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The Huron Expositor, 1997-01-22, Page 4lbw. Community Nowspopew Sins 1860 TERRI- Yl NN QALL • Genal Manager & Adwtirng Manager PAT AWES - Office Manager MANN McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds PAVE SCOTT • Echo. r_.R g g*h 11 - Reporter ARB STOREY • distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper ,j1185CRIPTION RATES. LOCAL 32.50 o year, in advance, pious 2.28 G.S I SENIORS - 30 00 a year, to advance, plus 2 10 G.S T OA & foretpn, 28.44 a year in advance. plus 578.00 postage, G.S.T. easempt 5uBSCRIPTPON RATES Publtslyd weekly by Signal -Sar Publishing of 100 Man St . 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Box 69, Seolorth, Ontario, NOK iWo Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper As tic anon. Omono Community Newspoprs Association and the Onrono Press Count! Editorial An accident waiting People generally don't like being told how to do something they've been already doing for years. like driving. But especially during stormy weather at this time of year please exercise a little caution and try to remember a few little things that will help avoid accidents on slippery roads. All of the following infractions can be witnessed on any given day on Main Street, Seaforth. • Please signal if you are turning down a street or into a parking lot. Suddenly jamming on the brakes doesn't give the driver behind you much warning of your turn. • Please look before you pull out of a parked position to see if there's any traffic coming behind you. It's hard to stop in time if there's snow or ice on the road. • And although -pedestrians are always given the right of way, please pedestrians look preferably both ways before crossing a busy street. (On countless occasions people have walked across the street in front of -my car just staring straight ahead). • You know .those red, octagon signs on side streets? They don't say "Slow down a little and then gun it". You are sup- posed to stop or it's three demerit points. John Street seems particularly bad for this. On a few occasions, before I reached one intersection I've seen cars zoom right through the stop sign without even slowing down. (I was thankful I wasn't two seconds ahead of where I was at the time). • And remember to SLOW DOWN a little. It just makes sense that you shouldn't travel the same speed you would on dry pavement when there's ice, slush or snow on the road and blowing snow to impair visibility. • Oh yeah, one more. Your lights. Most newer model cars have daytime lights that come on automatically but -it's also • important to have tail lights on in snowy conditions. It's not just important to see in front of- you but other people have to know you're on the road, too. Okay, the lecture is over. - DWS Letters to the Editor Federation president writes: Surgery being performed on education Dear Editor: The week of January 13 to 17, 1997 will long be remem- bered by the citizens of Ontario. 1t was billed as a "megaweek" of big announcements to "reshape Ontario". There were big announcements about educa- tion restructuring, property tax reform, social and public services...and the week ended with "big" weather in Huron County. Surgery is being performed on the Ontario education sys- tem using a chain saw, rather than with a scalpel. It is -abundantly clear the provincial government want- ed control of education. The government also recognized that whoever pays the bills has the control; ao it was pre- pared to take over the fund- ing of the $4.5 billion now raised locally through -proper- ty taxes for education. The immediate impact of this move would be a significant decrease in property taxes with a corresponding aign)fr- cant -increase in provincial income taxes. That was cer- tainly NOT going to happen from the government that prntnised a 30 per cent provincial income tax decrease. They had to "off- load" about the same amount of other service costs to the municipalities. The government is playing -the "old shell game". It is shifting money and responsi- bilities around quickly in the hopes that Ontarians become even' more confused. It is all smoke and mirrors. This is "slippery politics"! This strategy is clearly intended to provide cuts to provincial income taxes as promised in the "common sense revolution". Finance Minister Ernie Eves says that municipal taxes won't go up. Critics say they will; and municipalities must be con- cerned. It is the municipali- ties that will be painted as the bad guys when service cuts are made or when municipal tames go up. Effective January 01, 1998, the Huron Public Education System .will become the amalgamate Huron -Perth Public District School Board. On November 10, 1997 we will vote for possibly 4 to 6 trustees for the Huron share of the Huron -Perth District CONTINUED on page 5 ()pinion Save your life, eat your vegetables They're inventing new veg- etables for kids. In a hidden laboratory somewhere there's a group of concerned parents, dentists and doctors coming up with a new semi -delicious veggie that won't cause tooth decay and will prevent artery block- age. 1 mean, where else did broccoli come from? There were standard veg- etables when 1 was a kid - peas, carrots, corn, potatoes, etc. 1 don't remember any- body eating broccoli when I was younger. Did they even sell it in grocery stores'' (It wasn't the featured vegetable in a Swanson's Hungry Man Dinner). But somewhere along the way someone discovered you could pour cheese sauce on broccoli and it didn't taste that bad. And all of the sud- den it can prevent diseases and the next thing you know you'll be lining up at the drive-through ordering a McBroccoli combo and adding a year onto your life. Pretty soon we're going, to be eating tree bark and won- dering why we didn't years ago. There'll be some special cajun sauce they put on it and you won't even notice all the black specks on your teeth from chomping on a hunk of maple bark. Just suppose for a moment yott were a deity, a supreme being who had the power to create planets and universes and other colossal things in your spare time (maybe in seven days, on your week off from supreme beingness). And after you added some life forms on the planet, wouldn't it be neat to intro- duce a few diseases to make things complicated. But, as an added bonus. and to make sure no one sits on their butts all day just "being," you pro- vide "natural cures" and "health enhancers" hidden around the globe in different plants. (And hide some of the' really good Ones deep in the Amazon just to make things a little more challenging). The trick is finding all of the hidden cures before the disease you're most vulnera- - ble to claims your life. (There has to be some -kind of spec- tator sport for supreme beings other than waiting for the next black hole to inhale a few planets). All we need now is for sci- entific experts to tell us chocolate is a cure-all. And that somewhere in the hills of Columbia there is a wild shrub with processed choco- late hanging off of it, ready 10 ' eat. (But ever since those • kids were told to "get out of that Jello tree,"-altemative high -sugar plants haven't • done so well). If you take the advice of , health experts, all you have to do.right now to remain healthy is eat a diet of garlic, broccoli, cayenne pepper and wash it down with some red - wine. All these people are run- ning around semi -intoxicated with garlic breath telling everybody how healthy they are. Who wants to get close enough to listen? - Maybe natural selection of the fittest is still.happening. And the meek (who eat all their vegetables) shall inherit the earth. PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT A WINTER'S DAY - In between snow squalls and white -outs, there are some peaceful winter scenes in the neighbouring countryside that may be better enjoyed from inside a warm, running car. (Photographers freeze their fingers). Cancer Society supports smoke-free public places radon and benzene. Did you know that in one hour in a smoky room, a non-smoker can breathe as much of one cancer-causing chemical as if he or she had smoked 35 cig- CONTINUED on page 5 Dear Editor: National Non -Smoking Week, January 20-26, is here with a focus on environmen- tal Tobacco smoke. We must continue to address the effects of this alarming issue. The Canadian Cancer Society 1992. the U.S. Environmental supports 100% smoke-free Protection Agency classified .. public places. Why? The SHS as a Class A carcinogen, health risks of second-hand a substance known to cause smoke (SHS) are great. cancer in humans. There are Second-hand smoke isn't just only 15 other Class A sub - a nuisance, it's a killer! In stances, including asbestos, McQuaid back in McKillop after prison camp FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR FEBRUARY 5 ,1897 A WONDERFUL ENTER- TAINMENT COMING TO SEAFORTH - It is not often that the people of Seaforth have the opportunity of see- ing such a wonderful enter- tainment as that which will be offered to them on March 2nd and 3rd. That most mar- vellous invention, the "Cinematographe," which was the greatest attraction, and created so much wonder at the last Toronto Fair, and which has been delighting so many thousands in Toronto and other western towns for the past three months, will be at Cardno's hall for two nights only, on Tuesday and Wednesday,- March 2nd and 3rd. •e n CURLS - Two rinks of our curlers went to Goderich on Tuesday, and had to lower their colors to the men of the county town to the tune of four shots. - On Wednesday two rinks from Hensall came over to have a friendly game, but when Major Anderson led his braves against them it was all day with them, The rink skipped by the Major won by 26 shots to 5. The other rink was skipped by Mr. W. Bethune, and they also were on top by 15 to 14. - Should the weather be favorable two rinks will go to Toronto on Tuesday next to compete in the finals for Ontario tankard. Swoop'er up now, boys, and scoop in the In the Years Agone tankard. JANUARY 27, 1922 COMMERCIAL HOTEL SOLD - Mr. A.A. McLennan has sold the Commercial Hotel in Seaforth, which has not been running for the past two years, to Mr. Dungey, of Mitchell for several years, and is making preparations to have the hotel redecorated and refurnished throughout, which will make it•one of the best hotels in western Ontario. It is expected the hotel will be opened about the first of March, and the new propri- etor is assured a successful business as Seaforth has been badly in need of additional hotel accommodation for some time. WILD CATS . vs BANKERS - In the Palace Ricik on Friday evening, January 20th, the Wild Cat Puck Chasers in their first game of hockey met their defeat to the Seaforth Bankers by a score of 2 to 1. The game throughout . was a splendid exhibition of ama- teur hockey and the girls . allowed they had great stay- ing powers and were there all the time. The inkflingers were somewhat "handi- capped" as they were only allowed the use of one hand, and Referee Daws Reid was kept more than busy in see- ing that there were no fouls in this respect. JANUARY 31, 1947 Survivor of two and a half years' internment in Japanese camps in North China, Rev, Thomas McQuaid is now home on furlough. and pick- ing up threads of acquain- tanceship in his home com- munity in McKillop Township. In six years in China, Father McQuaid was able to spend only a year at the mis- sionary task which called him to China; two years were spent as a student in a Chinese language school, half a year behind barbed wired in one' internment camp, and two years as an internee in a second camp. Good Western Ontario beef • is a treat to him now. One of his less pleasant memories is of the meat which formed a tiny part of a ony food ration while he was in Japanese cus- tody, "They supplied meat," he recalls, "but it wasn't too good. We made soup of it. If it' was a little better than usual, we'd make hash of it. Even if it had been good, there still wouldn't have been enough. It was difficult for the children. If we hadn't organized a black market some of the o4roo would have starved. It was hard to see the children line up, and nothing for them. Children can't grow on dry bread. There was no mi'k for them - no butter, no sugar. "Things were better in our camp, I believe, than in most camps. The rations were rather slim, but we had lots of bread. They gave us the flour, and we had some men who could bake." Father McQuaid was . interned in March 1943. at a camp established by the Japanese at Weihsein. in Shantung province; when he was taken there, he found himself the fellow prisoner of missionaries, doctors, engi- neers and their wives and children, of many European and North American nation- alities. FEBRUARY, 1972 At a meeting Friday night of the Van Egmond Restoration Committee the chairman, James Doig, spoke of the reception given by members of Huron County Council that afternoon when several Committee members were received as a delega- tion. "We obtained a sympathetic hearing," he said. Mr. Doig told the committee he had reported to council on the progress made by the Committee. which is arrang- . ing purchase of the Van Egmond property in Egmondvillc as an historical site. He said that Council members had asked a lot of questions, and referred, the request to the Executive. Committee of Huron County Council .