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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2000-05-10, Page 4Opinion 4 -yen NI ON EXPO$ROR, Mea 10, 3000 E*Witor t iG►ile�t SIANO rrti utts+ Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Hart Publisher Pot Armes - Office Manager Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Lorne McGrath Subscriptions/Cbssifieds Susan Hundertmark Reporter Katrina Dietz - Sates & Distribution I, Bowes Publishers Limited 3.1a6,n 9fa 1Ii. (..g.,..- A Q,d,r. (wow) E-mail us of seaforth@bowesnet com • SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IOCAt 3250 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G S SENIORS: 30 00 a year, in advance, plea 2. 10tG.S.T. USA & foreign: 28.44a year in advance. plus $78,00 postage, G 5. T exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing o* 100 Man Sr , Seaforth. Publication mail registration No 0696 held at Seoforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Conadion Community Newspoper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Instilling values, not issuing suspensions will help reduce violence The provincial government's recently announced code of conduct policies for schools are nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction based on growing hysteria surrounding school violence. Yes, the issue of .violence in our schools is of extreme importance. But giving teachers the right to suspend students directly from their classroom. is not even the tiniest step toward alleviating. the problem. Suspensions are just one of the solutions the province is proposing to help reduce the amount of violence in schools. Also in their plans are increased powers for principals.to-expel students and the requirement of sthool uniforms and a patriotic morning pledge of citizenship. These planswilldo nothing toward stopping violence. - Fortunately, Canada is still in a_ state whete the majority of students aren't faced with metal detectors and armedsecurity guards in their schools to combat the violence The situation isnot out of control. But it will be if -proper steps aren't taken. 'Suspending more students and requiring them 10. stay in the school for special programming is not a one of those steps. Finding ways to instill some traditional values in our students would make more progress. Teachers are caught in, the middle as their jobs require -more' orrd more of them, beyond their - traditional rola of explaining the importance of reading, writing and :arithmetic. Their jobs are far more complicated than they were 10 years ago but the responsibilities and roles of teachers is going to ' have:to change even more, as society changes. But instead of* turning teachers into enforcers, they're going to have to become more like social wotkeis, .s.olving problerns•that aren't always solved 'orf home. . in, their role as educators, they're going to have. to prck up•ttie pieces -of what parents and the rest of society are failing to do -teach strong values of respect and tolerance for one another. 'While the province is adding a pledge of citizenship for 'a monarchy that is no longer officially recognized in a .leadership ,role for this country, why not also bring back the lord's Prayer? It is -now a, societal taboo to bring religion into the classroom but .old-time Christian values of loving one another do have something to offer when it comes t0 Curbing violence. • ' Removing students from a classroom doesn't. Scott Hilgendorff How to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissions can be made to us by noon on Mondays at: seaforth@bowesnet.com All letters and submissions must be signed and accompanied by a day -time telephone number. All submissions are subject to editing for both length and content. Dont forget to check out our homepage at: www.bowesnet.com/expositor/ Healing can be found in touch There is healing in touch. I made this statement based bn two authorities: Jesus of Nazareth and Dr. -Bernie Siegel. - Jairus, President of the Synagogue, came to Jesus. "My little daughter is very ill," Jairus said. "Please come and place your hands on her, so that she will get well and live." Jesus started off with Jairus but on the way he encountered a woman who had been suffering for 12 years. She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind him, saying to herself, "If I just touch his clothes, I will get well." She touched him and immediately had the feeling inside herself that she was healed of her trouble. -There is healing in touch. All this happened, don't forget, as Jesus was enrotite to Jairus' house. Meanwhile, the little girl had died. Jai as understandably distraught bu said, "Don't be afraid...only.believe."- When Jesussawthe child he took her by the hand (touch) and said to her, "Little girl, I tell you to get up!" At once this active 12 -year-old jumped to her feet and started walking around. There is healing in -touch. Bernie S. Siegel M.D., a- surgeon and -professor of medicine at Yale University, in his book, "Love, Medicine and Miracles," declares that "miracles happen to exceptional Minister's study By Rev Judith Springett Egmondvitle United Church - patients every day." Now the interesting point here is how Siegel defines an eXceptional patient. - "Do you want to live to be a hundred?" he often asks audiences.. - If you can answer that by an immediate, visceral "yes" -with no ifs. ands or buts, you are exceptional. says Dr. Siegel. . He goes on to say that doesn't mean that you expect to have all your pains relieved; your crooked bones made straight and all your warts removed. it means you. are -willing to accept the "risks and challenges to live life to the fullest where God has you right now. Dr. Siegel says that when he asks that question. 15 to -20 per cent of the people in -an average audience- show their hands. • However, he goes on. "it's a tragedy -that only five per cent show their hands in a room full of doctors." -ft is Dr. Siegel's opinion that all doctors should be required to attend.healing services'as a part of theirtraining and they should not be allowed to prescribe medications or consider surgery during those training sessions. He is convinced that doctors need to "learn that they can help by touching, praying. or simply sharing on .an emotional level." - There is healing in touch. Everybody comes into this world needing to- be touched and that need persists until death. Human beings of all ages need to be touched and being touched in tender. caring ways can be healing. • - - Think about it; you walk into a home where touching is a regular and normal . thing; where -the need' for touch is satisfied in -a loving, tender way and what do you find? You experience a warm, open, relaxed atmosphere. You see friendly children. You see adults being generous and hospitable. You also find these kind of people coping with the stresses of life. George Regas in "Kiss Yourself and Hug the World" tells' of a young husband whose wife died and left him and his little boy to'cope as a family. Back home, after the funeral, they went to .bed is soon as it was dark because there was nothing else the - father could think of that he could bear to do. As they lay in the darkness, numb with sorrow, the little boy. broke the stillness -as -he .called out from his bed, "Daddy, where is. Mummy?" , See SCIENTISTS, Pam 5 Cooked dandelion greens best with garlic When I was a little girl of about five and beginning to understand the business of•buying and selling, 1 . decided one sunny day to try and earn some - money by selling dandelions from door to door ony street. Since most of the 'lawns of my potential clients were filled with the flowers l was trying to sell. and since most people .would rather destroy dandelions than buy them, 1 didn't make too many sales that day. even at the very reasonable price I was offering of one cent a bunch. I suspect my winning- smile and entrepreneurial spirit wonme the fe-w pennies I collected that day, not the product 1 was offering. But, as I look back on that day in the mid -60s, I see that perhaps I was before my time in seeing the value of the still widely= detested dandelion. - During the past decade of my interest inedible backyard weeds. none of my activities, whether as a resident of city, town or country: has `. drawn more strange looks that my springtime gathering of dandelions. ,Somehow, a grown-up collecting dandelions in a jar, or even worse, a measuring cup, never fails to attract attention. What could she ,be doing with these horrible weeds? The idea that she could be gathering . ingredients for the evening meal' is Susan Hundertmark just -too strange to contemplate. But. my family and [ Jook:forward to those first warm weeks of spring when a, golden blanket of dandelions covers the -lawn -with their bright and cheerful' faces. Rather than .sending ine racing. for the. nearest -can of poison spray. or. for the. nearest "lawn care company tetpoison my_ lawn for' me, the b,.loomingof dandelions makes me head for my. herb -and . recipe. books. We have cooked dandelion greens.. which we like best with garlic and olive oil. tossed -the greens into a salad and added' the flowers to. pancake mix to fry- up our favourite Spring dinner of dandelion flower fritter~, splashed' with soya sauce. ' While grocery siores have been stocking dandelion greens. in their produce section for several years• now, it never ceases' to amaze me hew many. people will buy them but not use the free produce growing in their own backyards. , Of .course. the proliferation of lawn care signs in a neighborhood a: situation more noxious than -the weeds themselves. in my opinion - leads me to be care fu 1 where 1 prck my dandelions. I also pick beyond the reach of the rope of my family .. And. I head for a wild area, such as a-conerv'ation area. when 1 gather the large amounts of flowers needed for a hatch or dandelion wine - a sweet and. delicious 'wine I can only. describe'. asrasting like. sunshine (if sunshine were _something .you could taste!) ' My herb books tel[ me dandelions are a highly nutritious food packed With vitamins A. B. C. D, . E: potassium. -calcium, iron. phosphorous; manganese, sulphur. magnesium. silica and carotenes. While dandelion is said to be a - diuretic and.sood for your digestive system. it. -is most often cited a -a- tonic for the liver. _ And. while many of us act on our irrational hatred of the dandelion by: spraying more and more chemicals. onto our land. l find it ironic indeed - •that the dandelion is one of the best tonics' available to cleanse our liver. the organ in our. bodies whose function is to clean our bodies and blood of thetoxic chemicals we accumulate by livingin this spray haPPy culture, = --- The dandelion may turn out to be -a very valuable ally as we seek to. Maintain our. health on. this. increasingly toxic planet. , McNaught named best rhubarb grower May lot 1875 Brine was for the first time let ` into the .pans in the new salt block of Ogilvie & Co. of Seaforth. The brine is conveyed from works of Messrs. Gray, Young and. Sparling in wooden pipes laid along tinder the ground. John Murray. who has occupied the mansion Hotel for the past two years, has retired._ from the hotel business and has removed to Hamilton. Mr. Carmichael, the proprietor of the block resumed possession. David.. McNaught,- of town, is entitled to the credit of being the best rhubarb grower in Seaforth . or perhaps in the county. It measured 14 inches and was grown in the open air. Messrs. E. Hickson & Co. have commenced , -the publication of a new paper called the Seaforth Gazette. Geo. Whitely of town was engaged in taking care of his horses in the Mansion Hotel stable, and took his pocket book from his pocket and laid it in a hole in one of the stalls when he returned it was gone. They suspected the hostler and after four o'clock found him at the station ready to depart. He was later taken to Goderich jail to await his trail.. About 2,000 logs belonging to Messrs. Milne 'of Grey Twp. broke away and floated down the river. The larger portion was fortunately recovered. The death of Mr. Willison of Kinburn causes a Years agone... vacancy here that will be much felt and leaves a good openingfor a competent tailor. - John Cumming of Hullett took from the back. of two Leicester sheep the amount of 20 3/4 and 20 1/4 pound; of unwashed Wool. The length was 16 inches. '"— Mrs. Robert McMillan of McKillop; has a young• Hamburg hen which laid an egg measuring 8" one way and 6:1/4 the other: ---- May 11, 1900 While Mr. and Mrs. G. Wren of Chiselhurst were driving to Hensall,-the horse became frightened -and the occupants were thrown out. Mrs. Wrensuffered a broken wrist and a severe shaking up. The horse has since died. There are thirteen egg • gatherers in- McKillop and seven of these oblige by delivering goods as well as buying eggs. Snow fell on the 3rd of May in Kippen. A telegram was received in town announcing the death of Dr. A.D.McDonald which took place in Detroit. He was pastor of First Presbyterian Church for 21 years. Russel Johnson of town. left for London where he has secured a position with a large handsome store. May 15, 1925 Ernest Adams and Mr. McCall have treated themselves to a new car. Gathering pine stumps is. the order of the day itt Manley. to provide for another year's threshing. James Hart. has complete the concrete foundation of P. Eckart's new- residence in Dublin. Miss Tillie Dundas of Chicago is spending some time with her parents. . Mrs. Elizabeth Snowdon. a pioneer resident of Stanley —Township,_passed__away at her home on the Sauble River, having reached the, ageof nearly 90 years. The first half holiday of .the business -places . in Zurich was observed on Wednesday afternoon: - The new tax for the Province of Ontario. of three cents per gallon of gas became effective -on • Monday. - Oscar Neil of town has purchased a new Essex car. May 19, 1950 Seaforth Highlanders Band has changed the night for its weekly concert from Sunday to Thursday night. E.H.Close,-'who has been head master for many years, has consented to carry on as head master until the end of the year. The Women's Hospital Aid to Scott Memorial Hospital has donated a $900 McEachern delivery table. The presentation was made to Miss Valerie Drope. Others shown in a picture were Mrs. Frank Kling,'- Mis3 Helen Smith Reg. N. and Lois Hunter. Miss Nora -Hoding, secretary. -of the -Ontario. Teachers Federation was here in this district dealing with matters Pertaining. the profession. A.W.-Dick-retired from the active secretaryship of the Huron Football Association in ,Walton Community Hall. He has been ari ardent worker for over 25 years. On Wednesday the Chamber ' arf Commerce -completed-a-project--which -.- has been in. progress since last fall. This was the erection of street signs 'on Goderich St. under- the supervision of Keith Sharp. :Miss Luella Burke of town is making alterations to the ' residence on Goderich St. which she purchased some time ago. . May '15, 1975 Gordon Rimmer, a local resident, became one of the first in the province to received the recently announced Commissioner's Citation. He, waived the citation for pulling a Toronto woman out .of her burning car following a head-on cottision last December on Highway 401 just west of Toronto. . Residential tax payers in Seaforth face art increase of more than 14 mills on their - 1975 tax bills, following passage of this year's budget by town council Monday night.