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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario GARNET COWSILL Publisher and General Manager DAVE Editor PHONE 2201 J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday December IB A winning mix The Georgetown Hockey Heritage people have done it again Last week it was announced that Walter had been chosen as this year s recipient Since Hockey Heritage began the organizers have been able to come up with a winning mix of recipients A variety of different personalities and even one entire group the Legion have been honored Last year it was Bob Goldham a man largely forgotten by his home town after all these years His choice was timely and his banquet brought us some cherished stars from year But it s also the behind motivators that play such a strong role in promoting hockey for youngsters Walter is a minor and amateur hockey sponsor with a kind heart and a keen love of hockey He was featured in The Herald last January when our newspaper wanted an example of an outstanding hockey sponsor for minor hockey week Be there in March when Walter receives his com memorative picture King Clancy and our local hockey people know lots of stories about him No secrets please A secret Who knows a secret Have you ever looked across the room and seen people staring at you and whispering Often a person will get suspicious then become resentful because they re not in on the little secret Secret meetings can have the same effect Last week Sheldon argued that budget meetings should not be held behind closed doors We agree with her Of course some government business has to be held behind closed doors where press and public are not allowed We respect this and realize there are some delicate matters Involving personnel and tenders that are better handled among only council and town staff But closed meetings create suspicions No matter how well the meetings are actually handled by turning the public away suspicion is created that the group has something to hide Perhaps it s a wrong assumption but it s being made by people nevertheless The truth can be painful sometimes but it s always a much better safer route to take Let the public know their money is being well spent by allowing them the chance to see how the decision making process works Encourage war toys boycott Clergy Comment Andrew and BalHnafad United CfaDrchea Peace on earth and Good Will to All People Never has this universal message of hope been more desperate ly needed than In the terrorist ridden decade of tbe 1960s The hopefulness of this message lies In part precisely because of its universality It is genuinely non- sectarian nonracial good new for everybody In recent days we have become vividly aware that the good news has no age barrier either Old and young can participate In peace and good will too I notice however that young people have ambivalent feelings about good news of peace The Wartoys Boycott to which many of us are committed has hit some children bard More than once this season I have heard parents and children arguing In the toy department over the purchase of some new sophisticated toy weapon ry the Cobra TankSmasher for example or the Deluxe GoBot Gun It appears that our children do not perceive any contradiction between the spirit of Christmas and war toys under the Christmas tree To be sure they would be appalled If Santa were hijacked by Middle East terror ists but they seem quite willing to expect Santa to peacefully deliver under the tree the Combat Set used by the A Team I observe that children do nut readily ask the quest on Daddy what does an submachine gun hand grenades a handgun and holster binoculars dog tags and ID card have to do with Christmas If your children are struggling to distinguish which behaviour pattern property belongs to peace on earth it is up to we adults to teach them Regulating the toys they ploy with and learn from and guiding the imagination of their play time seems an obvious place to start Yet it Is difficult to do as the tears of many a child deprived of his her Sectaur Warriors of Symbion will testify But parents It worth the struggle In years the children who have learned peaceful behaviour In playtime will be better prepared to practice peaceful behaviour in adult hood Children who have learned to resolve their anger and jealousy in other ways than imagining the destruc lion of their enemy will become adults belter able to resolve their differences without resorting to fist fights nation or nuclear warheads Stand firm in your boycott of war toys parents And to encourage you in the struggle here are some further suggestions 1 Talk to the grandparents and enlist their cooperation Real life anarchists in the world have already discovered one can appeal to more than one source for weapons Bring the grandparents In on the plan and head off this possibility for the Imaginary world of playtime Grandparents may communicate the behaviour of peace more effectively than you can Take the kids on Boxing Day to exchange any war toy presents that mistakenly was left by mischievous elves under the Christmas tree And as added incentive give an additional to the exchange price to purchase a more peaceful toy This will convey to your children that your concern is more than a quirk In the parental personality but something important enough to spend money on Talk to your children now well In advance of Christmas Day Let them know how you stand against war toys and the reason for it before the enchantment of the toy grips your child imagination Reach a mutual family agreement for peace Write it down Pin It to the Christmas tree And even the combined strength of GI Joe Voltron and the Transformers shall not prevail against it Skaters applaud club Dear Sir As skater to the recent Central Ontario Sectional Championships I want to say thank you to Mrs and Mrs Garrison and all their who worked long bard successfully I have been to many competitions and I want to say Georgetown you can be proud What an undertaking future Sectional Competition hosts will have to meet the high class that It had the year It was hosted by the Georgetown Figure Skating Club Georgetown Rules Darren Kemp Got anything smaller I d hate to exceed Wilson s minimum tax Cant pretend its over demand Queen Park Nelson TORONTO Two stories that appeared in the press recently lllu the absurdity of pretending we have an over built Hydro electrical generating system In Ontario One told the tale of demand for electricity being so strong that Hydro actually had to Import power from Michigan to make up a shortfall The other was a threat from an anil Hydro activist group named the Central Ontario Coal Hon that it would attempt to further delay construction of power lines out of the Bruce nuclear station on Lake Huron These are power lines that Hydro has been trying to get built since 1968 Without them at least onequarter of the power that will be generated at Bruce when the station is finished will remain trapped there doing no one any good Of the proposed eight reactors at Bruce six are now operational with the others to come on stream in April next year and January the following year Yet the power lines to carry that new Juice especially into powershort southwestern Ontario where we needed the imports from Michigan won be ready until 1939 or 1990 at the earliest Even now conditions have to be just right for Hydro to bring out power from the six working reactors And should Hydro succeed In doing so there is still the difficulty of getting the power to where It is most needed What happened In southwestern Ontario was a combination of cold weather that drove demand to record heights coupled with breakdowns at the coal red generating station near Fossil fuel plants of course ore Inherently inferior to nuclear In every way from safety to environmental cleanliness to reliability But even so for three of the four units at Lambton to go out from tube leaks and bearing problems just when they were needed was first bad luck Four other cool fired units around the province were inoperative at the same time The point of course Is that we are building superbly efficient nuclear general capability that can prevent us suffering these shortalia Unfortunately standing in the way of gett the power to where it can be used arc groups like the Central Ontario Coalition They t alone in being the villains of this mind you Governmcnlbearsltssharc Itwas the government that or Insisted Hydro get into the citizen participation business In a big So Hydro holding hearings about routes for its power 1 that served mainly to rally everybody living along the proposed ways to oppose them The Central Ontario Coalition Is one such group and a presumptuous one at that demanding provincial financing for its obstructionist tactics The real long term worry Is that If the provincial demand for electrical energy continues to grow at the same medium high rate It has shown the past two years power shortages like this recent one won be rarities but will become commonplace view of extra billing EDITORS NOTE The following article Is by Robert Kldd M C lie a practising physician In Renfrew Having trouble getting Ms message to the Minister of Health and large urban newspapers he has written local weekly newspap ers in an effort to receive more of a fair discussion Our politicians have been making the socalled extra billing issue into one of greedy doctors versus the helpless poor They say that doctors who are not satisfied with the usual OHIPfees aretaklngadvantagcofthe sick when they can least afford it and charging them extra against their wishes Politicians have spent millions of dollars of public money turning a very complex issue into a black and white one Ads have been bought advocacy groups have been funded and election campaigns have been fought on the issue The opinion of the medical profes has been dismissed all too lightly because according to the politicians doctors just want to make an extra buck This political oversimplification is unfair to doctors and disguises the real Issues At present In Ontario about 13 per cent of doctors bill their patient directly or are opted out of the government plan They set their own fceswhlchmavbethesameaft lower than the government plan The doctors who bill above the govern ment schedule or extra bill feel they are offering their patients something extra usually time experience or expertise No one is forced to go through their doors In my own case as an physician I offer my patients time I see about two patients per hour which is considerably less than in most practices My patients tell me they appreciate the extra time I spend with them and they are willing to pay extra fee usually under If I am forced into the government plan the economics of running an office would require me to see more patients in the same time In other words I would have to work faster and unfortunately probably less thorough ly This In the best interest of the health of my patients Politicians argue that doctors arc overpaid They have cleverly used statin to make It seem that way often confusing gross and net Incomes The facts are however that since Medicare began in doctors incomes have declined by per cent relative to Inflation while politicians have Increased their own by per cent Legislation to ban extra billing will soon be introduced in Queen Park If it is passed every doc tor will become In effect a civil servant Medicare will become another government monopoly like the Post Office Doctors while recognizing the Import once of the Medicare system believe that patients should have the freedom to choose a doctor from within the system or hire one practising independently In on to both patient and doctor losing a fundamental freedom we can anticipate a deterioration in service In Britain under the National Health Service certain services are rationed and patients have to wait up to years for procedures such as elective surgery Politicians also argue that extra billing victimizes the poor During the last federal election a great deal of effort was expended searching for the victims of extrabilling Telephone hot lines were set up In big cities for this purpose alone but In fact coses of hardship were rare It would seem that the old medical tradition of helping out those less able to pay is still alive despite the rhetoric to the contrary The legislation to ban extra billing in Ontario will probably be passed within the next few months The public will not object because they have not been informed Freedom and democracy arc not well in this country THIRTY YEARS new members joined the Rotary when they met at Inn Jack Muckart introduced the new members who are Ernie Ralph Bob Barber Gordon Bowers and BUI Corr James Evans was elected Lodge AF and AM at the Masonic Hell Mr Evans succeeds Walter who held the Job for the last year J McKenxie and Son submitted the lowest of five tenders and got the contract to renovate the build Their bid was The and Georgetown Poultry Association held a euchre night at the Odd Fellows Hall Mrs Audrey Wilson won first prize for the women and Bill Wilson won first for he men FIFTEEN Sliver of Terra Cotta lecturer In History at College and York University won the presidents medal from the University of Western Ontario The award Is for the best scholarly article written by a Canadian this year James Singleton director or education for the Halton County Board of Education will be making a presentation after his month long world trip He visited six countries where he learned about their different educational systems The local group The Changing Thyme ployed for the Red Cross as people donated Wood Members group are Pat McAuely Brian Mark ham Phil ngcr Ken Majucry and John Stevens IbN YEARS AGO present plans to the Halton Hills Planning Board for a six lot subdivision for southwest The board will moke a report for town council before work goes ahead The Georgetown District High School wrestling team placed first in a Smith Falls quod wrestling tourna Twelve Georgetown wrestlers were undefeated Former Georgetown coach Lew Martin coached Smith Falls to second place 13 points behind Georgetown Mar Vcnditti Hi Planner received his Masters Degree in Combined Urban Studies and Urban Geography from York University He has been town planner since rcg government was created FIVE AGOThe board of education superintendent of business and finance Bruce resigned He has worked in for years Georgetown Kris Barber and bis skat ng partner Kelly Johnson of placed fifth in the Skate Canada Com petit on in Calgary Now they ore preparing for the Canadian divisional championships Manager Dave Kentner s promise to give free tickets to fans at the Raiders game If the Raiders lost against did not spark his lost before Raider fans What was your favorite yule Jennifer EllloU Craig Robin on Megan Elliott Harold Elliott Kelly CRAIG ROBINSON The presents tapeplayerand tapes for It ROCKY ZAMBRI A combination of things good health good friends and no problems This to me is wonderful MEGAN ELLIOTT It brings the whole together again We are not together very often the rest of the year I really don t have a favorite Christmas JENNIFER ELLIOTT I the presents The Christmas tree was big ELLIOTT I having the family around That was Iho main thing together at least once a year Belngwithmy family and having everybody together The Christmas before my dad died was the best A DREAM COME TRUE was a little refugee girl sent across the sea Only strange In I big land to care forme I grew up with strangers In a part of the world that free My Mother I longed to find her where I like to be If I have a Mother where oh where could she be I plea 1 used to think of a Mother only a face In a dream I did see I to Vietnam my story told with great care With a picture I made Mother In dream found her there I set out for Vietnam I arrived eg Christmas morn a dream came tine before dawn Mother told me of the war tragedies and hardships everywhere A Brother and Sister I have I m glad they did spare It was my very best Christmas we shared the warmest love With family my own brought new life like heaven above The way they live In Vietnam lmglad they took me away Present lime t normal then I fell I I slay No matter how far I travel my family for them I did roam Now I back In Canada trying to make them a home By ALBERT BROOKS Our beliefs our feelings and our altitudes toward 1 fc can Influence our own health in the same way as exercise and diet In book Getting Well Again Cart Slmonton and wife Stephanie explain how psychological factors can play a vital role in a persons recovery After years of treating cancer patients the couple determined that a positive attitude and a wilt to live often Insured better health The common thread among those they exerted some influence over the course of the disease As a result of this discovery the developed a method of treating the whole person both intern aland external Their technique which they began practising in 1973 does not replace standard medical procedures but is used In conjunction with them The program includes techniques for learning a positive attitude lion visualization goal setting managing pain exercising and build an emotional support system These leading practitioners describe how an Individual reaction to stress and other emotional factors may contribute to the onset progress recurrence of disorders According to Slmonton stress in most cases Is the cause of depression and despair These feelings which are recorded in limbic system influence the body primarily through tho hypothalmus a small area In the brain These messag ore then translated in two ways They participate in the of the Immune system and regulate the pituitary gland which in turn the endocrine system responsible for the hormonal balance of the body Since the immune system is designed to control cancerous cells suppression of Immunity due to anxie ty can result in cancerous growth Coupled with this Is the hormonal Imbalance which can lead to an increased production of abnormal cells in tbe body The Slmontons believe that this cycle can be reversed and the purpose In writing their book was to show others their approach If you are interested in finding out about treatment you can enquire at your local library or bookstore As this Is my last column until January I would like to take the opportunity to wish all my readers best for tip holiday Season and the coming year