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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division ot Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown L7G 3Z6 Ontario GARNET Publisher and General Manager DAVE ROWNFY Editor PHONE J STEVEN FOREMAN Advertising Manager Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday October It Its not enough A school consolidation committee will be having a public meeting Oct 22 to discuss their progress But that not enough The only other scheduled meeting for the public will be sometime in March after a report has been presented to the Halton Board of Education for information The committee is discussing the possible closure of schools because of declining enrollment in Halton Hills Fourteen schools are being evaluated by a mem ber committee Parents concerned about the committee process may feel that s not enough meetings There s no doubt the consolidation committee is working extremely hard at coming to grips with tackling the school closure issue We ve got a talented bunch of parents and taxpayers working for the board of education on a volunteer basis They ve been elected by the people to serve each of the schools interests The process on paper is more than fair Other school boards haven t been as democratic when considering school closings But the public needs more reassurance the meetings are being conducted in a fair and reasonable manner Excluding the press and public from the once per week committee meetings creates an aura of suspicion warranted or otherwise By not holding more information sessions the public will feel later that they ve been left out in the dark To prevent bad feelings in March we suggest the consolidation committee offer to hold a public meeting a month or so before they go to the school board Protests are best quelled when there s still time for changes to be considered No one likes a fait accompli Workers come first Brian s government once promised Canadians Jobs jobs jobs But instead he s got the public chanting Tuna tuna tuna That was the response to his introduction at the opening ceremonies during the Blue Jays series against Kansas City The Pnme Minister was seen at the game with an entourage which included s own MP Otto Mr has problems similar to the prime ministers concerns about rotting fish and ministerial responsibility Our local MP forfeited a chance to meet with workers from an shoe manufacturing firm who were laid off and had requested a meeting He cancelled the meeting indicating the meeting was postponed not cancelled to attend a Blue Jays game We do not believe his duties as Minister of Amateur Sport and Fitness required him to attend the opening Blue Jay game against Kansas City If our MP had a prior commitment to talk to laid off workers he should not nave broken that appointment We wonder if the Conservatives talk about providing more jobs for Canadians is just smoke and mirrors Or does Mr Jehnek attendance at the game just show how a Toronto sports team had distracted us all from attending to more important day today concerns Join the bandwagon By sometime next year perhaps by October the familiar United Way logo may be flying on the of town offices Hills is the lone holdout when it comes to adopting a United Way Every other community in the Region of Halton has a United Way It s no secret a number of people outside Halton Hills have been in their attempts to have us join the rest of the crowd It s time for members of the community here to show some enthusiasm for a United Way With so many commuters giving to the United Way in Toronto or elsewhere the town is suffering a charity funding dram Funds that could be allocated here for local projects and organizations are put into a general fund By banding together we can jointly solicit public financial support By putting all our resources towards a major cam the town can share the benefits made possible the vast talents of volunteers in the community Let give United Way a try And don t wait until it gets here to Tend a hand Your wife was labor longer than Ive ever been Erratic cannons for PM Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Prime Minister Brian has the reputat on of being somewhat of a media Junkie I that he reads everything written about him but it would not be surprising if he soon changes his habits Seldom it ever before has there been a period when so many unrelated incidents have cropped up to embarrass a government Since Parliament resumed on Sept scarcely a day has gone by without some newspaper offering up something to make the prime minister cringe In many respects It is even worse than the terminal days of the baker government At that time at least all the bad news centred around the virtual disintegration of cabinet sol The assorted disasters were pretty well confined to Parliament Hill But now we are bouncing from rancid tuna in New Brunswick to the And every time you pick up a newspaper around here there seems to be another cabinet a backbench MP or a party official clarifying an earlier comment You sometimes get the impression the whole country Is being over run by erratic Tory cannons And we n not Just talking about major issues like the collapse of those Alberta based banks In fact so many little things have cropped up we scarcely have time to think about the fact that the bank bailout will probably cost us over billion This Incl dentally will more than wipeout the proposed deficit reduction In Finance Minister Michael Wilson last budget It Is a colossal calamity SMALL THINGS But as I said we haven bad much time think about that We been too busy keeping up on that continuing serial of Just how many New Brunswick Tory MPs knew about the rancid tuna before that Issue became public knowledge As to who knew what it depends largely on what day you happened to pick up your newspaper Even these revised versions tend to get lost in the shuffle of other revisions Let Just take one very recent day Ihc day In which newspapers told us hat Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen had backtracked on his accusation that critics of cabinet minister Suzanne were In effect racists Assuming the prime minister got his of newspapers that day he would not only have been reminded of this incident but he would have found himself under severe attack for not following Nielsen example in retract a statement The prime minister had earlier talked about the opinions of in relation to Blaia problems But there would be other items to seize the attention of the prime minister that day There was a columnist from Edmonton of all sympathetic places who wrote that the Tories are too stupid or maybe too desperate to core what demons they unleash on the country What a way to begin the day And after wading through all that stuff on the bank collapses the prime minister could read about the NOP seeking an investigation into the Tories national campaign spend Or there was that stuff about a South Korean lobby and Its connections to Ihe Conservatives STILL MORE Then and It still the same day there was that story quoting Justice Minister John Crosble as saying that a dea are not politically astute Later newspaper editions featured s denial and then still later editions carried excerpts of the taped Interview to back up the original version Once again a controversy was being carried to needless extremes And as Crosble was correcting press reports about his comments Small Business Minister Andre Bisson nette was busy trying to detach himself from a rather embarrassing advertise ment in the Journal Montreal The ad was an open letter to Mulroney from a union and other sympathizers concerned with the loss of jobs in Quebec shipyards The letter referred to the Canadian govern inertia In economic matters and among the sponsors of this missive was the name of Andre Aides said his name was used without authorization and that ally the letter did not reflect the views the minister The story was just below the latest updateon which New Brunswick Tory MPs might have met with the tuna people in St Andrew And was it at the plant the legion hall or some front lawn This was also the day that a Toronto newspaper revealed that former defence minister Robert Coates for the five months that he was A office ran up personal expenses of more than There was just no escape for on this day Even if he turned to the international pages would come face to face with a Canadian columnist in London offering views on the Canadian prime minister Can we impeach him or try for some sort of restraining order asked the writer No it was no day for the prime minister to start his autobiography And just about now he must be wondering whether it will ever end THIRTY YEARS AGOQuarterback David Hart and receiver brother Peter combined Tor an victory over Milton Georgetown has a two point lead over Preston and Acton after two games this season Terra artist van der Vlict bod his oil paintings featured in the Toronto Star rotogravure on Hlsplctureswlllappear IntheStor The Georgetown Business and Pro fessional Women Club held their first dinner meeting at the McGlbbon House President Joyce Nevitt and vicepresident Marlon Robinson greet special speaker Cecil from Brampton At the this week Bob Hope stars as Eddie in The Seven Foya Ann Blyth Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas star In Rose Marie and the star feature of the week is Hell and High Water with Richard Bella and David Wayne YEARS and Mrs Frank Asbecks yearold goose Toulouse died The goose who was a wedding present the last of its three goslings by seven years The Georgetown Georgettes won their third straight Ladles Rural Softball Championship Joanne got a grand slam home run In the romp over Glen Williams The 196970 Music Program Counc il wants the county board of education to introduce singing to the high school curriculum Paul chairman of the Music Council told the board more teachers would be needed but not an additional teacher for each school TEN YEARS and Sharon both of Georgetown competed In the Mlsslssauga Beauty Contest held at Sheridan Mall The girls are taking a modelling course at Sheridan College Neither girl was a finalist but Bemlce Is a finalist in the Miss Argonaut contest which finishes this week FIVE YEARS AGO Varian Canada celebrated Its 25th anniversary at the North Golf and Country Club Varian was the first Klystron monuf hiring and development company In Canada when it opened Oct 31 Georgetown resident and defena We star for the Toronto Maple Leaf Dave Burrows may be leaving town as talks of trading him continue The Toronto native called the day traded to the Leafs from Pittsburgh in one of the hanoiest days of my life The 28day strike at Maple Lodge Farms in Norval ended this weekend with a vote In favor of a new two year contract Fact finding in Africa Ottawa Report B Stewart Ottawa Bureau of The Herald Prime Minister Mulroney rather suddenly a week or so ago that Bernard Wood director of the NorthSouth Institute had just been appointed as his personal represents tlve to undertake an immediate fact finding mission in southern Africa Wood Is to report back before Oct 12 so the prime minister can have the benefit of his findings prior to the Commonwealth headsofgovernment conference in Nassau Strikes me as somewhat of a rush job And since Wood is not going to South Africa Itself the source of Ihe major unrest in the region it also strikes me as an inevitably incomplete Job It strikes me infect as more show than substance This is not taking anything away from Bernard Wood whose personal abilities and dedication are beyond reproach But given his mandate his time frame and his itinerary I would be surprised if he were to return with any new and inspirational ideas about how we should approach problems in area There is no evidence that the Canadian government is in the dark about events there TIMING SUSPECT The timing of the prime minister announcement also invites a slight sprinkling of cynicism It came as Mulroney was meeting in Ottawa with President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who wants Canada to take stronger measures against South Africa held policies The two men according to the prime minister had an excel dialogue and the president was clearly pleased when Mulroney announced the appointment his personal fact finding mission But privately I suspect he would have expressed even more had the prime minister asked Wood to undertake this mission months ago A tomtom for Georgetown Clergy Comment ByDR JOHNM Immimiel Lutheran Church Dr Kreiss a theologian from France spoke in to about mission work in Zaire He showed a slide of a man beating a tomtom a drum like instrument made out of a hollow log It is used for mass communication The church service in a village had been delayed by a storm When they were ready to begin the man beat the tomtom for several minutes The message be sent was roughly this The rain is over The preacher is here Come immediately Bring your Bibles Hundreds of people between Zaire and Canada is not the torn torn Those people have a genuine hunger for the Word of God and a real desire to worship together Most Canadians today know nothing of such hunger and thirst It was lovely to hear Kreiss describe the worship services In Zaire Those poverty stricken people have to work hard for their dally bread But they know whom to thank for it They are eager to assemble for Word and worship not only once a week but an a dally basis They hear hourlong sermons instructing them in the Word of God They stand and ait and sing through threehour services Just about every group within the congregation men women youth children has its own choir Those people could sing the psalms expressing their own faith As the hart panteth after the water brooks so my soul after Thee O God Psalm was glad when they said unto me Let us go Into the house of the Lord Psalm 122 1 This work was not conducted by foreign missionaries but by people from Zaire They had appealed to French Lutherans for educational help use of one excel 1 Lutheran book in French that some of them had been using Wo keep hearing reports about active interest In Christianity In According to reliable reports twenty two thousand people are converted to Christianity in Africa everyday But so many in Canada turn a deaf car and a blind eye to the Word of God Why is that Most Africans believe that at things are real Most Canadians are practical atheists no matter what they tellStntsCan Theyllveasiftherewere no God Most Africans are taught to be afraid of whatever gods they have heard about Most Canadians learn the attitude that God If He exists is very kindly and does not mind If wo ignore Him and His will So while most Canadians say the Africans are glad and grateful to hear the truth that there Is only one God and that He loves people in spite of their sins They rejoice to leam that Jesus Christ true God and true Man died for their sins They arc greatly relieved to be freed from fear by the message of God s love In Christ In the not toodistant future Afric an Christians may well be sending preachers to do mission work among the heathen In Canada Bible digest And he said unto than How Is it that ye sought me wist ye not that must be about my Father business Luke There is no business like Gods business Like Jesus let get In it Take Him into the market place of life end change the market And he certainly should have been asked to go to South Africa Since the prime minister had such on excellent dialogue with Nyerere it not obvious to me why when time is so precious Wood is going to Tanzania The prime minister should have a pretty clear Idea of that country a views on the situation in southern Africa But Wood will moke a swift visit to that country along with Botswana Zimbabwe and Zambia His particular concern will be ending apartheid in South Africa and bringing about Inde pendence for Zambia There are officials at the external affairs department who have devoted years to these problems and the countries on Woods itinerary nave been visited countless times Another 10 days spread over four countries even for someone of Wood edged ability is unlikely to result In a major revision of the heavy briefing books NOT HELPFUL And while the initiative may a keen prime ministerial Interest In the region prior to the Common wealth Conference it seems a bit silly to bypass South Africa If we are to have any influence in bringing about a peaceful change in that country surely it makes sense to be Interested or at least appear to be interested In talking with its government It sin South Africa that the change has to occur And even if we find apartheid absolutely abhorrent Its probably not very constructive to give the impression thatonly outsiders have the proper solutions What are the South Africans supposed to think about a Canadian emissary who appears to be doing all his fact finding about the country outside its borders Even Is as seems likely absolute ly nothing would be discovered In the few days available It t do any harm to lubricate the lines of nlcation To the casual observer it might seem impressive to have the prime minister head off to the Common wealth Conference armed with a speciallycommissioned and freshly minted report from Bernard Wood But I imagine that most serious observers will take the view that Just about everything Mulroney says In Nassau was pretty well settled long before Wood fastened his seat belt That s one reason we have diplomatic missions assigned to foreign countries Do you have a flair for acting a compassion for children with a disabi llty and time available to become a puppeteer for he Kids on the Block North This committee is now actively seeking volunteers who are willing to be trained In the art of handling a disabled puppet whether it may have spina bifida epilepsy or a mental handicap In order to create ess among school children the puppet show must he presented during the day affording everyone the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the puppets If you are Interested in this oppor tunity please contact Anders on or Darlaw B773tl9 DonaUons to purchase the puppets will be gratefully received as well The Advocay Resource Centre For the Handicapped ARCH recently won some important victories The case Involved Revenue Canada Professor Nagler who has cerebral palsy which has prevented him from writing or typing had hired a secre tary out of his own Income to fulfill the requirements of his job Aa It was costing him between and 10 per year for extra expenses professor had deducted this cost from his taxable Income for years Unfortunately Revenue Canada reviewed his returns and decided to disallow his claims for this expense According to section of the incomctaxact the amounts payable to an assistant must be required by the contract of employment and this was not the case here An appeal was launched In the tax appeal court With a trial date approaching and after careful conside ration of the Implications of accepting the argument that Professor Nagler a terms of employment implied that be must hire a secretary Revenue Cana da confirmed that they were prepared to consent to the allowance of his appeal This victory will have far reaching impact on the of other disabled people The deaf who require sign interpreters blind employees who require a reader or physically disabl ed who require services of an attend ant may claim the deduction however like other expenses do not fall under this section Therefore it Is likely this issue will arise again At present alt employees are entitled to a standard deduction of This situation treats everyone the same but does not allow for the fact that the person with the handicap may have expenses in addition to regular expenses that directly relate to the disability The solution is to either allow employee to Itemize their of earning Income as is the in most countries or allow disabled people to Itemize their related expenses continue to the standard as