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| Westonâ€"York Times Make sure your family respects the water. If children do not know how to swim, give them a chance to learn. Contact your local Red Cross Water Safety Service and ask about local swimming programs. Keep children in sight at all times. That way you‘ll be sure they don‘t take any dangerous buddy. That way if trouble should occur, there‘ll be someone there to help. If your family enjoys boating remember to observe simple rules of Red Cross water safety. Learn and follow "the rules of the road." Respect your boat and know its limitations. Never overcrowd a boat, and make sure each passenger wears a government approved lifejacket. _ During Red Cross National Water Safety Week and throughout the summer, remember to obâ€" serve simple rules of water safety. Enjoy the water, but respect it. Establish a sy x family or friends so thamy s@figggrns with a buddy. That way if trouble should occur, there‘ll Stay tuned to weather reports. If a storm threatens, head for shore. So during Red Cross Water Safety Week and throughout the summer Red Cross Water Safety Service reminds you to include water safety in your plans for summer fun. And that‘s part of what the Red Cross Water Service is all about â€" reminding people from coast to coast that water is fun but deserves respect. The Red Cross Water Safety Service also trains qualified instructors who conduct learnâ€"toâ€"swim programs from preâ€"beginner through senior levels, and special survival swimming courses which teach people how to stay alive in deep water. The week of June 4â€"10 is Red Cross National Water Safety Week. With the warm weather here, people will be getting out to their summer cottages or their favorite lake for weekends to enjoy the sun and water.. Today most people enjoy the water. But a look at the drowning rate for a single summer, even though it has decreased yearly over the past five years, would make you wonder if some people have any respect for the water at all. In the days of ancient Greece and Rome swimming was rated highly and actually stressed in the training of warriors. Throughout the middle ages people generally believed swimming or outdoor bathing helped spread epidemics like the black plague which swept the continent of Europe. Swimming, even contact with water, became associated with death. It wasn‘t until the second half of the nineteenth century that this medieval prejudice began to lose its hold on people and aquatic activities became more accepted and gradually more popular. at 215# Wesion Road, Weston, each Thursday by Principal m Limited Wstablished 1890, incorporating the Weston Times and County of York Meraid. the Times and Gude. and Weston Times Advertiser. and the Weston Times . uold Sov n e e e oot en Nos Subscription Rates 7 00 per year in advance to any adgress in Canaga Other countries $9 00 Let‘s show some respect Secona l'.lfu Mail Registration Number 1988 V ) MacMilian, Presigent and Publisher Bill Bavley. Editor Molly Fenton, General Manager l Teiephone 241 $211 shabby treatment of showing â€"From my observations of residents of other municipalities and meetings, as â€" uncomfortable _ as The editor: Someone recently said: ‘"It‘s not good enough that justice be served alone, but justice must also seemed to have been served." One would think that â€" especially during election year â€" municipal politicians would want to make some small attempt at seeing constituents get justice rather than bulldozing through byâ€"laws, within the letter of the law, without their constituents being able to exercise their soâ€"called rights. mittees, my experience has been that one is made to feel As far as making a presentation officially to I know of at least six items that the Borough of York Council has sanctioned in recent months that residents of the south end of Weston are furious about, yet never get proper time nor place to voice their opinion. Letters to the editor they might wish to highlight. Unfortunately, the governâ€" ment will not permit a vote on such bills and resolutions, as is done in other provinces like Nova Scotia and Manitoba, so that there is a certain degree of futility about the process. But at least it provides the opâ€" portunity for debate to air the topic. Last week Gordon Smith, MPP for Simcoe East, in troduced a bill to rename Civic Holiday, on the first Monday in August, as Simcoe Day in honor of the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1792. While fully agreeing with the desire to find some more meaningful name for our civic holiday, I raised the question whether Mr. Smith‘s proposal was really the most appropriate. True, John Graves Simcoe was our first Lieutenant Governor, and therefore he has achieved a certain fame as the first, but beyond that his concept of the kind of society he wanted to build is really not worthy of holiday enâ€" shrinement. eccurs once a week in the o‘clock on Mondays. On can introduce a bill or At least a ‘progressive‘ Conservative mc airl 45 Day of reconing coming Ino ahgpramnd in mai to be reâ€"zoned and one could voice objections to counâ€" lack of compassion, unâ€" derstanding or reasoning when a citizen attempts to explain a problem. The most recent episode started with a notice, some months ago, indicating that if the Levy site was to be developed, a school nearby would be necessary. There was a six acre park area near the site and the borough intended to rezone it and sell it to the school board. At a planning board meeting â€" at which 35â€"40 local residents turned out â€" after fighting a somewhat _ oneâ€"sided! argument and arrogance on the part of at least one ofâ€" ficial, we finally got our point across that we were against reâ€"zoning for a school at this time as development of the Levy site was so indefinite. An in teresting side effect here was that the borough was reluctant to put its weight behind another project which would have more than recouped park land lost by supporting another project at Metro level. § Recently we received notice that the site was about In Simcoe‘s view, the lake peninsula, stretching from York and Niagara through to Windsor, jutting as it does down into the United States was a perfect showâ€"case to display the superiority oi all things British. Thus he conceived of a colony whose capital would be called London, on the river Thames. The Anglican Church would be the established church, even though 9% per cent of the the quiet of his English home, before the crackling fireside, he developed the most detailed plan, to be imposed in the forest wilderness of North America. plan for the new British colony of Upper Canada over which he was to preside. In John Graves Simcoe had been an officer in the British Army during the rebellion of s he developed map result, an inâ€" tense dislike for all things American. So much so that when he knew of his imâ€" pending appointment, he PRESIDENTAL ELEcIONs Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT MPP for York South Well, I ask you â€" the Borough of York will argue that they were within legal time limits. Our objection to this reâ€"zoning was further heightened because as each week passes one more member of council is reported to be against the development of the Levy site. The vote went on and council recommended that the site be reâ€"zoned. Some of us were later told that our representatives _ voted against it but, on questioning The editor: They were enjoyed by all On behalf of Unit 7, in attendance and it was a Westminister _ United most successful evening. Church, I would like to thank Again, many thanks. the Westonâ€"York Times for . the loan of the old copies of Mrs. Anna Austin, the Times and Guide. Secretary, Unit 7. cil.The notices received were just inside the minimum time alloted. Having got my notice of objection in just under the wire, I received further notice â€" delivered at 3 p.m. on a Monday â€" that I could be heard further on the subject at 2 p.m. that same day. Leading among those pioneers | was _ Richard Cartwright. Although he had There would not only be a school system, but a university â€" no doubt, in Simcoe‘s mind, soon to rival Oxford and Cambridge. It was a grandiose scheme to build a replica of Britain in the wilds of North America. Home Secretary Dundas shot down some of Simcoe‘s proposals â€" the university, for example. A school system â€" fine said Dundas; but "the country should make the university, and not the university the country." But it was left to a few leaders of the colonial setâ€" tlements, on home ground, to forestall the implementation of Simcoe‘s folly in all its original misconception. residents at the time were deserters of one kind or another. There would be a hereditary _ legislative council. The legislative assembly would be open only to halfâ€"pay officers of the army who would become the core of a new aristocracy for the pioneer settlement. Many thanks I, for one, would like to be able to work with our representatives for a better community, but we don‘t seem to be allowed to work with them. Every contact with elected representatives seems to end up in a twoâ€"way feud. Election day is the day of reckoning. Now our park will be taken away from us and we‘re almost sure that the Levy site won‘t be developed so the school won‘t be needed. Eventually they will try to build something eise on the site but by that time the present politicians will be out of office and the way things are going, so will the money of the residents. the official vote, we found that it was a unanimous vote by all members. If we‘re going to rename civic holiday after one of our historical greats, let him at least be a "progressive" Conservative. The family compact, and the rebellion of 1837 â€" all foreseen in 1793! Perhaps: ~the «.most prophetic of Cartwright‘s observations was this: "I fondly imagined that we would sit down cordially together to form regulations solely for the public good; but a little experience convinced me that these were the visions of a novice, and I found our executive government disposed to calculate their measures as much with a view to patronage and private enâ€" dowment as the prosperity of the colony . . . such a policy is as shortâ€"sighted as it is illiberal; and however little it may be noticed at present, if persisted in and pushed very far, will unquestionably be sowing the seeds of civil discord, and perhaps laying the foundations of future revolutions." To savor the views of Simcoe, consider this: "In my passage from Montreal to Kingston," he wrote, "I understand that the general spirit of the country was against the election of halfâ€" pay officers into the assembly; and that the prejudice ran in favor of men of a lower order who kept but one Table, that is, who dine in common with their serâ€" vants." Imagine that, in the pioneer settlements! ‘"‘There is no maximum incontestable in politics," said Richard Cartwright, "than that a government should be formed for a country, and not a country strained and distorted for the accommodation _ of _ a preconceived or speculative form of government." Muddy York ultimately became the capital, not London. But Simcoe built military roads, up Yonge Street to Lake Simcoe, and westward, through Dundas, to London. In fact, instead of having the Queen‘s Ranger‘s build roads and bridges to link the various settlements, Simcoe had them building the military road to London where not a single inhabitant lived at the time! founder of that historic Canadian family, at Queen‘s University some years ago. In 1961, through the efforts of former Premier Leslie Frost, that thesis was published with two other on Upper Canada, and is available in most libraries. It was mainly through Cartwright‘s opposition that Simcoe was forced to face reality. society composed largely of nonâ€"Anglicans. His belief in the British traditions was tempered with the realities of the new world, with all its new problems. I did my master‘s thesis on Church, yet he would not Whhw and came to Canada in 1778 as one of the earliest United Empire Loyalists, he refused to permit hatred of republicanism to become an obsession in his later life. No loyalist was a more staunch ment of that church in a Gerry Dodds Your editorial also gives the impression that this is a new idea, when in fact it is about a decade old: the NDP in Northwest Metro has been working as an NDP enumerator with a view to giving all or at least 50 per cent of your earnings to the party‘s local campaign You seem to be especially interested in (1) what we get from the unions, (2) whether David Lewis lets me get my ‘"hand in the till for (my) share of the ‘take" and, finally, (3) what backing the York West NDP can count on from the federal level. Most of all you seem to object to my asking "party workers to pitch in and work for free.‘" This comment in particular intrigues me. Are you suggesting the average party worker should be paid? Or, more to the point, are you suggesting that there is something immoral about The editor: In your editorial "No funds â€" no bagmen?" (May 18) you ask me to tell you where the NDP gets ts funds â€" particularly in York West. I‘ll be happy to oblige. Just as the Psalmist didn‘t look for his true help from the hills (he may have had in mind the high places where idolatries were practised) so we should not look for our true help from political summit meetings. In the world as we know politics have their place and diplomacy of one kind or another, whether personal or governmental, whether open or secret, has its part to play in building and maintaining peace. But just as we human beings are not simply political pawns but children of God, so our true help does not proceed from kings or princes or The old King James Version is a little bit misleading. It translates the second line as though it were a statement and not a question. In this way it reads as though the psalmis{/is saying that his help does come from the hills. Whereas in actual fact he says the exact opposite. His help does not come from the hills but from God, who made the hills. The hills are his starting point. They suggest to him something of the grandeur and the rugged dependability of God. Therefore he knows with that other psalmist that, "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people." And he can rest secure. will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your guard; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by nights <= > â€">~> The Lord will guard you from all evil; he will guard your life. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for everymore." "I lift up my eyes to the mountains From where shall come my help? My help shall come from the Lord Who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved, He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who guards Israel Perhaps Nixon will do better. That remains to be seen. But we shouldn‘t pitch our hopes too high. Jeremiah, who knew a thing or two about power politics, wrote a wise comment about summits: "Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains.‘" That‘s a healthy dose of scepticism. But the prophet follows it immediately with a stalwart lacing of faith: "Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel." will result in something equally apâ€" propriate. Say, a spell of samovar detente with balalaika improvisations?! Summits are old hat, really. My mind goes back 12 years to the May 1960 menage. The Big 5, Eisenhower, Krushchev, MacMillan, Adenauer and De Gaulle were to confer in Paris. The Iron Curtain at that time was tough and electroâ€"magnetic. The world had high hopes. Through radio and T.V. its antennae quivered with expectation. Then from the first gong Krushchev sailed into Eisenhower with both fists flying, demanding satisfaction on the score of the U2 high altitude reconnaisance flight over Russian territory. (It was on May 1 that the first U2 plane piloted by Captain Francis Powers had been brought down from Soviet skies). The summit conference turned into a freeâ€"forâ€"all; quickly became a fiasco; and ended in dismal failure. But credit must be given where credit is due. Nixon‘s summit with Chou En Lai produced the period of pingâ€"pong diplomacy. Perhaps the Moscow meeting As I write the Nixonâ€"Brezhnev Summit is underway in Moscow. Whatever we may think of Nixon as a diplomatist we have to give him full marks for trying. Though his efforts remind me of the story of the father who was delighted to find on his son‘s first school report the comment: "Your son is trying." The second report, however, put a very different complexion on the matter. It read: "Your son is very trying". You find an echo of his faith in Psalm 121 Perhaps optimistic "trickle up" theory rather 11 sources. These figures, by :he way, are published as Generally _ speaking, therefore, the NDP follows a The York West NDP general élection budget is $18,000 â€" $15,000 for the local campaign and $3,000 for the general campaign. In our party the ridings support the central campaign with a 20 per cent quota. This central campaign â€" at both the provincial and federal levels â€" is supplemented by trade union contributions, which makes up about one third of following this practice ever since it started placing first and second in provincial and federal elections. In the past, enumeration money made up between a quarter and a third of our election budgets; now we are hoping this kind of fund raising will make a significantly larger portion. Perhaps we are optimistic; but at least we are open about it. We are also open â€" and always have been â€" about all our other sources of revenue. DON REED Rev. Reed is Minister of Westminster United Church When the world does seem dark and all hope for mankind seems lost, just ask yourself: Is it because we have turned away from the light of the Cross? When life seems ugly, and our days seem venomous with violence and thuggery, ask yourself: Is it because we have turned away from the transfiguring touch of Jesus? When political summits fail and the world seems on a fixed course for disaster, ask yourself: Is it because we have not yet learned the lesson Jesus teaches us from the mountain of His Transfiguration? And if your heart says yes to these questions, remind yourself of that help which can never fail by reâ€"reading the words of Psalm 121 printed above. From that hill flows the greatest help of all. The Cross, one writer has said, has become the hinge on which the history of the world has turned. Take away the Cross and we would be left with one of the blackâ€"holes such as the scientists tell us of, which exist in space and into which all matter is sucked andannihilated.Take away the Cross and we are indeed "without God and a hope in the world." Take away the Cross and darkness would once again descend on mankind. Summits My third mountain is not really a mountain at all, but it far o‘er tops all others in importance. It is a little grassyâ€"knoll outside the walls of Jerusalem â€" the Hill of Calvary: ‘"Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all." The second mountain is the Mountain of Transfiguration. We don‘t hear so much of this mountain as we do of the Mount of Temptation. But it‘s just as important. What it means is this â€" you should read the story for yourself in Matthew 17, Mark 9 or Luke 9 â€" the three close disciples of Jesus â€" Peter, James and John â€" were privileged to see with direct vision the full Glory of God shining in Jesus. This is what the Gospel story is all about, really. It is the story of how Jesus recovered for us poor sinful mortals the true glory of our nature as made in the Image of God. What it means for you and me individually is that no matter how sordid our lives may become, no matter how sullied with the muck and mire of this muddy vale of soulâ€"making, we can be cleansed and transfigured into our true likeness which is the likeness of the very glory of God. I‘m not surprised, sometimes, that people find it hard to believe the Gospel. It is so much like a fairy tale â€" a kind of Cinderellaâ€"Fairy Godmother sort of thing. But the Gospel is a fairy tale come true. This transfiguration has happened. It does happen. It can happen to you if you will let Jesus touch you with His transfiguring power. As }he Battle hymn puts it "He is coming with a, glory,, that transfigures you and ‘me." "* & able to help those who are tempted." That‘s a strengthening thought! No matter how you may be tried by temptation, perplexed by problems, beset by bewitching allurements to do the wrong thing, to take the easy way out, to seek the short cut to success. You are not alone. There‘s One who knows just how it is with you. Because He‘s been through the same experience. And He‘s there to be a present help in the very midst of your temptation. €200. And God, Himself has placed within our purview certain peak points at which his help is available to us. Let me mention three such mountain peaks. The first is the Mountain of Temptation, the traditional site of Jesus‘ temptations. It is identified for tourists as Mount Tabor on the west side of the Jordan riftâ€"valley, overâ€" looking Jericho and the Dead Sea. But whether Jesus met his temptations in that particular spot or not the important thing is that He suffered temptation just as we do. The Epistle to the Hebrews puts it perfectly when it says: ‘"‘We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was at all points tempted as we are yet without sin . . . For because he himself has suffered and been tempted he is presidents or primeâ€"ministers, but from God However, if a byâ€"election takes place in York West, the rules change. Because the local riding won‘t have a provincial and federal party umbrella to come under the 20 per cent quota is waived and all possible outside assistance is given in the form of organizers and volunteers. It is also possible to raise funds outside the riding in â€" these _ cirâ€" cumstances; but the vast bulk â€" at least the amount which has been budgeted â€" is still raised within the situation. No gimmicks, no subterfuge and no "white skirts of purity." valScott, A riding like York West â€" which is a "concentration riding"" â€" is slated for some special assistance when a general election is called in the form of two full time organizers for a period of six to eight weeks â€" and that‘s about it. The rest is up to us. With a $3,000 quota, we will still be giving out more than we will be receiving back. than a "trickle down‘‘ theory when it comes to election financing. That‘s the guts of 0| o