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Page 6 — Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, September 11, 1993 ® Opinio ii | HIS WEEN Halton Hills This Week, Georgetown, Ont. L7G 481, ‘Web Printing. Halton Hilts PUBLISHER: Ken any EDITOR: Colin Gibson PRODUCTION MANAGER: Kobleer fopolsek — CIRCL Mari GI CE MANA ER: Jean Shew seacahen HILLS THIS WEEK 1S INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED. INE: . 5 Say it ain’t so, Bo NEWS FLASH - The Ontario government NDP caucus-cabal met at a resort north of Barrie for a three-day mouth-bash to discuss the state of the province’s economy. An informed source informs HHTW that because new direction signs haven’t been transformed into bilingual direction-finders, the OPP has been advised to politely perform search-and-destroy missions in area watering holes to round up the poor lost souls who once huddled pathetically around the mound in a vain effort to protect the NDP standard from blasphemers — who are having second, or third thoughts on the previous- ly No Damn Policy bunch. Of course we jest. And to a certain extent, Premier Bob Rae is to be commended for insisting that Ontarians face reality. But every now and then, these neophyte “Keepers of the flame” of Ontarians hopes, pee on the fire. That our education system is in a shambles is a given! Too many fingers in the paid-for-by-taxpay- ers pie has resulted in a jam factory of dip-takers with only the bureaucrats being allowed to feast on the end result. Meanwhile, those who should count, the students, parents and teachers, employed by the various school boards, are left with a pie pan to wonder about, with only the crumbs to Suggest what was and what might have been. Our steamed provincial head honcho Bob Rae — referred to in parts ( some known and some best left Mr. Bo-jangles, is attempting to change both the social and industrial context of It’s about time. For decades, Ontario has been a provincial Progressive Conservative goody-bag with party hacks, drunks, bagmen, backroomers and other political hangers-on taking a chunk out of the province and laughing all the way to the bank — for the most part, from education funds supposedly set aside to allow our youn people to be able to com- To the Editor: } I read with interest your article and what Mr. De Jong had to say about Halton Cable Systems keeping Visions for the time being. My letter is not about Vision, it’s about Mr. De Jong’s comments about no price increases on basic cag for the third year in a a would hope “NOT”. I have lived in all parts of Canada and at no time have I seen cable so bad as we get here in Georgetown. As I write this letter, I can- not watch channels 5, 9, 25, 19 or 17, because of poor reception. After many calls, Halton Cable System claimed the problem was because of poor reception from the States, not because of their old outdated equip- nt. ecking with friends who are under other cable sys- tems in and around Toronto, I find they have no problems. Immunization stressed.in Halton Adequate immunization is required for entry into Halton’s daycare centres, nursery schools and elemen ath and secondary schools. pet ly-oriented world. ‘Nuff said. Times were supposed to change under the NDP. Quick, where is the outhouse. © Since elected, the NDP in Ontario has done more to screw up our education system than the once sleepwalking PCs under the equally sleepwalking Bill Davis. Tony Silipo was out of his depth as provincial education minister and Dave Cooke will need a life jacket simply to swim through the waters he has already churned up. Cooke recently (fanfare please) announced yet another Royal Commission on the education system in Ontario — the fifth since 1986 and the third since 1988) then stepped | backed to receive the expected applause. This new commission was headlined as taking the education system to the people and asking (begging) for input from parents, especially. Several days later, the NDPoopers announced the establishment of a Parents Council which will be doing, basically, the same job as the aforementioned Royal Commission. Halton North MPP Noel Duignan. crows about parents finally getting involved in the education sys- tem, under the new Parents Council, in another sec- tion of our paper, but conveniently, fails to mention the $600,000 cost. Obviously, the two groups will have to get togeth- er to compare their respective findings and present a combined report — no doubt some time around 2025 — to.the people. I thought we were broke; Bo? By the time these reports get out a lot of us will either be dead, nearly dead or looking for adult dia- per bags. And the-students, who were supposed to benefit from these costly studies, will either be mar- tied, looking for a job, or hooking on Jarvis Street in Toronto. Colin Gibson require- eat vary with the age of the child and the setting. Injectable polio vaccine was reintroduced in April, 1993. As supplies of the oral vaccine are depleted, chil- dren will be given the vac- cine by injection. The polio vaccine is combined with the. diphtheria, pertussis (whoop- ing cough) and tetanus vac- cines. This combined vaccine is known as DPTP. The oral vaccine was intro- duced in 1990 because of supply and production prob- lems with the ‘injectable vac- cine. New. methods of pro- duction have resulted in an enhanced injectable vaccine that is now available in suffi- cient quantities to meet the needs of the provincially- funded vaccine program. DPTP is given at ages 2,4 and 6 months and again when the child is between ages 4 and 6 years Protection against polio is completed with the combined diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccine (DTP given between the ages of 14 and 16 years. As adults, polio vaccine would be required only when traveling to parts of the world where polio is common. For more. information about polio and other vac- cines, call the Halton Regional health Department, 825-6060 and ask for the Communicable Diseases Program. FAX:873-3918 LTTE The People's Corner Petition planned over poor cable reception So what’s up Mr. De Jong? I would like to thank Mr. De Jong for telling us there are over 16,000 subscribers Halton Hills This Week welcomes your letters. Letters must be signed and include your full name and address. Names will be withheld on juest. Halton Hills This Week Letters Welcomed in our area. I now know how many names I can get to sign our petition to the CRTC to have this problem either fixed or have new operators brought in. Jim Connolly, Georgetown Guest column reserves the right to edit, not necessarily those of revise, or reject any letters Halton Hills This Week. on the basis of factual Send your letter to: errors, _ punctuation, The Editor spelling errors or as a Halton Hills This Week Tesult of space limitations. 339 Guelph St., Unit 9 Opinions expressed in Georgetown, ON Letters to the Editor are LIG 4B1