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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-05-15, Page 44—THE HURON EXPOSITOR; May 11, 1990 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sales PAT ARMES • Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions 8 Classifieds PAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter )OAN MELLEN - typesetter, proofreader BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper 5UBSCRWPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32;50 a year,. in advance, plus 2.28 G.5.T SENIORS - 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.L. USA & Foreiprt: 32.50a yearn advance, plus S/8.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATE. - Published weekly by Signor -Star Publishing at 100 Main St., Scalarth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held at 5eaforth,Onksrio. Advertising is accepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the odvertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable oNoivwnce' for signature, will not • be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rote. M the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services ot a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely on offer b sell and may be withdrawn at any time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited marsuscrfpts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies ore to be sent to The Huron Expositor. . w•dn..aex. May 15, 1990 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Shset.,Seoforth Telephone (S 19) 527-0240 fax (419) 527-2858 • Mailing Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1W0 Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper- . • Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontorio Press Council . Letters to the Editor Bluewater students do great job at Van Egmond grounds . Dear Editor, In most institutions and schools, 'people who work to build up merit points arc rewarded` in one way or another. This holds true -in thc Bluewatcr Centre as well. Inmates are given points for good behaviour, obedience, courtesy etc., but their reward is work. Only those in class • A, arc 'allowed -out- to work. Anyone passing the Van Egmond house on Tuesday would. have seen three of these boys hard at work clearing the- yard. They arrived at nine o'.clock and by -eleven, they had the front , yard all cleared and burned. :Their two guards had visited the premises. last week to see what equipment they needed- to- bring for the job. They arrived with 'a trailer loaded with rakes. wheel harrows, lawn mowers and gas. When they finished clearing the, debris and leaves, they cut the lawn and did a super job of it. I went down at 'one o'clock to clear out the ,flower beds and discovered washed-out lily of the valley. 1 asked onc of theboys to load his wheel -_harrow with a couple of pail- fuls of earth. He had a blank :expression on.hi.s face and said, "Earth? What earth?" It was my turn to have a blank -ex,pression so I said, "Soil, clay mud." "Oh, now i know," he said. He brought it to me and it was exactly what 1 wanted. I was most impressed with the three of them, especially in their attitude to .their guards, They called the male guard 'Sir' and_ thc female guard 'Ma'am.' They .were excellent workers and hope to come back every Thursday afternoon :to cut grass. They looked to be about 15 Or 16 years of age and arclearning something useful. Thc guard' told me whcn they go tci bed thcy are completely exhaust- ed after the exercise and fresh air. Dorothy Williams Seaforth Support for education blitz i)car Editor. The Huron Education Coalition of teachers' federa- tions wishes to extend a sir- yerc thank' -you to the public for their largely positive sup- port of Our Education Blitz last weekend. Many people stopped to chat about thc issues and almost 100% from young people. to par- ents. to senior citizens - indi- cated a sincere interest in the• 'cuts to education 'and the need for education finance reform.' We would also like to thank the Huron -Perth -County Roman Catholic School Board and the Huron County Board of Education for their • support and input into the campaign. More thanks go to the helpers who stuffed pam- phlets in record time. And of course, we are proud of and grateful to the 83 committed teacher volunteers from the. elementary and secondary, public and separate systems, who worked together and gave up their Friday night and Saturday morning to dis- tribute literature to the pub- lic! • Your dedication to the chil- dren cf this province is won- derful! Huron Education Coalition Solve summer boredom Dear Editor,' This summer you can solve boreGom by looking into thc summer fun program, July 8 - August 9. The programis a communi- ty-based program designed to ensure an active and safe summer for your child(ren). Children from three to 12 years of age will be involved in child -centred activities promoting individual inter- ests. The child/staff ratio is: snoopy school (3-5yrs), 8 children to one staff; playschool (6-8yrs), 12 chil- dren to onc staff; playground (9- 12yrs), 13 children to one staff. (Volunteers are not included in this ratio.) Special trips include: bbq and swim, week one; Wally World/Storybook Gardens, week two; African Lion Safari, week three; Goderich beach, week four; Pioneer Sports World, week five. The summer fun program is presented by the Scaforth Recreation Department work- ing in co-operation with the Scaforth Co-operative Children's Centre, as well as- other sother community resources. I am looking forward to anoth- er successful summer. Gamcs, sports, crafts and other exciting activities will be enjoyed by all! In closing, I would like to stress the importance of vol- unteering for future careers in childcare, teaching or recre- ation. Volunteers will he greatly appreciated. Registration flyers will he distributed to area schools within a few weeks. Please register early! Peggy Ryan How (not) to go salmon fishing At the mid -point of my (too short) one-week holiday last week, when I realized 1 couldn't finish painting my house and attain spiritual well being all in one week, I went fishing. I was invited for the second year.in a row to the annual Grand Bend Salmo and Trout Derby medial lay a bunch of newspaper, radio and TV guys' (and one gal - they like it when you - call them 'gals') who know nothing about fishing try to catch something. And i did. A big red sunburn on my face. For the second year in.a row we media -types came up fishless. (OoQes! I wasn't sup- posed to mention that). The - real reasonis we don't know the first thing about catching fish and we wanted to leave them in the. water for all thc participants. I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm trying to pro- mote thc Grand Bend fishing derby. Fin -two years in a row the organizers have delivered sunny skies, all the barbecued fish, burgers, sausages and assorted food you could cat and endless supplies of liquid refreshments all for no charge to us media people. (Yes, I toxo, will endorse your community event for thc . above arrangements). This year, i even had the privilege of being aboard Grand Bend Harbourmaster . Bob Roney's luxury liner. It was by far the best of the three boats that hit the waters south of Grand Bend last Wednesday on the fishless expedition. It was like fishing off the side of the Love Boat. The harbourmaster has a huge 36 -foot. no it was 72 - feet, well it was large enough to land a plane on, or at least a big seabird. Okay, it could hold a flock of albatross. It was big. it could've used an elevator. It had a kitchen with it's own cooking staff. We had all the modem fish- ing gadgetry - two fish find- ers, two of them -there things that drop your lines down deep with them "cannon- balls" on them - yeah, those things. We hooked up four lines. One of them got tan- gled -with another one and we lost about 20 feet of good nylon but I wasn't supposed to mention that. Then old sports hound Chris Skalkos of the Exeter T -A (that's Times -Advocate for anyone who's still reading) shit a - bungy cord into the waters of Lake Huron while trying to . adjust one of them -there down -riggers - that's what they're called. Then one o(.the poles snapped in haU as former Seaforth resident turned drag racer Ron Muir was diligent- ly reeling in a line wi.h.noth- ing on it. Meanwhile, some where en the sixth floor of the boat, the HARBOUR- MASTER (a.k.a. 'The Candyman') was doing some navigational charting and pouring refreshments for the crew. I was enjoying the mid=day sun's maximum UV rays - the only thing i caught. (Except for the mild intoxica- tion of those drinks with thc umbrellas in them, except we had no umbrellas). ,At least this year I actually got to reel in a line when we had the first and only "false hit" of the day. And that, to me, was the height of fishing excitement. I swear there was a fish on that line, just for an instant, until it got close enough to see the four of us bumbling at the end of the - boat (some nautical types call that 'the stern') and then it laughed and the lure fell out. When it looked like we weren't going to catch any- thing for the day, that's when 1 dove in the icy lake with a knife between my teeth and came up with that five-foot barracuda. Yep. At least, that was what I was imagining as i was experiencing sun - :stroke. Yeah, we didn't have too many fishin' tales back at the 'ol barbecue after but every- opc had fun staring at my sunburn and wondering if the bright red.scared off the fish. No sun -screen for mc. boy. I'm the type of guy who takes a roast beef out of the oven with his hare -hands. Yep, builds up the calluses. (Please kids,don't try -this at home). It sure was a fun vacation, especially whcn i went to the doctor on Monday when it was all over and he told me i had "persistent bronchitis" (or in Latin: harkius phleg- mius). So as I sit hack in an -anti- biotic daze, i can almost pit turc "the one that got away." (I mean my oi.e week of holi- days). PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT THE ART OF SALMON FISHING - Had nothing to do with this photo in which legendary Grand Bend Harbourmaster Bob Roney, far left, Exeter Times -Advocate sports editor Chris Skalkos, and former Seaforth resident and Grand Bend drag racer Ron Muir were alluded by salmon and trout at the 8th Annual Grand Bend Salmon and Trout Derby's media day. The derby officially runs from May 18-27. (So head out and catch all the fish we left behind!) mFires leave two families hom FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON. EXPOSITOR MAY 22, 1986 NEW",ROAD GRADER - Mr. George Murray has been doinggood work on several of the streets of Seaforth with his new grader, and particu- larly on North Main street, where he has rounded off the road in good shape. There are many roads'in the county which are becoming flat in the centre and high on either side, so that the water lies on them and makes them soft and easily cut up and damaged by the traffic over them, whereas, if the sides were trimmed off and the road rounded up, they would shed the water and be much more easily and cheaply kept in good repair. By the use of this grading machine they could be rounded up and put in good shape for a trifling cost. MAY 20, 1921 LOCAL BRIEFS - Many complaints arc being made about the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks in town. Thc practice is. a dangerous one to pedestrians, and besides there is a town bylaw prohibiting it, and if offend- ers arc wise thcy will heed this warning. * *• DUBLIN NEWS - Mr. Joseph Shea left on Saturday for Calgary, Alberta. He spent a pleasant month renewing old acquaintances and was amazed to sec how his own native village had improved. The new continua- tion school, the L.J. Looby creamery, the. Racho garage, Bless in In the Years Agorae �L the new Standard Bank, the new undertakers, furniture and pianodealer, the old opera house remodeled, Mr. Peter Dill's store remodeled, Mr.Wm. Hills' new hard- ware store opened on the east side of thc street, Mr. Wm. Stapleton's new flour and feed store. Mr. Joseph Nagle's new residence on Laurier ave. west, Mr. Nelmcs' new butcher shop opened in the centre of the business district, Miss Mary McDaid's new home on Laurier ave. remodeled and several other new houses erected. yes, and two new houses are in course of erec- tion by Mr. John Bcnnewies, ex -MPP, and several other improvements in the village made. Mr. Shea thinks that many have prospered here in the past eight years as well as in Calgary and Edmonton, where Mr. Shea makes his home. MAY 24, 1946 Expenditures involving more than $1,000,000 will be made in a highway improve- ment program in Huron and Huron -Bruce ridings by the Ontario Government, it has been announced by the sitting members. Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor and John Hanna. Included in the program is a new bridge at Bayfield, paving of a large portion of the Blue Water Highway and the resurfacing of the Hensall through Zurich to St. Joseph highway. The Seaforth High School Board has appointed two new teachers to the staff, their duties to commence in September. Miss Audrey Hall, of London, will teach home eco- nomics. while F.A. Dobson. Toronto, will be in charge of physical education. MAY 27,1971 TWO HOMES. BARN DESTROYED WHEN FIRE STRIKES AREA - A series of unrelated fires in the Seaforth area this pastweek has caused damage approach- ing $100,000. The fires destroyed two farm build- ings, levelled two rural homes and destroyed an auto- mobile. On Tuesday night fire lev- elled a barn on the farm of Bob Walter, RR 3, ,Kippen. Lost in the blaze were several registered hogs, a combine, mix mill, wagon, seed drill and a quantity of straw. About half the 134 pigs in the barn when the fire broke out were rescued. Loss was estimated at $25,000 when fire levelled a driving shed on the farm of Harry Johnston, RR 1 Dublin, six miles north of Seaforth, about 11 p.m. Friday night. The Johnstons praised '71 quick action by the Sea o.-th and Blyth Fire Brigades 'or saving their large barn. one wall of which was blazing when firemen from Seaforth arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Malone. RR 3 Dublin. and their three children were left homeless when fire com- pletely destroyed their Hibbert Township home Wednesday afternoon. The flames were fanned by gale force winds. No one was home when the fire broke out about 4 p.m. The Seaforth Fire Department. who answered the call, were unable to save the two-storey frame struc-, turc located about four miles southeast of Seaforth. The high winds, gusting to 50 miles per hour had turned the structure into an inferno by the time firemen arrived. An automobile belonging to Ernie Pym was destroyed Wednesday afternoon whgn it caught tire near Kippen. • The alarm which came to Seaforth moments after the Seaforth Brigade had left for Hibbert Township to fight the Malone fire was transferred to Brucefield. Fire levelled the two storey frame home of Mr. and Mrs. John Benjamin, RR 1 Blyth and their seven children on Monday evening. The Benjamin home was east of Londesboro in Hullett. No one was home when the blaze was discovered by passerby about 9 p.m. The family had gone to Londesboro to watch a fire- works display.