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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 14th, 1979 Orono Weekly Times IT SEEMS FAIR AND JUST It would seem that the new system of arriving at property assessments through the market value process is just and fair. To tak on present-day property value does set a .basis that can be understood by property owners and it is a process that brings equality between one property with another. It is a fair property value established between a willing buyer and a willing seller. The Province of Ontario has been endeavouring over the past number of years to bring about market value assessment but has as yet never had the conviction to bring it forth in legislation. The Town of Newcastle last yeàr bit the bullet and asked for market value assessment to be implemented for the Town. As a result Newcastle and the Township of Uxbridge in the Region now have market value assessment on which to base their 1979 tax levies. It was amazing the information the assessment officers had as to properties within the Town of Newcastle and the familiarity with this information. This was all revealed at the meetings held in Orono and no doubt in Bowmanville and Hampton. And added to this the officers were confident of this'information. The key to the whole process appears to be the present-day market value and both sides of any issue could discuss this figure with an .air of certainty. Council is to be congratulated in that they did have the fortitude to face the issue and to take {he steps to correct what surely must have been inequities in the taxation process. MILLION DOLLAR DREAM BEGINS TO FIZZLE A recent fitness survey in the United States reveals that a trend is definitely developing in that 'softer' sports and all-round fitness is taking over the push for hard sports. The survey revealed that parents are not pushing their children to the million dollar dream of baseball, football, boxing or wrestling. The trend is more towards the gentler sports of swimming, tennis, jogging, gymnastics, bicycling, skiing and walking. The survey in the States shows the pursuit of physical fitness has become a national pastime. Ninety million in the U.S. are now participants, a growth to 59 percent from 24 percent in 1961. . The same picture is more than likely true in Canada when we see in our own community the development of LOBB ball in the summer in which both wives and husbands can participate. There are more ball teams in the community today than ever before and those paticipating has greatly increased. People are more out in the outdoors today during the winter months and this is most evident in the Orono area. Both downhill and cross country skiing has family after family outside enjoying the rigors of winter. One local ski enthusiast explained that winter had been a period to curl up with a good book. "N'W that I have learned to live with winter my options during the frigid months are much greater, I have learned $0,live with winter." The softer sports are designed for everyone... there is no regimfentation . . . no time limits . . . and no keeping up with the Jones .. . and one operates at his or her own level of capabilities. This all develops a better enjoyment pattern. t WE WILL TAKE, TEAM WORK AND STYLE RATHER THAN MUSCLE AND VIOLENCE The Russians showed üs over the weekendithe speed of skating, the art of puck control and the result of team work, all of which pleased us greatly. We will take that menu, any day over muscle, violence and what else they tend to dish up for Hockey Night in 1 Canada every Saturday night. For the Spectator amaccurate crisp pass while on the fly shows more skill and more hockey prowness than any teeth rattling body check or scrub along the boards. In the pasfyears we have been dished up a mediocre brand of hockey all too evident over the weekend when the speedy Russians with an eye 'to accuracy outclassed and outplayed the cream of North America. Unfortunately we don't look for any turn-around in the NHL for it is now a commercial biggie with too many teams • to provide Class A entertainment. Every coach now seems to agree that it takes muscle to compete in the NHL and such as speed of skating and puck control is secondary. We will turn off the sport until the next Class A tournament comes about. SAM AT QUEEN'S PARK « fjappentngs... RADIOACTIVE WASTE LEAKS TO PORT HOPE HARBOUR Two leaks into Port Hope Harbour from Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. have been reported over the nàst month. Some weeks ago high levels of radioactive radium liquid waste reached the harbour waters through a spill from a split hose. A week ago another leak was detected from a sump in the building of some thirty gallons of industrial solvent. This leak it was reported would contain a small amount of uranium, not radium. , Report from Queen's Park Sam Cureatz, M.P.P,, Durham East PROVINCIAL OFFENSES PROCEDURE Many persons living in ' Ontario find the procedure which now governs the prosecution prosecution of provincial offenses offenses bewildering, expensive, expensive, time consuming and altogether disproportionate in gravity to those offenses. To alleviate this situation, the Attorney General's Office 'has proposed two bills; The Provincial Offenses Act arid the Provincial Courts Amendment Amendment Act, which are now being studied by an all-party Legislative Committee. These bills give formal recognition to the fact that offenses under provincial statute statute law are, for the most part, regulatory, and that it is wrong in principle to deal with tjiem automatically in the same procedural stream ' as offenses under the Criminal Criminal Code. This concept flows from the recognition that the person who breaches an Ontario law need not be treated as if he or she were a dangerous criminal. This legislation will remove many of the formal trappings that surround trials under the Criminal Code. The accused will still have thé right to a full trial but the legislation provides a number of less formal methods of dealing with minor provincial offenses. offenses. As an example, consider the position of a person charged with a minor highway highway traffic offense. At present, present, that person may pay the fine out of court, appear in court to defend or explain, or take no action, in which case he or she will be tried in his or her absence. Under the new legislation, a person charged could still at his or her option have a full trial of the issue or pay the fine out of court. But in addition the defendant could either: 1. Drop in at the court at his convenience at any time prior to the date set for trial to plead guilty before a Justice of the Peace and offer an explanation in mitigation of the penalty, or 2. Plead not guilty by mail, simply by mailing in his or her side of the story? If a Justice of the Peace determined determined that the explanation disclosed a,legal defence to the Charge, he could, without the person accused having to attend, require the Crown to prove its case fully at a trial, with particular attention being paid to the defence raised in the letter. The person charged would not, therefore, have to take time off work or incur travel expenses to have the defences raised. Offenses covered under the legisation are traffic, liquor, municipal by-law and other non-criminal offenses. This legislation attempts to correct the long-standing problems problems of- persons charged witfi relatively minor 'of- Orono Public School News fences being processed together together with more severe offenders. I am sure Sgt. Don Matthews Matthews of The Ontario Regiment Regiment will be able to operate under this new legislation when it comes into force as well as he operated the Regiment's Annual Members' Members' Mess Dinner. work not welfare The unemployed worker in Canada is, the victim, of our economy. He needs a government government which is willing to help him through his time * of unemployment and one which will create new jobs. Instead we have a government which' is penalizing the unemployed with cutbacks, expecting thç victims to subsist at a 1 level which strips them of their human dignity. There has been a great deal of talk about getting people to work for welfarei The whole idea is repugnant to me, not because peôple will have to work for the money they receive, but, because it fails to get at the root of the problem. And (hat is the creation of jobs. Instead of narrowing in on welfare recipients and doing a patch up job on a rickety old system, we should be putting our energies and creative At the Farm We went to Mrs. Brown's farm yesterday and we toh. ogganned. Then we went in the house arid played. We had some hot chocolate and hot dogs. Then we went out to the barn. I saw 12 cows, 3 baby calves, 13 yearlings arid 2 race horses. We returned to school. Doug Bradley, Grade 3. Mrs. Browri's Farm All of our class went to Mrs. Browns farm on Wednesday. We went tobogganning down the hill. I went down with Jennifer and we turned around and there was a great big pile of snow and we ran into it. I started to cry because I got snow up my shirt. Then I went inside. talents towards the creation of meaningful jobs. Many of these jobs could be in the processing of our natural resources instead of shipping them to other countries for processing. People want jobs, not handouts. It is time that those jobs vyere available. It is time tljat everyone has an opportunity opportunity to' participate in economic activity. For those who, are unable, social assistance assistance can deal with their needs and be administered with a sensitivity which is lacking. > Fred McLaughlin, NDP Candidate. '.Inside we played games. Then we .had lunch. I had a cheese Whiz sandwich and two glasses of hot chocolate. Then we went to the barn. Everybody started to laugh when Kenny said the cows are going to the washroom. Then after the cows went it really stinked. Then we went home. I came and went with Mrs. Stamp. On the way back Mrs. Stamp went to her place and got the bus. We were standing up in it then Lisa flopped down. We were singing. If you're cold and you know it, shake all over and so on. Janette Mantel, Grade 2. St. Saviours ANGLICAN CHURCH Orono, Ontario Regular Sunday Worship Service - 10:00a.m. Rev. Allan Haldenby B.A. L.Th. (Continued from page 1) SIR SANFORD FLEMING COLLEGE COURSE FOR FARMERS ed and farmers that are interested in attending the courses, should contact Sir Sanford Fleming College in advance by phoning 372-6865 on weekdays from 8:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon. UNITEDCHURCH Orono Pastoral Charge Minister Rev. B.E. Long » B.Th. Organist and Choir Director David Gray Sunday, February 18,1979 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11:15 a jn. We welcome the Beavers, Cubs ahd Scouts to commemorate commemorate their founder Lord Baden-Powell. KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School 9:45 Morning Worship 9:45 Dial-A-Thought 983-9151 Clearing Haughs jl ■ 1 II ill Big 88 Products Men's lined smocks size 38 and 40, selling for ......> ..$5.00 '■ ' , Men's^Coveralls sizes 38 and 4d only, selling at. , $10.00 Ladies' Long coàts sizes 12 and 14, seUlf-ng now at very low prices. .Only a few left; Ladies' dresses, all selling at Vi of the regular price. / I ■■•'Hi MSTRONGS -i