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Editorial
Small
municipalities
need equal voice
to Toronto
To hear Toronto Mayor David Miller speak
you'd think his city - yes, the capital of Ontario
and, in case you forgot, the centre of Canada -
had been left out in the cold by Ontario Premier
Dalton McGuinty.
Truth be told, the recent historic agreement
signed by McGuinty and the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) - a 'new deal'
that essentially provides the more than 400
cities and towns a voice in determiningfuture
govemment spending - was right on the ark.
In providing an equal and fair voice to the
entire province, McGuinty and the Liberals have
made sure that no one is overlooked - no matter
how small their population.
As expected, the deal was ridiculed by political
pundits throughout Toronto who quickly insisted
that both Queen's Park and Parliament Hill had
somehow failed its citizens by not providing the
province's largest city with some kind of special
treatment.
"Missing, though, is a true commitment by
Premier Dalton McGuinty and Prime Minister
Paul Martin to come to the aid of our largest
centres," wrote the Toronto Star.
"Instead of help for our major cities, they both
talk of a 'new deal for communities' as if the
unique, and real, problems of a village are
comparable to the massive transit, housing and
infrastructure troubles of a huge city."
Now, we're not prepared to argue or even
suggest the challenges facing Huron East or
similar towns are equal to the troubles facing
Toronto.
For a fact we know that such an argument
would be foolish.
However, we are prepared to remind
Torontonians that infrastructure costs also affect
this part of the province - something forgotten by
those living anywhere inside the Greater Toronto
Area (GTA).
Perhaps it was Orangeville Mayor Drew
Brown who put the whole debate in perspective
last week when he explained that without the
industrial and commercial tax bases that larger
centres command, residential property owners
in communities like Orangeville and Shelbume
already pay far more than their Toronto
counterparts on their municipal tax bills.
The argument put forth by Miller that because
Toronto has 'unique' challenges and therefore
should automatically receive a bigger piece of
the pie is both unfair and inconsiderate.
While no one is suggesting that Toronto be cut
out of the equation - clearly that sort of move
would jeopardize the stability of Ontario as a
whole the suggestion that smaller communities
not be consulted is ludicrous.
Goderlch Signal -Star
Opinion
Johnston says thanks for opportunity
to share Middle East adventure
To the Editor,
I can hardly believe the number of people I have spoken
with the last few days who have read what I wrote about my
travels this summer.
I checked the Expositor website every week while I was
gone, and so did a lot of people who were on the dig with
me. .
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my
adventures with so many people.
I've still got sand in my shoes, but I am safely home.
Kate Johnston
Egmondv file
Squealing tires, barking dogs and
screaming teens music to my ears
Something about the sound of
the wind blowing through the
trees, crickets chirping and a
town at rest for the night is just
so — unnatural.
Urban white noise, to me, is
where it's at. The sounds of
teenagers yelling and
screaming, dogs barking and
squealing tires is what this city boy misses when I'm laying
down to go to sleep.
According to the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, white noise
is "noise having nearly equal intensities at all the frequencies
of its range."
While the country has a relatively low frequency I'm used
to that high frequency associated with the buzzing of
thousands of glowing streetlights.
For my entire life I've lived in the city where at night you
can hear the perpetual movement of cars and transports
making their midnight run on the highway.
And, everywhere I've lived (Kitchener, Waterloo and
Montreal) those sounds have followed me around.
But now that I live in a small town, the night time air is
filled with silence.
It's almost unearthly to hear nothing but silence with the
exception of the train passing though and the occasional
transport truck on Highway 8.
Lately, I've been trying to come up with some solutions to
the compensate for the lack of noise.
Here are some of them:
• A tape with random urban sounds (similar to those
Halloween tapes with lightning cracking and witches
cackling) including cats meowing, dogs, barking and bar
patrons yelling on their way home.
• A pair of earplugs that amplify sounds instead of dulling
them.
• And, forget counting sheep. What I'd really like to count
is 50 transports driving their way through town.
Middle Ground
I guess to me
"noise pollution" is just a
soothing sound.
I mean what do
people really have against
sound? You always here
people say, "I love the peace
and quiet," or "it was so quiet
last night. I just loved it." It's
time to rebel against quiet.
I mean how awkward would it be for me to have one of
those awkward silences here in this column.
See. How'd you like that?
My top five least favorite moments of silence are as
follows:
1. The silence treatment. I absolutely hate the torture of my
girlfriend not explaining to me what I said or did to make her
mad.
2. That dream where you're not able to scream when you
need to call for help. That dream is horrible because I'm both
helpless and silent. Truly scary.
3. The sound when the car doesn't start after I turn the
ignition. It's truly scary when I realize my car might not start.
4. Radio silence. We've all heard it. It's that moment the
radio DJ forgets to put the next song on and you hear 10
seconds of silence. I often wonder if I should change the
station or just wait the silence out.
5. The silence after the teacher asks a question and you
have to think of the answer. When I was in high school and
college this happened to me frequently.
There are some sounds I miss in the morning. I've miss the
sound of my dad's footsteps on the floor above my old
bedroom in Brantford, the sound of my dog sniffing my ear
to try and wake me up and even the sound of an early
morning disagreement between my sister and parents.
Here's to sounds and the people that love them.
Hensall Bean Festival attracts 2,000
over Labour Day weekend in 1954
SEPTEMBER 5, 1879
W. N. Cresswell of town
has a number of beautiful
paintings at the Toronto
Exhibition.
Some of the nimrods of
Lumley have been out
several nights coon hunting.
A few nights ago they treed
one but a closer examination
showed to to be a very large
"Thomas cat." It weighed
over 50 pounds.
The flouring mill in Dublin
was sold last week by public
auction for the sum of
$3,910.
At a meeting of the full
board of directors of the
McKillop Mutual Fire
Insurance Company held in
Seaforth, it was resolved to
levy and collect an
assessment of four cents on
the dollar on all premium
notes, in force at the time of
the McKay fire and two cents
on those given since to meet
the loss sustained by the
burning of Mr. Richards
barns.
Seaforth High School
opened on Monday with a
large attendance.
SEPTEMBER 2,1904
The past few fine days
have been busy ones with the
Kippen farmers finishing up
the remnant of harvesting
and threshing.
Many hereabout are
complaining that their
potatoes are effected by rot.
Nellie, the second daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G.
McMichael, of Hullett, fell
on Sunday and fractured her
right arm.
W. T..Box has purchased
the cottage of John Downey
Years Agone...
on Jarvis Street opposite the
Presbyterian Church.
Miss Millie Johnston who
has been assistant in the
Edward McFaul store has
secured a good position in
Colborne.
SEPTEMBER 6,1929
John Murray is busy with
men and teams grading the
boundary north of Manley,
Leading to the C.P.R. station.
This is a county road, leading
from Goderich to Toronto,
and will make a short cut for
motorists to Guelph and
Toronto.
Early Saturday morning
the house and nearly all the
contents on the farm of Leon
Jeffrey at Blake were
destroyed by fire which
started from defective coal
oil stove.
The farmers in the Hensall
district are preparing to make
fine exhibits at the local
fairs.
Dr. Moir's fine new bank
barn on the London Road is
nearing completion at
Hensall.
Lexie Barr has moved his
drilling outfit, to the farm of
James Nolan, where he will
start drilling for oil in a week
or two.
W.G. Strong returned to
his school in Ottawa after
spending the holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. Strong.
School opened on Tuesday
at Constance with Miss Ida
Medd as teacher.
The Seaforth Pipe Band
took part in the big
celebration at Ayr on Labour
Day when a new C.P.R.
station and new pavement
were opened.
J.C. Crich left on Tuesday
for Guelph where he will
take a course in baking at the
Trent Institute.
Messrs. Angus McRae, Joe
and Bill Hart, Russel Homes
and Allan Reid took a motor
trip to North Bay, Kirkland
Lake and Temagami and
visited the Teck Hughs mine.
SEPTEMBER 10,1954
First of its kind in Ontario,
Hensall's Bean Festival
attracted a Labour Day
crowd estimated at 2,000. It
was organized by the Hensall
Kinsmen and the festival
provided a fast moving
program that included an
outstanding parade, an old
time ball game and the feat
of Hensall baked beans. The
parade with 34 floats was
one of the finest ever 'seen in
the village.
H. Grant Chesney, 21 -
year -old Tuckersmith farmer,
was top scorer in the
Seaforth Lions Club safe
driving Rodeo at the Lions
Park and the winner of the
Huron Expositor trophy,
emblematic of the driving
championship of the district.
Dr. Delbert Smith, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Smith of
Seaforth will sail from
Montreal for London
England and will intern in a
London hospital.
The residence of the late
Miss M. Hartry has been sold
to Wm. Ball, the sale being
completed by the office of
M.A. Reid.
Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Baldwin have moved into the
former Jackson home at the
corner of Javis and Anne
Streets.
Mrs. Mabel Teall, who was
injured when she fell at Port
Elgin and who has been in
Southampton Hospital is now
the home W.T. Teall.
Miss Ruth Teall was
successful in winning second
place at the water skiing
competition at the C.N.E. in
Toronto this week.
SEPTEMBER 6,1979
Seaforth council has asked
the tour other members of the
present Fire Area Board
(FAB) to meet with it and
discuss a compromise on the
town's proposal to sell fire
protection to the township,
but the township want to
renegotiate the present fire
agreement instead.
McKillop council
members agreed Tuesday to
turn down an invitation from
the Town of Seaforth to
attend a meeting in Seaforth
along with council from its
four neighbouring townships.
The meeting, set for
September 12, called for the
townships to negotiate the
terms of the town's proposed
agreement to sell fire
protection to the townships.
Seaforth firemen raised
$1,539 in donations for the
Muscular Dystrophy
campaign with the "toll
bridge" at Seaforth's main
intersection on Friday
evening.
I've had enough of
this) I'm going in
for lunchl