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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company limited Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 GARNET Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor PHONE Pie in the sky Peter Walker a planning consultant has come un der harsh criticism lately by regional councillors And for good reason Hes trying to slap the region in the face by increasing his fees to per hour Its an in crease thats hard to stomach While a recognized professional at the height of his career Mr Walker isnt bargaining with the region in good faith Hes trying to increase his fees in the middle of a lengthy landfill search knowing that to find a replacement with his background knowledge would be extremely dif ficult Countless delays in the political process necessary to choose a landfill site has benefited few Our regional councillors are fed up One of the benefactors in the process is planner Peter Walker Through environmental legislation the need for public meetings and a variety of other delays the firm of Walker Wright Young Ltd has been well employed by Haiton Region His request for a 120 per hour rate is an astonishing 33 per cent increase from his current rate of per hour Canadas inflation rate is now pegged at per cent According to the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario the rate for the principal or partner of a firm is per hour A fee of per hour is a pieinthesky figure The amount isnt so surprising when the rate comes from a firm that is throwing symbolic crumbs back to the public implying let them eat cake A new era dawns There is encouraging news brought to us by Ontario Premier David Peterson July 2 he announced in a ministerial statement promises from his new Liberal government The Grits have a number of impressive reforms in mind but two government secrecy and government ad vertising are refreshing to note For too long freedom of information legislation has been ignored or has been too watereddown to be helpful Its understandable for a party thats been in power for 42 years to be reluctant about handing out sensitive or embarrassing information But its a process of government weve come to ex pect increasingly over the years Theres no better way to cure bouts of Big Brother paranoia than by coming clean with the public For the same reason Mr Petersons suggestion about bringing television cameras into the Legislature would be a welcome move A freeze on all planned government advertising cuts away at one of the major abuses of the Bill regime Huge amounts of money were spent each year telling Ontario residents how lucky they were to live in a beautiful province Little of substance was gained by these advertising blitzes except for tooting the Tory horn A more open government without smoke and mirrors advertising will benefit us all Scottish name only Dear Sir I had the obituary of my late father sent to me by one of your readers In your paper dated June 9 1985 was absolutely shocked when I read the huge headlines Retired Reverend Staunch Scots man I dont understand where you ever got the Impression about his be ing a staunch Scotsman other than Dads name being Scottish- he was a Canadian Citizen I went to Georgetown high school and lived there for six years and I have many happy mem ories of the people com munity and even the Georgetown Herald My father was a very hard worker and especially in Georgetown He was act ive in the church and community in every res pect from being on the Ambulance brigade to scouting youth groups etc etc In fact my father was one of the leading persons In the founding of St Andrews United Church In Geor getown Ireallyfeltafterlread your staff writers write- up confused Firstly my mother Is not staying In Belleville Ontario She went there because my father was buried In Belleville Secondly I realize that Dad has been gone from Georgetown for years However I do feel that when obituary the person writing the obituary could be much more accurate and may- bo a little more empath- towards the person and the family that they are writing about and one of my friends through high school in and after I read this Georgetown sent me this account in your paper I writeup shocked by the fell that I Just had to news and wondering write with regards to about my mothers add- how I felt which incorrect Yours sincerely in the paper Margaret A Wc are very saddened Box 108 Shubenacadle by my fathers passing B0N2H0 Reprimand apology owed NOTE This letter was filed with The Herald for publication Dear Sir On the night of June 18 1965 1 attended my hus bands Ball Hockey game at the Georgetown Arena Having watched him play for over two years I could tell on this particular night that the game was being played extremely rough with a great deal of body cont act and stick work My husband was in volved in two Incidents one where he was check ed Into the boards with such force the players box door was flung open and the second where he was tripped Into the boards and had to leave the game with mild con cussion Up to this point the referees turned a blind eye to all Incidents and only after someone got hurt did they seem con cerned enough to start calling penalties This being a con tact lea gue at the end or the game I approached the referees to question why they had the game to get so out of hand In the conversation was told that they the dont care what happens as long as their game sheets are made out and Ihey get paid that its the players fault if the game gets out of hand and each player Is responsible for him self Further on In the con versation I was told they werent the wearing glasses As discussion ended and I threatened them with a formal complaint about their attitude not only during the game but afterwards towards me I turned my back to leave and was then call ed an extremely uncom plimentary name At nc time during our talk did I use profanity towards the two referees or Insult them personally No only do I feel that Ihey owe me an apology but that they should be reprimanded for the way they showed lack of resp onsibility during the game Yours truly Diane Hill Note hand delivered to Mr Perkins on the above mentioned date Still I am awaiting a reply J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager Second Clin MjU fleglitrd Numb MIUED WITH THE RATE I INCREASE THINK LEAST STRIPES OH US Rich Ruggle Goodwillies Esquesing visit By RICHARD The General Assembly of Vermont passed a low In that allowed a lown to build a meeting house and support a minister at public expense The denomination was to be chosen by majority vote and unless tax payers could produce a certificate of membership In another church they were required to contribute towards the support of the majoritys congre gation A Bamct town meeting In had already unanimously chosen the Presbyterian form of worship without specifying a particular branch of That would depend largely on the availability of a minister and It was only In 1791 that the Reverend David Good was called to the charge Among those who signed the call were James Cross and John McNab mentioned in the last article had been educated In Scotland and had preach ed there and in Ireland and England before responding to an appeal for ministers to come to America He sailed from Greenock In on a voyage that lasted days and In the fail of that year he was ordained at Philadelphia One of the other passengers was Beatrice Henderson whose father was an elder at Kircaldy where Goodwillle had originally been licensed as a preacher They would marry two years later The first major split In Scottish Prcsbyterlanism had taken place In when the Associate Presbytery protested over the power of patrons to appoint ministers to congregations In 1747 the Associate Presbytery divided into the Associate Synod Burghers and the General Associate Synod Antlburghers The cause of ihls rupture was an oath that was required of burgesses in certain cities that they acknowledged the true religion preached within the realm Those who tolerated the oath were known as Burghers or Secedcrs those who rejected this link with the stale as Anil burghers In the American colonies an burgher Associate Presbytery of had been formed In 1753 and It was an offshoot of this group which ordained Mr Despite their qualms about the burgess oath the Antiburghers were willing to take advantage of the provisions which provided town support for their ministers was to remain In until his death He was Modera tor of the Synod in 1B03 a slate legislator town clerk and treasurer and postmaster In addition to his ministerial duties and political offices he also practised as a physician was a keen and corresponded about botany Davids brother Joseph 17511808 had emigrated long before In A blacksmith he made guns for the British army during the revolution When ihe Americans took him prisoner and confined him at Auburn NY he and two others escaped and fled Quebec In 1792 he visited his brother David at Bo mot and the following year bought a from him and moved there One of his sons Joseph bl79S moved to the Wei land area a daughter Elizabeth married Alexander Cross The Crosses left the states about her brother Joseph then settled In Scotch Block in 1820 Another son George also settled In It was by accident however that the Associate Presbytery of Pennsyl vania began Its word in the David had visited the area around Montreal in 1798 but no congre gations were started up then A man named who lived near Stamford wished his children to be baptised In the church he had known In the stales He wrote to Dr Alexander Bullions asking him or one of the brethren to visit on their way to the Synod that was to meet at Pittsburgh The synod misinterpreted the lett er to be an invitation to open up a mission field In Canada and appointed Bullions Thomas Beveridge and Thomas to itinerate for three months each Bullions had married Mary a daughter of the Reverend David of Barnct Although he did not himself make it to Canada at this time he would probably have encouraged his fellow preachers to visit his relatives the and the Crosses Thomas who did come was a soninlaw of the minister When and met Mr and discovered their mistaken errand they decided to continue on and visited Gall where a congregation was formed and It would be two years later when Dr Bullions finally made his trip that the congregation was formed With Stamford and Gall It formed the nucleus of the small Antiburgher presbytery that would be formed In Upper Canada The American missionaries had selected as a stopping- point on their Canadian Journey It was this deliberate choice prepared by existing ties of family and friendship that led to the building of a church which would be an land mark for almost a century THIRTY YEARS AGOGeorgetown should have natural gas In six months if council passes a bylaw granting a franchise to the Natural Gus Company Georgetown firemen gave their time to help complete community swimming pool Chief William Hyde directed the effort which committee member Dick Licata said saved hundreds of dollars Georgetown finally has a district team The young team need uniforms and a sponsor Mrs June Greig is the captain of the team Sunday school teacher Gall Wheel er cut her foot on a broken bottle in the kicking shoe race at the Glen Williams United Church picnic Six stitches closed the Joe purchased acres near which will be opened Saturday as Waterfalls Playground Mr Prucyk dammed the river creating a natural swimming pool to which he added picnic tables and a refreshment FIFTEEN YEARS AGODouglas of is George towns new recreation director Mayor and Reeve Hunter led the voting in a unanimous decision In favour of the appointment Georgetowns Hyde Is the new technical director for the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Mr Hyde is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and designed many sets for Geonte- Little Theatre The congregations of First Baptist on Main Street North and St Pauls Baptist on Mountainview Road joined and formed a new church body July 1st Rev William Calms of St Pauls will be the minister TEN YEARS AGOJullan Reed is going for the Liberal nomination In the new riding of The closing of the school prompted Mr Reed to enter the race Councillor Ric Morrow would like to see a water fountain at the Joseph Gibbons tennis courts Im really embarrassed any time I go over there to play tennis he said Georgetown may revert back to metal street signs vandals continue to damage the illuminated ones Coun cillor Joe Hurst said as much money was spent on repairing signs in tho first six months of Ihia year as was spent in all of 1974 Sieve Mitchell is In charge of major renovations for the Glen Willi ams Community Hall Steve Is a fourth year University student and former Glen Williams resident FIVE YEARS AGOJim Harrison who was the first to receive the Hockey heritage award was known as the Raiders number one fan died In Georgetown District Hospital He was 77 Terry Fox will be arriving in Hallon Hills on July 22 as part of his Marathon of Hope Former Georgetown District High School student Jeff is sidelined for the Calgary first regular season game He has a problem The Celebration Singers all fifty of them from Texas will be performing their gospel music at the Maple Avenue Baptist Church The group Is performing before delegates at the Baptist World Alliance in Toronto Well drawn Ont cabinet Queens Park By Derek But In theory at least the Peter son choices strike most of the right chords The mon with the heaviest burden do Bob Nixon the Brant County 4kA farmer whose father was ihe last Liberal premier of this province and Prison who led Liberals against the entrenched Tories three times Is an Hell be Treasurer tough Job at art rather than a science a delicate best of times but even rougher balancing of talent here with geogra- when there Is a billion in election there of loyalty in this comer with spending promises hat have to be kept trendy necessity in that one and a TripleA credit rating thatll On those grounds Premier David likely be lost Petersons first cabinet fits the criteria HOUSE LEADER nicely SUM Nixon is a fiscal conserve he and his cohorts perform meaning whatever budget he In practice of course will only be brings down In the autumn will bear known In time Sometimes strange some resemblance to financial reality things happen to people when Ihey get which Is more than could be said if their limousines their assistant and their hands their scurrying bureaucrats running to on the money spigots do their will Letter to editor Canada should reject Star Wars plan Dear Sir Only about a month leftl Prime Minister Mulroney says he will announce on August whether Canada will climb on the Star Wars bandwagon and citizen input is request ed Will many of us take time from lazy days of summer to think about It or to respond We should I Remember that this Strategic Defence Init iative will be no de fence at all It only would defend against ballistic missiles the monsters thai blast out of silos and arrive here In half an hour Our new North Warn ing System will pick up the remaining Soviet bombers and cruisetype missiles launched from ships subs and land and these will be token out In a gigantic anddestroy mission right over where else Canada caught bet ween Ihe two antagonists like Jam In a sandwich Some defence I Because only pro tects against ballistic missiles and therefore violates the 1971 ABM treaty Star Wars simp ly encourages the Sov iets lo build more non- ballistic weapons And so the arms race spirals upward again wont Increase our security it will be Incre dibly costly and we do nt want the few expens ive Jobs It will create some of them quite poss ibly at a company in this Star Wars has been denounced by the Canad ian sclent and acad emic community In large numbers and rejected by France Denmark Norway Greece Aust ralia and New Zealand Canada should reject II tool So put down the lemonade for a few min utes folks and pen a letter to Brian Mulroney Jean Chretien your MP all at House of Commons Then have a good Yours truly The Members of HAND Nora Llpp Janet Duval Cheryl Lightowlers Janet Southwarth Peggy Moulroy Lynn Jennings Just as important Nixon will also be House Leader which means hell have the touchy task of dealing with angry Tories and petulant New on a daytoday basis to try and make the Legislature in the coming sitting It wont be easy The secondtoughest post In the new administration at least In the short term is that of education minister with Ihe responsibility for steering full funding for Roman Catho lic separate schools into law and through a set of public hearings NUMBER TWO That wont be easy either and Peter son has chosen Renfrew County dy namo Sean Conway to do the Job A brilliant orator deeply partisan a politician quick and clever Conway will need all his skills to face education critic Larry Grossman the Tories best street fighter Naturally the other stars of the Liberal front bench like St Cathar ines Jim Bradley Huron Countys Murray and Jack and Windsors Bill are also In the cabinet Then there Is geography Since Rene Fontaine Is the only Liberal from northern Ontario he gets Northern Affairs and lis patronage role to use And although there are no veterans in caucus from the Ottawa area one of the Grits elected there had to serve so Bernard Grandmaitre got the call for municipal affairs LOYALTY TOO speculation was that newcomer Ken from Kingston would be a shooin as be lorgeneral Peterson loyalists like John tourism and recreation and Hugh ONeill Industry and trade from the same area also made It And then there were the trendy necessity appointments In the age of women and minorities It was guaranteed Hamiltons Lily Munro Torontos Elinor Caplan and Alvin Curling would become ministers Curling Is Ontarios first black cabi net minister Later this year the federal lives using the same LieutGov That doesnt mean they wont be good at the task only that their sex or color gave them an edge at the appointment post Scoliosis Is a lateral curviture of back About B0 per cent of cases are idiopathic The rest are caused by neuromuscular disorders eg polio or congenital factors This condition has been seen in ancient mummies and occurs in fish and other species As the body becomes twisted the ribs deform restricting motion and lung capacity If not treated it forces the heart and other organs Into more and more cramped quarters Although extreme in some coses it may or may not exert limiting strain pressure or exposure on the spinal cord Ancient Greeks used traction in an attempt lo cure this condition Various devices to limit or prevent motion give support pull the back Into alignment have all been tried Many of these also provide discomfort immo bilization and Inconvenience It was found that supporting muscles could be influenced to correct the scoliosis in a back that was still growing Problems encountered include choosing the correct muscles amount and duration and frequency of stimulation attaching the implants miniaturization of components and choosing subjects who would benefit most by this approach For some but not all recent technology has replaced fishnets body casts braces Harringtons and other devices Miniaturization has provided an Implant that can stimulate appropriate muscles for up to five years This lithium battery powered unit can be turned off and on by passing a magnet over it The user has no wires connecting through the skin to controlling or monitoring devices He is free to move as he pleases Dr chief orthopaedic surgeon Toronto Hospital for Sick Children has done much research in this area He emphasized however that treatment is selective according to Ihe severity of Ihe condition age of toe patient complicating factors eg bone and muscle sUenglh and the lack of predictability of scoliosis in its early stages Each patient may require one or more approaches to effect significant Improvement