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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-11-27, Page 54 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Nov.nsttt.r 27, 1996 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL - 32.50 o year, in advance, plus 2 28 GS.T SENIORS: - 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA 6 Foreign: 32.50 a year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at lop Main St., Sea(orth. Publication mail registration -No. 0696 held of Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Associotion, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Views expressed on our opinion page(s) don't necessarily represent those of The Huron Expositor or Bowes Publishers. The Huron Expositor reserves to right to edit letters to the edi- tor or to refuse publication. 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.