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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, October 8, 1970
Time for Action on Sewers
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This is the third installment inShirley
Keller's plan to form a parents' union
to standardize the rules and regulations
governing kids. If you don't want to read
this drivle, go watch The Interns save
another teenager from heroin addiction,
I don't pretend to be any authority on
raising children. In fact, this is the first
family I have ever raised, so. how in the
world could I be an expert on the subject?
But I -do know how very much I want
my children to grow into fine, responsible,
God-fearing citizens . • . and I'm certain
you all have the same ideals for your
families. .
I figure my job as a parent would be
just about half as difficult if the young
people with whom my children came in
contact had parents who, demanded,some-
thing 'from their kids. I don't care
whether they make their kids help with
the housework as my children are supposed
to .or whether they force their children
to sit in the livingroom and. play tiddly-
winks. All I want is for the parents of
kids and consistently stick to thcir guns
to make• the kids realize this thing is for
real.,
I have kids coming to my house who
come from very large families and have
nothing better to do after school than sit
on the curb and chew bubblegum and ex-
change comics. When I question them
about their responsibilities at home, I
get answers like, "Oh, I help with the'
dishes sometimes" or "There ain't
nothing for me to do at home cause my
mom does it all" or "That's girls'
work" or "My folks say I'm too young
to work" or "I'm only going to be young ,
once".
I tell you it burns the up to watch
these healthy, energetic young people
waste away into hollow shells with no
direction and no purpose.
And it make s it difficult to convince
my kids that what I'm forcing them to
do is good for them.
You know, I think a good many parents
Would' rather let the' kids do as they
please thah go through the constant ar-
guing.and screaming that goes on at our
house day after day. My kids don't jest
get up from the table and do the dishes
without putting up a fuss. They protest
and try all manner of devilish trickery
to get out of it. . . but father and I rant
and rave until the job is done by the
kids to our satisfaction.
It takes a whole lot of stamina to
be my kind of a parent. There are
days when I could sit right down, throw ,• up my hands and say to hell with the
, whole deal. But who would 'benefit?
'The kids? •And who would be the loser?
Me?
So I keep plugging. But I see a
way out. Just like my friend and I
who have cornered our sons into some
semblance of understanding because we
stuck together concerning curfews .and
homework and things such, as that, I
believe that if parents had a union - a
strong but fair organization whene mem-
bers would approve a set of rules and
regulations for kids and agree to en-
force them no matter what - there
• could be a new kind of peace in this
old universe. •
I heard just the other day.about
British Honduras (soon to become Be-
lize) where the f . total population is
friendly, content) and very happy
simply becapse they 'are just about all
in the same class - the working class.
Nobody has much more than the other.
They don't- see any injustice so they
are content.
That's somewhat the theory I sub-
scribe to when I push for a parents'
union. If all the kids in the group or in
the school or in the town or in the
.county or in the province or, .in fact,
in the country, were under the . same
set of rules and regulations, there would
be much less trouble with the younger
generation anti much more success among
,parents.
I know my kids would probably kick
less about having to do the vacuuming
on Saturday morning if they knew that
-almost .every other kid in town had the
same job to do sometime that day.
With Thanksgiving in the air, perhaps
it's as good a time as any to give thanks
that all our women have not joined the
lunatic fringe of the Women's Liberat-
ion Movement.
I'm not knocking the Movement. The
majority of those who belong to it sad
work for-it are mature, intelligent women
who believe there is discrimination against
women in some areas and want to abolish it.
I agree with them about the discrim-
ination , in some areas. But I want no
more to do with the screaming, bra-waving,
instant-abortion parodies of women who
haunt their ranks than i do with the hard
core of Maoists. who turn every peaceful
protest meeting into a riot.
'Twas not always thus. A look at
history shows us some remarkable women
who had tremendous influence without ever
waving a placard or screaming epithets
at policemen. Back to Greek mytholqgy.
Hera, wife of Zeus, was a wicked old
dowager who repaid him in spades every
time he strayed from the straight and
narrow. Venus and Aphrodite did all
right for themselves. Among mortals,
Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships.
And she didn't do it by flaunting her
girdle on the end of a pole . She did
it with her face.
Moving up a bit, we come to another
majestic figure - Cleopatra. She man-
-aged to diddle' her brother out of a king-
dom (yay1), get herself an illegitimate
son (yay!) by the great dictator Julius
'Caesar (boo!) and bring the magnificent
Mark Antony, conqueror of hundreds of
women '(boo1) to his knees, a quivering
wreck. She did wind up clutching her
asp to her breast, which made for a
rather sticky end, but she had a lot of
fun. I wonder if she wore a brassiere?
* Isabella of Spain' Overrode the quib-
bling of her husband and gave that lunatic
'• who thought the world was 'round, Colum-
bus,- some rotten biscuits and meat, some
rotten jail-birds and three leaky ships
to find the New World. Oh yes, they've
always been tight with a buck.
Moving quickly, look at the two English
queens who had entire eras named after
them: Elizabeth 1 and Victoria. Liz had
most of the male royalty of Europe des-
perate , to marry her, and dallied with
the lives and loves of such robust chaps
as Sir Francis Drake and. Sir Walter
Raleigh. The handsome, virile Earl of
Essex was in love with her when he was
about 20, she in her fifties. What woman
could want' more? And with womanly logic,
she chopped off his head when he got too
big for his britches.
Victoria was a stick, but nations
trembled when she spoke, and she had so
much influence on manners and morals
that we are just now shedding the double
morality• 'of her age. She'd never be
accepted by the Women's Lib.
With another leap, let's move up, to
another° Liz: Taylor, the royalty of this
century. She is married, for the fifth
time, tO a brilliant, sexy man. She has
made millions. She has been envied and
admired by millions (of women).
•Certainly, this is a superficial view
of women. But it does prove that if you've
got what-it...takes,• you can get where les at.
To confirm iny suspicions, I made a
rough and hasty survey, of female opinion.
My senior girl students are all for,
yomen's Liberation, but deplore the tac-
tics of the far-out wing. They do point
out the soft spots, particularly In industry
and business, where women meet a stone
wall at a certain stage.
True, and something should be' 'done
about it. But in the professions: medic-
ine, the law, teaching - women get the same
fees as men. Why aren't there more
women engineers and dentist? One would
think their practical' common sense in the
one case, and' their gentle touch in the
other, would be invaluable. Maybe they
have 'a thing about peering into canyons.
My wife thinks •things are O.K. as they
.are. Like most women, she controls mast
of the money, can ruin her kids byspoii!nrs
them, and has a wailing wall (me) when
thing* aren't going right.
Well, the Women's Lib likes to set
up straw men and knock them down. I've
set one up for them.
The day on which Mae West tears
off her brassiere and starts waving it (the
brassiere, that is) I'll apply for an assoc-
iate membership in the W.L.M.
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
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With the coming of autumn's harvest, children begin to wonder about the tales of Halloween
and great pumpkins. The pumpkin is more than a child's delight however; last year 28,700,000
pounds of pumpkin was produced for Ontario's food processing industry, not to mention of
course all those great pumpkins that suddenly became Jack-o'-lanterns to scare all those
spook8 away. (Photograph by the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food.)
From My Window
— By Shirley J. Keller —
The recent announcement concerning
an addition to Seaforth Public School
dr4ws attention to the necessity of tak-
i4 action to expidite Seaforth's sani-
tary sewer program.
It is more than three years ago that
Seaforth asked the Ontario Water Re-
sources Commission to undertake a
study of Seaforth's requirements as a
preliminary to the, provision, of needed
disposal facilities. It is more than two
years ago that the OWRC reviewed fac-
ilities and held hearings concerning a
site for a lagoon and it is more than a
year ago that the town indicated it was
prepared to enter into an agreement
with the OWRC.
But nothing appears to have happen-
ed. OWRC perhaps is considering the
matter; perhaps plans and specifiCa-
tions are being prepared in anticipation
of an early tender call but if this is the
case the town doesn't know about it. In
the meantime extensions to Seaforth's
existing system that would contribute
to an increased load on the present dis-
posal facilities are banned. This means
that construction is either brought to
a standstill or wasteful alternatives such
as provision of private disposal capaci-(
ty, are made necessary, assuming of
course that the health unit will agree.
It would seem that the time has come
when council should not only press the
OWRC for positive action .concerning,
disposal facilities but also move to com-
plete construction of at least perimitei'
sewer collection lines. Perhaps, despite
OCTOBER 11 , 1895.
Thos. Bissett of Usborne has a sun
flower growing in his garden with 165
flowers on it.
The House of Refuge is only built to
accoMmodate 75 inmates and it is said
that there are already 70 candidates
awaiting its completion.
William, son of A. T. McDonald, the
esteemed reeve of Hullett, met with a
rather serious accident. A young colt
was running in the field, and he came up
behind it, and received a severe kick
on 'the face, cutting his chin.
Thirteen ladies and gentlemen, mem-
bers of the Goderich Bicycle Club, whe-
eled down to Hayfield_ a0 after a tour of
the village wheeled home.-
, A number of the young ladies from
Hayfield have 'formed a walking club and
take long walks through the -country for
pleasure. .
Last Sabbath evening, one of the
chandeliers in St. Andrews Church, Kip-
pen, dropped to the floor. The chandelier
was a total wreck and it will take $15.00
to replace it.
Wm. Hackwell, of Leadbury, is having
a sheep house and pig pen erected. Isaac
Bolton has the contract.
Wm. Landsborough of Tuckersmith,
this year procured three pounds of oats
from the Experimental farm. He sowed
them and threshed 11 bushels and 21
pounds, at the rate of 132 bushels.
James Lennon has sold his farm on
the Huron Road, McKillop to John Dever-
eaux, for $6,000.
Thos . Wilson, town, son of D. D.
Wilson left for Chicago where he will
study dentistry.
Miss Jean Dickson, daughter of John
T. Dickson of Roxboro has been appointed
a teacher in the Queen Victoria School,
Toronto.
The Tuckersmith tug of war team
which beat the Hullett and McKillop teams
in the contest on the first day of the Fair,
was composed of the following gentlemen -
Wm. Henry and David Chesney, George
Dale and Geo. Stewart.
Andrew Hodgert, who resides near
Farquhar had a new cement silo con-
structed this season. As he was filling
it with corn, it cracked from top to bot-
toln.
Messrs. McDonnell Bros. of Angell,
are now rushing the contract in Connec-
tion with the new Methodist Church at
Dashwood.
Wm. Dunlop, threshed forJohn Taylor,
112 bushels of oats from one acre of land.
OCTOBER 1920.
WM. Manley of Manley, returned from
the west, where he took in the harvest yields and helped to do some threshing.
John Waniess of Varna, has sold his
fit.in to James Reid for $8,000.
W. M. Doig, Kippers, will hold a
public Sale of his entire stock of horses, cattle, sheep and swine.
Sproat, son of Wrn. Sproat of
Kippers is attending Medical School In Lt)Ocloti.
Miss Etta Jarrbtt, Kippers, the effie-
the delayS that seem inherent in work-
ing with the OWRC, the most economi-
cal course in _the long run would be to
have that commission undertake the
completion of a system to serve the en-
tire town.
The necessary engineering studies
have been completed and have been in
council's hands since last year but no
decisions have been taken. True coun-
cil was involved in completion of the
Main Street program but the problem
is that if work of improving town facili
ties is to continue in an even flow, basic
decisions must be taken each year or
there is a gap in the program.
Meanwhile construction costs contin-
ue to increase. Every year of delay
means added dollars which Seaforth
residents inevitably will have to pay.
There is no way by which Seaforth can
avoid providing a town wide sewer
system whether„ it is done section by
section or as one project.
Regardless of how increased sewer
service is proceeded with, the first re-
quirement is provision of disposal fac-
ilities. There can be. no excuse for fur-
ther delay on the part of the OWRC in
carrying out its responsibilities.
As has been pointed out previously
it is not as though OWRC has been un-'
aware 'of the problem here. For several
years the commission has continued to
warn the town at regular intervals of
the condition of the existing disposal
plant and to demand that action be tak-
en to correct the situation.
lent teacher in S.S.No. 14, entertained
her scholars when they visited some of
the points of interest in this section.
James Milan and family have moved
to the fine farm south of town, known as
the old Stewart farm.
'4 Mr. and Mrs. E. Dinnen, who have
sold their farm to L. Nalper, have taken
apartments with Mrs. James Cumming.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cameron of the
Mill Road have moved into the house they
recently purchased from Alex Lowry,
Seaforth.
The motor hike planned had to be
cancelled on account of bad, weather.
Mr: and Mrs. Adam Dodds and Robert
Garrow have returned from a three monhts
trip to the .western provinces and the coast.
Peter McIver of Hibbert has com-
pleted his large bank barn and straw shed,
one of the finest in the township, and also
had it protected from lightning with large
copper rods. The work was done by
G. A. Reeves, Seaforth.
Owing to the lack of help, Chas.
McDaid of Dublin is closing his hotel
to the travelling public and adding a
grocery business to the restaurant.
Silo filling is keeping many hands
very busy at Kippen. The corn is a
good crop this year.
OCTOBER 1 2 , 1945.
'Prominent in the printing industry
for 70 years, Thos. Guthrie Soole, 84,
died at his home in Toronto. He was
born -at Seaforth, and at the age of 12
years started work i,n the Huron Expositor
as a printer's apprentice. In 1883 the
firm of Miller & Soole,later known as
Soole Printing was started. Later Mr.
Soole was active in the sales depart-
ment of the Toronto Type Foundry.
The sudden passing of Wm. Edgar
Butt, came with a great shock to count-
less friends in the Kippen district. He
purchased the store at Kippen in1921from
Robert Brownlee"and built up a large and
successful business.
The Seaforth Lions Club, collected
four tons of excellent clothing. The
Township conveners were, Tuckersmith,
E.P. Chesney, Harold Jackson; McKillop,
Gordon McGavin, R.S.McKercher; Hullett,
Leo Stephenson and James M. Scott.
Tuckersmith Council, in regard to the
annoyance and damage caused by certain
children in the village, of Egmondville,
decided to invoke a curfew and instruct-
ed the clerk to prepare a by-law.
James Parkins, popular section fore-
man, of the C.N.R.Hensall, for the past
seven years, has accepted a position as
section foreman of the C.N.R. atSeaforth.
Howard Smale, section employee of
the C.N.R. at Hensall, has his right arm
broken when he was carrying a railway
tie,, when It slipped and fell on his arm.
The annual sports meet of the Sea-,
forth High School was held in the Agri-
cultural Park when students , competed
in a long list of events. Championships
were won as follows: Boys,Sr., Neil
Beattie; Intermediate, W. Butcliart; Junior
Jerry Meir; Girls , Si. Lenore Habkirk;
Intermediate Donna Watson and Gordon
Wilson.
in the Years Agone