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Wednesday, May 20, 1998
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Community
makes good
shock absorber
Seventy-eight businesses, industries and
institutions in Seaforth are being interviewed
during the next couple weeks as part of an
initiative by the business retention and
expansion committee.
This is a big step toward finding ways to
strengthen' Seaforth's business community; to
attract new business, help current
businesses to grow and maybe attract new
industry to the town.
But an even bigger step had to take place
first.
People in the community who care about
their future came forward and wanted to
make a positive difference in their town.
For their own reasons they were concerned
Sad and joyfull stories revealed
to Westcott as citizenship judge
Whenever I'm asked "What's it like to
be a citizenship court judge," I am
reminded of the many moving
experiences I have had in the past five
years. There are sad and joyful stories
behind so many that I have
interviewed and approved
for Canadian citizenship.
I think of the giant man
from Afghanistan who
rushed around my desk and
kissed my hand when I told
him 1 considered his newly
learned English and his
knowledge of Canada
qualified him for
citizenship. It was a very
humbling experience and it
happened so very fast. He
was down on both knees
holding and kissing the
back of my hand while
tears were streaking down
his rugged cheeks. He was
a very big man...probably 6
foot 6 and weighing at least
250 pounds. I wasn't sure
what to say - for I realize so
many of the refugees I see
are stateless and have no
country to call their home.
So many have suffered pain
and sorrow and a level of
deprivation beyond the
imagination of most
Canadians...and carry a
great burden of sadness.
This giant and gentle man
from Kabul was simply
carried away by the joy of the moment,
finding it hard to believe his good
fortttne...but not able to forget the
sadness of the past. He went on to tell
me that his joy was for his two young
daughters who managed to escape with
him in the night across the border into
Turkey. His tears of joy were also tears
of ,sorrow for everyone else wassdead.
His other daughter and his two sons were
shot and killed in Kabul as was his aged
mother and father and his three brothers
and a sister.
He was one of the lucky ones, along
with his two young daughters, to be
plucked from a United Nations refugee
camp in Turkey and sent to Canada.
There is no doubt he will become a
applicant - but the joy of the moment
made it seem the right thing to do.
Many will remember this wonderful
lady as the little 9 year old girl running
down a- road in Vietnam....naked and
crying. In June, 1972. her
village was hit by a Napalm
bomb and two of her brothers
were killed. Kim's third degree
burns were so severe that even
after 17 operations she is left
with lifelong scars and lives
with recur ring. pain,
The picture taken that fateful
afternoon by an Associated
Press photographer is one of
the most powerful photographs
ever taken - it won the Pulitzer
Prize. It was published in Time
and Newsweek and appeared
in every major paper and in
newsmagazines around the
world. Her burned body, and
her face twisted in pain.
brought home in a very
personal way the real tragedy
of the Vietnam war and moved
people around 'the globe to
push for peace. Seven months
later the United States signed
the peace agreement.
She attributes her good
fortune in becoming a
Canadian and her new-found
life in Canada. with her
husband and two young
children. to her Christian
faith...and God's will.
In 1992 she was on a flight
from Communist Vietnam to Communist
Cuba. The plane landed in Gander,
Newfoundland to refuel and Kim Phan
Thi made a quick decision. She prayed
for guidance and truly felt God wanted
her to get off the plane and stay in
Canada.
She did, and was afforded refugee
status.
We are so very lucky to -have had the
opportunity to provide sanctuary and a
home and a country for this line big man
from Kabul and the burned little girl
from the village in Victnarn.
"What's it like to he a citizenship court
judge?" Some days it's wonderful.
proud Canadian and
country.
More recently, on December 2, 1997, I
was so very fortunate to meet Kim. She
had applied for Canadian citizenship and
along with her husband arrived at the
Citizenship Court in Scarborough for the
required language and knowledge test.
Her English was good but to be approved
for citizenship it is also necessary to
answer 20 questions about Canada - and
get at least 13 correct. -
Kim got 19 answers correct out of 20
but I thought it would add to the joy of
the moment if she got a perfect score. So
I told her' she got all 20 correct .and I
adjusted the official records accordingly.
Indeed it's not customary to hug an
a credit to his
new
Last great elm removed in 1973
May 20, 1898.
In the first-year
examinations at the School of
practical Science in Toronto,
J. A Morrison, son of Mr
Frank Morrison, of McKillop,
about the ramifications that could if the,Passed honorably in the
business community was not enhanced.
With support from town hall and area
business, they formed a committee to start
looking after the problem.
Now that they have set out to begin
interviewing business owners, 56 people
volunteered to help with the task.
Fifty-six people.
That's a lot of people who care;
And the same can be seen in the
organization that formed from people wanting
to save their high school.
At the same time, 62 people have joined the
reformed Optimist' Club, a service club, that
like others already in place, help build and
strengthen the community;
The willingness to get involved and take
control of problems that arise is part of what
makes a community strong.
There have beensome bumpy times in the
past couple years as government ,has
overhauled literally everything.
The dust from all the changes being made
has barely begun to settle and there are still
bumpy times ahead.
Seaforth's willingness to get involved when
a bump approaches will see it through.
STH
HATS OFF
to all our volunteers:
Canadian Cancer
Society
Canvassers for the
Village of
Egmondville:
Donnie Smith -Co -Captain
Ruth Snell - Co -Captain
Cathy Broome
Norma Eisler
Harold Turnbull
Joan McNaughton
Jill Johnston
Gwen Dalton
Mari Hulley
Ruth Thorbum
Carol MacLean
Ruth Smith
Corrie Klaver
Elaine Harris
Barb Alexander
Wanda Moran
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department of mining and
engineering.
Mr. Arch Scott, of the firm
of Scott Bros., has purchased
the handsome residence of the
late Mayor Scott, on Goderich
St„ paying therefore the sum
of$1500.
Mr. Jacob Weber, of
Egmondville, has purchased
the hotel property of Mr.
Prendergast in Dublin and
moves to that village on
Monday.
On Friday last the little son
of Mr. James McConnell,
Tuckersmith, had a most
miraculous escape from death
by drowning. The child fell
into a posthole and went in
head first, where the,water
was two feet deep. He was
pulled out by the man who
was digging the holes.
Special services in
connection with the laying of
the cornerstone of the new
Methodist Church at
Londesboro will be held on
Sunday.
Mr. George Coleman, of
Blake, has sold to Mr. Thos.
McMichael, Hullett, an entire
colt about 11 months old. Mr.
Coleman is noted for his good
stock.
May 18, 1923.
The trustees of Union
School Section No. 1
McKillop and Logan, have let
the contract for their new
school at John Querengesser
of Brodhagen for $5,520. The
trustees are to supply the
brick, gravel, cement, and do
the excavating.
Edward Pryce has a fine
herd of steers, numbering
about 40 on his pasture lots
on the Leadbury line.
Wm. Bristow of town has
taken the contract for the
erection of a fine rug brick
dwelling for James Cowan.
Centre Street.
In the Years Agone
The Seaforth Highlander's top honors and were awarded
Band has been engaged for three shields in the Huron
the Brussels celebration on County Festival of Music at
June 4th. Goderich.
D. Fortheringham of An agreement for the
Tuckersmith, recently operation of a Seaforth dump
purchased from Robert Norris was entered into between
of Hibbert, a three year old Scaforth and Tuckersmith
filly for which hc,paid $225. after a four hour meeting in
Duncan Johnston of Walton the Town Hall with members
has purchased the. Sparling of the two councils in
farm west of thc village, and attendance.
intends pi,itting in a crop. Two Scaforth residents were
Armour Dundas of Walton honored at an investiture held
is running a truck for W. Neal.' in London Armories when
and gathers cream and eggs. awards were prescntcd. They
Robert Elgic of Chiselhurst were Squadron Leaders
has had his finc large barn Alfred Copeland and A. Y.
protected from lightning by McLean. who each Were
having it rodded in an up -to- inducted as members of the
date manner. order of the British Empire.
Misses Beth Barton, Evelyn A temporary bridge is being
Adams and Elizabeth Keating erected west of Egmondville
of the London Normal School which will mean a slight
spent the week end at their detour from the main road.
homes here. The Egmondville bridge will
Miss Thelma Pcthick of he torn down and an up -to -
town attended the graduation date structure will he built in
exercises at Victoria Hospital its place.
in London. Thos. Flanagan, 7th line of
J. H. Smith, who purchased McKillop. recently caught a
the lease of H. R. Scott's coot on a ditch hank. The bird
show store, will open with an apparently had been injured
entirely new stock of hoots as it had a broken wing. it is
and shoes. similar in size to a pigeon and
Edelweiss Rebekah Lodge. is blue in colour. It is now
Scaforth, marked its I 1 th being fed at the home of Fred
anniversary when visiting Herbert.
lodges from Goderich,
-Mitchell. and Stratford, May 17, 1973.
numbering 200 came to Long a land mark on Main
celebrate. During the evening, Street, thc last of a great elm
Sister Abcrhart was presented trees at Scaforth Lawn
with a set of Burns poems. , Bowling greens was
eliminated last week. Torn by
May 21, 1948. storm several years ago all but
Barbara Reid, daughter of the trunk of the tree had been
Mr. and Mrs. Reg. S. Reid of removed and now this too has
Stratford, established a record gone. The trunk which
of 10 seconds in the 75 yard measured 98 inches across
dash at the Waterloo College was cut by -a group including
track and field games held in the town maintenance staff,
Kitchener. Fifteen years old, the PUC and a tree removal
she is a granddaughter of Mrs. team which has been at work
J. F. Reid of Seaforth. across the county.
Seaforth Public School A tea and bazaar was held at
choirs, under the direction of Northside United Church by
Miss M. E. Turnbull, captured the auxiliary to the Scaforth
Community Hospital
Saturday to mark Hospital
Day. It was also one of the
first celebrations that the
auxiliary held to 'nark its 40th
anniversary this year.
Scaforth Lions elected Clair
Campbell as president of the
coming year at a meeting
Monday. He succeeds Brian
Flanagan.
Lowest Tender for it
proposed new bridge on side
road 25/26 between
Concessions one and two in
Hihhert was that of Malone)
Brothers Construction.
Dublin'. at 531.340. The
tender was accepted subject to
the approval of the Ministry
of Transport and
Communications at a meeting
of Hibbert Council on Friday.
Bus Eckert of Ingersoll
encouraged the members of
the Scaforth Horticultural
Society to enjoy growing
unusual things in their
gardens. when he was guest
speaker at their meeting
Wednesday.
The Ontario Departrnci►t of
Education has approved a
grant which will provide
summer employment of select
Huron County students. They
will work on a project to
update Huron County history.
from 1900-1975. The grant
will be administered under the
Experience '73 P.E.O.P.t,.E.
program.
Deputy -Reeve Wilmer
Cuthill. chairman of the
public works committee. told
'council Monday evening that
James F. McLaren
Engineering would he
consulted regarding the laying
of storm sewers and catch
basins on Market Street this
year so that paving and
finishing.of thc street could be
completed next year.
At a recent meeting of the
Archaeological and Historic
Sites Board of Ontario. the
Board approved thc erection
of a plaque marking the Van
Egmond House in
Egmondvillc according to
Van Egmond Foundation
officials.
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