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THE HERALD November Editorial Shop at home this Christmas Despite the fact Halton Hills is not blanketed with snow the Christmas season is indeed upon us The Santa Claus parade in Acton two weekends ago and the 59th annual Lions Clubsponsored Georgetown Santa Claus parade held this past weekend provide physical evidence that it is indeed The season to be ly Canadas economic woes however have already and will continue to put a damper on the Christmas season for a fair number of Halton Hills families and businesses Reality does tend to intrude even during the Christmas festive season when we are celebrating Peace on earth and goodwill toward men Despite the hard times that are upon us families will still attempt to put up a brave front for their loved ones and gifts will be bought and special food preparation made with loving and sometimes expensive care throughout the Christmas holiday season Similarly in hard times communities must pull together to weather the storm of economic uncertainty that hovers over and threatens all of us Halton Hills Herald columnist John Sommer in his column in the Arts and Ideas section of today s paper extols the virtues and the virtual plethora of gifts and bargains available in Georgetowns downtown shopping core It is obvious from his prose that Mr Sommer is indeed community minded and supportive of local businesses Let all residents of Halton Hills expand even further on Mr Sommers theme Residents of Halton Hills should adopt the slogan Shop at home for the 1990 Christmas season The main communities of Helton Hills Georgetown and Acton can more than serve the needs and wants of residents in a variety of ways There are department stores specialty shops catalogue outlets restaurants grocery stores various automotive dealerships in other words something for everyone and every taste up to and including the most discriminating shopper By Christmas shopping your own community money earned by residents stays in the community and circulates thereby helping to ensure that the ty as a whole remains relatively healthy So by all means enjoy your Christmas But give some thought to the health of your ty by Shopping at home this Christmas festive season The Halton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 45 Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario K ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 Man Ban CLASSIFIED Join Mann II CIRCULATION la ACCOUNTING Jnn a Hap SUBSCRIPTION HATES lion year SIB Mm month inada MB ill montha SO montha Harald claim copyright on all original and dram ling malarial ciaatad by and In National Adntrllilng olllcaa Quaa Toronto Ontario M5H 2MB Monlraal Quatwc adiarlliat that hall not I labia lor arlilng In advadlaa- beyond In amount paid lor apaca actually cccuplad by that pott loo of In occurred auch attar I dua uil no liability lor non of any lha amount paid lor aucD K SI f 1 anC Peoples Forum Letter of the Week Seniors take exception Dear Editor Herald can pull out of that Dear Editor On behalf of the Board of tors of the Georgetown and District Seniors Association I take exception to the headline and the tone of the content of Ben Banter in your issue dated Nov 14th I accept that you have the right to call things as you see them but the community would be better served if were more positive and less negative in your comments Surely there is enough negativism in the world par at this time We badly need good upbeat leadership from our politicians and the media Instead of highlighting the reasons why things can be done the media would perform more usefully by seeing op portunities to promote ideas for overcoming difficulties to achieve positive and beneficial results for our community Our Board has provided the Herald with a paper entitled Facing the Facts surely the that than Herald can pull something more posili what Benhadtosa Association representatives have had their first formal meeting with Councillors on a joint committee It was amicable and positive Of course it takes time to get results but they will be made public as the work of the committee progresses The Association has put together a great deal of on the establishment and operation of senior centres It has members UK no in the bank plans for the physical needs of a seniors centre and planning in progress for an up graded financial campaign We are very positive in our at to the task we have act ourselves and we d like this to be known and also thai we are work for the whole community not just ourselves Mellish President Georgetown and District Seniors Association Student responds to professor Snobbery Dear Editor Smokers can do without John Sommer help His ideas wreak of snobbery He states Today only the poor smoke and those who disregard their health If smoking would still be a habit of the upper classes nobody would dare to attack them How offensive I can t believe this is the voice of ideas and the arts in Halton Hills Jane Glen Williams Dear Editor I would like to respond to Carole s Letter to the Editor on my November arti on Adjusting to University Life as not only was I taken out of context but the purpose of writing it has seemed to have misled her Never did I wnte in the article as Ms suggests that it was the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that University students get their homework done I even made a point of that they can t be expected to because there s just too many students I also never suggested or even hinted that I felt test dates or essay deadlines were unfair I simply wrote that professors might move a test date now and then or grant extensions on essay duedates but that is a And it is a ranty Unless a change is made to the course outline in the first week or two of classes extensions or the moving of test dates doesn t happen all that often And I m glad it doesn because I am one of these people that Ms Lusby have planned their time carefully in order to complete the assignment to meet the due date I m glad Ms finds it in that my University life could be summed up by an dent in my first year where a teacher threw a coffee lid into a desk However she must remember that I was relating this incident to the differences I was trying to point out from high school I apologize if she feels that I was stereotyping teachers and I con her for taking the effort to memorize 160 names of her pupils However I don feel I was wrong because I wasn just talk ing about which has a great deal of smaller classes but Universities all over Try and tell me that teachers at Brock Queens and the University of Toronto try to memorize the names of 200 students in one class alone and I II be laughing It is correct that I wrote teachers just teach the lesson and go back to his office or home But I am once again taken out of context when you don t add the next line that teachers will answer your address your concerns with the curriculum and even set up appointments to discuss essays or problems but after that it s all up to you And it is Some professors are women as I failed to point out Sorrv I guess by the 90s some women are not used to the ac generalization given to males in some professions I meant no offense The sole purpose of my article the GDHS section of the Herald newspaper was to give some kind of insight to students on what they can expect in University It s too bad that Ms Lusby didn t look at it that way and took it as a personal attack on the teachers at This is something 1 would er do because I respect a great many of them and even admire a few Sincerely Garry J Murdock Student Institute Toronto Write us a letter The Herald wants to hear from you If you have an opinion you want to express or a comment to make send us a letter or drop by the office Our address is Guelph St Georgetown Ont 3Z6 All letters must be signed Please include your ad dress and telephone number for verification The Herald reserves the right to letters due to space limitations or 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