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The Huron Expositor, 1981-09-23, Page 2 Amml.P.P.P.‘•••400..4010,01.0. arena ,spent et the arena last year with revenue of '583.000.00 leaving a $17,000.00 deficit or 17 per cent for the taxpayer. I believe if every taxpayer will come forward and give their support in cash, this problem can be solved in one meeting, whether they build a new building, repair the old one or scrap the entire project. William G. Campbell 1 was at the meeting of Sept. 9th, for the discussion of a new arena. I had the feeling that Seaforth Council and es eryone that spoke was in fa our of a new building. I for one support that plan if everyene donates generously. 1 would suegest we rent ice and accomoda non for a.mirtimurn of two y ears from whoes er you get a contract for this winter's activities. I see.np reason why the present buildine could Let's rent ice, delay To the editor: not be used next summer for events to raise money for the new budding. Start raising money, now and take advantage of high interest rates I would be willing to donate 5500.00 now pros iding our council would guarantee no debenture for capital funding for the new building, Debentures are too expensive a way to finance a project of this nature. If council decides to debenture 1 will not donate a cent. just pay my taxes. Awarding to the report 5100.000.00 was 527.0240 (tile 'tiro #xpositor Since 1860. Serving the Community hat 1g Main 5t. published at SEAFORTH. QNTARIO every Wednesday McLean Bros. Publishers Ltd Andrew Y McLean. Publisher Susan White. Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Sunset lotion rates Canada. 516 a year of., p, mode Cew.idatt.,33 a year, ti $1,11ille Copies b40 Second Cla44 mail To9Aattaissr nurn4.er 089,8 rte.et • novaneeti eaen t the attitude of "Oh: they *won't mAs me.. thing na set: at c,ornmunity events: Come on ,., AnYvvaY''?, Well, we did MisS, you, Seeferth lees• get involved. See yett*4'11 at the In swanning up. I wetild like to that* the next fund raising event.: people who did help sapport the dance and barbecue. Old-and new faces are a wonderful Concerned Area Citizen Booze ts- part of the problem The number of young people who die violent deaths on Ontario's highways has increased. alarm ingly,--4st a week ago four Seaforth area teenagers lost their lives in traffic accidents In . one weekend. and -this '" • ''''brought the total of young people to die this way to 10 this year. It isn't just the Seaforth community which lodes its young people so tragically. Lucknow' has had its share of tragic deaths in the past and there will be such deaths in the future. Many of these traffic deaths are alcohol related which is yet another reason to look 'at our society's use of alcohol. Qur young people-complain there is little to do but drive around and because of the example set by society, drinking and driving is acceptable. Even if the teenager is involved in .a team sport or another club activity, every achievement such as a championship win must be celebrated with an ample amount of booze. The use of alcohol irf conjunction with social 'functions has increased dramatically along with the deaths on our highways: Perhaps it is time to consider changes. Public concern for drinking teenager% persuaded the province to raise the legal agelo 19. Perfiaps the legal driving age should be raised as well. European teenagers do not driVe until they are '18, but they do not complain of any disadvantage.7European, youths, who visited Canada recently with a Lions exchange, commented they still go places as much as their Canadian Counterparts. They take a bus or someone drives them. It is possible that raising the driving age to 18 could eliminate some of the tragedy and hopefully teenage drivers would acquire responsibility with age. This however, is unlikely if our society continues to abuse alcohol as it does now. Many of our highway accidents do not involve drinking 'teenagers but rather drinking adults. Alcohol has become synonymous with the "good life" and until society moves to a use of alcohol in moderation in appropriate ways, the highway carnage will continue. _ Sharon Dietz in theLucknow Sentinel Who says there's nothing to do in Seaforth? Anyone who tries to attend all of what's available in town this weekend is going to be worn out by Monday. It's one of the best times of the year, one of the great times to be living here. That's because it's fall fair time and hard on its heels comes the Van 'Egmond Foundation's annual Ciderfest. We should, if all goes well, have thousands of visitors in Seaforth this weekend. Let's spruce up, behave ourselves and make them feel welcome. But the main thing is that just a short walk north .or south of downtown we have activities which would be the envy of a place twice Seaforth's size. We urge you to take advantage of that. Agricultural Society volunteers have been working long and hard to bring you a new enlarged three day fair, beginning Thursday night and running through Saturday. Enjoy it all, from the pies, cakes and vegetables to the rides,' merchant exhibits and the horse races. Thrill to the demolition derby if that's your style. Down south in Egmondville another hardworking grchip will bring you the Ciderfest on Saturday and Sunday. It's a chance to take a bit of a trip back to slower times, to revel in the sights, sounds and smells of earlier, in somaways simpler, days. Your kids will enjoy a look at the pioneer way of doing things. Make sure they get the chance. A huge numtter of our friends and neighbours have worked hard to bring 'us this weekend's attractions. Fall F rs and Ciderfests don't just happen. Let's, make sure we give them the upport they deserve. See you; there. • The simple life Garage sales are quite the fad these days. Many people make them part of their lives. They troop around town watching for hand-made sigris and check the ads in the classified section.' Drive around any small town and yowl-I-see a cluster of cars, in froniefalititiie. "Must be a wedding or a funeral." you muse. Then you see a pile of junk with a horde of huinan magpies darting around it, snatching up bits. beating each other to another heap of rubble. like seagulls diving and screeching for a slice of french.fitied spud. It's no wedding. There are no vows exchanged. except that you takes what you gets, "for better or for worse." ICS no funeral, except for those who pay six bucks for something that Cost three 10 years ago. It's a garage sale. This phenomenon resembles a mini-auct- ion-sale minus the auctioneer. The garage sale allows the proprietor (often abetted to some Of his neighbours) to get rid of all the useless. items overflowing the garage. the tool-shed, the basement and the attic. It sometimes brings in two or three hundred dollars to the vendors, and the garage sale groupies go home all excited because they have bought a three-legged Chair. it horse-drawn sleigh, an umbrella with only one spoke missing, or six paperback novels for a dollar. One of my contemporaries, an habituee of these 'bizarre events, was, more mthon bit thleriderstrUckwhen he found at one salethat he could buy text-books from our school, duly stamped as such, dirt elteap. He remonstrat- ed with the owners, pointing out that the books belonged to the school and had been Sugar n .spice By Bill Smiley stolen by their children, but they'd have none of it. They wanted- eash, So much for human nature. These were taxpap ers who had helped buy the books their kids had stolen, and now wanted to sell them back to the system so that other kids ,could steal the books they were still paying taxes for. May 1 disagree for a moment? Kids do steal books. Regularly. They don't considerate it "stealing," It's just taking something from a big institution. That's not stealing, according to about 50 per cent of them. It's just like dad not declaring something on his income tax or mom ordering a dress from Eaton's, wearing it to a party& then taking it back to the mail order office and returning it. claiming it was "too small" or had smudge marks in the armpits (after she'd discoed in it for * four hours). They wouldn't steal from a friend. They might steal from their parents. But they have no compunction about "ripping off— a department store or the government. This is fact. not fancy. as I've learned in discussions about morals. Back to the garage sales. There is no suggestion' of stealing here. Both parties. buyer and seller, are perfectly aware of what's gning6n.yhe seller is trying to get rid of somethiA4 he down need. The buyer is buying something he doesn't need. It's a classic example of our triaterialiStie age. We • In rgpt4 Kt the Seaforth Fall Fail,Fair' dame andd .barbcet.w bad this .p6st Saturday, night. I was very disappointed in the townspeople.' I had at, least expected all the members of the toian council to come out to su .pport a society's event to try to raise money, But instead there were only two members of the 'council at the event Saturday night. As a concerned community supporter I thought that the council would be interested in supporting a community event for the betterment of urban-rural relations in their role of supporting agriculture in the commun- ity and fund raising events so vt ell. . Money for the area fund could be made easier by improving relations arid supporting other fund raising events sponsored by the local groups in the town. I sure hope the town people show more support than what was shown Saturday night at the barbecue, which was poorly attended by the town. t am sure that the Agricultural Society is more than willing to help with the arena fund but why didn't the town people support their event.? want to get rid oriome of the garbage we' y c bought. and the buyer wants to buy sonic more garbage.. , The epitome of a garage-sale-groupie would be. a person who goes to four garage sales. buys a lot of junk. then has a garage sale- to dispose of it. perferably with p small mark-up: But they're fun, A friend of mine. who'll make a bid on anything. even though he doesn't know what it's for. has bought two old-faShioned horse-drawn sleighs. He has worked on them until they are serviceablq. All he needs not is a ,couple of beasts to haul the things, . He'll probably wind up with a camel and Shetland pony (and will make a fortune hauling people around when we run out of gas). i „ Well, l'ivish I'd had a garage sale this past summer. First. I'd have sold the garage. a venerable institution. None of this electronic eye, or press a button and the door opens. It has a vast door, weighing about eight hundred pounds. You hoist the door and it slides on pulleys and cables, and at the right moment.. viii a guru etas, it stops i &snug Just at the height to tear off your radio aerial. The balances filled with sand, aren't quite enough from crashing down on your hood, but I've added an axe-head, to the other, a quart of paint. Perfect balance. A real buy. Behind the garage is a sort of tool shed. 1 say "sort of". because when I've-sailed into S the garage on a slippery mid-win r day, I've sometimes-gone an extra foot nd crashed into the tool shed. which now leans about 35 degrees to the north. . I'll throw in the tool shed with the garage. but net its contents. Migawd, the stuff in Please turn to page 3 Tfiece was tla, 4(100' ,tOVII 014 of the.,Yottogi generation. but where was the test geriera, t toto Were there too many good shows .on teles ision or was there something else more important going on? Just maybe people took The letter written last week by Rita and Don Moylan was well presented: I too feel that all of us can derive a great sense of satisfaction from offering needed service to others. it can create a positive lifetime habit if ping of oneself toothers if started young in tile. I would like to suggest that some of our area youeg people14 years and older may get a lot of self-satisfaction in becoming a Junior Volunteer at Seaforth Community Hospital. • Bell is bound to have his storehouse convenient and roomy. SEPTEMBER 28,1906 Alex Sutherland has sold his residence near the site of the old Merchants' Salt Works, in Seaforth to Marshall Smith for $400. A horse belonging to Wm. Reidy of McKillop came tearing down Goderich St., Seaforth drawing the covered buggy on its side. It was captured at ithe Royal Hotel corner .„.. . The Staffa Threshing Co. have placed an order with the Bell Engine and Thresher Co. of Seaforth for one of their new Imperial iseparators with wind stacker. Stewart patent straw and cutter and Ruth self feeder. on Monday Iasi. i .E. Hays waste assisting at a threshing on his farm in McKillop slipped and fell, striking his side on the edge of a water tank. • fortunatay. no bones were by children against the materialism of their parents; the article offers few answers. sThat many young people are unhappy. hoWever, shouldn't come as startling news to anyone. It is also true that many adults and probably an equal number of "old" people are 'miserable and disaffected. Despite Canadas affluence and freedom or perhaps because of it., hundred of thousands of people from all age brackets are living less than blissful carefree existences, But the old reporter's penchant for simplifying classifying and generalizing seems to have led the writer of the Maclean's piece to think a new fact of our modern-day existence has been unearthed. And too much One of the detriments of rural living, we are constantly reminded by those who think deprivation is having to live somewhere without 24-hour pizza delivery, is not only the lack of interesting job opportunities, the lack of cultural and entertainment opportun- ities and seven-story department stores but the fact that ail the people you meet in small towns are the same. (The implication is also that we're boring.) In the 'small towns we don't get a chance to bump into university professors, televis- ion stPrs, fashion models or athletic stars at the local MacDonald's or at somebody's Saturday evening cocktail party, and we're supposed to be much the worse for it. Now aside from the fact that in my various careers in these parts I've had the opportunity to meet all the academics and celebrities I could wish too, I think the argument about small town limiting your circle of acquaintances is a lot of baloney. For the majority of people it's the other way • around: in the city you tend to meet only people who are much like you. You may have the opportunity to meet all kinds of people of. varying professions, c thnic backgrounds and outlooks on life but the chances are you meet only people much like yourself when you live in the city. Most people in the city tend to live in a tight little circle despite the fact they are traveling around in a city with millions of people quite different than themselves. It's n Survival mechanism. The city is so large and so impersonal so people tend to congregate I wish to call your attention to the following verses by Helen Garnett Mavk of Brantford. I try to keep life simple But find it hard to do , For all the world seems bent On making life So very complicating I have to stop and ask myself Do one and one make two? broken and althoiigh,pretty sore he was not laid up., , • Shortreed Bros. of Walton lost a valuable mare last week from inflammation. The loss will be a serious one as the animal was valued at somethingnear 5300. SEPTEMBER 25,1931 Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle of Toronto spent the weekend iin Seaforth. Mrs.Boyle is , a grand daughter of the late John? Kidd, one of the pioneer businessmen of Seaforth, and who built the brick block on Main Street, now owned and occupied by Mayor J.F. Daly. While Gordon Hulley was returning from Walton to his home. (*the 10th concession of McKillop, a part of the harness-broke causing his horse to run away. Mr. Hulley was thrown out of the buggy near Robert Reid's on the gravel road. Although he received no serious injuries. he was badly shaken up and cut about the face. situation as somehow special and unique. That is not to say that some good may not result from Maclean's feature. Certainly, the awareness of 'a problem has to be the first step in finding a solution to it. But could it not be possible that troubled, searching young people are a perfectly natural element of every age and every society and further, that there may be much good brewing in this cauldron of discontent? Acknowledging the tragedy of suicide, addiction and crime and far from suggesting that some good-purpose -lies-behind -these terrors, could it be that this rebellious generation may spearhead much welcome social change when they are older and in better _positions to alter the„..morld around them? The fact that little Johnny is depressed Behind the seen es by Keith Roulston in small groups of individuals they have something in common with. You work with one kind of person and you travel home from work as quickly as possible to live in a community. whether it be suburb, fancy apartment or chique condominium, who are much like yourself. White collar workers associate with white collar workers, factory workers with factory workers. unemployed with other unemployed. ' There is a danger in all of this that few people who praise-city life seem to notice., The danger was illustrated in a book I happened to be reading lately: Serpico, the story of the, New York cop who blew the lid on corruptien in the police department and got himself well hated by his fellow officers because of it. Serpico shouldn't have been exceptional. cop shouldI haveesho been: u ide have va en been honest whatgny every setting out to serve the people who paid his salary. The fact that Serpico became a man so unique that he became the centre of a scandal, subject of a best selling book that was „later turned into a hit movie and a television series, shows how easy it is sometimes to get our priorities all 'nested up, Serpico, you see.. wasn't the only honest There celcius and metric now To deepen furrows on my brow Postal codes and ecology Inflation and antropology I have to ask in self defence Who ever heard of common sense? In this world so filled with people I beg you all please keep life simple. W.H. Palin for the best outfit has recently purchased a very fine black driver which he will enter in the coming Fall Fairs. Eldrid Smith left Hensall the first of this week to attend the University at London. SEPTEMBER 28,196 The Fall Fair of the Seaforth Agricultural Society attracted large crowds who saw exhibits of stock and produce which accord- ing to the experts were "ouiStanding." A loss estimated at alniost-540,000 by Fire Chief whenflYellieck chicken house on the farm of Fergus Stapleton. Lot 30, Con. 7 Hibbert Township six-miles southeast of here,.was burned to the ground. , Mr. and Mrs. Garnet McClinchey- of — Seaforth Seaforth spent the weekend in Georgetown. Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Walter of Dundas spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Willis of Seaforth. aboutthe proliferation ofnuclearnrms, about the widespread pollution of our environment and about the evils of discrimination might be a pretty good sign that all the hunian decency hasn't yet been squeezed out of him. Perhaps we should all be, if not depressed. at least a little fed up with the mess we're creating of *God's world. And rather than ask in great, lengthy studies, what is wrong with little Johnny, maybe our time would be better spent examining, our 'own shortcomings as, a society. In every generation, it has been the discontented individuals that have led the drive for change, not the fat and the happy. Today's troubled youth may well be our salvation and not our scourge. So let's quit treating them like lepers and stop wondering why they Simply,sefuse to fit in. How well did you fit in when you were 17? cop in New York. With 32,000 cops around you had to have more than a few that were honest. Serpico was, however, the only one who wasn't willing to turn a blind eye to the corruption of his fellow officers. When he saw a fellow cop taking a bribe it. made him mad because it cheapened the work he had set out to do in his life. When he saw cops organize payoff to the point they - held Monthly meetings on how to split the proceeds or how to put the pressure on some racketeer who wasn't keeping up with his weekly protection payments he decided he couldn't be like the others and turn a blind eye. Serpico felt that what mgde him different from 'other cops was that inhen he was off duty he didn't hang around other cops. Most cops went to the same bar, lived in the same neighbourhoods, entertained , with each other, in general moved in a tight little world that included only other Bops. They developed a fortress ,mentality, reinforcing each other's distrust of the public, the people they were to serve. They eventually talked themselves into a belief that nobody cared about them so they had.to look out for themselves and if that meant taking a little bribe money, well who was it going to hurt. To a less extent many professions are the same. Doctors tend to associate with doctors, journalists with journalists. teach- ers with teachers and ao on. It can be itimulatikg but it can ais6 be such a close little world that people forget that their job Is to serve real people, not to impress each Please turn to page 3 ottrA,:mo., SEPTEMBER 23, 1981_ Plenty to do SEPTEMBER 23. 1881 A slight accident occurred at the salt well of Messrs. Gray. Young and Sperling of Seaforth. They were removing the casing when a number of lengths fell into the well. The services of W .B. Clements of Petrolia were brought into requisition and it is expected that the missing links will soon be "Fished" out. The barns, stables and shed of H. Tyerman of McKillop near Winthrop were completely destroyed by fire. The barns contained the fall wheat crop of 40 acres of land. besides a lot of oats, hay and some threshed grain. together with a lot of farming implements. harness. etc.. . .. • . . T. Murdock, proprietor of the Hensall •livery stable has just added asplendid three seated carriage to his already large stock of conveyances. We compliment Mt- Murdock on his spirit on enterprise and wish him success. We notice Paul D. Bell of Hay is raising his grain storehouse in Hensall several feet in order to give more room in the lower flat. Mr. Maclean's magazine featured an interest- ing article last week on the hordes of disenchanted young Canadians whose rest- • lessness is bringing much misery to them- selves and their middle-class families. The article described the plight of the thousands of directionless youth who are wandering about the country looking desper- ately for something to hang on to. Uninterest- ed in pursuing the traditional, mainstream careers offered by our society and lacking the motivation to carve out-some "original" path of their own, these unhappy youths are . responsible for much of the senseless vandalism so rampant in our cities. They have also fallen victim. 'to drug abuse and alcoholism and the suicide rate among them is staggering, The Maclean's at ticle attempts-to isolate some possible reasons for the turmoil so many you4 people are in but aside from classifying the situation as an open rebellion , _ dignity' is bestowed-upon the problems of- ose karage u sale. groupies Th today's youth by separating their plight 'from that ofthe rest of humanity and painting their 4 One day at a time by Jim Hogarty Teens needed as volunteers To the editor: There is an orientation meeting after school . June Martene at the Hospital on Monday October 5. See you Co-Ordinator for Junior Volunteers there? 527-1507 Missing links at salt mines Robert McLaren. Sr., of Hensall who has In the yeais one been So very successful in past years in winning first prizes at our local fairs for single driver in harness and buggy and also No wonder little Johnny is depressed Rural living is a luxury O