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Essay With A Message Peace Propaganda and With A Little Help from Your Friends by Connie Carter Georgetown District High School A few years ago I read about tho hippies or lower children down in San Francisco To they were the beginning of a beautiful outlook on life and people These young people were the power of peace Some where along tho line a minute but devastating crock occurred Marijuana was used as an in more meaningful outlook on life and themselves These children smoked their grass and retained the peace Alt beautiful things come an end It seems the more beauty one finds in the quicker another schemes to de stroy it In come organized crime The Mafia With them hard drugs drowning the beautiful children Life was beautiful for a while longer but in the end there stood a mass of forlorn drugged people and few wilted mums The newspapers ate up tho bait like a fish docs a worm This was even more than the sinking of the Titanic Here was an eye catcher for the public Here were ceaseless sources of goodies to make little old lades tip over in their rock chairs Here was the chan ce to make the businessman desk work more interesting the local hangouts life was not so dull any more I mean its more interesting to find out who copped that good speed last week and if it will be in next week than to point a picture of a rose It much more Interest ing to count how many needle marks you have than ducks on a pond The papers were making a bundle The Mafia was cleaning up Someone had to be left with the rough end of the stick And in an empty room void of life a seventeen year old youth was lying in a pool of vomit a syringe Jutting from bis frail bruised arm At the police station the police in their own way were getting in formation from two long haired on where they get their dope Ten more were writhing In the psychiatric ward going cold turkey And thirty were in their cliches tasting the first sweet smoke of a Joint For the addicts there is that one last flag Then there isl the hope help or death withi the younger eyes wide open to the wonders of life Where will it end Will it end Nobody really seems to care Even Jesus Christ could not the problems of man still on Fighting for the right to lrc in peace and hap piness If people would understand life s only what you make it PICK APART BOARDS DEATH SENTENCE Continued from Page claimed the stand of acres for an clement school site had been set by the Board with no regulations govern ing silo set by any other He ted that had the largest land area per pupil for school in the district Closing of this school is tantamount to throwing an investment in land and buildings close to the speaker remarked He stressed that Percy Don had expressed a desire I to sell land right next to the school and colled for prompt action by the Board He explained there was large section of land bounded by the Credit River and Roger Creek which could well be used as an environmental study area in the future not only for school but for the whole BIGGER IS BETTER Dick Marshall a rcsl dent who is vice principal ot Port Credit High School Iwigcd the idea that bigger better and assured the board he had chosen to live in after careful examination of the school the students and the teachers He contrasted the attitude of helpfulness and responsibility in school favourably with the attitude found in most big schools In a smaller school a feeling of self worth and self importance is much more easily developed he maintained Ho claimed the sense of sharing and ity feeling within the school seems to carry over to other community activities citing the high attendance at Scout Guide and choir groups I iously doubt that this level of i involvement would continue if students were being to target schools broken up in to different classes and seeing one another only on the way to and from school ho added He observed that He reminded the Board that William Davis while Minister of Education had publicly slated I will seek and means to help small urban centres re main small and vital and to preserve more human quali ties of the small communities Reed termed this a clear to government and gov agencies He told the board tho major in had made their position and stated the right of majority rule was in to a democratic gov We the parents of and district have given the I right to be our extension in the education of our children and you bound to these princip- les and have responsibility to act according to the wishes of the majority he concluded COMMON SENSE Peter Hughes acting as chair man of the group summed up briefly reviewing what the had said He ventured tho opinion that too often decisions are made by consultants and rather than using common sense He pointed out that plan ners and sociologists ore try to restore the values and in that North Amer once had and moved away from with present day students have what these people ore striving for ho said Don it away fmm us pea king for all the members of the delegation ho asked for an answer to the question of returning kindergarten children to their own school by and an answer to the re mainder of the brief by July its young people to put In a good day work While strongly advocating the maintaining of this unique lit tie school he admitted there were some limitations which he claimed could be overcome by the addition of gymnasium and the use of the kindergarten teacher in the afternoon as helping teacher in the classes In summing up he stressed it was the belief of the parents that tho quality of education being offered in was not only equal to but superior in many ways to that offered in larger schools MAJORITY FAVOUR Bob Crawford reported on the results of a survey in Norval area which he claimed showed a great majority of the resid favoured keeping the school open He suggested dren from tho Peel side of the line could attend or children from the extreme easterly end of Georgetown Ho pointed out that many Georgetown people Chairman Doug Wood com mended the group for the ex tensive research they had done and the manner in which they hod made their presentation Later in tho meeting a letter from Peel Board of Education stated they would not bo Interes ted in sending students from a cros3 the boundary to school seems to set realistic yet demanding goals and requires RADICALS CHOSE RAIDERS BEST STITT WAS IT Acting for Georgetown Radical Car Club Gory Snow presents high scoring Georgetown Raider with the clubs Most Valuable Player trophy and replica between the and third period of Raiders last game in tho Memorial Arena this season topped In scoring in bis first year with the dub attend church In Norval and help make up the Brownie and Guide Scout packs Julian Reed emphasized the human side of the argument under the headings the right and responsibility of parents to educate their children the right of children to be allowed the In dlvlduality of their own and communities tho right of a small community to exist and the right of majority rule He led oft by stating there was no statute under any act where the state has the right to over rule the parents and responsibility to cote their children He claimed the fact that they were at the meeting making a presentation showed that parents took their responsibility seriously CLEAR DIRECTIVE Reed emphasised that the need for a nations Identity was being repeated every day and claimed that a national Identity starts with a community Ends Game Minutes Early Both Georgetown Burling ton Juveniles may bo out of the Milton Juvenile Hockey Tourn next year because of a war they waged on Milton ice on Friday The Consolation round game was colled with four minutes left in tho second period when players from both clubs took part In all sparked by a fight involving two ers Burlington was leading 51 at the time Dave Word scored towns goal from Marc Damp- It was Georgetown second gome in the tournaments con solation round Wednesday April they Oakville Hugh Williams scored 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