v Page 6, Whitby Fre PressWednesday, Octbber 20,1993 The only Newspaper owned and operated by Whitby residents for Whltby residents! MEMBER OF: ONTARIO CANADIAN COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER C NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION CANADIAN CIRCULATIONS CNA DIVISION AUDIT BOARD ISSN#0844-398X 26,500 COPIES DELIVERED WEEKLY Published every Wednesday by 677209 Ontario Inc. Box 206, 131 Brock St. N., Whitby, Ontario L1N 5S1 Phone: 668-6111 Toronto Line: 427-1834 Fax: 668-0594 Doug Anderson - Publisher Maurice Pifher - Editor Alexandra Martin - Production Manager Printed on newsprint with minimum 20% 4 recycled content using vegetable based inks. © All written materiai, illustrations and advertising contained herein is protected by copyright. Any reproduction by any means for commercial purposes without the express permission of the newspaper s prohibited and is a violation of Canadian copyriht law. Reproduction for non-commercial distribution should bear a credit line to the Witby Free Press. s * -t e or. Do you know a Junior Citizen? By the Ontario Community Newspapers Association Every week, the pages of this community newspaper, and hundreds like it throughout Ontario, are filled with heartwarming stories of the people who are the heartbeat of our communities. Especially uplifting are those stories that recognize the accomplishments of young people. Through acts of kindness, bravery, compassion and determination, these young people set an example of service and leadership for the entire community. As Ontario's ambassadors of good news, community newspapers have for the past 12 years been paying special recognition to Ontario's finest young people through the Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Awards. Co-ordinated by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association and with Bell Canada as the patron, the Junior Citizen of the Year Awards are presented each spring to 12 young people between ages 6 and 18 who have led by example, and in doing so have made their community an even better place in which to live. Award recipients and their families are guests of honour at the Junior Citizens luncheon, where the awards are presented by the Lieutenant-Government of Ontario during the annual convention of the Ontario Community Newspapers Association. Nominees for the Junior Citizen Award include those who contribute to comrnunity life while living with a physical or psychological limitation. Other nominees have faithfully volunteered their time and energy in community service work, or have responded unselfishly in a moment of crisis or emergency. Many others are honoured as Junior Citizens because they exemplify the characteristics of a 'good kid' -- the helpful, courteous kid you'll find in each and every community within Ontario. You are invited to nominate deserving young people for a Junior Citizen Award by obtaining a nomination form from the Whitby Free Press or by contacting the Ontario Community Newspapers Association at (416) 844-0184. Nominations will be received until Oct. 31, 1993. Today's Junior Citizen is tomorrow's community leader. Do you know one? To the editor... Foot patrols effective To the Editor: I want ta extend my congratulations ta Durham Regional Police, including Chief Trevor McCagherty and Staff Superintendent John Kay, for making a decision to put police men and women back on foot patrol in downtown Whitby and Brooklin. i am sure it wil prove ta be one of the best things to happen ta downtown in a long time - it has already started ta work. As a property owner in downtown Whitby, i have noticed a considerable decrease in vandalism. i believe there are two reasons for this. The first one is, of course, the presence of uniformed officers in the area. The second, I believe, is the result of Constable Jim Watson and his community policing unit's sincere effort in preventative policing. Working with the public and business community to prevent crimes is far more effective than simply reacting to crimes once committed. Keep up the good work. William D. Little President William D. Little Developments To the Editor: Re: 'Delay wanted on start of apartment blue boxes,' The Free Press, Oct. 6. As a Durham Region taxpayer, 'd like to raise attention to certain comments that councillors are making. I'd like to ask Councillor Mitchell and Councillor Fox just where else in the region do we get a service for 40 cents a month? Name me one. Councillor Mitchell's comment and question about having blue boxes down the hallways of apartments and scattered all over the place had no merit. Before making such comments, he should further investigate how the blue box program works for apartments buildings. As to Councillor Fox's comment about "what people did before recycling," l'd like to ask the councillor, why do they tell me not to eat fish out of Lake Ontario? Why do they tell me not toswim in Lake Ontario? Years ago, before recycling became of age, companies used to drive over to the cliffs of the lake, pull a little lever, and in went all our To the Editor: This is i:u response to the letter to the editor by Judy Taylor ('Promoting hatred,' Whitby Free Press, Sept. 29). Political correctness in this country has run amok. Quite frankly, I am tired of all the politicaliy correct "tolerant" individuals who seem to• be tolerant of abortionists, lesbians, homosexuals, murderers, pedo- philes,, etc., ad nauseam, while venting their spleen in righteous indignation. What was it that the Pregnancy Help Centre did to deserve being called a group which promotes hatred against women? What they disclosed was fully ethical and legal. Are they now responsible for the fact that Ms. Taylor is incapable of reading advertising properly? And even if she was "misled" -- welcome to the club, Ms. Taylor. I have for years been misled by people like you into believing that this was a pluralistic culture that believed in room for all opinions. But that simply isn't true. There's room alright, if you're a lesbian, a homosexual, a visible garbage and recyclables. Let's not kid ourselves, it happened. How do we keep believing that we can rape and pollute Mother Earth without suffering reper- cussions? Councillor Mitchell also commented about the smell at the composting yard and the grass clipping issue. Years ago I used to live in a rural community where farmers spread manure. It had a terrible odour, but the farmer was returning and putting back into the soil, not raping it. So the smell had a purpose in saving Mother Earth. Were it not for recycling programs in this country, there would be a much bigger cost. We should stop worrying about the dollar cost. We recycle for our children and their children's childen, trying to create a better life for them and a world that is polilution-free and disease-free. Councillors whine about a dump, whine about recycling. Stop the whining and get to work. It cost me 43 cents to mail this letter but I'm comforted by the feeling that for the next month, it's only going to cost me 40 cents for recycling. That's awful cheap in creating a clean environment for minority, a woman, or whatever. But if you are white, male and pro-life, you are a parasite and pariah. Imagine, -what a terrible group. They actually help pregnant women with money, food, clothing, accommodation while they decide to have a baby instead of abort it. Perhaps we can institute the "justice" of Red China where women are compelled to have abortions after the first child. I think that a pluralistic society should be j ust that -- pluralistic for everyone. No one asked her to go to the bake sale, no one forced her to stay. But i am forced to listen to this drivel from a woman on a "holy crusade." Wake upl One of these days you're going to discover that all of this self-righteous political correctness has left you with no option. And when that happens, who will you turn to? The pro-lifers who have never taken a lite, but nurtured it, the ones you so callously maligned. A white male Christian pro-lIfer Rev. Gus Glanello Covenant Reformed Church of Durham, Oshawa my children. Lon Hulsman Whitby Election litter To the EdItor: With regard to the Recycler's Report concerning Waste Reduction Week (The Free Press, Oct. 6), I would like to cal attention -to the fact that, as stated Oct. 9 was designated as Comunity Clean-up Day. h has long been a serious concern (and aggravation) of mine that with every political campaign that comes along, our roadways, sidewalks and countrysides are littered with hundreds of political garbage signs. lt's garbage because most politicians spout just that. lt's litter, because that's just what it is. Who needs this disgusting sight of election signs cluttered in groves all over our towns and country? There are other more acceptable and more effective means of advertising media available. Get this junk off our streets now. If anyone other than politicians erected signs such as these all over town, they would be charged with defacing public property or some such thing. Why should politicians not be treated the same? They, after all, should be the first to set a good example when, in actuality, they are always the last to accept and adhere to any changes in waste reduction, whether it be wasting tax dollars or waste in recycling in the form of pollution. I vote that the next Community Clean-up Day be dedicated to exactly this -- cleaning up our community. Get those obnoxious, cluttered eyesores off our green lawns and roadsides so that we can see and enjoy nature as it was intended to be. Let's do ourselves a.favour and rid our communities of these obscenities and throw them in the recycling garbage disposal bin, which is exactly where they should be. Is anybody with me? An Irate citizen and taxpayer Marrie N. Clarke Whitby Small cost for a better world Tired of the 'tolerant'