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The Bayfield Post, 1982-07-02, Page 1The Bayfield Post ISSUE A - 23 Editor's Corner This holiday weekend we celebrate Canada's 115th birthday. Most Canadians are celebrating with ml.xed emotions. They are happy and grateful for all Canada has meant to them in the past, but many are justifiably apprehensive about the future. We thank God for this land of opportunity but we must also be aware that because of individual greed and self-seeking politicians, Canadians could become a people of missed opportunity. In an effort to arrest the downward spiral of the economy, the Federal Government has put a limit on wage increases this year of 6% for all government employees, and has asked the private sector to do likewise. I can appre- ciate Labour's discontent, but we must start somewhere, sometime. Union leaders who are opposed to wage restraint do not have the good of the country or their members at heart. Unless we pull out of the recession or depres- sion we are in, the first ones to suffer will be more and more workers. It shouldn't take too many brains to see that. Macho statements by well paid and well fed union leaders do not serve the best interests of the membership. While the Government is asking sacrifices of labour they should be prepared, unless they want social unrest of unprecedented propor- tions, to limit giant utilities like Ontario Hydro, Union Gas, and Bell Telephone to a like 6% limit in price increases. The burden of lifting the Country out of its economic malaise must be shared by everyone, including of course the most guilty of all parties, the Federal Goverlment, who have bought power by giving away the tax -payers' money like there was no tomorrow. This is no time for silly pride, no time to say that I won't be the first, no time to waste time. It is time to get on with it and make the sacrifices necessary to make this country move forward again. The salaries paid professional athletes is something that defies reason and is a factor that makes all of us think that money is losing its value. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1982 Free Copy HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA! BAYFIELD'S COUNTRY BAKERY Bayfield is going to have a bakery: Horst and Gerry Bornath are going to open a bakery on Main Street across from the Albion Hotel. When they made the decision to have an old fashioned bakery in the Village they expres- sed hope and confidence that it will provide a needed service to the entire community. HURON CENTENNIAL SCHOOL GRADUATION Tuesday. June 22 The gym was carefully decorated with flowers and wall designs. The tables neatly placed and meticulously set. At 7 p.m, the staff, the grade 8 graduation class and their parents gathered for dinner, the presentations of diplomas and awards and a 'farewell' sing- song. A lot of work went into the graduation night but it was all worth it. One city parent observed how common sense prevailed. There was no dance or pretense of making instant adults out of these young people like so many urban grade 8 graduation celebrations. It was a wholesome fun evening shared by the three parties concerned in the educational process. Why a man, any man, should be paid fifteen million dollars to play a game and strike out like the rest of us, is a cultural disgrace and a mockery of human priorities. Until this kind of nonsense is addressed by those responsible, the fires of greed will be hard to smother, and requests for restraint will ring a little hollow for many. Labour will have a reason to rebel if executives, professionals, and others in the economy do not share equally in our struggle for recovery. THE BAYFIELD POST 565-2438 BAYFIELD LIONS CHILDN U41 NDL Sunday, July 4, 19$2 PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE BREAKFAST "All the pancakes you can eat." Served with pure Bayfield Maple Syrup. 9 A.M. - 1 P.M. BAYFIELD ARENA