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North York Library's Foreign Book Collection] From headquarters in the basement of Willowdale Li- brary Ukranian-bom Karpo Mykytczuk correspond; with book publishers all over the world to build up North York Public Library's for- eign book collection. eign book collection. His contacts range from Bucnos Aircs to Budapest, but Mr. Mykytczuk is also in touch with Toronto rcp- resentativcs of book publish- ers in Communist countries and with foreign language Each of the fourteen 1i- braries has a selection of foreign language titles. These are rotated from branch to branch to give the public access to a maximum number of books. Any book from the foreign language book stores throughout the collection is available to the city. “Each country is different, branch and thcre are different channels of communication on request; the will send out to other libraries to find the book. public “Each country is different, and there are different channels of communication to find the latest books pub- lished and how we can get them," explains Ml: Mykyt- czuk, who is head of the library‘s foreign language section. A decision and a proposal at the first 1973 meeting of Richmond Hill Town Council gives us and many residents cause for deep con- cern. The first is council's decision to hold one meeting a month in the afternoon, despite the fact that Regional Councillor Lois Hancey pointed out that it would be detri- mental to the regular employment of one councillor and that that councillor had stood for office on the understanding that council meetings would be held in the evenings. She felt that any change in the rules of the game should have been made before the recent elections so that all candidates for office would be aware of them. We agree. The foreign book collec- tion comprises books in 910- ven languages. Canada be- ing a bilingual country, the library‘s regular collection contains titles in both Eng- lish and French. and French titles number nearly 8000. a The reason given for the change in accepted usage was that more public participation was needed in council proceedings and that an afternoon meeting would .make it possible for more people to attend, particularly housewives. Mrs. Hancey questioned the truth of this statement, since the house- wives with whom she talked had expressed preference for an even- ing meeting, so that their hus- bands could baby sit. Again we agree. The public will only attend council meetings when they are personally interested in legislation being considered, when they form part of a delegation or when solic- inting financial aid for some worthy cause and the evening is definitely more convenient for the great majority of residents. uuu yvlllrtn».\u - -.. __. ven languages. Canada bc-‘dale Library lists such lan- ing 8 bilingual COUMI‘S'. the guages as Bengali, Estonian, library's regular collection Chinese, Macedonian, Sans- contains titles in both Eng- krit. Serb and Slovak. lish and French. and French“ titles number nearly 8,000. ling for a book in a foreign The largeSt foreign lan- language." Mr. Mykytczuk guage collection is of Ital-says. "People should not ian books with nearly 3,000 hesitate to ask any question \lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllill“lllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllilllllll ~F llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll“llllllllllllllllllill“lllllillllllllllllllllllllllll“llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllll\illllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllilllllill "No-one must be shy ask-- and Aleluyeva's Twenty Let- ters to a Friend. Owing to lack of space, few of these books can be kept out on shelves except at Willowd-ale. The way to get a foreign language book not on the shelves is to ask for it. Upera", and Fields title! 16 mm films are also available. A short operating lesson on the projector is included in the service charge when loaning this specific piece of equipment. Come in to the library, take a look at the film titles. and do enquire at the film desk for further information. 8mm and 16mm films may be borrowed free of charge ‘town's centennial year, The‘ by adults at the main library on Wright Street. ‘ fair will be celebrating itsl Great for children's parties, too! Did you know that? ‘ 124th anniversary this year i JUSI Ulan U1 lue pUbaimuucb Win: a vv.\/ The new fair board presi- dent, George Ledson, re- ports that the threeâ€"day pro- gram is progressing well, with many additional fea- tures planned for this, the‘ sure their sarekeepmg anu for the “edification of posterity.” The motion to follow up the society's request was moved by Councillor Ab Hollingshead and second- ed by Councillor James Cameron. lLUWCVCL , Aull Iluyvu, enough money for a third, and longer expedition. “This time I will direct the search and not take as active a part in the digging”, he said. And, who knows, maybe he WILL BE the one to find at least part of the soâ€"called “ecclesiastical treas- ure of Lima”, whose value has been estimated at somewhere between $60 and $100 million. uv-uv “ma , vv l‘lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll“\llllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'F We disagree with Mrs. Hancey’s attempt to have future election days scheduled for the first week in October, as a method of bring- ing out more voters to the polls. It is our contention that voters will turn out in great numbers in municipal elections, only if there is a major issue involved, if taxes soar or if the whole populace is dissatisfied with the work of council. Proof of this contention was the moving, some years ago, of election day in Richmond Hill to a Saturday, instead of a Monday, to enable more commuters to exercise the franchise municipally. Although public interest and pai‘ticipation was not too eviâ€" dent at the polls in the recent municipal election, it is de- finitely on the increase. More and more people are becoming deeply concerned with the N A Tithe liberal \‘ ‘ ” p O 0 1.; Q‘ 0 f“ 2 quality of our environment and of our way of life. As evidence of this are the recent concerned citizens' fights against the Spadina Expressway in Toronto. the proposed hydro towers in King Township and the contin- uing protests against the pro- posed major airport in Picker- ing Township. In these cases the conflict had progressed to the stage of each side having taken firm positions and whatever the decision there will be disappointment and hard feelings. The cost of negotiat- ing such positions to a satis- factory conclusion is vcry ex- pensive in time. physical efforts and economics. The negative side comes to the fore in such a situation and the silent ma- jority remains silent. not wish- ing to get involved. iThey are more likely to get involved if given the opportunity before confrontation.) THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1973 onfrontation 13 Increasing Public Interest But Is’nt Providing Good Solutions By MARY DA\VSON T\_ An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ¢ 0 Subscription Rate $6.00 per year; to United States $7.00; 15¢ Single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Division of Burlington Printing Co. Ltd. Afternoon Meetings October Elections W. S. COOK, Publisher “Second class mail, registration number 0190” titles, reflecting the large Italian-speaking community in the borough. Next largest is German; then Hungarian, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Uk- ranian, Russian, Finnish, Latvian, and Portuguese. Each of the fourteen 1i- braries has a selection of Besides the library’s own collection there is access to books in almost any lanâ€" guage through an inter-lib- rary loan system with other Metropolitan Toronto Li- brari‘es. From Afrikaans to Welsh the file at Willow- dale Library lists such lan- guages as Bengali, Estonian, Chinese. Macedonian. Sans- krit. Serb and Slovak. DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS For the past 19 years the Re- gional Development Councils have served the Ontario Gov- ernment as a consistent forum of public participation. These councils are open to member- ship by municipalities, corpora- tion and interested citizens and held public meetings to get the grass roots feeling on many subjects. Funds for these came from the provincial government but were discontinued at the end of 1972 and it is planned to re- place them with five large sub- provincial planning areas. Ad- visory groups funded totally by the province and staffed by provincial civil servants will be- come the method of seeking public participation. Deeply concerned about this drastic change. the Central 0n- tario Development Council with municipal councils and citizens groups held a “Voice In Govern- ment Conference" at the Holi- day Inn in Rexdale November 9 and 10, with the theme of public participation. Following the conference a brief containing its main find- ings was presented to Premier Voting numbers did not increase appreciably because of this move, nor would they increase any more with an October voting date. Nor do we believe that Mrs. Hancey’s suggestion that the newly-elected council become a committee with certain powers until the first of the year, with the incumbent council empowered to deal with matters contained in that year’s budget only, would work. ' Granted it worked well in Richmond Hill in 1970 when the candidates elected in October planned for the advent of regionalâ€" ization, but as Mayor William Lazenby pointed out, it did not work as well in other municipal- ities. Since campaigning would prob- ably get well under way in August with an October election, and since sitting councillors who did not win re-election might understandably lose interest in the town’s bus- iness, the municipality could be saddled with what one councillor described as a “lame duck” council â€" a most ineffective body. And added to this would be a quarter of a year's salary for the council-elect. Since it is now common practice to pay members of council, it would be unrealistic to expect those elected to serve a quarter of a year without recom- pense. We recognize the fact that they would learn a lot about municipal business in the three-month per- iod, so that they would be more capable of dealing with town bus- iness when their term of office begins, but since it is highly likely that the majority of the new council will be experienced people, the work should not suffer too much while the tyros are learning the r0pes. A case in point is the 1973-74 council which is composed of five returnees and four new- comers, probably the highest ratio of new to old which will ever occur. Two of the newcomers are heads of successful businesses and the other two have extensive bus- iness experience to bring to the consideration of town business on a larger scale. FIVE LARGE AREAS With library staff who between them can speak thirty-three languages, there is little need to be shy! ‘Most European languages .are well represented by the istaff, and there are even some who speak Middle- Eastern. Indian and Eastern |languages. at all. Once they have asked for a book, it is the library staff's problem to find it." The spine of each lan- guage collection is the classical literature of the language, plus modem books and translations from other languages. Bocacchio's De- Came-ron in Ukranian, Dos- toevsky in Italian and Goe- the in Dutch are typical of the classical translations which rub shoulders with translations from the Cana- dian best-sellers list like Arthur Hailey's Airport, Pasternak's Dr. Zchivago and Aleluyeva‘s Twenty Let- ters to a Friend. William Davis of Ontario. The brief suggested several guide- lines to ensure participation by a wide sector of the population. PAST DIFFICULTIES Douglas Fisher, general man- ager, Erie Economic Council. spoke on “Past Difficulties", noting that the development councils have encouraged a dia- logue between citizens involved in private enterprise and those elected to govern, through al- most two decades. He agreed with the idea of having five large sub-provincial planning areas to help plan this province but for people particiâ€" pation he does not agree those areas should be used for they are far too large for meaningful participation. “If participation is to be meaningful it should be on a voluntary basis to reflect the views of all citizens and not be run by a bureaucracy of pro- vincial civil servants“. he m_ain- tained. The only practical solution to acquiring an input of what the people really want is many con- versations on specific subjects. Mr. Fisher believes. “You can- not talk to big business and say this is the public. You cannot talk to organized labor and say GRAND TOUR! Dear Mr. Editorâ€" Why don‘t more people obtain dog licenses in Rich- mond Hill? Last week I thought I would be a good citizen and obtain a license for our new puppy. Here's what happen- ed. After some confusion re- garding direction. I entered a front office in Richmond Hill's Town Hall, where a competent young lady was intent on receiving calls on a brightly lit switchboard. I waited. After several min- utes, she removed the re- ceiver from the hook to as- sist me. Yes, I was in the right office. l I Didn't Know That! Obtaining the necessary papers from a nearby desk, and after answering a few more calls. she took down all the particulars regarding my dog, tore off a white slip of paper and when I pro- ceeded to hand her my money. she shook her head and told me I would have to go down the hall to the second door on my left to pay the cashier. A young visitor to Black Creek Pioneer Village tries to strike up an acquaintance with one of the permanent residents. The brief encounter is snapped by Amateur Photographer Glen Bowe of Agincourt, in this award winning photo. The photo was this year’s first black and white entry in the annual Black Creek Pioneer Village Photo Contest for black and white and color slides. Top winner in the color slide category was Marion Palmer of Willowdale for her entry of the village in winter. The contest is open to amateur photographers only. (News of the Richmond Hill Public Library System) Are you a host or hostess with imagination? Do you want to give that interesting. yet different party? Try working a costume theme for your guests around a “Funny Flicks of the Forties" party, or "Those Were The Days in 8 mm" night. As most people who have pro- jectors in their home. own an 8 mm, the list of films available in that media is quite extensive. One title which still appeals to adults is "Our Gang Comedies“. Great fun's in store with “Laurel And Hardy”, “Charlie Chaplin", “Great Moments From The Phantom Of The Opera", and just think of the possibilities with a WC. Fields title! Hey, Mr. Pig - What's Your Hurry! through the second door on my left I went. The office I found myself in had a long counter behind which sat two young ladies with their backs to the public (Why were their desks posi- tioned this way? I thought.) I cleared my throat a couple of times. I tried shuffling my boots on the mat. Good! One of the young ladies rose from her seat. Service at last! But. alas. she flitted past me and disappeared through an adacent doorway. this is the public. You cannot talk to pressure groups. form- ed to promote a specific cause, and say this is the public". Interested people from all sections of the population will make their contribution, he said. because they are truly concerned. Slowly the remaining lady turned and was surprised to see me. I informed her I had come to pay for a dog license. Taking my slip of paper and money she wrote out a receipt. Keeping one copy for herself she gave Governments must keep try- ing! the speaker stated. Having been given the oppor- tunity to speak, the public must be ready to enter the conversa- tion with something worthwhile to contribute. Otherwise, the dialogue is likely to end from lack of participation. There- fore as many citizens as possible must have preliminary informa- tion on which to base the con- versation. That’s what citizen involvement in government is all about! according to Mr. Fisher. ln concluding Mr. Fisher warned that without the com- plete understanding and enth- usiastic support of local gov- ernment, private enterprise and the ordinary citizen. implemen- tation of the Design for Development in Ontario will be most difficult. LOSING OUR VOICE “Losing Our Voice" was the iné'one copy and told me to take the remaining pink slip back to the front office. Out I trudged again, through the doorway. down the hall and back into the front office I was not so fortunate this time. I had to wait while others were being looked after before Down the hall and handing the receptionist my pink paper. Finally I was handed a small insignificant piece of tinâ€"THE LICENSE. In a city where I lived previously. once a year all the people having dogs (this information was found in the census reportl received a letter stating that their dog’s license was due, please forward payment and a tag would be sent out. Everyone still having a dog either obâ€" tained a license or was fin- Wouldn‘t this system work here? But I guess one would miss out on the grand tour of our town hall then- wouldn't one? Most frustrated. RUTH ALBIGHTON, 36 Sussex Avenue, Richmond Hill. Choose Queen May II At Fair A feature of this year's Richmond Hill Spring Fair and Horse Show will again be the choosing of a "Queen" from the fairest young ladies of the commun- ity. The fair is scheduled for May 11, 12 and 13, the queen will be selected Fri- day evening and will present prizes and awards on the other two days. The Rich- mond Hill Fair Queen will go on to the CNE to partici- pate in the “Sweetheart of the Ex“ Contest. Entries will be received by Fair Secretary Barbara Keyzer, PO Box 81. Richmond Hill. topic of Dr. John Farina of the Faculty of Social Work, Univer- sity of Toronto. He believed citizen feedback could be en- couraged by a two-way process â€"not simply putting out in- formation 'Jut encouraging reâ€" sponse with feedback built into polls, hot line radio. audio- visual discussion groups, state- ment of concern on invitation to submit written or verbal briefs. This would be followed by con- sultation where planners, gov- ernment or its agencies meet with citizens, both parties hav- ing something to contribute to mutual benefit. “Consultation only makes sense when open. honest. flex- ible and with respect seeking out opposing views and treat- ing them as worthy of considera- tion". he said. DISSATISFACTION Walter Steinkrauss. a project manager with the Metro Trans- portation Plan Review reported that over the last decade there has been increasing dissatisfac- tion on the part of citizens with their lack of involvement and direct participation in decision making which significantly affects their daily lives. Despite this. he noted a not- mun“ummmummummuuuunuuumummnmuumm Information Canada. the Liberal Government's big white elephant seems intent on proving that all the bad things written. said. and thought about bureaucracy are true Information Canada began as a consolidation of the many information and public relations departments con- nected with the government. It soon became apparent, however, that far from con- solidating. the new agency was building up parallel services. Its greatest weak- ness seemed to be a lack of information to dispense, since existing sevices were in charge of what informa- tion there was. But this proved only temporary. Ottawa’s Big White Elephant Information Canada leaped this hurdle with an imagina- tive resourcefulness t h a t would have done Pro. Park- inson‘s heart good. Lacking information to pass out. it came up with the idea of passing out the same infor- mation to new people. Hence the decentralization program. which sent out transient in- formation officers. The un- stated motto appears to be “if you don‘t want informa- tion, we’ll cram it down your throats." Mllllmlllmlll“lullllllllllllllllllllll!lIll!“lll“llllll\llll\|l\l\l\ll Regine Gentemann, ‘a grade 5 pupil at McConaghy Public School, has written the following report of that school's Centennial Flag raising. Regine lives at 26 Arnold Street. Pupil's View Flag Raising January 15, 1913. was a memorable morning fof' all of us at M. L. McConag’hy School. It was the morning of McConaghy's Centennial Flag raising. The pupils and teachers of the school went down to the auditorium and our sen- ior choir sang, “The Town of Richmond Hill". After that Principal John Hincks introduced three people from the town‘s Centennial committeeâ€"Mrs. Pat Hart. Floyd Perkins and Robert Warner. Then the whole school went out to the cenotaph and while Mayor William Lazenby presented the Cen- tennial flag to the school. we sang “Happy 'Birthday" to Richmond Hill. Mr. Hincks raised the flag. ‘ It was a day to be remem- bered by McConaghy pupils. llll\\\lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllw Vaughan Pioneer Museum Vaughan may eventual- ly have its own museum and archives for the dis- play and preservation of local Indian relics and pioneer items. Two weeks ago, George Snider and Charles Miller. representing Vaughan Township Historical Soci- ety. appeared before coun- cil to request that it ask .the Metro Conservation Authority to make a feas- ibility study on a suitable site and building for just such a project. Mr. Snider said there Were many descendants of early settlers of the area still living in Vaugh- an. who had collected valuable historical matter over the years. It was the opinion of the society that the art- icles should be stored un- der one roof. both to en- sure their safekeeping and for the “edification of posterity.” (Windsor Star) iceable lack of constructive participation in the decision making process. Instead there has been a proliferation of ad hoc groups attempting to get decisions reversed or block im- plementation of a given plan. This is confrontation politics at its worseâ€"decisions to act have been postponed while problems grew more intense, there are strained relationships between levels of government and huge amounts of time and money have been wasted as well as polarization of groups making any alternative course of action a win-lose situation. He referred to the opposi- tion to recommendations and decisions on the proposed new airport, the proposed Scarboro expressway and the once- approved Spadina expressway. In Metro transportation a new planning process is being developed, he said, in which citizens are directly involved at all stages. The program design has been kept as flexible as possible, so that structural changes should evolve not be laid on. CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT Citizens will be involved ex- tensively in the planning pro- llnthe Spotlight Last week I told you part of my visit with Thornhillr residents, Ann and Ian McBean. A zealous, indefatigable man, Ian imbues his list- eners with the feeling there is much more to life than just ordinary everyday living . . . and why don’t we reach out and take hold of Life our- By MONA ROBERTSON Treasure Hunting In The Pacific He is the type of person who keeps a black covered notebook at hand, just to jot down chal- lenging, meaningful thoughts . . . whether they are from some other inspired writer,__or himsel‘f‘. selves! “You must first become a chaos, if you would give birth to a dancing star." Nietzche: From an exhortation to Zarathustra. And, “There is nothing you see around you that hasn’t Thought behind it." Ian McBean. True to his adventursome spirit, Ian has gathered a great many facts, maps and stories about hidden treasure on tropical Cocos Island, in the blue Pacific. He made one early expedi- tion . . . and a second one in 1964.” The June 13, 1964 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, carries the full story of the second expedition and the treasure-hunt carried out on land, and underwater too. Post Writer Jack Iams stated in the article, “In the last 100 years, the lure of Cocos’ fabled gold has brought scores of expeditions to the island, some headed by such venturesome individ- uals as Sir Malcolm Campbell, Count Felix von Luckner and Errol Flynn, others backed by share- holding syndicates and even by the British Navy. But in almost every case, the tiny island â€" five miles long (25 miles square), uninhabited and sitting alone in the Pacific some 300 miles south- west of Costa Rica -â€" has defeated her invaders with her hostile combination of sharks, jungle, sheer cliffs, ants and flies.” The 1964 expedition led by Ian, included three interested friends and fellow adventurere; a unit of 10 military men who boarded their rented craft, the Bluenose II, at Costa Rica (the Costa Rican government takes half of any treas- ure found by permit holders and sends the militia-men to see that this rule is enforced) ; and the Bluenose Crew. The four treasure hunters had several strikes on them from the start. There was a ten-day limit regarding the stay of the ship at Cocos Island. Then, due to the fact the Bluenose II was such an important boat in southern waters dip- lomatic parties were often held “on board” when she was in dock at Costa Rica . . . And such a party was held while Ian and his companions champed under the delay. _ ""fiih’my VIVan hired ahother boat and the four friends took off for Cocos. The Bluenose followed the advance party post haste the following day. Ian and Co., had taken along their skin diving equipment for underwater exploration. They managed to find a sunken derelict vessel . . . guarded however by a dangerous Moray eel. (Morays, known in the Pacific Ocean as Thyr- soidea macrurus, reach a length of 10 feet and attack men, to their grievous hurt). The explor- ers passed up a visit into the skeleton of the ship . . . for they had no suitable underwater weapons to fight the large eel. As for their stay on the island itself . . . Ian told me, “What we should have had was a group of native workers, who were used to the tropics.” Their chief search was scheduled on land. This meant fighting rank jungle growth with machetes; toiling in mud . . . it rained exceed- ingly throughout the ten day search . . . and time kept running out. Red ants, with their hot, stinging bites, and flying insects, guard Cocoas Island and its treasures well, from searchers. Finally, just after they had discovered a. carved stone, below one of the cliffs Ian had set out to explore as a possible site of treasure, and which had once marked the “mapped” entry to a sheer cliff, the captain of the Bluenose ordered a halt! The ten days were up. And not even one of the three buried treasures claimed to be buried on Cocos, had been located. His enthusiasm at a high pitch, with the finding of the stone, Ian argued with the captain to stay . . . but he was adamant . . . time was up! However, Ian hopes, some day, to raise enough money for a third, and longer expedition. “This time I will direct the search and not take as active a part in the digging”, he said. And, who knows, maybe he WILL BE the one to find at least part of the so-called “ecclesiastical treas- ure of Lima”, whose value has been estimated at somewhere between $60 and $100 million. cess right from the beginning so they have a better under- standing of the implications of alternative courses of actionâ€" be they economic, social, en- vironmental or human, he said. They will be made aware of how enormous capital outlays tend to lock Metro into partic- ular systems and solutions, that trends are generated which may last for many years when we implement a given plan even though the plan is changed with- in a few years, and the cost of borrowing money for alterna- tives with high initial capital costs. He defined public participa- pation as a process of mutual education whereby citizens, planners and elected officials can learn much more about the issues and problems inherent in transportation planning and their interrelatedness. Through widespread discus- sion, the freeâ€"flowing exchange of information between citizens and planning bodies and exten- sive use of the media, it is hop- ed to better define the trans- portation needs of citizens. Equally important. through questions and suggestions from (Continued on Page 16)