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'Times evooate, -July 14,1993
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so laver •tnna r eddt•eae. $30.0 Islas 62.10 Q.S.T.
+..40 oak* (65 km.) or any letter carder address
400100,kes s1110.0o4totat 60.00)* 4.20 O.S.T.
$66.00
"Men are never so likely ,•
to settle a question rightly
as when they difcuss it
freely."
.:Thomas Macauley
1,401111111111011otaltag at 4'24 Main St.,
1ltdeby/W. EalyPubttostrons Ltd.
1-613-235-1631
O.S.T. 1/R105210635
Some costs are too high
s councillor Ben Hoogen-
..boacn :aommented last -week "I hate to
say lecdd you so..." .
'N.o; atserpay grogram s :aren't perfect.
"-Welve-asidsas*much -before. Making
maple pay:r whatahey use isn't al-
ways -fair.. Sometimes he costs for cer-
tain -ins need ..-to be 'shared over
r
the genraal'population..t nagine, for a
rmnont,:that:parents of acthoolchildren
:had to pay the 1ill.nosfof each year of
_education,: and :not :spread tit,mit over
their s:and'business taxes for life
What doesit cost -for. toarofprivate
school?
' It wasn'tatll :shat many 'weeks ago
when ithe:townwastar.cau1he :county
pluming ld t sof being :cutthroat
;and a mfair.when:asking:for $750 on lot
-sevt ice approvals. "That's our cost,
justpass itaalcing to iheproperty owner"
was she ;answer: ;from the :=tinny - and
the :town.oam pimnril.
Now !the :lawn is :telling the -retailers
• :that garbage .can no longer be :calmed
for :free. everyone °will :.have to ;start
.paying-thetrue .costs Df. disposal, :rpt
--from fuelairthe garhagevackerto land-
fill :cnginecmng la ties Tito -;>palac aeete -the
:ef'the irinonmalit. ""That's
post, t ghat.-apaas:ft:,alwtg;totatfte•.xats-
iT r",$he-town:4ens ithetsWailer -:Ia nd
Ithey =pooled tno. ?
'Time re is -much meritsin:Mie steer:pry
:concept. Ater all, the f:ttown is quite
uite
-tight they pvintmittthat the local
'mss ;;had very :tittle -interest : in
sorting,.igarbaged_lorreoyeling whony
could ghat set itiout for collection,'nr ty
a small:charge-to: have a dumpster tnap-
:t ied'bycontractor.
Now tllirose costs have awned. so has
interest rin "greening up" tiheir.Aarbage
bins. Several retailers; isdllcll et,ot:the
:new fees, have confessed tobeing in -
:{spired to fmdways of keeping stuff mit
wf the landfill.: One: businessman quick-
iy discovered: he could sendbitek in: atlMth-
-a9erw.ise empty trucks his -ptaaedl miion
.seteps.ttrthesupplier to: have:t1 rn y-
Cled. "There had been : no :incentive ise-
rfere.
Itsdoilir increased:tipping Vis, -they
7inightzepresent.1he:real costs Dfthe care
and :ding of a town dump. But a
more:grnn reality .is•athatmimme-,abusiness-
es, faced ',with :.several -thousand dollars
trimmed ;frond their ledgers, may close
their. doors.
Passing the _costs onto the :customer
may not work when other businesses in
nearby municipalities and cities don't yet
pay the samecasts.
The retail .sector may have had a free
-ride for too. tong. 'Canada may indeed be
the most wasteful consumer ;society on
the planet. But the -towniteetdstto come
np with workable solutions to lump .the
user -pay program alive, without paying
a higher price later.
Empty store fronts is not something
:that anyone can appreciate, even if sit
does mean fewer bags of garbage atihe
dump.
A.D.H.
The goat venture
-Poor. Jack:basstma billy -up. I
mean bclly,up. Ii'a,a shame be-
cause Jack's ,idea was, wonder-
ful, ingenuous. -Early in :the
spring, he earnearoutld to allthe
property owners Abe. area, and
offered oto ,Amp ;our Auggside
ditches cut;ble charged= &diol -
lar a meter for.the season -lett-
paid. Although he never ; ceas-
wed:our ditch, he said:the total
would be -575. -
"Why pot?" a few ,sof our
neighbours said. It's . a .lot .of
bother to mow these glitches
which belong to the mua ipall-
ty in the first place. They're not
our property, we're only taking
acre „of them, because who
wants,to.have long weedsyrow-
ing in front of their house? So a
few dollars didn't seem too
much to pay for,this service.
I said: "Our ditch is quite
steep, Jack. What kind of mow-
er do you have?" He reassured
mc: "Don't worry about that! No
ditch is too steep for Jack."
Everybody encouraged Jack
for" being so enterprising. No-
body thought much more about
it until late in May, when Jack
drove.up in the village in an old
rickety truck.
"Oh good," we all said, "Jack's
here to Tow the ditches." But
when he lowered the tailgate,
what came down the ramp was
np lawnmower. It was a goat. I
couldn't believe my eyes. Jack
tied it to our hedge, then went to
the truck to fetch goat NO. 2.4de
tied it to the budge ,about ten
metres down the road, \land on
and; tlg}til,about. ht .,goats
were tethered in a neat row.
Jack parked the tock in our
neighbour's lane. The goats
.must have been starved, because
they started eating like crazy.
Peter's
Point
•
Peter Hewed
JP
;'the grass disappeared in no
lime at all, while Jack sat in the
truck, listening to country and
western music with the win-
dows open, tapping the rhythm
against the door with his fin-
gers.
After the initial shock had
worn off, one of our neighbours
and I walked over to him.
"Jack, why didn't you tell us
you were going to get goats?"
"You .wouldn't have gone for
the deal."
"Dant right," I ,said, just barely
able to hide my atutoyancc. "We
all thought you were going to
cut the grass with a, mower or
something."
"Nope," Jack sald,-1101 in the
goats business."
Ile explained that - while he
wasn't epecting to make any
money oil what we paid him, he
was going to milk the goats (at
least those that had udders) and
*eell;the milk ,for profit.
"What about the stuff they
leavend?" I demanded. 1
40 y,t flid.oule.Avi.
donee , of :the :animal's !digestive
power.
"That's where goats are superi-
or over machines," Jack lec-
tured. "You got to pay money to
put gas into power mowers.
These biological mowers not
Only do all the work while 1 sit
here enjoying myself, they actu-
ally produce high-quality ma-
nure which I'm going to sell to .a
tree nursery. It's good for the en-
.vironment. And you don't have
to worry. I'l1 leave your ditches
as clean as your living rooms.
Even cleaner."
Sure enough, in the afternoon,
Jack firstiatheted Oris goats back
into the truck. Then he walked
around with a wheelbarrow and
a little shovel, picking -«tip his
product.
The next day Jack took his
,goats up the road. and the same
thing happened. The goats
cleaned up the ditches while
Jack sat in the truck, and in the
afternoon, he harvested his
"product."
But Jack never came back to
us. 1 just heard about the bank-
otptcy today. I don't exactly
know what went wrong. Did the
goats refuse to give milk? Did
the bottom fall out of the old
truck? Or did the bottom fall out
of the goat droppings market?
If you happen to sec Jack
around anywhere, tell him to get
in touch with Inc. No, I don't
want the money back he owes
mc. I just want him .to forgive
plc for encouraging his crazy,
scheme. And to wish him better
Juck next time.
Cline tribute enjoyable
I don't like country music.
Maybe it's because of the fact I
I was broughtiup2omiiesawayfirm
downtown`Detroit whcsesock and=
roll ruled the world from such sta-
tions:as CKLW and WRIF.
But despite my disinterest in
oountry,anusic I had a very good
time .,Saturday night at the Huron
Country iP.layhouse's A Closer Walk
With Patsy Clime.
The tribute to one of the all time
greatest female voices, was :staged
.at ,the Playhouse II which .is: mere
of a cabaret style outingaban.al p
.to the adjacent mainstage.
For many who arc used to read-
ing my -written words on :the sports
:pages.;you:are.{srobably a little sur-
.ptised :to see :the review I've done
-of Oliver,and Wait Until Dark.
Maybe Ian expanding my pori-
zces, who knows? Or perhaps I'm
just:haying a good time through an
enjoyabiesneans olNentertainment.
Reviewing ,a.play,Orin Ibis case
a tribute, is kind of sike.cd'vering a
• hockey same. You sit, .watch, anal -
ysts,and later..writa;abaut it.
However, in the .case of hockey,
there is always a winner .and a los- dentials with her to the Playhouse
er. Theatre hand has an losers and including being Radio Program-
: no winners, *iiutnt rather a caonammt, user's Music Toll's ,Number . One
Country Female Vocalist irrcanada
in both 1982 and .1984.
She belts out a dozen of Patsy
Cline's hilt and with the help of a
very comical David Sparrow as the
Little Big Man, gives the audience
a trip down memory lane and a
look into the life of a great singer.
From the small town in Virginia
to Nashville, Vegas and focally
New York until her tragic death yin
a plane crash with manager Randy
Hushes.
Patsy Cline and her music has be-
come a pan of North American his-
tory and it isa musi nec as it is at
the Playheuse.-nntilAugust 14.
I enjoyed this show because I had
the opportunity to sit up high with
lighting technician John Hawke. and
a visitor to Southwestern Ontario
by the uame.of Deborah Wilson.
Wilson is from Sault Ste. Marie
where she performs in community
theatre and how knows, _maybe .in
the future we'll sec her at the Play-
house.
On the
Road
by
Fred
Groves
•
bond leen two groups - the ac-
tors an the audience.
Theatre reviewing I have also
found is a little tamer chart covering
hockey. I have yet to see a member
of the audience std up in the
Playhouse and yell Obscenities at
the actors.
Tttat barbaric ritual is left to
hockey...it will never change.
Back to Patsy Cline land the won-
derful voice of ,London's Marie
Bowell.
This lady brings a long list of crc-
Bowler- receives award
Dear Editor:
On June 19 I was presented with
a record fourth consecutive and
sixth overall "Ontario Five Pin
Bowlers' Association Publicity
Chairperson of the Year" award at
the 27th Ontario 5 Pin Bowlers' As-
sociation Convention Awards Din-
ner at Muskoka's Clevelands
House.
This award, is 'bestowed annually
• to the ono bowling writer in 24 who
has earned the most incentive
poinus for.Alpst ifiieely using all
branches of die news media during
Abe bowling, season and for "Out -
'Attending Contri-
--,bution to Five
Pin 'Buwlu,g in
Ontario."
As Bltkwater 5
Pin Bowlers' Asso-
. ciation's Publicity 40,
' Chairperson, the co-operation I
have received from everyone tote in
your office in the processing of my
weekly bowling news copy during
the 1992-93 season contributed
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greatly to my success.
I sincerely thank you fur feu8-
nizing our fine sport and, for-
ward to the same friend11 , co-
operative communication' with you
and your always excellent newspa-
per ladle 1993-94 season
•Sincerely,
Ron Dawn
Bluewater 5 Pin Bowlers' Asspci-
Slam
Ontario 5 Pin Bowlers'Associa-
tiun, Publicity Chairperson of the
Year.
Tory blue pv'4nt of view
Dear Editor:
All those .poor, misguided e'ouls
who voted for "Boy Scout Bob"
Rae must be really shrinking in
.their boots these days!
Now, he has succeeded in alienat-
ing did unions, the very people who
greatly helped elect him! Every
move he stakes seems to be wr
along with his pats in B.C. and.*,
katchewan. A good thing is that the
NDP actions enure the Federal so-
cialists
ercialisls ne longer stand a chance: of
l
lucking in. The pills-stoclking So-
cialists have dug 4,hr.ptyn ah ll ac -
served graves.
Mumbles"
Peterson was a
liberal disaster,
so now maybe the
Ontario voters
will vote Tury .nd t-_
fhat is an excellent idea!
Our new PM, "Kim" 1
, ,,aapl4 u �Mbe 1j o y-7,
l
ore than holding her own with all
ti>psc Male leaders. So now, when
she calls an elation, it should he an
allereging race. -The Suciahos
have sl themselves in the lout,
the liberal hasn't mastered ei-
ther one of CAnada's national lan-
guages - so Kim zgµld wip!
Lots wait andie•
Libby Gibson