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se mc m 215 Ainiversa %33:?' ALL INSTOGK MEN‘S WOMEN‘S 1993 BOOTS, _ SHOES HANDBAGS* We are offering everything* instock at least 30% Off to make room for new spring inventory. Included Amaifi, Sebago, Famolare, Rangoni, Allen Edmonds, Roberto Capucci, LaValee and Renzo Fon ©@ No Layaways * All Sales Final CHARLES AUSTIN 184 Lakeshore Rd. E., Downtown Oakville 845â€"5562 e 389 Pearl Street * Excluding Rockport and Slippers THE OAKVILLE BEAVER ‘Tf God meant us to smoke ... V‘s matinee soaps were outâ€"gunned last week. Did you catch Karen Haslam‘s bravura act, tenorlzm" pharmacists arraigned by Queen‘s Park‘s ruling ideologues for retailing tobacco products? Eyeâ€" rolling. Fingerâ€"jabbing. Hamlet in flashy earâ€"lobe pendants and stylish coiffure. She‘s the party‘s showboat who quit cabinet in ahuff. We seniors who outlived our tobacco wars aren‘t hoodwinked by her grandstanding. Her pitch, of course, is: should pharmacy shelves be less entitled than those of other retailers to preâ€" sent what we used to call "coffin nails" and related smoky goodies? Haslam Co. bray "yes!" Which, given pharmacists‘ current NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT legal status as licensed retailers, betrays discriminatory whiffs in her holierâ€"thanâ€"thou fuming. "We‘ll stamp out smoking in this province!" Haslam shrills. The politicallyâ€"correct crowd‘s kneeâ€" jerk panacea for all social eccentricâ€" ities. Pass a law! They‘d have been lionized on Unter den Linden 60 years ago where ideological jackâ€" boots were highâ€"fashion. Laws, we oldsters caution you, Haslam, do not trot out tobacco, booze, adultery, highâ€"speed motorâ€" ing, and other people‘s spicy fanâ€" cies. Time is the final arbiter. We tire of our sins, or expire from them. Time spawns learning which begets judgement. Consider the curâ€" rent mass retreat of adults from tobacco usage. No thanks to nutty intrusions by electioneering superâ€" egos. Kids and tobacco. Hah, they‘ll experiment. Or hasn‘t this reality seeped down to our panting lawâ€" drafters? We grannies and gramps were kids, and we did. Likewise our kids and grandkids. We want punchier Queen‘s Park backâ€"up for healthâ€"care professionâ€" als in their underâ€"funded drive to spark adolescent intelligence about selfâ€"protection from tobacco. Not: gratuitous doâ€"not‘s henâ€"scratched on tissueâ€"paper laws to tease their [ _ first clandestine smokes. It promp __ed us to graduate to cornsilk stogie _ curiosity about such delights wit Feb. 16, 19 brewed over time, became our all A resource knowâ€"itâ€"all governme legislators don‘t credit to our gran kids. Tenderâ€"age curiosity earmarke caragana bush seed pods for o swaddled in newsprint wrap. N your toasted goodies. Has youth ered? Will new laws stifle it? Who knows more about tobac co‘s lethal perils than us oldsters Oneâ€"time embracers and now, su vivors, of its hyped culture. Movi screenwriters edified the weed. A agencies eroticized it. Do we for get? And, oh, how we experimented Our palates burned "breaking in! debonair new briar pipes. Our fin gerâ€"tips scorched to fastâ€"burnin "makings," tricky torches of dust tobacco shreds and flimsy pape wraps. Some of us even had a go a R.S.C. 1985, CHAPTER Nâ€"22 The Ministry of Transportation Ontario heréby gives notice that an application has been made to the Minister of Transport under the Navigable Waters Protection Act for approval of the plans and site of the work described herein. Under Section 9 of the said Act, The Ministry of Transportation Ontario. has deposited with the Minister of Transport, at Ottawa, and in the office of the District Registrar of the Land Registry District of Halton at Milton, Ontario, under Deposit Number 8055271 with «a description of the site and plans of the bridge over the Bronte Creek at the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton lying in Lot Number 4, Concession 1, North of Dundas Street. And take notice that the project has been screened pursuant to the Environmental Assessment and Review process Guidelines Order, SOR/84â€"467, and that the department of Transport has determined that the project is mitigable with known technology. Written objections based on the effect of the work on marine navigation, and on the screening decision as it relates to areas of federal responsibility. should be directed not later than one month from the date of this notice to: Director General, Marine Navigation Services Directorate, Canadian Coast Guard, Department of Transport, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A ON7. Dated at Toronto this 11 day of January, 1994. macho chewâ€"baccy, a sureâ€"fire toni for the heaves. Nor were we passing dabblers Fifty years ago, when I jettisone my last halfâ€"unsmoked pack o Exports, I was up to 50â€"plus daily| No law forced me. I just got olde and smarter. Why not, then, K. Haslam Co., recruit us seniors to a mas educational sortie on tobacco addic tion amongst your new generatio constituents? Want it "stampe out?" We‘re the experts, not you backroom lawyers. Grandmother Carlson said it for us: "If God meant us to smoke, he‘d have installed chimneys in our skulls." Kids hear stuff like that. . rebellious genes. Show me a senior of our generaâ€" tion who didn‘t try Demon Nicotine. Did a law make us bail out? A politicians‘ thouâ€"shaltâ€"not? Not bloody likely. Common sense, Correction In the Oakville Beaver Weekend of Sunday Feb. 13th, in a story headâ€" ed ‘A tale of the heart,‘ it was incorâ€" rectly stated that Heart and Stroke Foundation volunteer .Mary Lou King is running a desktop publishing business from her home. The Oakville Beaver apologizes for this error and any inconvenience caused. Comfortable Retirement Living! niversay Deputy Minister Ministry of Transportation Ontario. Deputy Minister Ontario are Timberland, tainelli. , Burtington Ontario 639â€"1372 (signature). (Vé/gfifg Ministry of Transportation Ontario. / |!‘ ts 'm'. ‘"l 93 ;,\» ', (vfflt \_:l O C _ T t Cc ue / HELPING THE WORLD WRITE NOW In the Heart of Mississauga Old fashioned comfort with today‘s convenience. 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