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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 45 Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager DAVE ISO It I Editor Advertising Manager at me PHONE 877 2201 Second Cists Mail Registered Number Page I SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday March 7 1M4 Supply teachers pay their dues Supply teachers are concerned their professional status will be reduced if their pay scales are not linked to a regular teacher pay grid They do indeed make a forceful argument for a continuation of the status quo but the school board we feel took the right step in making a proposal for a drop in pay Supply teachers are a special breed who put up with all sorts of veniences They are given very short notice when called for work and risk not being asked back if they refuse to work a day Substitute teachers are placed in a stressful situation where they must control a classroom of students who can take ad vantage of the situation when their regular teacher Is away They must quickly adapt to a lesson plan set out for them or prepare on their own what students will be taught that day In our current economic climate we are finding that some of our best and brightest teachers cant find jobs Supply teaching has become for many an alternative to teaching full time Many substitute teachers supply a refreshing youthful input that is lacking in schools because new teachers fresh out of teacher college t being hired in the numbers they once were In some caseb sub stitute teachers in our board are more qualified than the regular teachers they are replacing for the day Our sympathy stops however when we compare what substitute teachers are making in other boards A secondary school supply teacher in Halton now makes 99 16 per day while Hamilton the teachers are paid no more than 62 for their work London Toronto and Guelph supply teachers are all paid less than our Halton substitute teachers As it stands now our taxes are high enough in without trying to keep our supply teacher salaries above what other boards are paying Where else would you rather be Given the advance warning last week s snow storm caught very few people by surprise The streets of Hills were close to deserted last Tuesday However many had to venture away from home to carry out their jobs or had to travel out of extreme necessity Its nice to know in minor emergencies the people we need are out there working to help us While residents may have had their complaints about our snow clearing in the past the works tment response last week was both prompt and Taxi cab drivers who stayed open deserve a pat on the back as well as the towing companies who worked stop during the storm Freds Towing on Guelph St rescued two women from The Herald parking lot when their cars were stuck the man then refused any payment for his help The night was full of such heroics whether it was young boys pushing out cars or a neighbor offering to shovel an elderly per sons driveway When adversity hits where else would you rather be than Halton Hills Nursing home construction By Murky and I turrit Mill ton ThMghU o Ponder people are unreasonable Illogical elf centred Love them anyway IfyoudogoocI people will accuse you of selfish motives Do good anyway If you are successful you will win false friends and real enemies Try to be successful anyway The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow Do It anyway Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable Be honest and frank anyway People favour the underdog but chum up to the top dog Fight for the underdog anyway What you spend years building can be destroyed overnight Build anyway Give world the best you have and the chances are you will get kicked lntheteelh Give It anyway Contributed by Ethel Kaiser be covered by I plus a per diem charge not yet established More space for medical care at the hospital will be created by moving some facilities such as the kitchen to A covered cross walk will connect the two buildings Thirty residential selfcare units will be on the second floor Some of these will be doubles for couples Occupants of these units pay full residency cost Chronic Care beds are planned for a future dale A lighted heliport allow night time transportation by helicopter of emergency hospital patients to a larger medical centre Admission to the new facility Is not restricted to local residents There will be a Senior Craft Club Bazaar Saturday April from 30 3 30 p at a Durham St George town Afternoon lea crafts ceramics baking and draws will be featured Adults Children cents Do polls decide policies Queens Park Quern Park Bureau or The Herald TORONTO Does the Progressive Conservative government really dec all its policies by reading polls That commonly held belief likely will soon receive an important test when the government decides whether to raise the drinking age to A recent survey of consumer altitudes done for the Consumer and Commercial Relations Ministry show overwhelming support for a drink ing age of rather than the current 19 It Is the kind of issue the Conser vatives are accused of embracing as their own Since most people feel a particular way the Tories will mould government policy lo respond to that sentiment This in turn means people feel good about seeing a government doing something they would llko to see done MANY AGAINST The survey taken for the ministry revealed ea r cent of the people questioned wanted the drinking age raised Onh23 per cent favored good age The reasons given for favoring this change vary but among those favoring more think people are too young immature and irrespon at 19 lo drink Another per cent believe It will help reduce drinking and driving and accidents caused by drunken driving Another nine per cent believe too many teenagers arc drinking now six per cent think 19yearotds can t hold their liquor and 18 per cent have II would seem tailor made Tor a Conservative reaction if In foci the part does govern by public opinion poll The mom block would appear be Roy McMurtry who has been quoted saying he is not totally convinced He noted that while a higher drinking age might reduce traffic deaths such a move also would Interfere with the rights of a respons Ible many In order to catch a Tew alcohol abusers OTHER POINTS There are other arguments against such a course too ranging from the Inherent unfairness of treating a pcrsonasalegal adult IB except for alcohol to the question of whether raising the age would actually reduce Ihe number of underage drinking drivers Still the release of poll Is a good starting point Tor public debate In opposition eyes Ihe surprise Is that the government released the poll at all This government doesn do anything without a series of polls In Its back pocket Liberal critic Pat has charged as part of his ongoing but failed campaign lo get the govern to release all Its palling results Information Is power and they keep as much information lo as they can he said FORCE OPEN For example when Treasurer Frank Miller brought in his dog and pizza expansion of the base of the provincial sales tax he knew people preferred that route Tor raising more funds over hiking the overall rale from seven lo eight per cent Or when Premier BUI Davis decided the Tories had a governmentcommissioned poll show ing most people thought it would be a good Idea Of course proves another point about polls They only mark the moment Polls since show most people now oppose the purchase on the grounds they understand why the government bought it They t seen the poll THIRTY VFARS AW Two Terra are moving to George town Mr and Mrs James McKane have sold their farm and will be Ing lo town soon Mr and Mrs Jim and family arc staying with brother John until new in Sunbeam Heights Is complel Mr and Mm Henry celebrated the r 17th wedding this week Gordon Cameron and Bill Novak of Toronlo were visiting Miss Ida Toronto was a guest with Mrs A Wilson Mrs Em Hyde entertained Thurs day afternoon on the occasion of the two yearold Philip Guests were Mrs David and Catharine Mrs Fred Mavcal BUI Mrs Elgin Miller and Bobby Mrs Walter and Charles Mrs F and Phil sisters and brothers Lynn Monty and Pat YEARS AGO Georgetown Is almost fresh out of townowned industrial land to offer prospective industries and the need for acquiring more Is becoming more acute every month accord to the Georgetown Industrial Commission A suggestion by Coun Ern Hyde hat Maple Avenue be used as an alternative route to the Main Street bridge detour was voted down by council Monday A two months old baby bow Prentice of Brampton Is richer this week because his dad bought a ticket on the Georgetown Juvenile Hockey Club weekly draw AGO The Lions Club of Georgetown awarded not one but 42 Citizen of the Year awards Friday to the entire Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department The Acton volunteer doused a pair of blazing gloves Feb The f re call came from apartments on Church Slrecl the result of gloves left on a family slove Varlan Associates of Canada Ltd will produce optical Instruments valu ed at and electron tubes valued at III Tor two federal contracts BUI representing about residents between Georgetown and Cheltenham asked for support against the proposed Canadian National Rail way excursion line between the two FIVE YEARS AGO Cadets Brian and Lawn nee Billy Gordon and Rob Kleinedelirs washed dishes at a pancake breakfast at Acton Bethel Christian Reform Church Saturday morning The breakfast raised funds for the member group The salary paid regional chairman Jack Raft is saw its first Increase In two years rising 10 per cent from to Two regional police constables were acquitted in charges of discred table conduct and neglect of duly in connection with the socalled incident Aug 14 You cant help but squirm Ottawa Report By Stewart You can help but squirm a bit when you hear Finance Minister Marc Lalonde declare with absolute that the Parti Quebecols will be committing political suicide by fighting the next provincial election on the issue of Quebec sovereignty Prlortolhci961Quebecelectlon It was widely assumed that regardless of issue Premier was on a suicide mission against Liberal leader Calude Ryan II was the popular view that Ryan was merely walling for his coronation ceremony That having won consecutive by elections since the provincial elections there was nothing that could prevent the Liberals from assuming power Apart from everything else the Parti had been soundly defeated in the 1980 referendum on sovereignty association But what happened In 1981 after every Liberal in Ottawa and Quebec City had predicted a Grit victory Levesque waltzed back to power SEEMS LIKELY And In an even shorter lime frame look at what happened to the federal Tories In 1979 after winning power and forcing Prime Minister Trudcau to announce his resignation Who would have predicted that Just nine months after this momentous event when the Clark Tories appeared to be on a roll the federal Grits could bounce back under leader ship It happened And while Ihe difficulties now being forced by Premier Levesque would appear to be far more serious than those he encountered prior to the last election It seems a bit premature lo write him off as they say doesn come easily him Bui he is going ahead w th his commitment to fight the next election campaign on he Issue of Quebec Independence prompting Lalonde to say that I think It s pretty well suicidal on Iheir pari And that appears be the general opinion among Libera MPs from Quebec All things being considered at this stage it docs indeed appear likely that the government will be defeated In the next provincial on Not only do the opinion polls suggest that the Parti popularity has dropped to an em bar rassingly low level but there are no signs of any major Issues that might reverse the trend Not even the Manitoba language dispute is likely to have a profound effect In Quebec TOO EARLY The polls Indicate that the Interest of the voters has shifted dramatically from constitutional Issues lo he more practical problems of economics And Robert the resurrected Liberal leader is taking advantage of every opportunity talk about econo mic matters Oneofhismostpersislent themes is that Quebec economy has suffered because of he political Instability associated with the independence issue and that the only way to end the uncertainty Is to elect a federalist party his While the would no doubt like lokeep Its options open on the next campaign it really has little choice but to ackle Independence headon Having tried and failed with Ihe gradualist approach and with the nationalist element becoming decided ly impatient It would be ludicrous for to push the question aside once again But that doesn t mean that a vote for the Parti Quebecols in the next election automatically means independence There have already been hints from the premier that a Parti Quebecols victory will mean only that there will be a start on the Independ process the wheels will go Into motion so to speak but here will be further consultation with the elector ate It a bit tuny again If he can once again remove the fear from the issue and If the economy should take a dramatic turn for the better and if a few other things go his way who knows may happen in two years In other words the odds against a victory appear awesome but it seems a bit early to talk about suicide March is Kidney Month Recently Mr Morris of the Georgetown Hospital and Involved with the planning of the new Nursing Home construction spoke to a local women s group He old them If the present rate of progress continues the new building should open In September or sooner The origin plana called for forty even nursing beds on the ground floor but with a few alterations there will be fifty The cost of these beds will Drop into the Georgetown Library anytime on Fridays from 30 In the morning until for C B C Coffee Books and Conversation hosted by Mr Norman Quite often from 2 something of special interest is ed David Craig from the Legal Clinic spoke of his work and answered many questions posed by his listeners Teachers retiring Two elementary school Helton board of education teachers are relir this June Ralph McKcown Howard Public School and Ethel Riddel of Centennial public School are wrapping up their teaching Herald Special Five per cent of Canadians suffer from kidney disease In one form or another Many of these pa Hen la depend upon the artificial kidney machine for survival Some are helped by trans Slants More than 1S0O transplants ave been performed since 1970 with an per cent success rate More are waiting but there are not enough donors Canada Is a forerunner In kidney disease research Great strides have been made in improving the lifestyle of kidney disease patients but It is a major health problem In Ontario alone there are over patients Dialysis treatment centres exist in many major communities downtown and Hamilton being the nearest locations for Georgetown and District In January a Georgetown and District chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Canada was formed The executive committee starting the organization Norman Trelter president Irene vice president Maureen Jacobs treasurer MacDon aid secretary Connie membership Lucie publicity Trudy Edwards programming Cho rlottcDales The Kidney Foundation of Canada is the only national nonprofit health organization in Canada seeking the total answer to diseases of the kidney The organization aims to raise money to support research Into kidney disease to assist victims of kidney disease and their families to adjust to a unique and difficult lifestyle to embark on public and professional education and finally to maintain an organ retrieval program March is kidney month With the support of the community the George town and D Li trie t Chapter joins the fight against kidney disease Help find a cure Help In the fight for life Be a member of the Georgetown and District Chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Canada For more information or for organ donor cards please call or write to P O Box Georgetown L7G4T1 Brian from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton enlightened those present at a recent meeting of the Horticulture Society on the positive benefits of horticultural therapy This concept stems from the late when it was observed that patients at an institution appeared to improve more quickly If they were working in the fields In the 1970s the concept gained momentum with he advent of flower power becoming a way to brighten up people lives Involvement in plant tends to Improve most people mental and physical well be The effect has been noted in patients suffering from mental emotional or physical dls Plants seem to provide one with a more pos attitude by providing the opportunity to be responsible for something which Is not threatening Group gardening creates social Inter action and a sense or belonging Last year in the children garden which is really a community garden the outreach program operated programs The grounds have been arranged to make them more access ible Pathways ramps and decks have been added along with arbors bringing the plants to the level of the individual The greenhouse offers raised gardens hanging plants In baskets that can be raised or lowered and an adapted window under which a wheel chair will fit In fall wagon rides are provided while boat tours are offered in spring Both offer the Individual who has limited mobility a chance to enjoy this environment Mr spoke of aids to limit bending assist in cutting and other devices simplify garden chores For those wishing further information the outreach van will be exhibited at Pioneer Days Poets Corner Sometimes you cast me aside with less care than you show last year wardrobe SOME GOOD All the tears In the world and forget that caring hinds can alter the most but together keep seas bizarre creation ByMARIOWEC DICKSON Beetou DICKSON