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PigER ALP Ho of Hills THE- HI HMD Wednesday IN 137S A Division of Newspapers Lorn- Limited improvements face areas realities It s nice to see the action being taken by Georgetown downtown chants to help bolster the town s downtown area Workers are now busy finishing off construction of three decorative islands spread along Mam Street The pleasantly designed islands will consist of two hopefully large trees set in wooden frames that will also include a bench and flower pots The entire renovation is ex to cost close to but Hills taxpayers won be stuck with the bill The tab or the work is being picked up by Georgetown Business provement Area a group of downtown merchants who have agreed to pay a self imposed tax to be used tor projects like this one to help rejuvenate the downtown core In opting for the islands the downtown merchants hive impressive foresight In many small coming to grips with the potential of a declining downtown much of the discussion centres around a lack of parking that makes it difficult for downtowns to compete with malls While is a valid con cern Georgetown downtown merchants seem to have realized that you first have to create the kind of downtown people are in terested in parking in before parking is a problem A town with no shoppers have no parking problems The have had the sense to sacrifice a few parking spaces in he interest at beiuttf the downtown We look forward to future improvements to the downtown yet to be unveiled by the merchants Renaissance urges return to dark ages It seems those guardians of the public morality chapter of Renaissance are back in action Renaissance has been a stone around the neck of local educators for years as they have advocated the banning of literature they considered destructive to the moral fibre of local students and argued in defense of the likes of Anita Bryant Recently a number of Ookvillc high school students were told they would be suspended for part of the next school year because of their part in the publication of an derground newspaper called Rag Art According to the cipal of the students school the newspaper depicts teachers in various sexual acts has obscene graphics and viciously attacks teachers Renaissance have come out of their closet to defend the students as victims of an inadequate and Permissive education system hey demand that director of education himself be suspended for his role in creating the present education system Renaissance seems to think the high school students were driven to creating the newspaper because they are forced to read books like the classic The Diviners Renaissance leader Reverend Ken Campbell and his supporters seem to be delighting in the Oakville students newspaper They seem convinced the ap pearance of the publication proves what they have believed for so long that permissiveness in education Is leading to the decay of students moral fibre Let hope our local school board are not greatly influenced by the latest tirade from Renaissance Certainly if there any lesson educators should have learned during recent years it s that you don win respect from students by demanding it through tougher discipline and you don t really teach by isolating students from the world around them A return to the dork ages of education as advocated by Renaissance will only lead to a more rebellious attitude students and more Rag Arts If students are confronted with stern authority simply for authority s sake they like most human beings will try to rebel And if educators try to pretend foul language and sex don t exist students simply won t take sueh a system seriously By making information available to students about the realities of their society they learn to come to grips with these realities rather than fear them And by earning students respect rattier than heavy handidly demanding it teachers and principals win a much deeper and meaningful respect from their students The publication of a trashy newspaper like Rag Art is indicative of a problem but it a problem won be solved by taking Renaissance and returning the hard hand of authority to the schools Some contradictions in NEC moves There seems to be some contradictions two new policies recently discussed by the Niagara Escarpment Commission Recently NEC voted to extend the mandates of commission members another two months so the latest preliminary proposals can be completed by the same people who began the project so many years ago But at the same time members of NEC s staff have recommended that responsibility for the escarpment development control should be handed over to municipalities along the The contradiction of these two trains of thought is that on one hand NEC has re appointed a majority of commission members no longer holding positions on the municipal councils they were initially appointed to represent while on the other hand NEC staff arc advocating that more control be given back to the escarpment municipalities We can sec the wisdom on not bringing in an entirely new slate of NEC commissioners at this late stage in the game but some requirement should have been made to ensure the ex municipal council members on NEC make regular reports to their old councils point of presenting the wishes of that council at com mission meetings when the council and the commissioners views are not the same If anything is likely to erode the commissions credibility Its being run by a group of people no longer affiliated with municipal councils At the same time to hand over the major decision making power for the escarpment to the local municlpilities is moving a little too close to municipal govern One of the reasons NEC s creation became Accessary was because of the failure of municipal governments to adequately protect the beautiful escarpment over the decades Should the municipalities have this responsibility we could find ourselves with mash of planning along the escarpment created by a combination of con development minded councils A major reason NEC came into existence was to ensure a uniform planning policy along the escarpment so it would be preserved for the benefit of all Ontanans We don t feel confident that many of the development hungry municipalities along the escarp ment will consider its preservation apriority NEC is constantly being criticized We doubt they will regain confidence of local and Ontario residents by either freezing out present municipalities nor over planning control completely to them 1 T MIS AGOGeorgetown the of a petition from is asked the Liquor Control llnril Ontario to establish a liquor tori in Hi municipality A lion I Mondays council meeting by At Norton on behalf of the mtrchjnts bore per cent of the local said Mr Nor till closest met Hamilton I tic School Area I ich the iffairs of Glen W Hums Public his decided lu abandon the building and precede Willi the build ng of complete new I The decision was made by the board liter I jf of present building iv illiw for the the school ion Jt J special i tin quest in of whither Home for the Aged with or I away ind estnbl sep lie home in Hilton will come up r tin Hi- twfnti t MIS Sum and Garden in the itling Co ltd William drew lost his lift on Sunday when the plane he wis piloting era near Hi look plate i eves ds I 3D i 11 ir rift Liberals JeanLuc Pepin is partys new man to watch dobbin After out of politics since 1972 ebullient Pepin was the seal once held by forme r tin minister John furrier officials had sugf he could be fixed up Willi riding NO lit I Kill Pipin I want any help or any debts igoodchillinge hi said in win tin soil it will be my own I dm I think 1epin is the type of person to cause any unnecessary kins or Trudeau Ihe two men get alone just tine but it obvious he expects a sterling from his leader He does not have the blind loyalty of someone win has following a leader In the lilici trenche for the last seven years Of il i ir irty prep ires for its iiu nit in pposilim and wonders its 1 i term under the le urn the man to witch a ill hi in 1 Pepin Next to Trudeiu he will be most i of caucus in the in months not he outranks st ins is Ml in Jtm retien Robert but beciuse hi is rij the balUred is a rispteltd refresl i owing poht i del is to mi nt He Ins openly but discreetly I sorted with Irudi on if is hi his I I in public the party leader must pi up or ship out Whenever the does le jouinbct tint 1 v ill be rieju up in the front row if Tie I i Mini pnfissir i w is I Ml for the of si it he surprising wrest id from lory Jem while most other litienls in the are I ire being loo But il is significant Ihilhe w is ible the old Turner org which had fallen into disar riy the former finance minister suddenly quit the cabinet in September 1J7 Since Pepin tends to so about nnttirs lie is nut about to wh it hi thinks bout Turner is a possible future nor is Turner about lo say what lie thinks f Pepin the two men are friends and we inn sinee Pepin was the Pearson ibmels from to Sum ir his kept is ihnrmin of Inflation It in Unity In help to prepare the I force report Pepin suggested lint rights be left to he i rec that l wilh the views if Trudeiu in iderme the import of the current eonstitutiinil this represents i differince If Pepin win just in his disagree mint with miller too Hut when it tomes to the tun mil national unity his credent Is he is viewed Tht prime mm the party In some Mr Trudcuu has to do thin what Mr Ins done in I i areas that Is lo reorganize the party mcl all the structures and so a tremendous job and a very He went on to say that the ider has to demonstrate he is able willing eiger to the battles that the party need lo be fought If he performs well and I have no re believe he wont hell discrvt Pepin wouldn discuss the of not performing well but he did throw in this key comment I know one thing about these jobs that they are Riven conditionally and hey re held conditionally In the sense that nobody has God given right to be the leader of any p in Canada is about that Trudeau is tiKciytoget as he sets out new career is opposition leader We be carefully progress reports from the powerful Pepin A Crescent housewife id the recently to win in television set Mrs J entered Smiling Jug contest pro by General hoods for its Kool Aid product ind her entry was Judged winner SI i made her purchase at tin lirimplonloblaw s store While picnickers stood in i rs and firemen worked over limp body of a five ye lad at a week igo Sunday boy missing for hour was diseovercd in six feet of water Artificial respintion w is at once andtontmuedfor in hour and a ill when the boy w is pronounced dead shortly The hue i I plant Milton almost idle since Black February when Arrow duclion w is a shot m the arm list week An Ottawa an it tht pi int wis most suitable for production of the J engine brought hopes employ mint for for three to Summer leads to speculation about Ontario cabinet shuffles nice Kill When tie summer ms tut si irk he favorite ivities predicting who whit in Villi i utile Davis tikes to shift flurry I ill m i Toronto w pint rlh ml indium ire il ns Minister 1nnk I job Hi i new now that i rent eiintn I ind rd ten rel Invt the legislature The wis thit he been f r only 1 knows for sure the It scchano sounds unlikely I hirst a vehemently denies si oppint I for a new ministry Hi sud In likes it where he Is And I believe dim s true of that energy open Jim holds the post now he lly much prefer His ippointment in energy wis in the ministry of line of fire i poitnin criticism in the If yd dure who sum invented the word suuxith did just hit Ii tie po where while troubled did not is thi Minim fin il int it is in e Tin log i dale to replace Auld the former t itkirmg r was ide is si thisytar irinth he done i job m rmj tin p ist few lbs in one sense is ilreidy be mi minister is It i in mil mi is too but that tint is ri ill lo issumi Ashe will nld mini m it his el inci leg slalun in tin fill is Oilier bin i minislcr is du il rcspons in tint bunt Hoy whoisbolhall r solicitor doubtless like to shuck one ih perhaps both ind move inolher portfolio In any there should open i spice for one of the contenders in tht like Bruce McCaffrey or Norm Other ministries that might see shifts in their current ibents include Hut nukes the find decision which is why Hit is fun for thi quiet times here but no mort than ItheWERALD WILLIAM EVDOKIMOFF Pub MICHAEL LETT MARTIN Phone lit TEN MIS- The Itmp iroturc of on 15lh i new record for the date the formermarksof set only list The previous record at that time wis rcirded in J indent is vice nil executive committee of in org of Dutch planning to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Holland by the Allied fi rces The ration is been motive by desire of the Canadians of Dutch in to express the be satrifiti m by Cm More in si the struggle for the liber the than Amen cm British Polish casualties com Cubic TV Ltd has firmed plans to telecast programmes of to Georgetown residents via Iheir exclusive Chnnncl Cable casting was a m I heme it the rctei 1 convention of the N Ciblt Ti levisinn Association in While tht John manager of Georgetown Cible TV deeply into of programming ind investigated the wide of equipment available rieniLs ind of Mr and Mrs Arthur wen to hear of their tragic loss when tire gutted their barn and implement shed on Saturday night approximately Five of their horses were in the barn when the fire but llicy managed to chase them all out Zorgc a local contract firm operated by Fred will be building the town ntw senior citizens apartment The building which will be erected on Hyde Park Drive near hospital Will cost County Unit with a history of staff angry disputes and over medical officers faces the difficult task of finding a director Medical Officer of Health Stuart has announced that he will retire from that position August AGO Walter Gray Georgetown 197B of the Ycir died Thursday at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital He was Members of 150 Speyslde area lies list week presented planning board with petition representing firm lion to a proposal for the establishment of a grave pit in their vicinity Jim Sheldon on behalf of the ratepayers cited increased truck traffic as the residents chief concern over the proposal by Stun Aggregates I to mine and gravel at a site near Highway south of ipcyside Cable Syi terns Ltd has won federal approval to Increase lis rates a means of helping to finance improve ments lo Its service The CRTC granted the company to in crease its installation charge to from and its monthly fee by