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the HERALD Compromise solution is just artificial Home Newspaper of Hills Established i860 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario DAVID A Publisher and General Manager DAN TAYLOR Advertising Manager Page SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday Dec cm it 1SSH Plan to make it better It s hard to believe that in a few short days we 11 be with the beginning of the end of the i960 s As we welcome the new year and all that holds we 11 also begin the countdown to the end of the decade But before looking ahead to the s we have next year to contend with and naturally that means turning over more new leafs than it would take to make a Stanley Cup contender Most people like to make New Year resolutions and often they have absolutely no intention of keeping them Resolutions are not something to be taken seriously for the greater masses So why not decide to make resolutions that are within reason and will have some significance If you re a skeptic resolve to be less skeptical If you re a pessimist resolve to take on a brighter outlook If you re eternally optimistic perhaps it wouldn hurt to lean more towards atealistic overview If you re short tempered resolve to be more tolerable If you see only in tunnel vision resolve to be more open and the list goes on The point is resolve to be just a little bit better than you are now Strive to be more in control and more aware of the feelings and needs of those around you You might be surprised to find that by improving yourself even slightly your entire feeling about the way you live will be affected in a positive way And with little effort it may result tn those around you being affected positively as well Window of visions Staff Comment By BRIAN MACLEOD Funny sitting here beside a rain soaked window staring out onto Weak Highway the effect is amazingly similar to a crystal ball Yes it time once again for the an Jean Dixon imitation What docs the future hold What in store for Halton Hills residents as the 1980s come to a close While the 70s were dubbed the Me decade it difficult to get a handle on the 80s Optimists might pessimists Here a bird s eye view of the future courtesy of my rain soaked window Sometime in 1989 the new Civic Centre will be finished However I hear there are bets on to see whether Toronto Sky Dome or our own version will be finished first My window says the Argonauts will be able to play In the parking lot of the Civic Centre before the can handle a pigskin Down at Region the dispute over the landfill site will degenerate into a wild garbage- fl fight in the council chambers with Burlington councillors hurling mountains of the green bags at their colleagues Nevertheless cooler heads will prevail and councillors will be able bury the bags no hat chela please The yea- of been nice lo Limehouse residents They lost their postal service and might be gaining a garbage dump But fear not My window tells me workers at the quarry will strike leaving the quarry to fill to the brim with cool clean water Then The Credil Valley Conservation Authority will move In When a heel is grinding a lace into the dirt what Is there to celebrate about whether the boots are soft soled or steel jacketed It is still a boot That Is why the debat over Premier Robert so called compromise solution to the Quebec sign law controversy is so artificial The Supreme Court of Canada lias already settled the key question Quebec does have thi right lo the English language All now open to question Is the of that oppression Consider For a decade citizens of Canada have been under assault for using English language to com with other Canadians One gentleman had a sign above his westend Montreal shop I hat said Allan Singer Ltd Printers and Stationers This lype of sign was considered so sevcra danger to the French language Bill 101 was passed to Its use Singer became the test or Jailed lor displaying it It Is In courts view a reasonable limitation on freedom of expression to make Singer and his Ilk post a French- language sign One has to wonder It Singer the soldier knew during the Second World War that what fie was fighting tor did not Include the right to live his life In Canada in his own language Oh It Is true the court said he can have an English language sign loo- but only so long as It I detract from the predominance of his French sigh Yet even tliat was loo much for English language signs can only be used islde windings he said and again they can be too big The slogan of French nationalism remains Frankly by allowing the debate to be framed in those terms the media courts and politicians have already Queens Park Derek Nelson Thornton Srvlc slowly and gradually rather than through violent upheavals and ins tant change So the extinguishing of the English language In Quebec will continue now endorsed by court and ment alike by judge and politician both Even a felt boot can smother you to death Peace In The New Year conceded the basic point A GIFT NOT A RIGHT That is that the use of the language by a Canadian citizen Is not a common taw right held by free men but a gift of an Allpowerful All mighty government to be used or abused government whim It is noticeable that the Supreme Court laid heavy emphasis on the rights guaranteed In the Quebec and federal Charters of Rights But those rights unlike com mon law or historic rights can be repealed or Ignored at whim through use of the ding clause for example The not withstanding clause In the Canadian Charter of Rights allow govern ments to exempt any law from the Charter by simply Inserting Into the law a statement that It will take cf feet notwithstanding the Charter In short the State permits Slnger- the rest of usto be Tree It also means the State can end its per Contrast that with the English common law tradition that once nil In this country where you are free because of the accumulated decisions of the centuries began with the signing of the Magna Carta In 1215 In such a view It is of the courts to protect your freedom against all comers In eluding the State English language Quebec has been In existence more than years Even though Its numbers have declined to eight per cent of Quebec s population from 2S per cent at its peak It has a historic claim to be visible on the face of Quebec And yet the way the Supreme Court ruled It was as though English was just another language no more or less Important In Quebec than or Swedish Only a nebulous freedom of expression phrase in two chartersone now to be ignored the other to be over ridden gave anglophone any rights at all and then no more than people speaking Swahlll or Swedish It is the Canadian way to do things and claim place lor their own One drawback the seagulls will lie there anyway Newly crowned Peel MP Garth Turner will prosper under Mulroney government Ihi Fret Trade II make Garth s trademark cowboy boots toe expensive He will trade tl leather for a pair Itccbok n order lo keep one step of his fellow ranchers Glen Williams the town the used truck routes from Ihe town and tree structures orb entry gravel trucks v111 an eye on Glen Williams Honest see it in my window Somebody Village net nee Hungry Hollow There too much fog in my window to fell f so meone is actually living in the house Someone will sue somebody r something Surprise Hills will a University town Yes my window tells me thousands of post secondary students will flock the Spcys dc School where they will set up their own university My window it appears agree with that the building be turned into an affordable housing projecl The university will give slogan a World Class Place to be a whole new meaning Residents In will wake up and smell the wail for it energy from waste plant Yes that morning smell of coffee be replaced by an plant somewhere In the Region And this year a citizens group will form to oppose says my window Regional Police will call in Canada army both tanks to stop speeding rucks The tanks will do more damage the roads than the And finally Ihc Herald Angels will win the annual Thomson World Series baseball tournament in after all of the other 19 teams fall he urine tests Wait a minute my window has frozen over Citizens forum Tanya home for Christmas Tanya Mitchell Injured Nov 18 when and her horse Windsong were riding long a roadway and I hey truck by a pairing vehicle The following Is a Idler from the chfll family Dear Sir Our daughter Tanya came Christmas Eve after and skin grafts and five weeks in Sick Children s Hospital Our family would like publicly express our sincere thanks and ap preciation to nil the wonderful peo ple who visited hospital and sent cards Rood wishes gifts and food r and the Emergency and Ward nurses at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital for their excellent care al the time of the dent also thank the officers at the Hal Ion Regional Police Force especially Hick Ferguson and Scott Mason who worked efficiently and treated our family with much and concern The staff Georgetown District High School have been a great help the video of made by Scott gave Tanya spirits a lift Wi would also like lo thank Tanya friends who mode many visits to Sick Kids and the parents who drove them and special men tion must go Sandy Symmes Val Kumar Barb Herver and Joan Beaver for their constant concern and support And lost bul not least we will always be indebted to Jean for her excellent and time consuming core of Tanya horse No one else could have done Such a patient and careful Job of nursing Windsong back on the road recovery Again many thanks to all these great people John and Tanya Mitchell A message from the president Dear Sir It is hard lo believe that another year is drawing to a close I am very proud of the North Halton for the capped s accomplishments during Ihe year would to lake this opportunity to reflect In Children s Service area we are very pleased lhat our PreSchool Program expanded During Ihc pasl year we gained two new staff positions one as Supervisor for Tinker Bell Nursery and one of Resource Teacher for the Y Daycare Program We now four children into the day cafe pro gram in addition lo the Tour children who the Mlllon Nursery Program The PreSchool Parents Group were very active the past year and din much in way of fund raising as well as information sharing The Toy Library was sue in finding a new home at d is now located In Socre Cocur School In Georgetown Saturday Centre successful year In the Residential Services area we are thrilled to be putting the final touches on the Attendant Care Pro gram for four individuals who will live on Weber Drive In Georgetown We anticipate opening this program by February 1969 In addition to ihe six full lime day staff and the over staff who will be employed directly at Weber Drive we have hired a new Residential Supervisor who will oversee this program as well as several others This will benefit all of residential services In the area of Day Services this has been the most successful year to date In terms of getting people out on work experience placement and in competitive employment Congratulations to all those We also added a new position that of Transportation Coord I lor This Is significant as transportation is a major concern for our clients In this rural community In addition with the new program expansion on Weber Drive Day Services will be expanding as well lo meet the needs of these four new clients We are cur rcntly looking to relocate In we hope to get more families of school aged children As well we anticipate 1989 will be a year In which NHADH gets more actively involved In fund raising In an effort to maintain our non funded services Our past accomplishments and future challenges are only made possible because of Ihe well trained staff and Ihc dedicated volunteers that has I would like to members who have helped moke past year such a successful Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Don Leonard President SIMM Bruit Newspapers make a comeback My resolution Not having all the same ones next year If you are reading this column you will probably not be surprised to near that more people are reading newspapers these oays A few years ago communications experts predicted people would abandon their dally newspapers in favor of television and interactive computer networks which offer timesaving easy todigest lion In bitesired chunks It seems people have not been so easily sold on TVdinners of news and public affairs programming We are recognizing the limitations of analysis Or so we in the newspaper business hope The British who form part of our heritage are the biggest consumers of newspapers In the world devalu ing them faster than Harlequin romances A recent survey shows that the number of newspaper readers Is growing more quickly than the adult population as a whole Even better readers are spending considerably more time with their newspapers The survey prepared by Ihe Newspaper Marketing Bureau not a disinterested group says 7 million Canadian probably will read a newspaper today up 1 per cent from the previous survey two years ago The adult population grew by per cent over two READING MAJORITY The numbers mean lhal more than Your Business Diane Thomson Srlc two- thirds of the adult population reads dallv newspapers What Is ly remarkable though Is the length of time people are spending with their newspaper nearly one hour a day compared with minutes a day in 1988 survey For this should be good news Indeed But a note of respondents may i be telling the trulh about how long they spend reading heir newspaper Ask an in how long he spends poring over The Globe and Mail for exam pic and be II tell you he spends a couple of hours a day watch the same reader In the privacy of hit home or In Ihe local breakfast place and you see that his reading Is limited to the headlines at woral or the first few paragraphs of a few Interesting stories at best Nevertheless there Is much that la encouraging In the 19BB Newspaper Audience Data Bank survey When it comes lo weekend newspapers pec- pie spend an average of minutes perusing them up 15 minutes from two years ago The survey was conducted by Decima Research which telephoned people In 33 cities and towns and sent out questionnaires to 15 of them About half of the dally newspapers in Canada belong to the Newspaper Marketing Bureau HOT SELL Weekend newspapers are boom which comes as no surprise to Ihosc of us who spend entire Sunday afternoons reading the Sunday New York Times with Its weekly magazine and book review sections The growing popularity of the Sun day Times magazine In the East points to a publication that la sadly lacking In Canada the weekend magazine used to come with the newspaper For a number of reasons publishers the once- popular weekend magazines decided we t want to read them any more and dropped them If anything the newspaper survey shows that may be time for so meone lo bring the weekend magazine back Nearly nine million adults across the country are reading Saturday or Sunday newspapers compared with B million in 1986 the survey estimates I bet that even more would read a weekend magazine 30 years ago The Christian reformed church has been without thejr own minister since the opening of ihe church but arrangements have now been made and they arc expecting lhat Rev Los will arrive In March lo take over the work here Mr Los was in telephone communication with Mr Neuld of Glen Williams their conversation was in English recently and the members of the congregation are anticipating their arrival Georgetown Hunters Realtors will ride into 1959 on top of the Cen tral Ontario Intermediate hockey league The Hunters gained the top rung here on Friday by walking all over Slouffville and emerging with an impressive decision over the team that just a few nights before had handcuffed the pacesetting Bradford Club lie Just 12 hours separates Ihe Georgetown police department and its goal for a fatality free 1958 However the police are more con cerned with that period right after parties Many of them unfit to take the wheel The family car in the hands of someone who did not know when to quit can become a death dealing weapon and the police are urging motorists to make that for the road hot coffee 15 years ago Last week saw Ihe first major snowfall of the season and the an nual snow tire rush Local tire dealers reported motorists were frantic to gel snowtlres put on their cars shortly after the snow started falling and It became evident It was going to stay The Lions Club swimming pool is almost ready to plunge off the draw board and according to a club past president the waters fine Art Gordon an original proponent of the Lions Club project said that tenders have been called and will be an nounced probably later this week The actual work on the pool to be constructed a l the Acton District High School should get under way at the beginning of the year This Christmas most of us are concerned with the environment the ecology on which all living matter depends If you wanl lo extend Joys of Christmas for years ahead environmentalists recommend that you choose a living tree set In a pot of earth as a Christmas tree and later put it in the ground outside your home 10 years ago Georgetown Raiders showed evidence that they are definitely a power in the Intermediate A loop by troundng Thorold Athletics Friday night at A colt Arena The ease with which the Raiders thumped the Athletics was more understanding due to the fact that ihe Athletics ore missing several key players To many people being a minister is a sober narrow existence The old saw about everything that fun be ing either illegal immoral or fatten ing seems to be the way a minister a life must be in many peoples eyes Then they meet Andrew McKenzle and discover he does not fit the age Rev Andrew McKenzle who has spent 22 years as the minister of Knox Presbyterian Church In Acton will leave the congregation at the end of January to lake over new duties In Perth Former Georgetown Gemini Joe South Is taking a regular shift on the corps of the Queen Univer sity Golden Gaels Hockey team South who was last year named Most Valuable In the Central Junior loop Is the only freshman to have cracked the Queen roster this year South also has a chance to compete against a couple of other so far In the season 5 years ago A Terra Cotta couple both avid readers were Ihe lucky winners of the original wildlife painting in the Hills Public Libraries Christmas draw W Ray Jones a retired carpenter and his wife Norah who reside on Leslie Hill In Terra Cotta were Informed of their win by telephone a few after the draw held last Thursday Stewarttown St Johns Anglican Church celebrated the coming of Its 150th anniversary with a Christmas Eve service of Holy Communion after which ihe congregation was served with hot spiced elder and Christmas cake Rev John Roberts conducted the service and music member Mr Sam Mlleham If Santas brought you a camera for Christmas then you are all set to click your way through and perhaps a prize in the historical Society photo contetL Society president Elaine Bertrand said the group Is holding a contest for photos recording the bl centennial year in With the entries which become part of the society archives the society bopea to make up a book recording the history of the township during the bicentennial year much lute the books put together by the Women Institute