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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1993-07-14, Page 4111111=1i=111111 'Times evooate, -July 14,1993 arraniten Marte ur: Oen smith T: tab Lord iki6Noalbns Mail Registwtlon Number 0186 ljunisr.RIPTIAN RATec 'Wlth m 40.P.. (8S km.) sdb•o•ed 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 1111111111111111111111 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