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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-02-18, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, February MINIS N Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DAV - General Manager & Mvatising Manager LARRY DAIRYMPtE • Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH • Subscriptions & Classifieds JACKIE FITTON - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL • 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS - 30.00 a year, in odvonce, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 28.44 o year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing ot 100 Main St., Seaforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Swtorth, Ontario, NOK i Wo Member of the Canadian Community Newspoper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 e re o e. . Want to e-mail Your Letters to the Editor? The theca Expositor has gone high-tech and °aline. Oar e-ttitti# address is: huronexp @odyssey.on.ca Remember, AI.L Letters to the Editor must be signed and have a telephone number for confirmation. Letters )nay be edited for both length and content. I)vrt'l forget to check Out our homepage at.' www bowesnet.comlexpositorf 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 eaaers urg• e res 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