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a ohn ir Ra {8 8 i 1) ] 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, October 23, 1990 Letter S to the editor Janet Bantings letter outlines understatement of the year To the Editor: Re: J. Bantings's Letter in the Oc- ober 10th issue of the Port Perry tar. Ms. Banting's "emotions are running high" line is the understatement of the year. How wonderful that we have someone as sympathetic as Ms. Banting. To her we say, we don't want/need your sympathy. We wonder just how co-operative she would be if they were taking prime agricultural land (an ever- decreasing asset in Ontario) not to mention family farms which have been in the family for generations, in her town of Green- bank. Of course you can say you are sympathetic -- you did not end up with not one, but two candidate sites and four potential sites in your backyard. Think about it, a mile from town, from two schools. It is ludicrous!!! How can you even suggest it will be a "Durham only" dump? Sorry, landfill site -- we know the new key word is "landfill," but we have trouble using glorified words to describe "garbage." Garbage is garbage and landfill equals dump, no matter how you slice it. Back to the question, how can you ensure there will be only our gar- bage at this site? Unless someone is going to visually inspect each truck and bag, it is impossible to make a statement such as that. Garbage today is business -- big business and big business means money. Maybe in 1996 they will not allow the GTA's garbage, but what happens when they get lax and the pressure falls off from the public. We know what will happen and we imagine the rest of Cart- I couldn't agree more with several letter writ- ers this week when it came to defending rock music. Several good points were brought up, mossy about the stability of today's youth. | agree wi the writers who state that lyrics in a song can- not be attributed to a young person's thinking. It is getting worse all the time. Reading a few news clips in newspapers lately, whether they be assaults, murders, thefts, | was stunned at the number of articles that made the statement -that the accused had been listening to rock mu- sic prior to his crime. Who cares? If he/she were listening to classical music prior to a four person murder spree would that have been made out to be such a big deal. | highly gaint it would have even been mentioned, let alone used as a point in the sequence of events lead- ing up to a crime. The "deadly" lyrics of rock music. | think this is where people lay the blame when they can- not find anywhere else to turn. | feel sorry for these people, because it is evident they cannot come to terms with the fact that the person in question has deep-rooted problems. No lyric can force someone to do something they did not already have in the back of their mind. it really bothers me when you read something like, "Bobby was a happy boy, ...until he began listening to Ozzy Osbourne, or Judas Priest, that is when his life went downhill." Something was dreadfully wrong with "Bobby" long before he discovered a stereo. | have always been a fan of many different types of rock music. I've listened to many groups since the ripe age of 12 or 13, (the age your personality is told to be molded". | have seen such bands as Motley Crue, and AC/DC in concert, and sorry | have never had the urge to go on a nationwide killing spree, and never heard the chants that are said to push people toward suicidal tendancies. It is the person who had problems before that who hears the words screaming out. This doesn't bahpen to the well-balanced teen. The song is played, they turn it up, they listen, scream and sing aloud. But when the song is over, "it is over!" It is the ones who have per- sonal problems who have the words ringing and screaming through their minds taking it all to heart, long after the tape is ejected. Back Talk In a world where we are all told that it is our responsibility to drink responsibly, why is a bar, or a permit-holder, of a liquor licence responsi- ble for those attending an event. In a word | find this the most "ridiculous" poli- cy that there is. Everyday over the radio, television, and from word of mouth, we are warned of the dangers of drinking and driving. Fine, | know the dangers, and therefore | do not drive after drinking. The slogan "Only you can stop drinking and driving." HAH!!! When it comes to a social event, or community event, the responsiblity shifts. The permit holder is told they are respon- sible for the safety or sobriety o persons at- tending the event. Why should this person be responsible for 100-200 people's drinking habits. If the person wants to drink, | dare anyone to try and stop him. If people were not supposed to drink, then the liquor would not be readily available. One person is responsible to watch 200 peo- ple for hours on end. To keep a running tally on what or how much they drink, a difficult chore when just watching two people for an evening. The worst part is the ever so present rule of thumb, that one person can drink more than an- other without feeling the effects the other does. This is very true, and so is the fact that many people look and act a lot more intoxicated than another who has consumed the same amount. Are these permit holders to take into considera- tion every person's weight, height, and compare it to the amount of drinks consumed, and thus make a conclusion on the person capability of driving? Don't laugh. | know it sounds ridicu- lous but that is exactly what the person would have to do, to be 100% certain that the person in question is not over the legal limit of liquor in their system. Come on, these are adults we are talking about, those 19 years of age and over. If they cannot decide for themselves that they are drunk, and should not be driving, then they shouldn't be drinking in the first place. Stick with the slogan, it is the truth. Only "you" the Dejson who is drinking can stop drink- ing and driving. It is impossible to stop every- one else. No one should be, or should have to be responsible for the drinking habits of another so called responsible "adult." For Better or For Worse® by Lynn Johnston wright knows too. You state that as Vice- Chairman of the PLC for Durham, that you are a volunteer. Does our PLC run differently than Lindsay's? A person we know was just appointed by the so-called "bureaucrats" as Vice- Chairman. Believe me, her at- titude is a whole lot different than yours. See, a dump did go in across the street from her 11 years ago. They, "the bureaucrats" made promises. Don't believe them when they say a 20-year site. Hers was to be a 13-year site, however, no one tells you that they can apply for extensions (as many times as they want) every 5 years. Out of a 250 acresite, after 11 years, they are only using 26 acres -- what could they do with a 500/600 acre parcel of land? The only chance this communi- ty has to stop this is to stand together, to fight every step of the way and to argue every point, and that's exactly what we intend to do. We will not Co-Operate -- that word has just been taken out of our vocabulary. We will not roll over. We will not give in. We won't 80 to bed with Durham -- they can sleep alone!!!! You know it is a damn shame when you think about it. No-one in this fine country of ours owns anything. Absolutely nothing. The governing party (and I use the term loosely) says "I want your land" and they take it. The land that your great-grandaddy, gran- dad, father, even yourself have sweated and toiled over. Well, if they want the land around here, they are in for one helluva fight. Speaking for ourselves, these Cartwright citizens have never gone down without a good fight!! Who knows, it may even prove fruitless, but when our grandchildren ask how we could let a dump go in just one mile from town, we can stand up proudly and say, "It's a long, long story, but believe us We Did Not Co-Operate!!! Thank you for allowing us to share our views. Respectfully yours, Bev Truax, Marlene Barkey, Dave Elliott, Blackstock Blackstock Church From Page 7 are three schools: a nursery school with enrollment of 58, a public school with enrollment of 547 and a high school with enroll- ment of 160. Students come from the four corners of the ward. This site is also Al farmland and is the source of one water- course flowing directly north and passing to the west of the village on its way to Lake Scugog which is less than four kilometres away. There is a second watercourse within 1% kilometre of the site which flows north to the lake pass- ing just to the east of Blackstock. A third watercourse flows through the village itself. All of our families are directly affected with the prospect of con- taminated wells supplying water to homes & schools. The invasion by trucks hauling waste from the entire region will greatly en- danger the lives of our school children. Property values have already plummetted, shelving the retirement plans of several farm and local families. Business ex- pansion with the community is on hold. We are also concerned about the focus of the resolution of the garbage problem. The loss of prime agricultural farm land, the destruction of a community and the demoralizing blow to the quality of family and community lifeis a monstrous price to pay for an interim solution to a long term problem. We believe that the reduction of garbage through recycling, reprocessing with state-of-the-art technology ac- companied with public and private sector pressure to reduce packaging is the only way to en- sure that future landfill sites might be eliminated. The quality and pace of life in this ward has been greatly damaged. The hearts of many are heavy. Trust in local and regional government has been shaken. There is a sense that the disposable society has deemed that our land, our homes, our livelihood and our people are also disposable. As a Church Body, we are ashamed of the governments' in- ept handling of this situation and its related process with its insen- sitivity to the degree and breadth of the impact upon the physical, moral and spiritual health of the residents of this community. Therefore we call for the im- mediate deletion of sites No. 46 and No. 28 from the list of poten- tial landfill sites so that our peo- ple may once again take their place as vital, enthusiastic builders of this region called Durham. This letter is being sent to various government officials. Peace and healing, The Session Blackstock United Church, Chairman: Rev'd Dale F. Davis Clerk of Session: Thelma Wright BORED. | AM COMPLETELY, TOTALLY, 100% BLANK, BORED, BORED, BORED, BORED, BORED, BORED, . . 4 ly 3 IF | DIDNT HAVE | mss Toone! I Lo EMMERSON "I AMWASTING: 3 10 HAVE Toran, INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED MENTING. Line. £ : Ei 193 QUEEN ST,, PORT PERRY, ONT. LSL iB9 £ i PHONE (416) 985-7306 2 i 5 ALL LINES OF § GENERAL INSURANCE hy * » J HOMEOWNERS - FARM - AUTO 8 COMMERCIAL o