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Wednesday, October 14, 1998
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A chance
to recognize
our youth
They come from all corners of Ontario; brave
young people who overcome challenges, both
personal or in their communities.
It may be someone who has savedt a life,
defeated an illness or set a program in motion
that has made their community a better place.
And the Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year
Awards program is designed to help find these
young people and give them the recognition they
deserve.
This marks the 18th year of the program
honouring young people between the ages of six
and 18.
It's up to community members to nominate
them and hundreds are received each year.
Up to 12 of the nominees will receive the
Junior Citizen of the Year Award while all will be
recognized with certificates for the contributions
they have made.
Among the recipients last year was a girl from
the Niagara area who recruited 21 young people
to become actively involved in the Kids Help
Phone program.
Another boy from the Peel District began one
of Canada's largest fund raising efforts for
victims of the flooding in Manitoba.
It's important not to overlook the child in any
community who quietly works away at a project
without seeking attention.
There are young people in every community
who help to make it a better place to live or
make a person's life better just by knowing them.
Nominations are accepted until Oct. 31 and
forms can be picked up at The Huron Expositor.
STH
Legion troubled by vandalism
To the Editor:
The members of the
Legion are very concerned
about the vandalism around
the cenotaph in Victoria
Park.
Apparently those responsible
for the destruction of wreaths
placed there in memory of
our veterans have no respect
or no knowledge of what this
monument stands for.
We realize it is more than
50 years since the war ended,
but we have to remember all
those young men and women
too who have their lives in
order that we may enjoy the
freedom we have today.
We should not only
remember those who died
but as well the veterans'who
still suffer from the
afflictions they received
during their service.
Perhaps more importance
should be placed on
Canadian History and maybe
more reverence could be
installed in the minds of the
abusers.
It is impossible to have a
twenty-four hour watch
around the cenotaph, but
anyone who sees something
out of order could report it to
the police and some of the
abusers could be punished in
some way.
Errol Skillender
Chair, Legion Special
Events
Canada has one of highest living standards
and one of highest teenage suicide rates
To the Editor:
The problem of suicide among
today's youth is a source of concern for
all Canadians:
This problem prevails in spite of the
excellent standard of living that Canada
enjoys. The United Nations twice
declared that Canada has the highest
standard of living of the 173 countries
surveyed. However, it is paradoxical
that our country has the third highest
rate of suicide among young adults in
the industrialized world.
Apple pic
October 14, 1898
Rev. M. Dickie, who has
so acceptably filled the
position of assistant to Dr.
McDonald in the pastorate of
First Presbyterian Church has
accepted a call to be the
pastor in Orangeville
Presbyterian Church.
Apple picking is the order
of the day in Egmondville
and considerable fruit is
being gathered.
, Mrs. Wm. Ireland of
Egmondville has rented her
farm to Wm. Carnochan, her
neighbor for a term of five
years.
W.J. Shannon, treasurer of
the McKillop Mutual Fire
Insurance Company has
collected over $3,000 in
assessments within the past
month.
Miss Nellie McNab and
Miss Crich of town are this
week at Hamilton, attending
the convention of the
Provincial Christian
Endeavor Society.
To date there has been paid
into the town treasurer the
sum of $8,158 in taxes.
Messrs. S. Mullett & Co.
have received tete contract for
supplying a new furnace for
Bayfield Public School.
Miss Nettie Wilson,
graduate and medalist of the
Toronto School of Cooking,
will commence a course of
lessons in the room formerly
occupied by the YMCA.
Large quantities of apples
are being shipped from
Kippen station. Farmers are
realizing good prices for •
good apples, as high as $1.50
or $1.75 per barrel which
they consider pays well.
Wm. Aberhardt of
Tuckersmith has sold the
Donovan farm, east of
Egmondville, to Robert
Winter, for $3,500.
Messrs. Elcoat Brothers of
Tuckersmith have sold a
thoroughbred Durham bull
calf to Wm. McIntosh or
Suicide is the most frequent cause of
death among Canadian youth today,
next to traffic accidents.
There are many theories to explain
the underlying cause of suicide among
our youth. At a time when a
considerable part of the world's youth
population return to the classroom,
Jehovah's Witnesses will be distributing
the Sept. 8. Awake article, "Suicide, A
Scourge of Young People."
This information takes a fresh look at
the complex reasons why some young
people take their own lives. It provides
practical information on prevention and
this series of articles will be made
available to educators, youth workers
and others concerned about this
alarming trend, We anticipate
distributing more than 20 million copies
of this issue in 81 languages world-
wide.
Ronald Hopper
Jehovah's Witness Spokesperson
Seaforth
is order of the day in Egmondville
In the Years Agone
McKillop.
October 12, 1923
The Walton school
children took part in the
parade at Brussels Fall Fair.
They took second prize and
the Harlock school first.
A large shipment of hogs
was made from the Walton
CPR station. but the market
is on the downward trend.
$8.50 per cwt. being paid.
John Dale of Alma
delivered a fine horse' to
Wm. Cudmore of Seaforth,
for a good price.
E. Umbach, who for the
past 5 or 6 years conducted a
successful drug; stationary
and fancy goods store in the
Scott block, disposed of his
business to Messrs. Heron
and Keating of Toronto.
At the last meeting of the
Seaforth Fire Brigade the
following were elected on
the Old Boys Reunion
committee: Frank Sills. R.G.
Parke, Alfred Box. Davy
Reid, and, John Cumming.
Reid Bros of town
received by a new radio the
address delivered by Rt.
Hon. David Lloyd George.
who is now in this country
and the address was
delivered from Massey Hall,
Toronto. The Expositor was
able to hear quite clearly a
portion of the address.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dodds
and daughter, Mrs. McKay.
and two sons motored from
London and spent the
Weekend at the Queens.
Wallace Archibald has
accepted a position on the
staff of the School of
Practical Science, Toronto.
Miss Katherine McGregor
of Brucefield is attending the
College of Education,
Toronto.
October 15, 1948
Cardno's Hall was filled to
capacity when the friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hodgen
gathered to honor them on
the occasion of their recent
marriage. Irwin's Orchestra
furnished the music for
dancing. A barn
owned by Jos. Maloney near
Beechwood, filled with this
season's grain was
completely destroyed by fire.
It was originally owned by
Edward Horan.
Robt. E. McMillan, RR2,
Seaforth, with -a total of 110
points was the winner of the
Field Crop Competition
conducted in conjunction
with the Seaforth Fall Fair.
One of the oldest and most
highly respected citizens of
Seaforth, passed away, Miss
Jennie Robb iq,her 9Ist year.
Miss Robb was born 'in
Harpurhey, the last of a
family of nine.
The male quartet of
Seaforth, consisting of
Messrs. James T. Scott, E E.
Willis, M. M. Rennie and D.
L. Reid provided special
music for the Evangelical
Lutheran Church at
Dashwood Sunday evening.
Mrs. James Finlayson,
Mrs. John McGregor, Mrs.
W. F. McMillan and Mrs. A.
C. Routledge were at Duff's.
Church, McKillop, attending
the sectional meeting in
connection with the United
Church of Canada.
Wm. M. Sproat and Amos
Corby are spending a couple
of days at the International
Plowing Match at Lindsay.
Thos. Downey of town has
returned after spending the
last 10 years overseas. He is
visiting his mother, Mr.s
Downey and Miss Ann
Downey.
Induction services for Rec.
D. Glenn Campbell, were
held in First Presbyterian
Church when the
congregation greeted the 'net
minister and Mrs_ Campbell.
The Seaforth Bowling
Club named Dr. P. L.' Brady
as President.
October 4, 1973
Water consumption at
Vanastra continues to
increase, Clerk -Treasurer
James McIntosh informed
members of the Tuckersmith
Township . Council at a
meeting in Brucefield
Tuesday. He said the water
bill at Vanastra for
September amounted to
$1,872.00, up $$12.00 from
August.
Some 25 teachers from St.
Patrick's School at Dublin,
St. Columban School, St.
James School at Seaforth,
and St. Patrick's School at
Kinkora, exchanged places
Monday with their pupils,
wilt) were 'given a holiday,
while the teachers attended a
Professional Development
Day training session at St.
Patrick's School in Dublin.
The focus at Dublin was on
the their R's - reading,
religion and report cards.
Local high school teacher
Harry Scott has returned
from a two year stint as a
teacher at he Canadian
Forces Base in Lahr,
Germany. He travelled over
three different continents and
visited many countries
including France and.
Istanbul. His excursion
required that he take a two
year leave of absence from
his work in the Commercial
Department of the school.
The Hensall Town Council
met Monday evening when
minutes of a special meeting
were read at which Earl
Shapter was appointed clerk -
treasurer at $6500.00 with
duties to commence
December 1st, 1973.
There is little to remind us of one-time premier Thomas L. Kennedy
Aside from a school that was named after
him, there is little to remind us of a minister
of agriculture and one-time premier of
Ontario from Peel County. Thomas L.
Kennedy was the first premier from there
and William Davis was the second. Some
say he was his protege, picked by Mr.
Kennedy to succeed him as MPP. The riding
was the county and was quite large. It
extended north from the lake to almost touch
Orangeville, with Metro Toronto on the east
and Halton on the west.
Tom Kennedy served as premier for a few
months between the resignation of Premier
George Drew and Leslie Frost's election as
leader of the Ontario PC's.. Kennedy's short
term was an arrangement pulled together by
Frost's friends in cabinet and caucus' to buy
time. An early leadership convention might
choose the popular MPP Kelso Roberts or
Attorney General Leslie Blackwell and the
Frost forces needed time to whip up delegate
support... but that's another story.
I first met Mr. Kennedy in 1947 when he
was the Minster of Agriculture in the
government of Premier George Drew. He
was a Peel County ,farmer whose father had a
general store in the village of Dixie in the
mid 1 800s. He recalled that this store sold
whiskey by the gallon made right in the
village. The sale of alcohol was not yet
licensed by the government.
I was fascinated by his honest, rugged
face. He was not unlike many of the farmers
one would see on Seaforth's Main Street on a
Saturday night.
He had served with distinction in the first
war - coming out a colonel. His rugged face
forever potted with scars from a poison gas
attack in France in 1918. Tom Kennedy
spent more than forty years in politics. The
thing that I recall most was a sense one got
of his honesty and depth of character. That
distinctiveness and the sincerity of his words
were great assets in his long political career.
When telling a story, he spoke in a way that
had listeners slapping their sides with
laughter - and he could just as easily make
them weep.
Such was the case in 1947. He was
speaking at a political summer school near
Gravenhurst to a couple of hundred
impressionable young people. He was in
front of the perfect audience to display his
wit and charm and earthy manner.
"There was this nice widowed lady living
in a small white cottage in the village of
Caledon East," was the way he began his
story. "She came to see me because she was
lonely and wanted to adopt a young child.
"She was refused because she lived alone.
She so wanted the company of a child she
approached her member of the Legislature
for help." The minister spoke with such
feeling it was almost like a father telling a
bedtime story to his child. "1 spoke on
behalf of this fine woman," he said, "and
eventually she was allowed to adopt a young
boy."
He went on to tell how, as the years past he
visited them and watched the small boy grow
into a young man. But then he paused... and
as if he was showing signs of emotion
himself, he said, "That boy went off to war
in 1942 and was killed in battle,.and the nice
lady in the cottage in Caledon East was alone
again."
He spoke of her as if he was talking about
his own mother. He would drop in to see her
he said, "Because she was getting on in
years and I felt an attachment to her because
of the boy she lost."
As he straightened up his knarled face was
firm and the tone of his voice strengthened
as he said, "Last year I attened an
agricultural conference in Europe and I
decided to visit the Commonwealth War
Graves Cemetery in Holland where the
young lad was buried."
"1 arrived at the boy's grave at noon on a
Sunday," he told us. "For 1 could hear the
church bells ringing and the clock not far off
in the village said exactly 10 O'clock." "I
placed flowers on his grave and took a
photograph of the Regimental Cross marking
it. and 1 knelt and said a prayer for his soul."
We were all caught in his story - as much
by the emotion in his voice as the sadness of
the words he spoke.
In a stronger tone he went on, "It was a
few days before I was able to get up to
Caledon East on my return," "I was anxious
to tell her of my visit and show her the
photos I took of her son's grave and the
flowers 1 had placed by the cross."
"There was no answer at her cottage when
1 rapped on the door and no sign of her
around... so I enquired of a neighbour."
It was hard to hear what he was saying for
his voice dropped to a whisper. He spoke
haltingly as if he had trouble getting the
words out. "Do you know, " he said, "The
neighbour told me she had died while 1 was
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