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Editorial
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decision needs
careful- thought
Sipce the amalgamation of Huron East in 2000,
Tuckersmith Day Nursery has been a source of con-
tention for local councillors.
The municipal daycare, which has struggled with
deficits as high as $70,000, has been singled out as
an unfair burden on taxpayers, many of whom in
our geographically -huge municipality do not live
close enough to use the service.
As council has struggled to find a way to provide
fair daycare funding in a municipality that houses
three different types of daycare - municipal, a par-
ent -run cooperative and private - the Tuckersmith
daycare has also struggled to reduce its deficit.
Of course, one of the biggest challenges of
increasing enrolment and revenue in Vanastra is
the fact that its future continues to be threatened.
And, despite the fact that Tuckersmith's deficit is
now less than the $34,000 rent it must pay to the
municipality to stay in the Vanastra Recreation
Centre, the anticipated loss of $20,000 in revenue
from Huron County is again threatening the cen-
tre's future.
In contrast, North Huron council, according to
Reeve Doug Layton, is not feeling the same urgency
about a similar loss of revenue from the county,
even though the municipal daycare in Wingham is
facing a much larger deficit of $75,000 to $100,000.
Council needs to think carefully through the ram-
ifications before closing the daycare centre in
Vanastra.
What, for example, will be the effect on the
Vanastra Rec Centre, which already struggles to
balance its budget with a significant portion of its
revenue coming from the daycare.
And, without a daycare, how many fewer families
will take the time to experience the pool and the
other recreation services offered there?
As well, as Huron East works to promote the area
for potential development, what will the effect be of
offering fewer services in Vanastra?
Council has to be careful that it doesn't begin a
domino effect that causes significant damage to one
of its small urban centres.
Susan Hundertmark
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Opinion
Fighting the root causes of war
a good way to honour veterans
In a country known for
peacekeeping, it can
become tougher every year
to explain the relevance of
remembering wars that
happened during the
youth of our grandparents
and great grandparents.
I'm sure they have no
such problem in the U.S.
Known for its military
might, every generation of Americans contin-
ues to be able to claim yet another war. From
the First and Second World Wars to Korea,
Vietnam and Iraq both in the 1990s and
today; honouring veterans is much more
immediate and closer to home.
Yet, in Canada, our children struggle to
imagine what, going to war would be like.
What a problem to have!
It would be wrong, of course, to believe that
because Canada has not been involved direct-
ly in war for several generations, that
Remembrance Day has no relevance.
As Janelle Wood's presentation to the
Remembrance Day banquet at the Legion on
Saturday demonstrated, Canadians can and
have continued to fight for freedom and
democracy, even without going to war.
Wanting to make a difference in the world,
Wood travelled to Africa this year to help edu-
cate the population about AIDS and its pre-
vention.
Six months later, she is questioning her
contribution, especially since the organization
she volunteered with has pulled out of the vil-
lage she was sent to.
But, whether or not she
succeeded in helping to
slow the devastation
caused by AIDS in Africa,
I think her efforts are just
as important as any mili-
tary operation in bringing
peace to the planet.
There are so many
ways to become a warrior
for peace without picking up a weapon.
Those who fight for social justice, education
and an end to poverty and the conditions
that cause disease are also fighting for free-
dom and democracy.
While the ultimate sacrifice, paid by so
many Canadians during the First and Second
World War, will always be final response to
tyranny and injustice, those fighting the root
causes of war, like Janelle Wood, contribute
towards creating a world where the necessity
for that sacrifice becomes less likely.
Wood honoured Seaforth's veterans, stating
that because of their sacrifice, she lives in a
first world nation that is able to help others.
I would say the relationship is reciprocal - if
more of us follow her example, the need to
don uniforms and march off to war might
remain in the past, where we can continue to
honour it with our remembrance.
Ron & tome
Hey, when we grow up do
you want to join the army?
Yeah that would
be cool! We could
be big heros!
And we'd travel
all over the
world!
...and I could
be an important
general!
by David Lacey
TEN YEARS LATER....
Tell me again why
we joined the army
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