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Citizens News, March 2, 1977
"Let's hope all this unemployment's not contagious."
Sound advice
Members of the Zurich Chamber of
Commerce should have little difficulty in
understandng the words of advice they
received recently urging them to involve
more ladies in their activities and
decisions.
From a merchandising standpoint,
retailers are finally growing more aware of
the fact that women make the majority of
decisions on how,the family budget will be
apportioned. It therefore makes sense to
have women involved in the decisions on
how local retailers can attract more of the
fairer sex to their stores and subsequently
their cash registers.
A woman's viewpoint is one of the basic
ingredients used by large retailers in plan-
ning their purchasing needs, advertising,
displays and general store appearance. It
should not be overlooked by smaller
retailers intent on maintaining their share
of the market.
From the standpoint of community and
social ventures, the need for a woman's
touch is equally obvious, with the obvious
exception of planning for some risque stag
party.
So gentlemen, seriously consider one of
your most important business
assets.:.she's sitting right beside you.
Job well done
The ease with which Zurich's zoning
bylaw was granted approval by the Ontario
Municipal Board indicates that council and
the county planning board did an excep-
tional job in removing some of the objec-
tions which arose in the original drafts of
the important document.
Experience in other municipalities in-
dicates that problems willarise in the
future as the needs of the community
change, but the bylaw provides the base for
orderly growth and a lack of that creates
even greater problems.
The day has disappeared when people can
expect to do what they wish with their land
holdings. The need for. well-defined areas
for various types of development are basic
to ,a community's well-being and all
residents should welcome the new bylaw,
not as restrictions, but as safeguards to
making the community a better place in
which to live, work and play.
Need better guidance
There are some heated arguments in
progress at the present time about the
merits (or lack of them) in our system of
education. Nor are the arguments confined
to concerned parents who have wakened up
to the fact that their children need more of
the "basics". Teachers and administrators
within the system are unable to agree
about what ingredients should make up a
balanced education.
Whether we go back to the
"repressive" teaching methods of 25 years
ago or venture forward into unstructured
freedom of choice remains unclear.
However, one aspect of our school system
is abundantly clear. Our young people need
more information about job prospects.
Ontario is, for example, turning out
'many more teachers than required. Com-
munity colleges continue to pour out jour-
nalism graduates despite the fact that hun-
dreds of these expensively -trained people
are driving taxis or accepting any other
., form of work available.
With the vast flow of information
which is so readily available today it should
not be difficult to steer young people
toward skills which are in short supply —
and there are plenty of these gaps. For ex-
ample, the student who aspires to be a
writer might be turned toward the related
field of advertising, in which there is a con-
tinuing shortage of competent graduates.
There is no way to deny that the
number of unemployed in Canada is a blot
on our record as a progressive people. We
do not have hundreds of thousands of un-
employed because they are all lazy. For the
most part these people lack jobs because
they do not possess skills in the dozens of
trades and professions which are crying for
more help. True,- it is difficult and time-
consuming to re-educate adults, but we
should be putting more attention on the
means of guiding today's students to
tomorrow's jobs.
Wingham Advance -Times
Canadian r t{R entity
Some 'critics claim Canadians have no identity, but that's
ridiculous. Here are just a few simple ways you can tell us
from the rest of the world.
A Canadian has a white salt stain halfway up his trouser
leg.
A Canadian goes to a party in a $200 suit, in a Hathaway
shirt, a St. Laurent tie, and walks around all evening in his
stocking feet because he doesn't want to get the hostess'
floor dirty.
A Canadian considers it one of the greatest thrills of life
when snow doesn't stick to his shovel.
A Canadian wants a storm door for this birthday.
To a Canadian, "full frontal" means a girl walking
around in a parka, toque and lined jeans, but with the top
buckle undone on her galoshes.
A Canadian cries when he sees a snow plow heading for
his driveway which he's just shovelled out.
A Canadian woman burns her bra only if she's out of
wood.
At parties, a Canadian asks you upstairs so he can ex-
amine your caulking, and get the name of your weather-
stripping man.
A Canadian gets a wild look in his eyes and sucks on his
mitts everytime he passes a travel agency advertising a
special to Nassau. •
When a Canadian thinks of Hell, he wonders what the
heating bill must be.
When a Canadian mother sees an icicle, she never breaks
it off because it may be her child's nose.
A Canadian likes to keep his underwear on the hot air
register over night so it will be warm when he puts it on in
the morning.
A Canadian gets mad at anyone who breathes in his car
because it frosts the windshield.
A Canadian wishes radio stations wouldn't interrupt
weather forecasts with news, commercials, music, etc.
A Canadian spends a lot of his spare time at the office
coat rack, looking for his toe rubbers.
To a Canadian woman, the three little words she hears
most often are "Straighten the wheels!" followed by, "Gun
it now!".
A Canadian knows it's morning when the sky in the east
turns from black to dark grey.
A Canadian prays his daughter will marry someone
whose father owns a snowblower, and live happily ever
after.
A Canadian never walks into an office building or theatre
without first wiping his feet on the slush.
A Canadian wonders if the car behind is going to stop.
Who says we have no Canadian identity?
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