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THE HERALD Wednesday March Page LETTERS World Day of Prayer Hie political upheaval in Burma of the past year was not imagined when Christian women of Burma wrote the lflfB World Day of Prayer Service It Is three years since they began the task that will culminate on Friday March 3 when people from 170 countries participate In the World Day of Prayer In the local area the new Georgetown Alliance Church located one kilometre south of Maple Avenue on Main Street will host a gathering for the World Day of Prayer on Friday March 3 at 7 30pm The theme Lord Teach Us to Pray was chosen by the Interna tional Committee for the World Day of Prayer at its quadrennial meeting in May 1986 Alice Jean Finlay from Ontario Canada as President of the International Committee met with the Burmese writers in November 1986 to discuss the need for an ecumenical worship service that reflected the concerns and spirituality of Burmese Christian women Id Canada the service is sored by Womens InterChurch Council of Canada and arranged by local ecumenical groups In over 3000 communities offering is used by Womens InterChurch Council of Canada to provide resources for the service program materials for womens groups and to support ecumenical projects in Canada and abroad Everyone is invited to share in this 102year tradition of ing the need for Gods guidance in the struggle with the issues facing the world History from our files 30 years ago Registration of unemployed men and women to date was reported by Kelvin C Brown at Mondays council meeting Mr Brown headed a group of Malton volunteers who with council co operation have organized Georgetown Employment Service where data about job seekers is available to potential employers Some 66 different trades are in cluded In the registration Mr Brown said There is such variety as clay miners bakers and beekeepers There are 16 profes sional engineers among those listed The Bradford Fords conformed with OHA scheduling and launched the Central Ontario Intermediate B finals here at exactly 30 last night but the Georgetown Hunter Realtors didnt get the message until about a period and a half later Some 700 paying customers looked on as tbe Realtors made their Silky Sulivantype dash in tbe late minutes to swamp the mar shmen 104 and claim the opener They trailed at the end of first period 31 Albert a member of tbe Bahai World Faith and the 1958 UNESCO cultural mission to Japan will speak at tbe Market Street home of Mr and Mrs Tom Ferguson 15 years ago The Lions Club of Georgetown awarded not but Citizen of the Year awards Friday evening at Legion Branch 120 hall The Citizen of the Year award for 1973 went to the entire Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department Accepting the award on behalf of the firefighters both past and present district chief Tom praised the ef forts of the volunteers over the years saying they were proud and happy to accept the award Georgetowns three major pro jects the library expansion the theatrearena complex and the swimming pool are still not being decided At the general ad ministration committee meeting an argument developed over use of debentures for the projects Coun Morrow wanted to apply to die Ontario Municipal Board to find out from the OMB what our standing Is for money All indications are that soccer registration will bit a record nigh for the 1S74 season first day of registration showed a per cent increase in boys registrations and the girls are up by 25 per cent 10 years ago The ACWW meeting of tbe Womens Institute was held Tues day Feb 20 in Hillcrest Church with 90 ladies present Mrs Ralph Cunningham was hostess Presl dent Mrs Robert Alexander open ed with ode and creed People In Halton Hills became more aware of places and people of historical interest in the last few years according to Rev Rick gle who says the Historical Society deserves much of the credit Historical Society was formed In 1975 by a group of people who shared an interest in history Among the charter members of the society were Rev Ruggle town councillor John McDonald Keith Barber Bruce Harding and lawyer Tudor Beattie For the first time in several years tbe Georgetown ended the year in the black Speak ing to the annual meeting last week treasurer Wayne said that while tbe group had only left over from 1978s expenses the fact that there was any money left at all indicated that they had broken the tradition of ever increasing deficits Regional Council approv a public works committee recommendation to lower the max speed limit along Regional Road in Glen Williams from 60 to km per hour Regional Road 13 is also known as Main Street in Glen Williams 5 years ago Included in the nearly million Halton Regional Police budget for 1964 is money for a five- man traffic squad similar to the squad on tbe road each Christmas season Halton Regional Police commis sioners announced the new police budget of pared down from the original request of per cent made by the force at a meeting Thursday night in crease over last year is per cent in keeping with the per cent increase of 1983 Unless social services agencies in Halton work toward forming a Regional United Way they may find the Regions purse strings ex tremely tight when the agencies apply for grants next year Thats the message behind a health and social services committee recom to Regional Council and it will be underlined when a number of groups present their grant requests to the committee March The Georgetown Gemini season came to a sudden unexpected halt last Tuesday night at Gordon Arena The Gems dropped the seventh and deciding game of the Ontario Junior B quarter final playoffs against the expan sion Monarcbs Appreciates local politicians help EDITORS NOTE The following is a copy of a letter submitted to The Herald for publication To the Council of the Town of Hills This letter is to thank the coun cillors of the town of Halton Hills for the happy completion of the and amendment to tbe of fidal plan to operate a day care in our property at 83 Main Street North I would like to have tbe op portunity to thank Mayor Buss Miller Councillors Marilyn and Joe Hewitt who sat on tbe site plan committee and Councillor Richard who sat on the Regional committee with Mayor Miller and Councillor Serjeantson These thanks are also extended to all the members of Town and Region Councils who supported us In our project I would also like to thank Regional and town staff who work or are still working advising us on tbe regulations to observe That is Mr Mohammed Mr Kruger Mr Crews Mr Kondak Mr Mur dok Mr Welhngs and Mr French to name a few Finally if the Town thinks day cares are an important part of our modem social lifestyle it would be interesting to have areas which could be already zoned for day care in order to simplify this pro cess By allowing more day cares to operate out of specific streets and allotting certain percentage of space in new developments pro bably this process could go through faster Thanks again for the time sensibility and the interest shown by our Town and Regional coun cillors in this important social Yours truly Programs and support needed Dear Sir The fruit of a years work of the Law Reform Commission is the recommendation for unrestricted access to abortion in the first 22 weeks of pregnancy and for allow abortions anytime until birth We tbe taxpayers paid them to tell us that Tbe prochoice advocates have a point when they say why do we need such a law Do you think a woman would have an abortion at seven or eight months if she did not have a medical problem Tbe Commission in trying to assume the most prochoice position possible ironically ended up dissatisfying tbe prochoice move ment as well On the other side the most dif ficult problem the prolife move ment is facing is making people aware that having sex and then discarding in garbage the pro duct of sex a human being is not acceptable behavior The law we need must be based on principles not political expediency Tbe main principle is that human life Is as human chromosomes and as alive according to the medical criteria at any stage of develop ment and it Is as Important inside the womb as it is outside womb Single women should be helped not only through pregnancy but afterwards through easier adoption programs and govern ment support for those who decide to keep their children Giuseppe Halton North Acton The above picture taken from A History of St Johns Anglican Church by Lucy shows the home of Archie and Mary Bally on Main Street In Stewarttown The two were great workers in the building of St Johns Church In Stewarttown and appropriately enough the ing Historical Society will meet again Wednesday March 8 at 7 at St Johns Anglican Church Stewarttown Bob and Don Lawson will reminisce about their years in Everyone fas welcome to attend Hold that train of thought Forget about affordable housing and fivecent cigars What this country really needs above all else is about 3000 more trains This has been much on my mind this winter since tbe vagaries of of playwrighUng dodge have led to some time on the road Note being on tbe road is to be distinguished from being on the street The former is something some of us do as we work our way down to the latter In any event Ive been ex with various modes of transportation since winter condi have more or less ruled out the use of Arthur the Mighty sun Arthur is going on 17 and hes down to three functioning gears and two functioning cylinders Hes fine going downhill on dry pavement with a slight tallwind Otherwise his repertoire Is fairly limited All of which has led to ample op portunity to reflect Upon the car dinal rule of travelling Dont The pleasures of wherever youre going will never outweigh the misery of getting there The plain fact is that Im a rotten traveller Apart from trains transportation devices fall into two general categories those which terrify me and those which make me throw up Thus it is that I have over the years turned white on all of Canadas major airlines and turn ed green on buses on two con tinents By this point Ive pretty much given up on plane travel If God had meant usto fry He wouldnt airport lineups eirs View Thomson Service A queue is clearly a Divine invitation to ruminate to weigh carefully the pros and cons of the path you are about to em bark upon and then to conclude that the only sensible move is to hall a cab and go back borne On the other hand buses offer horrors of Their own largely due to the Two Inviolable Laws of bus travel One no matter where you are going you will end up scrunched in a seat with a 300pound man who has an aversion to water Two you will be seated directly across the aisle from a compulsive talker whose wife has just left him By the end of the trip the man on your left will weigh 400 pounds And it will be very very very clear why the man on your right is now single All of which leave us with trains Or rather it would leave us with trains except for the fiendish government plot to prevent us from taking them Granted VIA Rail nappy to of fer you plenty of trains if you hap pen to be travelling between Toronto and Ottawa Which is small consolation since relatively few Canadians have any desire to go to either one let alone lord help us from one to the other If youre anywhere else in the country you face the following situation There will be one train a day and it will leave at 3 No one has ever understood how theyve managed to arrange schedule such that a transcon tinental train can actually leave every station In the country in middle of the night but theyve done ft Possibly the schedules are devised by the same computer wizards who demonstrate the cost- effectiveness of nuclear sub- And its tragic as I rediscovered last month upon finding myself on a train thatwas leaving by sheer fluke at a plausible hour There I was in a seat with a view and with leg room And there beside me was a young fellow in a leather cap who was launching into a lengthy dissertation on the care of houseplants For just a moment the familiar travellers horror began to des cend Nine hours trapped beside a man who had a hundred ferns and who was apparently eager to discuss them all one at a time And then the blessed truth dawn ed This wasnt a plane or a bus This was a train and trains offer a solution to just this sort of crisis Its called the Bar Car and Its in vention is one of humanitys finest Dear Prime Ministers forget trimming the deficit Put daycare and tax reform on the back burner We can wait Trains