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THE HERALD Wednesday July 30 years ago In the absense of his father who was ill Frank Hall son of Halton MPP Stanley Hall attended with his mother the provincial dinner for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh at the Royal York Hotel during the royal couples brief stay Miss Marie Barbour has retired from her position as teacher in South Peel Prior to her leaving she was honored with many gifts and presentations which will always be a reminder to her of her many happy years on the staff The executive of the Georgetown Community Centre tennis club was elected on June 23 at the home of Murray Macdonald and Beard was named president of the recently formed club 15 years ago After a heated discussion with supporters for the proposed arena in Georgetown Mayor Tom Hill promised to donate to any fun- draistog drive Mayor Hill met with the representatives of various clubs and organizations in Georgetown to plan a course of ac tion for a large fundraislng project to support the arena A Belljet Ranger helicopter whose rental rate Is per hour landed behind the Niagara Escarp ment Commission offices on Guelph Street The helicopter was carrying Walter Giles assistant deputy minister of the department of lands and waters ministry of natural resources and Lloyd Eckel executive director of the division of lands for the ministry of natural resources who were mak ing a southern tour Mr Giles and Mr Eckel were in Georgetown to meet with George McCague chairman to discuss com mission business LETTERS I Canada Post should spend money on service not ads Halton Hills right where they live with FANFARE FAN stands for fitness and nutrition The people from Operation Action will be bringing a show into the dif ferent neighborhoods in Halton Hills featuring information on fitness and nutrition and Including a fitness testing station There were people on hand to answer questions about the subject Officials of Halton Region and the Halton Federation of Agriculture will confront the pro vinces ministry of environment over charges that the ministrys in competent inspection procedures for sludge disposal sites have resulted in the contamination of area rivers Interested Citizens Group ICG lawyers returned to the Ontario Supreme Court to debate the confu sion over conflicting Ontario plan- rang legislation John Schneider chairman of the group opposing Ontario Hydros construction of the Bruce to Milton 500 power transmission corridor said the court hearing in Toronto will clarify the conflicting statements of priority of the Ontario Municipal Board Act and the Power Corpora tion Act 5 years ago Mrs Mae Cleave of Brampton a former Norval resident celebrated her 90th birthday at Grace United Church 150 friends and relatives called to extend this lovely lady their best birthday greetings GDHS principal Don Baker said technical education enrolments for 10 years ago September are down per Starting July Operation r last year Action will be information down 2a5 n on fitness and nutrition to people in schools Dear Sir I just wish Canada Post which appears to have millions of dollars to spend on newspaper advertis ing would spend It where it really counts on the people who run our rural postal service Customers think its business as usual when rural post offices which have traditionally operated out of genera stores are forced into privatization by Canada Post But the contractors who run these outlets sure notice a difference Many receive a mere fraction of what the job paid before the magic privatization For exam ple at the now privatized postal outlet in the operators gets less than half what the previous postmaster made and mail volumes are up As a supply teacher she could make in one day what Canada Post pays her for a weeks work Why bother doing It at all Simple the only alternative is super mailboxes and most com munities with a post office tradi tion over years old say no way But it still means somebody has to do the job for shamefully lit tle Canada Post gives these com munities no other choice Clark Glassford the Belfountain councillor who signed that expen sive full page Canada Post newspaper ad supporting the new postal service had no idea there were such huge discrepancies bet ween the amounts paid by Canada Post to real postmasters and the new but much poorer contrac tors or just as bad the incredible differences between communities Compare Belfountain side by side with Terra and its a total sham to say nothing of But how could Mr Glassford possibly know Canada Post refuses to make public the terms of its contracts Some people argue its no one elses business but who do you think gets the short end of the stick every time the contractor or Canada Post If you guessed Canada Post no dessert tonight Yours sincerely Liz Armstrong Erin Salaries Seniors association should be is still active cut Dear Sir As to the recommended in creases in salaries of Mayor and Councillors In my opinion they are volunteers serving our com munity like the board of directors serves a cooperative or credit union and they do not receive any remuneration This should really be the time to start a discussion on cutting out those salaries It seems that civil servants wage increases now lead the way How can that be when the taxes are being brought up by workers whose increases are often less than the inflation rate Thank you for listening Sincerely yours HJ vanGoch Georgetown Dear Sir Pioneer Days have come and gone and we thank Elderly Services Advisory Committee for sharing their facilities with us I hope many of you coped with the poor weather and went down to Main Street Did you meet the representatives of the Georgetown and District Seniors Association receive a brochure and have a con versation I know some of you did and we thank you for your interest Talk with your friends See if they may be interested and phone the numbers listed The brochures are available in a number of places around town There will not be too much ac tivity during July and August as many of you are vacationing but watch for a major campaign in September beginning with the Fall Fahv In the meantime board and committee members will always be available at least some of them will to answer your questions and accept your pledges of support The post office box number is PO Box 41 Georgetown The executive is progressing with a constitution registration for a charitable number and the other routine steps necessary for a well ordered organization Have a good summer Florence Smith WRITE US A LETTER The Herald wants to hear from you If you have an opinion you want to express or a comment to make send us a letter or drop the office Our address is Guelph St Georgetown Ont All letters must be signed Please include address and telephone number for verification The Herald reserves the right to edit letters due to space limitations or libel 5 1989 TODAYS HISTORY On thi3 day in Venezuela gained independence under Simon Bolivar TODAYS BIRTHDAYS PT 1810 Jean Cocteau Henry Cabot Lodge Georges Pom pidou Robbie Robertson 1944 Richard Goose Gossage QUOTE Money is a master but an excellent servant PT Barnum A hard lesson Learning art of procrastination on a new law Cells Korner Donna KeH Herald wheel Way to go province of On tario I learned the hard way about the provinces new legislation that cat ches those sneaky devils who avoid paying parking tickets When January rolled around and it was my birthday mom and dad kindly gave me a sum of dollars Im embarrassed to say how much to pay off outstanding parking fines You see its become a bit of a tradition for my family to give vehicle plate stickets along with some other type of gift on bir thdays 1 trudged into the local Georgetown Ministry of Transport office and redfaced paid fines ac crued over the past two years I found out in a hurry what the new legislation means Having receiv ed my tickets in a variety of places from to downtown Toron- to I didnt think they could pool together all these municipalities in one blow But ft sure beats the last system Imagine being jailed for outstan ding parking fines Get people where they live Get them in the pocket Get them behind- the I wrote about Mountain view Road and particularly Hungry Hollow before but now I mean it Time is drawing nigh This wonderful hill with its sharp inclines and therefore declines is losing some of its splendor even as I write this The mud down there dangerously close to the creek gives it a shoddy look And it will only get worse The hill will be graded to reduce that ex hilarating incline and therefore decline and there will be a lot more mud And yellow tractors and dust and complaints But the worst part Is Halton Hills will be losing one of its hills Ive got an idea How about calling this area Flats Weirs View By lan Weir For anybody who is an FM radio buff and has been for a number of years- you might remember the Spirit of Radio No Well it was once a small station in Brampton that played local music no one else would Now its a station that calls itself modern At a Canada Day concert given by this station which is incidentally at 1021 on the band its own fans helped pay for a banner that said bring back the Spirit of Radio I con- tributed one of my own hard- earned bucks to the cause Does anybody else have a lovehate As one whos keenly interested in selfimprovement I was naturally delighted to read a newspaper item about an enterprising psychologist whos offering a series of seminars on procrastination Gosh I said to myself This sounds useful Yes this sounds like just the sort of course I should take one of these days The fact is Ive learned a good deal about procrastination over the years Just this moming I learned from the dictionary that the word itself stems from a Latin root meaning tomorrow This is neither here nor there really its just that looking up words in the dictionary seemed like a good alternative to starting work on this column After putting down the New Con cise Oxford I spent another half- hour browsing through my Dic tionary of Humorous Quotations There was nothing on procrastina tion but I did find a great Mark Twain line about Gods having decided to create man because He was disappointed in the monkey Anyway this notion of pro crastination seminars is intriguing although perhaps just a little tattle Lets face it if you decide to of fer a series of selfhelp seminars on procrastination the only people youre likely to attract are the strictly amateur crasbnators The genuine pros will remain at home postponing a decision on the seminar until theyve resolved whether to defrost the freezer or just buy a new fridge Frankly 1 didnt make it to the seminar myself But I did read the newspaper interview with the psychologist one Don Wright According to Mr Wright there are two reasons for procrastina tion people either procrastinate because they fear failure or because delaying gives them a sense of power and control Well Excuse me but this is nonsense Ive spent much of my life neglecting to take out the garbage but Ive never doubted my ability to get it safely to the curb And Ive never awakened with a burning desire to make a Glad Bag submit to my will My own theory is that people pro crastinate for two quite different reasons Sometimes we do so because we are philosophical souls who see things in proper perspective and realize that if a job is worth doing it will still be worth doing next Tuesday The other reason of course is that we just plain don want to do the job But this too involves larger philosophical issues The stole Is able to stand all in the face of hardship or heartbreak murmuring this too shall pass Similarly the sight of a basement lull of junk inspires the truly philosophical mind to speculate perhaps it will go away Alternatively the philosopher can place his trust in the innate goodness of humankind and speculate someone else will clean it up And if that doesnt work just re mind yourself to see these things in their global context Put it this way the ozone layer is breaking down the polar are melting and nuclear disaster is just a computer malfunction away Imagine the cosmic horror of spending six hours cleaning out the basement the very day before the world ended Youd never forgive yourself Besides Mr Wrights theories beg a much more basic question which is whether procrastination is such a bad thing to begin with After all the fact that a job is worth doing does not necessarily mean that you should do it And when you get right down to it how many jobs are really worth doing in the first place Granted in a world which operated on the true principles of procrastination basements would remain full of junk and garbage would sit in the kitchen for weeks on end On the other hand Bill Vender would still be debating whether to enter politics or weed the garden and we wouldnt see Wilsons budget until the turn of the century Which is something to think about should you get round to it