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Changes are necessary
to WCB, but what kind
Ontario's employers are fed up with the Workers'
Compensation Board. Not only is it a' fiscal nightmare with an
unfunded liability of more than $11 billion in 1992, it is
continuing merrily along its way in 1993 - WCB promising and
paying what isl impossible and governments expecting
employers to pick up the ever-increasing tab.
Something has to change. .
There is little argument that compulsory workplace accident
and injury insurance is essential today. Men and women who
are legitimately hurt while at work benefit from salary
protection when misfortune strikes. Employers benefit because
injured employees don't sue their bosses when they are injured
on the job.
But like so many publicly -paid advantages in modern
society, workers' compensation benefits are no longer
sustainable at current levels. Critics say payouts are too large,
coverage is too wide, investigations of abuse are too superficial
and fraud is too common.
Some think this sinking system can ,be corrected and made
affordable once again by reducing the number' of claims
through improved safety Measures in the workplace; showing
more diligence in rehabilitating injured workers; and rooting
out more of the charlatans who make a hobby of cheating the
WCB. .
On the other hand, there 'are those who believe the only
way to save WCB from bankrupting our children is to privatize
workplace accident andinjury insurance , right away.
Proponents
Proponents of this radical move call for private sector insurers
'to supply a variety of alternatives - individually priced
according to differentneeds and pocketbooks - with WCB in
business as the no-fault option from which employers may
choose if they wish to pay the freight.
• It is'always easier to give something than to take it'away.
With 70 per cent of Ontario's industries covered by the plan,
we can expect a tremendous worker outcry if there is any
significant threat to WCB benefits for the future. - SJK
They're calling students
home to summer reunion
To the editor:
1994 will be a banner year for
Westville, N.S. when. it will
celebrate its 100th birthday.
In conjunction with celebrations,'
the Westville Homecoming Society
has a full schedule of events
planned during June 30 - July 7,
including a full reunion of all
former students and teachers, a
dance, variety concert, family pic-
nic, church service, town county
tour, etc. The town's annual Canada
Day celebrations will be on going
during this time as well.
The committee is hoping to reach
as many former Westville persons
who attended or taught ANY grade
in 'the Westville school system so
'r0 THE EDITOR
they maysend their name and ad -
•dress and in tum we will forward
our Newsletter outlining our
itinerary. We want to make this
information available early to assist
those who are able to plan their
summer vacation "to come see the
old gang".
Please send your name and ad-
dress to Dorothy (Hunter) Boehk,
P.O. Box 411, Westville, N.S. BOK
2A0 and we hope you "Come
Home in '94".
Westville Homecoming Society
Were you lucky this week?
Ripley District Lions cash calen-
dar winners last week included
Dorothy Bain, Lucknow; Susan
Strucke, Kincardine; Elaine Shantz,
Ripley; Peter Bell, Orangeville;
Suzanne Paquette, Ripley; Don
Colling, Ripley all with $50 and
Jim Walden, Ripley with $100.
The Sentinel Memoirs
Cheek out this clever swindler
70 years ago
Nov. 29, 1923
lever swindler - It looks as though crime, like
other forms of misfortune, never come alone.
The people of this community had . not
recovered from the shock caused by the stealing of
_Malcolm Bros. cattle, when they were freshly as-
tonished 'by a report that clever swindles had been -
perpetrated at Walkerton and Dungannon - $350
having, been obtained on a forged check at the Bruce
County Town and $140 in the same way at Dungan-
non.
And what- surprised the public more was that a
heretofore' respected Kinloss Township farmer was
arrested and charged with the crime.
0 ut on $10,000 bail . The man charged with
the theft of 19 head of cattle from the Mal-
colm Bros.. farm, near Kinlough, appeared in
Kincardine Court and was sent up for trial at the next
court to deal with such a charge. Although lawyers
for the Crown objected to .bail being granted at all,
$10,000 was finally agreed upon.
50 years ago '
Dec. 2, 1943
inloss ratepayers differ as to placing of
drain costs Kinloss Township ratepayers
practically filled the Township Hall for the
annual nomination Meeting, that, was featured by
upwards to three hours of speech -making and discus-
sion, much of which centered around the question of
who is going to pay for the, costs of the Ackert Drain
up until the time' the Archibald bylaw was repealed.
The speakers refrained from getting "too hot under
the collar", but after all the discussion was ended, the
matter but little, if any, nearer a solution. •
Flu is bad - -The 'flu seems to be going • the
rounds, claiming numerous victims. In the
Langside community it. appears to be especial=
ly severe and all the members of at least two families
in that neighborhood were confined to bed earlier in
the week.' The usual .bingo and social has been
cancelled for Friday night of this week and school
attendance has been bard hit. -
25 years ago
Dec. 4, 1968
tore sold to Brussels couple - Ron and Bar-
bara Machan, a young couple from Brussels,
- have purchased the Lucknow Crest Hardware
from Charles Webster and Donald MacKinnon.
The sale will not become effective until March 15
of next year. In the meantime, Mr. and Mrs. Machan
will work in the store where they will become accus-
tomed to the local operation and will have a chance
to meet local residents.
I
Isee by the Sentinel - That the High School
band which performed at the Commencement
at the F.E. Madill Secondary School at Win-
gham was made, up of former Lucknow High School
students and was led by Elwin Hall.
Town Hall
The summer of 1926. A stone crushing crew In Button's gravel pit, on the western outskirts of
Luckrtow. They were-crushing-gravel--for-what-is-now Highway 86; -At -front. Robert L-owry-, Joe------ --•--
Connely, Jim McCluskey, Marshall Gibson, Bill Henderson and Alex Agar. The two boys at the
back are Ernie Carter and his brother. (courtesy of Rev. Wm. Henderson)
Fishermen become maritime outlaws
by Marsha Boulton
HARBOR GRACE, NEW-
FOUNDLAND, 1610 -- What
British pirate "recruited" New-
foundland fishermen to a life of
pillage and plunder?
Maritime outlaw Peter Easton, a
short, dark man with a glib tongue
and a cruel streak that was matched
by his good cheer and generosity
remains a folk ' hero in New-
foundland. The town of Happy
Adventure is named for his flag-
ship, and many of his adopted
pirates took the Easton name in his
honor.
While Sainuel de Champlain was
struggling to found his colony at
Quebec, commerce was booming in
St. John's. The Basques, Por-
tuguese, French and English
gathered at the harbor to trade and
refit their ships.
Easton's first visit to New-
foundland was 'during the reign of
rortk
Queen Elizabeth 1. He came with
hef blessing as a privateer. When
James 1 took the throne, he
eliminated the legal plundering of
foreign ships by privateers, which
led to a massivetransition to
outright piracy.
Easton made the • transition quite.
successfully. By 1610, he com-
manded 40 ships engaged in looting
ships in the English Channel.'
Merchants petitioned the.
government for relief from Easton's
depredations, and Sir Henry Main -
warring prepared a squadron of
ships to pursue Easton, However,
Easton avoided any engagement by
embarking for Newfoundland,
He built a fort at Harbor Grace
primarily as a base', 'he found time
to raid Basque and French ships for
their arms, commandeered cargoes
of salt fish and "liberated" at least
one'shipment of French wine.
In Conception Bay he took two
ships and 30 ships were pillaged m
St. John's. The colony at Cupids
was spared after giving the buc
caneer two pigs. Easton even
protected the. colonists' valuable
fishing supplies and tons of salt
during the winter. His loyal fol-
lowers dubbed him the "Pirate
Admiral" and he was perceived as.
a defender of common folk,
By 1612, Easton had, amassed a
considerable navy. He is said to
have taken 500 fisherman into his
employ.
Easton's greatest coup during this
period was •a raid conducted in
Puerto Rico. Although the Spanish
colony at Moro Castle had
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