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Letters to the Editor Roma closes her books on Good To editor of The Herald Here arc final few words on the Good Neighbor Service Everything is now in order with accounts paid to Lucky Dollar Dependable Janitorial Service The Herald and The Independent with items such as students lunches tags hags for Kinetics gas for pickup vehicle all taken arc of This includes stamps for let that going out The amount of toys and were overwhelming this the amount of money Midget meet big news but press a noshow To editor of The Herald As a member of the Fourteenth annual George town Midget Tournament I wan vtry disappointed that your sports editor was not at our ope in ceremonies I was told by Turner com millet ml that he con your sports editor per and said he would be there for the opening game on Tuesday January a were to be taken at this Unit but unfortunately no one from your paper showed up Our Mayor audi It to opening cere monies iun though he had a I rul7c 1hit your sports editor can cover every hotkey game in hut other than Bantam Tournament this is Hit next biggest tournament in town In my opinion as far as sports overage is your paper is fost deteriorating This may seem like a tittle thing to your paper but it is a big thing for the people who It takes a lot of hard work by my to moke minor hotkey available to the boys of Georgetown and other Inuns invoked in minis Although our Mayor Peter Punier was short of time because of his full schedule we held up the start of the tournament for pn press eover I rtahzt could have inlervtncd to present your sports editor from present but surely he could hue gotten someone else to the picture of the opening ceremonies Yours truly it J eke Georgetown Dropouts dilemma donated is considerably lower there pay the which is the impe riant thing Bills in to SI with close to in the bank If there is still cares natcto tht Good the may do so by writing Mi Inly and it will go to hank to gather interest until Text December I appreciate valuable hi that Grace Harrison gave me it beginning of this i unpawn with the letters to tin Professional Business Other d nations of money or help from Joyce in Gill Collett Porter lions and Legion mcmbir who Signs my cheques for Scrvitc and alsoIuihtoi s Stationery and Boyd No how hard we try to gel all names on one of piper miss some so I finally have all A lot of thanks must go to both of our local papers The Independent and The Herald which excellent coverage Hit Service with many stories and pictures of the hard working Thanks lo all of Georgetown and area who helped out in any way Horn a Timpson Tilt VWnnday Jiounry 1 180 Pages Letter from the Editor Paul Dorsey Pets shouldnt rilired tripper phoned last week share some pi Mine 1 nights on the continuing controversy about of wild on municipal The Her restricted its coverage of the town on in which the subject lo the actual i numbers and humane society officials the i noted failed lo add that the town also has a pet flit hum mi society spokesmen suggested to council that trips used hose seeking animal pelts or trying to control wild animal papulations inadvertently pose a serious hazard d mestic animals and pels The warning deserves serious sidir ltion among living in or close to the urban LI TO OWNERS retired trapper who said he felt he should speak for all the still active trappers In this area who seem reluctant defend their occupation against consistent attacks from lobbyists underlined the legal responsibility of pel owner to keep an eye on Ihe animals By bylaw he observed owners of pets and domestic animals bear the onus to prevent their animals from roaming at large on public land Ironically the fact so many dogowners in rural areas arc negligent in doing so has created a painfully evident problem for livestock owners who pay the cosily penalty The irony lies in the fact thai dogs have replaced wild aninnls as the major predatory problem facing most farmers Another case of resource management versus the people Mclean magazine recently related the plight of Wright the Prince Edward Island properly owner who is alone his neighbor In opposing a null corridor under construction by Maritime Company I At Wright had phnned to earn some money during retirement by tapping he acre sugar bush on us property one of only n in Ihe province Maritime Electric a be near traps 180foot wide down middle of Ihe sugar maples look it lo the Supreme Court ending up with a men oo compensation boosted by the court from I hi shll doesn want a settlement There the matter stands with Wright finding more and re support among his neighbors and fellow corridor v itin whose properties have already become construe sites for lowers I told though its certainly confirmed that Ontario Bruce to transmission corridor is now Highway as il runs between and Georgetown Humor also has it lint Hydro deliberately planned to close g ip it that point because il will have the greatest visual there on the most people One can Intepret this through biased eyes as being Hydro way of avoiding the confrontation betwetn the average passing motorist the huge behemoth towers until the last possible moment may never know for your next social affair Your Invitation to the elegance of dining excellence 8773541 King Street Georgetown Ontario KEEP FOR REFERENCE By column 111 Last week we wrote of the need or certain basic rights lo be given lo babies and small children to protect them from misguided parents and arbi trary decisions In which the very young have no rights whatsoever This week wc will look at Ihe opposite situation In which the parent is left without rights in favor of the child a disservice to parent and child alike Anyone who has witnessed l he raising of teenagers dreads that magic number sixteen All of a sudden that darling child who for 15 years you have cared for raises his or her banner of rights I sixteen now and you can make me do anything What a sad state of affairs hat amounts The confused parent who has been concern with the educational pro gress of ihcir offspring for 15 years is suddenly faced with a grim situation ImlQandl quit If I want to Who would argue the point thai 16 is the beginning of the road to and certainly not Ihe end Now we arc faced with a law that Is not to the benefit of the youth nor the pareni nor the employer nor country at large As a matter of fact the only group which benefits Is Ihe teachers who can throw to the winds all hose who fall to conform grovel at the feel of pompous benefactors The next step after quitting school according our young soldier in life is the right lo leave home How many of you reading this cried buckets of lears knowing what the world was about and realizing how your young rebel was for the step he or she had token How about an alternative If our government which sup posedly bows to public prcs sure and creates these laws instituted an across Ihcboard work and school program which no 16year old could quit many teenagers may realize that at age IS they re too young to make a decision that will affect them for life decision should be made by those with experience 1 ROOM In Canada today we have lit lie room for uneducated If we likened education to a moving train only surest of foot the fleetest Ihe strong est would be able to leap aboard and even then due to the great crowd on the train few who leaped aboard would roach their final destination The saddest thing about this law Is that we pay both finan cially and emotionally for folly Sixteen year olds who can t find employment make up much of the list of vandals Take the story of Bob a recent court case here In Hal ton Bob came from an unhap py home While his mother was on holiday in England he left home and his seven father seek his fortune He soon lear ned the laws of our Jungle without money you don t cat without the necessary skills to earn money no one wants you you re hungry enough you take what you need We call stealing I call it vol Of course he was caught and sentenced to reformatory This was a first offence but his mother wasn available and his father wanted nothing lo do choice serving his time Bob was released a 16year old boy with no place to go and no one lo account HUNGRY Is so unlikely what hap pens next Bob spent his and was still hungry Father want him and he t want father mother was gone and rest of the family lives In England so he went to welfare Welfare wanted to know why he was in their district you starve by dis and gave him the grand sum of before sending him on his way After two days without food experiencing Ihe desperation of being alone and illequipped lo fend for himself Bob tried to steal a car at knifepoint from a motorist who was kind enough to give him a lift The motorist was not about to give up his car to a shaking lGyear old however and soon Bob found himself back in This time he was held in a main prison for four months before his case came to trial The judge working within the framework of the legol tern had no choice but to sentence him to an additional six months for such a violent If that youngster had been able to work at a paying job through the educational sys tern could say with virtual certainty that his life would have taken a different dircc lion Independence and money almost synonymous are the prime motivators for leaving school with a paying Job within the school system the lives of youngsters could change drastically As far as goes coals far more to pay for society mis lakes through prisons health services social services etc than prevent mistakes In Ihe first place TKUEJINGIE We arc wrong to throw our young people into society a true jungle wilhout the tools for survival We have other laws in lence lhat are a disservice to our youth and a discredit to society as a whole Drinking laws by lowering the drinking age from wc lowered the age of abuse You cannot compare the emotional maturity of a 13 year old with that of an IByear old Prison terms as opposed to restitution vandals should be made pay for their abuse not their parents Responslbi lity comes personal awareness not something through the eyes or the pocket book of another The arithmetic of a crumb ling society is quite simple if Johnny can read he won stay in school if he can succeed in school the chances ore greater he won in society if he loses faith in himself be looses faith in society and what Johnny has no faith in he attacks THIS CARD if not you may lose your right to vote FEBRUARY IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOURCARD- Check this list of phone numbers IN GEORGETOWN CALL ARE YOU ELIGIBLE TO VOTE Yes and wen residing in Canada on December 31 1979 You will have received your Notice of Enumeration Card in the mail if you were enumerated for the last General Election This card confirms that your name is on the Voters February Federal Election YOU MAY NOT HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CARD IN THE MAILBECAUSE- last May You vc moved You vc tumid 18 Youve your name You vc become Canadian Citizen You were not enumerated for the last General lection If you don hate the above CARD and live in listtd belaa call collect if phone number ELECTIONS CANADA for it diction ElrclomlO Marc Published the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada