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HERALD Home of Hills Page THF IIUIHD January IS 19R0 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited HI Main SI I Ontario Publisher I IUITOIt Advertising Manager Contributions earn locals apt rewards Scanning the entertainment pages of a daily newspaper we were speculating on the overabundance of award shows these days Currently for example the Golden Globe awards or cinematic achievements seem to attract as much attention and hold as much significance as the long established Oscars and that s only the beginning In terms show biz it all seems a bit much in terms of smaller scale community achievement though it s an en different story Last week s announcement by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce that the business or business person of the year will be recognized with a new award beginning this year February at a special ceremony at the North Golf and Country Club strikes us as very good news in deed Halton Hills is in the practice of recognizing its outstanding athletes and recreational complishments each year through a special scries of awards presented by the town itself and a community minded group of volunteers The Athlete of the Year the Sports Builder of the Year and the Hockey Heritage Council awards all go to deserving of community spirit For many years the Georgetown Lions Club and the Acton Rotary Club have honored citizens of the year in their respective communities for out standing contributions And so it should be with the business or business person who demonstrated commendable ethics and contributed toward the community s economic and social well being during a given calendar year In this case recognition by ones peers will certainly draw the attention of the public as a whole and many will benefit from the annual The only flaw in the idea we Arena violence invites tragedy Georgetown hockey fans got a nasty dose of sports violence Sunday night when a dozen or so players associates and spectators launched a full scale brawl following the Gemini Dixie Beehives game at arena While the is an isolated one in terms its scale motor outbreaks of violence both on and off the ice seem to be in creasing in frequency in hockey to the point where the type of lethal poor sportsmanship associated with fans of international soccer and other sports abroad seems not too unimaginable here The forecast is at once gloomy and horrifying the day a mere spectator takes it upon himself to vent his frustrations over a com game by physical means is the day some serious re thinking must be done The gruesome image of a Boston Bruins player diving headfirst into a row of fans at a recent NHL game in Madison Square Garden is indicative of just how seriously big league hockey is being taken For such incidents to recur on such a relatively small scale among the and their peers in the Junior loop is frankly scary Competitive sports with the intensity of hockey are bound to be marred by occasional outbursts of violence that can be readily con trolled by the officials in charge uhmt arc perceive in fact involves the continuing reluctance or willingness of the Acton and Georgetown Chambers of Com merce to consolidate themselves in the intended spirit of a regionalized Hills Thus only Georgetown businesses arc eligible for the local Chamber s new award it remains to be seen whether the Acton Chamber follows suit but even hat leaves business people in Esquesing out in the cold as it were The concept of consolidating the two existing chambers has of course been considered but remains on the shelf indefinitely with relations between the two organizations reduced to oc mutual offers of co operation Apart from this it seems the twain shall never meet Regardless the Georgetown Chamber is to be commended for its decision to single out a member who has helped the community in which he operates with an award and a collective pat on the back As an added thought we feel there is even more room for awards and recognition elsewhere in the community last week the city of Oakville honored its Senior Citizen of the Year at a special banquet which similarly represented the public fireciation for a job well done With full of accomplishment and activities senior citizens are all too frequently neglected once they pass the age of retirement Perhaps a local service club or other community organization in search of a cause could consider seeking a worthy recipient of honors among the several seniors residences in town not to mention among the many leading even more independent lives elsewhere Now if we can just talk the Georgetown Little Theatre into launching a major en tertainment awards spectacular from the stage of Coeur Hall Quebec rightwingers merger could give Clark strong base Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod Of The Herald This proposed of nil right wing groups in Quebec his intriguing pi ssihilidis irly tor the federal Tories who mid all the help hey can get in hal province Wnh a little luck they urn emerge provincial something they never had if r Tin merger an upbeat expression 111 sounds Ixltir lhan any refirence In of lit once proud Union ill ink is bung proposed by who had few months following 197G ii election hut who has now been into rehlnc obscurity between he forces of separatism and federalism His posed merger would give him an rlunitv hail wild some dignity Bui more important ii provides fnkril with i golden jh 1 irnly I pick up a re made ii rgjiuzdlion for month Ms true tint the UN organization may not be envy of every political fence mender but it better than which is roughly what the Tories i in Quebec party thai can only wo MPs In ridings as Hit Conservatives did last May can realty lay claim to any proline wide structure Sin IjiwcII Murray he man who i Jot successful eke mi campaign has already advocated uncial organization In Quebec and i thai a new pirty will be formed he I to see our people gel tint process The founding convention eomt until after the long awaited referendum next spring winch will Ihcfodir Tones ill lime need to he mijor mil he I ihev don throw heir lot in disaffected who have fillcn out Of favor with the Parti Qmbecnib There is an odd assortment of philosophies the right wing splinter roups in Quebec And one of tlis in the current negotiations is a former minister who quit party after up with Premier lcvesque sees the parts is a link for third iblv different llm IK I filiation iiiith I iberils rem wed Hut sunt ire still lining trouble Ihi two existing options lis s History From our files LARS a new liquor store opened last Saturday The store is located on Mill Street In part of he Tom building Attractively painted intwotones of green with natural wood finish mastic tile floor and lighting is one of the most res in town The new store will a wide area between Guelpl Tt being he only liquor outlet difficult to what is talking The federal Tones certainly can to siddled wilh any policies smacking of Quebec st the federalist turf in llul if the federal Ton s and tilt sunning Union N delegates can off the and the ultra i it inn In Hit point where he Clark tilt tin embrace the new pirty ii i stiluhonal polities it could bo a historic HI fedtnl w hull is never had a Qutbtc wing received help fr m Union Nail and back in It if this was I lo Ik sineid it In 19j7 the Tines under John in only me Quebec seats is il formed a minority government but the following when decided it would lie prurient he fedtnl Tories Ihey Mind mi hi present day UN Party Inns lit 1 1 resemblance to the massive in him the s but it in tn in more la per cent of ir vote m 1976 as more then fioo supporters turned elect candidates The basic organization is si ill in pi ii mil if it the for Hit Tory in Hi it could pull few in tune Trut there arc a good many its but the potential is there between these two cities f the worst fires in recent year last Saturday morning at the wind when the huge bam on the farm of Mayor Harold Cleave burst Into flame and was destroyed To add the confusion a hydro blackout had occurred shortly before the fire and it was impossible to sound he siren is electrically controlled from the telephone office The girls at he worked valiantly phoning firemen individual Luckily the barn was roofed wilh sheet metal because tore chunks of burning metal from the roof and threw them across fields hundreds of yards away It is possible mil probable hat we will have a slight tax increise this warned Mayor in his inaugural address to council Muiday Vc must tighten he purse struts wherever can The mayor it is his hope to end I960 without a deficit Tin Hornby hunters have been out each Ihis year have had little luck Thiv have gotten an occasional rahhit ami seen a few foxes but they were luik enough them On west of Hornby the Mows saw nineteen deer in a section It wisijuti practically in their back yards circUowii will have two thirds of a in the recently published edition of tin of Canada he same as in he first edition However tin mi mix locnl alliens recognized by tin Society Blue Book is ewer by II County has been granted i 139 bed addition to the il Minor it Milton in one of the fix i grants homes for the aged nun last week by Welfare Minister ml tor the sec mil year members of the Student Council instead of giving tath oilier Christmas presents collected and don J52 he Sunshine School for Retarded Children in Milton Due this financial help the Re lorded Inldien is now looking for buildup tile build a new centrally I school which will serve George Milton and ihe surrounding Op r dint one of In five stores lied for k Ihi 1D5J Sales Stakes Hi ildwcll and Bruce Williamson I of Ihe store have w The local sli just on on allexpense tin Irip to Honda Inch was first pnt it was awarded ills is ing shown the greatest sales No apparent solution available to one per cent Hydro problem Such displays of emotion during turtle times in the game are to be expected and a large extent serve to heighten the sports ex level for and players There the line must be drawn While it remains to be seen just where the responsibility lies for Sunday chaotic fiasco the fight long term effect has to be a negative one for the majority of spectators who came out simply to watch some good hockey When an on punch out spills the boards and into the aisles it has to produce some fairly intensive responses among small town fans who can barely stand to watch the odd slug est on Hockey Night in Canada let alone a major brawl between players and spectators Again the vision conjured up is one of full scale sports related violence complete with weapons of the kind common for European soccer fans and others If responsibility can be allocated properly among those responsible for the incident we expect appropriate disciplinary action to be taken by Junior officials if not charges laid by police called to the arena to subdue the fighters It is not enough that fans should simply roll their eye in dismay and wait for the penalties to be recorded without proper action dismay may be replaced next time by profound regret Queens Park By Derek Nelson Queen Park Rureau Of Herald call it the one per cent pn If people years into future use per more or less experts say hey will hen all kinds of difficulties ensue That lies behind a majority report from the legislature Hydro fair committee here that colls for a halt to the contracts for Darlington nuclear station near Darlington is he last committed power station in Ontario Hydros massive building program with a completion date of the Hydro Affairs com mi I lee majority of Liberals and New Democrats say it won be needed by hen Is a more reasonable large date me Conservative minority on the commiKee like Ontario Hydro disagrees And It Is all because of that one per cent difference inpredicUota The Tory member stress the future energy demand and feel it more prudent to speak of growth in a broad two lo four per cent range The committee majority prefers a two in Ihrec per cent growth figure The consequences arising for hat one per are four per cent growth in energy demand we would need not only Darling on Us four reactors but three more stations of ihe same sue by the year That at 5 billion and 10 years building lime a station per however Dar Imgton and only one other station are required And a wo per the bottom figure used by both government and opposition MPPson the committee only Darlington would be needed and it not until lf Al one committee member iNDPCarleton East thinks even lha figure Is too high She talks in terms of one per cent growth If she is correct won I need until by which time many people hope we 11 hove passed through the nuclear fission age into something belter Be that il may these one per cent differences mean billions of dollars ihous of Jobs and years of labor Ontario Hydro today produces one- fifth more power than the province requires the result of overestimating a decade ago what demand would be today NO BLAME And who could blame the utility Very few people foresaw the OPEC cartel and the dampening effect it has had on Western economic growth Yet because It takes so long to build plants to produce the electricity the decisions have to be aken years ahead The elements thai comprise energy planning include population and labor force grow economic performance the lype of industry wc have how effective conservation is and whether will be substituted In large amounts Tor other energy Balancing oil these factors is not an easy ask and hat s why we have a one per cent problem Phone Mis Little Steele is her school chum just 1 g and because a wis in the right place at right linn wis on her way home in Public School Tuesday with two friends and Miry Kranmdonk and they look link side trip in onto he ice of he ridit liner fell through the ice would tune been swept away but Jams grabbed her Local resident Id rt he ire screaming for lit lp mil to pull them out of it with a long stick McDonald has become associaled he law firm of and Langdon Mr McDonald as general counsel the Power Commission of Onariofor Prior that he was deputy minis to Ontario Premier Leslie Frost and to the cabinet Reconstruction of Highway between and Acton is getting closer Hal I on Jim Snow told the Her ild Mnndij that the Department of is calling tenders this week for iruit and in preparation or the work Tin reconstruction follow the routi road deviating only to the dangerous corners in of Park Motors ai won a trip to Japan and Fxpo TO for selling lars I irk Motors was second In the Out contest which started May I worth an nilexpense paid rip Japan fir I Members and support f I lus an umbrella organization f r Ha I Ion i Ms performing arts groups ow council chambers to ok rf lowing Monday night in a successful In the towns general I mil tec to lake immediate action on proposals that could ultimately lead to the of a use theatre and arts complex Two men escaped injury Friday morn mi when ire swept through a mini home it corner of John and Streets The blare which forced he closing of Highway for about five hours gutted the inside of the building In three amines homeless and destroyed most of heir possessions The Board of education agreed reluctantly in some cases to support an agreement proposed by provincial mediator Martin Teplilsky to settle the four month long contract dispute with secondary school teachers The oneyear agreement the region a teachers a salary increase of per cent across the board the resulting salaries includ ing benefits costing