EDITORIALS Are you getting us?   Our ongoing dispute with Canada Post over non-delivery of the Gazette has entered a new phase and, again, we're asking for your assistance. We've instituted a complaints system that will supply Canada Post with a weekly list of non-deliveries so they can track non-delivery and late delivery problems. This applies to all readers living in Hudson, St. Lazare or Vaudreuil-Dorion who normally get their Hudson/St. Lazare Gazette in their mailbox. If you have not received it by Wednesday evening, please call us at 450-458-5482 and leave a message, or e-mail us at editor@hudsongazette.com You need not leave your name, but we require your address, postal code and phone number so we can follow up.   Hooligans rule!   Over the past several weeks, Hudson's downtown core has experienced an epidemic of theft and vandalism committed by packs of youths who roam the town well into the early hours. This past weekend's steady rain was a blessing, keeping them off our streets. The politically correct crowd will respond with their stop-stereotyping chants about how most teens are good, decent, upstanding citizens. If that's so, why do our local merchants have strict anti-shoplifting measures? Why does the Hudson Community Patrol spend so much of its time on Sandy Beach? Why does the SQ make Crescent St., the St. Thomas playground and the Community Pool area a regular patrol stop? We realize most teens don't steal and vandalize. But enough do to tarnish it for everyone. Ask anyone at the Manoir Cavagnal whether they think it was a good idea to put the Community Centre where it is. They'll tell you it was a black day, but they won't give you their names. There's a solution, and it isn't flapping our gums about how things were better when Hudson had its own municipal police force. Hudson's outgoing mayor was one of the 23 who signed a 10-year contract with the SQ two years ago. Get it through your head - they're gone and they won't be back anytime soon. Our taxes pay for police service. Hudson isn't getting it because local residents still don't call 911 when the punks and vandals are on the prowl. Instead, they waste time by calling the Community Patrol, which then has to call the Sûreté du Québec. Has anybody at city hall ever bothered to pick up the phone and call the commander of either local detachment? Memo to council: talk to your local Citizens Action Committee. They'll be glad to help put you in touch with the right people.