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pink yellow action priced i kernel corn ap facial tissue 17 tl07 399 main st w stouffville free parcel moim 96 tues 96 wed 99 thurs 99 fri 8309 pickup service sat 8306 glen major news ice and flu j confines area by jennie johnson ley roads weather conditions and the flu bug have kept people close to home news is scarce alma qtianfz toronto was a luncheon guest on friday with mr and mrs george pickett rbly garvin has returned home after spending some itime in toronto mr and mrs alec hingston toronto spent the weekend at the farm here the pine grove church ladies auxiliary held their first meeting of 1978 at the home of mrs richard bell highway 23 on wednesday with 12 ladies present the next meeting will be february 1 at 1230 a pot luck luncheon will be held at the home of mrs frank moore uxbridge visitors will receive a warm welcome the glen major ladies have their needles and thimbles handy as there are several quilts on the agenda for the winter mrs edgar johnson and mrs george johnson called on mrs edith gui on wednesday evening and enjoyed having birth day cake with her mr and mrs marvin jones and daughter of pickering called on mr and mrs george pickett sunday mr and mrs serge dubreuil and sons visiting with friends in whitby saturday evening mr and mrs willard peddie and family claremont visiting with mr and mrs fred fiss on sundav the ml zion ucw met at the home of gladys jones on wed nesday the ml zion ucw met at the home of gladys jones on wed nesday mrs ralph jones was in charge of the programme on sunday dr ross parrott and his wife joined relatives from hamilton and kitchener at the home of mrs m salisburg toronto to honour norman howes port credil on his 80th birthday greenwood man is visiting china by mildred mctaggart a threeweek tour of china with the toronto symphony orchestra will be made by ed tait greenwood the sym phony members will be leaving toronto next saturday for a 24 hour nonstop flight to tokyo some of the cities where ed will be playing his big bass violin are tokyo peking shanghai and canton sympathy is ex tended to mr and mrs doug morden in the loss of an uncle the late james hallam at lakeland florida on saturday there will be an officialboard meeting in the greenwood church on tuesday jan 24th at 8 pm a- workshop for the weavers was held at the community centre last saturday and will be continued this saturday it was conducted by shirley lamb of the ontario college of art mr and mrs wm pegg and mrs bob rawson of stouffville called at the milton pegg home this past thursday there will be public skating at the community rink next sunday af ternoon the xears were turned bacat the mount zion community centre this past summer when it became again the old red school house in order to be filmed by the cbc tv scenes filmed there and also at the greenwood conservation and other places in the area will be seen in the film a gift to last on channel 5 sunday jan 22nd at 7 p m sinclair stevens mb growth worse than expected recently we invited readers of this column to send us their suggestions for eliminating wasteful and excessive govern ment spending your response to this invitation has been en couraging and to date we have received dozens of fine suggestions ranging from the simple to the complex reprinted below is a sampling of your letters taken together they prove that canadians are still concerned about lean sensible and ef ficient government a lawyer from tottenham provided us with a startling example of how big government generates excessive waste he told us about the experience of allistons stevenson memorial hospital in filing its first submission to the antiinflation board the hospital like many other groups across the country worked many long hard hours in preparing a budget which would meet confusing and sometimes contradictory aib guidelines when the hospitals first submission was rejected by the aib the board of directors went back to work on a second required submission again after investing hundreds of manhours and several thousands of dollars in the second submission the hospital was notified that the aib was still not satisfied the reason the budget totalling 1860729 was found to contain wage levels for two employees exactly 72 cents per day above the guidelines this negligible amount totals only 76 per year or 9 cents per hour for the two employees the hospital estimates it spent many thousands of dollars in preparing the sub missions to the aib it certainly cost the government four or five thousand dollars to r spl poi uncover and haggle over this discrepancy the hospital ad ministrator disgusted with the whole ordeal decided in the end to take the excess 76 out of his own pay rather than puto the hospital and the taxpayer through the additional expense pf preparing another mission a reader from hamilton believes lhere is unnecessary waste in the administration jof the baby bonus she suggests eliminating thej bonus altogether and replacing it with an equal amount in tax cuts the recipient would still receive the same cashsmount she writes only now he would keep it in his takehome pay rather than receive it in government cheques by eliminating the middleman the reader estimates we could save many millions in ad ministrative costs a barrie reader agrees that the fat should be trimmed from the family allowance scheme but she suggests that the present system should be retained with the following changes families earning under 10000 annually would not be taxed on their bonuses those earning between 1020000 would receive the bonus but would be taxed on them while families earning over 20000 she feels should not receive bonuses at all these changes ac- cording to our reader 9 would trim the cost of the family allowance program while ensuring that those most in need of the bonus would benefit from it an aurora man wrote that he was disgusted by the 2 million the government spent on the royal commission on violence but the last straw he said was the announcement that ten mps were going to europe at public expense to study the role of the ombudsman