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Page 4 — Halton Hills This Week, Wednesday, January 5, 1994 pinion HIS WEEK Z : Georgetown, Ont. L7G 481, PUBLISHER: Ken Bellamy OFFICE MANAGER: Jean Shewell PHONE: 873-' Reality will rule ‘94 Ring out the old! Ring in the new! Here we are just a few burps past New Year’s Eve and at this point, I’m expected to come up Don’t hold your breath. I loved the recent local rival newspaper’s treat- ment concerning what we can look forward to in 1994 I don’t think I’ve read so much crap since I was forced to clean out a former girlfriend’s birdcage. So, carrying on in the same vein, our rival inter- viewed local politicos and other odds and sods regarding what we poor humble souls can expect in the year AD 1994, Did any of the bright and shining local political and sundry lights predict Armageddon? Of course not! We have municipal elections coming up this fall, so tumbling into the predictable pattern, the inter- viewees provided nearly enough real information to perhaps fill the bag of someone who suffers from flatulence. Having noted this, let’s perhaps borrow from the wordsmith Alfred Tennyson, who wrote: “Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring happy bells across the snow: the year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.” Which begs the question, as it pertains to 1994 — What really is true in our present helter-skelter scuffle to survive? Or, put another way, do we helter-skelter? or do we survive? For those who either falsely assume 1994 is with some neat little ditty to introduce 1994 —]- Bob Searl, Georgetown - “Nothing. I was robbed, I have no place to live, no Je. and I’ve lost my family. The People’s Corner People’s Forum Analee Smith, Georgetown - “The best thing that hap- pened to me this year is that I decided what my career choice should be.” What was the sid able that nebeores S you in 1993? Ke | Gary Medland, Acton - “It would have to be my girl- friend moving in with me.” EDITOR: Colin CIRCULATION MANAGER: Marie Shadbolt HALTON HILLS THIS WEEK IS INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & ERATED: 873-2254 "AX:873-3918 Cindy Coles, Georgetown - “The best thing this year has been that the recession has helped’ me and my family realize a greater sense of family values. Its not what you lave | its who you have in your Waste management answe To the Editor: I would like some Straight answers concerning the funding of waste man- agement in this region. We have heard that rural Tesidents haven’t been con- tributing to waste manage- ment in Halton. Now many urban residents will be pay- ing only a small fraction of what rural residents have to pay for weekly visits to the container station. Do two wrongs make a right in Halton Region? Why does the region receive hundreds of thou- sands of dollars for recy- cling from the Province but tural residents have to pay $5 to drop off their recy- clable items? Why is the region look- going to be better than 1993, or who are purely dreaming in technicolor: take*a reality pill. I’m sure your doctor and pharmacist, who have rou- tinely been prescribing and doling out placebos for your hypocondriatic ailments over the years, will once again rally to your cause. I mean, how do you think OHIP costs got so high? Think about it! And try an ice cube instead! Either that, or make love to your mate. This activi- ty is one great stress reliever and also helps the ego. It also beats punching-out your doctor, who wasn’t really interested in your personal problems anyway, because he/she has enough of their own. If you think the above is rather negative; to bor- tow from Walter Matthau, “Eat my shorts”. When is reality going to kick in? We have what? two and three car garages when we can’t even afford the loan payments on one car! Three bedrooms. and a recreation room; six tele- visions (one in the kitchen, of course) three VCRs, five telephones with the handy-dandy stretch cord which allows you to walk to Saskatchewan while still phoning from your own place. and an anti- mugger device which so far has killed three pets. And this is the playpen of a couple just thinking about getting married after playing with each other’s libido for about six months! Credit cards! Plastic money! Pig-outs, pigs-in-a-poke, which anyone who holds one knows they can’t really afford and shouldn’ t have; but they’re status symbols and just Stave off reality for that atl be ‘ong And you got to-have Before 1994 really gets sos here’ 'S a sugges- tion! Strip naked, stand in front of a mirror and haveja real bitch session. ticians; your job; your Dody; your favorite. losing ‘ “Could be ‘sary, pea y! Ti Christmas To the Editor: © The children are all out of school for the Christmas holidays, the house decorat- organized again under the tree, by my three children. The Nativity scene well- played with - hay all over the place. Now, along. with many other cozy traditions, we gather round the advent wreath at the kitchen table to read aloud a few Christmas stories. We always begin with the Bible story of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, then stories of Christmas in other lands. Something we all look forward to is the special Christmas story. from our local newspaper. As I pick up the Dec. 21 issue of Halton Hills This eek, my son _ yells “Yes!...the newspaper story, The Last - Christmas Pageant” written by Robert Hicdle a retired school principal. AsI beg an reading, aft the intro ‘those miserable kids forced me into retire- ment”, my first red flag went up. Had I acted on my peice bad feeling, I woulc bases opped.right they ey story not appreciated “miserable” four times, the Lord’s name was taken in vain, there was profanity throughout and the chil- dren’s lines in the play were not suitable to read out loud. You roe the public complains regularly of stu- dents in our Ontario school system, being disrespectful and of having bad attitudes. Biddle had a bad attitude toward his students, poor language and, it seems, lit- le respect for students way back in his one room school house. So, now we know this whole bad attitude and dis- respect things is nothing new. What can we expect from our students when their mentor behaves this way. Just one question, Robert Biddle — why did you hope “God was watching your last Christmas pageant?” mment from my son on completion of this arti- cle...”too bad they had to wreck it, ch Mom? Let. us all remember, Jesus is the reason for the season. R. Hart Dibbits, Georgetown cos rs demanded from region ing to hire additional part- time staff for the container Station when the traffic is forecasted to drop in half? Why is the container sta- tion open six days a week when as much as three- quarters of the traffic is on Saturdays? . = What portion of the users of the container station were from out of the region or trade people? T recall that a study was Proposed last year to look at the cost of rural waste collection. Was this pro- posal passed? What were the results? Why is the region look- ing to make $500,000 in revenue from the container station when by my esti- mates it should cost less than $250,000 to run next year? Tom Bradshaw, 4 <a ab =