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4 thetiubuneijbsday established 188s i i i charles it nolan 5 y pnbslwr dftvkpbvlrn pblhlwdvrvtbttnd4ym54maiassteuffvilloaltclm01i01 barre beacock i ftliin toronto phone mi1m0 slnolo copies c subscriptions tm per year la advu-j- jh editor canadajltooelsewliere member 01 audit bureau of circulation canadian eru5ul manager j community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association stcoad class mail registration number mm t tb tribune is one o tbc inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers which includes the aiaxwhitbywckering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etoblcoke gazette marknam economist and sua newmarketaurora era oakvllle beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news politicians lose by default much has been made of the fact that government these days is run by civil ser- vants who are portrayed as unresponsive bureaucrats dictating policy to elected representatives it is a common complaint at almost all levels of government but two recent events cast some doubt on the validity of that analysis recently the york county board of education voted a budget that pushes education costs almost to the provincial ceilings in another meeting york regional council approved a draft budget presented by its staff almost without a wimper in both cases the elected representatives had real opportunities to considerthe budgets and make appropriate cuts in both cases the politicians merely rubberstamped what the administrative staffs proposed in our opinion the elected representatives abdicated their responsibility in not con sidering the budgets more closely the politicians merely threw up their hands and said lets pass it and get it over with however a very important principle is at stake here elected representatives in both cases had the chance to shape their respec- tive budgets when the test came they simply refused to take full responsibility they did what the staffs wanted who can blame education director sam chapman for being the strongman at the board the elected trustees as a group are unwilling to do it mr chapman a very able administrator simply has to make these decisions the trustees simply wont at the region there is very weak political leadership the main reason the budget was not dealt with in detail involved previous commitments by various members of council in other words they could not be bothered instead they just approved it the politicians were unwilling perhaps even unable to take charge the civil servants have taken over by default it5 vy ofeoajal peieloppoeait vay n gonna be a pro ballplayer wit i years ago this weeki excerpts fromvthe tribune from june ims conservatives poll largest vote in f history despite the fact that liberal stouffville chalked up the largest conservative vote in its more than 70 years there wasnt a ripple of com- motion and for the most part everybody accepted the result in the best of spirit leslie the coni servative ran a close second to sanders liberal advertisement millions are being spent to defeat the ccp big business alarmed that its special privileges are threatened is spending money like water to defeat the peoples party farmers workers professional and small business men now is your chance to break the chains of monopoly control viewpoint in spring a young mans fancy by don bernarc private consultants best the town has decided to use private consultants instead of the area services branch of york region for planning work the matter on the surface seems to be a minor one but the change could be significant in a number of ways it is a plain fact that area services branch has been unable to do the job the turnover in staff has been unbelievable in the four years the branch has been operating right now there is one person on staff in a departments that is supposed to have a complement of five service being rendered is nil for all intents and purposes it seems to us that jhe town has no cost may be higher although that need not be the case but service will be better the township of uxbridge uses con sultants and is in the process of combining three official plans this year that township has budgeted 20000 for planning work the other 15000 to be spent on planning will be paid for by wouldbe developers who must pay the townships costs whitchurch stouffville would be wise to adopt this system by charging back specific costs to developers the town can offset the high cost of using private consultants area services branch is just not doing the rjob this it seems to us- is the only alter- alternative but to use private i consultants the native 1 if- v j delayfe enough oil airport now that the project has been delayed over two years to a16w everyone interested expert or layman a chance to have his say now that ottawa has made some concession to the temporary economic slowdown the country is experiencing present all the silly ideas such as barrage balloons sitting in front of the bulldozers and the like have all been well aired arid publicized it isessential that the construction get underway as soon as possible lys s the decision- based on findings and over riding arguments and objections listened to many times over a great manyof them- strictly personal has been taken- i thousands of jobs will begin- to emerge as construction begins to move dozens of domestic moves await the beginning as well as dozens of new commercial projects the growth pace in both stouffville and markham will quicken immensely once there is action the government could find no objective reasons to prefer opponents muchreduced air- travel projections to their own transport ministrys figures the potential for cheap mass air travel is only beginning to be realized with the charter companies leading the way government is well aware that the- roof can fall in on itvery quickly when it does not adequately prepare for the future one cannot deny that rural peace is something to cherish but to maintain such an environment almost within the confines of such a rapidly expanding city as toronto is an impossibility in spite of all the rules the r regulations and bylaws thatmay beput on the books the suburban area will expand now and in the future there are- many- thousands who do not objectto the hustleand bustle of urbanliving others while not in love with it must remain for job reasons others must find their liking farther north itsan individual decision but the creeping north of a great citys growth with its attendant highways buildings and airports is irreversible in springs young mans fancy may turn to thoughts of love but for those of us who are a little past that stage spring and warm weather mean something different its garden time again yes this year ihave embarked upon that harrowing endeavor visions of a freezer stocked with vegetables from our own garden has spurred us on to plant this year it is the first time so dont laugh when we moved into our house last fall the back part of the lot was ploughed up seemingly ready for a garden this spring we talked all winter my wife and i of what we were going to do when spring came twitch grass started to poke its way to the surface there was in fact so much ofthat nasty weed that the garden was beginning to look like an extension of the back lawn i admit that the twitch grass worried me it appeared to be quite hardy and could prove to be a real threat to my garden early in the spring a local store was offering seeds at a reduced price thus for less than 4 i bought enough to do my whole garden- or at least as much as i cared to plant- during the colder months before the warm may weathercameupon would occasionally take the seeds out of the cup- board and fondly dream about the freezer full of gardenfresh produce the first trick was to prepare the ground for planting a young man who does roto- tilling after school and on weekends agreed to come and turn it over because it had been ploughed thegarden had huge furrows if i had used a hand tiller the job would have taken a week luckily the young man had a fototiller attachment on a garden tractor after about 90 minutes he had suc- ceded in tilling it into respectible shape the next day with the help of my wife and ted and charity wilcox we started to prepare the garden for planting the main problem involved trying to eliminate as much of the dead twitch grass as possible from the soil with rakes the four of us worked most of an afternoon and managed to clean up ap proximately half the garden the other half was left in a rough state the dead grass proved to be more than we expected it made a huge pile in one corner of the backyard and managed to completly obscure the compost heap i was trying to get started finally the area was cleaned up enough the seeds were planted in short order all that was left to do was wait after a few days my greatest fears were realized the twitch grass started to revive without even a sign of any of the vegetables after abouta week the beets and lettuce- started to come1ipat point i felt somewhat better that was about three weeks agothings are looking not too bad how the beets are starting to look like beets the potatoes and beans have been planted no sign of those yet however last week i borrowed a rototiller and had a go at the vacant part of the garden it managed to unearth more twitch grass i am hoping that a vigorous working of that area r this summer will make it suitable for next year meanwhile the most spectacular thing in my garden remains the twitch grass it seems to be very determined and the samethings in the soil that make it good for vegetables also provide incentive for that horrid twitch one aspect of gardening has thus far been avoided the one thing that is most essential to having a good garden it is something that i have been putting off because of the sheer magnitude of the task weeding that backbreaking work which has been the undoing of many novice gar dener with the threat of twitch grass taking over completly the war is onthe garden will have to be weeded often and well if the young plants are to flourish they must have room the food in soil cannot go to the weeds it must go to the vegetables the greatest nightmare i have is the spectre of twitch grass taking over my garden my resolve must be firm however and- there can be no turning back the weeding must go on it only takes the thought of those fresh vegetables to come and the prices of fresh produce in the stores jo convince me- that the effort will be worth it it has occurred to me that gardening is a form of warfare the strongest will win that twitch grass just better watch out 1 news of women blocking bulldozers and people hoisting 16foot barrage balloons slrikesajstrangechord in the hearts of most law-abiding- canadians we could see writing a letter to our mp or attending a public meeting but these other tactics sound downright well revolutionary to us for some people or planes members however there are strong precedents in recent history for these moves intended to delay the pickering airport project in the civil rights movement in the us people illegally sat at lunch counters used banned response radical or necessary by ted wilcox i twtravels in mexico have influenced the tiecor in the home of mrand v and unionvule area homes will be viewed a water fountain and garden in mrsrrbgewonfacachetcountryaubrit is one of the homes on the the stairwell prove to be interesting interior touches annual marldiam and disthctfjimuy vt- i- vjvri- john montogmery tickets ar4eacwithtoe rest rooms and water fountains picketed marched made speeches and satin taughfin andlaidin then students clergy and others took to the streets to protest what now has been conceded tobe a gross waste of lives and resources the viet nam war but the politics of confrontation also resulted in a variety of ugly incidents rioting- parts of cities being burned demonstrators being wounded or even killed and more- recently bombing and kidnapping by terrorists given that background today in this part- of canada we have a much smaller but substantial protest being launched convinced that neither the provincial or federal governments have anything more than crass political considerations in mind pop is preparing to take part in several attention- grabbing activities to make their case there are essentially two ways these activities are being viewed one side con siders any means of protest beyond public meetings the ballot box or letters to your mp or editor to be inherently wrong the other side points out that having used all those means they find the airport is going forward and is as monstrously evil and idiotic as ever besides they argue the airport inquiry commission was all show since the issue finally was decided on the basis of shortranged political goals anyway personally i find both of these viewpoints inadequate first to say that some forms of protest are legitimate others are not is much too easy an answer to a complex question how will we look on the pickering airport decision 20 years hence will it be universally viewed as a sleazy political compromise unwise in the extreme in fact will oil supplies be so scarce air travel so restricted and farmland so valuable that it will be regarded as a decision bor dering on lunacy and how will the lastditch efforts of people or planes be viewed as the tactics of cheap revolutionaries or of the only people with any sense during the hazy mid70s and if we have the latter view what form of protest will be seen as proper and what will not really the whole matter brings up sticky questions- civil disobedience- is it ever justified would it have ibeeri justified in germany when hitler was murdering millions what about in a less flagrant case like to pickering airport- c- there are no easy answers to these questions for one side or the other instead of focusing entirely on the pop activities these days perhaps each of us should pay closer attention to our own actions with regard to the airport decision have we taken the time to fully examine the pop arguments is the airport really a monumental and foolish waste and have we made our opinions crystal clear to the men in ottawa- furthermore those with power in government industry and the media also bear special responsibility for what pop is now doing have governments decided the issue on the basis of what is right and just or on expediency has the media dug into the issue deeply or only reported surface headlines about it in short is pop resorting to drastic ac tion because government has failed to con sider the airport project on the basis of its merits alone in my own mind i think the airport if built would be an extravagant arid gross mistake air canadas opposition to the project the lownoise planes being developed which would alleviate future malton problems and the growing shortages of fuel are compelling facts i beyond that the whole venture typifies a blind belief in progress for its own sake in fact considering future world prospects- a team of economists decided overwhelmingly against the airport project and i feel its clear that lasting happiness j for individuals or nations wont come through 5 more and better economicdevelopment alone s the airport project millions could be better spent in a hundred other ways j but given that i am just not sure what is or isnt right regarding pops current j strategy the government has made aj decision as wrong as it can be now what can or should we do about it y write more letters paint more signs or should we block the bulldozers from v- operating its hard- to say what i am sure about however is that responsibility for extreme actions by pop has tobe bourne not only by pop members but also by any including myself who havent fully exercised their citizenship over thej issue v v ra- i and a special responsibility rests with those in the media arid in government who still v have power at this late date to cause the airportfo be delayed 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