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Best wishes for 1989
A new year is about to dawn and it will be a year of major change
in many of our local communities as new town and township coun-
cillors take office and new committees and boards we named_
The conduct of public business at the municipal level is, as it
always has been, of ultimate importance. It is right here, in our
communities, that Canadians have the right and the opportunity to
express those basic democratic principles which are carried for-
ward to our provincial and federal governments. Serving on a local
council or board is certainly not very rewarding finart•:.y, so those
who are wiffing to accept such offices merit -not ortty our com-
mendation, but • - (ence and understanding should they happen to
make decisions with which we disagee. One fact is certain: if
enough of us disagree our representatives will hear about it
promptly and, unlike governments at a higher level, we will have a
much better chance of seeing response to our objections.
May 1 989 prove to be a good year, not only for our public rep-
resentatives, but for all our good neighbors and friends throughout
the entire community.
Battle of the innocents
The horrifying accident last week which took the fives of some
275 innocent people as a Pan-American airliner plunged into a
village in Scotland is the latest in warfare against private people.
Stories of hundreds of valiant knights slaughtering each other on
fields of battle in the Middle Ages are gruesome enough, but
today's bloody sacrifices of non-combatants is chilling.
At week's end it was not definitely known whether or not a bomb
had caused the disaster, and if so which of several Middle Eastern
countries was responsible. But how amdous they all are t� claim
credit for these inhuman acts!
There is now quite a furor over the revelation that warnings of just
such a bomb attempt were posted on American embassy bulletin
boards in several foreign capitals. Some contend that this informa-
tion should have been made public so that travellers might have
been forewarned. However, since there Was no way of knowing
which flights were in danger, and since possible safety pre-
cautions were being carried out, there was little to be gained by
frightening passengers_
The event is especially sad for the people of Lockerbie,
Scotland, the village on which the flaming wreckage fell. Several
townsfolk lost their lives in their burning homes. And one group of
38 students from the University of Syracuse in New York State, all
died in the senseless tragedy.
Government by endurance
Our federal members of parliament were certainly earning their
money. last week. Determined to delay passage of the Free Trade
Agreement, the opposition used every possible argument to
lengthen the debate, in the vain hope that the PC government
might have to take new action on the agreement. Sessions lasted
to dosing hours as late as two o'clock in the morning. In fact, third
reaziing of the bill was not completed until the early hours of the day
efore Christmas_
Whether the Liberals and New Democrats liked the legislation or
not. the delay was pointless_ Liberal leader John Turner's pre-
election cry was "Let the people decide," and that is just what the
people did. Admittedly, combined support for the two oppostion
parties totalled more than the votes won by the PCs, but that's the
way things work in this country. The people decided by granting a
clear majority to the patty which intended to pass the Free Trade
Agreement, so the people did deckle.
Now it's time to get on with the job of running Canada, FTA and
all.
Yes, a white1 Christmas
As rain fell on this area the middle of last week, it began to appear
that hopes for a white Christruas were rapidly fading. But in this
part of the world the last thing -you can count on is the weather.
Christmas Day morning saw ‘' the drearns of the Me ones Com-
ing true as the snow be-gan whiting down. We hope their little
hearts were full of Yuletide joy, because many of their elders, plan-
ning hips to Grandma's place for the day, or expecting visitors from
a cksWee, had other reactions. 7.-170 3t11
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DECEMBER 1941 sportsmen turned out on Day one, held Boxing y, when town
The pupils of the W" Public to take part in the first fox drive and country curlers gettogether.
School are doing their bit to stamp sponsored by the Luc -Tee -Wm Club. Ju " g was completed to deter -
out }Mier- From the beginning of the While all field reports are not mine the winners of the window -
term m September, they have Pur- complete, it would appear the team painting contest at the W and
chased $230 of War Savings stamps- headed by Oscar Kieffer won the District Hospital. First prize went to
There are 126 children out of an first prize. Teams headed by bon Miss Betty McKenzie; second, Mrs.
enrollment of 245 now purchasing Cook of Vrmgham and Jack Ban- Marion Macha and third, Miss
stamps. ulster, Lucknow, are tit for second Joyce Bike&
Teeswater voted against beverage and third., Bruce Lott of ala has been
rooms in the village. The total vote A plan by the Ontario Department named chief clerk for the W"mgham
was 227 for sale of beer and wine and of irighways to change the present office of Ontario Hydro„ the position
249 opposed. The drys' majority was route of No. 86 Highway near recently vacated .by Jack
no It was a large vote, 90 per cent of Bluevale, has met with oppositiOn Wiggins. —
the electors going to the polls. from farmers in the area who will be DECEMBER
Six new elders were ordained by affected by the proposal. The The first -prize winner in the
Rev. Kenneth MacLean ' an present stretch of highway east of novice division in the window-paint-
imPressive ceremony at St- An- Bluevale passes over two bridges, mg contest at W"mgham and District
drew's Pre3byterian Much. They one at the Bluevale dam and the Hospital was student nurse Nancy
were Clarkson Martin, Stafford other two concessions to the south- Smith. Mrs. Jennie Hoonaard won
Bateson, Duncan Kennedy, Gordau east. Both are old bridges in need of first prize in the experienced class.
Gannett, George Wilson and replacing and the department has In second place were Gemma
Malcolm Galbraith. decided it would be cheaper to put deBruyn and Mrs. &tarot'. Skim.
Dr. George Howson is moving his the highway through the fields to the A new fire tank truck was de -
dental office to the Queen's Hotel northeast of Bluevale. The new route livered to the fire hall last week. The
Annex, ground floor, one door west would cut across about • 10 farms 1,500 gallon tanker, costing approxi -
on John Street. For the past 20 north of the river and join the mately $18,000, replaces an older
years, the doctor has been located in present highway north of the vehicle..
the Bondi block. Bluevale School_ Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wall were
Several hundred residents of At the United Church manse, elected presidents of the St. An-
Howiek received a thrill which they Wroxeter, a quiet but pretty wed- drew's Couples'. Club: Vite-presi-
will lung remember when they wit- united in marriage Helen Laura dents are Mr. and Mrs. James
tressed the -k of an old Gerrie - giatt and Thomas Patrick Neviton.Wilsoir -secretari‘i -are - -Mi., and
_ boy by Parachute- William 11 TOwn- On Christmas night, the groom left 'Dili. etarilteriailhandireasnrers
send of Toronto was home for the by plane for Vancouver to return to are Mr. and Mis. In Phillip's.
Christmas vacation. He is a pro- duty on HMCS Ontario. He will leave Santa Claus came early at the
fessional parachutist with the shortly for Austndia. Wmgham and District Hospital as
Canadian Parachute Club of Flames swept Joseph Plakholm's members of the Ladies' Auxiliary
Toronto, the only club of its kind in carpenter shop in Mildmay, causing raffled off two teddy bears. The two
Canada. some $4,000 damage and leaving one delighted winners were Mrs. Emily
DECEMBER 1954 wall standing. The owner lost all his Donaldson, a hospital patient, and
Commencing Saturday, Jan- 8, tools, maehinery and lumber. The hospital orderly Albert Kitchen.
Wroxeter and Fordwich branches of log building watt/ situated a block At ,a special service in the Wro-
the Canadian Bank of Commerce from the businesgseetian. xeter United Church, baptismal
will be closed all day Saturday- DECEMBER 1944 service was held for Jennifer Lor -
Extra service will be given on A rink skipped by Murray Rae and raine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Friday afternoon, from 4: 30 to 6 composed Of Peter Cutter, Bob Scott Marvin McLean; Mark Thomas, son
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