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Editorial
Community
support will
determine
who runs
junior hockey
The plot thickened this week as Seaforth
investors announced their plans to go
after the Centenaires' old Junior D
franchise.
They'll compete with a London group of
14 investors which has already met this
year's Jan. 31 deadline for an application
to the Ontario Hockey Association.
According to former Centenaires' coach
Jason Papple, the local effort did not
come together until after last week's
public meeting by the London's McGafka
Pro group when it outlined its plans to
resurrect the Seaforth Junior D team after
two years without a team.
As Papple put it to the Seaforth arena
board last Thursday, "They weren't doing
anything we couldn't do here" and he set
about trying to convince local people that
Seaforth is better off continuing to run its
own junior hockey team as a non-profit
organization.
The Seaforth group is the onlyone to
approach the OHA league so ar. The
league, consisting of teams throughout
Southwestern Ontario, will recommend to
the association whether or not a Seaforth
Junior D franchise should be allowed in
the league and who should run it.
According to OHA league chair Karen
Phibbs, community support is pivotal to
the success of a Junior hockey team, no
matter who runs it.
As the Seaforth arena board struggles
this year with a deficit, caused in part by
decreasing booth sales and by cancelled
ice time, a Junior D hockey team is
looking like an attractive response to both
of those problems.
And, Seaforth is beginning to realize
how much the team contributed to the
community,if'only to give young people
another activity over the weekend as both
athlete and fan.
The momentum is building for a return of
junior hockey to Seaforth.
The community can probably still
determine who runs the team by throwing
its support behind the group it believes
will do the best job for local hockey.
Susan Hundertmark
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made to us by noon on Mondays at
.and the only thing worse than dem'
fancy European players messin' up
our game, is when one o' dem
honkin' big owners from London
tries to buy our teaml....ya gotta ask
yerself....why Seaforth?
We'll be right
back after a
word from our
lawyers. }
HOCKEY NIGHT IN SLAEOFZTH
Letter
Long live
the child
within
every
person
To the Editor,
The child has always
been born into a fantasy
world - someone else's
real world. If the child
learns to accept the
reality of the society he's
born into, the child will
fit in, just to survive.
The more language a
child learns, the higher
the achievement he or
she can achieve in the
system. It's interersting
that when we speak
someone else's words,
they become part of us.
Man has never learned
to be responsible for
what he says - just
because it was written
somewhere, even
thousands of years ago,
it becomes part of an
individual's truth now.
Man has always died
for his beliefs, which
Soo INDIVIDUALS, Pog.5
with Joe Seili
Joe Seili is the mayor of Huron
East. ,He lives in Brussels and has
been married to his wife Debbie for
28 years. He has three children
and two grandchildren. He has
owned Huron Feeding Systems in
Brussels for 25 years.
1. What was your first job and
what did it pay?
At a furniture plant at $4.50 an
hour (with a union)
2. What other jobs have you done?
Silo building and millwrighting
3. What is the most pleasant thing
you do on your present job?
Collecting money
4. Least pleasant?
Christmas Day service calls
5. What is your greatest
accomplishment?
Staying married for so long
6. Where do you go to think?
My truck
7. What do you do to relax?
Go fishing
8. What is your favourite movie?
Ghost
9. Whom would you choose to
portray you in a movie?
Any one of the three Stooges
10. What is your biggest
indulgence?
Snowmobiles and lobster suppers
11. What is your favourite thing
about living in Huron East?
It's quiet and close to everything
12. Least favourite?
Budgets
13. If you could do anything to
improve your community, what
would it be?
I would give every person a smile.
14. When and where would you
like to retire?
Never but if I did, close to the
water.
15. Describe your perfect day.
Not hearing from (Huron East
Clerk -Administrator) Jack
(McLachlan)
16. With whom from history
would you most like to dine?
Winston Churchill
17. What is your favourite food?
Steak, chicken and pork
18. If you could be a superhero,
who would you be?
The Invisible Man
19. What is your greatest -fear?
Reading my own obituary
20. What is your happiest
memory?
My wedding on Nov. 8, 1975
Trophy case built to honour Ralph
`Cooney' Weiland is built at arena in 1979
FEBRUARY 26, 1879
Wm. Rulledge, of
Tuckersmith, who was
lately employed at thc
Grand Trunk refreshment
rooms in Stratford has taken
the position of manager of
the refreshment rooms in
Sarnia.
John McConnell of
Dublin, has leased the hotel
in the village of Dublin to
Thos. Page for a term of
five years.
FEBRUARY 26, 1904
New coal oil lamps have
been placed in St. Andrews
church at Kippen.
Wm. Sinclair, of the
Kippen road, has sold a
very handsome team of
heavy horses to Mr.
Handsford, of Exeter.
On Sunday evening as
Thos. Holland was engaged
in attending to his stock,
one of the horses became
loose, upset the lantern and
ignited the straw and
despite the efforts of Mr.
Holland to extinguish the
fire, it rapidly gained such
headway that the whole
building was soon in
flames.
The snow blocked railway
has been a bonanza for the
Dublin Hotel men this
winter. The passengers on
the train were entertained at
dinner at Dublin by the
Grand Trunk.
Joseph Foster of Varna
has disposed of his
residence and grounds to
Messrs. Beattie Brothers,
merchants, for $900.
A few days ago when
Wm. Stoneman, of Henson,
was cutting down a tree on
the farm of -Chas.
R , Y he !, lively
disco 'ter. He' ulfe*rthed
Years Agone
two large raccoons in a nest
who were snugly ensconced
in the tree.
MARCH 1, 1929
Melvin Clarke has
attached runners to his Ford
Coupe.
Miss Evelyn Hoegg, of
McKillop, had the
misfortune of falling down
the stairway in the stable
and fracturing her elbow.
Bill Robin and Harold
Armstrong, of Brucefield,
arc cutting wood for Hugh
Aikenhead.
Elgin McKinley, of
Stanley, prominent poultry
man, is going in to he the
business of chickens. He is
installing a new incubator
with a capacity of 14,000
eggs.
Erinie Pollock, of Stanley,
has purchased from the
estate of the late John Reid
the farm on thc Bayfield
Road.
A large government snow
plow passed through the
village of Kippcn and made
a clean sweep of the road.
Word was received of the
passing of J.J. Merner, a
former Huron MP, which
took place in Windsor.
Thos. Welsh, of Hensall,
reports this winter as being
the best in many years for
getting in logs.
You may not believe it
but Ernest Adams, of
Kinburn, brought into this
office a rabbit with horns.
Gordon Reynolds is
acting as mail courier ton
Route No. 5 taking the
place of the late John
Consist.
The fourth game of
hockey between the Pats
and the Bunnies was played
in the rink on Saturday and
was a real corker. The Pats
arc now ahead with two
wins and one loss.
MARCH 5, 1954
There is always a sense of
almost personal loss when
anything which has been
with us for a long time is
destroyed. So it was when
thc 100 year old Huron
County House was razed by
fire Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Montgomery marked their
40th wedding anniversary
when members of their
family honoured them at a
family dinner at their home
on John Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dodds,
of McKillop, celebrated
their 40th anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
Armstrong, former Hullett
residents and now living in
Seaforth, will quietly mark
their 60th anniversary.
Despite the fact that John
McClure, of McKillop, is
90 years of age he has had
only 19 birthdays. He was
born on Feb. 29, 1864. He
lives with his daughter,
Miss Ethel McClure in
Winthrop.
Less than a week after
fire destroyed Huron's 100
year old court house, county
offices were established and
in operation in the former
high school building in
Goderich.
At a recent meeting of
Maitland Bank Cemetery
Board A. W. Siliery was
appointed secretary -
treasurer of the board.
Wm. Thamer has sold his
trucking business to
Querengesser Bros., of
Brodhagen.
Roads were blocked and
wires were down as sleet
and snow struck the area.
Eight inches of snow fell.
MARCH 1, 1979
Seaforth, as well as area
townships, may find they
will have one less
representative on Huron
County council if proposals
advanced at council are
proceeded with. Deputy -
reeves may be eliminated
from county council if not
for efficiency of the elected
body then because there is
no room left in the council
chambers for more
politicians.
The campaign to build a
trophy case is officially
underway in the Seaforth
arena in honour of Ralph
EConney Weiland, the
gmondville native who is
a member of the Hockey
Hall of Fame.
Huron County medical
officer of health Dr. Brian
Lynch told county council
that hospital bed cuts in
Huron County could come
down to a life and death
situation for some people.
Dr. Lynch told council that
there was "No substitute"
for hospital beds claiming
hospitals were the "most
important and most
fundamental type of health
care there is.
Paul Carroll, of Seaforth,
was elected 1979 chairman
of the van Egmond
Foundation at the group's
annual meeting at Seaforth
Public School.