Zurich Citizens News, 1977-11-17, Page 4Pape 4 Citizens News. November 17. 1977
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Very confusing
The confusion about what powers coun-
cil has over the installation of sanitary
sewers is rather indicative about the
problems which municipal governments
find themselves in when dealing with the
higher-ups in Queens Park and Parliament
Hill.
While this example is not the most bla-
tant, considering the fact that the present
Clerk -treasurer has held her position for
only a few months and that members of
council deal with a large volume of
material, it nevertheless serves to point
out the increasing complexities which local
governments have to untangle.
Take for example the number of
governmental agencies that the village had
to deal with when the construction of
sanitary sewers was begun: the Ministry of
the Environment, Ministry of Housing,
Transportation and Communications,
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Treasury,
Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs,
and quite probably a whole lot more.
Municipal clerks dread the time period
between December and March when infor-
mation for the preparation of next year's
budget must be gathered from about three
different sources; the village, the county
and the provincial government and then
assembled into something which council
can understand.
While many civil liberty groups across
the country have been. -vocal in their sup-
port for a nation-wide freedom of informa-
tion
act, its the clerks and treasurers of
this province that should have had such a
piece of legislation 15 years ago!
Curtails accessibility
Members of the Ontario legislature
should be commended for their support of
Remo Mancini's private members bill
which called for the raising of drinking age
from 18to1�.
One of the overlooked offshoots of this
i.iove is that a reduction in drinking, on
behalf of minors, should in the longterm be
reduced. In these days where the number of
credits obtained and not the number of
years spent at a high school is the impor-
tant consideration, you won't find an
overabundance of students who are 19 and
still in high school.
Its fairly easy for a 15 year old to ap-
proach an upperclassmen who is 18, give
him a few dollars and ask for a bottle of his
favorite libation; it takes a lot more in-
testinal fortitude to ask a stranger on the
street to make a, slight detour to the
nearest LCBO or Brewer's Retail outlet.
Accessibility is the key word. Some
minors might do everything within their
power to obtain alcohol, but the vast ma-
jority who drink at that tender age, would
not do so if there were enough roadblocks
put up everytime they felt like having 'a
cold one' or' a shot for the road'.
This paper finds it hard to believe
Premier Davis' decision to postpone the
implementation of a new drinking age until
a legislative committee has looked into the
matter. Studies by both private and
governmental bodies have recommended
the raising of the drinking age. It would
appear that the end result of another
legislative committee would decide what
has already been decided; that the drinking
age should be raised.
• While it is irresponsible to pursue a
course of action that is not fully
documented, this is one area where more
than enough data already exists, on which a
valid decision can be made and has been
made.
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Miscellaneous
Rumblings
By
TOM CREECH
Auto
Mania
It is with this column that 1, Thomas Paul Creech bare
to the world my undying love for what was originally known
as a horselesscarriage but these days is referred to as a car.
I love cars ; I've hada mad infatuation with these bits
of metal, plastic and rubber ever since I can remember.
One of my favorite baby pictures (yes, I have favourite
baby pictures) is my dad holding me up by my arms in front
of the 46 Ford. I can remember as clear as yesterday clim-
bing up over the running boards. and on to seat cushions 18
inches high into the family car.
The family car for the early part of my life was a black
two door 1948 Ford with a beige cloth interior. If memory
serves me correct the heater in that car was a unit unto
itself; if I had my old clothes on, I could sit on the floor with
most of my body directly in front of the heater without un-
duly interfering with my dad's driving abilities.
Young boys at one time in their life develop an affec-
tion for airplanes; reading all the books that the library
had, building plastic models and the best trick of all, con-
structing those balsa wood, rubber band powered machines
that with some luck, could just make it over top of the hydro
wires.
Within a few yeafs I returned to my senses and got back
to my cars. It should be explained at this juncture that
where I live is but the proverbial stone's throw away from a
new and used car dealer. My big entertainment for the
summer was to walk across the road and watch these mul-
ticoloured vehicles being unloaded from the same old blue
and yellow car transporter.
Seeing autos in the flesh is nice, if you view them simp-
ly as a device to get from point A to point B, but if you at-
tach more significance to autos you soon realize that the
printed word and the photographic medium -offer a more
rewarding experience. Images are only as good as your
mind is vivid; a photographic image is permanent, you can
go over and over it with each time, revealing something
different.
Popular Science found its way into my home for about
four years, Car and Driver and Road and Truck have been
regular visitors at the Creech household (at my bequest)
for nine years.
For a first year course in journalism at Western, we
could do essays on practically anything we wanted ... take
a guess what my two were on.
One would think that a person that's as bonkers about
cars as this columnist is, something exotic and exciting
would be sitting in front of fhe Citizens News office ... all
you'll see is a rusted out 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 with a 104,-
000 miles on it.
By the way did I tell you about the birthday party that I
had for the Ford?
Maybe another time.
25 Years Ago
Much praise 'and
congratulations were showered
on the Dashwood Tigers, O.B.A.
Intermediate D semi-finalists,
Tuesday night.
The annual meeting and
community service of the Zurich
branch of the Western Ontario
Bible Society was held in the
Evangelical church on Sunday
evening with a very large at-
tendance and much enthusiasm
was manifest.
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T eowerful winds of the
e
recent storm of Friday last did its
toll along Lake Huron, never
before had these residents seen
the waves so large and hungry
eating up the banks along the
shores, with tons of earth falling
into the water only to be con-
sumed. It was the last of the old
piers at St. Joseph, erected
around the beginning of the
Years
Ago...
century, the last cribbing was
lifted and carried out of sight
down the lake. The water at this
point has @aten its way up nearly
to the bank.
10 Years Ago
Huron county council approved
the recommendation of the
finance and executive committee
that a grant of $26,000 be made to
the Blue Water Rest Home.
Decision to make the grant came
after a very close vote of 21-18
with Goderich's four votes being
in favor.
Finishing touches are being
g
applied to the almost renovated
Zurich arena.
Drew George Blackwell, son of
Rev. and Mrs. A.C. Blackwell of
Zurich has been awarded a
Rotary Foundation Fellowship
for graduate studies in Nigeria.
At the present time Mr. Black-
well is doing graduate work at
Harvard University.
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