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8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. March 21,1984 Letters to the Editor March 17, 1984 To the Editor: Well, it seems to be time again for my annual "Ken Hooper" complaint. Why you still waste so much space in your paper to print his ramblings is beyond my comprehension. I wonder how many other readers feel this way? Perhaps if enough people wrote in to tell you how they feel, you might soon get the picture. It is a shame that newsworthy articles don't get into your paper for so- called lack of space, but there always seems to be room for Mr. Hooper's comments. comments. Yours truly W.A. Kerr 3 Ontario St. Editor's note: The above comments reflect the writer's writer's opinion. We would like to hear from any other who would care to write. We don't always agree with Mr. Hooper's council watching articles either, but our columns columns are open to anyone who wants to write a Letter to the Editor, so long as the content is not libelous. and their records it is unfortunate unfortunate that we can't name the ones who in my opinion spoil it for others. But then again that is what council and the administrator's administrator's job is and I don't know about council but I am reasonably sure that the administrator administrator knows what is going on and I see no improvement, improvement, but maybe after he gets back from his week's vacation (he has worked for us five months) he may start to clean the matters up. I guess that is it for this week but in closing I did notice that at the start of Coun. Cowman's letter she states "I have been named" and all I can say is don't feel too bad at least you could read what was being said about you and no doubt I have been named in lots of in camera meetings only I don't know by whom, or what was said (must have all been good) and with that, so long for this time. Yours truly Ken Hooper . 140 Ontario St. Bowmanville. Ont. March 15,1984 Dear John; Well, as I predicted last week, my source would come back and so it has but before I comment any further on that matter I think it is only fair that I make some comments on Coun. Cowman's letter, so she will know that I did read it. She says in part that she has been named and to this I say she is right but what else she is saying is a mystery to me except that it appeared to be making an alibi for supporting reassessment. I' remember sitting beside Coun. Cowman at a ratepayers' ratepayers' Executive meeting and the subject was brought up about the reassessment and at no time did I hear Coun. Cowman say that she originally originally supported it, but I did hear her mention other names. You know, John, in this day and age you have to make up your mind what side of the fence that you are sitting on and in my opinion Coun. Cowman seems to be sitting in the middle. I think Coun. Cowman would be better advised if she had answered my questions as to who asked for the Police to be at the meeting and also how many budget meetings she attended and for how long. This I think would give the ratepayers in general a good idea of her input to the spending spending of our tax dollar. I think that the above would be of more importance to the taxpayer taxpayer than the double talk that nas been evident. Maybe, while she is answering answering those questions she could also advise us as to the reply she received from the people she wrote to in regards to the shopping mall on the baseline and also advise the people on the baseline and Hunt St. why the water will continue to come in their cellars. The letter that I am referring to was dated March 2, 1984 and signed by Mrs. Ann Cowman Regional Councillor Ward I. . So much for that matter, and now back to the local scene. I now have a document in front of me that has Confidential Confidential stamped across it and it is in reference to vacations, etc., and as I look over the sheets for non union staff I see where we are carrying an amount of vacations over from last year. This in my opinion is just poor business as follows; According to the sheet I notice, that we have approximately 370 days of vacation and on top of this the sheet_saysjhat we are carrying carrying 66 days over from last year and I now wonder whether section 32 of the Vacation and Pay Act has been applied and if my information is correct it has not as of this date. Be that as it may, my point is this, if a person could not afford the time off from his job last year then how is the employee going to take more this year. I assume that the figures are accurate and I would have no way of knowing any different. To be fair, I looked over the union staff vacation entitlement entitlement and it is in reasonably good shape which again makes me wonder about certain certain things. Little Britain sponsored their Jr. C. hockey games over radio. What is wrong with Bowmanville not sponsoring the Eagles games? Are our people not as proud of their accomplishments? - evidently not. Health reasons keep many interested people from attending the games so come on Bowmanville and show the boys we appreciate their skill and effort by broadcasting the remaining play-off games. A Senior Citizen Lorena M. Highfield I also notice in the, accumulated accumulated sick leave that there appears to be a good rating for most employees, especially in the union staff, but in the non union staff it would appear that people who have worked for a number of years for us have only three days to their credit which indicates that after working for say seven or eight years and on accumulation accumulation of one day per month, you should have a good number of credits built up. Based on the above it would appear that people like this have been sick a considerable amount of time and I now wonder if we are driving some of our employees too hard. You know John at one time all you heard was the union caused it but if you were to look at this confidential sheet that 1 have you would see that the union workers have got a good record and we will leave the judgment of the others to council. You know, John, when you look over staff Box 901, Oshawa L1H 7N1 728-3725 March 11,1984 Sir: On March 4, the Durham Classical Guitar Society presented another outstanding outstanding guitarist from Toronto, Toronto, Elizabeth Schwarz. About 70 people, more than on February 4, gathered in the Arts Resource Centre on Queen St., off Bagot St., north of the McLaughlin Gallery. In the first part of the program, a piece by Bach was cleverly transcribed. Then we were treated to the music of famous men like M. Guiliani, J. Albéniz, E. Sainz de la Maza, and Sor, who played interesting variations from Mozart's The Magic Flute, his last, rather personal, opera. Requested Requested encores were graciously graciously given. After the intermission, our gifted guitarist, who is also a skilled pianist, sang beautifully : in English Handel's appealing Dove sei, rendered Art thou troubled? troubled? (Music will calm thee). This was my favorite number, as was Jesu, joy of man's desiring, played on Feb. 4 by one of the members, members, Richard de Jong. Here I'd suggest that in future about two sacred pieces be included for inspiration in each performance. Then followed in German Wiegenlied, a lullaby by Schubert, not quite as popular popular as Brahms'. Even Mozart composed a pretty one. Before Before the lovely Die Lotosblume (The Lotus Flower) melody by Schumann and lyrics by the poet Heine, was sung in German, Elizabeth appropriately appropriately translated the words. In the lastsection, I'll just refer to Variations on a Theme of Handel and Excerpts Excerpts from La Traviata (Verdi), its well-known melodies being especially attractive to Italians. As before, before, there was loud, standing standing applause and more encores. encores. Re the large, acoustic, unmechanical unmechanical guitar, it is most suitable for solos and accompaniment. Its nylon strings, with their mellow tones, remind me of harp and cello. With the instrument instrument in one hand, it leaves the face pleasantly relaxed. Bethoven rightly called it a "miniature orchestra," I must still mention Andrés Segovia, a self- taught Master, specializing in romantic music, without wailing and moaning. Hearing Hearing him twice on TV, first in the White House (U.S.A.), I could not but admire the honest, affecting sound he produced. Those who have never listened listened to the classical guitar are shortchanging themselves, themselves, not to say, committing committing the musical sin of omission. omission. John Knott, Oshawa Night Hawks High single-P.Pinglc 263, High triple - P. Pinglc 657. Team Standings I. Hughes 28984 pins, 29 points; T. Wright 28285, 29; A. 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