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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, .tuLy 8, 1981
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To the editor:
Readers concerns for High St.
I I would like to register my opposition to
the proposal to turn the Tippett property into
a garage for Town equipment.
would favour removing the building and
use the property as it should be used in a
residential area.
Responding to you editorial in last week's
issue, asking for public opinion on turning
,the vacated Tippelt plant into a garage for
town equipment, allow me to voice my
concerned opposition.
The property owners of the vicinity have
been promised, and surely deserve to have
the building removed, to bring their area up
to proper resjdentiat status.
The lot would a fine location for further
Senior Citizen's Apartments. or an excellent
spot for a private dwelling. Failirigeither
of these, let's turn it into a grassed
mini-park.
We are certain that the Seaforth Horticul-
,,ture Society would be pleased to provide a
large flower bed in the centre to' really
beautify the area.
`Yours truly.
Jas. A. Stewart,
Res A use for the High St. site.
Use the lot on the corner of Market and
High St. that's owned by the Town for
parking and take some of the cars off Main
St. and the Post Office area.
Jack Thompstin
Main St .,
Seaforth
--(Mrs.) Lillian Kerslake
For 46 years now Seaforth area kids and their parents have been
wandering r down to the Lions Park on a Friday or Saturday night in July.
Their destination? The Lions Carnival. . . games of chance and rides, food
booths and bingo, penny sates and local entertainment ...and 'perhaps
most important a general atmosphere of good times. You meet your
friends and bask a bit in that.
The annual carnival has been a highlight of Seaforth summers, good
years and bad. It continued through the. Second World War, bringing a
much needed bit of carefree time to a small town whose sons were
fighting overseas. Sure it's changed over the years but it's kept an
old-fashioned flavour, an all-important sense of people donating their
time and. talents for .the 'good of the whole community.
The 47th carnival ought to continue that traditidn, although this year
because of ball diamond construction at the park, it's being held at the
fairgrounds. From Friday night's midway to Sunday arternoon s tractor
pull there'll be lots at the new location to bring on the crowds.
Downtown Seaforth has got the carnival spirit too and will kick oft
Carnival Days Sidewalk Sales with a performance on Main St Thursday
hight by the award winning SDHS Girls Trumpet Band. That's your
chance to hear the quality music- this local...also a tradition in town but
not quite as long running as the carnival, .. makes.
Seaforth's a town that values its past...terrific long time institutions
like the carnival and the band prove that. But we also have a tot of people
working hard fo'r a good future herefas well, Your attendance at the
carnival and at Carnival Days downtown suppdrts both.
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc at ,or 0 ,rtar“: Aeetc ,r
Newspaper Association and Aucht b3,.,e‘tt, o' anonc
Ole 14°1111'011 . (fxposifor
A carnival for all
Since 1860. Serving Me Community lost
Those ef us has ing to like with the
consequences of the current mail strike find
it hard to have much good to say about the
Canadian Union of Postal Employees.
It is even harder to have sympathy with
the postal workers when one hears that they
are already earning more than $9 per hour as
a starting wage and want to work that up 'to
S11. Now if you're an ordinary joe working
for less than that amount. the strike makes
you doubly angry.
Most of us have blamed the mess the post
office is in on the postal workers. Oh. we've
been ready to give our share of curses to the
governMent as well but for the most part
we've ignored the people in the middle: the
post office management.We haven't tended
to listen very well when the postal employ-
ees grumbled about the way they've been
treated by management. When the workers
complained about new automated postal
sorting equipment' e thought they were just
protecting, their jobs. When they worried
aboyt being watched by closed-circuit televi-
sion cameras' We thought maybe if they
worked harder they'd have nothing to worry
about. After all, it takes lqnger for a letter to
get from here to Toronto today in the jei age
than in the days of the horse and buggy.
I began to look at things a little differently
a couple of months back when I was listening
to a radio program that interviewed a
Salt shipments increase
To understand the post office
sure to have a good job done.
The amount to, be raised by the township
of Tuclmrsmith this year'for empty pOrPoses
S3.824, beiq about 'S403 Mere. than last
sear. .
.101114.1 1906, - • •
.0r1 Saturday evening laSt.thet Ira* of
trtlitthareti. new fax kart* 'was_ raised into
an4..the,..$q14414.Ft PrelOrtt$. a laige,
seihng aPpearat)Ce .and. havg;. all the
modern conveniences for unloadingi etc. A
large • number from the • ountry and village
were assembled at the- raising and every-
thing, passed off in good
We are pleased to reprott. that our salt well
will soon be in full running order with a good
staff of men. The Hensell salt well is dne of
the best in the Huron district and won a
diploma at the World's Fair. at Chicago.
The new pavement on Main Street,
Seaforth will use up from 2.500 to 3.000
barrels of cement.
James G. McMichael made a shipment of
hogs from Seaforth on Monday. and paid
1.2 cents for them all round. This is the
highest price he has every paid. One farmer
number of men at a reunion of post office
employees who used to work in the mail cars
of the railway lines. These particular postal
employees worked on the , prairies but I'm
sure a good deal of what they had to say
amid have applied everywhere in Canada.
THE ELITE'.
The men explained that they were
considered the elite of postal employees.
They went on b6ard a train in One major
centre (I think itwas Winnipeg) with bags of
mail destined for points along the line. They
were locked in the cars and all the time the
train was travelling they would be, working,
sorting the mail that would go to this town or
that. Along the way there would be stops in
towns to drop off the mail for that town and
pick up outgoing mail. There was also a slot
in the door where someone could mail a
letter directly.
The mail bags brought on at each stop
would then be sorted as the train travelled to
the next town and probably if you mailed a
letter at one town along the line for the next
town say 20 miles distant. it would be there
In the years agone
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
bronghi,in five little fellows and took home
over $75 forthem. Pigiare as good as horses
and .horses Are as B994 As gold,
Willis has purchased. the site of the
0J0 Slraftft'likk on Main Week for his shoe
factory:. The lot tyaS purchased front, James •
Otork . for, VW. It. is well. adapted, for Abe'
04po*:aatt'th,e building-.011,91AFati;
tinsight1Y,tolu074‘Mstp:Stre0.
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Mr % ant1.6frs- Jaatei:KramAPpt .orDitttlin '
attended the • Krat,141topf-MoRhy wedding '
held in Detroit on July .4. .
Mr.' and. 'Mrs. Gladsou 'Campbell of
Toronto, are visiting at •the home of , Mrs..
Campbell's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Hunt. McKillop.
Messrs. Louis Jackson and Charlie
Stewart of Seaforth are spending their
holidays at the Jackson cottage. Bruce
Beach. •
Mrs. F.R. Beattie of Seaforth is visiting
with friends at Grand Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Passmore of Hensall
spent Sunday at the home of Mr. arid Mrs. J.
B. McLean of Kippen.
JULY 13,1956
Seaforth's Goderich Street sewage and
paving program. before Council at a series of
meetings Monday night, when an enabling
by-law failed to receive the necessary
te-quarters majority on 'second reading.
First concrete sewer tiles produced in
Seaforth came off-the line Friday,
A freak storm of ,tornado proportions
which - struck this district CO* Sunday
• afternoon; sotppIgtely: destroyed •*,.1-60.
lot boo orTompOrsexilOtWctmeesStkai_ •
• Eghberli haff.'4 1410-W*sti,otAtigiktm§00,•AW„
Etle ,bath was not 01fOrett; •EV.o.rgtrV.100'
wgre'illettritrt*II4t0-(0-,400AP4a114
traffipp for 4.flig4wAY v.i4..AtOPPOO'Int
trees'' across .tittot .)k barn larld ,
owned t/y ice southwest :of •
Dublin was destroyed 'and a combine and
truck badly damaged.
During the severe, electrical wind and rain
storm Sunday evening, a huge Maple 'tree,
60 years old, on the property of Mr. and
Mrs. Geiger, was split and part of it fell on
the road. A large maple tree fell on the roof
of the garage owned by Dr. D.J. McKelvie.
The car parked outside the garage was not
damaged• in any way, not even a dent could.
be seen, the doctor stated.
Cheryl Little of Hensall is spending this
week with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Long of Kippen. •
One day at a time
by Jim Hagerty
Oh, otherpeople
I am not normally an envious man.
It doesn't bother--me in the least when
some rich industrialist speeds past me on the
highway inahe his shiny new Cadillac. And I
don't get evena tiny bit upset when an old
through his exquisitely decorated. 20-room
southern mansion.
A few years ago I attended the wedding
reception of a university friend who had
made great strides along the civil service
path since graduating from college in 1974.
As we stood around the kidney-shaped pool
in his lovely back yard. this young special
assistant to, one of the federal government's
cabinet ministers spent, what was for him,
an enjoyable half hour dropping names. At
the Liberal party's big Christmas party a few
months before. he had had a few dances with
Margaret Trudeau. lona Campognola and
other female stars. And, of course, he was
on a first-name basis with Pierre and other
government biewies
To the editor:
Wonderland's
pros and cons
On June 3 m% classmates and I sent on a
trip tta Wonderland. I read opinion's of malt%
people. whether good or had. I think
Wonderland is a great place e ith,,a lot to see
and do. There arc rides. games. restaurants
and theatres.
The cons of Wonderland arc I There
should be more fountains. I e alked around
all day, only seeing 2 fountains. 2. There
should be more fast-food restaurants. Sure,
there are lots of Spanish. Dutch and Italian
restaurants. but just coming of the C anadian
Minebuster and having a large plate of
chicken plus potatoes and 'a segetabie.'
The pros of Wonderland are that: 1. It is
very clean. All over the place were workers
carrying brooms and dust pans. 2. I did not
see all of Wonderland. hut I am sure that it
anyone got lost. sick. or hurt tho would not
he left unaided,
I am sure that if anyone went in e nth a
'grim thought. came out with a smile'
Colleen Maloney,
Grade - Student.
St. Columban School.
R.R. #2, Dublin
Our trees 'and us
In a small and leafy town like Seaforth it's easy to get complacent about
trees. We've got lots of them, big ones, and they sure do make things
Cooler, prettier and easier to -bear dm:Trig a- heat, wave -like the present
one. •
But trees are falling victim to a number of projects planned in Seaforth
in the near future. And it's up to all of us to insist they be replaced.
' A number of people were saddened when a hugh maple on GoderiCh
St. West was cut recently. But Its soundness in doubt, the tree had to"go...
We're glad to see a new red maple has been planted in its place.
Before street widening a decade or more ago, Goderich ,St. had a
veritable canopy of beautiful big trees. Only one of two of the 'giants
remain but replacements are corning, along. •
That's the thing about trees: they take an enormous length of time to
_grow. And not only that,' many naturalists suggest (and homeowners
have learned this the hard way. with expensive nursery bought stock) it's
necessary to plant a number of small trees, perhaps as many as ten, to
het prig, which will survive to a long leafy adult lifel.
Our town will be losing more trees to "progress." and likely that's
unavoidable. Widening 'William'St. East will mean the Sacrifice of quite a
few trees. This summer's storm sewer construction and the widening-of
Market just west of Main, will be the end of a few more.
f's-sad- to. see-the-old-1 rein- gov-but-tetis-repla0e-them--and-set..a.-goal .
adding to the town's tree population every year.
Some people See tittle of value in a tree, unless it's a straight tall
walnut that can be cut down and turned' into lumber- worth a very hefty
price per board foot. Trees in our rural areas have often fallen victim to
the desire for a few more square feet of cash crop land: '
But summer is a good time for a reminder that trees not only keep us
cool, they provide us with life itself. Trees give us oxygen, shelter our
planet from the sun and.protect us from noise. (A Ms magazine story says ..
a forest is ten to twelve times quieter than a vacant treeless site Of the
Same size.)
Trees help keep moisture in the soil. Denude our land of. trees and the
water table drops, our soil erodes, and we get gUllies and piles of useless
silt in our rivers. Trees are terrific recyclers; their annual leafifall rots and
renews the ground under them.
In short, says the Ms Magazine article, animals who depend on trees
can't live without them. "Take away the.trees and these animals simply
disappear. One of the animals is you."
Let's not , forget that Seaforth's trees are one of its assets. A
responsible community will insist that they remain so for generations to
come.
When, at tong' last, he, remembered my
name, my old friend asked me, "And what
are you working at now, Hagerty?"
As proudly as if I'd just piloted the first
spaceship to Mars, I replied, "I'm a
hometown!
My friend- laughed and laughed and.
Six months later, the Liberal government
was defeated in an election and my famous
friend was unemployed whileil still trudged
to work every morning and wrote up
obituaries, local gossip and little league
baseball scores.
I really couldn't care less what someone
'else has materially or what impressive tide
they get to hang on their office door. The
older I get, the less I compare myself with
others.
PANGS OF ENVY
But, from time to time, I do suffer pangs
of envy .when I encounter people who have
developed an almost totally carefree attitude
towards practically everything in life.
You know the type. If you were to rush
into his home some afternoon and announce
to him that Russia had, just this moment,
fired a hydrogen bomb,and it was heading
our way, he'd casually enquire: "Is that so?
When is it expected to •hit?"
Upon hearing the awful news that we were
about to he obliterated in about 15 minutes,
the carefree kind would find a reason to bt,
optimistic. 0
"What? Not for another 15 minutes, eh?
Well, I guess I'd have time for another
beer."
-It used to be called tension in the old days,
but modern man has now dubbed an excess
'of nervous energy, "stress", and profess-
ionals in the field seem generally agreed that
it is the great curse of North American
society.
On Monday. a friend and I wandered into
a coffee shop in a big city. I had to make an
important phone call.in exactly 15 minutes so
we though we'd relax with a coffee in the
meantime. Just before I was expected to
place the call, some fellow strolled over tyo
the pay phone. Twenty minutes, later, he was
still yakking away, totally Oblivious to the
fact that I was pacing back and forth behind
him, making all sorts of threatening noises
that clearly indidated my desire to use the
phone.
My friend finally grabbed me around the
waist and carried me. kicking and screaming
out of the coffee shop and down the street to
another phone.
It took me the rest of the dos to regain my
composure.
.1111 8, 1881
We h.1se been tntormed that the salt sales
and shipments of Messrs. Liras. loung and
Spading at Seatorth and BIN th. base reached
the estraordinar% figure ,it S20 cars during
the past tour months. being upwards of
10.000 barrels per_ month The shipments
base' been near!), equali% de,ided between.
both points.
'The water nit4th On Maw $tteet. has Pen
wiped One at twoineh Pipe 4ud. from-there to
nisi water 4.aallIttli"was ertmed in the rear
,•'MorrisUrr S-.,atore ler . Street w wring-
't)-urpoes. Otis Gail nosy be kept 'OW ,
..vithout`ditgeOtty, and the...qpi cost Will be
the first cost of laying the
On'Thuriday laatOeelt. these 'was satin
to Lewis MePotialds mill at ViPalton
fifteen thousand si hundred' and sixty-nine
• -Wet of inch luMber in ten and a half hours.
The ltimber was hemlock and basswood and
the work was, done under the supervision of
Isaiah Smith, head sass ser. if an'. other man
thinks he can beat this Mr Smith wants him
to poke his head out of his shell and say so.
James McIntosh of the Mill Road.
Tuckersmith is also erecting a large new
bank barn, 40-x 60 feet. with a good stone
foundation. Mr. Wm. Angus has the
contract, and as he is one of the best barn
carpenters as well as one at the most decent
fellows in the county . Mr. McIntosh will be
in less than an hour. Today of course it could
take days.
By the time the train had reached its final
destination the mail .ear employees would'
get off with all the mail sorted ready for
speedy delivery. Today trucks have replaced
the train and all the mail would likely be '
picked dp, trucked all the way to Winnipeg.
sorted by machine and (if the letter wasn't
mangled in the equipment) be shipped back
out by the next truck. A letter that once
travelled 20' Miles 'to its destination may
today go hundreds.
MORE EFFICIENT
Now I'm no insider when it comes to the
history-of-the post office but I think I can bet
what happened., Somebqdy decided that the
post office.had to be more efficient and the
example of efficiency as based on the
example of industry was to centralize and
automize. There is efficiency in scale so why
not build huge postal stations where all the
sorting can be done instead of in mail cars
and all those little post offices. Industry
proved machines are more efficient than
men so bring in the computerized, electronic
wizzard to replace people. So today we have
a situatten where something likelialf the
mail in Canada passes through one huge
sorting plant in the Toronto area.
The problem is, the post office isn't like
any other industry. Industry could centralize
for efficiency by simply taking the cream off
the crop. To hell with the little towns out in
the sticks when you can get all the business
you need at low cost in the industrial
heartland or Toronto. Hamilton and so on.
But the post office to do its job must still
'serve all those little inefficient towns and
villages and hamlets, must reach all those
farmers on their rural routes-. It's not
economical and would make an efficiency
expert faint dead away but the post office
Simply must continue to serve all the people.
But as long as you have such a decentralized
organization you cannot, apply the same
rules of efficiency that business schools
generally teach. It seems to me that is' where
the post office made its first mistake and in
making that one decision to centralize mail
sorting it has set the course ' to the 'mess,
we're in.
It still doesn't make me feel any better
about postal workers getting S9 an hour but
at least it might make their frustration more
. understandable. We're all just as frustrated.
school cilium, who• left the starting gate• at• die ---rePiarter-eti: the, newspaper in •••iny:. same time I did, gives me, a grand tour
Something to say
There area lot of things I'd
rather be doing on a hot early
July day than sit in .a hot
office and write an 'early
newspaper column. But,
having committed myself in
print (as well as at home and
at the bank) to taking only
the occasional Friday off and
staying around for long
weekends, a week like this
one spent lazing on the beach
at a cottage1ornewhere is
just wishful thinking.
Cottage goers probably are
having to contend with a lot
of bugs this week anyway.
Or if they're south of Goder-
ich on Lake Huron. with
sewage from that leak at the
Wingham treatment plant
(sure we can send shuttles to
space but can we keep from
fouling our own lakes that's
the reaLchallenge of the 80s)
Or with fog. Fog?
Yes, thick, blankets of pea
soup fog. That's what people
we visited at a cottage near
Goderich were contending
with Sunday morning. We
left them huddled around the
fireplace in a 60 degree warm
room as thick fog drifted in
the windows. And though
the place is right on the
beackiou couldn't see any
horizon at all. Just everlast-
ing high noon fog. As our
Summer survival
by Susan White
daughter said "there isn't
' any sky today"
That should make you
stay-at-homes feel better. I
know it does me.
We headed inland on Sun-
day, to a family reunion in
Exeter. (The better half was
there under duress. 'He
would much rather, he said.
play baseball at the Bad
New, Beavers' debut this
seas°, at the Optimist park.
They tied, the Roths squad
19-19 without him though
and if that isn't the news of
'the week after last year's
debacle 1 don's know what
is.)
'Quite a few of the family
gathered at a cousin's house-
...and the house next door...
a neighbour, not knowing
what she was in for volun-
teered to let assorted small
fry use her wading pool
and Swings...were just start-
ing vacations. Those relat-
ives, naturally, weren't sub-
ject, to the Sunday blahs like
the rest of us and were
having a whet of a time.
Winding down, prepared to
stay into the wee hours,
whooping' it up, you know,
the usual"we've got a week
off...nyanyanyayaya" behav-
ior.
Well, the rest of us. those
who had to go to ,work
Monday morning, weren't
about-to -ierfh-em get away
with that. So along with the
usual needling and bragging
..,"my child has big feet"
and "tittle Mary's been talk-
ing since she was six months
old" we got in a few digs
about how buggy and foggy
the Lake Huron coast is this
year and about civil servants
"do you REALLY get the
whole summer off or does it
just look that way?"
They of souse didn't take
that lying down ( except
maybe the civil servants for
whom that's a usual posit-
ion). We heard a lot about
the pleasures of long leisure-
ly outdoor barbecuing, golf
foursomes (fivesomes are a
no-no on the area course we
learned). shopping, swimm-
ing and picnics on the beach.
"You'll have to go to Must-
oka" we muttered evilly,
"Lake Huron's polluted and
fogged in."
One cousin couldn't help
giggling a little as she escort-
ed us to our car at the
reasonable hour(for those
who had to work next day) of
9:30 pm. She you see has the
whole summer Off from here
(Continued on Page 3A)
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
....is held up
because of the postal-strike-
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