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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1999-02-24, Page 44 --THE HURON EXPOSITOR, February 24, 1999 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Dale - General Manager/Ad Monger Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Susan Hunde`tmorlc -.Reporter Larry Dalrymple Soles Pat Armes. - Office Monger Dianne McGrath - Subscrptioils/Clossifieds huronexpOodyssey on ca ,& BSCRIFTioN RATES .c..4 -.At ,12 ;r, , rear .r achninfr. blue 2 28 r S r SENIORS-- 30 00 n rent n ^Aw:rre airs- 2 'r i G > " • FSA 3 Foreign .28 44 n rent n -rte roe ohs S78 Cr, oosiege G S r exempt 3r,err_aiPTiati RATES . - • :r ;seek;? ;,goal :tnr ,rirsh,rg -t :A Hn,n St Seokerth Piblication +cid -eytstrotior alai :f •'. -ele.. ;t rr;h-,+ .,taro 4dver•is,ng s accepted an • condition ,hat r +e Avera :r y:.rfr :cr,r:.l er-x fie advertis,ng scace .xcupted by fie errarec,,s cur- ones+,- w•tf 1 -?o , ( je 7ilkwnrce 'er i,gnneur<. .nil ,sot :.e -torted sora +e :,rlerre ley :r•,svewrt roll art tad 4r it fit. 1Colifat-/e !Ire -rte "vert :1 ; ••r='«tr•ocr.en) x -;r utmeis,rci ^scads ;er.,ces al � sere ;c.. it ;tf,•ret rr;v -' t :,t. -.ck advertis,ng s 'eret' :n :rPJ sell and may :t :f •, -•roe ^e -',.ren EAbouter t ^et - seors,hit. •Or +e tits ;r yrr*nge .. ,r Ka,r,tar1-•rri,u: Cos ;,++C Cs ..r ;cher .' r cit ,sed r,r w:rp:rr,or ;,.rpaset -Dryer .t :ddrest -- !fs 'or .,.cur ctcrs :rd ,�r'phv►-r lisle ":,C'ot Ire.seBot'r. 'e '�4r :r Expositor Wednesday. February 24, 1999 Editorial awl $eslwess Offices - 100 Mein SNeet-,See+fert0 Telepbewe ISIS) 527.0240 fes (519) 527-2636 Meiling Address - P.O. Sax 69, loafertb, Oeterte, NOK 1 WO %'eraser e -._reader. .;,mmur,r Newwwcper rG r,ray Jews .,Cern.- sor..cfl." ,rd $'e :ess Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Girls Band must march on While they Garry an Avon Maitland school board flag with them' to parades and events across North America. the Seaforth District High School All Girls Marching Band has just .found out.it isn't considered a school group. And because of it. they face losing $3.700 in.. funding from the board which, is considering all its funding to "outside" activity groups. While the band uses school board buses, practices in school board facilities, is composed of school board students from across Huron County and has a band leader paid by the', school board. they are somehow not being considered part of the Avon Maitland District School Board. How ludicrous. The students have been representing , Seaforth high school and the board for years and are very much a part of the school system. To not consider them as part of the school is wrong. To consider giving -up -a small amount of funding for such a worthwhile group is even worse. The band has travelled across North America. .is regularly invited to march in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade .and should be seen as nothing short of positive for the board, whose banner gets taken to all these places. While its focus may not be on any one -school. there are too -.many benefits to the board and its students to consider giving up board funding. Even in this time of constraint, when schools face closure, some things are worth. the price. The Seaforth 'District High School All Girls Marchinng Band is one of them. STH Foundation begins its search for communities that care The Ontario• Trillium Foundation is searching for communities that are• as diverse as our. province. Communities that are not necessarily defined by. geography but. by ,hared history. culture. or even common experiences. like a disahtlity. - • , "We want communities to tell us who'they are." said Betty -Lou Souter: Chair of the Caring Communities - Award Advisory Board. -"We're not .looking for perfect communities they don't exist - but for communities that -Go the extra mile ro follow a dream: or make •a good idea happen. or just keep going despite the yids. .The Caring Communities Award was founded in 1997 and is the first of its kind in Canada. The . award. recognizes 2nd celebrates .a minimum of fiye . caring communities. • w_ hose:. imagination :and collaboration have led to specific and long-lasting achievements, especially when faced. with limited resources and difficijlt situations ' . ',One- .of last year's award recipients, La Cle - •d' la Baie Huronie: is a community without boundaries. La Cie. d' le- d' la Buie is a Francophone community of southern Georgian Bay . that has long felt linguistically: culturally. and politically .isolated, struggling to survive. Today. the community is more than surviving. It ti its own local radio station. a newsletter. seniors and social Clubs. health services and' two high schools. Through the cooperatiof of se' oral• service groups they were. able ti) tetter -share their limited resources, reduce -.duplication of services. - coordinate programs and increase their ability tug communicate, with . one another. "The recognition brought about by winning the Caring Communities Award has hid a tremendous- impact on our community," said :Ernest Vaillancourt. Chair of the Board of - La Cle d' la Baie. "Not only .do the people of La Cle; feel less isolated. other communities are now: looking ro- us as a Successful. example -Of .,community development.`' ':Additional recipients of the 1998 award • . were: Dtottiovan/Flour •Mill community in Sudbury. the Ma'mawesw in . -Tribal Council, which •include: seven North Shore First Nations from.Sudhury ro Sault Ste. Marie. Riverdale West in Hamilton. and. Toronto's Jane -Finch community, • - , ' Your community. could receive: A minimum of tiye • winners are chosen to receive. • a 'S.20,000 grant to use in community activities -and -the tolluwin_ additional resources:. . •.• communications tools and a Speaker's Bureau to help share theirsuccesses with -zithers . • assistance from Trillium to apply for project grants' and/or cotnputer and interact . access . • • Participation in an awards ceremony in.Octoher 1999 . Who should apply,:' The' Caring Communities Award is open to all. sett -defined. communities ...in Ontario. Trillium is looking for "communities" that have these tour qualities:• • Significant and specific "community" achievements. • e•,pectally in'the' lace of limited resources and • difficult 'circumstances. • Creative and lone -term Ise of peoples •energy and ;kills. - - - • Recognition - - and• involvement of diverse , segments !ethnic. -racial. socio-economic. age. education level. _ender. disabled. etc) in community decision: making. ▪ Potential do teach and •inspire .others. How to apply:. For noire •information. potential applicants for The Caring Communities. Award can--contact-the Ontario Trillium Foundation at 1- 800-.26 3-288-' or a -mail. caring, kotnl liumtiundanun.ur g or visit the website at: ' wwwrnlliumliuindation.org • Prepitre a ,ix lei 12 -page submission'. according to the format in -the suideiin�s: excluding letters of support and attachments. Maximum .page limit for whole package is 4.1) pages. -The subm, -,ion must".be unbound.: since additional Copies may he required. _ -Please '-.Jo not. include videos. • books. audiotape~. etc.• , • Mail six copse; of the ,suhmisston. including - attachments. to -the Ontario T�i.l.lium Fotindation. Suhhois-ions-must ie p4osi- - market! -in or before Fnday. Apnl n. ,•“19. . 1 r Robert Holmes named ''99 Liberal canclidate February 24. 1899 -The Dominion by election in west, Huron closed with the result in the election of Mr. Robert Holmes. the Liberal candidate. `bv a majority of 118. Wm: McAllister of the Parr Line. near Varna. has ,old his well know pic-"First Prize' to W. J. Tumalty of Madoc. It is of the Berkshire breed. • John Sparrow of Varna. has bought 50 acresfrom John Reid ot Stanley. The "Bayfield stage has been coming on wheels. but there is coo much snow on other roads for wheeled vehicles to be safe. • • Jacob Kling intends on erecting a new brick hotel. on the site of the one recently burned. if he can _et a .license. Mr's. Thos. Dodds.: daughter- of Wm. Archibald bu Egmondville..leaves her home in North Dakota. Wm..Westcott of Seaforth was in Kippen and did a .good stFoke of business in the way of. selling his high grade silver goods. . • John Cole of Lumley. is making preparations to raise - his barn in the spring, -Mr. Cudmore _of Hensall has the contract for the mason work and Wm. OkeThe carpenter work. • February 22. 192.4 The weather at Winthrop: is • very cold and stormy at timte .of writing. Great credit is due to. the mail man John i In the Years Agone McMillan: as he came many days that -we didn't expect to see him. • Messrs. A. Cuthill., J. Simpson. J. -.Kinney .and H. .. Hart were busy hauling '• from the pine swamp of the Canada Co east of McKillop. Bruce Walker of Hillsgreen shot a large eagle. which measured seven feet from between the, tips of its wings. The snow storm: which started on Tuesday and. which is still raging as we go to press on Thursday has, completely tied . up the .railroads. The country roads. while passable in most 'places. are very heavy and mess in town has been -at fur a standstill. • . Bert •Gibbings of Alma shipped three: registered . Yorkshire hugs todistant: points.: He raises the -real - bacon type. • Campbell Sutherland of alma S4iid a giving mare to • Leo Stephenson. one day recency. - February 25.1949 Edmund -Daly. successfully brought in a television - program on a tet he -bad • co'nstructed during recent. months. :Nearly 30 years ago. he pioneered radio in Seaforth. A most:successful euchre and dance -was held in 'Toronto attention! :he t;oud 1 Roads Convention... February 21. 1974 Tuesday atternoop. Fehruary 10 rc is .r highlight Cardno'; Hall where 4.3 table .in ,the -lite air Mr;. 1 L. Qell were in piay. The funds were when, she celehr it ...it her used to•.end food parcels :to ninetieth hurthd.i . it' her the old country. • .• ap-artment on (,orier'cn L One t rwo'Seatorthrrnks in .. w. 'The parr. •.'. tr, trran eft London 'o take part in the .by her daughter -,n -saw.' Mr,. London bonspiel • was• John Well and_Mrs. pG 1 successful in winning third Dale. with the assistant a tit prize. Members. of the rink Miss Jean Chewlev .md \'toss were W .1: Wright, W. l Harvey Tra�•ts: Fitts or more Duncan. \'layor 1. C. Keating - ,old friend, and. neighbours t,and C A. Barjoer. from T.tvistock, McKillop. Recalling days of �0 years, itatfa: Hullett and Seaforth 'agii. when'- the accepted, were- 'present.. to -offer means of getting lob done. cingritulatiuns. . We win' .- in *Onr4rtto , Weekly New~ t er i . Pa P' -competitions in Toronto. the Expositor was judged.ro have the best' ;�ditortai page in its circulation Mass. • -. de(etation. trnln Huron .men.of the :.Egmond•;tllc Unitd Church gathered for a' woud.bee. Donated ' by .David McLean. the wood was cut in the McLean • bush ' int Tuckersmith. James. Finlayson, in his '9th year. C,ouniv that met with rhe rec. ails -taki ng --part —t rt-�t--resiiu ace -m i nim t e r, • ; rt-t#1e---• similar• bee M) years ago.: Oman() cabinet .:;one .iwav The work on iha .new from the"meeting Iasi ,,,,eek telephone lines at Bavtield is hopeful that•a had made an proceeding according too impression with its argument schedule. Theottice will he to save Huron*. County in what used to he the post farmland. "The de(eCanon.• office and' NIrs. M. Toms +s Jed by -members ,)l the to be the manager.• •Bruce Hiiru(i Hydro The death took place' of • Negotiahng.Comminee, ;net Kathleen Lennan,•widow of\ with representatives ')t the.. the late .James Devereaux. - ministries of agriculture. They spend many years on 'natural resource, Hillcrest farm: east of town. envrrrininent and erierev.. now occupied by_, Harold They Were h ic:ked up by lacksen. • Murray Gaunt.. \IPP.tor Reeve Arthur_Nich`kirom, 'Huron-Brut.t and Lock _ Harold Jackson. Rov Bell 12rdde1lrMPP tor Hilton. Clerk Edwin P Chesney of Tuckersmith- are to • Don't know. much about finances or Christmas trees so :why do people call Ntrnn,tlly, people hate having to leave a message on an answering machine. 1 hate-getting-them-- They're ate getting therm ---They're never for me: M'. message is simple and identifies the telephone number the person has called --that way people know whether or not they've called the right number. Or at least you'.d think. This Christmas. l had a, call from someone looking for trees. She:heard 1 had some of the. hest around and. although l can't remethber the request, she w a, hoping for. a Specific kind of.tree. • Last I checked. the only- thing•l was growing outside my apartment was some ragweed' that sprouted up through the sidewalk cracks. At this point, l had long -since decided not • to return anymore tnismade messages. • It just gets too complicated. Like. last year. when a collection agency began catling my number. leaving messages for some guy who was behind in his bills. They needed him to call right away.. Assuming it was'a misplaced call, ( never bothered to call back, taking it for granted they would call hi4r�1-at the right number the next time. LJ.• What 1 didn't realize is. they had the right number. The telephone number Bell gave me. used to be his.but he had since moved 'around a bit. possibly because of the telephone calls I began receiving. - The next call L got from theai was much more serious. The gentleman was nolonger polite and insisted 1 get back to them within a designated number of hours. Of course, I didn't like his attitude' and L decided I wasn't about to call him back. The third tithe. when they were even more threatening, -L started thinking about the other guy and how, by not calling back to sort this out, L was causing him even more grief. • 1 decided to call back. but collect. Not knowing bow to, explain in a brief recording I was allowed for identifying myself (since they had no idea who I was) L told the operating 1 was calling on behalf of the guy's name they were calling for. • They promptly refused to accept my call. So 1 called back the regular way and got in- touch n touch with the man who liad been. leaving file irlessa es. By this time. he .thought i'_wa3 ilirec"tiv connected with the bad debt guy and :started rudely asking me i bunch of questions. ' Now, - h was mad and finally told him I wasn't about to give him my name, I didn't know or have anything to do with the guy they wanted and .then threw in . the, "harassment' wird. •. I hung up and never heard back' I As an aside. a tew weeks later a guy 1 was behind at'an automated teller left his card in the machine, still active to his account. asking me if l wanted. another transaction. For a half -second. 1 actually contemplated that question before ejecting the card and recognizing a familiar name on the front. it belonged to Bad Debt Guy who I managed to catch as he lift the parking lot in his pick. up truck. He just looked at me funny. took the card and drove away without saying anything. Twice now. 1 had -helped or tried to help this' -guy and. was starting .to• Wish I hadn't.) Most recently. 1 found out more about a family's financial information than I ever should have been entitled to. That started with a call from an insurance adjuster who needed to arrange an • appointment to come•and see my house tremember, 1 live in.an apartmeni,..He never used any names and I just kind of let that onegu.-Toed fie atte t tacit U -say ire was Tor town and could he come hv. Weil 1' was at w rk as missed that call and again. i let it go. Just,when t had forgotten about it. i gut a 'call from another financial agency. They used the family's name and rattled off a bunch of financial'inturmation relating -to that family's situation and adjustments they were making with the guy who had been leaving messages on my rnachine a few week's earlier. They were facts and figures -1 shouldn't have known. • - 1 tried calling back to let them know they were calling the wrong number but gut lost in a voice mail system. They called back •once morel() let "me know everything was in order and • rattled of some more figures. 1 couldn't find the family's name in the ' telephone book and wonder -now..if they ever found out their finances are in order. Assuming other people experience this same problem. 1" wonder how often important messages get missed. Just last week, the Health Unit left a msage onsemy machine, trying to reach soesmeone el.