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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 B66 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited nCjUelph Struct Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PHONE 2Z01 Second Cliu Mil Pane SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday April 1883 Straight talk The swelling ranks of Con servative association members in both Halton and Brampton- Georgetown ridings illustrate a healthy sign of people newly in terested in politics Betty Fisher was elected at the BramptonGeorgetown meeting last Wednesday as a delegate for the June Con servative leadership conven tion She attributed her victory in claiming a spot as a delegate to a grassroots movement deciding who should win the leadership race If this new input of power from the grassroots level is to have any effect on politics in Canada we can only hope their vitality and interest remains Mrs Fishers speech exemplifies how we can be suc cessful by being decisive straightforward and forceful in outlining our needs and committments Increasing numbers at a riding association meeting cannot be totally meaningful unless delegate candidates of fer voters a clear choice Fostered by the electronic media more specifically television politics the past years has consistently relied more on personality image and delivery of speeches rather than the content of those same speeches In both the Halton and BramptonGeorgetown riding association meetings the vast majority of delegate can didates did not commit them selves to voting for one par ticular leadership candidate In many cases long standing Tory delegate can didates asked for support based on their allegiance to the party over a number of years they did not say who they would vote for The following are some comments from uncommitted delegate candidates It will be important for the history of Canada Im waiting for all the candidates to declare them selves I want to talk to all of the leadership candidates before I make up my mind Delegate candidates who ask for support based on their image as an able decision maker do not serve those people well who want more from a delegate than a self- assured smile and a hand shake BramptonGeorgetown MP John said he hopes new members will stay around and help after the leadership convention to challenge the Liberals in an election Who knows what new riding members thought about these delegate meetings Will they return to help We hope they will help out with activities in the Conservative camp We hope this interest will also ex tend to their counterparts representing the other federal parties The more decisive and clear politics are the better chance riding associations have of wooing and keeping new members VOLUNTEERING A Great Way To Grow In recognition of Volunteer Week la Canada The Herald talked to the for the Hills Volun teer Centre Maureen McCallum Mrs started as a volunteer Id the maimer of but was hired shortly after to coordinate a North Volunteer Centre In first year the centre referred about 80 volunteers to other agencies The following article It baaed on excerpts from a taped Interview The Herald Could you of the duties you might become Involved with In the course of a week Mrs McCallum- A lot of the PR type of thing I guess is getting out to the agencies or talking to them on the phone to the people who deal directly with their volunteers Some at are kind sceptical at first what is this place going to do are we not going to be able to look for volunteers on our own you know that kind of thing Really were Just there to supple ment we have to try and let people know what volunteering is all about and save them the trouble of maybe MAUREEN having ten people coming to them looking for volunteer work and finding out that only one is really interested in what they have to offer We can direct them to whatever organization is going to fulfill those expectations So it saves a lot of running around for both the volunteer and for the agency The Herald Do majority of your Inquiries come from people wanting more Information on volunteering Mn Yes a lot of people dont have too much idea of whats I really dont have anything to offer but Id like to do something thats one of the reasons were there Generally when a call comes In I get some basic information and find where they live and if theyre working what hours theyre available At that point I try to find a little bit about their background and what their interests ore if theyve done volunteer work before what they did and didnt like aboullt of people feel that as a volunteer theyre going to get all the Joe Jobs to do stuffing envelopes and that kind of thing And certainly If thats the kind of thing theyre inter ested in well find it for them but because theyre a volunteer they dont have to get the lowest Job on the scale The Herald What sort of things would the volunteer centre like to portray to people In terms of aware ness of whit volunteers can provide to the community This being Volunteer Week in Canada is there any sort of message you would like to get across to everyone Mrs McCallum- Id like to get the point across that volunteering is something that you do for yourself its Just not for the community And again when were interviewing people its a point hat we try to make that we want them to volunteer first and foremost to be happy If theyre not happy theyre not going to continue with the Job or not going to do an adequate Job as far as the agency la concerned And think because theyre giving up the time or using their lime that they should get as much out of it as hey can Now a lot of people think thats a selfish way of looking at it that they should think of themselves first but I think Its got to be that way if we want good quality volunteers And Volunteer Week I think is Just the awareness letting people know that volunteers are still very active In the community and its not something that was done fifty years ago its an ongoing need The Herald You certainly cant stereotype who volunteers are but Is there a certain type of person you might see more of devoting their time as a volunteer Mrs Certainly you do get the housewife who la looking for hours away from home thats fairly common But certainly we get kids of all ages teenagers doing volunteer work seniors men and women at work five daysa week who still fit Into all kinds of Jobs suppose the women working In the hospital Is the typical volunteer or working at the library Is typical but you have all these coaches on sporting teams your crosswalk guards and lust hundreds of things that people just dont necessarily think of as the traditional volunteer You get people working with schools kids helping out after school with different groups Last year we Continued on page AS New success formula for leaderless conservatives Ottawa Report Stewart Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Perhaps Just perhaps the Pro gressive Conservative Party has stumbled as it is wont to do onto a new formula for success being leaderiesa As startling asIt may seem the latest shows that the party has risen to its highest level since the Dlefen- baker landslide of 1866 And for the first time in Canadian history I dare say In world history a democratic party has achieved a SO per cen popularity rating without the luxury of a leader Even with a leader this is no mean feat It makes you wonder doesnt it Just how popular the Tories might be if tbey happened to be beaded by a highlypopular charismatic figure something like a 1968 model Pierre It clearly boggles the mind It also boggles he mind when one tries to assess the relative popularity or unpopularity of the government right now If the headless Tories can command per cent support while the Grits are supported by only 30 per cent of the voters whats the message If I were a Liberal election strategist I would pop a Vallum In fact I might become an addict TIMING CRUCIAL And its worth noting that we are simply not dealing with a Tory party What the voters were contemplating when the survey was taken was a Tory party that bad divided Itself in a rather messy way over the leadership of Joe Clark and forced him to call for a convention The party seemed In disarray with the dumpClark forces and the proClark forces screaming at each other and assorted armies being formed for the looming leadership race It was widely assumed that alter building a solid lead over the Liberals for straight months that now Tory popularity would plummet January convention In Winnipeg what else could one expect Pierre Trudeau might be unpopular but even the most bitter voter must think he Is better than nothing So it was Just a question of how far the Liberals would rise as the Tories went for the high Jump Just before that Winnipeg conven tion the polls showed that the Icd Tories were supported by per cent of the people while the Grits commanded only 31 per cent support Then a month later as expected the slide began The Tories dipped to is per cent while the Liberals rose to 34 Ah ha everyone said Just wait for the next one This would certainly reflect the vicious Tory infighting not to mention the fact that the party not only leaderless but it tended to resemble with all due respect a group of monkeys scrambling around in search of an organ grinder It didnt seem Inconceivable that the Tories could drop below the Grits In one gloomy month Some Tory MPs actually talked this way and I suspect that some Liberal strategists actually thought this way In fact there even renewed speculation that now would be talked Into staying on and leading the relatively revitalised Liberals Into another campaign And much of this speculation was based on the expecta tion of the forthcoming poll Somehow I think that Dr latest work will have a dampening effect on this talk When the polls suggest rather strongly that a Tory party In a state of democratic anarchy could form a without benefit of a leader it says something about the present government Matter of set it a great deal Assuming the Tories have Indeed stumbled on a new secret success formula perhaps tbey should set up a roster of Madera changing them every month for the benefit of the pollsters Or better still they could deal with leadership as they have been dealing with their economic policy keep it under wraps until the next election campaign actually starts This way the liberals wont know whom to attack until the unveiling ceremony In any event If these polls results are maintained It win certainly throw a new twist into the June leadership convention For the first time In history Instead of looking far a leader delegates will bo searching for the one least likely to tarnish the mage of a beheaded party Think about It Neanderthal Right oppose selfstyled Tory Queens Park Park Bureau of The Herald Hugh Segal Premier Bill Davis Boy Wonder former advisor has written that he Is worried pandering to the Neanderthal Right at the coming federal Progressive Conserva tive leadership convention could destroy the Tories as a national instrument And Ill wager money now that he will be saying the same thing In a couple of years when a leadership convention is called to And a successor to Davis himself In both cases what Segal is and will be saying is that the PCs cant afford to allow any conservatism to creep Into their policies and beliefs After all the current bunch of selfstyled and moderates and managers control a party of consensus and moderati on that holds some supposed middle ground Their opponents a re the Neander thal Right and space cadets and true believers caught up In rigid simplicity or so Segal says STRAW MEN It is the rhetoric of fear of course full emotive words rather than rational discourse a attack on those who think the Pro gressive Conservative Party fa badly served by its pragmatists After all it was the pragmatists in the Tory Party at Queens Park who wanted to buy part of an oil company and the space cadets who thought the Idea belonged in orbit One wonders whether the current media assault by Segal and like- minded PCs such as Camp la a measure of worry that the PC Party might actually stop sounding like the liberals and New Democrats True the SegalCamp approach appears to have guaranteed power In Ontario If not Ottawa In past years But it begs the fundamental question of what a political party Is for Is It simply a vehicle for power or is it a means of achieving s greater end NOP TOO Other parties have to face the same question too The Ontario New Democratic Party for example periodically goes through an internal debate on the degree to which it should be Ideologi cal versus pragmatic Right now the NDPs pragma tists are in the ascendency which may explain why the Is in the doldrums Who needs a third moder ate middle party that stands for nothing but power True the Segals and their Ilk argue that this pragmatic this lack of belief In anything but winning Is the only way to get elected and Is therefore a necessity THOSE ELSEWHERE Since we dont have a conservative party In Canada It Is hard to prove or disprove such a thesis But have won elections in United Kingdom United States and Germany In recent years Perhaps more important the lack of a conservative option In Canada la a prime Ingredient In the tendency of governments to drift rather than act This Is the theory the Segals words relevant option which In translation seems to mean gaining power by promising more of the same Without policy choices there Is little debate or new thinking lust the Ineffective continuation of what has gone before No Give me a conservative party that will far Instance fight for a private sector oil Industry And give me an thatll nationalise them all openly Let us have a few PoUtka decisions based on principles win or lose rather than mush or the back door sneak Poets Corner- You did It again without even knowing your gentle thoughts brought furtune to my hands May sweet charily grant you peace Iel your loving nature on troubled waters May my grant yon By MARLOWE DICKSON 4iii I I ill is ir 1 P I I and relief fund were Town clerk John Kelly closed the fund April and the money was dispatched to central In Ottawa Statistics show that Georgetown people donated to the fund much more generously per capita than moat other Canadian municipalities and local people can be proud of their help to others in a time of need TWENTtFIVE YEARS AGOAn historic announcement for Anglicans In Georgetown and Glen Williams came last week In a letter from BlsHop to which he informed the wardens of St the Martyr Glen Williams George Ssrgent and Doug Townsend that a fulltime ministry will be available In the parish beginning May l Appointment of a fulltime rector in the Glen will sever a half century connection during which the two churches have been In charge of a resident Georgetown rector Mr John will be deaconincharge of the new work He Is a married man with two small children and at present Is completing his studies at a Toronto theological college He will be ordained to the in May The are expecting to take up residence In the Glen soon St building committee under chairman William Korxack has studied plans and have developed church extension over the past year Tenders for construction of a rectory adjacent to the church are now being called The church was built in under the guidance of the late Rev T Wallace TEN YEARS school supporters In township will see a drop of 144 mills In their taxes this year but separate school support ers will have a slight increase of 61 mills Esqueaing council passed the bylaw fixing the mill rate Monday night The mill rate for public school supporters dropped from mills to mills for farm and residential property while the separate school rate increased from mills to mills bringing them to the same rate as public school supporters Last year the separate school rate was lower than the public schools ONE YEAR AGOThe British monarch may have reigned supreme Saturday In but the George town Chrysler Raiders captured the hearts and imaginations of local hockey fans Sunday night by winning the Canadian Intermediate A championships The Raiders bounced the BC Kangaroos at Gordon arena to sweep Iheir of five aeries in three straight games For the Georgetown Raiders who have been In operation for title In the 15year history of the Inter mediate A national championships only one other Ontario team Embrum near Ottawa has won the Hardy Cup In winning the final series In games of and the Raiders capped off a playoff schedule that saw them do battle with Collingwood Thunder Bay and Cap Pele from New Brunswick to earn their way into the championship round Acton ramp On March 1963 I asked for names of people who wished to have a consultation regarding the modificati on of their premises to accommodate the handicapped I have forwarded the names and addresses of those who contacted me to Accessible Services and they will be gelling In touch with you directly You will be pleased to know that the federal government has approved funding for the first three years of a project to gather and disseminate information on disabled persons Statistics Canada also Intends to include questions concerning disabili ties on the 19Be census Future government programs will be based In large part by the Infor mation gathered from this survey Only by asking the right questions can the results reflect the needs of the disabled Im sure the Disability Data base Development Group would bene fit from any assistance you might want to provide Back on February I mentioned BUI It has now been passed with some alterations We do not know how effective it will be as the regulations that govern its implemen tation have not been published In January Mr Sbepard of the recreation department was asked at a meet the councillors night in Acton about the latches on the library doors in Georgetown We have been advised that have been altered for easier operation Unfortunately for those In wheelchairs the doors swing only one way and It is still awkward to gain access They are also looking Into altering the step at the back door that leads to the elevator What ever happened to the ramp at the Acton arena you may wonder The province and the town are to spilt the cost on a percentage basis for special projects Halton Hills sent In which the province was to consider Subsequent local budget cuts altered the total The province then asked for a new list of priorities as their dollar Input would also drop Mr Sbepard Informs me that plans for the ramp are currently being drawn up