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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2000-04-12, Page 44 -THS NUNON EXPOSITOR, April 12, 2000 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Hort - Publisher Pot Armes - Office Monger Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Dianne tit -Grail) - Sbscrtptons/(]mantels Susan Hundertmork - Reporter Katrina Diehl • Sates & DislriixAion I, Bowes Publishers Limited s,ssr+•• .' S. .w.. tes.w•.+ - t t.....w twes.n E-mail us of sealorth@bowesnet.com SUBSCR1PTlON RATES LOCAL - 32 SO o yea.. ,n advance. plus 228 Gi T SENIORS • 3000 a" year ,nod once. plus 2 10 GS T USA & foreign 28 44 0 year ;n odionce. plus $78 00 postage, G 5 T exempt SUBSCRIPfON RATES •. Published weekly by Sgn01-S10, Pubf;shmg ot 100 Man St Seaforth Pubhcahon moil registration No 0696 held at Seaforth. 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Newspapers Association PubhKalrors Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial C ominunity knows how to work together e Stepping away from the controversy.that surrounds the reasons for their efforts, local fund raising endeavours should be heartening to the community. Harold Coleman, a senior citizen with a big heart, organized a fund raising dance. Community leaders are gathering donations for a silent, fund raising auction. And Dick Burgess- is turning over a rare book collection to help generate funds in a creative manner. For a donation, people can have their names in a bookplate inside this collection of books by Sir Walter Scott. Burgess is appealing to the community's Scottish heritage and will donate the books to the high school or library, should the high school be closed. That's what all these efforts are for...to help support the legal fund being used in a struggle to keep the high school open. But they make a clear sign of just what this community is capable of accomplishing. Individuals in this town have a proven track record of coming together for a common cause. Not everyone involved in this current fund raising effort is directly affected by the possible closure of this school but it is seen as important to the overall community issue and it has brought many different people together. Some community leaders who naturally work together and some who are new to community efforts have been linked in this new cause. -. And when the dust settles from the upcoming legal battle, no matter what the outcome, people should take heart in knowing with or without a high school, there is a strong community bond that will still be in place for the next community crisis. And if, when the dust settles, the high school is left, the current efforts could be turned into a great head start for the fitness complex that was proposed last year, before the threat of school closure brought that to a halt. Scoff Hilgendorff How to access us wen s to the Editor and ober attbenil can be snide to us by new on iv{olll ftil seaforthObnwesnet. Alt netters mad submissions mesal sad accompanied by a day -titan , • nwelber. Ail submissions are subject W for bah $ filed consent. Dont soalseckmaour www T•�} s Opinion Letters Nurses' Association concerned about new Long Term Care Act To the Editor: Re: New Long Term Care Act 1 learned recently from The Ontario Health Coalition that the provincial government is in the process of drafting a new Long Term Care Act: that in addition to Bill 173, the new Long Term Care Act will also replace the Nursing Homes Act, and the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act. Most importantly, there is to be no open and full public consultation on the legislation, which is targeted for spring 2000. I want to express in the strongest terms possible, my disagreement with this closed process and am urging that the community be aware of this pending legislation that will affect many of our family members who are in long term care facilities and for those family members who may need long term care facilities in the future. Most importantly, without public consultation. we will certainly see big problems for those relying on long term care. similar to the chaos produced by the deep cuts to the hospital sector. The enormous importance of this legislation and its consequences for all aspects of long term care: including home and community care and facility -based care. merit the broadest and most open public.consultation . possible. Ontarians must be given an opportunity to put forward their concerns with respect to long term care legislation. service maximums, eligibility criteria, funding and other vitally important issues. I fear the real intent of this conservative government is to enshrine the underfunding. understaffing, severe rationing of services and transfer of many costs to individuals which are the current hallmarks of the Tory system. Currently. Long Term Care is drastically underfunded. Too many people cannot get by on the too few hours of care available; others cannot get any care at all. Many people are told they have a "choice" of purchasing care if they need it. Chronic patients are all too often placed on long waiting Lists. Continuity of care is becoming an impossible dream as workers are paid too low wages and are increasingly viewed as casual labour. Standards - have been slashed in nursing homes. Everywhere across the province, those who need help are getting less. On its re-election, this government promised a More open and consultative process. i am demanding that the provincial government live up to both the spirit and intent of these earlier statements. Ruthanne Lobb, RN Ontario Nurses' Association Local 021 On behalf of Registered Nurses at Huronview Home for the Aged, Clinton Huronlea, Brussels More than $i,000 raised for school legal fund To the Editor: On Saturday. during Knechtel's 'Roll into Spring S350.000 Giveaway' in Seaforth. a fund-raiser for the legal fund to Save Our Schools was held. Steve and Barb Delchiaro. and the staff at Knechtel's. through the dream vacation lottery and the hot dogs and pop raised more than S1.100 that will be added to our fund. This fund-raising event shows that the people of this area are working together to keep our children and schools in our community and to keep the community strong. Game on. Maureen Agar on behalf of the Seaforth Student Success Foundation Conservative search committee formed The Federal Riding of Huron - Bruce. Progressive Conservative Association. has established a Candidate Search Committee. The Committee is aggressively seeking potential candidates to represent Huron -Bruce in the next Federal election. The Association looks forward to ah exciting race through which the party members will select a candidate. Several members from the riding will be travelling to take part in the upcoming National Policy Conference to be held in Quebec City from May 11 to May 14. If you are interested in receiving more information about the process. or are interested in being a candidate. please contact Denise Wilkins -Treble. chair • of the Huron -Bruce Candidate Search Committee. at 519-357-2175: or Maurice Donnelly. Vice Chair at 519-366-2382. Any Search Committee member may also be contacted. Other members of the Committee include: Bob Bregman. Mary Donnelly. Murray Cardiff. Robert Fleming and Kriss Snell. Hullett farm sold for $3,000 to D. Hogart April 16, 1875 Andrew Govenlock of Winthrop has a large number of steam mill timbers at the Victoria Mill. 6 miles north of Seaforth. The farm owned by the late James Snell, Hullett, has been sold to D. Hogart for S3.000. A staff of engineers employed in locating the line of the London. Huron and Bruce Railway passed through Brucefield. The Council of Seaforth have had erected an excellent crossing in front of the Commercial Hotel. This is an improvement which has long been needed. During the past 23 days, A.Armitage of Seaforth has shipped from the station here 167 loads of grain and salt. The fall wheat in the section of Seaforth is looking unusually good. Most of the fields are well covered and look green and healthy. Mr. Elgie of Tuckersmith informs us that he has 35 acres of fall wheat, and judging from present appearance will yield,35 bushels to the acre. We very much regret being called in to record the sudden and unexpected death of Thos. McMichael of Hullett. He was born in Dumfries -Shire, Scotland in 1821. He occupied the position of Reeve of Hullett for 12 years. April 14, 1900 L. Kennedy of Clinton has leased the Queen's Hotel in Bayfield and will conduct it as a summer hotel. What might have been a fatal accident happened in the woods_ of 1, Rapson, Hullett when neighbors were helping at a work bee, a large limb fell from a tree hitting Robert Draper on the head, inflicting an ugly scalp wound. Mrs. Corvie of Bayfield Years agone... had snos drops in bloom in her garden on the first of April. One important event for the ladies at the beginning of each season is the millinery openings. The stores were all dressed up in their finery. The village hunters of Egmondville are spending the evenings hunting muskrats. D.J.Aitcheson. of Roxboro. McKillop. now of Devils Lake. No. Dak. intends residing here in the future. It is about 30 years since he left Huion. Mrs. James Sparling Sr. who resides with Mrs. J.S.Welsh, of Seaforth , has just completed a quilt with 1,375 pieces and she is now in her 82nd year. Miss May Stobie of town left for West Branch. Michigan, where she will engage in the millinery business. John Cluff had the misfortune to have the end of his fingers taken off in his father's planning mill here. Messrs. Arnold Case, and James Bonthron left to visit friends in New York. Wm. Powell. a graduate of the Expositor. has been elected vice-president of the Toronto Typographical Union. Messrs. Alex Smillie and Wm. Chapman. of Tuckersmith, have sold their well known Shorthorn bull "New Year's Gift" which they purchased from Thos. Russell of Osborne to N.P.Clark of St. Cloud, Minnesota for $400. A daily mail now goes from Kippen to Drysdale which will be a great boon to the business men of that little town. Miss Retia Upshall of Kippen has gone to Seaforth where she has taken a position at the tailoring. The ice on Lake Huron at St. Joseph is slow in breaking up. The lake is still covered with ice as far as the eye can see. April 17, 1925 An unusually early spring found the farmers in the middle of seeding for - the date of the annual Spring Fair. There was a large crowd in town all afternoon. Quite a windstorm passed over McKillop Township on Monday evening doing some slight damage. . Kisnter Bros. John. Robert. W. and Kenneth returned from the new Ontario lumber woods. They are contemplating sailing the Great Lakes during the summer months. John Moffatt of the London Road near Kippen is now busy getting settled in his new home in Clinton. Wm. Cooper of Kippen, had the misfortune to cut his foot quite badly while splitting wood. Several stitches were required to close the wound. The egg pool at Hensall has started taking eggs at Mr. Rennie's store. A distressingly fatal accident occurred at the farm of J.F. McMann, Huron Road, when Clavor Eckert, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Eckart, lost his life. He had been fooling with a rifle, when a bullet lodged in the barrel. He poured the powder from a shot gun shell into the breech. It discharged and the gun exploded. the lock was blown into his eye, entering the brain. lames Sleeth of Sarnia, sang a fine solo at First Church, Seaforth. Mr. and Mrs. 1.M.Govenlock who have resided in Winthrop, moved this week to Seaforth, where they will make their home in the future. Mr.• and Mrs. Robert T. McIntosh of Forest are returning to Seaforth. Scott Ferguson has installed one of- his latest radio outfits for Dr. H.H.Ross. The young People's Literary Society met in S.S.No.5. with Cora Sherwood presiding. Among those who were on the program were, Hazel Jefferson. Hugh Chesney. J.Doig, Cecil Pullman. Alice Archibald. Jack Archibald. - A . debate, "Resolved that reading is more beneficial than travel." the negative by W.Jefferson. Annie Strong. and Mary Wallace. and the affirmative by •Edwin Chesney, W. Archibald. and Dorothy Reinke. April 14th, 1950 Neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. James Ritchie and Miss Marilyn gathered at the home of Mrs. Theresa Maloney and made them the recipients of.a pair of boudoir lamps and a string of pearls. Mrs. Enos Boshart read the address and Mrs. . Maloney presented the gift. Robert King is recovering following an accident which a caliber bullet passed through his chest. He is in St. Joseph's Hospital, London. At a fire drill at S.S.No. 6, McKillop, the 27 pupils in the school cleared the room in 40 seconds., under the direction, of Foster T. Fowler. In charge of the drill were Louis Bolton and Frank Johnson. Edwin P. Chesney and W.M.Sproat of Tuckersmith saw 15 white swans on the pond of Hugh McMillan's field recently. They spent two days in the pond before flying away. Mr. and Mrs. Warnock have moved from the Royal Apartments to the apartment owned by Isaac Hudson.