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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills MICH A Division Company Limited St South Georgetown Ontario Publisher Citizen of Year well deserved Double congratulations on Friday night Citizen of the Year Awards First to the deserving recipients the Georgetown Volunteer Am balance Service and second to the Georgetown Lions Club We could and in fact have editorialized about the fine fine role the GVAS members have and will continue to play in our town s life To add any further plaudits would simply become repititious The only word that we could add is that they re constantly on the prowl for new members Its a demanding task for which there are never enough volunteers If you re interested give Andy Fentan a call One very loud round of applause we would like to lead would be in congratulations to the Lions for their organization and support of the Citizen of the Year Awards The speculation and thought created by those awards is tremen It turns the town eyes in wardly once a year to assess the that are being done by our fellow citizens We do it in fact everyone does it We try to guess who the winner of the award is going to be In doing so we ve realized that making that final decision must be terribly difficult bcraiwp the number of suggestions that were tossed around our office far outnumbered the suggestions officially submitted to the Lions The speculation that award creates is a big plus in generating true community involvement and spirit Our only other thought on the subject of Citizen of the Year Awards is thank goodness the GVAS finally have won They ve been our bet for the past two years Good use made of arena this past week Anyone who questioned the propriety or purpose behind setting aside the use the Gordon Memorial Arena for the spring break for the International Bantam Tournament was we hope on hand sometime during the event to witness the kind of impact that very special event had once again on our com munity The arena was a constant hive of activity The stands were constantly filling and refilling with fans players and coaches School buses loaded with players were frequently seen on their way to and from the Legion and the church hall where the hungry masses were being fed Hockey talk was about all you heard throughout the week Conversation concentrated on how Georgetown or Acton were doing Or which team Toronto or Detroit looked stronger People who probably have never been in the Gordon Alcott Arena were there rooting on the teams on which the boys they were hosting were on The town was alive thanks to the Bantam tournament To state that better use could have been made of the arena by providing public skating throughout the entire week is a pretty weak ex for knocking the tournament It would have been very nice to have had a second arena to which youngsters wanting an afternoon skate could have gone to but that t possible this year In the future it may be with the possible provision a second ice surface The best commendation that could be made about the tour benefit to this community was provided by one fellow we were talking to He had been passing through Peterborough Friday evening and had heard a lengthy report on the radio about how the local Peterborough team was doing in the Georgetown International Ban tam Hockey Tournament That kind of publicity is awful hard for a town to buy If it does come down to the town recreation department having to recommend certain activities at the Gordon Alcott as special events worthy of a special grant to decrease the overall of ice time the Bantam tournament should be near the top of the list of recommendations Years Ago- Steele joins law firm From the files at the Herald YE- AGO With modern record crowd of roaring In their cars the Georgetown Raiders overwhelmed Milton Merchants I lo cap ture the hard fought tor Ontario Hockey Association Junior semifinal series In Georgetown Memorial Arena last Sunday Georgetown now meets New Hamburg in the league finals Extension of a free parking area behind one Main Street block has been requested by he Georgetown Parking Authority Henry Helfant asked council to lease land from John which he said will allow more parking spaces In Ihe area Rental fee would be Debentures which the town must Issue tor lis share of the purchase cost of Cedarvale School would bear an interest rate of per cent Nine Brownies of the Georgetown pack flew up to Guides at the Holy Cross auditorium this past week Elizabeth Catling Debbie Caruso Debbie Brick Heather Hulmo Patricia Symc Patricia Cathleen Rosalie and Anna Wilcox received their wings from Tawny Owl Mrs A and Tawny Owl Mrs Kay Collier In Ihe CWOSSA Public Speaking Finals held on Friday at St Jerome a High School in Kitchener Richard of Georgetown District High School was winner of the Junior boys competition Council has unanimously rejected the proposed police commission budget Finance committee chairman Morrow told council that fS rose to in iniwaiSOpTcatnttrUuiIUtyHr He old not noma ihs exact figure The nickel and dime parking meters became legal this week with final passing of a bylaw authorizing their use At the same time ihe period of free parking meters has come to an end The nickel and dime meters replaced penny meters Only Councillor Em Hyde a consistent opponent of the new meters opposed he new bylaw He stated that fees ore too high and meters should not be in operation Bill Gillies former deputy reeve and candidate for Halton East will attend a school on policy and organization at Cedar in Bolton this weekend Sykes Super opened his week at 130 Street The younger customers on opening day received free cookies while older shoppers r yellow roses Monte Jackson was opening at the same lime The Nook at 130 Guclph Street Bay Steele formerly of Fort Frances has now commenced the practise of law In Georgetown in association A A and J in the law firm of and The congregation of the Maple Avenue Baptist Church will hold its first service In the new church on Maple Avenue on Easter Sunday exactly seven years since they began In Ihe Odd Hall Council unanimously turned down a Dclrex Developments proposal for release of remaining residential land In the subdivision Off Sunday March SI PaulsBaptist congregation officially became St Paul Baptist Church Rev A ex tension miss loner and minister of the church conducted service and was assisted by Rev Harold Bridge of Toronto who directs the extension work of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec tCORCCToW this Miller minister of sick Provincial system must concentrate on health Thanks to a Georgetown reader the Mount Forest Confederate our attention was drawn to some unique comments offered by one Mount resident to the province hospital spending cutbacks Mount Forest Louise Marshall Hospital board have been ordered to cut back their spending by This particular Mount Forest resident wrote a letter to health minister Frank Miller The health system has to be around We re spending three billion en sick and until we start spending half that amount on health were lost We have to spend more on preventative medicine health maintenance and health education We might be better to cut back beds in all hospitals by half In order to have programs keep healthy people healthy If we keep spending money on the sick we re going to go over the brink Sure we can probably hire nurses for an hour but who that going to help keep the hospital doors open but it not ping to help anybody what you get service at an hour The theme is health we re spending less lhan two percent of the budget on health Mr is the minister of sick not the minister of And that got to be turned around Viewpoint Why do we care only about baby seals by Gerry Lands borough Arc you one of the people who gets a deep down gut feeling when it comes to the brutal senseless slaughter of baby seals Or do you feel that here is too much fuss and uproar made over ihe annual seal hunf Regardless of what your personal con vidians are the following should be of in tan to personally abhor the seal hunt and verylhing it stands for With synthetic fur available where only the experts know for sure sealing or fur should be considered primitive and archaic Sealing for meal can hold for the taste does not appeal to the masses Sealing as a livelihood cannot be pled- because most sealers in Canada ho off on and can see why they can make it a full time practise Anyone who has witnessed the pathetic dght of a mother seal returning to lie beside carcass of her skinned pup could not Justify this Inhumane practise The men who are sealers are dehumanized as men who lo war They become accustomed to the killing the blood and the cries from the helpless These men estopped feeling for the helplessness of the and it becomes just a job Brian for the In tcrnatlonal Animal Welfare Fund against this inhumane and brutal slaughter and is to be commended for his dedication and cam passion We support I A F and have empathy for their crusades and beliefs The fund owns helicopter We received pamphlets and posters brochures to help in the cause ill of which coil a lot of money Here the point Though we are moved to tears at the sight rf the inhuman wo are alto moved to tears at the sight of inhumane human daughter Because people seem to relate more brutality against baby seals than to brutality against humans the Federation for Animal Welfare has funds while our own Children Aid Society do not Ironic t If In yuebec a mother has been charged with criminal in the of her four son due to second degree burn over percent of his body She placed him scalding bath It the first me but this he died No one will write letters of protest the treatment the child rccened He wis only one hundreds of thousands who are abused every diy in life in inhumane No protest letters here Why Is one form of less than the other Children Aid Society was originally formed to prolect those who are unable to protect themselves We see pictures of men throwing their bodies over baby bcal pups lying helpless on Ice aeriKileaa daughter The CAS has so many cases of child that they no longer throw cloak of prelection over helpless human offspring No one walks the core streets with a mantel of protection for 10- and 12 and 13 hustlers drug addicts and No one sends funds comparatively to Tight the brutal slaying of human young Why in life here in our own com little ones arc beaten and burned aid made to suffer without anyone writing letters of protest At a local nightclub a boy who was 12 at tops sat with his parents and drank a beer and a half with a few cigarettes in between His parents obviously approved of the situation Who protects him from his parents Or does he need protection For the abused and brutally treated human offspring there ore no little old ladies to wring their hands In sympathy no young people to march in condemnation no fat to help fight the cause If we ever la paint abused human Br would bo Day every day of the year Why Meanwhile all and Heeding hearts take some of your precious indignation and take a good look around you Even an ostrich can keep his head in the sand On Parliament Hill- RCAAP worried about staying in business By MacLeod Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald OTTAWA Since there were no girlie magazines lying around I settled down in front of the fireplace the other night with a book about morale problems with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police In terms of relaxed entertainment this would normally be on a par with a Nigerian telephone directory but it Just happened that I had spent a long social evening with wo veteran officers They had been chatting Informally about things that bugged them In the force so it actually was an Interesting exercise to see what a formal inquiry had to say on the subject And most interesting aspect of all was hat the biggest worry facing these two Mo unties was not even part of he formal report We 11 get to their concerns later In the meantime it s worth noting hat the Inquiry established In to deal with surfacing morale problems in the force resulted In a page report containing 135 me lions The study was headed by County Court Judge Rene Marin and during the course of the inquiry submissions were heard from members of he public the RCMP The commissioners also travelled to the United States and Europe talk with other police forces and governments There Is no doubt about the depth of he Perhaps the most notable concerned establishment of federal police who would hear public complaints about the at least a press release from the solicitor department said it was Ihe most Important suggestion But so far us lntcrnil morale is concerned most of the recommendations dealt with a more humane system of discipline Military Discipline The commission found thai Ihe military system of discipline has changed little since ho force was established back in There should be a less punitive mentality says the report The three major recommendations for Improving morale in this area were To repeal the regulation which allows an member to be Jailed on the of commissioned officer to repeal another rule which forces an member to make a statement when accused of a offence to permit an member peering in service court lo be represented by a civilian counsel other mdatlor dealing wilh pensions transfers promotions once procedures And no doubt all of Ihcsc things morale The eommission should have all he considering the qualification of its Judge Marin wis with the Law Reform Commission of Canada Robin Bourne is an assistant deputy minister in the general s department Ross Wim is a lawyer Wilson heads commercial fraud section he is alio a lawyer and Robert wis chosen by the men in the force And since Ihis highly qualified group heard from people and considered the matter for two years it seems stupid for an individual of limited to challenge Die findings particularly when research was limited conversation with a couple of Mount Yet I still wonder whether the Inquiry Hot to the bottom of Hie morale problem and particularly whether due regard was given to the fierce pride most men have in the traditions of force Bigger Worries These two officers 1 mentioned are ex and reasonable men and they said that their greatest worry and they claim lo reflect the views of many colleagues Is hat federal government may force the RCMP the provinces and turn It into a smaller FBI type operation The RCMP now Is the provincial police force in every province except Ontario and Quebec which have their own forces And previously Ottawa has contributed 60 per cent of cost with the provinces paying the other percent And even under this for former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett was seriously considering the feasibility of establishing a provincial police force Now Ottawa is starting to negotiate new contracts with the provinces and the federal wants the formula reversed so it contributes only percent The annual cost per man In the Is estimated at while the Ontario Provincial Police est ma les Its equivalent cost at So with a new formula he provinces might soon find It cheaper to establish their own provincial police forces And one of these Mountles said if the West oil of the force s traditions Internal discipline might be a problem he said but we re far more concerned with the whole future of the force Just thought pass it along for what it worth I Don OHearns and Susan De columns were unavailable for this weeks issue Is there any city you would rather live near by blew art The federal government urban affairs deportment has taken Its first timid step toward trying determine which Canadian city has best quality of life And pages later it concludes that the search for a universal measure that sum marlies tho quality of life in urban areas is not likely to be successful In other words the government has no way of determining the best city in which to live This first effort is not even particularly good reading a somewhat stuffy document thai filled with phrases as redundancy among urban in dl caters the rotated factor matrix Indicators with loading factors and something about computer graphics But it an interesting exercise If for no other reason lhan It seems to prove that no amount of expertise can tell you where you should live What he department did do was to the statistics and concentrate on Canadian cities comparing factors of feeling economic social cultural and physical life In Ihese places It tells you all sorts of things except the best place lo live Illegitimate Births For Instance it fascinating to learn hat has the highest Illegitimate birth rate In Canada per 1 births Halifax has the next highest with 134 and then the rate declines through all the cities to Hamilton with only But the question the department can t answer is how this affects the quality of life Is a measure of promiscuity Docs it mean that in some places more teen are on pill What happens after the children are bom The department acknowledges that even the definition of Illegitimate varies a bit from province to province Another statistic indicates that Winnipeg mightbc ihcbeai place for drinkers That has 5 square feet of space per 100 population where alcoholic beverages arc served At the low end right behind Ottawa la Saint John N with square feet But how this affects the quality of life presumably depends on whether you re a drinking person And also the tables closer together in Saint John Incidentally report lists these drinking establishments under social op portunilles There arc dandy statistics on cultural homogeneity and If I can ever figure out what they mean 1 11 pass them along comparative chart that doesn impress me shows the voter for civic elections ranging from a high of fi per cent In St John to a low of per cent in Kitchener Voter turnout says the rcporl is one measure of he state of civil participation It also talks about how It the momentousness of decisions Perhaps it also reflecls on some crummy campaigns Most Hospital Beds Just for the record you might be In lores led o know that London has the mast hospital beds per 1 14 St John and Thunder Bay have St s Niagara has 4 and Sudbury has Sudbury fares well in on missing persons only 10 per London leads In this category too Thunder Bay has and St John s And leads all the other cities with reported criminal offences 1 per 10 population Going down the scale Thunder Bay has St John a St Catharines Niagara Sudbury and Montreal 456 qui even the report acknowledges that the figures can be gross misleading A low figure can mean a that the crime rate is actually low or lb hat residents have bo little confidence In their police force that they do not bother reporting minor crime or that what one community reports diligently such as soliciting by prostitutues another community docs not see as a crime worth reporting or that Ihe police do not bother recording all the crimes reported Simitar arguments could be made for the other statistics In IhU book described by Its authors as a first foray bo to speak Actually was much more Interested In how much the book cost to produce but I find out It seems It was a spinoff from other studies and exact cost calculations are Impossible But we hope subsequent books on the subject will be more readable said one official That too will be a first foray