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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1998 WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN G. ARDEN, Josee Tillett takes a moment from THE NEW TANNER Sunday's Horticulture Society's Garden Tour. Josee has spent three years filling her garden with flowers, trinkets and fountains. -- Angela Tyler photo ee \ oe san Meet BoES=O Save arena with work bee To the Editor: I am writing in response to your editorial about the old arena doomed by cost! It seems hard to believe that the arena needs $665,000 worth of repairs when we just used it last winter. Or did they open the arena and put all our lives in jeopardy because some- one forgot to put a penalty clause in the paperwork on building our new arena? Would it not seem sensi- ble to take the $120,000 put aside for demolition and $80,000 from the Acton Ag- ricultural Society for a total of $200,000, put that towards the supplies, organize an old fashioned work bee and re- store our arena? Maybe even local contractors can come in and get us a better estimate for the repairs, Since we have so much demand for ice time that our local skaters. are going to have to go out of town to play hockey or figure skate, would it not be feasible to have an extra arena to accommodate Acton's needs, just like they Acton Proud says To the Editor: On behalf of the Acton Proud Committee I wish to thank you and your editorial staff for the assistance you provided during our lengthy fundraising campaign for the Acton Arena. A commu- Election To the Editor: I read with interest the column by Mike O'Leary. I agree with him that politi- cians today are held in very low esteem. The causes of the current "malaise" are many. One of the most evi- dent is that politicians are trying to "please most of the people." Why? Because oth- erwise they would not get elected. So we have become accustomed to politicians promising us everything we want to hear at election time and then changing their mind once they are in power. Mike mentions "there is no easy way out of this mo- rass." However, if we analyze the situation, we may come to the conclusion that the system is such that a politi- cian (or political party) has to win, or all the votes do not count. With our system, we are subject to majority swings from one party to another: what Mike calls, "fixed term nity newspaper is an invalu- able partner in such an en- terprise and we are well aware that The New Tanner played a critical role in rais- ing local awareness. Your paper has also been a primary vehicle for ac- saved the old Georgetown Memorial Arena. It is still up and running 25 years later! Or does Mr. Stover just want the arena to be torn down! It is very sad that a few people can control the des- tiny of a town's progress. Why is it that Acton always gets shafted? Maybe it's time that the Acton people did something about it. Well, what to you think Acton? Could we get enough people together for a work bee and keep our old arena? Dolores Black 'thanks' knowledging and thanking the many donors and so we wish to acknowledge and thank all of you for your work in making this fine facility possible. Rick Bonnette, Chair, Acton Proud Committee Act needs changes dictatorships," where back- benchers are not able to rep- resent their constituents. The system is rotten. This begets rotten politicians. It's about time we requested changes to the Election Act. What to do? All demo- cratic counties except Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, have adopted a mixed system, where a per- centage of MPs is elected proportionally. If we had a mixed system, every vote would count. Some outstanding politicians would be elected because of the support to their party across Ontario, thus not nec- essarily would they have to win in a riding to be elected. 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