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the HERALD World is composed of two groups Home Newsoaper of Halton Hills Established Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown L7G 3Z6 Ontario GARNET COWSILL Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor Phone 877 2201 J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager RrffcltrH Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday May Bang went pop We only praise occasionally and usually only when something positive has happened our community But an exception is due We re saddened by the ram and the damage it done to this year s Optimist Rama The Optimist Club deserves an extra pat on the back and a hearty thanks for organizing an outdoor fair on Queen Victorias birthday We cant blame the service club for the rain nor can they blame us for avoiding the open air show on a day when even the ducks must have stayed in doors The Optimists spend months planning and organizing Rama A large group of volunteers led by Norm Guthrie band together to provide a day long parade of events and entertainment The biggest blow may still be the costs the club has to pay for Mother Nature s wrath Liability insurance has already raised the cost of holding the event But the Op tumsts also count on admission sales and sales at their chicken barbeque to help defray costs of the bands and the fireworks The effort was appreciated May you be blessed with sunshine for the next Wanted for cash One local businessman is so fed up with vandalism that hes willing to put his money where his mouth is Last week a man came forward to the mayor and wanted to start a reward fund to help nab vandals and thieves The proposal by this man does have merit but it also raises questions about what our community is doing to fight crime Were satisfied the police are doing their share Cnme Prevention Officer Bob has been monitoring statistics regularly and problem areas have been The police are reacting to crimes and are also work ing to prevent crimes by implementing new programs and trying their best to educate the public This businessman is one small but refreshing voice in a sea of townsfolk too busy to bother or too apathetic to act A case in point Neighborhood Watch in Georgetown is still in a fledgbng state after repeated attempts by police to convince citizens that the program can help reduce on their street Coun John McDonald says apathy is one of the town s biggest problems citing our poor record of starting up Neighborhood Watch programs It would be too bad if we had to resort to a reward system in our town to help our police catch cnminals All it really takes is a little more interest by our citizens We re in this one together and it s all costing us money Wiggle your hips We ve got a name people Let s sing it loud and strut our stuff next Wednesday for Halton Hdls is challenging the Town of to see just who will win the battle of the bulge And we re not talk ing about swelling stomachs fellas we re talking about bulging biceps and stretching leg muscles Residents have been asked to exercise for minutes next Wednesday As you plan your exercise for next week remember our town honor is at stake Our own Recreation Department issued the challenge To lose under these circumstances would be most embar rassing Town staff members have prepared a variety of events to participate in if you re still pondering how to sweat it out for a quarter of an hour Check your newspapers or give the recreation depart a call Wiggle your hips shake a leg and make us proud May 28 Fire not the answer for frustrated Jay Late last year this columnist from the mechanical age to the electronic age in one quick but mighty leap The old Underwood mechanical typewriter had Its lost koy pushed and was traded In for a Tandy 200 portable computer used as a word processor which to me simply means on electro lie typewriter The ease with which writing and editing could be done and the final product delivered to its destination on the computer was a revelation It was also the genesis for this series or columns And It led mt to conclude that a real difficulty nowadays Is that the world is composed of two groups of people those who use and arc com with computers and maybe even understand them and those to whom it Is all a great mystery Even those who do understand have doubts One recent Ontar survey showed only five per cent of electronics engineers in ere felt they had a good grasp of ad vanced microelectronics So where docs that leave rest of us By coincidence just about the same time as the computer arrived in my office the Ontario govern ethnology centres began a campaign to publicize their istence Set up by the former Conservative government in the years following the 1981 election to bring the benefits of modern technology to Ontario firms the centres have found their major problem to be lack businesses that modem technology can help them Although government owned the Ontario tech centres have private sector board of directors and their ultimate aim Is to obtain half their revenue from private sector clients Interestingly trying to find people willing to attack the concept behind these technology transfer centres is like trying to find a at the that is next Park When there is criticism it usually flows along the lines of them not do ing enough rather than an assault on are doing the farm machinery centre in Chatham Is charitably considered a failure only because of the havoc wreaked on that industry by the recession The Karl Morin Strom while skeptical of the Impact of the resource machinery centre In bury has no trouble with the concept and is Impressed by the three he has seen so far Similarly a recent Globe and Mail piece of CADCAM computer assisted design computer assisted manufacturing actually doesn attack the pro vince CAD CAM centre in Cam bridge but quotes from companies who haven I got ab much out of using computers as they thought they would And It Is true The computer or robots or customdesigned chips the answer for everyone The auto parts centre In St Catharines for example tenches marketing to auto parts turcrs now o sell to the auto com But the heart of the technology centres and m convinced On economic future docs lie with high technology as exemplified by the microelectronics centre in Ot and the centres for advanced manufacturing in Cambridge Peterborough and Windsor capabilities improve and will use of the technology will accelerate Figures used at one technology centre seminar indicated that in three years the lowest cost computer design system lud dropped from to and was still fall ing Now the Liberal government nas gone one step further as announced In the Throne Speech It will devote million a year in new money to high technology reseirch and development It Isn much cash as critics have noted when you have a billion budget and when products in microelectronics alone were worth more than billion last year But if is a start In particular the Liberals want to get Ontario universities deeply in volved In the application side of the high lech business something hat Is said privately only the University of Waterloo is anywhere close to doing successfully There is a feeling Ontario univer si tics concentrate too much on the academic side of technology Changing that attitude alone would plus In truth much of what I learned from pursuing this series was about attitude about seeing the new technology as tool rather than a threat tobc used rather than fought It is to credit of the Ontario government both the former one and the current one that they recognize Its Importance Too often the Increasing role of government In our lives is both op pressive and expensive But government can also be a catalyst for economic growth as when it builds roads airports and other facilities to enhance the economic Infrastructure The technology like the proposed marriage of universities to the high technology business sector are simply the newest elements of that catalyst Meanwhile technological peasants like myself are just goinfc to hive learn enough of the Ins to get by in this new age Just when were about to Ends meet Someone the ends Do parents know drug signs The has come for Toronto Blue Jays to seriously think about doing something with second baseman Garcia Garcia has been nothing but a sore point for the Toronto club this season and did the inexcusable last week After a loss in which he com milted a crucial error Garcia went Into the team bathroom took off his sweater and cap poured flam Ilquidon them a fire Earlier in the year Garcia became quite vocal when rookie manager Jimmy Williams put Lloyd at the top of he batting order As a result Garcia who used to hit in the top spot was put at the bottom of the order Recently Garcia has been put at the top of the order When Williams moved Garcia to the bottom of the order the Blue Jays player asked to be traded Not only that he pouted like a little child who has been told he couldn have a treat from the grocery store But the latest Incident surely must be the last straw The obvious question arises what If the fire had gotten out of control What would have to Gar cia his teammates and stadium staff Not only that but what have the Blue Jays done to deserve such a display from one of their players The Toronto club pays Garcia quite well about a year to play a game usually reserved for youngsters However what Is most disturbing about the Incident is Garcia burned a piece clothing that had both the Blue Jays emblem on it as well as the Maple Leaf Such an act would and should be viewed along the same lines as a person going out and bum the flag There is no doubt the Blue Jays are struggling this season After the year Toronto enjoyed last year it understandable the players may be a little uptight early in the 1986 cam palgn However for one to vent his frustrations by burning his uniform Is totally unacceptable Normal players get just as much out of poun ding the heck out of some lockers That behaviour while not being totally acceptable is undcrstan At least a lot more dable than going into the bathroom If the Blue Jays are to return to the winning form of then there will have to be a major change in the roster of the club Mr Garcia will have to bo shipped out Then and on ly then will Toronto be able to get rid of a cancer that has plagued them all season long By REV jniBOtlFb Last week twelve Georgetown clergy sat down at Holy Cross tory for a four hour seminar on abuse Led by Ray Martin assisted by Christian Balmer of the local Drug Abuse Committee the clergy heard of the sophisticated interna networks that facilitate drug production trade distribution and use Huge sums of money are involv each year and the attempts by police and others to control and discourage drug trade and use arc difficult and often unsuccessful Although use of some drugs has levelled off and even declined in re cent years use of others particular ly cocaine has risen spectacularly Ray Martin emphasis lay on the need for each local community our community in particular to declare that drugs arc not wanted here and to work towards their elimination The major tactic is that of rather than police action The local Drug Abuse Committee works risks Statistics show that in the US and perhaps here as well children in Grade arc a prime target for pushers The schools are helpful In such educational pro grams although there Is always more that could be done Do parents know the signs of drug use by their children Do parents Few seem to take the time to loom the facts or to get Involved in community assuming perhaps that there Is no problem in safe Georgetown or that it could never touch their family The Drug Abuse Committee offers a wealth of Information and programs for parents We need to acknowledge that drugs arc used by young people and by adults here as elsewhere We need to the damage caus ed to Individuals and others by such use Then there is the matter of treat ment The victims of drug abuse much care and support sometimes within the community sometimes in residential centres The Drug Abuse Committee pro vides counselling and referral vices although on the whole society is not prepared for the extent and cost of the treatment needed now or likely lo be needed through the next decade The costs of drug abuse that arise for society are staggering a further incentive to work out proven tionnow So there are twelve clergy in our community who themselves are resources for those seeking advice or help In matters of addiction drug or alcohol use We re not technical experts in the drug field but we can offer assistance In exploring understanding life problems and anxieties ana In helping to open up the spiritual dimensions of reality At the end of the workshop we spoke together about the importance of the spiritual core of one Healing coming to appreciation of worth seeing life In the context of being a child of God ore concepts that go beyond the physical realm and engage us on a spiritual level Drugs both a blessing in a medical sense and a curse are in society hands wedo Georgetown Ray received a special award at the Regional Police 13lh annual awards night laat week He was presented with the award by Chief Robert Mr Martin recognitrd for ding the Drug Abuse Committee In Georgetown and helping other communities start pro grams Awards night was May Ihe John Theatre Herald photo A boomtime for Geniinis In your opinion Question renewed In Georgetown Gemini help club this year It should be good said former Gemini and present Kit chencr Hanger Steve With the Haiders out Ihe Gemini should get prime Ice and the people who would go see the Raiders might now come out and watch the Gemini I think things I think the pco- wlll be a lot bet pie they hove got said Gemini nave good Brad Demotic organizational There will be abilities com more input I n think things will Georgetown Minor Hockey Association prcsl dent Wayne I Ties I lust nope they dont forget about the local kids With all the I think this is There seems new people it great for junior to some money gives a fresh hockey in and a good said Georgetown and sor said Him Scot hockey in member Todd It seems general Cull troll like he new in Former Gemini things look good will give Chris Milne It to me There the players new will give the kids be lot confidence for in minor hockey Jnre people this I- years ago hour employees of the local Smith Stone received watches at a din at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto They joined the Year Club New tub members Include Trygvc Wold Harold Ritchie Herbert Bullock and John Mac Donald Guide and Brownie are be ing formed at St Alban parish hall in Glen Williams Mrs John milage and Mrs Gordon Hilts will be in charge of the guides and Mrs Harvey Copland and Mrs Bert Mar will lead the Brownies Harold Campbell is the new building inspector Mr Campbell Is the assistant town engineer Town engineer Douglas Wilson has been the building Inspector since he was hired lost summer Brcnda Barnes daughter of Mr and Mrs or gradjated from Toronto St Joseph Hospital nursing school years ago Give Llewellyn place seventh in his weight class at the World Amateur Wrestling Championships in Tokyo Japan Joe placed fifth in the GrecoRoman class and ninth In the freestyle class Grade student Carol was crowned queen of the prom at Georgetown and District High School s annual formal Her princesses were Debbie Manna Kent Mrs Agnes Dantell of Del rex was awarded the Priority Vote of Thanks by the St John Am for her outstanding support of their work She has been a resi dent of Georgetown for three years and a volunteer for the St John Am for nine years The Acton Speedway opened with the six and eight cylinder classes Tom Neil won the six cylinder class and Hugh finished first In the eight cylinder class 10 years ago Colonel John R Barber of Georgetown will be performing the eighth annua inspection of the local Royal Canadian Air Cadets In 1929 Colonel Barber was the com officer of the Georgetown- Acton company of the Halton Rifles now called the Lome Scots Anthony son of Mr and Mrs A Zamojc of graduated as a doctor of Podiatrlc Medicine from the College of Podiatry in Cleveland Ohio He will be interning at Vancouver General Hospital for one year founder of Hock wood International Livestock Limited Is stepping down to let his son take over the business Tht Trafalgar Road business won be totally free of its founder who calls himself semi retired The Georgetown District Minor Hockey league to make helmets with mouth guards and masks mandatory years ago To try to Increase participation the adopted designated Slayer rule Doug Pcmblelon drove the winning run and Insurance runs in his first game designated hitler Mildred McNlven was recognized by Red Cross for making her blood donation Kevin Clarke John Glen Cooper made their dona Ions Skaters Kelly Johnson and Kris Barber were honored at the Towns Honor and Recognition Awards night The duo placed twelfth last March at the World Figure Skating championships Bill Crawford was replaced by Doug as president of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Mr was the past first vice- president