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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-02-13, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1975 A small town — a nice place to live! "A little town is where you don't have to guess who your enemies are. Your friends will tell you." "A little town is where everybody knows everybody else's car by sight and also where and when it goes." "A little town is where few people can get away with lying about the year they were born. Too many other people can remember. " "A little town is where people with various ailments can air them properly to sympathetic ears." "A little town is where, when you get the wrong number, you can talk for 15 minutes anyhow." "A little town is where the ratio of good people to bad people is something like 100 to one. That's nice to remember." "A little town is where it is hard for anybody to walk to work for exercise because it takes too long to stop and explain to people in cars who stop, honk, and offer a ride." "A little town is where city folks say there is nothing to do, but those who live there don't have enough nights in the week to anlek all the meetings and social functions.'' "A little town is where everyone becomes a 'neighbour' in time of need." "A little town is where businessmen struggle for survival against city stores and shopping centers." "A little town is where those same businessmen dig deep many times to help with countless fund-raising projects." "A little town is where it's nice to be when rearing a family." "A little town is where you don't have to lock your door every time you leave the house." "A little town is where many teenagers say there's nothing to do --and then are surprised to learn that their big -city peers are saying the same thing." "A little town, when all is said and done, is a nice place to live." (St. Marys Journal Argus) Violence or filth Much has been heard in recent years of violence on television, and too many'American programs interfering with the develop- ment of Canadian culture. More recently much good family entertainment has been replaced by Canadian produced shows -- many of which would have difficulty in gaining tenth rating in any good amateur competition. We don't know where TV producers get their definition of "culture." There are several definitions of the word in most dictionaries. Some are: "The training and refining of the mind, emotions, manners, tastes, etc." or "The concepts, habits, skills, art, etc, of a given people in a given period" or "The growth of bacteria in a specially prepared substance." Take your pick --but if you can find anything in any of these definitions that even comes close to defining most of the prograrns.produc- ed by CBC or other Canadian TV producers it would have to be the third one. If such shows as last Sunday nights CBC production "Ten Lost Years" must be classed as Canadian culture, then hi our opinion it would be better for Canada and Canadians if Canadian cult- ure were allowed to remain dormant. While we have not had an opportunity to read the entire book "Ten Lost Years" published recently, we have look ed it over at some length, and can only conclude that if, in fact, the TV production was"in any way associated with the book, then the TV producer must have gone out of his way to find the most degrading and profane paragraphs, on which to base the TV production. As one who completed high school only a couple of years before the depression and whose hopes of any further education died when the depression began, we can only say that CBC's presentation of filth and profanity which was meant to portray life in the thirties, is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of then young Canadians who made it through the depression years on self-respect, and a willingness to work. And, please, Mr. Producer, remember too, it was these same hundreds of thous- • ands of young Canadians who were among the first to volunteer to defend their country and their way of life when World War II finally ended the "ten lost years." (Durham Chronicle) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 40:40w0 I sr Member: ICN Canadian Weekly. Newspapers AssociationVUMNie Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association liA 0. Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $11.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ Jottings by Jack from Queens Park The Home -buyers grant announced by the Federal Gov- ernment has caused enquiries to be directed to my office. The grants program carne into effect November 1st and runs until October 31st, 1975. A pamphlet has been released by Central Mortgage and Housing, outlining the requirements to qualify for the $500 home buyers grants. Some of the restrictions listed are:- - The house must be your principal place of residence. - You must be purchasing your first home. - The home must be a new unit that has never been occup- ied and it must be at least 65% completed. - The unit must be built in accordance with municipal and Provincial building codes. - Mobile homes qualify prov- ided they carry Canadian Stand- ards Association certification No. Z240. - Members of a co-operative housing association who occupy units in the co-operative project are eligible for the grant. - The total purchase price - or cost if,you are building - must not exceed the limit est- ablished by the CMHC for the area in which the unit is located, The price limits are - $44, 915 - Toronto and Van- e cu ver . $41, 580 - Ottawa and Hamil- ton. $38, 247 - Cote Nord, Que., Labrador City and Wabush, Nfld, Oshawa, Barrie, the Northwest Territories, Victoria, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax. $34, 914 - St. John's Gander and Grand Falls, Corner Brook and Stephenville, Nfld, Sydney, Hull, Kingston, Belleville, Thunder Bay, Guelph, Brantford Port Hope, Cobourg, Peterbor- ough, Sarnia and Woodstock $31, 580 - all other parts of the country. This week in the Ontario Legislature a law was passed that will ensure that anyone convicted of unpaired or crim- inally negligent driving will be banished from the roads in Ontario for at least three months. His Ontario licence will be automatically lifted REDI-MIX CONCRETE (ALSO FORM WORK) McCann Const. Ltd. DASHWOOD Phan 237-3381 or 237-3422 upon such conviction. A second offence within five years will bring a six month suspension. Anyone driving while under suspension will be liable for a further six month suspension and a $500 fine. At present under the Crimin- al Code, judges have some lee- way on the matter of licence suspension, and sometimes "restricted" licences are grant- ed, permitting a suspended driv- er to use a vehicle at certain times of the day, accommodat- ing those whose livelihood dep- ends on being able to drive, such as truck drivers, travelling salesmen. 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