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Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Ontario PHONE ClmUsH THE HERALD July 13 burr provinces fault We doubt that weve heard the last of the Road- area citizens croup which wan ted a nearby housing proposal reviewed under the lengthy of ficial plan amendment process Although much to their chagrin council opted for the speedier ministers modification approach well likely be hearing more from the group as the planning process the area continues But as another chapter in the issue draws to a close and the respective have retired to the sides the real culpnt in all this remains unscathed The debate among the citizens group Meagan Developments Ltd which wants to build an estate housing development and town coun cil spun around and around the differences bet ween a ministers modification and an official plan amendment process The only thing that appears clear is that the former process is faster than the latter But the irony is inescapable realizing that the official plan amendment process is onerous for all par ties concerned bureaucrats in the housing and municipal af fairs ministry came up with the ministers modification In effect theyve tried to curb the amount of paper work and delays provincial planning policies have themselves i created Whether for small or larger changes to official plans the ministers modification is ill- defined and vacuous Vague as the modification is Wildwood road residents rightfully won dered whether its a silent par tner for one interest or an un seen enemy for another Mayor Pete has urged council to adopt a more prodevelopment stance realizing that unless more people move to Hills along with industry the tax burden will become too great for residents to bear He reminded the citizens group rep Ken Key several times Monday night and on previous council sessions that many of the residents concerns such as traffic flow water availability and engineering issues will be addressed when Meagan submits a draft plan of subdivisionitself an event which could be years away The ministry council argues has more than enough safeguards in the planning to ensure that new projects do not severely impact on existing residents The ministers modification apparently cumvents costly bureaucratic red tape at a time when the town needs to improve its housing picture If the safeguards are already at another stage fur ther down the planning process then the provinces system of checks and balances are trip ping over each other Surely the Meagan Developments issue isnt the only Indication the province has that parts of the planning process are redundant and that its time to shake out the loose change This kind of bureaucratic bumbling Tends itself severe political reactions like the kind of extremist thinking behind a deluge of new laws in British Columbia among them legislation to abolish municipal official plans The planning process in volving municipalities and the province should set down guidelines for growth At the moment its creating more problems than its solving Next best thing to being there The telephone has become one of our most Important tools of communi cation For many the standard tele phone is Just not practical Three years ago Bell Canada opened the Telecommunication Centre for Special Needs In their ongoing tort specialized equipment to customers with disabilities Mlchelc Section Mana ger at the Centre informed me that for anyone using a Visual Ear or TTY the Centre is a point of contact for colls related bills ordering new service or obtaining numbers from directory assistance Approximately calls are handled per week As lost weeks column concerned the deaf I will start my description available equipment with the Visual Ear This unit Is used in conjunction with any standard phone and provides a typewriter keyboard and displays the message to the sender and receiver of the call Cybcrtech produces a similar machine containing many other feat ures including batteries printer memory and computer compatibility Both these units are for sate only and cannot be rented Service groups like the Lions occasionally purchase a number of units at one time and pass the substantial discount on Service clubs also raise money for converting teletypewriters into The coupler alone for this operation costs per unit A WO installation charge is all that is billed to the customer Potential TTY users should con tact the Canadian Hearing Society and be prepared for a long wait Bear In mind also that TTYs can only talk to and other y Those people with partial hearing may have seen telephone handsels In plazas and other public places that have volume control button Domes tic models are available with a greater range of amplification An Acoustic Coupler is a small with hearing aids A variety of bells and lights to draw attention to Incoming calls which can be placed almost anywhere in the house or work place are available from several companies For those who have lost the use of heir vocal cords a simple device called an Artificial Larynx is avail able It is the size of an electric shaver and held against the throat it enables the user speak by mouthing the words The Artificial Larynx may not help If there is severe scarring or excessive sensitivity on the throat Other units have been developed on similar principles Many hands free units are on the market A microphone and speaker allow all in the room if the volume Is turned up to hear and speak to the other party One must learn to take turns talking as these units will not sender and receiver to speak at once Derectcl Is a hands free unit that allows the user to contact the operator for assistance In dialing through the use of a single switch This switch may be proximity touch foot pneumatic or wobble Various microphones ear phones headphones pillow speakers etc may also be connected A second use of the switch Is equivalent to hanging up Bell Canada and many other companies have a host of devices to assist the handicapped Not all devices will work all telephone exchanges If you are considering buying a communication aid check II out for suitability durability ease of repair warranty and possible obsolescence before making any purchase I hove recently been Informed that a fully accessible house In Milton will shortly come up for sale Consult Helping Hands for details It looks like Fairy Lake hi turned Into Muscle right Chad RowseU Tim 10 and Scott Beach this summer Theictbreedudes were patrolling It teak like three teagh guys the sand Sunday impressing all the girls From left to Herald photo by Gerry Timber Hard to pin political labels on Ontario Conservatives Queens Park Queens Park Bureau of The Herald Ala London policy conference two years ago the first ever held by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leading Tories from Premier Bill Davis on down read the Riot act to the assembled troops Go where we in the party establish ment wont you to go they said or we wont be going anywhere Adapt or die The issues hanging in the fore ground were amendments to the Human Rights Code contained la Bill 7 amendments which changed a law against discrimination into a law supporting discrimination and the governments purchase or part of the oil company Suncor But the background against which these specifics were painted was a deep frustration and even anger lhat a supposedly conservative party refuses to actually for somethings conservative What is the point of having a party in power that claims to be conservative In philosophy but always acts liberal or worse What is the point of Just having power for powers sake NOT GONE Those questions continue to bedevil the Ontario PCs today and are usually expressed in terms of a RightLeft split or Blue versus Red Tory or even moderate pragmatism against neo-conservat- ideology Mind you labels more often say more about the person doing the labelling than about those being labell ed so a lot of the shorthand should be treated with caution Still It is obvious that there are philosophic divisions within the provincial Tory party it la equally obvious that the socalled pragmatists who are In command are also a minority of the active membership Every time delegate opinions are sampled they run as Jargon has it well to the Right of the party leadership What prevents internal dissension becoming more prevalent and public of course is Ihe soothing syrup of power Being the government makes up for a lot DAVIS FACTOR Beyond that too is the Bill factor Sofarasalmosteveryonelnthe Ontario PCs Is concerned of where they sit on the political spectrum Davis can be premier for lire if he wants There was a striking demonstrati on of that at a PC Campus provincial meeting in Kingston a while back A film was shown where a large number of political faces from this century appeared and the young Tories being young booed their villains and cheered their heroes Joe Clark for example received mixed cheers and boos Winston Churchill only cheers and Pierre only Jeers but Davis received the heaviest applause of all without any audible opposition Even though it was his government that adopted such policies as Bill and Suncor that were upsetting the delegat es none of he upset bad rubbed off on Davis Amazing It goes to show what being a winner means in terms of delegate support WHERE NOW But Davia wont be around forever Some opinion la already firmly committed to the premise thai he wont run in the election expected in 19m What happens then to the Ideologi cal fissures in the Ontario PCs Do they widen and deepen or narrow Do Davis potential successors take heed of the outofpower Right or continue to ignore them When the Tories convene for a second policy conference this autumn we might get some pointers about the landscape ahead Grit leader presses Davis to deal with unemployed report by Julian Reed In a recent press statement Liberal Leader David Peterson once again called upon provincial gov ernment to give priority to Ihe serious problem of unemployment among Ontarios young people Is out but for many thousands of students this is not a summer to be enjoyed he said There is great idleness among our young people and a growing sense- that they are being forgotten by their political leaders Although there have recently been signs that Ontario along with the rest of the country has been pulling out of Ihe drastic recession young people by thousands are feeling its lasting Impact In Ihe month of May joblessness among people 15 to years of age was In Ontario per cent or fully one in every five It is worse this year than last which up until that time was he worst year In decades For May 1983 the Jobless figure for young people was 166000 164 per cent This means therefore that he figure has increased by or 6 per cent for his May compared with the same month last year In June 1382 the number of unemployed young people went to or per cent We have no reason to suspect unemployment among our young people will decline appreciably as he David died examples of what is happening- The University and College Placement Association reports campus recruitment is down by SO per cent from a year ago One community college report only per cent of Its graduates this year are likely to find work In their chosen fields within the next lb months compared to per cent a year ago and well over BO per cent Ir belter limes than these Last March there were 15000 young persons holding degrees or diplomas who were unemployedeven as an additional and college graduates hit the Job market Almost one quarter of the graduates from St Lawrence College in Kingston are sill without work Faced with these terrible realities It could be assumed government would reset Its priorities This has not happened Some Ontario government programs have actually been cut back The Experience 83 program will yield 300 fewer Jobs than its 1883 counter part compared to The Ontario Youth Employment Program will create fewer Jobs than it was supposed to provide a year ago compared to 57000 The situation is critical It Is also tragic The Ontario Manpower Com mission continues to forecast that we will go warning for skilled workers each year by 1986 We must look Queens Park for Clearly we are creating a gener ation without a future with all of its dreadful social Implications Lacking leadership from government business and labor we risk dashing the Inherent enthusiasm of our youth which will create grave consequences In future Nowhere will this despair a greater threat of upheaval than ii our major cities where Idle youth tend to concentrate answers There si basic need far more skills training And we must question the effectiveness of an educa tional system which as some counsel lors of the unemployed have reported produces Grade 13 graduates who are often functionally Illiterate Government must place at the lop of Its list of priorities the rectification of this social crisis You will recall that in March of this year the Liberal Task Force on Job for Youth Issued an update report That update looked at what has been done and whit remains to be done in five areas- Job creation programs for youth student aid manpower training and apprenticeship prog rams opportunities for cooperative students and Job availability for graduates In each those areas there exists a need for new commitments by government the private sector and the educational institutions if the young people of Ontario ore receive the treatment they deserve The update acknowledged that the problems of youth unemployment and underemployment are not going to be easily resolved But not going o be resolved at all If we do not begin to address them now It hope that the Task Force report arid the update will help to stimulate interest In the realistic steps which can be token While the Task Force foitsed on he role of the provincial government every sector of society oust do its share THIRTY YEARS AGO Georgetown have a cabinet minister if the ProgressiveConservatives win the Aug 10 federal election according to wellinformed sources Mrs Conservative ladies organiz er Ontario stated at the Margaret Allken tea here last week that it is an open secret that Is slated for a cabinet post if the Conservatives ore in power If enthusiasm and numbers attending mean anything then the PC candidate In Halton is as good as elected according lo the number of people attending a lea last Thursday afternoon The affair was arranged by he local Conservative ladles Ion The crowd was of such a size that every chair in the large auditorium was taken as well as additional seats from the main floor and still a number were forced stand It Is believed to be the biggest political meeting held in this part of the county in many years and the bligest one so for In the resent campaign The tea was in oner of Margaret Toronto Telegram reporter who spoke on her recent trip to the Coronation as well as the political scene YEARS AGO-Coun- cll reviewed progress to date in a search for new of town water Monday when they discussed the work of International Water Supply Ltd with J Kirk representing the firm Mr Kirk told council that the town has a very limited water source and the only possible supples are contained in a preglacial valley in the region of the present town wetli and the sewage disposal plant Natural recharge from the river and rainfall Is replenishment for this and he of the possibility in future years of erecting a series of small dams to old in this recharge A total of 13 lest holes have been drilled at various locations In town since the firm was engaged several months ago total cost of which is 88758 The only large source of water discovered is In two holes near the present waterworks and Mr Kirk said It Is still to be determined If tapping these sources would affect the present wells Capa city of be wo new sources is estimated it half a million gallons daily each It would cost about to complete the investigation to deter mine this he said TEN YEARS AGO The origin ally for engineering and drainage of the new landfill site on Armstrong Avenue will be reallocated o roads and lighting of the tennis courts to be built In the Moore Park area if a finance committee recommendation made Monday night is adopted by council The expense was included Li this years budget the town but may be assumed by Hilton county to be turned over to fee regional government January In The event lhufhSbvDy Reeve Rlc Morrow aula the town has applied to the Ontari Municipal Board debenture the cost which would be shared by he region Reeve Morrow chairman of the finance committee suggested 833000 be allocated to works and Ihe lighting of he Moore Park tennis courts An additional would be kept to cover haulage of garbage to outoftown sites If it becomes necessary At a previous meeting Coun Phil Slddall said be was concerned about the lack of action on building the two new courts in Moore Park and the additional court at Joseph Gibbons Park Coun Horry Levy a member of the recreation committee said there had been no delay and the work would be done as soon as possible ONE YEAR what hey described as an incentive in the federal governments more recent budget town councillors limited 1863 pay Increase to than their current move parallels federal finance minis ter Allan MacEachens decision to limit salary and wage increases in the public service to six per cent Jhls year and five per cent In 1983 At six per cent the mayors annual salary of will Increase by about 990 while councillors who earn a year will each get an Increase of Although the Increase Is still well below the usual annual rise of ten per cent some councillors maintained that during the countrys economic slump there should be no increase at all for municipal politicians Coun Mill er called on his colleagues to reject any increment for as an incent ive to cut back on spending Remote Where is the future I seek during night And why ore my tomorrows yester days Are moments lost memories polite- fully JtulT Or are they mere hopes and Images of hut Of course it la said that you Make what you are But he Ingredients falter and scatter Anthony ion Acton Meals on Wheels needs If you have a drivers license a car and about an hour or so to spare around noon there ore some folks in Acton who could do with your help Whats In it for you For one thing you get a free ride your mileage Is paid The big thing la that you gel satisfaction from knowing that youre helping some people about a dozen of them get nutritious wellbalanced meals The MealsOnWheeai program needs drivers this summer to cover regular driven who ore on vacations with their families Although some assistance may be needed on getting the meals distributed within Acton the big chore la the dairy drive to and from Mil Wo where the meals ore prepared I A round trip from the Centre to the Milton which prepares the meals usually takes minutes The trip must start no later than 11 in the morning because the recipients count on their seal arriving at noon hour the Acton Social Services and Information Centre which orgs nixes the program operates it five dan per week There Is do service on weekends or holidays have the time and the Inclination to help others lease contact Peggie or Pat Little in the Cintre at 113 Main St or by phoning