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THE HERALD Wednesday November 22 Page Opinion Page -LETTERS- 30 years ago Miss Beatrice Hume a public school teacher for years until her retirement in June of of finally opened Park Public School at a ribbon cutting ceremony Principal Harold Catling chaired the evening and introduced Miss Hume and guest speakers Mr Ed win Wilson Mr W McNeil and Mayor Jack Armsfrong Lois June Bessy and Norman Edgar Dredge were united in mar by the Rev Lloyd What at the First Baptist Church The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Bessy and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Dredge Elaine Smilh and Waiter Richardson were married in the Christ Church Rev Allan Johnson performed the ceremony The bride parents are Mr and Mrs William Johnstone Smith and the groom s parents are Mr and Mrs Walter Richardson Eddie Severs captain of the Rangers in the town threeteam league met with soccer star Sam Cox at the Awards Night in the Georgetown Community Centre received congratulations on behalf of his team for winn the league 15 years ago Hank Van son of Mrs Mia Van Alphen and Mr Tom Van married Beverley Roberts daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Roberts in the Knox Presbyterian Church The line Randy Bergeron Mike Richmond and Andy Broad bent went on a wild scoring spree picking up points when the Minor Midgets dumped Richmond had the hattrick with both goals and assists Bergeron scored and assisted two goals Broadbent not died one and assisted two The North Halton Curling Club held a special in honor of Mrs Glad Robinson who is the oldest member of the club Mrs Robinson is 10 years ago Joseph Chamberlain retired as Medical Officer and was showered with gifts and praise at a special reception held in his honor in the regional council chambers Coun Mike Armstrong who has known Dr Chamberlain since birth the doctor brought Mike and his brother Paul into the world spoke with great affection about the 32 years of service the doctor has given Halton Hills Members of the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital candy stripers past and present gathered at Knox Presbyterian Church to celebrate the anniversary Among those who attended the reunion were Paula and Lisa Sharon Barton Brenda Newbury McKee and Norma Frost The Ontario Medal for Police Bravery has been awarded to two Halton police officers Constables Graham and Wayne Olmstead were awarded the medal for risk their lives catching a sniper in Burlington The medal has only been awarded eight times in the three or four years since it was created and only one other time this year involving the rescue of a drowning girl by an Ottawa police officer The medals were presented to constables Graham and Olmstead by Lieutenant Governor 5 years ago Duane 7 Mark Aldndge and Steve Bewley were part of the Park Public School s pioneer day The Ino dressed up for the occasion in fur hats and lumber jackets McNaught and her daughter Susan were all dolled out after having spent a full day selling their unique Cab bage Patch Look Alikes at the St Paul Church bazaar in Norval I Protect Hills farms from big plans Dear Sir Several weeks ago I wrote a let ter giving some statistical data about our diminishing and threatened prime farmland Now consider the following facts A satellite city of 90 000 is being proposed for Seaton just north of Pickering Development is plann ed for Cataract and of course Halton Hills and Milton Severances are whittling away huge chunks of agriculture land With ll per cent of Ontario s population living in the country on ly three per cent are actually farm the land Articles by Michael Valpy in the Globe and Mail in dicate that Grey County is turning into Toronto s escape zone Last year they 1 severances from rural land This year it may exceed Municipalities like Halton Hills are being asked to provide to feed this monster called growth then turn around and ac its leftovers the garbage The Niagara Escarpment has not fared much better At several meetings of the Niagara Escarp ment Commission at which I was present applications were approv ed for rural severances that con with the Guidelines set out by the Provm cial government One of these ap plications is being appealed by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food but with only 13 staff handling about 19 applications per year 000 for severances complaints about farm operations and redrafting of policy little time remains for appeals Farming and farm products is our second largest industry employing per cent of the population and grossing imately billion per year It is vital that we protect this indusfrv so we can be self sustaining We must act now The Greatt Toronto Area committee has plans for their area Welt it is area too Let s act to preserve it We must get involved and counted If we do not make voices heard it is each of us as duals who will be responsible Sinct PatU Ecology Awareness Landscape and Does inflation have a limit Dear Sir Today while looking through our local paper I noticed an old cot that looked very familiar and on checking through some old snaps I had it was the same place that I bought in 1964 to fix up for my Dad as he was 84 years old and was alone most of the time as I worked in driving a ce ment mixer I might add he and I built the home we had then and raised a family of two boys and a girl In March my wife left and took the kids one day while was at work that left Dad alone a lot so I looked around for a small place where he would have more neighbors for company and put in an offer for a George Street home 5 500 cash to close the estate which was accepted I understood the place was 100 years old then one of the oldest in Georgetown I spent the next five months fix ing it up for Dad and I to live in but before we could move in Dad pass ed away Aug 1964 I rented it out to a young couple and con tinued to improve the place by put ting up a used lumber garage and removed some trees and graded the front lawn Then I had to go to court to get the young couple evicted I then moved closer to work and sold the cottage to a pic for with only down and held a mortgage for the balance 10 per cent A few weeks ago they were ask ing for the same place I have pictures of the place while improving it We my wife and I in our late 70s realize there is a thing called inflation but is there no limit The home my Dad and I built was on Townhne Enndale now Winston Churchill an acre lot just above the Hwy that I bought in 1947 one of ten of a division w asked for the remaining Three had been sold We t have Yours sin Mr Gordon G Durham St Georj TV is really 53 Dear Sir Television Turns Outlook Nov My references describe TV as years old it having begun in tain in 1936 from Broadcast House in London being a system established by John Logie Baird In 1939 at the outbreak of war there were TV sets in Lon don alone receiving on a regular programming basis a figure equalled in 1947 in USA Your researcher missed giving the kudos due to efforts outside North America I believe The war stopped programming the RAF realizing enemy bombers wo likely homein on the VHF signals There was no reference to Bairds work in your text and yet his pioneering efforts were pressive tinted TV in tra Atlantic TV in and natural c or TV demonstrated in 1941 Baird s legacy may be seen in the examples showing the British Museum in London Baird son Malcolm is a professor of chemical engineering at University Hamdton As a matter of interest in the war too the tones of Big Ben were not live on radio the RAF believ ing the resonance likely from a live weather background such as fog and storm could be detected by an enemy air force for their gain so recorded chimes only were broad cast by the BBC Yours truly A J Brown Norval Garbage shouldnt pile up anywhere Guard dogs are getting snakey In the past seven months being a political and landfill reporter I nave become a glass and newsprint junkie I attribute this- addiction to the stacks of paper describing what piles up at landfill sites across the country the province and what is wheeled out of at a cost of million a month Thanks to this new found fix I refuse plastic bags when I pur chase only one item in a store and I have piles and piles of glass bot ties and jars lining the kitchen in my apartment I have stacks of newspaper waiting for me to move out of the preliminary concern stage of cons cience into the advanced stage of active conscience when I take these goods to a recycling depot Plastic bags that I do accept when buying multiple items sit neatly stacked in my kitchen drawer I that I my garbage when I went camping If we arrived at a campsite strewn with litter we burned other people s garbage And I used to believe that once you put your discards in a green garbage bag they were gone forever And when you opened up the in cinerator chute you had done your part in keeping everything sanitary But now I find that the respon sibility doesn t stop at the curb- side Wasteful packing and environmentally dangerous styrofoam are part and parcel of a big problem in this society The trash is piling up It not so noticeable when the truck drives away taking old Shreddies boxes egg shells and pop cans with it But if that same garbage began to pile up in your front vard via a garbage you be sure to notice The landfill crisis really hits home when you drive past the spot on the Niagara Escarpment con for a Regional landfill site The green pastures are dotted with wooly sheep and modest farms with craggy peaks of the Escarp ment framing the picture Somehow a pile of refuse reaching for the sun doesn fit well in this scenario Weve got to put the garbage somewhere that is obvious But much of that garbage we put into landfill is up to us And up to our local governments News item Nearly 1 years after St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they re making a comeback as home security systems A pet shop owner in County Limerick reports that he is doing a brisk business selling guard snakes to people who believe that a hissing serpent deters burglars more effectively than a growling dog Well Your first reaction might be to snicker After all an obvious association to kind when a news item is datelined Limerick You know something along the lines of There was a young fellow from Dover who purchased a guard snake named Rover Said the man in the shop- Hes a fine one tiptop Just don t invite mongooses over BUt hang on These things have a hideous way of becoming a trend And if the pet shop owners of the world are conspiring to replace guard dogs with guard snakes then someone has got to stop them Granted this is not to say that fall into two categories those who do nothing BUT guard and those who do everything EXCEPT guard Either way you end up with a dog who treats your friends the same way he treats burglars So before youxhoose a dog you ve got to decide how much you like your friends Most of us are at least middling keen about them so naturally we end up with dogs who are utterly useless in a pinch I once had a particularly enlightening experience with my great and good the late lamented Luke the We were living out in the boonies at the time and a couple of young gentlemen dropped by one mom ing to attempt a break in Luke lurked silently in the bushes while they took turns kick the door Then he tried to drive off the policeman who came to in Luke was a wonderful hound but he wasn bright All the same the deficiencies of guarddogs surely don justify to guard snakes instead Let me be honest I do not like snakes Like a lot of people I res pond to the word snake the way Maggie Thatcher responds to the word Liberal There an instinctive gasp of horror followed by a fit of the trembling willies followed by an overpowering urge to seize the nearest large stick Admittedly this probably means that snakes are pretty effective at scaring away intruders If you and iff up with a neighborhood with no burglars at all And comparatively few cats poodles and small children This is the problem those pet shop owners don mention Once you buy a guardsnake you got to live with it Just compare snakes and dogs A dog begins life as a cuddly bundle of fur and then matures into a loyal companion A snake begins life as a vicious little reptile and then gets bigger Think about it What precisely would you do with your python when it wasn t guarding the house You certainly couldn put it on a leash and take it for a walk You couldn train it to fetch your slippers either since it is well known that a python will not put your slippers in its mouth unless you are in them at the time And what happens if a friend stumbles upon your snake when you re not at home There always a chance of sur viving an encounter with a guard dog Even the most humorless pit bull has puppy genes and ancestral memories of lying ly by the fire with a master who called him nice doggie No snake has ever rolled over to have his tummy rubbed when so meone called him nice reptile And his only ancestral memories are of anging your ancestors No it just won do These Irish petshop owners must be stopped Put It this way There was a young fellow named Drake who decided to purchase a snake Ob its lovely he said I shall pat its wee head And tfcls waahisjeecfldHferfw v Petrt