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Sifto calling for mine photos for commemorative disk
To the Editor;
This year marks the 50th anniversary
• of Sifto's Goderich Mine and we are in
the planning stages of making it a
memorable one for both our employees
and the community by putting together
a collection of Goderich Mine pictures
of the past 50 years onto a CD.
Letters
opinion
This. CD will be made available to
the public with funds going to a local
charity.
We appeal to your readers for their
assistance by providing us with any
pictures of the mine from 1959 to pres-
ent day.
Sifto has a long standing relation-
ship with Goderich and it's surround-
ing community and by working togeth-
er we will make this 50th anniversary
a truly special one for generations to
come. Sifto has and always will be
part of the history of Goderich.
If you can help, please contact
Natalie Cousteils at (519) 524- 8351 at
Extension 2281. Thank you.
Rowland Howe
Mine Manager
Sifto, Goderich Mine
Dash for Diabetes funds go to kids in Huron -Bruce
To the Editor;
Thanks for the coverage of the recent
Dash for Diabetes (D4D) on Saturday,
July 4.
The five -mile, annual fun, family fit-
ness for all ages Goderich event is
growing in Huron -Bruce to cure diabe-
tes.
The caring, hard-working organizers
for the past six annual Dash for
Diabetes runs are Goderich residents
Phil Paquette and Taylor Lambert and
his family. These individuals and their
family, friends and business contacts
and the Goderich area community have
made our volunteer Goderich Dash for
Diabetes a growing success and a
Huron -Bruce grassroots model of fun,
family fitness and pledges for the rest
of Ontario, if not Canada.
Pledges are still coming in from the
event and 100 per cent of the pledges
Epson Field opening a success
To the Editor;
I would like to thank the. editorial
staff and Denny Scott for the coverage
of the "Official Opening" of the Sky
Harbour Epson Field on July 4.
Although we had to postpone from
our original date due to rain, we received
over 50 guests and 20 had flights on our
club trainer under the expertise of a
club instructor, Greg Hood, who also
gave an aerobatic display to the delight
of all.
The club still invites anyone interest-
ed on ,Wednesday evenings from 6:30
p.m. until dark at Epson Field (behind
Bluewater training facility) weather
permitting.
Your truly
Wilf Higgins
go directly to local area kids with dia-
betes in Huron and Bruce Counties.
Pledges can be made at RBC Goderich
or through diabetes research at
University of Western Ontario/Robarts
Research.
Kincardine is now organizing its
own five -mile Dash for Diabetes on
Saturday, Sept. 5 at 9 a.m. Proceeds
will be added to the $2,100 raised in
the Goderich event with the Huron -
Bruce total to exceed $120,000 by the
end of the year. The Kincardine con-
tact is Alexandra at: 519-396-5667.
Pledge forms can be obtained at; www.
curediabetesnow.hurontel.on.ca and
donations can be made up to December
2009 at the Royal Bank branches in
Goderich and Kincardine.
Yours truly,
Frank Gardiner
Town made gardening easier
To the Editor;
We would like to thank the Town
of Goderich for implementing the
Yard Waste Collection Depot this
spring. It has made gardening easier,
having a place to discard all of our
brush throughout the week. Knowing
that it will be put to good use as com-
post rather than helping to fill up the
landfill is also reassuring.
Thanks again.
Jerry and Catherine Wiebe
Linda Wiebe and Joe Melady
How come the funny pages aren't funny anymore?
Somebody sent me a comic strip the
other day and ... I hope you're sitting
down when I tell you this ... it was
funny! It was a one -panel strip titled
"The Other Coast" depicting a scene at
a restaurant for dogs named "Chez
Hound." With. a dog waiting in the
background busking tables, two dog
customers near the reception area are
'wolfing and slurping their dinners from
large bowls. As two new dog customers
arrive, the dog maitre'd informs them
that: "The 7:00 sitting has just started
their meals. Do you mind waiting for
the 7:01 sitting!"
The strip must have come from a
paper in the. States because I've never
seen "The Other Coast" before and I_
know it's not in any Canadian papers.
Actually, it would be forbidden to run in
a Canadian paper ... because it's funny.
Am I the only one who still remem-
bers a time when the funny papers were
funny? Peanuts was cut, Dagwood
Bumstead slept in. and missed his ride
way, way too often but Herman? Jim
Unger's Herman was funny.
All those lumpy, grumpy figures bum-
bling their way through the annoying
side of life.
The husband giving
Herman a little advice over
drinks at a cocktail party:
"Don't go in the kitchen."
The husband is wearing a pot
on his head which is oozing
what used to be the main
course.
Herman handing his lob-
ster plate to the waiter: "Take
that back and cook it! It's
already eaten half of the
french fries."
I once asked Jim Unger the
key to his hugely successful
strip. Poor eyesight was his
answer. He wore glasses with coke
bottle, lenses and that's how he saw the
world — distorted and out of sinc.
Family Circus was never funny, not
even to the three -year-olds it was writ-
ten for. The unfunniest comic strip of
all time has to be For Better Or For
Worse. How this chronicle of really
boring family events ever got syndicat-
ed in the first place is amazing. And
now it's back in re -runs. When Lynn
Johnston announced she was retiring
her strip For better Or For Worse, fun-
nyman Rick Mercer said it best: "I
All the World's
A Circus,..
think it's for the better."
There is a place for cartoons
like For Better Or For Worse
and Family Circus but it's not
by definition, the funny pages.
They should be in another sec-
tion of the newspaper titled
"Social Commentary
Graphics." Pardon My Planet
is occasionally funny but
always intelligent.
You want funny cartoons?
Gary Larsen was a comic
genius. "Bummer of a birth-
mark, Hal," said one deer to
his friend who had a dark
patch of skin shaped roughly Ice a
bull's eye.
The two old farm bulls sitting around
the tree on Christmas morning. They've
already opened the gift box with the A-1
Novelty Inc. "Inflatable Cow." As the
one begins to blow up the cow, the other
one says; "She's lookin' good, Vern!"
I'm pretty sure it was Gary Larsen
who penned one of the funniest cartoons
I've ever seen. Two male praying man-
tis are talking when one notices the
other does not have a head. He con-
cludes: "You slept with her, didn't
you!"
Mother Goose and Grimm have their
moments — "The Only Joke Skunks
Know" appears under the cartoon of one
skunk begging the other skunk: "C' mon,
pull my finger."
Almost every paper I pick up has
dropped The Wizard of Id. It was solid
three panel humour employing the
greedy little runt of a king as the perfect
comic foil.
"What's the distance to the flag?" the
King asks his caddy.
"175 yards."
"What do you suggest I use to get
there?"
"The golf cart."
Bartender to the Wizard:
"You're a drunk."
Wizard: "I have low self esteem."
Bartender: "But why do you drink so
much?"
Wizard: "Because you keep naming me
`Customer of the Month' . "
Hagar is not so bad, Garfield became
surly and Marmaduke is just too predict-
able.
Doonesbury may be relevant but it's not
funny. Mutts are cute but again, not funny.
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