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Citizens News, May 25, 1977
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"I'm afraid you'll have to give up smoking, drinking, and thinking about Quebec."
Commenting on the fact that at a time
when Canada's ability to produce new
wealth is in doubt we seem to be better
than ever at creating instant millionaires,
the Glengarry News muses that lotteries
produce no new wealth. They redistribute
what we have, leaving a lot of people a lit-
tle poorer and a few much richer.
The Renfrew Mercury suggests a new
"plan guaranteed to win you at least $250 a
year. The day before each of the Wintario,
Provincial or Loto Canada draws just
deposit the value of two tickets in a special
bank account. With 26 Wintario, 12 Provin-
cial and four Loto Canada draws, the total
after a year will be $252. And to make the
winnings even bigger, you will be paid in-
terest on the money . Of course there isn't
Recently a major Canadian bank had
signs in the lobbies "Retirement is just not
working." And careful investigation by the
Canadian Federation of Independent
Business argues that, that is true in more
ways than the bank meant.
Canada has all sorts of pension plans,
all of them carefully "indexed" to the cost
of living. At present, however, the level of
contributions being made by workers to the
Canadian Pension Plan is inadequate to
cover the promised benefits to workers
when they retire, even without indexing.
This problem does not extend to the
pensions of civil servants, including our
any chance of winning a million dollars, but
the chances of winning a million on the
lotteries is so small as to be worthless
anyway.
The truth about the lotteries is that
from 40 to 50 percent of the money goes into
prizes. That means that of your $252
entered, only from $100 to $126 is paid back
in prizes.
So that means that, after levelling out
the odds, you could make twice as much
money by putting the ticket -money into the
bank.
• And then at Christmas or whatever
time you decided to take the cash out, you
will have a nice total of winnings on hand
instead of cursing that you didn't win.
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MPs, whose retirement income is
protected. At about the time the amount of
pension benefits increases substantially
because of our declining birth rate, the
number of workers who support the plan
will decline so that fewer workers will be
paying for more pensions. Unions are now
pushing to have all private pension plans
fully indexed. If Canadian industry accepts
this then there will be higher wage costs.
Perhaps the Senior Citizens who are now
living on pensions which are adjusted to
rising costs, in retrospect, will be the lucky
ones.
Ridgetown Dominion
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by Cathy McKinley
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Well, another holiday weekend is over and what a
weekend it was. Bright sunshine and soaring temperatures
attracted literally thousands of people to the Grand Bend -
Bayfield area.
In Bayfield the Lions' Sunday morning pancake
breakfast was a popular spot with residents and tourists
alike. One of the added attractions of the meal besides the
excellent pancakes and sausages, was the syrup used. It
was boiled down from sap gathered this spring from the
maple trees in Clan Gregor Square. It was delicious.
In Grand Bend the beach was the big attraction, at least
at the first of the weekend, towards the end it got a little
disgusting. Garbage cans were at a premium it seems and I
didn't see any on the north section of the main beach.
By Sunday garbage lay everywhere and walking with
bare feet on the beach was hazardous.
Bob Sharen, reeve of Grand Bend says the problems
will be rectified, and I certainly hope so. The beach is
Grand Bend's main attraction, it would be a shame to let it
deteriorate.
The article in Canadian magazine this week concerning
sex education in our schools was frightening. Things have
certainly changed since I went to school.
If this is what is being taught in our schools I think the
Ministry of Education should definitely look into the
feasibility of standardizing sex education and having it
taught by people trained to educate in a responsible
manner.
Obviously not all students suffer under poor conditions
due to unqualified teachers, but if one does, that is one too
many.
The teachers can not be blamed either as they have not
been asked to receive special training to teach these
classes. They can only give up part of their holidays and pay
to receive help in understanding how best to approach the
problem, and that is not totally fair either.
I feel one solution would be to have qualified teachers
circulate among all the schools in the province. No sex
education course should be taught without giving the
parents in the community a chance to go over the course
with the instructor. We must be fair to the student but we
must also keep both the parent and teacher in mind. Let's
not over -react, but we can care enough to react.
Readers write
Dear Sir:
A booklet from the Ontario
Ministry of Health entitled,
"Guidelines for the Establish-
ment of Non -Smoking Areas"
has been published with the aim
of promoting awareness of the
need to provide relief from
tobacco fumes in enclosed public
areas as well as offering sensible
and reasonable suggestions how
this can be done.
You will note that 58 percept of
the population are non-smokers
and there is growing pressure for
legislative and governmental
directive to designate non-
smoking areas in airplanes,
restaurants, stores, public areas,
etc.
The Huron County Board of
Health, at its regular meeting on
April 1, 1977, endorsed the adop-
tion of non-smoking areas in
public places and directed the
Medical Officer of Health to con-
vey this recommendation to all
those in charge of public
premises and public meeting
areas including hospitals,
restaurants and public
auditoriums •
The Huron County Council, at
its regular meeting on April 29,
1977, also endorsed the
recommendation of the Huron
County Board of Health for the
creation of non-smoking areas in
public places.
1 am sure you will realize how
necessary it is to support the
non-smoker group as many of
these people are suffering from
bronchial or cardiac diseases
which are aggravated by tobacco
smoke and others simply wish
the right to breath a clean en-
vironment free from the con-
tamination of tobacco smoke.
The Huron County Board of
Health hopes that you or your
Board will endorse their
recommendation and will
create non-smoking areas im-
mediately as the Huron County
Board of Health believes that the
creation of non-smoking areas is
an important step in the promo-
tion •of good health and the
prevention of disease.
The Board of Health would be
pleased to know what steps have
been taken by you or your
organization in the creation of
non-smoking areas both prior to
receiving this letter and as a con-
sequence of receiving this letter.
A reply at your earliest con-
venience would be appreciated.
Yours sincerely
G.F. Mills, M.D., D.P.H.,
F.R.S.H.
Medical Officer of Health
County of Huron