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'combine the Lishman explains Heo ees pulled on on his development _ To the Editor: Yup, we pulled the plug! There was just so much cholesterol in the system it bogged the embryonic plan to such a degree that all the creativity was overridden with bureaucratic nonsensical goo. Goo that escalated costs and slowed gestation to that of a glacier. It was better to abort than seriously risk the health of the parents. That's it in a nutshell! * I refer to our plan to develop a unique regional node at Nestleton. The combined Paula Lishman manufe g facility with an ultralight aircraft d88embly plant, aviarium, movie studio, etcetera. It would have been a great project to encompass all sorts of new passive earth friendly technology and something that would really get my creative juices running. If could-have beena that sparkled throu, hout the world as an example of the néxt century'we can s of the environment, the y and the ity into a Jationahi: ~ But, no, the cholesterol ridden systems of our paranoiac society have plodded on to force the use of "old tried;and true" technology with study a study and overkill, Let me give you an ple. Eventually there might have been one hundred and fifty people employed at this facility, which, with parking lots, buildings and all, might occupy ten percent of the one hundred acre sod farm. The team would all work there in harmony, aided by beautifully landscaped surroundings; no heavy industrial noise; no concrete block hell holes; no smoke or fumes; no liquid pollutants . . . just people working together in soft, quiet surrolindings, using their creativity, the products of which would go out to a global demapd. . Those people, biological entities, use the bathroom, and in an eight hour work day, each might use the facility an average of three times. The technology of a bathroom has not changed appreciably since Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet in eighteen whatever. It takes three gallons of water every time you get rid of a few ounces of the parts of yesterday's Chicken Kiev and Caesar Salad that your, body couldn't use. VIEWPOINT by John B. McClelland THANKS, PARTNER When you are in the business of publishing a newspaper each week, you live and die with the fear that" something will happen on "production day." That's the most important day of the week--the day we put the Citizen together to meet d printing schedule early Tuesday mornings. My biggest fear is that a critical member of the team will fall ill on production day, or there will be a power failure that knocks our computer system on-its back. Last Monday (March 11) the un- thinkable happened--to none other than myself. Just as we were going into final production (preparing the pagé .layouts) Monday evening, }-wés felled by one of those murderous stomach ailments--the details of which are best left un-spoken. By 8:00 Monday night, I was in no shape to do anything except perhaps find a quiet corner somewhere to curl up and die. If you have ever been felled by this kind of ailment you'll know precisely of what I speak. If you have not, give thanks. Anyway, with me in deep sick bay, the crucial task of creating the computerized page layouts fell on the shoulders of Citizen co-publisher Valerie Ellis, and our computer , Operator Gord Malcolm: * Valerie's domain around here is creating ads--it is not créating finished pages with stories, photos, captions and headlines. I am more than pleased to report that Valerie came through this "trial by fire" with flying colours, helped in no small measure by Gord, who fortunately has a lengthy backgremnd in newspaper editing and computerized page production. When I had to leave the office in considerable distress Monday evening, I wondered if there would be a Citizén for distribution en Tuesday, 6r would we be forced to delay printing a few hours, or even a day. That fear was without foundation. Valerie and Gord met the printing deadline with plenty of time to spare and did a mighty fine job in the process. I just want to say publicly--thanks, Gord, and thanks, partner for a great job under tough circumstances. IN CLOSING: Still with this strange business of "paper- -making," it looks as though newspapers are going to get a break from the companies that prodif¢é newsprint. Publishers had been bracing for yet another increase in the tost of newsprint due on April 1 this year. However, it now looks like they are "backing away from those planned increases. That's good news (excuse the pun) because the cost of newsprint the last couple of years has soared from about $450 tonne to over $900 tonne, driven mostly by demand in Asia. Coupled with shrinking ad lineage as a result of the recession, the result of the soaring paper costs has had a devastating impact on newspaper publishing all over North America. The result has been wide-spread "d ing" of papers that has taken two forms--an outright reduction in the physical size of the page and printing fewer pages each day or week. It all means that readers are getting less news and information whether in a major daily or a small weekly like this one. It is fair to say that another hike in ' printing costs this April and yet another perhaps in September would have sounded the death knell for more newspapers, large and small. It is impossible to pass on these rate increases to the advertisers, themselves cash-strapped due to the recesgion that has killed consumer fid in the marketpl And that's the bottom line in paper making. It takes an oqail amount of water to flush away that part of the coffee your body has miraculously filtered from blagk. That's 450 gallons of water to flush the toilets. (It seems silly, but to get rid-of what might amount to ten gallons of the ukky stuff, we use ten forty-five gallon -drums of water.) But you have to allow for "abnormal things; the "what ifs," so that number should be doubled. Let's say 1,000 gallons a day. No! Let's really be safe, let's quadruple that, make it 2,000 gallons a day. Now let's do a reality check on how muh water that is. A. rain shower passes over the one hundred acre 'allotment and deposits three millimetres of wet, one eighth of an inch. "That's about a fifteen minute light rain. If 1 do some quick calculations, one eighth of an inch of water spread over one hundred acres equals 282,679.75 gallons of water. W8w!, Over one quarter of a million gallons of water. Wow! Again, that's enough to flush the toilets four times as often as would be required for 141 days. In reality there is only about 242 working days a year, and since the average rainfall in this area is about forty inches a year, that's a mind boggling amount of water, even if only 5%, or two inches of that water filters down to the aquifer that feeds the well and had'rested there cooly a few meters beneath the surface virtually unchanged since the last ice age melted. Wow! Again we have more water avilable than anyone in their rightful mind could ever, ever, ever imagine. Whoa, right there! We must first prove it to the bureaucrats, so they have some official looking cover on their behind. I mean, they have to keep their jobs, so we were required to hire a hydrologist to do the appropriate ground water tests to prove we are going to have enough water and that we won't be jeopardizing the neighbouring wells (the closest well is a quarter mile away and looks after a family of two plus a few cows). We meet with a ®hydrologist recommended and accepted by the Ministry of the Environment. He works from an opulent oak desk in a granite, high polished building reminiscent of a downtown law firm. He, (the weaver of 5%. covering), described the wbrk that must be completed to meet the Ministry's dictum - - to precise the verbiage. First we have to do + a study on existing neighbourhood wells. We are required to dig three wells and pump the bejeezus out of one of them for an extended period of time. Then we have to check all the nelghbouring wells again and make sure they haven't gone down. Finally the hydrologist writes a report, the cost of which could run from $30,000 to $40,000. I visualize the report neatly bound with those white plastic snap-in binders, colour pictures, charts, graphs, and pages of fascinating prose that will, for the most part, moulder unopened, but be' impressive by its thickness and conclude that, YUP, there will be enough water! ¢ I leave in disgust. This is what I ¢all cholestérol in the system. I look again at the list of requirements. Traffic studies, "septic system propagals, water supply studies, approvals from Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Natural .Resources, Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, Mfnistry of Agriculture, site plan agreements, noise - studies, air pollution studies. Ne list, goes « on ad ! Chol / Cholesterol! I begin to wor ie Mike Harris' chemotherapy. : 1 see ahead a morass of cost and crapolla that all joy and hes for half a decade. Yep, pull the plug! Something else better will phoenix out of the 'ash. Maybe one of those World War 11 fighter plane schools. You know those two thousand horse power beasts of aircraft with twenty-four cylinders that make a tractor pull sound like sweet violins? For, " what I did find out through all these studies, is that you can have an airstrip and fly three hundred planes an houf out of it at Nestleton and there is no law to stop you doing that?! No law,and all challenges that have maderit to the Supreme Court of Canada on similaf cases have béen thrown out. So, don't pop your half litre of Hienkel Troken yet Lioey Black etal Bill Lishman \ Scugog Township Canada and the Queen To the Editor: -1 was once proud to be a Canadian, this great land of rights and freedoms. It was the envy.of the world: We stood strong and in the eyea of our neighbours as we were kind and Every day in schgol we stood beforedur flag. and our Queen ind gave our allegiance. This was a reminder to our youth of our great heritage and our forefathers who built and fought for this great country. As a Christian we gave thanks to God and thanked him in our prayers for such 4 country. That was then, now we are faced with a unity crisis where a minority of French Canadians who through years of brainwashing by militant traitors to this great land, wish to break the land up at all costs to the true Canadians. And this Liberal government who, not to , offend this small minority, wish to appease = the French by offerings that affect the rest of the great Canadiarf people. The point in issue is the of & French not want to abide by the Canadian rules and way of life. I can not see why it is so important that we make these changes for) new Canadians. This country will always have some form of ties with Great Britain and those who choose to live in this country are well aware of this fact. 4 Those persons who do not choose to be a part of Canada, will not change their minds for the simple restructuring of the Oath by dropping all references to the Queen After all the goal of 'these individuals is to break up themountry, © This saddens me to know of all the tax dollars that have been wasted in the process of the change of the oath and this attack on a great lady, the Queen. I would like to know in this time of restraint, who in this Liberal government decided to make these changes at the cost of $30,000 just to do a study. 1 wish that our elected representatives of government would respeet the historical © foundation of this great country before we have nothing to be proud to pass on to in this Liberal t to change the Oath of Citizenship for Canada by dropping all reference to our great Queen. The Queen of the Commonwealth is still the Queen of Canada. She represents longevity, stability, freedom, pride and honour. She is part of Canadian history and its structural strength. She represents our laws and our freedoms and all that is good. She does not represent any special interest group or government party but all the people in this country of Canada. The hearts and the socialists forget the real people of this country and seem to yA pi interest groups that do ) ing. There is a problem 'with taking an oath to Canada. Are we swearing to the land, the people, or the elected government? Whe: we swear to the Queen of Canada we know exactly what and who we are pledging our allegiance to. Let's keep what is good and that which makes us proud not destroy it for a mere few. 1 urge all Canadians to write to the minister to stop this insanity. Honourable Lucienne Robillard, Minister of Citizenship and' Immigration, Place du Portage 1, 28e 9) Rug Views. Hol. Qa EA 111 D. Glazier Whitby