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Home Newspaper of THE HERALD WEDNESDAY MARCH IMS A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company 103 Main St South Georgetown L7G Ontario WILLIAM Publisher BILL JOHNSTON Editor PHONE 2201 Second Clan Mall red Number Must pay As the flood waters receded last week and the damage resulting from the Monday night ice Jams in Glen Williams became all the more painfully apparent the controversy surrounding the damage began to rise Residents of the Glen are un derstandably upset The flood created a great deal of damage Besides the visible types such as water filled basements and ruined lots there are the many unseen cases such as damaged foundations There little doubt that a great deal of money is going to have to be spent cleaning up the after affects of last week early spring flood The responsibility lor the floods obviously lies with the Credit Valley Conservation Authority Whether or not the floods could have been averted through early actions Monday is something the public will likely never know The fact nevertheless stands that the responsibility if not its prime responsibility is flood control in the CVCA watershed That is the CVCA jurisdiction just as if something should happen elsewhere in the municipality it would involve the town ana region The power in the Credit River valley lies with the authority The authority must therefore throw its full energy now into mediately putting things back into shape in both the Glen and further along the Credit power was aimed at the ball park In Williams That park improved through the efforts of many citizens was a well used area during the summer Damage to it and the facilities in it including backstops bleachers and fences will require a great deal of work and capital to return the park to its shape of summers past But it s something that citizens cannot and should not have to tackle by them selves The land itself is now covered from one end to the other in the debris of the flood The park is hidden beneath tons of immovable nieces of Ice which unless something is done to rid the park of them will likely remain there until well into the spring by which time it may be too late to put the park Into shape for summer use The conservation authority must seriously look at helping restore the park in time for summer It would be fitting to have the authority and the citizens of Glen Williams working together to build perhaps an even better facility than was there before As for the flooded basements and undermined bridges the costs for repairing those will no doubt be verbally battled out for a long time between the authority municipality and the region Regardless of who picks up the bill however the taxpayers wiQ end up paying It Some things to amaze and amuse you A reply to criticism of GDHS Here another mind teaser given to me by a bright well read engineer with an enquiring mind If two astronauts travelled million milt to Man and unfortunately 1 bad a fatal crash on the return to earth we part of crazy yet wonderful world we speaking Mars unsafe due to a 100 percent fatality rate On the other hand we could say that a trip to Mara By Gerry Lands borough It a time again for potpourri where w look at Interesting Items of this and that some serious and some not so serious all Over In England it seems a would be model ship builder passed away rather suddenly He wanted to build a model ship a whiskey bottle Unfortunately Ronald felt that It his duty to empty the contents He died from acute alcoholic poisoning verdlcL accidental death Sort of a reversal of the old down to the sea in ships Our next Item comes from Cordoba down In Argentina It seems a passenger train bit a envand was derailed The 700 passengers promptly set up an on the spot barbeque and by the time the police and the train repair crew arrived all that left of Old Bess was some hide and bones Which just goes to prove that dining cars on trains are always an asset This little gem was recently overheard In a local doctor a office It seems our Prime Minister was voted one of the best dressed men In poUtta To which a quick mind quipped Just goes to show you that clothes don t always make the man One of the nicest news items I ve read In a while Is that of the Toronto woman Meryl Dunsmore who has received Valentine cards from a secret admirer for about yean The cards have arrived from all over the world Sounds like the plot from an old movie but its for real Truth la always stranger than fiction Hen a thought to ponder to keep the old brain cells activated Remember trie sound of the Big Band era Slow soft mood music Tea for Two In the Mood My Blue Heaven Back In those days dance music was gentle slow and soft with tempo and rhythm made to dance In the old fashion way Today Rock or near rock music rules the air ways Loud with a hard beat dot trayed by farout weirdies Is our pace due to a change In music or does music reflect our accelerated way of life Sounds like an updated version of the chicken or the egg At a recent Board of Education meeting some of the programs run by the physical education departments at area high schools came under fire Bill Lewson thought that too much emphasis was being placed on team sports and not enough on individual fitness He went on to say Anything we can do to develop fitness In our young people and In our physical education far safer than a drive down the local highway because in travelling over million miles then wen only two fatalities Says a lot for statistics doeen It Inflation got you down Well Dorothy decided it was time to gets new car a Rolls of course Before she left the showroom she hid purchased seven Rolls- Royces used of course ana two used lien- program Is surely in the She paid cash you tudOTt best Interest It was wonder it The Mscdonald Tobacco Co and the Aluminium CO of Canada say that if you have been collecting foil from cigarette packages to buy wheelchairs for handicapped people you are the victim of a rumor The rumor pops up every now and again and some very well meaning people Then is really no economical way to recycle the foil You would wonder who and why anyone would start such a cruel hoax An you wondering about little men from outer space Paul J Oiea of the Buhl also brought out that enrolment In physical education courses In Milton Acton and Georgetown lower on a percentage levelled by the board members basis than the average across wen general rations and It wouldnt be too far fetched to For the mos part the charges suggest that they wen talking mostly for their own benefit The members also seem to be suffering from something of the Catcn22 syndrome Trustee says that be has been worried about the situation for quite some time Jack Richardson a physical education consultant Informed the board there has been a growing Interest on the part of physical education Instructors In fitness and It is starting to be reflected in the program Prom the latter statement It might be concluded that until recently physical education Instructors were In the dark about the importance of physical fitness Perhaps iti fame to back pedal a bit The physical education In true tors at the various high schools suggest programs but It Is up to the board to approve the programs and allocate the necessary funds If Mr has been concerned about the situation for some time why be proposed something concrete from bis position as a board member Not being familiar with the other area high schools It would not be prudent to comment on their respective physical education programs However it would be improper not to speak out for the excellence of the Georgetown and District High School physical education program It was that enrolment In the program was lower than the Halton average Figures can bo iii and sometimes do not teQ tbo whole truth Unlike some schools In the area most notably M Robinson and Lord Elgin High School In Burlington Georgetown only offers a four credit physical education course Other schools offer a fivecredit course Therefore Grade at Georgetown would have no reason to take and in fact there is no room to accommodate them even should they wish to take It Also over the past four I years approximately students have passed phya courses during summer school By taking away the Grade 13 a and adding In the summer school the figure arrived at is very close to the average If the board was so worried about the fitness of the students why did they press for the semester system Might not the reason be that the semester system is mora economically viable dally sound yea but it denies the student a physical Continued on page Heres to the worlds waitresses Waitress We re ready to order now Waitress Another round here Waitress The bill please May I propose a toast Here to the waitresses of the world The unnoticed people who day In and day life on planets and its all but 11B ofjnu possible that Jj HS than our own Tolhatican the complaining public the expecting only add I certainly hope so d hate to think public that our form of civilization la it The reason I raise my glass In Now we leave you this week we tribute on this occasion to those many that you like tfaia bit or who serve in the Did you know that It Is virtually in I Impossible to stay angry or entertain hateful 1 wlm asmueon your face it seems a marking the death of perhaps the brain will insist that you be happy if world greatest waitress you go through the mechanics of smiling fry You likely haven heard of her It you 11 like it unless you ve happened to dine at 3ft la some time in the Queens Hotel in you find the world will smile with you Her name was Rita If YEARS AGO owner for Canadian Tire Storeiir From the of The FIVE YEARS AGO The United Auto Workers and Smith and Stone Limited have reached an lmpass la current negotiations aimed at averting a strike of the plants employees The workers want pay increases a cost of living allowance company paid benefits pensions and Improved fringe benefits which would Include an additional holiday period and shift premiums Cancellation of the commuter train service from Georgetown to Toronto may be topped If Georgetown residents do not make move to fight the officials of Canadian National Railway who insist that the com muter service Is losing money The Canadian Tin Store has a new owner Murray Lawton Mr comes to the Georgetown area from Madoc where be operated a for the and a half He has been with Canadian Tire for 12 years In his former home town of Wetland Foster Contest winners of the Dental Health Week campaign were Cathy Wilson Maureen Ellen David Lince and Duane Hatcher Ellen Duncan waa awarded the title of Snow Queen at this year a Snow Queen pageant part of the week long winter car nival at IB YEARS AGO The worst storm In recent yean IB Inches of snow on the town of Georgetown Damage to roofs traffic jams and can of school wen typiuu the day Fust chief the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Association Harold Gilmer was given a vote of thanks and appreciation at the annual meeting held during the put week The election saw Dan Scarborough sain the position of chief Georgetown Don Wilkes will appear on television channel as one of the many bowlers In the Club match Rolloffswen held in November to make Mr Wilkes eligible for the contest II YEARS AGO Diane McCoIgan was honored with the presentation of the Fortitude Award bestowed at a special meeting of the Guide you visited the Queen you no doubt will remember her She was the one with the red hair the trilling voice and the smile I say with regret was because a friend from that area dropped into see me a couple of days ago and while going the How are things back that way routine he men Honed that waitress at the Queen was killed in a car accident Well I guess if Rita had to go that was the way she should go not with a whimper but a bang That was her style She never did anything blandly or quietly particularly something like growing old I think she imagined herself as being foreveryoung She was by fact middle age yet she worked everyday as if she was an IB yearold girl working for the summer as a waitress She flirted she laughed she moved so fast neither the customers nor the cooks could keep up with her That was something you had to watch out for Although she claimed that she had dropped only one glass in all her years of waiting at the Queen Rita came so close so many times a lunch hour crowd often took on the appearance of a crowd at the 500 waiting for that disastrous accident to happen before their ex pectant eyes Vet it miraculously never happened You learned to enter the restaurant slowly and stealthily There was one particularly bad corner from where you cautiously other downtown folk including a bank manager or two a few shop owners a couple of real estate salesmen and numerous other odd bodies The number kept growing consistently to the point where there were about 15 regulars But that didn t bother Rita In the least Everyone got what they wanted although depending on what kind of mood Rita was in some got it much sooner than others and others got it pack sheattendslawanrwaB given peeked before makinga mad dash tb because of planes determination and your seat hoping all the while that cheerfulness through a prolonged illness Odeon Theatres will survey Georgetown on the feasibility of locating here Signatures will be sought In favor of the company proposals your plates balanced precariously from her hands arms and shoulders Because of late deadlines we would usually eat lunch about after the normal lunch hour crowd had thinned out Along with our newspaper crew were a number of much later If you were in Rita bad books beware If you were In Rita good graces well sit back and enjoy your meal For some reason Rita and I got along tremendously well so that within one month of arriving Rita had what I liked down to a fine art I know what you want she would say and before I got a chance to ask what it was she would return and drop the order into place She was never wrong That was something else you had to watch out for She never quietly slipped the food onto the table She had a fantastic method by which she could drop a plate full of food in front of you from a height of about one foot yet never drop a pea Her best trick was to do it with a tall glass of milk Her downfall though was coffee Rare were toe times the coffee didn t arrive without half of it splashing back and forth in the saucer But we all got used to it and didn really think twice about pouring our saucer into our cups Rita though made up for it All those restaurants that think they can claim ownership to the bottomless cup of coffee should pipe down Rita was about as generous with her cups of free coffee as she was with her free smiles She dldnt keep track of either There was one time however when I thought I had caught a glimpse of the side of Rita small story about her birthday In a column I was writing at that time The next day when I arrived for lunch there was an apparently very upset Rita Everyone knows she snapped as she turned her back and rushed for the kitchen I was getting a little worried that she angry those who faced the wrath of Rita usually finished by going to another restaurant to eat when she returned with my order There on the plate was the biggest order of sausage rolls my favorite I have ever seen If you ever do that again she laughed 1 11 kill you One year later I mentioned again her birthday and again I enjoyed a huge serving of sausage rolls I guess that a what set Rita aside as one of the worlds greatest waitresses in Johnstons books Oh she was far from haute cuisine standards but she offered something that made food as delicious as ever ft could be Her personality and warmth were added to every meal making each a meal to remember and enjoy She truly did add the spin of life to her servings Wherever she may be now she will no doubt be rushing back and forth full of that zest for fife that this world is for having lost