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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 4, 1987, p. 28

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Page Friday Marebl 1MI Hills Outlook I published Friday by The Hill Herald home newspaper of a division of Canadian Company limited al Street Georgetown Ontario 3Z Second Mill Registered Number PUBLISHER Garnet Cowsill EDITOR Dave ADVERTISING MANAGER CarlSinke MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Lowes Sharon Marshall CLASSIFIED Terry Coller Elaine Kuzyshyn SPORTS Mike Turner STAFF WRITERS Sandy Campbell PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS MyleaGilson Annie Lou Foreman PRESS FOREMAN Ed Burt ASSISTANT LenEason CIRCULATION Mane Shadbolt ACCOUNTING Pauline Miller Outlook Where is home womans Things what they seem Sometimes they t even close Take the television preacher who claims lo have talked with God II the preacher raise so many million by March God II call him Where is home A condo in Miami Beach Hawaii Home is where the heart is It where you hang your hat So J where is this guy going in Suppose the preacher falls short He has led his viewers to believe lie die I doubt very much he will But what television it could moke There he is attached the heart monitors He has gone Into a coma monitor beeps his slow meandering heartbeat We see the little green or blue blips on beside his bedside in the ludio Fighting Ittl the end he Is piny his old impassioned begging for dollars save us life while blips and bleeps low down But the dollars just don 1 come in beeping slops Silence on while a million heartbeat continent speed up He id Hut wilt seconds later blips start up They gel liter and faster Yes it a lies not only been home he a left lias been for One more month to try to the mjgic figure Maybe as he Iks there In his coma the colls will pour in iead of heart will peed up faster and fnstcr until in a frenzy he awakens to thank the odd for saving his life A friend watched a religious show he minister pleading for funds to save the earthquake victims in some off place like Peru The viewer searched his mind for recollection of that particular earthquake in which thousands were to have perished He asked around checked files Found no record of While leads me a very deceptive money making scheme or is that scam we folks in this land of lakes motto Bleed the World As the cameras roll over the scores of liny fish but villages on the bay These people had homes Jots Cottages Retirement homes Bui the levels of the lake rose those homes Then winter came Froze waters These poor homeless people arc forced to live on the ice in tiny four by six foot snacks Some are without heat All ore without food water systems They arc forced lo fish for food through a hole chopped in the Ice They can I even afford proper fishing rods but must with these crude little rigs reeling in their catch hand over hand There Is no tap water They get their drinking from the holes or these little brown bottles from the mainland Contaminated bubbly amber liquid makes many ill and in coherent There are no sewers Row sewage enters their water supply through another hole in the ice out back brave blizzards iwi tic temperatures to lake of needs These brave struggling have no electricity and dark hey rely on the lights from flashlights mated by us They are without books schools We wan to send them Bibles for nope on those long dark nights We want to build church Using the most modem far methods we inl teach them to fcrow own fruits jnd vegetables in the snow Help us to help these valiant Canadians in their struggle Send yourmiKieytQ Bleed the World Don t get me wrong Then are many legitimate charities and religious organizations out there Thank Heaven and whoever for that But they all whit they seem The miracle of television can confuse at limes When In doubt think of great sport ice fishing And ask questions THIS FROM been hoiks a WHi UNIFORM- 137 Shoes uncomfortably on the other party Ottawa Report I Ely Stewart I many tin words tint Mis used to throw at tin when there imi i he an Miy In But it rati it stuff Afraid to hie wis tin more common cushions awards mother democratic The our tiding was that a scat has hecn vaulted the government had an ligation to act to ensure the riding was not deprived of representation longer than And there were when the Tory outrage seemed singularly appropriate Once was In 1378 when then prime minister Pierre Trudcnu io ted as long as possible before calling no less than 15 on one day The results indicated why he waited The Liberals won only two of those the Tones taking IU But now the shoe Is probably un comfortably on the other foot It was last Aug thai New Democrat MP Ian Deans resigned his Hamilton Mountain seal to accept a federal appointment And four days later Newfoundland Tory James McGrath resigned his long held seal become lieutenant governor of Newfoundland Last Jan Erik Nielsen former deputy prime minister in Hit government vacated his Yukon seal lo become chairman of the Canadian Transport Since the dale of a must be announced no more than six after a scat is officially declared vacant the had one day left in which to declare the date for Hamilton Mountain So he lumped all three together and announced they would take place on Julj nearly five months down the road As cam palgns require only days voting day could base been called for May Since summer elections jrc avoided In because so people arc on vaca and condemnation of lection dthvs on so fresh in mind it s ibvmus the prime minister and his advisers in deeply about With polls shown value popularity i- it an per eent it lit tie wonder Mr is willing lo risk opposition with the delay He must be reisoning that if the law of averages his any validitv whatsoever Tory fortunes surely tan continue tumble over the next five months III- Marion the former mayor of Ottawa who representing the NOP in Hamilton Mountain says the minister Ls clearly afraid By the elections In mid summer she any government would get less at tent ion It cowardly says New I MP Brian Leader called It extraordinarily democratic a phrase he might hove had left over from Liberal ear Since Mr McCroth swept St John East by votes In I9B4 the lives have high hopes of retaining this seal But consider Ing Mr McGraths high personal popularity the ment of IBftf the recent Canada lrance fishing fiasco Tory victory is not a foregone conclusion Neither is it in tic Yukon where Mr Nielsen won over 4 vi In recent territorial elections NDPoutpolled the Tories In Hamilton Mountain Mi Deans won by voles which augers well for Mrs Cold water on papers playful whimsey Dear Sir Your paragraph in the Editors Notebook of 11 1987 concerning Gory Dun ford tale the library staff member who would not disclose the title of a re quested item to anyone other than client requires a little In fact is not necessary to know title of the item requested In order claim It the library We hold all requested materials under the name of the requestor only that need be given to locale the item I include this letter you the substance of my response to Mr because I believe that the core of the matter so lightly regard by both of jou should be clearly understood Dear Mr item entitled Top Secret in the edition of your column was brought my attention this week as Chief Librarian of the public library cited I am constrained to throw a little cold water on your Hem Section of the Public I SO 1364 specifics a board shall ml information which an iiiitividuil user of library services or mikes him or ntr rejdil indent if by other means This is construed as Hon to maintain the f any Iibnry users Irani Item Under the damn til if we do if we don not rtleasing Information to anyone other thin the client cm and does result and delay but If we do rilease information into the wrong hands can create or worse for our el lent Hem If as Ink Implies the husband out of a sense of pique mischief or idle curiosity is withholding the message from his wife he is only doing her a disservice her problem but wasting Iibnry staff time public access lo information and therefore wasting public money pains me to have to respond to light hearted little story In such a heavy handed stylo but there is an important Issue at stake one which Journalists especially ought to you or giving me the chance straight for The Heralds readers Yours Iruly IMrs IB It Chief Librarian Little old lady Conductor at which end of the train car do I get off Conductor Either one madam Both ends stop at the same time

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