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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2000-11-08, Page 44 -THE MOON EXPOSITOR, Nov.mMr 18, 2000 i.7 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Hort - Publisher Pat Armes - Office Manager Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Dianne McGrath - Subsaiplions/Ciossilieds Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Katrina Dietz - Sales Anne Roden - Distribution go Bowes Publishers Limited sys r.<� s■. nw,. a r..n.. - e QWW,wr E-mail us at seaforth@bowesnet.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS: • 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA'S, Foreign: 28.44 o year in advance, plus $78.00 possoge, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing ot 1 l Main St., Seoforth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held a Seaforth, Ontario. Advertising is occepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonoble allowance for signoiure, will not be 'charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid or at the applicable rate. In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn atony time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or domoge of unsolicited manuscripts, photoi or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliverable copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, November 8, 2000 Editorial and ilasinoss Offkes - 11 Mein Street.,feaf.Hls Telephone (519) 527-0240 Paz (519) 527-2055 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Oelario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 "We acbwwtedgh the financial support of the Government of Canada, through a Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Editorial Much at stake in this election The future direction of Huron East will be set in motion this Monday as the municipal election takes place. Thais when the historic first •council of Huron East will be elected from a pool of qualified candidates. These leaders will face the task of defining Huron East' based on the work of a transition board that, since spring, has been setting tip the system by which the municipality will operate. That board consists of staff and elected' representatives from the five municipalities forming Huron East. But it will be up to the council elected Monday to define that municipality andmake the system work. The election has seen several issues brought forward from the movement of Seaforth s ambulance station to a Highway 8 location to the protection of reserve funds in Tuckersmith Township. Each community has its own needs and interests but everyone at the council table is going to have to a vote on how a decision is made in Grey Township or Egmondville. While people can only vote for two councillors in their ward, they can vote for a mayor and deputy mayor •with candidates coming from across the boundaries of what will become Huron East on Jan. 1. The candidates all have strong and unique personalities and differing views on the issues that have cropped up during the past few weeks. The newly elected leaders will have .the job of shaping the future in Huron East but you have the more important role of choosing the people who will do that. People need to vote carefully and wisely in selecting the candidates they think can best lead the new council in the formation of Huron'East. But more importantly, people need to vote. This election will set a lot of change in motion and anyone feeling strongly about one candidate s leadership over another's should take those feelings to the polling stations. Scott Hilgendorff How to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissions can be made to us by noon on Mondays at: seaforth @ bowesnetecom 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/ Opinion High Flight Oh! I hay' lipped the surly bonds of earth And danced4 e skies on laughter -silvered wings; Sunward i ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun -split clouds - done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared andswung High in the sunlit silence. Hov ring there 1 ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, nor eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space Put out my hand and touched the face of God. Pilot officer John G. Magee, Jr. Grant will help Crimestoppers' programs By Sarah Caldwell Increased understanding and knowledge of Crime Stoppers and the setting up of student run programs at area high schools are two of the initiatives that will be funded by a $15,500 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for the Huron County Crime Stoppers program. Detective Constable Kevin Hummel, Crime Stoppers co-ordinator for Huron County, said originally the non-profit organization with a volunteer board of directors had requested $24,000, although they are still quite happy vyith what they received. In February the application procedure started, by the time it was Finished the main submission was 24 pages in length with two additional submissions. An on-site visit by the program manager and a volunteer from the grant review team happened in May. Final approval for the grant came this summer. Hummel said he would definitely encourage other service clubs and community groups to go for the Trillium Grant but to not . be discouraged ' by the volume of work or the wait to find out the decision on the application. There are two different areas Hummel wants• to concentrate the money on including promotional activities such as mail -outs, new brochures, posters and steel signs located on the signposts for all the towns, villages and hamlets in the county. The Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers also has large stickers available to put on the back of transport trucks and Hummel is hoping local transport companies will participate in using the stickers. Another part of the promotion is to. encourage people to use the 1 -800 -222 -TIPS line because it will ring into the nearest Crime Stoppers. program located near them. A person in Peterbourgh on vacation could phone the toll-free number to be connected to the local county Crime Stoppers program, said Hummel. An example of why Crime Stoppers needs more promotion happened to Hummel personally when he was talking to someone in Exeter who didn't know the program even existed in Huron. Another initiative new to Huron County Crime Stoppers will be to set up student programs at area high schools where the students form their own boar d of directors, hold monthly meetings and plan fundraising events. Hummel has already spoken with the principal and vice-principal of GDCI who are keen to get started in the fall. The Crime Stoppers student program is running successfully in London. Public presentations about the Crime Stoppers program are also available by calling Hummel at the OPP detachment on Hwy. 21. Over the past year, Hummel has also started doing radio spots promoting the Crime of the Week along with coverage in the local community newspapers. The Crime Stoppers van has also been decorated. with logos sponsored by various companies. The overall goal of both the promotions campaign and the student run program is to see the number of calls increase. There is no other way :o measure the success of the initiative, which was the hardest part to explain in the application procedure, said Hummel. Many people don't think they're tips count when they phone Crime Stoppers if they don't have concrete evidence but every tip counts, said Hummel. People may suspect someone else is dealing in drugs because of increased traffic to a certain house. By calling in these little tips, the police are able to start up intelligence information file from the tips and eventually gain access to a search warrant. Also, people have a tendency to critize the police for not being in the right place at the right time, but a simple tip such saying the time and place of where a drunk driver is can lead to an apprehension, said Hummel. When a person is driving behind a drunk - driver on the road that's the time to be phoning the police not Crime Stoppers. "Rather than being apathetic people can take some proactive measures by using the Crimestoppers line," he said. - Later this year the .Mini - Hoops basketball team will be returning to GDCI on November 10. A portion of every ticket goes towards the Crime Stoppers program. In July, the Crime Stoppers golf tournament was held, which netted around $5,000 for the organization. Another recent donation to the Crime Stoppers program is Wescast Industries in Wingham donated $3,409. to cover the lease cost of the Crime Stoppers van, which is leased from Suncoast,Ford in Goderich. Flu vaccines available for everyone Flu vaccinations were available for high risk populations in October and the rest of the general population will be able to get them this month and December, said Sheryl Feagan, acting director of health at the Huron County Health Unit. Vaccines will be distributed through the health unit and people should keep an eye on their local papers for further information, Feagan told county council on Oct. 5. Everyone will be entitled to a free flu shot this fall, as the Ontario government is investing $38 million to ease pressures in emergency rooms due to flu -related symptoms this winter. The 7.9 million units of vaccine will be initially available during the recommended time period for influenza inoculation in the fall from October to mid-November at hospitals, local health units, at the offices of family physicians and at select workplaces through corporate programs. Provincially, the government is recommending everybody get a flu shot but it is strongly recommended for certain groups such as anyone over the age of 65. Other groups the flu shot is recommended for include anyone with chronic heart, lung or kidney disease, anyone who works in a health care facility, all emergency service workers including volunteer firefighters, anyone with diabetes, cancer, a blood disorder or an immune problem, children and adolescents (ages six months to 18 years) treated for long periods of time' with acetylsalicylic acid. Last year the Ontario government offered free flu vaccinations to 'people over the age of 65, emergency and health care providers and people with chronic medical conditions. Breakfast program being set up in schools in Huron and Perth Counties this year By Sarah Caldwell lunch at the first recess and Perth counties, is programs. The Huron Perth By the end of the 2000- because they• are really working with local • School Nutrition Partnership 2001 school year a Breakfast hungry, then they don't have producers, said Glynn. . will just provide the broad at School program will be up anything to eat for the rest of By the end of the 2000- infrastructure around the and running in Huron and the day. , 2001 school year it is hoped program. Perth Counties. "If you don't get the a significant number of There have been similar Only one student in four nutrients at breakfast, you schools will have breakfast programs attempted in the eats breakfast by the time' won't make them up during programs. Currently, there past but they have been they reach Grade 5, and it the rest of the day," said are 10 programs running in sporadic and short-lived. isn't because of the economic Glynn. Stratford and one in Mitchell. The Maple Leaf chapter of. status of the family but The grant was received There are none in Huron the IODE in Goderich ran a because of busy lifestyles from the Canadian Living County. program having non - and early bus rides not Foundation Community There is the potential for perishable boxes, of food in leaving dough time to sit Partners Grant program. The every school, both public and classrooms at all of the three down and eat, said Kayla Canadian Living Foundation separate schools, in Huron elementary schools. Glynn, Huron County public is a non-profit group founded and Perth counties to have a Community partners health nutritionist. in 1992 to administer funds program but there definitely involved in the School It was with this statistic in from the Ontario government needs to be a volunteer base Nutrition Partnership are the mind, based on a 1998 to community groups. there to carry it out, said Avon -Maitland District survey of Grade 4 to 8 The foundation supports Glynn. St. Patrick's School, School Board, the Huron - students in Huron and Perth meal and snack programs at Dublin, $t. Columban School Perth Roman Catholic counties, that the Huron schools. and St. Anne's Roman Separate School Board, the Perth School Nutrition The first step the group Catholic Secondary, in Canadian Red Cross, Huron Partnership, a coalition of 12 will be taking with the Clinton, will all start and Perth county Children's different groups led by the money is to hire a part-time nutrition programs this fall. Aid Societies, Huron and two county health units, put coordinator in the fall to Programs such as the Perth Heart Health programs, together a proposal last fall work on designing a program school breakfast program are Huron Perth Community to receive $40,000 in funding model for rural areas taking now being institutionalized Food Advisors, Rural to establish a school into consideration the special across Canada, this is Response for Healthy breakfast program. problems related to busing becoming the norm, said Children, Earth Friendly Glynn said she has heard and volunteers. Glynn. Gardens and both the Huron many anecdotal stories from Another step they will be Individual schools will and Perth District Health elementary school teachers taking, since agriculture is have responsibility and Units. about students who eat their the large employer in Huron ownership of their own 1