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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-08-23, Page 44—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 1t1, l etefl Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TIM CUMM ING - Editor OREGOR CAMPBELI, - Reporter GARB STOREY Distribution TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR • Sales PAT ARMES • Office Manager DIANNf McGRATH - Subscriptions A Burgoyne Community Newspaper UUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL • 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. jEN�OR ; • 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Godsrich. Strotiord addresses: 28.00 a yeor, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out -of Of-Areo: 28.00 a yeor,.in odvonce, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA & Foroian: 28.00 a year in odvonce, plus $76.00 posioge, G.S.T. exempt RIPTION TES: fished weekly by Signal -Slur Publishing at 100 Main St., Seoforth. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1W0 Member of the Conodian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Editorial Rich in heritage Here in the Seaforth area and in Harpurhey and Egmondville particularly are several buildings that are related to the very beginning of settlement in the district. They are interesting buildings, architecturally sound, that deserve to be held in trust for future generations. The Van Egmond house is one centre to which the Ontario government might properly direct attention. There are others. In Seaforth there are several homes built in the first days of the community, any one of which could well be established as permanent indications of life as it existed a hundred years ago. Many commun- ities find such local museums to be an outstanding attraction. Government, of course, can not be expected to underwrite all such costs. Perhaps at some time one or other of these homes may be left to the commun- ity by present owners as memorials to relatives and pioneer residents who built or occupied them in years agone. Certainly such a possibility should not be ignored. •Taken from a Huron Expositor editorial published on August 27, 1970. There's As the rest of the audience moves towards the theatre exits, I watch the bare stage. Just moments ago it was vibrant, populated, a complete world. Now it is stark wood. How had the company con- vinced me that houses, tav- erns, forests, could exist in that small space? I'd been caught up in the magic of theatre in the summer again. My friend and I leave and wait along the riverbank, speaking about what pulls us so strongly to the theatres, what elements made the dramas so different from other entertainments. The grass under our feet and the dark, reflecting river point to one allure of the summer theatres: they are surrounded by beauty. During intermissions you drink in the scents of the summer breeze, stare at the sky. Two sum- mers ago, I marvelled at a scene taking place aboard a magic in summer theatre rowboat in the centre of a pond. We compare these joys to travelling to London for a movie, searching for a spot in a parking garage, suffering the artificial atmosphere of a mall. Then there are the unique aspects of a live performance. Every night is an individual event, singular. The audience enters into a relationship with the performers, urging them on with applause, privy to a particular night's ad fibs, miscues, brilliant deliveries. In a movie I feel manipu- lated, watching an edited version of hundreds of re- takes. Plus I'm forced to focus my eyes on what the director pulls into focus. At a play, I can observe whatever part of the action interests me. Perhaps there is a bril- liant performer in a minor role and I can focus on his or her efforts on the periphery of the action. The actors on a stage also seem to know their craft better than their screen cousins. Without the aid of a camera's tricks, stage actors deliver powerful, moving performances. They can con- nect directly with the audi- ence, look into their eyes. They read the mood of the crowd and respond. Often the writing is better as well. The few good movie scripts in the world are cribbed from novels or plays, and even then the limited auention span of a movie audience necessitates chop- ping down the length and corrupting the text. Soon I will be watching another bare stage. The the- atre lights will extinguish and I'll hear the. rustling of per- formers taking their places, ready to deliver another vital, magical evening of theatre. flashback BANTAM HOCKEY TEAM - This 1950's bantam hockey photo, courtesy Jean Stewart, shows (front row) Larry Berger, Craig Willis, Paul Besse, Jack Baker, Doug Rowcliffe, Larry Dale, Roy Scoins, (second row) Jim Scott, unidentified, John Boshart, Bill Kerr, Ken McClure, Laveme Scott, Ron Mason, (back row) Carm. Rowcliffe, Jim Dillo, Paul McMaster, Bill Strong, Don McClinchey and Don Morton. Fright Night in headlines of current newspapers grandson, a grandpa obligated Some newspaper headlines are downright scary. Today, any story featuring the words Serbs, chain saw or Blue Jays' starting pitcher is sure to send a quiver through your shorts. Other headlines, however, simply seem designed to dumb- found. Here are but a few of this month's headlines that left me with a stupid look on my face. (Okay, then, a stupider look on my face, alright?) From Vancouver: "Grand- mother gives birth to her own grandson." Oh great, now in the latest of reproductive breakthroughs, we're eliminat- ing the middleman, the middlewoman, the midwife, whatever - somebody here is not carrying her load. Tell me, when your grand- mother gives birth to her own grandson, is grandpa obligated The Simpson . e x.•�� to go out, get drunk and pass out really old cigars? 1 think all young mothers ask their mothers to babysit - but isn't this going a little too far? "Okay Jimmy, for the fourth time son, this is your mother, your biological mother and that's your surrogate. mother and grandmother and your real mother's real mother. No Jimmy, Uncle Lester is not your older brother. 1 believe I "Space shuttle returns with more people than when it left." Ah hah! So that wacko Douglas Adams sci-fi stuff about the hitchhiker at the end of the universe is true after all. "Man shares digs with 400 reptiles." Great, no O.J. Simpson's defense team not only numbers in the hundreds, they've all moved in with him. The Simpson trial has gone on for so long, zoologists esti- mate that Johnny Cochrane and F. Lee Bailey have actually shed three skins each. "Police score hole in one." No it was not on the sports page and it was not a golf tournament. This was the headline on the story of "Peterborough Pete - The Privy Peeper" caught in a campsite outhouse. Can you imagine the conversation between the first two cops on the scene? "Go in there and arrest that man." "You go in there and arrest him." "I got seniority." "I got a weak stomach." "Go!" "No you go!" "Whaddyasay we just tip the. damn thing over?" "Yeah, like we're kids again and it's Halloween." "Lithuania _............ the loss boozing, brawling, womanizing "Lithuania mourning boozing, brawling, womanizing of Jerry Garcia." If I and stealing." This headline explained this to you by claim- hints at a really juicy story to ing the rock group Graceful follow but it's not. It's simply Dead sponsored the Lithuanian a progressive report detailing basketball team in the 1992 Jimmy Bakker's rehabilitation Summer Olympics, you'd program. probably think I've been smok- Most recently an upcoming ing the same stuff as...well, a book announcement: "Rae to deadhead. Lithuania beat Rus- write about `future'." Ah Bob, sia to capture the bronze I hate to be the one to have to medal. You could even look it tell you but, you're just a little up. late on this one. The people of "Constitutional right to incest Ontario already wrote that rejected by court." story, Bob. It was called a The verdict of Justice Carver June election and well, it that "Incest is a crime and a doesn't have a happy ending. crime it will remain," was "Ceiling collapse injures 12 welcomed by the good people at safety seminar." Absolutely of Nova Scotia who were no explanation necessary. initially shocked to learn that And finally an obituary: the unidentified family carrying "John Cameron Swayze - he on a multiple incestuous rela- took a licking and now he's not tionship didn't live in New ticking." Okay, I made that Brunswick. one up. But the others are all "Buddhist monk expelled for true. Walton soldier spent time in military hospitals FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 30, 1895 One day recently, while Messrs. Parsons Brothers, threshers, were entertaining the premises of James Hodgins in Stephen with their machine, they met with an accident which will entail a cost of between $75 and $100. It seems they were crossing a culvert when the whole thing collapsed with the above result. * * * Mr. Edward McFaul of town has made a great change in the. interior of his store. One would scarcely know the place. * ** It is some time since Seaforth has had such a large crowd in town as was gathered when the Seaforth Lacrosse team played the Excelsiors of Brampton. Dr. Chas MacKay was the referee. *ee .may In the Years Agone The new school building known as Broadfoot's building on the 2nd of Tuckersmith, is now completed and was for- mally opened by a musical and literary entertainment. The chair was occupied by M. Y. McLean, M.P.P. ee* As Mrs. Thos. Hills, of Egmondville, was making a call on a sick neighbour, she was attacked by a vicious dog, which bit her severely on the arm.• * • e H. Horton, teacher of school section No. 10, Tuckersmith, had to dismiss school recently because one of the smaller animals had sought its last resting place under the school floor. AUGUST 27, 1920 A commodious structure has been added to the telephone office in Dublin. The work was done by John Diehl of Brodhagen. e re Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Sherritt, of Hensall, had quite an excit- ing experience, when the gaso- line stove they were using got out of control. Considerable damage was done by fire and smoke. e re Major R. S. Hays returned from a western tap. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hays and Miss Mary Hays who have been visiting at Fort Francis. e e e A prominent resident and familiar figure in the life of Seaforth was removed by death when John Noble McQuaid passed away in his 66th year. He had been connected with the shoe business in Seaforth for a generation. AUGUST 23, 1945 W. C. Bennett, of Walton, has been honourably discharged from the Canadian Army. He spent three and a half years in World War I where he was severely wounded and spent some months in Military Hos- pitals in France and England. He enlisted in World War II in 1940 and for the past two and a half years has been in Toronto where he set up the general postal delivery system for the army Post Office at the C.N.E. Mrs. E. H. Close and Jack Hotham of town, won he first prize at a mixed doubles tour- nament in Wingham. e re J. A. Westcort, who has spent the past three years in Toronto doing warwork, has returned to his business here. * e* Playing in the Lions Zone Golf Tournament at Stratford, Warren Ament took first prize for the lot✓ gross and K. I. McLean first prize for low net for 18 holes. *•• The wedding took place on August 25 of Edith Britton and Robert McMillan of Constance. AUGUST 27, 1970 A North Bay resident, Nor- man Smith, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. John Regier, Seaforth, had a narrow escape from death on Wednesday when the plane in which he was a pass - eager crashed near Temagami. e*e Even the Town of Seaforth was preparing for the Back -to - School rush. Town foreman Harold Maloney and Alf Price painted crosswalks across Goderich Street to the St. James Separate School play- ground. e e e An old log cabin behind the home of Jack McIver, of St. Columban, was removed recently by .Frank Stratil of Windsor who plans to restore it at Black Point south of Goderich. Mr. McIver said he believes the cabin was well over 125 years old. ere Gordon Willis, a native of Seaforth and well-known banker, has been named Rancho Bernardo representative in Escondido National Bank in California.