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Miss Rosie Frey, grade 13 students at Port Perry High School recently won Lions international District A-3 speaking contest in Peterborough. She was competing against 11 other participants and will now travel to Lachute, Quebec for further competition taking in contestants from Ontario and Quebec.Flanking her are two of her staunch supporters to left Bruce Brandon, assistant head of the school's English Department and at right, Bill Sharpe, also a high school teacher and who accompanied Miss Frey along with Lion president Don Carnegie to Peterborough on that successful day 1970 W Robert Timbers, immie- diate past warden of Ontario County, last Friday night was chosen to carry the Liberal banner for Ontario Riding in the next election. He was the unopposed and unanimous choice of over 400 persons who attended the nomination meeting at Brock District High School, Cannington, when Liberal leader Robert Nixon was guest speaker Gary Herrema, Scott Town ship, the Riding president was chairman for the meeting. Mr. Timbers was nomina ted by Cecil Harrison and his seconder was Sam Naseilo, past reeve of Sutton, both of whom spoke highly of Mr Timbers' achievements as a farmer, in the realm of plow ing matches, and in m unicipal service r "7 Following the request he made in regard to the proclamation of Odd Fel lows Days, May 15 and 16 at the Port Perry council meeting, Mr. Wanamaker told the councillors a story which sounded like pretty good public relation work "When | was sitting on the Advisory Board of the Grand Lodge not too long | 290. | made » motion that the Grand Lodge of Ont ario issue a scroll to any lodge in existance for 100 | years, Mr. Wanamaker said - After this was duly passed, the Grand Master asked; "l wonder which lodge is going to be the first to receive this scroil," to which Mr. Wanamaker quipped, "Naturally, Port Perry, why do you think | made that motion." Bob Timbers - To Represent Ontario County Liberals Nixon took a wide swing at the policies of the Con- servatives and particularly singled out Darcy McKeough who with his regional govern- ment program he likened to a "kid in the kitchen throwing things up against the wall in order to leave his mark. Well, he did and now we've got to clean it up," he said. The big cookie cutter concept just doesn't work, Nixon sta ted McKeough has done more to disrupt this country than any other man ever did, the Liberal leader stated Nixon felt the farmers were not getting a fair deal and in speaking of the pending strike of teachers said it was "sheer irresponsibility." He thought assessment at the county level worked beautifully but now many of the decisions which should have been left to the people had been stripped from them. Regional boards are totally unacceptable, he said..It is depriving those who are re sponsible for maintaining their properties little say in how it is done. As for school boards, it was too late to turn them back to the mun- icipalities In the next election, Nixon predicted, the Liberals would be taking a new broom into Queens Park Crosswalk Without Sidewalk request sent to Department of Highways three to four weeks ago requesting crosswalks at Arrow and Ottawa Streets came up for a brief discussion at the last regular meeting of council Clerk treasurer John Doble, reported Mr. Diceman, of the Department of Highways, had called at the municipal office on March 29 and said, cross walks are only permitted at school grounds, so Arrow Street would definitely not qualify The only possibility for a crosswalk is at Ottawa Street however, council agreed it would be pointles with « crosswalk where there is no sidewalk If the municipality wishes a sidewalk on Highway 7A it would have to be paid for by the Village of Port Perry The provision of a crossing guard is conditional before any crosswalks would be in- stalled by the Department of Highways Pointless of in al letter read at the last meeting | Continued on page 11 County Ontario Regional | Government _ To Be Issue What ever the future of Regional Government sult a highly controversial issue, It is probably also one! of the most discussed topics | | m many years. | it's And it will be discussec| again and again. The next occasion to hear and take! part in a discussion will be on| Wednesday, April 7 at & p m.| in the Municipal Offices, Man chester. | Chaired by Mr. Wayland' Drew the meeting will be! attended by reeve Ed (Sam) Oyler and councillor Art Cat ton who will take part in the ) discussion % PERRY 20) Volume 105 - Port Perry, Ontario, Wednesday, April 7, 1971 - No. 24 Older Than Village Lodge Celebrates Centennial, May 15 The Odd Fellows Lodge will also celebrate centennial this year. As a matter of fact, while the Village celebrat« in June, The Lodge will do the same in May, about three weeks prior to the birthday of the Village, June 9. Members of the Lodge have made plans to celebrate the occasion and the dates are May 15 and 16. Glen Wana maker, Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ontarie atten ded the last regular council meeting and requested the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16 be proclaimed Odd Fellows Days in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the organization. He told the councillors the same request would be direct to the Coun cil of the Townships of Reach and Scugog. Mr. Wanamaker told the Hospital Report Week Ending Thurs., April 1 Adm issions . 35 Births 3 Deaths Nil Emergencies 76 Operations 16 Discharges 36 Remaining councillors the program would start with a banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday with a short cerem- ony at 8 p.m. followed by the entertainment of Billy Meek Sunday morning the men of the lodge will again serve one of their famours breakfast and in the early afternoon a worship service will be held in the Odd Fellows Hall to complete the anniversary cel ebrations Star To Publish Centennial Issue The editorial staff of the Star is preparing a special Centennial edition to be pub lished the week of June 9 At least 5,000 copies will be printed and the interest among residents and adverti sers in Port Perry'has been indeed gratifying. In order make this issue as successfu! as possible we request the co-operation of advertisers and must have copy to in this office no later than, Friday, April 23. *. *. * The grader purchased from Equipment Sales & Service Ltd. in the amount of $6,825 was payment passed for Lions Elect Arnold Roach President For 1971-72 All members of the Port Perry Lions Club from the top position of president down were acclaimed into office for the 1971-72 term Elected president was Arn- old Roach; first vice-pres Don McRitchie; second vice- pres. Art Petrozzi; third vice- pres. Doug McCague; treas- urer, Cec. King; secretary, Ralph Honey; one year direc- 39| tors, Dale Lague and P Hvid- sten; two year directors, George Proctor and Cy Wil tail twister, Art Van Camp; lion tamer, Jim Bower and bulletin editor P. Hvid- sten. Past president is Don Carnegie. Kh was decided to cancel the Centennial Ball intended for May 8. If possible a date later during the Centennial Year will be chosen for such a function. son; Percy Edgar, 98 years old on April 1 has lived 91 of those years on Scugog Island. He was born in Alliston, Ontario and moved to Scugog Island at the age of seven. As can be seen from the photo above, Mr. Edgar does not look close to his age of 98 and also enjoy® qood health. Congratulations are extended to a fine old gentleman Photo P. Hvidsten, Jr