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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-02-11, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, FeSnsvy 11, 1985 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager LARRY DALRYMPLk - Sales PAT ARMEE • Office Manager DIANNE MSGRATH • Subscriptions & Classifieds )ACKIE FITTON - Editor GREGOR CAMPBEU. • Reporter BARB STOREY • distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper 5U85CRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS: • 30.00 o year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 28.44 o year in advance, plus 578.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signol-Ston Publishing at 100 Main St., Seolaris. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held of Sealarth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Ssderth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Associotion and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Letters to the Editor Don't wait for final decision, reader says Dear editor: To the citizens -parents - grandparents -students at Seaforth there has been talk of closing Seaforth District High School. Please don't wait until a decision has been made final and it is too late. I urge you phone/write your board representative, sign the petitions or write a letter to the editor now! Let them know they can't close our school. The "talk" has been that if' hey closed our, high school the building could be used for the new board office located here as well as the rest of the communities involved would, but not at the expense of a educational learning institute. According to the interviews of some students in the Expositor they say our chil- dren can't get the courses they require for their chosen career. Well take a mechanics course for example, what pre- requisite do you need in high school that you can't get in Seaforth high school, that would keep you out of the apprentice mechanics course? The latest information is that you need Grade 10, must be 16 -years -old, and the ability to read and write was all that was necessary to enter this apprentice program. I am sure you can still get these here at Seaforth. For those who are interest- ed in this program call the Ontario Apprenticeship Program head office at 1- 800-265-1050 and ask for Larry Ready, I'm sure he can tell you the rest for forestry. I may be wrong but don't think any high school has a forestry course, not just Seaforth. You say that because of our size we can not offer all course our students need to succeed. Well 1 know of one Goderich OAC student who wanted one particular course and was unable to get it at Goderich high.school, she went to Clinton high school to try and get into this course there. Sorry full. This student has taken responsibility from the beginning of Grade 9 and mapped out the courses she needed, and arranged her course selection accordingly. She was lucky this course was not a necessary course but something related to her chosen field.. This is what our guidance counselors are there for. It is the students responsi- bility to know the courses he or she will need in high school and sit down with the guidance counselor and plan out the next five years of education. This may not include spares, but if the students is serious then the student will be successful. If the student does not take this responsibil- ity it will matter not what high school he/she is attend- ing! Or why don't we save a lot of time and close down the Town of Seaforth at the same time Without our high school the board of education may save money. I say may save money. If our children have to be bussed to Mitchell or Clinton, why not move there, then our grade -school-age children can go to the public school that they have there, then they can graduate onto high school with their friends. This way the board of education won't have to pay for bussing either, hey we just saved a few more dollars? This may cause a few busi- nesses in Seaforth to go down the tube such as the grocery store, real estate offices, (no one wants to buy a house in a town that has no high school, when a town eight miles away has one). How about our fast food places and restaurants, how much of your noon -hour business is high school stu- dents. Mind you, these busi- ness pay business taxes, but we arc here to save education dollars right! Do you expect our teachers to remain living in Seaforth, when they don't work here anymore. If they move so does their school tax dollars. This could lead to higher school tax dollars for the remaining Huron -Perth sup- porters! It is about time our elected board members looked at our students as peo- ple, future taxpayers instead of numbers on a paper which need to be reduced! Shirley Brugger. Seaforth 50th reunion planned Dear editor: Graduates please contact: There is a Stratford Normal Harry W. Nesbitt, 39 School Reunion Class of Elizabeth Street, Apt. 1 1947-1948 '50th Stratford Ontario NSA 4Z1. Anniversary' May 2 1998 at Tel. (519) 271-6742. —i the Festival Motor Inn, 1144 Please bring any pictures, Ontario Street, Stratford, anecdotes and memorabilia Ontario. Registration starts at of your association with 10 a.m. with dinner at 12:30 Stratford Normal School. v.m. Harry W. Nesbitt. Could sex scandal rock Ottawa? Chretien nearly 'ated You really gotta love it! The absolute irony of it all. President Eisenhower had a mistress, Kennedy had a harem, Johnson had a lot of women, Bush had a girlfriend and now Clinton. When you think about it, just about the only President of the United States in the last,50 years who was able to keep it in his pants was Richard Nixon -- and they nicknamed him Tricky Dick!!! Scarred forever by these sexcapades, Clinton will never see his portrait carved atop Mount Rushmore alongside Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. However, in Tight of all that's gone on, the U.S. Parks Department is now considering changing the name of that geyser in Yellowstone National Park to Old Unfaithful. Clinton's sex life could have grave consequences for Canada. We may not be such close friends with the United States as we were led to believe. Prime Minister Jean Chretien may not be such a pal of the President's after all. Indeed Chretien must now be wondering if he's actually ever met the man. Given Bill's busy schedule, it could well turn out that Chretien has been playing golf and having private meetings with Clinton's secret service double while the President himself was off nailing a second cousin from Arkansas who holds down a $70,000 -a -year job setting pins in the White House bowling alley. Which brings to mind the question -- could such a sex scandal happen here in Canad., ' I mean the closest thing we've had to a real sex scandal was in the late 50s when it was. discovered that prostitute Gerda Munsinger's strong ties to Diefenbaker's national defence department included handcuffs and satin chains. Although it proved internationally embarrassing, we did create the now popular military term: "carpet bombing". Unless of course you count John Turner's hand patting Iona Campagnolo's bum, which upset every woman in Canada, except Iona Campagnolo. Believe it or not, we just had a sex scandal in Ottawa and it didn't really materialize. Lost in the media frenzy surrounding President Clinton, Jean Cretien's brush with a potentially explosive sexual encounter didn't even make the news. But I'm told that just last week, our very own Prime Minister, unable to reach his model EH101 helicopter on top of his credenza, stuck his head out of his office and yelled for a tall girl. As you know, sometimes Chretien's words are not always clear and immediately understood like when he promised to eliminate the G.S.T., failed to do so and then was very hurt when he found out we had believed him. So hearing it wrong but not Letter to the Editor William Thomas wanting to anger the boss by having him repeat his order -- his secretary sent in a call girl. Confronted with a complete stranger in his office, Chretien immediately grabbed a soapstone Inuit carving and tried to conk her over the head. The leggy blonde was quite calm, telling Chretian if he was going to get rough it would cost an extra hundred bucks. In minutes Chretien was at his secretary's desk, upset. "I don't understand this woman," he said. "She keeps saying she wants to see the little guy from Shawinigan, and I keep saying, I am the little guy from Shawinigan." "Then she says okay, so show me the midget from Montreal. You better call Eddie Goldberg, I think he's got a fan." Chretien goes back into his office but in a minute he's back at his secretary's desk. "Now she wants to know what I think of the missionary position. Get Axworthy on the phone and ask him what our official position is on missionaries. I told her I was behind her 100% but I'm not sure, you know." In the office and back out again. "This woman! She says she can make me scream out loud and cause my knees to tremble. I told her, that happens every time I hear Sheila Copps' voice." "I think you better wall security. She started to take off her clothes and I told her, please, you know I'm a very ornery man!" The call girl was whisked away by security guards but not before she said hello to several cabinet ministers she knew. "I don't understand all this," said Chretien to his secretary. "It's so strange, like that night I was up late talking to President Clinton. He put me on hold, then he must have hit the wrong button because when he came back on he asked me what I was wearing and what I would like to do. I told him, pajamas and watch TV. He hung up on me. Our relationship has never been the same since." At the end of the day, winded and feeling all of his 64 years, our Prime Minister trudges up the front steps of 24 Sussex Drive and into the foyer where he hears the voice of his lovely wife call down: "Jean, come up the stairs and make love to me." Frustrated and annoyed, Chretien replies: "Aline, I told you before ... I can do one or the other!" No, relax. In this country the only way a major sex scandal could take place is if the Canadian beaver mated with a badger and the surly little offspring took out memberships in the Reform Party of Canada. Coalition wants full review ofroadf'inances. When the present provincial government was first elected, we heard a great deal about users paying for services ren- dered. This policy appears to have been completely ignored in the restructuring program taking place between the provincial gov- ernment and municipalities. Let us look at road user fees. Here we have a situa- tion where the province is transfer is known, estimates transferring total responsihili- for 1997-98 show the ty for the majority of'the road province is now collecting system to the municipalities $1.275 billion per year more to be finance by property in road user fees than is being, taxes, while at the same time spent out our total transporta- the province continue.0 to tion system. All this while levy the same road' user fee. our roads continue to deterto- Road users will now have to rate. Road safety becomes a pay twice for this essential major issue and congestion services. worsens. To put it bluntly, a Meanwhile, even before the full extent of this financial higher percentage of fees 75th anniversary reunion Dear editor: Danforth TECHers are call- ing home from all over the world. To date, we have made contact with over 1500 former students and teachers from Australia, Great Britain, The Bahamas, Singapore, Florida, California, other U.S states and every province in Canada. Most have indicated they will be attending the 75th Anniversary Reunion cele - Question of the week brations, May 1 and 2, 1998 at the school in Toronto • In it's 75 year history, Danforth has educated thou- sands of students - former NHL hockey greats Bill White and Wally Boyer, car- toonist Andy Donato (who designed our 75th Anniversary logo) are includ- ed in our alumni. There arc many more former students and teachers of Danforth out there, and we are trying to locate them. They can be assured that this reunion will be a memo- rable one. For information, all former day, night or part-time stu- dents acid teachers of Danforth Tech are asked to contact the 75th. Anniversary Reunion Committee, 800 Greenwood Ave. Toronto Ontario M41 4B7 or E-mail DAN75 @ INTERLOG>COM Arthur B. Kelly. now being collected needs to be put back into roads. The Better Roads Coalition urges the provincial govern- ment to carry out a full review of road financing practices, not just from a jurisdictional point of view (province and municipality) but from the road users per- spective -the taxpayer that dri- ves the roads and pays the fees. We would urge all road users to contact their provin- cial members of the Legislature to request that this injustice be corrected, The Better Roads Coalition is a coalition of road users dedicated to the maintenance and expansion of the total road system. Harold Gilheft Chairman of Better Roads Coalition Etohicoke. What's the worst thing that happened to you Friday 13th? r Frank Halley Seaforth Pat Flanagan Harpurhey "...I've never had any, it's one of my lucki- thing happen Friday the est days." 13th out of the ordinary." Barb Russell Seaforth "...ten years ago, I did $1,000 worth of damage to my car. Did $40 dam- age to a jacket and ran over a black cat." Chris Ruston Seaforth "... if it's going to hap- pen it's 4oing to happen whether it's Friday 13th or not."