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THE HERALD Wednesday March 1 Page LETTERS POWER calls for action 30 years ago The creation of a 12 alley bowl club on Mountainview Road is being planned Mr and Mr Williams are buying 135 feet of frontage and expect to start con of a twostorey building almost immediately The pair plan to open the bowling club in September Purchase of the pro perty is expected to be finalized March 24 Mrs Bob Brick or Mrs Brick as she was called at the annual Lions St Patrick Day Bail became the Shamrock Queen amidst a setting of shamrocks Irish hats pipes and white and green streamers This is the club annual tribute to the patron saint of the Emerald Isle in the arena Rose Room March 19 Last year queen Mrs Godfrey Collier hand ed the title over to Mrs Brick With her new title Mrs Brick became the recipient of numerous gifts from the Lions Club and other donors A doublering ceremony in the Eden United Church in Lisgar united Patricia Jean Elizabeth Hamilton and Kerry Lynn of Georgetown mamage The couple will be setting up their home in Georgetown 20 years ago March 21 the first full day of spring was also the first full work day for Saunders Esso Service on Guelph Street The official grand opening was the tune for Dave Saunders owner and Lome Macleod to put out a sandwich board sign in front of the store Mr Saunders has 19 years of ex in the automotive in The service station will have opening specials until the end of the month Mr and Mrs Bill Ison helped boys and girls from Bethel and Hillcrest stay awake for 36 hours n an effort to se money for the Hillcrest United Church s overseas development and relief fund The group raised a total of 500 In order to stay awake they danced played games and sang John and Wilson of had lead roles in the play New Moons which has concluded a week run at the auditorium of the Peel Secondary School John and played the roles of Phillip and Marianne Two Georgetown men learned the hard way that it doesn t pay to swear at a police cadet The two men were fined when they ap peared before Judge Robert Graham in the county court 10 years ago A nineyearold Acton boy will receive recognition from the Halton Safety Council for his bravery in saving a friends life but be have to wait a year for the award Kevin Fabian pulled Robert Jennings 10 out Fairy Lake Feb after Robert fell through the ice Robert was trying to pet some swans The ice around the edge of the water hole gave way plunging the boy up to his chest in water Ezme Johnstone said Kevin will definitely be recognized when the 1980 awards are passed out but that will not happen until next spring The combined trombone sections of the Edmonton Thunderbirds and the Acton High School were only a small part of the band which performed March 20 in Ac ton at a special concert ending the first week of a long stage of musical exchange programs which spans three provinces The Thunderbirds played a short con cert and were joined by the host band for the last few numbers Virg Da Sousa of the town s works crew was spotted making the downtown streets of Acton safe for pedestrians as he spread salt on the pathways by hand 5 years ago Another award was reaped by Acton resident John Knticos over the weekend The Storey Dr rsked 1 to pull a baby out of a burn ng last January He was honored by the Region Safety Counc 1 Halton Regional police officer Greg Braun was also honored by the council for h s bravery Constable pull two boys out of creek last March while off duty When the new traffic lights at Main Street and Maple Avenue are led and operating the Hills fire department will be ready to use ts 7 Opticom traffic control system This new fancy gadget will allow the of a fire truck to control the lights and race through a green light instead of slowing at a red Fire Chief Bill Cunningham explained The Main Street and Maple Avenue will be the first lights the Opticom system will work on Quebec could survive on its own economy from Page 6 two major financial institutions Merrill Lynch and Co and the Bank of Montreal can conclude ob jectively that separation would not be economic disaster GROWING COMPANIES A survey last fall by the magazine Business Week found 28 of Canada s 50 fastest growing companies were Quebec based That included six of the top Thanks to the James Bay hydroelectric project Quebec is home to several of the world s largest engineering firms The de depot placement a provincial agency is the largest and most powerful shareholder in Canada Using Quebecers pension funds for in vestment it owns substantial chunks of such firms as Canadian Pacific Ltd John Ltd Alcan Aluminum Ltd and Moreover crflsse has been a driving force in Quebec economy since it put up some of the first cash for James Bay The innovation has surfaced in other areas In 1983 for example the Quebec Federation of Labor set up a venture capital fund to buy shares in promising firms That Solidarity Fund is now worth about million Lately there s been a revival of the old whogains arguments which were a feature of the late 1970s after Rene Parti Quebecois government was elected The Quebec magazine Les Affaires says when all federal Quebec transactions are counted the province paid out billion more than it received in The old anxieties about economic disaster after a breakup seem to be fading But perhaps that s a good thing Now if Canada and Quebec stay together it will be through affection and not through fear Dear Sir This is a letter to all residents of Halton Hills Since POWER Protect Our Water and En vironmental Resources haB led the fight to block the Reclamation Systems proposal to bring garbage from anywhere in Ontario to the Acton quarry Many Halton Hills residents have expressed ap preciation and thanks to POWER members POWER was recogniz ed with the 1989 Citizen of the Year Award by the Acton Chamber of Commerce POWER was recognized by the woman who fought Love Canal Lois Gibbs when her organization had Ralph Nader present us with a commen for advancing the move ment for environmental justice Now it is time todo your share Why should you become involv ed If you worry that your proper ty value will drop if you worry that trucks will clog our roads if you worry that seagulls and the odor of garbage will reach your home if you worry that fish could die when Black Creek is unable to assimilate treated if you worry that the excellent well water we now en joy could be permanently con taminated then you must become involved POWER needs ordinary citizens to clip newspaper stories to organize clippings and to write let requesting information We need people with expertise in the following areas geology hydrogeology chemistry biology blasting environmental studies socioeconomic impacts and public relations Please show that you care about the environment and the communi that we will have in the future You can make a difference If you could fill one of these jobs or if you know someone who could please contact Barbara 8730344 Robin 877 7745 or Rita Lan dry POWER holds general meetings every month Next meeting is March 28 School We re counting on you Yours truly Barbara Member POWER Executive Man feels slighted Dear Sir I recently read your article on Mr Neil and the remarks made by Councillor Joe Hewitt at the meeting which he at tended I thought that the dinosaurs were extinct apparently not in Hills The year of the disabled was almost 10 years ago how far has the Halton Region come If we were to use the at titudes of the current mayor and his councillors as a measure it would be a regression As a disabled person living in Halton Hills I do no have access to the handicapped transit because my disability is not considered a mobility impairment I personally think that blindness affects your mobility Especially when you can not see the snow banks on the street corners or the ice on the sidewalks Currently I am atten ding college in Toronto to further my education However I am at greater risk of injury on my own street in town than on Yonge Street in Toronto I would like to suggest to Mayor Miller and his councillors that the disabled can vote and unlike the general public we do not forget the slights thrown at us Sincerely One of the people that pays your salary Donald R J Anderson This picture of tin Street in around Hie turn of the was supplied Jem of the Esqucsi Historical Societv Dynamic duel disputed It goes without saying that devotees of traditional manly vir tue have been terribly disap pointed by the news out of Uruguay Apparently the duel has been cancelled As you ve probably read there was great excitement in Uruguay recently when a police inspector challenged a newspaper editor to a duel over a news story linking him to a smuggling case There was even greater excitement when the government announced it would of sanction the duel Naturally it was a bit mind boggling to discover that to the death are still legal in Uruguay right here in 1990 It s been quite awhile since many Canadians believed disputes between gentlemen of spirit should be resolved on the Field of Honor Latterly learned to ap preciate the significant ad vantages of Small Claims Court Indeed it pretty hard for most of us to comprehend a society in which duels are still legal As far as I can see there are two possible perspectives to take Either Uruguay s an alarming land where Medieval beliefs still or it s a country which bears an absolutely chilling resemblance to the National Hockey League In any case it was all set to pro ceed a duel to the death between a police inspector described in the press as strapping and a newspaper editor described in the press as pudgy Among other things there is a journalistic lesson to be drawn from this Apparently Uruguay is not a great place to be a journalist Any journalist will assure you that he fearless dedicated to tell ing the truth no matter how much this antagonizes powerful enemies But it easier to be fearless when you can be pretty sure these enemies will restrict themselves to writing sternly worded letters to the editor Being challenged to a duel ups the stakes a little not to mention exploding that old myth about the pen being mightier than the sword It may well be true that the writ ten word has the power to toppk governments and shape the course of history But try telling this to so meone whos about to run you through Anyways it turns out that the duel was called off on a technical ty the editor wrecked things by making public statements about it thus violating the code of conduct This was presumably a relief to him It was also a heartening reminder of the best course of ac tion a man can take when he fac ed with deadly peril bleat loudly In short its all been resolved satisfactorily And yet This may seem a barbaric thing to say but I ve always been fascinated by the concept of ing I ve never been in one of course But this probably explains my fascination in much the same way that so many innocent young peo ple are fascinated by the concept of marriage There s something wonderfully romantic about duelUng Besides its a remarkably efficient and final way to settle a dispute This is certainly not to suggest that we should encourage duelling between ordinary Canadians But what if duelling were brought back in the case of truly major disputes like say the ones politicians get into Anyone who follows the Meech Lake controversy knows what hap pens when politicians decide to resolve issues of grave national concern They divide into warring camps and devise brilliant strategies for making things worse As such perhaps there comes a time to call an end to the rhetoric and just lead them all down to the banks of the RIdeau Canal at dawn Imagine fog shrouding the Field of Honor as the referee top- hatted and clad all in black steps forward to issue his dire instruc tions Gentlemen the debate is long past Stand back toback Now draw your pistols and walk paces in opposite directions Once youve done this keep walking until you find a large body of water Then please soak your heads in it while the rest of us solve the pro-