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Play it straight
with Vanastra
over new
rec facility
Pitching a brand new recreation facility for
Vanastra was the reason for a somewhat mysteri-
ous public meeting held recently in Vanastra.
Faced with rising maintenance costs, Huron East
council . decided to go to the residents of Vanastra
with the idea of beginning a 10 -year campaign to
replace the Vanastra Recreation Centre.
Despite the fact the ad announcing the meeting
was purposefully "vague," close to 100 residents
packed the meeting and Deputy -Mayor Bernie
MacLellan congratulated the community for its
interest.
Understandably, residents were initially suspi-
cious and defensive about plans to replace the cen-
tral hub of their community. But, by the end of the
evening, some were warming to the idea, offering to
at least survey the community to gauge support.
There are still a number of big questions, of
course, that need to be answered - such as cost,
design and sources of funding - before such a huge
project can begin.
While council can be congratulated for being
proactive and anticipating the future needs of
Vanastra, it might want to be a little more trans-
parent and forthcoming in how it approaches its
ratepayers.
To suggest that the community passed some sort
of test by attending a meeting whose agenda was
not fully disclosed, is both unfair and dangerous.
Council has held meetings throughout Huron
East during the current term and attendance has
been far from "standing room only" at many.
For all Vanastra residents knew, the meeting was
just a regular council meeting on the roall again.
Even when council has its regular meetings in
Seaforth, it's a rare occasion when anyone other
than the local media attends.
When suggesting such a huge project that
requires complete buy -in from an informed,
enthused and hard-working community, council
needs to play it straight.
Susan Hundertmark
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There are people more deserving
than entertainers to win awards
Webster's dictionary
defines an award as:
something to give as the
result of judging the rela-
tive merits of those in
competition.
Now to understand what
I'm getting at we need to
define the word merit,
which according to the
dictionary is: something deserving reward,
praise, or gratitude. As well as: a reward or
honour given for superior qualities or con-
duct.
Now let me tell you about who will be
receiving awards this upcoming year.
Actors, actresses, directors, visual effects
workers and many, many others will be
awarded for their accomplishments in the
film industry in the upcoming months.
You can watch the Oscars, MTV Movie, and
the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Not televised, but many of which are consid-
ered just as prestigious, there's the National
Society of Film Critics, the Broadcast Film
Critics' Association, the Los Angeles Film
Critics' Association, the New York Film
Critics' Circle, and the Boston Society of Film
Critics Awards.
I'll pause to give your eyes a second to relax.
There's also the National Board of Review,
the Independent Spirit, and the Annual
Director's Guild of America Awards.
The television industry honours their talent
By Jeff
Heuchert
Hey, they've
got the new
Superman Comic!
Wanna see it?
with only the Emmy and
the Daytime Emmy
Awards.
The music industry
takes after the film indus-
try, televising the
Grammys, MTV Video
Music, the Billboard Music,
the World Music, and the
Country Music Awards.
And don't think in Canada we're much bet-
ter than our neighbours when it comes to giv-
ing accolades to our performers.
There's the Juno's, Much Music Video, and
the Canadian Country Music Awards.
Then there's the award shows that combine
one or two mediums, such as the Golden
Globes, People's Choice, and British Academy
of Film and TV Awards.
There's award shows for sports athletes -the
ESPN ESPY's, for video games -Spike TV's
Video Games Awards, and for commercials -
the Telly Awards. Pretty much every medium
you can think of.
Either by acting in a movie or on TV, by
singing, by playing sports, by creating video
games or commercials, their purpose is to cre-
ate something .that we will spend money on.
They all already receive international star-
dom and attention. Do we really need to feed
their egos anymore?
It hardly seems fair or appropriate to be
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