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Wednesday November the HERALD Page Arts and Ideas We all have special interests By the time this column gets the election will be over thank God and things will con as before with a ftw cosmetic changes maybe htrc and there but nothing basic wilt have changed Of this can sure During the election camp all the unex slogans of our great ilist system got ban died about again I don t know my informed person who still uses these slogans but during the past weeks they ill popped up again Development ing Growth were reverently quoted without qualification as if these ire gospels in stone opposed to the un qualified use of these concepts was accused of acting in his or her interest only Because of this the election campaign was largely an exchange of stupidities and quickly became boring Not all of us are stupid The fact is we all act in our own interest Everyone of us is his or her own special interest group Beware of the person who promises to only have interest in mind The car dealer wants to sell as many cars as possible The developer wants to squeeze every possible dollar from the property he builds on The chemical manufacturer wants you to use a lot of poison on your lawn the quarry owner wants to enlarge his quarry onto your property if he can manage The road builder wants to widen every road The farmer wants to sell his farm for a million bucks Everybody wants to live in a quiet neighborhood The politi cian wants to be reelected One could go on forever To be reelected is often the on motive of the politician To have power or what is more often the case to have the illusion of power acts like a drug on the Ideas and The Arts by John Sommer in The const op port unities that come with the job ire it boosts to the ego politicians get a lot of flack but th it is p of the job description isn t it Ben was right when he ended his column a week ago with the old saying If you can t st the heat get out of the kitchen As I stated above hac all ur own interests in mind That is understood and should at no time be made to look like a crime However we also know that unfettered self interest leads to chaos We have learned a long time ago that in a community we can rarely have it all our way that we have to compromise with other people s interests and find a way we can ill live with A way that gives us not only short term riches and fun but long term sanity and health That is the root of democracy To attack people who want to take part in the democratic pro cess amounts to cutting these roots To demand that people who run for office must have a plan amounts to cutting these roots What plan do you have in mind A five year to stamp out crime maybe A 10year plan to get all cars off the road A 20 year plan to make everybody happy except the pesky people who always oppose everything Venture Fund grants open to artists The Ontario Arts Council s Department of Developmental Ventures released the guidelines for application to the Venture Fund The Venture Fund is the newest endowment of the Ontario Arts Council The deadline for application to the fund is February 14 There will be one deadline per year Professional artists are eligible for grants of up to for in dividual or collaborative projects that embody new challenges ex penmentation and risk taking The fund is designed to support projects expressing ideas new to the within the context of hisher body of work or artistic projects which are new to a par ticuhr community new ven tures that require support because of their developmental nature and are not eligible under other programs We ire very excited by the possibilities said Set Director of Ventures wt ex surprises new kinds of col iaborations new ays of ap proachmg the arts in the com maybe even new artistic forms The Venture Fund is waiting to hear the artists ideas Grants will be awarded on the recommendation of jury The members of the jury will be selected for their knowledge and proven reputation as professional artists They will be from various regions of the province and will represent different arts disciplines and traditions The Venture Fund was established with 2 million grant from the Government of Ontario in recognition of a generous contribution from the Floyd S Chalmers This endowment pays tribute to philanthropists such as the Chalmers who hive been in strumentil in encouraging the arts in Ontario For further informition application forms please contact Sophn Depirtmenl of Development il Ventures On Arts Council Street West Suite Toronto Ontario t tTt or call Toll free in On tario 1 or ax 416961 IfiCO those will be put in camps Is that what you want when you ask for a plan We have had plenty of this stuff The Hitlers and Stahns hive done their work for all to see No we don need charismatic leaders to show us the wa We have to find the way ourselves And one way to do is to the same people into office ind again New brooms sweep v ell politician must not be a in or in politician must be a common sense person with desire to im prove his or hen mind and to learn new things to confront new ideas through a constant dialogue with tht volers What makes them feel they are removed from us the elected the moment they got where they wanted to be Why these ridiculous faced appan lions around the council tible Forget about immediately runn for the next election Do your best for the next three years Work with us together Our cynicism about politicians is reinforced by your secretive behavior You look as if you just made a deal you want to hide from us yet I am sure tfiat most of you are the most honorable persons in the world Well try to look that way relax don turn against us To disagree with you is our democratic far more im portant than any other right we might have Christmas theme House Sol Charles Street in Georgetown ia ready for another Christmas MERRY DAYS ARE ONLY WEEKS AWAY is the name of the exhibition and sale of Canadian arts and crafts for gift giving The exhibition and sale starts Saturday and continues to Dec As in other years Gallery House Sol has assembled ongiml arts and crafts only from outstanding artists and artisans many from this region all of them from Canada There will be paintings and small bronzes ceramics and blown glass graphics ind batiks painted and welded sculpture wearable art and decorated boxes There will also be handmade decorations for the house and the tree House Sol is open to visitors from noon to m on Nov For the remainder of exhibition the hours are to fl m from Tuesdays to Thursdays and 2 pm to fa p from Fridays to Sundays Say I saw it in The Herald Whats Cooking at STEAK EXPRESS and now Lower Prices fool White MIRACLE COUPON 120G12IGF13I COnONELLEicSonene BATHROOM TISSUE Bathroom J12 roll pkg g79 WITH THIS COUPON 13 roll pkg Ground From 100 Beef LEAN GROUND BEEF Ground Fresh Daily per lb MIRACLE COUPON 50 MIRACLE COUPON 68 with Tins COUPON or Diet Coke or Sprite ml bottle 49 Minute Maid Orange Juice ml tin H ra 7 MIRACLE 100G107GPI1 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