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Times -Advocate, November 6, 1991
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The St. Paul's Cathedral Choir were in Exeter Sunday afternoon, performing to an audience in
Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church. The choir presented a selection of devotional music under
the direction of Thomas Gonder (left).
Liberals meet in Clinton
By Teresa Amy
CLINTON - After losing the
1990 provincial election, the Onta-
rio Liberal Party is gearing up to
win the next provincial election
with a new leader.
Huron County residents got a
chance to meet the five candidates
running for the Ontario Liberal Par-
ty leadership at a meeting in the
Clinton Legion on November 3.
Charles Beer of York North,
Steve Mahoney of Mississauga
West, Lyn McLeod of Fort Wil-
liam, David Ramsay of Timiskam-
ing, and Greg Sorbara of York Cen-
tre are travelling across Ontario as
part of a dress rehearsal of their
campaigns. The party will be hold-
ing debates across Ontario, follow-
ing an announcement of a conven-
tion to elect a new leader
All candidates believed there are
some fundamental changes needed
in Ontario but they differed on
what was most needed.
"Bob Rae believes the way to
protect a job is to legislate that job
protected," said Steve Mahoney,
Official Opposition Critic for Mu-
nicipal Affairs. "The only way you
can protect jobs is to ensure that
businesses can open and make prof-
it. I say we can build this province
together and give men and women
proper raises and keep companies
in business.
"We need to get government pro-
ductivity down and put the word
free back into free enterprise."
Social Service Critic Lyn McLe-
od said the new leader of the party
will have to have the ability, which
she believes she has, to turn around
the people's cynicism and doubt in
their politicians and political pro-
cess.
"Government has to get away
from Queens Park and reach out to
the communities and realize what
works in one part of the province
won't necessarily work in another,"
she said.
Government structures need to be
streamlined said David Ramsay,
Natural Resource Critic.
"Government is becoming a
smothering and suffocating blanket
to progress when it should be a pil-
lar of support. We have to rethink
everything we do in government.
We need free trade in Canada. We
have to become an innovative and
creative province to be competi-
tive," he said.
Opposition for the Attorney
General Greg Sorbra said the elec-
tion of the NDP has led to a state
of affairs that has dispirited people
in the province in such a way "that
hasn't been seen since the depres-
sion."
"We have to prepare ourselves
to recapture the leadership by
fighting for a stronger economy,
better health care - because there
are threats to the one we have
now," he said. "We must chose a
leader willing to fight, struggle
and demand a better Ontario, and I
believe I can do that."
Critic for Education Charles
Beer said the major challenge for
the new leader is economic.
"We have to bring spending un-
der control, provide jobs for our
young people and find jobs for
those who are losing theirs. It is
important for young people to be
able to get a good education so
they are highly skilled. We need to
focus on education, apprentice-
ships and skills programs so they
are able to become highly skilled,"
he said. "We need excellent educa-
tion and skills training, a first rate
transportation system, and excel-
lent communications in the prov-
ince, and those are the three things
I want to be judged on to build the
province back to prosperity."
One area in which the candi-
dates all agreed needed change
was health care.
"We spend 16 billion - one third
of the provincial budget - on
health care and in some respects
the health care budget is making
other government activities un-
healthy," said Sorbara. "We need
to bring discipline to the health
care jewel in the Canadian crown
or we will lose it. We also have to
learn how to take care of our eld-
erly - if we can not take care of
our parents in the same way they
took care of us - we have failed.
We have got to learn more com-
passionate care of elderly."
"The NDP have rekindled the
dream of long-term care but have
not done anything about it," said
Beer. "We have to beef up com-
munity based services so people
can stay in the homes and apart-
ments for as long as they are able
and want to."
"We have to educate the public
that healthcare is not free," said
Mahoney. "We have to change atti-
tudes because health care is being
abused from the user and provider
ends."
"Because of escalation of costs of
institutions we should be looking at
community health care and long
term care. We will always need in-
stitutions but we have to look at the
inefficiencies in those institutions,"
said McLeod.
"We have to educate the public
in the cost of the system," said
Ramsay. "We innocently abuse the
system because we believe we are
entitled to it. We also have to look
at empowering out health care fa-
cilities."
In their closing remarks the can-
didates reflected the determination
of the Liberals to become trium-
phant in the 1994 provincial elec-
tion.
"We need to use common sense
to the problems we face, not gran-
diose schemes," Ramsay said. "We
have to involve people in defining
goals and objectives and minimize
the role of government to where it
is really needed."
"We need to offer an irresistible
alternative to the voters to rid the
province of a socialist government
no one wants, to bring about -rdi
forms and changes the province
needs," said Sorbara.
"We r. ed balar Ind common
sense in „overnmc said McLe-
od. "A strong leadership is needed
We have to bring people together
to solve tough problems."
"Over 52 percent of the country
is governed by socialists - it is our
fault that Bob Rae is the premier,
and we have to be prepared to take
him on," said Mahoney. "The
biggest choice in deciding who will
be the next leader will be win abili-
ty -who can take him on."
"We need to bring people into
politics by taking the time to come
to the ridings an finding out what is
going on," said Ramsay. "We have
to work on a vision for the prov-
ince to make it prosper and make
sure our children have the skills
and innovation to be competitive."
Klopp speaks in house
TORONTO - In the Provincial
Legislature on October 31 MPP
Huron Paul Klopp asked a question
of the Minister of Municipal Af-
fairs. The question referred to the
government's commitment to disen-
tanglement which had been raised
at the August meeting of the Asso-
ciation of Municipalities of Onta-
rio. He said that municipal politi-
cians in Huron welcomed the
commitment to disentanglement.
He said, "that as a past councillor
we talked with previous govern-
ments to try to recognize that now
there are over 100 programs that
the province and kcal Municipali-
ties dcal with. This has to be
cleaned up in order to save some
dollars. Could he tell me now what
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The Honourable Dave Cooke re-
sponded, "I think one of the most
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Orchestra London presents Requiem;
LONDON - Former Principal
Conductor of Orchestra London,
Maestro Alexis Hauser returns to
London for two performances of
Mozart's choral masterpiece, The
Requiem, leading the combined
forces of Orchestra London, the
U.W.O. Faculty of Music choral
Ensembles, and London Pro Musi-
ca. Soloists include London's own
soprano Elizabeth Neufeld and alto
Victoria Meredith, along with
famed Canadian tenor Glyn Evans
and bass Paul Rowe.
Mozart's Requiem was his final
work, which he struggled to com-
plete in the weeks before his tragic
premature death at age 35. Even on
Foodgrains
sets 1992
goals
DUBLIN - The Perth -Huron
Foodgrains Bank committee has
set the goals for its February 1992
Drive. In the 12991 Drive, almost
500 individuals donated $34,000
through 14 churches in Huron and
Perth counties. For 1992, despite
the Recession, the Committee
hopes to raise $35,000, which will
be matched 4 to 1 by the federal
government's C.I.D.A. program.
There is also a new way for
farmers to get involved this year.
Area Elevators that belong to the
Grain and Feed Dealers' Associa-
tion will accept corn or other grain
commodities immediately that will
be credited to the Canadian Food -
grains Bank.
Besides helping fight hunger in
Africa and Central Amercia there
has been a benefit for local
churches. Congregations involved
in the annual Foodgrains drive
have generally found increased in-
terest and support for their own
denominational missing programs.
Any churches in Huron or Perth
counties wanting to get on board
for the 1992 Drive may contact
Perth -Huron Foodgrains Bank Co-
ordinator, Don McKercher, R.R.
1, Dublin, 527-1837.
Dairy Dudes
hold fourth
meeting in
Osborne
USBORNE - On Monday, The
Dairy Dudes held their fourth
meeting at Laureen Bott's house.
Becky Case called the meeting to
order. After saying the pledge the
members answered the roll call
which was to name a milk product
that they ate at least once week.
Jackie Morgan handed out the title
pages for the cover of their books.
The discussion portion of the
meeting began with a taste panel of
cultured milk products which con-
sisted of cottage cheese, butter-
milk, sour coram, plain yogurt and
fruit yogurt. Next they had a taste
test to sec which one was butter
and which margarine. Most poeple
picked number one to be the butter
when it was number two.
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the eve of his death, December 4,
1791, Mozart was dictating instruc-
tions for the completion of the Re-
quiem to his assistant Sussmayr.
With the Requiem, Orchestra Lon-
don concludes its year --long com-
memorations of Mozart's genius
during the bicentennial year of his
death.
Two of London's most highly re-
garded choral organizations are also
featured in the Requiem. London
Pro Musica is a chamber choir of
about 35 singers, founded in 1970.
It performs a wide variety of works
from all periods of music, and since
1988 has been under the direction
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The U.W.O. Choral ensembles in-
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led by Gerald Neufeld, and the Fa-
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competitions across Canada. The
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recipients of the Hungarian Radio
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