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lite August ir THE ERA DAVID Couoly Sine gwwA Ed t CARTER JOHN Phone Charles St Phone Aurora York United Appeal excellent idea Georgina Mayor George Burrows have a Region of York United Appeal is publicity for this weeks meeting of regional I and it inlmously endorsed by his fellow councillors He said there was a dubious grey area in the approval of grants to some organizations by the region This could be better resolved by having a regionwide United Appeal once a year But more important he pointed out was A United Appeal would do away necessary and overlapping charitable appeals Instead of Individuals and businesses dig- Burrows It Is up to the regions local municipalities to catalogue the charitable organizations in thole particular area and turn them over to Mayor most worthy regions media newspaper radio a a regionwide United Appeal New philosophy needed for South Shore The Cottage Survey for Township tabled at last weeks Region of York council meeting raises some interesting points espe cially with respect to the provinces Toronto Centred Region Plan The Survey also points out the need for more public parkland more public shoreline along Lake Simcoe a need The Era has long advocated be filled The Survey reveals that and this is a con servative estimate HO cottages are being converted to permanent dwellings each year Mathematics show if you multiply by persons about permanent residents are being added to each year Add this fig- of to the natural birth rate increase and the new construction which will inevitable take place in the township each year This will conservatively bring the popula tion increase to each year This will then make which now lias l permanent residents more populated thin the urban centres of Aurora and Newmarket within the short This obviously throws the Toronto Centred Region Plan concept completely out of killer Under the Plan was designated as and recreational even more than other municipalities in York Region because of lis proximity to Lake The natural increase in population plus trend to cottage- conversion plus the Inevitable new home construction will concentrate the townships population along the lakeshore the Cottage Survey shows The land along the lakeshore is not suitable for wholesale septic lank and will facilities Mm nig people from their lakeshore homes to belli it becomes available along the for public recreational use to meet the needs Npanded population and prevent future old building Ontario THE Readers ERA ship for residents only mention tins to make because I know your holidays arc all mine arc only starting Ill he back home just before the Labor Day holiday weekend and therefore I will have nearly three weeks of lol- busy working We will be spending four days in Montreal at which time I will be taking in Expos baseball games when I am not attending toimportant will travel to Atlantic provinces whore we will swim in warm ocean eat lobsters clams and salmon possibly partake of some of the produce of BILL SMILEY Another bad break for Bill Random notes this week Could there be anything more silly than writing a column about your silly old wife breaking her silly old ankle and four days later going out for a swim and breaking your own silly old big toe Well I did both And boy it hurts boy Trouble is theres not much the doctor can do about it Had it xrayed He look a look at the plate didnt even look at the toe and cheerfully informed Yes Bill youve broken a chip of bono off it but comfortable shoe wiggle the toe so it wont get stiff and sweat it out Im sweating with every step didnt realize how many things you could hump your toe against It hurts even when 1 kick cat which I dont do but will if she beat anybody at the Olympics except maybe North Wales or West Tanzania With the notable exception of those horsejumpers who are pretty Why dont we just relax and enjoy it as did not say Why dont we forgot years when other countries were wobbly- anklcd on skates and every redblooded Canadian hoy had a Simpsons catalogue on one leg and an Eatons catalogue on the other and could shoot a frozen through a haircut and we won the world championship eight to about toes Watch out for bees While wailing for the doc to talk guess what my toe two largo and husky men came into emergency ward swelling like balloons from bee stings One was the local veterinarian arm were alums completely numb and it was spreading into his chest He was diguslcd How could a silly little thing half an inch long do And speaking of how about those two Hobby Hull and Hobby Fischer hockey plaver and chess master in that order Has over so much media space been devoted to a couple of who are doing well what they enjoy and getting rich at it And speaking of Hobby Hull what do you think of the World Hockey Association It has stolen Hull and another half dozen top hockey players from that far from benevolent monopoly the I- Good luck lo the A I love lo see a big organization kicked in the groin or the in this case Particularly by its own Why shouldnt a hockey player a good one make more money than a movie star Hes often And speaking about hockey which is rather silly in this weather have yon ever read or heard anything more silly than the bleating of sportswriters and even editorial writers about the series with Russia The whole thing Is getting rather sickening Its just another symptom of our inferiority hangup We cant beat the US at money We cant beat the Chinese at pingpong We cant was made up of Canadians living in England Or Englishmen who had grown tip in Canada One of them was an English kid went to school with Another so he claimed was an old friend of mine Squire inner attending Cambridge Another was George doing much the same before be into politics Bui oh the shame but I felt you should tells me Ontario is going to be wet for by using it will save a lot of mi temperate language Youll notice there is an unsightly pile of debris in front of the garage This should be removed But bo careful not to throw anything important out Also the garage itself could stand a good cleaning After everything is neatly piled it wouldnt hurt to sweep the floor and perhaps hose it down Alecs needs the rear tiie repaired and Marti has missing And the the Ski don should bo re moved from the front lawn and installed in the garage for the summer Yen the last time I left it out ill iiul the wasps were some mad when 1 started it up and disturbed their hippy home Dont forget to call the fellow about clean- Your friend and neighbor III pay you for the septic tank cleaning job when I gol back Editors note Leonard is lcn who lives two doors north of Mosquito Manor Management must carry its message to youth executive I believe that we owe young peopli i the scale we enjoy today MI torn the lies hi treat leiiiini -Kill- win in const Mi be the quired slum up proserin which is shock- far as von know We have never to knowledge lined to voulli that there i i pride of inleii sivc human and the concern with In man values tin maintenance of id the While the young people are aware that por bjeul agree I disaffected you ill tion they have no understanding at all about the to a secret hunch of mine that the Russians are going to lick in the forthcoming series it ever forlhromos My bunch is based on the fact that the games will be played under international rules Take away the cheeking high sticking elbowing slashing hoarding and gouging from the game and your average Canadian player is lost I can visualize clearly five Russians descending on some hapless Canadian goalie with all the other the penalty box This column is about summer silliness Hows this An aunt of my wife who was born and reared near Belfast but has lived for a number of years in Canada went back to Northern Ireland for a visit this summer Were watching the obituary columns 1 know Ive come a long way from my broken toe but somewhere in some secret little niche in my mind there is a connection linking all these summer sillinesses Or maybe I just got too much sun when I went to the beach the other day with Kim and her husband And broke my and above all We know that because v retain our optimism about the future ig as our organizations get the key excellent young men and women capable young are not attracted our cannot endure Yet the voting wilr be attracted if they think that economic is assured or Is uninteresting the i a social aspirations of We need each other its that simple