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Georgetown Herald A of Horn Newspapers Company limited 22 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WALTER Publisher Paw THE GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY SEPT EDITORIAL COMMENT Someone Should Whoever may bo the governing body the triangle of land at Silvercreek and the road should be retained for public use Esqueslng Reeve Tom Hill has ex pressed concern about the yearly upkeep If the township were to maintain It and there can be no quarrel with his reasoning Perhaps the best approach would be to have the highways department keep it for Its use is not restricted to neighbouring people It la Ideal for the type of picnic area which the province has established along major highways many at hist such locations where a highway curve has replaced a right angle turn Another possibility would be to have it acquired by the conservation authority On occasion we hove enjoyed the little park Once we remember we started out for a weekend holiday packing a lunch to eat along the way Everyone got hungry soon after going so we stopped at Silv ere reek and consumed the goodies In as pleasant surroundings as we would have found anywhere along the way Every time we drive by we admire little park and usually notice a family with a picnic lunch perhaps a ball game In progress or a motorist stopped for a respite from driving enjoying the fresh country air We hope that someone be it township government or private group will act and keep this little oasis for the enjoyment of the public Problems Ironed Out With both sides giving a little Saturday morning hockey for hundreds of young Georgetown boys is set for another season The Legion branch sponsors for many years were perturbed at a sharp increase in ice time rates and threatened to pull out which would have left the Recreation Committee in a box When the rate structure was modified to give a cheaper rate for early morning hours Legion officials decided to foot an extra cost and the matter seems to have been settled amicably for the time being Ice time fee Is a delicate matter and one which will appear again in future The Recreation Committee must operate on a budget from the tax treasury and once this is established cannot vary too radically from the apportionment It must satisfy all sports groups soccer hockey baseball maintain the town parks with the varying costs which such a large operation entails Whether the playing fee assessed young hockey players this season will be possible with increasing costs In future and how much of the hockey program must be paid for from the public purse Is a question which must be decided early in 1972 We would not want to see a battle each year between groups which are pledged to the same objective recreation for residents young and old Served His Community AMD Roman catholics ISRAELIS ARABS- ARABS AMD ARABS AMD PAKISTANIS AMD CAST AMD WHITE AND SOUTH VITNAMese NORTH CHIME AMI GERMANS COMMUNISTS AND SEPARATISTS Motorists Youth amd AMD All South mainland WEST CAPITALISTS AND CAST AMIS WEST AMD Ale CHAuVMISrs establishment amd OF US OPTING FOR A CONDITION OF SIMPLE HUMAN HAPPINESS In the Mall Bag A tragic motor crash took the life of a man who had served his adopted comm unity well and who will be missed par ticularly by his colleagues In the Legion branch Russell Stephens was secretary of Branch 120 at the time of his death and had been a particular booster of the Air Cadets which the Legion sponsors and which has brought healthful and educat ional recreation to many young George- towners That he was held in high esteem at the Legion branch was evidenced In the tur nout of members at a Legion memorial service at home Seldom have we seen so many veterans on parade and It would be a consolation to his wife hospitalized from accident injuries who has suffered the double blow of losing a husband and a daughter Weather Summary Record Low Last Month By ROGER SMITH August was a month when weather conditions suddenly deteriorated over southern Ontario Until the weekend of August 22 the weather had been warm dry and sunny Average high temperature during this period was degrees and sunshine occurred over percent of the possible time Temperatures reached degrees on 17 of the first 22 days Heralding the change there were short but heavy thunderstorms at 5am on August 21 and pm on the The weather turned very cold for two days setting a new record low of 36 degrees on August 24 For the next four days cloudy humid weather prevailed Three Inches of rain fell early on August while 118 Tell In a thunderstorm at 3 am on the As Hurricane Doria moved up the east coast of the US a further fell later that evening Following the week of un settled weather during which total rainfall was over sunny and almost calm con ditions prevailed Into September Final statistics for August showed that the average tem perature 66 degrees was just slightly below the longterm average degrees Average high was BO low In June July and August had very similar mean tem peratures at Georgetown Total was percent above overage at 20 Thunderstorms occurred on days Total sunshine was hours about 12 percent above average representing percent of daylight hours September has begun on a very warm note Although the over night reading on the first was only degrees warm humid weather which arrived on Sep tember 2 had kept the average temperature degrees about degrees above normal Daytime temperatures have been above 80 degrees for consecutive days with overnight Iowa In the mid GOS On Labour Day the tem perature reached degrees tying the record for September set In 1945 Scattered thun- dershowers occurred each af ternoon and evening but the Georgetown weather station has been bypassed by most In Mall Bag A Little Obscenity Never Hurts Anyone Blvd Georgetown Dear Sir I am pleased that the policeman In question Degenerates Mall Bag Thur sday Sept 2nd did nothing to restrain the youth who shouted en obscenity Obscenities are used frequently by men and women in all walks of life even English teachers They can be a safety valve for some of us and for want of better vocabulary to express ourselves Noone was ever hurt by a spoken obscenity I have found from personal experience that Georgetown Police are well trained in dealing with violations of our laws ana ire very reasonable when they feel It necessary to uphold them Understanding our youth and their problems in todays com plex world needs tolerance the same we adults need while we struggle tor material gain We scream blue murder If our socially eptable way of life is Last week sitting In my pollution emitting Detroit wonder thals an obscenity on Main St I thought about Coun cillor they are not his bottles cans and papers that are Uttered dally In Georgetown nor are they his slinking pools of waste on the west side of Mountainview I thought of women still buying non- returnable bottles and phosphate rich detergents do hell with the environment lets have con venience Then there are the children with or no parental guidance broken homes men with families but no job small businesses forced to close because of Big Company Power How I wish that a drive to Brampton would free us all from the worlds obscenities And another thing how come Im so damn perfect Yours truly RW Bird In the Mall Bag Impressed with Team But Not Playing Field 258 Kenwood Avenue Burlington Ontario Dear Sir On a recent visit to your town coach of a soccer team representing Burlington I was very impressed with the sport smanship which was displayed by your very good Pee Wee team and the people who work so hard in organizing your whole minor soccer program which I believe involves over several hundred boys However on In quiring after the game about the poor condition of the field I was informed that this was the only field available and that the high school fields are not made available to your minor soccer program I am sure that this type of thinking does not represent the opinion of the majority of your very people of the town So come on Georgetown let your boys play on the green and not on the dust bowl that represents your town Yours in sport Joes Boys Missed Picture Disappointed Lynn wood Drive Ontario Dear Sir On Saturday I attended the semifinal playoffs of the Georgetown Minor Baseball Tyke League The enthusiasm skill and sportsmanship or the players made the day a rewar ding one for those playing and for the many spectators who turned out I am sure the appreciation of your community goes out to those men who worked with the boys so successfully during the season One unfortunate Incident which spoiled the day for a group of boys is one sir over which you have some control A photographer purportedly from the paper refused to wait until a coach could assemble his team for a picture Needless to say the boys of Joes Tuck Shop were very disappointed especially when brusquely informed they would be the only ones left out The team played well and deserves congratulations I hope this letter serves in some measure for the recognition which your photographer so hastily and arbitrarily snatched from this group Yours sincerely James Pell Editors Note A Herald staff photographer was at the minor baseball playoffs Saturday to get pictures of the championship teams and the presentation of a new trophy but was not taking pictures of all the teams In the leagues and was not the photographer mentioned in Mr Pells letter Another photographer was also present apparently doing commercial In the Mall Bag Who Is Running This Town Regan Crescent Dear Sir Less than a year ago we held an election to determine who would manage our town It now appears we were wasting time and money Our mayor and council agree we neither need or want an asphalt plant In Georgetown We now have one Town legal counsel cannot or does not choose to take concrete action Is It not time the town was governed by elected represen tatives rather than by private interests J Browne Smile In Eunice New Mexico a young lad named Butch who liked to light matches set a neighbours car on fire The Eunice newspaper reported the event concluding with the observation The car escaped with a slightly scorched rear end It is hoped Butch did as we I THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE GLEN EDEN IIEAIUNG MILTON Ontario Municipal Board has set September 16 for a hearing into the proposed development plans for the Glen Eden Ski area operated by the Hntlon Region Conservation Authority It will be held in Ml ton town hall The hearing has resulted from objections of officials of Township against the plan to enlarge the ski facilities is one of nine municipal bodies which form TOO MUCH FREEDOM PEEL Peel board of education chairman Ted Conover said this week he thinks Peel educators may have allowed permissiveness and freedom of choice in the countys schools to go too far Speaking at the annual meeting of principals viceprincipals and coordin ators In the Peel system Conover sold everybody seems to think somebody else this permissiveness We have to produce students that have a sense of responsibility when they leave the school system he said BATTLE LINES DRAWN The bailie lines are shaping up for the October Ontario Municipal Board hearing here on proposed water and sewage treatment facilities tor the village Rock wood and area residents and Toxepayers Association Is conducting a membership campaign and circulating a petition opposing Installation of the fac ilities as proposed by the three village trustees Township Council and the Ontario Water Resources Commission STATION ON THE BLOCK ACTON For sale here within the next 12 months one railway station The CNs Acton station will go on the block to make way for a more modem passengersonly station on the same site according to M Veenls of the railway As long as passenger trains stop In the CN has to provide facilities for travellers in the form of a clean building with heat and hydro IMLLSHURGH TAXES JUMP Township council has announced a 13 percent in crease in taxes here this year mast of It due to Increased costs The mill rate for farm and residential assessments will be 112 and for commercial 125 5 Council has also passed an up dated zoning bylaw to be forwarded to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval UNREASONABLE DEMANDS Unreasonable demands and the inability to sit down and talk out a suitable settlement are blamed by J C Adams Co executive for he fact that of their employees are out on strike We have nice people working for us and dealing with us but the advice theyre getting isnt the best said G of that com pany This Is the lowest paid factory in the area a UAW Intern ational rep claimed NAB LIQUOR COLLECTION CHELTENHAM Chinguacousy police seized cases of beer and bottles of liquor Sunday afternoon in a liquor raid at Croatian Riverside Park Three men were charged with keeping liquor for sale without a permit Police said people were In attendance at festivities at the park when plainclothes men from the police department made purchases from the charged men Chief Side said there have been problems with the last couple of months with Im paired drivers and disorderly conduct at the park NAME NURSING DIRECTOR MILTON Mrs Eva presently Director of Nursing at Victoria Hospital in Renfrew has been appointed Director or Nur sing at Milton District Hospital She is expected to take over her new duties on January Hospital administrator Ronald Woods made the appointment and his decision was ratified by Ihe hospital boards personnel committee board chairman Omar VanSickle said last week Mrs V has been serving as Interim Director of Nursing Milton since Mrs L left Ihe position in May of Ih year Thereat name of the American humorist Bill Nye was Edgar Spain Is present name of Wilson ASSEMBLE BROCHURES This was the hard tolling group at just one of the tables in the Georgetown of flee on Wesley an St Sept 3rd where an all day work bee assembled counted and stapled the brochures which went out to all George town households last week The designing and all the work but the actual printing was done by volunteer he I p In oil brochures were produced In the picture starting from the front and going clockwise are Jon athan Lister Philip Mulder Joanne lister Anne Barnes Margaret Van Slckler Ann Catling and Stephanie lister BILL SMILEY Things to Do If One Year to Live Dont worry Not me I hope to live for at least two or even three years more But I sometimes wonder what I would do If I were told that Ihad exactly one year to live And Id like you to think about what you would do This Is not a new theme but its always an interesting one when it comes up in fiction or philosophy or just a plain gab test Lets suppose Suppose you hove been to the doctor and have learned that you have a fatal Illness make up your own and will die in ap proximately one year You wont be sick or in pain until the last hour and youll go out quickly How would you spend that year What you would do would certainly reveal very clearly what sort of person you really are behind that facade that most of us wear dally There would be the initial shock of course Humans have some weird idea that they are immortal until they finally are stricken by some deadly Illness But after the shock wore off Then wed see a separation of Ihe men from the boys the sheep from the goats Some people would become constant Why does God have to do this to me Ive contributed to charity And so on Some of these would become so bitter they would urn against God their friends and relatives A pretty sour way to go Some would be so depressed they would crack up mentally and become vegetables Others would adopt a fatalistic epicureanism if theres such a thing Their attitude would be If Im gonna go Im gonna enjoy it They would escape into alcohol drugs sex not necessarily In that order Some people would become instant Christians or whatever They would be filled with a terrible fear of the afterlife and would spend their twelve months on their knees in church and desperately doing good works in on effort to make up for all the bad works they had done In the rest of their lives Now hot one of us gentle readers would fall into any those classifications Question is where would we fall First decision I would make would be not to waste one second of that year If every second In the year were used fully the one year could be more rewarding than all the previous ones put together Next I would make a superb effort to love my neighbour as myself This Is a tough one In the first place its extremely difficult to love oneself Most of us seem to but many of us secretly despise ourselves In the second place some of us have appalling neighbours we dont But Id have a good whack at It not as a hedge to make sure of getting through those pearly gates but because I believe in it Good old love My first action would be to divest myself of all material possessions except a tooth brush and a few clothes Would even get rid of my razor The proceeds I wouldnt give them to the poor The hell with them They can go on welfare and would be only a drop In the bucket anyway And wouldnt leave them to my family either They could go to work for a change Id quit my job take the or my estate In one- dollar bills and burn them one at a time to the screams of anguish torn onlookers That would be cutting the umbilical cord of the system and Id be free for the first time in many years Then don the knapsack pick up the begging bowl a wooden salad bowl and take off Id see every inch of Canada I could see And I would savour every sight sound taste touch and smell even whiskeybreath and onions could come in contact with in this most wonderful of worlds Might die in a ditch but whats the difference How about you Put down carefully and briefly what you think you would do with a year to live Send It to your local editor Id like to reprint some of your ideas Hey I might even get a divorce remarry and make some other womans life miserable for a year Just an afterthought 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