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Huron Expositor, 2000-08-09, Page 54 -TNI HURON iIIXPO$IT011, August 0, 1000 ►tr- w es 441 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860, Terri-lynn Hart - Publisher Pot Armes - Office Manager Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Diane McGrath • Suk mptions/ JossJieds Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Katrina Dietz - Sales Anne Roden - Distribution lo Bowes Publishers Limited S,Jr,4r, 4 S.- M,d. 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Wednesday, August 9, 2000 I1d11•0161 shed 11rslwess ONkes - 11 Moho' Wrarof.,666forth Orleplewe (519I1127•0240 Fax 111101 027.21110 Nall*. Address • P.O. Om 69, 11er16ri6, Oa$u,$s, 11011 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Seaforth firefighters commended for efforts To the Editor: The residents of Seaforth and area owe a great show of appreciation to the Seaforth Fire Department. Congratulations on your successful FFAO convention, which encompassed over a year of planning and preparation for the training courses offered, the camping facilities and meals. The parade was great. Even the weather co-operated. Volunteer firefighters are special people who give up hours of their family time for practice and training to help their community whenever they are called, for fires or accidents. This weekend made you visible to all even though each of us hope to never need your service. To the Seaforth Fire Department...great work guys. Barb MacLean Chair Seaforth Fire Board Opinion Letters Skateboarders deserve. to be treated like other athletes in the community To the Editor: As a Seaforth nkat• " am grateful to Jack Mci • ,y Garrick, Brian Nigh . ; at Rona Cashway a,d tnr : or n BiA who supported our efforts on July 28 at Moonlight Madness. . I am not sure that all the people knew exactly why the local skateboarders had their ramps set up during the BIA's "Moonlight Madness," so this letter will hopefully let you understand. For as long as I can remember, skateboarding and skateboarders have! had a bad name in this town, mostly . because they are misunderstood. We are not just just some punk kids riding around trying to cause mischief. We are just like every other kid who plays hockey. baseball. soccer or basketball, just, if not more, dedicated to what we love to do. Not many hockey players could play hockey 12 non-stop hours, but for a skateboarder, this is not uncommon at all. I have had many people come up to me on the street and tell me that I am going to break my neck one of these days on my skateboard, but I have had more injuries from playing hockey. and soccer than I have from skateboarding. Skateboarding is like any other sport and should get the same respect and funding. Many people from Seaforth have excelled in their sports to a very elite level. Dave McLlwain (NHL now playing pro hockey in Europe), Rem Murray (NHL). Mike Watt (NHL). Boyd Devereaux (ex -skateboarder) (NHL). Sean Ludwig (varsity basketball at Laurentian University), Carly Price (varsity basketball at Ryerson). All these people had the opportunity to excel in their sports because they had access to proper facilities and funding to be able to do so. Skateboarders do not have this opportunity. All we have is a very small area of pavement, and some makeshift ramps, not nearly enough to excel on, never mind that it took two years and a lot of hassles to get where we are now. About two months ago, there was a small article in the Expositor complaining about how the benches uptown were being wrecked by local skateboarders. I am not about to tell you that we never skated on the benches. We skateboarded on the benches. just as the group of skateboarders did before us, and the group before them. Skating on benches is one of my favourite things to skate. We haven't skated there for quite a while because we have a park now, however. our park in inadequate. Soon we will get bored of it because everything that we can do on it will have been done. and we will head back uptown. . That is why we need a better park. We do not want to be uptown any more than the people of Seaforth want us uptown. We are skateboarders, we love to skate. and we can't live without it so we will skate whatever we have to. but we would much rather be at our park than in your hair. Also. I would just to like to remind people that skateboarders are people. and should be respected as people. We are just the same as hockey players. soccer players, baseball players. or any other person who has a love for a sport, and should be treated in the same manner. The arena board stated that we could not get a skateboard park unless there was a skateboarder willing to donate his time to work with the town and the arena board to work out a plan. I wrote a letter telling the arena board that I would more than gladly volunteer to do so, and I didn't get a response for almost a year, and then, only when Doug Vock brought it up at an arena board meeting. I guess that the letter just , disappeared during that time. Some people might think we are " crazy when they see us out in the middle of February skateboarding. Even though there is three feet of snow on the ground, if the road is dry we will be there. We will skate with broken arms, torn ligaments in ankles and knees, busted up elbows, mind -numbing headaches, and bruised tail bones. Whys Because we have an unreal passion for a great sport. Many people have gotten up before the sun for before - school hockey practises. Many people have broken their arms but insisted on getting a playing cast just so they can finish the last game of the series against Durham. We are no different than these people. so please treat us with the same respect and dignity that you would them. Mike Del Vecchio New saw mill running full blast with lots of lumber August 13, 1875 The new saw mill of Messrs. Armitage; Carter & Gray in Seaforth is now running full blast and an immense amount of lumber is being turned out. Messrs. Morrison and Co. of town have added to their extensive livery stock. a veru handsome new covered carriage. it was purchased in Brantford and is said to, be one of the handsomest ever brought into the county. J.S. Porter of town has purchased Wm. Ault's cottage and lot for $800.00. Property in Seaforth ;s advancing in price. The promenade concert. given under the auspices of the Seaforth Mechanics Institute in the drill she, was a grand success. The music was furnished by Messrs. Johnson, Campbell. Downey, Scott, Fisher, O'Donahue, H. Carmichael and Messrs. Routledge & Cline. Wm. Robb. Con. 2, Tuckersmith, showed the Expositor a specimen of spring wheat which was quite ripe and ready for cutting. James Landsborough, Con. 2, Tuckersniith, left the Expositor a fine sample of fall wheat in the ear. The seed was imported from New York State. One day last week some men were repairing a well. on the farm of Wm. Chapman, Con. 3, Tuckersmith. an accident occurred. Mrs. Chapman was leaning on it when it suddenly went down and she went head foremost into the well. She was taken up speedily as possible. and although badly injured is still living. The sawvnill of Wm. McDougall of Stephen Twp. was burned. The fire was supposed to be the work of an incendiary. August 10, 1900 Threshing has again commence, Geo. Turner being one of the first T. McConnell threshed 600 bushels for hint in a little over 5 hours. An old and respected resident of Egmondville was removed by the hand of death in the person of Robert Henry Bristow. He was 66 years of age. Joseph Collie of Egmondville has secured a good situation as bookkeeper with a large 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 telop number. All submissions are subject to for both length and content. Don't forget to check out our homepage at: www,bowesnet.com/expositort Years agone... wholesale house in London. The teaching staff at the Collegiate Institute has been completed by the selection of G.F. Rogers. B.A. of Orillia, as science master. He will receiving 5900 per year. Fifty-eight tickers were sold at Seaforth for Goderich on the excursion from Stratford. John McNabb had an accident when the wheel came off his wagon and he was thrown off and a couple of egg boxes fell on him. • The Oddfellow•s are having their hall redecorated. Artist Crich is doing the work. The Messrs, Stewart Bros., Seaforth flour Mills. have received so far over 1.000 bushels of this season's wheat. Mr. T. Fowler's wheat averaged 34 bushels to the acre. Wm. Sclater of town is in Hamilton attending the Grand Lodge of the IndePendent Order of Orldfellow•s. Wm. Cudmore left for the Old Country, taking a shipment of horses with him. Master Thos: Hackwell of Leadbury. who had a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs. is around again as usual. Alex Stewart lost a valuable 2 year old steer owing to sun stroke. The beavers went to Mitchell to play their final game of Lacrosse and won by a score of 7-3. They now,play the Alerts from St. Marys. Messrs John McMillan. M.P and son. Hullett, shipped over $7,000 worth of fat cattle from Seaforth Station. August 14, 1925 A large barn was raised on the farm of Robert McLean, near Chiselhurst. There were over 100 persons present and the work was in the hands of Wm. Doig. A slight accident occurred when. the head of a sledge came off striking Arch. Hodgert on the foot. During .the storm the house of Wm. Dinnen was struck by lightning, coming down the chimney and killing the, dog. Mrs. W.T. Bright and Miss Doble of town left this week on a trip to the western provinces and the coast. . Messrs. Ed. Daly. Jack Crich, Karl Ament, Arthur Edmund, Robert Willis and Andrew McLean are camping at Bruce Beach. Fred Jackson has secured the teaching position at the Continuation School at Bobcaygen and will, teach there next vear, The home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pethick was the scene of a pretty wedding when Thelma was united in marriage to Francis Herman Brugger of Toronto. A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. Sam Harp, Aylmer, when Eva Biaron was 1 united in marriage to Chas. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.K. Clark, of SEaforth. Mr. Geo. Israel of Seaforth supported the groom and sang during the signing of the register. August 16, 1950 James J. Hugill, of Hullett, marked his 85th birthday at the home of his on Joseph T. Hugill in McKillop. Penmanship was Mr. Hugill's hobby and he still writes a good hand. Signs have been erected recently at the corner of Main and Govinlock Sts. pointing out to the motoring public that free parking space is available at Victoria Park, one block east. Loss estimated at $12,000 when fire destroyed a large barn on the farm of Ed. Boyes, south of Brucefield. The Shell Service Station on Goderich Street West. has been reopened and is now under the management of Fred Walsh. Authorized by council some time ago, the decoration of the court room of the Town Hall has now been completed. The work was done by John F. Scott. The draw was made for a corner cabinet at the Seaforth Lawn Bowling tournament the lucky winner being Mrs. Helen K. Scott. Andrew McLellan, Egmondville, Mrs. J. McElroy, Seaforth and Mrs. W. Klein, Mitchell, all were victims of boating accidents at Sp.ringbank. Miss Josephine Sterling of Bayfield, suffered a bad fracture of her left wrist, when she fell off a lawn seat while picking cherries. An unusually large shipment of cattle left Dublin stockyards for Toronto. 150 cattle were shipped by the U.F.O. and by Gardiner Bros. of Cromarty. They were valued at 5400 each. James McKindsey of town has accepted a position with the Imperial Bank of Canada, London branch. • Following the illness of only three days, Wm. S. Hogg, well known and highly respected resident, passed away at his home in McKillop. He was an elder of First Presbyteria ' "hurch. Mrs. F. Novak of Medicine Hat, Alta, presided at the organ in First Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. August 14, 1975 Some of the original potters' tools used at the Huron Pottery, which operated from 1852 to • 1910, were found in the backyard of Mr. and Mrs. William Huggett of Egmondville after a historical dig occurred. Seaforth and area resident are going to have a unique opportunity to attend profession stage production of Hello Dolly, at SDHS. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Whitmore returned home from New Brunswick where they visited with their son and daughter in law, Ken and Mary Beth Whitmore.