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Home Newspaper of Helton Hills Iflt A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario PETER BROUWER Publisher BILL JOHNSTON Editor PHONE Second Clin Mall Weve got to separate plant and the people Following an outburst on this page last week in connection with the education of our children weve had visits from several parents and a few teachers Some have said we dont know what were talking about Others have said something like keep the good work One teacher of six years made an interesting observation He actually complained of a lack of supervision in terms of his own efforts In all his six years hes had one visit to his classroom and a quick one at that from a superior checking up on his teaching methods Compare that said the teacher to how our vanous governmental bodies inspect things like buildings or road work or sewer construction All of which raises an excellent point and brines us to the kind of meetings school boards of trustees hold Weve covered probably over a hundred meetings of school boards in a number of Ontario communities Hie boards have always had one thing in common Trustees spend 95 per cent of their time talking about teachers salaries improvements to the schools eavestrougns wax for the floors new fire escapes a computer in the administration office a new paint job for the kindergarten room and so on Weve attended a meeting where the quality of education was the subject for trustees to consider All this sounds negative We dont mean- to be negative and we realize full well the difficulties facing our trustees on our boards of education The problem lies in the way our whole system is set up We keep mixing our soft services and hard services in one bag right from the federal level of government down through the provincial one to the regional and local level And we keep putting people who are good at hard service management in charge of the people kind There lies the problem and a drastic and basic change in this respect is required Government should be simply divided into two categories one dealing with people the soft services and the other dealing with buildings and roads and sewage disposal plants and things Youd be amazed what it would do to the existing government red tape we all face Bring this simple proposition to and see how many now separate departments could work together as a unit and how manpower could be utilized to the maximum benefit and how for example our soft services people would have ample time on their hands to really get into the business of what goes on in the classroom We are convinced our teachers would welcome it our parents would and our students would come out the winners The hard services board could look after the education plant as some present day administrators lovingly refer to it If enough of us start pushing for this kind of government setup well see it come about In our lifetime If we push hard enough perhaps even before our youngest child has school graduated from high Think about it Public relations or just a party A wine and cheese party A five- andone halfday unscheduled holiday for Christmas Oh to be a municipal employee of Halton Hills To the holidays we dont object all that strongly With Christmas right in the middle of the week many offices and businesses have decided to close Tuesday and open again the next Monday We do however find the reason that Mayor Tom Hill originally presented for giving the towns office employees an extra day off very objectionable Halton Hills employees our Mayor tells us worked on Remem brance Day They were the only ones In Halton to do so Thats far from an adequate reason for giving our employees an extra day off whether it was actually Remembrance Day or a Friday during the Christmas Thats what you call setting a precedent Because Halton did it does not mean Halton Hills must follow suit After all how many times has Halton Region followed Halton Hills example Its nice to see municipal i urn i minium inn in nun milium Wanted An Attractive Attendant employees trying to work a little harder than their counterparts in another municipality However this bit about a wine and cheese party has really got our backs up Council has approved a public party on the afternoon of Eve for themselves and the towns office workers The purpose were told is to increase the public relations between the staff administrators and council Or at least thats how they justify paying for it from the Public Relations Budget Theres reportedly over in the fund but certainly not all of that is going to be spent on the Christmas Eve Party What really gripes us is that when a reporter covering a town council meeting asked for a copy of a new town bylaw which will affect each and every one of us in Hills he was told that to provide the Press with copies of these public bylaws would be too costly Weighing a hunk of cheese or a glass of wine against a bit of real relations we find it very hard to lance the two I wish I was an Attractive At tendant Not that I dont like being a six foot oneinch collection of sheer muscle and might Its just that there seems to be a heckuva lot more money in being an Attractive At tendant these days Have you noticed those longs lists of ads in the Help Wanted sections of the Toronto papers all wanting Attractive Attendants By actual count there were 25 of them in the Toronto Sun one day last week Attractive Attendants wanted for west end health spa Phone Well we all know what its all about and if you dont youre too young to know Go ask your mother But just for fun I put myself in the position of being an extremely Attractive At just so I could feel as though I had a chance to take advantage of all the opportunities in store After studying all the offers I decided that my choice of future employers would come down to Attendants Attractive to work in our luxurious surroundings and join Torontos most beautiful group of attendants Being one of the most beautiful Attractive Attendants around I would certainly require a place of employment where I could mingle with my peers Attractive Attendants required for Torontos finest and most progressive studio Call Now that sounds interesting Progressive A refreshing opportunity to be among the forefront of my trade in bringing about progressive changes in methods and innovations Mind you it not hard to see that there could be a shoddy side to the trade I mean what kind of place would tell an unknowing Attractive Attendant to apply at the lower level of a certain address between the hours of and 12 a m on Wed nesday only Then there the place that ad vertised for Attractive Attendants BILL JOHNSTON for new gentlemans Health Club What kind of person might this new gentleman be An encyclopedia salesman who struck it rich last week Or perhaps a butler whos looking for a night out However equality has hit the Attractive Attendant trade One health club owner who was either extremely realistic or just desperate dropped all qualifications He just wanted Attendants for health studio Call Good location too right on Gerrard A nice way for mother to up a few extra dollars for My eye caught this one Was it a mistake or just a new way of asking the same thing Right in the midst of all these ads for AAs was an ad for Experienced spray buff operation with a clean driving record Actually the Help Wanted section can provide some interesting reading when you really get into it I mean look at the golden opportunities for a young person willing to tackle anything The TTC is looking for drivers Free uniforms good pay pension plan starting rate of 01 per hour andhere comes the clincherfree transportation No kidding The ItalianCanadian Benevolent Corporation is looking for a site representative co If thats not your style how about assistant to the PDI foreman re new car checkup The Skyline Hotel wants a doorman or doorwoman The Four Seasons Hotel wants a busboy or busgirl York Mills Pontiac is looking for a bodyman or bodywoman A general insurance company is looking for a Boy Friday or a Girl Friday Hearn Pontiac wants a Shop foreman or a Shop Forewoman Yes Classifieds ran be fun particularly if there is a mistake One of the worst bloopers Ive seen for quite a while had to do with a fellow who was building greenhouses He MncbM to an on jan mod roup of llES Efkriea lor tor brand north auto Airport Apr I ratltWl tract hi Mir r latum rlMttli Anton muted ft ran short of glass windows so decided to run a small classified Un fortunately finally read Wanted Widows for hut beds Call If the Georgetown will forgive me I will tell another one Having been invited to speak to their meeting last week I decided to pull some cuppings out of my blooper file So theyve already heard this one Two classifieds were placed together one right beneath the other one in an American paper The top ad read If you drink thats your business If you want to stop thats Contact Alcoholics Anonymous Bight beneath it drink thats our business Ciiy Bar Main tin mm bin it ee j nun nil tun i eul ait eiiui Farmers taking a stand thank goodness We were encouraged to see at last Wednesdays annual meeting of the Halton Federation of Agriculture that farmers in this area have finally begun to pull together to protect their own interests Of course a little dissension was sparked when the operator of a beef operation didnt quite see eye to eye with a crop far mer but then when have cattlemen and farmers ever been able to agree The important factor to come from the evening was fanners have become organized largely within the past year to the extent they are now a recognized very formalized faction here in Halton This is particularly important during these days when an official plan for the region of Halton is still lying on the planners drawing board Farmers it seems have never been able to see that they have to work just as hard to get and then protect something in the paper world of government as they do on a day to day basis to get something from the land Perhaps trusting a little too naively in their elected represen tatives they allowed themselves to fall victims to any whim or fancy of something they really didnt un derstand local government Its a bit ridiculous but compare that attitude with the thinking of that other group of men aiming to make money from the land developers When it came down to protecting ihelr interests no holds were barred They spent time money and a lot of effort to get what they wanted And they usually got it It was about time farmers started looking out for themselves because very directly by looking out for themselves they are looking out for us Talk of any sort of food shortage may not really strike home to those of us living smugly here in Halton Hills But consider this fact brought out quite frequently these days by agriculturalists and conservationists alike Every hour 26 more acres of farmland are taken out of production permanently Its about time someone put a stop to this indiscriminate loss of prime farmland And who better to do ft than those who now own that land But farmers they win tell you have to live too How do you en courage them to stay in it when costs from fertilizer to feed are skyrocketing yet farm incomes are not Farm income stabilization programs protection of farming as a major industry and an expanded ARDA program are ideas worth looking at particularly that last one was originally set up by the federal government to encourage farming fii remote areas of the country Well if promotion of agriculture was the prerequisite then lets apply It here Because as the Niagara fruit belt and other specialized soil areas dwindle under developments constant headon rush towards who what agriculture as big business must be promoted more now than ever before It would Indeed make more sense to pour the federal money Into supporting farming where farming is both needed and productive than into remote areas of eastern Ontario where it 1b now going to subsidize a farmer whos trying to turn out a minimal crop from a couple of inches of top soil The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has suggested a negative capital gains tax which they claim would be an extremely simple method of ensuring that farmers do not come out on the losing end of a zoning change which would decrease the per acre value of their property We question that like an easy way for some fanners to pack it in without worrying about whether or not they have a few bucks left to retire in town with The one point on which we totally agree with the and the HFA la that Class and defined under the Canada Land Inventory must be reserved for food production Any changes of use for those lands must require very close public scrutiny That point must be impressed upon public planners here in as they devise a plan of development for this regions growth From the reports weve heard the farmers are doing It and for that we congratulate them and encourage them to carry on