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Wednesday, November 27, 1996
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Letters to the Editor
Former hospital chair says:
DHC study `ludicrous
and outrageous bunk'
Dear Editor:
Several months ago, I was
honored to be named to the
first volunteer board of our'
-Community Care Access
Centre. This was an exciting
opportunity" to make some
small personal contribution
of my timc,.legal, business
and financial skills -to a new
and innovative home health
care delivery system. "
This past weekend was
spent reading and re -reading
thc Huron Pcrth District
Health Council's Hospital
and Related Health Services
Study which was released
last Friday, November 22,
1996. There is only.one con-
clusion that I can draw from
this study and it is this: If this
study is the type of ludicrous
and outrageous hunk that is
to he passed off as new
health care policy, then we
are all in big, big TROU-
BLE!
Today. with much regret, I
resigned from the CCAC for
Huron Board so that all my
efforts and focus can be
directed- to the hospital ser-
vices sector. Better solutions
than those yet identified must
he found. As you know, this
must be done now, for the
pace of change is rapid and
tomorrow may well be too
late.
The events taking place in
the hospital sector affect each
and every one of us. As a
personal note, every member
of my family gave six years
of sacrifice, struggle and
sheer hard work and determi-
nation so that Marianne could
become a physician, deliver
babies and give all types of
anesthetics. Her chance of
doing those things where she
prefers to do them is now
being threatened only three
months into her practice.
Likewise, I know each read-
er will be adversely affected
by the changes being pro-
posed. Do not allow this to
happen without a challenge. I
urge each one of you to use
whatever spare time you have
left to get involved in these
hospital matters before it is
too late.
Sincerely,
Ralph Smith
Lawyer, Concerned Citizen
and formcr Chair, Scaforth
Community Hospital
Excellent care at hospital
Dcar Editor:
Excellency is an understate-
ment for the care I received
at the Seaforth Community
Hospital during my recent,
cardiac attack.
Superb. quick "action in the
emergency department is so
important and we have that at
Scaforth Community
Hospital.
Lct us all give our hospital
the extra support it needs at
this time.
Maxine Marks
• Seaforth
Local young men help
stranded driver in Walton
Dear Editor:
On Sun -day cvcning, 24
Nov. 1996 I had the misfor-
tune to encounter some
unforgiving Huron County
ice on the county road. just
west of Walton. Thc ensuring
fight with thc steering wheel
resulted with the unwanted
acquaintance with a fairly
deep hut gradual -sided ditch.
Both occupants of the car and
the vehicle were unharmed.
Unfortunately I did not have
sufficient traction to leave the
ditch. -
Within five minutes, two
carloads of young men (I sus-
pect hockey players) had
stopped. In short order, we
were hack on the road and
thc gentlemen were back in
(heir own cars and on thcir
way. it happened so quickly I
didn't have timc to offer
other than a quick thank you.
To those young men and the
one concerned citizen who
stopped, this is a formal and
sincere thank you. Your extra
effort and concern is laudable
and appreciated. To the citi-
zens of Walton and surround-
ing arca, count your bless-
ings, you have good young
pcoplc.
N.A. Nickles
Goderich
Boxing or beauty queen? -
Opinion
Tough career decision for Miss Canada
Good lord we are so fickle
in Canada.
For years; decades maybe,
people in this country have
been railing against the sexist
sight of beauty queens
publicly parading around in
skimpy bathing suits; indeed
many have condemned the
very existence of beauty
pageants as a setback to
women's equality,
So Miss Canada finally
breaks the mold by punching
somebody out in a bar fight
and suddenly we want to
make a federal case out of it!
Hey! You can't have it both
ways. Either you believe in
beauty being skin deep or
you see the beauty in the
stitches required to close the
deep gash in that skin.
Either beauty is in the eye
of the beholder or suddenly
you're holding a steak to the
black eye you got from the
beauty queen.
By now you've heard that
our reigning Miss Canada
International, Danielle (new
nickname: "Round") House
of Daniel's Harbor (no
relation) Newfoundland, has
been charged with assault
causing bodily harm after a
fight erupted in a bar at
Memorial University on
October 18.
The divine Danielle, who
can forget about ever being
inducted into the Miss
Congeniality Hall of Fame,
allegedly decked a woman
with one punch inflicting
facial injuries and a chipped
tooth.
I guarantee you that at least
one guy who saw the alleged
punch and heard the alleged
smack turned to the guy next.
to him and said: "Beauty
eh?" Guys say these kinds of
things in bars, usually while
watching women in creamed
corn wrestling matches.
Hardly ever are they treated
to a spontaneous dust-up
between two female patrons.
Present in the bar and the
object of the women's
affections was the beauty
queen's- former boyfriend.
This makes him both a heel
and the proudest man in
Canada today.
The ex-boyfriend must be
quite a guy. I mean just to get
close to Miss Canada you
have to be able to slip a left
hook, head fake and take a
kidney punch without crying
out.
Apparently he's the only
guy in Daniel's Harbor with
his own Gutman:
News reports of the incident
make the 20 -year-old beauty
queen seem like an
irresponsible hothead which
is not true. Danielle House is
also a nursing student
completely capable of
administering first aid to
people she beats up.
Wben the bar's bouncer was
heard to mumble somethi ig
about "unlady-like behavior",
Miss Canada kicked him in
the groin and knocked him
unconscious with a flurry of -
upper cuts to the head.
Miss Canada has since been
barred from attending the
International Miss World
Beauty Pageant in Jamaica
this month, but she will be
permitted to fight Roberto
Duran at Caesar's Palace in
May.
Witnesses to the incident
were undeterred when
House's lawyer showed up at
the bar later the same evening
and tried to convince them it
was just part of the beauty
queen's talent competition.
Given television's penchant
for violence and shameless
struggle for ratings don't
think something like this
could not happen. Can you
imagine the Miss America
pageant in which Miss Iowa
and Miss Florida duke it out
in the bare -knuckle boxing
event with Miss Alabama
singing The Star Spangled
Banner as part of her talent
competition?
Okay, I'm making a lot of '
this up.
But the next time you're
watching an international
beauty pageant and all the
judges are wearing hockey
helmets, you'll know Miss
Canada has been reinstated.
Of course judges of beauty
pageants probably deserve to
be roughed up a bit. They're
so untrustworthy.
Seriously, would you
believe a man who spends a
week ogling at a woman with
a 38-26-38 figure and then
claims he voted for her
because of her personality,
her musical talent and her
plan for world peace? I don't
think so.
The guy that has to be a
little concerned about all this
is heavy weight boxer Mike
Tyson.
Tyson, you'll remember, is
. the guy who likes to hang
around beauty queens, was
convicted of sexually
assaulting one and
subsequently spent several
years in prison.
I can see it now, Mike
chatting up a bevy of beauties
at an upcoming pageant,
thinking he's going to get his
hedge clipped when BAM!!!
- he hits on Miss Canada and
unexpectedly gets -his clock
cleaned.
Actually it would he an
interesting marriage. Mike
Tyson and Miss Canada. Just
put cameras in the hotuse and
every time they had' s
domestic dispute -- we'd all
be able to watch it on PAY -
FOR -VIEW.
I'm sorry but there's
something about a woman
punching somebody's lights
out in a bar that guys just
don't like. I believe it's called
equality.
Since when did the Titanic sink in Huron County?
Dcar Editor:
Since when did the Titanic
sink in Huron County?
Upon reading that the
Huron County Museum
would he hosting a "private
collection" of Titanic arti-
facts, this question came to
mind.
New cancer line
CanccrConnection '(1-800-
263-6750) is a new and free"
long-distance support service
that connects people with the
disease and those who care
for them with trained volun-
teers who share the same can-
cer experience. A one-hour
information session on
CanccrConnection is being
put on by the Huron -Perth
Unit of the Canadian Cancer
Society at Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital in
Goderich on Tuesday, Dec. 3
It has been my understand-
ing that the $400,000+ annu-
ally contributed by county
ratepayers to operate the
museum, was for the purpose
of displaying items related to
Huron County.
With recent allegations con-
cerning the way that thc
county is being operated 'vir-
tually ignored by elected
county officials, there indeed
may be a symbolic relation-
ship between Huron County
and the Titanic.
As county officials steer
Record RRSP contributions
Canadians contributed a
record $23 -Killion to regis-
tered retirement savings plans
last year, according to
, Statistics Canada. About 5.7
million people made contri-
hutions, which were up cight
per cent from 1994 and were
almost double thc 1990 total.
The average RRSP contribu-
tor was 42 -years -old.
Recycle old cars for M.S.
The Multiple Sclerosis
Society of Canada is part of a
charity vehicle recycling pro-
gram across Canada that will
arrange to pick up and recy-
cle for free. Any old car,
truck, boat, snowmobile or
motorcycle is picked up and
recycled for parts, scrapped
or sold at auctions to raise
money for research and sup=
port family services.
The pickup line is 1-800-
463-5681.
"our" ship, while elected offi-
cials "sleep" in their con-
stituents cabin below deck,
the next municipal .election
iceberg lies waiting.
W. Peter Fydenchuk
Huron Park
Large firms
more profitable
- Onoing - surveys by
-
!I;tics Canada indicate
'irms were more prof-
itabl._ than medium and
smaller enterprises in 1995.
In medium and large firms,
computer equipmentand
related services were prof-
itable. Advertising agencies
were least profitable. In small
firms. thc most profitable
-were physicians, surgeons
and dentists. Least profitable
was wholesale paper and
paper products.
Dublin woman featured in 1971 Life Magazine
FROM THE PAGES OF'
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
DECEMBER 4, 18%
LOCAL BRIEFS - Dr.
Elder, M.S. of Scaforth,
informs us that he dehorned
125 head of cattle in one
afternoon last week. - We arc
indebted to Major Anderson
for a brace of partridge cap-
tured by him in the Morris
swamp. The .major still.
wears the bell as thc most
successful sportsman in these
parts - Mrs. J. B. Sccord of
Varna was in town on
Monday and paid herr twenty-
ninth yearly subscription.
That she may he spared to
pay twenty-nine more is the
fervent wish of numerous
friends.- A dispatch from
Montreal says that Mr. T. G.
Shaughnessy, vice President
of the C.P.R. denies thc
rumor that his company has
leased the buffalo and
Godcrich line of the Grand
Trunk Railway.
DECEMBER 2, 1921
Rev. H.C. Dunsmore, D.D.,
of Independence Oregon,
who has been visiting his sis-
ter, Mrs. Carnochan, and
other friends in Tuckcrsmith,
has established a new record
for long distance telephoning
for Western Ontario.
While in Sarnia a week ago
he asked the city exchange if
he could put a call through to
his daughter in Oregon and
was told they they would try,
although no call of such a
distance had ever been put
through before. That was
In the Years Agone
about ninc o'clock in the
evening and an hour later he
was told the call had gone
through as far as Chicago,
and at twelve o'clock he had
his daughter on the phone,
and carried on a seven minute
conversation with her over
the intervening' 3,000 miles,
which could be heard as dis-
tinctly as if she had been in
the adjoining block. The call
cost the doctor $3.25, but he
said the sound of a home
voice was worth five times
the price.
At thc regular meeting of
Idlcweiss Lodge of Rebeccas
No. 117, held in the
Oddfcllows Hall on Monday
evening last, the following
officers were elected for the
coming tcrm: W.G., Miss
Sadie Thompson; V.G., Miss
Annic Stewart; Recording
Secretary, Miss Rossic Elder;
Treasurer, Mrs. A McGavin;
Financial Secretary, Miss
Lihbic Freeman. The lodge
has a very large membership
in Scaforth.
DECEMBER 6, 1946
Mrs. John McCaughey,
Morris township, suffered a
severe shaking up and other
injuries that at first were
thought to include a fractured
hip, when the car in which
she was a passenger and
which was driven by her hus-
band, skidded on the ice and
turned upside down on the
North Road late Tuesday
afternoon. The accident
occurred opposite the faun of
Wm. Drover, as the
McCaughcys were on their
way home after an after-
noon's shopping in Seaforth.
* * *
LOCAL BRIEFS - Major
Webster wishes to thank the
people of Scaforth for thcir
contributions of $ I. 800,
which exceeded thc objective
.by •$200 in the recent
Salvation Army Drive.
Major Webster is leaving
Scaforth this week and will
he succeeded by Lieut.
Evelyn McBride of Strathroy.
- Christmas carols will he
sung by thc pupils of the pub-
lic school in Northside
United Church on Friday.
Dec. 13 at 8:15 pm., under
the direction of Miss M. E.
Turnbull - Thc Tuesday
Night Club of First
Presbyterian Church is spon-
soring a candlelight service
in thc school room of the.
church on Friday cvcning,
December 20 - Professor W.
B. -Kerr and son James of
Buffalo, were weekend
guests at the home of his
mother, Mrs. James Kerr.
DECEMBER 9, 1971
The well known Life
Magazine recently had an
article that read "Judy Friend
brings a new kind of skill to
an ancient occupation -
Rchirth-of the Midwife."
Six pages of the circulation
picture magazine arc devoted
to pictures and a story of how
Judy Friend' became interest -
cd in Midwifery.
The Judy Friend is Judy
Friend of Dublin. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Friend.
$**
Seaforth arca 4-H members
held their annual Huron
Achievement night at SDHS
on Friday. Jim
Landshorough won the Bank
of Montreal award, Mike
Devereaux. the Steward
Proctor award and Barry
Gorden (he W.G. Thompson
Ltd. award and the Huron
Hereford award.
* * *
Thc largest employer in
Seaforth with 170 pcoplc on
-staff, Genesco of Canada
Limited, a composite organi-
zation specializing in retail
wearing apparel. with head
Office in Tennessee. has a
total work force of 68,(XXI.
Charles Geddes, assistant
superintendent of the
Seaforth plata, told the annu-
al dinn^r mcet'.,g of the
Scaforth Chamber 'of
Commerce that of the
Scaforth Staff, 60'4 arc
women.