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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-08-26, Page 3' BETTER WALKS TO TOWN HALL — With the nearly 100' year old town hall in the background, work continues on new sidewalks for Market St. The street has been widened and new storm sewers installed arid it will be repaved. (Photo by White) Why not underground? (Editor's note: Terry Ford, a former Seaforth resident, has been following the local arena crisis in the Expositor. What follows is a copy of his letter to the editor of the Tilbury Times) The Town of Tilbury and local Township taxpayers. should take a long hard look at spending more money on a 25-year-Old- building. The Town of Seaforth, Ontario, has a - --30:year-old arena. Ite-I974;Seatatli had to reconstruct the arena roof to meet govern- . ment standards. Six years later, their arena is condemned. This season they have to rent ice time out of town. A new roof structure over the old ice surface will cost MOAB; the- -frone section could bp saved and replaced- later. Dressing room's, etc.. would stay the -same. Seaforth council was seriously coda, dering the above solution. NoW, because of public pressue. Seaforth council is seriously consideri g a, new building. A new arena, with regulation size ice surface, larger dressing rooms And community centre, will cost $1,500,000. Wintario and community centre grants will cover $1,000,000, leaving $500,000 to be raised. The old building was not officially condemned until this summer, after July 15. 1981, too late for this season. Enclosed are press clippings from Seiforth with the information. My suggestion to Seaforth, arwelt as Tilbury, is to construct a new arena partially underground, similar to the building where the Minnesota North Stars play hockey. The majority of the building is underground. The &Mate-a BlOOmingtOnuMinetola. Is sithudr— to ours. The advantages of an underground facility are numerous. Heating. air conditioning and _top( top parking, to name a few. (Roof top parking may not be feasible in our case). The community hall could be ground level with no stairs to climb. Elevators and limps wou Id be used to reach the lower level. The ice surface could stay in year around, with few problems and increase yearly earnings for the building with a lower annual operating cost. As far as 'I am concerned, spending more money on the Tilbury arena, at this time, is wasteful. Terry Ford, Hospital's care is great May I take space in your paper to comment on two incidents headlined in last week's Expositor? They were. "Pilot dies in .plane crash" and 'tlklarrow escape as motorbike. car collide." Two incidents which should never have happened' but which /or some time have seemed to me to be inevitable. Many times in the last , few years I have seen young children riding motorbikes on the streets. Motorbikes which were not licensed for use on the road, very often with two children. on the hike-and without .helinets, haye wondered what the wreot$ would feel when the inevitable' happened W044. theyfeel PAY. POI* this *Field not to67,e, happoOt• if thex.bad Ingt,:ntade it .pOSsible? Did.They eVergii,catlAhOujiMtOthett44hAt inallOWiag:ot PrOrMiqq14400gsoch. Oh* theywerecOtidOpiniorabetting,#.041atia0 the law and. .tbeieby instilling In, their Bible for To the editor: opinions expressed in this column this week there is a special treat: several opinions to hate not just one. We spent some time away from home 'on the weekend which gave, some opportunities to observe human' nature. What is it about sign that makes people do just the opposite to what the sign says? You've seen it before: the " wet, paint sign that makes everybody touch the paint just to see if the,sign really means what it says. We sawseveral instances on the weekend of this perversity of mankind. You see it every time there's a traffic Aie-up of course. There's always some guy who goes out on the shoulder of the road, drives past all theother ears backedup and somehow thinks the traffic jam is for everybody else but him. -He, of course. gets stuck out on the shoulder when he reaches the point where the backup start's and then gets angry because people won't let him back in the regular lane when the traffic starts to move. Likewise on the weekend we were at a restaurant and took a youngster to the washroom. There was a sign on the door asking patience while the attendant cleaned the rest room. The line began to form while more and more people waited but just about If this column appears in your local paper with a black border around it, you can shed a silent tear, or a noisy one if you'd rather. The black border will mean this is the last column you will every read by Bill Smiley. It will mean that he has a brand new set of wings, and is swooping and gliding about with the cherubim and seraphim. Or that he has a brand new coal shovel, and is shovelling away with the in cubi and succubi of the other place. It will mean that he has auccumbed, simply succembed, to a combination ofplaying three roles at once: Head of the English Depart- ment, a German general, and A Man Called Trepid. Head of thang. Dept. in June is enough to whiten the hair of a new-born black baby. First, there is the administrivis, about 10 wh'xpositor Since 1660. Serving the Community first 527-0240 Pe HOW at SEAPORTH. ONTARIO every Wednesday by McLean Bros. Publishers. Ltd. Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau ot Circulation Subscription rates: congog Stara yeat (irLadvancel outside 0,anada443 a year on edvainee) Strapecopies, - ad Bents each $000ndolass atii0 registrationnumher 046 • SEArgirrtt ONTARIO, AUGUST 26, 1911 Arena alternatives f'el'ine fans please excuse us, but there is. more than one way to skin a cat. That's what we should all keep in mind as Seaforth ponders the rebuilding of its arena. . And as a letter from a fanner resident points out on this page, the standard above ground arena isn't the only solution to our need for a community centre. We're not endorsing the underground model he suggests 'mind you; a lot more study is needed on that. But we like the fact that he's 'thinking the matter over and took time to write to his old home town. All of us interested in the arena problem could do a little research and pondering of the issues ourselves. How can we raise the huge amount of money necessary for an 'a'rena of any typel Those who are good at fund raising could be thinking along those lines, while the construction experts can certainly help us plan the best arena possible. The dreamers can lift our sights a little; the practical Can keep us from going hog wild. For a project this size .we need good old fashioned community involvement that small towns like Seaforth are famous for. Sure we need trained experts too...it's definitely a job for engineers and architects. -But- -ail-the-experts--in the-world-can't build-that -arena-without - - commitment and support froth the people of Seaforth and area. So let's think and talk about it and we'll see you at the big arena Kipeeting, Wednesday, Sept. 9. Three more years Well, they're going to be around a little longer. They are local municipal politicans, who after the next 'elections, in November 1982, will 'serve three year terms instead of the present two. At least that's what municipal affairs minister 'Claude Bennett advocated this week at the , annual Association of Muncipalities convention in Toronto. 4 We applaud the minister's sUggestion. Too often we've seen local politicians struggle With the complexities of municipal office and really hit their stride near the end of the two year term. Then they balk at the idea of a repeat two years, or the voting public balks at them period, and they quit or are defeated. A council starts all over again with a number of rookies who have their own learning to do. Anybody who's been on council in the area will agree it takeiat least a year to learn the ropes, to become effective. With a three year term new councillors will have a learning year and two "doing" years instead of one of each. There's a bit of a drawback in that areal dud will be on council an extra year: But we can only hope that someone who's just not cut out for the demanding job of serving on a town or township council will recognize it and resign. Alternatively, given the opportunity of obserVing an. Incompetent concillor over three years instead of two, the voters could provide a forced resignation. All in all three year terms for municipal politicians should only improve the workings of local government., It's a good idea, perhapsiong overdue. In the years agone will be back next week One day at a time by Jim Hagerty Eating by' instinct binge that laited an entire month. - et and, buy another half-dozen bananas. got inside my house and the rest of them before the day was Out. days I'drace doWn to the local supermark-. I'd eat one of them in the, car on the way Mine froth the store, another as soon as 1 month. until I Started to look like a banana Last winter, I went on a bansina.eating I didn't know" why, but every couple of This strange behaviour kept up for a ,butter sandwich in each hand. dangerous to yoUr health" list, and rd logic I've ever seen put down in print. Sky's The Limit", writes about what a give up eating bad food or give up reading about bad fo'od, so 'I gave up reading. stumbled across one of the finest pieces of would hit the 'scientists' "Foods • most practically cry• myself to sleep, a peanut- Dr. Wayne Dyer, in his book, "The I got to the point where I had to either Until this week, that is, when I finally and then, all of a sudden,, it was over. I perfect machine the human body is and probably haven't consumed two bananas how it always knows what it needs to . in the past six months. survive, much better than we ourselves A year ago, it was tomatoes and the year do. It knows when it's hungry and, what before that, apples. Most recently, I kind of food it's hungry for and it will tell practically overdosed on patmeal`cookiet. us by givipg us cravings. And when I was a teenager, I used to According to Dyer, the body also knows -consume milk, not by the glass, but by the exactly when it needs some Test and how - :much rest it requires. It !eta us know when quart. With Such peculiar eating habita. you'd it's time for ,a nap .by making us sleepy. think that by now I would be dead, The body also knows what it do esn't like and doesia4 need and.will let us know 'hopelessly overweight or dangerously diseased. And yet, I'm a trim 155 pounds. in no uncertain terms when we've I reasonably healthy and to be honest, offended it. Drink a , quart or two of I've never felt better in my life. whiskey in a short time and the body says, I memorized Canada's Food Rules when "Hey wait a minute, Mac! Who do you I was in Grade 5 and prontiftly forgot them think lam to feed me that poison? Just for that, I'm going to make you throw up aif as soon as. the exams were over. Since then, I've eaten whenever I've been over your new suit and I'll give you a hungry and gObbleddown whatever I felt headache •you'll still be talking about a like eating, without any other rhyme or week from now." Dogs and cats, leopards and cheetahs. reasons. If Canada's Food Rules were law.• if the salmon and seagull, never consult nutrit- law was enforced, I would have been ionists, go to "health" food stores or locked up long age: memorize food rules, Canadian or not. t never could undgistand how I And yet they seem to know exactly what to managed W survive at all, txinsideting the eat and when. undisciplined way nit keptmv body fed. Dyer says the human being is just In fact, my shoddy eating practices left me another animal, and like all animals, a bit neurotic about it all, ridden with guilt should trust his instincts more and his over all the foods I was supposed to be intellect less. eating and wasn't. And then, every once That does hi I'm heading downtown for In a while, another favoitritejood of mine a piece, of lemon pie. children's minds a disrespect for the law? Much the same thing happened a number of years ago when the snow mobile was the status thing and I did complain •to the police about it. One officer told me quite frankly that there was little they Could do since the parents allowed it and even advised their children how to evade the, police by going through b4ck,Ytt,4- In the,. past I have rer9E104. the • ntorhike ineidentS' but hoc not for some time. fn4„ thereforefeels V . thatMnst accept 9$11.e.orlhq111,ltle f9ithereeent occurrotick: .sUpposel•Could.tualtealtspita amuses :such i.ts.,feeling.that it would no gOOtt. I didn't know any of gle'citi!dteti and they wo441'4e, iong•geue, by the time the poli0e ,arrived.arid I - everyone who came along would ignore the people lined right up to the washroom door and -go to the head of the line as, if everyone else in line was too stupid to know you ban to push to open the door.. After, they read the sign each was reasonable and went-hack to the end of the line but each had to; read 'the sign for himself. A DETOUR Likewise later in the weekend we stayed at a house that was the last one on a street which was under construction. A detour sign blocked the read nearly half a mile back, directing traffic aroundthe construction but a good number of motorists seemed to think thiswas another. stupid government plot just to inconvenience theM personally. The result was a weekend of watching people come down the street' tothe construction equip- ment, turn around - and go back. After' watching several hundred cars turn in her driveway, the owner of the house finally built 'a barricade across it. *oldie* Spent some time at a party at which almost By Bill Smiley memos a day: Please •have inventory completed by yesterday (60,000 books); Your list of books for rebinds has not been submitted, it was due last Friday) You have not completed the inventory of the class- rooms in your department (as' though somebody had walked off with six desks and a waste-basket since last June); Where were you when the emergency meeting of departments heads concerning gum-chewing by custodians was held? Where do you hide every time you are paged? When will you have your, course outlines ready, or are ijou wouldn't be able to identify them, etc. Whatever the reason, I. have not recently reported these things and. must accept some of the blatnefor-witat..finallOtappened. We can be thankful now that the consequences were net much more serious and it is to be hoped that not only the motorist .but all of us willtakethe necessary steps tOSee that such a •thingtae.s not happen again. lovThotZ'o POI?. Ne-litb*rrreie-Ct)Y4•41b 9ut•If! tweseriteittuntStanceaeOntiAtilit $.0049047 • al. mattdr 01100 'bert*P4Orne, one of• Own* Neitte0 11P10),".00-s'Uq_24 ck*o.F.00*.r-. Was fined for tlatigertfus,,loWtlYiooVer the otrgoi rtirtor ythe: t.‘4.114‘,0.07 watched,N.:ri eglkerter, .c1.9SelfttitttlerTh sef tilaey1;d"Wa%.4:nj4thteo.Ptolittei7seids:te of the highWav and as he finished a southerly run across the field he would lift up over the - teletetephonelines, swingover Harpurhey in a nearly vertical bank and then back on northerly run across the field. During the vertical bank over Harpurhey I estimated that the plane's altitude over the houses below Since returning home from the hospital Aug. 20th (Many of you may or may not have knewn I was even there(. I would like to ante again to comment on how txtunate we are to. have facilities such at this right at our "door step" so to speak. Excellent nurses, doctors, and, as I have said before excellent care takers, everyone, with no exceptions. However as you become over 80 yrs. of age (and we are accustomed to hearipg the statement) we are always learning and never before did I realize this to be more true. First of all most people in hospitals are aged, some are • probably more or less mentally disturbed and (to, my observat- ions)lhey are the ones who get little or no attention from their family. They are the 'ones who have sweat almost blood to make inevitably people began to compare cars.and gas mileage. Several smiled smugly at what great gas mileages they got since they had sabotaged the pollution controlequipment on their cars: another of those needless government interferences-in their lives.' I wonder, what do the same people who take out their pollution control• equipment to get a few extra miles per gallon have to say about acid rain drifting over from the U.S. Do they ever complain that the government should do something to stop the pulp and paper company from polluting their favourite fishing stream? sees. The paradox of Pierre Trudeau was evident again on sitting down to read a Saturday . paper. On the front page of the feature section was aft article on the "UN's love affair with Trudeau" saying that it would be unrequited love because, although Many at the UN wouldlove to have Trddeau as its next Secretary-General it won't come. to pass because as a citizen of a NATO country he would never win approval from the Soviet was 00 more than 100 feet, The noise for the people below must have been horrendous, not to mention the danger involved or that such flying was clearly against the law. There hasalso been a growing incidence in recent years of planes flying at low altitude overbalt.opareasof•Harputhey and Seaferth during takeoff and landing. One Wonders sometimeswhether the persons. involved ever. ive any serious thought to the possible consequences of these actions. In spite of the .orceolilnrirce,.:i .011: .,1,ike;r4howil,i,iyitil4oli;tthh4e•ciltn4ottiliree9rritt piitterawi;.iftlet n,; fol)*;,494hg takeoff Mier one''of our 7:474tri.airs twig* xettlipOiS right to • trot, s put also that it ' n t in blot jud meat to rialnkg'07c, 0:01ct,c a „smalla .of :st o hetl F97 low altitudes.. such as when landing, very • little time isavaileble for correction and there is little room to manoeuvre, It seems to me that it. is time to. recognize; that the possibilities for a catastrophe are very real and growing. Such careless use of the airspace over the town should stop before a tragedy does occur. b , Ernest M. Williams them what they are today. Remember I have no regre; is in this - regard but I do :lee some changes taking place.,Old furniture as an' eiunple, becomiiimore'and more the older it is the more valuable. What's doing all this? My guess is the "homes" in most cases, chicirenare not taught to respect even their pirents, and;if not from that level what can ' be expected of old' people or even Property? Agreed, times are not as bad is before the income supplement. I could write .a book on conditions that existed in those days. Perhaps it may be ipod for some to know. I wish at this time to thank everyone who remembered me and made a call and I'll be seeing you soon hope. VincentJ. Lane St. Columban' to hate come more to take for granted in 'the last decade. One writer said Trudeau was putting Canada in a mess because it was part of his long-term plan since he knows if You ruined a country Ant could then do anything you want with it. Another called for Trudeau to glidicataidthepeople of Canada tobey him a one-way ticket to the third world country of his choice before calling in the leaders of the postal workers and air traffic controllers to take over the government because they run• the country anyway. Another called for impeachment (even though there is no provision in Canada). }tow can one man be so respected as one of the world's greateit leaders and so despised and hated to the point of paranoia at the same time? as*** Many of %those Candiatis who say the country is going to hell in a wheelbarrow (pushed, by Pierre Trudeau) look fondly, southward and wish we had a man like Ronald Reagan. Whey can't we get someone with the guts to cut government spending, they ask. ° '--Reagan has made big news with his plans to Cut S32 billion front' Federal expenditures. Gaining less publicity is his plan to spend $200 billion in additional. .defence budgets. From an economic point of view, a deficit'is a defieit so before Canadians get too much in love with Reagan economics, maybe they should wait and see the proof of the pudding. Many also like Reagan's get-tough attitude wittithe Russians and perhaps they're right. It'iihard to know which side to believe on the' issue of supposed Russsian Siipiliority. One could feel a little more comfortable with Reagan's "we're just doing What we have to do'.' words, however, if there wasn't so much glee expressed over something like the shooting down of two Libyan jets last week. The elevation Of the American pilots to • 'national hems and flying them home to meet „the president shows the Vietnam war and the Iranian hostage crisis may be over but the wounds are still deep enough the U.S. seems to have * need to prove it's not going to be pushed around. Life might be uneemfortable'. in a World with a giant looking for tIevenge Jura Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher Susan White, Editor Here to are several opinions For those who have come hate the by Keith Roulsto-n Smiley's a man called Trepid Sugar and spice going to use the same old ones, merely changing the year? And so on. That I can handle. I usually stagger through and collapse in a lawn chair the day after graduation. But this year another ingredient was tossed into the mire in which I wallow each June. It was known as Operation Get Kim-and-the- kids home from Mooseonee. With complete disregard for my advancing debilitation, she thely suggested that I hire a tirilaul trailer, "drive SOO thilea, load her stuff - including a piano into it, and drive home, With her and kids in the back of our ear, no doubt sleeping. The piano weighs only 700 pounds. I can lift 25 without throwing my back out. I wouldn't drive 500 miles in a day to see Cleopatra Please turn to page J • Behind the scene Union with its veto powers. Inside the paper the letters to the editor - showed the kind of opinion of Trudeau we've •