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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-12-09, Page 44—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 9, 1998 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 Dianne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G S.T SENIORS - 30 00 o year, in odvance, plus 2 10 G 5-7 USA & Foreign 28.44 a yeor in advance, plus 578 00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing tit 100 Main 5t., Seaforth Publication mail registrotion No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario Advertising is accep ed on condition that in the event of a typogrophicol error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a responable allowance for signature; will not be charged. but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for of the applicable rate. 1n the event of o typogrophical error. odvertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold Advertising is merely on offer to sell and may be withdrawn of any time The'tturon•Expositor is .not responsible for the loss or domoge of unsolicited monuscripts, photos or other.materioh used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address. orders for subscriptions and undeliverable copies ore to be sent to The Huron Expositor Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Editorial and Beslaeas Offices - 100 Mein Sfreet.,Seeforfh Telephone 1519) 527-0240 Fax (319) 527-2850 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Conodion Community Newspaper Association. Ontario Community Newspopers Association and the Ontario Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Bureau and Army need public's help Packages are starting to pile up at drop oft locations across Huron County as the Christmas Bureauopens its_ doors this week to receive donations from the public. Already, through a project coordinated by the Seaforth Lions Club and Huron Expositor, donation bags have been distributed across Huron County through weekly newgpapers in every community. The bags. can be used to bring items ,to the bureau locations.-- - Seaforth's is at Northside United Church. It opened on Monday and will remain open until Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. where volunteers will receive items and sort them for the bureau. Donations can also be made at Brian E Wightman, CGA; CIBC, Seaforth Do -it Centre and Stedmans.. Donations of toys, clothing, food and cash can be made. Financial contributions are used to purchase needed items that may have been missed through donations. The. program is coordinated by The Huron County Children's Aid Society and helps families in need have a more enjoyable Christmas. But don't forget the Salvation Army. While not as aggressive in their campaigns to raise awareness of special needs at Christmas, the Salvation Army also collects food, clothing and. financial contributions that are used for people in need. While the Christmas Bureau focuses on families, the Salvation Army focuses on single people from seniors to young adults whose circumstances have left them on their own with little around therm to enjoy the holidays. While the Salvation Army is quieter these days, they also need the community's support in order to help those who are less fortunate. STH There won't be snowmobiles to help if there's a winter storm To the Editor: Seaforth councillors. Thanks so much for the great great Christmas present by banning ski doos. Since when is it against the law for the businesses of Seaforth Co make some money regardless of how little it may be? On any given weekend, if the skidoo trails are in excellent condition, this town will receive any where from 100 to 200 ski doos, that come in for gas and food. I don't know about you councillors but to me, any amount of money is good. This little bit of money - pays for taxes, employees. and mortgage or building rentals. As for bad snowmobilers, it is not all of us. Just like in hockey, there is always a few idiots in the crowd that will break the rules. So your children should be warned (just like crossing the road). Parents get out with a camera or video camera and get the skidoo numbers so the police can charge these idiots. Why can't the town snow plow operator leave the wing up on a couple of streets? Restaurants and gas stations, unite and fight this. Just remember. if we get a big storm. don't call us. We can't drive them in town any more. - Scott Williamson Snowmobiler .What if every snowmobiler in town - threatened to withhold their taxes too? A letter -to the Editor and Seaforth Town Council: As a concerned taxpayer and snowmobiler in the town of Seaforth,, I wish to respond to • last week's headline in The Huron Expositor, "Town Bans Stiowmobiles". - Am '1 to. understand. according to-Gord Sallows, that the town doesn't need • the money spent by snowmobilers ever? Is he suggesting that if our money is not needed in the winter. that the snowmobile owners of Seaforth should shop out of town exclusively? If the town is to be held ransom by the threat of withholding taxes, what if every snowmobile owner offered to withhold theirs? Why stop here; why not ask Middegaals and Vincents to relocate also because they sell the machines of Satan? . What type of council makes a hasty decision and passes a by-law with a one sided discussion. I thought we lived in a democracy? Perhaps at Tuesday night's council meeting they will hear from a group larger than 34 people. Then what? I understand that this is a no win situation but by banning snowmobiles from town you have locked the good ones out (i.e. money spending) and all past problems will still exist as before. A well marked and maintained trail is easy to police if set up properly and will pose no more threat than local automobile traffic. if a bylaw is necessary it should be in conjunction with an approved trail. Any snowmobiles off the approved trail should be dealt with in the same manner as a car off an approved street. If necess_ary. snowmobiles. with a valid license will he forced to use Goderich and Main Streets as entitled by the Hwy. Traffic Act. 1 hope town council 'considers all options before coming to a hurried decision that must he lived with forever. Brian Wilson (Editor •.c Mae: Council made a decision to ban snowmobiles but. a.c nl it's Dec. 8 meeting;, haul not vet passed a bylaw to ie,erdale its decision.) Council has thrown up its hand and opted for a ban To the Editor: I am very concerned with the way council is handling the snowmobile issue in Seaforth. instead of looking for a workable solution to this issue it appears council has just thrown up it's hands and opted for a ban. it was also very upsetting to read Gord Sallows comment. "for all the money they're spending in town we don't need them." There isn't one business owner that I know who has this attitude and 1 don't think it's Gord Sallows' place to say this. Hopefully we can find the common sense and compromise to shoe that Seaforth welcomes everyone. Dave Deighton P.S. My prediction for the rest of 1998 lots of juicy letters to the editor. Ban will hurt business To the Editor: We are writing to you concerning the proposed snowmobile ban in Seaforth. All snowmobiles are to pay licenses. trail permits and insurance the same as motorized vehicles. The taxes included with these costs help to support activities in our town too. We operate a farming and trucking business. Rural businesses such as these generate a lot of business in Seaforth. The snowmobile season is only about two to three months of the year. If our snowmobiling business is not required in this season. perhaps our business isn't required throughout the rest of the year. We have lots of choices in taking our business elsewhere. Not so long ago. the rural community was asked to support businesses in Seaforth. Now you are telling us that, if we come into Seaforth on snowmobiles. our business is not wanted. . .Our daughters used to work at one of the town businesses that depends on new business created by snowmobiles. People would come into town, comment on our nice town and they would come back as repeat customers throughout the year: Do we really want to discourage new and possibly repeat customers? These events also help bring people and their money into our town. As far as we know withholding taxes is an illegal act. Council should not bow to such threats. If these people want to pay the fines and interest charges for such an CONTINUED on Page 5 If. we are to believe in God, adjustments must be made If we are to continue ,believing in God... at least the one we learned about in Church and in the Bible... -there are some rather significant adjustments we • may have to make. From .my Sunday School teacher I learned that "In the beginning" God created Heaven and Earth. In fact: I recall he had a daily agenda and on the sixth day, •"God saw alt he had made, and it was good." and. "God blessed the seventh day and made it holy," because on that day he rested. It would be safe .to say, like me, the vast majority of those who call themselves Christians are not astronomers or physicists versed in the mind bending new rules of space and time. Nor are many of these Christian folk anthropologists or geologists or geneticists or gravitation experts armed with radio telescopes, satellites and x- ray gizmos. The tools that now let us teach out and .probe distant heavenly bodies also gives us a look back in time... gathering as we go irrefutable bodies of information and data... that begs new questions. Many of us - The big majority of us Christians.. the butchers, the bakers and the candlestick makers hear our priest or minister on Sunday tell us of the wonders of God, and preach about faith and salvation ,J J ...and on the same day on television the renowned •scientist Stephen Hawking tells us about 'The Big Bang'... and that our Universe is evolving and- exploding out of a primordial explosion that happened 20 billion years ago. And that our tiny home is but a ball of dirt and stone and water in a system warmed by our own special sun.... and called 'a "Solar System" ' It is really our own personal neighbourhood in a rather large place we call a Galaxy... and we share space with perhaps 100 billion other suns like ours... and for all we know they are a source of stellar order and light and heat for other Earthly bodies like ours. With odds like that maybe, just maybe, there are unidentified flying whatevers' peeking at us... and if there are such things it has to be assumed their science is ahead of ours.. for they are up there - and except for an excursion or two to the moon, we are • still land -locked on the ground... to them we are likely the peasants of the Universe. cast off in a kind of rural backwater. If they are truly our there it's more likely they are intelligent and inquisitive neighbours from within our own solar system... checking us out. For we, are from across the tracks and not near the classy centre of our galactic city... where the billions of stars are so dense it has a milk -like misty look, and appears to be what it is.... our big city home. - "The Milky Way. A kind of giant star-studded pinwheel pulled together four or five billion years ago as a bit of cosmos order began evolving from the chaos of 'The Big Hand'. A billion or so years later life began to stir out of the mud and ooze on our tiny Earth - As amino acids and proteins developed. A mere 50 million years ago life began in the sea. Then fish and insects appeared and in time amphibians came ashore... then the age of reptiles began... and before long Dinosaurs ruled the land and the first bird took to the air. And 1 still remember Mrs. Close, my Sunday school teacher - sixty plus years ago... telling me about God planting a beautiful garden he named Eden... and he fashioned man from thedust of the soil... and he fashioned man from the altaltaara onPate 3 Hunter starts gathering pelts (In the Years Agone December 9,1898 Thursday was turkey day in Kippen. Every sleigh and cutter coming in was alive with fowl, and many hundreds were brought in. Gilbert Dick was the receiver. The hunter, Dan Quinlan. of Egmondville is beginning to gather pelts. He has a keen eye for game and can locate fur -bearing animals as quickly as a professional. This week has been one continual round of storms. The fury, or rather the storm started on Sunday and by night it had started in earnest, and by Monday morning two feet of snow had fallen. town. Messrs. Watson and Ament of the Brucefield store and chopping mill are ready for a big winters business. They desire to get all the logs that can be delivered and are prepared to pay cash for the right sort. A meeting for the purpose of electing officers in connection with the Board of Trade was held in the council chamber and despite the stormy weather, there was a good attendance. Mayor Gunn was voted to the chair and the following officers were elected: President, D. D. Wilson; Vice President,. A. Young; Secretary, W. D. McLean; Treasurer, W. K. Pearce; Council, F. Holmsted, M. Y. Mclean, W. O. Reid, F. G. F. G. Minty, James Scott, James Watson, James L Kilohm and J. H. Reid. Every clergyman in the deanery attended the quiet day in St. thomas Church school- room. There were twelve in all with the Bishop. December 7,1923 Hydro was turned on on the farm of J. Decker Jr., who lives near Zurich. He has had his barn and house completely wired and also installed a fine horse power motor. TheExpositor was presented with a beautiful bouquet of pansies by R. E. Bright who peeked them in his garden on December 3. The tea meeting held in First Presbyterian Church was one of the most successful ever held by that church. The tables were filled four times, making 800 guests in all. •A splendid program was given by the choir under the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Rennie. Well rendered solos were gig en by Messrs. Milne Rennie. Dalton R. Reid and James Scott and a quartette by D. F. McGregor. J. Beattie: Geo. Israel were encored. Thos. Hicknell has returned to Kitchener after spending a week at Dorset Hollow Lake, where he shot a prize deer. December 10,1948 At a meeting of the Board of Scott Memorial Hospital. W. H. Finnegan. Tuckersmith representative. was elected chairman of the hoard He succeeds James M. Scott. who served nearly four years. Other members were M. A. Reid. J. M. Scott. M. McKellar. G. B. Brightrdl. Dr. H. A. Gorwill, A. Y. McLean. Mrs. F. Kling and Mrs. J. B. Russell. Two pickerel. ' each weighting 9.25 pounds and measuring 27 and 29 inches in length were brought home by James Besse of the Seaforth Creamery. He caught the fish while fishing on the Nottingham River. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ament, lifelong residents of Seaforth are celebrating their Golden Wedding on Tuesday, Dec. 14. The Christmas concert of S. S. No. 2. McKillop,. had a crowded house. The teacher. Miss Ann Brunk. trained the scholars. all of whom are boys. The all boy school is unique. not only in Ontario but in all of Canada. November 29,1973 Usborne council has received approval from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communication district engineer to reconstruct the township's portion of Huron Street, east of Exeter. The Goderich engineering firm of B. M. Ross will be engaged to design the work of reconstructing the road known as Usborne sideroad 15-16 from the Exeter limited to Concession Road 2-3. A talk by Jane Davidson, of Brucefield, will highlight the 26th annual meeting of the United Co -Operatives of Ontario. Mrs. Davidson will talk about the contrasting lifestyle she noted during a recent eight month stay in India. r.