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the HERALD Pages- Editorial Home Newspaper of Halton Hills- Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 K ROBERT MALCOLMSON Publisher and General Manager COLIN GIBSON Managing Editor ADVERTISING- DAN TAYLOR Manager WO Mi month I SO Friday 16 1991 St MontiMQuf I Ilia mourn paid In portion irw Another day another loony Ah yes Another day another loony and there are a few of them paddling through the mud dled waters of our nation emit ting cacophonic calls heeded mainly by the other feather brains who claim willingly or otherwise a relationship to the brood Ontarios government in all its wit wisdom has once again decided to throw good On tar o taxpayers money after bi We refer of course to the bailout of the ailing Kimberly CI irk newsprint mill in The NDP once referred to as the No Damn Polic bunch and rapidly giving credibility to the acronym has decided to buy a hydroelectric generating station north of for SI million through Ontario Hydro which in turn means the Ontario taxpayer must foot the bill The deal was done to save jobs in which is a one industry town of 11000 people whose livelihood revolves around the newsprint plant Warms the cockles of your doesnt if But hold the phone With more and more newspapers going the recyhng route and with technology through chemicals allowing for alternatives to wood based newsprint not to mention the fact that our forests are finally going to get some protection from rapacious logging operators how in the world is this plant ever go ing to survive It wont pure and simple and the Ontario taxpayer will bear the brunt of yet another govern illthoughtout program in simply to boost the image of the party in power Local Queens Park represen tative NDPer Noel Duignan should be queried about this waste of money especially since we cant get water for Glen Williams residents because Bob and the boys dont consider it a priority issue Come one Noel get your act together Take up your tuents plight with more than just rhetoric Drop the beard and put on the gloves If you want I could make a phone call to Bob for you As I See It We note the denizens of the dead brain society have once again decided to hold a meeting at Cedarvale Park According to sources a youth soccer game had to be cancelled at half time this past week because glass shards from broken beer bottles were found to be dotting the pitch This even after players game officials and spectators all joined forces to comb the field prior to the start of the game It seems the activity of the players during the first half caus more glass shards to surface and the referee quite rightly it should be noted was reluctantly forced tocancel the game Who are these deadheads that not only take away the youngsters opportunity to play a good wholesome game but also threaten them with bodily injury Are they your kids Are they your adult friends To quote Bugs Bunny What a bunch of maroons Since the police dont seem to have the manpower to patrol Cedarvale on a regular basis I have a suggestion For those who care and who happen to be passing Cedarvale Park during the evening when no organized activity is taking place drive through the parking lot and wnte down the license plate numbers of the cars parked there Deliver the list to the police sta tion and let the cops handle it from there For the gutless wonders who have nothing better to do than break beer bottles at Park I have a request Invite me over to your place Just before I leave Ill make sure I smash my beer bottle on your livmgroom carpet As I see it anyway Poets Corner THE WEDDING The man that I love got mar ried last Saturday Im not feeling so hot He swore hed not hurt me I vowed Id not let him Then I feel in love And forgot The man Im In love with was married last Saturday Ive never known such deep wasnt his fault It was mine for I trusted him Id not be that stupid again The man whos my world wed another last Saturday Best wishes I didnt send Empty arms that are aching Empty heart that is breaking Goodbye loeofmme Goodbye friend B Brooke Acton THE ROAD AHEAD lam proud of this friend of m me who has taken the roughest path in life to find That the road ahead isnt as rocky anymore And her eyes can further than ever before Her view has become such a wekome one With the road being guided by the brightest sun Now Mother Nature has made her to see That the fine things in life are actually quite free Cathie Georgetown Oh the rigors of childhood It was yesterday at precisely 3 15 m that I suddenly pin pointed with one of those searing flashes of insight the most press ing problem in the world today Forget about the depletion of the ozone layer the disap pearance of the Amazon rain forests and the impending col lapse of the CFL No our single largest problem is that todays kids just dont know how tough you and I had it while we were growing up I II pause briefly so that we can all clack our dentures and agreement As I say the insight came at 3 15 p m I was sitting in my study flailing about frantically for a column idea when the telephone rang It was the Likely Lad who s 11 He was at a shopping mall four blocks away He wondered if Id come pick him- up since it was raining Theres only one appropriate response to this sort of request and I gave it I sat in disbelieving silence for a moment or two Then I gurgled briefly And finally I drove to the ruddy shopping mall But every block of the way I reflected upon what your father or mine would have said had we dared to make such a request They would have said You have time to visit shopping malls in the first place Then you had better take a seventh paper route you wretched boy Unfortunately I cant be too critical of the Likely Lad for fail to realize how hard my own childhood was Since his mother and I didnt get together until he was 10 I didnt get the chance to brainwash him during his most formative years But clearly the Lad and I have some catching up to do Because it goes without saying that my own childhood featured rigors that would make him tremble And it gets more rigorous by the week I mean lets be honest You know perfectly well what you and I would have thought had we been faced with a four block walk in the lashing ram We would have considered it luxury Because this would have meant it wasnt below the temperature through which we trudged six miles to school and Weirs World SrH by Ian Weir Thomson Hews Service eight miles back for several months each year Thirty yeras ago parents didnt take their kids out to amusement parks and watershdes This was partly because our parents didnt like us much No we were left to our own devices And we didnt hav video machines and Nintendo either We had to amuse ourselves with the odd toy we were given for Christmas One year I got part of a hockey puck Another year it was a small plank with a nail in it I treasured that plank The trouble is kids wont believe this To make matters worse our parents seem to have forgotten about it too Last spring I grumbled to my father about having to drive the Likely to baseball every se cond night My father chuckled benignly and said Well but thats what you have to do when you have kids This was quite frankly stag gering since I have no recollec tion of having been to baseball by anyone I distinctly remember riding my bicycle to ballparks miles away slip sliding down icy Streets winters being longer then And I certainly dont recall anyone coming to call encourage ment Occasionally my father would phone the coach and ask how I was progressing Then hed stump downstairs and say I understand you missed a cutoff man Come out to the woodshed andbebeaterf And after enduring all this I discover that no one believes me Fedup with feds Dear Colin I just finished reading your ar tide on Super Brian Congratula tions on the most truthful article I have l rad When I see that Brian on TV I would love to smash that face in You know something we have not received our GST cheque for July My husband and I are senior citizens My husbands cheque from work is a month He worked at Chubb Brampton over years He worked at Avro before that We also had a family of six Im 75 and Bay is 78 so the Con servatives havent helped us out We still have to pay that stupid tax I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed your article on Super Brian Sincerely L Georgetown Nursing staff thanked Dear Editor A time to thank the Nursing Staff at the Bennett Chronic Care and to Drs and Brown On behalf of my mother Ada Matthews I would like to extend my thanks for their quick response to my mothers resent illness We are fortunate in Georgetown to have such a car ing professional group of nurses as we have at the Bennett Over the past six years while my mother has been in residence there their understanding and kindness to family and residents alike and their professional care have been greatly appreciated Respectfully yours Susan Hewitt Georgetown