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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-12-10, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, December 10, 1997 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager 8 Advertising Manger LARRY DALRYMPLE - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions it Classifieds JACKIE FiTTON - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper S,,BSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL 32 50 a year. in advance. plus 2 28 G 5 T SENIORS 30 00 o year, in advance, plus 2 10 G 5 T • & Foreign 28 44 a year in advance. plus $78 00 postage. G 5 T exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing or 100 Main St Seaford, Publication mail reg,strahon No 0696 held at Seoforth, Ontario Advertising .s accepted on cond,hon chat ,n the event of o typographical error, the advertising space occupied cy'he erroneous sten. together with a reasonable allowance for signature. will not ce -barged. but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at rhe applicable -ate in Me event of a typographical error. advertising goods or services or ▪ ,rg ;,r ce goods or services may not be sold Adverus,ng •s merely an offer to ;ell and may ce withdrawn at any time The Huron Expositor s 'at-esponstbie for 4'e oss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts. photos or other materials used for -ecr;ducrion purposes Changes of address, orders _Far subscnphons and undetiv er atie -op,es are to be sent to The Huron Expositor Wednesday, December 10, 1997 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Sireet.,Seaforlh • Telephone (5191 527-0240 Fax 15191 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforlh, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member or +e Canadian Community Newspaper 'ssoc:anon Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Views expressed on our opinion pages) 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. STUDENTS DESIGN STAMPS - Winners of a recent leslgn-a-stamp contest at the Seaforth Post Office were teff, from Huron Centennial School. They were designed Cy ;above) Tanya Costello. age nine and In Grade 4, of Brucetield: and. Tyler Hendriks of Tuckersmith Township. He s five -years -old. Post offices across the country held ::rnllar contests. The local winners received prizes. e re o 1 me Want to e-mail your Letters to the Editor? The 'Huron Expositor has gone high-tech and online. Our e -mai address is: huronexp@odyssey.on.ca Remember. ALL Letters to the Editor must be s and have a telephone number for confirmation. Letters taslty be edited for both length and Content. Dont forget to check out our homepage at: - www.bowesnet.com/expositor/ Fine line between fun money and funny money Today we're talking bad cash. No, not like the money in that Loomis amoured car in Edmonton, the one being followed by a fleet of Alberta police cars because it was weaving erratically and one of the guards appeared to be giving a distress call by swinging the door open and shut repeatedly. That was -- I'm not making this up - another guard's bad gas. You've probably noticed that drivers of armoured cars are securely separated from the guards in the back? That's why. We're talking about bogus currency like in northern Russia last year where lumberjacks were paid off in absorbent feminine hygiene products because their employer ran out of rubles. Strange currency as in the Ukraine which issued new banknotes worth 500.000 - wait for it - karbovanets. (Karbovanets?!? Wasn't that the couple who won the ice dancing gold medal in Lillehammer. Norway? Yeah. Igor .and Katrina Karbovanets?) The Ukraine government then immediately announced 35 tons of low denomination karbovanet notes would be recycled into badly needed toilet paper. (Please, make up your own joke here). There's a very fine. indelible line between fun 'Money and funny mohey as witnessed by , the administration of a middle school in Scottsdale. Arizona where a 14 -year-old boy plunked a crisp new 550 bill down to pay for his lunch in the cafeteria. The kid used a high- resolution copier to make his money. The school had to buy a new computer scanner to catch him. The Secret Service had to stop by to slap his slippery little wrist. Kids only- always looking for the easy way out. If they really want the responsibility of purchasing power and they don't have money. they should damn well do what their parents did -- get credit cards. Lots of them. In North America "casual counterfeiting" has doubled every year since 1989. Abroad. 5120 million in counterfeit U.S. dollars were seized in 1993 alone. , The Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa is proud of the fact - that no counterfeit Canadian dollars were passed overseas because foreigners won't take Canadian money, good or bad. Actually counterfeit money is an increasingly serious problem here in Canada. Given the hundreds of billions of dollars we are in- debt ndebt federally. plus the billions of dollars we are in debt provincially across this country -- if counterfeit money was allowed to circulate freely. it could quickly be on a par with our real currency which today dropped to 71.4% against the Canadian Tire Triple Bonus bill. The law is very clear here -- people can't just willy nilly crank out currency whenever they need hard- cash. That's the job of the government. Most funny money is. passed in grocery stores. Cashiers in all supermarkets must take extreme caution when accepting Canadian currency in - all; denominations. For instance, some phony fifties are a few millimetres shorter than the real bills and when folded and rubbed together, counterfeit paper will sometimes smudge and smear. Also. clerks are urged to look for large denomination bills that have the line: "Oh no. this bill includes the G.S.T." These are definitely home-made. There are other ways to test the authenticity of Canadian currency coming into the tills every day. For instance, store clerks will know it's pretender tender ... • If on the hack of the Canadian 51 coin. the loon looks an awful lot Tike Richard Simmons. • It on the hack of the' Canadian 52 coin. the polar hear is drinking a bottle of Coca Cola. • It you told and rub any Canadian hill toeethcr and the word:. "Paul is dead" appear; over the serial number. • [f on the front of our S5 hill. Sir Wilfred Lauver has both hands on his rear end. doing the Macarena. • If the scene of the Canadian parliament buildings on the front of the 511) hill includes t wacko dnvtne a blue Jeep Cherokee up the front steps. • If the fish being scooped up by the osprey on the hack of the $10 bill has a "Captain Hiehliner" tag on its tail. • I1 on the front of our 521) hill. just behind the regal_ portrait of . Queen Elizabeth. moving vans are hacked up to Buckingham Palace. • If the guy giving you a 550 htll borrows your pen to sign it hut can't produce photo ID that_ prove he': Canada, Governor General. • If Don King's photo. has replaced MacKenzie Kines photo on the 550. hill and you can't close 'your till for all of that hair. • If on the hack- of the' Canadian Slt)t) hill. the ,goose is cooked. t Remember: good or had. it's 'only monevamd you cant take a with you. Not unless it's tircproof What can go wrong, did go.wrong this week BY JACKIE FITTON Expositor Editor Operating under Murphy's Law First week at the Huron Expositor -I operated in con- junction with Murphy. Murphy's Law states - any- thing that can go wrong will go wrong - and it did go wrong. This week would have tried the patience of Murphy him- self. But being British, the sense of humor remained in -tact. My mother warned me at an early age [ only needed three things to take me on the road of life. One being my health. the second sensible shoes. and the third: strong knicker elastic. But the 'humor prevailed when [ goofed up the chemi- cals in the darkroom and spent the second morning phoning people to see if it was possible to set up the photo's again. 1 was tempted to blame Gregor Campbell. but thought if 1 was perfect ['d be on the right- hand- side of God and not sitting at the Expositor'so [ owned up to it. Wednesday. everything kept vanishing from the computer. Five times [ typed in the cut lines for the two pictures I had to take again. Each time to find the Mac had erased the thing. I never considered myself computer illiterate having worked ,on a different system for years. Then the computer experts from Goderich came in to help. An assignment Thursday had been set-up, whereby [ was to go to the local OPP office in town and take a plc= ture for the on-going R.LD.E program. A misunderstand- ing occurred..[ was at the OPP office and the officers were at the Other end of town... another 'goof -up of mine. Then the ultimate shame' Operating in the dark I finally tackled,the darkroom. Everything was going tine. The photo's were being pnnt ed and the time came to.place the photo paper through the prossessor I felt the tug of my sweater being lodged within the side rollers. In complete darkness my lett s-.' c:ucr sleeve began ch'urning..,and env neht arm was unable to reach the. light switch. The suction ,tt the vacuum for the enlarger became deafening so no one could hear the crunching .ot my sweater sleeve. t inan- aged to free myself and switch`thc li'_hts.on. But 1 had broken the 2ttg in the processor. 1 once .bought the ultimate. emharrassing •nornent was the day I tucked Inv skin In the :back of my pantyhose hlll•this '.ye.ek heat that. eve aIway: thought of myself its stn intelligent per- son.. but I'm -,till trying to convince the Expositor staff that the rico editor 1. ,tot a complete idiot. Earnest work occupies society a century ago FROM THE PAGES OF rHE HURON EXPOSiITOR DECEMBER 17. 1897 WF.M.S. - The annual meeting of the Seaforth aux- iliary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society was held in the Presbyterian church on Monday last. Encouraging reports were read by the secretary. the treasurer. and the president of the •Mission Band. Earnest work has been done during the year. though no progress is reported either in number of members or in amount of contributions. A series of topics was arranged for 1898, which will help to make the meetings more interesting and profitable. Several changes were dis- cussed in the management of the auxiliary. all tending to increase the usefulness of the society and extend its influ- ences. The election of offi- cers resulted as follows: President. Mrs. E. McFaul; vice-presidents. Mrs. Kirkman, Mrs. A.D. McDonald. Mrs. Dickson: recording secretary. Mrs. J.O. Rose; corresponding secre- tary. Mrs. J.G. Wilson; leaflet secretary, Mrs. A. Scott; trea- surer. Mrs. D.D. Wilson; president of mission band. Miss T. Wilson. It is hoped that during the coming year many ladies who have not joined the auxiliary will do so, and thus be able more efficiently to help the society in its work' for the women and children of heathen. lands. DECEMBER 8. 1922 Curlers Re -organize - The 46th annual meeting of the Seaforth Curling Club was held in the Carnegie Library Hall on Monday evening with a large attendance of members present. and the president. Mr. John Beattie. in the chair. Thc report of the Treasurer showed a substan- tial balance would be carried over to the new year. and the coming season is being antic- ipated with enthusiasm. Thc following were the officers `elected: Patron. Col. Alex. Wilson. Toronto; President, Keith McLean: vice President. R.M. Jones: Secretary -Treasurer. C.A. Barber; Umpire, W. Ament: Auditors, J. Beattie. G.D. Haigh; Executive Committee. Ross Sproat, Charles Stewart, W.E. Kerslake. W.E. Southgate; Members'. Committee, Russell Sproat, G.D. Haigh and C. Stewart; Skips, W. Ament, 1. Beattie. T. Johnston. G.A. Sills, Jimmy Dick. Keith McLean. George Bethune. R.E. Bright. W.E. Southgate. Oscar Neil. Ross Sproat, W.E. Kerslake. J.C. Greig. DECEMBER 19, 1947 Members of the Seaforth Branch 156 Canadian Legion. at a largely attended meeting in the club room. Fnday evening. reviewed the' year's activities and elected officers for the coming year. installatioin of the new offi- cers will take place at the January meeting President C.P. Sills presided. Officers elected are: Past president. C.P. Sills. presi- dent. A.Y. McLean: I st vice- pres.. Dr. Paul Brady: 'nd vice pros., John J. Holland: sec.. A.W. Sillcty: treas.. J.M. McMillan: sergeant -at -arms. Andrew Calder: pension offi- cer. Richard. S. Box. chap- lains. Rev. T.P. Hussey and Lieut. Millar: chairman of entertainment committee. Lloyd Hoggarth: property committee. 1.E. Keating: membership committee. John Flannery: house committee. •Lou Sorrento: sick and visit- ing. B.O. Muir: speciall events committee. George D. Hays. ••• Because of shortage of materials and the difficulty of carrying on construction in winter weather, no further work will he done on the Broadfoot bridge until next spring. Tuckersmith council decided at its final meeting of the vc,ir on Mi.irtday, Thc construction '.y.t, made 'feces-. .ary whin f111uds slat spring washed out the former bridge. The pavinent „1 Ste -'1(11) ''11 account of the steel birder was lard over pending ,ippruv.tl o4 Munrctpal Engineer. l icorgc Flcwt(t was paid $2.25 for land to he used for a new road to he hunt west of the bridge. Reeve Arthur Nicholson presided and all members were pre- sent. DECEMBER 21. 1972 Members of the Turt Club team received honours al the annual Industrial Softball League banquet Wednesday. The team was awarded the Commercial Hotel trophy. presented to team caption. Jack NL:i.Iw,itn, for its unbeaten regular season. as well as the Molson trophy. Presented to coach Ferg McKellar. tor winning the playoffs. Tearn rnernhcrs include Joe Dick. Paul McKellar. Don Dupce. Bill Bennett, Ken McLlwain, Ron Driscoll. Jim Dick. Jack McLlwain, Bill Strong. Ferg McKellar. Dale Kennedy. Gord Pullman, Dick Burgess. Don Kunder.