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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2001-07-18, Page 4Letters Opinion i ..f liar• Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Scott Hilgendorff - Editor Dionne McGrath - Subscriptions/Clossdieds Bernie Pugh Office/Sales Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Anne Roden - Distribution Bowes Publishers Limited Subidun of Sun r d.i Gfww.1 i� st-reinu. C..pa+i F-mnll ii' nits(sPtrvtlsOhrwracrsPt ram Visit our home page at www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2 28 G.S T SENIORS: - 30.00 a year, in odvance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 28.44 a year in odvonce, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 11 Main St , Seaforth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Seater*, Ontario, NOK 1 WOE Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association "We acnow a the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Editorial Tougher laws on gun control are not the answer The Canada Safety Council is calling for stricter gun control laws after two murder suicides in St. Marys last week. The parallel but unrelated incidents have schocked the community and the region and prompted the council to release its comments that tougher laws are needed. But really, the incident offers some suggestion that tougher gun control laws don't matter when it comes to ending violence with weapons. We now have supposedly tougher laws that have required everyone to register their firearms with the police. The incident just replays old arguments that were made at the time advocates were defending the new registration system. People have argued that tougher laws only keep honest people honest. And having weapons registered does not prevent someone from taking that registered weapon and using it to harm someone or him or herself. Again, it comes down to enforcement as well. The laws can be in place but those who hold illegally stored or unregistered weapons will continue to have them until such time as police have reason to be in their homes and somehow discover them. The only conceivable way to remove unregistered weapons would be to give police the authority to enter everyone's home and conduct searches. Even then, weapons would remain stored secretly somewhere. Tougher laws don't matter. Tougher penalties might be of some help. More importantly, we need to develop a society that values life and each other more than we seem to now. We need to be more aware of a person's needs and when their lives are getting out of control to the point where they may make irrational decisions. We can't help everyone but we can try harder to be sensitive to a neighbour or friend's needs and offer a helping hand of support, emotionally or physically. That might make a little more difference than tougher gun control laws. 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. Don't forget to check out our homepage at: www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Children being abandoned by education -cutting government To the Editor: and help out with emergencies, etc. its budget without across the board Imagine for a moment that you are You've got to do all that, now. And cuts. the mother of a 9 year old and you one more person - called "Vice On July 9, Anne Finlay -Stewart (a have promised your child a wonderful Principal," can't be there. She is away concerned parent from Owen Sound) birthday party. at the other building she has to look and I travelled to Goderich to talk to Parents know about this - all hell after. the Huron -Bruce MPP, Helen Johns. breaks loose in our homes, or we take What are you going to do with all We talked about education under - them bowling, right? these children? They can't use the funding and its effect - especially on But this time, the party can't be in a computers, because the new ones us in the Bluewater area. bowling hall, there's no money for weren't delivered due to budget cuts. I said that our government is that. And the party is going to be all The old ones are broken because the abandoning some of our most day long, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. technician who used to fix them has vulnerable children - and it's getting And it gets worse. You have agreed also been fired. worse. I said that this isn't acceptable. to invite 25 kids - all nine year olds. So now what are you going to do? 1 said, also, that our government has to (Are you crazy?) You refer to the Ministry of start showing the teachers more A few of them suffer from Attention Birthdays' new curriculum and it says respect. The wonderful men and Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to prepare the children for a women who look after our children are (ADHD) - great kids but they need standardized test coming up in a critically important to us and the lots of attention. month. province. One is developmentally delayed but So that's what you do. They deserve more respect and really loves to learn and be with All day. support from our government. children her own age. You know this You have to do this because if the, If you share these concerns, please, will be a challenge, but you feel that children don't do well in the test, the please speak up. If you don't believe birthday parties, like education, are rich parents will take their children me - find out for yourself. important for all of our children. Are away to a "better" birthday party and Ask your school principal about you sweating, yet? your school will be hit with more this. It gets worse. funding cuts. Talk to the teachers. Talk to one of You have to do this day -long This is government policy, now. your elected trustees. Call the birthday party all by yourself. Your Unbelievable, you say? Not for our school board. husband - let's call him "Ed" (Ed. school children. Not Do your homework then call Helen Assistant), who loves children and for the teachers. Johns and insist on adequate funding who used to provide all kinds of help, Their "birthday parties" lasts five for education. has been fired and is out of town days a week and 10 months a year. Please speak up - for our children's looking for work. T h e The cuts I'm talking about are not sake. neighbour next-door, let's call her fiction. This is the unfolding reality. Sincerely, "Office Secretary," has been fried and The Bluewater Board isn't even Kevin Larson is looking for work, also. She used to getting enough funding to keep the Kincardine keep track of the safe arrival of the buses on the road. T h e children, look after their medicines Avon -Maitland Board couldn't balance � risky Knowledge needed for usin herbicide To the Editor because it has such an effect must also be applied many these chemicals, and what As the daughter of a on all different kinds of hours before a rain so that it kind of education is farmer in southwestern plants, exposure to the has a chance to settle onto required to handle the Ontario, I know the chemical results in harm to the plants before the rain substance. I feel this importance of the herbicide the distributor. washes the chemical into knowledge is absolutely 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Like most herbicides, 2, water sources such as lakes necessary to the distributor acid (2,4-D). It is used on 4-D is in liquid form and and streams. When diluting because of the risks broadleaf plants such as distributed over the crop the concentrated chemical, involved in distributing this dandelions and ragweed, to with a sprayer. This method protective clothing should herbicide. kill them among grassy is dangerous and extreme be worn at all times to Exposure to 2, 4-D has crops like wheat and corn. It caution must be exercised guard from exposure to 2, been proven to cause such is a very cost effective when distributing the 4-D. health problemstsuch as herbicide that can be used substance. There should be 2, 4-D is used not only in Hodgkin's disease and even on a broad range of crops. little to no breeze so that agriculture, but also for cancer. These are high risks Because it is such a spray is applied directly to household use. It is readily for wanting to kill your versatile chemical, it is used the crop itself, rather Than available and no limitations dandelions on your lawn. all over for various uses, it's surroundings. Spray apply to who can purchase Sea MONITORING, Page 5 Horse breaks free, captured on sidewalk July 21, 1876 Mr. McEwen, contractor for the Bayfield Harbour, says a better harbour could be constructed at Port Albert, for half the money. Thos. Darwin of town has shown a potato to the Early Ross Variety which measured 8 1/2 inches one way and 6 1/4 inches the other. The firemen were out for practice and the engine was tested with two sections of the hose. It was placed at the tank at Lumsden's corner and two streams of water were thrown almost over the top of the flag pole at the British Hotel. Another of Huron's pioneers has passed away. Mathew Dorsey Sr. of McKillop died of his residence. He was the victim of a sunstroke. He was a native of Tipperary Ireland. M.Y. Mclean of the Huron Expositor left on a trip on the upper lakes. He intends going to Duluth. John Wilson accompanied Mr. McLean. The Good Templars of Kinburn had a soiree in their hall. An accident of a severe nature occurred in McKillop when Chas. Davis was shingling a roof of a barn. He slipped and fell to the ground, a distance of 17 feet. His left arm was broken at the wrist. Among the many residences we mention the following, Mr. Scott a dwelling on North Main St. a residence for James Stewart on East Goderich St.; J.H. Broadfoot a cottage on the Market Square. Rev. Mr. Buggin of the Methodist Church held services in Beattie's grove on Sunday last which were well attended. Years agone... July 19, 1901 Messrs. John and Thos. Consitt of Hillsgreen returned from a two month trip to the Old Country. They first went to Yorkshire to settle the question of John Consitt's age. They found that he was five years older then he supposed. Geo. Murdie of McKillop sold 51 three year old heifers to James Hamilton of Wroxeter for the snug sum of $3,334. Messrs. Mowatt, Roger and Hogg of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute staff went to Toronto to attend their duties as examiners. There were over 75 applicants for the vacancies on the Collegiate Staff. There were 304 tickets sold at Seaforth for the Orange excursion to Stratford. Wm. Ballantyne of town was in Hamilton this week as a delegate to the Grand Masonic Lodge. A horse belonging to Hugh McMillan of Tuckersmith was tied at Devereauxs blacksmith shop and breaking loose ran away. It mounted the sidewalk in front of Beattie's restaurant when it fell and was captured. The following were ticketed by Wm. Somerville: Mr. and Mrs. F.G.G. Minty to Honey Harbour; Wm. Elliot to Owen Sound; Jennie McKay and Libby Freeman to Port Huron; Mrs. Thos. Grieve, McKillop to Brockville. Mr. Fisher of Stratford was in town and is engaged in the provision trade in that city. He was making arrangements with farmers here to receive from them a supply of butter for the use of his customers in Stratford. July 16, 1926 Miss Marjory Reid of Walton is engaged to teach in Turnbull's school in Semptember. A number of the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Fowler of Alma gathered at their home when homemade cooking and aluminum utensils was demonstrated by a student of Toronto University. Many improvements are being made to the No. 9 school house in McKillop. It will be veneered with brick and a basement wall erected. The death occurred at Seaforth Memorial Hospital of Angus Gemmel, a four year old son of David Gemmel of Tuckersmith. He had been kicked by a horse. Dr. W. O. Sproat has opened his new office in the Aberhart block and has commenced his profession in Seaforth. Joseph Hoggarth met with a bad accident when his arm went through a pane of glass at the Commercial Hotel. Miss Marian Watson and Florence Laidlaw left on a month's holiday in Muskoka. July 20, 1951 Members of this year's graduating class of Stratford Normal School, who will teach their first year in September, includes Muriel Campbell and Mona Caldwell. About 45 members of St. James' Church, Seaforth pilgrimaged to the Matyr's Shrine in Midland. They travelled by chartered bus and were accompanied by Rev. E. P. Weber, parish priest. The 16th annual summer carnival of the Seaforth Lions Club despite being nearly rained out ended with a success. James Jarrott, of Kippen, passed away in Scott Memorial Hospital in his 89th year. A car driven by Ross M. Savauge, Seaforth, was forced off the road near Benmiller by a car that failed to stop. Miss Norma Jeffrey received a fractured hand. $350 damage was done to the car. July 22, 1976 A three vehicle crash on highway 8, six miles west of Seaforth Thursday morning blocked the road until noon and caused an estimated $24,000 damage and sent two people to hospital. The accident occured in heavy fog. A number from here enjoyed the fiddler and step dancing contest held at the Mitchell Community Center last Sunday. After more then 40 years of service in the Home Economics branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Helen McKercher, who's been the director of th ebranch since 1956, is getting ready to start a well deserved retirement. Officials at Hensall Co-op are predicting that the lineups at their elevators will be at least 25 per cent shorter this year, thanks to a sampling device that allows one load to be dropped on top of another. The local firm has been investigating and planning for the new machine, the first in this area, for five years, according to manager Archie Couper.