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Zurich Citizens News, 1972-09-21, Page 4PAGE 4 Election coming While Canadians are occupied with the federal election campaign, with some also keeping an eye on the U.S. presidential race, there are also Ontario municipal elections to consider. Voters are undoubtedly aware of this as they face double enumeration, one federal and one municipal. Some have already asked why there has to be this duplication, but it couldn't be avoided since the date of the federal vote was uncertain for so long. It takes a lot of planning to prepare for one election, so it would have been extremely difficult to plan enumeration for two at the same time when nobody knew if there was going to be a federal vote. There are fixed election dates for Ontario municipalities, but federal votes can come any time, and there appears to be little disp- osition to have fixed dates for federal elect- ions. While the municipal vote won't be held until December, it's not too soon for residents to start considering possible candidates for civic office. In such deliberations, a number of factors should be thoroughly examined. We are enter- ing a crucial and trying period for municipal governments. Regional government, co-ordin- ated planning, pollution problems, industrial growth and educational matters all loom as major issues. It is important for people to elect a good cross-section of the community to any public body. This includes businessmen, professional people, young people, labor spokesmen, educators, farmers, and, of particular imp- ortance, women. You don't want a council which is domin ated by any segment of the community. The broader the representation, the better. Now is the time to start thinking about the people you would like to see stand for mun- icipal office. (Kincardine News) They show the way An example of what could happen to the main streets in many Ontario centres is the program recently carried out in Petrolia, says the Seaforth Huron Expositor. The main street of the town received a badly -needed facelift this summer from eight young men with a $7, 000 federal youth Opp- ortunities grant. With scaffolding, brushes and paint, they rejuvenated the tired old face of that town, the oil capital of Canada and a thriving community of 10, 000 at the turn of the cent- ury. The oil has long since disappeared, as has much of the population, but spacious old mansions, shops and a 600 -seat opera house -- all constructed during the boom years •long ago --remain from the past. Old brick shops along main street have been done over in hues of blue, lime, yellow and brown --all color -co-ordinated to accentuate the unique architectural features of the buildings. "At first everybody in town was really suspicious of us, " says 19 -year old , Ian Smith, project leader, "but after we did our first storefront the response was tremendous. Now practically everybody wants to get his store done." Similar to Seaforth, a rejuvenation of the main street of the town was not a new issue. For years a facelift had been talked over among merchants. Now that it has been ac- complished the merchants, and particularly the shopping public can appreciate what the main street has to offer. Area shoppers had had a shopping centre at their doorstep comp- arable to any in the large cities, and they hadn't realized it. The rejuvenation program not only drew attention to the street and the stores, it also emphasized what was in the stores. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PPLINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration 'Number 1385 su M Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association '"�,.fialor pi.~ iss Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; $4.410 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents, ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1972 ians, until they have made it big somewhere else. Then we can't understand why they don't come home and work in their own vineyard, at labour- ers' wages. Same with our athletes. We sneer at their Olympic efforts. "Yeah, we finished twenty- th;rd again." Smarmy sports- casters find all kinds of excuses for the athletes. Admirably, most of the latter are much more honest. The best of them bluntly say they did the best they could, but it wasn't good enough, Oh, we're great at spending billions on building: highways, dams, high-rises; and on wel- fare, medicare, second-rate education. But when it comes to spending something on the development of the human being, in this case a strong national team of athletes, we pinch the purse until it hurts. This is written more in sor- row than in anger. Let's wipe away the tears and stand up in the true north, strong and free. Come on, Canadians. Let's not be crybabies. 0 Mother to small son: "Twenty years from now you'll be telling some innocent young girl what a great cook your mother was ... now eat your dinner!" TIME TO QUIT BEING CRYBABIES by Bill Smiley I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that Canadians are turning into a nation of crybabies. It hurts, because I love this country and want to respect and admire my fellow -citizens. But the feeling has been growing for some time and neared full flower after the first hockey game against the Russ- ians. What an edifying spectacle that was! There were our fin- est, giving up everything -- except salaries, insurance, exp- enses and other fringe benefits -- to defend out national honour against those dastardly Russians who'd had the nerve to think they belonged on the same ice. And there was a huge and happy crowd of hockey fans, almost slavering over the ant- icipated slaughter. And there were the poor old Russians, walking into the lion's den, some of them so pint- sized compared to our hulking menaces that they looked as though they were fairly large Peewee players. Whack! went the puck into the net and the roof nearly went off the Forum. Whack! again, and across the nation people winked at each other and settl- ed back to speculate on whether the Russians could score a goal before our heroes got into two figures. But then something began to happen that turned strong men across the country a pale gray. Those dumb Russians didn't know enough to quit and go home and forget the whole things as a bad dream. They just kept skating and passing and shooting, and every so often, one of their shots would go into the Canadian net, The happy crowd in the For- um grew glummer and glummer. Team Canada, the greatest, and most expensive collection of hockey talent ever gathered under one roof, looked more and more like the Hayfork Centre Midgets. But just wait until the third period. After all, these guys are pro's. They'll get org- anized and come back to win the game with a bang. Unfortunately, the game end- ed, not with a bang, but a whimper. Toward the end, the visitors were toying with the Canadians, as a toreador plays a bull. And toward the end, our boys began to resemble bulls, rushing wildly at anything that moved, only to find it wasn't there. Not content with looking like the Ladies' Aid on skates, some Canadian players showed any- thing but professionalism and began swinging sticks, throwing elbows, and such. Crybaby stuff. What about the fans? Did they give the Russians a standing ovation, or even a hearty round of applause for toppling the giants? Not they. They filed sullenly our of the arena, muttering, grasping for excuses, dazed. They hadn't had their blood. The toreador had not been tos- sed by the bull, and the bull had not even been neatly dis- patched, just sort of stunned. Crybabies. In the next morning's papers, it was rather fun to watch the experts and the sports writers tearing at their own entrails like wounded hyenas, a species which sports writers resemble in some respects. Crybabies. To be fair, the players and coaches were honest. They'd been well and thoroughly whip- ped, and admitted it. Since then, of course, things have changed and our business- men on skates are showing why they are so well paid. But the fact is that if it had been a one - game shot, the Russians would be truly world champs. And if it had been a two -game series, total goals to count, the Rus- sians would be winners, 8-7. 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