The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-08-13, Page 4—North Kent Leader
This picture Of the- pupils and teachers at S. S. /I 8,' Ashfleld,
Dungannon was taken about 1930. It was brought to the "Sentinel by
Dorothy Wardell of Huron Township.. Front row, left, are Harold
Finnigan, Alvin Reid, Malcolm MaeKenzie, Clayton Anderson, Alan
Treleaven, Billy Caesar, Jith'Ertingten, Harvey Culbert, Frank Eedy,
Elwyn Finnigan, Dick park, Irvin4 Eedy, Neil Haines, Donald Ross,
Tom Young, Donald Walker, Albert Rlvett and Billy McClure. Middle
row, left, are Donal& JOnes, Viola Young, Melba Bawler, Verna
Anderson, Lucille Eedy, Lois Treleaven, Beth Park, Fern Alton, Vera
Rivett, Bernadine Rivett, Annetta Stewart, Alma Anderson,
WI/ttired Swan, Madeline Caesar, Violet Ellington, Doris Swan,
Bertha Jones, Myrtle Caldwell and .DOrothy Robb. Back row, left,. are.
Bill Reid, David. Nevins, Mel Culbert, Anna Reid, Claire Pentland,
Wilma Treleaven,Agnes . Young, Gertrude Finnigan,Belle Swan, '
Marjory Melithinney, Mailory McDonald, Harvey. ole, Thornton
Eedy, Bert %%yard and Carmen Haines. Teaehera shown standing
behind the students are from the left, Fred. Rosa and Mary [Durnin]
Cameron.,
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'To, the Editor;
I just want to write to congratulate You
on the Dungannon Special Edition. •
found it very interesting,. and often
informative. For instance, I never kneW
befere that Lilfie McDonald ever .wrote.;
little articles. was glad to have the
a4allough,.Erringto,nrelatifie straightened
out but , I de .npt, reinember ' the young •
piper she tells about, There was just one
farm and a swamp betweenour farm, and
theirs. Thank you for using the -article I
gave you. I did not realiie it was so, long
until' I saw it in :print, ,
I am not just sure •whir, builUatmon
made so lunch. of the Irish backgrOund,
unless it was because of the name and the ,
fact that Mollie Whiteside had`come to '
bring greetings from our Maternal: towri!
- but there,• are people of many other
nationalities living in Purigannon and the
conimunity.
I think the weekend Was 'a wonderful
time for everyone ind is a credit to all on
the Committees Who Olanned and execut-
ed All the 'events, juSt Shows. What
peOle can do 'when they work together.
Due •to the , draStic taXshift within .
claases, under Section .86• (3) without tax
reform, we find that the tax burden .bofne
by low and moderate income individuals
and families are unduly aggravated'. We
have heard front one municipality so. Tar
whO has Considered Section 505 of the
Municipal Act to phase in the tax
increases and decreases in order.to give
• some protection -TIT-Their citizens; In-out
town we are experiencing tax increases of
over 300% and at the same time we have
properties which:. sold for over
$100,000.00 and are only paying about •
$70.00 in taxes: This means that the
inequities still' exist and that they were
only shifted around.
Estahlisbed 1873 .
Published Wedoesdiic"
editor
Poverty spreads acne-like across the faCe
of the country, Images of foreign, children
with distended stomachs and frightened,
empty-saucer eyes arouse sympathy.
Home-grown poor provoke contempt.
In 'most industrialized nations official
estimates name 10 to 20 per cent of the
population as poor: In Canada nearly 20
per centof the populace -- about 4.5 million
-- try to survive 'on incomes below the
official poverty line. : Almost invisible,
seldom seen in banks, hospitals', depart-
ment stores, museums or art galleries they
are the discards of a consumer society.
Poverty is relative: it is , not having
enough as the society 'we live in
understands enough. The standardS of a
community are the increments it the
yarditick. While our poor are
perhaps better off than the poor in many
Third World- countries;--they are ,portethe-•-
less poor.
Ohr society quantifies status'and success
by education, income and consumption.
Those with a low level of literacy and
education and certified less intelligent and
probably inferior. To be poor is to be a
failure. To be poor in a consumer society is
to be unhappy.
Poverty is ftindamentally a scarcity of
power arid influence. The same mechanism
that produces wealth at one end also seems
to excrete want and destitution at the
other. The perennial and persistent pres-
ence of the poor in the industrial/technol-
ogical alliance' repudiates the myth that all
have equal access to the riches of the
modern circus.
Stereotypes persist -- the poor are lazy
and do not want to work -- despite the fact
that the majority of the poor work for a
living, often at hard, personality-smashing
jobs. They are poor because of insufficient
wages. Often unskilled and usually unorg-
anized they have no clout, income security
or job protection. They spend more than 2/3
of their income just on meeting their basic
needs for food, clothing and, shelter.
Who are the poor?' They are seasonal
workers like fishermen or farm labourers,
along with those who toil in small assembly
shops, textile factories, restaurants or
clerical jobs. Of these, large numbers are
new immigrants and/or women.
Many governments and business bark-
If your
Lucknow Sentinel
label reads
August 6543210
Your subscription
is due
ers proclaim growth and' more growth as
the magic elixir. The Grass National
Product of the Western camps has,' on
average, quadrupled since 1946. But the
distribution - of that income has not
changed, except to benefit the already rich
and povverful. (In 19.70, inCanada, the top
1 per cent of income earners owned 42 per
cent of all stock shares). The pie• may have
gotten bigger but the poor continue to get
the crumbs and leftovers.
Unquestionably rich, countries possess
the' resources to eliminate :poverty and its
consequent suffering and loss of human
potential. But our priorities are 'messed up:
The military analyst, Ruth Sivard, notes
that 'in two days the governments of the
world-spend-as much on national' - - -
forces as on a full year's cooperative effort
to deal with world peace, unemployment,
energy-,-health• and the-whole-range .of
social problems that are universally .
shared.
We have good intentions, We lack the
political will,
To the Editor:
Over 10 years ago the Ministry of
Revenue spent an enormous amount of,
our tax, dollar to create a new Assessment
Act. Since, then they have spent more
money On studies and reports on the
subject to reduce the new Assessment
Act:to an Act of after thoughts. With Bill ,
164 dated November 30, 1979, they have
enacted Section 86 (3).or better known as '
the , band' aid approach.
We know as well as anyone else in
Ontarie that we desperately need prop-
erty tax reform. We. also agree that the
feeble attempt to try to eliminate some'
inequities by reassessment under Section
86 is turning out to be a miserable failure.
One reason fiar this failure is that ten
years of expensive work by the assessors
to try, to establish Market .values' for
property is-turning out- to-be,a waste_of
money because 90% of the valuations. are
not even.close to actual sales. Another
reasonis_that.oar Assessment Commis-
sioner was avoiding the truth when he
emphasized in one of his speeches that
"There -is -no difference whatsoever
between classes in the wayparket values
have been established."
Tax reform can not happen with a ,
market value sYsteni which is based on
opinion rather than fact :as is demon-
strated by thp reassessinent in Niagara.'
on.the4..ake and many other cornmun-
ities. Under. Market value assessment the
province will be forced to' create a
"PropertY0wtier Welfare Class" besidei
all other relief schemes, Otits and hand
•: outs. To have fair taxation province wide;
inequities between municipalities, be-.
tween wards and between property .
clasSes will have to be eliminated first •
and not as it is done under. Sectipn 86
where the tail is wagging the dog.
A real tax reform ,would institute an
accurate method Of assessinent; plain and
simple, fOr ,everyone to 'understand and
would: eliminate school taxes frorn'prop:-
erty and make all the welfare and relief.
programs unnecessary. To achieve this
goal we of course need a cm-ninon. sense
:approach rather than a purely academic.
one.
What price poverty.
Property Owners Association
Of Niagara-on-the Lake
(For Tax Reform)
R. Birch, Chairman',
E. Thalmann, Vice Chairman,
Kerr, Tfeasuier,
R, Johnston, Secretary,
PNiagara-on'°-threBrak6e1,
Ontario, LOS 1.10 .
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