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SOL WAY by Larry Solway 1 have a fr)end who used to, manage panrhandiers his own way. Approached by somne seedy individual for "A quarter for a cup of coffee Major," (they always hand ouf military rank) hie would answer: "Sure, whaf are you going to do for if?" Il con- founded the mroocher. He was used to either a snub or a guilt y reaching int o pocket to be rid of him. This is not about street beggars. If is about us; about Canadians more t hey any other "developed worid" people; maybe more about Ontarians realiy, because we are stodgier and more conser- vative, and used f0 being richer than other Canadians. Did you know there was such a fhing as a "Misery In- dex?" Did you also know that if has improvcd? Ready? The Misery Index is a figure that measures mortgage rates, uncmploymcnt and in- flation, the threc most ob- vious "mtseries" that affiict us. 0f the three, employment seems to be most impervious f0 improvement. Mortgage rates (which are attached f0) generai interesf rates) are heading down (helped by lag- ging demand for new mnor- f gage money), while savings rates remain magically high encouraging already thrifty Canadians f0 ide even more in the mattress. Inflation, a byproduct of greed when if goes up, and panic when if cornes down, seemns to be under cont roi. (Please do flot trouble me with preposterous gasoline prices, rising phone rates, and other "luxuries.") Acf ually we are getting more. But like the panhandier: what are we prepared to do for if? Cana- dians are famous for com- plaining bitterly while at the same time doing nofhing. Nol ail of us of course. But enough of us to create the highest ration of bank deposit to earnings in the world. At the lieight of the recession 16 percent of what we earn was tied up. Somne of if in piggy bank, some in RRSP and insurance and mortgage paydowns. Is il my imagination, or are Canadians quicker to whine about government failure while ignoring our own per- sonal failure? Arn 1 wrong to Town sets 1985 budget (Confinued from page 1) clude fax levies by the Board of Education or by the Region of Durham. $33.19 lump For 0,rono Taxpayers Altbougb the general municipal levy for thbe Town 4f Newcastle affects the Q/ erage taxpayer in Orono and t he test of the Town by an arnounl of $5.59 Orono residents will have to pay an *suspect thaf we are the big- gest complainers; that we e5ý- pect Government or Business or Union to do for us what we have neit ber thbe will nor the inclination to do for ourselves? Are we a nation of "blamiers" trying to find' something or somecone f0 pin the miisfortune on? Are we somehow at least partly to blame for high unemploy- ment while Americans have dropped to almnost haif of ours? That's too simple an answer. (But Canadians are given to simple, mindless, easy answers.) Amerîca really is different. If has the biggest domesfic potenfial buying power of any country on earth, and consequenftly can generate ifs own recovery, while countries like Canada with few people and resources begging to be ex- porfed, have to waif for the consumer nations fo start playing the Great Canadian Gamne of disgusf witb the newly minted saviors of our country. If is manifestly Canadian fo set someone up just s0 fhey can ,be shot down. I keep drifting off. The point is ifwe want f0 "Iget" we have to learn fo "give." Basic f0 any market econorny expansion is this: f bere are three sources of revenue: government spending, business invest ment, and public consumrpf ion. Those tbree fuel the engine. Until we stop hoarding and star t spending, the recovery will nof get going. No govern- ment can make it bappen, unless t bey totally rernove spending and investment *frorn private hands, fax us and do if themnselves. Here's just one simple illustration: the governmenf would flot have bad to spend mnoney ni huge amounits subsidizing The Arts if people would buy tickets, and if ail fthe people buying the tickets paid the full price of fhe event t bey were seeing. We ail want our jobs f0 be secure but we won't spend enough money to.help move *the produ'cts and services that provide those jobs. Sirnply: if the guy who builds a car doesn't buy a car -- who will? l'm ail for Thrift and Prudence. I'm also for additional increase of $33. 19 for streetlighling and gar- bage pick-up for a total in- crease of $59.78. Street ighting cusf s for the Village hias increased by 22.9 percent while garbage costs have increased by 79.6 per- cent. These are two of the hîgbesf increases of the special area milI rates in ef- fect for 1985. Kafhryn Campbell in her report to couincil on Monday called upon the Town t0 re- quesf frorn the Newcastle Hydro Electric Commission a policy outlining the service levels for 5f reet lighiting in Orono, Newcastle and Bowmanville. This was ap- proved by the general pur- pose committee. Motherhood, Fatherhood and Brotherhood. But it is high time that we stop the financial fortress mentaîity and start to live like there WAS going to be a tomor- row. 1 don't suggest we al becomnefooiish and prodical. Ail 1 ask for is somte .generosi- ty, somne self'-indulgence, some "try if, you'il like it." Spending money is a lot like falling in love. You have to give f0 get. 1 arn part of that doom- and-gloom generation who lived through The Depres- sion. Many of us have néyer stopped behaving as if the Dirty Thirties are stilî here. Wbaf may be even worse, we may have infected another generation with Our pessimisrn. So we sit af home waifing, like Chicken Little, for the sky f0o faîl. Meanwhile rner- chants suffer, manufacturers cul back inventury, business won'l commit f0 capital ex- pansion, and a government feeds Our neurosis by preaching cut-backs in everything. At the bottom of the heap are the people with rnoney tied up in my kind of business who are. realiy bur- ting. Too many people are staying home paralyzed by Fear of The Future, saving pennies, giuedl to 'their VCR ,machines, or Super-Bowling themnseives into vegetables. -While one generat ion stays home worrying about aRainy Day, anoîher stilî foot loose and responsibility-free generation is ouf there whop- ping if up over a beer in a place with an Irish namne wbile another couple of places witb other Irish names hope' for better days and wonder if the price of the satellite dish was worth if. 1 arn afraid that we may neyer chang-e. We wiIl find somnething or someone, some institution, somne govern- ment, to blame for wbat went wrong; to Maine for something that maybe, just maybe we couîd have made better ourselves. There is always hope tbough. As long as some of us are optimisfs. Definition: an opfimist is someone who knows wbaf can go wrong. Tbink about it. There is stilî room to rejoice. Start now. The Town operated affec- lîng a $440,P00 estimated surplus for 1984 whicb is sligblly higher than in 1983. During the year assessment grew by 1.4 percent and as pointed out in the t reasurer's report reserve funds were us- ed to finance appropriate projects whicb ail lead to the surplus and operaling within the fown budget. budget. The budget discussion on Monday did arouse someý heated debate witb Mayor Rickard calling to trim t wo ,milis from the suggested rate by the treasury departmnent. The Mayor was-supported in this view by Councs. Hobbs, Taylor and Main stream Canada1 SBting off what wVVe can By Tony Cari'Son Trying te get rid of winter's flab through dieting is a pain- fui process ail too familiar to many of us. Stringent calorie couniting is okay for a day or fwo, but it soon gets pretty hard to resist hot chocolate around the biaz- ing fire to chiase the gloom of February. 1Noble goals such as "getting in shape" soon pale before femptation. Event more mun- dane objectives-"I have to look good on the beach thîs year"-are tough to achieve because summer is, affer ail, stili a long way off. Planning Board to study Museumns (Continued from page 1) support of the referrai to the Planning Board and said as a member of the Clarke Board it would corne as no surprise fe that board that the study for one board was to be undertaken. She stated that f his was something£ the Town had to face. Hamre furt ber commient ed thaf the Planning Board was flot about to mnake a decision but rather undertake a rev iew of the miuseum operafion within the Town. She said it was best, ieft wth the Plann- ing Board., Counc. Taylor said museum funding had reachied a stage where a decision hiad to be made. He point ed ouf that budget requests had reached $25,200 in 1984 wif h the boards asking for $66,155 in 1985. "Waht is the pro- blem?" asked Taylor. Are they asking too miuch or are we flot facing (the probiemi he asked. He said if was most important that 'council now look af the ser vices being pro- vided. Taylor also said it was best for the Planning Board to deal with the issue and bring in a report. Mayor Rickard was also in support of the, move asking the Planning Board to review museums in the Town. He said the two mnuseumrs now deal in different areas but aise nofed that t here were other aspects in the Town that were flot being addressed and mentioned the museum building at Darlingf on Pro- vincial Park and other points of historic inferest as the MeLaughlin exhibit in Tyrone. The motion fo have thre Planning Board undertake t he review passed witb a ma- iority of counicil in support. Woodyard which dropped the overail increase to 1.93 percent rather than the sug- gested 4.1 percent. Mayor Rickard defended bis suggestion in ilhatinterest rates were bound to increase bringing in greafer revenue for the Town and also growth in assessmenf througb sup- plementary roll would furtber increase revenue by anl estimafed $72,000. chew The saine is true for eco- nomic goals, personal and national, A stated intention to stick to the family budget can fade as quickly as you can get the plastic money ouf of your walet. And taking aim at the na- tional deficit is like wrestling with fog. Where do you sf art? What do you hgld onto? Reducing the deficit is indeed a worthy cause, and most of us are willing to sacrifice f secC it happen, if, and it's a big if, we can sec resuits. The problem is, dealing with the deficit cals for iong-termi belt-tightening which, unfortu- nately, is flot our strong suit in this age of instant gratification. But diet counsdllors, indced anyonc involved in helping people reach major goals, fell us to break down our fargets into achievable objcctives, bite-sizcd chunks if you wili. And thercin ies the wisdom of a suggestion put forth by small business aclvocate John Bulloch. Bulloch, president of the 68,000-member Canadian Fed- eration of Independent Busi- ness, in a pre-budget brief fo federal 'Finance Minister Michael Wilson, said Cana- dians should concentrate on "ýmeeting or beating the e ee I fronts. He singled out three areas- inflation, interest rates and la- bor costs-as battiegrounds for head-to-headco cmpetition with our neighbours f0 the south. "4We must remain competi- tive with the U.S. if we are to mnaintain and improve our standard of living and to brighfen the prospects for fu- ture generations," Blioch told the minister. The easiesf way to accom- plish that is to compare our- selves reguiariy and realisticaffy on issues with which most peo- pie can identify. Most of us can't really relate to officiais who taik about mii- lions and billions of dollars saved or sperit in the deficit- pruning gamne. But we can un- derstand if when inflation means we get fewcr groceries for our dollar, or when high intercs t rates here mean we pay more for our morfgages than U.S. homeowners do. f"Through this comparson," says Bulioch, "we could de- veiop somne degree of national purpose and have a chance of cailing forth the personai ef- fort that is rcquired from ail of us." This is flot empty, chauvin- istic slogancering. Rather, it is a recognition-that ail of us need occasionai smnalil successes to keep us wiliing f0 sacrifice ta- wards a larger goal. Because when ail is said and done, it is easier ta lose a pound a week than to shed 25 pounds before summiner. CFIS Feeture Service of th CàC ZONING BY-LAW 84-63 TAKE NOilCE that the Ontanio Municipal Boardi has ap> pointed Monday, the llth day of March, 1985 at the hour of ten o'clock (oal timeÉ) in the forenoon, at the Town Hall (Nlewcastle Village Community Hall%,King and MilI Street~ in Newcastle Village, in the Town of Newcastle for the hearing of ai parties interested in supportîng or opposing appeals by the Regional Muniçipality of Durbiam, Pythbow Deelopmrrents Uimife, Second Marsh Defence Association Ino. and others in respect of 7Zoning By-Law 8463 of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle. if parties intrested in supporting or opposing these appeals do not attend or are flot repesented at this hearing, the On- tarlo Municipal Boardi may proceeed in thieir absenoe and they will not be entitled to any further notice of the pooeedings In the evnt the decision is reseredperons or parties taldng part in the Hlearing and vishing a oepy of Ilhe decision mnay re- quest a copy frern the presiding Board Maer or, in wiitirKI f rom the Ontailo Municipal Boardi Such decision will be mail- ed to such persons or parties when availabla lTe foIkbmng explanatory note outlineýs.fe Purpose and Effect of Byaw 8463 of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle Bylaw 8463 is a oomprehensive Zoning By-aw regulating the use of land, the erectkon of builings or stnicturEs-, the type of constructSo, the height buis location, sSz, fîcior aea, spacing,, exterial design, character and use of buidngs or structures in t he Town of Newcastle. By-law 8463 applies f0 all latndswithin the Tow'n of Newcoastle and has the effect of implemnenrting the Duran, Rçgbnl Of- ficial Plan as it applies f0 the Town of Newcastle and the ap- proved portions of the Pistrict Plan for the TowAn of Newcastle. David W. COkesB, AM.GT, T O cr< Town of Neuvanle 40 TérnpSanoe Street 8oaman'ria Ontaro LiC W Fle 60-T56 Date of publication: February 13, 1985 ' PO. No AM51 I PUBLIC NOTICEI TO THE RESIDENTS AND IN THE TOWN 0F NEWCASTLE,