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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills IB70 A Division of Canadian Nevspapeis Company Limited 103 Main St South Georgetown Ontario Willi I Publisher BOB Editor IHONh Clan Mail Reg tiered Number North Halton deserves better If Region is to succeed and overcome its parochial nature better communication must be maintained between services volunteer agencies and ratepayers in North Halton There arc people in North Halton They were raised in rural and small town settings that are now feeling the effect of rapid Thev deserve more than a passing nod that they exist Last week Oflkville United Way officials held the first two meetings designed to explain its decision to canvass North Halton industry for funds in its campaign While most people support the role of the United Way it has not functioned in North Halton previously and there is concern over the ability of the community to support it and the eleven other agencies supported locally without United Way funds But the biggest concern by local organizations including those with Oakville branches and provincial organizations funded in part by the Oakville United Way is that as chairman Terry Connor said Maybe we went about it wrongly by not consulting you first In recent weeks there have been several instances when regional government and the board of education have indicated an almost lethargic attitude toward North Halton All decisions of benefit pear to be taken grudgingly A good example is the recent closing of the Acton water billing office More than people signed a petition opposing the closing but the matter was left to town council to resolve Then there s the seemingly intent of some urban members of regional council to dump a garbage heap midst prime agricultural land And the board of education last week in a minor matter postponed action on a rather innocuous proposal to have lists of textbooks used in schools available to residents at the east west and north education tres While it can be argued that there ma be little if any public concern over textbook lists the principle remains the same a requirement for taxpayers to to Burlington to have access to the material What the southerly top loaded regional council ana board of education fails to realize is that it is miles or more round trip from Georgetown to take advantage of the rights of the taxpayer That may seem small to some members but without public transportation available in Halton it remains a long way and limits those that can make the journey As well regional government makes available agendas for public perusal prior to council and com mittee meetings But only if you go to Burlington to view them That a ludicrous position to maintain since each regional councillor has delivered to his door a package containing all agendas and associated material each Friday It certainly t add ex cost or time to deliver some copies to local municipal offices for North ratepayer perusal and even if no one takes advantage of the service the opportunity of com munication would exist The sooner those living below the demarcation line Highway realize there a North the sooner this region will become the community everyone says he working toward On Parliament Just a little drawer cleaning Ottawa Bureau Herald the top righthand desk drawer hat catch all corner where old letters Utile bits paper continue to congregate Most of isn t wortti wiving Why for instance should I keep a copy of a letter written last June to by Urban Affairs Minister Barney and addressed to Ontario Housing Minister John The only reason I threw it in the drawer was because it began rote to you last October suggest the establishment of a joint committee and it ended with I would very much appreciate hearing from you on this proposal at an early dote Since Mr referred to the urgency of subject I remember thinking at the time thai eight months seemed like a long time to await a reply from another cabinet minister Surely Mr now Anyway lam throwwgthat Now here s one I hod forgotten about lis a government of a 119 contract to Carle ton University in Ottawa for a study on interpersonal communication In an emergency environment That should make great reading The price isn I bad either By com- par is Ion the government spending for a study on the effect of pulping aged chips on the toxicity of draft mill IBS being spent on the inspection of the gravity net in Ontario and southern Quebec MONEY MATTERS Oddly enough moat of the papers In that top righthand drawer deal with money In one Perhaps It a because we are in the midst of the governments restraints J program and there happens to be more on that subject I tot And speaking about restraints here is Interesting letter It from the Department and Service and It Is addressed to a deputy mister all about travel tor years Hie government has op rated lis own Central Travel Service to nuke reservations and other travel arrangements for public And with more than public it probably a sensible the Idler announces a new exclusive service It a section within Travel Service to provide a more per service to assist deputy ministers deputy ministers and equivalents in matting Heir travel plans There now will be two VIP lints and linked directly lo Air operations and linked directly to Air Canada operations The letter says this service by Its nature Is restricted in order to preserve the level of service required FIRSTCLASS CALLS know why I kepi this I have been trying figure out what of travel vice is required by on assistant deputy minister thots not required by any other public servant So I phoned deputy who received the letter I guess it because they cut out first class plane tickets for us They are substituting firstclass phone calls He I sound impressed Here Is another Interesting little one on the Public Service Commission II s aimed at hose senior executives who have prime responsibilities in Information as well as those senior executives who arc laced today with greater direct media contact It announces a oneday seminar on solving the media mystery and it will be resourced by some real live journalists The rcgistiu on fee is I thouh- bout I rig gain mission but I Just can islify nding to solve a mystery v So this note also goes in fi amiiunt of Junk in that top right a more da The Home Front Some problems cant be solved SUSAN Have you ever heard a silence so profound A silence so Intense that you can actually hear the whiskers twitch on a neigh Well here I sit in the early stages of another school year listening lo the sounds of nothing and still puzzled as how I so much housework In such a short time The telephone t once shrilled out an urgent call for Louisa Dabba Dcing up from the bowels of the basement Kiss isn I deafening me with it cacophony from the stereo and there is a definite lack of little six year old noses pressed against my screen door The bathrooms and refrigerator are having a welt earned rest and my battle- weary constitution is in shock Let face it without sandwich fixings permanently in evidence on the kitchen table and or potato chips scattered in front of the television it just does not look like home Yes September finally arrived In all Its glory and so begins another school season of professional days hopefully Interrupted by Illuminating moments of and the pursulte of knowledge Three eager shining faces burst forth from my house nil scattering three dlf schools meaning even with my limited grasp or mathematics three meet Ihe teacher nights three talent nights and a new group of teachers names to be memorized A tongueincheek look at coffin sleeping and going to your own funeral regular Its time for potpourri feature of this column litre we iokc a sometimes serious but mostly not so serious tongue in cheek it some of the hap in this winderful world around us let us travel to the outskirts of Chicago here strange takes place in the dark of night in J loco cemetery mm wrapped up in i black and tarrying a coffin enters in placing a silver helmet on Ins head lies down in the coffin closes bis link tyts goes nite According to John irkcr the chap is known only as hi mn of baton and Ihe locals ire quite used to him but people driving by get nervous and call the police Gee I wonder why and how do you with your insomnia Its the silver that gets me something tells mt there must be litre s i pip from Ourv He the who m until his invcnUnn of pet rock His I from his nuipcaphbanlorv is I hope your ready for ihis sand breeding Your kit comes complete with a test tube of male sand and a test tube of fern Mix them together you go The kit contains a 12 page booklet suggests you can make your own rolst kitty llttir make a private desert or jnu might want to breeding until you have your very own wtuslclond According to Dahl this kit Is for people who art bored with or Incompetent at what they have been doing those who are unable to master upholstering or accounting Guess what folks People are buying them like crazy but I maintain that if you were at all gutsy you could go out into the wilds trap your sand and breed them yourself thus eliminating the middleman Away to Burlington Colorado now where Jim who will soon reach the grand old age of too had another the other From here and there I have anybody lefl in my family I bought I would ive my funeral so 1 know how it It bitter to it you die you don know anything about it after your are dead I can sure go along with that Jim The event takes place with Jim sitting in Model truckncxl tohis coffin He drives through the main street of the town with the gh school band proceeding the truck This musical exlrnvagnnia has taken place few times over the years but this year the town outdid themselves in honor of Jim up and coming 100th birthday On Nov he II reach his 100th year and he believes this wis probably the last dress rchearsil before real thing That a in Off to lleeth tnglrnd where regular patrons of the Punch Inn sure don I shoot the bull No the bull in question came crashing through the roof In a spate between the refrigerator hick wall they shoot it They just sent for the loeal farmer who owned the bull and he removed it with the bull only suffering from the odd scape and se from its unscheduled trip low so you ask Well the Inn backs on to a lotal hillside where the bull had climbed and wis nibbling away at some tender leaves Unfortunately the roof of the Punch Howl Inn bull proof Hash and new from Sheffield I- comes potpourri nominee for the wedding of Hoy slopped over to help his bride to prepare for their up and coming nuptials He did however stop off it stag first On his way lo his future brides house he dropped he wedding take in he front gar den This was upset of his future mother in A shouting match with one thing leiding to another and before you knew what is happening Hoy up and socked his mother in law to In in the Jiw His fiances Alhea said The wedding Is off I never wont to see you again Later in court she told the judge he had hit me of instead of my mother I probably would have married him oil the same but I m not having any man hitting my mum And how did your wedding go Now this next bit of and nonsense comes to you straight from the heart of Brampton Remember Shaws dictum Those who can do those you can teach To which June has added with a wisdom containing common dignity Those who can do neither Amen Amen Now before we leave you for this week that strange and mysterious character the Sometimes Yogi has stopped by again and if I know the he bound to enlighten us with words of wisdom Take it away that though it is written that the meek shall inherit the earth the whole truth is seldom spoken The meek SHALL inherit the earth over them Oh really Mahnrlshi you obviously haven read The power of Positive Thinking over them indeed I Just don know what were going to do about that fellow Till next week keep on smiling the rivers completely smoothly and young Teresa poised on the threshold of grade one decided once again to drop out of the school system I hove the distinct impression that this is going to be an annual challenge a choose your weapons situation at dawn between mother To me the situation is perfectly clear daughter goes to school or mother goes to jail However when we reached a point somewhere between fastening dress buttons and doing up pony tails a concise list of insurmoun table problems emerged To begin with Teresa was quite sure she would never find the right classroom She would finish up in a grade six homeroom never be able to do the work and wind up in the principal office Secondly assuming she was lucky enough to find the right class she was quite convinced that she would never ever Icnm her new teacher Finally she was worried about the possibility of her class having to perform a play because she knew beyond all doubt that she would forget her lines in front of on audience And you thought you had Well we managed to resolve some of those first day misgivings and a little less apprehensively away she went She returned home at lunchtlme with enough paperwork to cover the refrigerator doer and bubbling with Guess what she exclaimed I got the very teacher I wanted and I even cross my fingers for luck but I can I remember her name Tax reform Is it fair Ixical farmers criticising proposed lax reforms regarding farm land would appear lo be looking a gift horn in The protest has been mounting since it wis learned that the pi ins to tax farms on their market pick up the and 10 years taxes if Ihe land is taken out of province topis to thereby control fnrm land use because it shot The revenue lo pay the farmer taxes will tome from and silts axes And with our graduated system Income taxes lie the mort you the more you pay those who can most pay the farmers taxes will Just suppose wire able to iht to wige war against disippe of tin single family detached dwelling I one of us owning a typically overpriced bungalow on city turf would hive our land taxis paid for by province As lor our house wt would mil ly r tent of ihe who sold his land a vtloper for high rise or il use would to repay Id years back taxes Wi would not object to I- irmirs prefer the til item of taxation by produtiivity hey hut rcpnymtnt of lo taxes places and encumbrance on their farms ihe system they have now stipulates repayment if the farm is pulled out of The difference twecn the present and proposed schemes is amount of repayment which will become payable if and when farm Is sold or development was disclosed recently that on 50 acres in llrampton with market value of and assessed value of the former would have to Proposals would demand repayment of would seem unfair to ask the rest of the taxpayers in Ontario to allow farm land tst lpi paying taxes on on asset worth il o or to pay Innd tax amounting to only JIM per on not been complaining die proposals on land taxes That may because agree with provincial attempts to the development of far ml and We with people null good farm land must be protected because there is only so much of left Queens Park- Write off any chance of a majority government By Queens Park Bureau The Herald Sometimes those of us who write politics get stuck too much In his place We are at the heart and tend perhaps not to be able to see the forest for the trees Recently I have been out In the province a bit this has brought about some new outlook en political prospects In the election when it comes The thinking her these days Is pretty well write off of the government being returned with a majority This Is mainly Ihoseof us writing about it sec It in action day by day and are sharply aware of its mistakes its fumbles mid in general its performance as a govern And of course as It natural the mistakes it makes lend to slick with us longer than any achievements Hut of all we tend to come to our on Its governmental performance rather than its political performance when you get away from the heart there Is tend to look more politics than administration Also you talk politics rather than government action And there comes a fresh viewpoint Things that have meant a lot here at the Park can be of slight If any interest locally such as hospital closings With more detached viewpoint In fact there can be appreciation of the long term benefit of various actions rather than awareness of any clumsiness in handlings again as with the hospital closings Some action such as regional govern ment tend to be highly resented But more Ihemill affairs tend to be 1 But above all there is the political per spective And association with It can be most valuable For example and most pertinently tending to be almost forgotten around here In our toohurried assessments Is thnt the reason for the Davis fall off in he last that the Conservative vote t get out The message from outside Is that this time It probably will One reason given for this is that the drop last time was a personal resentment Bill Davis Now this resentment ecu expressed and once voiced much of It gone away And probably even more important la that now Stephen Lewis is standing in the wings opposition leader and holding M seats Instead of 19 The feeling is that this in Itself will pull out a big Tory vote In other words majority government la probably still wide open for Bill Davis 3JVS OdDIrN iTOi