HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-06-12, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, June 1Z, 1990 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager • & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sdes PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds PAVE iCOTT Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL 32 50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T SENIORS. 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G IT USA.8. foreign 32 50 o year in advance, plus $78 00 postage, G S T exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 -Main St , Seaforth. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Eouncit Letters to the Editor -) Federal election `gag law' seen as unconstitutional Dear Editor: The federal,govcrnment has been thwarted in its effort to re -impose its oppressive elec- tion gag law thanks to .a unanimous ruling by the Court 'of Appeal in Alberta. . On June 5, the Court refused a government appeal to ovcr- turn-a 1993_ lower court deci= sion which had declared the infamous electoral gag law to be unconstitutional. . It was- a crushing setback for Prime Minister' Jean Chretien and the political establishment hut a major victory for all Canadians who cherish our fundamental free- doms. - •- Introduced by the Mulroney ,govcrnrrlent in 1993, the gag law threatened citizens with up to five years' imprison- ment for spending more than $1.000. individually or as a • • • i 4 .1. • group, to support or oppose political parties or candidates during elections. The National Citizens' Coalition immediately sup- ported a legal challenge to the gag law and in June 1993,. the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ruled that it violated Canadians' freedoms of -speech, association and their right to an -informed vote. Now that an Appeal Court has upheld that ruling, isn't it time that the.Chretien gov- ernment scrapped this dan- gerous law? Threatening citi- zens with jail for peacefully - expressing their political beliefs at election time is just plain wrong. Yours truly, David Somerville President The National Citizens' Coalition - r PHOTO BY BOB NEWNHAM HISTORICAL PASSPORT - Dorothy Williams, member of the Van Egmond Foundation Board of Directors, presents Bill Carnochan, Reeve of Tuckersmith Township, with a "Passport to History" on Saturday. The passport entitles the holder to admission to eight attractions including the Van Egmond House in Egmondville, the Gallery in Stratford, the Stratford -Perth Museum, Millbank Information Centre, Agri - Tours in Stratford, St. Marys Museum, Stratford -Perth Archives and Perth County Historical Society. Passports will be on sale at Nifty Komers (formerly Bob and Betty's) and the Egmondville Country Store after June 14. Hi Lites qualify for international competition Scaforth's Harmony Hi l.itcs earned enough points while finishing third at an arca ladies choral contest at the -end of May, to qualify for an international competition later this ycar in St. John, Ncw Brunswick. A press release from thc local singers notes the Hi .Lites will be very busy fund- raising for the trip between now and then, selling cheese, frozen baked goods and meat pies, and those that might wish to support can contact a member. Canadian Senate goes to pot If you're not already sitting down, please do so. The Canadian Senate, our very own 104 -member tribute to arthritis and -old lace is about to come out in favour of legalizing marijuana. I am not hallucinating. Quebec Senator Pierre - Claude Nolin, who admits to smoking hashish in college, agrees with his colleagues on the legal and constitutional affairs committee who believe the punitive approach to possessing marijuana is not working and for the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who possess small amounts of the natural drug, it should be legalized. Well, this certainly explains why the Senate had been meaning to do something useful since its inception in 1867, but just hasn't gotten around to it. . "Yeah, we were planning on killing that NAFTA deal and then... I don't know... oh yeah, the Quebec separation thing came along and... say, roll me another bomber there Luke... and we were all set to solve that problem and - then... and.then...man, do you know that your eyebrows look like a couple of black dolphins jumping over two. pool hoops at Marineland? Wow! Amazing man, - really...amazing!" Everybody's always asking, what's Preston Manning been smoking but until now, few have questioned why he spends so much time in the - washroom over in the Senate chambers. . The Senate's pro -cannabis campaign sure explains a lot of things. Before the senators indicated they would amend Bill C-8 to de -criminalize marijuana, most people walking past their building thought the sign "Keep On Grass" was the result of'a typo in the print shop: In the past when senators were -absent in the house and said to be "on the pot", most. observers believed it was due to an over abundance of bran in their diet. - A few people became suspicious when senators insisted on real poppies for - Remembrance Day but none of them could recall why we celebrate the holiday. - R.C.M.P. were tipped off.to a possible drug problem when Senator Pat Carney was overheard in a routine wiretap, bragging to a friend that the chocolate chip cookies they serve in the Senate dining room have a street value of $30 each. - ' Ride for Heart - June 23 in Stratford Huron Chapter raises $4,000 with Big -Bike -Ride Recently a waitress in the dining room was fired for using the dark Columbian . blend as coffee. I became suspicious when free trade was first mentioned and the Senate insisted the first country we should deal with was not America but Morocco. ' Yeah, they don't call it the Upper House for nothing. • Aides say that on some days, the senators are higher than their blood pressure. At this point the lobbying by senators is strong but subtle. "I am in favor of decriminalizing marijuana" says New Brunswick Senator Rose -Marie Losier-Cool. Coincidently, that is her real name. In an attempt to attract support from Cheech & : Chong followers and Grateful Deadheads, the senator's remarks were heartily - endorsed by Senator Pat Carney -Groovy and Senator Lowell Murray-Farout. A rally is planned for Parliament Hill next week in which Canadian Senators will give passers-by the peace sign and chant: "Paul is dead": The marijuana issue in the Senate is split along party lines. The Conservatives want it legalized, the Liberals want it subsidized and the NDP don't really care as.long as the farms that -grow it are heavily unionized. Okay, so those things I - made up but the Senate really is about to propose either the legislation or decriminalization of marijuana. . I would add my own amendment to Bill C-8; the • The third -annual "Ride for Heart" in Stratford, spon- sored by the The Ride and Stroke Foundation, is slated for Sunday, June 23. The 25 - km event begins at 9 a:m. The Huron chapter of the foundation raised about $4,000 with its "Big Bike Ride" for research- at St. -Christopher's Beach in Goderich at the end of May. . A team from town called the "Scaforth Hearthrobs" was one four- that took turns riding -the special 30 -person hike. - In addition, the county chapter, ,now - has its Children's - Dream 'Home. fundraiser up and showing in Goderich, with the draw to be held at the annual Zurich Bean Fest in August. - legalization of marijuana for all but contact lens wearers. At university in Waterloo in . 1 %9 four ofus prepared to watch a Montreal Canadiens playoff game on television at Robbie Misner'shouse by passing around a joint and • making a pizza from -scratch. • My job was to chop up the onions and Jalopena peppers. In a stoned state, I have to tell you, it was quite an honor to be entrusted with the sharp object. At the end of this task which took about art hour more than it should -have I began to cry. I don't know if it was the onions or the fact the four of us had been giggling non-stop since noon hour over a joke that had no punch line. - Anyway I went into the washroom and began removing my contact lenses before I realized I had not washed my hands. . As I recall, sometimes when you smoke marijuana you're not quite as alert as you might otherwise be. Frankly,. you're not quite as alert as Italian marble might otherwise be. The scream that came from within that washroom sent the other three guys scurrying - over a backyard fence where they made pact never to smoke that stuff every again.- - Words fail to describe the pain but to this day I'm surprised the Jalopena contact lens manoeuvre has not been officially adopted as an Iraqui interrogation technique. Please, put that on the warning labels once the stuff - is legal. That and the phone number of.a pizza joint that delivers. More 9-1-1 cell calls More than 50,000 cellular 9-1-1 telephone calls are made daily in North America, vastly outnumbering those' made from traditional wire- line telephones." states a recent press release from Bell Mobility. "This number is astounding given that the cel- lular phone industry is little - •over a decade old." - - • Keating's Pharmacy turns 100 in `71 FROM THE PAGFS OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR JUNE 19, 1896 EGMONDVILLE NOTES - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welsh, of, Stratford, spent a day with friends here in -the early part of the week. They came up on a tandem bicycle. - Mr. John Dohie. , jr., arrived home from the west last week. He had been working in Duluth for some time, hut failing health rendered it advisable for him to come home. - What's wrong with our county House of Refuge? Another death was announced last,week. At this ratethere will soon be no inmates for that interesting establishment. It used to be that county and township wards were said to have nine lives, but our people have hit upon a plan of changing all this with a vengeance. No wonder some of the inmates run away. Life is sweet. even to them. KIPPEN NOTES - Mr. D.C. McLean, who prides himself on having the finest herd of steers in this vicinity, had them photographed on Saturday last. - Mr. John Thompson, Who has been pursuing his studies at Ottawa, is now paying a visit to the parental home of Mrs. George Thompson. - Our foot ball club goes to Seaforth on Saturday, the 20th, to com- pete with three other clubs, Alma, Egmondvillc and the high school for the cup. We hope to hear of our boys being successful in bringing home the cup. Play will begin at 2 o'clock. JUNE 17, 1921 SERIOUS FIRE - Shortly after seven o'clock on Friday morning last, fire was discov- ered in one of the stacks in the yard of the Canada Flax Mils, Limited, on Goderich Street East, and before the fire was got under control, six large stackscomprising some 100 tons of material, had gone up in smoke. Some 'of this material was to have becn spread as soon as the hay crop had been taken off. while the balancc•was ready for working as soon as the mill re -opened. Owing to thc very inflam- mable nature of the material it was absolutely impossible to save any of the stacks, but the firemen by a quick run, good judgement and good work. saved the large frame sheds and 'crop. and the seed house. a large frame building on a brick foundation, which was full of flax seed and tow, and which was situated not• more than ten feet from the end of the row of burning stacks. • LOCAL BRIEFS - Mr. Robert Bell has returned from a business trip to the west. - Miss Annie Carnochan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Carnochan, of Tuckersmith, who spent the past year in California. has returned to her home. - Miss Edith Scott, of Toronto University, is home for the holidays. - Mr. James Devereaux is moving into the residence on Coleman street he purchased from Mr. A. Davidson. Mr. Devereaux has made extensive improve- ments to the property and has now one of the finest resi- dences in Seaforth. JUNE 21, 1946 Arrangements have been. completed whereby Seaforth and district will co-operate in the National Clothing Collection during the weeks of June 17 to June 29. In Seaforth a house-to-house collection will take place on Wednesday afternoon, June 26. Donations of clothing from rural donors will be col- lected by rural mail couriers. Such parcels must be secure- ly tied and of size to fit a mail hag. . The aim of the National Clothing Collection is the gift of at least one garment from every man, woman and child in Canada. That should not be too difficult in a country where the people are among the hest fed and the best clothed in the world. Sgt. W. Wilbee, son of Mrs. H. Wilbee, Scaforth, is among those veterans who arc expected to arrive in Halifax June 21 aboard the Ile de France. Sgt. Wilbee who has been overseas more than two years, was wounded twice and saw action in France. Holland. Belgium and Germany. Also expected to return are Pte. J.M. Johnson, Seaforth, and L/Cpl. L.A. Westlake, Bayfield. - , *** Before leaving their McKillop home for their new residence in Seaforth, Mr. and Mrs. Herald Lawrence and family were honored by their neighbours and friends at a social evening in their home. The evening was spent with social chat and a pro- gram of interesting .contests, solos and readings. . *** The 14th annual reunion of the Earl family was held at the Seaforth Lions Park on Saturday, and was favored with ideal weather. Nearly 100 persons from Detroit, Montreal, Tugaske, Sask., Brigden, Kitchener, Listowel, Monkton, Brussels and Gorrie. A sumptuous dinner was served, atter which the president, Thomas Earl. Mitchell, conducted the busi- ness. One minute of silence was observed, in loving mem- ory of Mrs. John Cathers. JUNE 24, 1971 A Seaforth business has been honored for more than 100 -years of service to the public. - Merle Hoover, of Keating's Pharmacy Ltd.: on Main Street in the Smith Block. was presented with a plaque designating the store as a Centennial Pharmacy at a recent convention of the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The business was estab- lished in, 1862 by Robert Lumsden. Later he was joined by Alex Wilson who in turn bought the business. Charles Williams succeeded him and later.was succeeded by E. Umbach. Mrs. Hoover's father, the late J.E. Keating bought the business in 1923 and operated it until his sudden death in 1967. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have run the establishment since that time. * * * Twelve -year-old Linda Godkin of RR 4 Walton was presented with the Walt McNichol Memorial Trophy by Walt McNichol Jr. of London for supremacy in the Ladies Open Class of the Ontario Open Class of the Ontario Fiddling Championship held in Hensafl on the weekend. *** A special training and prac- tise session for area firemen was held Monday night at the Union Gas Depot in Seaforth. About 70 men from as far away as Chesley attended the session which included prac- tical training in extinguishing of gas fires as well as a movie on the subject. •