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By Jack Carpenter Will Someone Say Thanks? Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, October 9, 1993 — Page 5 feasting Why crime succeeds and sim- Writer-broadcaster Jack And eat turkey whenever we _ ple justice fails? Carpenter (host of the popu- can . When you take your own life lar “Music Hall” radio And make meditation a week- your are imprisoned, -show), while broadcasting end vacation, And give thanks Commit murder or rape, you n Thanksgiving weekend, ‘0 the progress of man. get bail. 1985, changed the comfort- able material of the occasion and took the news headlines of the day, events actually happening dnd compared them to what people think they are doing and wrote “Will Someone Say Thanks”. Eight years later, the head- lines are almost identical: pollution, traffic accidents, murders, assaults, famine, drought, endangered species, smoking, drugs, AIDS, taxes, the cost of living and ad But will someone say thanks on Thanksgiving? For the things we do today? Are our thoughts of the future just lip service? Can someone put faith in what we say? Pause, think of our children, and their children too, Will they say thanks, for the number of blanks In the wonders the creator had here? Then why peta the things they would en; Will someone say thanks? That science allows us to live longer, And everyone partakes, if they pay, ‘The fees don’t make us better or wi And never help us to pray In thanks for the life we’ ve been granted, But only, please don’t take it away. Will someone say thanks? infinitum. i For what man has created, infinitum. Copies of the first Like water, tike trees, like broadcast were reprinted in fresh air. * ‘ Abundance of pollution, *Canada and overseas. It is waste and regret, still requested. The issues and news have not changed, nor are they resolved. Here is his thought-provoking, insightful poem. Did you say thanks this Thanksgiving? Did you kneel on the earth? Say a prayer? Hei panes: fly, drive, and or what ‘and why you are there are animals and land destroyed by our hand, Will someone give thanks? Eesti dr is now a tradi- tion, happens this time Sanat year, The first time, to say thanks for the harvest, And ae pilgrims did it with pray’ We suai on to the idea of Will someone say thanks for cars The fumes, the noise and the And the prices we paid as we added a grave Honoring drivers on drugs, speeding and drunk. Berroa will be part of our history, A special holiday when we thrilled To drive on the highways and recklessly, See how many people got killed. Will someone say thanks? That greed was our motive, Wealth before health was our creed? To be wasteful was to be accepted, And for common sense there was no need. Can someone explain why so many live off taxation? Wow! Angie just As he watches unmoving A famine of love, understand- ing, respect. For man Jayee claim to his accomplishmel Concedes, with ‘God's help, that until things go Wrong, or it’s a disaster, And then the thing is God’s ill, This pete ota did you feel the sof Feel the sehe ss sa the sun? If you didn’t say thanks, then think, Think what’s to come. . Will someone say thanks for what you have done? The legacy we leave sur- rounds us, What good is property or If in the next genefation, on anksgiving, They simply say thanks, but No Thanks! Where? started some new oe oar LOOK, S SEE, BUY. . $129 900. ALMOST * last long: Priced to sell, well maintained 3 bedroom bungalow. Finished recreation room, central air, full fenced yard, deck, in a mature quiet residential area. Walking distance to shopping, schools, etc. 10+++. For further information regarding this spotless home offered at $169,900, contact Nick Lorito* at 877-5165 LTD., REALTOR Rep. Grea lude, new roof, paler epee nicks sl ah ed basement and more. Call for personal viewir Tn the local Loblaws and Ne stores ‘She's posted all her listings on her pits oR: 8) Coca A ie Just think of the exposure her listings are getting every dayl mney: BETTER THAN Second floor conve- nience. 2 bedrooms, STOCKMAN CRESCENT BEAUTY Mature location, main floor family room, 4 bedrooms and finished upgrades. _. Asking [IMI basement. Gorgeous inside and out, large yard on quiet crescent. $137,900. _RM267-93 [i Walk to school. Asking $207,000. Call for personal showing. RM155-93