Zurich Citizens News, 1968-05-02, Page 21PAGE TWO
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ZURICH CITI
NS NEWS
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1965
One
If it was ever important for the
municipalities of Hensall, Zurich and
Hay Township to stick together it is
vital now that these three places will
comprise one school ward and be rep-
resented on the county school board
by a single member.
Under the present setup Hensall
has two members, Hay Township has
four members and Zurich, has one
member on a seven -man Hay Town-
ship School Area board. It has now
.been decreed by the powers that be
that one man will represent this area
on a 14 -man board at the county
level.
One for seven is quite a switch..
We are told it will cut expenses
through fewer paid trustees and less
repetition of activity, but we're skep
tical since it has been our experience
that political promises of savings in-
variably add up to more money col-
lected through various taxes. Some
times we are helpless to discover how
it can come about, but we're not yet
been disappointed as governmental
arithmetic constantly ups costs in
the most unforseen places.
We can see merit in the new sys-
tem. A county school board could
function impartially and economical-
ly to the satisfaction of all. Success
We're 0
Whenever election time rolls round
(and it seems to be fairly often in
recent years) people begin all over
again to ask themselves the ques-
tions for which there are no real
answers.
Like this quiz, perhaps.
How should I vote this time?.
Should I vote differently than last
time?
Should I vote for the party- or the
man -
What has my party being doing since
the last election?
Can I support their actions?
What would happen to the country
if I voted differently?
Should I just stay home and avoid
making a decision?
,Or should I just cast my ballot the
way I've been doing every other
time—still undecided and rather
haphazard?
We're ready to wager that most
conscientious voters go through this
self -question and answer period be-
fore every election. The candidates
think so too, and that's why so much
money and time is spent on ways and
.means to help the voters make their
Let's
About 70 interested area persons
attended another informative meet-
ing of the South Huron Association
for the Mentally Retarded last week.
It was gratifying to notice that the
village of Zurich and the surrounding
district had several representatives
there — primarily from the Roman
Catholic community and the Luth-
eran Church.
It would be even more gratifying
if members of Zurich and Hay Town-
ship councils would see fit to send
representation to the meetings. As
well, members of Zurich and Area
Lions Club, Hensall service clubs,
Dashwood Men's Club could do no
better work than to avail themselves
of an opportunity to learn what the
association is attempting to do for
present and future mentally retarded
in the district.
Speaker at the meeting Mrs. Doris
Nobes de Burgh was greatly im-
pressed with the progress to date
made by the local association. She
spoke in glowing terms about it. The
mother of a retarded daughter who
has come up through special schools
and is presently employed at the
adult workshop in London, Mrs.
Nobes de Burgh knows the value of
the work being done today.
She showed slides of the adult
workshop in London which trains re-
tarded adults to do certain jobs with-
in their abilities—and do them well.
Mrs. Nobes de Burgh pointed out
that the young men and women are
For AH
depends entirely on the quality of
members elected within the individ-
ual wards.
As we see it, out -spoken, clear -
thinking men and women are re-
quired
e-quired on the new county school
board. Not only must they be dedi-
cated to the cause of all students
within their area, they must under-
stand and fight for the viewpoint of
the ratepayers within that ward.
That's no small order but there is
no mistaking that it must be filled
properly if representation is to be
fair and just.
Residents of Hensall, Zurich and
Hay Township would do well to pool
their resources for this election. Only
the cream of the crop from each
municipality will do. After that vo-
ters must be selective and firm in the
belief that a man from Hensall will
have all due consideration for Zurich
interests or that a Hay Township
appointee will work as faithfully for
his urban neighbors as his rural asso-
ciates.
Mutual trust must prevail. The
time has come when we must trust
our school affairs to someone outside
our own municipality. Like it or
not. we must learn to broaden our
horizons.
Again
all important decision.
There is every indication that the
battle about to be waged among poli-
ticians in Canada will be a lulu. With
two new men at the helm of the two
major parties in the nation voters
should be treated to welcome change
from the personality war fought for
so long by John Diefenbaker and
Lester Pearson. Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau and Robert Stanfield, exact op-
posites, or so it would seem, will
make interesting character studies
through the next few weeks.
Locally we are practically assured
that Bob McKinley will once again
carry the PC flag into the fray. As
for the Liberal choice only time will
tell although there is some thought
that candidate consistancy has been
lacking in the past—and Malt Edgar
has indicated he may be willing to
accept the nomination for yet an-
other go.
So we're off. In justwhat direc-
tion, no one can be certain until the
ballots are officially tabulated on
June 25.
For what it's worth, may we say
that we are looking forward to a
majority government this time.
All Help
all socially acceptable persons with
the same desire to live and enjoy
life. They ga bowling. They enter-
tain at banquets. They like to dance.
They understand the basics of a re-
ligious faith. They try to be well-
groomed and fashionably dressed.
In short these mentally handi-
capped persons are potentially use-
ful citizens with special problems and
special needs. How can we deny
them?
We urge all municipal councils in
the area to get behind the associa-
tion. Fear of becoming financially
involved should be the last reason to
keep council representatives at home.
Concentrated effort right now is to
educate community leaders and in-
terested persons in the needs of the
mentally retarded. A fund-raising
campaign in May is taken to all
householders in the district and
money realized will be earmarked for
a school.
Service clubs and church groups
with an eye out for projects to pro-
mote should jump at the chance to
get in on the ground . floor of a hu-
manitarian effort for the betterment
of all society. There's no easier way
to help—and certainly no 'surer meth-
od of giving of yourselves and your
assets for the future of this part of
Ontario.
Next meeting will be May 22.
Let's fill the auditorium of Exeter
Public School with people who want
to learn and are willing to shoulder
some responsibility.
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From
My Window
I just can't figure out what
is wrong with today's children.
Surely Fin not the only one who
has noticed they don't play
any more.
It's true, Modern day kids
do not play games any more —
at least they don't play games
the way we used to when we
were that age.
I'm not really old, you know.
Oh I admit there was not a
single television in the neigh-
borhod when I was a youngster
but that doesn't mean I was
born aboard the ark. We had
a radio (and not not with the
Huge trumpet either but a
streamline cabinet model). My
father drove a car. I had a
bicycle. There were records in
my circle of friends but heaven
knows I couldn't afford them.
So you can see that nay life
wasn't too unlike the lives of
my kids—except when I was
young I used to get up early,
get out of the house as fast
as I •could and play all day, to
dark or longer if I' could get
away with it. In spring we'd
build rafts and tree houses and
go fishing. Through sttmmer
we'd go swimming and play
"run sheep run" and pack
lunches and take hikes. Come
fall we'd collect seeds and watch
squirrels hiding nuts - and just
idle away hours and hours clown
by the railway tracks. Winter
days were really active with ice
rinks to build, igloos to plan,
trails to stalk and hills to con-
quer.
Days that I was at home un-
der my mother's feet were days
when I was too sick to do any-
thing else. I didn't do it be-
cause I enjoyed it.
At present the kids who fre-
By Shirley Keller
quent our house do little more
than sit. Whether they are
reading comics, watching TV,
playing records or just thinking
they always do it with the knees
sufficiently bent to allow the
rear end to be rested on the
nearest chair. My eldest son's
idea •of adventure is to hear
the first performance of a new
Monkee recording. High spot
in my daughter's life would be
to spend a solid uninterrupted
day just "messing around the
house" you know, a little of
this and a little of that and
nothing too invigorating.
Fact of the matter is, I'm
worried that such behavior is
not .considered abnormal by the
other mothers to whom I've
spoken. Most of my friends
have so Hauch togetherness with
their kids these days that they
can't sweep the carpet without
first asking that whole bodies
of reclined youths struggle to
their knees and crawl to the
side of the room before folding
helpless in a limp lump.
Then suddenly without warn-
ing the floppy figure pulls it-
self into a neat, rather hypnotic
stance in answer to the whine
of the radio or record player
It snaps its fingers, bobs its
head, flexes its wrists, bends
its knees rhythmically until the
music is done. Then it col-
lapses once more in a heap.
Maybe it is a ease of "weak
knees disease" as my huband
claims (that's a nice way of say-
ing laziness). I'm hoping it
isn't some severe form of mal-
nutrition or a -hideous effect of
this air pollution we hear so
much about. I live in hope
that aging is the cure.
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