The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-26, Page 6PAGE 6--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979
Dear Editor...
• from page 5
Gomorrah in one
generation.
As parents we should
pay attention not only to
what is being taught, but
also the manner in which
it is taught. We are the
ones responsible for our
children.
Let us, therefore, be
sure that we train up our
children the way that
they should go and then
rest assured that when
they are old, they will not
depart from it.
Remaining truly,
E. A. Sherwood.
A YMCA?
Dear Editor,
I don't know what has
gone before in attempting
to establish something
like th.eYMCA here, but
recently while I was in
London, I phoned their
YMCA General Manager.
`Prompted I suppose by a
recent small display ad in
this newspaper con-
cerning the YMCA Fit-
ness Testing team not
corning to Goder"ich until
the fall, I asked a couple
of questions: Why not
until then? How can we
get our own 'Y'?
The answer to both
questions was the same -
volume, people, demand.
If we were to make the
request, their Fitness
Team would be here in a
week.
If we demonstrated out
own sincere sustained
initiative, we could have
our own Y in a month!
Now this is an issue
that could be treading on
the toes of lots of local
people, the town
Recreation Department,
local service clubs and so
on. But I don't think that
should stop me from
passing along what I
learned. Let's look -at
some background. -
My 'own memories of
he YMCA in my youth
were of a volunteer
organization in its own
----bu-i-ld i-ng-trying-to-do-m-ost
of the things the Com-
munity Colleges now 'do
in sports, leisure activity
—_ �1�interest courses. ...
emphasis was on capital
C -, Christian, Character,
Comradeship and it
centered mostly on ages
14to24.
Our Y. had a tiny
echoing indoor pool, a
smelly gym, a few games
rooms, guest rooms, a
modest library and a way
of getting a snack. And all
it cost was $18 a year to
belong!
It was a poor man's
club, barely self-
supporting, where one
could dabble.
But it did have
`patrons' and sponsors.
Prominent individuals
who, through idealistic
zeal or philanthropic
generosity, gave money
a
to acquire the premises, They take the positive
and pick up the tab if approach to promote
there was a shortfall in healthful living and the
the paid staff's wages. It negative approach to
was kind of classy to have eliminate hazardous
the local Mr. Big as a living.
'patron'. he felt good, the Participaction, fitness,
tax department felt good support for amateur
and we felt good. sport (would you believe
But then began the long that there is actually an
slow socialist -non- office in Ottawa that
sectarian decline. It is no promotes National Ping
.longer democratic to use Pong ?)
the word Christian. The Smoking is hazardous
United Way Appeal to your health. Buckle up,
obliterated the Speed kill's, cutback on
prominence of Mr. Big in hospital beds. If you live
his charity. The gover- healthy, in the long run,
nment educational you'll need less health
machine with its endless care.
resources built school Well now, we've been
facilities, colleges, carefully trained by our
library resource centres social system to look
all staffed by slick always first to govern -
professionals with BAs ment for help rather than
and civil servant status. help ourselves. So, Iona
So attendance at the Y Campaneola, the Hon.
declined, leaving only Minister for Fitness and
those who were not in the Amateur Sport, has a
academic elite to look very small budget to do
after themselves. The two things: bring
volunteers declined, and Canada's sports elite up
the Y declined. I -n some to world standards
cases it had to close shop. (notice how we're doing
Concurrent with this better at the Empire
was the adoption of easier Games and Olympics?)
lifestyles. Everyone has a and secondly, to increase
car, so they don't walk the public non -elite
much; fast food outlets, awareness and par -
so they don't work at ticipation in physical.
preparing food much; TV conditioning.
entertainment so they Guess which gets more
don't exercise much. Federal money?
Our physical con- The buck has been
ditioning is declining as passed to the provinces to
did the Y. deal with public con -
Then the Federal ditioning.
Government introduced Now where did all this
Medicare and to ..its '.fitness stuff come from?
-alarm, the costs have The RCAF 5' BX? No,
become prohibitive. More they learned about - it
of us use our health from the Russians, the
services for curing more - Czechs and the East
minor things than ever Germans. And you know
before. The Department who taught them? Why
of.. Health and Welfare Ontario's own Lloyd
used up the largest slice Percival, the man who
of the tax dollar. So all of created the Fitness
a sudden the government. Institute where most
must do something. , professional athletes and
So there is a sustained others of the elite go to
attempt to change the have an assessment of
trend toward less health- their personal condition,
ful living by condemning and evolve a plan to
health. hazards and thus improve it. All very
reduce the trend for more personal, and it works.
health cure demands.' Percival has been dead a
CONCERNED CITIZENS
INVITE
You
PUBLIC MEETING
ADDRESSED BY
KEN CAMPBELL
(Founder of Renaissance Canada)
at
CENTRAL HURON SECONDARY SCHOOL
CLINTON THURS. MAY 3rd 8:00 P.M.
"SEX IN SCHOOLS"
Come and Speak you mind
few years now, but at last
popular use of his system
is here. And Ontario is
making it available
through the good old
YMCA.
The Y now specializes
in PROGRAMS. It will
use anybody's facilities
or even noneat all. The Y
is more an idea than a
place. The Ontario
Government pays the Y
$40 per client to take a
team of five experts in a
government vehicle out
into the boondocks (that's
Goderich) to test the
public at large of any age,
design tailor-made ac-
tivity programs for each
individual (it takes a
serious hour or so, sort of
like going to a doctor's
office for a complete
check-up) and costs the
individual $15. No fancy
apparatus is required for
your ongoing fitness and
exercise program. To get
the team here we need
VOLUME.
How much VOLUME?
Ten people! Only ten?
That's VOLUME?? Yep.
Well here is what I
suggest. YOU show this
article to two other,
people, and they show it
to two others, and so on.
And after ypu've shown
your two, each of you
write down the day of the
week, date and time in
the month of May when
you'd 'be willing to have
your $55 test and
program for $15. At the
same time, write a note
as to whether you'd
support a local YMCA
and what fee per visit, or
annual cost, and what
program you'd like. Mail
this information to Box
303, Goderich, or drop it
at any Mac's or Becker's
store in town.
Let's see if we can
demonstrate our own
sincere, sustained
initiative. We may well
be able to afford our own
facilities.
Do it now.
David Foster
Train right
Dear Editor,
In early June of 1972,
the very important
Transport Committee of
the House of Commons in
Ottawa, after having
conducted exhaustive
and expensive PUBLIC
HEARINGS in, four
major Southwestern
cities, made an
unanimous recom-
mendation to the Liberal
Government, led by
Prime Minister P. E.
Trudeau.
This committee, with a
majority of Liberal
members,
UNANIMOUSLY
recommended to the
Government of Canada,
the adoption of its
recommendation TO
IMMEDIATELY •
RESTORE ALL RAIL
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN THIS AREA which
had been unilaterally
totally discontinued on
November 1, 1970. This
involved trains from
Goderich to Stratford,
and from Kincardine,
Southampton, Owen
Sound to Palmerston, and
south to Guelph and
Toronto.
The calendar has now
advanced to the year
1979. As yet, the will of
the people and of the
Committee which made
the recommendation is
still being ignored by the
Liberal Government of
Prime Minister Trudeau.
Now would be certainly
the time .to question all
candidates regarding this
situation. Bear in mind:
the unquestioned fact of
rail passenger safety, the
conservation of dwindling
energy resources, the
increased employment of
people in our area, the
ballooning cost of
gasoline, etc. etc. etc.
Now is the time to get
forthright answers to
these questions.
Where does the
responsibility for this rest
- but with YOU and I and
our ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES.
Yours for
Equal Transportation,
Robert S. Cherry,
Palmerston, Ontario.
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