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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-02-28, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, February 26, 1990 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DA,E • General Manager d Advertising Manager MARY MF4LLOR - Sales ' PAT ARMES - Office Manager DL4NNE 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. SENIORS: - 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Qoderich. Stratford addresses 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T U $a : 28.00 a year, in advance, Plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T F i n: 28.00 a year in advance, plus 576.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: - Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St., Seaforth. 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Wednesday, February 28, 1998 Editorial andffusiness Offices - 100 Main Street.;Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 • -Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.Q Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of tt,e Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council . Foodbank sign of times . _The opening of the Seaforth and District Foodbank is . both a good thing and a sad thing. Seven'locat churches have pulled together along with volunteers to supply food to those in need. Local busi- nesses, individuals and organizations have been gener- ous in their donations. it is sad that tough times have made such a facility necessary. But it is good the awareness and strength is here. to help solve the prob- lem.' it's aitnie example of community spirit. - The hest solutions to many prohlems'come'from the' people, not the,.governments. As it was read in the dedication on Sunday of the foodhank: "May these doors he a gateway between hunger and hope."- DWS Letters to the Editor Youth group to hold 30 -hour famine in April Dear Editor, In tic past year the Seaforth' •uull)istrict YouIh Group•has • been working 10 get a youth center in Scalorth. We have come a• long way . - and have .done a loulf fund- raising. . activities such 'as youth_ dances, Much Music. dance, a car wash and we had • a great success in those .vents. We also had a whccl- a-thus. baseball games, community clean-ups and many more. But we still haven't got a place for die center that •we can afford or we like m Seaforth yet. On Jan. 30 we held our annual meeting and selected . our new board members for ty96. Chair, .Bob Costello;' Co-chair, l:lido grown; -Secretary, Val Millson; Treasurer, Kathy Ferguson; 1.iason, Wanda, Moran. The youth board: Chair, Jen Kaufman; Co-chair, Dean ('rice; Secretary, •Anyta Piquicuc: 'I•rcasurcr,, Shawn Costello; . l:iason, • Natalie Dale. Our next activity will be the 30 -hour. Famine on April 12 and 13. - Anyone wanting to participate or any adult wanting to, chaperone. for this event, please sign up at the high school in the office. We would like to thank everyone for their support for the Seaforth and District. • Youth Group. -Sincerely; Jen Kaufman Ashfield activist organizes political body Dear Editor, The experience of Ashfield fighting the dump issue is a microcosm of the world of ,Canadian politics - at all •.Icvels of. government. 'Government docs not deal • with its citizens• as responsible people, but rather they deal with us more like 1116,schildren than adults. and act more like Our bosses than our servants. This in reality translates into the reversal of democratic roles; who is sovereign and who is the servant.' Our problem in a nutshell is that we as citizens do1101 have a say in. how we are governed, rather. the systems of government in place on all levels allow politicians to jealously hole to the power given to them on election day and abuse us until a year or so before the next election. it is at that tine, they Nutter us up with gifts so we will forget the abuse we suffered under them and re-elect them for another term - another term of doing what they want to, I might add. realize that 1 mentioned our experience in Ashfield but on the provincial scene the Omnibus legislation proves to be abusive, and the federal Liberal renegue on the election promise of creating jobs, jobs, jobs has played Canadians as. fools. 1 have decided that rather than spending the rest of my life fighting government on all levels ani' getting nowhere, i would start an organization to inform Ontarian/Canadians about a • form of Direct Democracy, so- . that we, as citizens of Ontario and Canada can pressure governments to listen. You and 1 can grumble and' complain about what government is doing or wc can do something about it. If you arc a person who believes you can make a difference in the world, 1 would like to send to you some information (m Direct Democracy. 1f we don't have a say now, perhaps it is because we have not yet found a constructive and effective . voice. Rob McQueen R.R. 1 Dungannon, ON NOM IRO 529-3307 Mike Harris: ham sham in harem The reason I haven't writ- ten a column for awhile is that.I was bitten by a rabid skunk while running away from a pit bull owned bya Triple A hockey mom who , wanted to have a word with me. But now that I've recovered I can share some experiences with you. We'll start with something relative harmless. Men's facial hair. I have some. I actually have more than the photo above. I'm trying out the new cave -beard look for the winter (or what's left of it) but I don't want to scare you with a picture of how I actually look. (If you want to experience it in person, come down to 100 Main St. and we'll let you stare for a few seconds - it'll cost you extra to take a picture). Not looking like the photo in my column has its advan- tages. i can start conversa- tions about "that Expositor editor" and find out some pretty interesting things about myself from other peo- ple. Aside from growing my beard in recent weeks, I've. been doing other productive things like seeing how many words you can spell from.the letters in Mike Harris's name. Here's just a few: sham. ham, ram, ream, hair, shim, harem, hear, hem, him, his, he (Ahh, there's a pattern forming!), her. risk, rise. rash, mash, mire, shirk, shire, raketmare, mask. Now using some of those words in a sentence: He wore a mask to hide his rash from his harem. "What a sham!" they said as they mashed his hair with 'a rake. She was careful not to let her hem rise. (i really have to get a life). Seaforth could learn from Hamilton's massive protest against the Harris govern • - ment. What better way to get some traffic downtown then Scott's Thoughts by Dave Scott to have a protest and invite 25,000 people'? • A spokesperson for the Ontario Teachers Federation • says after Harris chops thou- -sands of teaching jobs in the province you won't see a teacher under the age of 30. That should just about make the transition back to . the Sixties complete. Now students. once again. won't trust anybody over 30. We've been tossing around' ideas here at Ihe•officc. after some unusually strong cof- fee, about a special festival - Seaforth could hold to attract lots of tourists - just .like Port Elgin's Pumpkinfe.1 . We thought maybe could solve two aforemen- tioned problems with one special event: Pit Bulls Vs. Rabid Skunks. One time �mly. Benet than hull fights. Betting allowed. In Seaforth - Rahid Skunk Capitalof Canada. . Watch unmuzzlcd dogs of not -quite -confirmed breeds called pit hulls tangle with stinky. furry. foaming ani-. - mals. Carried by TSN right . after Bowling in Botswana, (This is meant in no offense t(1 any Botswanian howlers who May happen to he read- ing): Come to Seaforth where - dollars are loonies and So are wc. (Yes. i speak for myself ). Letter to the Editor Archives are real value of county museum Dear Editor, I felt compelled to respond to the letters. ,.W.P. Iy(icnchuk regarding the Huron County, Council funding of the, museum at Goderich.' •- 1l is unfortunate that lea. Huron County resident's have had the pleasure to view the real value of the nnt.culu to Huron County - its Archives. The Archives houses documents that dale Iocl. to the • 18-10.s- when this county was first being settled by- the ancestors of ratan) resident, still living in Limon ('alunty. •I'hc records have moven, 10 he - valuable -sources of information to the individuals -who have• volunteered thousands al hr►ut s ' lu die preparation and )whlicaliun oI the township histories. It i, tinfortunatc that the preservation of our' history has been placed on the .Mulder: of so few people. However, .thc success that these books have had shows that the people of Huron : County are interested in their history if they can access it in an easy manner. In 1995' the Ilurou County Branch ()I. the Ontario 6.cncalogica1 Society celebrated 15 year of promoting genealogy and reached its highest membership ('ver , 183 members of which 53 resided in Huron Counts. Since •its -formation the branch has had over 1,100 different ntenthcrs researching their r(xits 111 Huron . Couuty. The Huron County Branch- . Q.o.s. ranch.O.G.S. has been compiling reference materials of genealogical' importance to aid researchers. In 1995 the Port Albert Cemetery transcription was• completed to bring to completion thc transcription Of all the known Cemeteries in Huron - in excess of 120. To make them easily available to researchers, complete. sets, were donated to The • . Winghain, Seaforth, Clinton, Exeter and Godcrich libraries as, well as- •the Archives. The branch is now ,embarking on • extracting genealogical information from early..Huron County newsppers. What is the• cost to the residents of Huron County to maintain thc funding of the museum at its current level? With- a -population of approximately 5.7,000 men, women-, and .children, the grant given by the Huron County Council represents an expenditure of less than 55.50 per capita. The total -operation costs of the museum, Gaol, and ,Marine Museum represents a cost of less than SH per capita. Are we willing to lose these institutions for the sake . of one movie a(iinission per year for every resident of Huron? The museum provides one of only a few county -wide facilities which benefit all municipalities.. Should all residents partially finance at the county level the airport at Godcrich which benefits a few local residents and Mniue,sscs? Is the proposed dump in Ashfield Township to be • a county -wide disposal site or is it being funded by all Huron taxpayers for the benefit of a few municipalities? At the , township',and - Lown level, recreational facilities in the form of arenas and ball diamonds arc more heavily - funded per capita than the - muscum. Should everyone pay. for these facilities to be used by a few?. Mr. Fydenchuk does a disservice 10 the Friends of . the ' Museum when he • suggests that they use volunteers to run the museum. • Volunteers have always been a valuable asset in the operation of-thc museum. In . the `Museum Musings' . column of the Godcrich Signal -Star of January 24, 1996 it was noted that over. 250 volunteer hours were logged in November and December of 1995. However, some jobs require c., pertise • which one cannot exp •ct to - find. in volunteers ! this is where the paid anti, ; fit into the picture. Also, Mr, - Fydcnchuk should be aware that in northern Huron Countw,voluntccr firemen arc paid between S15 and S25 per hour while fighting fires. To - expcct them to (10 otherwise would bc. foolishness. Finally, 1 encourage all concerned individuals - members of the Huron County Branch O.G.S.; Huron County Historical" -Society; W.I. Tweedsmuir historical committees etc. - to voice their opinions to their local representatives regarding funding to the museum. 1 welcome all comments, good and had, at the address provided below this letter:. Yours truly, Donna Nicholson Chairman, Huron County. - Branch O.G.S. Box 469 Godcrich, ON N7A 4C7 Storm of 1971 continues into March FROM THE PAGES.OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR MARCH 6, 1896 LOCAL BRIEFS _ Mr. Henry R. Henderson has rent- ed his farm, on the 4th conces- sion of McKillop, to Mr. Robert Habkirk, for five years, for $225 a year; and Mr. hen- derson retains the house and orchard. He intends having a sale of his effects on the 16th inst. ' The Brussels Post of last week says: "Mrs. Laird, moth- er of Mrs. Will, Ainley, was 100 years old last October. She lives with her daughter, Mrs. Hays, of Seaforth, and enjoy good health. Her memory is good and she takes great plea- • sure in conversing with her friends. Mrs. Laird lost her eyesight about,15 or 16 years ago. Very few persons ever see the completion of a century. 'Mr. Snell, formerly of the Seaforth dye works, but now of Galt, was in town a few days -this week, on business. Mr. Richardson, a student of Knox college, Toronto, occu- pied the pulpit of the Presbyterian church last Sabbath. Mr. James Sproat met with a painful, though not serious accident on Thursday or last week. He was cutting ice on the Egmondville dam, when he let the saw fall on his right foot. It struck on the cord of the big toe, and cut right through his boot to the flesh, and injured the cord sufficient- ly to be very painful and to lay him off work for a few days. CHEESE FACTORY - The milk'drawing of the Winthrop Cheese Company will be let in the factory on Friday after- noon, March 13th, and the whey offered for sale. The managers have been canvass- ing the various routes during the last few weeks,. and report Tn the Years Agone a good season's make if we have a summer favorable for good pasture. Parties. wishing to purchase the whey should makc it a point to he present. The company have good pens convenient to the factory for feeding it. MARCH 11, 1921 - TUCKERSMITH A large number of neighbors and friends gathered at the home of s/1Rr: and Mrs. John Taman on the dth concession on Monday evening last to spend a social tine with"them before their removal from the farm to their new home in Seaforth. During thc evening Mr. and Mrs. Taman were presented with a well filled purse, to express in &tangible way the esteem and affection in which they are held in the community. The home of Mr. and Mrs. John McLean (Riverside) was the scene of a pleasant surprise party on Thursday evening last, when about fifty neigh- bors and friends assembled and presented the bride and groom. Mr. and Mrs. David McLean, with a cut glass cream and sugar set and walnut tray. The address accompanying the pre- sentation was made by Mr. C. Martin. A most enjoyable social evening was spent by all. WAR MEMORIAL - An exceptionally artistic bronze memorial tablet of unique design, bearing the 'tames of the members of the staff who enlisted from Seaforth has been erected in a prominent place in the Seaforth branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The names upon the tablet are Lieut. J.McMillan. 2nd Lieut. L.B. Sifton. M.M. and Scrgt. W. Leslie Watson. A number of others enlisted who belonged to the local branch. hut .their 'enlistment was not direct from Seaforth. Mr. J.G. Mullen, the manag- er. has also received a large hound volume. entitled "Letters from the Front." being a record of the part played by the officers of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the Great War. • - MARCH 8, 1945' .The Municipal .Veterans'• Reception Committee met in the Town Hall, Seaforth. on Saturday evening. March 2nd, and furthered arrangements for thc reception to he held on Monday. March 18th. for active service personnel of World War 11. The reception will take the form of a dinner in First Presbyterian and Northside United. Churches in Seaforth, after which an excel- lent program has been arranged to take place in Cardno's Hall. to be followed by a dance, to the music of Bert Worth and his CKNX Ambassadors from Wingham. DUBLIN - The annual meet- ing of thc shareholders of thc McKillop. Logan & Hibbert Telephone Co. was held at Dublin on Wednesday in St. Patrick's Hall. Bad weather and roads kept the . attendance down. The financial report was very satisfactory, although a loss was shown on the year's oper- ation. Considerable reconstruc- tion on the lines had been done, and thc directors pledged themselves to a program cov- ering a complete overhauling of the system. - The new office will be erect, - cd this year on the site the company acquired on the.cor- ncr of Mill and Raglan Streets. MARCH 11, 1971 - Blinding snow driven by thirty mile. an hour winds brought traffic to a halt on . most area roads over the week .end.. Beginning Saturday as a light snow which at -time turned' to rain the storm quickly gained strength. By Sunday travel in most rural areas was impossi- ble. • The storm continued until Tuesday closing district schools and resulting in the - cancellation of dolens of • meetings and events. A number of area hockey games were called off. . The -storm forced the post- ponement of the annual Seaforth Lions Farmers Night which had been sct for Tuesday. • Committee Chairman G.A. Whitney said it would be held on April 12. • * • Seaforth is taking steps to work out an arrangement to provide a sewer outlet for the public school. council -was told Monday night. • An extensive building pro- gram is planned for this sum- mer at the school that likely will makc• necessary new sewer disposal facilities. Rather than provide new facilities at the school. the architects and hoard approached 'the town with a view to at least providing temporary connections to.the existing town system until such time as a town wide sys- tem is available. The' school on Market Street is in an area not now served. 1