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Port Perry Star (1907-2001), 26 May 1971, p. 4

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DITORIAL 1ON Hats Off For Kinsmen Orgpnized only three to four months ago, the Port Perry Kinsmen Club has already proven it has a solid : place in this community. Ouring this short spand of time, the 20 young men : making up the club have worked diligently for the : Organization and what it stands for. The members have been attending the meetings as regularly as possible and . have taken part actively in the proceedings and injected the kind of spirit into the club that can only make the r ' grow and prosper in the future. Recently over $600. were collected from functions the local Kinsmen participated in. Two weeks ago, the members placed second in a relay walkathon from Bowmanville to Sick Children Hospital in Toronto, a distance of 44 miles, netting the club over $400. The second venture wes @ dance at Club Annrene held about a week ago with a net result of $200. The toca! club has chosen Cystic Fibrosis their main project and the $600. raised will or perhaps already have been presented to that Association. We like to publicly recognize this fine effort and ex- tend congratulations to the young men of a young club. Poison The Ontario Safety League reports that tragedy can be the result of letting children play with containers of talcum powder. a Recently, a 22-month-old boy wes playing with a can of powder and inhaled a large quantity of the contents. Emergency treatment wes administered by both his mother and doctors, but he died 20 hours later of Few parents are aware of the potential danger of talcum powder. ft should be put away after use, never given to a child for amusement. | Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association © _--«s Mamiber of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assicistion Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co, Lad, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of portage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subseription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, Elsewhere $600 per year. Single Copy 10¢ WATCH FORTHEM™.... Teey aee ImeorraanT ! BILL MILEY UGAR ano other voices shout. Constantly shouting are the voices of our sensual nature, urging us on to venial sins. "G ahead, have another piece of chocolate cake with whipped cream. It wont hurt to get off the diet for one day. Life isn't worth this torture. And I'll swear those scales are wrong." And the little voice mutters, "Liar." And you hear i TE 7 z : i E 23 Fé its He Te pep Hite iaztest i iF [s elicit r H Spice It takes half the fun out of life. May is a terrible month for a man with a conscience, All the voices seem to be shouting at once. I'm not much for astro- logy, but surely Satan was born in May. Every May I go through a terrible inner conflict that would psychologically dev- astate the average man. Opening weekend of the trout season, in this benighted climate, inevitably coin- cides with the final disappearance of the last iceberg on the property. There you are. All those lovely fish waiting to match wits with you. And all that accumulated, filthy muck lying around waiting to be raked up. There lies the golf course, greening, beckoning, shouting that your game is going to improve immeasureably this year, if you'd just get an early start. And there, even closer, smack in the middie of your wife's favourite flowerbed, lies the neigh- bours' fence, felled by the winds of winter, whining to be propped up for the tenth annual season. things; a certain blindness about the essence of life In this case she's pointing at a lawnchair, lying on its back, hopelessly crippled after twelve feet of snow. She's pointing at the wooden back stoop, which resembles a snaggle-toothed hag, with its broken and rotting timbers. She's pointing at the peony bed, which looks like a hog wallow. lam proud and happy to state that once ifr? § E t i present. The date selected forthe © cnunniing Estee following, enumeraters poy eos declan and Switzer. Reach Twp. J. Baird, Ed Christie, John Lambe, Wm. Phoenix, Peter Ganton, John Markand @

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