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Georgetown Herald A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main Street South Georgetown Ontario RICHARD HERALD THURSDAY JUNE Reserve Funds What Protection is There QUEENS PARK The path to regional govern is as lumpy as some of the roads in Ontario One Item of concern that is becoming widespread is the future of reserve funds Georgetown council is worried that a reserve fund for a recreational complex might be disbursed on a regional basis and not directly for the benefit of Georgetown residents The towns solicitor already has suggested to council that it might be wiser not to set up such a reserve fund He told council that funds will be controlled by the region if a particular activity for which funds are allocated becomes a responsibility of the region If responsibility for an activity remains local the money would remain local He concluded that the safest course would be to spend funds now on a local project Council has in mind acquisition of land for an arenacommunity hall The problem of reserve funds is further amplified by actions of nearby Township officials There Reeve Robert Williams has complained that in reserve funds will be taken over by the regional municipality of Peel if they aren spent by the end of the year Arthur Meen parliamentary assistant to treasurer John White has pooh such fears He said Section of the bill provides for the protection of reserve funds accumulated by the township from developers This is m keeping with promises made by the government he said But he added a note of caution Although he said he expects much of the reserve will be used up in the coming months on capital projects already planned Mr said any balance will be subject to special arbitration proceedings with any decisions subject to Ontario Municipal Board review There s the rub For all the protections promised things might well go awry Remember Robbie Burns analogy between mice and men Georgetown council might be wise to listen to its solicitor Safe Cycle Safer Child Bicycles are back on the streets in ever increasing num bers And their prevalence will grow as summer holidays begin Some of the children riding bicycles will survive the summer only through a large measure of good luck Much has already been said as it is every spring about the hazards of bicycles and how they should be operated with care and sense But little is made of the im of keeping bicycles in a good state of repair although parents are constantly subjected to steady streams of information about the wisdom of good auto maintenance In the space of only a few minutes parents could take steps to ensure that their children cycle m safety and are assured some chance of surviving the summer months That s as long as it takes to review a bike s mechanical safety Do the brakes work Are the handlebars fastened firmly into position Are the tires properly inflated Is the seat secure Are the pedals in good condition Is the chain mechanically sound What needs repair should be repaired The behavior of some cyclists and the conditions of their bicycles indicate that not all parents are conscious of this aspect of cycling safety The few minutes spared to check a child bike for safety and to make whatever repairs are necessary could spell the between life and death And while parents are at it they should continue to preach safe cycleriding practices look where youre going don weave in traffic obey traffic signs and signals don ride double etc Helping Hand Extended In today s age of alienation within society determination to organize a Georgetown area telephone contact centre comes as a ray of sunshine Initial steps have been taken to being and now a show of public support is needed to launch the venture and assure it of some measure of success Intent is to use non professional volunteers who would be trained to listen to people and to make referrals when necessary for a host of problems from marital to loneliness to drinking and drugs The telephone contact centre would become sort of a community shoulder a listening ear where persons who feel they have problems would be able to turn if only to unload a tale of sorrow Experience of many such centres other communities has shown that many persons who do make contact are only reaching out for a form of personal attention In todays fast paced world it is very easy to become lost in a crowd to develop a very great sense of loneliness even when surrounded by varied trappings of society It is then that problems seem to grow and to become unbearable A contact centre besides listening can provide referrals when required or when it is recognized they are needed and could even provide the motivation to help someone help himself In this sense then it is not intended to make the Georgetown operation a counselling service But in the realm of public service it is hoped that this service might lead to a dropin centre and hostel project to accommodate people in distress in f The is the guiltiest parly as a weed offender charged weed inspector Milton when he urged Georgetown arc Justified said Ihe irate town II an position when f can answer such complaints He asked what Ihe to do and if he could obtain some help with handcutting which is necessary in many locations loiter council contracted a Belfountain resident Archie who had cut weeds other years and hired him In start work on yearly job Irate about pressure by nun Charles llildebrandt to require council permission before any Irees are cut by the hydro commission Mayor Ern Hyde exploded briefly towards the close of a council meeting You sponsored a useless meaningless motion last week lit snapped at councillor The commission has always sought per mission as a courtesy but it doesn have In The matter under discussion was tree surgery on a maple at Ihe Queenhighway corner Council decided to leave decision about felling the to the property committee The Maple comer is a traffic hazard Reeve John Elliott told council suggesting cither a in Ihe stop signs or creation of a our way stop Mayor Hyde said the police chief minks making Main Street the stop would make Ihc situation worse Visibility at the corner can be Improved by cutting down a bank he suggested Reeve Elliott also suggested council should start planning improvements in eastern highway approach for next year particularly with recent legislation which boosts Ihc province cost share from 70 lo per tenl Asking annul a report from the firm about Ihe crossing Interchange Between Government Business by MONO lit 1ark Bureau TORONTO That man is thinking again John White has always been an idea man When he was minister of industry and tourism he bred ideas with Ihe verve of a mad inventor Some or them were good some were bad Bui at least he was thinking which is not by any means usual exercise around here When he went to Ircasurv and inter governmental affairs it seemed we might see an end to his mental acrobatics For this is a stolid ministry which lend to innovation Par of the colorful nature which Whites mind lendi to produce one of his proposals in industry and tourism was that Iok cabin hostels be established ghoul Ihe north pat terncd after a thatched cottage program in Ireland Hut llus dercstlmaling White His is a mind lhal in his coffin would dream up new for And in Us new milieu of the treasury it has been gelling busy at a in Suggestions have turning forth of Ihcm the treasurer been floating is that there should be an in I change of officials bet ween government and private business industrial firm would lend one of its executives to government tor six months or a year and government in turn lend out one of its The foal would be more understanding and a better relationship between two spheres ITus sounds great Bui it has been tried by the federal ITS TURNED INTO A PUMPKIN BILL SMILEY Education Agreement By Ordinary Readers My views on education don seem to upset the Minister one whil He just around with his eyes shut droning that hypnotic chant The standards of education are not declining the standards of education are not declining the However my views do seem to strike a or an open wound among a food many other people education has attracted moremail than anything I written since I churned out Six ind the That was when I was a weekly editor and it was a hot number I can tell you There wore no leftover papers thai wick ECHOES FROM THE PAST firm is seeking a directive from before presenting a report cause Canadian F was running over into the usual Georgetown fair date it was necessary change dale of fair ytar to the first Friday in second and third While this be i f tended thinfc for local fair rs during the past in it is hoped revtrt the usual date mother jear Georgetown Fair however has been held on October dates in years by and iuld be no ixiepllon The first weed meet inf of its kind ever held in Hilton wis it farm of Mcdforih in Trafalgar Town ship Despite weather con i persons were on hand for in Mrs Sidney Mackenzie Mrs W Thompson Mrs WV Grant Mrs and Mrs Thomas committee in charge assisting Mrs Blackburn convener sponsored a successful six week euchre marathon in SI George club rooms from which was turned over church wardens for Improvements in church properly Thirteen tables played wlih Mrs T E and Mrs Eugene winning first prize for highest loial score Mrs James and Mrs A second prize Mrs rant and Miss Mathews won the low store highest score for an in dividual night was win by Mrs Arthur everyone knows except a lot of teachers school teachers must maintain the highest slindords of morality sobriety and taslc Besides it was harmless Just a device to sell papers when circulation wis slumping a bit Hilt When was Oh yes letters ibout ilk wing are some excerpts from letters received from readers if there ore inh lie never id bin who self ordinary why should Vi re an extra rdinarv lot If don litliovcmi lake a flood I ink at ursclf then a your neighbors at our lenders They may be a f riffraff but theres nol one who is ordinary mm merchant You hove what i ureal mam if us think but means of communication is nut as as The Mouse and Donald Dink have in high schools and socalled tolliges now would be a big joke if they wire not doing harm to our young people and wire not so costly It would from Ihe reports of the meetings that all is beautiful in education land and seldom is heard a discouraging word In our local brain factory the students seem to be running the ill- From a mother We hive seen system rapidly son in last year law one daughter in her last year who manured lo be outstanding students who could read write and spell and dldn I have wise and wonderful sex education in school What has thai brought us An epidemic of VD and related social problems She on problem is too many working mi hers Women lib will hate nit One of our finest teachers told me he could tell in week which children had mothers in the home which ones had working mothers From in ex leather I am one who was in he old way and used to love grammar class My daughter who is a Grade leather sijs what limbic I hi children use m sure high school students of loday who in dropping their language courses arc doing it because don have the basic Fntjish From i minister 11 me in a for poor spellers Teachers insist Mint laws tin laws thi and the Persians un inaudible us wis the lHLinnuiL is and ie So and ha worked out too well There hav been few takers from the industrial end And aside from this one tan understand why it would READERS FORUM be nul too successful FIINI- r on ihc one hand any executive coming into government from the private sphere might wonder if he t landed in the land of Ana a government man Mine into industry t find very many meetings And any government official without meetings constant meetings is lost An orphan without a home Still it an idea So is White thought Tills is that government might nut some of its services to private in dustry such as processing This he says could keep down Ihe government payroll be more ficient and would feed the private sector This mtghi have more merit than the first proposal it might not Hut at least tht man is thinking Railway No Playground Sir With end another school year just days away CN Police officers arc bracing for the annual small scale invasion of railway property bummer vjcailon brings curious youngsters onto property across the tountry- fascinated by engines and tars and tracks children with time on their hands children out ex plonng And every summer brings a sharp Increase in the grim toll of injuries and fatalities resulting from youngsters trespassing on railway properly We know says J W superintendent police that child has a built in urge to climb jump and explore However the safe place play is on special equipment in the Irtight racks or top of buildings in railway yards where a slip hand or foot can mean permanent injury or loss of life children place i Ihe rail to see what will happen A rock spike or ther object placed on a rail could derail a train or a track motor car Any tampering with locks or latches of switches could cause a Iragcdy Children enjoy riding their bicycles on the straight path way between tracks This is extremely hazardous says Mr Deck Intent on play they may not hear an preaching train CN would reed an army lo effectively police alt its yards during summer The of parents is sought lo repeatedly warn their children that any lime night was win by Wilson and Mrs William Furgruvc Telephone I Publisher GARFIELD Production Manager TERRY HARLEY News IN Man William Valerie Caruso David Miles Joan Davis Nelson HUM trios Mr Mrs Fyrt ill phone ions the spellmf quirks of the middle ur children It foist inf but I From i leather I do not wish send bind pressure up mother point hut sorrow likes and article was welcomed in our school as a most timely and health to the irresponsible irlicles from the Blank f our likes very in rush tow mis Hey there split ir in opining sentence Will tint sampling f tht lelters 1 don ifrce with i they sav but I in Dure is indent i intern about tin quality of idutnlnii And I don plan to keep hacking away at subject There nothing duller a farmer who can talk about nothing but farming on iditor who can talk about nothing but newspapers or a leather who whines all the education It near the end of June and 1 too hot and tired to about much of anything I ve just crawled out from under an avalanche of and short stories winch f marked in my spare time and I have teased to care how anybody spells anything And must sny that there i tremendous interest in education during last week or so Guys and dolls who have spent proximately as much time year n their school work is I have spent being a millionaire have suddenly lost all their apathy They tome up to their teachers with Ihe most appealing wislful smiles and winder whether they are foing to be recommended or whether they have to wnle the They re pitiful and pathetic hut they II sec that Smiley has a heart of solid steel Or butler Dentists Aid New Program Five out of eight dentists in purge town arc now taking part in a lowcost denture pi is province wide and is an attempt stop denlunsts from what me Georgetown dentist terms under this program SI BO for a set of upper and plates False teeth range from to a tooth A dentist told The Herald that purchasing these low dentures n frills will be will be fitted by a dentist The cost of the dentures also overs ad and checkups fins program has been used for a long lime by individual dentists in Toronto To find the mutes of dentists parllcipaling in the program one can phone dentists suffice me denlurlsts arc Illegally selling and filling dentures and it present a lobby is taking Queen s Park to make it legal Dentists want the to mi rk with and not have Hum rclnillng public said i Georgetown dentist Ihey do not have the oral iralnlnt to fit den tuns in Foster Nature Respect To Guard the Outdoors Many people who are but thoughtlessness that has transient residents of the enriched Ihe waters countryside have some Before destroying aquatic misconceived ideas on how vegetation creating a nature should be treated In sterile shoreline cottagers order to foster a respect for our should think about value of natural outdoors the present such plants to marine life park like concept of nature Aquatic vegetation provides held by many has lobe altered food and shelter to a host of Too many cottagers who animals minute invertebrates spend part of their summer in snails crayfish frogs turtles the want to transport fish muskrats many birds the city environment to their such as herons and rails small lot by some stream or Everyone of course is aware lake In the cities and towns of ihe importance of marshes to Man is supreme and has sub the production of ducks nature but in the country Somecontrolof algae may be he had better learn to live with necessary but mechanical and within the natural en methods are preferred to the vironment use of chemicals Filhtr way There is just no room for the control of aquatic asphalt thinking in the vegetation is just a treatment of country It Is ironic that many the symptom The disease people preach the healthy life of is caused by the country but when they are an overabundance of nutrients faced with they Immediately Perhaps it is time lo examine begin to attack the our attitude towards in inconveniences with sprays conveniences such as algae It chemicals plastics etc is just possible algae in Those living near streams of the cottage this sum and lakes are familiar with the is merely reflecting the profusion of natures plants input of nutrients from our whether in water or on land septic system is train time and railway property is out of bounds John Noel Canadian National RECYCLING Sir This is a copy of a letter sent to Frank Morel f department of public works in Georgetown Mr Morctte we would like o offer our sincere and en in your efforts to and recycle the items collected in the big junk pickup last week We feel lhat markets do exist for junk and garbage which with little help from the public in the of home separation can be made at least break even operation If you have any schemes In mind lo start pickup of separated garbage com modities newsprint for one thing we would be pleased There are about BO members of Pollution Probe in Georgetown most of whom voluntarily separate and recycle their garbage as far as practicable They would willingly in publicizing any pickup depot and try to secure the highest degree of public cooperation The high cost of preparation and separation f the new landfill site would appear to make it worthwhile to search out ways and means of its life lo the utniost John Mitchell for Pollution Probe Georgetown BOOK PLANS Sir have decided to write a book about Canadian In dians as they were when Canada was first discovered and as they ore now 1 would sincerely ap any information or addresses where I might obtain information about this subject Algae and other aquatic plants however tend o annoy some cottagers Usually this kind of vegetation frows fast and spreads quickly in response to a rich supply of nutrients in the water Quite often it is mans Fire Units Stand Ready The complex machinery of Ontario forest Tire control organization could not unction without the highly trained crews work on Ihe Tire edge with water and chemical rclardants One of Ihe busiest is situated in the Sioux Lookout District of Northwestern Ontario the scene of many serious forest fires in the past Four unit crews each consisting of one boss and four men are based at Sioux Lookout and one at the Pickle Lake Satellite Fire Base Each man Is supplied with a packsack containing sleeping hag air mattress First aid kit lantern gloves and fly dope He carries enough personal supplies tobacco toiletries and clothing lo last up to five days thus a crew is ready lo go at moment notice OCONNORS OTTAWA Ihe There Northwestern Region of the ministry or natural resources They are situated at Kcnoro F Frances Red Lake Sioux Lookout and fgnace These crews are rfnnizodso can be sent to any irea of the province needed Highly rained ihcy not only fight forest fires but repair and maintain their own equipment so lhat it is always Sioux District Fire Centre is solelhtesof llrvdm Fire Centre which coordinates all resources in the Northwestern Region Tht Fire Centre receives weather reports manpower and equipment status reports and dally fire nicssafes from districts In region From this In formation it plans distribution of manpower aircraft and equipment Aerial detection patrols arc sent out after all weather reports have been analyzed and requirements assessed for Ihc day Patrol routes ore pi a tied to cover areas In which fires arc likely to occur due lo lightning strikes high hazard or heavy concentrations of people travelling In Ihc woods 1c long tic Ottawa bureaucrats I suppose perform some valuable functions they raise families pay taxes From reading the myriad of annual departmental monthly and special reports however that are regularly disgorged of the offices of the bureaucrats one really wonders what docs go on in date I have been sub to no less than 186 of such shiny covered pearls of wisdom They revel in telling me nearly always in the most pedantic language why par agency board of department is greatest thing since sliced bread Mrs Brown my secretary tells me lhal she has thrown out another 186 or so for ear at her If she dares junk up my desk wilh any more Tiny report on every area of gi vtrnmenlal activity from Air Canada to Veterans Affairs something tailed Prairie Farm Rehabilitation and Related Activities a service of DUFF Canada Depart mini of Regional and F So I dp me It is all on the cover in both official languuges if you really to go bonkers try reading some of mind numbing officialese set out in these reports usually in all seriousness Here follows a little gem from annual report of the department of manpower of course you know means Canada Manpower Tralningon the Job Program was in to encourage and assist employers lo prepare for future expansion by engaging a substantial number of the unemployed employables learning on the Job skills that are transferable between cm have continuing value and that will Increase or earning capacity and prepare Ihcm to take ad vantage of future cm ploymcnl growth Or this from Ihc proposed income lax regulations processing profits The manufacturing and processing profits of such a for a taxation year will be that proportion if its Canadian active business income for the year which its manufacturing labor plus manufacturing capital is of its total labor plus total capital for the year This con be expressed MP plus ML plus MC TL plus ABI MP manufacturing and processing profit ML equals 100 of direct manufacturing and processing labor equals total lobar related to equals 85 of direct manufacturing processing fixed capital equals total fixed capital related to ABI ABI equals active business income earned in Canada ther than resource profits If y hove read this tar and are still awake this one Is guaranteed to put you to sleep From the 1373 Review The federal and provincial governments maintained in 1072 the ex pansionnry fiscal stance which had been Initialed early In This was reflet ted in net position fur the government sector which on a national income accounts basis moved too further 102 million toward deficit In other words the If you have a problem idea comment criticism or if you simply wish to get in touch wilh me please slap by or call my Riding Office at 3 Knit mitan