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THE HERALD Wednesday December Page Opinion Page Bowlers across Canada affected by proposed national sales tax 30 years ago Mayor Jack Armstrong com eighth term as Georgetown s mayor on Monday Dec 13 aftei announcing his retire ment at an earlier nomination meeting At the conclusion of the meeting he spoke briefly of his ap preciation of council efforts and the of town employees during his years in office A Christmas concert presented by the pupils of Public School drew in full houses for two days Those who attended heard solos by Vivian Perry Jenny May Brownndge Bobby Gary Poot Bobby McMenemy They were accompanied by Ken neth musical direc tor 15 years ago Members of the Red Cross Youth Branch donated a new childs wheelchair to the Red Cross Loan Cupboard to be used by those requiring a chair At the tion were Richard of the Red Cross Crystal Youth Chairman and Judge Ken The first Glen Williams Brownie Pack completed their fall project when they delivered booties and little sleighs to the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital Two weeks ago the pack all made little sleighs out of red paper and filled them with candies Denise Rice Cynthia Brown Julie Collier Renee Vouhoff Elizabeth Ram say Christine Steinfatt Linda Mayhew Kirsten OReilly Diana Lawson Stephanie Schepoglue and Dawn all made booties 10 years ago Well known Acton electrician Earl Van Norman was presented with an honorary life membership by the Wellington County Elec trical Contractors Association at his recent retirement party Mr Van Norman grew up in Ospnnge and farmed at RR3 Acton for Haltons History from our files years before learning his trade from the late Roily He set up his own business as a general electrician more than years ego and has belonged to the Wellington Association for over 25 years Jakes Restaurant and Disco is looking for couples to enter its 29- hour dance marathon Jakes hopes to have 30 couples par Master of ceremonies will be Jakes two disc jockeys Lowe and Brian Wall years ago Former Halton Hills Public Libraries employee Anne Irvine of was appointed to the Halton Hills Library Board Board of Education trustees ap proved the appointment at a meeting held earlier Ms Irvine is to serve a threeyear term The former programs and publicity co ordinator for the libraries Ms vine began working at the library years ago after a teaching career in home economics She resigned from the library in Oc to pursue a career in dress designing There are a lot of Good Neighbors at Centennial Public School Student and teacher representatives met with Good Neighbor Siena Van to deliver a cheque for to be used to buy food for the needy during Christmas Students included Anna Toone Vicki Hughes and Rogers who raised at the schools chanty rock athon Women and men should feel outraged Women and men everywhere should feel outraged that equality for men and women has been slap ped in the face by a young man from Montreal It seemed for so long that the revolution to bring women to the level where they could get equal pay for equal work could have op portunities for traditionally male- dominated professions and be termed the breadwinner has been quietly moving along But like any revolution there are reactionaries those who dont want to see change even beneficial change take place Marc massacre of 14 women at the University of Mon treal was a reaction to what he calls feminism but it was also an inadequate explanation for what a demented individual did to mar the lives of more than just 14 people and himself but all Canadians Ironic to some undoubtedly is that one of the mainstream pop stars of Montreal Ivan from Men Without Hats just sang a song about how great it is to be eman cipatedasaman Got everything even though Im a guy feel so good I got a woman inside Ivan sings over the radio Dear Sir I am writing in response to Member of Parliament Garth Turner column in the newspaper on Wednesday Dec 6 I am the owner and woman from the bowling alley mentioned in his column Maybe many of the public are not aware that we are now known as bowling centres and not alleys We have worked very hard to upgrade the image of our businesses throughout Canada and to truly make them centres of recreation sport competition provincial and national champion ships a centre for all regardless of creed or nationality and a gather ing place for socializing and pro grams for all ages from 3 year olds to over regardless of handicap or ability The implication Mr Turner took from the newspaper that he didnt care enough to respond to let ter was wrong At the Chamber of Commerce dinner the reporter from the newspaper inquired how the GST would affect our business and I told her We wanted to make sure Mr Turner knew our position on the GST and we had therefore delivered signed petition cards from our bowlers and a letter from myself to his office She asked if I had received a reply and said no not yet I want to make it clear that I did not wish to infer that he didnt care enough to respond I am sure he is trying to do his best I also am trying to do my best when I want him to know how my bowlers feel about the GST The comments on the cards belong to the bowlers and as comments go some are more outspoken and some are more constructive than others I feel that owe an tion to my customers to our youth bowlers their families and our senior citizens to make him aware how the GST is going to affect them The GST is going to affect not only them but all the bowlers across Canada and the Bowling Proprietors Association of Canada has made a representation to the federal government regarding this As Mr Turner is our represen tative in Parliament he is the pro per person to be made aware of our bowlers problems in Georgetown and ours and this is what we have attempted to do I am sure Mr Turner has a dif job to perform but he says he welcomes our comments and our guidance and that is what we are endeavoring to give Mr Turner mentions that he got into politics to influence the government in the direction the people want it to go to work for spending restraint an end to deficit and ultimate lower taxes These are admirable goals for him to pursue and we wish him every success Mrs Rosalie Radyk Education system is undemocratic ThefoHowlng letter to the Board of Education was filed with the Herald Dear Sir On December 7 the Halton trustees voted to proceed on schedule with the hiring of an chitect for the proposed Trafalgar High School facility in an area of declining enrolment No public addresses were allowed on this issue Oakville trustees C Reid L Clark and J Watson did not sup port the proposal as the Ministry of Education has neither approved the building of this pro posed facility nor committed fur ther funding million The projected budget of approx imately 118 per cent for education in Halton for was not mention in this issue The lack of funds for O S S and the overcrowding at this facility was not an issue as Janice Millman stated publicly that even with portables students and staff at W O S S could manage Halton trustees persist in blam ing the province Bill Bill and 65 for lack of funding yet continue to approve overbudget facilities and facilities with unknown budgets and programs Flowery speeches at budget time and references to its for the children fail to impress the tax- paying public The vast majority of taxpayers without schoolage children are demanding accountability for educational services Continuing education programs or recrea tional facilities will not pacify them as user pay is being im plemented on a large scale The demise of accessibility to equitable educational services for all our young people is well under way Regrettably some Halton trustees insist on contributing to in fact promoting such an undemocratic system of formal public education Undoubtedly these trustees will they were elected by their constituents who knew when they elected them that they supported such a system Yours truly Marianne Hawthorne Thanks for Christmas ball Dear Sir I once again on behalf of the Georgetown and Distnct Memorial Hospital Auxiliary would like to say thanks to all who attended our annual Christmas bail held Friday Dec 1 at Holy Cross Auditorium Your presence makes this event much looked for each year Thanks to all volunteers who worked very hard and gave a lot of time Thanks to all Wishing you all a very happy and healthy Christmas Season God Bless Vi Haines Hospital Auxiliary Chairperson RECYCLING Il works if all do our pari Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper adding in his lyrics that things are changing for sure in the sex ual revolution I grew up in a traditional home many of my female friends grew up homes where the woman the young lady was encouraged to work hard but was always ex to find a man to support her Some people dont want this to change While on the one level we have a consciousness like that of Ivan where he knows hes got a woman inside has a mix of male and female qualities we have the other side of the spectrum where men are scared to death of being sensitive hugging another man or doing something traditionally done by the mothers The move to emancipate women from of oppression of not being able to vote of staying home with the kids and ironing and cook is grinding to a halt With that comes a new freedom for men a freedom that allows them to cry if they get upset makes them feel free to shop or use a vacuum without teasing from their male or female friends I recently interviewed a woman who was illeterate Her first reac tion to me was that It was a prise that a woman was interview ing her I bit my tongue and considered that her ignorance of the 1980s was due to her lack of reading material But changes will happen despite opposition from people whose per sonal security is threatened by the idea that all people are created equal And some day no one will be able to use feminism as an excuse to perpetrate a bloody massacre Winter is vastly overrated At the risk of sounding and unCanadian I would like to offer the following observation in my own considered winter is vastly overrated Admittedly to criticize winter comes very close to slandering the cultural fabric of this nation Its a lot like sneering at Hockey Night in Canada or suggesting Fred Davis wears a hairpiece The problem is that an appalling number of Canadians cling to the myth that winter is actually fun These are the people who speak joyfully of tobogganing and who describe a temperature of minus as brisk and a temperature of as brac ing which is of course ridiculous The truth is that any temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit is reprehensible and should go away and stop bothering decent people As someone who spent a number of years on the west coast Ive had plenty of runins with the pro pagators of the winter myth Men tion where youre from and its amazing how often someone will curl a lip and exclaim But you dont even have winter here Naturally theres just one logical response to this True madam And we don have killer bees or rabid wolverines either But this never fazes the winter- lovers They just proclaim they could never live in a place that doesnt have four distinct seasons Perhaps they have a point But theres still a gaping hole in the argument A city like say Ottawa does in deed have four seasons And of the four spring and fall are admitted ly gorgeous The problem is that they both last for a day and a half When all else fails of course the winterlovers will insist that they prefer any amount of cold and snow to the Incessant west coast rain They can believe this if they like but lets face facts The universe is four billion years old And m all that time no one has ever had to shovel rain You may possibly have begun to detect a note of bitterness This is the bitterness of a confirmed winterhater who is stuck in frigid climes with someone who pro fesses to be enjoying herself im mensely The Love of My Life spent all last Sunday laughing gaily as she drag ged me out tobogganing I hate tobogganing As a child I once tobogganed headfirst into a boulder This may explain my aversion to the pastime as well as a host of my other problems But it was interesting to see what happened a couple of mornings later when two feet of snow turned up in the driveway I had cleverly prepared for this by slipping on icy steps the previous afternoon and spraining my wrist When you fear there may soon be snow to be shovelled spraining a wnst is an excellent precaution I strode gamely out into the cold promising to help her dig her car out as best I could with one hand She nodded appreciatively started the car then trotted back to the house for a second shovel as I com menced work This is the point at which she in explicably disappeared inside returning just in time to exclaim Oh good 1 think I can get the car out now A less simple and trusting soul might get suspicious He might begin to suspect that people who profess to love the cold and the snow are in fact fibbing through their chattering little teeth But I wont stoop to this Instead Ill just spend the rest of the winter musing darkly on the fact that lit tle good has ever come of living in a frigid climate Consider for instance that the equatorial zones have produced the and Gandhi while the nordic climes have pro duced boiled cabbage and Attila the Hun There may be a lesson to be drawn from this And on Jan Ill participate in the timehonored New Years day ritual of icebound wretches There Ill be Nursing a hangover gazing bleakly out the window at the winddriven snow and bursting into tears as the Rose Bowl broadcast comes on from Pasadena