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Exeter Times—Advocate
Wednesday , September 22, 2004
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EDITORIALS
Positive projects
Some exciting good news items have devel-
oped in Exeter recently.
The first, and the one that will affect most
Exeter residents, is the flood control project
that will see two holding ponds dug to contain
floodwater.
Pegged at over $700,000, this is the kind of
project Exeter has needed for a long time.
Credit needs to go to the Exeter Community
Development Fund (which is paying for the pro-
ject) and the members of the flood committee.
Flooding in Exeter is a major concern for prop-
erty owners — just ask those who saw their
homes and businesses suffer major damage in
the last major flood of July 2000. Every time a
heavy rainstorm is forecast, Exeter residents
cross their fingers and hope this won't be the
next big flood.
The new project will help ease some of those
fears. While there's no way to guarantee a flood
won't happen, the new project south of Huron
Street is a major step in solving the problem.
This is great news for Exeter and this is a project
the whole community should be in favour of.
Of course, more work is needed — once this
project is done, the Eastern Avenue and Pryde
Boulevard areas will be looked at for another
flood control project.
Another tip of the hat this week goes to energy
consultant Evert Schaap, who is building an
energy-efficient home and business on Hwy. 83
just west of Exeter. Requiring no hydro or gas
hook-ups, Schaap's home and business will be
powered by a combination of solar and wind
energy. Schaap's story will appear in next week's
Times -Advocate.
Projects like these need to become more com-
mon in Canada. The federal government needs
to stand up and offer more incentives for entre-
preneurs and homeowners to "go green."
Canada lags far behind much of the world when
it comes to using green energy and it's time for
the government to support new and innovative
ways of producing energy. Falling back on
nuclear power is not the solution, nor is ignoring
the fact that we need to end our reliance on fos-
sil fuels and other forms of pollution.
News of a manure spill last week in Grand
Bend goes to show we have a long way to go to
clean up our act.
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Banging coconuts together
In the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail",
Arthur, king of the Britains and his knights of the
Round Table embark on a quest ordained by God
to find the holy grail.
Unfortunately, lacking horses, they
were forced to resorting to banging
coconuts together to simulate the sound
of horses which resembled another
sketch comedy last week even Monty
Python might have found strange.
Paul, king of the Canadians and his
band of brave and not so brave knights
gathered in a quest for the holy grail in
Canada, the search for a fix to medicare.
The quest had all the elements of the
movie, complete with Frenchmen who
continually taunted the king, "I don't
want to talk to you no more," the Black
Knight from Alberta who refused to sub-
mit despite every wound he suffered and Sir
Robin the Not -Quite -So -Brave -as -Sir Lancelot
from Ontario.
But as Paul and his knights continued on their
journey they were stopped at the Bridge of Death
by the bridge keeper, who said they must answer
three questions before they could pass, such as
how to cut waiting times, public versus private
care and the need to put more doctors in the sys-
tem.
Making it across the Bridge of Death despite not
being able to answer the questions, the
knights of the round table were faced with
a killer rabbit they couldn't defeat and
cried out "run away, run away".
Fleeing to the safety of the backrooms to
regroup, Paul emerged with the holy hand
grenade and declaring the quest to be over,
threw it slaying the killer rabbit.
The holy hand grenade solution was
unlimited money to the system, $40 billion,
give or take a few billion, to be added to the
grail plus the $100 billion, give or take a
few tens of billions, already in the cup.
(A number also roughly equal to the
amount spent by Pat Quinn assembling his
team of (very) overagers in the Leafs own nev-
erending yet futile quest for their grail.)
King Paul had more luck than his namesake in
the film, who was arrested for murder as he was
about to find the grail. But Canadians might want
to find a good supply of coconuts because the
search for the holy grail will go on.
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