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8-Orono Weekly Timnes, Weduesday, Februtiry 14, 1985 The New Yorker at Orono annual meeting A sizeable crowd of Hall for an evening of tempered with other dance midst of the New Yorker with dancers step out on Sunday Ballroom dancing and in- routines which are in vogue. instructor' Dorothy Guy in evenings at the Orono Town structions whîch are often The group above are in the the foreground and with Eira and Herb Duvaîl also stepp- 'The Gay Gordon ing to. 1bappy FEB. 14ti sessions, when she is expected to relate International Youth Year to- the church and youith. Since being appointed Youth Work Developer Lvois's job has been to research the needs of youth in this area to encourage and plan youth participation in Chuirch activities and to develop youth leadership. A warm welcome by Rev. Jack Irwin and Rev. Audrey Fisher was received when the Oshawa Presbyterial United Church Women executive met on February 5, 1985, at Kingsview Church, Oshawa with Presîdent Pat Beach, Greenwood in the chair. ASIAN CONNECTION FUNDS NEEDED Ann Tane, Treasuirer, in- dicated that money needed to complete the Asian exchange visit in May 1985 is slowly coming in from local units. After having assisted in mak- ing two Korean women visitors welcome here last Fall, Shelley Wright, HX- mony United, Church, will travel to Korea as part of the celebration of 100 years of Protestant Christian witness in Korea. Upon her returr from Korea Shelley will ac- cept invitations to share her unique experience with local groups. A very good percentage of Annual Reports received on time from U.C.W. units assisted executive members in planning and problem ýsolv- ing. Scanning the U.C.W. "Guidelines" manual resulted in some recommen- dations for the committee in- volved in revising the "Guidelines". The January Workshop for Committee Convenors was evaluated as very successful in content and attendance. COMING EVENTS U.C.W. Conference An- nual Meeting will be held Avril 2nd and 3rd in Perth. Ontario, with tile theme "Revival, Renewal, Revitalization" with Rev. Ted Davey as guest speaker and ministry of music by Liný- da Jewell. The Young Women's Seminar will be held at Harmony Church, April l6th, 6:30 p.m. dessert, 7:00 p.m. meeting with Ian Howard of "Council of Mind Abuse" %COMA). - Bessie Vaneyk Press and Archives Secretary Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W. st. Francis of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Newcastle will hold its penetential celebration on Sunday, February 17 at 1 p.m. Father Jim Carruthers, spiritual director at St. Basil's Sem inary, Toronto, will be the homilist at the celebra- tion. The theme "I be "Conversion as Process". Father Jim will also be the guest homilist at the eucharistic celebrations that weekend. Adding variety to the even- ing prograrn of fox trots, waltzs and other dances was the Gay Gordon of which joanne and j on athan St aptes Guy of Orono and hold forth take part. every Sunday evening in the The classes are under the Town Hall. direction of Len and Dorothy Orono Campus The Regional Municipalîty of Durham, Department of Health Services is sponsoring an eight (8) week parent study group on child m anagement to be held on Monday even- ý""s 7 p .m. t o 9 p.m. begi nn - ing mid March, 1985, at the Health Unit Office, Il Lambert Street South, B3owmanville, Ontario. On Feb. 8 Orono Public School will hold its final speech competition. .Melanie Rypstra and Leslie Plazek will be saying their speeches for grade 5. Another grade 5 student has yet to be chosen. In grade 6 Carl Brown, Kristen Plummer and Jason Adey will say theirs. We wish everyone good luck. by Eileen Beier Grade 5 Canada Thumbs down on handouts By Tony Carlson There's a strong element of man-bites-dog in the latest pro- posaIs from small business. Govermnents and the people who elect them often complain that business is alI take and no give, ail tax breaks and hand- outs with nothing in return. SBut a significant sector of the business comnmunity-the independent owner-manager -is telling Ottawa that the time has come to cut the gov- ernmental umbilical cord. in a pre-budget submidssion to Finance Minister Michael Wilson, the, 68,000-member Canadiani Federation of Inde- pendent Business urged gov- emment to stop bailing out dying firms and reduce or eliminate programs aimed at supporting business. The proposaIs are based on evidence that most jobs in the coming decades will be created by small firms which do not exist today. Logically, then, the economny must be reshaped to provide fertile ground for the formation of these employment-producing new ventures. Says CFIB President John Bulloch: "'When governments prevent businesses from dying, they prevent new ventures from being bora." 0f course, when any comn- pany goes under it creates hardships for the individuals involved. But data show that while many smnall business peo- ple may fail in their first at- tempt, most are successful in their second venture. "The healthiest small busi- ness communities with the highest growth rates always have the highest death rates," Bulloch notes. Eliminating bailouts will also reduce 1,ysrmng3Lspending, as ýwl business support pro- grain cutbacks recommended' by the CFIB. "'They can fold 90 per cent of their prograras for small business and save fortunes," the business leader, says. "They're irrelevant anyway." Specifically, the CFIB sug- gests an end to subsidized lending programs of the Fed-, eral Business Development Bank which lost $64-million in the last fiscal year. As well, goverrament could eliminate most of the $43-million sup- port for boan guarantees under the Small Businesses Loans Act by charging clients a 1 per cent fee on ail lending. To be sure, the CFIB brief also proposed, some tax changes for small business aimed at increasing investmnent in the sector. Significant among those rec- ommendations was a cail to allow haif of the market value of self-administered Regis- tered Retirement Savings Plans to be channelled into private Canadian corporations. But this move, which would free up clos to $1 .5-billion of potential capital for entrepre- neurs, would cost the public purse little or nothing. Small business people have been biting the economic bullet for years. Two years ago, 69 per cent of owner-managers said they took pay cuts to stay in business and the owner's compensation is still the first part of the business to feel the pinch when times Set rough. But entrepreneurs are pre- pared to live with cutbacks and forego programns if it means establishing a better climate for new business growth-with the jobs that will be created-while keeping a* lid on governiment spending. CFS Fature Servie