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Wednesday, May 13, 1998
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Message is simple:
use good judgement
The kick-off to the summer holiday season is at
hand.
With weather expected to be better than most
past years, traffic' can .only.be heavier as people
head to cottages, campgrounds and beaches.
It also marks the beginning of a more dangerous
time as police across the province caution drivers to
take it easy on the roads.
A motor vehicle injury prevention committee, part
of the Huron Perth Injury Prevention Committee, is
working to reduce the number of accidents on the
holiday weekend.
The committee has a simple message: drive
sober, buckle up, observe speed Iimitst and use
good judgement.
The latter is probably the most important.
Bad judgement is probably the root cause of most
accidents.
It is bad judgenient to drink six beers and head
out in the car to pick up another case to take back
to the cottage.
It is bad judgement not to wear a seatbelt when it
is proven time and again to save lives.
It is bad judgement: to drive 120 km/hr on any
highway; to pass a line of traffic when visibility is not
clear; to edge into the oncoming lane too soon
because you're in a hurry to make that pass; to
drive with your child in your lap; to reach for that
snack in the back seat while there is oncoming
traffic; to put make-up on while you drive; to pull out
in front of another because he is tired of waiting to
make a tum.
The list is endless and it seems silly to have to
mention any of them.
They are all obviously examples of poor
judgement while driving and yet take any short trek
along a highway and drivers will present many more
examples.
Good judgement would be to take a second look
at a driver's handbook for a refresher in the basic
rules of the road.
Rules that see the. wheels of a car actually stop
moving before proceeding away from a stop sign.
Rules that see drivers slow down and stop when
a traffic light tums amber instead of accelerating
through it. '
They are all simple things that may cost a few
seconds each while travelling.
But what's the price of a few seconds versus the
lives it may save. If not your own, the other innocent
drivers and passengers who are put at risk each
time another driver uses poor judgement. --STH
HATS OFF
to The Junior
Volunteers at Seaforth
Community Hospital
under the
coordiantion of
Frances Teatero as
well as the Huron
Hospice volunteers
under the coordination of
Shirley Dinsmore for
raising $771.50 through
the sale of Daffodils April
2-4 for the Candian Cancer
Society
Seaforth Branch
Funds raised are allocated to
Cancer research and
community programs.
I'll sell you a bag of beans for $1000
I hate to admit it.
I can now, officially say I have a Beanie
Babie collection.
It was about the last thing I wanted to
admit but, by doing so, I hope it's the first
step toward breaking free from the Beanie
mania that has caught hold of many.
While it's strongest in the United States,
Beanie Babie collecting has taken hold in
Canada since about Christmas.
That's when I first heard about them but
I didn't get involved in the frenzy --and it
literally is a frenzy in some places --until
last month.
I had learned about how many people
were collecting the tiny, stuffed animal
shaped bean bags at a store in Goderich.
While I was still working in Goderich, I
thought it would make an interesting story.
Literally hundreds of Americans were
calling the store, many who didn't even
know .where Goderich was but had heard
beanies were available.
You see, many are in short supply in the
United States where people line up in
stores for hours when a new shipment
arrives. While working on the story, I
wasn't quite able to figure out why the
craze started but people became interested
in collecting the animals faster than they
could be produced.
That made several kinds scarce, and has
pushed the prices up on many of them.
Retailers told me it still costs them about
involved. It looked like an easy way to
make some cash.
I travel to Tennessee about once a year
and thought, "Gee, if I took a few beanies
along that they can't find down there, I
might be able to pay for my trip."
I also though it might be nice to get a
Maple for an American friend down there
9 but I haven't been able to get one at the
$4.50 for each beanie they purchase from regular, retail price yet. The waiting lists
Ty, the company that holds the rights to the for stores selling them at the legitimate
particular brand everyone is collecting. price are huge.
Most smaller retailers that I have found They make tag protectors for the r y�'r
remain honest about it and charge the tag on each one (without it, the h •
going price of around $10. worthless) and cases to keep then
But larger chains like Hallmark in the Mine are kept in a plastic bag.
city malls are doing business by the true Since working on the story and trying to
laws of supply and demand. figure out on my own which ones are
One beanie, Princess, a purple bear with likely to be valuable (the company retires
a white rose on its chest named after several a year forcing prices up), I know
Princess Diana, sells for as much as $250 more about these stuffed animals than
plus you have to commit to buy several some of the little kids they were really
other, regularly priced beanies just of the meant for in the first place.
privilege of buying the over -priced one. I've invested in about 15 of them and
Remember, it only costs the store about since then, found out American customs
$4.50 to buy it. only allows people to bring one across the
Maple, a bear that is only found in border at a time.
Canada, is also scarce and goes for about Unbelievable but true.
$100 from the chain stores. People have resorted to smuggling
Home shopping networks on American beanies across the border and supplies of
television have set aside hours for selling them are being seized almost on a daily
beanies, some which go for as much as basis.
$1,000. And now, if I can't get them across the
Seeing that is part of what got me border, I'm stuck with a bag full of beans.
Change in hospital food contract
leaves bad taste in CUPE's mouth
To the Editor:
For anyone who has been a
patient or has had a family
member in Seaforth Hospital,
you can attest, to the fact that
our hospital has always taken
pride in serving excellent
home cooked meals to
patients.
Brace yourself --that's all
about to change.
The eight hospitals in
Huron and Perth counties
have opted to contract out
food services to the private
sector.
The "bulk retherm" method
of food preparation involves
food being being mass
prepared in a private
company, frozen, trucked in,
reheated and then served to
patients.
Hospitals in British
Columbia that implemented
the bulk retherm method were
less than satisfied once they
realized the quality was less
than satisfactory, the retherm
units themselves proved to be
bostly to maintain,
reakdowns were frequent,
cafeteria sales dropped 50 to
70 per cent, not to mention the
patient complaints were
numerous.
Several of these hospitals
have opted to return to the old
way of having their own staff
prepare meals onsite.
A . Veteran's Affairs
Committee who found bulk
retherm food was being
served to its veterans in long-
term care centres in New
Brunswick and Ontario were
less than pleased. The
document in the Legion
magazine stated that one
veteran broke a tooth on toast.
Bulk retherm is slated to
being in Seaforth Community
Hospital in October. Bottom
line for this decision was to
save money. At what cost?
Quality of the food served to
patientswill plummet,
guaranteed. How many staff
does it take to reheat frozen
food? Layoffs in hospitals
who have implemented this
process have resulted in half
the staff being handed notices.
Others have been hired by the
private food companies at
wages half of what they make
now.
We have heard
management's praises of this
retherm method: how they
think it will be an exciting
process for everyone; how
money can be saved; how
they feel it will make little
impact on the number of staff
in the dietary department.
Again, at what cost? Once
more, it's the lowest payed
workers who. ironically are
women that must try to
balance the budget. not to
mention the patients who are
about to see the quality of
food served to them drop.
This should Icavc a had
taste in everyone's mouth.
. Val Poisson.
President
CUPE, Local 2702
Pesticides literally killing children, warns MD
To the Editor'
How many parents realize that the herbicides and pesticides
used in lawn and garden care are Iiterall'y killing their
children?
A recent publication by the Environmental Health
Committee (E.H.C.) of the Ontario College of Family
Physicians warns of such dangers to human health.
The E.H.C. have searched the medical and scientific
literature and found that there is an increased risk of leukemia,
brain cancer and soft tissue sarcomas in children who have
been exposed to herbicide and pesticide's.
, As we all know, leukemia, brain cancer and sarcoma often
prgve to be deadly diseases. Adults do not escape the health
effects of exposure to pesticides. However, studies show that
adults appear to be less sensitive and more resistant to the
dangers of pesticides than do infants and children.
In the U.S.A., the National Research Council and Acadcmy
of Science was commissioned to study pesticides in the diets
I of infants and children. They came to the following
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Marble -sized hail could be shovelled off ground
May 13, 1898.
William Tippett and his
friend I. Grant of Bayfield,
left to seek their fortunes in
Dakota.
George Adair of Stanley had
a successful bee drawing sand
for the purpose of
constructing a cellar under his
house.
R. R. Ross, dental, student
with Dr. Agnew of Clinton,
has received notice from the
Dean of Royal College of
Dental surgeons of Ontario
that he had taken the highest
mark in his year.
The post office department
has decided to give
Beechwood and St. Columban
the new office at Irishtown, a
daily mail service.
Arthur Forbes of town is
having a new floor put in, new
stalls erected and other
improvements in his livery
stable.
Alex Stobie has had a
telephone placed in his egg
imporium.
John Reinke of Tuckersmith
is doing good work on the
(arm which he purchased from
Mrs. Wm. Chesney, south of
Egmondville, in the way of
tile draining.
After the hail storm on
Wednesday last, ice balls as
large as marbles could have
been shoveled from the
ground.
Three fine new threshing
machine engines were
received at Seaforth Station
from the White Engine Co.,
London. They were for
Roderick McLeod, Walton,
In the years agone
Wm. Lindsay, Constance and
Albert Morrell, Clinton.
Ms. Moore of Seaforth, has
organized a class for
instruction on the violin and
guitar and will visit Constance
village weekly.
The hockey club minstrels
of town were greeted by a full
house, and they put on a good
show. Messrs. G. B. Scott,
Wm. McLeod, Frank Willis,
and J. F. Daly, the funny end
men, dished up jokes,
conundrums and local hits in
good style, while Joseph Abel
as interlocker did his part to
perfection.
May 13, 1923.
On Wednesday morning. the
ground was covered with
snow and it continued to fall
during the greater part of the
day.
G. F. Rogers, Collegiate
Institute Inspector, was here
this week inspecting the
school.
Peter Cameron, who lately
came from the west, has
accepted the agency of the
Massey -Hams Company and
moved into Mr. Moodie's
house in Brucefield.
Ed. Sternigal of Manley had
rather an exciting experience,
while on his way home from.
Seaforth. The lift refused to
work on his car and he was in
collision with Jack Murphy's
horse and buggy, breaking the
horses two legs and smashing
the buggy.
Seeding is in progress
rapidly and, with many
farmers will be completed this
week.
May 14, 1948.
A social evening was spent
at the Egmondville School.
when friends and neighbors of
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lillico
gathered prior to their
departure to their new home
which they purchased from
Albert Pepper. Cards were
played and they were
presented with a trilight Tamp
and walnut tables and the girls
with gold bracelets.
John McLean of
Egmondville has purchased
the garage and Mrs. Stirling
the Lillico property in
Egmondville.
Seaforth Firemen were
called to the M. E. Clarke
Garage when fire broke out in
a car owned by Joseph
Grummett, Harpurhey. The
fire was brought under control
before serious damage was
done to the car.
Miles McMillan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. McMillan of
town, who is on the staff of
the Tropical Oil Company at
Bogota, Columba S. S., was a
key witness of the week of
rioting which wrecked the
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pepper
of Tuckersmith have moved
into their new home with their
daughter, Mrs. Casey Way, on
Jarvis Street.
May 10, 1973.
There was lots of action at
the Public School as students
presented their annual musical
which this year featured "Tom
Sawyer."
The way was cleared
Wednesday morning for work
to begin on the conversion Of
thc former Boshart factory on
Main Street to a Canadian
Tire retail outlet. Cost of the
project is estimated at
$120,000.
The annual Women's
Hospital Auxiliary Penny Sale
was most successful.
according to officials of the
organization. Draws were
made Friday evening. "r'
A rummage sale on
Saturday helped to mark thc
30th anniversary of the
Fireside Fellowship Group of
First Presbyterian Church
when a goodly sum was
realized.
Gifts totalling $1865 have
been received by the arca
cancer campaign according to
Seaforth chairman R. J.
Spittal.
As homeowners with wet
basements realized this year,
water tables in March reached
near -record high levels across
the province. According to H.
R. Whiteley, watcr resources
engineer with the School of
Engineering, Ontario
Agricultural College, the last
time water tables were this
high was in 1969.