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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-04-23, Page 5et � the Years Agone?.. 4—nut NUQON 1111,01111Mak #'r“ ii, 1007 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager KEVIN CARDNO • Advertising Soles PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Ciaw ieds DAVE SCOTT - Edit. GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY • distribution A Bowes Publishers Cowe unity Newspaper SUBSCRiPJION RATES LOCAL • 32.50 o year, in advance, plus 2-28 G.S T 5tNIQRS - 30.00 o year, in advance, pia 2.10 G.S.T USA S forertr. 2844 a year to advance, plus 178.00 passage, G.S T. exempt $u8SCRIPTION RATE Published weekly by Signal -Star Publtshrng at 100 Main Sr , Seolarah Pubfucohoo moil regataeon No. 0696 held or Seolath, Onano. 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The Huron Expositor reserves the right to edit fetters to the editor or to refuse publication. Editorial Community works together to help One year of helping to feed our own hungry. - Our community. led by eight churches, has made it possible to keep food on the -tables.of,those ,less fortunate who might have gone without, or with a. lot less than is needed to;keep a family healthy. On average. about 40 families rely on the Seaforth and District Foodbank each month for one week's worth of meals. Over Christmastime, this figure rose to 68. Like chair Deborah Bennett says, the commercial expectations of the holiday season add pressure to those who have little money to begin with. in these days of cutbacks, 'downsizing' and 'instant credit' it doesn't take too much to throw a family's income into tur- moil and turn a comfortable living situation into a constant struggle. Thankfully, between organizations like the Seaforth and District Foodbank and the Huron County Christmas Bureau. we can help each other and ensure that no one in our town and surrounding communities suffers. needlessly. - DWS Is ]Letters to the Editor Poultry show will be back next year Dear Editor: 1 wish to thank you and Gregor Campbell for your coverage of Seaforth Poultry Buy. Sell, Trade Day. April 12 at the Seaforth •Agriplex. We hope to be back next year. same place, same time with a new executive. Some changes arc going to be made like a bigger ad in The.Huron Expositor. adding sports cards show or food fair. I wish to apologize to the peo- pie who wanted to sec the ".Rooster Crowing Contest" for it. was cancelled due to a lack of help at -the time. P.S. ,l wish to thank Seaforth Agricultural Society for their staff and facilities. Other communities thought I was joking or not serious about it. Fred Peel Chairperson Seaforth Poultry Buy, Sell, Trade Day Kidney Foundation has successful March Drive Dear Editor: On .behalf of .the ?Kidney Foundation ,of .-Canada - Western Ontario Region, 1 would like to,extend my sin- cere appreciation for your coverage of the March is ‘Kidney Month Campaign. The press time you were able to provide was instrumental in promoting the importance of the March Drive. Through your collaborative support, your readers were provided with an opportunity to gain knowledge about the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the important role of the March Campaign. As of this date our canvassers have deposited over $239,000 of the $305,000 goal. Only with your help can Canadians learn aboutkidney disease and ways of improv- ing the health and quality of life for people living with kidney disease. Yours truly, Lori SCOtt Regional -Fundraising Coordinator We have colourful heroes like th Even as a kid young Jim was somewhat rough and ready. As a teenager he was tough and showed it by not only roping the wildest of horses but roaming the Louisiana Everglades doing the same with alligators. At 24 he and his older brother teamed up with the notorious pirate Jean Laffite and established a slave -smug- gling ring, and as well, although his family said it was untrue, the brothers sold bogus grants of land to unsuspecting settlers. He became a citizen of Mexico and ran a con game duping locals into aidinghim in acquiring thousands of acres ofTexas land. He married the daughter of the provinces vice -governor and went off searching for a fabled lost gold mine. Jim was a colourful if not entirely an ethical adventurer. A handy man with a blade he fought.a duel and killed • his pistol -wielding opponent • .armed only with a knife. Legend has it that he cut him- self with his own knife in a brawl...but some say he cut his hand while trying to kill and cut up a stolen cow... because his hand slipped from the handle onto the Guest Column by Clare Westeott blade. I was reminded of Jim and the revered place he holds in the lore and legend of early America while standing on the bank of a tributary of the Mississippi. We were waiting for a small barge ferry to carry us and our car across • the river - looking I'm sure like northern Yankee tourists. Without being asked. a local who looked like he had wandered off the movie set of Tom Sawyer took -the piece of straw he was chewing from his mouth and said something like. "I bet y'all didn't know -that Jim Bowie slept there one night." point- ing to and old log building. long deserted. I acknowledged with a smile that indeed 1 did not know that he did. But I couldn't help sense that by telling this to us he was showing his respect for the past and for America's glori- ous history in the settling of the southwest. He was proud of Jim Bowie, the man who is supposed to have come up with the design of a new knife...with a heavy guard between the hilt and the large. wide blade...because his hand had slipped and he cut himself. The venturesome but some- what nefarious one-time slave trader joined the Texas revolutionary forces and in 1832 became co -commander of the Alamo with Colonel William Travis. He is forever remembered as a gallant Texas hero fighting off General Santa Anna's Mexican army and slashing away at the soldiers from his cot. where he lay ill with the flu...armcd.only with what Texans called Bowie's "Arkansas toothpick." A few short years after his death -his name was enshrined in American story books along with the Bowie knife, - made famous and mass mar - U.S. xas tradr* - ed Sheffie s in England. ...And we have Tiger Dunlop and Anthony Van Egmond, who are hardly known outside Huron County. They were of the same vin- tage and they didn't trade in slaves or sell *Agus grants of land Wake ke Huron Tract...The Colonel did not die a glorious death wielding a big knife at his enemy but lay in a swamp wounded after the Yongc Street skirmish and died a non -celebrity in a dismal jail. stripped d? all his land. I would like to be standing by the house sometime when an American tourist stopped, so 1 could take the piece of straw from my mouth and say. "I'll het y'all don't know that Colonel Anthony Van Egmond is buried over there." And 1 would be tempted to • add "Hc and his sons cut a road through 75 miles of swamp and bush hum Guelph to Goderich so the early pioneers could get to their new land...about the same time_Jim Bowie was brawling and selling phony grants of land to settlers and trading slaves." Excursions to Hale -Bopp Hare hereby cancelled nice cars. And you don't have their kids, so in that sense, you're the fortunate ones. Turn to people you can trust. Your mother, for instance. My mother was always there for me. My mother was there when Malcolm Hilton pushed me out of a wheel barrel and • broke my arm in three places. My mother was there when Stevie Latinovich let one go from the blue line and opened up a five -inch gusher over my left eye. My mother was there when I got beat up in a bar fight with Derek Sanderson,.a guy 1 could take now because be's had two hip implants and his reflexes have slowed considerably. You see what I'm saying? That's right, my mother is a jinx! But she's all I got! I know you're trying to relate to a cold and fast - changing world around you. from a warm and innocent world within you: You know that expression "this is not your father's Oldsmobile." You know what that means? That means the cop you see in your rearview mirror just double checked your registration and you're. in That -Heaven's -Crate cult, did they not stop to think that if a lethal dose of hard drugs and alcohol could actually propel you into outer space, that Neil Armstrong, when he first stepped on the moon, would have had to take a giant leap over David Crosby and Keith Richards? I mean, if it worked, wouldn't rock stars have been the first accidental astronauts? No doubt greed and materialism has driven many from the rank and file of .western society which is why I would like to direct this column to our young people who may be disillusioned with life and considering joining a cult. Don't go there. I too was once young and angry at a society that I thought didn't include me. Then one day I made the decision to quit living like a bum in the lifeguard shack at Longbeach. This decision was made easier by the fact they were closing the Longbeach Conservation Park for the season, the lifeguard shack was not heated and I was no longer getting paid. But that's not the point. 1 got a job -- several jobs I drove an auto parts delivery truck, then worked on a swing grinder in a steel mill, I hauled bundles of shingles up ladders for roofers. T waited tables in a tap room. I learned what it felt like to William Thomas earn money -- very little money, mind you -- and I developed a sense of thc traditional Canadian work ethic. Then one day I began . making fun of my wife and - her - brother-in-law and our cat - in print - and,presto, 1 never had to work again. Embarrassed; they had to move to another city, but 1 stayed on and prospered. Yes. I kicked that work ethic out of my life as if it were a baseball hit directly at George Bell. And today I'm old and angry at a society that I now know, does not include mc. Actually, now that I know how the system works. I've turned down several offers to join in. So you see, as you age and mature, no matter how cynical you get. it's impossible to keep up. My point is. don't look at others who you believe to be more fonunatc than you. Those people with jobs and nice cars and unruly children -- their guts arc turning and churning with guilt. stress and self-doubt.. In other words, they're just like you except they've got jobs and very serious trouble. Turn to those around you -- me. your parents, your teachers. your friends -- and trust us. We may not be the brightest people in the world. or the most attractive, or the most caring. or even the best listeners, or good role models or ... okay, we're scum. But the best is. we don't have charisma. Not one of us has the charisma to become a cult leader and knead your mind like a handful of Silly Putty. Hell. together we don't have enough charisma to spot the. Hale -Bopp comet, let alone convince you to fly there after a couple of out -of -bode cocktails. We're ordinary folks w,rth nu'seoret agenda except to get y.ou .youngtpeopie up. -and working so you can pay for our pensions. So whatever you do. don't join a cult. I know. I was once a member of a cult. It was dangerous and vers weird. Theyused to snake us remove the pepperoni from our pizza. but strangely. only on Fridays. They played a game where numbered balls' popped out a. machine and you had to -put a kernel of corn on that number. on a piece of cardboard. And the leader, this guy dressed in long. flowing gowns and spoke to. us in Latin. Yes, it took a kidnapping by three de -programmers -to get me out of the Catholic Church. Sorry. but 1 must declare further excursions to Hale - Bopp companion ship hereby cancelled. Trust me. you j}ist can't get their from here. Unsuccessful wolf hunt for Tuckersmith posse in 1972 FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR MAY 7,1897 AN OPERATIC TREAT - Thc presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan's .nautical opera H,M.S. Pinafore. in Cardno's hall, next Monday evening, by a Goderich company, will certainly be a treat that we in the smaller towns are unac- customed Ib. THE CLOSING DEBATE - The closing debate under the auspices of the Seaforth liter- ary society was held in :the town hall, on Monday evening last. There was a fairly large attendance of spectators. The subject fqr discussion was: "Resolved that the Dominion Government would be justi- fied in submitting a prohibi- tion plebiscite." The affirma- tive was taken by Revds. Dr. McDonald and Mr. Bond and Messrs. James Leatherland and John Beattie, while the negative was championed by Messrs. W. Baker, James Watson, R.J. Macdonald and James Irving. The chair was occupied by Mr. B.B. Gunn, and the decision was left to thc vete of the audience and declared a tic. APRIL 28,1922 A Good .Stuck Nurse ,,)dr. J.G. McMichael has again leased for the season the well known Imported Clydesdale stallion •British Hero. from Mr. Thomas •Colquhoun. of Mitchell, and will use him in this district this season. This is the third season for this horse here and he has proven himself .a splendid stock horse, his colts having taken .two first,and championship at Seaforth Fair, and first and second at Clinwn. W.M.S. - The .monthly meeting of the Women's Missionary Society was held in the school room of First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday afternoon. ,Mrs. J.D. Hinchley presided..Mrs. A. Scott gave the Scripture read- ing, while Mrs. James Cowan and Mrs. C. Aberhart gave interesting readings on 'China. Mrs. Mun, of High Bluffs. Man.. who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Herbert Fowler, and who is a delegate for the Manitoba Provincial to thc meeting of the General Council to be held May 1 R to 20th, in Galt, gave a few helpful and inspiring remarks. Mrs. R. Smith engaged in prayer. MAY 2, 1947 Citizens of Seaforth. Tuckcrsmith and McKillop will unite to support the Ontario British Flood Relief campaign, a meeting of rep- resentatives of the three municipalities and the Seaforth branch of the Red Cross decided at a meeting held in the Town Hall here Wednesday evening. Reeve F. Sills, of Seaforth, who was named by the Seaforth coun- cil to head the local commit- tee, was chairman of the meeting. In attendance at the meet- ing, in addition to Reeve Sills, were Mayor M.A. Reid and Councillors E.A. McMaster and W.A. Ross, Seaforth; Reeve N.R. Dorrancc, McKillop Reeve A. Nicholson and Councillor C. McKay, Tuckcrsmith; Rev. R.H. -Williams and Mrs. J.B. Russell, president and trea- surer of the Red Cross. "Wc must -have small hospi- tals in towns if we want to havc.all our people share thc advantages of modern medi- cine." Dr. ,R. Hobbs Taylor. of Dashwood. MPP -star' Huron. told the annual ancct- ieg of the Registered Nurses' '. Association of Ontario in Hamilton on Frida' . "There must be decentral- ization of the hospitals plan, if all are to share services," declared Dr. Taylor. "Small hospitals are crying for staffs. 1 know of five county ones • which, if they don't :receive succor, will have to curtail." MAY A1, -W72 A posse of Tuckersmith farmers were unsuccessful in a wolf hunt at noun last. Wednesday. The animal which Robert Van Den Neucker. RR .4 Seaforth described as stand- ing about 30 inches high and up to 4 feet long 1vas .duty grey colour and blended with the plowed ground over which it was.running. Mr. Van Den Ncuelpr first noticed the animal 'lilting this linc fence. He alerted Bob Fotheringham. Sclvyn Rgss and Wm. Rogerson who joined him in the chase.