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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager Editor PHONE 877 BOB LIGHTBOURN Advertising Manager Second Ma I Number Page 4 SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday July A step backward Progression or regression The provincial nment s move to clamp down on the number of optional programs for students has shown dramatic results in Georgetown It s too early to the long term effects of the governments decision What is apparent is that our educational system has taken a step backward a more conservative retreat to times when students had little choice in picking their curriculum The school reform program commonly known as OSIS requires grade nine students and those in upper grades to take 16 compulsory courses an increase m seven courses The program works well in providing students with direction in what administrators feel are must courses for a well rounded education But the system breaks down when considering the individual needs of some students who will never benefit from an abundance of compulsory subjects Technical courses at Georgetown District High School are down per cent This means that students who might otherwise have been interested in technical courses have been lead away into other fields of study that they might find less appealing This will undoubtedly show in their study habits and retention of course material Furthermore the nature of the workforce is changing and skilled workers are required in a variety of trades An exposure to some of these skills at the high school level would encourage students to pursue careers in trades where jobs are in demand Its a tradeoff in legislating these new reforms We 11 be teaching students more of what we think they should know without consulting the student to the same extent as was once done Will it stifle their creativity or their interest in high school Will it improve their chances finding a job once theyre out of work Well have to wait and see Id like to renegottate my mortgage Changes are long overdue Dental dilemma Editors notebook ByDAVEROWNEY The Herald office is a big quiet place to work when you re all by yourself on a Monday night had gone off to enjoy one of her rare nights off from council meetings and made it to an exercise class Robin flew the coop to compile Blue Jay baseball statistics no doubt Dan made plans for settling into his new apartment I was through my work too except for a variety of lettsrs to the editor about toothaches in town Mulling over the comments it seemed important to get at the root of the problem A letter last week by on Page of The Herald outlined her problems in finding an available dentist She was dismayed in locating someone to look at a tooth ache We received two letters critical of her letter One from an anonymous dentist the other from the owner of the Georgetown answering service used by the dentists Everyone so far has made acme valid points but there have been some words lost here somewhere in translation To separate the wheat from the chaff I decided lo do some calling and find out how tough it would be to have a tooth looked at These are my findings from phone calls at m Monday Distress Centre The anonymous lady yes madam all Contact Centre people are anonymous thought it rather bizarre hat I was calling but after some digging and shufDing of papers she found me a dental in Port Credit and a dentist for the elderly No wait seconds passed but finally she produced some phone numbers of Georgetown dentists In addition there was a number for the Georgetown District Memorial Hospl tal and a name of an emergency service In called So far so good The next call was to George town District Memorial Hospital A pleasant head nurse Mrs Carol I spoke to me and said if I came into the hospital with a toothache I would be seen by the doctor on coll and either given some tablets or a prescription and referred to a dentist Denial problems are usually re ferred to a hour emergency service in Mtssissauga but in the case of Wellstead someone from the hospital t aware of the number she said Usually toothaches can be looked at the next day but It was unfortunate for Mrs it was a ong weekend and she would have had to wait an additional day she said All told the doctors at the hospital are very good looking at dental problems although they are trained for medical emergencies she said On to the next call Georgetown Answering Service The young lady at the other end of the line was quite helpful with my dll Lisa Monchamp was actually the one who was working the day when the Wei Is leads had their problems She said the dentists using the service help cover for each other quite well in the off hours She remembers lost weekend quite a few of the dentists being away The majority of the dentists using the service request that the answering service phone them at home rather than the patient doing so directly she said Then the dentists will phone them back she said The dentist in question did get back to the Lisa said but it t before she went off her shift therefore she doesn know how long it look How do you sum it all up First like rural roads In Hills you have lo realize that small communities can afford the same type of luxuries we see in big cities Second its probably not very lime or costeffective for dentists to provide 24hour service to customers There Just enough of them to go around or enough of us Third don give up on George town dentists In an emergency call them first But if through get car gassed up and be ready for a trip to MIsslssauga or I don t get a toothache on a long weekend BySTtWARTMacIEOD Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Where things are likely to change most under John Turner leadership is in the administration of assorted government departments And ens knows the change is long overdue Theorganizationand morepartic the reorganization of govern departments has always been heavily by prime minis whims and in this respect Prime Minister has been decidedly whimsical during his slew If he were to learn the number of person years devoted exclusively to the reorganization of Ottawa bounti bureaucracy over the last years I suspect we all be thrown into a state of shock Then are some senior public servants strange as it might seem whose careers been almost exclusively devoted to res true luring departments And more than any other prime minister these changes Seldom a year went by without the prime minister deciding on some administrative reorganization whether it was the simple transfer of an insignificant unit from one depart men to another or creation of some super ministry or economic czar to centralize the decision mak process NOT EASY Trudeau at times deemed almost obsessed with establishing lures which he hoped would make the public service more efficient He talked frequently about the need for a central authority to coordinate events and various experiments ranged from the formation of inform a tion Canada back in 1968 to the establishment of an economic super ministry a few years ago He has always been concerned about the duplication in various departments says a Trudeau aide and he was determined to establish some effective system to end it But as we all know that cosier said than Just ask some of the public servants who have been issoclated wjfh encouraging industrial ment in Canada in areas of slow growth Over the last 15 years many have been shunted around through various nations in the departments of Industry then Indus try Trade and Commerce also Fores try and Development then Regional Economic on now Regional and Industrial Expansion not mention the Mm of State for Economic Development and Mm of State for Small Business And there are many public ants who will argue that despite these massive overhauls remarkably little has changed except that the decision making process has become more cumbersome The cabinet also grew larger from in 1968 to the present NO TAMPERING And as Turner discovered the moment he came to grips with his long held determination to reduce the slit of cabinet it is easier said than done Once a bureaucracy is in place it isn teas ly dismantled and apart from everything else there are those considerations of cabinet appoint If the new prime minister had his druthers he would surround him self with no more than 20 ministers but as an immediate goal this is obviously impractical It doubtful whether he ever again see such a small cabinet But there is no doubt about Turners inflexible commitment a more efficient bureaucracy He is feci and rather strongly too that many of he administrative changes Involving Industrial develop ment were I tile more than bureaucrat windowdressing which not confused public servants but also industry and he provinces He has also fell thai the overlapping of jurist id ions has encouraged unnecessary power jockeying among ministers He has a couple of changes In mind says a close Turner associate but they will be in the form of obvious streamlining not the creation of any new apparatus But after that you won t sec any of this year tampering Among the several things that make the new prime minister shake his head in bewilderment Is the fact that some Canadian companies hire Ottawa representatives merely to advise them where to apply for grants and other assistance And that he has said is ludicrous THIRTY AGO Completion a new therm division of Smith and Stone I td Georgetown announced recently by Col WE president Simultaneously he also announced that the plastic cs or an associated company Du plate Canada Ltd Oshowa have been to Georgetown Council gave final reading to a bylaw on Monday night authorizing the issuing of in debentures for the Georgetown Hydro Electric Commiss ion to be used for conversion and other purposes Probably Glen Williams oldest resident Mrs William celeb- her birthday on Monday July 12th at the home of her daughter Mrs George Foster Mrs is enjoying comparatively good health and Is up and about her home each day TEEN AGOGeorgelown District High School has six Ontario scholars this year For obtaining over 80 per cent in their final year they each get a government award of They were Douglas Stephens Mary They were Douglas Stephens Mary Pedverse James Henderson Ronald Dub ten Linda Carey and Richard Fogal Students in Halton County who are convicted of drug offences In future will face automatic prison terms county judge Alan Sprague said in a stern warning from Ihe bench this week When the Moore Pork plaza on Man Street north is completed it will have units and parking space for tars a spokesman for the builder Construction told the Herald TEN AGODr Frank Phil brook Progressive Conservative Terry O Connor with a lead of close to votes With two polls yet lo report last thef 479votos to the PCs 21 A number of Georgetown residents around Boulevard watched a sight that may have been a little bit of election hijinks when a man rode around on top of a ear streaking YEARS No one seems know when or where debris from the USA space laboratory Sky lab will hit as it plunges back to earth after three years in space some predictions call for it to land sometime last night but officials are taking no chances they dust off emergency plans across the on in case pieces of Sky lab crash to earth within Letter to the editor Canada Day spirit Dear Sir Glen Williams Town Hall Canada Day Com you did It again You and the many groups organizations officials volunteers and donors put together an other terrific day of en iertalnmcnt fun and pleasure for the dents of the Glen Georgetown the rest of Halton Hills and else where to celebrate Can Day 1984 Through your efforts Canada Day in the Glen reflects the rur Ontario spirit that Is so much alive here and causes residents such as myself lo be very thankful to be living In one of the few remaining unspoiled villages In Southern Ontario Thanks for a great Canada Day Tony Taylor Art display planned you They re planning an art display of work by local citizens and regional staff In the council chambers committee rooms main foyer Ihe regional chairman reception area and even the grounds in front of the green regional building In I want to encourage staff Let try it on a one time basis Let see what talent we ve got here Milton Bill Johnson said last week Francis Barclay Georgetowns second Reeve Matthew married Mary Fleming and a son John was born In and another son Francis in 1822 When Francis was ten his father emigrated with the young family to Canada taking up farming in town In the year of Mackenzie rebel Ion 1837 the Barclays moved to a farm In Trafalgar township When he was about 17 Francis decided the farming life did not suit him and tried his hand at a number of occupations including leaching In the EDITOR NOTE Noted local Rev Rick will be writing a series of articles for The Herald each week about the history I la I tun Hills and the people who have helped the town develop This Is the first article of series By REV RICK Herald Special FRANCIS BARCLAY GEORGETOWN SECOND The opening years of the century were marked by Napoleon attempt to dominate the continent of Europe lo the exclusion of Great When he placed his brother Joseph on the throne of Spain the Peter A MncDougald Spanish revolted 1808 and Bntaln in Georgetown sent an army In response to a Spanish renin fur hcln Talbot settlement in western Ontario British iroops were to remain on Gaelic The the continent until defeat of I Napoleon at Waterloo seven years returned to and later The peninsular campaign v Barclay carried on by himself carried on a grain buying business at Oakville where Francis older brother John was also a major groin merchant When the Grand Trunk Railway was constructed from Toronto to Sarnia In 1850s the wagon journey to the lake ports was no longer necessary and the north south com was diverted to an east west axis Francis thelargest grain buyers in Georgetown The days of summer are perfect for horsing around This shot was taken In near a field by Creek Herald photo Davldand Goliath affair which the hearts of Britons It was ted by a Scotsman Sir John Moore and In the ranks was another Scotsman a veteran artilleryman named Matthew Barclay 1B67J who had joined the colours at Woolwich at the age of 18 Barclay also fought at the bombardment of Copenhagen when the British took possession of the Don fleet Barclay s health was poor and he returned to his native Paisley where he manufactured shawls The Paisley corks or masterweavers were Barclay was married first to of the educated middleclass that Isabella McKirllo 1863 then to was coming Into being noted for Helen McKirllo 18391888 When combining piety with Independent Edith Street was opened Barclay was thinking Mo I Ihe Barclay seems to He have shared this outlook served as second reeve of Georgetown and later as reeve of Milton He was a decided Liberal supporter and a In he took two young clerks into partnership James McLean and William McLeod He remained as a silent partner and In sold out his Interest in Georgetown and moved to Toronto Here he ran a wholesale boot and shoe business In the Iron Block on Front Street One wonders if some of his goods were manufactured at the Day foot tannery In Georgetown The venture was short lived and he suffered disastrous losses in a fire the following year He relumed In Georgetown and and in 1881 became registrar of Halton County He died on 5 March 1889 A sketch in ihe Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography described Francis Barclay as of a genial and kindly disposition but uncompromls with all shams and false pre tences At a sponsored by the Spinal Cord Society on June 16 1984 hope and optimism seemed be the order of the day The best form of care for paralytics is work toward a cure and that is Ihe ultimate goal of this society Today with medical advancement enabling doctors to manage secondary infection a patient who survives the first car following an injury can achieve near normal lire expectancy But there are over 600 victims in North America and their average is This means they must face 30 lo years of life as members of a chronic spinal cord injury population Medical research is attacking the problem from several fronts Early aggressive treatment the restoration of bladder function regeneration of nerve cells and computer controlled walking were topics of discussion for Traditional methods of treatment for an injury severe enough to cause complete paralysis results In improvement Pinching or shock to the spinal cord at the outset of the injury often causes ongoing damage for several hours explained that with the aid of a computer and scanning they can detect where and what type of injury is involved Such examination rccas a complete injury no mess ages received beyond the site of injury or Incomplete partial feeling and or flicker of movement Animal research shows a potass after Injury Cortisone steroids improve functioning if applied lately In 1967 a spinal cord cooling saddle was developed The patient Is opened at the injury and unit fits around the spinal cord cooling to three degrees reducing swelling and pre- further internal bleeding Experiment conducted on patients with similar incomplete injuries proved that those treated with steroids and early cooling were later able to run Seventeen per cent of others with complete Injuries could walk but those without any specialized program of aid remained paralyzed For chronic patients there are several surgical techniques such as decompression taking pressure off the spine spinal cord cyst drainage plastic surgery to prevent bed sores and bioengincenng computerized walking POETS CORNER SPRINGTIME IN THE I- Every kind of wild flowers wMJe Jane said to Jim It must be yellow red and blue buds are on he limb It was a beautiful feeling only spring Then they walked around a pond noisy time knew frogs within We saw the little pussy willow It was The air wa son and gentle sunshine budding too bright and clear And saw a black squirrel Jumping In Little birds did whistle then they saw a the trees deer It was adventure in nature like a There were wild do wen growing hero swarm of bees and there It Is a great sensation to hear the wild Each one of them they picked their birds sing hare Only once a year we are thrilled with Wild woods were wonderful the leaves the wonders of the spring