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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-02-12, Page 44-1NS SIM10N SXPOSITM, Pahrsury 1!. $ISP Your Community Newspaper Sino. 1860 TERRI-IYNN DAIS - Gttneraf manager & Advertising Manager KEViN CARDNO - Advertising Sales MAW, - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classibeds PAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter i* STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper sUBSCRIPT10N RATES LOCAL 32 50 o year, in advance, plus 2 28 G S T KNIORS 30 00 a year, m advance, plus 2 10 G S 1 USA 8 Foreign 28.44 o yea m advance, plus S78 00 postage, G S 1 exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St , Seaforth Publscation moil registration No. 0696 held at Seolorth, Ontono Advertising ,s occapiled on condition that in the evert of o typographical error, the advertising spore occupied by the erroneous item, together with o reasonable allowance for ugnoture, will not be darged, but the balance of Me odvernsement will be pod for at the applicable rote In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services of o wrong price, goods or services may not be sold Advertising is merely an otter to sell and may be withdrawn at any rime The Huron Espssita is not responsible for Me loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes Charges of address, orders to subscriptions and undeliv- erable copes at. b be sent to The Huron Esposito. Wednesday, February 12, 1997 Editorial and susasess Offices - 100 Main Street.,Sealorth Telephone (5191 527-0240 Fax (5191527-2858 Moiling Address - P.O. Box 69, seaforth, Ontario, MOK I WO Member of the Conodion Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontono 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 the right to edit letters to the editor or to refuse publication. Editorial Fortunate to be alive Hearing the story of Nancy Hak's heart transplant is a reminder of how fortunate we are to be alive. News to the edi- tor of this paper is the startling statistics about women and heart disease. It's the number one cause of death for' women in Canada accounting for 40 per cent of all female deaths. Eight times as many women die from heart disease and stroke than all forms of cancer combined. Those are a few big reasons to make a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario this month. - DWS Letters to the Editor Goderich mayor dismayed by Expositor editorial Dear Editor: It was with interest and dis- may that, I read your editorial in the February 5, 1997 edi- tion of The Huron Expositor concerning your interpreta- tion of the District Health Council Task Force preferred option and your comments concerning Goderich and the health care issue. The Task Force on Hospital and Related Health Care Services came up with at least three options, with pub- lic input, showing Goderich as a secondary hospital. Goderich may not be able to provide such a service and I don't believe they ever intended to imply that was possible or desirable. What the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital has submitted to the Task Force at this time is that the Task Force return to the proposal with its bed allocation as unanimously agreed to and submitted by eight hospitals in Huron and Perth Counties and that the Task Force rec- ognize the need for the provi- sion of spec,ialty services by the hospitals in Huron County to serve the residents of Huron County! Our concern has always been not only the Town of Goderich but also what hap- pens in the County of Huron for the delivery of health ser- vices. In fact, the Task Force preferred option has altered the hospitals' proposal and it has decreased the number of beds in Huron County by 34 and transferred those beds directly to Stratford General Hospital. I do not intend to discuss your comments further, how- ever, I have attached a copy of Mr. Dave Sykes editorial which was in the February 5, 1997 issue of the Goderich Signal Star. Mr. Sykes has quite capably summarized the situation that has transpired concerning the health care issue in the County. The rea- son I am forwarding this edi- torial to you is that I hope you will read and print it, talk to Mr. Sykes, and acquire a better understanding and appreciation for the subject including the position of the Town of Goderich and Goderich Alexandra Marine and General Hospital and the effects of the changes made by the Task Force on all hos- pitals in the County of Huron. It is the residents of Huron County who have been short- changed in the current pro- posal of the Task Force. Yours truly, D.J. (Deb) Shewfelt Mayor of Goderich 2000 not start of millennium Dear Editor: Can you do something to. dispel thc mistaken notion that the year 2000 is thc beginning of the next millen- nium? I can see big celebra- tions coming up, all held in error! This irks me to no end. To simplify the matter, i think all will agree that the year "1" was the first year of the first century, A.D. - then obviously, the year "100" was the 100th year of the lit century, and the year "1000" would have been the thou- sandth and last year of the flmi millennium, and "1001" was the first year of the next, with "2001" the first year of the next after that. So hold the festivities until the end of the year "2000," not the first of it! We won't have 2000 years in until that, although sometimes, it may feel like it! Yours very truly, Dorothy Bassett Last words (maybe Before 1 send this whole "Goderich incident" out to pasture, I'd like to say a few more, things without repeat- ing my entire editorial from last week. (For those readers interest- ed in reading Dave Syke's editorial that Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt refers to in his letter on this page, copies of last week's Goderich Signal - Star are available at the Expositor office or at any other local Signal -Star office in Mitchell, Clinton, "Lunch or Goderich). Mayor Shewfelt says in his letter, "The Task Force on Hospital and Related Health Care Services came up with at least three options, with public input, showing Goderich as a secondary hos- pital. Goderich may not be able to provide such a service and I don't believe they ever intended to imply that was possible or desirable." What?! Don't tell me now Goderich hospital wasn't capable or prepared to take on the role as a secondary hospital for Huron, especially when statements like the fol- lowing appeared in Dave Syke's editorial in last week's Goderich paper: "Goderich has been the silent participant in this process to date and for good reason. After the task force completed its research, Goderich was designated as a secondary hospital, the on `Goderich incident' Scott's Thoughts by Dave Scott anchor for Huron County, in all three proposals. Secure in its role as a leader in health care and specialized services in the county, there was little to dispute." That same task force came up with three options show- ing Seaforth as a primary hospital in all three scenarios. Do you hear Seaforth Mayor Irwin Johnston or hospital CEO Bill Thibcrt on CKNX radio everyday whining that Seaforth hospital was tricked or the deal was rotten'? To bow out of this ordeal, I offer you three other Inde: pendent views of Goderich in this whole equation. I) Maarten Bokhout, family doctor in Clinton and former medical officer of health for Huron County. The following is an excerpt from a Speaker's Corner column by Dr. Bokhout that appeared in the February 4 edition of The London Free Press: "1 also suggest that, as com- munities, we seek win-win solutions instead of our win - lose approach. Perhaps that means that even communities such as Goderich and Stratford may be willing to give up something in publicly funded service to allow some continuing activity in smaller hospitals. Such a gesture would result in a much greater willingness by small- er hospitals to give up some of their services to reduce overall costs in the counties." 2) Kase Vanden Heuvel, of RR 2 Goderich, health con- sumer - Excerpt from a letter published in last week's Goderich Signa! -Star. "Goderich should do its part to make the system less costly. As the information meeting held at the Columbus Centre clearly showed, Goderich is not cen- trally Iocated...It makes sense that specialists locate central- ly. For this reason Stratford should be granted more beds. The logic and efficiency of central placing applies much more to Stratford than to Goderich. Although it would be convenient that Goderich have an anchor hospital we are not•located in the right place this time." 3) Shelley McPhee Haist, editor of Focus News Magazine. Excerpt from edi- torial in February 8 Focus: "Certainly Godench is enti- tled to make their case about retaining hospital beds as proposed by the eight hospi- tals - but it has also been argued by some that hospital also lost their secondary hos- pital status. As a reminder it should be noted that this too was a proposal, not a given. from the three original DH(' task force recommendations - proposals that were well debated throughout the two counties by the public. and led to this second attempt at coming up with a feasible option... ...and while Goderich mai now be crying foul play, it is valid to note that they were represented at the table when meetings were held among the eight hospitals... • ...Indeed, the newest DHC recommendation is not as proposed by the hospitals. The task force chopped addi- tional bed numbers, in the case of Goderich down an additional 18 beds from the hospitals' proposal. However. it is difficult to believe that the Goderich representatives were naive enough to think that the task force would accept the hospitals' proposal carte blanche. That's not how this game is played." (That's right. It's all poli- tics). Value of CDs worth. the price you pay Dear Editor: According to a recent arti- cle in The Globe and Mail (The not so -compact price of CDs, January 25), many peo- ple believe that'the price of compact discs is too high. In an east -end Toronto sec- ondhand store, in February 1944, my father bought an old acoustic windup gramo- phone with a small stack of scratchy 78 r.p.m. records from the 1920s. He paid five dollars. When I think of then and now, the equipment and CDs I have today, and com- pare them with what I had 53 years ago, I revel in my good fortune. On March 1, 1944, when I was three months past my fifteenth birthday, I bought my first new record; Harry James and his orches- tra playing "Cheery" and "Jump Town." Ten -inch RCA Bluebird, Decca, and Columbia records sold for 50 cents. RCA Victor black label records (Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw) were 75 cents. Records were expensive. To really understand those prices consider this: In Toronto in 1944, ten chil- dren's or four adult streetcar tickets (no subway until March 30, 1954) were 25 cents. Sixty cents was the top puce after 6 p.m. at first run cinemas; Loew's, Imperial, Shea's, Uptown, Tivoli (my favourite). Early matinee admissions, before 1 p.m., were 25 cents. If recorded music had increased in price because of the wonderful technological improvements to come - the LP in 1949 and the CD in' 1983 - at the same rate that Toronto movie and public transit tickets have risen in price since 1944, the average CD would retail in Toronto for about $150. If EMI would reissue'all the records (28 to 30 hours) Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra made in London (1929 to 1934) for His Master's Voice - not just those which feature the incomparable singing of Al Bowlly, but the equally good though less well known series of 12 -inch medleys, of British and American song- writers, everything-- for those of us who are easily satisfied with merely the very best - i would eagerly pay a premium price, far more than what many CD buyers consider to be too much, for what is the acme of 1930s dance music featuring the man many afi- cionados consider the great- est popular singer of the 1930s. People who believe CDs are expensive remind me of Oscar Wilde's comment about the man who knew the price•of everything and the value of nothing. Paul Copeland Seaforth McTavish accepts pilot position with KLM FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR FEBRUARY 26,1897 A DASTARDLY TRICK - Some time during Wednesday night or early Thursday morning some per- son or persons broke a couple of the bars off one of the win- dows at the skating rink, and on gaining admittance, sprin- kled a quantity of salt across the centre of the ice. Before it was noticed the salt had melt- ed a considerable portion of the ice, which will necessitate a quantity of it being cut out to the floor, and it will be some time before it will be got into proper shape again. We did not think there was any person in town who would stoop to do such a contemptibly mean trick, and should the perpetrators be found out they should be severely punished. SEAFORTH WINS FROM LONDON - Between four and five hundred people wit- nessed the hockey match in the rink here on Thursday evening of last week, between London and Seaforth, and cheered the home team onto a victory, which is indeed creditable to them. The London team is a very strong aggregation, and even the most sanguine of the admirers of our team hardly expected that the boys would come out on top, as com- pared with London they are comparatively young players. The game throughout was a hot one, and not a player was allowed a moment for loaf- ing fl8RUARY 17,1922 GOLP-CLUB REORGA- NIZE - At the annual meeting of the Seaforth Golf and Country Club, held at the Dominion Bank on Friday afternoon last, the following officers were elected for the year 1922: Hon: Patron. Ralph E. Cresswell; Hon. President, Thomas Dodds; President J.C. Greig; Vice - Presidents, John Rankin and George McTaggart; Captain, F.S. Savauge; Secretary - Treasurer, R.M. Jones; Grounds Committee - President, Vice -Presidents, Secretary and J.G. Mullen; House and Entertainment Committee, O. Neil, W.E. Southgate, G. Israel, F.L. Downey, K.M. McLean. A satisfactory surplus was carried over from 1921, and it was unanimously decided to proceed with the erection of a suitable clubhouse with- out delay, a move made pos- sible to a great extent by the generous donation of the Hon. Patron, Mr. Ralph E. Cresswell, of Denver, Colorado. A magnificent sil- ver sup, one of the finest tro- phies in the country, has been donated by Mr. Cresswell, and will be completed for yearly in handicap play. The course covers fifty acres; and is part of the property of Mr. Thomas Dodds, within a short distance of the town of Seaforth, a course of great natural beauty and very suit- able for the purpose. Increasingnterest is being manifested in the ancient game, and.a ghastly enlarged membership is confidently expected during the current yam FEBRUARY 21, 19117 Returning to the country where two years ago he chased German fighters as officer commanding 410 Squadron of Mosquito night fighters, Ian McTavish, for- mer RCAF Squadron Leader, left Seaforth Wednesday moming on the first leg of a journey that will take him to Amsterdam, Holland. He has been accepted as a pilot by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Since his retirement from the RCAF in September 1945, Mr..MacTavish has been on the staff of a leading firm of engravers and pho- tographers in Toronto, but while he enjoyed the work the urge to fly was too strong, and when an opportunity arose to join the Royal Dutch Airlines, he didn't hesitate. "I wanted to fly for seven or eight more years," he said, "and since the Royal Dutch Airlines is the oldest trans- port line in the world, where the training is excellent and where a lifetime career is assured, t couldn't resist. nee Damage in excess of $3,000 . was caused early Tuesday morning when fire destroyed a large modern chicken house owned by Baden Powell, Egmondville. In the building at the time were 1,300.five- weeks-old chicks and 300 laying hens, which were burned to death. The build- ing, which had been rebuilt last year, was a total loss. The fire .was discovered by a neighbour, Hartman Huisser, about 5:i0 in the morning, as be :arose t0 attend to his stock in a nearby barn. The Seaforth fire brigade, under Chief Allen Reid, quickly responded to the alarm, but could do little more than prevent the fire spreading by the use of chemicals, since the area is not served by hydrants. FEBRUARY 24, 1972 Seaforth Council moved Monday night to implement initial stages in an industrial survey program in a report it had adopted earlier in the meeting. The report prepared by the town's planning consultants at the request of council and the planning board recom- mended establishment of an industrial park in thc south- east arca of town. Council moved in the first step when it purchased the 15 acre Turnbull property for $8,500. The property had been under option for the past year. At thc same time it was agreed to open Birch Street to pro- vide access. Council instruct- ed officials to have necessary engineering completed so work on the road could he begun. The road will attract a subsidy of 130 per cent. nee A long term plan to provide for a potential 110 -acre industrial park straddling thc CNR tracks in Seaforth's southeast comer is contained in a report adopted by Seaforth Council Monday night. Consultants Canadian Mitchell Associates Ltds., of Bramalea, looked at three other possible sites on the north,. west and southwest edges of Seaforth before rec- ommending the fourth site as the Most td+antsgcous.