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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-03-13, Page 54 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Marsh 13, 1011$ Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI•LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MEUOR - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH Subscriptions & Classifieds PAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter JOAN MELLEN - typesetter, proofreader BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. SENIORS: • 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Goderieh. Strotford 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 odvance, plus 11.44 postage, pkis 2.76 G.S.T USA & Foreign: 28.00 o.yeor in advance, plus $76.00 posloge, G.S.T. exempt Su1de y PuiSiSi gnal-Star Publishing at I CO Main St., Seoforth. Publication . moil registration No. 0696 held at Seoforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Seoforth, Ontario, NOK two Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Associotion, Ontario Community Newspapers Associotion and the Ontario Press Council J Letters to the Editor OPSEU members `courageous people' • Dear Editor, sector, with unprecedented Re: D.W. Scott's editorial of profits, exorbitant executive March 6, 1996- salaries, massive 'downsiz- - To blame OPSEU members ing' (unemployment) and the for thc recent tragedies on resultant pressures on social Ontario's highways is, at hest, programmes, demonstrates simplistic and counter -pro- that privatization is not nee- ductivc to developing solu- essarily the answer in all tions to our economic prob.- cases. .lems. Moreover, it is a rcpug- Everyone understands that -Want piece of sensational Canada's, and Ontario's eco - journalism. nomic. mess has to be The. OPSEU members who addressed. However, not arc standing up for their everyone would agree that rights are. real. They arc replacing decent paying jobs courageous people who are with 'subsistence jobs and resisting the Harris govern- more widespread unemploy merit's attempts to under- ment is the answer: mine, and, ultimately, destroy_ Furthermore, a situation that the democratic rights of all took thirty or more years to public sector workers. A develop will take longer than close examination of the a few months to resolve. Harris agenda makes it clear Those 'real' eo le who are that privatization is a primary p' p now on strike have my sup - goal, hut, before that can hap- pen, workers' collective bar- port and the support of many gaining rights have to be others. The demonstration in Hamilton on Feb. 24 shows stripped. The Harris government, as how people throughout Bill 26 clearly demonstrates, Ontario feel about the wreck - is determined to substitute ing-hall approach of this gov ernment. - Public •s ecial interest' Sincerely, groups with 'private special Ettore DelVecchio interest' groups. The private Egmondville Blaming OPSEU for accidents `unjust & unfair' Dear Editor, To put blame on striking OPSEU workers for recent accidents on Ontario's high- ways is unjust and unfair. Reduced snow -ploughing because of the strike has been a well-publicized event and motorists have been -repeated- ly warned to slow down -and use caution in had weather. The OPP report that people are not doing so and this is the real cause why these acci- dents arc happening, as thcy do every year. Personally. i applaud the efforts OPSEU is making to fight the Harris government it is because of unions that we all enjoy an eight hour workday and have a benefit package. If it weren't for unions. our lives would be a scene out of a Dickens novel and we would still. he work- ing six days a week for low wages and we would still have to send our children to work at the age of ten. This is still a common practice in many countries and many products coming into Canada arc made by little hands. Unions have fought long and hard for decades to improve working conditions. Everyone has benefited from this, whether you belong to a union or not. To simply 'take what you can get and soon' is . the attitude adopted by those who arc willing to he led to the slaughterhouse like docile sheep. For 18.00(1 OPSEU workers. this means econom- n Flag Daywe all surrender For maximum . exposure m Ottawa for $7 million, here at home have biker bolt Drape them from the roof of them on their handle -bit as the'CBC building and call it a they travel across Canada to final curtain call. gang war funerals in . Plant them around Toronto's Montreal. • Queen's Park in a winding Give five flags to every path to keep . protesting - spectator attending an NHL groups from cutting'in line. hockey game in Toronto, so :. Fly them all at half mast out those of us watching at home of respect for the Canadian can't see -the Leafs trying -to newspaper industry. get the puck out of their own . Weld them to snowmobiles end. so we can find -them easier Plant them coast=to-coast when the ice melts. along the tracks of our Put one flag in the window national railway, so 'VIA. • of every donut shop in engineers -can throw away Canada to create a market for their maps. - 16 million more. - . Embed the entire. million Send them to Somalia for flags in the walls around 24 purposes of public burning. - Sussex Drive to keep the- Put them up in all the trailer intruders out and- the parks. in Florida to agitate the Mounties in. rednecks and cause a -vein. to . Put a price=.tag of $50 on burst in Pat Buchanan's neck. - each of the one million flags. Mail the whole million flags As a former school kid, I and use them to pay Brian to households in Spain with - think this would just give our Mulroney in an out-of-court the inscription: "Stick this on children cine -more -thing to settlement. your fishing pole!" - shove flownStink - Make it mandatory .that - Use them to spruce up the Sloanowski's shorts while- every ship entering: the banks of the Niagara River so he's bent over napping. Welland Canal permanently nobody can say Sheila in her pp g' display a Canadian flag, thus previous job; did nothingfor - But if it's pure patriotism givingother countries the we're after here, then i think the environment. one million flags is_ a terrific impression that we have a No, no ... here's the best idea. And here's just a few navy. idea. Organize a rally in things we can do with them. Send one to every house- - 'which one million Canadian Send the very first.flag to hold in Quebec -with the . ta-xpayers demonstrate in Alanis Morisette and tell her Inscription: "Thinking about. front of Revenue -Canada she's welcome to use this you, always." .waving one million flags. word on U.S. network telcyi" Sell one for display purpos- Make that one million white- - sion all she wants. es to the National Art Gallery flags, -Sheila. -. A couple of weeks ago our ,J Deputy Prime Minister, Sheila ."The Shriek" Copps stated that; in. her role as her- itage minister, next year she wants to see one million Canadian flags being waved in this country on -our -newly,. created Flag Day... - - Flag Day, as you know, is yet 'another day celebrating Prime Minister - Jean Chretien's failure•to grasp the Canadian unity crisis. Creating Canadian unity by waving flags is like trying to eliminate the national debt by writing promissory notes. - Neither one will -fly. We've held Flag Day once, a month ago. I think it went well and as a traditionalist, I say we continue the fine - precedent set by our prime minister on this. day. I say each of us, with patriotism -in our hearts, go forth and grab an annoying little geek by the neck and strangle him until he almost blacks out. (1 know, the demand for Preston Manning and - Larry Grossman will be awesome. Well hold some kind of a lot- tery. Okay?) ottery.Okay?) - Sheila, the Betsy Ross of the 90's, specifically said she wanted to see one million flags on the desks of school children by Flag Day next year. I -think this is a had idea. Scam bigg.er than GST. is in the works As far as 1 know, the- road companies, Neer stores, you ready to descend upon us. Dear Editor, P - Watch out Ontarians, the to competition already exists. name it, take increases at will .The prize is pillions of dol - biggest scam ever perpetrated It's simple. Build a generator , for mammoth profits? Do lars that rightfully belongs to on Canadians is in the works, and sell electricity' cheaper corporations invoke the word - all of us. - ,even bigger than thc G.S.T. than is1alreatly availahte' So ',compctitit►n' to lay off thou- i We must remain vigilant • On'tario'Hydrd manage -why would anyone want to ,sands of employees? however, because these buz- menta without thcrapprovhl of • purchase a generator il; as it Ontario Hydro is well and zards kpow how to disguise the Board of Directors 'and in is s,uggcsied, the existing - thriving, and the future is themselves, They call them - concert with the Harris gov- generator (Hydro) is so incl.- bright, despite Farlinger and selves the Right Honourable, ernment are out to indulge. • ficient. • Kupcis et al; not.becauseof the Honourable. the BIite, the themselves in an orgy. Thcy i suggest it is to eliminate them. But hear this, people of Pinstripe, the Megabucks.... arc going to sell our biggest competition not to create •it. Ontario. the vultures are cir- Don't he taken in. It'll cost and greatest asset ostensibly.. Competition? Is this the same cling above, and their beaks ya! to creatc.competition, thereby thing that hanks; insuranceBud Pretty are whGtteul and drooling, reducing our hydro hills. companies. cable t.v_, oil their shoulders haunched, Kincardine, ON Whydo politicians-receivepensions so soon? • Dear Editor, •Just a comment on old age •- pensions. Someone made a remark, saying that political figures receive pensions after seven years or so before age is death. They are ordinary, average Ontarians like you and i, not the •bureaucrats with the six -digit salaries. It is the foremost responsi- bility of -any govermnent.to promote a society where every person it governs has thc opportunity to work, grow and live in dignity, whether they obtain a doctor- ate or quit school at 16. It is the responsibility of the elec- torate to ensure the govern- ment fulfils these obligations. Unions arc an effective means of doing so. Job cre- ation has never been a priori- ty itcm on any governr ent or corporate agenda. Dollars and cents outweigh societal well-being and safety every time. To think otherwise is hcing naive and obtuse. Our present government is very busy teaching us how to hate last fall we hated wel- fare recipients: right now we hate OPSEU workers and next month we will hate Ontario Hydro workers. Who is next'' Teachers? Nurses? Who knows! Last week's edi- torial in the Expositor is proof that thc subversive. draconian strategy the Tories have adopted to sell their common sense revolution is working very well. The dcht monster must he tamed before foreign investors come in and tell us how to run the show, there is no question about that. CONTINUED on page 5 II 65. - i was just wondcring,.doers anyone know •why? -Maybe it's job stress, hut hey. haven't we all got stress sometime or other. • I Lana see why, when everyone else has to wait till age 65, government officials should be any different. It seems a little unfair and one-sided. They're cutting almIast everywhere else! Sincerely, Louise Dick Scaforth; ON Lightning strikes St. Thomas church bell ,FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR - MARCH 20, 1896 TUCKERSMITH WEST END NOTES.- Mr. A. Elcoat rccently.sold a very hand- some Durham bull calf to -Mr. McDougall. of Egmondville, at a good figure. - Mr. S. Noble, of Hullett, has engaged with Mr. S. Johns for the summer months. - Mr. N. Lloyd returned home last Saturday, after an extended visit with relatives at North Bay and Other places. - Mr. G. White has commenced moving to the Couch farm, near Clinton. - Educational sermons will he preached in ,Turner's church next Sunday. by the Rev. J.W. Holmes. of Clinton. Mrs. Campbell. of the Scaforth public school, • left on Wednesday for St. Louis, Missouri. where she will visit a brother whom •she has not seen for many years: Mrs. • Campbell takes this trip in the interest of her health, which. has not been in.a satis- factory state for some time, and she expects to be absent for several months. Her daughter, Miss Fergus. occu- pies Mrs. Campbell's place as teacher during hcr absence. Mr. James.. Cowan, of McKillop; has returned from a two weeks' trip to St. John, New Brunswick.. where he saw his cattle safely on board for transport across the Atlantic. Hc thought the workmen about the vessel the blackest scum of civilization, and says the ship was going to Glascow, but the men seemed to he heading full force for a warmer climate. A party driving over thc north road last Tuesday night, took thc trouble to count -the pitch -holes. Thcy found 263' Ctri the Years Agone between Scaforth and the concession this side of Winthrop. One hundred ,and sixty of these were. counted between Scaforth and Grievc's bridge. - MARCH I8,1921. SEVERE STORM - ONc of the severest electric storms to visit Seaforth in some years occurred shortly after 'seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. Fortunately the storm did not last long. but the lightning was very vivid and continu- ous while it did last. During the height of the storm the hell tower on St. -Thomas' church -was struck, and badly damaged. The con gregation was assembling for the mission service hcing held and the sexton. Mr. Deem, had his hand on the bell rope in the act of ringing the hell, when the holt struck, The current passed through the tirnhcrs, knocked. the paster oft' the walls and burn- ing out the electric lights. and the escape of Mr. Deem seems almost miraculous as he was entirely unhurt. No great damage was done. to the interior of the church and fortunately fire did not break, out. It. was .a close shave for many of the resi- dents in the 'vicinity who' received a had shaking up. A chimney on the Queen's Hotel was also shattered dur- ing the storm. The lights went out all over town, and several transformers were temporarily out of commis- sion. • MARCH 22, 1946 Lengthy and enthusiastical- ly carried out preparations for a "Welcome Home Day" cul, minated on Monday night, when the municipalities of Scaforth, Tuckcrsmith, McKillop and Hibbert Townships paid ,a heartfelt tribute to veterans of ttic Army, Navy and Air Force. Two banquets. one served in Northside United -Church, and the second in First Presbyterian Church. were" attended by nearly 400'veter- ans. and were followed by a program and dance in C'ardnit's Opera Hall. which was .attended by several hun- dred more. At First Church R.E. Shaddick. Warden of Huron County. and Mayor J.J. Cluff, of Scaforth, welcomed the veterans, while the welcome in thio United Church was extended by William Tucr, Warden of Perth County. Messages from Defence Minister Douglas Abbott and W.H. (folding. MP for Huron South, were read at the func- tion. In his telegraphed mes- sage of greeting. Defence Minister Abbott said men and women from the Scaforth district. who had served with the- armed forces, had added lustre not only to their home town, hut to Canada's fight- ing services. "The -pride of all Canadians in the achievement of their boys and girls in the armed forces has shown itself in many different forms." he said. "hut perhaps, unique in Canada, is the idea of setting aside' a special 'Welcome Home Day.' " * * * The 80 -year-old sawmill at the west edge of Staffa vil- lage is I?eing put hack in., commission by a veteran of overseas service in two wars. Ernest R. Allen, who served in the'First Great War as an engineer officer. and in the Second Great War as officer commanding al company of the Canadian Forestry Corps, has applied gratuity money to the purchase of the old mill, which he is re-equipping and expects to have in operation about mid-April. MARCH 25 -1971 Scaforth. Bantams won top honours at a tournament in Harriston over the weekend' when teams from across Western Ontario competed in several divisions. Team members' include: Kevin Bennett. Barry Lane, - Ross Govier, Dave McClure. Cord Carnochan. Pat Devereaux. Gary Phillips. Brian Lane„ Danny Nolan, Bill O'Shea.'Marvin Kale, Louis Arts, Kevin Kerr. Coaching .staff is Tom Phillips and Jack Muir. *s* Provision of a sanitary sewer outlet for Scaforth Public School moved a step closer Tucsday.night whcn- council at a "special meeting accepted -in principal a pro= posal from town engineer, James F. MacLaren Ltd. of London to tie the school into the existing town system. Estimate cost is $76,000. Necessity for sewer service arose with the decision of Huron Board of Education to enlarge Seaforth Public School so as to accommodate additional arca pupils. The school now is served by a septic tank and this will be eliminated by the proposed construction necessitating either a new septic tank installation or a town connec- tion.