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Home Newspaper of Hills Established 1 866 A Division Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Strict Georgetown I7G Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PHONE Clin MiH fltgliltrtd J Page SECTION A THE Wednesday May 1B8Z Fun weekend thanks to our service clubs Its weekends like weve just had that make Halton Hills citizens proud of their service clubs If you left town for the long weekend the weather spoiled most of your un but if you stuck around chances are the Kiwanis and Optimist Clubs of Georgetown kept your family entertained wellfed busy and together Between the Martin and Downs Circus hosted Friday night by the and the marvellous Bangorama staged Monday by the Op timists thousands of area residents had a ball More than people quite literally jammed Big Top bleachers at Fridays backtoback circus shows On ce the touring crews had quickly adjusted site plans the crowds flowed in children in tow for the excitement of elephants charging horses trapeze artists clowns and cowboys The delight on the youngsters faces was all the evidence needed to prove the event a success And at least attended Victoria Day celebrations in Fairgrounds Park Monday Bangorama with its mam moth garage sale good eats wild midway fun competitions live entertainment and of cour se the fireworks has become a seasonal highlight among Halton Hills familyonentei activities and we hope it will continue to rouse as much if not more excitement year after year Not to be outdone the Nor- val Community Association came up with an unprecedented roster of weekendlong events to celebrate the dowager queens birthday which suggests the village to Georgetowns east may soon be giving the Optimists something to fret about each May 24 But this past weekend the Optimists ranked supreme among service clubs putting on a show and a half to attract enormous crowds on a day shrouded by overcast skies Thankyou Optimists and It was a fun weekend And ad- to the satisfaction is the knowledge that both clubs turn their proceeds back to the communitys benefit Whether its next years Bangorama or another visit to the circus we can all look forward to enjoying more community fun thanks to hard efforts by volunteer club members and the investments weve made in the past Perfect chance to honor our arts patriarch If you take any interest at all in the Halton Hills arts scene the librarycultural cen tre gallery offers you an impor tant major exhibition June through July 16 Sixty years of paintings and sketches by Frank Black generally regarded as the patriarch of Georgetowns ar tistic community go on view in the new gallery the opportunity of a ifetime to consider one mans stunning labors of love Now Mr Black will himself greet gallery visitors each Saturday morning during the exhibition More than area arts patrons have been persuaded by John Sommer of Gallery House Sol and library staff to loan their paintings by Mr Black for the show most likely the only time they will be gathered together for such a retrospective A contemporary of the Group of Seven the Guelph Street Georgetown resident continues to snare his time and talents with the local Palette and Pencil Club nurturing the budding interests of weekend painters with his own substan tial experience in commercial art and landscape painting If youve never seen Mr Blacks work take the time to visit his exhibition Youll probably come away quite amazed that such a con siderable talent still resides in our midst quietly fostering new artistic growth and rein forcing greater appreciation for the fine arts HAPPY TO HELP OUT Optimist Tom kit Invited lev em local friends to Judge he contest at but none expected It to be bard a Job It wai More than ZOO youngsters look time out from the midway track and field competition and ether youthoriented events to in Holding the winning entries from each of three age categories are Judges Car el Euwen Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association president Brian Haifa and Herald advertising consultant Sandra Wilson right Dont worry about Robinson US embassy unties knots Ottawa B Thorn ion Newsservice Paul Robinson the bluntspoken former Chicago stock broker who now Is the United States ambassador in Ottawa isnt Milling into his new neighborhood too easily In fact hes off to a terrible start Usually when a new boy moves into Ottawas Diplomatic Row you dont hear a sound from him for months Hes off shaking hands with other diplomats hes busy getting to know the intracaclcs of the vast external affairs deportment and hes so preoccupied with listening he doesnt have time to express opinions But not Paul Robinson the 51- yearold fledgling diplomat who earn ed this post by being President Reagans chief fund raiser In Illinois After only several months on the job he is getting even more attention In Ottawa than the Quebec decision to remove Stop from its Arret signs And that In a city thats only a throw from Hull Is no mean feat To say that Robinson Is ruffling Canadian feathers is an understate ment of significant proportions What he has done In a few short weeks has been to anger not only certain seg ments of the press but also repesenta- Uves of all three federal political parties And for a newcomer thats quite a FORD FIRST You may recall that during the height of our constitutional hassle the former British High Commissioner Sir John Ford angered the New Democ rats by commenting rather pointedly on this Issue during a social function But that outburst of resentment didnt have all party agreement like the reaction that has greeted Robinsons observations What makes the ambassadors statements even more stark is the fact that generally speaking his prede cessors have been the epitome of diplomatic decorum Such representa tives as Kenneth Curtis William Porter and Thomas never but never offered unsolicited public ad vice to Canada As Porter says I always felt that an envoy not functioning well if he has to get on the public platform to make his views known Robinson clearly doesnt agree A few weeks ago he offered the view that Canada isnt pulling Its weight in western defence And for this he stirred up the wrath in Defence Minister Lamontagne As an ambassador to Canada I think he should know better than to criticize or judge the country hes In said the minister Then there was that little aside In Toronto when the Ambassador offered some advice to a 39yearold news paper reporter Shove off kid were the undiplomatic words used on that ocas Ion WIDENS SCO And now Robinson has greatly widened the range of his critics by saying In a public speech that Canada spends too much on social services That in diplomatic circles just Isnt Liberal Senator Therlault raised the issue In the Senate saying It Is my business to protest such action by the ambassador Tory MP John Crosblc said that social services spending is simply not any of his business so I think he would be well advised not lodo that again Pauline His statements on this and other Canadian subjects have been Insulting and pat to this country and Its people It has been a long time since Ottawa reverberated with that type of reaction and Robinson Is already well an his way In compiling a unique of his experiences But before suggesting this may lead to some sort of crisis in CanadaU S relations 1 would like to offer the view that speeches by ambassadors In themselves are the cause of anything more serious than minor aggravations The American embassy has 138 men and women In Ottawa below the ambassa dorial level and Its these people along with their Canadian counterparts who untangle the knots Millers dime budget has problem with principles Derek Nelson By Derek Nelson Queens Park Bureau Tom ton Newsservice Toronto Let them wear sweat ers former Treasurer John White joked with members of the media a decade ago about people who might be able to afford his brand new tax on energy consumption It was memory tells me the final nallirithecoffinofthaLproposedtax A backbench Tory revolt fuelled by taxpayer outrage forced White to withdraw It within weeks One has to wonder whether Treas urer Frank Miller may suffer similar to reduce the number of items exempt from the seven per cent sales tax The headline In a Toronto news paper of let thorn cat peanut reference to taxing reminiscent of Whites problems as it Is of the original line attributed to Marie Antoinette about Francos starv ing masses let them cat cake Miller of course occur a lei den ies having said any such thing but It Is too late now The damage is done I dont know whether White or Lite their lines cither but that Is how thev arc- remembered BAD ERROR Perhaps even more damaging to Miller Is a reference he made to not being essential since It the peanut butter response but also lnsens- to women What Milter actually said was that In general consumer items are taxed unless they are absolutely essential The question then becomes wheth er tampons Tall into that category It Is safe to say that If Miller were looking over the exempt categories again he would be awfully tempted to leave tampons clear of tax Millers real problem In this regard is strictly political It makes Imminent economic sense to plug the loopholes that have grown up over the years the sales tax The difficulty he faces is that most exemptions exist for political and not- economic or philosophical reasons Logic dictates that nothing absolutely essential exists except nonprepared food and no polit ician with brains Is going to tax children a clothing WOOD STOVES Millers rationale Is If one has an oil furnace then home heating oil Is probably absolutely essential in January but for with wood stoves It la irrelevant Only tlmeand the Tory back bencheswill tell whether dislike of the budget dies away with the usual grumbles or of rebellion among voters Unfortunately for Miller he may suffer the consequences tliat comes the Incredible size and complexity of modern government When the health budget Jumped million a rlduculous IB per cent last year people Just shrugged The figures are too big to comprehend But when Premier Bill Davis bought his million executive Jet the purchase lingered on In peoples minds as a symbol of government waste COFFEE TOO In the same way Miller bumped the Income tax last year and most people barely noticed which Is why I thought he would raise it again In this years budget The raise meant dollars off every paycheque Yet it could be that a three cent tax on a cup of coffee will make far more of an Impact upon pooplos minds The money is nothing but it will happen every time a coffee Is constant irritant Strangely enough it may be true In the case of this socalled budget that It In not the money that counts but he principle of the thing THIRTY YEARS AGOSeir is good Tor the soul and there are many places where Georgetown can benefit from such a search In a decade the towns population has grown by a thousand Municipal gar bage a sewerage system and new water supply has been inaugurated What do wc lack There is a definite need for more modern high school facilities Sidewalks are terrible and streets only fair Georgetown badly needs a swimming pool Street signs and street number would be helpful The new chamber of commerce has to do the ground work and lay plans for the future of Georgetown We must try to ovoid becoming a dormitory community for Avro and the new Ford plant and keep Georgetown on an even financial keel TWENTY YEARS garbage at the town disposal lite could be responsible for Georgetown losing Industries which are seeking clean air according to the Industrial Commiss ion Commission executives Roger Wade and Peter Berry were present at Tuesdays council meeting when a letter read Indicating hat the Wests Ice firm might no longer consid er locating a square foot plant here Garbage was burning when company officials toured the proposed site recently the letter said TEN YEARS AGO Ratepayers in Norval arc ready for another summer of fighting this year as they try to save their three room school from the doublebladcd axe of efficiency and equal opportunity being by Italian County Board of Education Were as ready as ever to fight them on this says Julian Reed spokesman Tor the ratepayers committee formed last year when the board first announ ced Its Intention of closing the 19ycar old school The 130 pupil School along with a similar unit in Campbell- and had been recommended for closure tills September in the boards capital budget Narva students would travel by bus to larger schools In Georgetown ONE YEAR AGO The president of Irwin Ltd Dick Willis told the Georgetown chamber of commerce Thursday that he publishing firm may have to be shut down In a matter of months Approximately 26 fulltime employees would be affected the shutdown of whom reside In the Georgetown area The reason for the plants potential shutdown is the Supreme Court decision not to hear the case of Dow Jones and Co versus Canadas Foreign Investment Review Agency Approximately five years ago the Americanowned Dow Jones acquired Richard D Irwin Inc an Illinois textbook publishing firm Irwin is not a small subsidiary of the American company According to he Foreign Investment Review Act Canadian firm can have a change in foreign parent without first proving that It would provide signifi cant benefit to Canada KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN for Herald reporters Takin it to the streets We want your opinion about local events and current issues Share your thoughts with Herald readers when our reporters stop you for this new feature POETS CORNER For Aries May today be full of May every with come true Please accept these heartfelt greetings As a gift from me to you May all who know and love you Share your Joy today Let the italic that would melt Remain Increase and never May good thoughts overflow Peace of mind be yours May your life be long and happy May the good bless your As the years ahead catch up Plea a look back la kind regard Let that smile thats always ready Be for this remembered bard