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— SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1978
A happy development
Although there wasn't huge
participation in Seaforth's viait to its
Sister city, West Branch, Michigan on
the weekend, it was a start.
The sister city program has
be,nefits for both towns and from
reports from residents of both places
West BranCh and Seaforth are a lot
alike and have plenty to learn from
each other, ----
A neighbouring town, Wingham,
has a thriving sister city relationship
with Standish, Michigan that -shows
just what such a relationship can do.
Practically every parade or special
event in Wingham seems to bring
participants from the Michigan 'town.
Recently a Grade, six class from a
Wingham school spent a week in the
homes and classrooms of their
Standish.-contemporaries.
Presumably the same sort -of
involvement takes Wingham
residents over to Standish quite often,
That can't help but bring more
understanding and co-operation
between Americans and Canadians.
We've got lots to learn from each
other and we cam-have a lot of fun
together. Seaforth's sister city,
relationship with West Branch could
be one of the happiest developments
in a long time.
Blossom time
Behinfithe icettes
By Keith Roulston •
The me generation watches Canada part
It's Mardigras time again.
The streets, while they may pot
rival New Orleans, will be filled with
people taking advantage of •sidewalk
sale bargains and• taking in a full day'
of activities planned-by the Optimists.
Those gentlemen deserve a let of
credit. The club, formed 10 years ago,
filled a real gap in Seaforth's social
life.
Seaforth's Optimists have
successively planned events for a
younger age group (if we saylinder 40,
does that insult anyone?).
And club members are good at it.
To the editor:
We wish to thank your paper. for having the
privilege 'to an swereames I. McIntosh's letter.
We were very surprised and disappointed to
see your letter. After being clerk-treasurer
for the Township of Tuckersmith for 16 years,
you know very well the job'of clerk-treasurer is
not easy and it si a tough life to be a member
of council.
After reading your letter several times the
only answer we can come up with is that you
are trying to prove to the people of
Tuckersmith that the clerk-treasurer doesn't
know how to handle' the beaks and the
members of council are not'capable of running
the- businese-ef-the Township; •
The press reporter attends ell our meetings
and the notes. she copies down go to -the
paper and we have very little say in it. Due to
the fact that former clerk-treasurer James
McIntosh of the township, had made a mistake
in bringing in recommendation to council and
the County mill rate was set too high in
previous years--SO therefore we were able to
lower the County mill rate by 7 mills.
Pertaining to the first time grant of $600. to
the Vanastra Recreation Association, we were
elected to represent the people of-Tuckersmith
and not to be a rubber stamp for the previous
council.
The total deficit at Vanastra Recreation
Centre is about $28,000 not $80,000 besides
the debentures which will be paid off in 1994.
The $28,000 is to be recovered from the
Their Mardigras has raised a great
deal of money, over the years that has
enabled the club to build its
headquarters at the, rec grounds and
to sponsor an ambitious sports.
program.
Seaforth is lucky to have, the hard
working Optimists, and ditto the
Legion, the . Lions and many other
community oriented groups.
Show your support this weekend
and attend Mardigras events. We
promise you'll a ruddy good.
time.
benefitting landowners.
The., people, of Vanastra have .helped teepay
for the Federation grant since they started to
pay taxes and no way have the -farmers of
Tuckersmith paid any money towards the
recreation' centre before. '
Over half the people in Tuckersmith are not
farmers and -. we get more taxes , • from
buildings than we do from farm land.'We feel
if you had a press reporter at your
Tuckersmith Federation meetings for•the local
paper the people would have a better ides of
your good work.
We are planning to blaek_tiep_the mad Past--
of Hensall and buying a building fer $19,0^1
plus for the. Township Clerk's Office without
.an increase in the mill rate. The seven mill
increase on the tcoynship rate, which is about
$28,000 is put into the reserve fund for a rainy
day..
We have to buy another new grader in the
near future and would like to see all the horse
and buggy bridges replaced with modern
ones. ,
The finances of the township of Tuckersmith
are in a lot better condition now than they
were before Vanastra Was formed.
This is the opinion of the' two undersigned
and not necessarily the opinion of the rest. of
the Council, or the Clerk-Treasurer.
Yours truly,
Robert Fotheringhani
Frank Falconer
It's ironic that when this country is more
affluent than ever before (despite the minor
setback of our pres'erit ,pconoMic -situation),
when we've just seen some of our most
stirring national events such as the centennial
events of 10 years ago, such as the
international hockey victories of 1972 and 1976'
' that sent the country into wild celebrations,
such as the 1976 Olympics, that now of all the
limes in our history the country should be, so,
close to blowing to smitherens.
The problems of the country in general, I
think, can be tied to something singer Henry"
Belafonte mentioned the other night on, a
television interview. Belafonte said that
deSPite the affluence of North American .and '
European4ife right now, there .is something
'missing. Peoplearen't happy despite all their
wealth. •
This is reflected in general by what has
been called the "me generation'. The
idealism of the 1960's, of the civil rights battle
and the anti-war movement has given way to
the selfishness of the 1970s. This selfishness,
from the business executive all the way down
to the workers on the factory assembly line
has' had a great deal of effect on our current
economic problems.
Canadians, among the most selfish of the
selfish peoples of the 1970es, priced them-
selves out of the' international markets. They
helped create problems because we became so
greedy to buy whatever was cheapest so we
could save our money for "important" things
like vacations in the south, that we nearly
killed industries like the textile business
because .we'd rather buy cheap imports than
support our own country.
Okay, that's covering our economic
problems but how does the "me" generation
lead to national disunity? Surely, it's just the
old "Quebec problem" iria new face. It would
be except for the fact that it isn't just a Quebec
or language problem. We hear constant
rumblings from the •west. We hear that the
Maritimes would go if Quebec separated. We
hear about Nevvfoupdland wanting to re-
negotiate its terms of Confederation.
None of the problems are new. They've
been around for 'years. They aren't even
,unique to Canada,. I can imagine the•peoele of
Kansas feel just as isolated from the preker of
Washington and New York city in the U.S. as
the people of Saskatchewan do here, but I
haven't heard any seeeessionist talk down
there.
The problems seem so large now because of
the "poor little me" feeling Canadians have at
the present, Amid,' our affluence we're still
feeling sorry for ourselves. We want to blame
others for that emptiness that Belafonte
mentioned earlier. So. Quebeckers, even
though more gigantic steps have been taken to
improve their problem in the last ten years
than in the 100 before then, feel ready to give
upon Canada. So Maritimers, after living with
their inequities for so long, now demand
action. Westerners do the same. And
Ontarians, feeling sorry and put-upon, rebel
against the, outrageous injustice of having, to
listen-to part of the national. anthem sung in
French, by booing at a ball game.
The problems of the country are really small
compared to the Depression years or the war
years when we had' all the same regional
disparities plus many harder realities. The
difference is that then we tended to look on
the bright side, not look for black clouds on a
sunny day:
., They say there are two kinds of people: the
optimist can look at a, glass of water filled half
way and say it's half full, the pessimist says
it's half empty. Canadians seem to be the
latter. We look across the country.and we see•
only what -makes %Albertan's different from
Ontarians, Quebecois 'from' Maritimers. In
better tims, we'd look and see what makes us
alike,' •
The otheething about the "me generation"
is that it refuses to accept responsiblity for
—anything. -It 's always ,somebody —6E1's fault.
So we refuse to admit that the problems the
country faces are created by you and me and
our counterparts elsewhere in the country.
They may be, exaggerated by poor government
but,to accuse one man, the prime minister or •
premier of Quebec or anyone else of causing
the problems is just looking for a scape goat.
The problem is within us and the 'solution is
within us. Only when we reeognize the fact
and try to change our own attitudes toward the
I country will we begin to pull it back together
again. It's a race against time, and against
ourselves.
It's Mardigras
Councillors reply
There's so much written these dayS about
national • unity that one hesitates to add
another word in case it might be the straw that
breaks the country's back. Still it's a problem
that continues to bother people; writers
included and the only way-to deal With it, is to
bring it out in the open,
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
(by Debbie Ranney1
With all the credit cards now in existence
and more and more 'people using them every
day, Expositor Asks thought it might be
interesting to find out how people really felt
about credit so we asked, "how do you feel
about credit and credit cards?"
, Ann Bannon of 53 Wilson ,Street. in.
Serifdah said, "1 don't know. I think they're
okay. Some people abuse them."
Ms. Judy Martene of R. R. #4, Seafortii
said, "I used to use them but not any more. 1
cut them up. You just charge too much, you
just run up a bill. The interest'on them is
something else, They're just toe handy."
Mrs. Gerald Flynn of 83 Oxford Street, in
Hensell said she thought credit cards were a
good thing•especially for travelling although 14'
she said sometimes there was a little too mush --
abuse of credit cards.
Mrs. Robert McNaughton of R. R. #3,
Kippen said, "I think credit is a good thing
and 1 think credit cards are a good thing if you,
pay them before \your credit comes 'due."
Asked about theibuie of credit cards, she
said those that abuse ere& cards are going to
abuse money regardless.
. Jack Flanagan of R. R. #1. Dublin said, "I
never use them myself. The one thing 1 don't
like about them: is how they cost us. When we
pay cash we actually par for the guy using
credit cards."
"There's a two per cent charge that they
.charge-the store owner so-l-think everybody-
Who pays cash should get a two per cent
discount," he said.
Bill Worden of R. R.-#2. Staffa said. "1
think if they're used and not abused they're
find. Personally I use mine only in a situation
-Where I 'don't have the cash at the time, but I
tltiiik they can get over used at times."
Mrs: Charles Geddes of Egniondville said,
"Credit is all right to a certain there. We:
otily have one credit card around this house
-husband isn't for it at all.
Mrs. M. teuertnan of R. R. #4. Walton,
said, "It's handy asking as you have money to
pay for it. It just depends on the position' a
persist' is in.
"It `s all tight as long as I know I have
Money in the batik," she added.
Anybody got a job for my kid? She's. 27
years old, has three degrees, is three times as
bright as her old man, can charm the birds
right out of the trees when she feels like it,
and is an outstanding'fad-raiser (from me).
She plays the piano extremely well, the
guitar rather rustily. She composes music,
raucous rock or contemporary classical.
She can cook up a storn'iwhen she's at our'
place, although-rve never liad anything .'more
substantial than a cup of weak tea and.n burnt
brownie at hers.
She has an erratic but brilliant academic
career-liberally sprinkled with As for essays
and glowing tributes from professors. That's
mainly because she can write rings around
me, and 'comprehend abstract theses in
one-quarter the time I do.
She is completely versed in all the modern
psychological jargon • .of child-raising, but
despite that has two happy, healthy children.
Despite the fact that she's an ardent Women's
Libber, she still living with a male chauvinist
husband and gets along pretty well with a
male chauvinist father, or at least what she
thinks is one.
She tah Ope at a hell of a clip, self-taught.
She has worked as a waitress, a bartender, an
organist and a helper at a day-care centre.
And finally, she's a consUmate actess. You
should hear her conning her mother into
taking the kids for, a week,
Now wouldn't you think that with all these
attributes, she could hack Slome kind of living
out of our economic jungle? •
But, no. Her problem is that she is ready,
willing and able to go out and conquer the
world, but she's 'walking right into Caoada's
worst unemployment situation since the Great
Depression.
An added difficulty is that she is specially
trained to be one of •those pariahs of today's
. society — a teacher. Being a newly graduated .
teacher today is like being an undertaker in
some Utopia where nobody ever dies.
Every ocunp-stioti has its day in the sun, I
guess. Fifteen years ago, it was the turn of the
teacher. If your body was warm and you were
still breathing, you were likely to be snatched
off the streets or out of an office, and propped
up in front of a classroom.
With the post-war baby boom over and out
of the schools, and the reluctance of so many
young people to have children, for whatever
. reasons, school enrolment • has shrunk
drastically, and will go on doing so for several
vears
The huge eduCational empires . created
during the boom years are shrinking, and
attrition is fairly savage. Thousands of young
teachers arc unable to.get jobs. Hundreds are
losing their jobs because they are redundant.
It's nobody's fault, particularly, just a
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Expositor asks:
How do you feel about credit cards?
11urou 1. t
• Juno 7, 1878
Mrs.. Modeland, wife of John Modeland, + Tucker-
smith, met wit 1 the' most dangeroua and painful
accident. She,intended coming to Seaforth and bet son
was hitching a span of horses to the carriage. While the
young man was thus engaged, and before he got the
traces all fastened, Mrs. Modeland took her seat in the
carriage. No' sonner did she get seated and just as her
daughter had her foot on the' carriage step, the horses,
took fright, knocked the young man down and bolted
off, Mrs. Modeland was thrown opt of the vehicle with'
Such force as .to stun her and the young man, having
trampled on by the horses, was also severely
injured,
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L. Mabees was wheeling-a carriage in which
was a child along Main street, She left,the carriage on
telhe sidewalk and ihesarriage started to roll down an
, incline towards the road. Fortunately it struck a tie post
thus breaking its fall in turning over. When the child
was extricated, it was found to be more
frightened than hurt.
The refreshing rain shower hadethe most beneficial
effect upon the growing crops. These never promised
better at this season of the year. .'
Wool is a staple article of merchandise right now.
'The dealers of Seaforth pay as high a • price as can be
. got in any other market in Western Canada.
• After defraying all expanses connected with the
celebration of the 24th of May in Seaforth, there was a
-- balance of $4 in the treasury. The association is still out
$2130 for expences incurred in improyihg the grounds.
Mesrs. Macgregor and Utiuhart have rented from S.
Rennie, hiS large new grist and plowipg mill. They pay
' . Mr. Rennie $600 per annum and taxes as rent. They'
- intend to go into the merchandising of flour on a large
scale. -
A stock of fall 'wheat was pulled from a 10 acre field
°tithe farm of Thomas Robertson of Tuckersmith which
measured 5 feet 3 inches in length, and not then headed
out. %
June 1,.1928 , .
John Deitz of Manley broke the record when ,he_.
- -crushed 420 yardsof stone and kept 15 teams going ion
• a distance of, two miles.
The TuckersmithCounciltieve ptit in a crusher in the
Alexander Pit and intends to gravel Hensall road.
Lloyd Vennor and Paul Boa were successful in •
carryirig off 2nd prize at the recent horse throwing._
contest in eliensall.
The rains of last week have given the crops a fine .
start. Many have sown their peas, others are preparing
the land for beans of which there is a large nereage to.. .._.
be sown in this district.
On May 24th, there gathered et the home of Reeve
Frank McQuaid of McKillop, his four other living
brothers. It was the anniversary of' the death of Dr.
Thomas McQuaid. This is the first time in 11 years that
the five brothers have been together.
The celebration in Hensall was a great success.
viewed from every standpoint. The procession was lead
by the Kiltie Band of• Clinton in Highland, costumes: . r
Daficing was enjoyed in 'the evening to the stirring
violin and piano, music of Mesrs. G9rdon Bolton and J,
Broadfobt with tviis Rossie Broadfoot at the piano.
Nearly every available lot is being pia' under
.::.,,_cultivation .in Hensall 'which shows good thrift and
management in the way of production. -
Coal:merchants of Hensall, with the continued, cold
weather, are kept busy in the way of delivering the
Needful. •
The Seaforth Highlanders have been very fortunate
in securing the services of N, Novak of Medicine Hat as•
their new band leader. He is no stranger to the people
of Seaforth as WS. Novak is the daughter of Johe Scott'
of Roxboro and' also a talented musician. •
The degree of doctor of laWs has been conferred on
Dr. Newton MacTavish by Acadia University, Wolf-
vele, Nova Scotia. Dr.'MacTavish is the brother of John
MacTavish of _Seaforth.
The' Canvassing Committee,..cemposed of Mesrs.
Harry Stewart, J. 14. McMillan, Ross Sproat, and John
Beattie have handed to Treasurer, C, P. Sills a list Of 82
names of gentlemen who have signified their intention
of becoming members of the Seaforth Bowling Club.
° fJune 5, 1953
Seaforth new ptiblic school has•been accepted by the
architects Shore and Moffatt as . substantially com-
pleted. The board expects to move the Kihdergarden
classes-to the new school early this month and to move
the remainder of the classeS following the June
examinations. Three new teachers have been engaged
by the Board, John W. Talbot replaceS D. N. Eastman
as principal. Evan Hoffman of PreStonovilI 'e acting ,
Assistant Principal, he replaced Miss . .einnifred
.___Sav_aug.e.-Miss-Margaret-Willis;-idndergarden teaeher,
leaves Seaforth Public School. at the end u' tne term.
She, will be replaced by Miss •Lou' Menzies.
At the inaugural meeting of the reorgan: .ed Huron
County Tithercolosis Association in Clinton, Fred J.
Snow was named as its new president. He' succeeds
Frank S. Fingland.
Robert MacLellan, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. C.
MacLellan of town, has successfully passed his third
year honour mathematics examination.
Most Rev. John C. Cody, Bishop of London, made an
official visit of the parish of St. Columban and
confirmed 64 candidates.
John Williamson of Walton had the misfortune to
have his leg broken while assisting his son, George:
They had finished seeding and were putting ethe seed
drill into the barn for storage at the time of the mishap.
. Bill Evans of Dublin who has recently joined the OPP
has' been stationed at Marathon, Ontario. Constable
Evans is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Evan's of
Dublin.
.
. June 6, 1903
The first home game in the W. F. A. Senio Series,
was played on the recreation grounds betw en the
Oldtime Rivals Galt and the Hurons. A big -crowd
turned out to see thegame while the Galt boys brought
a number of their admirers with them.. The game ended
4-2 in favour of Galt with the ball hovering continually
around the Huron's goal. Our boys had plenty of
material for a champiohip team but whaethey require
is practise and a lot it •
William Ament ha purchased the Bart tiff _
residenceon John Streetl It is a nice comfortable home.
Rev. Samuel Acheson formerly of Kippen, who has
been pastor in Pembina, Dakota, since leaving Canada,
he,s received and accepted a call to Towner, North
Dakota, and has removed to, that_place. ,
. The windstorm of Wednesday of last week removed a
cornet' of the roof from Turner's Church in the west end
ofTuckersmith. Part of the debris was carried a half
mile from the building. The walls were uninjured. •
Mr. A. Cardno who has a love for and devotes his
spare time to gardening has several peach trees which
he grew from the stone which are again this year loaded
with peaches.
James Shea of BeechwoOd ,had a -very successful
logging ee last week. Over 70 men and 10 teams did a
job on his farm on the 4th concession of McKillop.
John Cochrane of Hay Township let his horses run
away last week and as a result he has been forced to get
around with a cane.
W. McLaren of Tuckersmith had the misfortune to
lose an valuable heavy horse by inflammation. Mr.
McLaren would not take $225 for the animal. .,
The new telephone poles at Hensel' are all that they
could wish for, and when painted, will present a very
creditable appearance.
n the years agonf