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THE HERALD Wednesday May 23 MM Page -LETTERS- POWER sale raised 8000 for dump fight Dear Sir We would like to express our ap preciation to you for publicizing 0 Giant Garage Sale and to the citizens of Halton Hills for their response in making our sale a Giant Success Thanks to the families who donated their treasures and to the thousands who turned out to buy them in support of our cause to stop the dump POWER will net close to This will certain ly help in meeting our legal costs for the upcoming MOE En vironmental Assessment Hear ings A special thanks to Mayor Russ Miller and the Town of Halton Hills for the use of the Public Works Yard Also to Ted Drulow Frank Morette and the Public Works Department for their help and cooperation Thanks to POWER members and their friends who gave so much of their time to deliver flyers to almost every household in Halton Hills and who worked the Friday night and Saturday We are pleased to say that at the end of the sale the unsold clothing was donated to the Baptist Church for their clothing drive and the other remaining items were taken to Haltons new recycling depot Waste Not Waste Not is a nonprofit outlet that will accept used items for repair and resale It is schedul ed to open for business soon in the old mill on River Drive Watch for the grand opening Again thanks to all who par ticipated and helped to make POWERs largest annual fund raiser such a success Yours sincerely Marsha and Ted Batchelor For POWER Events Committee 302 units of blood donated to Red Cross Georgetown Hospital says thanks Dear Editor As you know May 711 was Nurses Week The nurses- at the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital and Bennett Health Care Centre been busy celebrating this annual event We would like to say to the following for helping to make this a special week Nursery for the lovely rose bush A gift of life to grow with us Tim Hortons for the delicious donuts that all staff enjoyed St John School Erin grade 5 and Glen Williams School grade for their enlightening posters on Nurses and the En vironment McDonalds and Dairy Queen for the coupons donated to the budding artists A community hospital supported by the communityl Yours truly The Nursing Staff Georgetownand District Memorial Hospital and Bennett Health Care Centre 30 Years Ago Jim Jones was named head of the Lions Club for the term when the club held their an nual elections of officers in the legion hall Also elected to the ex ecutive were Allison as first vicepresident Tom Reed as se cond vicepresident Harold Fobert as third vicepresident History from our files Dear Sir Red Cross officials reported donors attended the Blood Clinic Monday May and donated 302 units of blood This clinic was sponsored by the Kinsmen Their help with distribution of posters setting up the clinic loading equip ment and general assistance at the clinic is appreciated Special thanks to Betty Milton and her telephone committee to Shirley Chaplin for publicity and promotion and to Miehm and Betty Baker convenors of this clinic Clinic organizers would like to thank all people who took time out to give the gift of life Donor awards were given to 100 Donations Hubertus Dear Editor On behalf of the Georgetown Canada Employment Centre for Students I would like to thank you for the release of our article in the Halton Hills Herald Wednes day May As a result we have had a great number of student registrations and employer orders Please excuse me if Im soun ding a little shaky today The fact is Ive just made an absolutely shattering discovery Ive just discovered that my government has lied to me Since youre an honest and trusting Canadian yourself youll understand how devastating it is to encounter proof positive that governments do not always tell you the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth Its the sort of thing that makes you doubt your conviction that babies are found under cabbage leaves and prompts you to brace yourself against the possibility that youll soon hear horribly disillusioning news concerning the Easter Bunny I refer to last weeks shocking revelation that the federal govern ments entire cam paign was based on a fabric of falsehoods The Participaction campaign was launched 20 years ago as will of course be- vividly recalled by all those who are now old enough to Vanderham and Cornelius Oosterhof Donations Rita and Cochraine Donations Harold Gilmer David Piper and John Brown 20 Donations Craig Borotsik Pamela Anderson Alice P Mollin Lawrence Doucette Trudy Klein and Earl Merrill 10 Donations Ivy Harrison Bill Dadd Joanne Phillips Clare Thomas Hutchinson Allan Welters and Rebecca Ferguson The next regular clinic for Georgetown will be Monday August Yours sincerely Nancy Schultheiss Erica Thompson and Flo Street and weexpect many more to come Your support is much ap preciated and we hope to keep in touch with you throughout the sum mer Yours Truly Susan Shepherd Student Placement Officer have begun worrying whether that freckle is in fact a liverspot Burned forever into our memories is that first famous TV commercial the one which depicted a 60yearold Swede jogg ing athletically along while an an nouncer intoned that studies show ed the average 60yearold Scan dinavian was in better shape than the average 30yearold Canadian This was a vile commercial It filled us with guilt and drove thousands of otherwise sane Cana dians into jogging shorts And now it turns out the whole thing was a sham The Participac tion people have finally admitted it They simply made up that myth of the 60yearold Swede They didnt have a shred of statistical evidence that 30yearold Cana dians were horrendously out of shape Its shocking is what it is And now we can only wait for the other shoe to drop Perhaps that jogger in the com mercials wasnt a 60yearold Swede at all Perhaps he was ac tually a 27yearold Finn who just looked because he drank so much But who could have guessed this at the time As youll recall that commecial unleashed a terrible wave of Participaction upon the country Within weeks of that commer cials appearance my school was making us all do and push ups for Participaction medals This wasnt so bad at the time Arts Alive shows a hit Dear Editor The Arts Alive Committee has enjoyed the success of our two Spr ing offerings the Second City Touring Company and the Classical Brunch in memory of Ralph Both events were sell outs and we appreciate the assistance given by your paper We have some unsung heroes here in Hills The staff at Royal LePage Real Estate have sold tickets for our events as well as for Georgetown Little Theatres three plays and Globes two shows They receive no compensation for this besides our gratitude Most towns have a central box office which is funded by tax dollars Both audiences and performing groups owe a big thank you to Marilyn Champ and staff for pro viding this necessary service Thanks Royal for doing such a great job Sincerely On Behalf of Arts Alive since I was and thus still in tolerable physical condition Granted I wasnt in quite the shape that I had been in at my peak back around the age of three But I hadnt yet started my ma jestic decline This came a few years later and coincided with my discovery of beer In any case all of this raises a haunting question If tion was based on a Big Lie then what other physical fitness fibs have been perpetrated on us Im now waiting with bated breath for news that aerobic exer cise has no value whatever and was invented by pranksters in the garment industry who were simply looking for a way to trick grown men into wearing leotards And I have truly huge questions concerning the healthfood in dustry I dont have a shred of pro of but I strongly suspect the whole craze began at a secret meeting of the worlds beansprout growers back in 1965 The room was filled with gloomy men and women addressing the seemingly insoluble question How can we convince anyone to eat this gunk Then one bright spark leaped up and cried I know lets tell people its good for them The suggestion was initially greeted with loud guffaws and withering scorn The chairman ac tually sneered Oh sure And what are we going to tell them next that soybean burgers are yummy for Petes sake The rest of course is history Clare Francis as secretary Ollie Dyson as treasurer John as the assistant secretary Alex Blackwell as the Liontamer Ivan as tailtwister Jim Young and Bob Brick as first year directors Ernie Bodnar and Al Thompson as second year directors and Howard Holmes as the Bulliten Editor The Fall Fair traditionally draws the largest crowds in Georgetown but the crowds at the 1960 fireworks display at the fairgrounds may have challenged that The Victoria Day celebra tion audience swamped the park to watch the display put on by the Legion and the Town 20 Years Ago The junior unit of St Andrews did their bit to help raise funds for a permanent church building They staged a Spring Festival of Music and Drama at the church The talent program was directed by member Rita This is the only work that was not handled by the teens Sergeant Peters was pro claimed the Air Cadet of the year at the second annual inspection The enthusiasm award went to C Smith Warrant Officer BJ Seeler was awarded an award for leadership and Sgt L Grace was awarded an award for best junior A blitz canvas for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind raised over Blitz chairman Martin reported the campaign army of canvassers contained volunteers The blitz was under taken by the Georgetown Lions Club The Lions recruited the volunteers from the Georgetown and District High School The students who participated includ ed Lewis M Kavanagh Joan Kathy MacGillivary Anna Wilcox Karen Peavoy Velvet Duncan Roberta Howatt Laurie Hyde Gillian Hooton Martha Hogan Linda Mike Milne Brenda Fisher Pat Syme Sharon Webster Pat Varey E Davis Pat Layton Rick Chaplin Sharon Stoyles Reynolds and Karen Years Ago The Harrison Public School spring play called Spring In The Forest was a success The story was about the animals flowers insects birds and trees in the forest and how they are in danger from pollution and littering Three of the cardinals in the play were Angela Sarah and Jenny Pacholok Over men women and children from the art and sport world were honored by the Town of Halton Hills at an invitation- only banquet for helping put the community on several maps through their outstanding achievements Mayor Pete Pomeroy and the council were on hand to congratulate everyone 5 Years Ago Leon Larocque of Gibbons Place Georgetown won an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme The car was to be presented to Mr Larocque by Super Lotto within the next few weeks The car was won through a special draw the lottery corporation hed About cars were given away to promote the company which is a joint undertaking by all ten provinces acting through the interprovincial Lottery Cor poration Seniors need support Bens Banter By Ben Dummett If Hills councillors have any vision of the towns future theyll accept the Georgetown and District Seniors Association pro posal for a seniors recreational centre with open arms at next Mondays council meeting This doesnt mean the town should break ground tomorrow rather the town should include the proposal as part of next years town fiveyear capital budget forecast As a reporter in Hills for the last year one thing Ive heard over and over again Is the town will soon experience a population growth unparalleled in the towns history Assuming this is true and that the population is aging the need for a centre becomes that more evident councillors require further assurance they need not look any further than at the neighboring communities surrounding Halton Hills According to a survey car ried out by the association Woodstock Simcoe Orangeville Burlington Oakville Mississauga Brampton and all have senior centres If councillors hesitate about con sidering the idea of a centre it will probably be because the associa tion is proposing the town cough up over to help pay for the proposed million dollar building The remainder would be covered by a provincial government grant and by the seniors The centre would be part of any twinning of the Gordon Alcott Arena Councillors could argue some of the existing senior centres in the communities listed above were built without town money so why cant this happen in Georgetown But since the midseventies the town has indicated its support to help fund a senior centre Town Mayor Miller con firmed when the town decided to build the Alcott Arena in the mid- seventies there was talk that any twinning of the Alcott would in clude a space for seniors As well several of todays councillors cam paigned during the last election they would help the seniors get a centre built As well the seniors have taken a cost conscious approach to a new centre They chose making the centre part of a multipurpose complex because its cheaper to provide several services under one roof rather than having a separate building for each service The former option would cost significantly less in the staff and operating expenses But the seniors have to realize the centre might not be a possibili ty in the near future within the next three or four years The politi cians have to answer to the general public and its saying stop no more tax increases Weve had enough Understandably coun cillors will want to look for other ways to help finance the project Based on Mayor Millers com ments that townowned lands in the area around the civic centre could be worth millions in the relatively near future seniors might be ad vised to rally public support for the town to sell these lands on the con dition money raised goes to help establish a service everyone in Georgetown will need at some time Clare Francis as secretary Ollie Dyson as treasurer John as the assistant secretary Alex Blackwell as the Liontamer Ivan Crabtree as tailtwister Jim Young and Bob Brick as first year directors Ernie Bodnar and Al Thompson as second year directors and Howard Holmes as the Bulliten Editor The Fall Fair traditionally draws the largest crowds in Georgetown but the crowds at the 1960 fireworks display at the fairgrounds may have challenged that The Victoria Day celebra tion audience swamped the park to watch the 500 display put on by the Legion and the Town 20 Years Ago The junior unit of St Andrews did their bit to help raise funds for a permanent church building They staged a Spring Festival of Music and Drama at the church The talent program was directed by member Rita This is the only work that was not handled by the teens Sergeant Peters was pro claimed the Air Cadet of the year at the second annual inspection The enthusiasm award went to C Smith Warrant Officer BJ Seeler was awarded an award for leadership and Sgt L Grace was awarded an award for best junior A blitz canvas for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind raised over 740 Blitz chairman Martin reported the campaign army of canvassers contained 36 volunteers The blitz was under taken by the Georgetown Lions Club The Lions recruited the volunteers from the Georgetown and District High School The students who participated Lewis M Kavanagh Joan Kathy MacGillivary Anna Wilcox Karen Peavoy Velvet Duncan Roberta Howatt Laurie Hyde Gillian Hooton Martha Hogan Linda Mike Milne Brenda Fisher Pat Syme Sharon Webster Pat Varey E Davis Pat Layton Rick Chaplin Sharon Stoyles Reynolds and Karen Years Ago The Harrison Public School spring play called Spring In The Forest was a success The story was about the animals flowers insects birds and trees in the forest and how they are in danger from pollution and littering Three of the cardinals in the play were Angela Sarah and Jenny Pacholok Over men women and children from the art and sport world were honored by the Town of Halton Hills at an invitation- only banquet for helping put the community on several maps through their outstanding achievements Mayor Pete Pomeroy and the council were on hand to congratulate everyone 5 Years Ago Leon Larocque of Gibbons Place Georgetown won an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme The car was to be presented to Mr Larocque by Super Lotto within the next few weeks The car was won through a special draw the lottery corporation hed About cars were given away to promote the company which is a joint undertaking by all ten provinces acting through the interprovincial Lottery Cor poration Employment centre popular Finding fitness fibs