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Zurich Citizens News, 1977-10-20, Page 4Page 4 Citizens News, October 20, 1977 Village churchyard cemetery — St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, Zurich. annnumnmmnunumunnumnnummutuummiliummo nmo nmulumumm un um multnummuumluuuu11ommur I: Viewpoint FdlllltlllunluuolunlumtuiWulnnuuwuunnulu111uluuuuntuuuNunmluuuulnulutuutnuliuuwunlunmmonlnnnnuluuuuulr Secondary plans important Municipalities in this area are becom- ing increasingly conscious of growth. Each watches the other, to see who gets what, where, when and how. Secondary plans are designed to guide growth. They are secondary only to the county's official plan, setting forth general policies on land use for all municipalities. They are more detailed: they get down to the nitty-gritty of local potentialities and limitations, establishing specific zones for agricultural, industrial and residential use. Often too, they must consider complex ecological problems. Study and discussion are fundamental. Municipal councils, county planning departments, county planning boards and residents all contribute before secondary plans are sent for final approval to the provincial government. After that, they are supposed to guide all decisions on local development, from land severances to sub- division pians and industrial expansion. Public workshops and meetings are held before secondary plans are made con- crete, so that residents may contribute as much as possible. That is the time to make suggestions, urge changes or raise objec- tions. Hensall and Hay and Stanley Township will be having public meetings and workshops about their secondary plans soon. Residents should note the dates for these and plan to attend them. Those who fail to do so will have no grounds for com- plaint if some day they don't like what they see around themselves. Drunk -proof carte A copy of the Canada Safety Council's bulletin a few weeks ago contained a photograph of a drunk -proof car. It was equipped with steel outriggers, roll bars, a rear -mounted gas tank and other devices to protect an intoxicated driver from injury. The drunk -proof car is used by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in a 12 -hour course for those con- victed of driving when inebriated. Those taking the course are eligible for reduced sentences. It includes films, talks, a quizz session, a breathalizer test after three standard drinks, and a ride in the drunk - proof car. All of this is intended to teach the offender to recognize the effects of his own drinking. Neither Australia nor Canada plans to market drunk -proof cars. In both countries, as in others, concern is mounting about the terrible annual loss of kin, friends and neighbours as a result of impaired driving. Alcohol and drugs are factors in half the deaths on Canadian roads. Our Criminal Cade provides fines, jail sentences, or both, for impaired driving. Unfortunately, these have not solved the problem. However high fines may be, some will simply pay them, then repeat their performances, endangering themselves and others. It would make a lot more sense to take away driving licences for a couple of years. Most of us would think twice then about taking chances. FIRST WITH LOCAI. NEWS Published Each Wednesday By J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd. GdiNA Manager — Betty O'Brien Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Editor — Margaret Rodger Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $7.O6 per year in advance in Canada $18.00 per year outside Canada Single copies 20a u lt111111U111 111lIl111111111111t111t1.111111111111111111g111t111111111111111 Etlit�r's Desk By MARGARET RODGER On ea'II ping 11111I11111U11111Iie Another camping season has ended, and not a bit too soon, as far as I'm concerned. I can still remember my first night in a tent, the summer I turned 12. An uncle, who was an old Army man, took us camping beside Lake Scugog in the Kawarthas. We slept in pup -tents, rolled up in a moth-eaten khaki blankets on piles of bristling cedar boughs. I hadn't been asleep more than 10 minutes before reveille sounded. "Daylight in the swamp!" is what he actually yelled. My feelings about camping have remained ambivalent, though I've been from coast to coast under canvas. It began in earnest when the children were small and we could af- ford no other kind of vacation. Our first family trip was memorable. We drove from Winnipeg to Kicking Horse Pass in a Volkswagen. Everything on wheels passed us. That car was so loaded the axle dragged on the highway. We even took a play -pen and a white enamel diaper -pail with us. The night at Kicking Horse Pass the temperature dropped to 32 degrees Fahrenheidt. We tried to insulate our camp -cots with wads of newspaper, but only ended up look- ing like orders from an English fish and chip shop. At Gull Lake in Alberta I woke to find the tent contrac- ting and expanding like an accordion and lit by blinding flashes of lightning. We spent .the rest of that night in the car, running the engine to keep warm, and swatting mos- quitoes. There are good things about camping, too. The com- radeship of other campers is one of these. On Prince Edward Island a French-Canadian couple took us clam - digging and taught us how to cook the catch. We did a lot of gesturing. Nobody was bilingual. We met a group of Polish people beside a Muskoka lake. What attracted our attention was the strange behaviour of the men. They were spaced along the shore, digging in the wet sand with their hands. They looked desperate. They had buried beer bottles to keep them cool, then hadn't been able to find them. There are people who should never go camping — the light sleeper or the worrier. That kind of person will not only hear all the things that go bump in the night but also imagine distant crackle of forest fires and grizzlies snuffl- ing at the tent flaps from dusk till dawn. Camping will ex- haust, rather than restore, such an individual. In our family, 1 was the one. While everyone else slept like logs in the Okanagan, I heard a single piercing scream. They told me it was likely a cougar — on the far side of the lake, of course. The very next night I was awakened by blood -curdling snarls and growls, just outside the tent. I was so scared I had to wedge both feet under a suit -case to look out. By then it had hidden itself. I woke my husband, just as the snarling and growling resumed. He glanced casually out the back window, then climbed back into his sleeping bag. "It's the guy next door", he said. "He's snoring." 75 Years Ago October 1902 A thunder storm, lasting nearly twelve hours, is a rare thing, even in summer time, but that is what this section experienced on Wednesday: Rain fell almost continuously, during the progress of the storm....Lightning struck the barn belonging to Thomas Turnbull, Sauble a 1. In e (near Bayfieldand the building together with contents was burned. Alfred Melick's barn on the Bronson was also struck but the damage there was light. 50 Years Ago October 1927 The new pump for the deep rock well recently sunk by our Police Trustees has arrived and has been very efficiently in - 1.0 moo vaw two wears Ago. .. stalled by Mr. Louis Prang, our local pump man. Dr. A.J. JacKinnon has pur- chased from C.Fritz and Sons a 1925 Ford coupe, which the Doctor will use in his practice. 25 Years Ago October 1952 Cold and wintery weather swept over this part of Canada over the weekend, with the first snow of the season, the mercury dropping down to 20 degrees, weathermen saycoldest the c des for this time of year for the last 64 years. Considerable damage is done to late harvests and apples onJhe trees. The Most Reverend John C. Cody, Bishop of the Diocese of London., confirmed 11 girls, 20 boys and two adults at St, Boniface R.C. Church, Zurich on Tuesday evening, and 20 girls, 22 boys and one adult at St. Peter's Church, St. Joseph.