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Pg6,Whltby Free Pree, Womsday, Januaiy 5. 1994 Unceran future The. first column of a new year seema the right tirne to talk about the future. As my grandfather would say, there's a lot ofit starng usmi the e and we dont kùow very much about it. What follows are some random thoughts about a couple of situations stirring up dust on the horizon: GArI', NAP1TA: Let me get this straight. Our road to p ,opeity lies in this pair of nternatoa conventions. Now, I know a thing or two abut conventions -- as a young jorahsbt I once covered a Shrner's convention. The. rules for both GATT and .A~ sound lk those international bankers might try te make sure their money in safe. W. wouldn't want any old little counftrys national wfll getting i the way of bank profits, would w.? Think about this: those marketing boards and aencies (which will 1k blow away in the dust as N A rets gomng) wer. put in place for a reason. Do you really behieve we will have lower prions for farm produce five Years from now? Corne on give me a break. Sure, when everybody overproduces wvheat pigs, milk, eggs, whatever, prices are cheap. Marketing Lboards do cost moner we subsidize farmers. In return, they stabilize supp y. That's what supply management is. Trouble is nobody reads their Bible anY more. -Josph and the Pharaoh's dream foretold a future with thin years and fat years. Corne the firet bad international harveet w. should lie te have a steady domestic supply. That can't happen if ahl our farmers have gone belly up. And anyone who says the lean years won't arrive again has not read more than his Bible. Gerry Caplan and the Wonderful Study on Education: We'v. been down this rond before. Remember the Hall-Dennms Report? And what'ss-name Radwinski,. who used to be editor of the Toronto Star? Everybody in an expeiýon education. J,,leh G.rry Caplan luck. And he might just have it. Previous studies of education have invited poiticians te throw money at the. problem. Good things did happen. And education changeci. Not much happens from on. day te the next, but if you pop out of the classroom for ten years and then pop back in, you8re lik.ly in for a culture shock. That is what happens te inoat of us. One day we're being administered te (as students) in the classrom. Then w. POP out, put in tan years learning how wise our parents were after ail, and then w. pop back into the classroom te se. how our children are doing. Guess what? Things aren't 1k. they were in the good old days. Theyre . .. different. Listen carefully to most formula. for educational change and youll find a description of someone'. golden years in school. Gold-coloured glasses anyone? The. on. chance Gerry Caplan and Go. have lies in poverty. The. on. given today in this: we won't buy any remedy that'll cost more money. So any fiin' gotta b. don. with hearts, mincis and souls. With wise leadership, and the active interest of parents, grandparents, mnerchants, business people and of course teachers, why, shucks, our cbildren can do anything. W. just have to show the will te help them do whatever it js we decide would be good for them. Deciding what that is may not b. qut. so easy. We just have te b. careful we're not lik. most generals -- preparing always for the lst war. Or as grandfather used te say: it's not what you don't know what makes.you ignorant -- it's what You think you know but don't. The only Newspaper owned and operated by Whtby residents for Whltby residents! 26,500 COPIES DELIVERED WEEKLY Published every Wednesday b y 677209 Ontarlo Ic. Box 2 à031Wrock St.N., Whitby, On arlo LiN 5S1. WHfBMY TOWN COUNCJOL AND STAFF, JANUABY 1928 This picture wa taken in front of the old Town Hall at Brock and Colborne streets. Back row: councillor David Mowat, councillor Wiliam Pringle, coumcillor Ed Bowman,.erwne Herbert Pringle, clrk-treaurr John Frost councillor Charles Brougliton, coun « Prnk Tbreadgold. Front row: Police Chief Herbert Gunson, Reeve Albert Jackson,PU secretary Marcia Rose, clerles secretary Helena Richardison, Mayor John Bateman, Deuty Reeve Russell Underwood, councillor James H. Ormiston. 10 YEARS AGO from the Wednesda,Januiy4,194 dition of the WB'!YREN S *CP Rail lias replaced the old bridge across Lynde Creek on its main lino through Whitby at a cost of $260,000. *Damnage amounted te $28,500 in house and car fires on New Yers Day. *MF¶> George Aâh, Ontario Minister of Governmnent Services, is guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Brooklin and District Progressive Conservative Association at the Coinmunity Centre, Jan. 11. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursda Janur 1 959 edition of the wgwwmlu;NEWS (This issue is missing.) 125 YEARUS AGO from the ThursD~ecembe1! 31, 1868 edition of the ff MýYCHRONICLE " Charles A. Jones was installed as Worshipful Master of Composite Locige, AF and AI& for 1869. " George H. Dartnell, chairman of the Board of Education, was presented with a silver ioe itcher with salver and gablets for his many years of service to the board. W* 'fBank of Montreal lias closed its Whitby agency after 15 years in town. " Each of 30 married employees of the Whitby Foundry was presentod with a Christras goose by the proprietor, Nicholas W. Brown. Lou à 1 1