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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2004-07-28, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, July 2S, 2004 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Susan Hundertmark - Editor Dionne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds Bernie Pugh - Office/Advertising Jason Middleton - Reporter Anne Roden - Distribution C^� 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 albwonce for signature, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. 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Canada Editorial Global AIDS epidemic a continuing threat at home Huron County residents might be surprised to know that a recent United Nations report of a record high number of new HIV infections worldwide includes a continuing threat at home. Despite the wide-ranging public education that began 10 years ago locally, the Huron County HIV/AIDS Network is seeing an increased number of clients over the past five years in every age, gender and sexual orientation. And, while young people are often believed to be the ones to ignore safe sex precautions, many of the new infections locally are showing up in the over 50 range when widowed or divorced adults are getting back into the dating world. As well, the local HIV/AIDS Network's education coordinator Elma Plant says that local students are no longer as educated as they once were about the preventable disease, with some thinking that birth control pills will protect them from sexually -transmitted diseases and that a cure for AIDS exists. While AIDS education was happening in the schools 10 years ago, Plant is recommending that schools need to step up their efforts to educate about the disease. With more than 20 million deaths since the first identified case of AIDs in 1981 and five million infected globally just last year - more than any single year since the crisis began - it's obvious that public education is needed now more than anytime before. And, although the news is full of stories about AIDS devastating developing countries like Africa and India, Canadians have to be aware that they are still vulnerable and need to continue taking the necessary precautions that prevent HIV infection. Susan Hundertmark how to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissi be made to us by noon on Mondays at: seaforth@bowesnet.com All letters and submissions must be signed and,. accompanied by a daytime telephone num Alj subtrtissions are subject to editing f length and content Don't fdrgetto check fit our hot Opinion Random Rets of foon\n. Letter Ambulance gives prompt attention To the Editor, Our 82 -year-old uncle was visiting us recently from Northern Ontario and experienced pain radiating down his left arm in the early morning Tuesday, June 22. We called 911 and an ambulance was dispatched to our home in Tuckersmith Township. They arrived promptly and the three paramedics who cared for Uncle Jacques displayed professionalism and provided excellent care. They gave a quick and knowledgeable response to a possible life- threatening situation. We are so fortunate to have such a competent emergency medical system in Huron County. Sincerely, . Jos& and Hubert Cayer RR 5 Clinton, ON Horn honking is an art form that says `look, tourists' and 'it's a wedding' I mailed two letters and five post cards on Monday. The nice man at the post office did not speak English, but hopefully he understood "Canada" well enough. He wrote some numbers down, took my money. and carried away my letters. I never once saw a stamp and I had this strange sinking feeling that no human being would ever sec them again. Ah well, we can hope for the hest. I am not entirely. sure what these people had in mind when they designed their sidewalks. The curbs are about a foot high, there are often trees with low hanging branches planted in the middle, and they arc rarely wide enough for two people. Also, to say they are uneven would he the greatest of understatements. Though this might surprise anyone who has ever taken a walk with me, I have yet to take a spectacular fall (although 1 have rolled down the Tell with an armload of pick -axes). It has been suggested that that the sidewalks are set constructed because they are part of a national fitness program. I have no idea what one would do if one was in a wheel chair. We've started taking side -streets on the way to lunch. Kate Johnston Diggin' the Middle East pottery washing and dinner because there are fewer people to gawk at us. The back streets between Haret Jdoudna (our restaurant) and the Black Iris have beautiful houses with elaborate gardens. One in particular has a bush that flowers at dusk and the smell is almost overwhelming. You can tell the wealthy people's houses by the roof: if it is finished and tiled (ie taxable) the owner has money. Those houses have domed windows, balconies and more tiers that the poorer. squarer, squatting houses on the busier streets. Honking your horn here is an art form. We've managed to decode several of the signals. There's the "I'm approaching a cornerand 1 am flooring it so nobody pull out in front" honk, which is the most common. There's also the "I'm an empty taxi and you idiots are walking during the hottest part of the day" honk, which we hear on the way to lunch. Of course. we have to put up with the "Look, tourists!" honk. which is only slightly less annoying than the "White women!" honk. Finally, there's the wedding honk, which is usually identifiable from at least six blocks away. 5N MULTICULTURAL, Page 5 Klondike fever created at Grand Bend when $3,000 lost on beach in 1954 JULY 25, 1879 The meeting of ratepayers held in the Scaforth Town Hall for thc purpose of considering the best mode of procuring a sufficient water supply and efficient fire protection was not so largely attended as so important a meeting should be. The mayor and town council think that a sufficient water supply Can he obtained by conveying water in pipes from a spring on Mr. Turnbull's farm at the head of Silver Creek. Recently a tramp visited the house of John Taylor of the 1 1 th concession of Hullctt and carried away a good pair of hoots. On Thursday last Win. Murray of Tuckersmith received from Stratford a new separator threshing machine. James Jamieson formerly of Seaforth has commenced the hoot and shoe business in Kippcn. JULY 29, 1904 Dominic Reynolds of Hullctt, has just passed his 95th birthday. He has been a resident of Hullctt for 62 years. The threshers arc ,again at it in the Kippcn district and most of the fall wheat will hardly pay for the threshing of it in Kippen. Scott McLarcn of Cromarty drew thc brick for his fine new houses from Mr. Sadler's yard at Dublin. Ed Jackson and Mts. Henry Jackson of Bgrnendville left on Saturday for North Bay when he will engage .in office work in connection with the survey of the Grand Think Pacific. Years Agone... Mrs. Dan McLeod. who has been laid up for a couple of weeks from blood poisoning is now better and expects to be in her old place in Sills and Murdic's. One of the severest storms of the season passed on Hibbert Twp. Buildings wcrc struck and as far as we have learned not much damage was done. John Cairns was unfortunate in having a valuable yearling colt struck and killed. The Zurich flax company have started pulling the flax. JULY 26, 1926 The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kyle of Kippcn who were recently married mct in Watson Hall on Friday evening and presented thcm each with a beautiful chair as a small mark of the esteem in which they arc held. Music was furnished for the dancing by Messrs. Cochrane and Haytcr. W.M. Doig of Port Huron made the presentation address. A serious auto accident occurred on Sunday night. cast of the village of Bruccfield when a car struck the cement bridge opposite Mr. Murdock's. breaking the three cement posts. The five occupants of the car wcrc all injured and the car was demolished beyond repair. Haying is now finished at Chiselhurst and wheat ,cutting is general and the crop shows every evidence of a good yield. Quite a large number arc going up to Kippen to viitness the paving of the London road in that vicinity. The coal merchants have been delivering large quantities of coal during the past week at Hcnsall. Many friends regret to learn of the death of Mrs. M. J. Moffatt which occurred at her home in Hamilton. Mr. Moffatt was principal of Scaforth Public School for some years. On Tuesday evening while Ed Jarmain was working with thc haying on the farm of Geo. Leitch near Constance he met with an accident. lie was unloading hay with a hay fork when the trip rope caught and broke allowing it to come off the track and it hack and struck Jarmain in thc abdomen. ,JULY 23, 1954 The fever of the Klondike, has hit the Lake Huron resort of Grand Bend, following that report that more than 51.000 in hundred, fifty and ten dollar hills had been found on the beach recently. The money, about $3,000 is reported to have been lost Sunday afternoon when a London transport owner lost his wallet in the water at the main Keach while bathing. A post -nuptial reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. Malone of Dublin, recent and newlyweds was held in the Seaforth Community Ccntrc previous to their leaving for their new house in Winnipeg. An address was read by Ronald Butters and a purse of money was presented by Frank Hicknell. Haying is almost finished at Winthrop and the wheat is coming on fast. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chesney of Kippen have returned home after visiting friends and relatives in the Canadian west. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Love, nee Olive Cooper of Caro Mich., entertained their relatives to a turkey dinner at the Clinton Hotel. Miss Jessie Finlayson, accompanied by Mrs. Thelma Wright, Mrs. Elva Ellis and Miss Alberta Wildfong of Elmira, are on a motor tour to Manitoba going as far as Winnipeg. Flight Lieut. Frank Golding who has served with the R.C.A.F in England for three years, has been posted to air force head quarters in Ottawa. JULY 26, 1979 Representatives of four townships have declared they won't buy fire protection from Seaforth if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from the area fire board at the end of this year. A concert to stir the blood of Highland Scots, or people who wish they where Highland Scots, has been planned Sunday night at Victoria Park as part of the continuing Seaforth Chamber of Commerce sponsored band concerts. The Huron Expositor stood in fifth place as best round newspaper in its circulation class in competitions carried out in connection with the annual convention of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association in Toronto Last week and received a Blue Ribbon Award.