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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-08-10, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 10, 1994 LT Huron xpositor Your Community 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 odvonce, plus 1.96 G.S.T. SENIORS 25.00 a year, in odvance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goderich, Stratford addresses: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 7.28 postoge, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out -Of -Area oddresses. 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1 1.44 postoge, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA & Foreign 28.00 a year in advance, plus $76.00 postoge, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing al 100 Moin St., Seaforth. Publication moil registra- tion No. 0696 held al Seoforth, Ontario. Advertising is occepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonoble allowance for signature, w II not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for al the opphcoble rate. In the event of o typographical error, advertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and moy be withdrawn of ony time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or domoge of unsolicited monuscripts, 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 10, 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 Association and the Ontario Press Council Editorial Canada must defend interests Canadian wheat farmers may be adversely affected by a new deal struck between Canada and the United States. Despite the fact the U.S. pasta industry wants more of our high-quality durum wheat, Canada will cut the amount of wheat it exports. This country's government has argued this trade deal (another in a long series of Canada -U.S. trade agreements) was the best way to prevent punitive American trade action. Perhaps it was. It is very hard for the public to gauge the winners and losers in a trade agreement. There is a danger, however, that American legislators will consider this a victory for their talk -tough trade stances. Advocates of free trade agreements insisted that Free Trade would protect Canadian exports...the evidence is not clear that Canadian interests were well -served in the latest negotiations. There are some hopeful signs with Free Trade...notably the recent resolution of the Canada -U.S. lumber dispute. However, Canada can't start backing down because of the bark of United States legislators. This country must stand up for its interests. - (TBC). Blood donors are needed Huron residents will be able to give the gift of life in Seaforth on August 25 at 5-9. The Red Cross will be conducting a Blood Donor clinic at the Seaforth and District Community Centres. Perhaps you are wondering, 'What good is a blood donor?' A blood donor is good for: •people who go through red lights and windshields. • people who are badly burned. •little children who go barefoot and aren't careful. • little children who manage to uncap a bottle of something poisonous. •children who fall out of trees and anywhere else. • a new baby who needs a transfusion. • all the people who are in worse shape than most people you know. You can join the 'Lifeline' and save many lives. Please donate your blood at the Seaforth and District Community Centres on Duke Street at 5-9 p.m. Please bring two pieces of I.D. Letters to the Editor Seaforth lucky to have hospital, emergency care Dear Editor, 'Our Hospital' Here we are in a small town, with a hospital that is always open twenty-four hours a day. You can always get into emerg- ency when needed day or night. 1 had a had fall in my apartment. My family took me to emergency around 10 p.m. There was a doctor on call. Ile was there in a very short time. The x-ray technician was called. She came from Blyth when it was time to call it a night, with bright, cheery smile and said 'Hello, how arc you?' We have so much to be thankful for, our doctors, nurses and nurses' aids. The meals arc always good. The cleaning start keeps everything SIX)IICSS. My 10 -year-old great granddaugh- ter lives about 10 blocks from Hanover Hospital. She had to have an allergy shot. She had to be taken to Durham Hospital to get a needle. We are lucky to be able to drop in anytime. I sure give everyone at our hospi- tal a big 'Thank You' praise for everything thcy do for the patients, from cleaning staff and cooks. Sometimes we have to wait awhile, but they are there as soon as poss- ible. My thanks go out to everyone at our hospital. Sincerely, Rose Altman Free -roaming cat destroys local flower -bed Dear Editor, Today, for the third time this summer, I discovered destniction in my flower bed. Before the flowers were planted, there was evidence in our sandbox. The guilty party is a neighbourhood cat. 1 have actually seen it in action and chased it away. Why is it that dogs have to be chained and cleaned up after and cats can run wild to destroy flower - beds and poop in the sandbox our young children play in. Be a responsible pct owner, give them a litter box to use instead of other people's property! Yours truly, Gayle Coleman, a former cat lover. Opinion 'New' Woodstock exploits old dreams There is only one Woodstock. It is not Woodstock, Ontario. It is not Bethel '94, a recently - cancelled concert which had been planned for the ori music festival site. It is c y not the big-ticket, capitalistic enterprise being staged by for- mer Wtpdstock organizers. The organizers of the rival music festivals (before Bethel's bid disintegrated) fought over who had the 'real spirit of Woodstock' at heart. They could have saved their breath. There was only one true Rocky, the Beatles can never re- unite and Coca -cola doesn't need a new taste. Just as these things are true, there can be no sequel td the Woodstock Art and Music Festival. This wasn't just a musical concert...it was an historic event which has come to represent an enure generation. The prospect of hundreds of thousands of people converging non-violently at a farm to stand in the rain, listening to the muffled sounds of rock 'n' roll musicians and peace activ- ists...would be inconceivable in the 1950's or even the 1990's. So wh are we so fascinated ' shared by most of the people who were there. Attending Woodstock may have made someone a lifelong member of an elite 'club' of true flower children. The truth is, however, it likely wasn't that much fun. The event was rainy and wet, without enough wash- rooms. The sound systems were inadequate for the monstrous crowd, high on good music and bad drugs. So, what makes Woodstock special? Basically, it was com- pletely spontaneous...an unparal- leled meeting of minds. It was not only a festival of music but of mass consciousness, That spontaneity can't be repeated...not for the baby boomers who missed the first Woodstock and not for the mem- bers of Generation X, emotional- ly paralysed by their jealousy of the 1960's. The Woodstock anniversary is becoming a sad self-par- ody...featuring bands like Aerosmith?l! The era of peace and love is going to be remem- bered by a band preaching 'Love in an elevator.' The new generation of young le is emulaun T the Lan • • e with Woodstock after all these years? Certainly, we look backwards through rose-coloured glasses. Baby boomers fondly recall a time when a new generation felt empowered. (Some of their dreams have been realized...other dreams either failed or were discarded by their original pro- ponents). Young people today look back at Woodstock with a nostal : is which wouldn't be and dress of the '60's...nostalgic for an age which ended when they were born. In some ways that's good...today's youth should listen to Hendrix and read about the Cuban missile crisis. But, honestly, look back at the '60's not only for its beauty and innovation but also its ugliness. It was an era of political assas- sinations, a savage foreign war and rock stars dying from abuse of drugs. Let the oldtimers nostalgically recall their muddy old music festival...and carve out your own generation. The 1960's were full of victories and defeats...and possibilities. So are the 1990's. Nothing that was possible in the 1960's is not possible today. Many things which were not possible in the 1960's are possible today. Stop remembering another generation's Woodstock. Create your own Woodstock...all you have to do is unite. Whatever you do, don't expect some money -hungry promoter to design your Woodstock...create it yourself. Maybe it could be held in Seaforth. Why not? That's the way the first one started... The Seaforth Sun was sold in 1904 to Rev. James F. Snowden and his three sons Cyril, Oswald, and Gerald. It then became The Seaforth News and publishing continued until November 15,1962 when the last issue rolled off the presses. Michael, Jessica popular names for babies For the third consecutive year Michael and Jessica have been the most popular baby names in Ontario, as reported by the Office of the Registrar General. There were also no change over three years in the second most popular names: Matthew for boys, and Sarah for girls. However, in third place, Ryan has overtaken Christopher, and Emily moved ahead of Samantha for the first time. The Office of the Registrar Generali a division of Ontario's consumer ministry, today released the 25 most popular boy and girl baby names in Ontario for 1993. Ted Kelly, Ontario's Deputy Registrar General said the boys' names chosen are more conservative than those selected for girls. He says the majority of the Top 100 names for boys tend to be Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic and are frequently biblical. Also parents tend to vary the spelling of boys' names less frequently than girls' names. The Office of the Registrar General, is responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, stillbirths, adoptions, divorces and changes of name in Ontario. Horses run wild on Seaforth streets FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 17, 1894 The several branch agriculture societies in the South Riding of Huron have reported the following membership for this year, viz: Tuckersmith, 306; Stephen and Usborne, 278; Stanley, 172, and Hay 172. The total number of branch society members being 928, and this, with 85 county members, makes a total of 1,013, which is about the usual number returned to the government. M?. R. Roche, of Seaforth, who had a string of horses at Toronto this week, taking part in trotting races at Woodbine, was the hcro of quite a stirring incident Tuesday afternoon. He was driving the trotting horse Saranac, owned by Mr. Dolmagc of Wingham, in the 2. 29 trot, and in the scoring for the fourth heat, the lines broke, and the horse ran away. Mr. Roche pluckily crawled out of the sulky upon thc horse's back, and catching the bridle, soon stopped the horse. The crowd was very 'generous in its applause of the plucky act. * * * Some ten years ago when Messrs. A. G. VanEgmond and Sons re- built and enlarged their woolen mill in this town, the town gave them a loan of 5,000 for ten years free from interest. This loan comes due on the 31st of this month, but the Messrs. VanEgmond re -paid the whole amount this week. This promptitude is creditable to to this enterprising firm and shows that despite hard times and dull trade they have been very prosperous. We hope that they may have continued and ever increasing prosperity. This loan was a profitable investment for the town. • * In the Years Agone Many of our citizens witnessed on Saturday morning one of the most miraculous escapes from injury that has ever occurred in Seaforth, Mr. S. Dickson, jr., Miss Dickson and Miss McCaughey, of Ingersoll, were driving in a phaeton behind Mr. Dickson's carriage team. They had just come around the comer of the Royal Hotel and the horses were at a walk, when a farmer's rig which was standing at Mr. J. A. Clark's store, pulled straight across the street to Robb's. There seemed not to be the slightest danger of the rigs not clearing, but suddenly the farmer's team stopped, for just an instant, but long enough for the end of the phaeton pole to get in the back wheel of the wagon. Thc carriage team swerved, the wagon started again and thc phaeton pole snapped, falling to the ground. The phaeton ran against the horse's heels. They started to run with the pole dragging on the ground until it broke off a few yards further on. The team is a well-bred, high spirited one, and as there was no possible way of stopping or controlling them with the phaeton in that shape, the spectators held their breath in horror. At the comer of John street one of the horses tried to turn but the other kept straight on, and between them they got the rig close to the sidewalk. The crossing is about two and a half feet high at this particular point, and the stump of the pole running under it, the phaeton stopped as solid as a rock, with its occupants perfectly safe and uninjured, while the team cleared the rig and ran to Egmondville. The only damage done was to the pole. The young ladies coolly kept their places in the rig and not a sound escaped from them while the occurence was happening, though they were facing almost certain severe injury and perhaps death. The horses could not have found a safer place in all of Scaforth to take the vehicle into, but they had turned the corner, it must, beyond a doubt, have overturned, and as there was no pole to steady it, the spill would have come with great violence. It was indeed a wonderful escape. AUGUST 22, 1919 Another Seaforth hero, Ptc Alex. McLennan, son of Mr. John McLennan, janitor of the post office here, returned on Monday last from the battle front en route for Vancouver, where he resides. He enlisted in the 16th Scottish Cana- dian Regiment in Vancouver on the 14th of August, 1914, and has been on continuous fighting service with the exception of a period in the hospital recovering from severe shrapnel wounds. • ## Mr. A. A. Naylor has resigned his position as the Principal of the Seaforth Public School, which he has filled for the past seven years, to accept the principalship of the Queen Mary Public school, a new 16 -roomed school, at Chatham, at an initial salary of 1,500 per annum. His resignation is to take place on September 30th. • * • Mr, William Brown and children and his sister, Miss Bessie Brown, of Detroit, spent last week at their mother's home in Hullet. Rev. Dr. McPherson, Mrs. McPherson and son, Neil, of Springfield, Massachussetts, are at present visiting at the home of Mr. Robert Govenlock in McKillop. Dr. McPherson filled the pulpit very acceptably in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. AUGUST 25, 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burrows, of Toronto, arc spending a few days in town with his father, Dr. F. J. Burrows. * ** Sgt. Kenneth Keating, R.C.A.F. Lachine, Quebec, spent the week- end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Keating. ' * Mr. William Elcoat and- Miss Hazel Elcoat have returned after spending a week with Dr. and Mrs. Glanficld at Port Frank. * * * Thc Scaforth Boys and Girls Band, under the leadership of Mr. E. H. Close, will take part in the program at the frolic in Milverton on Friday evening of this week. AUGUST 21, 1969 Mr. Roger Shockor of New York, Mrs. Marion Shockor and Renee Josephson of Detroit were guests last week of Mrs. George Dale and Mrs. Barbara Sykes. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Smith returned from Germany, Saturday, where he served for three years on an exchange teacher program. They were guests of her parents Mr. and Mrs. James M. Scott before leaving for Kitchener where Mr. Smith will teach next term. * Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stewart of town and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Walters of Dundas have returned from a motor trip to Sault Ste. Marie and other points. Master Billy Pridham visited a few days with his cousin Jim Par- sons of Seaforth.