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THE HERALD Wednesday August Page Opinion Page LETTERS- 30 years ago Dr Peter Kuryllowicz made plans to move his dental practice into the new building that was go ing up at Road and Campbell Gate He is currently working out of an office he shares with Dr Jack Kerby The University of Toronto graduate completed three years service with the Royal Canadian Dental Corps before establishing his practice in Georgetown The late grandson of Isaac Rachlin who operated the dry cleaning business in Georgetown several years ago Theodore was recently called to the Ontario Bar Mr is the son of Mr and Mrs Ben of Ac ton He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto in and completed his three years later He is cur rently practising law with the Toronto firm Grossberg Mayzel Snapiro and 15 years ago A report issued by the Ministry of Transportation and Com munications showed that although bicycle sales have tripled over the past decade the number of bicycle related accidents and deaths has doubled The lack of bicycle paths is one of the reasons given for this alarming statistic the report says Cyclists are forced to straddle traf fic most of the time it says Bicyclists themselves are blam ed for a significant percentage of bicycle accidents According to the report too many riders disobey traffic rules Failing to stop at a stop sign was the most common violation of bicyclists the MTC report says Reverend Andre Stmard of Sacred Heart parish in Georgetown is leaving the church to pursue a masters degree in theology at Laval University in Montreal Rev Simard has been a Georgetown resident for the past seven years Rev Laurent Leves- will take over Rev Simards duties at the parish Both men are members of the Redemptionst from our files Fathers and have been with the church for many years 10 years ago Georgetown residents Doreen Long and Jean were at the Canadian National Exhibition this week helping to promote the craft of rug hooking They worked out of a booth set up at the Ontario Craft Booth in the Arts and Crafts building Ms Long and Ms are part of a 50member club here in Georgetown The hobby is fairly inexpensive and thats one of the reasons the hobby is becom ing more and more popular all the time the two say Wellington Science Associates of Rockwood received a federal government contract to provide Environment Canada with a report on the analytical stan dards of pentaxexa and stymies The grant was oneof unclassified contracts awarded to Canadian companies The total value of the contracts amounted to 5 years ago Edith and Harry Mills who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary years this week gave some helpful hints on how to make a marriage work Work together and talk over any pro blems they said The couple emigrated in 1981 to Georgetown from Birmingham England to be closer to their son Keith and daughterinlaw Etta The couple have two grandchildren Stephen and Sarah Mr Mills was a machinist for 30 years before retir ing He now likes to cook and garden Hundreds cram new Civic Centre Saturday There was cake everywhere lit tle children with cake smiling politicians with cake and a cake shaped like the new town structure Saturday when the Hills Civic Centre opened the doors to its million baby Hundreds of people packed into the new building milling around the floors while Mayor Miller greeted guests and dignitaries Mayor Bird of Burlington and Mayor Hazel of Misslssauga and Mayor Gord Krantz of Milton were among the outoftown dignitaries Regional Chairman Peter a former Halton Hills mayor and North Halton MP Walt Elliot also joined in the festivities Crowds packed against the walls downstairs where the cafeteria is and elevators were jammed It was warm for the crowds when one of the air conditioners broke down and the punch bowls were slurped empty One of the caterers scrambled around the kitchen to find something to give the thirsty masses Coffee and tea were a lit tle too hot Everywhere lay napkins spat tered with cake the blue letters commemorating the civic centres grand opening were obscured by crumbs Coun Joe Hewitt remark ed about the surprising use of a glass used to encase important documents of town history Paper plates plastic glasses and forks and crumpled napkins were streamed across the glass top Children huddled in quieter cor ners chomping greedily on cake that seemed to appear in never- ending supply while musicians played jazzy tunes in a dimlylit corner There were tables of quartered sandwiches fresh fruit and vegetables and lineups as far as the eye could see And everyone who enjoyed the feast remarked how fantastic the civic centre looked The shades were natural everyone said The view was terrific Oh look theres the golf course a few remarked Everywhere could be seen the smiling faces of people who hadnt seen each other in weeks or in years There was a general sense of reunion And a whole lot of com- spirit And people became photographers for the day wielding bulky cameras through unwieldy crowds It was exciting and fun And for anyone who missed it the photographs might make it feel like being there After all its not every day the town has a baby Sales tax has awakened Canadians Mendelson Joe EDITORS NOTE The following letter from Canadian folk singer Joe to Finance Minister Michael Wilson was filed with the Herald for publication Dear Sir Your proposed nine per cent across the board sales tax has awakened Canadians from their lethargy Even when you drop the tax to six per cent voters will still fight it Why Its too broad a grab I have the answer to our finan cial woes the deficit and sundry expenses like renovations at 24 Sussex My ideas to raise cash will also solve your governments environmental fencesitting woes So if you follow my method everyone wins and youll look like a genius if not a hero The Joe Plan copyright We must wean Canadians off the fossil fuel burners automobiles sooner than later because the so- called greenhouse effect has to be addressed now Please ask your environment minister to explain greenhouse if its still not clear to yOu Raise the price of gasoline for all noncommercial vehicles to per litre Consumers will con serve pollution will lessen and your coffers will swell Raise home heating oil too but not as much as gasoline Cana dians have to leam about energy conservation The nuclear power sickness has to be dismantled eventually so raise the energy costs to all consumers of electrici ty A lot Tobacco More than half of all fires are caused by careless smok ing Smoking also taxes the health care system So hit back Mr Wilson Raise the cost of cigarettes to 10 a package Spirits I dont mean the ghost of Mackenzie King Alcohol Alcohol also taxes the health care system so jack up the price of all alcoholic beverages A case of beer should cost for Back to automobiles Make pur chasers of heavy vehicles pay All buyers of sports cars and socalled recreational trucks should be taxed to the teeth A license sticker for a Mercedes should be 1000 per year All polluting technologies should be proportionally burdened with the costs of cleaning up this mess weve created Tax polluters heavily The biggest single drain on our economy is the nuclear power boondoggle Canadians didnt want nuclearpowered subs and they dont want food irradiation Cana dians dont want nuclear power period Cut our losses before some accident demands the same deci sion Dismantle Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Rail transport versus air travel Airplanes pollute way more than trains The railroad like the CBC is the essential glue that holds this country together Canadians must learn to rediscover rail travel because down the road in years or so this country will have million people Rail transport will be as essential as our natural resources to the economy of this big land Finally respect that your government wants to balance the books But the nine per cent method will just irritage people and get you unelected Ill send a copy of this letter to Mr Mulroney Yours truly Joe helps build Nicaragua By HENR1ETTE THOMPSON Georgetown 10 Days for World Development Committee These days when it takes thousands of dollars to provide just a down payment on a house in North America it is hard to im agine a family of working poor in a developing country buying their own house It is possible though One way is through a Christian organization called Habitat for Humanity When people want to live in a house of their own they make an agreement with Habitat to provide the volunteer labor and pay back the cost of materials which in- Nicaragua for example is a month for 20 years Habitat secures the materials facilitates and organizes the project and pro vides the no interest loans Volunteers of all sorts singles families nationals and overseas people help out Cheryl Lightowlers recently of Georgetown now living in Van couver volunteered for a twoweek work camp her second to Nicaragua in two years Nicaragua holds a special appeal for Cheryl Life is so difficult for the people the S refuses to trade with Nicaragua the country is in a hurricane zone and the economy is in a shambles Yet the people remain very hopeful The city of on the east coast was wiped out by Hurricane Joan last year Habitat is undertaking a major building project of houses there An average Habitat project builds houses at a time Besides bejng involved in the practical work of building houses Cheryl encountered active Nicaraguan Christians who lived with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other She ex perienced the moving mass which the people loved and knew by heart She heard how peo ple described life as living Good Friday with the hope of Easter Making connections is an in tegral part of Cheryls trips with Habitat It is possible she says to create ties with the stories and slides she brings back and shows to others Her role is also to provide options for action ie through school links and letters After all there is a lot in common where to live where to work how to raise ones children how to be part of a community Men stop being sensitive Well lets start with the good news Its now official men can finally stop being sensitive According to a newspaper arti cle a growing number of religious thinkers and psychotherapists believe that men have gone entirely overboard with all this sensitivity business And now its time they say for us to rediscover our masculinity At a time like this theres just one appropriate male response whew The plain fact is that men have had a pretty wretched time of it ever since someone decided we all had to get sensitive This is because men are biologically un- suited to sensitivity If God had intended men to be sensitive He would have given them the capacity to figure out why women get mad The demand for sensitivity has condemned a generation of men to terrible domestic soulsearching sessions in which they are re quired both to be honest about their own feelings and to see their mates point of view Naturally men are hopelessly incapable of coping with this It flies In the face of millenla of genetic programming all of which urges them to deal with such situa tions by glancing shiftily round the room and occasionally offering such comments as Wonder whats on the tube tonight and Hey how bout them Expos And now at long last were off the hook The problem of course is that theres also a catch According to these religious figures and psychotherapists the first step is for men to rediscover such traits as playfulness and risk- taking So far so good Most men can live with a call to be more playful and to take more risks since it sounds very much like an exhorta tion to go golfing on her birthday Things get a little dicier when the psychotherapists argue that men must also rediscover the masculine capacity for action as opposed to the feminine capacity for perception Well they probably have a point To hazard a broad generalization the feminine tendency is to stand back analyze a situation and understand it Real men by con trast charge right in there and set things straight Most of us settle for a sort of uneasy compromise between the two approaches which is to stand back analyze the situation and get it wrong But the really unsettling part is the news that leaders of the so- called male movement are now organizing workshops at which up to 1000 men gather to get back in touch with their warrior spirit At this point its time to get off the bandwagon Fast I dont know about you but I wouldnt want to get back in touch with my warrior spirit with a 10- foot pole Most of us were last in touch with our warrior spirit back in Grade Six We ran home with a nosebleed and have avoided it like the plague ever since Again I like to think this has something to do with genetics Some men are descended from the prehistoric inventors of the huntingparty and the woolly mammothbashing club the fight side of the fight or flight syndrome Others of us are descended from the early inventors of the track- shoe Anthropologists know it as the flight or faster flight syndrome Now granted the article made clear that the psychotherapists dont have Genghis Khan and the Sheriff of Nottingham in mind when they mention the warrior spirit Instead spokesmen point to Jesus and Gandhi as examples of men who combined high courage with compassion But this is even more dismaying Apparently the Real Man of the 1990s is going to be expected to be both heroic and sensitive And you know where this leaves most of us None out of two aint good In short all of this pretty well leaves me right back where I started flailing about in an at tempt to strike some sort of com promise between masculine and feminine traits Okay so Im basically a chicken But hey Im not very sensitive either A guy just gotta try to do his best