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Int Wed Hay I THE ERA Serving Yak County Sine St comes Phone Charles St Phone Aurora DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER At last theyll clean up septic tanks Yorks new regional health department I this week that it has both the will Ind the way to enforce this areas health regulations on septic tanks This action hasnt come any too soon fighters have been warning us ars that our lakes and rivers are being with irreparable damage parti cularly by the raw sewage draining into hem from inadequate septic tanks will have a roof condemned from head tomorrow What will happen is this People living in these areas And of course fighting I such a cause that the pol climate is ripe for the move using inadequate septic tank facilities which send raw sewage through the water table and into the lake wont be permitted to rebuild these facilities as they wear out unless they can bring them up to health standards Some wont be able to because of poor soil conditions or because their building site is too low Most of them shouldnt have been allow ed there in the first place and that ia the crux of the situation Building permits were issued for those must accept some responsibility for the situation which lias developed Some type of compensation for the people who eventually do lose the use of their homes and cottages will have to be considered Conversion of older cottage areas into areas of yearround homes will be virtually brought to a halt by the stricter enforce ment and that is good These areas were never designed for yearround use Not only do most of them have inadequate sanitary facilities they lack sufficient services of almost every kind and tend to rapidly deteriorate into slums This space is reserved for the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras read ers Please feel free to send yours Alt we ask is that you Include your name and address- light be too deterred either by the We statements which conjure up pictures septic tank3 thousands of families in lake areas being Hon a health inspector checked them and lieft homeless by placarding health homeowner was granted the cn v be was justified in assuming his tank adequate It just wont work that way Nobody The municipality which issued the Georgina Township with a new and much larger tax base than any municipal government in the area before must priorities for feel that professionals lines Similarly pressure will build for action for the spring the guilt basis but not ensure that the tree will be safe It not results in takes years and years to creation of grow but only minutes 1 Large wounds sub- to destroy The rewards to infection from from a little careful bus- heal quicker than one or two large ones therefore lessening the chance of Trees should be fungal disease If the branch is large enough to require cutting with a saw re- NEWSROOM NOTES Paranoia politicians and the press fungal disease The tree sending forth masses of closely- packed suckerlike the rf mutilating once beautiful trees guilt is in our draw to the public taken The h a out- Most branches are heav ier than they look and by removing in two portions vantages of good t husbandry which would prevent the HATPEG to be that blocking too John abominations such branch first undercut in and therefore case then a thinning of diameter of the branch to ice snow and the crown might be un- then cut from above The following This prevents tearing of Mr Trudeau of fame has on Mayor Bob Forhan of Newmarket When Mayor becomes enraged in public you need not lipread to know what saying In York Regional Council last week Mayor took serious umbrage at a comment Aurora Mayor Dick Illingworth Mayor is not one of Mayor Forha would say perhaps that Mayor politicians try to escape uncomforable too thinskinned about such Mayor Illingworth and his councillors have been saying Newmarket for years and I guess the freshman mayor of Newmarket is simply by using the press as their scapegoat sick and tired of it Last week Mayor were upset at The Era for publish about limits on tax increases to annexed dents Councillor Twinney expressed eepstakes annoyance at the newspaper local television show Councillor Ray Twinney story wind fa foliage block the procedure should also be the bark d properly managed followed Paint all cuts are an asset n e a r a An imbalance of 1 t e proper with tree wound dress- dwelling but dead trees the crown the leafy tools f the job a tag are dangerous and lion rentler l e ma sure your saw Is If one has to be removed Lopping tree more liable to wind sharp move a tree consider hatpegging ie in- damage Remove all dead your children and plant damage If you have large and diseased branches branches and thus trees which are causing 3 Try to restrict a large portion concern or trouble take ting of live branches to Aurora just one Had Aurora got two its likely my colleagues from the opposite page Evelyn Buck would have become a member Mayor had opined that New- iarket gets everything during a soporofic of roads projects planned for this That retorted Mayor Forhan is yon know There were hushed murmurs from of that august body 1 well as Mr That would have spared both worth and from the lash of her Newmarket of course remains the seat of government for York And Newmarket gained he famous police headquarters which thanks to a providential wind Some chuckled openly It was the type escaped the flames which engulfed ftf reaction Hansard would record as Some an adjacent building Just Newmarkets fuck Members Oh Oh eh Mayor Illingworth smilingly tried to ex- Political jealousies are common in York that he was only kidding Mayor For- Regional Council as well as Parliament or wearing sunglasses because of an eye any other body But aside from their own was not amused He scowled intramural infighting its interesting how BILL SUGAR AND SPICE The story we now find was not totally correct but further investigation shows that its basic information was valid that the province will not allow dramatic to annexed residents information to him Mr Steele apparently got his signals crossed at one point but the information he gave us was basically correct If the story was so wrong and if the public was being misled it makes one wonder why Rob and Ray waited almost a month to Mayor likes this ploy too The same story he announced on his council chamber and spectators on April 19 con tained no truth whatsoever He didnt men tion that Mr Steele was the source But after indie- professional advice those less than dia- only stupidity There are a number of meter Remember a lack of aesthetic specialist arborlcultural number of little wounds SCOTT YOUNG SPEAKS OF Mystery of spring another where mature for their child rens benefit BRIAN Landscape architect KeUIeby Spring is the time of uses and duds of the lit distinguish from one another Giving a speech bad as hearing it They arc all dressed of clothes have the same haircut They all are choosing up sides the hooks open on the table there to studied and the land turning green outside where Rill Steele got the story I guess Where do Steele himself But this infighting between Last week I mentioned making a speech fco the Vimy Branch Canadian Legion and a treat it was to be able to get up and talk about the stupidity of senior officers I loathe making speeches almost as I detest listening to them As a former weekly reportereditor a cold wet grey blanket comes down over my spirit pt the fateful words And now I give you guest speaker Thats the signal Some guest speakers starving group of I have been given dunderheads and dolts and poltroons pipsqueaks peda- and presidents farmers and philoso- Not once have I been inspired uplifted Yes Well as you know were a non profit And we dont have much money and we thought youd just along give us a littlr know just any thing how would 10 expenses be And in a burst of enthusiasm And bring your wife along Her dinner would be free of This is always what clinches it with me A lastminute invitation for my wife And a free dinner for her Big deal Some people love to speak To anybody They have one speech which theyve memo rized They have two jukes invariably insert ed villi tin prefix That reminds me of a little story It didnt and the story has nothing to do with anything But for half help us for the cynosure of all eyes expect those which are closed in slumber And every ear is attun ed to them Except those with the hearing aids turned off They bask R nectar and Cheeks that you begin to feel that somewhere ambrosia to them even though It politician is all part of this little game we play In fact an eminent Newmarket physi cian who also happens to he an influential Liberal recently stated categorically that all reporters are paranoid Well perhaps we arc But if so its prob ably from associating with politicians Sonic of it rubs off I guess to be chased Friends who have quit school dogging it go tonight All of this although many do not it toils down to the simple Now age 18 vs years without number chaff The only question is whos tie the chaff Not long ago the principal school in my home urea received from a member of his Chaff The principal sent the letter to me Possibly it would be a good thing to let some of the fellows and girls who think its a real lark to get out of school as quickly as possible know where theyll stand when the lark dies When I lost interest in school and left in I knew it wouldnt hurt me I was smart enough to get a job and I did After the first I got another one then another and and the another different jobs Ive sold shoes subscriptions clothes and new and used cars Ive been office boy chopped wood broken concrete assembled refrigerators Some of these wore in the East and some in the West Each time I felt that if I couldnt find IT here IT must be somewhere Then else I pushed a wheelbarrow dug fence ago the process they have bitten them off mat coffee and cold porridge to their need it or not called up or written to by the of some organization which youve About every two years make a speech heard of and told theyd like to have whether I need it or not Im proving some- guest speaker at some function you to myself different Vimy Branch interest idea of how to get to This is the moment to say loud and clear you I am deeply honored but I cant make it Any wavering and youre 1 trouble he prof 1 few about chooses that moment to lay his cards He says Well I might be to fit that in on that date hut Ill have consult my calendar He consults his which is blank for weeks Hi calls ick Yes I could make it My fee is is the way I like it They meet only twice year for a real smash They have club rooms no flags no lugubrious about At the petting of the sun we shall remember them Instead they have their band which smashes out lite tunes of only by The haps took he insults well flielr U8 ujioMriMlvo and a cheque for generous a hotel and crock of my choice My wife not thrown In as an afterthought new son This has slowed me down in my wild antics ami now I have to think before 1 go ahead and act This brings me today Im now working in an office again earning a liveable wage abb re With family In a few be an office or branch manager the I actually need some I have none If the bud times hit again not just myself will he affected Now after a careful evaluation of my self I figure that am not ton old to start looking ahead and Id better start today I have received my application form for courses with the Department and become a teacher Ironic Yes This decision is not merely a means to secure a wellpaid position with a future and security In teaching but to satisfy myself that its not too late to realize that a person owes it to himself and to those next to him to make the best of the capabilities God in stilled in him I hope that these words will do just one orre good and help them to see that its so easy to get an education while hes able to that the big world has lots of time to for him I wish I knew then what I know now Here is the whole purpose of my writ- you will forward it to me soon as possible Any advice you may be truly predated sincerely nam withheld that is a a go lucky I hope he makes ft 19 times as tough