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HaiSlftKKlD Editorial Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Street Georgetown 3Z6 K ROBERT MALCOLMSON Publisher and General Manager SUBSCRIPTION 8772201 COLIN GIBSON Managing Editor ADVERTISING- DAN TAYLOR Manager Wednesday August 14 1991 nil Distressing statistics Statistics Canada through its Media Relations Com mumcations Division reports that from now through the year 2001 children under the age of 15 will number about 5 5 million and make up approximately 19 per cent of Canadas population total Declining birthrates appear to be affected more and more by changing social climes and more and more families report households where both parents are working Lone parent households are also increasing forcing children into the mainstream of society at an earlier age Statistics Canada reports there were about 6 million children under the age of in Canada in 1990 making up 21 per cent of the population This was down from 6 4 million and 30 per cent of the population back in According to the report Canadian children are healthier than ever Infant to age one deaths in 1988 fell almost per cent from as recently as 1981 Death rates from age one to 14 were less than per 100 in 1988 also down from levels in the early s From a medical standpoint then Canadian children are in good shape Other statistics in the report however would seem to indicate that family life as it was once known might be going the wa of the dinosaur Divorce and the loosening up of social constraints show that more and more children are growing up in single parent households As of statistics from 1986 single parents raised 13 per cent of all children up nine per cent from a decade earlier In 1988 custody allocations concerning 50 200 children were made after parents had been divorced More distressing for 69 per cent of those children in a lone parent household the family head worked For 64 per cent of the children in a husband wife household both parents worked Statistics can make dry boring reading However these statistics paint a chilling picture of children either in limbo or being used as pawns in a society that just t quite know how to treat them Suffer the little children and so will the future of our society The Heralds Yes I care campaign concerning the upcoming November municipal elections is going great guns The response from Herald readers has been tremendous and staff reporters have been busy tracking down those elected officials to get them to answer the questions posed by Herald readers Next Wednesday s edition of the Herald will have a special section dedicated to those questions and answers Get involved Show you care Yes I Care Question to Question Question from Name Address Telephone Send Questions To Yes I Care co The Haiton Hills Herald Street Halton Hills Ontario L7G Peoples Forum- Times they are achanging tht or Hills is hopeful will be a in finding nt One most important is to housing in the region Sound ell it isn building attractive and I dibbintely stress the word at active condominium apart mints which lki up 1 UK square fee of and that in p irking areas as opposed to jut bungalow on i ill KM lot thil takes up square fed put mote people closer to the of industrv and com mine where they work and shop and play doing so it relit vis of spreading out and taking up more land than is nectssarv Do you know hai people in condominiums Pride of ownership Ask anvone Postal workers get support To hi Editor I am writing to you in regards to The Community on Wed Aug 1J91 about possible postal I it about lime people realized just because a person is employed by Post does not mi an hi is over paid in fact opposite is true I personally know if I had not had a raisi in over two years and having spent it time trying to negotiate a contract that was and as of not sue I would tempted to strike As knows that the cost of living continually goes up it hard to make ends meet and it seven hardir with no raises Postal workers are just the same as you and I and we like lo receive our yearly raises so why they So lei s give postal workers a break and take your angir oul on the appropriate people Yours Truly Connie Giorgt town PS I do not work for Post who lives in The Sands One of our secretaries lives there So does the courier who brings our mail So does the mayor Times have changed Wt t no more be reckless land than we can in watir must conserve our land Our town needs pi ices for mi families to grow and to to each other Do you know what I mean When it time for kids to home vvnuldn it nut wouldn it comforting to know could live in if fordable housing right hci their home town ii be i relief if there wis affordable housing for your parents right here close to you but still dent of you t it be nice if after all your years of hard work you could live in a luxury ment with a beautiful view and still live in a small town it Possible You bet it Our area is unique because of the forward looking of our town leaders and rs They arc doing their level best to give you the best of both worlds not an easy task when they re getting just for I In sake of opposition There is a place for the old ind the new side by side This is il history the stepping for ward a blending the old and tht new the young and the old A visual and gradual ihangi is taking place in our town it enjoy it discuss it don I bicker over it Nancy Kelman Georgetown Less government only way to go Ii arS This letter is in response to Garth Turner s recent column and open letter concerning the Glen Kealey affair Mr Turner blamis Mr s allegations of wrongdo ing as the reason for a decline in the value of our dollar until it was propped up again by the Bank of Canada The evenl happened and il cost you and in excess of million to clean up the mess The reason it dropped in is because it is supported by political hot air in the first place and is therefore affected by anything political in nature Blaming Kealey is like blaming the wind that blew down your house made of straw This is scary stuff when you think about il The purchasing power of your savings and pen can take a nosedivi when a politician catches a cold There arc implications should quit complaining because our taxes are pretty good com pared to gross domestic product vcr taxation has gone up beyond acceptable limits as Mr Turner pointed out in his own well written tax revolt report to Mr Wilson earlier this year A quick look at the books pro the point Since the PC s took office the population of Canada rose from about million to an estimated million in an increase of per cent During that same period the dollars col letted in taxes wenl from aboul billion lo billion an increase of pi cent The cost of collecting those tax dollars rose bout per cent in same period And all of this is before Ihe GST came into effect The I increased their tax lake by 1 per 20 in power so Ihey and we can al se what the is in favor of whin it comes to taxation The Glen Kialey accusations point out fragile nature of our dollar and future security which art too dependent on politics 1m plying we aren I as badly off when tomes lo taxation as the S for example is not correct Continued on Pago 12