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"~ OPINION Yes: 9 No: 6 There are some things parents and residents can do. When seeing incidents take place, they should immediately call 911 and leave their names. Police won‘t call at the residence but should have a point of contact. To its credit, the Haltor Board of Education has donated space in the new Iroquois Ridge High School for a community police office and one resident has also suggested a School Watch system be set up. Under this scheme, stuâ€" dents look out for their peers. Police are aware of this problem and it bears close monitoring. The stories are chilling and could just as easily be coming from any large Canadian or American inner city area. Parents and concerned residents at a recent Iroquois Ridge Community Consultation Committee meeting told attending police officers of threats being made against children and intimidaâ€" tion at the hands of a group of kids hanging out at Grosvenor Street and Avondale Drive. A teenaged boy, having been drawn into a group finds himself in hospital after taking drugs and now, after breaking away, fears for his personal safety and that of his family. Do you think the Canadian Football League will survive the next five years? residents and the police nip it in the bud, it could rapidly degenerate into a fullâ€"scale problem revolving around youth gangs. For those in Oakville who think racism and aggressive teens are not a probâ€" lem in this town, the front page story in today‘s paper ends that myth. There is a troubling mood in the Iroquois Ridge area of town and unless Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager The Oakville Beaver, fiublhhed every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, at 467 re Rd., Oakville, is one of the Metroland rlminua, Publishing Distributing Ltd. group of suburban newspapers which includes: Ajax-P?olwlnq News Advertiser, Barrie Advance, Brampton Guardian, Burlington Post, Colli Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, Georgetown Independent/ Acton Free Press, Kingston This Week, Lindsay This Week, am Economist and Sun, Stoutfville/Uxbridge Tribune, Milton Canadian Champion, Mississauga News, Newmarketâ€"Aurora Eraâ€"Banner, North York Mirror, Oakville Beaver, Orillia Today, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, Peterborough This Week, Richmond HilV ThomhilVVaughan Liberal, Scarborough Mirror. 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In the event of typographical error, advertising goods or services at the wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely i In an interesting bit of twisted logic, the lawyer further suggested the taxâ€" deduction for the paying spouse is to act as "an incentive" to pay child supâ€" port. No doubt this will garner a laugh from the thousands of spouses, the overwhelming majority of them women, who have to chase their husbands for money every month. It‘s a matter of record that upwards of 75 per cent of divorced men don‘t pay child support at all and must be constantly harassed for payments. The feds claim the case is based on sound legal principlé. In fact, like anyâ€" thing to do with Canadian tax law, when they say it‘s not the money but the principle of the thing....it‘s the money. In this case, Ottawa is double dipping into pockets without money. They have taxed the paying spouse before the money goes in the bank and then they tax it again when this same money is handed over in child support. It‘s a clasâ€" sic Canadian tax ripâ€"off and this time, the losers are children. Characteristically, the government lawyer said the Income Tax Act doesn‘t discriminate against custodial parents intentionally. How grotesque to see the Canadian government putting its pecuniary interâ€" est above those of spouses and children left in the wake of marital breakâ€"ups. A lower court ruled that Thibaudeau had a case. It said the government was guilty of discrimination in taxing the money while at the same time permitting the paying spouse to claim the amounts as a tax deduction. The government appealed the ruling and on Tuesday, Thibaudeau‘s lawyer argued her case before seven members of the Supreme Court. ment is bringing all legal guns to bear on Susan Thibaudeau and her claim that she shouldn‘t have to pay tax on child support payments from her ex husband. It should come as no surprise to most Canadians that their federal governâ€" Misplaced priorities INFOSOURCE Worth watching MBR '5585 the next Friday editi Beaver. RESULTS OF LAST WEEK‘S POL 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 354 Connection, Etobicoke Guardian, Georgetown Ir;drmend'ehv Acton Free Press, Kingston This Week, Lindfl:x This Week, Markham Economist and Sun, Stoutfville/Uxbridge Tribune, Milton Canadian Champion, Mississauga News, Callers have until 12 noon Thursday to register their vote. Results of the poll will be published in the next Friday edition of the Oakville Do you think Canada‘s social programs need radical changes as outlined in a posiâ€" tion paper by Lloyd Axworthy this week? Cast your ballot by calling 845â€"5585, box 5008 to vote. Ontario Police Commission chairman R. P. Milligan said, "In most cases the commission feels that police depanmems operate more successfully under a police commission." The Ontario Police Commission was asked to conâ€" duct an investigation into the affairs of the Oakville Police Department after dissension between the Oakville Police Association and the department adminâ€" istration reached major proportions. There are 1,213 children of preâ€"school age, 5 years and under, of whom 1106 are the children of public school supporters, the remainder being supporters of the Separate school board. 30 years ago The Ontario Police Commission, in its report to Oakville Council on the town police department, has recommend the establishment of a police commission to replace the council police committee. The venture, which would mean the villages biggest and main business would be servicing and harboring pleasure craft for the wealthy is the brainchild of Harry Greb, owner of Northern Marine Company, and Bronte‘s top industrialist for many years. Before the huge harbor program can take shape, the promoter must get the Lakeside Park concession, as he plans to place concrete piers and a promenade on that side of the harbor, as well as on the north side of it. The quarter million dollar improvement would include an inner harbor, to be gouged out of the present dump site. It would be big enough to turn around the largest lake yachts. Through his agent, Greb has also offered to build a modern food concession to serve as a restaurant for both park users and yachtsmen. Oakville‘s population jumped by nearly 1,000 in the past year, according to the annual report of Percy L. Spurgeon, assessment commissioner. It is now 9,111, which is 989 more than in 1953, a 12.17% increase. 40 years ago n offer to invest $250,000 in piers, promenades, A[an inner harbor and spacious costly clubhouse acilities may result in Bronte becoming lake Ontario‘s yachtsmen‘s Mecca. Bronte seen as Mecca for boaters with plans for harbor development Two constables were suspended from duty after Alook back at the events that made headines in Oakvile. Snow said he was "shocked to read a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail , which said he had annoyed the Queen by touching the small of her back and her elbow as he guided her through a ribbonâ€"cutting cereâ€" mony at Ambherstview. Snow said the Queen told him after a dinner recepâ€" tion on Her Majesty‘s Royal Yacht, the Brittania, and assured him she was not perturbed by what the British press were labeling a Royal gaffe. Snow said he also received word from the Royal press secretary reassuring him the Queen was not upset. "Now I certainly can‘t recall touching her back, but I can‘t guarantee that I may or may not have touched her elbow," he said, acknowledging he was not aware of strict British protocol which forbids touching the Queen, unless he offers her hand. 10 years ago Oakville MPP Jim Snow made headlines in the British press for allegedly touching the Queen during a Royal visit at Amherstview, near Kingston. One London tabloid newspaper, the News of the World â€" which Snow compared to the National Enquirer â€" denounced the alleged touching by Snow under the headlines Hands Off Our Queen. The main problem, he said, is land prices. "Actual building costs have not gone up that much, but the land component has." The rights of the constables to refuse the exams was later upheld by the Supreme court of Canada. 20 years ago Until there are people sleeping in their streets, town council will not take the housing problem seriously, according to Willis Collinson, former member of the Oakville housing advisory committee. He has resigned from the committee because of the "futility" of trying to solve the housmg problem on the local level. Collinson is a consulting engineer who has been involved in land development in Oakville for the past 19 years. they refused to take physical exams as proposed by Police Chief Fred Oliver who received the support from Oakville Council.