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THE HERALD Wednesday May Page -LETTERS- Leave Old Stone School alone 30 Years Ago Georgetowns five public schools pooled money raised from past projects to make their initial con tribution to the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital fund Hospital representative Jack Armstrong accepted the cheque totalling Acting on behalf of the students were Elizabeth Davidson from Park Joan Bradley from Howard Dorothy Page from Chapel Street Linda English from George Kennedy and Laura from Har rison The principals also attend ed the cheque presentation The principals were Harold Cattling William Kinrade Val Stein Harold Henry and Allen A fifth generation minister Rev Ewart Madden was ex pected to begin duties in July at St Andrews United Church Rev Madden is a native of Watford He graduated from Emmanuel College Toronto As a student he spent some time working at Glen Williams United Church His grandfather was also a minister in Georgetown He relieved Or Charles Donald who took the tem porary job in August Mr Donald will return to St Johns United Church in Oakville as assistant pastor A 27yearold North York teacher Harry Knapper has been chosen from is applicants to fill the principals position at Harrison Public School The posi tion was open when Harold Henry left the school at the end of the term 20 Years Ago The project of cleaning up Utter in the Norval hamlet won a prize for the Norval Rangers The contest sponsored by the Georgetown Naturalist Club was open to anyone or group in Grades between 7 and 13 and had to be an antipollution project The Norval Rangers used four trucks and cleaned up the entire village and the surrounding area The runnerup in the contest was Oscar Nierstrasz of Terra Cotta who wrote an essay on pollution Members of the Alpha chapter of the Beta Sigma sorori ty held a dinner to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the organiza tion The ritual of jewels was observed when nine new members were officially welcom ed into the sorority The new members included- Nancy Pauline Hughes Pat Mounsey Lois Rogers Ryan Maxine Scanion Kathleen Vickery and Judy Evelyn Wilson presented a special message from the presi dent from the international head quarters in Kansas City Georgetown District High School students council enter tainment chairman John Riley presented the traditional bouquet to Hulme as she was just given the title Queen of the For mal The theme for the i960 for mal was Spain at the Riviera 10 Years Ago More than Acton and Georgetown high school students faced off for the annual Cystic Fibrosis BumpforLife danceathon The students raised almost The much- anticipated return competition to GDHS did not happen due to the lack of participants from Georgetown Only students picked up Actons gauntlet prompting Kinsmen to cancel the Georgetown Bump- and transport the Georgetowners to Acton for the dancing duel Kinsmen organizers estimate that pledges collected by the Acton students will raise Two scouts from Halton Hills received the highest award in scouting at a special ceremony held at Regional Head quarters John McPhall 15 and Evan Siddal were both presented with the Chief Scout Award Twelve awards at the ceremony were presented to Halton Hills Scouts John is a member of the first Ashgrove Group and Evan is a member of the fifth Georgetown group 5 Years Ago Senior citizens in the Sargent Road area asked for a crosswalk with overhead signs and flashing amber light across Mountainview Road in Georgetown Mabel Brownlow said seniors have a hard time crossing the road because of the heavy traffic Us ing the traffic lights at Campbell Gate is no solution because the lights change too quickly for an elderly person to cross she said Over a weekend Ms Brownlow collected 500 signatures on a peti tion asking for the crossing lights Thursday Theatre Direct Canada presented a play on alcohol abuse to the students of Georgetown District High School at the John Elliot Theatre The name of the play was Getting Wrecked The cast included Hope David Fraser Helen Taylor and Lisa Hocura Carnations to aid multiple sclerosis came out just in time for Mothers Day Weber Drive twins Kim and Gail helped out by buying carnations and giving them to their mother Evelyn More letters Front page story initiates comments Dear Sir After reading your front page story of The Hills Herald May 2 I forward my follow ing comments I confirmed that I noticed a number of Sikh members at the rear of the hall when the nomina tions were proceeding As a matter of fact there were three Sikh members nominated seconded and they were there to accept the honour of running for election as delegates A Sikh youth was elected as an alternative delegate I can appreciate your need to meet a deadline and did make ar rangements as I said I would to get you direct information on the deal between Liberals for Life and the Martin only Camp I should have thought to make it clear to you that finding some Copps people on the Martin slate was a surprise to me However as everyone knows an opportunity for a position or two is better than no opportunity at all Your source of Liberals for Life information would be Jim Barnes Media Spokesperson Liberals for Life I trust you appreciate also my feelings about what I was credited with saying compared with what was said and what more 1 should have told you- Sincerely Tony Smyth Dear Editor For over years I have been an Acton resident I have grand children going to Robert Little School When I read that our coun cil would even consider any type of housing at the Old Stone School site 1 was shocked I wonder what the mentality of the majority of Hills Coun cil might be Not 10 years ago when Acton asked Council for money to help restore the old Town Hall they refused Not long after council paid for that Stone School because they said it was prime property and a historic site and that they hoped to restore it in the future Now this same council is considering selling this beautiful park site for nonprofit housing To destroy any of those lovely old trees is shocking I am not against public housing but not there It is too small an area for Manitoba school reaches 100 Dear Sir The Manitoba Development Cen tre previously known as the Manitoba School will be celebrating years of service to the community July 1990 All former residents and staff are invited back to Portage la Prairie for the celebration Events will in clude a banquet and dance fashion show guided tours picnic tea and many reunions Please send your name and cur rent address to Brian Tully Box 1190 Portage la Prairie Man and we will be happy to mail you further information Yours truly W Wilson Cochair Centenary Comm such density and there definitely would be environmental damage The Stone School Is just 50 feet away from Robert Little School where hundreds of very young kids are continually coming and going If any of you councillors had children attending Robert Little would you approve a housing com plex so close to your childrens school Have you ever considered noise factor that would be caus ed by this Shift workers may be sleeping during the day when children go out for recess There would also be babies and young children having naps if there were apartments there I understand there is to be a traf fic survey done on the school lane Will you guarantee this survey will not be done in the quiet of the sum mer holiday but on a busy school day The school lane is short and even now one has trouble getting out onto that busy Highway 7 River Street only allows library users and school buses to park there and there is twohour park ing only from River Street to St Albans Church Their parking lot is a private one If the town is looking for public property for nonprofit housing what is wrong with the land across from Lakeview Villa That soccer field could be moved elsewhere and noise would not be a problem there The Stone School site and park around the library is the last lovely scenic park within Acton When the town purchased that historic site they talked about a possible museum there If the Library ever needed to be enlarged there would be room to build on to it It may be trivial but how many weddings choose to have their pic tures taken in that lovely park Ac- touians both young and old enjoy that park especially the young in the winters for toboganning and the older ones for summer picnics Pimm think hard and look ahead and try to see the damage you may be creating for hundreds of school kids who are so innocent and im pressionable Kids do need room to play An apartment complex would create too much density for too small an area I hear that the price of was considered for that prime piece of beautiful parkland which is peanuts today At that price the builder would buy cheap build cheap and leave an eyesore I know Halton HiDs can use more money They say Acton needs a new arena a new fireball a seniors complex What towns downt need more We have been very patient and we are finally get ting ahead no thanks to Hills Council Remember since Regional government was forced onus Acton has only 3 councillors to Georgetown and My taxes have tripled since its incep tion in 1974 How can we ever right and win anything for Acton We were forced to join with Georgetown much against our wishes Since we lost our Acton Council we have been hurt so many times because we are small We have not been allowed to grow due to water shortage or no loom for sewage How come Georgetown has grown so fast Many people in Acton want our town to remain small but again we havent a chance in hell to fight against this latest wrongdoing Come on councillors dont our beautiful school lane park and library setting It will surely cause future problems There is already enough van dalism at Robert Little School so please leave it alone Sincerely Mrs Stella A Concerned Citizen Earthshaking revelation issued by English clergy Theres been a fair amount of in teresting news out of Bntain recently what with prison upris ings poll tax riots and the growing suspicion that Maggie Thatcher may not remain in office until the twentythird century after all But a truly earthshaking piece of British news wasnt revealed to a flabbergasted world until just the other day The other day it was revealed brace yourself that the English clergy are mounting a campaign to change the second verse of God Save The Queen It goes without saying that you and I are left quite dumbfounded by this news This is partially because you and I like 25 million other Canadians had no idea that God Save The Queen HAD a second verse But apparently it does But al these years it turns out weve been singing the Readers Digest version For the record this second verse was composed in the Eighteenth Century and goes as follows Oh Lord our God arise Scatter her enemies And make them fall Confound their politics Frustrate their knavish tricks On Thee our hopes we fix God save us all Well this second verse has youll quickly admit quite a ring to it They just dont coin phrases like knavish tricks any more US President George Bush today deplored the Soviet Unions knavish blockade of Lithuania Zounds but tis the work of varlets the president said in a written statement Odds bodikins he added On the other hand you can see why the English clergy feel a little squeamish about this second verse Its sentiments are lets face it a tad on the billlgerent side A traditionalist might well point out that is the detre for a national anthem in the first place After all nobody com poses a national anthem to assert his belief that his country is a pleasantly inoffensive little place in a secondrate sort of way A national anthem exists to ex plain what a glorious place your country is and to warn knavish neighbors what lies in store for them if they start feeling cheeky and tricksy Still even the traditionalists would have to admit that a national anthem which calls down Gods wrath on the folks across the border is a little out of place in the modern world Warlike sentiments are no longer terribly fashionable in more refined circles Few countries con tinue to view warfare as a stimulating national and most people are happy to settle for substitute experiences like wat ching football and raising teenagers Besides the second verse of God Save The Queen seems a little well silly After all who precisely are these enemies whom Liz needs scattered Prince Charles it Is true wag ing a grim battle against the builders of highrise office blocks Sty perhaps that second verse could be revised to contain an exhorta tion along the lines of Lord dont be circumspect Smite down those architects Or perhaps not In any case the whole issue raises a provocative question To wit- should we in Canada be con sidering revisions to our own na tional anthem Granted weve all been quite happy to raise our voices in the familiar chorus of Oh Canada our home and native bland er land Still you have to question whether all those promises to stand on guard for thee are par ticularly realistic given the cur rent tone of the national debate As such Id like to propose a se cond verse to O Canada Ahem If I could have a please O Canada our former native land Seems such a shame things didnt go as planned You were strong and free for a century Til we made one small mistake And whod a that you would have sunk To the bottom of Meech Lake Turn In the keys Switch off the lights Smile while you sing the ruddy Stars and Stripes One last refrain Ohhhhh Canada cripes