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The Huron Expositor, 1981-10-28, Page 2Tim fxpositor 12 Main St. Sinot1800. Swung the Community first 527-0240 itubliabed at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by McLean aro*. PUblishers Ltd. Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher 04' Susan White. Editor Minthor Conswian dommunity News apqr Association, Ontario Woatalytlawspapar Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription rates:., CanitclaS17 a yew (In advance) oeteldeOanade$35. ayear (inadvance) $iSellePePlea•-,50centseech . . _ '4etegelit41,110 Meiteeeleleelion eigintier 0604 sEAForou, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 28, 1901 Gdod lack BIA The loss of an arena in Seaforth this winter is hard on just about everyone who used to darken the doors of the , place. Just ask the parents who are ferrying car loadi of kids to Vanastra for hockey practise at least one night a week. " But it's especially tough on Seaforth's Junior 0 hockey team the Centenaires. Plagued by a rough season last year and .the necessity of bringing along a number of new players this year, the team mutt now contend with home games played in Hensall. It's-tough enough getting food fan support out to a hockey game. There's so much else going on, and unfortunately many of us are guilty of staying home in front of the TV -in comfort rather than venturing out to support local teams. When you add the necessity to drive to Hensel' to catch a game, it makes us even more reluctant. But we shouldn't be. Seaforth has a fantastic past as a hockey town. Some of the bestprayers in Western Ontario played here._ (Some of them are still playing . . on the Oldthilert Warn.) And, as the Centenaires' executive and team supporters !Mil tell you, there's still lots of hockey talent here, some of it still developing.. But that sort of developing and keeping alive of hockey excellence doesn't happen in a' vacuum. There's got to be fan support. We know it's not always simple to get to Hensall on the weekend for a game. It's not easy for players, coaches, executive and their families either.• But more of us (even if you think you don't like hockey . . . . you might be surprised) should make the effort. If enough people are Interested it might even be feasible to rent a bus for Seaforth• fans to take to each home (Hensall) game. We hope Henselt people too will take advantage of the chance to see Junior D Hockey in their local arena.. Hockey club member Doug. Bach says he got a good reception talking about the Centenaires to Hensel! -therchants, and that's terrific. The next Centenaire home game is Friday night at 8:45 against Thedford. The complete schedule was printed in a recent Expositor or is available around town in a handy pamphlet form. Why not make an effort to get to the games? Our young hockey talent wilt-sure appreciate it. A Business Improvement Area certainly isn't the whole answer to small town Ontario's main street problems. But anything that gets merchants acting together 40 spruce up a declining downtown core is a start. That's why, we'd wager, BiAs are successful: planning promotions, creating "people places" downtown and speaking with one voice for businesses in neighbouring towns like Exeter, Clinton and Goderich. According to a front page story this week, downtown Hensall, about which architect Nick Hill had some farily uncomplimentary things to say, isTeaning towards setting up a BIA. Seaforth, after a couple of years of planning and talking, has named a BIA board of Management and we think shoppers and merchants alike will be happy about that. Working together for the good of the whole downtown, they can. only improve conditions for both. The board, which must be officially endorsed by council, has a big job ahead of it. Communication with members._ — all those inside tila_BIA boundaries. . . .13 the first step. They'll be drawing up ~a budget and making plans for the next year and we imagine they'd like to hear from anyone who has constructive suggestions to offer. The members of the BIA board are seasoned business people, most of whom-have already given a great deal of their time: for free to get downtown Seaforth moving again. They deserve and they'll need our support. Let's make sure they get it. - To the editor: Diiiidas has arena problems too it's worth the trip 4. GRADUALLY GETTING SMALLER — These snowmen got smaller and smaller in Egmondville as Saturday wore on after a freak storm gave Milk wagon besmeared in 1881 "Oh. that's too bad, sir," he'd said, in all sincerity. Well, in all sincerity. I wish the story had been true. For about the eighth time in my career, my nose looks-like a tiantplant from a guy who has narrowly escaped his life, after being shot through the nose, instead of the ' begin, But this Grade 11 class the other day didn't say a word, though their looks were eloquent. They didn't want to be gullible, and have me tell them that my wife did it, or I had a fight with the town cop, or I cashed while glider-flying. I wishi'd been born with the snub nose. These people, even though' they are always sticking their snubs' into other peoples' business, never seem to get them hurt. 1 mind my own business, and keep getting my nose broken or badly cut, or a candidate for cancer. Once again, the damage resulted from shopping. One time I came in with two bags of groceries, slipped off my shoes at the door, went into the freshly waxed kitchen, took a kick at that cat, slipped and fell, nose-on. against the kitchen counter. No eggs broken, just the time, e nose. se. This I went off with a- reasopable shopping list, but got into the impulse-buying NOVEMBER 2,1906 J.T. )arwin of Seaforth took a load of onions of his own growing to Hensel' on Monday having sold them, to Mr. Small- writhe of that village. T.A. Beattie of McKillop, intends opening up a livery stable in Walton. This will fill a lOng-felt I want here and -will be a great convenience to the people of this vicinity. Mr.. !kettle is an enterprising young man and will no doubt do a good .business. M. Williams, of the firm of Williams and Purcell has purchased the brick residence of Stephen Lamb of Goderich etreet, Seaforth paying for it $1,460 and will "occupy it himself. Robert Watson, while busy shingling his house on Friday ;afternoon, fell from the peak of the roof.Pfelliglifaiiiihilfeet but received a bad shaking up. In_theyears agorae . Sugar and spice By BID Smiley A complete saw mill outfit, including an engine and boiler was shipped from the Bell Engine Works this week to British Columb- ia. 'children a rare opportunity to build them in October... (Photo by Hook) game and arrived home , with .five of those white plastic shopping bags, loaded to the gunnels (the bags.) OCTOBER 30,1931 Behind the scenes by Keith Roukton dedicated volunteers. A community run only on the profit motive would-be a pretty dead Once to live. PART OF THE CULTURE That's one of the things I have admired about the people of Saskatchewan: the act of working for the community is part of their. culture. Because there are no major cities in Saskatchewan, because agriculture is still the single most important thing in the province, small townirtues still play a major part in the interwoven personality of the province. Like our early Ontario pioneers, the rural people of Saskatchewan learned early that if they wanted to survive, they couldn't remain individuals each out only for,hiMeelf. Theyhad to co-operate, to stick together. Unlike our selves who seemed to outgrow the lessons of the pioneers. Saskatchewan still practices that kind • 'of co-operative drive which mixes individua lity with group action in a healthy manner. It has led to the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, co-operatives in everything from farm supplies to grocery stores, and for better or worse, scichtlist-peptilist govern- ments which have brought in social policies Ake Medicare and government auto insult. Mee, In Ontario the land had barely been deared and planted when a second generation of dreamers arose: the city builders. Saskatchewan I imagine had its builders of dream cities too but the differ fare is that in Ontario the cities actually earner-into life,. And with them came the feeling that if seitlething.,was. worth having thee somebody would find a way-a Taking a buck at it, and, conversely, if you couldn't make a buck at it, it couldn't have been worth having anyway. So in a culture dominated more and more by city-thinking, we simply did without a lot of things that weren't profitable. Later, as times change& came the thought that if it wasn't profitable but was still desireable, then the government, municipal, provincial or federal, should provide it. Now this way of thinking seems to have been accepted in inverse proportion to the size of the community. The larger the community, the more people accepted that it was natural for either private enterprise or government taxes to pay for something that WO desired. Tile smaller the tottimunity, the more people realized that if they wanted 'it, they were going to have to go out and do it themselVei. Cunningly, l,thought, "Well, I can handle three on one trip and go back for the other two and still have one hand free to slam the trunk door of the car." Unfortunately, my cunning neglected the fact that I was wearing my new arch Support, total cost $85 andthat it was hurting me like-a-- brand new set of false teeth. I was limping heavily on the right. I arrived at the pile of rocks just outside our back door. Sometimes we call it the rock garden,, at other times the rack patio. Every year we plan to turn it into one or the other, or something exotic. But it's still just a pile of rocks, each and everyone with sharp edges. Many a chUnt I've taken off my shin by veering a little to the right. To make a long story short, I caught my right, limping foot on a heave in the sidewalk, and tumbled straight into the rock pile. Layette) the end, lelungtathe groceries. In my right hand were two bags, obviously loaded with canned goods. The one bag in my left hand contained the toilet tissue and 'the kleenex. , So Seafoth has arena problems? So have others. Am enclosing an articleon city of Dundas, and its problems on its arena. They have to have a new roof or repair the old one. Whylkotoutdoorrinks for skating? We had tiTe old "IStumps" along side of C.N.R, tracks, before we had a new rink indoors. In Hamilton, cost mountain, the city floods two • outdoor rinks and also supervises them. The May I use a smell corner of your page to make a request from your kind readers? there is a very special lady in the hospital undergoing strenuous tests. (guinea pig section). She is not really sick, but is on a very restricted diet. As the hospital is in Toronto she gets very little company, and will be there another fourweeks. Lonliness is such as cruel kids play hockey and have one rink fqr skating. Our two grandchildren learned to• skate there. Surely Seaforth can make some outdoor rinks for skating. Yours truly R.E. Reid Hamilton thing. don't we all know? She loves letters—long letters. Please mother her with mail! There is no reward just. The, address 'is: Marg Holley. Clinical Investigation Unit. Room 320. Toronto General Hospital. Thank you Bob Hulley and kids P.S. Her birthday is Nov. 3: OCTOBER 28, 1881 Shippers are complaining grievously ab outthescareite ofeareattheGra.nd-Trunk station. Seaforth. Wm. Grieve of McKillop, near Seaforth was awarded over 100 prizes at the agricultural shows this season. Most of the prizes were for sheep and poultry. Some evil disposed person or persons on the evening of 'the 21st inst. entered the premises of John. C. Morrison, 8th conces- sion and besmeared his milk wagon with the foulest of dirt. Such conduct is scandalous and the perpetrators if caught ought to be severely dealt with. Mr. Morrison is a quiet, inoffensive man, and does-not know of having an enemy who would descend to such miserable work. We notice that Wm. Stoneman, photo- grapher has moved his gallery into town and intends spending the winter .here. The cider mill of Messrs. Wilson and Co.. in Seaford) is doing a rushing business. It is astonishing •the -amount of--eider, that is consumed hereabouts. In a day when everyone is supposed to be- looking out for number one, where would we be if it wasn't for a lot of people for whom self-interest is set aside for the benefit of the community? Take a look around the community and subtract from it all the things that wouldn't be there if volunteers had only thought of their own personal gain,. if they hadn't been willing to donate their time and money for something bigger than themselves. In a lot of our western Ontario communit- ies the best things about community life are due to the hard work of volunteers, Many of our parks „wouldn't be there if not ter the local Lions, Kinsmen, Optimists, Rotary or other service group, Our arenas and community halls were usually the result of service ,clubs and 'hardworking individual volunteers putting in Jong, hard hours to build' something they feel is more important than just the profit motive. Nearly all our hospitals were started by volunteer groups and many still owe their existence to hard working volunteer board members and auxiliary helpers, and volun- teer committees who are glad Wake on the task of a major fundraising carnpaigawhen sortie major improvement is needed in the facility. Nearly all cultural activities whether they be amateur trr proreksionai theatres, concert series or symphony orchestras, art gsiletieso or craft, shows, are run by recent visitors, with Peter B. and Mrs. Gardiner. NOVEMBER 2;1956 Thieves stole nearly $100 when they gained entry to Rowcliffe Motors building on each side of Goderich Street here early Sunday morning. Fire believed to have been caused by spontenequs combustion destroyed, a large barn on the farm of Arthur. Finlayson, near Kippen Saturday morning. Also destroyed were 200 hens, 11 pigs and new machinery. Damage is estimated at nearly $20,000. Installation was completed Wednesday of an. automatic device to ring_thelarge bell at St. James Church, Seaforth. Mrs. Carl Payne and Mrs. Wtn. Henry of Henselt attended the Wornen's Institute London Conference recently as delegates from Remelt W.I. Mr. and Mrs. H. Walden of Detroit were weekend visitors with the former's sister, Mrs. H. Coombs and Mr. Coombs of f DO THEY PULL TOGETHER? Today when I look at the health of a community I tent) not so much to see bow faney the Ironies are, how prosperous the businesses, but to see how Much people pull together for those things, that come not front profit motive or taxes butfrom the hard work of volunteers. The profit seekers wilt move on when times get tough, the government will have to cut back, but through thick and thin the volunteers who make things work will continue to make a community a lively place. They get little reward for their work. Often they will get steady criticism from those people of the community who are happy to take the benefits of the work but don't want anything to do with getting involved, except, of course to comment on how much better they could do things. The only reward the volunteers get is the feeling of having done something important, well. We're lucky here in Huron County because, like Saskatchewan, rural thinking still predonthuttes. People are willing to work together to make our communities better. We are rewarded not just with the extra facilities or services provided, but with a sense of togetherness, a sense of who we are. So 'here's to all those thousands of hard-Working volunteers. The -place just wouldn't be the same without you. Letters appreciated Concerned? Writ6 a letter to the editor fedayt Teachers have 20 days of sick leave (paid) due to them every year. That's fair enough. At present, I have 316 days, plus 20 for the coming years, built up. Figure it out for yourself. [haven't missed many days on the job and some of those were funerals of relatives and such. Bit how Can a man show up for work as a member of the "walking-wounded": abra- sions on forehead, black right eye and scraped cheekbone, nose looking as though the rats had been at it, and right leg almost completely crippled, though nothing broken? Well, be can't. And yesterday was the first time in my teaching career when I wasn't ill. • but stayed home. I went back today with a few flesh-coloured pieces of tape, and a bad limp. arousing the curiosity of staff and students alike. '- Strangely enough. I had been telling a bright Grade 11 class just the other day -about the gullibility of students. You may millet)). ber. I'd had a very minor lesion on mybig e nose removed. The nurse said "Thikis a big bandage." I retorted, "This is a big nose.'It was all done at the hospital before 9 a.m. _and I was on the job. A lad in one of my classes asked. with concern, "What happened to your, nose. sir?" I told him with a very straight face that a hyena hadescapedfrom arnearby zoo, -poked in one of my cellar windows, and, sneaking up to the bedrooin. had bitten offmy nose. And that's why I'd been to hospital, to . have an artifical nose I'm la ted Judge 3. A. Jackson of Lethbridge, spent a few days this week at the home of his sister Miss Jackson in Egmandville. William Hopper of Seaforth is drilling a well for Irwin Trewartha 'of Winthrop this week. Margaret Sinclair, Gray of Detroit were .,Egmandvek. ir, of Tuckersmith, was the guest of her friend Gladys McLean on Sunday last. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hicknell and children, Kitchener spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. Butters, Dublin. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sculthrope, John Mowbray and Hiram "Whitt happened to your moose sir?" I vent into the rock pile like a badly' ballasted ship hitting a reef. I could have been killed. My nose saved me. It took the initial impact before I skidded onto my cheek-bone and forehead. • Bloody but unbowed. 1 gathered the groceries (not amen busted, not a quart of 'A milk spilled) staggered into the kitchen. scattering blood-and groceries everywhere: Lots of people would have been rushed to emergency and sewed and cauterized and other wise tortured. I never do that. I use my mother's old remedies. Staunch the block with a cloth or something, make sure, you haven't lost an eye, and then sock the ice-water to it. An my mother's day, hot and cold water were the painkillers and the blood stoppers. We didn't have ice-cubes then, we had a chunk of ice in the ice-box. And we needed it. I was always coming home with a cut foot that • should have ,tat six stitches, or a cut head where a kid hid hit me with a stone, or ti" sprained ankle from football. I must admit 'that I add a little modern extra. I put the ice-cubes in a towel until the bleeding stops or is merely oozing. Then take them out, wash off any superfluous blood, put them in a glass, and pour some medicine over theni, just in case of shock. If my Mother .could see me doing this last maneouvre, she'd have gone into shock. She. was 'IT. And that's how I got my banged-up face. But my nose saved'though worse. .Thank heavens for volunteers