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Georgetown Herald A Division of Horn Company Until 22 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario WAITER THE HERALD THURSDAY JULY 15 EDITORIAL COMMENT Cooperative Effort Start of a comprehensive plan to provide adequate parking in the downtown com area is evident from the activity going on behind one block of Main Street stores The area which runs from the Hotel to the Norton building has been hard surfaced and when it is completed will have directional markings to Include many more cars than currently use It in a helterskelter fashion Georgetown Parking Authority which la heading the project has a longrange project of providing all four sections Unfortunately a by law which would have imposed a compulsory tax on land owners in the defined area has run into technical ob stacles The Parking Authority has now decided to campaign for funds on a voluntary basis with the hope that it will receive one hundred percent from those involved Each property owner has been assessed a Good Switch The weatherman may have done Georgetown a favour when the planned May IK celebration was rained out So successful was the delayed program on July 1 that consideration Is now being given to making this a permanent change The idea has much merit Even so august a personage as Queen Victoria cannot be publicly remembered forever and Victoria Day has lost much of its significance with each passing generation Dominion Day or Canada Day as it has come to be known is a much more suitable time for celebration Once a special holiday with special attractions it has fallen into percentage of his business assessment with the idea that this is the fairest way for oil businesses will benefit from the parking It is obvious that with shopping plazas providing free parking that the downtown area cannot continue to prosper without similar facilities The Parking Authority is quite aware that there can be jealousies among individuals and that some may say one Beet ion of the downtown is deriving more benefit than another However It would be impossible to plunge Into a fullscale scheme for equal facilities at one time and the Authority is confident that all merchants when they assess the ad vantages will pay share of the assess ment The half a loaf cose for merchants in the other three Main Street sections and with the guarantee that the other half will come later only a very shortsighted person would urn down the plan limbo for several years This year fire works and festivities have done much to put it back in perspective There is still one factor which could be easily remedied by the federal government July is the only holiday which still is of proclaimed on the actual day Modern technology does not easily allow factories to cease production in midweek and most switch to a Friday or Monday for the day off We suggest that like other national holidays July 1 be proclaimed on the nearest Friday or Monday to the date But whatever the date let replace our May with July I for our celebration Better Remembrance While on the subject of switch days we have thought as we shivered outdoors on a cold November 11 that a much more suitable time of year could be chosen for day Here again when this was first instituted November had a very special marking the a world holocaust in which thousands Canadians died and were for With those who lost the r lives in a second World War and in Korea now included in the remembrance there is no particular reason now to stick to the November date The solemnity of a parade and service at the cenotaph would be that much greater if those on parade and those attending as part pants could be under warm sunny skies The Canadian Legion which Includes a large majority of exservice men and women would be the logical group to campaign for a The Legion which the welfare of its members will realize mat on a cold blustery day there is every possibility of a marcher health suffering It would be no slur on veterans of World War if a better season were chosen as a memorial Here are some statistics for 1970 in Canada quoted by the Ontario Safety League There now a licensed motor vehicle for every persons Imports totalled 404 863 automobiles exports SAFETY TIPS Tests by Goodyear have shown that tires operating under ad verse conditions can reach temperatures substantially hotter than boiling water The Ontario Safety League that at high speed under inflated tires can top degrees Good drivers keep In the middle of their ng lane say Safety League It is a sign of careless or Inconsiderate driving to crowd or straddle the centre line of a highway STONE WALL GOING UP Glen stone mason Gerry selects the next stone for a retainer wall being built at the north end of the down town parking lot The building of the wall Is part of an extensive Improvement program which has seen the lot bordered by Main Mil and Back Street hard topped White markings will be added to designate the parking spaces MIGHT GO POLLUTION COUNTS HOW ABOUT PORTRAIT OF SOMEONE PLANNING A HOLIDAY AFTER READING THE NEWS Blind Girl Doesnt Want Peoples Pity A feature story in the Ed monton Journal tells about Pa It I Wilson 18 who is the daughter of and Mrs John Wilson The Wilsons are former town residents and now live In Sher wood Pork Alberta where he is stationed with the Canadian armed forces Wilson can shatter anyone pre conceived Ideas about blind people Patti IB who was born blind is a Grade student she calls herself average at Salisbury Composite High School In Sherwood Park snd she want anyone pity Five days a week Patti like thousands of other Canadian students wait for a school bus outside her parents home at East Whitecroft near Sherwood Park The only thing to distinguish her from the other students is a white cane she carries folded In four sections in the palm of her hand and perhaps the hesitation when she feels for the first step of the bus with her On the bus daydreams there are many young chlldrer whose conversations she finds no concern It a good pastimt on the bus when there nothing Interesting she said Later expressed reservations about because I feel so ridiculous because they can tell by the loo on your face that you re day dreaming Patti s no super girl Sh knows It and wouldn t have it any other way I don see any dlfferenct between myself and someone who can see she said Some things 1 can do but I don want anyone thinking I really dlf She gives a lot of credit to mother for not offering the protection she might so easily have given a blind child My mom had me do as much at possible When I was younger family tried to keep things off the door but 1 m not so sure thev even do that anymore she sola However she does have metal measuring spoons at home because when baking she must be able to measure exactly and measuring a half cup of flour fot Instance in a cup measure is difficult Patti Is a class represenlaih at her school and writes for thi school newspaper but Just In way she tells you about these accomplishments ma realize that she t them outstanding is a rock music fan who occasionally listens to classical music Soul music by The Four Tops and The Supreme head her list of entertainers She talks lucidly about her scrap book on American space flights and how she is considered the boy of the family because of her passion Tor double A dragsters and Can Am series Patti takes these pastimes seriously I take what people tell me about something and add my conception of what It should look like It hard to Imagine a rocket 365 feet high she says In addition she plays the piano and knits She tells about her dog Taffy and two horses she has at home If someone goes with me I can be convinced to go rldlt she said but bnskailv she prefers the dog I throw things tor him and he brings them best subject is typing She has token physical ducal ion although not this year She wants to be a secretary and claims there are no vantages to blind You just have to learn to cope in a different way She types with the rest of her class but uses car phones plugged to a tape recorder to listen to dictation rather than reading from a book as the other students do Impresses you with her buoyant spirit She came to the school two years ago when it opened It was a Tilt hard in he halls moving between classes when I didn t know the school but I t alone thank goodness The school was new knew their way around does become discouraged at timea Not In public but sometimes when someone starts showing sympathy She never uses the There no harm in someone offering you assistance If you need it and refuse It you might look foolish It bothers me that people think am helpless Sometimes people want to help with something you can do The problem is how to tell them what you can do without hurting their feelings Patti says she does not base her view on the sound of a per son s voice only by their remarks I don like sarcasm at all she said has worked as a packager for the Canadian National In for the Blind in the summer months Although last year she find a Job she leaves you with the Impression that this year will be different better THE DISTRICT AT A GLANCE MILTON VETOES FLUORIDATION MILTON Fluoridation of the town water supply has been rejected by council The move to fluoridate was suggested by J H Chamberlain medical officer of health for Hal ton County and Dr M Green dental rector for the County Health Unit We shouldn add anything to our water said Councillor Art Mclanson and other councillors agreed I wonder why they don Insist that milk be fluoridated Councillor Charles Johnson said STILL NO POST Or BRAMALEA Residents or are still without their own post office and so for no definite announcement has been made as to when they will get one There is a definite need in for wicket services said James Martin assistant postmaster for Brampton Liberal member of Parliament for Peel North Bruce Beer promised a post office for Bramalea In his campaign preceding the last federal election TRUCK BAN COMING BRAMPTON Mayor James said this week that truck traffic will be legislated off Main Street of Brampton even if a special session of council has to be called Following up on a bomb shell he dropped at a committee meeting Wednesday night he said he aims to see that heavy truck traffic is definitely banned from Main Street He said the steel structure of bed runniiig under Main Street have deteriorated seriously WILL DISPLAY OLD PLANES VICTORIA Members of the Brampton Flying Club hope to establish the first aircraft museum of First World War aircraft in Ontario There will be aircraft involved said Roy Sage vice- president of the club The proposed museum would be at the site of the present club facilities A acre site west of the airstrip has been setasidc InltialcostoflhemuseumlsexpectcdtobeOOODOO VOLUNTEERS RUN COUNTRY CLUB OAKVILLE Operation of Country Club has been taken over by volunteers after the club manager and owner of the down town property skipped out The big social club which has been having difficulties since It was started years ago has two large mortgages outstanding and two are in default It is estimated that membership in the club is between 2 and 000 It Is expected the club directors will now sell the property NO TOWNSHIP TAX RELIEF NASSAGAWEYA There is no education tax relief In light iur Nassagaweya ratepayers as talks with Robert Welch Ontario minister of education fall to bring concessions Township officials spoke to the minister in June to discuss what they felt to be unjust tax rates resldentswillforkout for Increased education taxes The rate up over seven mills last year Jumps another 38 mills this year STORE BYLAW CONTROVERSY A new closing bylaw passed last week allows storekeepers to open their doors until 9 clock Thur day and Friday nights with to hours in effect Tuesday Wed and Saturday Monday Is a closed day I give It IS months was one councillor comment The majority will One thing seems certain The near future will see more demands more controversy about the closing hours and more changes In the bylaw Serious concern was allayed when the announced its findings on a weed suspected of being marijuana which grows heartily In the Conservation Park Several strangers carrying large plastic bags were seen copping great quantities of the plant Investigation by the and OPP through the University of Guelph lab technicians revealed how ever that the foliage was not the narcotic hemp plant but a common weed bearing a strong resemblance to marijuana THREATEN TO FENCE ACTON Residents of Acton s subdivision disputing the right of an Elizabeth Street resident to fence of fa walkwav which connects the subdivision with Prospect Park were involved in two separate incidents with Ted Banklewicz and police No charges were laid but some adults and children threatened to tear down the newly erected fence Ownershlpof the walkway is in dispute SMILEY Pioneers for Kissin Cousins By doing a little mathematics 1 ve come o the conclusion that I must be related to half the population of Canada ve Just received a small booklet compiled by my uncle Ivan Thomson of Ottawa It sets forth the genealogy of my maternal ancestors In Canada Some people find their an a huge bore Others are afraid of skeletons in the closet I find ancestors fascinating as 1 try to picture them think of the I and my children have received from them My uncle s booklet is no high coloured romance It deals in Tacts births deaths property titles But among the pages Is the occasional laconic comment which makes me wish I could leap back into the 19th century and explore further My maternal great grand parents were certainly not of the aristocracy fie was a ship carpenter and that one reason he Walter Thomson and she Margaret his new bride set out from Donegal Ireland for St John New Brunswick where there was a shipbuilding Industry He was she IB It was Within a few years with three children they moved to Upper Canada because Waller had heard or work to be obtained in the building of slides on the Upper Ottawa River These slides were built for the lumbering business which skimming the cream from the stands of wonderful nine in the area The purpose the slides was to allow the cribs and rafts of square timber to by pass rapids The timber was floa d down he river eventually to reach Quebec Some of the great rafts were half a mile long In 1B47 great grand father Thomson was appointed Slide Master of Grand Calumet Island In the Ottawa River He held the position for more than years to be succeeded by his son William my grand father who was to reign until the last raft of square timber come down the river in That the background My mother family attended a one- room school boarded the teacher for a year My uncle Ivan had a good Job He went to the school early in fall and winter and lit the fire He got a year My grand father got a day for his government position as Slide Master Pay ceased when the navigation season ended so the Master had to form as well There were ten in the family and from what I heard they had a happy life on the island As a child I saw the old homestead high on a hill overlooking the mighty Ottawa and was thrilled But as I said while the facts in the book are interesting it he little asides that inflame the curiosity The original family of Walter Thomson was eight children They produced among them exactly GO more Thomsons Today eight might produce Anna marr James Paul They had four children She also raised Johnnie Robertson Now there a story in itself Who was Johnnie Why did she raise him What became or him John Mountain Jack was a limber cruiser and a real bruiser In the lumber lack clashes of the times He had a terrible temper and was known up and down the Ottawa River as a scrapper He died at 91 a pretty ripe age for a brawler who also sired children in two marriages Catherine married George Kemp who was very fond of liquor No other comment except naming their children with the last thus Jason was drowned at Temlskaming Another son Walter had nine children My grand father William had ten A son James had eleven The youngest daughter Jane must have realized that even such a good thing as Thomsons could go too Tar produced only two Anyone who can multiply can see why I have so many 4 relations The original two had to In two generations knows how many the produced But I really like to go back and talk to some of the old timers They were virile people In more ways than one BUSINESS DIRECTORY LCMIUESSE 1 Ontario Land Surveyor Duncan Drive j 87762f75 Residence Wallace Thompson 3rd Small Claims Court County of Hslton Clsrk A Commltslonsr 2969 OPTOMETRIST LM Brown MAIN ST N Suits For Appointment phons Pleat present Health Insurance Income Tax Return BOOKKEEPING SERVICES call KENNETH BURGESS of Associate Tax Consultants 22T7 OPTOMETRIST R million Mountttnvlow South Building For Appointment BARRAGERS CLEANERS Shirt Lsundsrsrs 2379 1 Main St S Goekpn and DeUvsry All work done on premises Please present Health 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