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Home Newspaper of Helton Hills Established 1 8B6 A Division Canadian Newspapers Company limited Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PHONE BOB LIGHT BOURN Adveiililng Manager ltd Page SECTION A Tilt HERALD Wednesday March Prompt study required for intersection Residents at a recent Ward 3 Georgetown drop in session voiced their concerns over the Maple Boulevard intersection We support their stand that the in tersection is not safe and stead fastly hope a planned traffic study is carried forward without delay A town council recommen dation to proceed with a traffic study specifically referring to the intersection was passed The region is responsible for Maple Avenue and would have to participate in the study A traffic light is needed for the intersection The site is arguably one of the most dangerous in the area Motorists and pedestrians from Delrex cannot readily see traf fic travelling up the steep Maple Avenue hill To compound the problem the intersection is a crossing point for students attending Ecole Sacre Coeur and Holy Cross Separate Schools Georgetown District High School and Howard Wrigglesworth Public School Last week an eightyear old student in Acton was struck by a car and received minor in juries when he ran into a cars path on Main St North at River Road The potential is even greater for a similar occurren ce at the MapleDelrex inter section which offers an obstruc ted view of children Although a crossing guard is on duty in the morning at noon and during school hours there are other times when the intersection is unattended and unprotected The number of cars and trucks using Maple Avenue has surely increased over the past ten years Delrex Boulevard continues to be a street where many people drive at speeds hazardous to other motorists and pedestrians While we depend on our police to watch over motorists who insist on driving through sidestreets at excessive speeds we can do more Traffic lights are needed on the Maple AvenueDelrex Boulevard in tersection We hope a planned traffic study report comes to the same conclusion Red Cross friends for all seasons March is Red Cross month Through the generosity of the public during the Red Cross campaign for funds vast num bers of life saving programmes and health and community ser vices are available to those who need help Red Cross is not a fair weather friend Despite in flation unemployment and recession the Red Cross con tinues to work with volunteer donors to ensure that blood and blood products are available when needed Red Cross volunteers con tinue to help prevent accidents and death through the teaching of first aid water safety and health courses In local and in ternational disasters Red Cross stands to provide emergency services The Red Cross provide training for volunteers to respond to community disaster needs Emergency aid is given in time of fire and floods in the form of food shelter and clothing Individual emergency aid is also available on a short term basis for items such as food clothing and shelter Most countries have a tracing and reunion division to search for missing persons The Red Cross teaches first aid and water safety through swimming classes taught by qualified Red Cross instruc tors Films stress ice and water safety to schools In addition sickroom supplies such as hospital beds wheelchairs and other health care items can be borrowed free of charge for a limited time The Red Cross works hard to live up to its aim of relieving human suffering and promoting health But it cant do it alone When you volun tarily support the Red Cross in your community everyone helps and everyone benefits Staff Comment Time worn excuses for those seeking leadership Ottawa Report By Stewart Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald Even after all theae years of watching politicians I am still absolu tely awestruck that so many of them can say without cracking a that they havent had time to think about their leadership aspirations Have you ever noticed It has become a classic line over the years And after seeing that Tory leader ship hopeful Brian Mulroney now has Joined the countless users of the cliche I wish that I had carefully recorded all the limes Ive heard It over the last years The moment that Mulroney declared that he has not yet found time to think about running or the Conservative leadership had that funny feeling that 1 was reliving the past You that strange sensation that something is happening for the second or 20th time Then through a ha is of history it began coming back Yes I remember hearing Paul Martin make such a comment In the mid1960s when there was talk of Lester Pearson resigning remember Paul saying the same thing I am sure Eric Klerans was another who said he didnt have the lime to think about his future John Turner certainly didnt have time to think about It until a months before the convention and It doesnt cross his mind now and the late Robert Winters was another who didnt give hla future a thought The most notable of all of course was Pierre Elliott Theatre Just a few weeks before entering the race for the Liberal leadership he declared that he wasnt even thinking of It Makes you wonder what ambitious politicians think about doesnt It And the most Interesting aspect of this Is that without exception every politici an who says he hasnt had time to think about his future Is the very politician who runs for his partys leadership It never falls On the other hand you might have noticed that all politicians decided not to run for the leadership always say Ihey gave the matter a great deal of thought In fact without exception they have agonized over the decision No politician gives his future a little bit of thought Its ail or nothing Their collected quotes on the subject would Indicate that either leadership thought never entered their mind or else they wrestled painfully with the decision Its also worth noting that when a politician decides against running Its never because there is a possibility of losing In fact in all cases they have been heartened by the potential sup- Brian Mulroneys is more re markable than most other similar and historic Pronouncements simply bec ause of his activities over the last year Not only is he plugged Into a wellesta blished organisation he has also carried out a coasttocoast speaking tour that has had more than a passing Interest In politics One would think that even if for a few moments as he flew over the Ihe subject of the Tory leadership would enter his mind When a leadership convention Is called Iwllllhen of course take a look at It says Sure sure Somehow I have a feeling that tradition win be maintained and that Brian Mulroney will be another of those people who not having had time to give the matter any thought will decided to run for the Tory leadership And later on I suspect that John Turner who hasnt found a spare moment to think about politics will also decided to run for the Liberal leadership Id still like to know what these people think about Queens Park By Derek Nelson By DEREK NELSON Queens Park B area a Of The Herald TORONTO If there one political Issue In Ontario that never goes away It has to be disputes Involving extent of French langua ge education In this province II erupts In different ways and different places from Essex County to Hamilton to Penetanguisheneacn of which caused the Conservatives politi cal difficulty locally But In some places the question of establishing an entity has split the community and not Just between Anglophone and Francophone but so that Francophone has become pitted against Francophone That Is what has happened In and Iroquois Falls where bilingual high schools currently exist NEXTSTEP Interestingly the debate appears to have narrowed Itself to two Issues democracy on one side and the principle of where numbers warrant on the other The democrats like the two school boards in question and In Matlawas case local Tory MPP Ernie Eves say that they will abide by whatever the majority of Francophones want It also made good antiCanada propaganda for the separatist Quebec media And now the boll hi festering again this time In towns such as near North Bay and Iroquois Falls In northeastern Ontario The issue now Is By Chris Real chairmen arent quicheeaters By Bruce author of Real Men Dont Eat Quiche definition regional chairman Jack can count himself among Haitoos real men be has an acclaimed directness with people and he makes abort work of the quicheeaters on council who would mire proceedings with tiresome grandstanding Lest Mr Is prone to bask In the still untested success of Us first regional bousing conference held last In Burlington be should be wary used to describe the event to who missed it being HamTltc Indeed through comments made by developers government represent atives ana social services si it is clear that Halton is behind neighboring HamTlton- and Peel regions in the provision of Just about all forms of bousing ACTIVE ROLE All of the Interest groups ted at the conference urged the region take an active role In seeing that for the private developer conditions for building homes here are a little mora Inviting and for social services Interests the housing mosaic Id future has something for low Income families and people with special needs regional council is considering whether or not to commission a housing study which will Identify the types and amount of accommodation in and anticipate what sort of housing demands the region will face In the future While council has yet to nuke a committment to the study there was a lot of good material from the confer ence which could be used to build terms of reference for the review The panelists appeared eager for action developers want fewer hassles with getting subdivisions off the drawing board and on to residential land government Indicates that there la money although thinly stretched to give the housing Industry a boost and social services people point anxiously to a growing list people needing special accommodation NO SLOUCHING In the world of real real womennothing rankles more man indecision and slouching on Issues of Importance Mr can rightful ly be proud of conference its started the ball rolling But now he must ensure that council deals with the housing Issue In a way which gives us confidence that changes are on the way The first step is to launch the housing study the second Is to ensure It doesnt end up collecting dust on a planning depart ment shelf like a similar review has done for about five years Real Men Mr notes on page would never use a phrase like meaningful dialogue Its a wishywashy vapid expression a favorite of politicians and press offic ers and signifies nothing The housing Issue demands more than Just talk it calls for action Surely Mr being a man or resolution wont mince his words he tries to convince council of this fact But if he does and council chooses to drift away from dealing with Rations bousing needs ho can Join Ihe very quicheeaters he should have been whipping into shape TXlim cult ili j i u prepares Hall Brampton The blueprint calls for a complete new building on the present site and will consist of a three bay garage club room and apartment A rough estimate of the cost is between and The matter of wrecking the old town hall came In for considerable discussion after two tenders had been received for this work TWENTYFIVE YEARS AGOActons Main Street park and Free Press were used In a TV Perspect ive program Feb It was used in a 30mlnute film entitled The televised by the National Film Board for their Perspective series The story portrayed the role of a weekly news paper in community affairs and Acton became Mlddletown Written by Charles E Israel It starred Rex Devlin Winifred Dennis and Len all professional actors Several Acton people were in street shots and Margie Mackenzie a child on a swing In the park had a speaking part It examined the close bond of common Interests between the staff of a weekly newspaper and the readers who may freely praise or criUdie but always look forward to their weekly news TEN YEARS AGOPeggy Treahy of Carole Street has been named citizen of the year by the Georgetown Lions Club The closely kept secret was revealed Friday at a dinner dance in the Legion auditorium Mrs Treahy received her award an engraved plaque before club members council members and representatives of vari ous Georgetown organizations Her years of work with retarded children and adults earned her the unanimous choice Now an employee of the adult workshop for the retarded at Hornby Mrs Treahy was Instrumental In the building of the Sunshine School for children creation of the workshop and formation of a Georgetown auxiliary She promoted classes for those with learning disabilities and has been director of the North Assodatl- YEAR a fence along the lot line between the Klngham Road bousing development In Acton and private property containing a pond Valley Conservation Authority The Authority was replying to recommendations made early in Jbiiua by a coroners Jury investigating the drowning death of Derek Jones Rejecting the Jurys other datlons that the pood should be filled In or that the pond and adjacent swamp area must be drained by ditches and culverts the claimed the pond an environmentally sensitive area to The Question of establishing an entity has split communities whether to establish Frenchlanguage entitles In what are currently bilingual schools Frenchlanguage entities were Education Minister Bette Stephensons answer to the problem of how to give Francophones a school In their langua ge where their numbers do not Justify a new building VERY DISTINCT Within the same physical structure would be two separate schools or entitles each with their own principal and courses and operating In their own language a solution she recommended for Penetangulanene although she eventually lost that fight and had to fund a separate temporary building for the Francophone students there But the entity idea caught or and not just among Francophones In Smooth Rock Falls for example the English minority students an EnglishLanguage entity But what has caused great dispute is over how one should define major ity whether It should mean a survey of all ratepayers or Just those with children in high school or what And If per cent wont vote one way or another as happened In Iroquois Falls what does that mean How should they be counted OTHER SIDE The other view as expressed by Liberal MPP Don Prescott- Russell who visited the towns in question la that regardless of majority opinion an entity should be established If numbers warrant Ho have a figure per but notes the students in the Anglophone entity In Smooth Rock Falls could be a guideline He accepts this could mean forcing an unwilling Francophone majority into attending an entity they didnt want argument Is that biling ual high schools are assimilation factories that Francophones must be segregated from Anglophones on a dally basis In the schools the students are graduate still French Maybe In any case the entity Idea a solution to one problem Is generating a slew of Its own One suspects It win always be that way In Ontario- Escarpment plan in tatters The longawaited report on the Niagara Escarpment Plan which comes after two years of hearings negates fifteen years of provincial initiatives and wastes millions of dollars of taxpayers money It does nothing the escarpment but is squarely on the side of development An orderly plan for this magnif icent provincial heritage Is now In tatters says MacMUlan Presi dent of CONE The Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment which consists of nine of the leading conservation groups in Ontario plus concerned Individuals and landowners The Hearing Officers demonstrate their lack of understanding of the principles of environmental planning and of the provincial objectives of the Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act They clearly con sider landowners and local municipal ities development interests to be sacrosanct Their recommendations Include new Iota and new houses in the most sensitive areas in the Escarpment rural subdivisions including condo miniums in the protected areas unlimited expansion for minor urban areas even Into the most unspoiled escarpment land looser severance policies gravel extraction and condominiums in agri cultural implementation of the plan by local municipal zoning bylaws without any continuing provincial overseeing role despite the Hearing Officers refusal to Individual controversies Quarry the Kame Gravel Pit Steed and Evans and the Commons condominium devel opment In the Beaver Valley despite sustained local opposition and expert testimony removal of Jordan Harbour and many of the rural areas In Grimsby from the The Hearing Officers report pub lishes side of the evidence many controversial Issues such Epplng Commons The evidence of those opposed Is not even noted Gratuitous and insulting com ments towards the Niagara Escarp ment Commission staff and members the public who took he time and energy to attend the bearings and support the governments initiatives also mar the Report Not the least of was the reprimand given to on page AS