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Letters to the Editor
Town mayor
affirms stance
[Editors note: The following
letter was sent by Seaforth
Town Council to the principal
of Seaforth District High
School Bruce Eccles. Council
wanted to convey to the com-
mratitr that the town supports
its high school. 1
Dear Bruce:
At their regular meeting on
February 3rd. 1998. Seaforth
Council discussed at length
the concerns, ant the commu-
nity's concerns regarding the
future of our high school.
Council wishes to make it
clear the Seaforth District
High School holds a vital
position in the community
which we want to preserve
and enhance.
if there is any way we can
be of assistance, by providing
information, helping to orga-
nize a lobbying campaign,
promoting the high school,
assisting ,with fund raising
efforts, or anything else,
please let us know. Both the
council and municipal 'staff
are anxious to see the high
school remain as a viable
educational institute, and
wish to do whatever they can
see that it does.
it's no secret the town has
made its pitch to the Avon
Maitland District School
Board in an effort to have the
new Board Offices located in
Seaforth. Please be assured
that Seaforth wants to main-
tain its high school, first and
foremost. If however, there
is an opportunity to also
secure the board offices, all
the better.
It has been suggested, if the
hoard will not consider build-
ing a new office facility, per-
haps the community could
convince thc board to locate
in Seaforth if we raised the
funds to put an addition on
the high school to house both
the board and the School and
perhaps even some other
community facilities like a
museum or day-care.
Council believes this idea
merits further thought.
Council is aware the SDHS
administration is currently
working on a plan to enhance
its programs and services,
and would welcome the
opportunity to add to its ideas
if you think that would be
sustainable and worthwhile.
municipal representatives
would be pleased to meet
with you and your staff to
pursue this further.
Looking forward to meet-
ing with you to discuss this
letter and hearing your ideas.
David Scott, Mayor
Review committee
gets letter from town
[Editors note: The following
is also a letter sent to the
members of the Avon -
Maitland Headquarters Site
Review Committee and to
Paul Carroll, Director of
Education from !times
Crocker, Clerk Administrator
for the town of Seaforth. [
Attention: Paul Carroll,
Directorof Education' and
Secretary -Treasurer.
Dear members of the
Headquarters Site Review
Committee:
Further to the town of
Seaforth's previou1 corre-
spondence and submissions
to the Avon Maitland District
School Board, the purpose of
this letter is to make very
clear the council of the town
of Seaforth and the residents
of the town and surrounding
arca, fully support thc contin-
uance of Scaforth District
High School at its present
location.
By way of the attached let-
ter, Seaforth Council has
extended its support to
Scaforth District High School
and is entertaining any ideas
or plans that will maintain
SDHS's vital position in our
community, and accommo-
date the board offices if pos-
sible.
While the town of Seaforth
welcomes the establishment
of the, board headquarters in
Seaforth, in no way are we
willing to sacrifice our sec-
ondary school and its stu-
dents for the sake of the
board office.
James Crocker
A guide to 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 --
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 money as
witnessed by the
administration of a middle
school in Scottsdale, Arizona
where a 14 -year-old boy
plunked a crisp new $S0 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
shoufd 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, $120 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 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 witty nilly
crank out currency whenev .
they need hard cash. Tha
- 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 know4 it's
pretender tender ...
• It on the back ot the
Canadian $1 coin, the loon
looks an awful lot like
Richard Simmons.
• If on the back of the
Canadian $2 coin, the polar
bear is drinking a bottle of
Coca Cola.
• If you fold and rub any
Canadian bill together and
the words, "Paul is dead"
appears over the serial
number.
• If on the front of our $5 bill,
Sir Wilfred Laurier has both
hay ds on his rear end, doing
' carena.
tc scene of the Canadian
t ,,,itament buildings on the
front of the $10 bill -includes
a wacko driving a blue Jeep
Cherokee up the front steps.
• It the fish being scooped up
by the osprey on the back of
the $10 bill has a "Captain
Highliner" tag on its tail.
• If on the -front of our $20
bill, just behind the regal
portrait of Queen Elizabeth,
moving vans are backed up to
Buckingham Palace.
• If the guy giving you a $50
bill borrows your.pen to sign
it but can't produce photo ID
that proves he's Canada's
Governor General.
• If Don King's photo has
replaced MacKenzie 'King's
photo on the $50 bill and you
can't close your till for all of
that hair.
• If on the back of the
.Canadian $100 bill, the goose
is cooked.
(Remember, good or bad,
it's only money and you can't
take it with you. Not unless
it's fireproof.)
iaenas cc
idents to
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call the people who x}ill vote
Dear Editor:
To anyone who is con-
cerned with the future of all
schools;
There is a strong need we
feel to have your concerns
known. Listed below are the
addresses and phone numbers
of the people who will be
deciding Feb. 24th if a. school
will become a board office.
To lose any part of our
schools would he a great loss
to our children, our commu-
nities and our futures. Let
these people know how this
will 1.affect your family.
Phone, Write, fax, e-mail
before Feb. 24th.
Here are the list of names:
Paul Carroll, John Patterson,
Janet Baird -Jackson, Marilyn
Markclevitz.
Colleen Schenk, 469
Grandview, Wingham, On.
NOG 2W0. home 357-1066;
Letters to the Editor
Leslie Wood, R.R.#2, St.
Pauls, On. NOK IVO. home
393-6796; R.B. (Bob) Allan,
R.R. #2, Zurich, On. NOM
2TO home 236-7467; Wendy
Anderson, R.R. 2, Tavisuick,
deader says, details
ailed to be mentioned
Dear editor:,
In regards to a Feb. 11 arti-
cle re: Gas stations stung...
Yes, it was an unfortunate
situation for both Seaforth
area gas stations to be hit
with the altered cheque scam,
but there have been a few
details failed to be men-
tioned.
One. Seaforth was not the
only target of this type of
scam. It's been said Stratford
and Godcrich (and maybe
more) towns were also vic-
timized.
Two, identification was cer-
tainly asked for, as well as
written on the back of the
cheque such as social insur-
ance number, drivers license
and Visa, although they too
have been changed or made
up.
And three, the most frus-
trating, having salt added to
injury, was the mention of the
"obviously changed"
cheques.
If this is iT fact, the "obvi-
ously changed" cheques. If
this is a fact thc "obvious"
had somehow passed by the
business employees as well
as the Seaforth T.D. bank and
gone all it's way to the gov-
ernment office in Quebec.
If so obvious, then just
how did someone in the gov-
ernment chair realize that
these two (and other) cheques
wgre false, did he hold them
up to the light?
S. R. James.
On. NOB 2R0, home 271-
7458; Abby Armstrong, R.R.
#I. Bayfield, On. NOM 1G0,
home: 565-5361; Philip
Baumgarten, R.R. #2,
Clifford. On. NOG IMO,
home 327-8510/b: 430-2843;
Vicki Culbert, R.R. #6,
Goderich, On. N7A 3Y3,
home: 529-7571/h: same;
Ray Ford, 13 Battershall,
Stratford, On. N5A 7E9,
home: 273-1464; Atje
Tuyten, 80 Matilda St.
Stratford, On. N5A .6S1
home: 273-0201.
Corporate headquarters:
210 Water St. Stratford, On.
N5A 3C5. -Tel: 271-0930.
Fax: 271-2324.
Clinton Centre: . 163
Princess St, E., Clinton, On.
NOM ILO, Tel: 1-800-265-
5598: Fax: 482-9358.
-Mitchell District High
School Parent Council
-Mitchell Public School
Parent Council
-Upper Thames Elementary
School Parent Council
Question of the week
Should_ we get a statutory
holiday in February?
Paul Copeland
Seaforth
"..,yes it's fine. Everyday
is a holiday for me, I'm
retired."
Alice Short
Seaforth
".,.of course. I feel we
need a day off to recuperate
and prepare ourselves for
spring."
Richard Burgess
Seaforth
"...yes there should be.
Around here it's usually a
tough winter and geople
need the break."
Bill Ritchie
Egmondville
"...no great feeling one
way or another. With all the
people out of work, that is
the main concern