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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-07-05, Page 74 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, July 5, 1995 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR,- Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions LINDA PULLMAN -Typesetter TIM CUMMING - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - Distribution A Burgoyne'Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 a year, in odvance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. 3E' - 25.00 o yeor, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goch. Stratford addresses: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out -of Of-Areo: 28.00 o year, in advance, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA & foreign: 28.00 a year in advance, plus $76.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St, Seaforth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. Advertising is accepted on Condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with o reosonoble allowance For signature, will not be charged, but the bolance of the advertisement will be paid for of the applicable rote. In the event of o typographical error, odvertising goods or servicetat a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely on offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time.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 address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies ore to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, July 5, 1995 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Sheet.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69. Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canodian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council No to hitch -hikers Now that summer is here, hitchhikers are back out on the roads. Though "thumbing it" is less popular than it once was, there are still those who try to get from Point A to Point B on someone else's resources. While there is no law against hitthiking; it can be a very dangerous way to travel especially for teenagers out to see the world on a shoestring. Every year, as soon as the weather warms up, adventure -seeking kids are tempted to stuff a backpack with a few essentials and hit the highways for faraway destinations. At the very least, some will try to hitch a ride with whoever happens to be going to the nearest beach party or backwoods campout. Perhaps the best advice would be for parents and guardians to make it unnecessary for their kids t� `y hitchhike. By offering to chauffeur them or -set up neighbourhood car pools for them, they will remind their youngsters of the ever-present peril in riding with strangers. Too often, the day's news carries the sickening details about a person who trusted someone to provide them with cheap transportation or harmless fun and ended up a tragic victim of a sex offender or worse. Drivers are advised never to pickup people they don't know. Those who do should understand they are gambling their generosity could get them robbed, beaten, even killed. - Remember. The question is not who is right, but what is right. Be We, not sorry. - (SJK) Letters to the Editor Couple thanks area for support of local Cuban relief efforts Dear Editor, We are overwhelmed with the generosity of the Huron - community in response to our appeal for humanitarian aid for the Cuban people. Last Sunday, with the help of two volunteer drivers, we delivered two school buses and a commercial van loaded from floor to ceil- ing with over 400 pieces of freight for delivery via the ocean port of Montreal to the Martin Luther King Centre in Havana. The school buses - one purchased by student coun- cils in Huron Public Education Schools; the other by the Canada -Cuba Friendship Com- mittee - are destined for a residential children's hospital in Havana. The medical and hos- pital equipment and supplies - generously donated by four local hospitals - will be distrib- uted between the children's hospital and other worthy sites across the island. While the equipment may be 'obsolete' for Canadian needs and stan- dards, the blood bank, the ECG, the portable X-ray, the ultrasound, the differential physio machine, the defibrillator, operating room lights and countless other items will provide significant relief in the Cuban medical system. The beds, bedding, walkers, wheel- chair from the Maitland Nurs- ing Home in Goderich will be valued too. The school sup- plies, the books (and 25 boxes of university research papers) will be shared amongst elemen- tary and secondary schools, the University of Havana and a small college for sociology studies near Havana. The goth- ing, shoes and personal hygiene items, donated' by individuals and church groups, will be sent across the island by staff at the King Centre, to places of the greatest need. My wife and 1, and my par- ents, Howard and Evelyn Carroll, offer our heartfelt thanks for these gestures. We want to assure the many donors from across Fjuron and neigh- bouring counties that Pastors for Peace non-government agency in Cuba, accompanied by Canadian representatives, will ensure that this significant contribution to the 5th Canada - Cuba Caraban, is put to best use. Give some thought to how we might help once again, next November, when the next shipload will be gathered. We thank you! Sincerely, Mary and Paul Carroll Seaforth, Ontario Election like Ontario dunk tank Could we all just back off and leave the new Premier of Ontario Mike Harris alone for a while. Mike Harris is a decent guy, a man who, as you know, is a close personal friend of mine, a man with whom I spent many enjoyable hours in the backseat of a car in a non -Hugh -Grant - type situation. Mike, myself and two other friends used to hold submarine sandwich eating contests, parked in front of Mike's (no relation) Submarines in Buffalo, New York. I am not at liberty to reveal any more about Mike's wild and double -salami youth but will if he doesn't phone me one of these days with word of an important overseas posting. So could we please stop criticising this ex -golf pro who won by a large majority because we the people of Ontario were resolute in exercising our democratic right to go to the polls and really stick it to Bob The Boob and Lynn the Loser. For the record, we ceased having actual elections about five or six years ago. What we have now in this country is more of a national or a provincial dunk -tank day. We no long vote for a person or a party in order to enhance our future. Now, using revenge as our motivator, we go to the polls with a bunch of baseballs. to target the encumbents for humiliation and leave them floundering in ice water. It's not very smart on our part, but it's a helluva lot more fun than it used to be. The fact is, Mike Harris got elected on his "common sense campaign." Al Palladini, a car salesman and dealership owner is Mike's new Minister of Transportation. Finally, a traffic expert who can change a flat. How common can you get? On the top ten polls. of who do you not trust the most. Politicians usually edged out used car salesman for the last spot. With Al Palladin, Mike has rolled the ninth and tenth positions into one cabinet post ,- a shrewd economical move. Oh, sure, Krazy Karl over at Krysler Kastoffs is jealous, but we the voters are the big winners here. John Snobelen, a grade 11 dropout is Mike's new Minister of Education. Perfect. Now this guy can both restructure and finish high school all at the same time. And of course you know some of the other new cabinet ministers - Roseanne Barr in labor, Eddie Shack in spons and recreation, Richard Simmons - energy, and of course Dr. Stubbs - health and medical services. Appointing . people with experience in this specific ministries is a Tory tradition dating back to 1991 when Brian Mulroney" appointed Felix Holtmann, a pig farmer from Manitoba, Chairman of the .Standing Committee of Culture. (Honest) But what I like the most about Mike is he's a man of action. On his first day on the job the front page of a Toronto newspaper ran the heading, "Harris Says Ontario Is Open For Business" And then right below it "Toronto Okays Red Light District." Coincidence? I don't think so. Mike' is a booster of small business and by legalizing prostitution, finally, after years of neglect by both the Liberals and the NDP, we have investment opportunities for the horny. Mike already has a true Tory in mind for the Ministry Of Red Lights. And in keeping with his common sense approach, he will soon call a news conference and officially name Kim Campbell to this post. Kim, as you'll recall, flashback seemed pre -occupied with "hanky-panky" throughout her campaign for Canada's prime • ministership and she loves titles. So it's Madam Campbell as soon as Mike feel's the timing is right. ' And if Kiin Campbell needs some advice and first-hand experience in her red-light role, she need only pick up the phone and call her former boss. When it comes to on-the-job efficiency and gross profits, the cornerstones of the prostitution business, nobody in the history of this country did a better job of managing a group of whores adept at putting it to the Canadian public than Brian Mulroney. Seriously, I'rn betting Mike Harris does -come out in support of the red light district because he really wants to eliminate prostitution in Toronto. Mike's a smart guy and he knows if he supports the red light proposal it then goes to the federal government for approval. Mike knows that once the federal government legislates it, debates it, regulates it, medicates it and slaps on four taxes plus the GST nobody in the City of Toronto, including the hookers, will ever want to have sex again. So with this in mind, let's get off Mike's back...sorry...let's just leave the guy alone so that...hold it!...a late breaking cabinet appointment! It's official, Mr. Submarine is the new Minister of Consumer Affairs. This picture shows the 1944-1945 grade. six and seven students of Miss Turnbull. The pupils are (front row) Glen Nixon, Lorne Coudie, Jimmy Wallace, Kenneth Holmes, Ron Broome, George Shaw, (second row) Marilyn Hillis, Elaine Weedmark, Blanche Westcott, Margaret Carter, Barbara Dale, Bernice Dolmage, Barbara Wright, Patsy Ann Brugger, (third row) Donald Muir, Joyce Glanville, f'at Meir, Elaine Holmes, Marie Armstrong, Mary Hunking, Dorothy Dalrymple, Jack McClinchey, Garfield Baker, (back row) Bill Trapnell, Ronnie Rennie, Fred Taylor, Walter Regele, Donald Dale, Glen Staffen, Michael Beachely and David Bradshaw. Serious fire at Seaforth store FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 12, 1895 P. N. Forsyth, of Kippen and teacher of S.S. No. 7 Tuckersmith, was in Seaforth fulfilling the duties of presiding examiner at the' high school primary examinations. John Ward, of town, has sold his driving marc to John Hays, McKillop for 5100. She was one of the best drivers in town. * ** A valuable brood mare belonging to a Caidno got caught -in a barbed wire fence and had one of its legs badly cut. JULY 9, 1920 R. H. Best, of town, who graduated from Osgoode Hall, Toronto, has opened a law office in Timmins, New Ontario. * * * Frank Freeman, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Freeman, commenced the study of the drug business viith Elton Umbach. • • Seaforth was visited by another serious fire when the gents' furnishings store of W. D. Bright & Son in the Case block was damaged by fire and water. The fire originated from an electric iron which had been Icft turned on. In the Years Agone JULY 13, 1945 Sgt. Major C. A. Ferguson, of Aylmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferguson, well- known residents of McKillop Township, who recently received mention in dispatches in recognition of gallant and distinguished service, has been promoted to that rank overseas. * * * Retirement of Dr. G. F. Rogers as Deputy Minister of EdTlcation, was announced. He was a former Principal of Seaforth Collegiate Institute. ••• Mr. and Mrs. John MacTavish have received word that their son, Pilot Officer Oban MacTavish, has been promoted to the rank of Flying Officer. • * • The following girliks�}`�. are attending the. Presby*lan camp at Kintail for ten days: Patsy Ann Brugger, Margaret Stevens, Karen Kidd, Barbara Wright, Peggy Willis, Doris Pullman, Jacqueline Habkirk and Marilyn Milliken of Millbank. JULY 9, 1970 Allan Nicholson, Road Superintendent of Tuckersmith, was presented with a certificate by Reeve Elgin Thompson on behalf of the Ontario Good Roads Association, for having successfully completed the advanced surveying course in May. * * * Christopher Coombs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleave Coombs of Egmondville, recently grad- uated from Fanshawe College in Data Processing. * * * Robert J. Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Reynolds, Stratford, who has received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Windsor. * * * Jim Philips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Phillips; has grad- uated from an Electronic Data Processing course at Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology. ••* Mary Louise Murray, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymohd J. Murray, graduated from Stratford Teachers' college. Ontario Provincial Police Constable W. M. McGrath has recently graduated from the Ontario Provincial Police Col- lege, Toronto. He has been posted to the Longlac Detach- ment, Thunder Bay. * * * The new Seaforth fire arca truck paid dividends Friday morning when firemen, alter four trips to town for water, were able to save a large barn on a farm occupied by James Ward, RR 2 Kippcn. * * * An open house marked the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George Kcrslakc of Seaforth when their family and friends honoured thein in the Staffa Community Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Kcrslakc were presented with a T.V. set and 50 yellow roses in honour of the occasion. ** Six SEMIS students receival Ontario Scholarship Awards. They are: Sheila Dietz, RR 1 Dublin; Charles Smith, Seaforth; Angela Devereaux, RR 4 Seaforth; Danny Benncwics, Scalorth; Carolyn Fraser, RR 2 Myth and lames Rowat, Seaton h.