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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 1999-06-09, Page 44-T$( HURON EXPOSITOR, June 4, 1990 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Dale - Publisher Scott Hilgendorff Editor Bowes Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Publisllets Lorry Dalrymple - Sales • Limited Pat Armes • Office Manager, Dianne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds A s'b"ae'' do suQnherrin "�'" CaPoralion company E-mail us at Seaforth Obowenet.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES IOCAI 32 50 o yew, m advance, plus 2 28 G S T SENIORS: 30.00 a year, .n advance, plus 2.10 G 5 T USA e. 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Advertising o merely on offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscnpts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes Changes of oddness, orders for subscriptions and undeliverable copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor Wednesday, June 9, 1999 IdJ .rl.I .td seslw.ss OIIIeN - 100 M.I. tilteee$.,SuferIl, Telephone 1519) 527-0240 Vex (510) 527.2050 Muffing Address - P.O. N■ 69, Ileaiesfb, O.1.r1., 11106 1 WO • Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspopers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Pedestrians must take care if crossing areas are made Council has received a request to have crossing areas marked out on Main Street for pedestrians. If the request, made by a ratepayer and the Police Services Board, is granted, crossing areas would be marked out at intersections on Main Street by Sills Home Hardware and Nifty Corners. Concerns have been raised that it is difficult for school children and seniors to cross Main Street. Traffic flow on the street can be quite heavy during the day and having a distinct crossing zone would be smart, but not for the reasons people might think. What people fail to realize is these would not by crosswalks and therefore, do not mean vehicles have to stop for pedestrians.who start flashing overhead lights or point in front of them as a signal they are about to cross. The cross over is only a zone pedestrians use to cross the street alerting vehicle drivers 10 where pedestrians are likely to be. This would be a great advantage if people used those areas instead of darting out between parked cars. Too often, pedestrians step out into traffic that, by law, could be travelling at 50 km an hour and have little time to stop. Smart,drivers slow down in the business area and smart pedestrians don't step out in front of vehicles. But not everyone is smart and vehicles go too fast and pedestrians actually walk across the street on angleswith their back to traffic, never looking to see if their life is in "jeopardy. If cross overs are put in place, council needs to let the public know how those areas work. With any luck, walkers will cross there and drivers will give them some courtesy. But pedestrians need to be aware they can't just step into the intersection and expect cars to stop for them. Unless it's a full cross walk, it doesn't work that way. Regardless, they should be crossing at the intersections anyway and not from store to - store in the middle of the road: It means walking a little further but staying safer. It's worth the extra mileage. STH How to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissions can be made to us by noon on Mondays at: seaforth@bowesnet.com MI letters and submissEions must be alined and accompanied by a day -time telephone .number. All submissions are subject to editing for both length and content. Dant forget to check amt OUT ww*.bowesnet eoltaMle�1� Opinion Community has been through a lot of life together We are beginning the new Huron Expositor "clergy column" with an ending. Since this past Sunday was Minister's study my last as minister at : Northside, and ('a%itn 1:rated Churches, the local -ministerial : association decided that 1 should get a word in on my way out. So'what do 1 have to say after having been hack in Seaforth these past three years as a minister'' 1 know that f've learned a lot: A minister's life is -very real. and very overwhelming, at times. it gives a person a whole ne.w perspective on.life. when you officiate at a wedding. a funeral and a baptism. all within 24 hours. - As a community, we've been through a lot of life together these past three years, and now 1 understand a whole lot more about people, about life -= things you can't learn from books. I've learned about birth, death, suers_ es,. • disappointment, hopes and fears. And I've learned how much love and strength it takes to nurture lite in others. What follows is, an excerpt from last Sunday's sermon,at,C'a.an • United Church:- - " I am with you always, to the end cit the age." That':s God's promise. through Christ. to each of us. I've learned to understand that -- promise and that reality in a whole. new way these past three years. • • God is with us. We are not alone. To live is to risk `- we know that 'well. But we also know that living is worth it.. The gift of life is . a gift from God..and i think one of the.things we each learn as we live the lives•we-se been,gisen is respect for life. in all its stages, and seascins. In these. past three years here my respect for life at every stage has grown immensely. • . i',ve grown to cherish infancy: the blessing and miracle of new lite. That's why rye enjoyed sii•much opportunities to celehrate.baptism here. I've gained. -and am gaining a new By Rev Jane Kuepfer appreciatiuin• for toddlerhood. = little ones who. run • around our -church .and Our homes with no inhibitions. no-. 'fear.. just trust. curiosity and joy. i've enjoyed the toddlers at- church. and in playgroup. and I'm looking forward to having more of my time to get to know my ()wit toddler, Anna. -at home. Childhood is :i stage. full; of energy , and discovery. i've had the privilege, being here. to spend time with our children at storytime each week, and at Vacation at. School. and -at skating parties and church picnics. It's heen exciting for me 'to watch them change and learn and grow. .Then there are the teenage years - year of uncertainty. decisions, - opportunity andelf-disco%ery.1've been so happy to see many .of our young people "choose to discover their spiritual,side. and to get to know God Netter.• - Being an ministry has• also given me a new• •respect for . and a new per,pecti'e on adulthood.. Each generation has it, unique.struggles. decisions and transitions to make. I've -worked with 'couples in. preparation for - marriage. and heard the pain of those deciding ro dr).orce. I've celebrated with .those•who found work they enjoyed..and worried with.thu-e-who haven't.• I've rejoiced with families as they welcomed new people auto their clans. and mourned with others as they said goodbye. • Old age.cornes both slowly and quickly, it seems -• those. adults years of busyness all of a sudden Slowed down to long days, with different worries. perhaps some loneliness. and a whole different •perspective on life- tirne to think back. to remember the good times and the hard times --time to deal with regrets and to pass on what wisdom. the next generation Will take time to.receive. I've very much enjoyed rhe time 1've spent visiting w ith'the most senior of:our senior;. and I've truly been honoured to he entrusted • with the responsibility of bringing -a cuitahle close to their lifestories for those. whose lives did'come to an end. 1've certainly grown in respect for life in all its stagesandseasons. i've -also grown in respect for each moment • in life within those stages. Each life. it seems. has moments of pure joy. and moments -of pure agony: moments of security, - and moments of .,hopelessness. momentsof vitality. and moments of illness. "moments.of. tragedy. and moments of miracle. There is a time for everything. and -ail. these .moments together make life so • rich as it is.. These past 'three years, have overwhelmed me. as life should - life is an overwhelming experience for' each of us. As you've,heard me say over'and over again - what keeps me - going in life is the knowledge that God is with' us. • •Jesus canie among us. -God. in the flesh. to explain that to us once and, for all: God came in' Jesus to show how much Grid loves us --enough that. God -would-give up thesecurity of being the kind of God who is omnipotent and untouchable in order to experience life- -as -it is for us.:with its joy and its pain, and to be closer to us as we each live the lives we have been given. 1 thank you for these past three sears and ( pray that each of your lr.es.may be rich, and full of all the blessings of God. . (Minister's..Study Will appear monthly as prepared bs members- r,r the Seaforth :Nirtisterral.association --and is the neo est addition iu accompany the chan,eeS being made rr, The Huron Expositor ) Memories of plowing matches gone by being collected by IPM committee member For more than 150years In 1946 the international now. plowing matches have Plow in_ -Match t IPM t been held in Ontario..from adopted, a ser.• fitting the days when plowing was slogan: The Victory done by a yoke of oxen and Match` since thi'- was the a wooden plow. to a. metal firstmatch since. 1441. due • plow. and to :1 tractor anti-`-to-World War -Two. • plow. and today where fields are planted in corn. • beans and grain without: plowing. The first plowing match to he sponsored by the Ontario Plow titan '. Association (OPAL, was held at Sunnybrook Farms, now a part of Toronto. in 1913 with 31 single plow entries. White there were no classes for tractor drawn plows. there was "One' tractor on the grounds and this provided. -plenty of curiosity and caustic continents hs the visitors. No doubt one of the questions, was, "Do sou think that it -Will ever replace the horse'" That year's -match. was at . Port •Albert ,-airport. near Godericli wherethe-Royal --Air Force trained pilot. during w ar i ears for the British nay al air arm. Mata British airtnett• carne to Sky Harbour to traan'and ended up married to Canadian girls. On October 15. 1946: the first IPI 111 'Huron {'aunty. .was officially opened•by Hi. Excellency Field Marshall. • 'Viscount Alexander. of .Tunis, Go.ernor General of Canada. By the way. he was the hist' •British Gos ernor . -. General. Fol low ing' him,. Vincent Massey became the first • Canadian Governor General. Following the opening Ceremonies, Mr. McGasin. president of,. the OPA. introduced Lord Alexander. McGayin recalled the tin war record Of Lord Alexander and the past the- governor he governor -general had played in the defeat of the.' Vans.. McGavin declared that while the site of the, present plowing match was snot a battlefield, it was an. historic site because many: men had trained there for their 'part in winning the' war. �lcGa%in. a native of Walton was the owner of MCGas in's Machinery. His son 'Neil N1cGay in' is :presently the First Vice President of the 1999 OPA. In 1946. to be a good farmer. a young person must take.pride in straight furrows, straight seed' drill,. tidy fences t -now goner and buildings. Should. this not .apply tous anoccupation today'' in short. `'plow a straight row. cultivate your friends for. - e last friendships. seed young people with common sense.. Remember -you reap what y0U SOW'.. If you have any memories or the 1946 match. please sand them to Harry Nesbitt. The Plowing Match 1999 is being held.at.Dashwood... ' Ontario.. September 21-;.5,. This is near Grand fiend. • Packages of five advance • tickets are being sold fur t admission. to the Plowing . Match and :a draw on -:a• trailer park home. More information can be found in our official match pamphlet or call:: Jeanne -Kirkby 519 -Ss --6038 or Harry. W. Nesbitt ; I g-211 6742. Thomas As -h of Seaforth one of two who represented school board at national science fair in Edmonton Students from: local. elementary schools showed. their science know - how against students from across Canada at this year'. Canada Wide Science Fair in Edmonton. Six student from this area sty on the chance to compete at the national fair by has ing the top. projects at 'the Regional Science and inventors' Fair held iii April at the Seaforth and District Community Centres. Thomas Ash (Seaforth P.S.). Dwight Schiestel, Hannah Hail, Michelle Ortlieb. -Crystal Bailey (all from Wingham P.S.) and Justin Soudant (St. Boniface Catholic School) presented their projects against a total of 328 projects from every corner of the country. The local students, in competition with students from 100 other regions, did extremely well this year. Dwight Schiestel won a bronze medal in the Junior Physical Science division for his experiment dealing with popping popcorn. Crystal Bailey and Michelle Ortliebwon :rn honourable mention in the•JunionLife Sciences division for. their team project dealing with sensory interpretation and Tustin Soudant also received an :honourable mention in the Junior. Earth 'and E:it% ironmental Sciences division for his work on landfall sites. \While Thomas Ash and Hannah Hall did not receive formal • recognition for their projects. judges continents to. both students were favourable and encouraging. • • • Students participating at the Canada-. wide fair had a hectic• week which began May 16. The fait officially opened Monday morning in a rainy outdoor ceremony followed by it day and a half of judging by volunteers from the academic and business communities. Later in the week the students were treated to tours in and around the Edmonton area including Jasper. the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the famous West Edmonton, Mall. The fair wrapped up Friday with public viewing of the projects and an awards - celebration. Approximately 600 weary students and chaperones boarded the Planes. tor- home early Saturday morning - all of them taking with them new friendships and new.ideas for future study.: - • The science fair program has been running since the early 60s and students from this area have been participting for 29 years. The new Science and Technology curriculum emphasizes that students must develop problem solving and communication skills along with scientific knowledge and experiemental techniques. Project based `science. in particular Science/Inventors' Fair and Science and Technology .Olympics, is an excellent vehicle for helping students acquire and refine the knowledge and skills that are laid out in the -new curriculum documents.