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The Huron Expositor, 1978-01-05, Page 2the "Walt' Or Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO: every Thursday morning by McLEAN 13110i PUBLISHERS LTD. • ANDREW Y. MeLEA,N, Publisher SUSA WHITE, Editor DAVE R B, Advertising Manager LENP , Acting Editor and News Editor • ember Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario• Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation • Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $11.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 •a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 -CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 06% Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTW ONTARIO, JANUARY 5., 178 Chap.ge .may date problems council's' budget fora month, because the fiscaLyear; will not end, until the end' of DecemclJer, The new rules will cause few , . problems in large towns and cities, whercy a p4manent Staff is respon- sible for carrying, out •council's decisions, and where strict control over budgetd .is maintained through comptrollers. They may, hovirever, cause problems in smaller rural municipalities, where councils- are- involved to a greater degree in, administration. , While it is unlikely that an outgoing council ?: would, ,deliberately act irresponsibly in forcing through expenditures • on its pet projects before a new, council takes office, the legislation as it exists leaved open the. possibility that such spending could occur. • It was this possibility which. concerned. several members of `Coupty. Council the December. Meeting.' Despite the obVious Pote'ntial' for problems, the legislation is here to stay. taxpayers can only hope that their councils, both outgoing and incoming, will continue to act responsible manner before and after • elections. ones who sit in a rocker and wait for time of to run out. I like to see the ones who grab a hold each day. For what it's worth, for its own sake. I like to. watch the older generation who see each day as a new creation, a new opportunity, a new joy. And often in the most simple of things. A snowfall. An apple. A Maybe when we're young, we squander time, just like we've squandered our natural resources, And it's only when we see a faint hint of the end to it all, do we appreciate what we have. Each dly. All day. Every day. One day at a time. Lived to the fullest. Not living • yesterdhy. Not living for the morrow. But- liviqg now. That's• going to he my new 1018 'year -- all 365 days of them. From time to time, the Expositq receives letters to the editor whiCh are not signed.' No unsigned letter can be, published. However, the name of the writer can sometimes be withheld at the editor's discrEti oni When this,v happens, "Interested reader" or —a similar designation will appear instead of a.. signature. But in all casesi he identity Of-the writer must be known to the7editOr and freely given, 'or the letter would not be appearing in Print. ' — le-there-so met t-ti n g-orr'yourrnind?-- -- Share it with your felloW citizens. throUgh a' letter to. the Expositor editor. keep quiet about 1978. Make no forecasts. - ict no storms, I won't anticipate the time e it's ripe. y should I ? he times in the past proved good. Why shouldn't they be as good in the future? And aat4if--they aren't as good? I suspect I should abe able to take that, too. Because who ever promised me a rose. garden? Or °a winning lottery ticket? Or a road without bumps? _ The promise Is more that the rose I pick will come with thorns. The tery ticket I buy won't pay off. The road I tak wears ruts and Exp What Behind the scenes We can change our world Part of life in .the . 1970's seems to-be a feeling of hopelessness. "You can't fight city hall" has become a phrase that is parat of our everyday language. Stich. an attitude, that the individual -has little power to change' things, seems strange in our democratic' society.. One could • understand it in the totalitarian society of many countries where the importance of the individual • is minor , compaid to the iniportanceof the state. But'our whole society in the West is built on the rights of the individual, his important part in society .as a whole. But the rights 'of the individual in Canada these days seems to be , limited to' .• filling his pockets while doing s le work as possible. The individual sl Id, in theory anyway, be working with other Udividuals to make the country a better pl• ce. Instead it seems it's every man for himself. We have all 'kinds' of excuses of course.' There are many restrictions •these days on what an individual person can do to better things. Govern us, business, labour, unions, institutions of every descriptions also so huge these days that the influ ce, of a Single human being seems about the same as throwing a pebble in the Ocean. 'Yet most of us give up without even making an effort. We'd rather sit arOundandfeel sorry for ourselves than get. out and try to ,change We living in small towns have a very special .opportunity to change our "world". We may not be able to'' solve the problems of the Middle East, or bring about ,government reform in Rhodesia, but we can make our own town a better place to live. The individual in the city may have a reason to feel that he is powerless to get things done,. but the person who feels that way in small towns is simply looking for an excuse to it op his butt and do nothing. In a small town-any individual who really wants to make the-effort, can do a-good deal to change things for the better. The task may look impossible at first, the odds may seem too high, but if the person jumps in and gets involved instead of sitting back and thinking of all the ob stacles, he'll be surprised at how a good idea, fueled by enthusiasm, can catch on, Hogwash, you say. I couldn't do something like that."I'M jiist an ordinary little guy. I'm not rich. I don't have a lot of,influencc. I don't have the ear of the powerful in my town. But Mrs. Bob McFarlane of 68 George Street Welt in Seaforth said: "To keep on ,working while the others (family) are unemployed". "If I had to make a resolution it would be to keep on smiling, no matter what comes along;" she added. Glen kticClure, of R .R..1 . Seaforth said, "I'm going to try to quit smoking for one thing. I'm going to try awfully hard with that one." Mrs. Robert W. Wallace of Egmondville • said "I guess one thing would be rilit-to go back to bed in the morning." Mrs. Michael Connolly of R.R.3. Kippen wasn't planning on making any resoldlioris p this year. Now that the Ne v Year is upon us and last year's resolutions • ha\re been broken and rebroken, Expositor Asks decided to find out some of the resolutions people have made for 1978. a sitor asks: your New By Keith Roulston look around,'you. In every town you'll. see ' examples 'of • eople Who' have accomplished thin we =' rich or powerful or didn't . have -nds who werese things matter a good deal in the 'city but in small..towns: they are shot so important. Oh l'ni not 'saying that a guy withoiit a penny to his name can succeed:in putting over korrie ,grandoise scheme to, say, build an ' indoor. 'swimming pool for the:. community, although even that isc,not impossible. I'm ' saying that there are thousands of little things that 'can . improve, a community that the individual can be responsible for getting started. - The . cm is that in recent years we've fallen, i the trap of expecting trey governments to do . everything. If somebody-. ' • gets an idea for something, perhaps a day care centre fo children, their first" idea' is to go to the ' ove nment to get e -money. If the local coun 1 turns the own because they don't, want raise taxes, the idea often dies and a bitter group of people go home feeling they can't fight city hall. Yet that's not the way the people who built this part of the country did things. Their first .reaction to any problems wasn't to go to the governm ent,, but to get together and Work' a toward solution. If a person had an: idea for ' some project, he'd talk to his friends ati,' .out it --and4m4--all-th el nte rest ed•-peepl e-he- could, call a meeting and try to get a movement started to achieve the goal. That is what led t- : so many of the things we nova' take .for granted; our schools, our hospitals, our arenas, many of our industries, our town rcti s, etc, etc. These things were - usually egun not by government action but by' people on. It was usually 'the idea of o person who worked hard to have that idea' ac ted. The individtial can still play such a ale today in our small towns, but we have to st sitting back looking for excuses .why we can't, get things done. We've 0%41 stop looking to government, be it the municipal , provincial or federal, to solve all our problems because we should have learned by now that they that giveth can also taketh away as we've seen so graphically in things such as the hospital disputes'. We need to stand on our own two fee,t and work among ourselves to solve our own problems. We've got the power to do that and we'd all be much better off if - we used it. Year's resolutions? "I usually make sonic, but I don't always keep them. I don't' think. we're. going to change ° an awful lot," she said. David Ingram of R.R.2, Hensall said, "I hope to make a million dollars. I'd like to quit smoking:I just hope to'have a real good year, that's about it." Mrs. Philip James of RAU, Staffa, was ohinking of her fellow man when she made her New Year's resolution. "To try to get along With everyone -make the world a better place to liveln,;" she said. Pete Chestle who lives in Mitchell but was visiting in R.R.1, Dublin when we made the phone call said his New Year's Resolution Was, to stop smoking. Mrs. Kenneth Glanville of -R.R.4, Walton, said they hadn't made any resolutions yet but she made a New Year's Resolution that probably most people would like to consider. "I guess just to stay good and healthy. and do the best for the next year," she said. - a• Snowy lane a • Express an opinion Weil, we've pushed out into another new year. I guess we're like a man rowing a boat -- like the fellow with his back arched against the direction he's moving toward. He's oarin into the waters -- rn oving into it backward He's not looking ahead of him -- he's looking behind: That's the way we all are„in this near year. The past is stretched out ahead of us. We know where we've been, and now we're plishing out into the new times, the new hours, the new minutes given to us, — We move into them backwards, With certainty, yes. Because we've come through them all before. With certainty, no. Because-- ridges. we really don't know for sure if these new But in the end -- roses or jhorns, win or times will .be the same. lose, bumps and lumps -- the main thing I .We know we can't say life's a circle. It's not have te'qemember is time is not mine. It's a a repeat. It's not a re-run. We can't insult our gift. It's like life -- given and taken away -- and past history that way. We know that time is not at my. bidding. " ' unique. Hours are here today, gone tomorrow, I like to watch certain-older people. Not the by Karl Schuessler Amen Changes ' itr"Ontario's Municipal Act which will 'see the election date for municipal councils moved back a. month to, the second Monday_ in November are causing 'widespread, concern, and Huron County Council is among, the groups who have some • reservations about the wisdom of the change. Ontario treasurer Darcy, McKeough - said in Chatham 'this week that the Provincial government does not intend to change the municipal 'fiscal yeal- to conform.,, With the earlier election : date. Mr, McKeOugh admitted that he' was "a little worried" that the one month discrepancy could cause Some complications, but said provincial clerks and treasurers would have anticipated them before, the Municipal Act changes Were • approved. The earlier election date means. a council which'' is rebuffed by., the s voters, will still beeble to spend part of the year's budget on projects it may favour; but which the voters may have rejected, before the new boti nci I takes office December . first.. In addition the new council will be faced with operating according to guide- lines set down . in the' previous The, editorial page of newspapers is \--traditionally a space reserved for the expression of. opinions. ThOse of the editor -'appear as editorials. Those of tne paper's readers can also find their way into print through letters to the - editor. The Expositor welcomes comment from its readers on issues .of personal, local or broader concern. A letter to the editor can point out matters worthy of consideration, commend or - __And emilas__Lthe __read h Letters to the editor prOvide a forum of ideas that can• promote change where Change is needed. n theitrs.ogon.0 ' JANUARY 4, 1878 - the Case barn on the: Silver Creek Farm adjoining the . McIntosh. He paid $9,000 for it.• ' Londesborough can now boast of haying,four wagon , . heighbotir George Love for the sum of $3;300., Mr. -:-garden Christmas week.' ' 'Jelin' Ddclds has Sold his farm in MeKillep to hi's. ' Columb 1. pres nted their'teacher Thomas McQuaid , number. of 50 celebrated St. John's Day by 'attending a , of the band. . business. Ms Joseph of Blyth had daisies growing in the a bouquet large lovely pansies-plucked in her garden 'pendan . This is a slight token 'of esteem. This, is Mr. shops. What place of equal size Can make ,the Same Dodds has purchased the, fine farm of William Jr: wit a gold watch and chain and. an amethyst , The Brethen of Britannia Lodge, Seaforth, to the hdast? . social supper at Sharp's, Hotel. . out °unn oer c Christma s over 'otEdvaer 'darkness e'Ssesaf:nrtdh depositedfarnitu re a vlaanr g edtcouvte of fine two r old heifers for the sum of $4.17. The pu tat ion address wasread by Joseph McQuaid on behalf begin the, study of medicine at London. MeQttajd's last term -as a teacher. He has decided to, oak secretary and reclining chair in one of the Rbse Hill Joseph Delaney, Frank Sullivan carried• the secretary DRiving sheds. Joseph McQuaid, Darnel O'Connor, up to Father McKeWit6s Ilibrary where the • presen- ow r -a nd -are-engagingTin-417-hetsebuying •and-hippin._. ____ rJohn R„M Donald a Tuckersmith disposed of a pair Mrs. James Henderson, McKillop, sent to our office JANUARY 2, 1903 Mrs. George Chesney and John Fowler have leased is f the Union Separate School in St. , Mr. HenryphBHosusdesnobnerarnydohfeGr rdaanudoBteern,dmlirass. Logan taken oporsBseayssilieoin:th' athdetiQwuenelins'fsortHuonteel t o a t get thrown tJhorsoewpnh . out of their carriage when driving, into the' village. The accident was caused by the back seat gilpg away , when ‘ the horses made a spring forward,. JANUARY 6, 1928 The seating capacity of the St. Patrick's Church in Dublin was taxed to accommodate the large congregations of the majority who received communion at Midnight Mass. , George. J. Thiel of Ztirich,'-lbcal delivery man, assumed a contract on Monday to carry the mail between Hensall Station and Zurich Post Office, Mr. William Lamont of Zurich who sold his residential property to 0:- Koehler, has purchased t e property in town owned by A. A. Weber. The membe s of the Zurich Jubilee Band had a fowl supper/ at t e Dominion House. St. Andrew's United Church choir spe t a pleas t evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robe Dinsda in honour of Miss Mabel Whiteman and s Jea :t lyeson. Mrs. J. L. Henderson read an address an . W. Sinclair presented Miss Whiteman with 1 solid leather club bag, while Mrs. H. McMurtrie presente her with a Waterman pen and pencil set-,,,,_ The heavy snow storm of the past week has blocked the roads near Hensall and made all roads almost impassible as a strong wind accompanied the snowfall, at Hensall's Station crowded the building for the trajn ewp dt hs s . piled O ne it t f uthpe'ilial largest great d epths. t they have ever seenyet going south: ° . Mr. T.C.Joynt lif Hensall is having his block of three, stores, with dwelling rooms above, nicely heated by a hot -water syStein. The work is being done by H. C. Solden. Last week William Cardiff, Grey County, killed an eagle on his farm. He notieed,a flock of about 30 or 40' pigeons .were rapidly decreasing and saw Mr. Eagle flying away with one. That night, Mr.' Cardiff went into the barn with a lantern and the eagle flew at him. He fought hint off and the next night he killed him. JANUARY 3, 1953 . Miss S. I McLean was honoured this week by the Toronto Meeting of e Federation of Women teachers of that city. - Miss Margaret tidson was appointed Chief $ Operator of the clephotie staff in Seaforth. --,----1... vvora was received In Henson of the sudden death of Miss Beatrice Cudmore. forever. Other times will never quite be the same, even if we try ever so hard to duplicate them. So sure. These times, these new weeks will be different from last years..We can count on that. But I'm not much al a mood to prognosticate. I'm not-tempted 'to play the guessing game. I rest content with , the 0, unknown, I'm not prone to ouija boards and. horoscopes and Vera McNichol's c:ards all laid out on her kitchen table. I•rest easier with an old saying from the Talmud, that vast bulk of Jewish writings that sum up much of the wisdom oMepges. The book says that after the Romans dent eyed the temple in Jerusalem in the first 'century, prophecy was given 'over to fools. And since I don't want to play the fool, I'll