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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Tilt I A Division if lump my Limilul 103 Si South Georgetown Ontario II 1 I I- i Solar energy the answer Ric Symmes is probably getting a bit camera and story shy after all the attention paid to his family and their heated home in Terra Cotta But experiment with his own solar heating svstem is teaching the rest of us and the governments some valuable lessons about our future Although it has its drawbacks solar heating is definitely feasible for broad use in North America Our snort winter days rule present solar the sole means of healing homes but over many it has shown itself to be a fine primary system to which sup systems such as gas or electricity can be added when needed As the federal governments saying goes If we each help a little we all help a lot in conserving our energy resources But that about all you re going to get from the government neat turns of phrase paying lip service to conservation and very little else Why the governments- federal and provincial jumping on the solar heating bandwagon Ontario s efforts thus far have centred on one solar heated home in Pickering which will have cost so much to build by the time it finished few of the masses could ever afford it What kind of practical lessons will be gained from that The money would have been better spent on research into a solar heating system that would be both inexpensive and more functional for all homes systems like Symmes which lie put up with a little help from Ins friends using materials and manuals that arc readily available Fur her the money that Hit provincial government intends to sink into Syncrude might be much better spent on setting up a company to product at cost solar heating kits for Ontario homes both old and new Don t put that decision down to short on the govern mentspart No sir they know exactly where they re going Future ex pansion plans for Ontario Hydro already reach into the early 1980 So do you make honest attempt to investigate a system that might in the long run hurt that business Definitely not even though you end up speeding along a dead end street that winds ud with the world wondering where its next barrel of oil is going to come from It comes down to like with ideas about solar heating battling with engineers planners and designers from Ontario Hydro and the gas and oil companies over which is the more feasible system one which is based on a non renewable and thus very saleable commodity or one which is dependent simply on the sun and thus cannot be metered rented or taxed In that kind of battle it the in dividual who is going to lose and with him we all will come out the losers The Home Fronr Another break survived by Susan IncrndJa Then is actually very good reason why I missed last week editorial deodllnc because boned and more than a little crumpled around the edges I am only just now awakening to iht realisation that I lually survived the mid winter school break There has to bo some evil force at work to ensure that holiday iwoys coincides with husband working the midnight shift He goes to bed as the children start falling out in the morning and gets up as they are just about ready for sleep The intervening hours reduce mother to a babbling idiot Hell as somi is lo consist of our greatest dreads being realised I know I m doomed to wander LhroUgh eternity keeping a house of children An endless torment of ringing doorbells ind telephones barking dogs children all enacted against the background of a 1 choir repetitively screaming in a tortured whisper Daddy sleeping This view of eternal punishment is quiet in incentive for being good I brush mv teeth three times day keep the coffee lable lusted listen with endless patience to a five yearold never seem to hive punch line is during such weeks thai I wish my children were totally friendless I of bill w eld Queens Park Commentary Restraint is the big word this year It Hurra i Herald TORONTO The big motif of this year s budget will be restnmt in this it is being assumed it earlier elim will be by pissed and Ih it will hive budget The budget present of i nurse will lis usual array of urns statements and other impediments alwavs at company financial highlights But this ye there will difference Norm illy budgets ire dtdit itcd peons of use for the government t vcrythmg it Ins done tint is ill praiseworthy is eliminated and along llni there in shower of gifts lain ind this dies Out this We have expected the I udget on the responsible is to hold I spree of the economy this mi reversing the tradition role budgets Optimism must be rcpl iced pessimism so with our budget we can tune Headlining the gloom certainly will tie tin McKiough ilready Ins given indication of these it is now ire going to see ihem with the main question being just where they will hit most logical field is Health probably in the form of an increase in OHIP premiums is the most costly of government services premiums have remained untouched for years Then his been some talk of a boost in but this Tin opposition parlies almost certainly would line to Hie government it This a uld turn it Into election issue And would be i question of which the government would w to go to country The key to the whole however is it will accent hard limes rather thin good when demanding silence from my own three Threatening cut off weekly allowances for the next 15 years is quiet chaining them the basement walls even more so However when it comes to their circle of friends I am powerless By nine clock the starts lo constantly from then on until desperation I take it off the hook or rip it off Ihe wall and I shall never understand what turns a normal average neighbourhood kid into a determined dedicated door banger He or she will ring the bell once cannot iccomplish materialising net before their eyes they will proceed within seconds pound on the door I swear I have become the fastest mother on the block poised for instant flight down the entrance to ltavt my sentry for I did try in iborlive effort it doing wash one day had to up in despair I no sooner turned on Ihe tap than the usual horrendous mginc slaried Ihe front door disking heart ittatk I flew on winged feet up the boy i the top of his lungs I heroically resisted the urge slick his head in the peanut bolter jar and promised If he would only please please stop the noise Unreal I agree Having missed out on becoming basket case this year lam to line up a operation during the next March break Somewhere there must In a race quiet who would to repair a poor mother broken spirit Viewpoint by Well up and be of good cheer viewpoint readers for spring according yours truly has arrived Even if the odd patch of the white fluffy stuff re appears lake heart for it is stilt spring and it won t stay around long Spring has declared that we leave our regular format and deal with a weighty nutter of a different nature Spring and diets often go hand in hand but we thought we might add a new twist and you some spring diet pointers according lo Hie stars That speaking So sit back and flip through the signs and sec how well they fit into your life and the lives of your friends March Aries can get physically ill if all is not well in your life Diet wise this can to over eating in a compulsive matter To combat this Aries you must hive meals bedtimes on a rt guhr schedule Aries likes to do what it Stargazers answers to the battle of the bulge wants when it wants to and Ihis tan often mean ignoring the health rules eating leads to overweight so if you must indulge burn off extra calorics in a bike or i hike Taurus- Zl la Mm my Taurines love They tastes If they adore mousse they adore chocolate mousse tor people weight Is heavy and solid and hard loose The keyword for Taurus is those taste buds No fad diets here If you ve packed it on Taurus it a long hard haul lo lose It so better start now Or mini May to June people are the quick change artists of zodiac If you re a loosing weight is what want to do you tan next month two sizes smaller However the following month might have put ill back on art alw on its the quick hamburger and the two doughnuts coffee break Ih it eon do people love lis of losing mnls is i I mi We w re i eook inn r but to ling spoonful of Hi it Ilia show food is often ineers down ill lei vou i go me e y end up f so think dim and keep finders Ih 1 if it is lilt in lown lew July In l like to it ind drink weight anything liv big v iv mil this problems Mill r I those extra pounds will kitten urves tin lie ich if you si We kniw you in do who el I it ra Si pi I to III i ooht ivv diet Heavy food is tin most ibr llso likt to our indulge drink ids which tan do ad raid frig win vou re ling nils will just Oh will ith go looks and charm who notice rnl Oil to Nov ilowihl is what you drink ill li iiids W nth your liquid intaki hi d iglit bit problem with Willi lint good old Scorpio will power working for you you should be to control your diet If ml II just him jour mind to it you in do just about put your mind too Sagittarius Nov to Dec Sagit food Live the rich He for gourmet dining ine foods put on pounds Hit on the in your life ami you stay slim and If are a little rounder in vou like with your charm its probably so well disguised that no one I ul l lire In Jon I in neurotic about food and diet lie here is to nmntnin I not of anv one thing jit it hair quid quickly calm Ihm mans like little bit of nit down indvoilllx OK Watch yourself from waist town Aquarius lend to be bottom lo March Ilsees are often rather fr and you should stick wholtomi foods and stay aw from the and junk foods Pistes should awav from drink and make it a point to never over do When vou do you pav a high price for it Do lake bitter tare of lor are often careless about vour diet and s causes problems for W II shiu see it Lath sign has towards certain kinds of weight porblcms Tr some of the above what happens stiffed m be i from the ind On Parliament Hilh The PCs are ready for TV and radio show by Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald OTTWl lack of something better to do the research specialists of the Con Party have drawn a set of guidelines to help their MPs through radio and television interviews And it a pity It much more fun when Mis wing it on their own If all Tory MPs follow the new guidelines every interview will sound the same and every member will look the same lie the nice person at all limes decree Ihe researchers in the guidelines distributed lo all caucus members I wish these experts would realm low Obviously these guidelines were never litre mother Mind oni it is to listen to nice people all the linn inttntlid to fill inln ihi hinds if rtmrlcrs wilh two ir Hire i jr iieful Knee length i must for men nit appearing on television is another dictum said m st the i ijk No more hairy Tory legs on TV Lays indwiekinds useless of the of gnu efidignon not mop your brow especially with i limis In isi inything to the sir Ihe Itsoun handkerchief is mother piece of ldvite pirli press This givts the impression that ir question has you on the ropes Aetuillv is pretty sound It difficult dispuli No llrswli in Ihi Hie more guul lints irlieularly siul And here is some truly sound ins hints i is Never gel into i ml in lilt ilinnntiry lor whin an Ml unpleasant interviewer if you re sun in i vis vision studio he should show for x can handle him 1 wuildsiv lluil is Only Irouble thin is that m i whohas Hi turn Out lis not be a pair of boning gloves handy In reminded binds If in Hit llost 11 111 of US In up ipiistuin whit Mr Intirvl Willi mother qui tan handle answering with i will e have trying jusl opinion Mr In lit guidelines ytsdirt studio to hi will appear shift al possible Ihe MP words instuid of four MPs sin watch for in it r hosts mat surliness misuse of vour falsi premise logie subordinate in suits to tin subject in question derision interruptions rushing the In ivoid distracting mannerisms like moling your chair illy drumming your fingers pulling at vour collar or tit and so on It is good idta keep your hands iw from fait The go on on it end of it all the final ls most important of nil yourself In Ihe eirtumslanets that could be ibffiuill To buy the Orion or not OTTAWA Hate to keep harping on the subject but it seems some military officials are unhappy with the way the press is criticizing planned purchase of new submarine patrol planes You guys in Ihe press are regarding it strictly as a political decision said one rather irate military caller Everybody Is listening lo politicians and no one is asking anything Good point Earlier were talking about decidedly uncomfortable feeling over the government apparent determination to buy 10 Orion planes from the scandal struck Corporation The press was generally questioning the of going ahead with the billion deal particularly when it appears will to raisi some million to help I ail out he fian troubled company It was poinled out it bee of id electronic equipment plane will cost Canada about million perhaps twite the price of buying off Hit California line in return will I mploymi ill Monlrt bulling components foi Ihi air Admittedly It difficult r I in accural of Jeal involving so many political Implications should In I- fi ri il inntr in Ihi imp 1 lnv 1 in sijiuil Ihe is fin iri inthing III it i in tin Orion with inrMirt itmn it is lyirif diked jil mi to st K2 million in bribes Wi Inn fir 1 liiurs Us iiiinimv low illiluis writing nbout 1 lusl Ihe world eliiln nil lUllln sunt the cirri my 1 1 rt Hi hi nil of Oust vin ilir inipi if Cm Si His urn null ill tins lilt t ill ir in linn ignore d This officer is in the f lindp mtillli studies leading lo tin ihinei of Ihi tin lit took sin suggestit I hi n he went on to rave about Canada contribution to NATO and how tremendously impressed ihe American were with shopping techniques people one lull of a deil he said Our navy is envious of the equipment ire getting He also said there was no real com for Orion and Hint the modified m the competition right to the would be totally unsuitable for anti irine Ok if all of at face line mill qui slum mains If the ii unsuitable for this patrol work what was it doing in hi after four Well said the Canadian military except government had to consider the Canadian aircraft industry am try to git the best deal for workers at in Montreal Explanations like this don add muth Hit decision was military And if you buy the argument that the electronic equipment will be the most in the world Is it really worth million per pinned Tht Australians stem happy enough lo buy ihe assembly line Orion at roughly half the price we re paying Despite all the military assurances It might not be a bad Idea to have another look at thii proposed deal the single financial outlay In Canada story