Home Newspaper of Halton Hills WEDNESDAY 14 1977 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Main St South Georgetown Ontario VVILMAMi-VDOKIMOht- Publisher BOB Editor Second Mail Why not a chance at lower taxes regional council last week t have rejected the proposal to accept zerobased budgeting Its action in accepting a proposal to contain budget growth to the level of new assessment this year may ultimately reach the same target of stabilizing the mill rate with no in crease taxes but it does not allow for the possibility of the reduction in the taxes paid by ratepayers Zerobased budgctting allows for the reappraisal of all budget items annually thereby giving elected politicians more latitude in making cuts of programs to be ficient or redundant and power to allocate those resources to other needed programs New programs could be assessed on the amount of resources available after the ap praisal of all existing programs and budget items This form of budget control is gaming in acceptance and Peel Region for one is expected within the next two years to move toward it as a goal for containing the recent rapid rise in tax levies During the past provincial election the Liberal Party proposed this form of fiscal control to contain the growth of both the civil service and the programs proposed by the government It is only natural that when a set limit of growth is announced all parties to it will gear their needs to that growth figure under zerobased budgeting proof must be provided before continuation let alone an increase is permitted should seriously consider a move to zero- based Commendable Halton Hills council should be commended on its rejection of any form of limit on the number of delegations appearing before it Council should also consider taking its own advice and finding ways to control handling of individual delegations when they arrive for presentation of their concerns The move to limit suggested by Coun Roy Booth came immediately following a lengthy and involved council meeting held the night before which saw a large number of delegations attend Council should consider the ef use of Its procedural bylaw to limit the amount of time each delegation might have to speak to council and to control the length of debate that follows In most cases as Coun Mike Armstrong argued there Is no need for a delegation to council prior to the matter going to committee Thisisthe usual method of handling specific requests but to deny presentation to council is also to deny a basic right to speak to council If members of the public wish to protect their interests at both the committee and the council levels that is their right To attempt to limit anyone from access or to delay such access to elected representatives is to inflict injustice upon people who are today confused about a complex form of government Ultimately they the final lay when they go to the polls Their right to seek satisfaction from government should not be hindered Hurry Hurry Hurry By DON IIP VEIN Quern Park Bureau Herald Hurry hurry hurry The provincial council later will set dale for ils Icadtrshlp convention Behind the scenes at least half a dozen people ore trying to make up minds whether they will run Wooing labor who arc all important and generally sounding out heir chances Here is comment on same of them HOW THEY Ian Deans is the one declared d ate mid is busily touring province Ian can bo impressive A Rood appear dresses well and talks profoundly He presumably has had some assurances from labor Jim of Thunder Bay A cache r and a parly moderate He I the force be a leader and it is doubtful if would many voles at a convention unless there is no other in the field Floyd of Nickel will probably be In He would be representing wing of party A supporter of the Waffle he is regarded as the most extreme leftist in he house He would gel support from the radical wing which Lewis Is still but would be analhcma to the larger wing BAD GUYS Ehc Martcl of Sudbury Fast A school teacher and an enigma it all Rood guys and bad guys He particularly radical but everything is black and white He has a good fighting platform manner and from this angle could be the best of all the candidates But his interests have been narrow and largely local And there Is no indication ho could broaden Ihem leadership How ever is a fighter Then Michael A former newspaperman Times he as the inlcllcctii capacity of potentials But is a boring speaker usually going on endlessly With a time limit involved he me up with a Rood in speech is leader he could bore the public public personality is not good Gill Social worker and di in I She is personable a solid worker and a The uld an importanl consider One truth We all grow old By There is one ruth in life thai will effect all of us Each and every person reading column will experience it We will all Cod willing grow old Aging in our ciely Is actually frowned upon We color our hair God forbid that we should show any grays and when it thins out we can wear a wig or a toupee We concentrate our energies on having hat youthful look Aging is a process thai we outrunning In our early youth yet from the beginning It is race we are o lose Our culture looks at our senior citizens as something to be tolerated slick away in homes as soon as possible We retire Ihem from business Just as they arc reaching their prime at a lime when we could most from I heir experience We seem to place our emphasis on culture of our youth mindless of the wisdom of experience of the aged It is as we believe that hiding the old away and retiring them early from life we can avoid the irreversible process of growing old hit begins on the day we were The old seem accept the ways of our society and soon hey are placed In a home Ihcy accommodate by dying How very sad Our senior citizens have earned a pro mi and honored place in our society but we choose to ignore them and retire early from life in so doing we all lose Unlike the youth our pioneer fore fathers our young people do not have aged grandparents to instruct and spend lime Grandparents to day are caught up in iheir own lues ind when Ihe time comes to instruct grandchildren or great grandchild ren arc put away to a Senior Citizen Home Jut sight soon becomes out of mind Every itron or nurse In a old people home has a to tell of the lonely the unloved me unwanted who sit broken in chairs and wait for dealh With the above in mind we offer you the for thought YEARS Lands borough Dear Lord give me the wisdom to understand that my step will not always be as light these nimble limbs lhat carry me so up the stairs Will not always bend so readily at my command That these eyes sec the finest print with ease and read for hours without tiring Will blur and cloud with passing Let me not show impatience with old Lord too will slow passing years Lord ihe sharpest mind plays In cits Let mc show compassion Lord understand mg for a filtering hand To slow my pace for footsteps that are not as quick as mine or the curse of the living Is old age And though we all step quickly through those portals Let me follow gracefully Lord without the Impudence of youth Let me be mindful loneliness is painful for the old though my days flit by so rapidly days for someone left alone do not or youlh sneaks away so quickly Lord and one day not so very far I too will find thai I am old Then I will and long for a cheery word a smile bit of And all of dtar Lord art mine give so If I for a second pause lo remember that Of lint irickstir time Looking through our files THIRTY AGO Plans were under way for George town this weekend Special features are horse show exhibit harness and road races poultry show hall display merchants display baby show all for he annual fair council went on record this week as being opposed a pheasant hunt in the township this year when council met for ils regular monthly meeting Tuesday Council payment for an air raid siren which had been out and recommended by the fire brigade to supple mit the fire siren is AGO A large crowd was on hand attend celebrations going on opening of Stone house Motors Georgetown newest car the introduction of the 1958 Edscl Parking meters begin official operation in Georgetown Thursday when the pallet force will begin handing out tickets fir violations of Ihe an hour now being levied far downtown parking Anoiner stores will join Closed Mondays open soon passed a set new hours for hardware and appliance stores after petition was read at council A three in to withdraw from Ihe Credit Conservation Authority was defeated it council Jim said we ire not anything fir our suggested town tike steps to with from the luthonty Coun Steamer compared VCA to long term inveslment which would be thrown if he lumi dd withdraw other fell Hit town would never Ret a dam built il Hungry Hollow If we have to pay fir it ourselves Emmerson said Tin Ink si addition the Georgetown flcel a Chevrolet van is m ill purpose vehicle should result In pair lltng efficiency and ton ml Its use in insportmg prisoners lit Jill will free a cruiser for other Civil service peace over language Of The Hera The decision to gradually oul its second I training ins a way toward restoring s me sense tranquility to Canada public service And it will certainly remove a heavy from shoulders of Maxwell the mmlssioncr of Official Languages The training for public servants began in when the prime minister lesler Pearson declared thai both French and ngbsh speaking Canadians should have right communicate with their in their own language And I enough Frenchspeak public servants to provide this service a crash program id to be undertaken to m re bilingual employees It been a smooth process for many of Ihe public servants involved Some j tshavt and to fill est positions employees either had to piss a second language test or Agree o bee me at public expense In the last years government established language training classrooms the majority of leaching English speaking public servants to handle French Many older English employees comp lained of because job above them had been declared bilingual and it would not be practical for Ihem o a second language in their careers There were complaints lhat be the primary concern as to more French speaking public servants that the training program favored hose whose first language was For a time Ottawa seemed to be seething with resentment Above all there were constant claims he training program was largely ineffective that graduates seldom achieved a full working knowledge of the second language and often had no unity use il they left the language- training Hut Iht facing continuous complaints that he target Fnglish speaking public service automatically discriminated against trench Canadians was forced to press on with its crash program to prove it meant And at he same time established a scries of Frenchonly units in ihe public service where some of these employees could find em plojnuni Nil only wis the entire program general lydi rupllve it was frequently stood Canadians thought there was no tor in the public service unless could speak two These were the types of complaints handled by the witty Commissioner of Official Lantu3cs h spent seven years trying sell ins on the value of i the of the Officii Languages Act And only complaints whose office heard about from airline tickets to that ml enough French Canadian inposerswert utilized for music played in superm irkels Hut was public service til number of complaints as the crash mining programs altered careers created of resentments The t helped by the fact that in in effort to make the city f Hull an pari of national capital began moving 15 public servants across the i river Fven Spicer in his annual report he government ind he said the problem would not I luil until second language training from Ihe bureaucracy to the schools tins lakes time Hut mm we ire told the government foils ii em ise out is language training us redueint the number f design bilingual jobs by about si mi of tht J61 million now spent i the programs may be shifted to in provincial school sj The limine i be belter for Maxwell ten carold career public servant Given circumstances in Canada bis jib will prtdute enough headaches having to worn about the career pillsiflheeiuntrj public servants Trapped Opting for the Foreign Legion llvSt siren tall of summer with Us lazy days a massive effort is needed to lift oneself of a state of Inertia and realize that the inexorable licking of clock must again be Che lorn a Iocs in the vegetable garden are i luster than I can pick Ihem and ihe beans are plaintively out to be vested While one Is caught up In he scramble from garden to kitchen amid he pots of water a temporary cmcrgancc from freezer bags becomes necessary begin the preparations for school opening and total reigns supreme The wo girls demand appointments at he hairdresser a being for he start of the fall term while on the other hand have to literally drag my son kicking screaming to the nearest barber and shackle him to Ihe faint drop in temperature causes thills lo run down my splm as thai winter clothing must be sorted hat ihrec barefoot children need to be shod Mom My shoes arc loo light comes the Canlyoucurly ur toes I reply When no answer from Ihls obvious query try another tack Ok are of you ready to wear a boys size nine castoff shoe yet I enquire hopefully of the girls Oh mum sigh and Teresa In unison who can never take a jocular ap proach to serious subject of clothes The where winter mills and carves were hastily stuffed May is emptied I have one red one brown and one mill Anyone care a new fashion in vancolored hands I brightly ask Well you could each wear one and keep other hand in your pocket I am only trying to keep expenses down In these economically troubled limes Mom I he word you arc looking for Is Cheap Choosing lo ignore that totally uncalled for remark I doggedly continue Louisa do you have gym shorts lhat fll I don I know I I need new skis proves to lie bummer is ill tin i ihem then diverted in hi skates ski poles I know regretfully that this job is to lake it least three days title stand imidst piles of lolhtnt still to I sorted It appears reasonable to discard wornout clothing the same lime I pick up a pair of blue jean cut offs hat have only faded to a dirty off white shade but arc worn through in the seal Mom Louisa You cant throw they arc Just getting com and young Teresa chimes In Yeah Mom She going to pass them on lo mc hen they don her anymore I reluctantly drop them back in the pile a muttered If cither one of you ap pears on ihe street In those you will probably frosted and make a mental note to discard when as Ihe ihluu can rtassumc my solitary of in house My fall cleaning spree is obviously going have io be postponed indefinitely On top of everything cist he mere thought of tackling Teresa s collection of mouldering he dead butterfly taped to her bedroom wall lhat is about fulfil a destiny of from dust to dust and as yet undiscovered summer remnant horrors Is enough to give me nightmares 1 wonder If the French Foreign Legion would accept a runaway housewife