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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-10-11, Page 44—THR HURON RXPORITOR, Oatobor 11, 111gS Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI•LYNN DALE • General Manger & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR • Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATN - Subscriptions & Classifieds PAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter JOAN MELLEN - Typesetter / Proofreader BARB STOREY - Distribution A Burgoyne Community Newspaper U8SCRIPTION RATE: LOCAL - 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. � $• • 25.00 a year, in odvonce, plus 1.75 G.S.T. nth. Stratford addresses: 28.00 o year, in odvonce, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out-ot OfAreq: 28.00 a year, in odvonce, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T LISA &RForeign: RATES:288.00 a year in advance, plus $76.00 postoge, G.S.T. exempt Puti�hed bSi � weekly y Signal -Star Publishing of 100 Moin St., Seaforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held of Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK two Member of the Canodian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Editorial :b.: et Harris gaining reputation as cold, heartless dismantler They call him The Axe, The Hatchetman, The Knife. Premier Mike Harris is gaining a reputation as a cold, heartless dismantler - one more intent upon tearing down than building up. In the recent round of program cuts, the Harris government has ordered about three-quarters of a billion dollars struck from Ontario's spending. It appears that every government department has been bit with some kind of budget reduction. No one is safe from the Harris -chopping block.. It's making everyone nervous. Nobody knows when the slashing will stop ... or where it will strike next. We aren't certain how Ontarians will cope with the changes, particularly the most vulnerable of our society. We wonder what will be the net effect on income and lifestyle across the province. Yet with all this apprehension, there is a certain fresh optimism. We are pleased to see at last a government that is bent on getting our fiscal house in order, as unpleasant as that may be for all of us. Like wayward children who look to mom and dad to make everything all right again when they have screwed up, we too long for rescue without retribution. We hope with all that's in us that things won't get too bad before they get better. Whatever Ontarians think of Mike Harris and his government at this point, we can all be encouraged because the correct message is getting across to everyone. It is being broadcast loud and clear that we must all begin to live within our means, especially government. It is being com- municated that each of us must take responsibility for our own actions that we have no special entitlement to be paid and pampered by society when our personal life choices leave us down and out in a new and tougher Ontario. In her rebuttal to the Throne Speech in early October, Liberal Leader Lynn McLeod said a Harris Ontario bears no resemblance to the Ontario we used to know under previous governments. Let us all hope she's right, because in that Ontario we were all on a collison course with calamity. - SJK Letters to the Editor Bluewater plan good news for Ashfield group Dear Editor, A bomb has gone off under Huron' County's plans for a proposed dump site. It was known to some members of the Concerned Citizens of Ashfield & Area (CCAA) that Bluewater Recycling Assoc. (BRA) was intending to expand its operations; still, the announcement brought a smile to many. Francis Veillcux of BRA stated that the total diversion would be 75 per cent of waste that would go to the landfill. This, rightly so, seriously undermines the need for a new landfill. Do we need a landfill for 25 per cent of the waste, particularly if millions of dollars will be freed up to purchase a much smaller incinerator than suggested by the county's expert, Gore & Storrie Limited? We no longer need to rely on logic; experience has shown in Blucwatcr's business decision to separate profitable components of waste before it hits the landfill. This shows how far recycling has come in recent years. Projection of this direction would indicate that further waste materials will be profitable enough to divert and sell at some future time. Presently, Switzerland and other European countries sort out 95 per cent of the waste before the remaining 5 per cent is incinerated. It is only a matter of a few short years before we will catch up on their recycling entrepreneurial spirit. Should Bluewater not be able to complete plans to divert the waste, Huron County themselves could use this as an alternative to greatly reduce the waste needed to go to landfills, and save some $40 million on building a landfill. The county would then have no excuse (re: expenses or cost) that would bar the idea of incineration. Yours truly, Rob McQuccn Concerned Citizens of Ashfield Township Psychic Having your mind read is a little unnerving. I was a victim, I mean volun- teer, at Norm Barlow's mentalist show at the 150th Annual Seaforth Fall Fair on Friday evening. Barlow, a Clinton native, .showed up at the Expositor office earlier in the week with a press package explaining that he regularly made people's heads explode on stage by telekinesis. Actually, that is totally untrue. And Norm read my mind before I could even say what I was thinking, so it was a totally unnecessary state- ment. But I had to recount it to you here. He just showed up and intro- duced himself at the office and left. He had already transferred any useful information he found in my limited brain to his massive psychic mental system and left me a walking zombie for the remainder of the week. Well, that's my explanation on how he read my mind. Another piece of background information I should give you is that this press package he gave me on his amazing abil- ities - like being able to con- vince the entire province of Quebec to leave the country - contained numerous stories about someone who looked exactly like Norm Barlow and performed similar amazing mentalist feats but who had a • David Scott photo LIGHT UP THE NIGHT - The mid- way at the 150th Annual Seaforth Fall Fair lit up the night on Friday as people young and old from Seaforth and surrounding communities * enjoyed the sight° . and sounds of the autumn festival. mind scan unnerves editor Scott's Thoughts by Dave Scott different name. Norm explained that when he travels outside of Huron County (There isn't anything outside of Huron County, is there?) to perform, he uses a pseudonym. But, under the international mentalist and psychic union agreement, I am unable to publicly release Norm Barlow's alter -ego stage name or I might face the unpleasant fate of a total head scan, not unlike the movie Scanners or its 17 sequels. I'm also not supposed to tell you that Norm Barlow works as a psychologist in Huron County and is a great guy according to all my two sources but I will anyway. Okay, here's what happened. I was up on stage with Fair Ambassador Susan MacLachlan and Brian Campbell of the . Seaforth Ag Society. Brian was thinking of a price he would -like to spend on a car of his choice. I was thinking of the -make of the car, and Susan picked a playing card that represented the number of years it would take to pay for this particular "dream car." Watching us from a distance off-stage, Mentalist Norm Barlow asked each of us in tum to concentrate on our individual choice. Following this "psychic transfer" of thought from our brains to his, he would write down what he thought we were thinking on a piece of paper and drop his answer in a box on stage in front of us. Then we told the audience what we were thinking and a volunteer wrote down our answers. He reviewed our choices when we were finished by reading them from the volunteer's board: $32,000 price tag (Brian), a Mercedes- Benz (Me), five years to pay (Susan). Then Brian proceeded to reach into the box on stage and read Norm's predictions. They were all correct. $32,000, Mercedes-Benz and five years. How did he do it? I don't know. And even after a few days of reflection, 1 still can't figure it out. That was just one of his amazing feats. There were time-tr,,v,aling card tricks, balloon predi; tions psychic celebrity idenufua- Lions, the next Mike Harris cut (Sorry Norm, you know that's a joke) and objects' owners psychic analysis and identifica- tions. I was also a victim, volunteer of that latter event. Somehow, from a squished pack of chewing gum sealed in an envelope, Norm predicted that it belonged to someone surrounded by "words, words, words," and he said some other complimentary things (that may or may not be true - I can't reveal everything about myself) before correctly identifying me as the owner. And I wasn't the only person participating in this - there was about six of us in total. Each of his predictions were eerie and pretty well bang -on. I didn't realize my gum gave off psychic vibes. I'd like to think there is a perfectly logical explanation for all of this but I don't usually use perfect logic when thinking about anything. Besides, it's good to have a little mystery in your life. Just be careful the next time someone asks you for a piece of gum. They might be reading your mind. Education cuts could harm young children Dear Editor, The Ontario government's decision to end the Early Childhood Education Pilot Programmes and to make Junior kindergarten a local option will seriously harm both young children and eventually the community at large, according to the Federation of Women Teachers of Ontario that represents 41,000 women public elementary school teachers. Lightning FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR OCTOBER 18, 1895 HURON NOTES - Bread is selling at 4 cents per small loaf in Wingham. A horticultural society is being formed in Clinton. The residents of Leeburn are again being annoyed by petty thieves. The Brussels council has decided to sell the woollen mill in that town by public auction. Wingham needs better school accommodation, and it is likely that a ward school will be built. The average attendance of pupils at the Wingham public school during the month of September was 411. * * * On Friday last, Mr. Thomas Govenlock found a partridge lying dead beside a wire fence, quite close to his residence in McKillop. The bird had appar- ently been flying with consider- able velocity, close to the ground, and coming in contact with the fence had broken its neck. Mr. Govenlock says it is ten years since he has seen a partridge so close to his house. * * * OCTOBER 15, 1920 The Ladies of the Methodist Church will serve supper on Thanksgiving night, Monday, Oct. 18th, from 6 to 8 o'clock, after which an interesting programme will be rendered, consisting of music and addresses. The choir will be assisted by Mr. and Mrs. W.H. All the research and decades of experience of primary school teachers shows that early childhood education is good for young children and has positive repercussions for their education career. Quality education actually saves money in the long run. Research has shown that more children stay in school longer, have improved reading, math and language skills, require less special education help, and have less chance of future unemployment, teen pregnancy or delinquency, if they attend early childhood programmes. The federation has worked with parents over many years to encourage provincial governments and school boards to implement Junior and Senior kindergarten. Parents have shown they want these programmes by enroling 85 per cent of four -year-olds and 99 per cent of five -years -olds in public education kindergarten, almost all in half-day or every other day programmes. The proposed pilots were a sensible, low-cost approach to find out which programmes are most effective. Ending the pilot projects and threatening other early childhood education is a serious mistake by the present government and young people will pay the price. The Federation of Women Continued on page 5 strikes inside Seaforth home In the Years Agone Willis, of Wingham. Admission - 50 and 35 cents. THE STORM - The most severe electrical storm experi- enced this season began about nine o'clock on Monday morn- ing and lasted until noon. The lightning, which was very vivid, was accompanied by heavy thunder and a torrent of rain. Fortunately little damage resulted. A number of hydro trans- formers were burned out, shutting off the light and power in different parts of the town, but these were repaired early in the afternoon. The lightning also entered the residence of Mr. Neil Gillespie, on Louisa St„ supposedly by way of a wire clothes line at the back door. The bolt threw his mother to the floor, but aside from a little deafness she escaped injury. It also tore some paper from the walls and mixed things up generally, but did not set fire to anything. Some of our oldest residents predict a fine and dry fall as a sequel to the storm and most of our readers sincerely hope the prediction will come true, and if the present coal shortage keeps up, that it will continue well into the New Year. OCTOBER 19, 1945 LE ITER - Through the medium of The Expositor, I learn with pleasure that Scaforth is to have two new streets. I see also that these streets are to have names. This is real progress. That names associated with bellicose deeds have been chosen, is not sur- prising, in this age of atomic bombs; but, in my humble opinion, and considering the galaxy of generals, admirals, airmen, other names suggest themselves. In the first instance, why go back so far? Secondly, why resurrect the South African War? In the eyes of many, this was not what one could describe as a war, but rather as a campaign of adventure. The results did, admittedly, give us a staunch friend and wise counsellor, General Smuits, but what else did it do, of any lasting goodness? Canada's past association with France would suggest names like Bonapart and Wel- lington. These generals both made history in Europe. On the other hand, why go back at all to ancient history, to angle for names? • With the Irish and Scotch elements in and around Seaforth, what about Montgomery and good old Canadian General McNaughton? Both these men made history, and did it in such a way that the memory of their deeds will continue to be recalled all over the world for generations. European cities have actually renamed streets after them. Another suggestion: Why not call this new section of Seaforth "The Irish Quarter," and take the names of two Irish Generals, Monty and Alexander, the new Governor- General, get him down to Scaforth to open the new quar- ter. It's a chance in my opinion that the city fathers should embrace. Go to town and make a day of it1 Stranger things have happened. - The Roamer. OCTOBER 15, 1970 Miss Connie Hickey of RR 3, Auburn was named "Queen of the Furrow" for 1970 at the Huron County Plowmen's Association Annual Match held at the farm of Joe Ryan, RR 2, Walton on Saturday. Miss Hickey was crowned by last year's , winner, Miss Mary Leeming, of RR 4, Walton. The new "Queen" will compete for the Queen of the Furrow title at the International Plowing Match being held this week in Lindsay. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Ken Doig of Seaforth returned home recent- ly from a trip to the British Isles made possible when they won first prize in the Win -A - Prize contest held last year by Seaforth Merchants.