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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-08-03, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 3, 1194 ExocHuron sitor Your Commun Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions TIM CUMMING - Editor DAVID SCOTT - Reporter LINDA PULLMAN - Typesetter BARB STOREY - Distribution A Burgoyne Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. SENIORS - 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goderich, Stretford addresses: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T OvrOf Area addresses: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA & Foreign: 28.00 a year in advance, plus 576.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main 51., Seaforth. Publication moil registra- tion No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. Advertising is accepted on condition thot in the event of o y raphical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services ata wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes of oddress, orders for subscriptions and undeliverable copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, August 3, 1994. Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Associotion and the Ontario Press Council Reach out to Rwanda Charity begins at home, it has been said. The people of the Huron -Perth area must realize the world is our home...and the world includes Rwanda. Just imagine if clean water was a prize more valuable than gold...and cholera threatened your life like a modern-day plague making AIDS look like a picnic. No one deserves to be starving and sick and dying. The refugees flooding the borders of Rwanda and Zaire pose "the worst refugee crisis in history," according to one United Nations official. It's easy to be scared by the magnitude of the crisis and pretend there's nothing we, as individuals, can do....but we can help. We can help provide the water and sanitation supplies and food and emergency and medical goods. You can donate to the Canadian Red Cross, World Vision or Oxfam Canada or any agency, church or institu- tion seeking to make things brighter for the refugees. It takes so little and you can do so much. Let's show that the people of Huron and Penh care. - (TBC). Nuclear threat remains In an age when the Berlin Wall has crumbled and the East Bloc disintegrated it's frightening that our world still faces the prospect of nuclear disaster. Recent news from high-ranking North Korean defectors (that the hardline state of North Korea may indeed have nuclear warheads) is terrifying. International governments and diplomats will have to walk a tightrope between precipitating conflict with that country and ignoring the nuclear threat. We in the Huron -Perth area must pray and hope for a resolution of this terrible world danger. Korea may one day soon be re -united and it's hoped the fragile democratic institutions of the south will flourish. In the meantime, our best wishes go out to the world leaders who must resolve this dilemma. - (TBC). Letters to the Editor Customers can end recession by patronizing small business BY COLIN WILSON The feeling I get these days is that just about everyone is trying to hang on until the recession is over. well, what if the recession doesn't end? We need to start thinking about what we can do to save ourselves! Many pcoplc blame the government. Although government overspending is partly to blame, I don't think that they have the power to turn our economy around. The government's problem is that like most businesses, they have a shrinking income. They're trying to hang on too. If we realize what our economy is, we can better understand what is happening to it. Begin with your income, then subtract your fixed costs: taxes, utilities, fcxxl and shelter. You are left with your disposable income. This money, that is shrinking daily, is our economy. This is what is happening. Large corporate stores have been coming to Canada and taking over our economy. 1 believe that they arc the major cause of our recession. Because superstores have so much buying power, and because they are able to negotiate special deals with suppliers (which sounds like price fixing to me), they can sell products below the small businessperson's cost - sometimes so far below that pcoplc feel that the small businessperson must be cheating them. They arc also less likely to stock Canadian products than Canadian small businesses. In trying to compete with the superstore, the small businesspeople continue to cut margins lower and lower until they reach the point whcrc they must decrease advertising, cut back stock, lay off staff and eventually close. This is whcrc our jobs and livelihoods arc going. HoW many of your friends and relatives have their own businesses? How many people hope for their children to start their own business some day? Can you honestly think of anyone you know who is likely to own a superstore? If the superstores continue to open at the rate they are, almost all small business will be gone. The superstores will have total control of the Canadian economy. So how can we stop them? Remember, "there is no business without a sale." The superstores could not survive without your disposable income. If we stop supporting them and start supporting small Canadian businesses, we will sec our economy start to recover instantly. If we all start thinking about where our dollars go when they leave our pockets, it will be easier to decide how we spend them. If we spend them in the superstore, our money will not recirculate. Spend you money where it is most likely to benefit you. Be selfish. Buy from someone who might hire your child someday. Buy from someone who might buy f n you or from someone you kno Help get our money recirculating r your arca and our country. The extra money that you spend will come back to you. We can think of ourselves as part of the growing resistance to this corporate takeover. Let's save ourselves before it's too late. Aren't we at the point where we have to try something? • Colin Wilson Is a small business owner from Perth Ontario. Opinion Rwanda eclipses importance of baseball Summer and baseball go hand in hand but it's not going to seem like summer after August 12 if major league ball players go on strike. Yes, the average salary a couple of years ago for major leaguers was a million bucks a year. We all know they make too much money but for those of us interested in the sport, there are a lot of mile- stones in baseball history this season that could be threatened if a strike goes through. Although it doesn't look like anyone will beat the Roger Maris record of 40 home runs in 96 games, three players this season have a shot at beating Babe Ruth's record of 40 round- tnppers in 120 games. As of Friday night, Matt Williams of the San Francisco Giants led the majors with 38 home runs in 101 games. He's followed by Ken Griffey Jr. with 36 and Frank Thomas with 35. Power -hitting first baseman Jeff Bagwell of the Houston Astros is on pace to chalk up 164 RBIs this year (if he plays a complete 162 game season). If Bagwell could fmish this season with that number it would rank him second in National League history to Hack Wilson's major- league record of 190 RBIs in 1930. The last National League player to top even 150 RBIs in a single season was Tommy Davis who came through with 153 for the 1962 Dodgers. Cal Ripken played his 2,000th consecutive game Monday night - a modern day major league record. He is now only 130 games behind Lou Gehrig's record. There was concern that if teams brought in replacement players during a possible major league strike that Ripken's record would be in danger but baseball owners have decided it would cost too much money to try a scheme like that. (And the fans wouldn't appreciate watch- ing replacement players - it didn't work too well for the 1987 NFL strike). One person a possible strike might help is San Diego Padres right fielder Tony Gwynn who leads the major league with a .388 batting average. If the for- mer Gold Glove winner could pull his average up to .400 - it would be the first time a player has put in a .400 season since Ted Williams in 1941 (with .406). It might take an official ruling from National League or Major League Baseball execu- tives to recognize the record in a shortened season but it's still a possibility. But regardless of all the records, the Expos are on top of the majors!! (And Cleveland is going to make the playoffs!) Please don't let there be a strike. **• It seems obscene to be talking about baseball records and the millions of dollars players make when you turn your eyes over- seas to the horrible situation in Rwanda. The sheer numbers of people dying is unfathomable. Newscasts state there's signs of hope because the daily death toll from cholera in the past few days has declined from 1,800 to 1,200. Is that any reason to rejoice? It is a modern holocaust happening right now. The closest most Canadians have ever come to cholera is probably when their ancestors travelled across the Atlantic in 1800s to start a better life for future generations. So many people are dying in Rwanda that roadsides are covered with hundreds of bodies for as far as you can see. According to a story by Paul Watson in the Sunday Star, it would take 1,000 tanker trucks to supply seven refugee camps with clean water - a logistical nightmare that's simply too expensive, say UNICEF repre- sentatives. The 1.2 million Rwandan refugees living just inside the Zairian border need about 5 million litres of clean water a day. Relief workers can currently only deliver about a tenth of that. An alternative is to mobilize international military to extend the pipelines from a water treatment plant in Goma and pump water to the 300,000 new refugees each day. A pro- ject that size would normally take six months but it's esti- mated the combined military could do it in a month. "We need the Royal Air Force, we need the U.S. Marines, we need the Canadians, the Australians, the South Africans," said Osei Kofi, spokesperson for UNICEF in the Sunday Star. Let's pray relief workers and the people of Rwanda get all the help they need. • F/adlacl Note the old automobiles in this picture of Seaforth's downtown street during a period of celebration. Seaforth will be celebrating a modem -day reunion on August 3-6, 1995. If you have a historical photo of interest to our readers please contact the newspaper. Ontario grants thousands to area waste management The Ontario government has announced grants totalling 562,500 for waste management initiatives in the townships of East Wawanosh, Grey, Stephen, Tumberry and West Wawanosh. The Environment Ministry funding comes from the ministry's Financial Assistance Program and the Waste Manage- ment Improvement Program. "I am pleased to announce these grants to these townships in the county of Huron to improve their landfill sites," Mr. Klopp said. "These projects will assist the municipalities to man- age their waste in an environ- mentally safe manner," said Paul Klopp, MPP for Huron. The following grants, Awn announced: Under the ministry's Waste Management Program: • East Wawanosh, $5,000, capac- ity study • Grey, $5,000, capacity study • Tumberry, $5,000, capacity study • West Wawanosh, $5,000, capacity study Seaforth soldier wounded in Normandy FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 10, 1894 Lloyd Hodgins, son of Rev. Mr. Hodgins, of Seaforth took the highest numbcrs of marks on an examination in the Seaforth Public School. ••* Mr. and Mrs. W. Somerville, of Seaforth, spent Sunday in Goderich, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Dickson. ••• Mrs. T. Stephens, Mr. J. Stephens, Miss Stephens, and Miss McKay, are camping at Bayficld, having recently joined the White City from Seaforth. ••• Mrs. Oliver, of Chicago, is a guest of Mrs. W. Robb, of Seaforth. ••• The Misses Sampson, of Toronto, are in Seaforth visiting their brother, Mr. Sampson, of the Dominion Bank. • • • Mr. H. E. Cherry, who has been spending his 'vacation in Bayfield, returned on Tuesday. ••• Mr. George Ewing and family picnicked at Bayfield on Monday, as did Mrs. S. Dickson, with some friends. The Misses Barr, Miss Elder, Miss Graham, and Mr. McPherson formed a third party from Seaforth on the same day. • • • On Monday of last week, Messrs. James Turner, Henry Monteith, and Fred Waldron left for the Old Country, taking with them fat cattle for the foreign market. Cattle are at present so cheap that farmers arc almost obliged to ship their own stock. • • * Miss Eliza Bell, of School Section No. 3 Tuckersmith, had the largest number of marks made by any candidi$ in the county for the Pablic School. ••• The following pleasure party have returned fron a trip on the lakes, by steamship Cambria; Mr. R. McMordic, Miss A. McMordic, In the Years Agone Miss Mary McMordie and Miss Lizzie Monteith. They have report- ed a delightful voyage. They docked at Sarnia, Detroit, Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, Mackinac Island, and the numerous islands of Geor- gian Bay and the North Channel. AUGUST 8, 1919 Mr. J. H. Wright is offering his residence on William Street for sale by public auction at the Queen's Hotel today. This will make a very desirable home, and, no doubt, will bring a good figure, as houses of any kind arc at a premium in Seaforth. •*• Miss Edith Govenlock, of the Ottawa Civil Service, is spending her holidays at the parental home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Govenlock in McKillop. • • • Three rinks of bowlers are in Exeter this week attending the annual tournament of the Exeter club. The skips are Messrs. W. G. Willis, W. Ament, and J. Broderick, ••• Mrs. E. G. Macomber, of Bakers- field, California is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robinson, in Egmondvillc. ••• A brick platform will shortly be erected at the G. T. R. station, which will be a great improvement. ••• Mr. Stewart McIntosh has discon- tinued his milk business in town and intends moving to St. Marys. ••• On Saturday last, Lieut. Ross P. Dougall retuned from overseas. Ross was among the very first to volunteer with the 161st Huron Battalion and about the last to return. He certainly had many live experiences while in both England and France fighting for his king and country. ••• Miss Mary Buchanan, who was overseas for several years during l the war as a trained nurse and who had also attended the Military Col- lege for special training for war duties, lately arrived home. • * • Pte. Harold Pollock (Bayficld) arrived home last week from Eng- land. He enlisted and went in the 92nd Highlanders of Toronto and was woundcd while on duty in France. AUGUST 11, 1944 Official word came to Seaforth on Friday that Frank Grieve, son of Mrs. Margaret Grieve, George Street, had been wounded in action in Normandy. He had been overseas nearly three years. Thursday morning official word came to Mr. and Mrs. William Drover, that their only son, John, of the R.C.A.F., was missing after operation flights over France. ••• A fine truck load of brown trout, 1800 in fact, arrived last week and were placed by the Seaforth Game and Fish Club secretary, C. P. Sills, in one of the club's selected streams. *•« Word reached Hensall on Monday that Bill Nichol, of the Highland Light Infantry, had been killed in action in France. Bill landed in France one hour after the assault troops on D -Day, June 6th, after three and a half years of training. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Nichol, of Hensall, he was born in Hensall and received his education in the schools there, and was 30 years of age. Before enlist- ment he was employed as a baker with Case's Bakery in Hensall. Bill is the first Hensall boy to be killed. ••• Mr. and Mrs. John Passmore, of Hensall, received a letter this week from their son, PO Ken Passmore, informing them that he had been on a leave and had spent four days with his brother, FO Gerald Passmore. ••• The Dublin cucumber plant is a veritable hum of industry at the present time. The season is practi- cally two weeks earlier than last year, and approximately 120 acres of cucumbers arc producing for the plant. About four trucks are picking up the cucumbers three times per week from the farms which included Hensall, Brussels, Cromarty, Seaforth, Mitchell, Brodhagen and the district north and south of Dublin. AUGUST 14, 1969 Miss Mac Smith, Mrs. Ross McGregor and Mrs. W.E. Butt left on Saturday a.m. on a three-week tour of the western provinces, going as far as Victoria, B.C. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Dale, Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Alex Wright were on a motor trip to the Thousand Islands last week. • • • Mrs. A. Mooney, the former Winifred Savauge of Seaforth, art director at Espanola, Ontario schools is conducting a seminar in hand weaving at the University of Massachusetts. • • • Mrs. Gcorgc Whcatly of McKillop has moved to Cuthill Apts. on North Main St. - • • • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Geddes and family travelled to the East Coast and spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Doug McNeill and family, then returned through the Eastern States, Ottawa and Quebec. ••• Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Carter and Family travelled through the East- ern States to the coast of Maine where they stayed for a week then came home through Quebec and Montreal. ••• Sister Evangeline Marie, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Sister Joan Marie, Miami, Florida, have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. B. Hildebrand and Mr. and Mrs. George Hildebrand and other friends and relatives in Seaforth.