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Get out and attend a few of the candidates meetings in your area. Obtain their brochures and study their platforms. Talk to the candidates. They have to listen. They want your vote. In short, do everything possible to make sure your ballot on Nov. 14th repreâ€" sents an informed vote. You owe it to yourself. After the election, stay in touch with your representative and hold them accountable for their actions. Remember, they work for you â€" you don‘t work for them. Over the next few weeks, the Oakville Beaver will be providing profiles of each of the candidates running for municipal office (some have already appeared). In addition we will be attending many of the allâ€"candidates meetings in an effort to inform our readers. But reading our newspaper, is not enough to base your vote upon. If you live in the town, you owe it to yourself to get involved and vote in the Nov. 14th election. But simply voting is not enough. Get involved in the election campaign and make yourself aware of the differences in each of the candidates runâ€" ning for office. The low voter turnout is especially puzzling because the municipal level of govâ€" ermment probably has the most impact on our dayâ€"toâ€"day lives and also allows us the most impact. Municipal politicians are responsible for the condition of our streets, the quality of our children‘s education, the policing of our neighborhoods, the condition of our parks and recreational centres, and much, much more. Yet some residents would have a difficult time identifying their local trustee or councillor. he nomination deadline has passed and the cast of characters â€" make that politicians â€" seeking your vote in the Nov. 14th municipal election has been firmly set. The ball is now in your lap to get involved and vote. Oddly enough, that‘s not as easy as it sounds. For some reason, municipal elecâ€" tions draw the least amount of interest among voters. In the last municipal election, only 24.8% of the registered voters bothered to cast their ballots. Less than three out of 10 people determined who would be responsible for overseeing the spending of millions and millions of property taxes.. Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising DireCtOT Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, Georgetown In Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager The Oakville Beaver, published every Sunday, Wodmdaz‘:nd Friday, at 467 re Rd., Oakville, is one of the Metroland Printing, Publ RHDH i Ltd. group of suburban newspapers which includes: Ajaxâ€"Pickering News Advertiser, Barrie Advance, Brampton Guardian, Burlirmon Post, Conyood n Acton Free Press, Kingston This Week, Lindsay This Week, Markham Economist and Sun, Stoutfvilie/Uxbridge Tribune, Miton Canadian Champion, Mississauga News, Newmarketâ€"Aurora Eraâ€"Banner, North York Mirror, Oakville Beaver, Orillia Today, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, Peterborough This Week, Richmond Hill ThomhilVVaughan Liberal, Scarborough Mirror. 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Advert Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager United Kingdom, ie Portuga! ie taly New Zealand m Spain m United States e Ireland m Country Net official development assistance select countries, 1991, as a percentage of GNP. Norway Denmark Sweden Netherlands Finland France Canada Belgium Australia Switzerland Austria Japan opm Percent of GNP se â€"â€" LETTERS TO THE EpitoR Most of today‘s seniors who can look after themâ€" selves and enjoy their golden years have done so by savâ€" What other penalties would you like to see applied to wellâ€"off seniors? Wellâ€"off seniors are also subject to a clawback of their Old Age Security benefits. This clawback tax is 15% of net annual income in excess of $53,215. A senior who is truly wellâ€"off would, obviously, lose all of their Old Age Security. Surely, you must be aware that the federal governâ€" ment believes that a senior citizen with a net annual income of $25,921 is "wellâ€"off" because that is the income level at which the $3,482 annual age credit begins to be reduced on a sliding scale basis. Would you consider yourself "wellâ€"off" at this level of income? Dear Sir: In your editorial of Oct. 9th, entitled "Lloyd‘s Legerdemain", you note that Mr. Axworthy‘s discussion paper on social reform does not include any measures aimed at reducing benefits to wellâ€"off seniors. We can understand why this Garbage Delivery hapâ€" pens if you have been to the dump with a "load" as I did recently. Firstly you notice Garbage and Trash "delivâ€" ered" in Remote Driveways, Backroads and the Roadside Woods. Secondly, at the Dump, you go through this agonizingly slow and inefficient recording Wellâ€"off seniors are paying their share Our Garbage Day is Thursday and this Thursday, at around 6 a.m. I awoke to some sort of truck stop/starting down the street. An hour later going to the curb with my two bags of garbage I find I am on the limit of five bags. Obviously we had received a Garbage Delivery early that morning. A quick count of similar bags at adjacent houses showed some 25 bags had been "delivered" in the area. Bag limit encourages Dear Sir: A lot of your money does not get to the t}ough. It is needed to pay for raking it in, paperwork, evalâ€" When you read "Government programs, free money, foster this, encourage that", you know that the rest of you are having your pockets picked and rendered less able to compete and keep your jobs. Please ignore small business Dear Sir: You quote a mayoral candidate as saying small business owners are "neglected and treated with disrespect‘‘. Suits us. We like to be ignored by all levels of government and left to get on with our work. There is no question that our social programs must be made more cost effective and our seniors are already making sacrifices to this end. Before we are asked to do more, I would like to see the elimination of the federal bilingualism and multiculturalism programs and an end to government grants to special interest groups and big business. The attendant savings could buy a pretty big patch for our tattered social safety net. I would suggest that you might put your editorial space to more productive use by attacking the goldâ€"platâ€" ed pension plan that our MPs enjoy. All Canadian seniors could be categorized as wellâ€"off if they had such generous pensions. ing rather than spending during their working lives. In most cases, the money saved for retirement could have been used for vacations, upscale housing, and cars, etc., but these pleasures were foregone in the interests of havâ€" ing the financial wherewithal to enjoy life when retireâ€" ment provided the time to do so. Pretty soon we will have an increase in taxes and in proportion to the extra garbage you and I are "receivâ€" ing" and to "clean up" the outskirts of town. Every week we are importuned by third parties who offer to help us through what they call the frustrating and time consuming process of getting at the millions of dollars available in thousands of different programs. Somebody has to pay them too. Dear Just keep on ignoring us. We like it. Arthur Holland. of Vehicle, it‘s Weight and your Driving Licence details and of course relief of money, (It finally cost me $32.00), by a Town Employee. Fourthly you are directâ€" ed to, risk vehicle integrity in getting to the drop off point over rough ground and you self unload, watched by more employees. Lastly yet another employee, records your unloaded weight and takes payment, makes out a receipt and does not bid you "good day". All this takes about 30 minutes, is done in an unfriendly Customer/ Supplier relationship, I am not sure who is | who, and overall is a "Pain". ; 1 uation of applicants, offices, computers, executive pay cheques, publicity and more. What‘s left is dispensed by politicians, beaming as though they had found treasure and you can have it. "garbage delivery" Colin Davey