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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-04-03, Page 1Hockey Seaforth bantams meet Sweden team in Ooderich. See pas! $ Library Move back. to renovated library complete. See page 2 Confrontation OPP Sgt. responds to story that police led confrontation at Ipperwash. See page 17 Your Community Newspaper Since_ 1860 - Seaforth, Ontario Briefly Spring ahead one hour r r Don't forget to set your clocks ahead when you go to bed- Saturday night. Spring ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Easter Sunday: - Director makes over $100,000 Education Director Paul Carroll • made a salary . $107,740 in, 1995, accol•ding to Huron County Board .of tilucation figures released undc4 the new puhlic sector -salary disclosure act. Nobody at Seaforth• Community Hospital made more than $100,0(X).-- -- Huron •County • . crown •-attourncy Robert Morris made $ 118,274.97 last year, and an additional .$347.06 4n , benefits. .Ontario's new so called "sunshine".- disclosure legis- lation is unprecedented in • Canada and was passed in - January. 'It is aimed not only at government employees in the official public sector, but at.any-body-that receives as• little as $ 120,000 in transfer payments from the province, who must -now disclose pub- lically funded salaries-. of $ 1M(HH) or more - Brocefield man in. fair condition The condition of a •Brucelield man, injured when buried in salt last month in ah accident at the Goderich salt mine. has hcen upgraded from critical to fair! Jim LeBeau remains in London's Victoria Hospital. Sift() Salt Mine manager Rowland Howe says -no details on the March. 15 inci- dent will be released until the investigation is over. • Satellite problems affect Seaforth Satellite problems tested the patience of cable TV sub= scribers in Seaforth, and the rest of the country. last Tuesday night. The majority of stations were off the aiu after a power failure likely wiped out half of Tclsat Canada's $300 -million Anik E -I communications satellite permanently, from whence these stations' signals are relayed. All radio channels on the E -I went dead at 3:47 p.m. EST The problems were patched up, temporarily at least, by the next day when space was leased from U.S. firms and some stations were switched to Canada's Anik E- 2, to channels reserved for recently approved pay -per view TV. Last week's satellite proh- km also seriously hampered production for national broadcasting and news distri- bution systems, cut off tele- phone service to the far north and affected credit-card com- panies. Both of Tclsat Canada's Anik E satellites were also temporarily crippled in January 1994 because of unusual geophysical events. Exclusive interview Mi1itia1roup forms in Kip en BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Editor The Huron Expositor was contacted recently by a Kippen area resident who claims to have formed a para- military group similar to the Michigan Militia. The caller, who wished to remain anonymous, provided• directions to a house and location of a. small arsenal of weapons and explosives as proof of the organization's existence. The disgruntled man said ' 1)e formed the underground group because of dissatisfac- tion with governments at all levels. He would not reveal how rnany'people belonged tothe organizatipn whose main philo ,�:`'y is "anti- governme "It's n r'what's happy ing to anadians. You W ' to work but there's no jobs. And taxes are wayout of control," he said. "We just want to make . sure we're going to get our slice of the pie." The militia's organizer admitted the group has a number of illegal weapons. "You can get anything you want if you know the right people," he said. He admits he tried joining the Kippen Gun Club but was denied membership because he was "too.raadal." I_was just too holiticat for the club. So I formed my own group. We want to make CONTINUED on page Huron County Council. Plowmen receive cheque for Huron '99 plowing match BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Editor - Neil McGavin,and- Paul .Betties of the Huron County Plowmen Association were presented with a cheque for - $5,000 from Huron Warden Bill Clifford at the March 28 session - of county council.' 'This is the first installment of the county's contribution' towards the upcoming international Plowing Match (in Huron in 1999). These. gentlemen #lave a record of success and I'm sure it will he nothing but successful," said Clifford. McGavin told county coun' cil the next thing on the IPM committee's agenda, is to come up with a logo and a theme. "So. far we've been. using 'Huron r99'. and 'Year of the Great One'. We're try- ing to get the Great One (Wayne Gretzky - No. 99) to come and open it." ' There will be a promotion- al,c!ommittee formed soon," said McGavin. He thanked the county for the cheque and said, "We're proud of Huron." County made arrangements for local meat inspections ' Huron County's health committee had made arrange- ments to support municipali- ties in the .county that appointed meat inspectors who met the necessary condi- tions of OMAFRA and the health unit, in case the OPSEU -strike continued.. "In case this happens again. I hope the province would be prepared to ensure that meat inspection never stops." said health hoard chair Ron Murray. Reeve. of •McKillop Township. Turnhcrry Reeve Brian McBurney thought the health board's solution .shouidi have come sooner. "i'm' pleased the hoard of health has decided to take this action but I'm a little concerned about the time it took them. Some of us acted on our own. I hope that in the future when something like this that affects our small business happens, the board acts with all expediency to get the.problem solved as -soon as possible;" 'said McBurney. New Huron Medical Officer Huron's Board of Health has entered into an agreement with the Middlesex -London Board of health to share ser- vices. "As of Monday, April 1, Dr. Graham Pollen will he the acting Medical Officer of Health for Huron," said chair Murray. "The hoard of health is working to making this a permanent arrangement after a trial period of a month or two." Murray also thanked Dr. McGregor for filling in. Mickle raises concerns over Home Care dismissal Exeter Reeve Bill Micklc raised concerns that county council was not provided with information that led to the recent dismissal of Joanne Jasper, administrator o1• Home Care for. Huron. County papers recently ran a letter to the editor from local doctors who had concerns about the dismissal. "I have been deeply con- cerned about what i've been reading in the paper about Home Care. 1 think it kegs for us as councillors to make sure that the puhlic receives the information that is required and an explanation of what has happened at the hoard of health," said Mickle. CONTINUED on page 6 April 3, 1996 — 75 -Cents Plus GST PHOTO BY GREGOR CAMPBELL WEAT:HERPERSON London television weather forecaster Jay Campbell was at Seaforth Town Hall early last Monday morning to show his support for the Huron chapter of Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. The event was billed "Morning of Stars" by organizers who gave advice on healthy eating, among other things. - - Baby boomers getting tubbier, say experts BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff "Food is not the enemy. Food is good." "Baby boomers" are preoc- cupied with fads and the fat content of foods, but all gen- erations in general still seem to be "going in the wrong direction" sitting around and getting tubbier these days, say experts who recently spoke on heart disease and health in Seaforth. or. Murray Huff says slightly fewer of us arc smok- ing, but fewer are also exer cising and maintaining a healthy weight, and all of these, along with age, are major risk factors in heart disease. Dr. Huff, from London, docs research funded by thc Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. He spoke at an early morning happening called "Morning of Stars" put on by the Huron chapter at town hall early fast Monday morning, March. 25. All the experts preach pre- vention. If you eat half as much twice as often, or buy fat free foods but then opt to nibble thc "King" size, guilt free, you aren't doing yourself any. favours. And if such things as a garlic and vinegar diet, such as those splashed on the covers of the tabloids at check-out counters, could work thc wonders they claim. " I'd be on it," Dr. Huff says. He says the apparent swing to "fat free" is marketing, and doesn't even come close to living up to all the hype. Huff says. NO TiME People today lack time and motivation, with job stress playing a part, totakc,proper preventative care of their heart. ' The theme was repeated by former Huron - County' Medical Officer of Health. Dr. Martin Bokhout. who observed fast-food sales 'arc up 25 per cent in Canada and on this continent, - Fast food is one of the biggest sources of the wrong kinds of fat in our collective diet. "We don't allow ourselves the time," Dr. Bokhout said. "We are on the Internet or watch TV, instead of walking around the block." Local nutritionist Lorraine Devereaux of Seaforth spoke on the importance of a hal- anced and variable diet on the health of the heart, for all ages. She says public aware- ness of thc relationship has increased compared to five years ago, but knowing thc facts is sometimes. only the beginning of thc battle. Parents should stay away from extremes in eating, and try not to pass along their food -related anxieties to their children.. "Food is not the enemy," she said. "Food is good. Children will cat and they arc capable of regulating their intake." COUCH POTATOES It is still most difficult to convince "meat and potatoes" men of thc benefits of more -.fibre in their diets. she Said, •which along with smoking and a sedci•!ary, lifestyle results in "couch -potatoes" and -a great many middle- -aged paunches or "spare tires." that dramatically increase the risk ot• heart dis- case. particularly for men 45 . or older. "We can no longer afford to treat victims at the end oI' the - cycle." Dt. •Hull says. empha- sizing prevention is far less costly in the long run. Heart. disease in Canada is down-frorn-peak -levels in 1960, to about the same level it was in.1935. Dr. Huff_ says. it cyst our economy a - staggering $3.245.000,000 in the latest year for which lig- - ores are available. most of- that fthat in lost wages and pro- . 'duction for those in their. productive; wage-earning prime, - The foundation raised $21 - Million for heart and Stroke. research in- 1995. Huron chapter president Ian Kculs says. • He and county co-ordinator Smith thanked the Seaforth and McKillop Chairs for February's annual fundrais— ing campaign. Nancy and Mike Hak and Mary Vanden Henget. at the 9 a.m. get- toethcr attended by only a handful of people. which included a cameo appearance by London television wcath- crperson Jay Campbell. He talked briefly about the • challenges of forecasting and automation these days. and', mentioned how heart disease had killed his father and grandfather. and recently felled friends in the television business, such as sportscaster Pete James now recovering from heart problems.