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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-05-25, Page 3Community FIRE CAUSES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE - The home of Larry Coyne on Duke Street in Seaforth received damage estimated at about $35,000 from smoke and water damage last week. The fire started in the basement where TIM CUMMING PHOTO gasoline had been stored. Fire Chief George Garrick cautions local residents that gas tanks and other fuels should not be stored inside the home. There were two people at home at the time of the fire and the extent of injuries is not known. Better sex education needed continued from front page "Too many of these kids won't mediate or talk or deal with programs. They don't give a damn about programs or the Young Offenders Act. You have to iden- tify the serious offenders and you have to draw the line." Understanding the pattern of youth violence and victimization begins at a young age, Dr. Mat- thews said. It's founded in the female/male stereotypes and a number of contributing factors, from family situations to poor nutrition and poverty. "Most young men learn sex from pornography, and women learn it from the men," Dr. Mat- thews said. "We need good sex education, we're a sex -negative society. We still use sex to tease and titillate and sell cars." He showed slides of sex in advertising - from a naked infant girl used to advertise python gloves, to young girls made up in leather and bondage to sell Italian leather. "Images in our culture are like a wallpaper," Dr. Matthews said, and young people are molding their images from Playboy, fashion magazines, and television. "Too much violence has been normalized. We need to name it and how it affects our lives." He spoke about the murder of Jamie Bolger, the toddler in England who was killed in 1993 by two young boys. The crime was hideous and so was the fact that the two boys dragged the frightened, crying toddler through the town, past more that 130 people, and no one stepped in to help. "It's time to draw the line in the sand for serious sexual offenders," Dr. Matthews said. "If you slap the wrist of the offender, then the victim says the risk of coming forward is too high." He said that adults have to step in too, to get involved. "You haye so much power and impact in your schools and communities." Communities must take victims seriously, take offenders seriously, lobby against pornography and boycott products that use women, children or men as sexual objects. Hay township has multicultural roots BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor Hay Township may have been one of this area's most multicultural municipalities. At one time French and German could be heard spoken downtown, said Ian McAllister to the annual meeting of the Huron County His- torical Society. "On a Saturday night in Zurich it was quite common to hear three different languages spoken on Main Street," said McAllister, who is chairperson of the Hay Township history committee. In fact, on local party telephone lines (with 12 or more people on one line) a neigh- bour might prevent local eavesdrop- pers by switching languages. The farmer from RR 1 Zurich was speaking to the historical group about the flay history Highlights book which is currently being pre- pared. About 60 people heard McAllister tell them such interesting facts as: two syrup mills were once located in Hay (where they made syrup from sorgum), the trendy new crop ginseng was once harvested in Hay and neutral aboriginal people lived in the area and traded flint with the Hurons and Iroquois. The cultural make-up of Hay includes German, French, English, Irish and Scottish. Some debate occurred about the Swiss origin of the name 'Zurich,' and it was sug- gested by a member of the audience that there are many of Swiss - descent in Hay. Estimates of the size of Hay Township vary from 34,000 to 55,0011 acres but McAllister pegs its size at 54,000. He tantalized listeners with the question, Is there pine in Hay swamp? "That's another conundrum we run into," he said, not offering the definitive answer. McAllister described how about 15 per cern of the township, or 8,000 acres, is in the Hay swamp. He said the swamp is not a good swamp as it it's shal- low and doesn't retain water year- roundl "Our f wamp is a rather confused swamp," he said, explaining that•it HAY! HAY! MY! MY! - 'Ian McAllister spoke to the Huron Historical Society about the Hay Township history in prep- aration. tends to flood in the spring and dry out in the fall. The Hay Township history book is expected to be published in December of 1995, "just in time for Christmas." McAllister reported that since the idea of the book was discussed in a public meeting in April of 1992 the committee has received a New Horizons grant of about $ 14,000. "A local history is a community effort," said the guest speaker. The guest speaker recalled a humorous anecdote from the 1864 minutes of Hay council in which the councillors made a motion not to approve a councillor's liquor account for sums of 75 cents and $2,651/2. ••• The Huron County Historical Society will suggest the erection of a plaque at a site in Goderich where construction is to take place. Nine grave sites were discovered at the proposed site of the new welcome centre at Judith Gooderham Park. The facility was once the site of up to 500 graves but many were moved to Maitland Cemetery. The original owners of the Bedford Hotel may have been buried in a stone vault near the centre of the park. The cemetery also became military home to the 33rd battalion. Dr. Matthews said that we need to teach children about sex, not by analyzing a large drawing of a penis in health class, but by role playing and giving teenagers situations that they can reason out. "We need to put that boy in the back of the Chevy after he's had four beers or a joint, with a girl, and we need to teach him how to roll on a condom." And we have to teach girls that they have a right to say no to sex. They have a right to feel safe. WHAT'S MISSING? Dr. Matthews asked why, at this stage in history, with the work of the women's movement, with knowledge and technology, are we at the place where women are still afraid? He noted, "When women aren't well, communities aren't well." Women's peace is slipping away, from the Northwest Ter- ritories to South America. Dr. Matthews said, "That sense of peace and wellness is missing in young women's lives." 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