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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2005-06-22, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, June 22, 2005 Eitias Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Dionne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds Jason Middleton - Reporter C� Susan Hundertrrwrk - Editor Bernie Pugh - Office/Advertising Adrienne Peckitt - Composing Anne Roden - Distribution OUEBECOR MEDIA E-mail us at seaforth@bowesnet.com Visit our home page at www.seoforthhuronexpositor.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 accep*ed on condition that in the event of o typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will net be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rob. 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Canac i Editorial The tourists are coming make sure your doors are open! Close to 1,500 people, many of them Huron County residents, took advantage of the Doors Open event in Brussels over the weekend to take a closer look at the architecture and heritage in their own backyard. While the event was planned to coincide with other draws to the area, such as an annual Firemen's Breakfast and an ultralight airplane convention, attendance - especially when the event was only advertised locally - was remarkable. The streets were not plugged with visitors but shopkeepers saw a steady stream of traffic, many of whom wanted to stop and chat about their memories of the old days the heritage buildings evoked. The upcoming Doors Open events in July and August in Seaforth and Brussels have been advertised across Ontario and organizers are anticipating 12,000 guests, using numbers from a Kincardine Doors Open event last year. If those numbers materialize, along with the 3,000 expected to attend Seaforth's Come Home to the Country festival that same weekend, Seaforth could see its population multiply many times over with a veritable tidal wave of tourists. Those who have gone to the trouble to have the history of their buildings told in the extended Doors Open brochure created by the Huron East economic development committee, will undoubtedly enjoy the most attention from visiting history buffs and architecture lovers. Economic development officer Ralph Laviolette says it's not too late to be included in the brochure, although the deadline is looming at the end of the month. And he believes many more could benefit if they made the effort. As well, volunteers are still needed to help tell Seaforth's story to the multitudes expected to flock here. While the main core of regular volunteers are probably already extremely busy with Come Home to the Country jobs, this is a golden chance for anyone on the sidelines to corhe forward and get involved. Susan Hundertmark How to acces Letters to the Editor and other su ami g can be made to us by noon on Mondays at: seaforth@bowesnet.com All letters and submissions must be signed and accompanied by a day -time telephone number. All submissions are subject to editing for both length and content. Don't forget to check out: our homepage at: www.seaforthhuronexposiitor.com Come Home to Country church service seeks mass choir members To the Editor, The "Come Home to the Country` Interdenominational Church Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, July 31 at Northside United Church. A mass choir will provide musical leadership. People who like to, sing from church choirs, congregations and the community are invited to be part of the mass choir. Choir practices will be held Thursday, June 23, as well as, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Northside United Church. All are welcome. As at "Homecoming 1995", the service will be lead by capable young Marg Whitmore adults from the churches in the community. Eleanor Wood from St Georges, Ont. will be the guest speaker. Eleanor is a well -travelled church and motivational speaker who delivers an uplifting message with lots of humour. Net proceeds from the offering will be donated to the hospital. Sincerely, Bruce and Marg Whitmore 527- 1491 Doreen and Bill Strong 522-0876 'Exercising our lips' with small talk is one of humanity's best pleasures In his excellent book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas . Adams frequently ponders the oddities of being human, primarily through the alien characters who populate the story. One such character is Ford Prefect, who struggles to understand this supposedly intelligent race's "habit of continually stating and repeating the very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day' or `You're very tall,' or 'Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a 30 -foot well, are you all right?"' At first, Prefect is convinced that, as Adams puts it, "If human beings don't keep exercising their lips...their mouths probably seize up." He discards this theory in favour of a second: "If they don't keep exercising their lips...their brains start working." This is too cynical, he decides, and he discards it as well. If memory serves me, the book ends without the mystery solved. Allan Fotheringham, a hero of mine and perhaps the best political columnist this country has ever produced, recounted m one of his writings an amusing example of this. When Jean Chrdtien was a junior cabinet minister, the tale goes, he foundhimself sitting in a plane next to Pierre Trudeau, a "worldly and intellectual" man who Foth calls Chretien's "social opposite." They sat for half an hour in silence, Trudeau busy perusing his briefing papers, before Jeanny finally managed to squeak out something about the fact that it was raining outside. Trudeau, not even bothering to look up, put the future prime minister in his place. "If it's raining, it has to be outside," he said. The question Adams edges at, of course, is whether the human race truly is as brilliant as it likes to think it is. Fotheringham seems to answer it: sometimes yes, sometimes no. As anyone who knows me can tell you, I'm not the most talkative person on the planet, and when I do choose to raise my voice, it is not poetry or philosophical profundity that See 1, Page 5 Landmark 105 -year-old log house in Harpurhey torn down in 1905 JUNE 25,1880 A few days ago as Mrs. Daniel Campbell of McKillop near Winthrop was alighting from a wagon when she met with a peculiar accident. She went to jump out of the wagon when her dress caught upon something in the wagon box, which threw her head forward between the wheels of the wagon, injuring her shoulder and one of her arms severely. Uriah Mcfadden of the 12th concession of Grey had flax in full bloom last week, and some of which measured over three feet in length. The flax crop in this part of the country looks well and promises a good crop. David McLean of the London Road near Kippen, sold a span of draught horses a few days ago for the handsome sum of $420. Horses are commencing to be worth raising in this country. JUNE 30,1905 Wednesday night of last week Mark Cardiff 14th Concession Grey, received an ugly slash on one of his arms from a man said to be from Mitchell, who was said to be intoxicated at the time. The fall wheat in this vicinity looks splendid and if it ripens properly will give a big yield. Another old landmark has disappeared. Jos. Brown has torn down his log hotise in Harpurhey. This building was 105 years old having been. erected by a man named Lowe. In the Years &&once An effort is being made to have a Wednesday half holiday among the merchants during July and August. A committee will wait on the business men in a few days to get signatures agreeing to close as stated. JUNE 27,1930 The fourth annual Livestock and Household Science Judging Competition was held at Seaforth on Friday under the direction of the Huron County Branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Forty-two boys and twenty girls took part in the competition which made it the largest ever held in the country. William Livingstone of Hullett, brought into the Expositor last Saturday, the largest white Leghorn egg that has ever been seen in this section. It measured 6.5 by 8.25. The Lions Club of Seaforth and Goderich have made arrangements to hold a clinic for crippled and deformed children at the Goderich Hospital under the charge of Dr. Robertson, chief surgeon of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Between 20 and 30 cases are in the hands of the club for examination. Two Hensall men were in a serious motor accident on Saturday. Dr. J.A. McTaggart and John Carmichael were on their way home between Seaforth and The Red Tavern while passing a truck going in the same direction they somehow collided with it and the fine car owned by Mr. Carmichael was wrecked. Both men were seriously injured and were brought to the hospital. Miss Gaetzmeyer has disposed of her residence on High Street, Seaforth to Mr. Gallop of the Massey -Harris agency. JULY 1,1955 Father Francis Moylan S.F.M. will be departing St. Columban for mission fields in the Phillipine Islands. To ensure that the town is looking its best during the Centennial and Reunion here, the Seaforth Chamber of Commerce has announced that it will conduct a contest and award prizes to the Seaforth residents who have the best decorated home for the celebration. Main Street sidewalk that has caused so much trouble because of peeling is to be repaired before the Old Boys Reunion, E.H. Close, chairman of the street committee, said Wednesday. Light rainfall in most sections of the county considerably delayed haying last week. Farmers report the hay to be below average in yield. Hensall has earned the title "Ontario's Leading Grain Centre" as its enterprising grain mills ship more than 30,000 tons of grain a year from the area. New Seaforth residents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Downey, were honoured by their many Beechwood friends and neighbours before moving to Seaforth last week. The annual Red Cross drive in Seaforth and district was concluded this week, according to campaign chairman Rev. J.W. Stinnson. Receipts totalled $1,720.15. J1JNE 26,1980 After sifting through all the proposals for revitalizing the downtown core of Seaforth, the Business Improvement Association Study Group has selected a winner: Robert Tetu of R.R.#5 Seaforth, who wins a $100 prize. Tetu suggested that the parking meters on Main Street should be done away with, as they are an eyesore and a threat to vandals. He also noted the beauty of Seaforth's architecture and wold like to see the town move to keep the exteriors in neater condition. The main street of Seaforth is something all the town's citizens can be proud of, and Susan Dunlop, a 23 year-old working this summer for the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, seeks to show it. "A lot of architectural historians have said this is one, of the most unique towns in Ontario," she says, "mainly because of the fire in 1876." Roots di Daft Oh?....I wouldn't worry .about it. It's just a phase Just like all those childhood diseases you had ads a kid... ...and then your acne phase when you were a teenager by David Lacey