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Home Newspaper of Hallon Hills Established A Division ol Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager DAVID KOWMH BOH Editor Advertising Manager PHONE Second Clan Malt Number 0943 TfaffTTWTTBRPATBil Juvenile crime what can be done Reporter Am Pederians story on juvenile delinquency in Hills points to a trend that we could well do without By year end statistics will show a dramatic in crease in shoplifting by juveniles by June there were cases of juveniles charged compared to 26 for all of Theres no reason for optimism when we talk of thefts by juveniles other than shoplifting they too will undoubtedly rise above last years mark While the Halton regional police are meeting the challenge with new programs there is still more we can do as a community to help reduce the number of crimes by minors On one hand there is a method of dealing with thefts and shoplifting by making it harder for youths to steal or van dalize By increasing security measures businesses can help to minimize the oppor tunities for crime by adequately protecting theirproperty However there are other solutions worth ex ploring There are probably more families in town where both parents work This leaves a child with unsupervised time on his hands In addition an in crease in single parent homes have left children without two permanent role models Having to work and care for a child singlehandedly can be challenging for any parent and they deserve our sup port Various clubs such as boy scouts church groups and sports organizations can make a more concer ted effort to recruit in dividuals to get involved Parents too can take the initiative and consider enrolling their child in a newprogram Halton Hills takes in its musicians ar ista and sports teams whenever they represent us in out of town events To have more of our youth in volved in community events supports a feeling of pride and sense of ac complishment The challenges today are to find antishoplifting and antivandalism programs that will make a positive impression on our youth They can be made to work If everyone in the community works towards that goal got swmc SutfWr this I One area where Tories fail Queens Park Spoiling us with cultural goodies In just two short years the Halton Hills librarycultural centre has become an easily ac cessible centre of stimulating entertainment and information Its prominence un derlines two things in an age when everything seems to be regionalized centralized or federated a communitys unique cultural spirit Is an impor tant heritage well worth passing on to our children Secondly the pursuit of culture and education is as important a part of leisure time as keeping athletically fit Too often residents in town see the enhan cement of the sports and cultural pursuits as two opposing ideals With municipal budgets becoming increasingly tighter especially in Halton Hills where theres no substantial growth to help share the tax burden the division of funds for culture and sports seems to be viewed as a com petition Until recently there hasnt been a focus like the cultural centre and the new spacious library which adjoins it for the arts Sports clubs gather at soccer pitches or Derek Nelson there is one area where the Conservative government failed to achieve It aims year after year and decade after decade It is in the field of skills training Thats why Ihe fuss here over the recently announced to million Ontario Training Incentive Program seems so out of place Liberal and criticism for example concentrates on attacking the government for bow little It is putting into the scheme The liberals call it Inadequate and note 6 million Is what the province spends each day In Interest payments on lla debt The figures It means fas for each of the 9000 training positions the government hopes to fill But It hardly matters The program is highly unlikely to spend all the money allocated to ft anyway In fact the even points out that the Joint federal provincial General Industrial Training and Critical Skills Training Programs In actually spent only million out of a budget of million In one sense thats good in that It Implies some care was shown on bow money was thrown around NOT GOOD But in another sense Its bad because It confirms once again the inability of government to forecast accurately the needs of the workplace and then fill those needs Perhaps in a market economy like ours government will never be able to read the minds of millions of people striving In their own ways to achieve ends that arent necessarily foreseen by boreaucrals at Queens Park or Ottawa The latest OTTP scheme will give employers as much as 1000 a year for four years to bin and train or workers in some occupa tions Trainee can also attend at no cost a community college for up to SO days How successful win be we wont know for a year or two but the track record indicates It will be partial albeit WELL DONE Until Ihe recession hit various Canadian companies continued to recruit skilled workers In Europe Ontario Hydro for example only stopped last year and it is far more susceptible to government pressure in his regard than much of the private sector There is another aide to Ibis coin too beyond governments continual to accurately read the Job market It is psychological and involves us all The education system that Bill Davis built with hearty cheers from the and to a much leaser extent the Liberals was an education system devoted to selfdiscovery and personal liberation rather than the learning of basic Job skills LOW STATUS It relegated socalled blue collar work even to some degree engineer ing to the category of something that Is okay for recently arrived immigrants to be but It Is not something a person would want Tor their own son or daughter This low status is a reason various training programs have often had empty spaces even when they were fairly certain to guarantee a Job on graduation Unions havent helped any either their restrictive Job security and seniority concerns Nor xn business men exactly saints when they refuse to fund skills training in their own firms preferring instead to raid some other company that did Invest the cash and the time in the longterm Job of matching someone to a skill Local MS chapter considers THIRTY YEARS AGOFred Arm strong Jr was appointed caretaker at Georgetown High School when North high school board met Monday in Milton One applicants tor the position Mr Armstrong will replace Jack Evans who Is retiring this month after serving for years at the school He has been employed with George while also operating a market garden at bis home on the Check Line Mr Armstrong s salary is The board will again sponsor classes in English and Citizenship for new Canadians in the three district high schools this winter if there is a demand A series of 20 classes la planned to start In a month Orders were placed with Vnlley City Co for laboratory equipment for the new Georgetown and Acton schools after a company salesman had shown at meeting Included In the purchase are IS twostudent desks for Georgetown and five fourstudent desks for Acton as well as stools chairs and desks for the Instructors Principals of the three schools reported enrolment this year as In Mil ton 182 In Georgetown and in Acton TWENTYFIVE YEARS AGO- Georgetown Park will be with activity Friday and Saturday of this week when the Esqueslng Agricultural Society presents Georgetown 113th annual fall fair The fair is the highlight of the year and with favor able weather should attract a large attendance The Dig weekend gets underway when the hall exhibit are placed on Friday morning Judged in the after noon and open to the public for perusal on Friday evening The outside attrac tions are held Saturday when livestock horses poultry and farm exhibits start arriving early in the morning with the horse show and harness races getting away at with Mountford as A starting gate will be used for the races and there will be Jumping horses ponies and road and saddle horses races A brand new midway has been engaged this year with Green Shows taking the spotlight TEN YEARS AGOMonday la election day In the new region tentatively known as North until a formal name is chosen Voters will elect a regional council and a local council both for a threeyear term The regional council will consist of members The local council for North will have IS members including Its mayor The mayor and four coun cillors will serve on the regional body ONE YEAR AGOGeorgetown lawyer and resident Dick announced Tuesday hell seek the Wards board of education sent in the Nov 8 election Currently chairman of the town library board Mr spent a total of six years on Ihe former Esqueslng township council and later council between 1970 and 1975 He replaced the late Len Cox on regional council for a year and a half between and With a nineyear old daughter in the school system Mr explained that he is particularly Interested in schooling in the region He and his family live on Sideroad 10 prior to the opening cultural centre were left to find their own space In new larger quar ters the arts community and the library have come up with numerous fascinating programs performances and art exhibits Theyve filled a gap in the community with their earnest interest in the new building proving to people that they dona have to leave town to enjoy quality entertainment in comfortable surroundings For new residents and people who havent found the lime to visit the centre the recreation and parks departments anniversary celebration is a golden op portunity Featured guests during that Oct week include the Good Brothers and the Second City Touring Company as well as localtalenf To ensure that the librarycultural centre has many more anniversaries in which theres something to really celebrate it will need the growing interest of new converts as well as the continued support of the groups who get the readathon for Halton Hills Editors notebook At the first meeting during Introductions it was bard to say Ive got MS Crest remembers Last spring Halton formed a Multiple Sclerosis unit to the north area which Is covered under the umbrella of the Burlington chapter The first meeting helped those who attended see they werent the only ones thathadMSreUtedproblems Basic ally alot of ut like to talk about research at the meetings Mr Dxaman says Meeting every mint Tuesday of the month at 96 Main St in Georgetown members work on promoting an awareness of disease Our goal is to educate the public and doctors said Mr Dzaman In a recent interview He remembers having a doctor who said he was at S3 too old to have MS a neurologist didnt even recommend seeing a local MS chapter for support after Mr was diagnosed A majority of the members attend ing the meetings have MS but everyone is welcome to coma to meetings from the has been active at every meeting helping to coordinate pro grams carnation day in May Just before Mothers Day Some people confuse MS with Muscular Dystrophy Mr Dzaman explains The difference la that MS la a disease of the nerves rather than muscles The cause of MS is undetermined but It Is known that the coating around the nerve fibres is affected Mr Oilman explains It like this picture a garden hose as a nerve when the nose la squeezed It short or prevents Impulses from being trans mitted Mr Dzaman who is active with the Jaycees and a alow pitch baseball team when not working for Northern Telecom remembers his own anguish in finding out he had the disease Its hardest on the families however he says As their publicity chairman he has taken an active role la promoting an awareness MS so that one day a cure can be found Projects have developed In town but others can be started like his daughters contribution from selling popcorn and coolaid For the past two years the Craiy Boat Race has asked for pledges fromparllcipanta In support of MS The first year all the money raised by sponsors went to MS research but last year some money went to the local chapter to help cover their expenses One program Mr Dxaman is considering as a local project would be to hold a MS Apparently the program worked in other communities where sponsors pledge a certain amount of money for a person to read a book The local school should be more than happy to encourage their students to learn helping to support a good cause The local unit Is still looking for a patients service coordinator a volun teer who perhaps might have some background In the medical profession The number to call for more Informati on about the MS unit Actario plans on schedule Write us a letter The Herald welcomes letters to editor It Is of utmost Import ance that all parts or the letter are clearly legible Letters must be signed and Include the telephone number and address of the sender Excessively long tetters may have to be edited due to space constraints Letters may be off at the Herald or mailed to St Georgetown MS If you would like to write Federal Member of Parliament or Member of the Provincial Parlia ment on some matter of interest below are their mailing entree i infiii i your letter It might be suitable for our letters to the editor column John McDermld Member of Parliament BramptonGeorgetown Parliament Buildings Ottawa Out Julian Reed Member of Provincial Parliament HaJlonBulington Otto Member of Parliament Hallon iment Bufldlngs 1 Special draws aimed at aiding the restoration of the old town hall are planned for the third consecutive year said Ted Tyler will hold month long mini- draws with ticket dropped to for each of the three series planned before Christ mas Each participant will be mended In the four draws held on each Saturday of the month This time the prize will be split three ways and to create more winners A trip worth to will be offered on the fourth draw The first months draw begins Oct 18 Mr TyW said While tickets cannot be sold on the later draws yet people can subscribe to them now Work on the restora tion of the centuryold brick building is a bit behind schedule but plodding along Mr Tyler the tabor coats on the pro ject will come in under budget but the cost of materials will be real ly tight The extra funds raised by the Ac draws will go towards the coat of materials ho said Weve run into a few problems said Mr Tyler and ita been very frustrating But Im still predicting well open Dec 31 At least I hope we will I have a band hired and all legal and binding We have that party planned and I dont want to have to move it at the last minute The gaping hole in the face of the upper storey la awaiting the return of the bricklayer who broke his foot when be dropped a brick on it Once he gets back to work Mr Tyler expects things to proceed scheduled The discovery of dry rot In a second Umber In the roof resulted In even mora Iron and bolts being used to ensure the safety of the structure and caused considerable unexpect expense Mr Tyler said The architect then dis covered cedar shingles under the asphalt roof and Insisted the building be reshingled with the more expensive materi al to restore it as authentically as poss ible Parking issue to be discussed Mr Lusty our town Bylaw cement and Licensing Officer recently informed me that a municipal bylaw regarding handicapped parking spots will be presented within the next month to council They intend to create parking spots for the disabled in all municipality controlled parking lota and urge private business offices and stores to do the same A fine of 333 Is proposed a gentle reminder to anyone contravening this bylaw If you feel that you will require the use of these parking areas I urge you to apply for a sticker or permit as soon as council passes these new rules A medical certificate will be a require ment for these permits If you wish input into this bylaw before It Is passed contact your councillor now Their phone numbers are listed on page three of the Fail Winter recreation department cir cular recently distributed The town office will also provide you with appropriate phone numbers A committee is being formed to represent the physically handicapped citizens of North Halton Their Include IdentiflcaUonottheneedsand problems of the physically disabled with the Intent of implementing ions assisting groups undertaking projects designed to increase particip ation and mobility of the disabled provide Information to the handicap ped concerning available facilities resources and services provide a forum for the exchange of Ideas and information for organizations and In order to create awareness and promote a positive attitude and to express the viewpoints of the disabled to appropriate officials and govern ment representatives Those wishing further information please call Bible digest I October 1163 What time I am afraid will trust In thee In I wtll praise his word In God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psalm Keep looking to God no matter bow things look