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THE HERALD Wednesday February Page 30 years ago Prize winners at the Womens Institute euchre on Saturday night at the home of Mr and Mrs N Sinclair were Mrs A Mrs T Gibson and Messrs Archie and Frank Smith There were nine tables in ail Members of the Georgetown Horticultural Society learned Whats New for Flowers in at their public meeting in Wrig- Public School Wednes day evening Feb Hankin- son of the Douglas Seed Company of Bratford addressed the group as guest speaker The Norval United Church couples club saw life on an Indian reservation in a program of col ored slides shown at their meeting in the Sunday School hall on Wednesday evening Rev Mar shall Jeff of Bolton and Nashville was the guest speaker at the meeting and showed the slides taken during a recent trip to the west He gave a running commen tary on the slides inserting many humorous Incidents which had oc curred while visiting the reserve 10 years ago More than 300 residents of Acton community jammed the Acton High School cafeteria last Wednes day to air their views They were invited to let the town know how they felt about a proposal to build a shopping centre on Actons eastern boundary The crowd which represented over four per cent of Actons population reacted with cheers to the news that the 7 acre lot plaza would introduce 200 new jobs to the community Bot some businessmen greeted the same news with jeers as they feared for their downtown stores which could be overshadowed by the new development Dissatisfaction with working conditions has led to a campaign to unionize workers Actons Superior Glove Works Ltd one of the largest glove factories in Canada Plant employees say Bill central regional direc tor for the Canadian Union of United Brewery Flour Cereal Softdrink and Distillery Workers have no lunchroom poor toilet facilities no ventilation improper fire exits and work areas that are too cold or hot Asbestos pieces and boiling glue pots surround the areas where employees eat their lunches he said 5 years ago It had to be a special event that brought former Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church parish priest Otger across the ocean Thursday Retired to Holland since September 1980 the Georgetown pastor made a special journey to attend a celebration Saturday at which the church mortgage was burned Together with Bishop An thony Father Devent helped Fathers David Cote and Con OMahony celebrate a 7 pm ion passed by council in January after wmcn partners a stayed for the banquet and That motion was cancel- g Maple Avenue church ed last night amidst charges that ta the authority of the council were completed 15 years ago There will be no overall fire chief for Halton Hills despite a mo- cumvented and the implication that advertisements inviting ap plications for the position had been purposely delayed An application from an Acton businessman to establish a cable television service in Acton will be heard by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission CRTC March 26 John Goy said yesterday that if his application is approved by early spring the service would probably be in operation by the end of the year He explained that eight months would be required to erect an antenna and to lay cables both along local hydro poles and underground The Georgetown Former Acton mayor now Coun- cillor said Monday night he will demand an accoun ting of progress made and money spent by the new community of Halton Hills Father Devents time at the church He was one of the last Capuchin friars appointed to the parish Actons Chamber of Commerce hopes market survey and public support will sway VIA rail Canada into rearranging its train schedule to add a stop in Acton Acton has been without passenger service to and from Toronto for several years But Chamber members who discussed the issue at a luncheon meeting Thursday said the com munity of 7000 has grown enough to warrant the return of whistle North Sports Camp reps defeated Owen Sound three games straight to advance into the next round of OMHA playoffs Last year Owen Sound was able to take Georgetown to five games WRITE US A LETTER Legislation not the answer Dear Sir Saturday Feb 18 12 en vironmental citizen groups representing thousands of members in Southern Ontario held a joint workshop in Georgetown They reported and discussed significant developments threaten ing the Niagara Escarpment and its vicinity The Niagara Escarpment is a of land with geological and ecological features which are une qualled in Canada These include aquifers rock formations pro viding waters for drinking water wells streams forests rare plants the oldest trees in Canada protected fauna conservation lands parks and recreation areas The problems reported were as tounding and incredible The area Is punctuated by quarry operations numbering in the hundreds leak ing garbage dumps overlooking populated areas and proposed waste facilities within or bordering environmentally sensitive areas At the end of the workshop the groups unanimously agreed to re quest a meeting with Premier David Peterson to confront him with the situation It is not more legislation that is needed A specific Act was passed in i960 to protect the Escarpment and a special Commission was established to carry out intent of the law But even after years of plans and work by the Commis sion together with various ministries the problems did not go away rather they multiplied The objective of the Act was to maintain the Niagara Escarp ment and its vicinity substantially as a continuous natural environ- What we see today is a con tinuous series of environmental disasters Will our government act according to the law What do we pay all these levels of bureaucrats for if they cannot even apply the law Giuseppe Chairman of EAGLE Ecology Awareness Groups Landscape and Environment Customer cant accept attitude of business Dear Sir I have noticed the very large advertisement in the paper over the last few weeks saying Its About Time We Gave Halton Hills The Business I agree this is good for everyone Unfortunately I tried to do just that My husband and I are planning to redo our kitchen new cup boards appliances etc spending several thousand dollars in the pro cess I called a local company that advertises they do kitchen renova tions I set up an appointment for a salesman to come to our home to measure show us his product and give us a price The day came and went arid he never showed up He never called and just didnt bother to come About four days later my husband called them again to see if possibly anything had happened such as illness or maybe they had lost our address He spoke to another man who seemed to know of the appointment He offered no explanation but said he would pass along our call to the salesman Well of course we never did hear any more and at this point would not have done business with them We again have taken our business out of the area Im sure there are others in Georgetown who would have gladly come but this just put us off If they want people to buy in they are going to have to treat potential customers better than this Mrs G Kirkland Acton Mixing medicine and humor News item number one On March Britain will celebrate Comic Relief Day on which a predicted seven million people will don red noses to raise money for charity News item number two A registered nurse and professional humor consultant from Califor nia wants nurses to encourage hospital patients to laugh possibly by wearing a clown nose while tak ing vital signs or writing with a pen shaped like an eggplant Do you sometimes get the feeling theres entirely too much humor in this world Obviously you dont want to go through life as a hopeless old sobersides Its important to see the lighter side of things and even to laugh aloud when certain misfortunes strike Like say when your neighbors furnace explodes in the middle of a who saw the funny side of the situa tion In fact to help her appreciate the humor to its fullest Id urge hospital authorities to take her straight to the operating room and remove her appendix When they wheeled her back to the ward Id be happy to tell her knockknock Thomson News Service Lets let the smoke clear By The Rev Tom Kingston Rector St Georges Anglican Church Parents in Georgetown who are involved in minor hockey perform a good service for the children in our community As coaches referees time keepers drivers spectators and managers they provide our children with a wonderful op portunity fovfun and fitness Last week the coach of my sons team Eric Rldout organized a father and son game at the Memorial Arena The fathers com plained of a lack of supply of ox ygen masks and the sons were heard mumbling about dirty play It was nevertheless a great evening of family fun and I am most grateful for having the opportunity to have been part of it to have had the chance to lace on the skates As I am confident in the commit ment of parents to their children as witnessed in the organization of minor hockey here in Georgetown I want to raise one issue of con cern In the Georgetown arenas there is smoking permitted in all public areas of the rink Smoking is however very harmful to children Children who grow up in homes where there is smoking develop respiratory problems Public ser vice announcements are now ap pearing on television warning parents about the health hazards of secondhand smoke on their children Smoking causes anxiety in children as they fear for their parents health and safety Just one year ago I took part in a funeral of a superb athlete who had died of cancer at the age of He had smoked since he was and at his funeral his young son who was three years old cried Wheres Daddy Wheres Dad dy Our childrens fear of the ef fect of smoking on their parents is justified Since parents are role models to their children these children may receive the impression that smok ing is a safe habit One child in a Georgetown league smokes dress ed in full equipment during inter mission Smoking kills Cana dians a year Parents have a tremendous opportunity to teach their children by rules and exam ple the dangers of this addiction It is now time that the communi ty administration with the support of Georgetown parents take action to clean up the environment in our rinks Parents have done an outstanding Job organizing minor hockey here in Georgetown Lets continue the good work by creating a smokefree environment for children in our arenas coldsnap Or when his battery dies But even so Granted theres probably little harm in Britains Comic Relief Day particularly when the sale of those red noses is expected to raise million for charity Those seven million Brits will doubtless have great fun in their crimson honkers and they may even be inspired to dream up even more exciting events like Lampshade Day or even WhoopeeCushion Week Who knows If Britain can raise million with a few red noses it could conceivably eliminate its en tire deficit if someone had enough imagination to put little on top of the Queens hats and perhaps tie Prince Phillips shoelaces together But Im not quite so keen on the other laughterinspiring scheme the one which involves nurses fill ing in my chart with eggplant pens The registered nurse behind this scheme one Fran Solomon of Berkley believes both patients and staff need more laughter in the hospital- Laughter helps employees enjoy their work she points out And its also therapeutic for hospital pa tients since research shows laughter releases endorphins natural painkillers that help the body handle stress Well I dont doubt laughter helps nurses enjoy their work And if I was lying in a hospital bed Id cer tainly be delighted to have a nurse Perhaps I simply lack an ade quate sense of humor but my ex perience has been that theres precisely one thing a doctor or nurse can do to help me chortle loose some of those good en dorphins This is to tell me theres nothing wrong with me A doctor who tells me this can get me to laugh at anything Even the 1957 issues of Readers Digest in the waiting room The terrible danger of course is that Nurse Solomons theories may actually catch on convincing an entire generation of medical pro fessionals that they must try to help us laugh ourselves back to health Well Mr Schwartz your test results have come inIve got some good news and some bad news The good news is that my new clubs are just dandy and my han dicaps down to 14 The fact is that youve got quite an amusing assortment of dangerous illnesses so were sen ding you straight to hospital and putting you on a strict diet of pizza and pancakes No they wont help but theyre the only things we can slip under the door Anyway Im referring you to a specialist Dr Higgins is an ex cellent man doesnt know a lot about medicine but theyve just asked him to guesthost the Carson In the meantime Mr Schwartz Whats the problem Mr Schwartz Youre not laughing Good lord man do you want to make yourself sick