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Zurich Citizens News, 1974-11-28, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1974 VJMAJL!ssi. pi BAG Zurich, Ontario. November 21, 1974, Zurich Citizens News, Zurich, Ontario. Dear Sir; On Wednesday evening we attended a very informative meeting in the Community Centre, at the invitation of our present reeve and council. The inclement weather, I am sure, kept a lot of our citizens from attending, for no doubt everyone should have been interested in such a meet- ing. Reeve Jack Turkheim asked our incoming reeve, Fred Habere, to explain why they thought it necessary to erect a new municipal office. He informed us that a new floor would be needed in the present severty-five year old building, as the joist were rotting and the furniture had to be re -arrang- ed. This has caused a cramped condition. When groups of people come to the office, they were obliged to borrow chairs from a neighbour to seat the visitors. Surely an enterprising village like Zurich, doesn't expect our young council to work under these conditions. He also told us that the Dep- artment of Highways was going to pave Highway 84 next sum- mer and build curbs along the side of the highway. Trees are going to be planted beside the highway and benches placed at intervals under the trees. Now a new council chamber, such as has been designed, would add greatly, to enhance the beauty of the highway, and let tourists, who travel on the highway judge us, as we are, an up and going village. Councillor Leroy Thiel was then asked to explain the plan for financing such a building. He said that if the vote by the property owners gave thein the go-ahead, the old wall now standing since the fire, would be demolished and the constr- uction of the new building would begin early in January. A government capital winter works project has promised to pay the full cost of labour to erect the building, from Jan- uary 1, to the end of May with a forgiveable loan of $55,500. This means that the cost of the new building to the average ratepayer would be approxim- ately $2.00 a year for 15 years. This seems to be too good to be true, but we were assured that it was a fact, The feeling of the meeting was unanimous, as no objectors to the project, if there are any, attended the meeting. Now property owners, let us get behind our reeve and councillors, and get out and vote "YES" on December 2, because if we don't accept this offer, some other munic- ipality will, and we will be helping to pay the loan for them. We hope to enjoy watching an unsightly corner of our village, become a place of beauty, for which all of us will be proud to say "I voted for this to be built." Dorothy Koehler Olive O'Brien. November 25, 1974 Zurich Citizens News,. Zurich, Ontario. Dear Editor; As a person who is interested in Zurich, and as a taxpayer also, but as one who won't be able to vote because of time and distance, I would like to give you my views in respect of the new building proposal. While I can sympathize with Mrs. Siebert's position I can also see clearly that it is based on short-sighted thinking. If the tax base in Zurich is to be protected and expanded, it is necessary that Zurich re- habitate its downtown area. Such rehabilitation usually prov ides the seed for further invest- ment and thus an expansion of the tax base. In other words, the few doll- ars each taxpayer will shell out each year for 15 years will provide for an improvement which will protect and probably enhance the present tax base and thus protect the investment and carrying cost of Zurich taxpayers. I vote yes. Quimby F. Hess Hensall, Ontario November 25/74 Zurich Citizens News Zurich, Ontario. Dear Mr. Editor: With the local municipal elections coining up, I am wondering if the electorate know what the issues are in respect to the Township of Hay. There has been no ratepayer's meeting. It could be said that very few would attend, perhaps this is due to the fact that the reports of Council to the local media is meagre and leaves little or no information as to what is really achieved in the meetings. The campaign is on and the incumbents are asking for your support based on the two years record and very few of the voters will have any idea what that is. This puts the incumb- ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385,Y41191111'1, Member: 1•' Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association "yam' l Subscription Rates: $5,00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15(t INCA Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association %. International Scene (by Raymond Cannon) FOOD OR THE LACK OF IT I have been seeing a great deal of commercials lately for cat and dog food all telling how great the particular brand was and how much nutrition there was in it. More out of curiosity than anything else, I went to one of the largest supermarkets in London to see how much animal food was on sale and, much to my surprise, there was a whole isle of the stuff. It was, in fact, one of the biggest single items in the store. The manager told me what I guessed already. There was a lot of it on the shelves because there was a demand for it. People may be going hungry but there are a lot of Canadian dogs and cats that are doing alright for themselves It wasn't long after that visit that I read that some people were buying cans of dogfood because they couldn't afford meat. If this is true, some- where along the line we have lost our sense of priorities. Perhaps someone can set me straight on this but I cannot help but wonder if some of the material going into dog and cat food could not be directed somehow for human consumpt- ion, both here and in other countries. If this could be done, maybe we should not be so fussy about what we feed our pets. As I recall it, any pet we had ate scraps from the table and somehow they all looked disgustingly healthy. Our collie lived on only scraps to the ripe old age, for a dog, of 16 and I cannot recall that any of the other pets we had were any less healthy. If I seem rather preoccupied with food, I think it is because we have to be these days. High food prices here in Canada and impending famine in other countries are making us consc- ious of food and its use. This is no differenct from oil. Last year we suddenly became aware of the fact that our traditional supplies of oil might disappear and there was a sudden drive to find new sources of energy and to not be so wasteful on the pretroleum products we did use. This year it is the turn of food and even more than oil ents and the aspirants on an equal campaign basis, voters then vote on a personality basis or regional choosing. I think if we look back a few years ago when the Zurich Chamber of Commerce and the local weeklies brought to light an impending disaster which could have happened in this area by the dumping of pois- onous waste from the refiner- ies from Sarnia into drilled wells in the Township. We all know that this brought the . largest crowd of ratepayers at a meeting in the Township Hall Needless to say the problem was resolved. I might add that I am not suggesting that there is any cover-ups in respect to the present Council. I thinka good example of good reporting to the media is the Exeter Council where it is reported almost verbatum. This creates an enlightened public. Unless we strive to make available all the probl- ems and the achievements of the Council, we will find our- selves into regional govern- ment and we will have nobody to blame but ourselves. (A Ratepayer) we have to consider whether we are wasting too much, eating too much or not growing, it as economically as we might or a combination of all three. It is interesting to note in this respect how much attent- ion is being paid to our excess- ive intake of food. I was rec- ently reading a report by Barb- ara Ward, the noted British economist, who pointed out that our consumption of food has increased since 1965 by 300 lbs. per person. It seems that in that year we ate on the average about 1,250 lbs of food a year and now that is up to close to 1,600 lbs.. This 3 00+ increase is about the same as an Indian or Pakistani eats all year long, Yet, says Barbara Ward, nobody claims that what we were eating in 1965 was in any way inadequate. The implication is that we would be able to cut back consiberably on what we eat without any harm whatsoever being done. It might even make us somewhat healthier. In this connection it is worth pointing out that if Canadians ate one less hamburger per week, one million tons of grain would become available to feed an additional five mill- ion people. I use this figure because that is precisely the amount of grain that Canada pledged at the recent World (continued on page 14) Banghart, xelly, 'Nig and Co. Chartered Accountants 268 Main St., Exeter ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner Bus. 235-0120, Res. 238-8075 Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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