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the HERALD It does matter who wins wars Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario GARNET COWS ILL Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor Phone 8772201 J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager THE HERALD Wednesday June IB They are the towns strength If a buyer isn found before Sept gates will close on workers An Acton institution part of s rich tanning and leather heritage will be lost When Canada Packers announced Thursday the closing of the Beardmore tannery most workers were more shocked than angry Many knew the end was coming and the company had to make a decision soon to shut down It would be going too far to say made Acton a company town But the impact on the community will be greater than any other single incident since the town became part of Region in 1974 Severe damage has been caused to the already injured Acton psyche It s another blow to a town trying to get back on its feet trying to weather development obstacles Our political representatives have to jump in now and work to help the people who will be affected by the decision by Canada Packers Our politicians must understand that their constituents in Acton have given up on them Here s an opportunity to prove them wrong Surprisingly very few people The Herald talked to in the town are blaming Canada Packers for the decision All levels of government are taking the brunt of the criticism for their to Acton s well being Not all of that criticism is justified The plant was built in and much of the facilities t up to modern standards The lifting of import quotas didnt help matters nor did more stringent en vironmental standards Academics might even cite Tofflers book The Third Wave to justify why the plant is closing Mr suggests that since the mid 1950s industries such as coal rail textile steel auto rubber probably leather too have become backward in industrial nations They use high energy inputs spit out enormous waste and pollution have long production runs repetitive work and centralized controls Many of these old fashioned industries began to be transferred to developing countries where labor is cheaper and technology less advanced Mr Toffler says For exam pie Argentinian leather is less costly than Canadian made hides and labor there is considerably cheaper There may be those who secretly hope tne plant will re main closed but these people are short sighted Of course the plant once closed would allow Acton developers to build more homes because there would be more water available for servicing But who would live in these homes Acton already has a welcome mix of commuters and home town people But commuters don t support local businesses as much because of their easy accessibility to stores where they work The town itself might not be a ghost town but the mam street through Acton might end up looking like one The real sufferers cannot be overlooked the OS workers Some are young and can uproot fairly easily and search out new jobs But many people are tied to the town with families houses with mortgages life long friends Beardmore has some middle aged couples who both work at the plant now their families will have no income What will workers do who are reaching the age of Should they uproot for five years Who will hire tham at that age Our politicians must work to attract another industry to Acton if it is possible They musttry and try hard We want to uirive to have a heritage to have proud local workers to have a strong industrial base The people can be forgotten for they are the town s strength This is for seniors War That the title or a flawed but scries on TV Ontario Mondays about war and soldiering by Dyer a Canadian who comments on international affairs from his base in England The scries is also a prime for the widespread belief that the United Stales in particular and the Western Alliance In general is morally equivalent to or con worse I hen the Soviet Union For example Canadian press reporter Larry Black In a defence presumably his of the War series against American criticism tumped as one the Soviet destruction of Afghanistan and the American liberation of Grenada To accept such equivalence Is moral blindness Somehow therefore it such opinions appear on our government run provincial network Nor that War was originally Inane by the government owned a Staff Comment A short time ago I was searching through what I have collected in my years I had to bring what was most useful to Ontario and leave what was least useful at my parents home In St Andrews New Brunswick In my search through books I read at university clothes that don t fit anymore and my best of the 1070s record collection I came across a poem I wrote the poem called The Turn stile Loser when I was 13 years old It much of a poem and I would be embarrassed to quote from it You probably have your own col lection of embarrassing poems or perhaps they are in the collection of a long As bad as this poem was It did have meaning It was my view or senior citizens I described them as lonely because of neglect and on the bright Bide full of love and wisdom Those were not the Ideas of a naive boy but an ignorant one 1 missed a lot I t know any old people other than my grandparents who llv BOO miles away The only old peo ple 1 saw regularly were those I delivered the Toronto Star to and those at th liens home I passed on the way to down own Toronto Seniors were a mystery 1 thought I bad an understanding of Between then and now I have discovered something of the mystery of old age only by association Through church I have made friends with seniors and 1 bourded with an elderly widow for a months But I believe I may have most about seniors by interviewing them Telling someone you arc a reporter can the quickest of discovering their secrets A reporter sometimes asks ques tlons no one else would dare ask And people are often quite candid There are many people with a to tell and many are willing to tell it week I heard the stones of senior citizens The Interview At Centennial Manor left me with great respect for the elderly The residents of Centennial Manor shared and wisdom in elo quent ways Those who spoke with were all over Each had accepted the aging process and what II hud done to them They still had spark and a zest for life Even though their bodies were slowly giving up each was striving to Improve You got to keep going and trying You just con t lie there said a woman who spent much of her day knitting for friends and family Another woman I talked with was considered legally blind Old age had taken her sight Blindness Is a difficult adjustment for anyone and harder for someone in their 80s It did not stop her from reaching She would not allow anyone to push her In her wheelchair which was her walking tool She stood behind it clutching the chair and hand rails of the halls like a child us ing a chair to learn how to skate That determination and desire for improvement was common in the seniors I met that day at the Manor Oh yes there was plenty of love and wisdom too A younger man poem totally wrong tional rum Hoard and first bought Naturally media critics also loved the six part series Since it appeared in 1083 it has faced in the strongest places most with a so called peace connection I saw an episode advertised at the On tario 1984 Hamilton lion Another was used during a Ityerson journalism ethics or in doctrination course to drill home Ihe moral equivalence point Or course the reason for War wide establishment appeal from TV Ontario playing it to reviewer is Dyers disarmament message if you prepare for war you gel war However he never says what a country should do if It prepare for war and gets war anyway like Afghanistan Still Dyer has high credibility because does have a good understanding of soldiers and soldiering Moreover he projects a world weary expertise about foreign affairs and history that often rings true For instance who you soldier for is an accident of birth all soldiering and conditioning for soldiering is very much alike although Dyer Ignores that Western soldiers suffer much less brutality and robot like training than East Bloc troopers in the long run all wars are pointless because no one remembers what they were fought over at heart they are simply power struggles Dyer is perceptive in these vat ions Yet his trouble is that ho sees these partial truths as whole truths As human beings we cannot divorce all our actions from a moral context simply because In the long run most causes and people become forgotten dust It Is foolish to say it doesn matter who wins wars Ask Or Ihe Boat People Or Israelii and the Warsaw Pact as mirror ages as If an alliance of mainly weak free nations banding together voluntarily in fear Is the equivalent of an attack trained highly cert rallied military empire It Is here that Dyer Is so blatantly false in his thesis of moral equivalence comparing armies that train solely to defend NATOsl to those that practise Invasion the Soviets Beyond that and speaking of moral equivalence why is it we never see series produced by the Film Board on TV Ontario or the CBC explaining why NATO is necessary OTft ft PREPARING TO BOARD ft FLIGHT Citizens forum Drug abuse centre on the move Dear Sir We sincerely think for concern and assistance in the nuing drugalcohol abuse fight The following will bring up with the Georgetown Drug In October 1980 subcommittee funded by the Optimist Club concerned v th growing number of youth in Georgetown fee ted substance abuse They formed the Abuse Committee and investigated methods of reaching young before Ihey exposed lo drugs and alcohol hatched the Chicken Club Through the Chicken Club presentations are nude to Grades 4 students tint glorify the chicken lifestyle that is being chicken to take drugs school committee member makes p tnlion to Grades and 11 The major source of funding until recentlv has been the Op timist sponsored Chairman Pete Golf Tournament profits ore iled or drug abuse programs In felt the need to reach a larger portion of the population particularly pa rent All service clubs were approached for par and donations Jointly we sponsored the first Drug Awareness Week that February Alec of Council on Drug Abuse Toronto came to Georgetown to speak to students and parents Drug Awareness Week 198j gathered little more support and we were able to headline Norman Pa mica Senior Consultant to Ihe Council on Drug Abuse and also on lo the Ontario Chiefs of Police Mr Ponzten spoke to students from Grades to Grades to 11 and also to the Parent Forum shorng his experiences with teens and drugs as well preventative measures In young children This year Art of Bat Michigan internationally known speaker on positive living concepts lectured on the porta nee of feeling good about ourselves and bringing out the good in others during Drug Awareness Week Immediately following Drug Awareness Week Burger King Georgetown sponsored a POS poster colouring contest for public school students Two hundred and fifty entries were received and each one given a prize In April the Georgetown Knights of Columbus rallied overwhelming support far their Bowler una iguinst drug In May Ihe Police Week recognized our drug abuse a award to our founder and Director Hay Mar tin Also in May 12 members of locil clergy assembled for seminar signs help and prevention of drut abuse They now offer to share Ihis knowledge will anyone seeking ice or referral spring 19H5 all supplies were stored and meetings held at Martin Structures com of Hay Martin In May 1985 office space at IG4 Street wis rented and a part lime counsellor wis lured To this is the committee paid All members art volunteers In September our new office was off opened ml celebrated with dm tier honouring our founder Currently our consultant is counselling on an basis and leading a stlf help group More hours are or cast in this literature is available the office help in distributing it to croups and public ureas Is needed We have available for purchase Norman Pnniiea book Your Teen and Drugs and Art and books on positive living for children and parents Video tapes on various drug related situations ore also available for loin to groups or The Chicken Club is still ihe school committee channel lo children and keeps them with regular ton tests bulletins and present a lions This group needs two more volunteers to help with classroom presentations The current statistics released by the Addiction He search Foundation show a slight decline in tho use of most addictive drugs common to our area with Ihe exception of cocaine which has creased abuse has not increased in the past years Although to realize chat the efforts of antidrug abuse groups have made a dlf ferencc we must not become com Every effort must be made to keep statistics down and decrees The increasing number of phone calls indicates a need for more office hours The Court system and Officers are now referring cases to us for counselling While the recognition by these agencies is to our credit we find ourselves hard put to meet growing needs with only one part time consultant We ask tint anyone willing to spend iwo or volunteer hours per week get in touch with our Chairman Pearl at Various types of help are needed and no specific skills are required Donations can not be overlooked from the one time Regional grant lo fumish our office only funding is donations meetings are held on third evening of each month it m in the boardroom 1G4 Street Please eel welcome to llcspcc ireeila Neely and Marilyn Cook Awareness Pencils needed Dear Sir The Georgetown is par in a project with the Toronto to provide paper and pen for children in Nicaragua Star ting this month one ton of donated paper will be shipped each month As there is no in Nicaragua the partner there Is a Catholic Church group This letter is lo request help In col new or used crayons and pen ells We arc hoping that as the school year ends the contents of desks and supply cupboards might be recycled mopositivcway A volunteer will contact you after June and will be ready to arrange to drop off and then to pick up a col lection container If you have any questions contact me at or Margaret at Sincerely Cheryl Lightowlers Chairperson International Development In your opinion What do like about being a citizen during senior week June 1621 Seniors look at bright side years ago Chapel Street and Howard Public Schools held their preliminaries in track and field Staple ton qualified In the senior boys yard dash the standing broad lump the running broad jump the high Jump and baseball throw all boys events Mrs Wilson was the honored guest at Llmehousc Presbyterian Church Sunday School The Sunday school teacher received a pen from Robbie a gift from Teddy Brown and a pot of jam from Betty Ann Brown All this was for her faithful leaching The Legion sponsored Little NHL hockey leagues presented Individual champions and with crests and cups In the NHL Kent Riddall was the high scorer Murray the most valuable player and Wayne the best goalie After their last game against the Georgetown N and in which only four players showed up the Dundas team folded Money was returned to the fans in that game and the teams played an exhibition game free tor the fans When suffered a neck injury the game was stopped 15 years ago The new works garage officially opened with the music of Bob and Corey and dancing Engineer for the Department of Highways Bruce Newinglon Reeve Tom Hill Deputy Reeve Russell Miller and Road Superintendent Bud Snow were present to cut the ribbon A Richmond Hill youth died In Toronto Western Hospital two weeks alter suffering injuries on the Township dragstnp Toron to International Dragway His dragster flipped Georgetown District High School graduate Catherine Young recciv her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing at She received the Ruth Burke Memorial award for outstanding in her course After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph Dennis Wright is studying for his Master of Science In Guelph He is the son of Mr and Mrs D A Wright of Cres 10 years ago The first ever Hills Ice Cream tat Contest wos held Terry Harlow ale his three scoop ice cream the fastest it disappeared in 49 seconds The event was sponsored by Kentncrs Dairy Bar Stecns Dairy and the Hills Herald Carol became the Georgetown of the Year She received the award from president Susan Barrow for her outstanding con but ions and friendliness John Kobzey principal of Howard School got together with family and coworkers Tor a wine and cheese party In honor of his retirement The event was held at the Board of Educations East Education Centre Georgetown District High School held Us annual awards banquet for athletes Andy Long and Mike Dixon shared the Male Athlete of the Year award Leane was the Female of the Year years ago Barbara Elizabeth Kennedy Tost was Georgetown Pioneer of the Year She is a lifelong resident of Georgetown which was founded by her great grandfather Stewart town won the North track and field finals for senior Subtle schools with points Just vc more points than second place Centennial It was the first lime in ten years Stewarllown won the track title Doug Rose was the fastest runner overall at the Mayors Rood Race John Wo mock was second and Phil Rose third Tom Bradley I like to say I enjoy life as because of the fact I married a wonderful woman who has been a great source or in to me Grace Bradley 1 think there are a lot of enjoyable things about being a senior citizen I look forward to gelling lo church and meeting the people Maybe 1 will meet so 1 haven t seen in a long lien I 1 dont have to In some cases l m through It OK work anymore people look working for one here Halton was left to widow up to you and take thing I worked Centennial when I was your advice They since I was but Manor There with four respect you Not I enjoyed it 1 am ore no troubles children In all cases quite satisfied and there Is good though service I go for walks and go lo sec my kids Its good all around Poets Corner HFHAVE DAYS My hand laonlhclcaih thai drags these reluctant days up and down the streets of Such a carry on DICKSON Ontario