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Home Newspaper of Haiton Hafe Since A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown L7G 3Z6 Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PAUL DOUSE Editor PHONE DAVIDBEATTIE Advertising Manager Stcond Milt Number Page I SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday November a Marios legacy much appreciated If Haiton Hills civil servants face the voters every few years In an election chances are planning director Mario Venditti might not yet be leaving us to take up a similar position In Guelph Such Is apparent popularity around town A majority of will have never met the man who more than moat has helped shape Haiton Hills future by planning Its present resources Indeed he has led the department responsible for municipal planning here ever since Haiton Hills was born nearly six years ago Before hat Mr was already deeply In volved In the community serving In the former town of Georgetowns planning department Hills Is Into Its second or third rounds of recreation directors engineers and cleritadmnfstrators not to mention mayors hut Mario was one of the originals Under guidance the town planning department baa been wading through the arduous task of consolidating three disparate official plans Into one has wrestled with the critical shortage of sewage treatment capacity has scoured the area for the best development sites and has defended and opposed numerous planning proposals before such agencies as the Ontario Municipal Board To the chagrin of many lay people municipal planning a slow and painstakingly thorough process too reliant on lawyers and too submissive to politicians Behind these charges though Is the simple fact that civil servants are doing their Jobs as best they can trying often under infuriating circumstances to please as many people as humanly possible In his eight and a half years working for Georgetown and Halloa Hills Mr Venditti has no doubt had fill of Irate citizens fencesitting and municipal councils that change their collective minds like a shifts directions Because he has maintained a conscientious and responsive attitude toward public and political demands we sincerely hope hes also had share of fair praise from the hes served And not so incidentally because hes always been open and helpful to the press we hope Mr Venditti aware of our professional respect for him On behalf of a stillgrowing Hills we wba him the best of luck In hb new position Letter from the editor Paul Dorsey Our karmic debt It must be almost two weeks now since tne daily newspapers and TV first reported Prime Minister Constitutional breakthrough with the provincial premiers The headlines rejoiced as they hailcda new era of cooperation and progress for Canada and the photographic linage of seated front and centre in the Commons his MPs stood in reverent ovation around him was again burned Into our biased memories That first day there was no room Tor bad news it seemed Only the Globe and Mai to the best of my knowledge found space inside virtually buried by the celebratory articles about Trudeaus coup for a report on the reaction of native Canadians InthedaysthathavefoUowed however press conferences and demonstrations held by Metis limit and Indians especially the ever- colorful tribal dances have held centre stage for the The rest of us Canadians neednt be too concerned by less than apologetic dismissal of yet another betrayal of the native people by those politicians engaged in deal making provisions guaranteeing aboriginal rights as well as civil rights for women he said ended up In the wastebatket because thats the only way certain premiers would accept his latest counteroffer on the Constitution So much merde as they say There b a point when playing politics however noble the stated intention might be overrides common sense and decency and endangers the common good Trudeau bid for immortality indeed divinity In his own lifetime can politically afford a pseudosympathetic shrug for the Indians as long as there are dissenting premiers to blame Since my preteens when I first became civilized North America despite dally threats of scalping didn so much settle the land as steal it Ive tendered how us white folks could allow the native people to continue suffering Everyone I talked to certainly seems aware that being an Indian on reservation today to the same perhaps worse than being a black American in the ghetto ten years ago But voters especially In the wild west continue to support racist government Some federal administrations and many provincial ones have been downright genocldal not just unconcern ed when it came to stinkin Indians The current rentiers of some of those western provinces will to explain their own failure to enshrine aboriginal rights but voters across Canada should listen well to whose name keeps popping up ironically in the contest of the United Nations when election time rolls round and hes asked to tell us who are those haggardlooking people skulking in the corner of our history books Why am I not so embittered about the dropping of provisions for womens rights Simply because I predict that Judy and her sisters will ensure that protection and If not then the Canadian version of the Equal Rights Amendment will come soon albeit not soon enough Far scarcer and far more threatened our native people I fear will not survive the white mans concept of civilization A sad point In Canadian history you say when the last Indian dies But wUi carry on you reassure yourself and our children will have learned the lesson that all men are equal even it It took a races extermination to prove it Unfortunately my personal beliefs allow me no such reassurance I believe in the wholeness of creation a vast Inverted pyramid with each species of life occupying a small place Remove one strain of bird life the dodo and minor but irreparable damage Is done Remove an important link in the noble chain of mammals the blue whale I fear and the pyramid starts to shudder Remove an entire people even delete their will to live and the magnificent structure assembled by Cod will collapse Georgetowns annual t charit Good Neighbors back to aid our needy The Good Neighbor Service la appealing to concerned people of Georgetown Inchiduf basi nets and professional people to help la oar muni campaign for leys funds and food for the Cheques are beginning to corns In we sincerely think Chorea women for heir donation of Si Mr aad Mrs Robert 19 and United Chorch women for then alt adds op one of my contacts In she tells me she has names on her list so far and I still have another area to hear from In Kindly call Klnetle Colleen Armstrong at for dropoff of new or used leys or the younger generation and the teenagers need to be considered as well Colleens address b US Delrex Blvd Contact Rons Timwon lor all about the Good Neighbor Service SI Metntyre in Georgetown There will be something In The Herald each week from now on and when I have a and the time and da for packing and delivery I will let yon know Offers el help have been forthcoming already and II greatly appreciated Yea may also contact ray very able auburn Betty at Renes just marking time as BNA agreement stews Ottawa Report Ottawa Hurts of The Herald Judging by the tone of Premier Rene Levesquca tirade at the opening of the Quebec National Assembly he seems to be simply marking time waiting to see haw the public perceives the constitutional agreement reached between Ottawa and the nine other provinces Sich a blistering barrage might at first blush appear to be a strange way to mark time but given the peculiar circumstances there Is probably no safer recourse Ottawa bushing is always good Tor some relatively harmless timekilling There were those who expected Premier to open the news session by announcing a provincial election or perhaps a referendum to marshal public support for a show down with the government over the constitutional issue And if the premier was absolutely certain of winning he would probably force such a confrontation His relatively cautious approach would indicate that he Isn sure how the accord and Quebec s Isolation from It will be viewed by the population WANTS TIME He clearly wants to work on this public opinion before committing himself And one of the projects being planned by his Parti Is govern me Is an information and advertising bills to counteract what he termed a federal brainwashing campaign He also said he wouldn take part in further federal provincial talks unless they relate directly to financial or economic interests But even here he leltlhedooropcnacrack lip didnt cut himself off from any option But in stalling for time the premier certainly burned Trudeaus cars a not unexpected event consider what happened lost week And he also singed his fellow premiers and the community This macabre farce will remain without question a historical event It Is a historical event because Quebec was shamefully betrayed because will now know that no com promise they make whether as citizens or through their government is enough to make English Canada our particular character As In every crisis there is a moment of truth And what it reveals about the others Is their true undo mental attitude toward Quebec what they have just produced together Is a Canada without Quebec a Canada from which Quebec is excluded without being trussed up He went on to declare that no self respecting Quebec government could ever accept such an agreement He also flayed Ihc premiers for alleged betraying Quebec by breaking their solidarity and making a deal with Prime Minister Trudeau CAUTION EXPECTED Considering what happened at last a federal provincial conference one can quite readily understand why Premier would be uncertain about the publics perception While It politically opportune to talk about betrayals and how other provinces broke their unwritten agreement and left Quebec out in the cold many people will remember Mr initial reaction to the prime ministers proposal for referendum This preceded the final agreement and at that the Quebec premiers left the clear Impression that he was willing to break with his fellow premiers and Join the federal proposal Mr even talked of the new alliance between Ottawa and Quebec And Premier was widely displayed on television appearing to embrace Trudeau honorable proposition At that time it was who seemed to be breaking with his fellow It could take some time for the public perception of such a turn of events to be fully comprehended It could also take some time Tor the premier to decide whether he can successfully campaign against such motherhood issues as guaranteed language rights and mobility rights They are not traditionally good So It Isnt surprising that all things being considered Premier decided to simply mark time by engaging in that grand old spectator sport of bashing Ottawa Its a harmless way to pass time Votebuying in multiculturalism post Queens Park By Derek Nelson Queens Park Bureau of The Herald Federal Multiculturalism Minister Jim Fleming portfolio Is essentially a Liberal votebuying gimmick set up for socalled ethnic Canadians arent a department formed substance or reason But even the very political nature of its existence does not excuse the sloppy mlslendjtig speech Fleming made here recently on racial stereo typing in the media He complained the media perpetuates these stereotypes and as a result hes going ado the usual Liberal thing of bringing out guidelines so well all know how to think correctly In the Brave New Liberal World Flemings proofs for this stereo typing are rather confused but Include such dubious thoughts that because foreign news reporting concentrates on the negative Canadians are signalled that non whites are violent and volatile Bight on Jim especially In Ireland Spain Israel Iran and so on WHO But there is one example from Fleming that I wsnt especially to discuss because It deals with an Ontario Incident about which Im relatively well Informed Fleming spoke of the pig tailed coolies and laundry men and the wily Oriental of Whoseen on TV Ontario until It was cancelled because of complaints of dangerous often racist stereotyping Someone unaware of Dr Who might Immediately leap to the conclusion that Who was Oriental that the program was a feast of laundry men stereotypes and that it was cancelled by audience complaints Who Is a socolled while the show of British science fiction semi serial and it remains on air However one Dr Who episode dealing with a for away planet was censored by TV Ontario staff because the background for the adventure was I believe a variation on Dynasty with Its pigtails and emigrant laundry men WRONG POINT So if Fleming wants to talk about on air skreotyplng he is away off base with Who episode never got that far Whether It should have Is another question When back grounds used AngloSaxon barbarians or feuding Venetian noblemen there was no censorship None of this Is a say there is no stereotyping on television It goes on Muggers almost Invariably shows as white So ore racists In the travesty history was changed in the most blatantly racist manner to make an Ulster Protestant a foreign devil Although one might not bo able to tell the distortion using only current school history books I understand accurate factual Information is snipped from them nowadays because one pressure group or another finds a touch of past reality offensive DO AWAY But beyond television and even history books there can be no question that the biggest contributor today to ethnic stereotyping in Canada Is Fleming own ministry and whole industry premise la that we all belong to different groups can be pegged as this or that type counted by color to see whos socalled under represented and bought by the Liberals racist appeal WE let YOU In Flemings Job should go Multi Is racist It divides people The name of the game should be assimilation- regardless of color creed origin or whatever Turn us all Into middle class Canadians with middle class Canadian ideals and values I say Globe thanks productions which will be presenting Any thing Goes in February extends its thanks to all who helped make Globes Halloween Affair a success Due to the popularity of such features as face painting organisers plan to make the event on annual observation Winner of a Black Forest raffled off was J Morgan of Weber Drive who held ticket number Conservative government will have of the seats in thencw legislature TfaeLiberalsreplacetheCCF as the official opposition with seven seats TbeCCF have two seats and the other two seats are held by a Liberal Labor member and a Labor Progresalve Stan Hall Streetsvlllc farmer rolled In on the landslide to serve his fourth term as representative In the legislature with votes Mayor Harold Cleave Is presented with a charcoal portrait of himself by the noted artist Egbert C Reed of at a recent meeting of Georgetown council Continuing a program of modernization at the Georgetown school new desks and chairs will be ordered for one classroom The lavatories were examined by board and white there was agreement that they were in deplorable condition It was thought wiser to leave any major alterations until next summer recommending to next years board that improvements be budgetted for Five teenagers who admitted to breaking windows and doing malicious damage to the high school building on Halloween were ordered to make restitution to the board of at a meeting of North District high school board In Georgetown last week The five appeared at the board meeting and were ordered to pay the damage the next day or further measures would be token Board members censured the youths none of whom are high school students Mr and Mrs Ed have received word that their son Earl a Korean veteran is en route home and should be landing on the west coast In early December Earl was wounded some time ago Two music students from the district ore prominent prizewinners at the Music Festival In last week Ruth a pupil of Mrs Wright won a gold medal for solo piano playing for girls 15 and under Anna of Limchousc was sliver medalist in the vocal class for girls 14 and under She studies with Ken Harrison A box of Christmas tree decorations were lost on Highway 7 between and Brampton Tuesday Finder please call and reverse charges George Bernard Shaw will made the papers last week In It he left the bulk of his million dollar fortune to research on making a phonetic alphabet for the English language His old crony Lady termed the will ridiculous TWENTY YEARS AGOGcorgclown stores will be allowed to stay open Mondays and evenings until 9 pm council next Monday At this weeks meeting council was unanimous in acceding to a request by merchants hat Christmas opening hours be lengthened At present the bylaw allows such opening from Dec IS More than onethird of group must petition in order to legalize a change The public meeting following council nominations year will not contain the usual reports by councillors public school and hydro trustees Instead council has decided to reserve the meeting for candidates for election Assessment commissioner Joseph Gibbons will chair the meeting Nov Reverend Bruce Woods pastor of the Maple Avenue Baptist Church was elected president of the Central Association of Fellowship Baptist Churches in at the last association rally The association includes approximately churches in Central Ontario between London and Toronto Rev and Mrs Woods have been in Georgetown for over a and Glen Williams stayed unbeaten in Ihe Industrial Hockey League by dumping Toronto and Oakville Sunday The Glen won the opener over Toronto in a hard fought game took the second game over with Ron McLean getting four of five points Julian Reed car stolen Nov from in front of home was found in Ihe police pound In Toronto Nov 17 It had been abandoned cm a Toronto It took police a week and a half to get around to notifying him of its location Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital will be opening a gift shop soon for which volunteers are being sought Presently a tuck wagon is being used to sell patients little necessities TEN YEARS Most Reverend Joseph Ryan Bishop of Hamilton blessed and officially opened Georgetowns second separate school last Wednesday night Addressing a capacity audience in the auditorium of the new St Francis of Assisl school at the corner of Sinclair and Duncan streets Bishop Ryan sold Religious outlook is most important in separate schools but religion has to begin at home We need an emphasis on Christian values today He urged parents to develop a sense of responsibility in their children Its the separate school In the bishops diocese A junior school with classes through kindergarten to grade six Ihc building cost Fees were established at two townappointed boards Recreation committee members wilf receive per meeting attended and committee of adjustment members will have a yearly Tee of with deductions for meetings missed A motion that councillors appointed to boards not be paid other than their salary next year was defeated on a close vote All motions excluded the mayor who besides his annual salary Is a paid member of police water and hydro commissions Zenith Tool and Manufacturing Ltd 37 Mounts held on open house to mark its tenth birthday and to officially open the expanded building The building now covers square feet and employs people to make moldings die stampings molds the tools and the finished product The new plant Is the result of the consolidation of two plants owned by Leon one in Llmehouse and the present plant before the addition ONE YEAR AGOSt Nick arrives amidst pomp and pageantry to Georgetown Participating in the Georgetown Lions Club parade since St Nick once again delighted hundreds of children along the parade route from Moore Park through the downtown core to the Georgetown Market Place Regional council has approved per cent sewer rate Increase effective Jan 1 to offset a shortfall in the 1980 sewer budget The rata hike which will Increase tho average homeowners sewer service costs by or IS month next year was approved last Wednesday regional solicitor Dennis warned that council could legally sue the outgoing council unless quick action was taken to correct the deficit Despite strong and bitter opposition from Burlingtons ember contingent regional chairman Jack managed to hang his Job during Mondays regional chairmanship election Mr Raftls support for sewer surcharge system has angered Burlington reps who wish to scrap the system by which they help subsidize sewer works programs in north Owners of an averageassessment homo in urban Georgetown will pay about more in next year to cover the towns share of construction costs for the new arts complex according to town treasurer Roy King