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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-01-18, Page 5Local Lobb knocks gun law Church youth group to carry water for awareness Members of a local church youth group will be walking -3 ' kw to get a bucket of water...and will walk back the same distance carrying their bucket of water to ircate awareness of world issues. The UniPres youth group will b: holding several events, including the 'Water Walk' as part of the Christian C,ltildren Fund's World Week. The week of events is held to help people learn more about justice and environmental issues around the orld. In another event members of tie youth group, from First Presbyterian Church in Scaforth and Egmondvillc United Church, will simulate handicaps. The youths will use blindfolds, ,lings, crutches and wheelchairs to experience some of the chal- lenges faced by the physically- Ii:uldicapped. Another to create aware - cess of disasters in Third World uuntries, is Disaster Dominos. Members of First Presbyterian and Egmondvillc United congre- gations will also be asked to participate in a Prayer Vigil as part of the awareness program. World Week includes such activities as role-playing to become aware of the 'caste' j•stem. The UniPres youth group is socking sponsors for their aware- ness events and local people are urged to contact a UniPres mem- ber. Money raised will support the relief and development efforts of the Christian Children's Fund of Canada. DAVID EMSLIE PHOTO SUPPORT FOR CHuMS - The Knights of Columbus, Father Stephen Eckert Council (Seaforth) presented $350, on a pledge of $1,000, to the Central Huron Mobility Service (CHuMS) mobility bus project. Here fundraising chairperson Bev Brown and Bill Chowen, a member of CHuMS accepts the cheque from Past Grand Knight Don MacRae (far left). Mobility service. holds first meeting, pursues fundraising The newly incorporated Central Huron Mobility Service Inc. (CHuMS) held its inaugural meeting on Dec. 8. Elected at the meeting were the following officers: Mike Regier, ' chair; Don Sootheran, vice -chair; Jim Crocker, treasurer; and Janet O'Rourke, secretary. The board gave approval to the operating committee to proceed with final specs and quotes for a 22 -foot bus with a flat floor and a lift for wheelchairs. The cost of this type of vehicle plus taxes is estimated at $80,000, of which the Ministry of Transportation Ontario pays approximately one-half. ,The local fundraising goal has been set at $55,000 ($40,000 capital for the bus plus $15,000 to cover first year operating costs). Bev Brown, chair of the fundraising committee, reported, "Thanks to the generous support from service clubs and Legions in Seaforth, Clinton and Londesboro, $33,000 has been donated. This leaves a balance of $22,000 to be raised before the bus can be or- dered." Chairperson Mike Regier com- mented, "It's important to get this money in as soon as possible as bus prices can increase between now andvte time we are ready to place the order for the bus. Also, there is often a three month waiting period for delivery of a bus after it is ordered." Anyone wanting to "help buy the bus" can contact Bev Brown at 482-5666 or 1-800-267-0535. Charitable donations receipts are issued for all donations over $5. Dear Editor: In the upcoming weeks we Canadians will receive a number of very important messages from our federal government. First, Minister of Finance Paul Martin is going to explain how all government sectors and programs must share the responsibility of reducing Canada's deficit and eventually Canada's debt. Lloyd Axeworthy, Minister of Human Resources, will tell us just how these cuts will affect his department, specifically unemployment insurance and welfare, and Minister of Health Diane Marleau will have to explain why transfer payments for health care will be under the knife in her department. The list goes on. My concern, and the motivation for this letter, is for the contradic- tory message being sent by Justice Minister Allan Rock with his proposed firearms control legis- lation. This is a package of legis- lation (supported by Prime Minister Jean Chretien) that in- tends to create a new level of bureaucracy, further controlling our legally and safely owned firearms and those responsible citizens who keep and use them. At a time when police budgets and manpower are being stretched dangetously thin, Allan Rock and his Liberal associates have decided that Canadians have the time and money to enter all legal rifles and shotguns and their owners into a national Firearms Registry. I disagree. This is far, far from a priority. Canadians have asked their governments for an increase in cost-effective crime control, not a frivolous squandering of more tax dollars on a registration sys- tem (bureaucracy) already proven to have little effect on the actual reduction of crime in , Canada. Some 60 years of handgun and automatic rifle registration in Canada have done little to reduce the violent use of these weapons by criminals. Further to this, the most com- monly suggest cost of registering rifles and shotguns is an initial two to three billion dollars with an unknown amount needed for future renewals and additions. We know who pays. I'm sure most police force could offer suggestions of highe priority expenditures and time commitments than those proposed by Allan Rock and Jean Chretien. Equally as offensive as squandered tax dollars is the inevitable continuation of the legacy that has resulted in thousands of Canadians unknowingly becoming offenders under the criminal code of Canada. Thanks to Kim Campbell and the PCs, many firearms owners (your friends, neighbors and relatives) are now in contravention of the Criminal Code of Canada Chinese laundry opens in area continued from page four Mr. D. McGillicuddy of the Goderich Signal was in town on Saturday. Although he still bears some of the 'love marks' given him by the Goderich bully who assaulted him a couple of weeks a'°, he is not much the worse for his unpleasant experience. Messrs. Hudson, Anderson, Logan and Hill were in town on Saturday last purchasing chairs, lamps and other articles for the new church at Hills Green. We understand they we ell -pleased with the manner in which they were treated by our business men. * * * Mr. John Weir having been elected a member of the town coun- cil of Seaforth, he had to resign his position as License Commissioner for South Huron. Mr. D. D. Wilson has been appointed as his successor. * * * A Chinese Laundry has been started in town, where the C.P.R. Telegraph office was formerly located. The boys say this Chinee wears high -heeled shoes and smokes cigarettes, so he must be quite an old timer. * * * On ,account of the severe storm and the drifted roads the Brussels stage and Neilans' Harlock express were unable to reach Scaforth on Wednesday, but the Bayfield mail made close connections as usual. The trains were not much delayed. * **• Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor, of the village of Mensal!, were recently visiting relatives in Winthrop and neighbourhood: JANUARY 23, 1920 Patrick Jordan, of Hibbert, has purchased the hundred acre farm of John Brennan. « «* 1 In the Years Agone Mr. Russel Best, son of Mr: and Mrs. J. M. Best, of town, has passed his third year Christmas exam at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, taking first class honours. This is an exceptionally good showing, con- sidering the fact that Mr. Best, while taking his first year in the law school, enlisted with a Cana- dian battery, with which he served three years overseas, returning home last winter. JANUARY 26, 1945 Word has been received by Mrs. John J. Flannery of Guelph, that her two sons, Sgt. Cyril Flannery, who has been overseas for 18 months and Sgt. John Flannery, who went overseas last October, met Christ- mas Day in Holland. Staffa Creamery carried off a commendable share of the honours from the competitions held in Lon- don last week in conjunction with the 78th annual convention of the Dairymen's Association of Western Ontario. Mr. Clarence Reid, of Hensall, driver for Mr. Wilson Allan, Hensall, who operates a fleet of trucks, had a rather thrillin? experi- ence Saturday while driving to Windsor with a load of turnips. While driving on a narrow road near Windsor, Mr. Reid and truck were crowded into the ditch owing to a truck and trailer driving from the opposite direction hogging the road, upsetting the truck and spill- ing six tons of turnips into the ditch. Mr. Reid and his companion, Mr. Jack Nicholson, of Seaforth, crawled out of the cab to safety and were not hurt, but it took them four hours to gather up the turnips. **« Word was received last Saturday that Sergeant John K. Hannon, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Geo. .Harmon, of Morris Township, had been wounded while serving in Italy. The extent or nature of his injuries was not stated. John went overseas in November, 1941 and has been in Italy for the past year, according to the Brussels Post. *«* Word has been received by friends on the 10th of McKillop that Cpl. Edward Doerr had been seriously ill in hospital in France. Messrs. C. M. Smith, J. E. Keating, W. J. Duncan and C. A. Barber were in London competing in the London • curling 3 -day bonspiel. JANUARY 22, 1970 The Bert Moggach farewell party and presentation scheduled for the Seaforth and District High School on Friday evening, January 23rd, has been cancelled because of the high incidence of flu in the area. An announcement of the presenta- tion will be made at a future date. ««« Hibbert Reeve Ross McPhail was acclaimed Perth County Warden on Tuesday in Stratford. He operates a farm located at RR 2 Staffa. The Optimist -sponsored Seaforth Winter Carnival gets under way this Friday night. While last year's carnival was a -success and attracted more than 1,500 spectators, club officials are anticipating upwards of 3,000 for the weekend. Heading the committee in charge of the carnival arc Walter A. Scott, chairman, and Kenneth Coleman, co-chairman. because of improper storage of firearms in their homes. Safely stored for many years, mind you, but now illegally stored. Now, courtesy of Allan Rock and Jean Chretien, two new offen- ses have been proposed for honest, law-abiding Canadians: 1) Possession of a firearm by a person who does not have a Firearms Possession Certificate (FPC). 2) Possession of an unregistered firearm (no Firearms Registration Card (FRC) by a holder of an FPC. This will carry a mandatory one year imprisonment. If these don't burn a lot of gas, time, and tax dollars I will be surprised. Sadly, the end result is that a lot more of your neighbors will become criminals themselves by virtue of noncompliance. Over a decade ago, New Zealand abandoned a system of registration similar to that proposed by Allan Rock.4Exces- sive cost, bureaucratic error and a burden on police time were cited as reasons. They have since chosen a system similar to the one we have had in Canada since 1977, requiring all who wish to purchase a firearm to obtain a Firearms Acquisition Certificate (FAC). This document is renewable every five years for law-abiding citizens over age 18 and now is available to a first- time applicant only upon suc- cessful completion of a mandatory course and test. This is accepted by firearms- owners as a necessary cost, expended for the purpose of removing intending felons from their ranks. In conclusion, Allan Rock and Jean Chretien would be well ad- vised to pay heed to the US Republican Party's "Contract With America" that is about to impose a mandatory 10 -year minimum sentence for anyone convicted of using a firearm during a came (Rock proposes two years). In fact, Mr. Rock doesn't even have to look outside of Ottawa for sound advice. The Reform Party of Canada, at the guidance of their membership, have . produced a sound package of legislative proposals that focus tax dollars and government energy on the criminal misuse of firearms (five years mandatory additional sen- tence), on elirmnating our current automatic parole legislation, and on reforming the Young Offenders Act. They are the only party that has policy to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms. Our MP Paul Steckle needs a clear mandate from Huron -Bruce constituents to vote against Allan Rock's proposed legislation, and he needs it now. Call or write his office and ask him to stop this expensive, divisive and unwanted legislation. Thank you for your cooperation. 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