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r-- a -- 6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 1, 1997 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - L9L 187 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 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 0265 Subscription Rates: Includes $2.10 GST Editorial Comment EDITORIAL: Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten General Manager .... Managing Editor 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. ........ccccccvvinnnee Gayle Stapley Accounting.......Judy Ashby, Louise Hope Nd CNA Retail Sales...... Kathy Dudley, Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Heather Callan Don Macleod PRODUCTION Jeff Mitchell Annabell Harrison, Trudy Empringham, Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew ADVERTISING Advertising Mgr. .......... Don MacLeod Sales: Myra Park, Joanne Bambrough, Deb McEachem, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin [JT 1. gle 1] Now comes the tough part ~The first stage of the combining cf hospitals in Port Perry and Uxbridge is complete. Now comes the tricky part. Members of a joint board of representatives of both hospitals have spent the past several months working diligently toward today: April 1, 1997. That's the deadline they imposed upon themsleves back in August when they announced that the merger, long a topic of consideration for board members, was to go ahead. They have laid out the structure of the new North Durham Hospital, effectively making a single entity out of two separate hospitals. That's no mean feat, especially when you consider just what a hospital is: One of the single most important resources in any community, cherished and jealously protected by those who have a stake in its existence. Today a new chief officer takes the reins, and to him falls the job of determining how the new hospital works. He has a mandate in the vision of a north Durham health network; it's the give and take among the two communities -- and two hospitals, with two complete and separate staffs -- that will be the challenge. It will mean bitter medicine for some. It seems inevitable that staff cuts will have to be made as the merger is implemented. There's no way to sugar-coat that. What will make it work -- and it must work, because a visit by the province's axe men is pending, and our house must be in order -- will be a spirit of understanding and cooperation among the communities of Uxbridge and Port Perry. Hospital supporters have overwhelmingly given their support to the merger by voting for a resolution creating the new hospital. Now we must allow it to happen. REMEMBER 55 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 13, 1942 Extremely high winds on Sunday blew down part of the front of Beare's garage, located on Queen St. Owen Cliff joined the army this week and his leadership of the Boy Scouts will be taken over by Foster Vernon. The poolroom business operated by William Kaufman has been bought by Grant Jeffrey. Miss Jean Hood of Scugog Island secured office work in Toronto. 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14,1957 The Port Perry Chamber of Commerce held its first annual dinner meeting at the Scugog Hall. Guest speaker was Harold Kenneth Hillier of the Ont. Hydro Electric Power Commission. Mary Lynn Hodgins and Bruce Taylor have won second place positions in the Lions Club public speaking contest at Norwood. 30 YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 9, 1967 Ontario Provincial Police College, Toronto. 1 DONT CARE. Ce i 15 50 SPRING. Ti : L 5°90. To the Editor: It is our good fortune in Scugog to have a council that is looking out for the long term health of resi- dents and of the environment. Their passing of a pes- ticide policy is clear evidence of this. One statement in the policy encourages "all resi- dents within the Township of Scugog to follow their example by actively promoting a chemical-free approach to landscape design and lawn care." Let's take the challenge and make our neighbor- hoods safer for everyone. Come out and learn how PHOTO COURTESY PHIL ORDE Pesticide policy guards environment easy it is to get your lawn and garden off drugs. On Thursday, April 3 several expert speakers will explain how to maintain beautiful lawns, flower and vegetable gardens with no herbicides or pesticides. The talk is at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall C-113, Durham College, Simcoe St. North, Oshawa. Call 985-1091 for more information. Bev and Jay Thibert, Scugog Green Team WHEN....? John Warren Burnham, Port Perry's postmaster for 45 years, is seen sitting in OPP constable David lan Godley, sonof Mr. | his boat in Lake Scugog along the lakefront. The location of the boathouse at and Mrs. Frank Godley graduated from the | right, is about where the north ball diamond is located today. John Maw, past president of Port Perry Legion was elected to the post of Zone Commander for F1 by acclamation at a Zone Rally in Whitby. 20 YEARS AGO Tuesday, March 9, 1977 Dr. John Stewart was re-elected as head of the local Big Brothers organization at the annual meeting of the group. A photo-feature on ballooning by Star editor John Gast won a Premier Award in the OCNA Better Newspaper Competition. 10YEARS AGO Tuesday, March 10, 1987 Six-year-old Dustin Kellesteine was pulled from a well by his grandmother, Marion Melnichuk, after falling into the 40' well on his grandparents property on the Shirley Road. Scugog Chamber of Commerce and the Township have joined forces to share the cost of re-publishing a $10,000 township brochure. The Port Perry MoJacks were defeated 2-1 in overtime in the sixth game by the Uxbridge Bruins in the division final. Community Memorial Library took its first step towards computerization by transferring card index files to a computer data base.