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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tilt January Morrow challenges Nixon comments Thii li a copy of letter tnt The Herald lor publication Mr Robert Nixon P Legislative Building Queen Park Toronto 1A2 Dear Mr Nixon Recent press reports In die ale that In your opinion all Regional Governments have fulled Contrary to your expressed feelings 1 submit that the future of local government Is greatly enhanced by the ion of Regional Governments and that our have much to gain in the future by the opportunity u deal more effectively with modernday municipal problems through the reorganized local govern structure The following comments will reflect In particular Region but to a significant degree relate to the principle of Regional Government for Cant take column seriously To the editor of The Herald The Open Letter to Mom from Baby lhal appeared In the Jan 18th Herald is very difficult to lake seriously Since when did an ing undeveloped fetus have priority over the wishes and feelings of a rational mature adult Obviously the author of this letter has little regard for the decision of the pregnant married or single worn in who is considering an abortion A pregnant woman who real lies that she is incapable of being a mother is doing herself and her a favor by an abortion No woman should be responsible for the care and support of an wanted child as am dents do occur when birth control methods fail due to either bad luck or lack of knowledge Pregnancy should be a matter of choice not chance Perhaps the Open Letter to Mom from Baby would hove been taken seriously and with more sympathy had it been written by an unhealthy bat lered or neglected child Yours truly Anne Hansen Thank you To the editor of The Herald wish to compliment you on an article which appeared In lost week edition of Hie Herald I am referring to An Open Letter to Mom from Baby Thank you Mrs Catherine Barrett meet in other areas of Ontario To stole that the Region is failing is to Indicate your support for a return to the former County System and would indicate for Instance that police services in would be Improved by a return to five separate forces rather than one effective and coord force greatly by a much improved system of communications It must bllav as well that you believe that a strong balance to the ever increasing influence of Metro Toronto and on effective voice the Provincial level is better prov ided by separate municlpall ties quarrelling amongst them selves rather thin the strong represenlalion provided to lo cal government by the nal Council Regional Government has provided the vehicle by which the Province has returned and will return an increasing of former Provincial puw to local government Local government officials have re quested iheie powers for To oppose this lion is to indicate your support for a centralized Provin bureaucracy which gives or no power to local government where civil servants arc making decisions which should lie Ihc responsihi lily of elected representatives Do you really believe that the environment in will receive a better chance of protection by the operation of seven separate gurboge dumps or by one properly engineered and operated land fill site complying with our present environmental stand Resource recovery which opens new possibilities or the protection of the and the preservation of a farmland has been made possible in only as a result of Regional Govern The Region has received an AA for borrowing which has resulted in than would have been experienced by our araie municipalities Thi soon be providing badly needed water to the citizens of Normal further txnmplt of service made possible injlii of iry irr it municipal lint existed There are many other art is such as planning il ser vices public health water and ireitment win re more responsible decis cm be mult a higher degree of service tan ded cost initial id more of Stand by power OKd Stand by power for water works m North Ins been recommended by the re public works committee subject to budget approval Park in and Kelso Park in Milton would be the sites of either generator a direct dlesel drive or generator in order overcome any future power failure that could curtail the water supply in of fire says a report from Bob Moore director of public works to the committee Wednesday As well the question of reliability of Ontario dehv be Mr Moore says handmade gifts books yarns and fibres weavers house Our Popular TOSHIBA Receiver is back in stock watt Modal SA with turntable Hare Now I This Package 489 00 If separately at manufacturers lilt price you would pay If pays to shop In town RYDERS TV MOORE PARK PLAZA 8779796 alui Further it muM recogni zed thit the former County system has implemented over one hundred years ago when modem day municipal prob lems could no i be foreseen Today our country faces a crisis In because of the unwillingness of ihi fedenl Government to be flexible and recognize as our guvern must to respond recognizing ihe pressing need the reorgani of I did what was necessary despite knowing full well that the required charge would nut a Appnixinntely t ago the I dm support that No Mr Nixon the track record of Regional Govern men has been one of success not failure The future will more show that Ihecorrect decision was made Being an elected official my self 1 am aware that it is relatively emotional ly popuhr oppose govern menial thorites I any respons person who studies the sill CI ithiiui ihtre in who and tmotu ml it do ft the Although there has been no problem of powir failure or brown out in these have occurred elsewhere and it would be prudent to have stand by power not only in case of Ontario Hydro failure but also man made or Mr standby unit would cost about and rccomnitnded diesel gcncritor is cheap est jnd most flexible of the ile sources works Jack sud public utility com missions do not guarantee po wer nor can Ihe rtgion lid Ik a fulurt Todaj Ihere on few who would say lhat the Metro played int rolt in devtlipnunl Toronto as with quality of lifesttond in North America ll cars now then will be few who will that the Region of his not played a positive rolt in promoting a sound social the effective if necessary services lo lint was ntcessary that its implementation It is pre loc government with the legal to successfully mttl of the Sincerely yours Morrow Regional Car damage ir suffered dam ige after the of a on Jin II plow driven by itcnild lilimtr of v is backing out to M St in order lo plow the of Henry Street police say when i vthiclt by Tyler George a turn Henry Street sideswiping the blade of plow Rood lions were snow covered and sllpptry the time of accident the polite report YOUR TOSHIBA SERVICE Dank Financing AvoHabla Now more shippers receivers than ever before can use CN Express Service The recent license extension granted Canadian National Transportation Limited is now operational allowing us to provide a full service on package traffic across Southern Ontario south of Highway More ways to ship 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