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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-03-25, Page 5 (2)TME HURON EXPOSITOR, March 25, 1999-5 Trailblazers snowmobile club grooming trails last week To The Editor: Further to last week's letter to the editor, the 13 & W Trailblazers Snowmobile Club was grooming the weekend of March 13 and it was running before other local clubs were grooming. Trail conditions depend greatly on the amount of snowfall. A smooth trail depends on a good Kase of snow .and what you were snowmobiling on that week- end had no base. And. if it wasn't for our volunteers going out last fall to level our trails you wouldn't have been able to snowmobile that weekend. 1 would like to remind all snowmobilers we wouldn't even have a local trail system if it weren't for our landown- ers and our volunteers. About 16 volunteers put in over three hundred hours each per year into your trail system by: cutting. trimming, staking • and signing 180 km. of trails (again and again because people steal them and break them throughout the year), monitoring trail use, picking up garbage, working in the club house, fundraising, building bridges. and work- ing with our 160 landowners. Other members are able to donate their time as well. The B &'W Trailblazers has one of the hest trail systems in the area. Something all our members can he proud of. Reader says board should buy old Canadian Tire store Dear Editor: An open letter to the Huron • Expositor for Seatorth Town and School Board. Lately 1 have heard rumours that the school hoard intends to close SDHS and ship pupils to other !ocations. Ship is the right word because atter they are picked up on township routes. and then .reassembled and then sent -12 miles and hack home a lot of the day is spent riding the buses etc. 1 hear they intend to rebuild the SDHS school at a cost of thousands of dollars. Why not buy the old Canadian Tire building and expand. it to the east side for all their offices .which would' make more room and not upset the whole town. Along with eight other members 1 was on the S.C.I. board for 10 years when the gym and cafeteria were ston- ed. 1 made many trips to day- time meetings without pay or mileage when the "other rooms were built, Seaforth school has a her- itage rating since 1870 when students such as Premier Bill Aherhart and Senator Golding and Simpsons man- ager, Charles Stewart have all attended here. We would lose the use of the gym which students 'and local town groups use for sales anti meetings ctc. Also we have 12 acres of good playground. A town without high school students•would not he able to say in later years, I was a stu- dent at SDHS but some other place. I attended this school in 1924 and it has been our school and town for all our family since that time. 1 hope the school hoard will consider all this and they will Icavc it as is. The .whole town considers it real shame to close it. Smcereh Harold Coleman John St..Seaforth Effort required from the student Dear Editor. 1 am a university' student at Lakehead University• in Thunder Bay. 'and _jus' last year graduated from Seatorth and District High School. 1 am concerned of the tact that -the new. Avon Maitland School Board is even consid- ering closing SDHS. It is a small school with 'many suc- cess stories and a great histo- , ry A few; weeks ago. the ques- tion asked in the Huron Expositor was does SDHS offer courses that you need. It was a hig surprise that stu- dents felt SDHS doesn't offer enough courses. I believe this to be wrong. If any student sat down and looked at a course calendar for either university or col- lege they would see that there isn't a program in either, that a student who went to SDHS cou.ldn't gtt into. All it would take is a little effort from the student. SDHS may he. a. small school. but it still offers a great secondary school edu- cation that prepares vou for post secondary. education in whatever field of study you .choose. I. dearly hope the hoard members vote to keep the doors of SDHS open. because everyone should have the chance to go+ to the best secondary- school .in the whole country... Brent Hulley 4-H events take pace by David Vander Hoven The third meeting of the Huron Chinchilla Club was held at the home of Barh and Ray Storey Feb. 28 at I p.m. We opened the meetine with the 4-H pledge led by president Allan Storey. The minutes were read by Rob Vanden Hoven. There will be a trip to a ranch at Cheslcy. We talked about the trip. We discussed how to catch a chinchilla in or around your. house: Barh handed out some papers and a book on Practical Chinchilla Ranching. The assignment will be completed at home. We worked on posters tor the Show and Sell Show and `for the Achievement Day. We ended the meeting with a snack. The next meeting is sched- uled for March 14•. Huron Machinery Club The first meeting was held March 9 at Vincent's Farm Equipment. We opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge and answered the roll call. We. then watched a movie about the safe operation of a tractor. It included sections on the operator manual. checks before starting the tractors. driving"tractors safe- ly, the PTO. the three -point - hitch, checking the oil and coolant,'the air in the tires, as well as charging the batteries. We also discussed lawn mower safety and main- tainencc. We looked at a trac- tor and all the safety features A, v,ur Pharma( rel aIV(n de Our pharmacy will be hosting a Cholesterol Clinic at which time your pharmacist and registered nurse will be available to help you in any way they can CHOLESTEROL CLINIC Have your cholesterol level tested FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH 10 AM TO 2PM 67 Main St., Seaforth — 527-1990 on it. We looked at a new tractor and looked at all the changes on the new tractor and . the parts. After' filling out a 4-H rev - istration form the member - enjoyed a snack. Th next meeting is sched- uled March 30 at McGavins. 4-H members gathered at the Lonshoro United Church to sign up for ,the Woodworking project. The president is Rolf Schuttl. vice president is Steve Dougherty, secretary is Tonya Drost and the press reporter is Garrett Van Dietcn. The project leaders arc Sam and Thelma Dougherty. What we can't control is the weather and how much snow we get. As an avid club member, 1 am ashamed of the disrespect some snowmobilers have for the land our club has the privilege of using for our trail system. Some people have been seen on the trails when they shouldn't be (i.c. when there isn't enough snow). rac- ing on the trail. littering and damaging landowner's prop- erty. Expense is added to the club each time a sign is wrecked or stolen (signs cost Letters to the Editor $6. stakes 52). It has also cost the club over $3,000 in pay- ments to landowners for damage to flay and wheat fields and for tree replace- ment. • Our snowmobile trails are what you make them. If_ trail abuse continues we won't have any landowners letting us use their land. and if we don't have enough volunt-.ers to make the club work = no more snowmobile trail. The trail would not he there if it wasn't for our landowners ' and the hard work of all our • volunteers. 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