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p4 weekender january 23 1993 our mmmsmmmmmmmmsmmmmmfi f dont let trustees be fall guys for province politicians need to do more than pay lip service to reform taxpayers are justified when they call a halt to overspending by government and over government itself it was in response to about 500 angry taxpay ers in scarborough this week that education minister tony silipo said the province is consider ing a royal commission or task force with a view to revamping the school boards system the citys trustees had refused to roll back com pletely a 64 per cent pay raise in a telling flash- mm 7- viewpoint jo ann stevenson back when silipo was a toronto trustee in 1988 that board voted itself an 86 per cent increase this appears to be a shallow kneejerk reac tion to a squeaky wheel in boom times such as we experienced in the 80s no one complained too loudly about exces sive consulting pro gramming and indeed excessive administration and bureaucracy the practices are evident in the school boards system and throughout all three levels of government municipal provincial and federal we dont need another expensive commission to tell us what parents and educators and taxpayers already know stop waste stop spending to justify future budget allocations and reduce duplication of services and facilities one york region mayor suggests scrapping school boards and having von nurses thanked for support dear editor as the week of jan 25 to 31 is von week across canada i am writing to you to tell you of the efficient care my late hus band received from the von nurses from the first moment they set up an immediate rapport with us both and continued to provide us with capable and conscientious care throughout the swift decline of freds illness in the days that united way is grateful deai editor thank you people of york region for your very generous support in these tough times we all have to help each other and as in the past the people who live and work in york region showed that they care about their fellow man the final campaign figure is 2560000 a 10 per cent increase over last years achieve ment for this we are truly grateful for this too the 37 social servicehealth related agencies who make up the unit ed way of york region say thank you they can now con tinue to serve the needs of so many gord sanford 92 campaign chair followed i was so impressed not only with the high standard of care delivered to my husband but also with the support and understanding they offered me in this time of great need i really feel that through their efforts and support i was able to keep my husbands wish that he be nursed at home until the end and this meant the world to us both we did not realize the tremen dous help that was available through the von services and greatly appreciate the admirable and unforgettable source of com petency and strength we found in their nurses my thanks to this wonderful organization sheila wilde unionville mmmm by brian basset twmrmdkwlrtq regional councillors han dle their responsibilities- an indicator that region al councillors have time to spare the kind of commission that would be justified would be one that tack les the untouchables such as combining sepa rate and public facilities and administration staff and dare i say it the effectiveness of regional government itself markham economist and sun st0uffville tribune uxbr1dge tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher- jo ann stevenson editorinchief paula crowell editor andrew mair editor debraweller director of advertising jennifer hutt director of distribution vivunoneil business manager pam nichols operations manager markham 2942200 sales 7987g24 classi fied 2944331 stouffviue g102100 uxbridge 8329741 2948244 distribution and administration 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m2 fax markham 2911538 stouffviue g40- 5177 uxbridge 8524355 the markham economist and sun stouffviue tri bune and uxbridge tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the melroland printing ubhvhing and distributing group of subur ban newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser barrie advance brampton guardian burlington piist collingvvood connection ktobicokc guardian the liberal georgetown inde pendentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week milton canadian champion mississauga news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawawhitby this week pctoriwrough this week scarborough minor the kra banner contents not to be reproduced without written permission from the publisher english language hard to nail down the fact that youre reading this automatically makes you a mem ber of one of the largest families on the planet three hundred and fifty million earthlings speak english as their mother tongue more than a billion use it as a sec ond language yessir an awful lot of information gets communicated in the language you and i are sharing at this moment but not always well commu nicated shakespeares tongue is a convo luted medium of expression with plenty of hairpin turns and cul de sacs foreigners dont always get the hang of it right off which is why on the streets of tokyo you are apt to see designer tshirts bearing slogans such as od on bourgeoisie milk boy milk what does it mean too inscrutable for this occiden tal theres a restaurant in geneva the menus of which bear the bliss ful slogan our wines leave you nothing to hope for and a warsaw eatery lets its customers know that they can choose from two specials roasted duck let loose or beef rashers beaten up in the country peoples fashion if youve still got your appetite pop a peptobismol and run before you get to the acapulco restaurant which has a sign on the wall saying the manager has personally passed all the water served here and in denmark harried inter national travellers will find per haps the only truthful aeronauti cal promise ive ever encoun tered an airline office in copen hagen promises to take your bags and send them in all direc tions protestants with tooth problems can feel right at home in hong kong where a downtown dentist guarantees that teeth will be extracted by the latest methodists then there is the problem of x- rated english wherein new comers to english inadvertently stumble into the offcolor range of the language spectrum such as the zurich hotel which warns its englishspeaking guests because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the oppo site sex in the bedroom it is sug gested that the lobby be used for this purpose basic black 1 arthur black or the laundry in rome which enjoins its female customers to leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time or the paris haut couture bou tique which advertises dresses for street walking not to be outdone by the bangkok dry cleaner which sug gests that prospective customers drop their trousers here for best results but fractured english is a two way street sometimes when we anglophones try our tongues at translation we mangle and muck up with the best of them in japan coca cola cans bear the slogan i feel coke and sound special sounds stupid but it works it works a lot better than the coca cola pr depart ments first foray into china when they tried translating its the real thing into mandarin somehow the slogan came out as bite the wax tadpole a jin gle not likely to move a lot of soft drink sometimes even a single word can get you in big trouble gener al motors found that out when they tried marketing the chevro let nova in south america nova works fine in english it comes from the latin meaning new unfortunately if you throw in a space it comes out in spanish as no va which means svont go not the kind of reputation you want your car to have but the ford motor company had even bigger marketing headaches when they introduced their fiera and pinto to europe in spanish tiera translates as old ugly woman dont even ask about what pinto means in portuguese well since you asked pinto is portuguese slang for small male organ precisely the opposite of what all those overhyped autoerotic adverts want potential customers to believe