WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEIDNESDAY, MARCH I 1j981, PAGE 9 Between You and Me By RUTH COLES 'JJa Just a few comments this week about one thing and another, from fish huts to vandalism. I am so pleased to read about the task force set up in Whit- by to evaluate the two reports and to review past accom- plishments in regard to the handicapped. After writing about the handicapped a couple of years-ago I see it all in a dif- ferent light. It's not the same as having friends who are in this position as you really know them so well that you accept it all without much thought but when you meet strangers who are willing to discuss it at great length, something you rarely do with friends it gives you an idea of just how it is. You realize too how easy it can be to improve existing con- ditions. It amazes me how most of us walk up and down cur- bs for instance without thought of the handicapped. Why when curbs were first made did no one think of people who could not take that step? Why didn't shopping malls have parking spaces close to entry doors? The first time I saw these spaces in the United States it hit me like a bolt of light- ning. How easy and how simple. Why didn't we have them at home? Just a can of paint, a brush and a few printed words. This was a long time ago and now I have handicapped friends who are able to drive but are unable to walk far and make their way through a busy parking lot and I feel now we are very remiss. I enjoyed reading about our local book store in a Toronto paper. For the first time in my life I have been too busy to drop in other than a couple of times. What I mean is that un- der ordinary circumstances I'd be there often buying books and browsing as I find it almost impossible to walk by a book store- without going in. No matter how I tell myself, "No books today, just browse and wait for another day," I still see a book I must have. There comes a time in one's life when enough is enough even when it comes to books but that is a lesson I have yet to learn. Whitby has needed a well-run, well-stocked book store and now we have it right on Brock St. Books make wonderful gif- ts, especially for children and I hope this store will carry many with Canadian content. A couple of weeks ago we wrote about ice fishing on Lake Simcoe which after a short season is I think over. After the Beta Sigma Phi seling For many of us, flo are a symbol of beauty through the ages, flo have been used for so r purposes. They havî spired paintings and po they have been used medicine, in perfumes even in food. One flower in particu of a special significan the Canadian Ca Society; the daffodil. V the daffodil grows wi most parts of Europe, i become the Society's blem flower; the symb hope. Daffodils com year after year, symbol the rebirth of life. With it . comes daffodils 'wers Canadian Cancer Society's , but annual fund raising cam- wers paign in which members of many the Beta Sigma Phi sorority e in- will be selling daffodils at ems; local mails and plazas on J for April 2, 3 and 4, 1981. and Each person is one in an lar is army of people working ce to together waging an ail-out incer war, trying to rid the world While of this dreaded disease. Id in Cancer is not one disease, t has but a group of more than 100 em- different ones. Research ol of money wiil help to increase e up ourunderstanding of can- izing cer, and to develop new and better methods of preven- the tion and possible cure. SPRING BABY PHOTO CONTEST SPONSOREDBYTHE Whitby Jaycettes First 50 snapshots. 3 x 5" will be accepted. Babies under 3 years old as of December 31, 1980 are eligible Display will be set up in front of the "Whitby Malt Florists" in the WHITBY MALL from March 25 to April 8 Voting by the public during Malil hours One penny dropped in the container registers one vote Winners will be announced on Tuesday. April 14 a ithe Whitby Public Library, Program Roorm a 7 30 p m Bank Saving Certificates to be awarded to the top three babies First place winner will also receive a gift from The Wooden Toy Co. Oshawa A $1 00 entry fee must accompany the entry form Send a stamped, self addressed envelope if photo is to be returned Baby's Name Birth Date Parents' Name Address (Street) Phone Number whiib 'o , 1. iC "tes! M.'. So, A- '5 i 26 E anC~ w ouiO' a. p.,.. . ~.,Isss'WHITE3r jj4 F"E . A 'b Ma- y dehve, t ByMa' 'UM'1%1 Sex Town Fish huts to vandalism mild weather the top surface started to melt which means that when a freeze comes again the hut is frozen in. The ice under the top water may be two or three feet thick but this has no bearing on what happens on the surface. Most probably the few remaining huts will have to be demolished as it becomes virtually impossible to remove them. The law requires that they be removed by March 15 before the usual thaw begins. If not removed the debris can be hazardous when the boating season starts. We hear now that security will be beefed up to stop or more likely slow down vandalism in the schools. Maybe a good philosophy is, reason over passion which we will write about at a later date. This applies to dealing with vandals and a lot of us are very tired of bleeding hearts, passion over reason. A lot of tax payers are tired of paying the piper, in fact one could say all tax payers are sick to death of it. I for one would rather see my tax dollars go towards helping the handicap- ped. I am very tired of hearing about all these.people leaving Ontario for the west. Certainly people move out west; remember the oft repeated statement, "go west, young man, go west." Over the years young men have gone west for ad- venture, excitement and just a change of scene. I have known many of them. They didn't leave because there was nothing for them here; they left for the above reasons. Corporations send their young executives all over the coun- try and many of them to the west. Take a husband, wife and four children, six in all, sent to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary or Regina. So one could say, "At one o'clock today six Ontarians boarded a plane for the west, how awful." Add to-that a few retired couples who want to enjoy milder weather in their old age and maybe hundreds of young people off on a lark and what have you got? High figures which can be made to say anything. Ambitious young men and maybe some not so young will go where the action is and eve-yone is not into the same action. I have two nephews who left Ontario not for reasons given in the papers these days but because their type of work, aeronautical engineering and their own specialties were in great demand on the west coast. Their expertise was such that they would be able to specialize and expand their horizons. They could have done the same.thing here but to a lesser degree so it would not be wholly true to say they had left for the reasons being given now by politicians. Ontario is a province of great potential and there is no limit to how far people can go. Let's give credit where credit is due and let none of us downgrade our province for self gain or any other reason. Many of these statements about Ontarians should be qualified. Statistics often distort the truth and can be made to prove anything. To find the complete picture one has to have all the statistics and again one can say, reason over passion. 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