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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-11-18, Page 3• .. .,. w. • re , THE HURON EX9f# 041TORs NOVk I$ :111�1 1W, 0.* savers in up 01%.t me -thing to 3 bY.; Susan White, - gaac . to ;pl#ch °trove gone. to. a- Yesr_wd , csa 4*Yelt 'il9tl` ' ,boat labelled rutnre sane. hav't art "'rii"� (And 1'.v0.prett ised I utciul er, taottt j atteckQ' and buy, art dualothxng,ts saace you amount of someone else`s get the avin-up* tl ow!,out . cyst -o t'a.l ant limp* bag. -anti X vow I couldn't 'be quite so well have a streamlined On brutal with my large baskets- and kitchea'before Christmas ful of, old magazines. When- °torr. ever I look too closely at But you know what's really them, i. start to react and they bothering 'me? About half day is gone. Buto did toss way through the. bioest some, carefully #voiding a magazine basket I found- a look at the table of contents. copy, of an October, 1977 And I organized the back Canadian Community News - 'issues of my favourites. It's paper Publisher, an associxt- my fervent believe that you ion newspaper. And after a never know when you'll very careful perusal of the need, really need, a Novem- whole issue I can see no ber, 1979 issue of Ms Maga possible reason for saving it. zine. Unless,` just for proof that i With books, I was more every four years, whether it ruthless. ' Most of them are steeds it or not, I clean the second hand paperbacks; the bedroom from stem to stern. others came from this. won- { mg• derful county's wonderful it with grim determin- library book sales. A few are ffthete'sOnethin&Ishould ation that i rose on Saturday valuable, or at least raise the have learned in writing this # Untarm H ra i ����� �e� column over the years. it's 'TO � h editor _ � morning, determined to remote possibility of s desire • carve out more actmi-4iving tore -read. Those I put neatly that what's funny to one �( „arena % space. Start small, I`figured. an .what's always supposed Person is deadly serious to Kids a�Seaforth ower rate Clean out the bedroom.. that M to have been a, bookshelf but another. I think that the arena should be torn down..__ pay as much money. Then"in a couple of years supposed oasis where we has until now been too he p�takingnthis i Int ass of and s new ane built; on the same [ocatton. the front part might be redone. Seafarth's Public Utility' Commission with the method being used that accounts for spend eight or so hours every cluttered with other things. samaswipes at myself in this There will be rxtore'recreation and ou and [ Sincere) managed to get a strenuous objection in P night., (Oasis hah! We're space last week I lcausedlimed some 1.3 per cent of the increase. 8 The other things, especial- P Y ycker g 1ting the The 1.3 per cent refersto Bit1141 passed by luc most nights if we can Y p ro er Piet for local hairdresse- It5' g iY if the were kee sakes P k abo twill eWin ario helping s a goad one. . - (a concerned cLaurie itizen) tsg egufaewiserMeet ng Nov.- 0, a 9,6 per cent ent Ontario's legislature last October which thtto it.) let alone beat a beging to the better half, 1 readers know I often Regular it wouldn't really fix it. The cost i increase in the price it pays for power from authorized Ontario Hydro to reduce the Five hours later I even got pitched.Dirty laundry went in the, g differential between the average rural ry crate in a sometimes heavy - know is a lot. It may take a while to raise that Ontario Hydro effective at the start of the new the better half to admit that low and 'behold, laundry headed sttempt at humour. residential bill and average urban bill to 15 �' sum, but 1 am sure other people will help out. thoughts lits about tthis he arena le to tet! you my year. per cent effective Jan. 1. 1982, Hydro, will my paring and j tossing, basket. Cleats things were Can I assure everybody writing The mayor's decision about tearing it dawn is g think it is a terrific This means"local consumers will be paying P Y weeping and scrubbing had folded and - put away in right now, that as a regular ,,4"- a good one and I support -him fully. ideato build a naw arena. If it is a bit bigger it more for hydro next .year. If rates were to raise an additional $34 -million to, da this by p' Concerned citizen will mean more business for Seaforth. "remain as is the Seaforth PUC would lose upping what would have been an 8.3 per cent �e a difference. Gone is closets and drawers. (There customer far many years I've increase in rates to 9.6 per cent. the crock full of weeds, circa' was "room, see because I'd always been more than pleas- ;l Kenneth Axtmann Dr. Brady's idea was pretty good but I $14,659, but exactly how much more P ed with Piet's hairdressing through are legislature and commissioner 1975, that collected dust in done the , rummage sale g } I axil writing to you about the arena .ssue. I think everybody should _ donate less than consumers will pay remains to be deterGarvin •� Hers one corner. The clippings deanout first.) skills? He's'one of the best in think that they should make an arena 55000,00 because not everybody has that kind mined. In any case, new Local PUC rates g that I insist on making from Its amazia how �that the business. as a recent were in essence faced with a fair accom h g g committee' of all the surrounding townships of money, This'is just my overall opinion of wont come into effect until March. The start p newspapers are not thrown room looks, And I was so award shows, and what same Commissioner John Sinnamon inted out like the council suggested. the ideas. of the new year "isnot the best tittle to slap p° out (well, you can't expect 'exhausted by the effort that I ' ' readers interpreted 'as coin - Truly acitixen consumers with an increase", said PIJC were the PUC/fd accept the° 9.6 per cent y )toot 'to take Saturday' after- P g I also like the idea of the council's to just "increase, which includes the 1.3 per cent, miracles) brit they're neatly lainin was meant to be a s of Seaforth chairman Gard Pullman. piled in a basket near my noon off to o ailivantin joke. build theback instead of the front too. That is without comment, it would be difficult to then g g g Rhonda Farag Bill Garvin, consumer service supervisor'bed . W:hen ,.I..have_ time to a very goad idea. People might not have tosay commissioners ..disagreed- -with.. the with a friend. (Didn't bring for _Ontario H d_ s western region, told, - --look i ll be able to find' then home one thing to save matters worse t misquoted ~ . Y— - g method used to •reduce the .rural -urban r commissioners the 9.6 per cent increase is differential, because people could say if you 1 great column idea from one though; so t must be making my friendly neighbourhood , M secret needs help lower than the country's 12• -per cent rate, r, a must -read b list hairdresser. Whathe actually p dont like it why did you sign it? ° progress) inflation and, among other things, will help "We're the ones takingthe kick in the from another, and an•artidt� The rest of the .house is said when 1 purled out a. On Wednesday, November 25th, the true 'Huron County Unit% it will fold. a for Hydro's generation expansion ro- ,. .• an companion planting that next and,tKe plan of attack is Picture e a f he could r ady Huron County Unit,of the Multiple Sclerosis g p y P head. lviayo= Sinnamon said, .because it's y p MS is an unusual, debilitating disease, The am from the Bruce Nuclear Power we'll need next. spring. to move in on the guest zoom and asked if he cautil irtake Society will hold a genera! meeting .at the cause has not been pirl-pointed~ hence there pevelo trent: the local, •utiltttes who trust face consumers, Clothes that I've always first then our daughter's. me look like'that was were R Vanastra Recreation Centre. is no"cure: Yet its�effectsare well documented for instance.the elderly on fixed incomes. It was the "amen other thins which hated but which seemed too '(You wouldn't believe a four- beauticians. ,not magicians,'"' This unit wars formed only last year, and ranging from the mild`es t form with no caused commissioners to raise strenuous Mr. Garvin said the provincial govern- ..._ , -� � while the ittitial. meeting was well attended, impairment to the most severe requiring objections, that ended up as a motion_ to " meat through Ontario Hydro; appears to be , m awa from tfio Ontario, Muntct subsequent meetings failed to attract any [n this the International arc t the 4:6 `er ce increase with the g y p + man. this- hl car'ternational Year of Disabled P n Electric Association's principle of power at interest, - - revision the Seaforth PUC in no way agrees The Huron County uni6s struggling. It has Persons, it shouldn't be too much to ask that P Y g cost• been kept alive only through -the efforts "of people°be willing to help their neighbour. ; four people in Wingham, and now they are k wondering if the effort -has been worth it. If The Executive of the Saloriesissue at, R the upcoming general meeting fads to draw Huron County Unit of -- people willing to work and make the unit a the M.S. Society. boards and better than the provincial average Continued from page 1 as well." • teachers is $36.581." This figure is based on The teachers propose four ways to improve Seven Huron pro acts approved 45 out of 76 boards in Ontario having reached the situation which woutO require immediate a settlement for 1981-82. Another major area of dispute is staffing ly hiring three _ additiopil- teachers. The ' formula and working conditions. As of Sept. board's position.is-mole than three teachers Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff (PC) created: g would have to be hired. Ms. Barrett States announced this morning (Wednesday) seven Van Egmond Foundation, Seaforth, "A 30 of this year, the pupilzteacher ratio in changes which further reduce pupil -teacher projects in the riding heearlief recommended Million Acres of History" $23,358, two jobs; Huron was 16.46 to .1, while the provincial ratios should not be made, but a review of the to the Ministry of Employment and Immigra- Tuckersrnith Township, Vanastra. Day Care average last year was 16.8 to 1. The fact staffing formulx shoasid bd'made tion under the Canada Community Develop- for Physically Disabled Adults. S13,000, one fitltt 's report states, "teachers have s District 45 of OSSTF have also rejected the menf: Progratn•,have been. approved, follow- job: Huron Country Playhbuse,'Gran>d Bend, staffing formula and +working conditions • board's offer of: criteria for' positions of ing receipt, of a telegram from ministry Essential Facility, 523,712, four-jpbs; Volun- " better than 80 per cent of 10 comparable responsibility, professional development officials earlier in the day. teer Outreach Wingham, $9,984, one job; funds, fringe ,benefits for maternity leaves The projects will bring 5100,000 of federal Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority.C and night school pay, The fact 'finder expect funding into Huron -Bruce, creating employ- Exeter, Conservation Resources Program. McKillop 1 of A. the maternity leave issue to be resolved. ment for i l people in the riding fora total of 510.816, one,job; Maitland Valley Conserva- following salary settlements and made• no ­- 454•additonal weeks of work. tion Authority, Wroxeter, Resources Inven-v i • Q recommendations,-'••' Fallowing are the approved, projects, the tory; 5,10,816, one job: F.L,O.A.T. 2. elects execVtive Trustee Elliott64ianegotiationshave been' grants involved and the number of jobs Goderich, ,58.320, one job. handled in a "fair• and equitable manner" The McKillop Federation of Agriculture and in the board'sopnionthe offer is fair. He selected --an executive -for the-comingyear sa negotiations this - id be made to conclude said ahem is would t ft when it met for its annual meetingand dinner g year, and all items that fineday- a" � ��g l g'� at the St. Columban Hail Tuesday night. ni could be agreedto are agreed to. He added a President Ken Scott, first vice-president successful elementary settlement was reach- ._...... .... by Jim Hag©rty Kevin. Kale and second vice-president- Biii ed without a third party. • Murrayere all returned to the executive. Salary settlements for the secondary school - Polite' he'alth Christi Eckert replaces Marie Hicknell, who teachers have not been, the "most smooth resigned, as the executive's secretary -tree•• process said Mr. Elliott. The fact finder surer. More details on the meeting in next noted ''the relations between the parties this cabled, not an I was ha uggl problem, week's Huron Expositor. year are not unduly strained wind both parties ..,9Y•JIM HAGARTY Sunday night 1 was struggling win a , ' demonstrated some flexibility." earth -shattering Whenever anyone asks you how you're really, but a problem nonetheless. I'd ,i• doing, it's customary in our society to say in t n - fQ"n t4 � i V f °� t v' #h-- lit about it all, day and by nightfall, it r ` reply, " g Oh, just fine, thank you.ourse Yourself?" was driving me nuts. e And the other person quickly admits that I went for a drive in my car to -see if that he too is doing just fine. A 60 -year-old Fordwich cis] jail in Walkerton. would help, but it didn't. And then, as 1 was man was found illi Now, a lot of times, when this polite guilty of "Mr. Stroop was charged exchange takes place, neither party might in wing through town, I spied a friend's car attempted, murder and sen- after a shootittg in Morris on the street and he was sitting in it. tenced to a year. in prison at Township reality be doing just fine but to save face, Y p • p (lot 32, concession' I pulled in beside him acid climbed into the Provincial Court at Goderich 9 Sept.4. Rene Vercru ssen. they say they are anyway. " passenger seat o'f' his car. Monday. Frank Stroo was Orthey may say something like, "Ohl no "How's it oin 9" Ga asked: after we'd Y p 45, of RR2 Blyth was in good use complaining. Nobody listens to you g gr Gary also prohibited from using shaken hands. p g condition at Wingham .. guns, firearb3s or ammuni- District Hospital the follow-.. anyway. At that, 'both parties laugh, in ••Terrible," I answered. "I've got to talk complete agreement that'to complain is a tion for five years. He was in in Monday with bullet to somebody and it looks like you're it!" custody at psychiatric unit g p futile exercise. Y p Y wounds to the hi and should - For 10 minutes, Gary sat quietly listenin Ordinarily, 1 play this game myself, � prior to the verdict, and is er. whether my world's coming apart orr not. while I unravelled my entire tate of woe, now in custody -at the provin- One minute, out of the view of otheroPle, detail by detail, I asked a bunch of questions and answered them myself before he could I can be tearing my hair out in anguish but offer his opinion. Corrections let some people suddenly appear, and And finally i said, "i dant knave, i was miraculously. I am the picture of serenity. thinking of going away fora few days, Last week's Expositor said But once in a while, when the gain of I-800.267-8282. The around these real and imagined maybe visit some friends down east." local groups were eligible to oda ti ms becomes too intense; . l: rivg let "I tell you Jim;" Gary interjected, "1 apP'ly for a kit of 40 or 80 Canada Council's address is pro think that maybe you should go away for a Canadian books. P.O. Box 1047, Ottawc X1P loose to whoever happens to be within &, days, visit some friends down east." Further information on the 5V8• - earshot and I usually feel better when i do. "You think so " iasked. free Canadian books avail. One night, a few years ago, I was tanking `•Yeah. why not?" he continued. "Things able to groups forts the to a young pian I know and I asked him how y .1 lookd'ffe twhen og u et away ria ounct from Ca A. G '1 be L me Lawson of Seaforth his, truck into an auger which is loading the grain auto the arena,floor far, the winter. Fear- at rafe'p'a,ers Y Continued from page f no greater than last year's 'but Ontario committee, said the town hopes to expand its Hyrdro's rates to the PUC will go up again. boundaries in 1982.and purchase land for And that increase must be passed ,on.. industrial expansion. Also needed is land, for First year councillor Hazel Hildebrand and a new dump site, within five miles of town. Paul Ross said they'd enjoyed serving on "Everybody knows we need a dump, nobody council and. had learned from more wants it close to them", he said. experienced members. PUC chairman Gord Pullman said local " The meeting was chaired by A.Y. McLean expenditures for hydro and water would be and was shown live qn ^cable TV. Aio. things were gulag with him. He replied. with watya� ren for a while." can obtained from: Randall o is also a member of 'The VANDALISM — Vandals toppled 10 tomb - a smile that everything was just going great, better. 1 believed him and was glad "Maybe things will look different if 1 get plate, Writing ;and Publicat- Huron S't'rings. His name atones In the Maitiandbank Cemotory at R. R. 1, never were finally working out for him. away from them for a while," I said. ion Section or Jocelyn Har- was inadvertently omitted Seaforth' 815f1istilile Monday night. Dave that things g out two The next night, •N�te man wrote Gary smiled in cgreement, I felt better, "r o thanks a lot Gary,"' I said. "I don't vey, Public Relations Officer front a story on the group's upcoming perfclrtttatite on, a WVries, manager-caretaker..at,-_th$ cemetery, , short tiotes.of farewell, swallowed ai bw1d of pills. lay down on* touch wind waited know whit i would have done without you," And I don't. cif the Council. Telephone toll free its Can. ticlevisi60 pwgraitm� In last s week's Huron itdr, says the vandals weron t little, because tha damage had to be "caused by individual' whd, potent for the end to conte.. tt came. n - area of those commemorated by many ofthe damaged stones, most -of which date from they early i flWs. Repairs were being made at, prMs time and the cernetery boat'd thanit#d Aoss Rtbey, Stratford memorials and Marian-Vintont for their donation of, tim'o- Ild equipment fisc what clan be fl"xed. (photo bit CAMpbelI) -.. ,� s �.i..:.u..�l—.�..��,...,s,ur»,;,�.,".-....�.,-sv..:-;r.-liu.�,.W,i�,YY,Wr,iWYJw 'd�#r..r•n4✓h, ._ _.i.._:....--.. �:.��t...... .�,..�...�>�.,,,� .i -.c ,., ... .-,, ..: ,...... .. L � . Lv _ -y�� _ _