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Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager Ian Oliver Publisher Do you think it‘s a good idea to have Maplehurst Adult Training Centre inmates help clean regional roads? ‘Yes, I think it‘s a good idea and helps reduce the taxes of those who they‘d have to hire to do the work. It sets a good example for these poeple." The idea was simple enough. Have a number of teams compete in fun events using a stopwatch as a guide for the winner. Teams giving blood throughout the year would get time taken off their final registered time for completing the events. Wright was right on when he said some organizations may stonewall the public on information when that information is only sensitive to that group‘s employees and no one else. In an effort to rectify some of its past communications problems, the board is currently in the throes of forming a Communications Review Committee and is looking for three public representatives as part of that group. Peter Gnish, execuâ€" tive assistant to board director Bob Williams, says that although the official cutâ€"off date for applications was May 30th, that has been extended to tomorrow. Anyone interested in serving on the committee can call 335â€"3663 and ask for Anne. There will be three citizen representatives on the committee, one each from the east, north and west areas. The choice will be made by lot. hen the idea of a Fun Fit Challenge first surfaced three years Wago, it was hoped that with the backing of the Town of Oakville, along with the Oakville Chamber of Commerce, that awareness of the need for blood donors would increase. The numbers really tell the story about how successful this event has become. In 1991, there were 80 Funâ€"Fit blood donors. Last year that numâ€" ber increased to 250 and for this year, 420 blood donations were regisâ€" tered. The Fun Fit Challenge blood donation project now goes on all year, so those thinking about entering a team next year, can already start amassâ€" ing timeâ€"reduction points by giving blood throughout the year. It‘s a great idea, a fun day for those participating and most of all, it warms the hearts of those like Mary Ellen Frederick at the Oakville unit of the Red Cross Society. It shows, once agaixi, what a caring community can achieve if we all pull together. Pass the word While not naming the Halton Board specifically, Wright said all school boards should be more open with the information they have because of their impact on residents as both taxpayers and parents with children in the system. m Wright sent a pretty strong message to the Halton Board of Education recently and here‘s hoping they get the message. Wright happens to be the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario and as such rules supreme over the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, otherwise known as the FOIA. The board is no stranger to Wright or the FOIA itself. For it was Wright who forced the board to release the names of its Key Communicators when the Board refused to make public the names of these individuals. Because of this and the number of requests for information from the board under the FOIA, the board sent a letter to the Management Board of Cabinet, which oversees the Act, in support of a report calling for a tightening of the Act which the report said was being abused. EDITORIAL Everyone wins 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 \QUESTION OF THE WEEK Do you think Bob Rae‘s ‘Social Contract‘ idea for provincial employees was a good idea despite its failure? Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012. All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verification. A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend edition of the Oakville Beaver. J. Kinnunen Seventyâ€"two pages of imperâ€" meable fiscobabble when all they‘re really trying to say is "This is a stickup." Makes my eyes roll and my tongue loll just thinking about it. Postal codes â€" there‘s another feature of modern day life that The Income Tax guide â€" there‘s another sadistic modern creation designed to render us eligible for admission to The Happy Haven Rest Home for the Cerebrally _ Overburdened. Revenue Canada has come up with 72 pages of singleâ€"spaced instructions that no one this side of a Buddhist monk with a CPA certificate:â€"could possible fathâ€" ‘ve come to the conâ€" clusion that a great deal of modern life is specifically designed to drive us nuts. Traffic light signals, for instance. Have you ever noticed how it is virtually impossible to hit a consecutive string of green lights when you‘re trying to drive across town? Doesn‘t matâ€" ter what chauffeur technique you use â€" mash the gas pedal through the floor mat and you‘ll end up squealing to a stop at the next intersection. Poot along in low gear with the emergency brake on and you‘ll still hit a succesâ€" sion of reds. Does this make any sense? Wouldn‘t you think the whole purpose of regulating trafâ€" fic would be to keep a relatively constant flow of vehicles going in all directions with a minimum of stops and starts? Of course. They‘re just trying to render us gaga. When it comes to newâ€"fangled codes, our writer says BUG OFF appropriate Nzz" /z / 4* Which might not make me froth at the mouth if the postal codes made any sense at all. Imagine, for instance, if the postal code for my office in Toronto was TOR ONT â€" or even just contained a familiar "T" or "O". I think my feeble brain could probably handle that. And Kaministiquia, Ontario? â€" they‘ll read LAX. You‘d think the postal code Saskatoon? would at least include the letters Watch for YXE. "K" or "M", would you not? It‘s enough to make y ‘Forget.it.. Theâ€"postal..code: + average Canucka tad P.O0."D. Nowadays you not only have to take out a mortgage to pay for the postage, you also have to include the postal code. I once lived in a place in northwestern Ontario called Kaministiquia. One day the mailman delivered a parcel addressed to "A. Black, Kam, Ont." It had been mailed from Arizona that same week. can drive you squirrelly if you dwell on it too long. I‘m so antique I can remember a time before postal codes. A time when you could pick up a quill, address an envelope to, say, "Joe Blow, 123 First Avenue, Anywhere, Canada," slap a tenâ€" cent stamp on it, pop it in the mailbox and it would actually be delivered â€" usually the next day! Even on Saturdays! Instead, the code is MSW 1E6. But in Canada all the airport codes begin with the letter "Y". Don‘t ask me "Y". Flying into Boston? Look for BOS on you tags. Los Angeles‘? they‘ll read LAX. Saskatoon? Watch for YXE. It‘s enough to make your Even Turkey, for heaven‘s sake, has the letter "T" at the beginning of all it‘s baggage tags. In Argentina, most of the airâ€" port codes begin with, surprise, surprise, the letter "A". In Brazil, they begin with "B"; in Japan it‘s "J" and in Sweden its Other nations take a less bizarre approach. Kennedy airâ€" port in New York? That‘s JFK. Le Bourget Airport in France is designated FPB â€" which sounds confusing until you unravel the Gallic logic: "F" for France, "P" for Paris, "B" for Bourget. Most of the codes for airports in Canada make not the slightest connection with the name of the place. Most of them aren‘t even pronounceable. Flights into and out of St. John‘s, Newfoundland are coded YYT. For Windsor, Ontario it‘s YOG. YYA stands for Pearson International. YLW is Kelowna, And it‘s not just postal codifiâ€" cation. Ever perused the paper tags that airport ticket agents attach to your luggage? You will see memorable nuggets of conâ€" sonants such as YYZ and YLW. form my Kam compadres is POT 1X0.