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THE HERALD Wednesday June Page 30 years ago Georgetown Christian Reform ed Church became the official charge of Rev Los formerly of Holland following an installation service conducted by one time guest minister Rev John Van now of Oshawa Rev Los who came here from his homeland two months ago preach ed his first sermon as the churchs resident minister The Georgetown Girls Pipe Band and a delegation of local Lions took part in the biggest parade in the history of Windsor when they at tended the annual District A On tario and Quebec convention this year staged in the motor city from Sunday May 31 to Wednesday June 3 Work has started at the Limehouse range where the Georgetown Revolver Club are converting their firing area to a modern indoor range Completion date for the 75ft long structure has been set for July 1 Club bulletin editor Sam told the Herald the building would cost in the neighborhood of and would be added onto the present club which has been in use for two years As well as serving as an in door range the extension would double as a dance hall and will give needed meeting space for the ex panding club 15 years ago A 47yearold Halton Hills resi dent was selected as the New Democratic Party candidate for the Halton RkUng at a nomination convention held in Milton last Thursday evening Archie Brown of Speyside a community six miles north of Milton defeated candidate Don of Milton Mr Brown in his speech said that the Liberals were guilty of persistent mismanagement of the country More than a hundred youngsters of North Halton and District cub packs assembled at the Georgetown Fairgrounds for a cubaree festival The theme of the day native Canadian lore and customs was received with en thusiasm especially by the brightly costumed cubs who participated in traditional games of skill and valor The participating packs were the following 5th A and B Georgetown 1st 2nd and and 8th Georgetown Ballinafad Limehouse Acton and Norval A significant chapter in Georgetowns history ended when Chapel Street School held its clos ing day ceremony More than 500 people came out to recapture in one sunny Sunday afternoon the memories of their public school education 10 years ago Hills Mayor Pete cut the ribbon with the assistance of manager Bob Dudgeon and media personality Fred Davis to open the new Miracle Mart in Georgetown The opening actually started the night before with the presentation of the Sports Builder Award co- sponsored by Miracle Mart and the Herald to Gerry Perkins Follow ing the presentation guests were given a tour of the new store Stan claimed the top prize at the Georgetown Raiders Awards banquet Friday night at St Georges Hall as he was named the recipient of the Jack Harrison Award Ive had a lot of bowling trophies said but this has to be the biggest and most prized award I have ever taken Amanda Humphreys 18 won the gold medal in swimming at the On tario Special Olympics held at the Etobicoke Olympian Amanda was the only athlete from the Halton area to compete in he Special Olympics She was also entered in three other swimming events and her were good enough for a second place finish overall in the 1819 year old girls category 5 years ago A Montreal man bought former Riviera Club in Norval Ron Anderson is the new owner of the octagonal shaped building by the banks of the Credit River He proposes to call bis club The Madison Well be trying things that have been tried In the US before but never down here Mr Anderson said Business from Georgetown met to map out final plans for the BIG celebration Show organizers and committee heads spoke at Hall to the 152 exhibitors about the exhibition celebrating 120th anniversary as a town After investing approximately in his car Limehouse resi dent Bill was ready to compete in car racing Mr involved with cham pionship autocross racing and drives what he calls a very sophisticated dune buggy He raced at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto LETTERS Fight for freedom breeds bloodshed Kelts Korner Donna Kef Staff My friends voice over the phone was emotional but strong and aware She had spent most of her life In China Canada was her se cond home And her brothers and sisters under siege in Beijing left a pain in her heart for the country that has suffered too long I was maid of honor at Maggies wedding We sat up many times until four in the morning talking from the heart about everything that mattered So when the Chinese government under Deng Xiaoping commanded marshal law over the square known the gate of heavenly peace I wondered Maggies heart is with the students Her husband and her motherinlaw met with juusands of Chinese in Toronto felt the same thing for their Maggies motherinlaw nay not Wily understand what is appening to her homeland but Auto Club members angry over regressive budget EDITORS NOTE The following letter to Ontario Premier David Peterson was filed with Herald for publication Dear Mr Peterson I must firmly state that never in my more than thirty years of work ing on government matters have I seen anything so regressive discriminatory or inflationary as t e heavy handed budget thrust upon motorists by your govern ment on May 17 There has never been an Ontario budget which has generated such angry response by telephone and by visits to our offices in Halton HamiltonWentworth and Brant County Senior citizens motor home owners truck operators car owners and motorists generally are in credulous when they learn the full range of the impact upon them caused by your proposed tax measures Tax Revolt are com mon words being used Through the gasoline tax in creases of one cent per litre on May 17 and ag in on January 1 1990 through the propane fuel tax of 23 cents per litre on July and cents on January 1 through the fuel consumption tax through the hefty motor vehicle registration fee increases ranging from 22 per cent to per cent through tbe in crease in drivers licence fees from to and through tbe tire tax your government has struck at motorists regardless of their abili ty to pay regardless of their need of a car for essential travel regardless of heir need of a car to earn a living and regardless of the added cost to companies to do business The regionalization of motor vehicle licence fees is ill- conceived Apparently designed to assist the Toronto transportation infrastructure it assumes that everyone on the periphery of Metro gravitates to Toronto This regressive tax further penalizes those on low or fixed incomes Un fortunately those Regional Municipal Chairman especially Mr Peter who ad- v cated a third level of taxation are not elected by the voters as in HamiltonWentworth Elected of ficials would be more accountable to the voters and would think twice before asking for extra motor vehi cle fees This application of a third level of taxation is totally ill- advised To suggest that these new tax revenues will be used to improve transportation and the environ ment is totally unjustified For years the Ontario Government unlike most other provincial governments has been collecting far more in revenue from motorists than it has been willing to spend to maintain and upgrade our road system once the premier system in North American and much envied by other highway now desperately to need of repair With your new tax proposals you will be collecting about two billion dollars from road users and spen ding about one billion on roads We have clearly established in previous submissions that sub ways and transit costs should not be charged to the motorist Ontario motorists are also paying one third of federal taxes nearing another billion In federal excise and sales taxes on gasoline and fuel charges to Ontario motorists and the Federal Government is putting virtually none of that into roads in this province Between your government and the Federal Government you will be collecting 39 billion from Ontario motorists and approximately 30 per cent is put back- into our system Mr Peterson our 200000 members are angry and our million Ontario members are angry We wish to discuss tbeir concerns with you May we please have the opportunity to meet with you for that purpose Yours very truly A President Hamilton Automobile Club Spokesman for CAA Ontario Civic Centre should be the heart of the community Dear Citizens of Halton Hills On Tuesday May 30 the Halton Hills Civic Centre opened its doors to the community The architect the contractors workmen and town staff have succeeded in turn ing blueprints into Council Chambers offices and meeting rooms In addition the Civic Cen tre has many public areas to be shared by all of us the citizens of Hills Making the Civic Centre the heart of our community and a showplace that reflects the beauty spirit and history of Hills is a job we think you might like to share There are still opportunities to donate items or money to pro vide the extras which are not con sidered essential and therefore are not covered by the construction budget The Civic Centre Donations Committee invites individuals community groups and local businesses to participate in fur nishing the public spaces inside and out through commemorative gifts that will purchase landscap ing materials art works decorative items and equipment Our goal is to have our centre in beautiful shape for the official opening August 26 All dona tions are deductible for income tax purposes and individuals donating over will receive recognition on our plaque placed at the entrance Our committee has prepared a gift list with suggested donations for consideration We will be happy to discuss any of these items with you or any additional ideas you might have Wont you join us in making our Civic Centre a beautiful as well as useful place Please call Fred at 8775208 or Gary Brand at Sincerely Publicity Coordinator Civic Centre Donations Committee Post Office passing along its secrets was there holding a banner for her countrymen and failing to relinquish tight bonds that climb over miles of oceans and mainlands The media reports say that anywhere from 500 to thousands of protesters were killed The com munist government in China is calling the incident a counter revolution that needed to be quell ed But the Chinese everywhere are calling it a revolution to install democracy in a country now torn by poverty now unable to freely Its time for a change Maggie said to me over the phone Sunday from her East Toronto home She said that civilization in the form of communism had left people povertystricken And the fight is more than the students said Maggie whose years at University of Toronto helped her gain an understanding of different political situations students simply spurred on what was in hearts and minds of many Chinese The bloodied Tiananmen Square Is now Uttered with bodies of those people whose spirit kept up throughout hunger strikes those who saw light at tbe end of the dark Weir Thornton Newt Service It Is so thrilling to learn that Canada Post has launched a top- secret and futuristic research pro gram to upgrade mail delivery Just think of it Good ol Canada Post serving as a prime example of the advantages of hightech in genuity Quite a change from its tradi tional role which has been to serve as a prime example of the ad vantages of using private courier services Theres been controversy ever since news of the research pro gram leaked out last week due largely to reports since denied that part of the plan is to introduce a postal code Apparently 10 digits would enable Canada Post to assign a separate code to each and every dwellingplace in the country Or to put it another way It would let them Identify the precise destina tion to which they will not be delivering your letter until December But according to the news report introduction of the new code will depend on public reaction to the idea and on the perfection of technology now in the hands of Canada Post This is the part I really like Kind of conjures up visions of the postmastergeneral delivering that famous line to the Six-Million- Man We have the technolog to rebuild you On the other hand we dont yet have the technology to get you anywhere for three or four weeks unless youd like to go Priority Post But stop Shame on me Im be ing snide and cynical instead of sharing in the excitement of the research program And boy its exciting According to none other than The Globe and Mall plans for the code are just one small part of a massive and secret research effort known as wait for it the paradigm Project Kind of sends chills up your spine doesnt it Previous attempts to upgrade postal service have been outlined in boring old White Papers and have been discussed openly by politicians and bureaucrats But the Paradigm Project sounds unmistakeably like something that can be discussed only by Maxwell Smart and the Chief and only then under the Cone of Silence And it gets better According to report the Paradigm Project is actually based in an unmarked warehouse in the east end of Ot tawa It is not known for certain whether this is the very same seemingly abandoned warehouse used by the Green Hornet But we can always hope In this warehouse the report claims technological wizards are looking for ways to upgrade delivery and streamline sorting processes by conducting ex periments in a fictitious computer- model town called Paraville Alta This is the point at which it ac tually becomes spooky Somewhere in the east end of Ot tawa Canada Post is trying to upgrade its services by sending nonexistent poetics out to deliver nonexistent mail to nonexistent homes Close your eyes and you can almost hear a dark voice Intoning Wilber was fed up Finsterwald demanded to know why he couldnt expect next- day delivery And then one morn ing Finsterwald woke up in Alberta in the Twilight Zone And meanwhile were told Canada Post has launched an ex tensive internal investigation to determine who leaked word of topsecret project which in itself brings certain intriguing scenes to mind Finch did you leak word of our project to the newspapers Weil I I suppose J may have passed a few tidbits of Information along