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PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, September §, 2001 - 7 of the Perry Fair? Question Week... What did you think of the new two-day format for the Port Lorraine Smale | like it much better. | had a chance to see everything this way. Ed Smale We saw more old friends and saw more events, so Paul Arculus | think it is great. Bigger crowds, but still the feel of a yes. country fair. Luke Petzold It's good. There is a lot of stuff to see, but the rides are the best. Laura Mackey Yes. It has been a lot of fun and very interesting too. Don't label all teens From Page 6 with. No one is asking store owners and seniors to put up with anything. No one is suggesting there is a ram- page of youths roaming the streets. No one is excusing anything with a "there's nothin' to do" comment. We're just looking to be treated the same as you would like to be treated by us. We're asking for a place to sit and feel wel- come. Period. Ms. Truax didn't seem to be painting us all white, but rather, asking you to throw away the brushes. So until we're made to wear badges identifying us as either: "Good Teen" or "Water St. Problem Teen," why don't you offer us the benefit of the doubt. Your words say you don't believe all teens are bad, maybe your actions could say the same. Jayde, Jamie, Jessica, ot they 1), i 's call "We eT people in en people told us to go fort fled Toronto's concrete wi Sud Id ig Pm andy we re Seb 'peopl here. dir Ona a3 be on there can'b people jostling for space on: the causéwa the dite Hi : 3 a 51 Cb SN : hal Pi s Tet 2 qv 2 Kim, Jesse, Mike, Sean and Nicki Hospice offers training North Durham Hospice, serving Scugog , Uxbridge and Brock, requires vol- unteers to support indi- viduals and families coping with a life threatening ill- ness. A hospice palliative care training course begins on Sept. 25. For further infor- mation orto register please call 905-852-4461 or 1-800- 903-6999 (long distance only). You can e-mail the editor: shoulders, with'its sensory: 'discord 'of views and rushing traffic on Highway. TA all fishing-line tangles, wi dozens of lures dangling from the southside 'over wires, continues to grow. «- visible evidence: of. swearing in 70 languages. On Sunday, Andy Lam and his wife Catharine 1 packed it in after catching about 30 to 40 sunfish. They threw back the runts, and took the other half home to North York for soup. Accompanying them were friends Dennis Ng and his teenage daughter from Mississauga. They all fish regularly at the cause- way and Dennis isn't discouraged by the encroaching - bed of wild rice on the south side. "This is even better because of the shelter and a lot of food for the fish," he said. But nothing was biting on the north side and Zhimin Cheng's family went back to Toronto empty- handed. Zhimin's three-year-old son had provided the only excitement by nearly falling off the rock or téssy 4 tranquil lake ! iat] hy aon s tricky: And dowe really people ple fis hing there at al 1? The trafficts dangerous. | The: Signs aay no fishing, but it's never enforced: ~~ 'There's some concern that people remove the. juvenile. muskies ; as they 'make their graduation swim from thee swamp nursery to the big lake. The 'Millennium Trail project includes: building a proper fishing platform in bass territory at thé west end of the causeway, but that's still a few years away. Meanwhile; the masses from the city will still come, faceless maybe as we blow by them, but on the whole nice people -- families and friends, enjoying the outdoors together, spending their money in our town. But we treat the causeway like no man's land and they follow our example. . All I can say, friend, is God bless the cadets who go out there and clean up the mess a few times a Jes While the adults dither, the kids get the job one. want : editorial @portperrystar.com gabions by the culverts. They had brought along And another thing By Rik Davie Cotton candy and cops The life of a community news- paper reporter allows for a wide and varied type of existence. My motto has always been, ignore me, yell at me, shoot me, shove me... just don't bore me. This job allows me to stay true to that questionable motto with some regularity. This past week has been a snap-shot of the variety in my life. Last Saturday began with one of the first of the local country fairs at Blackstock. Like most of the fall fairs of old, Blackstock is as much a chance for locals to gather for a chat about politics, weather and the general state of the universe as it is for the kids to throw-up on the Tilt-A-Whirl. Amid the cotton candy and the ever-present champion pigs, a community reporter will find the seeds of numerous stories. What it is that bothers folks seems to be what those darn people at the region -- or the township, or in Ottawa or at Queen's Park -- ought to be doing. These off-the-record chats are one of the few times you can take the pulse of the community you cover. Most of the time you discover, whilst taking these vital signs of the folks you work for, that despite a few bumps and bruises and the odd sniffle, the community is just fine thanks. Early the next morning (4 a.m. to be precise), | stood in front of the charred exterior of a family's home in that same village. All were safe, but the ominous sight of a baby crib in the second floor win- dow told of the tragedy that nearly was. Prized pos- sessions strewn about the front lawn, water soaked and stinking of smoke, showed how devastating the fire had been. From the ferris wheel to the burned remains of a family's life in a few short hours. How was your day? Moving right along, Monday mornings always begin with the police news releases and a visit into the world of the crooked, not so crooked, and just plain bent. Changes were afoot at the cop shop! This week a friend and one of Durham's best cop- pers took his leave to head south for the always gra- cious world of drug enforcement. Tommy Andrews is a cop's cop. He is the guy young cops want to be and older cops want to be partnered with. His record for grabbing up the bad guys became almost legendary in his short stay here in the north. This tough street cop has only one draw-back: He has this archaic attitude that crooks should go to jail. Tom will do well in the area of undercover as he can grow a beard in about half-an-hour. Good Luck Tom! Tuesday was trying on the mind of the middle aged, somewhat right-wing reporter who now occu- pies my |7-year-old body. The residents of Uxbridge and the Greater Toronto Area in general converged for the first of a number of public meetings on the protection of the Oak Ridges Moraine. The usual group of media types hunkered down at the back of the room and waited out the meeting to get our quotes while we made fun of the process of government in general. For those of you who have witnessed such media autopsies of events in progress, well, it's not that we don't care, we've just heard it all before. Different cause, same outrage. But we write it and hope some good will come of it for our kids as well as yours, and we move on to the next meeting. Ten stories, six interviews and six photo-ops later, it's Thursday and the phone is ringing and the fire alarm just went off... and another thing... = = a " ------_----