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PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2004.
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Is this who we are?
When word leaked out last week, in the middle of the Stanley Cup
playoffs, that CBC might not renew the contract of long-time Hockey
Night In Canada commentator Don - Cherry, there was .bound to be
controversy.
Responding to that possibility, three quarters of Canadians in one poll
apparently felt Cherry should keep his job. In fact as many people
thought he should get a raise from his $500,000-plus salary for a few
minutes work, 40 weeks a year, as felt he should be let go.
In man-in-the-street interviews (and they were mostly men) the
statement often was made that "Don tells it like it is!"
So. it's telling it like it is to demean all non-Canadian-born hockey
players? What does that mean, that it's "telling it like it is" to demean
immigrants too? Not all Canadian-born players are good, either. Cherry
likes to complain about players from Quebec. Are we going to be able to
"tell it like it is" by going back to making remarks about "frogs" or
booing the singing of part of the national anthem in French?
In these days when people get tired of political correctness, people like
Cherry are often given a free hand to "tell it like it is". But rudeness is
still rudeness and boorishness, boorishness. If 75 per cent of Canadians
think Cherry's mean-spirited rants should be rewarded, maybe Canada
hasn't come so far as we like to think. — KR
• There's an old joke when someone is preparing to flip a coin when the}
call out "Heads, I win. Tails, you lose." In trade, the U.S. takes that saying
seriously.
Last week a North American Free Trade Agreement panel agreed the
U.S. hadn't proven its lumber producers had been hurt by Canadian
lumber imports and therefore had no right to impose high tariffs that had
taken more than $2 billion from Canadian lumber exporters. It's just the
latest of several trade panel decisions saying Canada is in the right on the
softwood lumber issue, yet industry experts were quick to say the battle is
not over.
In fact the Canadian government was reported to be planning to use the
latest victory merely as a bargaining chip in trying to negotiate a
settlement with the Americans. U.S. law 'allows groups like the U.S.
lumber producers to drag out these trade complaints driving up the costs
for Countries and companies trying to defend their position.
Free trade is a joke when it comes to the U.S. as Canadian cattle and
pork producers can testify. There is -no scientific reason young live cattle
shouldn't be going to U.S. packers by now, yet the border remains closed.
One U.S. ranchers group brought a halt to a small opening for bone-in
meat products by getting a court injunction against admitting Canadian
beef. Meanwhile our pork producers are facing yet another countervailing
tariff threat against Canadian pork.
Though there might be short-term advantages to cutting a deal with the
Americans on softwood lumber, at some point we've got to bite the bullet,
pay the price and win one of these cases outright, perhaps even penalizing
American exports to Canada if they don't follow NAFTA or WTO rulings.
American business deals only from strength. Only when the price to
harass Canadian trade becomes too high will they begin to treat Canadians
with respect. — KR
What's the use of winning?
Letter to the editor
Looking Back Through the Years
THE EDITOR,
The Huron County Health Unit is
offering three Healthy Eating for
Healthy Aging workshops during
May and June in Clinton, Wingham
and Exeter.
This is a pilot project of the
Ontario Public Health Association
which has received funding through
the Ontario Stroke Strategy to
promote healthy eating to older
adults. In Huron County, the health
unit is partnering with Town and
Country Support Services, the
Huron Community Food Advisors
and Housing Services.
The overall goal of the workshops
is to improve the nutrition health of
older independently living adults
across Ontario through education
and to facilitate the development of
solutions addressing barriers to
healthy eating in individual
communities.
The objectives of the project are:
I. To provide educational
workshops for older adults which
will offer them information on
healthy eating, including specific
dietary changes recommended with
increasing age.
2. To learn from those attending
the workshops what they perceive to
be the local barriers to healthy
eating.
3. To disseminate additional
health promotion information (eg.
injury prevention, physical activity)
to older adults.
The three workshops will have the
same content; however, the June 2
presentation in Exeter is offered as
part of the South Huron Trade Fair
and Information Expo.
Kayla Glynn MHSc, RD
Public Health Nutritionist
Huron County Health Unit
PO Box 5, Clinton ON Canada
NOM ILO
Phone: 519-482-3416 ext. 2269
Fax: 519-482-7820
Email: kglynn@huroncounty.ca
May 7, 1952
The Detroit Sunday Times
newspaper came out with a colour
issue newspaper called The
American Weekly.,
Dr. Donald McRae and his wife
went to New York state for a special
medical course.
Robert Bell Industries Ltd. held an
open house for farmers to show
demonstrations of threshing
machines in actual process of
manufacture,
The Huron Football Association's
annual meeting was held in Walton.
The committee decided that the rule
books should be brought up to date
and re-written and they discussed
the schedule for the local football
teams.
May 8, 1969
Brussels council agreed to give
the Horticultural Society a grant for
$100 for that year.
A Grey Twp. man was injured
after being run over by a tractor.
Vandals smashed the plate glass in
the front door of Bridge Motors and
made off with a few packages of
cigarettes.
Ann Oldfield a Grade 13 student
from the Brussels area, was a big
success after writing an original
play called Some Funny Things
Happened on the Way to
Graduation. The play was presented
by the students of F.E. Madill and
Oldfield was associated with the
direction and musical direction of
the performance.
The 4-H Homemaking Club
Achievement Day was held in
Seaforth. Sharon Fischer and Laurel
Hemingway, both of Brussels,
Brenda Nesbitt of Walton and Joan
Campbell of Blyth, were given
provincial honours certificates for
completing 12 projects.
May 10, 1972
Brian Glennie formerly of the
Toronto Maple Leafs was a guest
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speaker at the sports dinner at the
Brussels arena. Paul Roach, scout
.for the Buffalo Sabres, was Master
of Ceremonies for the event.
A mystery tour was set up the
Cranbrook WI ladies and their
friends where they travelled all
around the county.
May 7, 1989
Mrs, Inez MacDonald of Blyth
celebrated her 101st birthday.
Linda Knight of Belgrave was
taking blood pressures in a
demonstration at the booth of
Community Nursing Services at the
Brussels TradeFest.
The Blyth Agricultural Society
was faced with either making its
accounts active or closing the
money into internal workings of the
banking system. It was decided to
give the money away to benefit the
agriculture in the Blyth area.
Marlene Albers was crowned as
the Queen of the New Canadian
Club of Huron and Perth in a
ceremony held at Mitchell. She was
to compete in a Guelph competition
for a trip to Holland.
Walton had a large number of
extra residents for a few weeks as a
work train from Canadian Pacific
Railway made it the headquarters
for crew working on the line in
either direction from the
village.
Winners of awards for five years
of 4-I1 club leadership during the 4H
Achievement Night were Karen
Stewart of Byth, Merilyn Lockie of
Fordwich, Sharon Darlow of
Bluevale and Ula Richmond of
Blyth.
There was good news for Brussels
taxpayers in the auditors report
given to Brussels council, showing a
surplus of $23,000 at the end of
1985 as compared to the deficit of
$14,000 at the end of 1984.
May 4, 1994
The kindergarten students at
Hullett Central Public School told
guests at the school's spring concert,
All About Spring.
Former Ashfield Twp. warden
Allen Gibson was surprised to learn
that three of his farms were included
among the candidate sites when
envelopes were opened and
documents naming the 11 possible
locations for a landfill site for Huron
County were read.
Brussels was one step closer to
having a new firehall after village
council approved hiring an engineer
and making a formal application for
funding under the federal-provincial
infrastructure program.
Despite an emotional attempt to
get councillors to rethink the issue.
Huron County council proceeded
with passing a bylaw that reduced
the number of council members
following the fall election and gave
representatives from some mun-
icipalities more than one vote.
Council voted to have only reeve
sit on the county level.
The Blyth Spirit, a pottery and gift
shop opened in Blyth.
May 12, 1999
Rebecca Major, a Grade 2 student
at Hullett Central Public School was
one of several enthusiastic skippers
at the school to raise money for
Heart and Stroke. The students did a
great job and raised $1,554.
Despite some debate, Brussels
council passed a draft budge of zero
per cent increase.
The students of Walton Public
School told the story of Old
MacDonald's Farm for a full house
of family and friends.
Blyth Scouts were doing their part
for the environment as they planted
trees at a Morris Twp. farm.
Lifelong Huron. County resident.
Daryl Ball, came back to help the
community as the new agriculture
and rural representative for Huron
County.