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THE ERA WED NOVEMBER 26 1069 VOL NO it Editorials For the kiddies again tho weatherman smiled on northern York County and once again this good weather capped successful Newmarket and Aurora Santa Clans parade Even it the weather hadnt been Ideal tho parades would have been successful because of the untiring unselfish efforts of hundreds of people and dozens of organizations The list of names of these people and organizations is loo long to enumerate here so The Era speaks for all who enjoyed these parades and says to each Thank You However that ugly old ogre money is raising its head more and more each year as the parades get bigger and bigger By far the largest percentage of work on the parades and floats is performed by volunteers at their own expense But there arc certain expenditures needed that must be paid in hard cold cash This money has been raised in the past by the various Santa Clans Parade Committees seeking donations from local merchants raising funds through dances and raffles But tho lime is approaching and in some cases has arrived where all tho volunteer help generous donations and fundraising activi ties simply does not raise enough money lo meet the expenses of the parade that we have come to expect These committees are soon going lo have lo seek aid from area municipal governments Their requests for help should receive sympathetic consideration After Santa Parades are for kiddies Could end speculation Finance Minister Bensons new tax plan if and whan it becomes effective could put quite a clamper on land speculation something that has been rampant in the area for several years Added to the federal governments clamp on this type of activity is the much heavier tax levy which is going to be imposed on speculative land The recent assessment court made it clear that land though pur chased for future development will not fare so badly if it continues to still be farmed On the other hand land that remains unused and is merely held for an inflated sale price will have to pay taxes commensurate with the price being asked Land values in and around town have skyrocketed in the last two or three years with instances turning up where prices being asked are five and six times what they were two years ago has already lost one industry because of this very inflation and the hope is now that land holders will he persuaded to part with property at a much more reasonable figure The Tribune SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley A rewarding profession THE Readers ERA Dear Editor in spile of ft successful tion it now appears that the subject of a community centre must the ballot Dec This mum more work for the people sincerely con cerned with acquisition of lluse fun- lities in East We hope that you and your group arc people concerned with acquisition of these facilities in East committee still sup ports a capital cost of which we feel will provide an adequate arti ficial ice rink anil hall Plans and prices were submitted council Or ti as follows rink and hall Const rink plus hall A round the county ot help in gsted I ssiii for well septic system ami parking of based not lo bo confused with the sessmenl recently received With our area growing as it is the cost will lie shared by more and more people mid therefore become less to each Also income from the centre could also defray the cost This istie either as has been Whitchurch Township come out and question the who will lib stroking your the up coming municipal in operated Careful consideration hil led us to believe that time is NOW for this project We feel il ably then find far down a lost of priorities for the more developed areas of the I Lets all get fired up have good reason There are change going place in dim eh in the near future than in the last decade You are to be affected Kind out what the ca date really believe in and what really know Come and 1Yidi ROBERT LEWIS County ill be expect that i found for our children an at present We this venture Dec 6 see that your neighbors go and if you drive contact Norm and Roberts if you can offer your services to our Trans portation Committee MRS J Most teachers become very fond of certain students And believe it or not some students be come very foud of certain teachers This was made painfully clear to me over the weekend I be came involved with a veritable spate of my former students Theyll nil at university now and each was going through some part of the particular hell that that involves began on Friday after noon Gerry appeared al my class room door looking like a rabbit hat has just had a runin with a wolf While Ihe class I was about to teach chattered about what they were go to do tonight chewed heir gum troubles He told of the nicest boys and one of the weakest English students it has ever been my fate lo encounter Hes the kid who rushed about last June and bought me a bottle of burgundy and six golf balls after receiving the incredible news that hed passed in English His problem 1ridav was that he had three essays lo write in six days He was looking for a life belt was fresh out of them but gave him some reference books some sympathy and some ideas on how to tackle his essays tor under those conditions but lie learned something yon dont until an essay is breathing down student called her mum who the street from us She to know if the were be home for the weekend he was coming home because teacher Her problem She had to teach some poetry this week as part of that 20th form of the Spanish Inquisition known as practice teaching This facing a class of strange stu dents with an eagleeyed prnfession- teacher Hatching from back othe room Hai rowing is the world So I spent Saturday after noon going over the poems with her and getting her all muddled up But she loft with a pile of notes and the feeling that she could survive the ordeal Sunday afternoon I met two more former students under dif ferent circumstances I couldnt help them with their work It was in a funeral home and their mother was dead tragically after a brief illness Sunday night one of them closest friend of our daughter re Grade came around and spent And last of nil there was another former student my own kid Kim staggering around in that hor rible chaos of firstyear university Roll Telephone slock took another good shot in the arm when her moth er called her Sunday night lectures a week all fall werent on her timetable And maybe this was the reason she wasnt doing so well in biology And she has an exam in it this week and she knows fail and shed like nothing bet ter than to quit the whole silly busi ness and gel job as a waitress More on nursing homes As I was saying last week when shortage of space intervened few people realize the amount of work involved in running an approved home for the mentally 111 When Mrs Norm an Graham said she worked hours a day because Even when Im asleep Im responsible for my patients she was not talking Idly or at random Although the menial hospitals farm these overflow patienls approv ed homes because as Ihcy pat il hospital- Dr Barbara head of Hie approved homes for Ontario said recently that SI per patient per day Increase Ihe operators were seeking was of the How oar wonders would Dr like perform Ibis leal lav dav alter dav Or haw would she like ha Bill el fin pa ml ill urine and other how would she like an ironing board for hours walk miles behind a vacuum floor polisher every day In addition Ibis there things as entertainment lor clothes or purchased he arranged and mints thai the patients And thats he way il goes if youre a teacher Ive been il for only tea years but in lime Ive very few youngsters who are vile or despicable There are some most of them arc funny confused lost brash shy Its only when hoy bo- come adults that they seem to turn into pompous bores nagging wives I for lhal is all really are have Willi them Ihe bene- f help mi pre mises And when physical all- need alien Ihe have lo be taken la local doctors niiisiltunid mil In Ihe hemes and this a Illlle chore which could lake have In he Once more space prevents mi from mentioning the thousand oilier chores are Involved in run- an approved home for the men tally III llul what do aulhori- lies all this is reaction Ihe plight of the operators Well we mil know this iliiiuii1 lias Hied several limes I Health Minister Tarn Wells hill with I nils laid be mil be avalhi sa ii bin I idei llul Hi- palisibililii I I ha ugh Whirl ha lie which day faint inns In is Ieilch are Hi for comment loo and a Idler Pre mill John an Nov I In Mrs Ieilch explaining the problem was slill unanswered at lime of will ing Ibis column both I Iliulthlrrrhllllicil Willi I I ilium Inn I help chiefly cause slic In hire Hum line mi Perhaps i I cant find it However makes up for a lnl the frustration and days of leaching when ihe blase sophisticated leenagers come back to see the old man whoa theyre in trouble Mis Ibis il i- It minis a 1 ink and And The should he by this 111 Ills of he shin lb and l lip siila up wards In be this even politicians so laek- they cannot see with eyes open i Yogi hi Yogi 1 all Ills towards him As 1 his eyes not bigger a jr thev looked like I to him he his face be hind his mothers knee leaving one huge eye staring at me with a mix- Hue of fright and curiosity I lean ed over and said Shake hands with one little anil after I shook it the lit tic boy looked up into his mo thers face with a look of such rupture that Ill i rest ilisiiiiiiiiill Im mo was Yogi couldnt wish Haskell a happy fourth birth day I missed my family in that sea of faces Hut they spotted me Yogi Hear costume and all They spoiled my sky blue socks peaking out from going wear roller skates so that I can see more of the parade And who knows I might gel sk and Ill be able THE ERA York County Since 1852 Incorporating THE POST Egress THE HERALD DAVID It HASKELL Publisher WILLIAM J Associate Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor GEORGE News Editor Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket 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