b'November The fashion industry is one of the major pollutingTHUMBS UP - to Mark Fletcher, outgoing President, Port industries on the planet.Perry Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. Mark has justthree years as Foundation President, a voluntarynished Wash your clothes in coldleadership role that started just prior to the Port Perry Hos-water and hang to drypitalre and ended during the challenges of COVID. Hes inside or out. worked incredibly hard through many challenging times on LIVINbehalf of our hospital and community.Mark now holds the THEBuy second hand andof ce of Past President.He deserves our gratitude; so if recycle good used clothingyou see him, please remember to say thanks. GREEN and footwear. THUMBS DOWN - to all the households who have 3 or 4 cars and consistently park on both sides of residential streets, which interferes with the normalow of traf c and is an eye sore. Use your garage for your extra cars!THUMBS UP -to the Port Perry Lions Club who collected just over $1,000 during a bottle drive they held this past August. They donated the money to Big Brothers Big Sisters North Durham for the Scout Hall Restoration fund. THUMBS DOWN - to all the cat owners in Prince Albert who let their animals run wild. These cats are the worst predators of songbirds not to mention chipmunks and bun-nies. And just so you know, the pet bylaw does not allow for pets to be unleashed when not on your own property.THUMBS UP - to Kellys on Queen for selling Canadian made non-medical face masks and donating all the pro-ceeds, $5,000 to the Port Perry Hospital Foundation. Thats a lot of masks! So appreciated by everyone.THUMBS DOWN - to the federal of cial(s) who granted ex-emptions to Uline executives for their visit to Canada.(The personnelto Canada, did not quarantine, went to itsew distribution centre and conducted a mass meeting wherein Wow, Durham Region, you sure know how to smile! they prohibited attendees the wearing of masks).Wearesoexcitedtosharewithyouthatthe2020THUMBS UP -Kudos to the guys doing the roadwork on Smile Cookie Campaign has raised $224,637.53 to supportHighway 7A to Blackstock/Caesarea.Theyve done a great hospice care in Durham Region!job and have been working late into the night (I presume All of us at Oak Ridges Hospice and Durham Hospicenot to disrupt day traf c) and their hard work is appreciated.Clarington and Whitby want to send a huge THANKTHUMBS DOWN - to the scammers and their spoo ng.YOU to everyone who purchased a cookie (or many cook- They are putting 985 exchanges on call display hoping peo-ies) to support our hospices.ple will answer when they see a local number. When you We are grateful to the restaurant owners of Durhamgoogle these numbers many businesses names appear for choosing to partner with us this year. And to the theirincluding, P.P. Medical Centre but with their real numbers. team members thank you for selling smiles across theScammer numbers to name a few are; 985-5957, 4956, region!1751. These are desperate characters.Trusted firms working together to serve Scugog.18FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2020'