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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2015-07-15, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, July 15, 2015 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Ilion Expositor PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 69, 8 Main Street Seaforth Ontario NOK 1 WO phone: 519-527-0240 fax: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor �] POSTMEDIA NEIL CLIFFORD Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.garrity@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca MARIE DAVID Group Advertising Director Grey Bruce Huron Division 519 376-2250 ext. 514301 or 510 364-2001 ext. 531024 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 120WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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Canada editorial We live in Canada deal with it rater has ended, The massive volcanic eruptions inter sprung and caused the Earth's average sur - gone. Ultimately the face temperatures to drop a summer days have finally degree; climate changed dra- begun. However, we cannot matically everywhere including forget the temperatures winter North America. brought that were lower than The cold was caused by less normal. You could view on sunlight passing through the every Facebook status in North stratosphere due to the dust America the use of graphic from the volcanoes. Several words to voice their opinion on people died from starvation the woman they call Mother because there were no available Nature. All of South Western crops. It would later be called Ontario had been blasted with the "Summer that Never Was." inch after inch of snow just like Imagine if something to that everyone else in the nation. magnitude happened in this Most were out shoveling snow day and age. People would lose and wishing they had put a snow their minds. We receive a few blower on Santa's Christmas list. storms and it is as if the world Record snowfalls all across Can- is ending. ada had snowplows and salters Do you hear the people from out on 18 -hour shifts for five Eureka, Nunvut bawling their straight months. eyes out when record tempera - People came up with excuses tures reached negative 51? No, for the climate with such chit- that's just not going to happen. chat words, maybe the weather They provide for their families today is an "Alberta Clipper." and live another day. What is The two phrases that make me bellyaching that you should be laugh hysterically are the seeing butterflies and flowers "Manitoba Mauler" and the rather than snow and icicles "Saskatchewan Screamer." going to do? It is going to do Really? Those have to be the zilch. Winter does not have a most outlandish words used to conscience. So since it's sum - describe cold fronts. We are mer, I pray to god, I do not see a Canadian, and compared to Facebook post about how hot it other nations, we are com- is outside. I swear on everything monly known for harsh winter. holy, I will delete and block you. There is no need to invent a So enjoy the warmth, be happy new form of language to por- were not geographically close to tray winter. We are hardy the Northern provinces like Canucks. If it is -20 degrees put Nunavut. South Westem Ontar- on those long johns, make a io's warm season lasts from May hot chocolate and go about to September, so just give it up your day. To get warm, it takes already. The cold is in our DNA, only two feet and a heartbeat. we are genetically wired for the Turn your negatives to posi- forces of long winters. tives, make the best of it and go Please, before you decide to to your local tobogganing hill. scrutinize the weather remember From 1812-1814, a series of that Canadian culture revolves prehistoric volcanoes erupted around bleakweather condi- in the Caribbean, Indonesia, tions. So suck it up and stop cry - Japan and the Philippines. The ing. This is the home of the Maple catastrophic disasters sent a Leaf, home of the cold. Welcome substantial amount of dust par- to Canada and please enjoy this ticles through the atmosphere. gorgeous summer day. Shaun Gregory AKA the "New Guy" This fresh move to beautiful Seaforth is one of the most prevalent accomplish- ments of my adolescent life. Finally my dreams have been turned into a reality. Some of us are meant to do things in this weird place we call earth. Maybe you were blessed with long legs so you became a track star. Whatever the case is, every person out of the 35 million people that live in Canada is made for something. My something is journal- ism. When I first entered Huron County the picturesque view and the smell of coun- tryside filled my senses. As my car -followed Lake Huron's large body of water, I honestly felt truly domicile. Being a city -slicker the land- scapes were somewhat unfamiliar, I'm fre- quently around tall sky- scrapers, loud noises, cars and pollution. Now I'm thrown into a small town with stunning agriculture followed by a cool breeze of oxygen that fills my lungs, which it does every time I wake up looking out my window on 53 Main St. When I trot down Seaforth's strip, I see development and opportunity. New gyms are built and businesses spaces are being won. A more then up and com- ing civic area, you Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor should all be proud of what this place is and what it's becoming. Receiving the call from Stratford that the job is mine is still barely audi- ble to me. It was only a month ago that I was scrolling up and down media websites, seeking employment. I'll never forget telling Sun Media, "Yeah I'll take the job" and Dave Fla- herty saying, "This is a small town you'll have to dig." Well Seaforth resi- dents, I brought my shovel. If you have any questions, I'm just a hop and a skip away. Some days I'm riding my bicy- cle through town trying to get used to my sur- roundings, but the majority of the time, I'm cramming away at this keyboard all in hopes of giving you the story you want to read. Well, I have a demanding day on the schedule that I must get back to. Signing off from the Seaforth Huron Expositor office, the "New Guy." 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