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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 15, 1999 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Member of the BUSINESS OFFICE . \ sa Office Mgr. ..... Gayle Stapley ( ] anadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. . : . Accounting... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin 4 CNA Aoma Rising very Tusiiay yoy 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LoL 187 Retail Sales.... Kathy Dudley, Heather Callan, Leslie West 188 Mary St, Port Perry, Ontario EMail: port pony star Gummi or? SSTOWNL | 4 Peertiiisln PRODUCTION ADVERTISING Publications Mall Registration No, 07881 AT Don MecLood Trudy Empringham, Pam Hickey, Advertising Mgr. .....Don MacLeod Publications Mail Agreement No. 1389068 Manag gy Jeff Mitchell Rhonda Mulcahy, Daryle Wright, Advertising Sales....Deb McEachem, hope Subscription Rates: Foreign - $96.50 NR Ronorter. Chis hou Robert Taylor, Richard Drew, Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Al prices include GST : Freelance Reporters - Heather McCrae, John B. McClallang ~~ SCOU Ashby Lee Nowansky, Heather Mack Editorial comment le off | Mr Hoop € otters a prayer reflectin mpose CU rfews the cultura and Sp! ritua | diversity at home "of Durham... eS ------ = MAY THE a ---- need for a curfew for youngsters in Ciooel. Mormung Lan, Fe ORCE Rk According to some residents, yes. They say | | WITH You! 'they're being besieged by kids -- some of them ] very young -- who use their apartment building = | oa IA as a place to hang out, cavort, and sometimes (Vs. OS id C RN treat older folks with disrespect. | ' Sk "\ y You could simply chalk their complaints up to AY; another of those inevitable clashes among the 8 x 3 NN SN generations -- until last week, that is. That's TIN DN NOTICE: when several vehicles at the Ash St. seniors Ti SCHOOL. building were vandalized by someone -- whether | PREJERS they were kids or not we don't know -- who 5 a; ) SACKS scratched initials, cryptic messages and even a § \ . 2 swastika on the cars. = = == = \ I's got to the point, some residents told us in ===] : = = On a letter last week, where seniors feel this town ge = Ro Port Pere isn't safe for them after dark. And that is a Ing tragedy. . 56 Ss They're appealing to township council to do ee something. But beyond making an appeal to an [ [ h | already overburdened police force, there's little wa / / fh ag 0 ap P en councillors can do. : "Can residents of the building afford to hire To the Editor: or worse yet, a pedestrian will get run : : . I am writing to you about the new over. security guards to keep watch over their apart- 4-way stop sign at Queen and Perry. I wonder how many people or resi- ments and vehicles? Not likely. | I am, and have been a resident here dents feel the same way. So once again -- and how many times have for 36 years, born and raised in this Any other changes that are made to id this? -- this boils down to arental town. Over the last five years there this town I would recommend that the we so tL ths P have been many changes to this nice council send out letters to make us responsibility. Why are youngsters out maraud- little town, aware of these changes and to let the ing at two, three in the morning? Some of fie changes have been 20nd. residents vote on it. : : : : : ' ut now ese last ones are rea e € majori ruie. . If guidance is not coming from parents, there's stupid, and a waste of the taxpayer's Let the gh be heard. little chance some bylaw or other measure will money. be regarded seriously by perpetrators of vandal- Mark my words, someone will get Cheryl Doherty, ism. seriously hurt at the intersection. R.R. 2, Port Perry The only curfew that will work is one imposed Someone will get t-boned or rear ended, in the home. . converted into a great business mart, where the whole- three hours. All newspapers will then have a patent . a n d 0 m J otti n 0 S sale houses and manufacturing depots will be located. attachment whereby dead-beat subscribers can be para- ; The Port Perry of today will be occupied by eight storey lyzed at a moment's notice. , tenement houses, where the employees of the large fac- Bert, Bruce and Hugh Lucas will be poet laureates to 7 by J. Peter Hvidsten tories located in Borelia will reside. the mayor at a salary of ten cents a line, Joe Cook's | An elected railway will connect all points of the city, warerooms will be located where the GTR tank now A VISION FOR and the Port Perry Aerial Navigation Co. will run the stands and will give employment to 200 artists. - Air Line balloons to all points of the world. The new post office will stand where Billy Mills house Z . PORT PERRY - 1910 Reeve Purdy will be mayor of the city, and Charlie is now located with Billy Short as postmaster. The mail ps MR Came across an interesting arti- Vickery Chief Justice, who will preside over the local will be delivered through the city by means of pneumat- ITR LY Yl : ml cle recently entitled "Port Perry In courts of law. Cemeteries will be abolished and a mag- ic tubes, the wind being furnished by the local politicians, wile 19107, written in 1905 and pub- nificent crematory will contain the ashes of the departed The Avenue will be sprinkled with rose water three _ lished in an unknown newspaper. citizens. The building will be erected where the Ross times daily and ice cream and strawberries will be The tongue-in-cheek story outlines a vision of the Elevator now stands, with Ned Raines as firemen. served at Sam Mosier's free lunch counter. The Board of town in the future, and is published in part here: A brass monument to the memory of the distin- Education will meet once a year and attempt not to "The Port Perry of five years ago has passed like the guished financier who founded Port Perry will stand compete with the circus. The Port ladies will be noted for shifting scenes of a panorama before my minds eye. The where the band pavilion now is. The Sebert House will their beauty and style, but the costumes will be entirely Port Perry will then be a city of 50,000 inhabitants be converted into a livery stable and the goats will pas- different from those worn in the present day. with the business centre of the city situated on the ture in a ranch in the rear of \ke Wheeler's mustard A thousand other changes might be numerated. but Avenue. Manchester, Utica and Epsom will be subur- sauce factory. The St. Charles Hotel will be so improved these will be sufficient to give an idea of what Port Perry ban villages, where our merchant princes and million- and enlarged for soup kitchen for the benefit of the city's will appear five years hence. - COM." aires will enjoy a quiet rest after the business and bustle poor. Such was the vision for Port Perry by an unknown of the city is over for the day. The Standard will be printed on an electric press, the author at the turn of this century. The 6th concession, as far as Sam Cawker's will be type set by automatic compositors and issued every