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pearEditor;
By now many': of your readers wit! have
received: tap's letters :from Ontario
dro telling them where aiblee500 kV
Transmission .; . e�could be .built. I thought
they ht. be;, 'ni t+e ; kn e
history su00Undhigis pr6ject and some of
the things, they eau now do to stopit.
In the early 1970s Hydro was ropsing to
bring several more lines out of the Bruce
Nuclear Power Development. This caused
such an uproar that the Royal Commission
on Ulectrtc Power Planning was established
to study this and manyother aspects of
Hyd�lrr'o s planning. After . several million
dollars arid several years of study and Hear-
s- ingsthe Porter Commission recommended
that, one more line could be built out ' of
Bruce and THAT IT SHOULD HAVE
MINIMUM IMPACT ON PRIME
AGRICULTURAL LAND.
Melville pryers
tave reunion
Dear Sir:
The Melville Millionaires in conjunction
with the SaskatchewanEeritage Year, are
sponsoring the Melville Millionaires Reu-
nion, August 2, 3 and 4, 1985, in the Melville
Stadium,
The Reunion includes players from 1908 -
1985, who played either Senior, In-
termediate or Junior Hockey with the
Melville Millionaires. Also any coaches,
executive, trainers, stick boys, team doc-
tors, millionaire queens, or anyone who
has billeted a Millionaire hockey player.
We are asking you to Kindly forward us
information concerning the above such as
names and addresses. We truly don't want
to miss anyone so your co-operation would
be appreciated. Pass this information to
your friends, maybe -they know of so-
meone. We are hoping to be mailing invita-
tions out in the next two weeks. So we
urgently require this information shortly
so our mailing lists can be completed.
Please forward information to the
Millionaire Reunion Committee, Box 2197,
Melville, Sask. SOA - 2P0 or phone Glenda
at 728-4205. Area Code 306.
Sincerely,
The Melville Millionaire
Reunion Committee
Melville, Sask.
Tulips will
beautify town
Dear Editor:
The Jubilee Committee of Legion Branch
109, which is now promoting the Diamond
Jubilee of the Royal Canadian Legion, has
decided to purchase a total of 3000 Jubilee
tulip bulbs to donate for planting at various
locations in our community.
These locations include the cenotaph, the
cairn at the Maitland cemetery, the 109
homes, the Branch flower beds and the town
flower beds such as the large one at the cor-
ner of Elgin and Waterloo streets.
Of the total, about 600 bulbs will be
donated to the students in grades two and
three in our local schools for their own per-
sonal planting.
These hybrid bulbs will be planted next
September and we will look forward to
numerous displays of fiery red blooms in the
spring of 1986. These displays of Jubilee
tulips will be living evidence of the 60th bir-
thday of the Royal Canadian Legion.
If you have not yet placed your personal
order for Jubilee tulip bulbs, we request that
you contact the Branch or myself or watch
for details for placing an order in our next
advertisement in the Signal Star or Branch
bulletin.
- If you have no space at home to plant ,
Jubilee tulip bulbs possibly you would like to
donate to the Branch tulip bulb fund which is
being used to beautify our community and
mark the 60th anniversary of 'the Royal
Canadian Legion in Canada.
Neil Shaw
Branch 109
Public Relations Chairman
Dishwashers
by MtClarg
Hydro then developed various pessiblP.
team .ad 'recemitiendecf one witch
-
Deluded a .Brie from
Bruce to ondoa>a. Thi
farm community had a heal time beliieving
this was theroute with the least agricultural
impact.�.A, .coalition was formed called the
Foodland-Hydro Conitnittee"w`hicii eexar.>wiW
-ed the proposal- We presented an alter-
native proposal to the Hearing Board which
was studying tiydro's plan, We
demonstrated that a line from Bruce to Bar-
rie would have much less agricultural im-
pact. In the London area rebuilding a 115 kV
line would minimize new impacts on
agriculture:, The Hearing Board agreed with
us and told Hydro to proceed with our pro-
posal.
When Hydro had developed this plan to
the stage where they identified specific line
tacations a group of land' owners and urban
cotta a owners got excited and took Hydro
and t ellearing Board to Court on the legal
questioi of adequate notice. The Court
nullified the Hearing Boards decision on this
hlegal technicality. This put Hydro back to
square one and 'Hydro decided -to develop
line locations from Bruce to London before
proceeding with a new Hearing..
The.. Original Hearing Board held well
publicized and well attended Hearings, It
received input from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food as well as from con-
cerned farm groups. I believe it made a wise
decision. It seems unfortunate that 34 days
of hearings were nullified at the last mo-
ment by the action of people who hadn't
bothered to be involved when they had the
opportunity.
What. can .concerned: land own , in the
•
grilse to London area do•now? They need•to
get out to the Hydro, iinf r tion. neetirtgs
and malts it clear that they expect th line
out of the 'Druce Nuclear Power Develop=
rnent will confoirm to the Royal Co;ission
en. Electric Power:.Pla rtning.,recommenda
tion that it have MINIMUM IMPACT" ON
AGRICULTURE. They may suggest that
the original Hearing Board was right •to -
recommend the line going froth Bruce to
Barrie. Affected land owners need to make
it clear that they are going to stand up for
their rights.' And clearly they need to get
organized. The lawyers and stock brokers
who own cottages illi the area of the Brucelo
Barrie route did.
Members of the Foodland-Hydro Commit-
tee are planning two meetings to help af-
i;
f� la d,o ers organize: to. protect their
n.o a y'rl is aid Prepare tor the upco
tug hearings. The first meeting will be at
8:30, Metal.. 1 at South Huron SPcondalry,
School in Exeter. The, second w,tl be at 8:30
March 22 at F. E. Madill Secondary School
i nei` .
in talk wth Win amth hbor, In the meantime people should `
aiti b S �Ild. start
ting names and addresses of those willingto
become involved in this organization.
Anyone wishing more information should
contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Tony McQuail,
RR 1, Lucknow
NOG 2H0
528-6542
Canada must organize dor peace not war.
Dear Editor,
Prime Minister David Lange of New
Zealand is to be congratulated for his stand
against allowing nuclear weapons or
nuclear -powered vessels into his country. A
pathetic contrast is Brian Mulroney and his
government as they timidly and half-
heartedly support U.S. belligerency,
thereby compromising our sovereignty,
belittling us ,in the eyes of the world, and
leading to destruction.
Just who is threatening whom? The U.S.
has ringed the, Soviet Union with 2500
military bases and installations in 30 coun-
tries. Three months after Hiroshima they
had plans for the atomic bombing of USSR.
Immediately after V.E. Day, General
George Patton was urging the immediate in-
vasion of Russia with the help, of course, of
any surviving Germans still keen to fight.
For 40 years we have been speaking of
Russia as "the enemy", and saying "when
war comes", not "if war comes!" All
Russia's western cities and industries had
been pulverized, over 30 million soldiers and
civilians killed.
In contrast, this continent has never
known total war. We have an economy
geared to war, or the threats of war -"Hag-
ridden by the fear of peace," as the late Ane
urin Bevan stated in the British House of
Commons. Many of us remember the bread-
lines of the Dirty Thirties melting Onto, the
recruiting lines, and the odd cynic shouting
"Hooray for Hitler."
To many, war simply meant bigger pay-
checks and more beer in the ice -box. I don't
seem to recall a single beer -strike! Bodies
coming home in neat, flag -draped coffins
were much easier on the eyes than gutted
homes and occupants.
Canada must divorce herself from the
Reagan "strike first" mentality and
strategy of a "limited winnable nuclear
war." Provocation, not protection, is all we
net from this association. We must declare
ourselves strictly neutral and act according-
ly.
The present campaign to modernize the
D.E.W. (District Early Warning) line is an
excellent idea, ` providing we man it
ourselves and make it very clear to the rest
of the worlEl that WP will P monitoring for
missiles from BOTH directions!
It will take courage, not cowardice, to
counter the crushing momentum of the
arms, race and to revise our thinking and
organize for peace instead of for war. I fully
realize that I am speaking the unspeakable
When I even suggest that we will have to
abandon some of our nationalism, learn to
rely on trust rather than the threat of
mutual annihilation.
I hope this last statement will not cause
my Legion Membership to be revoked, or
bring the Mounties barrelling between the
banks of snow on our lane, to check me out!
J.C. Hindmarsh
RR 2, Goderich
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