Parry Sound Beacon Star • Friday, July 11, 2008 LIFESTYLES THIS WEEK - 3A OPINION FORUM A MOMENT IN TIME How do you feel about Bell and Telus Mobility charging 15 cents per incoming text message?

Nicole Evoy Pointe au Baril

"It's really dumb because they are already making enough money."

Charlotte Watkinson MacTier

"That's too much. Why are they charging now?"

Receiving highest honour: The highest honour a Guide in Canada can receive was awarded Monday night, June 23, 1980, to two Guides in the First Parry Sound Company. Parents were invited to watch the presentation of Canada Cords to Beth Loch and Melanie Hurd. Shown above are (left to right) District Commissioner Mary Allan, Beth Loch, Melanie Hurd and Anne Peever, leader of the first company. North Star photo from the June 26, 1980 issue Lisa Mark Parry Sound

"It's stupid because I have The sum of $12,000 was voted this spring for the removal pay as you go and it eats up of the rock shoal. your time. It's bad enough Out of Our Past we have to pay for sending FROM THE FILES OF THE PARRY SOUND NORTH STAR 60 YEARS AGO a text."

70 YEARS AGO July 15, 1948 J. Perks appointed as harbour master July 14, 1938 His first official duty to open new Belvedere dock to the Dredge removing shoal from harbour public. The dredge has been busy for over a week taking out the Mr. John Perks, Belvedere Avenue, was appointed Truman Watkinson middle ground shoal between Parry Sound wharf and the harbour master recently by the Dominion government. It is MacTier east ward, which has been marked by a red spar for years. the first time in 15 or 20 years that the port of Parry Sound This shoal has been a source of worry to the ships has had a Harbour Master. entering the harbour which in turning to make the wharf The daily duties of such an official is to see that general "I think it should be free like it have to pass close or over the shoal. The Imperial Oil boats and special government regulations of harbours is carried was before, we pay enough for pass near the shoal on the way to the company dock in the out, such as collecting fees from ships, being in charge of our phone bills now." east ward. and keeping the harbour in order.

Book Review King Leary, by Paul Quarrington – the perfect cottage novel aul Quarrington wrote this hockey novel suddenly he receives a call from a journal- that also means caregivers from the home must go along to Pin 1987 but it has recently been re-issued ist, Claire Redford, and he can't make out at look after them. and I think that it is the perfect, 'cottage' On first if it is a man or woman phoning. This All is finally arranged, however, and off they go. The story book for the summer. Paul is a prolific Cana- person (it turns out to be a woman) repre- then reverts to Leary's younger days. Born in Ottawa and lov- dian author, screen writer and musician. the shelves sents the company, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, ing the Rideau Canal he became a hockey enthusiast from His band is Pork Belly Futures, which some BY JOAN SMITH which wants to produce a series of TV com- the time that he first laced up his skates and sped off on it's of you may have seen, as well as his brother mercials featuring past and present hockey smooth frozen surface. He was, however, a bit of a tearaway Joel, a musician, who often appears in Parry greats. She wants him to come to to and, having been egged on to perform several unsavoury Sound with the Festival of the Sound. This particular book do some shoots for $10,000 down, plus expenses. These start tricks in his neighbourhood, wound up being accused of was selected for the CBC's Radio One, "". to mount up as Percival insists that Blue accompany him and Two old men have shared a room in the South Grouse continued on page 11A Nursing Home for about six months but they are very longtime friends. They watch other residents gradually die around them, but unfortunately this is the way with Dr. Davidson B. Veighey nursing homes, no matter how good they are. Family & Cosmetic One of these men, however is, or has been, very special. Percival Leary was one of hockey's great heroes of the past, Dentistry A Division of METROLAND SIMCOE COUNTY MEDIA Group known as, "King of the Ice". Members of the First Nations Regional General Manager: Bill Allen • Assistant General Manager: Doug Pincoe christened him Loof Weeda, meaning Wind Song, because New Patients and Managing Editor: Jack Tynan • Advertising Sales Manager: Janice Heidman Louch he had become famous for his of, "The St. Louis Emergencies Welcome Production Manager: Tony MacDonald • Editor: Charlene Peck Whirligig", a movement, so we are told, of "unspeakable Production Facilitator: Cathy Larsen beauty". Evening Advertising Sales: Millie Cowling, Cindy May Barnes, Kim Munroe Leary is still in fairly good shape for being about 90 years Production Staff: Barb Chidley, Christina Slater, Kevin Powless, Norm Weichel old, but his friend, Edmund Hermann, known to all as Appointments Staff Photographer/Videographer: Cody Storm Cooper "Blue", is an alcoholic and nicotine wreck who, as a journal- Distribution: Joanne Anderson • Classifieds: Lori Badger Available Administration & Accounts: Christine Earley ist, used to write extensively about Percival in his heyday All advertising and editorial copy subject to the approval of the publisher. and chronicled all his exploits. He is called Blue because Insurance Plans Accepted Star Building - Home of the Parry Sound North Star, Beacon Star, his alcoholism causes him to see everything through a blue Fun in the Sun, Sideroads of the Parry Sound Area, Lifestyles haze. He is in a bad way and does not have long to go. 43 Miller Street • Parry Sound 67 James St. P.O. Box 370 Parry Sound, Ont. P2A 2X4 Leary believes that he is all but forgotten now, but then 746-4290 Phone 705-746-2104 or 746-4228 200911