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They‘ve Halton‘s school boards are looking to slash busing expenditures and that means more children will be taking to the streets. Add to this the expanding number of students attending classes in the newer north areas of town and you have the need for school crossing guards. Not only for help in crossing intersections but also to act as visible lookouts for the children who face today‘s grim social realities of possible abduction. The town was looking'at hiring 10 crossing guards to deal with this trend, yet only six were ultimately approved. What happens to those chilâ€" dren crossing at areas of the four who will not be hired? We also find it interesting to note that in other ‘growth‘ areas, there area also reductions, some of which will become glaringly apparent as we head into the spring and summer months. The parks and recreation department took a significant hit in the budâ€" get process this year with the elimination of eight partâ€"time and two fullâ€" time gardeners. It‘s ironic, that in December, we reported on the new Uptown Core Park as a model for the future. The plan was to humanize a growing urban area but one wonders how the town will deal with its 35 acres of parkland, some of which will require intensive work if it is to be maintained. It certainly won‘t happen when employees actually doing the physical work are reduced. As the town grow, so too will the number of parks and open areas that have to be maintained. How will the town deal ‘with this? We suggest, not very well. Those usingâ€"Dorval Drive from April through October last year, for example, noted a reduction in the frequency of grass cutting and this will escalate everywhere this year. The flower beds that were so attractive will be cutback or eliminated. It‘s hard, therefore, to see the town promoting itself as a tourist area while cutting back on the very aspects that attract people to town. 1 Consplcuously absent from the cuts, were management positions. A token spot was eliminated, that of Assistant Director of Operations at Parks and Recreation, but that‘s it. So for taxpayers, what we‘re seeing is the status quo at the top bureaucratic echelon while those who are responâ€" sible for delivering the actual service get the chop. From a fiscal perspcctlve it‘s a good news budget but we can‘t help but wonder if there will be fallout next year when a new budget committee must deal with the need for more roadwork, more traffic lights, more parks personnel etc. that are a legacy from the current council. se is ue And for the cynics among you, wondering why this council couldn‘t hit 0 per cent budgeting before, let us remind you that the current council will be looking for your support in the form of votes next November. That‘s right folks, it‘s municipal election time and there‘s nothing better than a standâ€"pat budget to attract votes. But as most taxpayers know, when it comes to paying for government, whether it‘s municipal, provincial or federal, it‘s a question of paying now or later. In opting for short term gain now, town taxpayers should realize the bill will come due in the future. Zero per cent now but what later? Should the Town of Oakville try to hold the line on spending for the coming year? Yes: 7 No: 11 Pay now...or later EDITORIAL 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 354 $45â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 RESULTS OF LAST WEEK‘S POL The Oakville Beaver, gublished every Sunday, Wednesday and t T57 Speers Rd., Oakville, is one of the Metroland Prit lm. Publishing Distributing Lid. group of suburban newspapers which includes: Ajaxâ€"Pickering News Advertiser, Barrle Advance, Brampton Guardian, Burlington Post, Colingwood Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, Gaorewwn Independent/ Acton Free Press, Kingston This Week, Lindsay This eek, Markham Economist and Sun, EqsC anadian Mississauaa News Is there any justification for the Blue Jays raising their ticket prices an average of 20 per cent for the 1994 season? Cast your ballot by calling 845â€"5585, box 5008 to vote. _Results of the poll will be published in the next Friday edition of the Oakville Beaver. Callers have until 12 noon Thursday to register their vote. Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, at 467 10 years ago Halton Board of Education trustee Bill Priestner, of Burlington, expressed concern over the board‘s plans to increase its 1984 computer budget to $700,000. "It is apparent, from the advice of experts, that the feeding of migratory waterfowl is not in the best interâ€" est of the birds," said superintendent of parks and cemeâ€" teries Don Young. "It should also be of concern to the citizens of Oakville that their waterfront public park sites do not become overrun with birds to the point that they are no longer enjoyable to use." 20 years ago High winds caused an estimated $25,000 damage to two houses under construction in Westbrookâ€"byâ€"theâ€" Lake, an exclusive subdivision near Blakelock High School. Priestner told the board "not to go hog wild" with computers. The Town of Oakville‘s general committee recomâ€" mended taking immediate steps to discourage the feedâ€" ing of migratory birds at Gairloch by Groups including the Oakville Humane Society. Roofs, doors and windowsâ€"were in place awaiting bricks and aluminum siding when the winds blew down the structures. Frames of the twoâ€"storey houses â€" the houses would have sold for about $75,000â€"$80,000 on compleâ€" tion â€" were almost finished. Oakville chief building inspector jack Kelly, and an insurance adjustor for Morden and Helwig Ltd., who surveyed the damage agreed there was no evidence of shoddy workmanship or materials involved. ‘Nobody could expect buildings at that stage of conâ€" struction to stand up under galeâ€"force winds," said Kelly. Ford Canada collided with the energy crisis, as 3,500 auto workers at the Ford Oakville car plant were temâ€" porarily laid off due to slumping car sales in the United States. About 80% of the Oakville car plant‘s weekly proâ€" duction of 4,200 intermediate and regularâ€"sized cars goes to the U.S. market. The main function of the car plant is to produce the intermediateâ€"sized Torino, a car Ford hopes to ride out the current problems created by the energy crisis centred around the shortage of gas and oil in the U.S. Commuting has come long way in 40 years Alook back at the events that made headlines in Oakville. The resolution was ratified by the resolutions comâ€" mittee of the Halton organization and forwarded to the national Resolutions Committee at Ottawa in time for the forthcoming annual meeting of the federal progressive Conservative Party. The resolution read: "Resolved that this association express its appreciation to the leader of the party for all he has done in the interests of the nation, but declare its conviction that he has lost the confidence of a large proportion of the electorate, and must be succeeded by a leader having the qualities required to be the next Prime Minister of Canada." 30 years ago The replacement of John Diefenbaker as leader of the national Progressive Conservative Party was called for in a resolution of the Oakville Progressive Conservative Association. The resolution was later criticized by Halton County Conservative Association member W. S. Thomson, the PC candidate in the last provincial election, as being invalid since the resolution was never endorsed by the association‘s membership. Bur defeated Halton County Conservative MP Sandy Best was reportedly hooked up with a "rebel Tory gang" revolting against Diefenbaker‘s leadership. Best, who lost Halton riding to Liberal MP Dr. Harry Harley, joined other Tory rebels when they gathered in Room 377 of the Chateau Laurier to plot ways to bring down the party leader. 40 years ago With its cemetery practically full and both Oakville cemeteries unwilling to accept outsiders for interment, the village of Bronte finds itself forced to look around for a new burial ground. The present Bronte cemetery, which is well over a hundred years old, is located beside the lake, and some of the land near the bank has been considerably eroded in recent years. Several years ago some graves had to be moved to another part of the cemetery, as they were threatened by erosion. President Hugh Morris of the Oakville Commuters Association wrote to President Donald Gordon of the Canadian National Railways, asking for improved comâ€" muting service, and stated that a survey indicated the CNR was losing business. Morris estimated about 175 persons now trek to Toronto from Oakville station each day. se Ek