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the HERALD Editorial Wednesday December K ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 Home Newspaper ol Hills Established 1 A of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited GtOqplown Ontario 3Z6 COLIN GIBSON Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION 0 00lli so A Canadian tragedy An issue that had been convenientlyor possibly pur poselyhidden from view for far too long in Canadian society came tragically to the fore on December On that tragic day young women had their lives snuf fed out at the University of Montreal by a gunman whose manifest hatred of women led to the senseless slaughter This wanton act sent shock waves through every level of Canadian society and brutally epitomized what had previously been only whispered aboutmale violence towar ds females December 6 has now been officially sanctioned by Parliament as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against women The issue concerns our society as a whole and must be dealt with in an openeven confrontationalmanner Violence against women in any shape or form cannot be condoned Women have the right to feel safe and secure in their homes their workplaces and in their communities It is truly unfortunate that it took a tragedy to bring for ward something that should have and could have been recognized and rectified ages ago Community Forum Sunday shopping for or against AC 0N the Christmas season it s good to have the stores open I d support Sunday shopping all year as long as employees have the choice whether to work or not LIVINGSTON GEORGETOWN The merchants want it but I think it will only be beneficial for the big malls The guys who really need the business the small businessman won t benefit from it I also think em should have a day off RHONDA CRLIGHTON NOR VAL It doesnt matter to me I hate shopping and probably wont shop on Sunday if the stores are open JULIE GEORGETOWN In principal 1 agree with having a common pause day But I think if theyre going to open the stores on Sundays December they should allow them to open at year long Peoples Forum- Chamber defends its actions To the Editor The election is now over and it is hoped that any controversy will die down and the people elected get down to business dealing with the serious issues that affect our com Allegations of impropriety were made everywhere and the Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce did not escape these verbal assaults It was alleged that our Meet the Can didates were biased against can didates and at the Georgetown event a question was asked from a member of the audience to Ward 3 candidates if they felt that this was true It should be noted that all six candidates felt that the evenings were fair for everyone some felt that the length of time allocated for the speeches was too short he history of the Meet the Can goes back over 20 years with the Acton Chamber of Com merce running an evening in Acton and the Georgetown run ning the evening in Georgetown These evenings have been run for elections at all levels of govern ment his year due to the number of community ratepayer groups more interest was shown by them in staging their own events and this led to conflicts in selection of dates and venues The Chamber made the decision to include ALL ES for all where there was a race In all of the candidates attended the two meetings that we sponsored T his in itself shows that the candidates themselves thought that the events were worthwhile to participate in Many of the can also expressed their ap preciation to the for run the events so fairly and 1m partially Combined attendance for both nights was over Wi people Compare our response to other groups who operated these nights one meeting had a limited at tendance by candidates and those that did not attend were publicly ridiculed by placing pumpkins on the table another group chose not to invite certain incumbents to par ticipatc and another evening ended up with a verbal joust between two candidates Even with these problems no leters to the papers or questions asked about the partiality of the host groups The Chambers direct costs in doing these events was about 750 00 This figure does not include the costs of sending three separate mailings to the candidates nor the time of our manager and staff to coordinate the events The purpose of this letter is to thank all the candidates who par ticipated and secondly to let the public know that the business com is committed to this Town and will contuiue to operate Meet the Candidates Nights for all tions in a fair and responsible man ner Yours truly David Page President Bazaar a success Dear Editor The Georgetown Centre would like to take Ihis op port unity to thank all those in vohed with the success of our November 2 bazaar To those lotal merchants whe very generously donated to our lunch and raffle table a heartfelt thank you With your gifts we were able make over SUM this year To those members who stitched or stirred for nun bake and craft tables manned tables chile or attended your forts ijied Special thanks to our fundrais committee and our down Set ai our next major fundraiser a Georgetown latlle benefit performance be In Id Sincerely yours Thanks from POWER To the Editor POWER would like to thank all the local businesses who gave their support to our recent door to dorr campaign This support was given through messages on the out door signs in Acton and George Many thanks to following Tuitman Garden lakivicw Mr I Target Hid Stores Out door a w r Equipment Dialer ship Town of Hills Gor Arean and Bellamys Please support these businesses in your community POWER also has its A coming up on Wednesday December at the Guest speaker is Ijiis of the infamous anal in New York Stale draw Tor the three Robert prints will also take place al the A With thanks Linda Write us a letter The Herald wants to hour from you If you have an opinion you want to express or a com ment to make send us a letter or drop by the office Our address is IS luelpli Street Georgetown Ontario 171 All letters 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