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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-08-21, Page 44-TH2 14UI1ON IXPOSiTOA, August 21, 1NS Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager • & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sdes PAT ARMES - Office Manger DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions 8 Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELI, - 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 o year, in advance, plus 2.10 G S.T USA & Foreign. 32 50 o year in advance, plus 578 00 postage, G.S T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RALES Published weekly by Signal Star. Publishing at 100 Main St., Seaforth. 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Box 69, - Seaforth, Ontario, NOK IWO Member.ol the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Letters to the Editor Speed kills pet To Whom 1t May Concern I am Writing this letter to express my concerns about the way people in town drive. They seem to think that every road in town is the MacDonald Cartier Freeway. They seem to have no regards to people walking in the arca of town. almost hitting the pedestrians trying to cross the road. Thcy do not have any regards to people pets in the arca. I know this as my pct of 17 years was run over just . recently by a person who was travelling fast for being in a residential arca. Also these . same drivers think that a stop sign is an ornament not stop- ping. 1 have also.scen vehi- cles driving around without headlights at 2 in the morn- ing.- The only reason why I • am writing this letter is, even though my wife and I are devastated by the death of our dog, my main concern is if its an animal that they are running over, what's next. Will small children in this area of town be next. Complaint to police and city hall seem to fall on deaf -ears. Its time that the people showed concern to protect our youth. My wife and I - have rio small children, but are worried about the grief that a young couple might have if it was their child. We have an idea, since our dog was killed. Politicians and police always say that it is a minor incident. We don't - need our youth killed next. Allan Patrick Seaforth One-armed bandits pop up all over 1 want you to stop reading this column right now and take this newspaper into your bathroom. Okay, now don't sit down. Gently pull down on the handle of the toilet and jump back out of the way. Alright, now tell me, did you hear a whooshing sound, with water rushing out the bottom of the bowl, or did three red cherries click into place on a video screen on top of the toilet and did approxi- mately $200 in loonies fall onto the floor? So it was a flush and not some kind of royal flush? Okay, you're safe for now. The Hams government gambling squad has not got to your neighbourhood yet. But believe me, they're on their way. In this province's rush to become Caesar's Palace and Poorhouse, your toilet, your television, even your pop-up toaster is a potential one- armed bandit.. Have you noticed the evolu- tion of the wage-earning ethic' in this country has evolved from fur traders, miners and farmers to people who work the flight numbers of recent airline crashes into their weekly lottery picks, believe- ing it's a million -dollar answer to life? And just when you thought we had enough games of chance, where desperate peo- ple can drop their live savings - here come 20,00.0 video lot - tery terminals. First they'll be installed at racetracks and charity casinos, then restaurants and bars, and eventually on parking metres _ and in the hats of panhandlers -- "Will work for $10 chips." Premier Mike Harris has been dubbed 'The Godfather of Gambling' for his govern ment's bold tax grab that will net them $450 million annual- ly. I think this is unfair because if you kook at his gambling, take on one hand, then his . social program cuts and taxing Dastardly deeds. Editor of Huron Expositor . Dear Sir. Speaking of criminals, I would like to draw attention to those people who dump helpless puppies and kittens on the roadside and leave them to starve. This is a das- • Town Hall ten • Council accepted the lowest of two tenders last Tuesday night, :at $3,581.29, for eave- stroughing at Town Hall. Glavin Eavestrophing Centralia' will install 5" seamless eavestroughing on the main building and four downpipes for $2,345.44. In tardly deed and should he stopped. "Have your pets spayed or neutered" or drown these unwanted puppies and kittens at birth. Sincerely yours,' - R. Caldwell, Kippen. der $3,581.29 addition, eavestroughing and downpipe will be installed and fascia boards replaced on the old police garage for $283.55. Aluminum fascia is slated for three sides of the main building and on the_ south and east of the police garage for $952.30. ••• Prime Minister visits Seaforth in 1921 FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR - AUGUST 28, 1896 THE DOMINION BANK - .The Seaforth, agency of the. Dominion hank has been removed to its new home on the corner of Main- and Gouinlock streets. LOCAL BRIEFS - Mr. Alex Gray.• of the Mill road. Tuckersmith, threshed the other day 150 -bushels of bar- - ley from three acres of land. Mr. E.E. Hallett has slaugh- tered no fewer than nine snakes within the past two months, the smallest of which was about 18 inches in length and the largest mea- sured thirty-six inches. Mr. In the Years tonng neighbouring pasture and in the process fell down an abandoned well. Ken Adams and the tow 00 truck responded to a frantic call, and effected a recove Hallett evidently "don't like the old serpent." AUGUST 26, 1921 MACKENZIE KING IN SEAFORTH - Elaborate preparations are being made for the reception of Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King, who will address the electors of Huron at Victoria Park, Seaforth, on Wednesday afternoon next, August 31st. Mr. King will be accompa- nied by Hon. Dr. Beland, ex - Post Master General in the Laurier Cabinet; W.C. Kennedy,M.P., for Northry without incident, -other than a Essex, and other prominent slight loss of.lace -on the part speakers. of the cow. AUGUST 30, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2, 1971 COW LOSES FACE - J.F. - A 30 year presence in Daly, Canada's oldest Ford Huron came to an end dealer, has been called on to Tuesday afternoon as the use his tow truck to pull Canadian Forces ensign was many vehicles in various lowered for the last time at conditions in the past thirty CFB Clinton. years, but a new use for the At one time, during the war wrecker was found Monday years, one of four major afternoon. It all happened defense •bases in Huron when an Egmondville cow County, the Clinton Station deciding far away fields was slated for closing nearly looked greener strayed to a two years ago. • • • the elderly for being frail on. the other hand, I think the nickname of 'Mike, the Two - Armed Bandit' is far more fit- ting. - Questioned about the possi- ble increase in gambling addiction, Consumer and Commercial Relations Minister Norm Sterling is firm and sincere when he says, "Go ahead, take a card, "any card." No, actually, Sterling was quick to point out that two per cent of the government's annual take on on the video lottery terminals - about $9 million - will go toward addiction rehab centres. Am I missing something here, or is this a lot like set- ting up POW camps before war has been declared? This is great. Now we can legalize prostitution and set aside two per cent of the prof- its to get those girls off the streets! Or how about legalizing concealed weapons and trans- ferring some of the licensing fees to free 911 vouchers' for first-time flesh wounds? Mike, we know- you like to go to Vegas, but don't get lazy on us -- make the effort to make the trip. Don't bring it here. In the first week that Qrillia's Casino Rama opened to 7,000 -a -day capacity crowds, people who were sur- prised that their children were not allowed on the .premises ft • I simply left the kids in the cars and returned to the tables to gamble. Passersby and casino staff became quite upset by this. Why? Already, 84 per cent of Ontarians gamble on a daily basis. Every province except B.C. now permits video.lot- tery terminals. And there's -more casinos and lotteries on the way, What they should do is put - those video lottery terminals in cars so thekids can play while the parents are inside shooting crap. We're raising a generation of card counters and slot - machine robots anyway. Why not get 'em started early? Now Casino Rama manage- ment and Children's Aid offi- cials arc discussing thc idea of a daycare centre near the casi- no. Did you ever think you'd like in a world where your kids' daycare sitter doubles as your pit boss? If the plan works, you can look for halfway houses for abandoned husbands to he built to he built next to bingo halls. "Yes, Jimrny, someday all. this will he yours -- and remember, son, daddy earned it the hard way. "He doubled down on 17 with the dealers holding 1 I ." HOCKEY'S BACK! Dave McLlwain's popular hockey hock- ey school is once again in full swing , keeping area young- sters happy, now that the ice is back in at the Seaforth arena. , Loud music well past midnight not appreciated Dear Editor: In the beginning. the fair town of Seaforth had its own pcslice force to serve and pro- tect the local citizens. And then it was decreed that the police would not only serve Seaturth but would roam far and wide in the land protecting citizens of other towns. Henceforth they would he known as the Ontario Provincial Police and some citizens were sore afraid that the new system would not be as good as the old. "Verily, we say unto you, be not afraid," Said the decree - makers. "For it shall come to pass that 'you will be served • even better anti we'll save -some bucks." And at that time there dwelt in Seaforth, a woman and her husband, who shall hence- forth be known as m and h. Unto their house one fine summer weekend, there came visitors from the cast, from the polluted and noisy metropolis of Toronto. • "Come," M and H had said to the world weary Torontonians. "Come to Seaforth. Breathe the fresh manure -laden country air. enjoy the peace and quiet, except for the roaring and rumbling of the trucks on • • Goderich St, the one o'clock siren, the shunting and clang- ing and whistling of thc .trains and the whining of the low-flying crop dusters. Come and you will be rejuve- nated." And so it was on the first - night around midnight that M and H and the weary but relaxed visitors did retire to their beds. But in the fourth hour of their peaceful sleep they were awakened most rudely by the crashing of cymbals, the beating of drums and the twanging of all manner of stringed instru- ments. And the neighboring revelers did continue this deafening and most awful noise into thc night, M (who was of an age where sleep deprivation induced most extreme cranki- ness) did in righteous indig- nation, call the police. And being ignorant of the new system she did phone first the new number. Saith a record- ing, "That number has been changed to..." And so it was that M dialed the 1-800 num- ber and did talk to a dispatch- er in some distant town. And the dispatcher promised to send forth a cruiser to check out the revel- ers and their most awful still - continuing noise. And it came to pass that in one-half hour, the noise did cease. And so all in the house did retire to sleep once again, foolishly trusting that the police had come to their aid. And it came to pass, on the next night, all did retire to bed at around midnight and they were most weary from the events of the night before. Then in the third hour of their peaceful slumber, as in the night before, the dreaded cacophony did again starteth. And as time passed and the noise did not stopeth, all in the house wildly paced and fumed. • And this time it was H who did call desiring help from thc police. And the dispatch- er did ask of him, "Is it the barking dogs?" And when H explained that it was the same bloody noise as in the night before the dispatcher did inform him that she would see what she could do but the police were abroad in the land of Clinton on anoth- er matter. And as the noise did not diminish, one hour later 1-1 did call the police again. And the dispatcher did inform him that the police, alas, would not cometh tonight, being busy with this other matter in Clinton. Then H did ask when and where he could talk to a policeman. And the dis- patcher did say "At the Seaforth office but, alas, not 'til Tuesday as the morrow is Sunday and the next day a holiday." And as the neighboring noise played on and on it came to pass that M did pound her way to the end of her garden and through the bushes therein. Then with all her might she did scream into the direction of the dreadful commotion "TURN THAT MUSIC DOWN!" And all in the house heard this and probably many. oth- ers in other houses. But her voice was not heard in the house of the noise -makers. And the daughter of M and H, who was also visiting from the busy city in search of rest and peace. did become incandescently enraged. And so it was that she and M did arrive at the threshold of the noise -makers where music most loud and terrible was pounding out into the dark- ness that was the middle of the night. And the women did thump and pound upon the door of the noise -makers but were heard not. And when at last one of the noise -makers did look up and sec the women. he did open the door to them and spake thus: "Yeah''" Then the women did roar unto him and over the noise which deafening, "TURN DOWN THE MUSIC! WE CAN'T SLEEP!". And the noise -maker did yell. " WHY'' IS IT TOO LOUD?" And the daughter did scream,"WE'RE SHOUT- ING AREN'T WE?" And so it was that the women did return to their house and those within did fall exhausted into bed. And they were abundantly relieved that the noise was finally stilled. And in the absence of that noise. all over the fair town of Seaforth, all through the night and into the next morning could be heard the howling and the barking of the dogs. And M and H did wonder: What if , instead of this extremly irritating but non- life threatening incident, something serious had hap- pened? Perhaps a prowler or a break-in or some kind of physical violence. Would the OPP have been able to come'' Would they have arrived in time? At least when Seaforth had their local police and a person called for help, a policeman would come. Sincerely: Maureen Scott