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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-05-13, Page 54-TNtft HURON IXPO$ITOR, MAY 13, 1006 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Dale - General Manager/Ad Manager Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Gregor Campbell - Reporter Larry Dalrymple - Sales Pat Armes - Office Manager Dionne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 o year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S T. SENIORS: 30 00 o year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA 8 Foreign. 28.44 a year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St., Seaforth. Publication mod registration No 0696 held of Seaforth, Ontario. Advertising is accepted on condition that in the -event -cif a typographical error, the advertising space occupied - by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rote. In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services at wrong price, goods or serv".ces may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawis at any time- The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes: Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable ndeliverable copies are to be sent b The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, May 13, 1998 ldlletriol Gori ayshe.es Offlses - 100 Mutes ileeet.,Somfeel,s Telophewe (519) 327-0240 lux (519) 527.2056 llllGllii. Address - P.O. flex 69, feGferfh, Owhele, NOK 1 WO Memk•er of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 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 CONTINUED on Page 6 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.