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ICSHurlfcJ Home IMewi er of Halton Hills THE HERALD WEDNESDAY MARCH IB 1175 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher BILL JOHNSTON Editor PHONE 8772201 Second Clan Mall Number Spirit of tenuous item It ebbs and flows mucl like our Credit River during a very However it has been with a great deal of satisfaction that weve been noting a very marked rise of late in the spirit of Perhaps its spring Perhaps its a result of the recent predictions released by the region which indicate Georgetown of the and is going to be THE CENTRE of North Halton The figures Indicate that the growth in population of our town is going to be very strong for the next five years Now growth can be looked upon in many ways For the optimistic it can be a sign of a tremendously active and interesting town financially and culturally The hustle and bustle of a lively shopping district is something that hard to beat It stimulates eagerness and excitement among all of us not just the merchants That excitement is not long in spreading outward to encompass all other aspects of a towns life The many clubs and groups within a community grow directly with the town and with them grow the community activities generated by those same clubs Theres little doubt that growth can be exciting and beneficial for a town However growth has its negative aspects the major one being the supposed loss of small town character We say supposed because the friendliness and familiarity that go along with small towns need not necessarily fall victim to growth Familiarity after all can exist anywhere just as friendliness can All thats required is a willingness and an effort from all of us to retain what we like most about our Georgetown Point of fact Consider Georgetown five years ago and today The attitude of the merchants towards their customers has really not changed all that much despite the The familiarity is still there If anything we find now that many of the merchants of Georgetown are becoming all the more optimistic in light of the upward trend here in town They are looking now at how to further increase their involvement with the community A good example was last falls Halloween activities in town Tremendous But merchants arent the only ones catching onto the Spirit of Plus Five Newcomers to the town recently dropped by to Introduce themselves and to find out a little bit about the town Their bright smiles and pleasant attitudes were great And they were smiling because they liked what they found here in Georgetown As many of us have Yes things are very bright and optimistic for Georgetown in five years of this decade Its now just a matter of all of us catching and sharing that spirit If you look in our window the next time you drive by our offices on Main Streefyouil probably notice one of the worlds brightest and biggest Happy Faces To tell you the truth it would be darn hard for you to Ignore it That pretty well typifies our attitude here at the Herald about the future of Georgetown and right along with it ourselves So smile along with us Look out 1980 here comes Georgetown Theyve come a long way So thats what Gerry looks like By Gerry Well dear reader this week or next the truth will be nut I would like to claim no responsibility for the facsimile of my essence which appear above this byline Tola In no way la to be taken an in terpretation of the work of our very com photographer Unless of course the photo Is especially good which makes our photographer especially competent The truth of toe ma Iter la for all who have favored me with enthusiastic over the post year when we have the world situation or Just little Items of here at borne I dont smoke a pipe ponder the world problems with on aged bead fined to the brim with wisdom or rock back and forth In front of the fire in ye old rocking chair On the other bond there woe really no attempt on my part to delude female readers especially the gungho lib type and try to for a weninformed male reporter Ive really always bees female or a reasonable facsimile Apparently photos ore the expected thing for columnists and as I am often found suggesting that we all show a little more flexibility In our viewpoints it became apparent that I should make the same gesture myself all things taken Into Im hoping the surface value that you place or remove from the above does not dissolution you too much one way or the other We often read the prophets of doom who are forever forecasting that only the grim and make headlines today With that In mind and with all due reipect to the foregoing Ill share some recent news stories tint still nave me chuckling Down in the southern stales they have I hope youre ready for tblsa drivethrough runeral parlour Here is the ultimate In nuns continuing effort to be the laughing tack of the animal kingdom and the whole universe for that matter The deceased Ilea enclosed In a gloss compartment like Sleeping Beauty r as all Us dearly beloved friends who have cocktails scheduled for ill and couldnt possibly be late can drive by la deep heartfelt respect for the dearly departed Blind you up here we also have a few funeral that could be capped as sick trips but fortunately they are In the minority I mention that the quick mind of Johnny Carson the late night talk host quipped Sort of a Jack in the box Now to continue along the some line of stupidity depending on your viewpoint We have the handsome gentle looking biologist LyoU Watson down Toronto his latest book saying Picking a flower Is like killing a youth Saying it with flowers la like sarins It with a massacre Now at this point I really had to stop far a moment In order to regain composure Mr Watson continues What could be more appropriate I suppose than picking flowers to accompany a coffin Death everywhere Now I am 1 love flowers Ive never considered massacre for a minute Imagine bow I felt the traumatic experience of knowing the end result of my uncaring at titude Guess Ill Just have to put on my philosophers hat and work It on out I cannot without giving you gem from the Stars With all due respect to the Intelligence of the following gentleman I give you nis exact ward You Admittedly I get a tremendous kick out of any live theatrical production I see However rarely is the kick as strong as the one I got last Thursday night viewing the GDHS production of Godspell It was a fine production and one which deserves a little extra attention I suppose a lot of us probably held a certain very wrong attitude towards a high school musical borne of the days when a group of kidsmost of them unable to carry a note- struggled their way through a Production of My Fair Lady or South aciflc The meaning and Intent of the were so distant and thus so elevant to the players that most of the kids who somehow got conned into appearing got nothing from the production and thus gave nothing in return The GDHS production of last week however provided excellent proof that finally relevancy is ap pearing in another form of high school life Given the proper motivation and purpose those GDHS students produced a lively meaningful production Okay to all those who com mented in the hall during In termission that it didnt quite com pare to the Toronto production youre darn right there was no comparison In fact if you wanted to compare themone against the would find that the GDHS production probably would come out ahead Consider the money that was spent in developing the Toronto production of Godspell Thousands compared to GDHSs budget Compare the auditions held to whittle all the hopeful singers and dancers In Toronto down to the cream of the crop with the number of interested students willing to perform in Georgetowns production Then compare the overall quality I guess the best sign of just how well the local students performed came during the final scene Thursday night I noticed an older woman and a young girl sitting in front of us both wiping away a tear or two Now thats a fine tribute to a good performance particularity considering that same performance had all of us laughing a few minutes before A few singular performances deserved special congratulations Larry ever you are- well done Larry was the musical director and the mainstay behind the entire production His work on the organ piano and synthesizer were tremendous and then to cap it all he threw in a beautiful song near the end It couldnt have been Jesus played by Jack was equally good Its a demanding role which runs trie gamut of pretty well every type of performance from slapstick comedy to vaudeville to hard drama Jack came through in almost every case Rob Mills portrayal of John the Baptist and Judas came through in full color black He certainly got the point across All of the solo performances with one exception were surprisingly well done 1 say surprisingly because still recalling the days of old a high school production usually featured one or at the best two strong singers while the rest shone best In a singalong With that one exception each of the soloists in the GDHS production came through loud strong and beautifully on key Karen Van Sicklers handling of Day by day and Jeff All good gifts were only outdone by By my side by Kim and Sue Glover Theres one person who deserves a lot of credit who we noticed preferred to play a low key role in the production to get students together To get them to work as hard as they obviously did To get students to reject images and feelings as well as ley did To basically take on the entire job with no other purpose than to provide a medium for young people to express themselves and to realize ambitions which otherwise might go uncalled To Mole our hearty congratulations The directors the one who puts the whole thing together and you did a tremendously great job of putting Godspell together Hospital building fund kicks off campaign it least got rid of parental authority Sud denly you get married and authority la there again You dont have to report to your mother You have to report to your wife Fantastic statement for the pretense of IWY The speaker of that statement Is the suave debonair bon vivont the diplomat of the ski slopes our own Pierre Elliott Con you Imagine the possibilities -Repartee- Hello ban Im to go over the energy dials with you Reply Im up to with the energy crliii I wonder whats on i Repartee But sweetie Ive brought the Ambassador home Reply Im going to my room Itmustbemy Imagination It could never really happen like that not the man who In his own circle la known as The Brain Could IIT From The tile of The Herald YEARS AGO Bell Canada installed new telephones to service the Georgetown area At present there are phones in town An electric flytrap has been designed and will hopefully be manufactured by a Georgetown company Hank Levers of Levers Engineering and K Duncan of electrocutes them when they fly to the light Susan Allen and Debbie Gibson displayed their new maxicoats for the Herald In an Interview outlining the advantages and disadvantages of the added length Irwin Noble owner and operator of the Georgetown Dairy sold the milk routes and closed the milk processing plant but will continue to- operate the dairy bar and manufacture hit own Ice cream YEARS AGO A bus service designed to Integrate the east and weal section of town has begun this week The Inaugural run was delayed due to the added snowfall that made it Impossible for traffic In the area to operate safely A 12yearold Newfoundland native and a student at Holy Cross School was struck and killed on the weekend Patrick Richard More wasrhit as be attempted In cross Highway 7 at the Intersection of John Street and Highway Seven Heaters for the Georgetown arena will be IS YEARS AGO Robert Hess son of Mr and Mrs Hess 1 Terra Cotta was presented with bis wings as a recent graduate of RCAF Air Observer School In Winnipeg and granted a commission In the RCAFs regular force with promotion to the rank of flying officer various districts were chosen District leader is Denny Charles assisted by Paul Nielsen Frank Wilson Jesse McEnery Campbell Sinclair Harold Wheeler Mrs J Cricfiton Mrs E Georgetown council has refused Delrex Developments the right to release more residential land for sole at the present time Lend will be made available when a greater volume of homes have been sold In the complex The Georgetown Girl Pipe Bond badly needs new kilts and band equipment to continue operation The sum of would help the girls continue their work and that should come from the towns annual grant of The band performs free for the public which should be valued at HOC a per formance Further planning will solve the problem Thanks to the merchants received number thank you notes from of bam the Festival of Vsluis and the Instant Millionaires We would like to thank thou readers for their kind and pats along to ma many merchants taking part In roots two successful promotions As satd before without merchants promotion would not be available to our readers Province wrong on landfill and the added expense To Editor of the Herald Sometimes I get the feeling of hitting my bead against the wall bucking the provincial government municipalities and some stupid politicians on environmental problems but small successes spur me on My main frustrations seem to be caused by public relations people For Instance claims that Ontarios plans for reclamation energy producing plants are world first that North Yorks experimental will cause other lions to turn to this for future technology infuriates me for In my files have evidence of technology far In advance of anything this province has planned Ontario Is planning 100 to 1000 tons per day plants St Louis Is building on ton per day plant Hempstead Long Island has awarded a contract for per day plant Indeed there are over 30 such plants on this continent Here In much has been sold and written about our reclamation plant The draw bock to our plant Is that Queens Pork bos put the cart before the bone Todays problem Is the public and en vironmental of garbage Inert materials were put in quarries or pita with the object of mining them In the future there would be little or no ob jection This Is not happening material the ponilonta vermin cause us una water obvious solution should have been the incineration of the pollutants for energy Phase and provision for reclaiming secondary materials as Phase Group Agonal Rural Dumping