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Editorial
Christmas
Bureau might
need our
donations
more than ever
this year
As local children sharpen their pencils
to write their annual letters to Santa, the
Huron County Christmas Bureau is
preparing to ensure every child in the
area has at least one surprise under th"
tree this Christmas.
And, as usual, Bureau volunteers will
need our help to make sure no one's
forgotten this Christmas.
While it's too soon tb know if the need
for help locally is on the rise or not
reports earlier this year from the local
food bank that usage has been doubling
could indicate a greater need for the
Christmas Bureau.
During a letter -writing campaign this
summer, Ontario food banks - including
Seaforth's - were informing the provincial
government of increased hardship faced
by the people who receive Ontario Works
benefits, whose levels hadn't changed in
the eightears the Conservatives were in
power as the government.
As well, a low minimum wage,
inadequate welfare and disability benefits
loosened rules around rent control and
increasing costs of heat and hydro were
blamed.
Except for a freeze on hydro rates,
which may soon by lifted by the new
Liberal government, those factors
creating hardships for the poor have not
changed.
And, food banks and the Christmas
Bureau may be expected to pick up the
slack.
Luckily, Seaforth is known for its
generosity by both the Christmas Bureau
and the local -food bank.
Remember your cannedoods as you
line Main Street for the Santa Claus
parade next week. And, help your
children to remember others as they write
their Christmas lists.
A Christmas letter to the new provincial
government reminding politicians of the
inequities that exist in the system they've
inherited might not hurt either.
Susan Hundertmark
Letters
Red ribbon campaign aims
to prevent drunk driving tragedy
To the Editor:
The Huron/Bruce Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk
Driving (MADD Canada) wants to highlight an
important message to our community.
During this holiday season, tie on a red ribbon and
don't drink and drive.
The Huron/Bruce Chapter of MADD Canada
launched the local red ribbon campaign Nov. 5 in
Walkerton.
Laurie Dinning, president of the chapter has asked
"All members of our community to tie a red ribbon to
their vehicles as this will serve as a message to drive
safe and sober. Our hope is that there will not be any
tragedies this holiday season."
Laurie Dinning
president
MADD
Huron/Bruce Chapter
Books have been there to comfort me
through the many stages of my life
Anyone that I have run into
lately has probably heard how
enthralled I have been while
reading a particular novel.
It seems as though the author
has crawled right into my head _=
and has been reliving my early
childhood. It has been a very
compelling read.
Sometimes I feel as if the author knows too many of my
inner thoughts, and I want to put the book down. Yet then I
am anxious t9 pick it up again because I have to read more.
Such is the power of a good author.
There must be a gazillion books in the world. I walk into a
store like Chapters, and I am immediately in awe of just how
many books there are, and that is just one store, in one city, in
one country.
There are book stores all over the world. Lately, there seem
to be more and more book stores, as people are beginning to
discover (or re -discover) the amazing world of literature.
Thanks to Oprah, books have become infinitely more
popular than they have been for years, and sales of one of
"Oprah's Picks" are guaranteed to be in the millions.
We are in the midst of a baby boom of book clubs. Many
thousands of people are beginning to realize just how
wonderful the experience of reading a book can be. And I
want to say "Welcome to my world!"
I can't remember not knowing how to read. I know I was
reading before I started school, so for me, it really has been a
way of life.
I just absorbed books, couldn't get enough of them. I was
bored stiff with school readers (I thought Dick and Jane were
twits) and couldn't wait to get home to my own books.
I read and re -read
books like "The Bobbsey
Liz Scott Twins", "Tom's Midnight
Garden", "Mrs. Wiggs
and the Cabbage Patch",
"Pippi Longstocking" and my
beloved "Now we are Six".
I loved all the Thornton W.
Burgess characters like 01'
Mistah Buzzard, Reddy Fox and Unc' Billy Possum.
As I grew I discovered other favorites like "Joy in the
Morning", "A Tree grows in Brooklyn", "A Girl named
Sooner" and my all-time favorite "To Kill a Mockingbird."
These books all hold places of honor on my bookshelves.
They are as much a part of my growing up as any friend I had,
or game I played.
Books can do that you know - they can be a part of your
life. When we moved to a new air base, and I hadn't made any
friends yet, or at the cottage when there was no one to play
with, or on long car rides; books were always there for me.
As I grew, and the teenage years were such a struggle for
me, books were there to comfort me. Even through my
marriage, when the ground beneath me was crumbling, books
were solid ground.
On a rainy day, on a sunny day, with no friends around or
with a bunch of friends, books have always been there for me.
The characters I met and the places I went in those
thousands of pages were an amazing world for me to
experience.
That is one reason that I found it so hard to take when my
youngest was diagnosed with dyslexia. For me to know that
Soo MY, Page 5,
The daily stage running from Seaforth
to Brussels still does a large business in 1878
NOVEMBER 29,1878
We were informed by a
business man in Seaforth that
at the large sale held in
Toronto, 4,145 buffalo robes
were offered for sale but only
1,500 were sold.
Professor Jones filled his
position as Presenter at the
First Presbyterian Church for
the first time.
The daily stage running from
Seaforth and Brussels still does
a large business.
Messers. Hickson and
Robertson shipped to
Winnipeg, Manitoba, a car
load of butter, 396 packages.
Farmers are mostly all
through with fall plowing and
are now busily engaged in
chopping wood, sawing logs
and preparing for winter.
John Ross of Tuckersmith
sold his farm it Township to
Geo. Molholland for $5,900.
NOVEMBER 27,1903
A very unfortunate accident
occurred at Kippen resulting in
the injury of several persons
and the almost total destruction
of the handsome new sabbath
school room attached to St.
Andrew's Church. Fortunately
the church itself was not in the
least injured and not even a
pane of glass broken. The
immediate cause of the
explosion is not known.
The temperature in the
parish hall of St. Columban
registered 80 degrees of heat.
Mr. H. Chesney of
Egmondville has sold to R.
McKercher of McKillop his
grey driving mare.
James B. Sproat has gone to
Stratford where he has
received employment in a
furniture factory.
While workmen were
making preparations to
Years Agone...
excavate for a furnace under
the Bank of Commerce house,
occupied by Mr. Parker they
struck a real curio in the form
of a petrified cat. It was found
lying in a bed of lime.
We are now favoured with
good sleighing.
Chas. Milson of Brucefield
has had asset of new scales
created on the street near the
hotel stables.
NOVEMBER 23,1928
Material is on the ground for
making improvements on the
U.F.A. building now occupied
by Mr. Quance, general
merchant of Cromarty.
Hugh Rinn of Walton has
returned from the West and
think*=there is no place like
Walton.
Jehn Marshall of Walton has
purchased a radio from C.
Cummings.
J. McArthur has sold his
farm at Blyth and is trying to
locate in the village of Walton.
Last Thursday's storm
caused destruction to
windmills and barn doors and
left some patching to do on
roofs.
Mr. Frank McConnell of
Dublin has sold his roadster to
Frank Burns, who drives the
RR 2 mail mute.
A disastrous fire occurred
when the large frame house on
the farm of Roland Kennedy
was burned to the ground.
Over 200 friends and
neighbours of Mr. Robert
Boyes of 'Itncke smith gathered
at the Abethart farm to spend
a social evening before their
removal to Northern Ontario.
The presentation was made by
Messrs. T. G. Webster and
John Modeland. R. J. Beatty
read the address.
The auction sale of stock
held by W. W. Ross of
Brucefield was the most
successful to the community of
Brucefield.
Messrs. E. Sheffler and
Joseph Hagan of Hensall were
engaged in putting in a fine
hardwood floor in the Kippen
hotel.
The heavy snow fall of the
first part of the week has
proved a quiet reminder of
what we may soon have for
keeps.
NOVEMBER 27,1953
Some 200 neighbours and
friends gathered at the
Winthrop Hall to honour Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Boyd on their
25th anniversary. Dancing was
enjoyed to Seimon's orchestra.
Donnie Murray read an
address and Ed Godkin and
Stanley Hillen and Hubert
Johnson presented them with a
chrome table and chairs and a
lamp.
A party of 11 men and two
from the district returned after
a successful hunting trip in
Northern Ontario bearing
seven deer to credit their
marksmanship. Eric Munroe,
J.m. Scott, M. A. Reid, Dr.
E.A. McMaster. Wm.
Leybourne, Geo. Kruse, J.W.
Modeland, Carman Rowcliffe,
Harold Jackson and F. Kling
were in the group.
Huron County will be
represented at the National 441
Congress by earl McSadden in
Chicago where he was
awarded the trip after scoring
the highest total in Junior
highest in Junior
Farmer competition and
livestock judging in Clinton
and Seaforth.
NOVEMBER 23,1978
Seaforth's new low cost
home subdivision to be
developed by Arris Land
Development Ltd. of Fort Erie
on 10 acres purchased from
the town got its name, West
Branch, at council although
neither the agreement selling
the land nor the proposed
purchase price have been made
public.
If the ministry of education
approves the Huron -Perth
County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board will
spend about $588,500 on
school improvements and new
buses in 1979, about $317,500
in 1980 for a total capital
expenditure of $1,691,000 over
the next five years.
Despite a last minute
contention by councillors Ken
Roth and Kim Sills that the
land is too cheap and might be
needed by the town, council
passed bylaws authorizing
finalizing the sale of the last of
the land in its industrial park.
Seaforth council agreed to
buy the long awaited PA
system and improved lighting
at the arena and learned funds
have been raised for the
equipment. Seaforth Optimists
will donate whatever amount is
still needed estimated at about
$1,100 council learned. Total
cost of the new equipment is
about $12,000 but government
grants have reduced the
amount needed from private
donors to about $3,000.
Community Centre, Wintario
grants and the town each
provided $3,000.
by David Lacey