Two will bein Durham, and it could be that one of those already operates on Scugog Island. Think of it: Gambling around the clock, seven days a week. The new Ontario. Step right up and place your bets. Gambling is everywhere, of course. There's Pro-Line to wager on the outcome of tonight's Habs' game, and 6/49 twice a week, and scratch and wins that could parlay into $25,000 for a $2 wager. Those pursuits, like gaming houses, are a matter of individual choice. So setting that issue aside -- although an explosion of gaming houses and video : TIL ; 1 lotteries, it stands to reason, can easily spawn '| % a great increase in the social problems associated with gambling -- there's the matter of what's behind this. | Approving more casinos to help out charities seems designed to relieve the province of the fiscal responsibility that is part of its contract with the people. And that's wrong. ~ Using gambling as a means of raising revenue is morally questionable. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, it might be called. And while it's convenient, it's also a cop-out. RURAL RESIDENTIAL NIG {£4 fl 17 lth HIMARE... \ 5 REN n\ 7 / nN WAN OS \ \ 85 ANB CE EPR \ : - 5 has Ra) = 4 oN TR » PR RE 1 LA 1 - sun NE : \ 3 A WEN No DOyGHAN. 'Charitable casino' is an oxymoron To the Editor: My letter is not about the pros and cons of a gambling casino on Scugog Island. I do not live in your area and it is not for me to debate that issue. I wish none of the casinos had come into this province or country. But I have seen and heard your advertise- ments. What an insult to the Native Aboriginal heritage; their love of nature, and to my own heritage. "The Great Blue Heron charitable casi- no," a wonderful example of an oxymoron. Since the blue heron had little to say in the matter, I wonder who was moronic? Las Vegas of the North might be more appropriate. Perhaps after the initial flutter has set- tled, it will just fold up and the Great Blue Heron can nest in peace. Pat Wood, Toronto REMEMBER - 55YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 26, 1942 L.A.C. Garnet Weir was home visiting his family on embarkation leave, prior to leaving for overseas. R.W. Clifford Smith is the new resident minister at the United Church in Port Perry and Prince Albert. Mr. Owen Reader, Toronto, was home over the weekend to help celebrate his parents 36th wedding anniversary, 40YEARSAGO Thursday, February 21, 1957 Field Commissioner Wally Harper addressed the Father and Son Banquet, speaking on the life of Baden Powell. Port Perry High School won the Inter-School Drama Festival Trophy. Director for the play was Miss N. McCully. Miss Esther Pickard won the award as best actress. 30YEARS AGO Thursday, February 23, 1967 Bum"s Fellowship group held their meeting at the school when Mr. Mel Smith of Oshawa taped programs to be broadcast on "Sunday School of the Air," on CKLB. Mrs. Harold Kyte, Blackstock, was elected Photo se | ; > Hg nt to the Star by Harol d J. Woon, i | the House of Howard store on Queen St., 1 | 30 into an old well and pulled five-year-old Erin %i en » Star by Haro Picture shows the Orange Men's Procession on Queen St., Port Perry in 1909. Parade is heading west and the band is at about the location of the old lawn bowling green. Mr. Woon grew up in Port Perry and moved to Toronto in 1938. His parents died in Port Perry in 1956. WHEN....? president of the Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W. at the 5th annual meeting. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 26, 1977 Gerry E. Nelson of Port Perry accepted a watch from the Holstein Fresian Assoc. of Canada as a token of 25 years of service as the | East Central Ontario Fieldman. A bullet was shot through the front window of | sending small pieces of glass 15 feet into the | furniture display area. Dr. John Stewart, president of the Big Brother Association of Scugog District was | pleased to announce the Bowl For Millions | fundraising raised over $4,000 this year. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, February 24, 1987 Police officer Greg Heasman was lowered Hoekstra out of the icy water safely after she had fallen in while playing outside. Donna Mcintyre was chosen Heart Queen at the Cartwright High School Heart Dance. Mayor Jerry Taylor and MP Alan Lawrence were among the dignitaries present for the official sod turning of Borelia Co-op. mama,