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10 - Orono Weekly Ttmea, Wednesday, February 16. 2000 ) Clubs & Organizations Bowman* Toastmasters The theme for the meeting Carol Wonnacott; and Irene of the Bowmanville Konzelmann gave a three- Toastmasters Club on minute Impromptu speech February 8th, 2000, was on St. Valentine's Day, a education. Members of the topic chosen by the head table agreed that haï - Toastmaster of the meeting, lowed institutions, life expe- MaryAnne Maye. riences and organizations Trophy recipients were TM such as Toastmasters Wonnacott (Best Speaker), International provide valu- TM Dow (Best Evaluator), able education. One ^d TM Maye (Spark Plug). Toastmaster spoke from per- lu a rare occurrence, the sonal experience: going back Table Topics Trophy was to school was the door to a awarded to a guest, Glenda better job and higher wages. Baker. At the end of the Toastmasters never let an meeting, we had the pleasure opportunity go by for prac- uf welcoming Glenda as our tice in their ongoing endeav- newest member. Honest, the our of becoming better trophy was not a bribe! speakers. So, when winter Bowmanville Toastmasters colds and job demands pre- meet on Tuesdays at the vented several members from Ontario Power Generation attending the meeting, Russ Darlington Information Le Blanc wore the hats of Centre in Bowmanville Chairman and Table Topics at7:30 p.m. Guests are Master, Marilynn Dow evalu- always welcome. For more ated * the one-minute- information, please call impromptu speeches and the MaryAnn Maye, 983-9845 or prepared presentation of Konzelmann, 983- Newcastle Lions donate money to local youths by Troy Young Primate World Relief and At their meeting of Development Fund and the February 9th, 2000 the Lions Asia Pacific Group. She gave Club of Newcastle passed an interesting talk on her motions regarding two out- recent trip to the Philippines, standing local youths. The Philippines ar a lush and Last year, Newcastle rest- rich group of islands in the dent Andrew Murphy became South Pacific, where people a hero when he alerted a are either very poor or very family to a blaze that was rich. Globalization, which is consuming their home. For breaking down borders his quick thinking and life- worldwide and greatly chang- saving actions, the Club has ing many traditions, have decided to present this young gripped the nation, beginning man with a certificate and a mainly' with the American cheque for $200.00. arrival during World War II. The Club also donated They are establishing their $250.00 to the continuing own culture, and are becom- education of Kevin Varley. mg a leader in herbal medi- Tom Varley, Kevin's father cation. Lion Gord Jilks -- an d a well-respected and thanked Mrs. Saunders, well-liked' member of the That's all for now. See you Clarington community, was a t the meeting in two weeks, killed recently in a car accident. accident. Many of our Lions were close friends of Mr. Varley, and made this donation to his son in his memory. Other news and events: Lion's .Who's Who was David Gibson, local apple farmer extraordinare. David grew up on the family farm and graduated graduated from Ryerson College in 1967. His hobbies include curling and travel. David is a member of the Canadian Club, an 18-year member of the Lions, and a past-president past-president of our Club. The guest speaker was Marion Saunders, wife of Lion Padre David Saunders. Marion is chairperson of the IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE ORONO WEEKLY TIMES 983-5301 r PARLIAMENT HILL Alex Shepherd HRDC - Accountability I'm not defending HRDC but with all the media hype surrounding that department you would think someone actually ran off with $1 billion. billion. I've spent a lot of my time as your MP ensuring accountability in government. government. And I don't, for a minute, advocate that all money spent by HRDC resulted in glorious success stories. But let's be practical and ask ourselves ourselves what the objective of the Transitional Job Fund is. Its objective is to assist those in the economy without a job, likely due to technological technological change, to get a second second chance at a career. The downside? Well these people would be on El benefits, or worse, social assistance. Isn't it better to try and givè people new skills to meet the challenges of a changing world? I, like you, wouldn't want to pay them to stay home. The right wing in Ontario, represented by Premier Mike Harris - he never had to worry about his future everything everything was handed to him - views the problems at HRDC as an excuse to reduce taxes because only more money in the hands of taxpayers is useful money. This belies the fact that you will still have people without skills on some sort of government assistance which compounds the social repercussions. I think of homelessness and crime. Look at the U.S. We should all ponder why that country, with so much wealth, has twice the crime rate. The Premier of Ontario now does nothing more than broadside the federal government. government. It's an age-old strategy he's using. If you have none of your own ideas blame your lack of insight on someone else, like the federal government. government. The Premier's office even has the local MPP playing his stupid game. People are fed up with municipal, provincial and federal politicians failing to accept responsibility for their government's actions. I find it particularly childish childish when politicians claim that anything good happening happening in the economy is because of them and bad things evolve from the policies policies of another government. Take the number of jobs the economy is creating as an example. Which level of government deserves the credit? The stark reality is that none of them do. High government debt led the international community to put pressure on Canada to rein in its deficit spending. spending. The federal government did this and now we have a surplus. The economic affect has been lower interest rates and reduced inflation leading leading to slow economic expansion. expansion. Mike Harris wants you to believe the economy is producing producing jobs because of his tax cuts. His party is paying for ads on radio telling you this. His only economic accomplishment accomplishment that's clear to me is borrowing money - mortgaging mortgaging your future - to give you a tax break. That's counter productive. If only the Premier and his MPPs would work on reducing the provincial deficit Ontarians would bebetter off. The federal government isn't lily white. Any organization organization spending $80 billion a year is going to have delivery problems. (And no this doesn't make it right). The mess at HRDC is the findings of its own audit, its own internal system of cost control. control. . Would we be happier if there was no cost control mechanism in place and we didn't know, or couldn't find out, how our money was being spent? That wouldn't satisfy the public's desire for accountability. Have significant portions of the taxpayers' money gone missing? No. Are sloppy accounting practices an excuse to get rid of programs that help Canadians adjust to global change? I don't think so. 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