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TIE HERALD Wednesday July 1W- Page 30 Years Ago Plans for a new Georgetown Church to be located on Maple Avenue were submitted to town council on Monday night Reverend Bruce Woods the new ly appointed minister of Grace Baptist Church submitted an of- of for the townowned property Mr Woods estimated the cost to build the church to be approximately The Church will be designed to accommodate worshippers and provide Sunday School ser vices for children Mr Woods said the church will be designed with expansion in mind if popula tion growth warrants it Although no councillors were opposed to the sale Reeve Sargent and councillors Hunter and Gunn refused to make a deci sion unless the property is public ly advertised Councillor Gunn believed that as a matter of principle the land should not be sold without an ap praisal Recently there was a offer on the same piece of land As well an offer was once made to turn the land into a bowl ing alley Reeve Sargent said it was his personal dream to see the proper ty used for a park but he has found no support for such a pro ject Although Councillor Kelly agrees a park would be nice he can find no immediate funds for it and thus favors the church idea Mr Woods is hopeful the sale will be carried through shortly The building is planned for next spring but there is a possibility construction can begin next fall 20 Years Ago The Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service has just received a new Ford Am bulance replacing the outdated 52 Cadillac which was in bad need of a rest Surprisingly enough the fullyequipped vehi cle was not paid for by Georgetown taxpayers but by the Ontario Hospital Services Com mission Although the ambulance comes equipped with rescue equipment two stretchers oxygen aspirator and its own 110volt supply to run equipment it has the addi tional feature of the twotone European horn rather than a siren This is becoming a man datory feature on all ambulances so they have a distinctive sound from that of police cars and fire engines Another new features is the alternating red and white rotating light on the top of the ambulance The electric horn can also be used to address the public crowd control or to request the right of way It may be used as a receiver when men are some distance from the ambulance It may be possible for the horn to act as an amplifier to receive instructions from a doctor while tending vic tims at the side of the road 10 Years Ago Terry Fox made an ap pearance at the Lions Club hall adjacent to the Licata pool this last week Terry who received three standing ovations in all was presented with a special donation from Freida Keddy of Streetsville and her son Bradley as well as a Proud to be Cana dian pin from Kinsmen past- president Bob Malcolmson Terry told the audience of his struggle with cancer which began in his freshman year at Simon University in British Col umbia After being diagnosed as having bone cancer in his leg and being told the leg would have to be amputated Terry dreamed of running across Canada after his coach informed him of a man who had run in a marathon in the United States on one leg Although at first Terry was more concerned with just being able to walk again let alone run it was while he was in chemotherapy with other pa tients that Terry considered the possibility of such a run The pur pose of the run was to focus atten tion on those who were suffering Terry spent 14 months training for his run He feels the most im portant aspect of the run is his at titude He said he never gets depressed and will never give up no matter how tired he gets The revised goal for the Marathon of Hope was million dollars 5 Years Ago A regionally hired tourism con sultant estimates that less than is spent annually in tourism promotion in A report by Peter Barnard Associates states that the majori ty of local businessmen market to area residents and dont spend on outside advertising Although over 30 local organizations in Halton claim a tourism interest only two have tourism budgets above shopping is despised Logic not ruling roads A waste of time is how one person described the weekend crackdown on seatbelt offenders by local police on Guelph Street in Georgetown Another person however supported the safety ex ercise saying whats the point of having a law if it isnt enforced Both of these statements miss the purpose of the exercise The woman who described the crackdown as a waste of time ra tionalized police should be concen trating efforts on more serious crime But whats more important than savings lives The purpose of the exercise after all isnt to make a lot of money through issu ing fines but rather to remind drivers they are putting their lives at a greater risk by not wearing seatbelts Some would argue theyve heard that people would have survived a car accident because they were not wearing their I have no doubt this is true however statistics show this to be the exception rather than the rule Since nothing is a sure thing Id rather hedge my bets and be wear ing a seatbelt during an accident But at he same time I can understand the womans point that police could be better spending their time doing something else This could only result once drivers overcome their aversion to the really really difficult task of putting on their seatbelts before Bens Banter By Ben heading out onto the road This brings me to another womans point that the crackdown was necessary otherwise there would be no point of having a seatbelt law Something as simple and respon sible as putting on the while driving shouldnt require a law When the need of wearing a seltbelt was first publicized I could understand having a law People werent used to wearing a seatbelt so the quickest way to remind them about the need was to slap them with a hefty fine Money talks as they say The subsequent extensive public awareness campaigns and media reports about accidentrelated deaths caused by not wearing a lead me to think the law should be obsolete today The weekend crackdown however shows logic is still npt ruling the roads DearSirr Sunday Shopping I that topic Every time I heard it I curse and swear at the stupidity of some people I have never been able to loudly speak my piece of mind but thanks to those people who thoughtlessly brought about this selfish topic I can finally relieve myself of tension built up inside of me In no form can fairness be said about this proposition The people we call our government certainly do not work Sundays to make a liv ing They can damn well work one day a month and still top my full months pay Yet those men and women can sit at home on a Sun day and spend time with their families and not have a care in the world while us little people mak ing minimum wage are working our butts off just to have food on our plates or a roof over our heads They claim that you cannot be forced to work on a Sunday but I know and you know thats horse manure I work at a retail store in a mall and the company policy at most stores is that management has to be present at all times So how do you make an exception in my case Both my manager and myself assistant are Catholics and strongly believe in the Sab bath If either of us do not work we all know the consequences Yet the government states you cant be forced to work Sundays Someone please tell me where the justice lies For those of you who dont understand mall retail let me in form you when a store enters a mall a contract is signed which states when mall hours are enforc ed you must have the store open at these times So if we dont open the store our company will receive a fine and if we let this happen what do you think will happen to my manager and I Wheres the justice People say Well you will be compensated for not having Sunday off Yes this is true but when I have a Tuesday off where will my family my boyfriend and my friends be at work Thanks to our government I can expect my relationships between those I love become minimized to nothing while those sit at home having a steak dinner with their family If I am expected to work on Sunday then I expect those related jobs to sacrifice as well But of course we all know it will in convenience them so once again Where is the fairness in it all If those of you believe in Sunday shopping then why cant we do something constructive from it all We could hire those senior citizens who want to get out and do things Constructive is a hard word to followup on and in my point of view our government cannot even begin to handle constructive although they have proven to be destructive Do they really care I believe not because I am not the only one who is unhappy with this entire situation Maybe one day we will a be happy but by the looks of it I know in my heart that if I have to go against my beliefs and morals just to live in this society then this society just isnt worth living in My final words to the in considerate people who thought this whole thing up Thank you for making my life even harder to deal with Once a loyal citizen now who knows Georgetown Air Cadets saddens reader Dear Mr Editor I cant tell you how saddened I was by the article 756 Air Cadet Squadron gets wings clipped by Council on the July 14 edition of The Herald I dont think there is a single reader of your paper who with Mayor Russ Miller does not understand the Profit Principle what 1 dont understand is why the council is determined to make this profit from the weakest and youngest members of our com munity Yes facilities such as Cedar vale and Memorial arena must make a profit but my ques tion is do they have to make it all I have just last month moved to he Georgetown area from Toronto where I worked for a year at Cove nant house Toronto has between ten and twenty thousand teenagers depending on the time of year on its streets They run from com munities that dont have a place for them in the city to find the for tune and what they do find is drugs and prostitution The Cadets and the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and organizations like them Mr Mayor are trying to help build young people into good citizens contributing citizens citizens who give back to their communities They are not only under funded but the volunteers who like John Maclean the com manding officer of the Air Cadet Squadron give of their own time and money are severely understaf fed Mr Mayor and Council I plead with you to reconsider your at titude towards any and all groups who contribute to the development of our young people and therefore the future of our community When these groups come to you for help the issue is not money but a higher challenge than meeting a budget The concern here is whether Georgetown has a place for its youth and what dollar figure we are prepared to put on their development They need our sup port in what ever way we can give it I think the Big Brother says it best when jay Never is a man so tall as when he stoops to help a boy Respectfully submitted Rev Mary B Campbell More letters on Page Ann Landers likes Canadians At at time when its tough to feel totally terrific about being a Cana dian its such a relief to discover that Ann Landers still thinks were okay According to Ann we Canadians are a remarkably honest people Gosh Its the sort of thing that makes you want to write Ms Landers and thank her for making our day Or perhaps even invite her to come on up and buy a used car from us I must confess that Im a faithful reader of Ann Landers This is because you learn such extraor dinary things from her column You learn for instance that there are actually people out there who care which way the toilet paper roll is inserted This is a crucial piece of knowledge to carry around with you in an age in which the ozone layer is breaking down the rain forests are disappearing and Maria Maples remains brokenhearted over The Donald Under the banner headline Canadian honesty dazles visitor from US a woman from the Bronx wrote to tell Ann- about an amazing story shed read in the newspaper while visiting her sister in Calgary Apparently a group of shoppers arrived at a Calgary supermarket on Easter Sunday to discover that the store was unlocked but the staff was nowhere to be seen So they wandered around for a while until some bright spark finally realized the store must have been left open by mistake At this point one of the shoppers telephoned the police while the rest of them left without swiping so much as a package of Maple Leaf bacon The writer of the letter express- ed her astonishment at the rec titude of those shoppers and Ann responded by stating her heartfelt wish that Americans were as honest as our neighbors in Canada Well I suppose its nice to be seen as a nation full of people who are too decent to steal from a supermarket that was inadvertent ly left unlocked although there are it must be said other ways to look at the situation You could by contrast choose to look at Canada as a nation full of rather dim supermarket employees Or as a nation full of shoppers who wouldnt know a bargain if it jumped up and bit them on the leg Now granted it wont surprise many Canadians to learn that were viewed as being relatively honest After all we live here and hence we have firsthand knowledge that there are many honest people in the country Occa sionally a few of them even get elected Canada has never been a country that youd describe as having a highwaymans mentality Were just not a stand and deliver short of people Were more of a please be seated and let me take vow order sort of group But since were on the subject of honesty lets really be honest Is this truly the sort of reputation that wed most like in our heart of hearts to have Let me hasten to say that I have nothing against honesty Its an ad mirable policy particularly when theres a risk of getting caught But as a wise friend once confid ed to me When you come right down to it theres nothing more damning you can say about so meone than Theres no harm in the man Thats why its a little dismaying to think that when people from other nations are asked to sum up in a word the many vibrant and exciting qualities of Canadians they scratch their heads for a mo ment then venture Well theyre honest Its a bit like being told your blind date has a great personality That which is not said speaks volumes But here we are categorized by Ann Landers as the people youd most like to have around if youve mistakenly left the silverware out on the picnic table Ah well Lets not pick nits Its nice to be known as a thoroughly honest people Some might even call it useful So thanks Ann And about that used car us Anew spirit of giving A to