PAGE 14, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNFSDAY. AUGUST 5,1987 DdnVAh15W RIUEI VU Newsm &R.Features Fdltor ei nn o Phone 655-3637 Fairest of the f air Jamie Taylor wins Miss Sunburst beauty pageant BEAUTY RUNS in the Taylor family as ..both daughters have been Canada's proclaimed fairest of the fair this year. Cana& 8The tiny tots, Sarah, left, won the best . y baby girl contest at Brooklin Spring Fair, while her older and wiser sister Jamie, at 21 months old, showed her Queen what it takes to become the Canadian Tiny Queen in the Sunburst Beauty Pageant. See story. Free Press photo At the library Juvenile author John Green will be appearing in person August 10 at 2:30 p.m. at your Brooklin library. He will tell everyone about his Dragon in the closet. Ashburn kids are invited to the Ashburn Community Centre every Wednesday at 10 a.m.; Myrtle at 11 a.m. same day; and at Macedonia Park at ila.m. Thursdays. By ROXANNE REVELER All babies are beautiful, of that there is no doubt. It just happens that some are more beautiful than others. And Kristin and Gary Taylor are content with the fact that both of their daughters have been acknowledged as beauty queens, even though neither has reached the ripe age of two yet. The couple, who reside on the outskirts of Brooklin, entered both of their children in the Brooklin Spring Fair baby contest last June and both came out as winners in their respective categories. Sarah won first prize in the section for five-month-old girls and Jamie placed first in the 18-24 month category. As it turned out, the two sisters faced each other to pick the best overall baby girl, with the fiery, red-headed Sarah taking the grand prize. But it was the curly, tow-headed Jamie's turn to shine recently as she was named Tiny Queen at the Sunburst Beauty Pageant at the Airport Cara Inn in Toronto. The 21- month old charmer beat out 42 other entrants from across Canada for the honor, a feat still not believed by her proud parents. Dessed in a simple sailor-suit type dress, Mrs. Taylor did not get her hopes built up too high when she saw the outfits on some of the other competitors. "Almost all of the other children were dressed in custom-made dresses, some even had long- dresses, like Southern belles com- plete with parasols," said Jamie's mom. "I couldn't believe the ex- pense they had gone to." As Tiny Queen, Jamie received her own little * crown and sash declaring her as "Miss Sunburst," along with a $200 cash prize and enormous trophy twice her size. As the Canadian beauty queen, she will be competing in the North American Miss Sunburst com- petition to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in September. This was the first time the Taylors had any experience with the Miss Sunburst pageant, and although they said it was "utter mahem" at times with 300 little girls under the age of seven and their families al trying to go to the same place at the same time, they agreed they would probably enter Jamie again next year. Jamie will be past the age limitations for the Spring Fair competition next year, but Sarah will be 17 months old then and ready to take up where her sister left off. I have always been a sucker for strays. They don't really have to be strays in the literal sense of the word. But when the kids, over the years, have shown up at the door with their menagerie of assorted pets-to-be, all my determination to say no to these things that have been bought, bequeathed, or otherwise obtained, go straight out the window. One look into those sorrowful eyes, both of the, kid and whatever they happen to be holding at the time and mom is mere silly putty. Hence we have a new addition to the family. He started showing up quite a while ago, but only on an intermittent basis. A few minutes here; a few minutes there, just enough to start getting used to. Sometimes it was weeks, even months between visits. Then this spring, he started arriving more often and staying for a longer period of time. Inevitably he would worm his way into the house and could be found either spragged out on the carpet beside my son's bed, or else taking over the chesterfield. At the beginning he was immensely shy. It appeared he was never comfortable around any other member of the family save for number one son. You never heard a peep VIE POINT by ROXANNE REVELER Kîng-size stray from him, and if not for his bulk, would never have known he was there. As the weeks turned into months, the shyness left and it was quite obvious he had made himself quite at home. It was not uncommon to see him meandering around at ail - hours of the day and night. He was starting to become one of the family. And at this moment I am wondering if we did the right thing., Heaven knows he can't be ingored. We have tried that and it doesn't work. Like it or not he is here, perhaps forever to stay. He is an eating machine, never going too long between meals, and doesn't seem too fussy what is served up. Roast beef, stew, Kraft Dinner, salad, it doesn't matter. I'm convinced he could devour raw potatoes and mustard with relish. Come to think of it, he eats that, too. Nothing is sacred. Yes, he eats ail my food, drinks my beer, _mooches cigarettes, takes up the room of three people, knocks over lamps and bumps into walls. He has even hinted about laundry, but I am trying hard to ignore him. But what are you supposed to do? You see, he is the best stray this family has ever seen. He's a six-foot, three inch 230-pound giant, who is tough as granite on the outside and a teddy bear in the middle. He is not only my son's best friend, and partner in a joint business venture, but a kind, nice kid. I think we'll adopt him. Maybe we'l call him Steve. Reflections of a Golden Age By MABEL M. McCABE I hope all of you who are law-abiding citizens of Canada have been watching closely the past couple of weeks as the Sikhs came in illegally. Most of us have spent our lives living according to the rules of law. Now we have been taught that we were wrong. The way to get what you want is to break the law. Many lawyers will flock to your aid and demand that the government givesyou your proper civil rights. Of course we all snicker because we know that the lawyers will make a bundle. This whole situation is a farce. First the Tamils arrived off our shores in small boats. It did not take them long to confess that they had been put there from a large ship. It also did not take long for those who make fortunes outside the law to see an easy way to flood our shores. There will be many more such incidents, believe me, if harsh action is not take now. There is no screening process in the world that will weed out potential terrorists. People with that mentality will lie and cheat at every opportunity to get to their target. There are surely some in this group who need very careful study before they are released to scatter out across our land. I know there are genuine refugees in this world and we should fling the doors wide to receive them. Those who break laws and lie about it have something to hide. We have to find out what it is before we take them at face value. The whole world has seen the products of the terrorist of all nationalities and we as a nation have had our share of fanaticism. A plane of innocents was blown up off the shore of Ireland by Sikhs - a proven fact. Sikhs are in jail for- plots to murder in British Columbia. Armenians have taken hostages and committed murder in Ottawa. These are just a few and on the world scale, not many. If we do not start to screen indepth those who claim to be refugees we might as well hand this nation over to the terrorists and with- draw from the fight for logic and reason in the world. Most of us come from immigrant stock and we are proud of it. We have adapted to the customs of Canadian lifestyle and made them our own. There are many colorful festivals throughout Canada celebrating the different ethnic origins of our people. This is good and right. We should never forget our heritage. On the other hand no new refugee or immigrant should be allowed to flaunt our written laws. No one in Canada is by law sup- posed to carry a weapon. Yet these very new illegal aliens raised a fuss about having their (ceremonial) daggers taken from them. Hey, fellas, this is Canada, and if you intend to live here you bet- ter observe the laws as everyone is supposed to. This goes for all Sikhs whether they have been here ten minutes or more than ten years. The demands of this particular group seem to say we want in on ail we can get for free. All the good things this country offers but we refuse to become Canadian. We are intending to set up a Sikh state iere and you can do nothing about it. Are they right or wrong? It seems the government has caved in to their demands because, they say, they find no reason to deport them. How come? The last I was aware of, it was grounds for deportation if one broke the law. This group broke the law by arriving here under cover of darkness and lying about their place of departure. I surely hope the folks in power look very close before this is set- tled for I predict that many more large ships will be dumping their flotsam and jetsam on our doorstep. 1.4 à c r-ý v