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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-04-16, Page 5Wednesday, April 16, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Health Unit urges caution during spring clean ups With the snow finally melting, there is a lot of garbage showing up. The Huron County Health Unit is reminding people to be careful when picking up any sharp object. Sharp objects, such as used nee- dles, razor blades or any item that could cut skin should be handled carefully. Parents should tell children to never touch anything sharp and to tell an adult. Adults can safely pick up a sharp object by the following steps: • Get a free sharps container if you find a needle. Call the health unit at 519-482-3416 or after hours at 519-482-7077 to ask where in your community you can get the con- tainer and where you can take it when you have put the sharp object in • If that is not possible, bring a non- breakable, puncture proof con- tainer with a screw-top lid - like a thick plastic car, empty bleach bottle or water bottle to where the sharp object is • Use pliers, tongs or tweezers to pick up the object • If it is a needle, hold the needle tip away from you • Put the needle into the container needle end first • Close the container tightly • Wash your hands • Take the container to the site rec- ommended by the health unit Like all health units in Ontario, the Huron County Health Unit offers a needle exchange program with com- munity partners in the county. Needle exchange programs help ensure that injection drug users have access to sterile injection equipment to prevent transmission of HIV, hepa- titis B, hepatitis C and other blood- borne diseases. The health unit distributes thou- sands of free needles a month to Huron County residents who are injection drug users. The program is currently offered at two sites in the county, with more scheduled to be opened in 2014. Used needles can be returned to the sites for safe disposal. IN THE YEARS AGONE Winthrop Creamery destroyed by fire: 1914 April 12,1889 • The Scott Act got a terrible wiping out on Thursday of last week. A repeal vote was taken in some 15 counties and two cities and was carried by large majorities in every instance. The reason for this change of sentiment no doubt it, that the Act has not come up to the expectations of those who by their votes brought it into operation. The expected it would enforce itself, and because it failed to do this they repealed it. We still maintain, as we have done before, that the act has within it the elements of total prohibition if it is only properly availed of. • The Seaforth Spring Fair takes place on Tuesday next and the Brucefield Show on Wednesday. • It is stated that Dr. Coleman is making preparations for the erection of a new foundry building on a large scale on his property near the railroad track in this town. We hope this is correct, as he has ample means to establish and carry on such a business, and nothing he can do will tend more to advance the prosperity of the town in which he has so large an interest. April 17,1914 • The auto season has opened and during the past few days numbers of them have been in evidence although the country roads in many places are still too rough and soft to permit of pleasure riding. IN The maple sugar season will soon be over and it is hoped seeding will soon commence. • The Winthrop Creamery with all its contents was com- pletely destroyed on Tuesday morning last. Mr. Calder, the proprietor, who lives nearby, and his family, were awakened by a neighbour who first discovered the fire, but by that time the building was a mass of flames and nothing could be saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. The factory was one of the best equipped in the country, enjoyed a good reputation for its output and was doing a large and yearly increasing business. We have not learned whether or not Mr. Calder intends to rebuild. April 14,1939 • Winter fought against being put on the shelf for the year this week when on Tuesday and Wednesday blinding snow fell, completely blanketing the town and country- side. Commencing Monday evening the storm left high- ways and streets slippery, three accidents being attrib- uted to the blizzard. • Mr. S.T. Holmes observed his 80th birthday at his home on Goderich Street West on Sunday. For many years, Mr. Holmes has conducted an undertaking business here, in recent years being associated with his son, Mr. Chas. Holmes. • Seaforth council took no action at its meeting on a by- law covering the distribution of milk in Seaforth. The milk by-law was request y the Board of Health, but coun- cil felt that such an act was superfluous and that provin- cial statutes were sufficiently wide to cover the situation. The proposed by-law provided for the licensing of pro- ducer, wholesaler and distributor. • No generation of Ontario town life has been more nearly touched by the passing of one of its citizens than was Seaforth and district, in the passing of Mr. Charles Stew- art, member of the firm of Stewart Brothers, who died suddenly of a heart attack early on the morning of Good Friday in his 62nd year. April 9,1964 • The increase on the rate of postage on printed matter and cards has created lots of conversation at the post office. The staff has been explaining that the birthday card you used to send for two cents now costs three cents. • Bayfield will seek incorporation as a village as the result of a decision of 250 residents who considered the matter at a public meeting in the village hall Friday evening. • A joint public school to serve both Tuckersmith and Stanley was advanced at a meeting of Tuckersmith council. The school of at least 16 rooms would be erected at a location to be selected common to the two townships. • Son of a pioneer family and long-time Seaforth busi- nessman, Albert E Cluff died Saturday in Huronview in his 89th year. • The Huron County Hog Producers Association held its first annual 4-H bred gilt sale in Clinton Saturday. • During the morning services of worship last Sunday in First Presbyterian Church the Sacrament of Baptism was administered to four children of the congregation. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McCluue presented their son Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Campbell presented their son Edward Arnold; and Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Hugill pre- sented their two daughters Margaret Lyn and Leanne Michelle. March 29,1989 • A change in locations for Mitchell-Seaforth TV Cable Ltd., has made things better for everybody; the cable company itself and the customers. • For the second straight year a Seaforth Atom Hockey team has captured the All Ontario title. The 1989 team did it Sunday with a 9-0 win over Six Nations, in the third game of a best of five deciding series. • Despite the opposition, McKillop Township council approved the rezoning which allows the Hensall District Co-op to locate facilities in McKillop township, east of Seaforth on Highway 8. Council approved the changing of the zoning of the east half of Lot 21, Concessionl, (a mile and a quarter east of Seaforth, adjacent to Arts Farms) from General Agriculture to Agriculture Com- mercial -Industrial. • A young Seaforth woman is lucky to be alive after a car she was riding in early Friday morning, plunged down an embankment and into a river. One of the four passengers of the car, 19 -year-old Gerry Meurs of Kitchener, drowned in the incident.