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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-10-07, Page 3IFFERE CE. tic - still a problerri in. Seaforth i'HE HURON EXPOINTOkOCTOB,Eft 7? Keep the long view sight Something to say by Susan White .6. work and his Wife and family were forced to beg handouts from relatives and well...to-do friends. He had other theories too, especially on. diet, and the family subsisted on nothing but apples and nuts during a couple of call New England Winters. Be was.a proponent of- .entetional . rather" than- physical pUnishrttent 'arid his. including 111,04%1 daughters all grew up with, an OFogill# 40911„ overvdeyelpped sense Of goiik poiP0M;l1; v411100 ,rdlgv9046ct atRd unworthiness. His ,Ohild as a 04 War 4141*-I ,UtIdsa reari4 pract15Os wOkIld 11 /4141 wrote bOelr.-* that h, the • „ meant alor toyOung girlsfor a You're glance out the window. Then I drive into town to find the streetlights still on at 8:30 a.m. (their photo electric cells, quite naturally, have judged it's still night time) and ani plunged even deeper into gloom, Qn weekends We plan good ' wholesome; famib activities like. digging. up nes4 year's supply Of OtatOeS, which-ere stilt ittibe.gatOn..'*14 #nd contentious rain. make that impossible for our unbealtby butreb*rinSteskd we *# in tbP 'house Wad- say things like' "well we don't realijr need 'potatoes . anyway, they're fattening," and we watch em rot. ' For farmer s of course it's much worse. One area man called PhYgol,011 abuse today., His wife 04 died. worn out and exhausted. Hone of the girls lived to arif! Wage either. Bronson, naturally, with the family's Whole existence cerftelYaround his nurturing. srived itis fni,4-.eiglities.b: • ,, • But : in ' spite...Of all odd*, invite • ' d survives, her work lives on The director .ornursing with the linmat cnttiltY-.nnaltb Unit at Goderich, 11175 ZS 010044- at. ScAtt90.h, s,Cti9(4 have been eacluded since tb0 st* Of the SchePl year Pecattae. of beattliee, • . Gathariiee Walsh says the parasite has been a "fairly eXtensive prpblem" in thel south of Huron Courtly this. year, particularly at Seaforth, Goderich and Clinton. • The problem has nol,been as extensive at Exeter or in the north of the county. Miss Walsh says the Health Unit thinks it and emotionally When times seem rough here I think of the AkOls' crippling lives. Louisa May 'Peh6ytsuicr:I.l'y now bits., the 'problent 'Under, control and 1great. cOgPernliPll Irani ParentS". -has .belped. student is. found in have heard' lice 1104.0Mla Sent hPMe;,-Or, "taglndedrt,,ontil' re-latuninatinn shows the problent has been rectified. liead lice callisefew health problems', don't carry disease,andare.not associated with dirt. They generally surface as a problem summer months when children mingle. A friend of mioe said it best. "I fed" she said "like it's February or March and we've jkSt been through a long, cold dark and sunles4 winteF. I've got.ca.Olit ftver already and'iVe'TeJtISt into October."" Right, wager there ore .' more colds and" "flu. more depression and bad temper. mere just plain miserable people • around here than -there have been for months. My family at least fits into all the above categories. The cause? Well at least part of it is lack of sun and warmth. We find it really hard to be stealthy. let alone happy, when faced .venh day after day of cheerless, Weather, I JuttiNV I'd never makeit in. the far north gp, thtetuAlt • severe .depression waking upjust a few.uays-in row and not heing7able to tell . if iris morning or not .from a faces the losi of a Potato crop worth hundreds of thousands. Lots of our neighbours. • don't have all their.beans or corn oft On my bad days I see the whole So will we. Turn down Correction Bell boiler 4 Continued from page 1 Hospital AuxjliarY Meeting Tuesday, October 13 at 8 p.m, in Board Room -at Seaforth Community Hospital. meet Canadian content regulations. but that could be proven through duty documents. The committee's' report to the Board states: "The Ministry of Industry and Tourism states that "everything added in Canada- labour, materials, transportation. duty. taxes and the Canadian supplier's profit- qualifies as Canadian content. Quite simply. Canadian content is the value of the supplier's total actual bid minus the dutiable value of any imported goods or services." A story in business beat in last week's The Huron Expos- itor incorrectly identified a . , .new local business as Murray Insurance Brokers Inc. The firm's proper name is Keith Murray Insurance Brokers Inc. The public relations . ing of Seaforth Women's Institute will be held in the Seaforth Public School Tues- day October 13 at 8:15 'p.m. Roll Call to be introduce the person next to you. The speaker Mri.' Frank Phillips. Their trip to the Holy Land. Classified Ads pay dividends. county on welfare and whole families suffering severe depression. Watching the Manions and the ravages of the Irish potato famine on TV didn't exactly get anyone's hopes up. (Attu:nigh look how well Rory did in America. Perhaps someone knows Of a comparable .paradise ' 'we could all migrate to. Now.) A sense haS always been .rni .0i* in gates like these-.,;Maybe Should all. go anti have a heart-torheart.ehat 'with a senior citizen who went through. the , worst of the Depression.. Or with someone who's been a CUSO volunteer in a developing country , Thinking historically can help to. That came home to me on reading a biography of Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame) recently. Sweetness and light and the charmed-if-poor childhood' her novel portrays to the contrary. Louisa May lived a rough life. Her father Bronson Alcott was an educational theorist. Fine in it's way but it didn't put food on the table. Bronson was rather proud of the fiet that he was too much of an intellectual to actually aware of this. Mr. Smith's then asked if the Board is aware Bell industries 'can move its Huron County Board of Education support to other areas. During a break in the meeting. Mr. Smith told reporters his next step would be to ask the Ministry of Industry and Tourism for a varification of the Canadian content of the York-Shipley boiler. He said he was "almost positive" the boiler in auestion would not only the 20 per cent (approximately) not provided by the province but also 100 per cent of the difference between the loweskadjusted bid and the bicr the Board accepts." stated the committee tenon. Trustee John Jewitt. representing tt4' townships of Hullett and McKillop and Seaforth said in view of the large difference in cost between the boilers, the board should go with the lowest bid. Chairman of the board Donald McDonald said it is a straight "dollars and cents question." CANADIAN? In a question period at the end of the meeting, Mr. Smith asked the board if they had a written statement of the Canadian content of the York-Shipley boiler. (The boiler is manufactured in the United States), Chairman McDonald said, the board did have a lettter listing the Canadian content of the boiler Mr. Smith also asked if- the consulting engineer gave reasons why the alternate boiler, in this case the Syncro Compac boiler, was not acceptable. Superintendent of Education R.B. Allan said no reason's were given except that the boiler was not equal to the base bid. The Bell Industries vice-president asked if the board was aware of the paragraph in the statement of Canadian content which states: "If the Canadian content information is found . to be incorrect, the quotation/ ten..-- will be rejected, andlie bidder may be disqpalified . • 'firm alflutire bidding." Chairman McDonald said the board is tee. The Slaught company's bids were as follows, base bid boiler at $44.100. York- Shipley boiler at 534,611 and Syncro Compaq boiler at 536,543 (Syncro Compac is manufac- tured by Bell Industries). R. Egan. the :board's consulting engineer did not accept -the Syncro, Compac boiler as being equal to the base bid, but did accept the York-Shipley boiler as being equal. PAYS TAXES "Robert Bell Industries paid taxes this year into the Huron County School system in the amount of $2,457.05. If the tax paid by our employees is added to this it would easily double the amount," stated Mr. Smith. But the committee's report states, "the representative of Bell Industries Limited. in his letter to all members of the board, seeks preferential treatment because his company and his employees are Huron county taxpayers. We have been advised by the Ministry of Education that the only preferen-' tial treatment the Ministry will acknowledge is the-Canadian content policy." The committee's report noted the Mini- stry's grant rate is approximately 80 per cent of approved costs based on the lowest bid. and in this case: adjusted bid„ The adjusted bid, used for comparison- Our:poses only, is computed by using a formula develOped by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. In the adjusted bids, the York-Shipley boiler_; remains the lowest. - "The !tidal ratepayers will have to pay not Hensall to see BM ArOhitect Nick Hill wilt present a proposal to Hcosall council concerning the... village's Business Improvement Area (BIA) on Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Councillor Dick Peckham relayed the request for the presentation at Monday night's regular meeting, and inforMed council of what went on at a Business '.improvement Association meeting Sept. 24. County planner- Roman Dzus and George Lazinko of the housing ministry spoke to -the association and recommended only part of Hensall be designated a BIA, because to designate the entire community would affect too many businessess that would not benefit. The area the association recommended be designated a BIA roughly extends from highway 4 to the railway tracks along King Street and along the tracks on both sides of that _main street. Council was unanimous in designating this area a BIA. When asked how much the BIA would cost by Reeve Paul Neilands, Councillor Packham said the figure that has been hinted at, but is far from firm, is between $70,000 and $75,000. In another. matter, -council- ammended recent bylaw concerning pedlars and hawkers. Instead of a $200 fee for a licence. pedlars and hawkers must now pay $100 per year as of Jan. 1, 1982. Council also decided to put off a decision on an application by Bob Erb for a building permit to install a concrete floor in a storage shed; built on a temporary permit, until it has received a site plan. d driving our society, said panelist Sandy Stewart of the Huron Centre for Children and Youth. He asked parents to stay in touch with adolescents, to encourage them to talk about pressures like drinking, driving, drugs. the opposite sex and school. He acknowledged that parents need help in getting close to their kids and sfiggested talking with other parents. BOTH PARENTS AGREE Both parents should agree first on how much a teenager should be allowed to drive. "Don't give your kid a confused message." the-social worker said. Stress too that driving a car is not a privilege or a ight but a responsibility, he suggested. r Drinking on Continued from page 1 Vincent to spearhead a campaign to adopt that law here. Constable Eric Goss of the OPP introduced a CTV News film called The High way to Die which showed' graphically hOw impairment affects a driver's judgemeqt, timing and skills. The film stressed that alcohol combin- ed with hay fever pill, a tranquilizer or marijuana is really dangerous. One or two drinks-with a commonly prescribed tranquili- zer causes as much impairment as five or .six drinks. "It's tough to walk up to a parent and say 'your son has been killed'. said Const. Goss.. who said he investigated the last fatal crash in the Seaforth area. It's t ough being lb or 18 years old in 1 To the editor: Disappointed in coverage the eventual construction Of transmission. lines. Your questions,, comments and input at this early stage are important in' helping us make the best possible recommendation. To help you learn moreaboUrthe study we've prepared a special infOrmation kit. Please send for it today and be part of the study that will plan for future electrical trans- mission in southwestern Ontario. ' During the next few months, we will be studying a number of alternative plans for electrical transmission in southwestern Ontario. The study will look at the alternatives from many points of view, including cost, wise use of land and effects on the environ- ment. The goal is to determine which plan is the best ChOice, for all of us, and then to submit a recommendation to government. After a plan is approved, further studies with public participation and hearings will lead to "Have you driven with your kid? Do you know your kid's drinking habits?' It might be interesting to find out." Mr. Stewart said. "If we ask, our kids will tell us. Adults have to learn to listen. It's damn hard to be a kid," he concluded, to loud applause from the young members of the audience. SDHS'teacher Terry Johnston. who organ- ized an earlier meeting of concerned parents. roorted that the Huron Board of Education has agreed that more SDHS students can take driver education at the school. As well. as parents suggested. the supplier of the driver ed car (Jim Hayter Chev-Olds in Goderich) has agreed thaif students can practise driving) on gravel roads in future. tett talk Let's talk transmission tr BOX 2133— TORONTO— M5W 1H1 ansmissiort- git' Please send me an inforniation kit Speakers at the meeting were introduced by Seaforth Leos Derek Cooper and, Kevin Williamson. The 'Dublin Leo Club helped organize the meeting which Was followed by a dance for the teenagers and an informal discussion time for parents. Papers held up in Stratford A In last week's paper we were disappointed to find there was very little mention made of the work the young people had done at our beat fair. The 4-H people had an excellent show both at local and county level. They had a gt)od display of their work ink the auditorium of the arena. Seaforth Fair day is the 4-H Huron County Championship Show. - The school children had entered Many articles for judging, right from elementary school and through high school. They are to be commended. We are sorry you didn't see fit to have someone at this even to see how these young people work and compete with each other. Young people have to be criticized when they Emil eenducting themselves reipons. ibly, but they also need lots of praise and totigrattilitliNili when they have excelled tbenuielves as they did at the fair on Sept. 34. Sincerely. Bob and Prances Kinsman We apologize to Dublin and area subscribers whose Expositors r weren't de- livered until Friday last week, Although they were delivered to the pbst .office as usual in Stratford on Wednesday evening, the Pdtriositort were not sent back to Dublin Thursday morning as supposed to be the case. The postal' service sent the papers out in Friday's mail.