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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-10-15, Page 54.1111 INNIOII InCIP04111T011. Osteaperti$, IIS? Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI•LYNN DALE • G4n.rd Manager & Advertising Manager LORRY DALRYMPLE - Sala PAT ARMES • Office Manger PANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds QA1lk SCOTT - Editor 020E.Cklatik - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper ,St18SCRIPT)ON RATEI: LOCAL - 32.50 o year, in odvance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. gNIORS; - 30.00 a year, in odranc.. plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA Maim: 28.41 o year in odronce, plus 578.00 postoge, G.S.T. exempt WISCRIPTION RATE: Published weal y by Signal -Sar Publishing at 100 Main 5t., Seaforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held of Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Sealer*, Ontario, NOK two Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Put money into health care The big national debate these days seems to be how to spend the dividend when the federal government balances its budget. There should be one immediate priority: put money back into health care. The horror stories have been mounting in health care in recent months. In Toronto, for instance, hospitals have expen- sive Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines (MRI) but only have the money to hire technicians one shift a day. It means that regular patients may have to wait weeks for their turn in line. But hospitals have turned the machines into profit cen- tres, renting out the use of machines in the evening to insur- ance companies that can afford to pay higher rates. When Toronto Blue Jay Ed Sprague had a shoulder injury, he was able to get immediate attention though other needy patients were bypassed. Expensive operating rooms are not used because there isn't enough money to keep them operating. Meanwhile the line up for surgery continues to grow. Starved for money by the federal government, provinces have been closing hospitals and reducing service. Now that the federal government has more money, it should relieve the pressure on the provinces by returning some of the money it has cut from health care budgets. The current situation is opening the door for a two-tiered health system the federal government claims it doesn't want. People who have some money are tired of supporting a health care system that makes them wait in line with those who need free care. They're increasingly willing to pay extra for insur- ance that will take them to the head of the line. If the federal government doesn't loosen the purse strings some provinces will use underfunding as an excuse to promote private medical coverage. The government talks about creating jobs, but wouldn't putting extra technicians to work on expensive equipment and extra nurses and surgeons in operating rooms create good jobs, while easing the pain and the worry of patients? First priority for any spending should be on the area that needs it most and health care definitely seems to be that area. - Keith Roulston, The North Huron Citizen Letters to the Editor Teacher pens Dear Editor: TO BUILD A MINISTER OF EDUCATION We would instill in her the importance of success. We would place in him a sense, of wonder. We would foster in her compassion and dedication. We would require in him empathy and experience. We would show her how to be child centred, We would open in him the world of a teacher. We would create for her systems of cooperation. We would help him to see through the eyes of a parent. We would cultivate in her excitement and joy. We would let him hold the hand of a hungry child. We would let her feed the child. We would fill him with the hopes and dreams of that child. We would bring her to understand society's respon- sibility, We would encourage him to lister "hen others speak. We would define for her words like 'criterion' and 'referenced' and 'assess - political poem ment'. We would guide him through the philosophy of growing up with confidence. We would remind her of the importance of sharing. We would demonstrate how to recognize growth. We would read to him and help him read. We would love her so that she could love. We could do all these things. But when that morning bells sounds, Only he can culture wis- dom, Only she can speak the truth. Then she would give us hope, And he would provide a vision, That includes the teachers and the parents, And a bright and democrat- ic future for all children. As we keep instilling in her the importance of success, And keep filling him with an overpowering sense of wonder. Angelo Ippolito Grade 3 and 4 teacher St. James School Memories endure of same -name contemporattes{{ I recall a few years ago reading a story in the Expositor about nicknames. It was a good piece, written by David Broome, and it cov- ered everybody from "Skin" Willoughby to "Bottle" Sproule and from "Red" McNairn to "Ink" Venus... There were literally hun- dreds. I especially remember the earlier ones..."Put-Put" Sills, "Bun" Cardno, "Jockey" Knight and his brother "Weasel," "'Ilrbby" Mills, "Grease" Hoff, "The Bug" Hildebrand, "Muddle" Allen and "Hattie" Dorance - for these were the everyday names from the '30s and '40s we all used. ...And there was "Bub" Elliot - We grew up together. We attended public and high school together and we start- ed working for Frank Kling in the early '40s. In those same early years, whenever he could get his dad's Pontiac coupe we courted girls in Brussels. But today I was thinking about the Scotts of Seaforth. There were three families when I was growing up - and all with the same first name. I don't think they were related. I have to think that rather than nicknames the expres- sion preceding their first names was simply a means of identification - for they were all known as James. There was "Singing" Jimmy, "Professor" Jimmy and "Chicken" Jimmy. Although I had often heard him sing, in concerts and in church I never really got to know "Singing" Jimmy as I did the other two. I was in awe of "Professor" Jim in the 1940s for he was so beautifully literate in writ- ing about his own part of the world. He wrote in such breezy detail that 1 got to know about the past and what it was like in my home area the Huron Tract, in,the days of my great-grandfather and before. We all owe him for that. I worked part-time at the Seaforth News and he some- times wrote for the Expositor. My envy of his way with words made me hate myself Toronto school Dear Editor: We are asking for your co- operation in locating all for- mer day and evening students and teachers of Danforth Tech, which is located in the east end of the City of Toronto. This current school year, Danforth is celebrating its 75th Anniversary and a for dropping out of high school. For he was a ranking academic and (I think) the first professor of journalism at Western University. In later years we got to be friends. Fate...and the need to make a living brought four of us together in Toronto in 1950. Gordon Wilson, who worked at Canadian General Electric, Neil Beattie was a teller at the Dominion Bank at Spadina and College, "Professor" Jim, was book editor of the Toronto Telegram, following a stint as director of the Liberal Party's Ontario headquarters. And me...struggling to survive as a very junior bureaucrat in the Ontario government. The important one was Gord Wilson - for he had a car. As Neil was the last one to get off work on Friday we would gather at the El Mocambo, a watering hole on Spadina across the street from his bank. Waiting for Neil led to some bad habits. It was Jim who convinced Gordon that rather than tak- ing Highway 5 or 7 or 8, we go by way of Brampton, +Orangeville, Arthur; Palmerston, Listowel and Brussels and get refreshed at the small town beer empori- ums along the way...We got so refreshed sometimes it's a wonder we were not killed. This lasted until I managed to get wheels of my own. Jim had a sad end in that he died too young. A great talent was lost...But his legacy of words is still with us. In fact I would bet that on the shelves of the Carnegie Library one could find "Huron County in Pioneer Times," "The Settlement of Huron County," and my favourite... "Gateway to Learning." For both my father and I were pupils in Scaforth's Public School - built the year of Confederation, and now Maplewood Manor. About 1935 the "hired man" on the Harold Lawrence farm quit to take a job at Scott's chicken farm. I knew him from Sunday school at Northside United Church. School was about to close for the summer and he offered me a job. I was about 11 and aside from chores for my dad and my grandma I had never before been paid for working. I was thrilled. I would get a dollar a week and all I had to do was show up at the farm at 5 a.m. and fill up a tank on a stone boat at the windmill pump. One of the Scott horses was hitched up to it and for the next three hours we dragged it around the pens on the range and watered what seemed to be countless thousands of thirsty young chickens. I now ache just thinking about it. Some of those early morn- ings it was cold and the jerk- ing of the stone boat, which was built like a crude sleigh, splashed us until we were completely soaked. I lasted for almost the whole summer and aside from the six or seven dollars I made there was a great bonus...I got to know "Chicken" Jimmy Scott and Mrs. Scott. Mr. Scott was a gentleman, tall and handsome as I recall. Mrs. Scott was one of the nicest ladies I ever met...and not just because of the cook- ies and lemonade she brought to me while I sat on the veranda steps. I remember her as a very attractive and stately woman. A genteel lady who smiled ever so slightly whenever she spoke. Before the summer was out I knew my way around the hatchery and the pens in the barns and on the range. Watching Mr. Scott open the incubator door and have the warm smelly air rush out bringing the chirps of baby chicks fighting their way out of their shell can never be forgotten. 1 remember how fascinated 1 was watching the newly installed trap doors that hens tripped when they went in to lay an egg...so a record could be kept to determine which chickens laid the most eggs. And how they had to stand up on a wire to reach their feed...because it was found that the faster they ate the faster they grew and put on weight...standing on the wire was uncomfortable so they ate fast to get off as quickly as possible. And a bit of trickery was done with light- ing. By giving them a longer day and a short night there was more time to lay eggs. Mr. Scott was kind enough to let me bring out my school chums and have me show them around. I'm sure I felt like a big shot impressing my friends with my vast knowl- edge of the chicken busi- ness...In fact one Sunday I took my mother and dad out for a tour after church. I was fortunate in later years while working for Frank Kling for we did quite a bit of wiring and plumbing at the Scott farm. There are people we meet that we never forget. It may be that we see a distinctive- ness or something we think is very special. Whether it be character or personality or just the dignity that is expressed by showing kind- ness and respect to a young boy. It has always been remembered. They were of a generation a bit before me - but "Chicken" Jimmy and Mrs. Scott did not treat me as a child in those early years. I think it was part of a learning process we all go through...if we're lucky. We see the kind of people we want to be - and we never forget them. Not many places have same -name contemporaries that add so much to the lore and the life of their town. wants to locate all former students, teachers reunion will be held at the school on May 2, 1998. In order to make this event a success, we wish to locate as many former students and teachers as possible and ask for your assistance in achiev- ing this goal. Many of the former stu- dents and teachers have moved away from the city and now reside throughout the province. Would you be kind enough to find a small space in your local publication for this noti- fication? It will assist us in locating many people. We ask that they contact the school by writing to: Danforth 75th Anniversary, 800 Greenwood Ave. Toronto, Ont. M4J 4B7 or voice/fax: 416-393-8042. Email: dan75@interlog.com. www.interlog.com/-dan75. Thank you, in anticipation, for your assistance. Yours truly, Arthur B. Kelly, Publicity Big carrot grown by Egmondville man in 1922 FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR OCTOBER 22, 1897 Accident - Mr. Robert Bell, of the 2nd conccssion, Tuckersmith, met with a very painful accident on Monday evening last. He was return- ing from Mr. Morrison's sale on a bicycle, and when descending the hill a short distance cast of this place, he met Mr. Horton, who was going in the opposite direc- tion with a horse and buggy. As they were about meeting, Mr. Horton's horse shied slightly at a culvert, swerving into the road, and Mr. Bell, before he could stop, ran into the rig. He was thrown from his wheel, dislocating his shoulder and receiving other injuries of a painful nature. He was taken to a house near by and medical aid procured, when his injuries were attended to, and he was taken home and is now getting on as well as could be expected. He had a narrow escape from even more serious injuries, but under the circumstances, it was purely accident and no person was to blame. His numerous friends, while sym- pathizing with him, will hope to see him around again soon. OCTOBER 13,1922 The Bowlers - The rink competition for the four pairs of lawn bowls which bas been in pfrovess at the heti green for some weeks and which has caused unusual interest among the bowlers, was finished on Friday evening last, when Dr. Bechley met J. Broderick's rink in the finals, before a very large gallery. The Broderick rink got away with a five end on the start, and this lead their opponents were not able to overcome, although at times they were close to it, and the game throughout was keen and exciting. The following com- posed the rinks in the finals: W.R. Smith, E.H. Close, D. Fell and Dr. Bechley, skip; Wnt. Wilson, W. Thompson, J. Mactavish and J. Broderick, skip. A Big Carrot - Mr. William McDougall, of Egmondville, who for many years has been a noted gardener, showed us this week a Short Horn Carrot, of his own growing, which measured 13 inches round the top, was eight inch- es long and weighed one'and three-quarter pounds. ,It will take a lot of beating. • OCTOBER 14,1947 Huron County Holsteins acquitted themselves very well against the strongest kind of competition at the annual Western Ontario Championship Show, held on Friday at London. Ross Marshall, Kirkton, showed the third prize heifer calf in a class of 64, and also had the fifth prize, junior get -of -sire. L'. Leeming & Son, Walton, brought out the third prize, aged bull, and the 10th prize, bull calf, while R. McKeil, Clinton, had the sixth prize, junior yearling bull. ••• Although October this year has been outstanding in beau- ty and warmth, it has never been considered a raspberry month. This week, however, Mr. J.A. Westcott, well known Seaforth jeweller, brought to The Expositor office a large branch from a wild raspberry bush that was laden with large and luscious berries. While out for a walk in McLean's bush in Tbckersmith on Sunday after- noon, Mr. Westcott came upon a large patch of raspber- ry bushes which were laden with berries, and from which he picked his sample. OCTOBER 24,1972 Seaforth Lions were in Goderich Friday when they joined with members of the Goderich Club in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of that club. At the October meeting the Seaforth Club recognized long time members when awards were presented to J.A. Stewart, 45 years; Frank Kling, 30 years; John Turnbull and Scott Chuff, 25 years. Pins emblematic of perfect attendance during the year were presented to - Chas. Barber, Clair Campbell, Scott Cluff, Geo. Hayes, Brian Flannigan, Elmer Larone, Andrew McLean, Orville Oke, Bill Pinder, Gord Rimmer, Leo Teatero, Don Stephenson, Jim Stewart, Bill Thompson, Harold Tumbull, Ab Whitney, Marten Vincent. ••• A check of facilities at Vanastra, former CFB Clinton as a potential sports complex was promised Friday by Hon. John Munro, Canada's Minister of National Health during a visit to Huron riding. Informed by Huron Liberal candidate Charlie Thomas of the facilities available at the base and how they could be fitted into the National Fitness Program, Mr. Munro expressed keen interest.