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The Ere Out Wed Sept THE ERA Serving York County Since by HASKELL TERRY CARTER DONALD MARTWDALE GEORGE Election Oct 5 Mondays municipal elections are the most important in the history of this area And to attest to the importance there is a record number of candidates offering themselves for office in all of York Regions municipalities Only in East Gwillimbury is there little election fever as Reeve Gladys Holing received an acclamation for Mayor There are four candidates seeking three council seats as well as an election for a separate school board representative In three good men are seeking the mayors chair and two good men seeking the towns Regional seat after the mayoralty n King Township Theres a real battle in both and Georgina with four person each trying for the single top spot in these municipalities There are three men seeking the Regional seat in An example of the election interest in the area is that there are a record candidates for the seven Newmarket council seats As one politician put it recently Its going to be a brand new ball game We add that the players will have to learn the new rules in a different ball park and after two years in office we and the other voters will know if whom we have elected have played the new game well The mayorselect and their Regional councillors will have a difficult job during the next two years Two of the toughest problems facing them will be in the field of planning and a way to stop the proposed Metro land grab of our industrially rich southern municipalities of and Vaughan Townships Closer to home is the expected soaring of our residential taxes pollution and water problems Under Regional Government much of a previous local councils role will be removed from their hands That is why we must elect strong representation to Regional Council But the things that are close to us will still be handled by our local council That is why we must elect strong representation to our local councils And that is why this election is so important to all of l why all of us muat get out and vote Scott Young I am afraid that I have fallen back yet another step in my life work of trying to make a reputation as a big planner around the The latest defeat involved a combina tion screen and storm door that we badly needed after the oldtimer we had got broken last winter A few times when Id be looking at them in stores salesmen would lead me to dis plays which read Handymen Install your own selfstoring doors and save Id mumble and scuff my feet Noth ing to it the salesman would say AH the di rections are printed on the box But Id just shake my head I have installed enough wall brackets upside down in my time that although Im not noticeably a modest man I know one thing that around the home anything more complicated than digging post holes isnt really my line So eventually I went to the aluminum- door man in our community and asked him to In the ensuing discussion I fired off so many opinions that I must have been overcon fident of my own thinking By the way do you want a lefthand or a righthand door here At first I thought he was kidding Then I remembered hearing somewhere before about lefthand and righthand doors on refriger ators so why not on back doors too Better let me show you what I mean So we went around to the door which is in rather close quarters because of our gar age Narrow steps lead to a landing from which other steps lead down the other side and out into the back yard The whole thing is so narrow that when a door is opened outward no one more than three inches wide could stand on the land ing safely Depends on which way you get the most traffic lie said If you want it to be eas ier to get in or out from the front of the house youll want a righthand door If you want it to be easier to get in or out of the back yard youll want a lefthander This was in the spring The back yard didnt seem terribly important then For some reason I opted for making it easier to get in from the front like when I carry parcels from the car Better make it a righthand I said The first time I noticed a slight incon venience in the new door was a day when the phone rang while I was in the back yard I trott ed up the steps wrenched open the new door and hit myself in the face I tried to squeeze around it but I couldnt righthand repercussions So I closed the door again walked across the landing down one step turned around opened the door and went in By that time the phone had stopped ringing But the full stupidity of what I had done didnt hit me until the summer came and the backyard barbecuing and justplainsitting he heading Rebuttal from duck farm As a neighbor and the owner of the property adjacent to King Cole Duck Farm I eel that Im In a article r began in earnest Im I its At first we just treated the door like a door That is when wed be barbecuing there would be people trotting in and out more or less at random People would meet on that little back landing both with their hands full and try to figure out how to cope with the door Finally we realized we needed a sys tem From then on we would all assemble in the kitchen Everyone had something to carry Trays food plates drinks etc We would form up in single file by the stove and walk out of the back door and down the steps toward the front of the house until everyone wag out and the last one let the door go shut Then with a word from me all hands would about turn We would march back up the steps across the landing and into the back yard The only trouble was that while we were doing that everyone would look once at the door and then back at me All I ever figured out to do was not meet their eyes up- Bill Smiley sugar and spice with the centre or the town ship officials for not porting their demands to of duck sewage on forest land It Is a known fact that county for est land is far the purpose of restoring land by means of planting trees giving brauly to our countryside while providing recreation areas for the public Real izing the designation of this land for recreation it is ob vious that duck or any oth er animal sewage aside from wildlife would pro- Who would want to take a Sunday afternoon stroll through duck sewage 1 wish to compli ment Deputy Reeve Nor man Barnard on the stand he has taken and hope he will continue to receive sup- that county not to be sold leas- to private en- reference to i statement Reeve Barnard uaint himself with the I have been told by Barnard that he has fact visited the duck it land is rolling and therefore ponding oil the sewage could be much sewage In inch a constricted area where is the saturation point When does this sewage stop bothered by the of meeting Mrs Nevertheless It is a fact that he is familiar with the operation of the farm personally have shown Sir Barnard the disposal udus type forest Cole property by its very deposits of thick when my problems where it the odor from iSf d objections to Rag Cans Dutks Ltd if he their cperatka a to their reuses the disposal of duck sew age and I do object tie obnoxious odor that liis area is subjected to Lets stop Ing the environment for tie sake of the almighty back ALLAN EDWARDS Newmarket Out If you heard a sigh sometime recently like an elephant to lie down and die there was nothing to be alarmed about It was just the getting the last of two kids off to college Hugh isnt so bad any more Boys arent generally Theyll jam some clothes and junk into a suitcase or two and a duffel bag and off they go He had decided after a couple of years of waiting table and selling vacuum cleaners that there might be something in that higher educa tion stuff after all and went back last year Unfortunately I promised that if he buckled down Id give him some financial help He buckled down just enough to get through his year so this year Im stuck with paying his fees As far as eating As far as ea goes Got him off on an early bus bound for Halifax with a big box of books and frayed shirts and one suitcase mine bulging He was full as usual of boundless optimism and great expectations No problem Kim is another kettle of fish Or fowl A year ago we took her off to university got her registered found her a place to live and made about four long trips in six weeks to allay her loneliness buy her more clothes and change her living quarters twice She quit at Christmas and my stony heart bled tears when I counted the dollars down the drain She was 111 for a time Then she went out into the world to seek her fortune She discovered that the streets of the city were paved with soot not gold After a few dove has kef I Meanwhile I have more irgent worries facing me the whereabouts of my letter this week from Bash ers director of public rela- joust l Immediately tho- the nv r weeks pathetic Sir Basil received his Christian name because he was bom In father named him Basil the bettering of how the Earl of Beercs- Ms crashing to the ground In their suits of armor As matter of fact the Earls beloved serfs nicknamed him affectionately Old Flat- To satisfy Bashers in FourEyes Thomp son here Is the signature The followers of The Great Basher Groves FourEyes says that means World Joust ing Champion I didnt know there was a worlds jousting championship held in bat who am I argue I do recall though that In the beer bottles had birth In their home artist and made s of the Earls clever and feints on horseback igllsh country squire and is over In this country kB tar necks not the U sheepbreeding faculties stubby ones we have today Maybe Basher and Four- pleasant evening over Eyes bad a Joust with these wassail cup in Sash Basher declared him- one thing that stack in Mat mv sir my mind The other part of reference to his gnat great nest press release great grandfathers pro- appear west at Ike Sir Bull crashing to the dusty Eng lish turf I cabled Sir Basil and asked him if he would loan me his ancestors I received word from Canada Customs that they have arrived la this country but are being held up because about this and he cabled back that he would have bis man at the British Foreign Office straighten this mat- I would especially like to have these sketches soon so that my advisor Mr VandcnBergtt can study tricky horseback manouv- could be adapted to the water of Fairy Lake I will need all the help I can get as I under stand Bather performed a rain dance on his last TV along performance to help defeat me I also understand he is trying borrow Bert Kents Haskell doll so that he can stick pins la II on Friday night dont know about a verbal joust with Basher and his motley crew hangerson on TV dont months of being broke or working she chose the lesser of three evils and decided to go back to school After an incredible delay and weeks of agonizing anxiety for her mother her applica tion was accepted Dealing with university bur eaucracy is like dealing with the government I took her down and we checked out the university She liked it to my amazement had long hair and a beard when he stood up turned out to be in his bare feet She had expressed a desire to get out of the city Sick of the smog traffic 1 towns do not Iwast universities Hut this was as close to it yon could get Campus surrounded by orchards A river winding through it Well out of the city proper No heavy traffic within two miles By sheer good hick caught the last bed in a girls residence a cooperative with girls They do their own cooking cleaning and make their own rules A girl who lived in the house said it was fine A stones throw from the college It was mess hut professional cleaners were com ing in to clean decorate and put everything in Then the doubts act in Dad how can I get along with IS girls What If my room mates dont like me they see me come In with my guitar In jeans sneakers And Crier By BILL GAMBLE lug will settle anything Anyway Ill fctuil Basher on Fairy Lake at pm on Saturday Oct J and will show Urn at that time that actions speak In my jovial fatherly way I retorted Look kid 25 years I was living with other fellows in room the size of yours and we got The answer waa typical of nil kids the minute you start talking about the tough old days Yeah yeah I know Dud but that was in camp and you had no choice Ive heard it all before For once I firm She was ac tually pleased by my firmness All settled So we took her down on a Sunday to get settled The house was still a mesa No cleaners No drap es up No pillov cases Two or three girls strug gling around with furniture No heat In the house on a cold drizzly day It bleak and dreary and her spir its went down like thermometer In ice buck et Typically she hadnt even packed a sweater I left her the one I wearing When we left she looked as woebe gone as a drunk at a tea party Her mother moan ed softly all the way home and has been wring ing her hands ever atnee Well flee Since 1 began my crisis centre articles in this column I have been accused of condoning the use of drugs by the younger generation of glorifying as one chap put it these longhaired dirty unshaven tired characters who lack both the ability to work and the courage to fight This of course not true I neither condone the use of drugs IW ltit I in- I have been endeavor ing to understand them little by little Perhaps I feel guilty for being of generation that brought them here among us where we kill each other where man goes on suf fering under nil the pollutions and uncontrollable diseases of countless decades where we train men to shoot men and animals to attack animals I ashamed of what have witnessed I do not pretend to under stand the younger generation but I am ever trying And the utter and complete misconception of the chap mentioned above is to me an injustice to their philosophy of life One thing I have learned about them that they beyond such petty attempts at ridicule sardonic remarks and implications Such things smiare they belong to our generation In our day we liked wild parties fast cars crime violence fighting sex and death if you like We were uncluttered and primitive Todays generation the cool have a goal though shrouded mankind a classless society Their physical age group Is varied their mental capacity is ageless If they are emptied out someone continues to fill the empty space Rock and Roll does not belong to them although they feel the plight the wails We might be acquainted with their behavior but it is beyond us to understand that which motiva tes thorn Their feelings can well be described in one word indiffer ent indifferent to the world of squares which surrounds them Lit erature and the like have already come to them Their language can not be taught one must be hip to be able to understand The words might come out but they are mean ingless without understanding They have fixed direction in which to travel oblivion alone The young generation not one to waste time on self pity though ample reasons are given misunderstand Society as fashion ed by older folk is square newer and faiths must be found They want God to show them His face They are searching for their own answers And as they them selves become the elders with the passage of time great no doubt he the enlightenment they will hand to the new as yet unnamed generation This Is my assessment of a stereotype cat He does drugs and he knows why He may occa sionally he found at the Newmarket Crisis Centre but again he may pot Ore may encounter him in Greenwich Village or wandering through San Franrisro with his pack on his back You at he refuses to lose himself So if you live in Newmarket wear long hair and way out cloth es view the crisis centre In to be and havent under stood one word of what Ive written better throw your teV away get yourhair cut end return