6 - The Oakville Beaver, F rida y M a rc h 8, 2002 EDITORIALS MD LETTERS T H EO A K V IL L EB E A V E R 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont. L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax; 337-5567 Classified Advertising: 845-2809 Circulation: 845-9742 IAN OLIVER Publisher NEIL OLIVER Associate Publisher TERI CASAS Office Manager JILL DAVIS Editor in Chief MARK DILLS Production Manager KELLY MONTAGUE Advertising Director STEVE CROZIER Circulation Director RIZIERO VERTOLU Photography Director ROD JERRED Managing Editor M o b o ta n dPiffling. PuUKMnu & O c trtm U rgL td .routes A J a x /P tc k a rtn Q N m sA d v e rtis e r.A M o nH e ra k V C a rt* .A rth u E n te rp ris eN e w s .B a m eM ans. B a rry sB a yT h eW e e k . B o lto nE n te rp ris e ,B ra m p to nG u a rd u n .B u rlin g to nP o s t. 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The lack of treatment pro they have taken time off work as grams and facilities in this region a temporary measure to help was made loud and clear at a keep their children clean. One recent meeting of Parent Watch, mother admitted to not having a a not-for-profit organization that clue her daughter had started aims to help parents of troubled using drugs in Grade 8. Another revealed that both her teenage children, Dozens of parents gathered to sons are drug users. For their willing speak about their ness to speak pub feelings of helpless By not making treat licly about the prob ness and despair ment more readily lem, these parents where their child's available, our society deserve to be heard welfare is concerned. sends the wrong mes and applauded. The cumulative sage about where its W hat's more, they effect of watching their sons and daugh priorities lie. Attacking have earned the right ters get deeper and the supply of drugs by to see an effort made to establish a detoxi deeper into trouble raiding grow houses with drugs made and arresting dealers is fication centre to serve the needs of these parents do what only half the battle. young Halton resi some apparently dents. won't -- talk about It's hard enough for individuals the growing problem in public. According to Jim Harkins, and their families to admit founder and president of there's a problem. By not making Oakville-based Family treatment more readily available, Adolescent Straight Talk Inc. -- our society sends the wrong mes a non-profit organization that sage about where its priorities predicts it will help the families lie. Attacking the supply of drugs of 300 young drug-users this year -- the lack of services stems by raiding grow houses and from society's refusal to admit arresting dealers is only half the Halton has a youth drug problem battle. We must also reduce the that can start before children demand by helping break the have reached high school. And yet Harkins says a 1999 addiction of those who use and Halton survey revealed drug use by preventing our children from among Grade 7-OAC students getting hooked. O ntario hydro privatizing EXPLAINED: G e t d o w n o n h an d s a n d k n ees. In se rt to n g u e . S w itc h on. PAGES OF THE PAST 50 Years Ago Chairman Thomas Chisholm of the OakvilleTrafalgar Memorial Hospital Board said last Thursday that a meeting will soon be held with Ford Company of Canada officials to discuss hospital plans and requirements of the company. The hospital architects could proceed with plans for extensions after the meeting, he said. Mr. Chisholm hoped to be able to announce hos pital expansion plans at the annual meeting on April 24, in the FM ne Room of the arena. The board, in an attempt to curtail the demands for beds, agreed to accept only applications to join the active staff from medical practitioners of Halton County and east, to and including, Port Credit. Dr. E. P. Soanes, chief of the medical staff, said that the bed shortage promised to become critical, and doctors outside the county and Port Credit should send patients to other hospitals. -- The Oakville Record-Star - March 6,1952 30 Years Ago Bronte residents are expected to turn out in force before the Ontario Municipal Board's (OMB) current Wuthering Heights high-rise rezoning hearing. The public hearing began yesterday morning with OMB member R. M. McGuire sitting as chair man. The first of the sessions, which will last until next Tuesday at the earliest, was generally unevent ful as rival town and development lawyers intro duced evidence and laid the legal groundwork. About 30 residents attended. The town-is figbtr ing a rezoning bid by Wuthering Heights devel opers that would allow a 30-storey luxury con dominium to tower above the Lake Ontario waterfront just west of Bronte Beach Park. McGuire reserved Tuesday for ratepayers' submissions, at least five submissions from Bronte residents both for and against the Lakeshore high-rise are expected. -- Journal Record Saturday, March 4,1972 20 Years Ago The Progressive Conservative protest which has blocked all debate in the House of Commons since Tuesday is a response to public demands for the Opposition party to "stop pussyfooting round," according to Halton MP Otto Jelinek. Jelinek said the message from his Oakville public forum, attended by 200 people Monday, was that the people were tired of the way Parliament is operating. Other Conservative MPs received the same message firpm constituents over the weekend, he said. The Liberals tried to pass an "Omnibus" energy bill that went one step too far, said Jelinek. To protest the energy bill, the Conservatives forced a recorded vote on a motion to adjourn the House and then did not show up to allow the vote to be taken. -- Oakville Beaver - March 5,1982 Taken from the archives of the Oakville Beaver including stories from The Oakville Record-Star, The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal, the Oakville Journal Record and the Oakville Beaver. ,,f ( v V . { . · *j 4 4 4 . 4. * .' pssssssst ... · During debate about growth north of Dundas Street, Ward 3 Councillor Tedd Smith said that when he moved to town in the late 1960s, a drive in the country meant a drive through Glen Abbey, where he said. Councillor (Jody) Sanderson now lives. · Mayor Ann Mulvale must have been noting the many vehicles at the Town Hall parking lot as Town council `debated the issue of growth north of Dundas Street when she said, "Everybody speaks for mass transit for somebody else, but will they get out of their car and use it?" ·... security-was incredibly tight at the final Progressive Conservative leadership debate at St. Volodymyr's Cultural Centre on Monday, but there was one thing organizers plainly didn't think through ... when an Oakville Beaver reporter finally talked his way into the hall after being stopped by police on Dundas Street, he was handed a press kit that included a registration form to get the necessary credentials for easier access ... Pssssst.. Is a compendium of observations around Oakville and we're open to contribu tions from the public too. Just fax us at 905-337-5567 or e-mail rjerred@haltonsearch.com l ^ * ................................... " " r r r r ·