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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario DAVID BtATTIE Publisher and General Manager BRIAN Editor Phone DAN TAYLOR Advertising Manager Page 6 THE HERALD Wednesday November 22 1989 iA What a line Federal minister of state for small business Tom Hockin gave us a great line Saturday when he said an Acton woman is one of the heroes of this country for working hard to stay off the welfare system Eliane Snels said she applied for a dental plan but she was told the government would put her on the full welfare package instead a single mother said she worked hard to get off welfare and she is worried about being pulled back into it We agree with Mr Hockin People who work hard to ac get less government assistance are contributing to the well being of the rest of us But we wonder if Mr will put Ms Snels out of his mind when he back in his comfortable Ottawa office Most concerned Canadians we suspect would be on the telephone the next day to Health and Welfare Minister Per if they were in Mr s position Somehow though we suspect that won t happen Hills Chamber of Commerce General Manager Doug said welfare administrators have lost touch with the real world But the administrators follow policies set the pohti cians It up to the people at the top to get their house in order and to see to it that more cases like that of Ms Snels doesn t happen But after countless examples of excess spending by the federal government appearing recently in the daily press we re not holding our breath On a footnote to Mr Hockin comments are comments made by Halton Peel MP Garth Turner at that same public meeting Mr Turner said the proposed nine per cent Goods and Services Tax could be lowered to seven per cent by cancelling proposed tax rebates to lower and middle in come earners and by taxing groceries Such a move would go to great lengths to make sure peo pie like Ms Snels end up at the front of the welfare line We hope the government isn seriously tax food With a tax on items they may be able to do without low income earners may be able to gauge their spending Perhaps we should give the government a gentle reminder that we all need to eat Regardless of income Who needs deadlines Deadlines In journalism we live and die by them And our weekend Outlook paper was a case in point been following the Sun day shopping issue in Halton Hills very closely and so far we ve had several stories on major food stores that have been charged with opening on Sunday a how many of town feel about the issue Last Saturday we ran a story on the front page under the headline Three supermarkets will be open this Sunday Well if you packed the kids into the car for the week s shopping on Sunday you met locked doors in Halton Hills major super markets What happened is simple but a bit frustrating for reporters Our deadline for our weekend paper came up before the head quarters for the major super markets decided to call a tern porary truce in the Sunday shopp ing war on Friday Being a weekly newspaper we don have the advantages of ly deadlines to keep you informed on issues as quickly as we like But we kept you well inform ed about Sunday shopping so far and we endeavor to keep you well informed the Ontario PC leadership race is inventing a whole new game Derek Nelson Queen Part lf Km the Ontario Pro gressive Conservative Party one- man onevote leadership race might be called the Great No one has ever tried to conduct a leadership vote the way the Tories will be attempting Every member of the who Candidate A gets of them then that riding would still cast 50 ballots for him This per riding elec college system was picked in preference to counting every party member vote as one ballot to pre vent densely populated wealthy urban ridings from having an over whelming advantage on May The Parti Quebec has held leadership races where everv member can vote but did it by mail The Ontario Tones will have a central location or locations in each riding where people can cast their ballots the results then being transmitted to Toronto for There is some worn about what will happen if several ballots are required and no winner is known by the end of the day How credible wants to cast a ballot for the next would the result be if most people leader Will h In An leader will be able to do so And each will do so in person as to mail Last week th Cones finally pm down an actual voting date 12 next The campaign will get tinder way Jan and new partv members can be registered until March Eich of Ontario s 130 ridings will have 101 votes or po to cast on pollmg day Thai obviously means there will be votes total with 6 needed low If there are members stayed home on the second day NEW GAME Still it is question marks like this that make this leadership con test such a fascinating event The Conservatives aren just in a different league They in vented a whole new game for pick ing the leader And that is why media ts are somewhat of a quandary With the old style convention there was a finite number of known delegates XX to depending on the association they will have tion many of them from riding or their otes applied proportionate- provincial executives as well as it is if people vote for Can sitting MPPs and other party A he II get 50 of the 100 establishment folk that ballots from that riding if there difficult to gam a sense of was are 50 members signed up and ahead and who behind in a leader ship race But in this case where we could have anywhere from to 100 people who 11 rouse themselves to come out next May that an impassible situation to predict One suspects the key to this particular game is tion and at the moment it is unclear who among the four pro bable candidates is best off in that regard This is also why Tom Long probably had the best starting organization and Dennis who might have ended up with the best organization were widely considered the frontrunners before both decided to drop out If an old style convention were being held London newcomer Cunningham would likely have the edge on the grounds that she 15 dynamic am bilious and a woman the last of which the media in the current age always marks up as a political plus the other MPPs who art ex pected to enter race North Bay s Mike Hams Burlington Cam Jackson and s Bob aren t exactly slouches With votes to counted no one can yet b ruled out as a contender There is also the question of whether Toronto backroom organizer John who could pull in a lot of organ nation wise if he wanted will join the race Starting Ian 22 when can can officially begin d monev the Great will really take off -LETTERS- Special needs bazaar raises 1000 Dear Sir On behalf of all the members of the Special Needs Drop In pro gram we would sincerely like to thank everyone who donated their time and energies both before and on the day of our First Annual Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale on Saturday Oct 2i at the Acton Arena Dozens of volunteers and supporters donated countless hours of their time ing sewing designing gluing knitting and assembling goods for our sale and we just couldn t have done it without all their help Being our first attempt we had modest hopes for success We were however overwhelmed with the support we received and are proud to announce we raised over to help support our weekly dropin for disabled adults It would be impossible to thank everyone who helped with our event but we do wish to acknowledge the dedicated efforts of some of the key volunteers Eve would also like to thank our friends at the local paper office for their continued support of our efforts For anyone who wishes to join our program we run every Wednesday at the Acton Legion from 30 to and offer an exciting mixture of games crafts bingo ping pong music refreshments and socializa tion Drop by and say hello or give me a call 8751531 if you are in terested Volunteers also ed Once again I like to thank everyone for all their efforta and support and look forward to seeing you out at our Drop In Sincerely Shirley Raszewski Chairperson Recreation Committee for Special Needs Poppy campaign is successful Nineteen eighty nine was a very successful Poppy Campaign exceeded our figures and all due to a number of special peo ple My sincere thanks go to Bob McNeilly Shell and Orval Paul for their positive approach to the meaning of help they just come and do To the many canvassers who rallied around to the ladies who gave me a few hours of relief to the drivers ferrying the can vassers about to the bar stewards for their answering To he box col lecting crew and to my husband John who never once complained about coming home to an empty house and no supper ready I give my heartfelt gratitude To the most important group of all without whom this campaign would be useless the citizens of Georgetown and Glen Williams a great big thank you for digging deeper into your pockets this year You see when everyone con tributes a little how can any cause fail I if