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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton H SECTION A THE February A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited K Street Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM Publisher PAUL DORSEV Editor DAVID BEATTIE Advertising Manager PHONE Second Class Mail Registered Number Governments message DIY We lad It particularly encouraging when community minded lake ft upon themselves to answer specific public needs that would otherwise go unattended because of fiscal restraint at the various levels of government Such Is the case with Hills new task force on care for the dying A well attended meeting In Glen Williams Thursday night firmly established that Interest In setting up community services for the terminally ill If organizers can recruit enough properly trained volunteers among from all walks of life who came out for the meeting we re well on our way toward providing valuable and necessary services that previously existed on very tentative basis As waa explained at the meeting the volunteer task force has already In vestlgated possible funding from the provincial government there Is simply no money available to set up some liaison between Ontario hospitals and the public agencies and Individuals interested In helping the terminally 111 The word from Dennis health ministry Is that You re on your own but anything you can do yourselves would be appreciated With that In mind three Halton Hills women set out to do something by them selves organizing the meeting that will probably end up eventually resolving the town s shortcomings In the area of palliative care Barb Stephens whose work with Helping Hands has shown her first hand the need for psychological and emotional comfort among the dying and members of their families registered nurse Karen Ferguson and community worker and former teacher Eva deserve our hanks and best wishes for the task they are undertaking Since he meeting they ve been silting through the questionnaires completed at heir meeting tabulating he expertise and facilities available for such a program and the level of public interest shown If attendance at the Glen meeting is Indicative of the interest evident In those questionnaire forms we can be optimistic that the final months weeks and days of the terminally ill among us can serve as fruitful periods of appreciation for life a blessings and positive anticipation for life aftermath The same holds rue for members of the dying person family since their loss can truly be traumatic experience unless all concerned are properly prepared for the Inevitable Comfort during a usually stressful time a goal worth pursuing Guest editorial Unhappy harvest Kenneth Greaves President of the Ontario Forest Industries Association has called on the Ontario Government to make large tracts of what he called wilderness areas available for Umber harvesting These areas of northwestern Ontario claims Mr Greaves should be harvested when they reach maturity allowing healthy growth to take place In his words this gives time for all of us to enjoy the aesthetic and recreational benefits of healthy growing forests since these trees take about to 100 years to mature then begin again What he seems to forget is that a mature fOrestlswhatmostofuswanttosee not small trees doing their thing He has criticized the narrow Interest groups who want these areas for such single purpose activities as canoeing and back pack camping Mr Greaves called the forest industry the silent majority It you can believe such a thing As far as this writer is concerned they far from silent the new road to be cut in the area for example is a political lobby by the forest industry to get further flow from what we can call a true wilderness area with only fly In trips and a few spent mine sites The OFIA president noted that the Canadian Council of Resource and Environmental Ministers has set a goal of per cent Increases In yield from the productive forests of Canada by the year yet he feels there will be a shortage of fibre If aliens I ion for forest areas should continue February its Heart Month According to Mr Greaves careful study should be made of the impact on employment as well as socioeconomic effects In the minds of many residents of Ontario us well as the rest of Canada our forests should be for the benefit of all people of our great land and not for the forest industry alone Wc realize that we do not hove nor should we claim sole to the uses of these highly sensitive areas The Industry feels that the smallest forest fire Is detrimental to the overall health of the forest yet the greatest benefit is a fire that is allowed to run its course As long as there is no danger to life or buildings the forest fire leaves only natural debris and not slash as the forest industry does The compounds left after a fire arc a natural source of mineral and Other nutrients that the forest needs and cannot get when the forest matures After a fire small animals and birds move into the growing areas and as the shrubs and small trees start to grow the grouse and then larger animals that feed off these tree buds and twigs lake over Deer and moose population would likely increase as would the bird life in Ontario yet after a forest cutting there is nothing until the new trees are planted over slash and the natural progression Is Ignored Write to your member of parliament in the provincial government if you feel that you would like to express an op It is your right and privilege lake advantage of it Bob is The Herald Ontario Outdoors columnist and a Geo rut town resident Understanding need behind heart research With February designated as Heart Month Hurt Foundation present Tour part on heart disease and stroke to Inform the public of the being to combs thli twenUeth century health HEART RESEARCH IN CANADA The leading cause of death and disability In Canada and the western world is cardiovascular disease To combat the problem in Canada a large amount of research Is being carried on in Canadian medical schools and hospitals and la funded by the Canadian Heart Foundations national and Last year cardiovascular research support from the Canadian Heart Foundations totalled more than million more than twice the total available from the Medical Research Council and all other sources In Canada All told more than grantees are presently receiving funding through grant awards or the personnel support programme for the support and training of clinical Investigators and biomedical scientists approximately support programme In a research programme of this magnitude is apparent tba a wide varle of Is being supported Studies are being financed in the area of heart attack stroke cardiac surgery hardening of the arteries and blood clots Research Is being performed to improve nutrition to heart muscle study the action mechanisms of drugs and study methods of preventing and treating Irregular heart rhythms facilitated by the development of safe methods of evaluating heart muscle function and cardiac the stroke field a considerable amount of basic work on the production of clots and their consequences has been carried out in Canada This fundamental work supported to a large extent by the Foundation led to the development of drugs which prevent the formation of platelet thrombi and the effects of two or these socalled antiplatelet drugs aspirin and were In highly successful trial carried out in Canada In cardiac surgery investigations are under way to maintain heart muscle in optimal condition while the heart is stopped so that maximal recovery can occur as quickly as possible once the heart la restarted Also there are studies involving the antiplatelet drugs In trying to prevent subsequent obstruction in the blood vessel which is used to bypass the blocked coronary vessel A number of centres arc also experimenting to improve the capability of mammalian Including human tissue In the composition of replacement valves to withstand the stress and strain of constant heart action In he field of atherosclerosis research is being conducted Into the mechanisms which contribute to blood vessel damage and atherosclerosis in humans In addition detailed studies are being carried out in a number of centres to investigate the importance of various classes of lipoproteins in the development of atherosclerosis Finally in the area of thrombosis arterial clots are composed mainly of platelets and there is good experimental evidence and some clinical evidence that they con be prevented by drugs which inhibit the stickiness of these platelets Biochemical studies studies in experimental animals and various clinical studies arc underway evaluating a variety of antiplatelet drugs determine their potential in the prevention of platelet thrombi which occur in coronary arteries in arteries which supply the brain and on the surface of artificial valves BUT I To Halton History From our files THIRTY YEARS youths who escaped from Brampton Training School Monday were nearWingham After making their escape the three hitchhiked to Norval wherelheystolcacarbelongingtotownshlp road superintendent William abandon ing it at There was an Interruption in hydro power In the John Street district for several hours Saturday evening when a large transformer which la located on the hydro pole in front of Harry residence burned out The local hydro crew worked until the early hours of Sunday morning repairing the damaged transformer The arena was plunged Into darkness but the Saturday night dance continued when the Modem Aires secured lamps lo light the way for the dancers Georgetown Anglers and Hunters Association is planning to purchase land and erect a clubhouse The directors were empowered to secure the property at the annual meeting of the association Thursday at the Oddfellows Hail and it is expected that the deal will be closed shortly TWENTY YEARS AGOVlewers In the district were pleasantly surprised Sunday night when a well known local face appeared on TV Pot Patterson of I therefereclnchiefoftheOHA appeared as guest on the sports show Ho was interviewed by Johnny Esaw on his Sunday night sports show A device used to test the speeds of supersonic aircraft is the latest contrivance to be employed by Georgetown Police in their perpetual campaign to reduce speeding locally The unit a compact radar scanner can be operated from the cruiser or and can be read for operation or dismantled in less than three minutes Unlike the old speed traps it can t be seen Heros welcome for hostages belittles other prisoners By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald If I may permitted a personal observation here I am absolutely delighted that the American hostage crisis is over Soon hopefully I II be able turn on the television set again without seeing a microphone thrust into the tearful face of a hostage relative Without taking anything away from drama of hostage lnud it really did gel out of hand d if Between resolutions of ions in Parliament and CBC radio shows trying to find another relative to interview wc seemed as fully as the Americans were with the hostage drama Even allowing for the fact that we have a particularly close relationship with the United Stoles and even allowing for the fact that we became directly involved with the Great Canadian Coper It still seems that relatively speaking we were overpowered by the drama around Parliament which has its own preoccupations all the concentration seen to centre on the I am certainly taking nothing away from hostage or the efforts that went Into their release it really was a very drama from beginning to end but think it fair to say that somewhere along the way a sleazy kidnapping got turned Into a great international crusade It became an incrcd emotional binge Its Interesting to consider what our reaction might have been had the hostages been British German Italian or Japanese We would probably have carefully followed the negotiations but I doubt whether we could hove maintained this emotional high for days But then the British Germans Italians and Japanese would probably not have been hold dally flag ceremonies tying ribbons around tree lighting Christmas trees and holding all night candle services Nor would television stations In those countries be likely to put a microphone in the face of a twojear old yes it actually happened with Is question Do you think you re will be home soon common inquiry was What will you say to your husband when he finally comes home Or How did you feel when you heard the hostages had been releas HEROES Do you consider your sort a hero was a question put to parents by a Canadian broadcaster An Amen can commentator had already answer this They are all heroes he declared By the time television had found their way In the living of hostage relatives so we could watch parents watching their sons on their own TV screen there really man emotions left with the possible exception of embarrassment There is no question that it has been a ordeal for the hostages and all be interested in hearing how they managed to cope with their captivity But it will probab ly go far beyond that The outpouring The momentum cannot be stopped now And 1 t want to distract from it but when you consider how thousands of political prisoners are being tortured around the world right now with scarcely a thought from us its really quite remarkable how this particulir incident has hypnotize us Fishers recreation report uses common knowledge Queens Derek Nelson Queen Bureau of The Herald When you write a 140page report for the provincial government and want to hide the fact that you have nothing to say beyond the blindlngly obvious what a the solution Why throw In a couple of outrage ous lines about hockey of course That appears to be what ex Mr ex Hockey Canada chairman and current Ottawa political commentator Fisher did In his report on recreation sport and fitness in Ontario Fisher has been loo long in the medio business IS years not to know exactly what he was doing when he referred to hockey as a barbaric game Or to basketball volleyball and soccer as worthier team games than hockey Those kinds of remarks suggest Fisher was fishing for a headline to cover tip a lack of substance in the rest of the rambling wordy document he presented to Culture and Recreation Minister Reuben POINT In an introduction to the r docs spell out what he fundamental recommendation that the ministry must get out in the field and hear from peopieat the local level The ministry must watch and listen and respond to what these people in their various locales need and want he said As if any government agency docsn t In theory do that now The difficulty comes in developing the proper bureaucratic techniques to balance off a against lily of time and cash and skills and to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary While Fisher docs make some recommendations for streamlining the system so that decisions can be better made the changes are the kind that any competent In ministry review would also have arrived at In any case Fisher himself care fully points out why his report in fact cannot soy very much about sport fitness and recreation In Ontario MY CHOICE Participation in those areas Is almost entirely a consequence of thousands and likely millions of people doing simply that which amuses intrigues or pleases them Unlike so much else in life today leisuretime activities ore still decided by people themselves Perhaps more Important except for Win grants most of the money spent by governments on leisure is it counts at the local level where Fisher wants ministry emphasis to focus Communities get in recreational and cultural fields what they are willing to pay through taxes pay through their hands direct ly he noted RUN OR SKATE A community through its local council can and does decide whether and how much property shall be allocated to hockey arenas or alums or libraries reading is recrea tion to some In an admiring tone Fisher adds that an almost staggering number of residents across Ontario are prepared to spend liberally from their own discretionary Income for recreation sports and fitness The key here is discretionary income People choose to spend or not to spend And thats why tickets which one t have to buy arc the perfect source for provincial recreational funds Lets not involve provincial government further when we don have to well wishers from all over the province packed the Legion Hall to witness the event Object of all the attention and recipient of congratulatory messages and personal good wishes was the new Georgetown Junior Chamber of Commerce which officially became a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at the Friday ceremony Indicative of the business recession is the fact that Georgetown fomillcs are receiving relief from the town a much different picture than any of the post twenty years when only rarely was the town treasury tapped to help families where the bread winner was unemployed Alexander Best HP for announced to day that he has been informed by the Hon David J Walker Minister of Public Works that it is expected a contract for the construction of a federal building in Acton will be awarded during the 196162 fiscal year The structure will cost about The new building will accommodate the local offices of the Post Office and the National Revenue Departments which need more space to meet growing requirements Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital now has on administrator Mr H Graham of Cornwall was week by joint decision of the Board of Directors assisted by the Medical Associates TEN YEARS AGO A proposed complex on Princess Anne Drive which would include a rest home senior citizens apartments for children with learning disabilities and possibly a medical office centre was outlined at a council committee meeting Monday A Mississauga man Alan is interested in acquiring an eight acre parcel of townowned land on which he submitted a purchase offer in November Mr said his plan would blend architecture to neighboring residences Reeve Tom Hill of proved he could act quickly and Independently when he okayed the use of a mobile home in the township Monday despite the fact that such a home contravenes the bylaw and Mrs Bob whose IS Sidcroad home was burnt out recently permission to put the mobile home on the lot for three months or until the house Is rebuilt Following a request by a delegation of Georgetown ratepayers the RC board decided last week it will again ask the Ontario Department of Education to provide funds for an addition to Holy Cross School Lost year the board submitted plans for a gymnasium and library addition to Holy Cross at the same time as it submitted plans for the new St Francis of Assisl school in Georgetown Concernedthattbenaturaibeautyof Hungry Hollow will disappear a Lewis Street man Is doing something about it Warren Wright in a letter to town council says he has prepared a film The Many Faces of Hungry Hollow which he will be happy to show to anyone Mr Wright says garbage is being dumped trees mutilated and anything that moves or files is being shot ONE YEAR at least two industries currently seeking appropriate plant locations in the Hills area there appears to be a that the Georgetown sewage treatment plant can again be expanded to accommodate new growth according to Mayor Pete That possibility which tends to support claims that expansion limitations imposed on the Mountain view Road South treatment plant by the province are unnecessary was acknowledged by the mayor lost Wednesday in a speech to the Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association Halton regional workers con strike as early as Feb 19 unless agreement can be reached between Region and members of Local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers A conciliation report received Saturday from the ministry of labor states that a settlement cannot be reached at this time said regions works director Dennis Camm The town newest group of southeast Asian refugees this time a family of nine Laotians Is expected lo arrive In Georgetown Monday accord to Mike Hams spokesman for Project Ark a Glen Williams based sponsor group report hi Poets Corner WAY BACK IN THE tin of horses feet old main street 50 years ago Hells on bob sleigh ring While driving through the snow Homes were nil well groomed In grey black and Some would prance some would dame All for the love of man Nigh tap collars rings of white Brass buckles shining Most horses had a glossy hide It sure was a thrilling ride Horse men hose days they took pains For today we made no gains Why dldn they let hem go Faithful pets we did know If the oil wells run dry Is here a horse I can buy The price of gas and horses soar The day may come here Is no more there Is no way to ride We may walk a dreary stride Albert Brooks I