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letter to the editor
Reader believes the Liberal government
means the detriment of rural
Dear Editor:
When we survey the governance in
Toronto in the last year we find:
• The Ford Circus, with the Mayor admit-
ting to using crack cocaine as a preferred
hors d'oeuvre or perhaps as an exotic des-
sert. He never has made that clear.
• An elected Chairman of the Board of
Education (Public) resigning under misty cir-
cumstances with a number of pesky ques-
tions buzzing around.
• A Director of Education (Public) being
caught in a plagiarism trap, not unlike the
traditional mantrap used on English estates
and as deadly, to reputations at least.
• An American head of the Toronto Hous-
ing Authority being hired and fired at warp
speed. He was stolen away from Detroit,
surely a leading edge town.
• Suggestions that there has been some
murky financial action at the City owned
Sony Centre.
In June 2014, the Greater Toronto Area re-
elected the Liberal Government for all of
Ontario proving that on the two lower levels
of government (Provincial and Municipal)
they are very comfortable with corruption
and gross mismanagement in government.
Unfortunately, it is this electorate that now
decides the political, economic and social
future of all of Ontario, including Huron
County.
If we reflect on the chaos, the sleaze and
the financial hocus-pocus in Toronto, clearly
we are at the mercy of a city electorate that
has a high proportion of certifiable nitwits
marking ballots for all their vaunted claim to
being more civilized and cultivated socially
than we swamp dwellers or as we are called,
with Toronto contempt, "a rural rump" by
Ms. Wynne's backers.
Apparently we should be calling ourselves
"Rumpettes" and commence dining on the
Emerald Ash Borer to show that we are as
aware of true haute cuisine as any high-rise
condo dweller on Bloor Street if we hope to
compete in a cosmopolitan world.
The Wynne strategy to reduce the Ontario
deficit has been clearly stated by her most
powerful minister, Ms. Mathews, who will
wield the resulting Toronto centered
initiatives.
The strategy: Feed the institutions in the
Greater Toronto Area with limitless tax dol-
lars and starve rural Ontario's schools, hospi-
tals and other services.
Who has delivered us into this perilous
position, which will only result in more loss
of industry, jobs, social, cultural and health
facilities and population?
First of all, the great and sad irony is that
through massive incompetence, unimagina-
ble mismanagement and lack of bold miti-
gating initiatives, the Wynne government
and its odious predecessor have laid bare in
Outer Ontario of large swaths of industry.
This deindustrialization of Outer Ontario,
and the resulting stagnation or decline in
population, is now cynically used as an
excuse to squeeze the facilities in the regions
where Liberal policies themselves have
wrought devastation and marginal economic
activity.
Secondly, there is the self-absorbed
Toronto electorate, totally ignorant and indif-
ferent to rural problems and concerns.
Lastly, there are the local Liberal voters
who are the Quislings among us in our time
and place. These are the people who are in
fact the political termites ready and willing to
undermine and destroy the community facil-
ities that are vital to the health and progress
of our social, political and medical
structures.
And who will lead us against the social and
economic danger present now and due to
accelerate in the immediate future?
Survey the potential leaders, especially
among the local politicians, assess them for
courage and vision, and weep.
Peter Sturdy
Goderich
EARLY FILES
September 4, 1969
Enrollment in the 39 public schools
in Huron County is up 3.3 per cent over
last year, according to opening day reg-
istration figures reported at the first fall
meeting of the board of education at
Central Huron Secondary School in
Clinton Tuesday evening. J. W. Coulter,
superintendent of schools, said that
13,468 pupils were enrolled by noon
Tuesday, compared with 13,069 on
Sept. 30, 1968. Elementary schools
went up 212 and secondary schools
174. There were 8,789 pupils in the 31
elementary schools this week and
4,639 in the five secondary schools. Mr.
Coulter said that generally there was
an increase in the secondary schools,
with the elementary schools not keep-
ing pace. This situation was antici-
pated, he said. Establishment of kin-
dergarten classes in Brookside
(northwest), Colborne Central, Grey
Central, Holmesville and North
Ashfield elementary schools boosted
the opening -day totals, he added.
September 1, 1977
Clinton will seek to have a county-
wide police radio dispatch system
located in Clinton, deputy -reeve, Frank
Cook revealed at a meeting of Clinton
council last Thursday night. Deputy
Reeve Cook who is head of the town's
police committee, said his committee
had drawn up a proposal along with
plans, that would be given to the other
four towns prior to a county -wide
meeting set for September 14 at McKay
Hall in Goderich. Earlier this summer,
the Goderich Police Commission had
initiated a meeting between chiefs of
the five Huron County towns - Clinton,
Seaforth, Wingham, Goderich and
Exeter, about setting up a central dis-
patch radio system for use by all the
towns, and had suggested locating it in
Goderich. But several other towns,
including Exeter and Clinton, had
expressed interest in a more central
location, such as Clinton.
September 4, 1985
A Stratford man, Randall C. Brown,
32, of Kathryn Crescent, has been hired
as assistant superintendent of business
and finance for the Huron -Perth
County Roman Catholic Separate
School Board, effective September 1.
The board increased the daily ratio
paid to the drivers of school buses
owned by the board by 3.5 per cent or
increase from $26.02 to $26.80, plus an
extra allowance of $15 per month for
out of pocket expenses for the school
year 1985-86. The board also set the
interim salary of a secondary school
principal at $2,000 above that of an
experienced elementary principal.
September 2, 1992
The historical Albion Hotel will
undergo extensive exterior renovations
using a $30,000 grant from the Ministry
of Culture and Communications. The
grant was awarded in July under the
ministry's Commercial Rehabilitation
Program. The Albion was one of three
applicants to successfully receive grant
approval. These grants are available for
the conservation of privately -owned
commercial and industrial properties
that have been designated under the
Ontario Heritage Act, 1974.
August 30, 2000
A fire, which is believed to have been
started by lightening, caused approxi-
mately $10,000 worth of damage to a
mobile home last week. Clinton Fire
Chief Tex VanRiesen reported that the
Clinton and Area Fire Department got
the call to attend the fire at a double -
wide mobile home owned by Jean
Hohner in Morgan's Mobile Home
Park at 11:38 p.m. last Tuesday, Aug.
22. He explained that Hohner "was get-
ting quite a bit of smoke in the trailer,"
and she then contacted the fire
department.
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