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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Haftort Hills Established 1 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown 3Z6 Ontario Editor GARNET COWSILL Publisher and General Manager J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager PHONE Mull lif Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday October No true mandate Acclaimed candidates face a disadvantage right from their first day of taking political office They dont have a true mandate from the people The way our Nov municipal elections are shaping up Halton Hills may nave a number of acclamations With days left until candidates may register it is not too late to nominate a challenger for the Wards still looking for op ponents An acclaimed candidate can be unfairly criticized for any political decision he or she makes Opponents can always mention that a councillor wasnt chosen by the people As it stands now there are no challengers for two regional seats In Ward two newcomers are poised ready to take their towji council seats without any opposition The one bright light seems to be in Actons Ward where five candidates have emerged for two town council seats Three of them are newcomers to politics Our town council will only be as good as the competition makes it If youre not satisfied with a one- candidate race now is the time to act Help the arts Weve gone to all that trouble to build a public for local artists at the Hills lltural Centre But its operating hours are limited because the library staff dont have people to keep an eye on the room at all tunes With limited access the art gallery isnt reaching the numbers everyone hoped it woula not the librarys fault The library hasnt been budgeted for a staff member to look after the gallery Its just not their responsibility Coordinator of the Here and Now wall art exhibit John Sommer made a plea last Tuesday for volunteers to come forward to help with security for the gallery By virtue of its location the gallery benefits by all the traffic coming to see a play or to check out a book If the gallery cant stay open on a regular basis these captive audiences arelost A local public gallery is one way to promote our area artists and their work But as any good businessmen knows youve got to provide accommodating hours or youll lose out on a good thing If you want to volunteer to help call Walter Lewis at the Georgetown Library Happy birthday It really is something to cheer about The Hills LibraryCultural Centre is celebrating its fourth anniversary next week Over the years weve seen a wonderful variety of talent perform at the John Elliot Theatre The gallery has provided a muchneeded area for the public to view the ar ts from a local perspective Thanks to the town staff particularly Hank Huhtanen the community can help celebrate the birthday of our modern library theatre and gallery Theres a talent show Wednesday a series of concer ts by the schools Thursday and the comic antics of Second City Touring Company Friday evening Come out and enjoy and dont forget to say happy birthday A rare treat salvation There is nothing restful more peaceful than the message of complete perfect and total forgiveness of sins for Jesus I have to be honest Before going to the service I was thinking about some work sitting on my deck in the residence I had other things to do Important things 1 admit that I considered skipping the worship service glad that I bad gone This experience Is not unique Many people have told me that they always feel better on a Sunday when they have gone to church The problem Is to remember that at 8 or on Sunday morning a time when sloth sin and Satan bid fair to make sleepers of us all But I also said that I was missing something What I missed was being with my fellow members of my own church my church home the specific family of believers with which I worship weekly Even though there were various worship opportunities scheduled at the convention even though I was to be with hose other In Christ yet missed being with the Christians to whom I am so close in my own specific local Christian congregation When people atop coming to church those who are still there do miss them They may not always say so They may be too shy to mention it But they feel it and I have often been told about it The Word of God the worship of God the wonder of God the wealth of God freely given to the people of God how could any believer in Christ stay away from church By DR JOHN DRICKAMER Lutheran Church Some time ago I was out of town for a convention I experienced a rare and wonderful treat But I also had a genuine sense that I was missing something The convention Itself was not the treat But during the convention I bad occasion to attend a worship service For me it was a real treat You might object but you go to church all the time because you re a pastor That to correct But as a pastor I have a lot on my mind on Sunday morning There are a thousand details to remember In conducting he service and delivering the sermon Then I have to remember to tell this person that and ask that person this and give something else to someone else It was a rare treat for me to alt in church and concentrate to have my mind free of doing and leading to have no need to think of anything but the how could anyone who could go church choose to stay away It was wonderful to bear the old familiar music to sing and say the old familiar words to contemplate in the presence of fellow Christians the wonder and glory of Gods love for us in Christ There Is nothing sweeter than to dwell on the love of Gods own Son sacrificing Himself in our place for our Typecasting Puzzling AIDS reaction Queens Derek Nelson Queen Park Bureau of The Herald TORONTOThere Is a disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis It is incurable It kills somewhere between and a year Anyone who contracts it la dead within three to five years There is no known cause Famous people like New York Yankees baseball player Lou Gehrig ALS Is sometimes called Gehrig Disease and actor David have been among Its victims Yet there Is no Ontario govern ment money going Into research on the origins of ALS There Is no taxpayer cash going to a support and counselling program for sufferers There is no government sponsored public information and educational program on In short deadly disease though It is it is ignored CONTRAST Now contrast that record with the Ontario near panic reaction to immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS It Is a viral infection that the Immune systems of those who catch it with the result victims become vulnerable to a host of other infections In the summer or 1933 when Ontario was reporting only 10 cases of AIDS then Conservative Health Minister Keith Norton allocated for AIDS research It was partly done under pressure from Toronto homosexual lobby the group most devastated by AIDS Partly too it was a justifiable fear of the unknown The cause of AIDS and how communicable it was were unknown Since then the AIDS bill has climbed to where it is now million with new spending being added all the time MORE CASH Liberal Health Minister Murray Elston announced formation of a panel to battle the myths and misconcep tions this words about AIDS also providing to support and counsel victims of AIDS All this Is going for a disease that produced only new cases in Ontario last year of whom has since died a fraction of the casualties lost to ALS True the number stricken by AIDS Is increasing annually but if the health authorities are to be believed that cant possibly continue Health officials articles in the media and presumably this new panel formed by all stress that with one exception AIDS is not a highly communicable disease among people In general BLOOD CHANCE exception through transfu sions or infected blood After Nov 1 that danger will end when blood donations will be screened and Infected blood discarded Ontario spent up toll million on achieving that worthwhile aim But the other methods of trans mission mainly condom free anal intercourse and use of dirty needles I exactly the type that will produce epidemics If as suggested body fluids other than blood and semen tears and saliva for instance cant transmit the disease why the heightened anxiety in government and the media It is very puzzling urn v December municipal elections There are voters In Ward 1 voters in Word and voters in Ward 3 The Georgetown and are the Ontario lacrosse champions for the second time in three years after defeating in the sixth game of a best of seven series Joe Caruso had three goals in the final game At the Roxy this week is Cell Death Row with William Campbell and Robert Campbell The King of the Khyber Rifles with Tyrone Power and Terry Moore and The Private War of Major Benson with Chariton and Julie Adams This years Georgetown Fair included the finest hall displays on record said Mrs George who travels to fairs across Ontario every year It is one of the best In the business she said FIFTEEN YEARS professional photographer George Adams attended the first national convention of Professional of Canada In Niagara Falls of Ottawa became the first to receive an Honorary Photo graphic Arts Degree The North Ladies Golf Team missed winning the Hamilton District Sectional Matches by one shot They finished behind Hamilton McCullough and Mark Mil won the first tournament at the Joseph Gibbons Memorial Park tennis courts They defeated George Kelly and Barclay AGOThe Judo Club lost exclusive rights to the Rose Room at Georgetown Memorial Arena despite objections of Councillor Emle Sykes Three of the 19 girls and boys enrolled at the babysitters course received perfect marks for the eight weeks of work required to finish the course Dana and Debbie Hughes scored 100 per cent Arguments against nuclear Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO There are three common arguments against nuclear power The first is that we dont yet know what we are going to do with the high level waste produce by nuclear generating stations Second is that we have no idea how to decommission a nuclear plant after its 40year life cycle The third is that nuclear energy uses a renewable resource uran ium and we really should be preparing for an energy future using renewable resources All threearguments are myths Orat thats what is indicated by the testimony here before the Legislatures committee on ener gy True the committee has heard the usual vague scare tales from profess ional activists tike Ralph Nader and neither of whom have particularly impressive credentials In the nuclear of energy fields REAL EXPERTS With the real experts on the other hand It is another matter Dr Bob Andrews and Dr Malcolm Harvey both nuclear physicists demo lished each of the three myths during a presentation On nuclear waste disposal We would like to have on record that ram a technical point of view It Is not problem It Is essentially solved First Ihere ton a lot of it Four reactors at Pickering running for years produce only a 10foot cube of highlevel waste A bit of it is long living the socalled the uranium and the plutonlums In Harvey s words which can be separated from the rest and put back Into the reactor to form new fuel and beDurnUCff RENEWABLE ENERGY This incidentally point three as well Nuclear power should be seen as a renewable energy source In a facto sense Andrews said Spent fuel can be reprocessed A portion of the spent fuel however remains waste It will be incorporated into glass blocks much as some est waste was done years ago at Chalk River Leaching radioactive material from these blocks was negligible Andrews said And I was once told elsewhere were put in highly water permea ble sand for the test MORE DEFENCES Just to be sure it will then be put in steel canisters Iri a clay bed Inside stable granite formations called We need to do that for years to bring the radioactivity down to the familiar level of a uranium mine Andrews said The longer living would be used again and again And that brings one to the question of decommtosloning a nuclear after lis life 40 years The answer Is that it ton t so The 40year figure has to do with economics and financing not the real life of a reactor Like any machine a reactors parts wear out and need replacing in new Innards as Harvey said There may be no need to ever decom mission a power reactor Sharing hands made craft sale easy Dear Sir Thank you for giving publicity to our Sharing Hands LawnCraft sale in last weeks issue Our sale was very successful land we would like to thank Send us a letter your readers for their patronage and announce he winners of the raffle 1st prize Donald Giles of Bramp ton quilted baby cover 2nd prize Nancy Moon of Brampton quilted cushion Thank you again Vivian Hunter Terra Cotta Oct Dear Sir once again opens its doors at rook lie Hall Guelph Line Oct 12 at ID a This all day event of crafts demonstrations by local artisans baked goods and refreshments has become a popular stop for visitors over the Thanks giving weekend The Womens Institute are very pleased to invite you to drop In on on Oct Yours sincerely tharlne Garwood Nassagaweya Women Institute Over the coming months will be several conference meetings and shows relating to disabilities T Ontario channel 19 began an part series on the brain Sept viewthercmalningshows tune In at pm Mondays Commencing November at 10 p they will feature a It part learning series exploring the education of special children The programs relate to assessment learning tics behavior problems and Integra This series should be of special interest to parents and teachers For those who were unable to hear Barb Halsall discussing the subject of lupus on Against the Odds Cable 4 tune In Oct 17 at 30 p m when this presentation will be shown again National Institute of Retarda tion to sponsoring a series of day long conferences on integration at the Kinsmen Building York University between and 4 pra Oct focuses on the home Oct they will discuss the work place and Nov 12 and 13 deals with the school setting The Association for the Neurologl Disabled of Canada AND Is offering for the first time a general information night All families are welcome to attend Nov 1 at m Hotel Airport West Mlssls- in the Oak room Nov 19 Dr J VanLoon Univer sity of Toronto will address the subject of the learning disabled adult His speech Is entitled My Learning Disability Advantage Anyone Interested may make further enquiries to The meeting will beat Lord Elgin High School resource centre room 119 In last weeks column on an Important reference was left out The fear adrenalin cycle of which I spoke was discussed fully by Claire Wekea of Australia In her book Hope and Help for your Nerves It is a very informative book and one that I would recommend for anyone suffering from a nervous ailment THANKSGIVING What does it mean to you dot a gripe or a reason to praise Then send The Herald a Idler to the editor All letters must be signed and Include your address phone number because we need to verily them The Herald reserves the right o edit condense or reject letters We have found the effective letters are those that arc concise and to the point no more than words Send letters to The Herald Street Georgetown toe- briefly to he soothed too anxious to be calmed KEEPING IN TOUCH touching you reminds me always that placed me on this plane By MARLOWE DICKSON RRlBeetort LENA BURTON What does Thanksgiving mean to you For Lens Barton of Cheltenham Thanksgiving Is a reminder of the pioneers and their way of life It makes mo think about how it was like for them back when they came Lena sold Bruce of Georgetown said Thanksgiving Is a lovely time It a time to be thankful for all the beautiful things that we have our whole country and our way of life So many people don have very much to be thankful for Mr said Its a nice family time BRUCE CINDY LED WITH MA1SIE ROSS KNECHTELf Lorelei of Stouffviile said the first thing that came to her mind was a family dinner with turkey Its for us as many of our family together at time for a big big harvest dinner and then a hike she laughed Cindy Ledwilh of Kilbride said Its Important to get together with the family at Thanksgiving We have quite a large family and Thanksgiving to seeing everybody and enjoying the young mother said We usually have a nice meal at my mum and dads place Aa well Thanksgiving weekend is extra spec ial because thats when she was married Laiby of Rockwood said it makes her feel thankful shes got a home and a family with no problems Everybody likes to come home and have a good time together It a kind of sad when you see broken homes Its the kids who suffer the district president the Womena tute said For Rum Knechtel of Acton Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on ones good fortune and put aside- complaints Its also a time to consider whether ones responsibility to others is being given enough consideration J he said