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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-01-24, Page 44 -THE HURON IXPOSITOR, January 24, 1996 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manoger & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL • Reporter JOAN MELLEN - typesetter, proofreader BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 o year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. SE S; - 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goch- Stratford oddresses: 28.C4:10 yeor, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Out-af Of -Area: 28.00 o year, in odvance,plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T USA & Foreign: 28.00 a year in advance, plus S76.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt 5UBS(RIPT1ON RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main.St., Seolorth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. Advertising is occepted on 'condition that in the event of a typogrophical error, the advertising spoce occupied by the erroneous item_ together with a reasonable ollowonce for signature, will not be charged, but the bolance of the odvertisement will be paid for of the opplicoble - rote. In the event of a ypogrophicol error, odvertising goods or services at o wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely on offer to sell and may be withdrawn at ony lime. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or domo9e of unsolicited monuscripts, photos or other materials used for reprodi•ction purposes. Changes of oddress, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies ore to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, January 24, 1996 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 Associotron and the Ontario Press Council 41* R LLetters to the Editor Summer Fun Program goes beyond _ . • concept of 'cheap babysitting' . Another important advantage of the Summer Fun Program involves thc'valuable experience for the Summer Fun leaders. The _program has proven to be an important source- of employment that leads to satisfying careers in child-care, education, and recreation. _ In taking into account all *the advantages of the Summer Fun Program, it would be a shame to discontinue, the ` program without any effort being madc. In order to .. operate without municipal funding, we will inevitably need to undergo changes within . our own program. Therefore; 'we' arc currently exploring different avenues to keep our expenses low, If anyone has any comments or. suggestions that .will enable the program to - work on a break-even basis, we will gladly take them into. account. Please drop any ideas of at the Recreation Office, or call me at 527-0279 (on weekends). Sincerely, ' `.Peggy Ryan' Program Supervisor Dear Editor, Re: Council Cuts:Frills in Seaforth - 'Cheap Babysitting'Firstofall,IamnotWriting this letter to oppoe the cuts made to theSummer Fun Progrdm by town council to its budget. 'it is understandable- that council needs to start by cuttingthe `frills'. This letter simplyindicates the community benefits' of the Summer Fun Program. If there is a way to run the program without municipal funding....why not? The Summer Fun Programextends far bcyond ,theconcept of `cheap babysitting'. Cheap babysittingisa child glued to the television set. A more suitable term would be `affordable child-care'. This carefully planned grogram - provides special trips (i.e. Wally .World, Storybook -Gardens, African Lion Safari), ; social interaction etween children, exploration of the great outdoors, and fun, child -centred activities thatcontribute to a child's long summer holidays. Kelly Clan Dear Editor, Calling all Kellys, O'Kellys and their families. Building • from the large respnse of its first official Irish gathering May 1995 in Roscommon, Ireland, the international Kelly Clan Association extends a warm welcome. Join the association and take an active roll in promoting and shiring of knowledge and kinship. Plans for -a family history centre ane progressing on schedule, as is the preparation tor the 2nd Kelly Clan gathering scheduled May Collegiate to hold reunion special assembly, -dances for all ages, family picnic, and much, much mnore. Pregistration is now hcing accepted and forms are available.For more information contact the OSCVI •Reunion Committee, 951 5th Avcnuc East, Owcn Sound. Ontario, N4K 2S1. Thank you, Sandri Armstrong Publicity (onunittcc gathering 1997. Annual membership is. 20 Irish punts (an international ' money order in punts is kindly requested). A Clan newsletter will be mailed three to four times a year, starting- with the September • 1995 back issue. - Contact Clan Secretary,' Scan O'Ccallaigh, Kelly Clan -Association, • 'Ros na Ri', .Casticknook, Dublin 15, Ireland. Ann Lane Kelly 18 Brownlow Avenue. Toronto N1 -IS 2K$ Dear Editor. . The Owcn Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute is holding its 140th anniversary reunion May 17-19, 1996. All former students and staff are invited along with family and friends to bid a fond farewell to the school which is slated for demolition within the next year or two. Program features of this- great his great OSCVI celebration include an open house, Friday night decade parties, a parade, Toy bus will be coming Dear Editor, • opportunity for small children I would Tike to inform you to interact with their peers, of a new program that 1 am and make available quality co-ordinating for Huron resources and toys. For • . County called T.H.E. Bus, parents, playgroups arc a time 'Toys for Homes for informal socialization, to Everywhere'. meet other parents and T.H.E. Bus is a mobile caregivers in their resource library that will be community. - travelling throughout the If you have any questions county, providing a wide or concerns please call me at selection of toys, books, 482-1418 or 1-800-561-7450. videos, audio tapes, . theme - Yours truly, kits and equipment. In some Ms. Andrea Muir locations playgroups will be Mobile Resource Librarian set up. Playgroups allow the • _Re rowing g the first-ever work stopage by laboratory mice. ("There ain't enough cheese in Wisconsin for me to carry that thing around. Forget about it!") Realizing there are certain things even rodents wont do, doctors would no doubt be forcedto find a lawyer to do this job. The news article quoted a bioengineering department head as saying:' "Tissue engineering will forever change. the, medical land- scape." Geez, it's already changed the way 1 eat supper in front of the television set. Today, regrowing your own body parts is a medical miracle: tomorrow itll be as common as laser surgery. First they'll be a huge demand, followed by an even Nigger supply and thenadvertising. No doubt'the manufacturing of body parts will flourish first in the United States, the.land of loaded guns and killer knives. where people seem to be losing a lot of vital organs all the time. 1 can see it now, billboards right across the country -- an carless Vincent Van Gogh studies a mouse with the human car on its a hack and says: "Friends, rodents, countrymen — lend me that freakin' car!"•Underneath the caption: "M.I.T. — we're listening." The comi)ctition to furnishpartswill be fierce. • "Don't have a leg to stand on?!? You do now. Send two tissue cells and $49.99 (plus I watch a lot o,f news on television, read at least two newspapers a day and few things ever surprise me. Last month 1 was sitting in my room at The Senator Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, whose community slogan is: "Hey! If you thinkthis is cold, don't ever play 'Fetch the Flag' naked, in February, in Geraldton!" That's when1 saw the mouse, this hairless, pink little laboratory rodent carrying a human ear on its back on NBS News. The next day, when 1 was finally able to close my mouth and walk, 1 got a morning paper- which recounted the rest of the story. The mouse carrying the human car like a knapsack is the result of a successful experiment at the Massa- chusetts lnstitutc of Technolo- gy. in which human body parts are being "grown" by animals. Now, instead of replacing damaged or lost human parts with artificial substitutes, scientists can iinplant your living cells under the skin of an anitnal, insert a form around which the cellswill grow and the animal supplies the nourishment to naturally create an car, a nose, a liver. hones, even teeth. Thank goodness this new breakthrough in organ reproductions happened now and not two years earlier. Instead -of re -attachment. John Wayne Bobbitt may have opted for this new regeneration rocess and we'd be witnessing your own body parts William Thomas shipping and handli to Gams to Go, Box 838, .N. . N.Y. "Please -note: previous problems with those pranksters at the post officc have been eliminated. Your new legs will now be delivered in proper packaging instead of walking up and kicking your door on their. own. Management apologizes for any incon- venience in the past." • • "Get off on the wrong foot today? Put your foot in it. did you? Got one foot in the grave? No problem. Call Fleet Feet 1800-TENTOES. "And remember, if we can't deliver a new pair of feet to you within two hours, all ankles are free!" • "You say you cut out her heart and stomped on it? And even though a jury found you 100 per cent innocent you're feeling a little guilty? "Fret no more. Call us at Hearts -A -Plenty. Operators are standing by at our Organs Anytime clinic. Reservations are recoinmcndcd thc week prior to Valentine's Day." • "Ever want to rub shoulders with the greats? Hey, we at Star Parts can do better than that! Yes, own your own set of Jean Claude Van Damn's shoulders. Jack Nicolson's eyebrows or Lonnie Ander- son's twin peaks. "Get a genuine DNA - certified part of your favorite celebrity. Order today and receive, absolutely free. a Richard Simmons love handle." • "Despise sobriety? Detest •detox? Dislike dialysis'! Well get your butt down here -to Livers While -U -Wait. "That's right. relax at our on - p emises shooter's bar while a ig of Your choice grows a new liver for you. Bring the kids and feed the animals at our -Vital Organ Petting Zoo. "Remember our guarantee — either that little porker produces you a liver, or it's back bacon for the rest of the year,„ Of all the organs medical science will reproduce in the future. the human brain will be thc one man needs the nick. - (Scott's thoughts will return next week when Scott. will have a thought. - D.S.) Ontario has most measels cases in Americas Ontario has more mcaslcs than anywhere ` else in the Americas. More than 2,000 cases were reported in this province last. year and an outbreak is cx-; petted this spring, according to the Huron Co}tnty Health Unit. That's- why at the start of February health units across.thc province, including Huron's, "will be launching a massive immunization campaign to 2 eradicate measles in our school age population", according to Monday's press release from thc county health unit, "This second dose of measles vaccine is pari of the province wide campaign to 'wipe out measles— announced. Dec. 5 by Ontario's Minister of Health Jim Wilson.. The press. release talcs: -•"Huron's 13,500 students from junior kindergarten to. OAC,(Gradc 13)' will receive a second dose of, mcaslcs vaccine through February and March. The vaccine is only available through the health unit (Do- ctors won't have the vaccine). Huron County Public Health Nurses will administer the vaccine in school clinics." - Thc health unit says measles is a highly contagious disease caused- by a . virus, complications including pneumonia and brain damage. Death occurs once • in every 3,0(X) cases. The press release continues: "Until now, • routine im- munization against mcaslcs has been a single dose of measles vaccine betwcen'a child's first birthday and agc 15' months. A 3p.t check.» • -on r.•..,s.r .,... rr.,...r.• o.,.rr:. 1111.4..,. single dose of measles vaccine fails to protect five to 10 per cent of children. A second dose of measles vaccine provides almost 100 per cent protection and will prevent the large measles outbreak that was expected to occur in the spring. "The law will be changed to require two valid doses of measles vaccine for school attendance - the first after a child's -first birthday and the second at least one month later. At the end of the campaign, the routine immunization schedule will include a second dose .of measles vaccine at the same time thc child receives 4 6 year old booster of DPT -P vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and polio). "In, preparation .for 'the - 44h munization campaign, students will be given immunization consent forms and additional information to take home from school two weeks prior to the school clinic." The Huron County Health Unit says call them if you require more infonnation at 482-3416 or 1-800-265-5184. Continued on Page 5 Excellence FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON. EXPOSITOR JANUARY 31, 1896 P1URON NOTES - Quite a lively chase took place. in the vicinity of Walton on Tuesday •afternoon of last week, after a fine Reynard. J.Johnston's hound started a fox out 'of Mr. McDonald's bush and ran it' south towards R. Pollard's barn, when Will Pollard's attention was drawn to it, and soon overtaken by that gentle- man while heading into Win. Pollard's bush, and quickly dispatched with a club. A GOOD BULL - Mr. Wm. Bubolz, of Tuckersmith, near Egmondville, has purchased from • Mr. H. PI nnstcel, the well-known Shorthorn breeder, of Clinton, a fourteen months' old Durham bull. This animal was sired by Mr. Biggins' imported "General Booth." • His dam was by iinportcd "Excelsior," and he is a very superior young animal, and one of the many good ones bred by Mr. Plumstecl. We hope -Mr. Bubolz' enterprise will be duly appreciated and liberally patronised by his neighbours. FEBRUARY 4, 1921 No doubt the citizens of Seaforth realize the honour that has been brought to our town by Dr. Mary Cokan by her wonderful achievement in winning the Bcit Scholarship. Recognition of this honour has already bccn made by the town in the form of an address signed by the Mayor and his council. But many of the ex - students of our Collegiate feel the school at which she and other brilliant students have first won scholastic honours, should perpetuate these names in some manner. Not only would this be doing these students an honour, but it would be an incentive to the present and future students of the school. Few schools can Flour Mills closes doors in 1945 "--- FEBRUARY 4, 1971 I In the Years Agone boast of such a list of distin- guished graduates. We will not attempt to name them all, but a few will suffice. Miss Carrie Knight won the Prince of Wales Scholarship and the Goi'ernor General's Gold Medal at the University of Toronto. Mr. H.F. , Johnston won the Gibson Scholarship and was a gold medalist at the University of Toronto. He now ranks as one of the great scien- tists employed by the United States Government on terres- trial magnetism. Mr. Brentin Kerr, now of Oxford Univer- sity, was a Prince of Wales Scholar. Mr. Edmund Whitaker, Miss Helen Carswell and Miss Margaret Edge all have won enviable , scholar- ships. HOCKEY NEWS - The Juniors kept up their reputation and clinched the District Hon- ours, winning easily from Stratford, 14-1, Tuesday night. The game in Stratford Saturday night was rather a listless affair with the issue never in doubt, our boys taking the long end of thc score, 3-0. , . While every credit is due the. players for their excellent work sO far, yet there is much room for improvement, especially in the combination play. This is at present very ragged and can only be attained by constant practice and unselfishness on .the part of the individual players. FEBRUARY 1, 1945 - Excellencc Flour Mills, which have been operating in Seaforth for the most part, on a- 24 -hour basis for the past three years, will close down indefinitely on January 31st, when its Government contracts will terminate. For the pasi couple of weeks the management has been. experiencing labour troubles, and a number of employees have been on strike, but the business office informed The Expositor on Wednesday that this was not the direct result of the closing down of the mill. The mill, which employees around 45 men, was producing 98,000 pounds of -Government regulation flour daily for ship- ment overseas, and since the mill opened early in 1943 a total of 14,000 barrels of flour has been shipped to the'British , Ministry of Food. A short time ago a dispute over an extension of working time from eight to ten hours a day sent employees out on strike, but mill owner and manager, E. Turgeon, of Montreal, has been able to hire other unemployed men to work in the mill until January. 31st, , when he expects to close it down. ««« Jack Wallace, Seaforth High School student, was declared the winner of the oratorical contest held by the Seaforth Lions Club in the High School auditorium Friday night last. H.G. Meir acted as chairman in lieu of Ross Scott, Brucefield, president of Scaforth Lions Club. who was unable to attend because of snow -filled roads. Jack Wallace is the 14 -year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Wallace, Seaforth. He is a new member of Seaforth High School, coming from London last year where he attended Central Collegiate. Jack stated that he had quite a bit of public speaking training in London, especially in public school.- , The Blizzard of '71 began just as most businesses were opening their doors last Tucs- day. By noon accumulated snow and winds gusting to fifty miles an, hour, and higher nearer the lakes, had complete- ly isolated all arca commun- ities, trapped children in their schools and cut off thousands of people from supplies of food and in some cases, essential medication. The Scaforth Snowmobile Club was one of the first in the arca to mobilize in order to' help cope with the emergency. The effort, which was co- ordinated by Seaforth Council- lors George Hildebrand and Betty Cardno, began Tuesday night when a fleet of machines arrived at the Seaforth Com- munity Hospital. They were kept busy from Tuesday alight until Friday transporting staff • and food for the hospital., ' They did, however, really prove their worth in one medi- cal emergency. Wednesday evening, five of the snowmo- biles were sent to Dublin to bring in an expectant mother. Mrs. Stcphcn Maloney of Dublin was bundled up in a sled along with Anne Rowland, a registered nurse, for the trip to }he hospital. Marlen Vincent, president of the Scaforth Snowmobile Club, said Tuesday that, aside from the service at the Hospital, the Club answered about 100 calls for help over the three-day period when travel, by more conventional means was impossible. Matt of the calls were made to deliver groceries or much needed medication. Some stranded persons were taken home including several school children. Trips "'ere made to the St. Columban School to deliver blankets for the use oi' thc children and teachers who were stranded there for two nights. •