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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 A Division ol Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario PHONE CliiiMiintgUttnd Mentally Retarded Week Breaking away The mentallyhandicapped have often been misunderstood in communities in which they live In this light we hope that people will focus their thoughts towards the similarities bet ween us rather than the dif ferences Jean Vanier son of George Vanier a former Governor- General of Canada believed that mentally handicapped people would regress if they were put in institutions Mr Vanier was instrumen tal in creating group homes in France in which the mentaliy- handicapped could live normal lives and be integrated into society Terry of is one who snares Mr Vaniers views He has worked with the mentally handicapped for the past six years As a coach for the Arc Angels floor hockey team he speaks for many who devote their time and care for the mentally handicapped When it comes to sharing things such as emotions of love and nate we are the same but if you ask them to program a computer they mentallyhan dicapped can t do it People dont know any bet ter than to sympathize or feel sorry but they just want to be treated the same as everyone elseMr says The growing trend in government circles and among those who work with the men tallyhandicapped is to have these special individuals ex posed to life in a community away from institutions Some residents might argue that group homes wouldnt be suitable for their neighborhood It could be dangerous for their children to be exposed to these special in dividuals they might say This type of reluctance and more often real fear comes in part from uncertainty and lack of in formation The challenge for suppor ters of the mentallyhandicap ped is to provide the com munity with confidence so that they will feel more secure in the presence of mentallyhan dicapped- Ask Mr and he will tell you that members of the Arc Angels have more to teach him than he can ever give back in return With enough support the mentallyhandicapped of North can enjoy fife more fully with a more involved role in the community We can all benefit by the experience More challenges The Georgetown Chrysler Raiders hockey clubentered a era they committed themselves to what is hoped will be a tougher more com petitive Senior After losing many of their veterans from the Hardy Cup championship team of 198182 this past season was a lesson in With Georgetowns fr anchise located so close to Toronto there should be incen tive for many hockey players from that area to join the high profile senior league as a Raider Assuming the Raiders will try to produce a team capable of winning the Allan Cup we wonder how this maturing of the club will affect hockey in Georgetown After losing in Inter mediate A Hardy Cup com petitions in the late 70s team executive members realized that only with higher calibre expros and a broader financial base could the Raiders win out side of Ontarios backyard The goal was admirable and the stakes were high in ef fect the Raiders became a big business The change in strategy worked and in 1982 the Georgetown club produced a winner The club has voted for a league change and we wish them well The new challenge should stimulate fan appeal as players step onto the ice for the teams anniversary next September Sexual abuse is your child safe This Ike final in a three part articles submitted Citizens Against Violent Pornography It dealt with abate of children and what parent can do to safeguard men- children The fact that pedophile photograph their victim results In roach of the child pornography avail able today Our group baa been working to gain for BUI CM The Child Exploitation Act which would prohibit the of under the age of IS in pornographic vbnal material We have group petition available for the churches In addition one can alg and tend the clip and mall found In this newspaper and directed to Mark MacQulgan of Justice BUI CU and dont talk to sluijersl How many times have we beard that warning as a youngster goes out the doorT But things have changed Now Ita not Just the stranger with candy we must warn our children about Ita the relative neighbor even a well respected professional who may be a child molester Statistics show that per cent of molested children are molested by someone they know and trust Pedophiles people who can only get sexual satisfaction from relations with children take time to develop a secure friendship with the children they desire There Is a tendency also to take pictures of their victims and o hare theae with other pedophiles This Is how much of the child pornography available here la Originally produced Host parents do not suspect what Is going on because they assume their child Is safe at his or her music lesson game practice or visiting with a good friend However there are some common signs that abuse Is taking place These Include loss of sleep or appetite a sudden Interest In seat unexplained illness or mood changes and avoidance of previously enjoyed activities or people Believe your child if he says he has been molested Children seldom lie about mis Accept his statements calmly and call the appropriate authorities to investigate Oct psychological counselling from an experienced sexual abuse therapist if you feel your child needs help over coming his trauma Many do Molestation Know the people who deal with your children Don just drop tbem off for lessons etc Make your presence known If you must leave check back often at Irregular times Always give kids specific instruc tions Have an established emergency procedure Including people to whom your child can go IT you are unavail able Play what IT games with your children to reinforce expected behavi our Children should say No thanks and go directly home If approached by a stranger or If a auspicious request la made by someone they know Respect your childs Intuition about people he refuses to or cosy up to someone don push him By doing so you only teach him to mistrust his own Instincts if your child has very negative feelings toward someone explore why Without alarming your child let him know that all people are not kind and good Teach him not to let anyone touch him where he does not want to be touched Molesters often make their victims feel responsible for the situation Explain to your child mat he may be told that he is doing something wrong when really someone else is He should tell his parents right away Keep communication lines open so that a child feeling guilty or ashamed can express his feelings and their cause A child may only gel up enough courage to say It once Dont miss It Astonishing how the media sketched Davis biography Ottawa Report Stewart What was so astonishing about Premier William flirtation with the Tory leadership was the way the media managed to build it Into a pending coronation By the time the old premier announced that he wouldnt be a candidate our perspect ive had been thrown entirely out of whatk Its frightening to think of he publicity that might have pelted us had Davis decided to run Even a he bowed out he were treated to biogra phical sketches of his entire political No there can be no doubt about the Inordinate influence the Torontobased media has on our thinking processes Its not Just the fact that the biggest and perhaps best newspapers are based there but It is the head quarters Tor all news services and the originating point for aU national TV network newscasts And Its perhaps Inevitable that people and events In Toronto are viewed through a larger magnifying glass than in other parts of the country look back on that April 30 debate by Tory leadership hopefuls in Torontos Maasey Hall It was widely billed as the biggest event of the campaign a showdown some said that would make or break the reviewer later told us how Joe Clarks momentum bad been jeopardized how David Cromble had zoomed back into the campaign and how Brian bad clearly advanced his national stature The weekend media was chockablock wlthdeUlla LOCATION MATTERS It would be interesting to know how much attention this debate would have received had it been held In say Saskatoon and was only televised to four provinces which Is what happen ed and the participants were asked while 1 million Canadians are unemployed whether they would each commit themselves to financing a domed stadium In the host cltyT Would the Globe and Mail then soy on the front page that as a result of the debate the leadership race had burst wide open On the morning that Premier Davis announced his nonentry I had breakfast with a group of western Tory MPs Who having canvassed their ridings were offering a quiet and gloomy scenario for a Davis campaign To a man they hoped the premier would resist any temptation to run because It would certainly bring out Premier Peter with his guns blazing In opposition There will be one hell of a mess said one of the MPs and there Is just no support out there for Davis Another said that I Just cant believe that his advisers would be so out to lunch as to urge him on A week earlier when speculation about a Davis entry began intensifying the picture wasnt so clear but now they said il was crystallike They couldnt understand who Davis pollsters might have been talking to In the West It was startling to go from this furrowedbrow conversation to the news stand and pick up the Toronto newspapers One had a headline about this being Dday Another was still quoting aides cabinet colleagues and Davis family members in predicting hype about the premier An urgent news item clattered over the Canadian Press wires Ontario Premier William Davis returned to Queens Park today after two days at his home conferring with family and advisers about whether be should run for the federal Progressive Conservative leadership What we bad here was an urgent message thats just one step below a bulletin saying the premier had travelled from point A to point Not even the Queen or the Pope can always command that attention The only Davis quote In the story was that he would have a chat with his minis- An Ottawa radio station Interrupt programming to say that Davis now was closeted with his cabinet The announcer sounded like an American broadcaster In IBM who told us that President Kennedy was closeted with his military advisers over the Cuban missile crisis Breathlessly we were told It wouldnt be long before Davis would actually make an annou If we could only wait minute Amid this Incredible hype It really wasnt easy to keepUilngs in perspect ive In the circumstances you bad to pinch yourself to realixe we were talking about a unlllngual provincial premier with no significant support outside his own province indeed there was open hostility In tome parts of the country and who by his own admission would have an uphill struggle to become leader of a fracti ous political party that happens to be In opposition The panting journalism surround ing the Davis dithering over the Tory leadership seemed a far cry from The Toronto Stars reaction to the election of Albertas Joe Clark as national party leader In 1978 Joe Who asked IheStar 1- iilin ill J boost Georgetowns financial for a swimming pool If the finding committee decides to go ahead with the project At a directors meeting of the club last week the Lions decided to forego this years Stay-at- Home Camp and donate money which could be spent on the camp to a swimming pool The club has also offered a building lot on Water Street beside the post office as a site for the pool Some weeks ago Mayor Arm strong appointed a committee repre sentative of most local organizations to Investigate the possibility of building a pool and there seems every likelihood that the project may be started this year Another current project Is Ihe erection of swings in the Wriggles- worth School playground which was the dubs gift to the new school when It was opened last fall TWENTYFIVE YEARS new ambulance for the Georgetown Volun teer Ambulance Service is expected to be on display at the next regular meeting of the GVAS which has been set for the This- be the last general meeting until September and the public are invited to attend The meeting is at Wriggles- worth Public School A talk on stretch er loading and unloading will be given by Jack Hamilton of St Johns Ambulance then a crew of St John men will be on hand to demonstrate The GVAS waa called on seven times during the month of April Five of the runs were toGuelph Hospitals three of those to the General and two to St Josephs The other runs were to Torontos Central Hospital tons Peel Memorial Hospital Only one of the calls resulted from an auto accident TEN YEARS AGOTbe advantages and disadvantages of locating an Indoor swimming pool at Georgetown District High School were discussed at length at a committee of the whole meeting May 10 Opinions of councill ors- varied with Mayor Smith Coun Roy Booth and Phil SlddaU saying they were openminded the subject and bad changed their minds as various new facts emerged Most strongly opposed to the high school location was Reeve Ric Morrow who claimed the ownership of the pool being vested in the board of education would put them in the drivers seat I dont want to put town money into a pool then turn It over to the board be said He contended the pool should be contained in a recreation complex Coun Em Hyde supported the high school location defining the pool would be used much more at that location Mike Armstrong asked If the preschoolers would have use of the pool Coun Harry Levy said the proposed schedule left five bourn a week during the school week for public use ONE YEAR Hills Hydro Is moving Its outside crews super intendents and operations department from Georgetown to Acton The move was artriinViMl Friday by commission chairman Ah TennaniHesald 16 people wUl be moving from the Georgetown offices on Mill Street to the Acton building which has been used as a billing office for the last one and a half yean following the amalgamation of Acton and Georgetown Hydro commission Expected to be completed by June the move was inspired by a shortage of space at the Georgetown offices The Georgetown building is busting at the seams as far as the office operations are concern ed Mr Tennant told The Herald Following the move the Georgetown building will only contain accounting and management offices Bills can continue to be paid at both offices A recipe for anarchy and favoritism Queens Park By Derek Nelson Maybe It is the frustration that comes from having been V years out of power that sometimes drives the opposition Liberals and NDP off the deep end Thats Ihe charitable explanation for their silly performance the morn ing alter The Globe and Mall splashed budget material all over Its front page Like baying bounds after a stag and that noble animal can symbolize quite well how Treasurer Frank Miller has acted throughout this budget leak ordeal opposition MLAs demanded Miller speak and then refused to allow him to do so Their antics actually started the night before when they aaw early copies of The Globe article Even though the hours of adjourn ment are set in Handing at opposition insistence to prevent the government holding allnight sitting as It did once upon a Liberals In particular wanted to break the rules and keep on going QUICK TEMPER Matters became so heated at one point lhal MLA Jack who Is known for his temper actually crossed the floor to jab Conservative Whip Bud Gregory In the chest Liberal House Leader Bob Nixon who la usually sensible about the ways of the Legislature later told Speaker John Turner Ihat there are times when he should Ignore a rigid reading of the rules and use your own Judge ment What a recipe for anarchy and favoritism The next morning the nonsense escalated True it started out well Both Liberal Leader David Peter son and Leader Bob rose to claim their privileges as MLAs had been breached by the supposed budget leak It was a technique for putting their views on record In the process they also made legitimate points about Millora responsibilities for preserving secrecy as the minister not personally and for accepting blame when something went wrong WHERE NEXT Tory House Leader Tom Wells then noted that parliamentary prece dent has always defined a members privileges in terms of the right to speak freely and has specifically excluded woo wlta ministerial tlbllltle or budget leaks Turner who then wanted to take the matter under advisement and move on to regular businesawhich would have Included a statement by Miller- found himself under savage attack by Nixon The Grit House Leader wanted his views on privilege on the record Fair enough except he had nothing new to say and was simply keeping Killer from speaking Nixons insistence waa even more strange when you consider that after Millers statement they could have personally questioned the Instead he remained silent Nixon and a dozen other opposition the majority Liberals yapped on in some strange world of their own Nixon even claimed to find It Incredible that Miller had not risen In this place to defend himself on this Important point of privilege He seemed to forget the Speaker bad yet to rule there wa a question of privilege MLA Mike Breaugh NDP-Oaha- wa joined the parade to complain he found aggravating Miller hadnt spoken Observers found the point bewildering But the furthest trip Into Lulu Land was made by who voiced suspicions about there being a connect ion between the budget leak and Premier BUI Davis decision not to No standardization of computers ByPATWOODE Herald Special The computer invasion like motl Invasions Is badly organized Various companies jostle for tho lead each trying to out do the other The result is a lack of standardization and rapid progress In all directions Sloven Hawking became a master over this hydra Without ability to write poor speech and confined to a wheel chair he maintained a professorship tat Cambridge through his computer Lisa a new entry from the Apple computer company can be controlled by one hand roiling a ball around In a Utile box The screen presents the operator a selection of alternatives he can choose from with he push of a button The complicated program Instruc tions come Inside the machine Outer companies offer or toon will units of equal operational simplicity While this machine was designed for the general public it would allow many of the handicapped access to an unmodified work environment Employer hesitate to change their equipment to meet the needs of one individual particularly If it meant slowing Ihe production of others There are several approaches to Ihlt prob lem A device can be placed on top of the keyboard which makes It easier to strike the appropriate selection soo the disabled or preprogramming the machine with special instructions each time for the Individual user If a user has limited control of his hands and mutt rest them on some thing to prevent IrraUc movement he can place them right on the keyboard A thick clear piece of plastic with hornet corresponding to the key posit ions Is placed over the controls Pushing an object like a head stick or finger In holes would activate the now recessed In this way only deliberate motions would be recognis ed by the machine Changing shape size order and style of the keys and keyboard has very little effect on the computer but It may mean holding a job living more Independently security and the ability to communicate for Ihe opera tor Special programming and exotic controls will be dlmwvd later The office functions of a computer are a small part of Its ability Communicat ion education and environmental con trol are Its greatest strengths or the hand capped