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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2004-02-25, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Fob. 26, 2004 0'141' t' I11 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Susan Hundertmark - Editor Dianne McGrolf - Subsaiptions/classifieds Bernie PuQh - Office/Advertising Sara Campbell - Reporter Anne Roden - Distribution (M) OUEBECOR MEDIA E-mail us at seaforth@bowesnet.com Visit our home page at www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL • 35.85 a year, in advance, plus G.S.T. SENIORS: - 33.85 a year, in advance, plus G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 35.85 a year in advance, plus $83.20 postage, G.S.T. exempt Published weekly by Sun Media at 11 Main St., Seaforth. Advertising is accepted on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged, but the balonce of the advertisement will be poid for at the applicable rote. 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Canada 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 How to access u Letters to the Editor and other submissions can -_ 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.