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The lottery sweepstakes fun or folly My payoff arrives 111 ROBIN Well I finally cracked the system After over a year of buying Lotto and ticket weekly one t end up in the waste The pay off arrived last week In thc form of for matching three numbers in ihe draw The l ruth of the matter is based on I mactuallyoutt47in Lottario and in Lotto Am I unlucky Nut really The run Loll or gives you odds of one In to Win any type of prize ranging from to the jackpot which has been known to grow to a little more than two million dollars If the tottery odds arc consistent should make someone laugh should be due far another win within he next month Before anyone mortgages the house in search of instant lottery success the odds of winning the jackpot ore a slim one In 3 million Quite reasonable when compared to the one in million odds against winning the Lotto jackpot The lottery Is played Canada wide and gives odds of one In of winning any prize which range from to millions and millions on Not long after the of Bran I ford fame won a record million from the jackpot prize changed Today jackpots can grow to seven million dollars before percentage of the prize pool is to the second place prize The Jackpot still grows only somewhat slower with he second prize becoming more and mure attractive If you re playing the odds for he Jackpot win in you d have to live to be years old at the rate of one ticket per week So why bother Somebody has to do It and they do of weeks The Herald a press release from the Ontario lottery Corporation informing us it some lucky Georgelowner won such and such an amount Georgetown winners lend to hover mark with the most recent winner being Rolf who Willi in a to one chance at a million dollars just last week A finalist on the Million Dollar Sweeps show Mr still walked away with But you can knock the odds I often bought the smartest thing to do would be for me to count my losses and quit Noway The first time I don buy weekly tickets with the some numbers I use every week they be on the front page of the Sunday paper Id die I because I actually believe I m to win Maybe Ihe jaekpot but at Inst a pay off of all my down payment on home or a Hie forms 1 pick my numbers with for the computer ore systematic illy ripped up 1 gel my tickets 1 m scired somebody will get hold of my numbers and may have to share winning Creed Stupidity Craziiicss Th it what lotteries thrive on Besides apart from many people belie vinj lotteries are just a hidden receives will be going iichi back 1 probably helped build some pretty nice sport cultural projects and aiding health and soci service agencies Its not necessary llj UK so mueh a part of Canadian life But llnmanurllutherun Church latiguytlhere fairly general Should we have and support in our society that lotteries lotteries seems strange even to all forms of gambling today Lollcrlesarc The against lotteries ii sometimes to Inderal and Let I from two perspectives winning and losing Suppose win in a What have donC I have received money from many different people without giving them any value in return It was not a payment for services or labor It was not a gift or an inheritance They did not want to give to me but were each hoping to win It How can thai be anything hut HI gotten gain Suppose I lose a dollar or two or five in a lottery What have done I have isted a God given resource id enabled me to earn that money 1 should have used it In a way that would pleased Him should have bought something or beneficial for my family r myself Or I should have given to someone who needed Buying a lottery ticket was simply throwing it It is often lid thai the money lost I it lines goes to a good purpose either to the government or to some eh inly Bui the government can raise muni in ways that do not promote And chanty means love the HERALD Homo Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager lode No lottery is necessary The money could simply be given to the organ Iza that would use it to help people That would the expense of running he lottery and paying the winners Lotteries do not seem as bad as other forms of gambling We do not perceive them being connected with other We do not picture a bettor losing the rent or the grocery money on a lottery But that could very well be happening Some people say that everything In life is a gamble Is a Every lime you get Into a car there is danger But careful driving and reckless driving are two different I lungs An honest business transaction is no trying to beat the odds and get something for nothing Some people trust in luck Others trusty In the true God There is a treasure greater than all lottery winnings combined Christ has already purchased for every one of us He bought it with His blood and A DAVE Editor PHONE J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager Second Mill 0943 I A THE HERALD Wednesday February ISM A hard stance Community groups might soon become a rarity Thats if Halton Hills takes a hard stance against users of town facilities Rising costs are listed as the reason to raise rental rates But the recreation department has proposed to not only include inflationary costs but to play catch up For example a proposed rent hike for the Credit Valley Artisans at Cedarvale Cottage would make their annual fee instead of Volunteer or profit organizations who are forced high rents will lose members and supporters Volunteers who are active in the arts or on sports executives will lose interest in continuing on when they haven t got the support of the town they represent or their own club members complaining of high costs The result is that the recreation department will eventually have to fill the void at a much greater cost Program fees might be lower obviously the Ian doesnt have to charge himself rent but the recreation department administration staff will continue to grow and as taxpayers well all end up paying more In Halton Hills there is a large community in volvement in sports recreation and the arts The recreation department needs to act as a guiding hand to help these groups develop The time hasn come where the town has to take over exclusively in all areas of programming In Milton for example town councillors voted on a grant of 10000 which was given to the Milton Springers Gymnastics Club to help them with building renovations for a permanent facility In turn the Springers run all of the gymnastics classes for the town of Milton The town has to recover some costs for facilities they rent out as landlords but lets not forget the value or contributions of volunteer or nonprofit organizations Theyre Excellent choice Citizen of the Year is a title the Georgetown Lions Club think long and hard about before they bestow the honor on a Georgetown resident Steamer is a man who has recognized the potential of our community and has contributed to its growth What better choice could the Georgetown Lions Club have made Steamer has had his fingers in many community over the past odd years and has been an amcee- on countless occasions mayor entertainer fund raiser and deputy sheriff Not only has Steamer been an asset to the com munity but to all of Canada while serving with three regiments overseas during World War Two To top if off Steamers an unpretentious friendly and extremely well liked member of the community Hes our choice too for what a model citizen should be Congratulations Steamer on an additional title and the Lions Club on an excellent choicel Meaning of freedom Freedom sowhatl least that Is my first reaction I guess because my first idea of freedom la a political one having to do with our free society I find it difficult to try to explain what freedom Is because everyone has their own Idea there is no one definition For a poor man freedom is winning a lottery for a dear person freedom is a new hearing aid for a blind person a seeing eye dog or for a quadriplegic freedom Is a wheelchair You may not need any of these things and you would not think of them as making you free Freedom for you depends upon your own personal needs A lack of freedom It an Imprisonment a mental emotional prison To be free we must rope hat prison When I dream I escape from my prison Il is as if I am no longer handicapped that I am Just carrying on the way was before I dreamt once and that I quit halfway through I just decided to sit It out Another lime I dreamt that I was standing up In front of my family telling a repertoire of Jokes like I us to do When I am awake I don talk very much because il loo much trouble for people to hear me That is a prison What I miss most Is the spontaneity of life I have to plan to have someone me everywhere I go even lo the bathroom That would put a cramp in anyone freedom Once I dreamt thai I met a girl We became friends and began a relation ship That felt real good Well real feood real would have to be when I am not dreaming I have something or what freedom Is for me I hope that sharing It helps you the freedom you have and not lo take it For granted My dreams are your reality and what used to be my reality I born Instead my freedom were there one day and gone the next llllim Coming to I Irrni New Hamburg James liiverslock will replace John Oswald ihe si iff of the Canadian Bank of mimree here and technicians will irk ihe midnight for the next two weeks out Ontario Hydro ecle changeover of the r Motion at Hi nil closing fur Georgetown gos rescinded when council pisses i ordering this at their Haltons History ting Tin fire report presented by rut Chief William Hyde showed it town herd of Kenneth II in Sons has been forging ahead dl and now it has one of the tragi milk productions of i breeder herd in Ivan Crab- lime member of the arena wis elected chairman of the formed Georgetown Recreation Thanks for gift of life CLERGY Herald Special Thank you Lord for the gift or Lire Sometimes we appreciate it so Utile We get caught up in all the details or How to do what we re doing Why wcdldnt do what we should have done or Why we cannot do what we want to do We make so much of unpaid bills Irritating oversights Annoying circumstances and We often become overwhelmed by life tasks and responsibilities Marriage Parenting and Growing up in this sometimes weird world We gel offended with ageing bodies or bodies not yet old enough looked for illness Miserable weather Towering work loads and The fact thai there are only hours in And only 7 days in one week Sometimes Lord In middle of Life Death Tugs at our waking thoughts News of it close lo home sticks in our Wh it if I were to lose Child or friend Or die myself before doing J he things I wint to do And we feel justified In our fear and At ancient enemy Vet if we let the reality of sit longer on our brow Not pushing from Its harsh He may grow beyond the fact that Ail we are at Us zenith l Can pass To Death In moment in the twinkling of an Then we may gam a more lucid view of Thi minute These become the Our attention shifts from Unpaid bills Unsaid words and Undone of love sternness to Its When we embrace the reality that all In Ldc Musi include Death Then what is truly important In Life rushing to the fore Time We share with people Moments Otherwise crowded of busy schedules The hugs of affection The kind words the listening Instead of Life rough road can see beautifully delicate and Inlncilely wrought Life 1 it is seen and lived as Your gift Death Inio an open door which leads from Thank You Lord for the gift of Life Bob Tad man Is Secretary of Ministerial Association and Director of Open Door a dropin ope ruling out of St Georges Church for high school student Letters to the Editor SEBjSel SI When snow is deep and toes are numb When aches and pains make faces glum It s odd to think you only got Four months wait to feel too holl Anon This old fashioned winter with plentiful snow poses a problem for many seniors who need their walks and driveways cleared Many ore unaware that help Is available through the Elizabeth Fry Society which aids in lion of the Community Services Program This program funded by Ihe Ministry of Correctional Services gives an offender over 16 years of age and whose crime is violent the option of serving a Jail sentence or a number of hours Involved In communl services The volunteers are careful screened No pay Is Involved only the signing of the volunteer card stating the hours of work done It Is preferable thai you sign the volunteer card but If you wish no contact with the worker you may report to Ihe society help a volunteer In the Georgetown area by contacting the Elizabeth Fry Society at Thousands of retired people claim that this is the most interesting and fulfilled time of their Uvea They arc involved In many community rejects and organizations which are from their help Unfortunately there are a few who have failed plan for retirement and are completely frustrated without their former work Many opportunities exist be active involved and needed Even two hours a week could change your life Call the North Volunteer Service 3210 and Board of Parks A start on a home for retarded idults is major aim for the North Association for the Mentally fie irded according to newly elected president James council okayed the building permit for decontrol lower at the Gulden Horseshoe lot ton north of Highway 7 I- red Nurse Georgetown was chosen as president of the Halton llolslem Club at their annual meeting in Hall Approximately pounds of DDT were gathered in the Ihe town forces on Jan One hundred pounds of it came the Op alone Mrs Harry Clarke was elected president of the first Georgetown Seouts and Cubs auxiliary at meeting On basis of a important resolution passedby town council this week has been officially set aside as Denial Health Week in Hills 1 the annual silarj paid to trustees on the Halton Board of Education will Jump from 00006 The boys who staged a road marathon presented a check fin to Mrs Mary Corey presi iknl of local chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Association E- John incumbent candidate in Brampton Georgetown riding questions whether Pierre Trudcau should be given ihi opportunity to lead the country under present world conditions Brampton Georgetown Literal candidate Milne says energy Is major issue in the current election impjiyi rormer high school Prom queen lifelong Georgetown resident Kirin Harrison has been chosen Georgetown s Citizen of the Year Bums has set up a house silting service in which she will v iter plants lakccare of pets and keep an eye on the dwelling for homeowners Blood clinic Pay a Driver tribute to should be more life savers awake The Region llkc commend Council every Georgetown Fire Department for the life One of my pet peeves Mved a refU he IS In About their be blood donors They main truck came south will send money to Mounlainview Rd Africa donate to Should you know of an Highway With ties ftive the needy act of courage that took but when it comes to giving a little of them inl9H please submit ive selves literally out person name address come the excuses I and description of don have the time incident to the above- of the In a convenient named Council Consumers Distributing location My one pint Should you also know parking tot directly in won make differ or a person or group of the fire engine which lontnbuied lo oy alert defensive safely our and above prevented a horrible if not fatal How wronf you are theird work Your one pint might names mean that a child with and the reason leukemia can have believe they deserve cells he so badly needs merit should today Or that a young lie sen to same mother with four Council before hob Yours truly Allen Council 1 Box Ml Burlington Drivers be awake you are behind he wheel A fireman job Is dillieult and enough once he arrived it a fire Let not make drive there thc most treacherous part J D Walker Dawson Crescent thanks Or that a small child with anemia and others like him with blood disorders who depend for their very lives on your kindness and generosity won gel Sir tola contribution to date thc chance he must have i would like to lake this of Si Just to stay olive Is thai opportunity thank the of their nol best gift you can people of Georgetown for but ions will mean give to their support of services service to the provided by Canadi blind visually an National Institute lor people known Donating blood Is one Blind In the of the easiest quickest Georgetown area and most painless ways I This past tail knows The next person who needs thai one pint of blood to save a llc be you I It is encouraging to know hat such strong And who und ruislng cimpuigi Six thousand eight support hundred and eighty available to thjs agency envelopes were led homes in the Georgetown area One Mrs It Elliott hundred and seventy Georgetown rwpon resulting In a Sincerely Patrick Crowlhcr District Administrator Peel District Office importation is vital to people disabilities if they arc to be 1 lowed the opportunity to partake of the recreational and employ menl opportunities permitted other members of society Last summer an interregional union study within was conducted determine the need for handicapped to travel between towns and regions The report indicates that need At present three of the four lilies offer service their own communities but none will go beyond their boundaries This year Provincial Ministry of Transportation and Communicatl will spend around million Tor transportation systems such is Toronto will receive million and municipalities like will receive their per portion of the cost Even then Toronto has disabled users each There isa financial limit to parallel transit i ground breaking ceremony December a group of Individuals wheelchairs expressed their anger that the new GO would not be made accessible to them GO s policy Is to i How the able ambulatory on the I I The three new stations are being built to conform to existing GO standards in spite or thc fad that in time there will likely be a change in policy brought on by public pressure a court order or possibly the cans tut I on is the next portion is enacted this spring GO stales that stations are to be retrofitted at a later date to make them accessible Thc logical and less costly alternative is to make the stations in the first place II would sue millions of dollars The provincial government has deelded that for present none of the new rolling stock will be access ible J