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Lotteries have always been a rather de-
bateable subject, but with the growing pop-
ularity of this particular form of gambling
it would seem several things should be
panted out.
In the first place, those who tend to buy
the tickets such as Wintario or Olympic
lottery or who intend to cash in on the new
Provincial lottery, are too often the ones
who really can't afford to spend their money
on such gambling. The worse off you are
the more enticing it is to "win a million"
with no effort and no time spent in years of
working. The less money you have, the
dearer this dream may seem.
However, the government and everyone
else who wants to make a fast buck off
these lotteries insists people are under
no pressure to purchase their particular
lottery tickets, but some of the advertising
done by these groups can be very very
persuasive.
Even if you think lotteries should be
allowed because after all a person should be
free to decide how to spend his hard earned
money, we think everyone would benefit
from a few changes in lottery format.
There is no reason to us why it is neces-
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sary to have so much hoopla attached to the
awarding of the winning money. All you
have to do is listen to the stories of the
winners of big money in either the Olympic
or Wintario draws and you will soon know
how often all the publicity they get causes
them to have to leave their jobs, even leave
town to take up anonymous residence
elsewhere in order to protect themselves
from money grabbers, crooked schemes and
even kidnap threats. It would seem winning
a lottery of any amount only replaces one set
of problems with another.
There is no reason why the winners'
names couldn't be withheld so they could
enjoy their new-found wealth in peace.
We do not accept the argument the lottery
will lose its credibility if the winners names
are not published. A look at the Irish Sweep-
stakes will show many of those winners
use ficticious names and we doubt if any-
one would say the Irish Sweepstakes is not
a creditable lottery.
If the government is going` to insist on
enticing us into spending our money on
dreams made of lottery tickets, the least
they could do is change the rules so we
could enjoy our winnings in peace.
Ann
It's difficult to comprehend the reason-
ing used by the Huron County development
committee in barring the press — and
therefore the public — from their meetings
related to area recreation councils.
Why shouldn't the public be given
details of the proposals and an opportunity
to submit their opinions? Recreation is
paid from the public purse and the people
have a right to know what is being con-
sidered on their behalf.
Chairman Frank Cook indicates the
public won't get any information until it
reaches county council. A decision will
probably be made and then the people back
home will start arguing about it.
If the proposals of the committee are
worthwhile they shouldn't be afraid to
make them public. It may give them more
input and an opportunity to better judge the
feeling of the people served by proposals.
It's called participatory democracy:
something which county council seldom
practices.
me
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by Cathy McKinley
The cooking of the beans for the festival on Saturday began
Monday and it is quite an experience to help out. Cooking
for 10,000 people is not something you get to do all the time.
The ingenuity of those who have built the festival up over
the vears should be saluted in my mind.
First, there are the big ovens they use. For anyone who
accidently wandered into the kitchens next to the newspaper
on Victoria Street, it might be a little startling. There on the
floor are nine old fridges tipped onto their backs. They are
not very awe-inspiring or even good-looking, but they do a
good job of cooking, yes I said cooking, the beans. You see,
someone along the line got the bright idea to put an element
in the bottom of the fridges, snake metal pans with handles
so they can be lifted onto and off of a rack above the element
and lo and behold you have instant ovens capable of handling
a large quantity of beans with minimal effort and at minimal
cost.
But that's not all. There is also the hone -made cabbage
cutter designed by Gerry Gingerich to eliminate some of the
tediousness of chopping 50 crates of cabbages into coleslaw.
It works like a charm and it too was arranged at minimal
cost.
It is certainly heartening to see a community work together
on such a tremendous task as the bean festival committee
attempts every year. However, without the cooperation of
the people in the vilage, the bean festival would end up as
a total disaster. To avoid the chance this could happen, let's
make sure we all do our part to help out in any way we can.
I understand from Mrs. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the
work groups, that there are still quite a number of jobs which
need volunteers to undertake. The work is not hard, you get "'
to see what's going on downtown and you have the satis-
faction of knowing you are part of a winning team and you
didn't let that team down. Try it, you might like it.
Oh, by the way, if any of you happen to be in the area of
Cook's in Hensall, they have a very thought-provoking
(and somewhat appropriate for this time of year) notice on
the wall:
"Eat more beans, Canada needs the gas." At least Zurich
can say its doing its part in the energy crisis, that is for sure.
It's amazing how fast Zurich's council can get things
done when they set their minds to it. Last week I said I
doubted if council would be able to get the trees for the main
street bought and planted before the bean festival, but I
was wrong. Thursday night council was out in full force
accompanied by three extra volunteers, Charlie Eckel,
Howard Thiel and Carl Thiel.
. Council decided to put the trees of assorted varieties in
baskets and then rather than erect boxes to plant_them in
they decided to plant them right in the ground and cover
the area around them with sod. Doing the work themselves
has saved the town money and the results look very good, I'll
think you'll agree. Three cheers for Zurich council.
And the trees are in just in the nick of time. Already I
had spotted several pieces of garbage (know anyone who is
addicted to Sweet Marie chocolate bars?) in the dirt areas
between the bricks and it looked terrible. Maybe with the
trees in place, the litter -bugs will attempt to control their
disgusting habit until they reach their own property.
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For once the weather man co-operated and the weather for
the ball tournament in Zurich on aaturday was perfect.
A good number of people attended the games from 8 a.m.
right up until the final victors accepted their winnings at
11 p.m. The Clinton Bluebirds won the tournament in a final
game against Walton while the Lucan Irish 9 -took the con-
solation cup. The tournament was well organized and may
hopefully become an annual affair.
MuctA5(gh INGrRiz
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