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Editorials IHB WED- AUGUST in VOL Well Organized II is a tribute to Recreation Director Don and his associates In connection with Swimming Pool activities thai although July was a record month with the poo there was little to mar the smooth running of the operations We would assume thai the majority of those were children teenagers and that in itself can a full time problem Control and organization of hot waterhungry and excited young people can be The results of the lied Cross Safety Tests were also a tribute lo the instructing staff at the pool Failures were vary few The Peter Gorman Pool has proved itself the hotkey arena of the warmer months With the excellent staff and supervision maintained here during the summer Newmarket can be proud of this segment of its recreation facilities Crossroads Problems The Rural Church is one of the last remaining institutions stands at many crossroads or on many concessions in Ontario The oneroom school house has given way to the consolidated school in a large centre Other community activities are being based more and more on larger geographical regions Iheie problems denominational offices and local congre gations face in the light of thi Some rural churches suddenly find them selves in the heart of a new subdivision of a ling metropolis Others find families selling out in the wake of greater development for the tourist industry- thus i educing the membership Still other churches arc con fronted with ministering to a multiple group of persons being located in a farm and bounded industrial belts The Ontario Council of Christian Committee on the Church composed of persons from is work ing on some test designs to ileal in such problem with the Rural Church anil its ministry Some pilot projects are to be initiated The Committee members would give rueful considerations any Information persons churches organizations would like to submit lo A Public Service Residents of lakeside areas and police and firemen who serve are often faced with the tragic situation of helping to recover the bodies of who have owned as well as having the unpleasant chore of advis ing next of kin of the occurence People are becoming more aware of the need of water safety practices but due to a minutes carelessness an overestimation of prowess or for other reasons there still arc many drownings The move by Keswick area men to form an Underwater Club to be commended These men and others they hope to interest will be experienced in the use of diving equipment and have knowledge of water hazards at the They will list their names with the polite and land ready lo offer their services in attempts to recover those who have drowned as occa sion arises or help salvage tars and boats which have sunk to the bottom of the lake While no thought has arisen that members of the Underwater Club expect to be recompensed for their efforts and time involved some move on the part of the lake fringe municipalities to recognize the divers aim hooks in shallow hoi afternoons SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley A Visit To The Hometown The Chan is still The Industrie was perfect the hospitality was exhausting Its not really my hometown I didnt grow up icilh But 1 spent a decade there in the newspaper business and maybe 1 grew up there in other ways Any way when you walk down the main street and every second person stops to shako hands and ask about your family and tell you what their rue doing now its your home- A smalltown changes and yet remains the same A few businesses have changed hands Some of the stores have new fronts The paint on the hotel has been changed passionate purple lo ghastly green The shady tree lined street on which you used to live has raped the stalely trees cut to ugly stumps as the sheet to be the biggest changes arc in the people The young men or as bald as eggs The women you used to took with some interest because of big eyes arc sagging and The lovable kids that your kids used In play with arc hulking ado lescents some of I Item delinquents with police records And your old partner once apparently Indestruct ible is taking eight different colors of pills Despite the changes there is lhe ing a huge new industry 1hc fire brigade races periodically to the town dump where the incinerating process has got out of hand be cause the caretaker has hogged off for a beer Some of the local gone to reward but many an still around The local lawyer Mil plays his electric organ clients The local millionaire Mil Mugs bags of salt and feed int the back of his 66 model and lug it out lo feed his cattle The barber with whom you once shared a riot Legion zone rally still quip with his customers though he wen off to fight in a war over year ago The canny Scot chortles as In tells ing over The same waiter insults the same customers in lite pub the same beer banc in called WEEK AND NEXT By Kay Argyle Crisis In Centennial Year in determining Quebecs Despite re his Ihe Quebec lhat the The nothing will slow down I was told The implication here was that Premier Johnson elected with only per cent of the vote will take an increasingly nationalistic stance in a bid for additional support ft must be remembered that Mil i ilioiul political long at Ottawa 1 ling with Quebec There can he no question of launching any kind of offensive against Quebecs While it ran be hoped I would be premature judge as a Johnsonian goal lime has come for Canada lo m up its mind on whether it will mil Quebec In secede should Canada opt in that direction fa chief effects which Quebec would control the gateway lo Central Canada World shipping would have In pass through Quebec territory ihe of SI Lawrence to gain Dear Editor A member of York between Lake Sinuoe and Lake Ontario could well be served by a pipeline running in cither a north or south dir The municipalities south of Lake and also Metro have affrcl both Slate a union lie Union which mMU A which While lead harp on the flow from Quebec to ever said about the ti which goes back to This covers eve faintly federal services One lutein Quebec Planning llureau financed jointly by Quebec and Ottawa has recommended a program In the living Mandards of the and Lower St Lawrence regions The com mendable plan would cos federal and millions dollars Would Que- ra if Md Ihe to go 11 alone It The basic question to be faced in this issue is the right of a people selfdetermination separatists plate their main argu ment on this philosophy But what of the right of a federal union to maintain itself intact The United Stairs tin- problem a century took writeup of the fair of July 1 ha thoughts