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Huron Expositor, 2005-07-27, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, July 27, 2005 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Susan Hundertmark - Editor Dianne McGrath • Subscriptions/Classifieds Bernie Pugh - Office/Advertising Jason Middleton - Reporter Adrienne Peckitt - Composing Anne Roden - Distribution OUEBECO MMEDIA E-mail us at seaforthObowesnet.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 of 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 balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable role. 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Canada Editorial Power struggle about power needs long, careful thought There's a power struggle going on in Ontario these days; that is, a struggle with and about power. Like so many things in life, we have long taken electricity for granted: flick a switch and the light goes on, except on those rare occasions when a storm plunges us into darkness leaving us to huddle around candles for maybe a couple of hours. All that seemed to change in August last year when the massive sysem (*generating and providing electrical power failed and millions lived without power for anywhere from a few hours to a week. It was at that moment that the naked frailty of the system was revealed. And yet, we continue to consume electricity at an alarming rate. It seems each hot summer's day that goes by, a new record for power consumption is set. At the provincial level, the McGuinty government is dragging its heels on its promise to phase out coal powered generating stations simply because we need .more and more power and at the moment, have no other options. Of course, this is a double edged sword. By using coal to generate electricity, we further pollute the air which changes our weather which makes summer days hotter which means we rely more and more 6n air conditioners which require more and more power. Into this precarious mix, at this moment in time at any rate, we must add labour disputes. Hydro One, the giant that makes and delivers our power, is dealing with a striking union. The 1,000 -member strong Society of Energy Professionals (SEP) has been in strike mode for 50 days and counting. The union is a strong one. The average salary for their members is $86,000 with more than a third of their numbers making over $100,000 a year The union wants to protect those wages while Hydro One is demanding a two-tiered pay scale which would have new employees start at a lower rate and work as many as four additional hours per week. Today's society needs power. As a society we need to think long and hard about how we make electricity, how we use it and how we pay for it. When all is said and done, let's hope there's still a light at the end of the tunnel. The Goderich Signal -Star How to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissions 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.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Opinion Letter tt) tltt. Ecrnoi' Egmondville couple reminisces about owners of the Egmondville Country Market To the Editor, Thanks Frances Teatero for your great letter in the July 20 paper. Yes, we miss our Egmondville Post Office very much, after having it for 57 years. But, not a day goes by - especially Fridays - that I don't shed a few small tears as we miss Tom and Dawn much much more than the post office. We feel so sad. Most people "miss" not being able to get their stamps and mail at the Egmondville Post Office.. Since we didn't get to say a real goodbye, thanks Dawn and Tom Papple for all the special little and big things you did and said for us. We would so love to have a phone number and address so we could phone and chat a wee bit. It would be so nice to hear one more time, "what now you old fart." We do miss you Dawn and Tom a lot. Sincere good luck, good health for your future in whatever you do. Drop in here any time you are up this way. Can't share my jubes or peanuts and can't buy the good kind we always got from Egmondville Country Market. I will treasure my picture of you both which is on our wall taken on January 12, 1991. The best to you both always. Clara and Bill Brown Egmondville Already missing Movie Night in Canada - a Canuck tradition Like all good Canadians, I've always been a fan of the movies. Long before the days of VCRs and long, long before the days of DVD players, the kids in my neighbourhood would save up our allowance money and take the bus downtown to the movie theatres. Back then, the theatres were great, majestic buildings where there was a huge screen framed by a velvet curtain and ornate architecture with Greek columns holding up the balcony so that large groups of people could watch the same show from both balcony and mezzanine. We'd hurry in from the bus on a Saturday afternoon, rush to get our popcorn and drinks and scurry up the stairs to the balcony, where we liked to sit so that we could drop candy wrappers and popcorn on the kids below - good Canadian fun. Before the start of every film - before even the previews or the cartoons began as a warm-up to the main feature - the Canadian national anthem would play clear and strong from the loud speakers. We would all stand at attention, sometimes even singing along as we watched a film clip highlighting the beauty of our great country - from the fishing villages of the Maritimes, the cultural festivals of Quebec, the industry of Ontario, the shining golden wheat fields of the Prairies to the incredible peaks of the Rockies in B.C. - finished off to the final dramatic chords of the anthem as the. Maple Leaf waved in the most perfect blue sky. In those days, you could pay once at the ticket booth and spend the whole day at the movies, if you wanted. Just by staying in your seat at the end of the first showing, you could take the whole thing in over again, beginning with the national anthem one more time. Susan f Iundertntark Like all other Canadian families of the time, we'd all watch movies as well on our black and white televisions either on Saturday afternoon or Sunday evenings. And, while they never began with the national anthem, if yon stayed up long enough until the station shut down for the night, you'd be treated to the same film clip as 0 Canada finished the broadcast day. With that long patriotic tradition of movie -watching, I wasn't surprised when CBC began last year to feature Movie Night in Canada every Saturday night. Finally, an acknowledgement of that Canadian tradition, begun so long ago but continued today into the era of multi -theatre cineplexes and home movie viewing. Like my parents before me, I'd gather the children around the TV screen and we.'d sit down with our popcorn and chips - the quintessential Canada family - and continue the tradition of watching movies together. Surprisingly, there was no playing of 0 Canada. Instead, there was an irritating little man announcing the name of the movie from a change room froip one hockey arena or another. That was a puzzle none of the movie lovers in my family could figure out. Oh, how we loved our Saturday nights together in front of the movie screen - at no other time did we feel so Canadian, so patriotic. But, we've been devastated recently to hear that Movie Night in Canada will not continue this season. Instead, that time slot has been taken over by the broadcast of a sporting event - hockey, I think. It's hard to imagine the family wanting to sit down to watch anything other than a movie together on a Saturday night. Seems a bit unpatriotic. Hockey, eh? What's Canadian about that? Phony begging for alms in Bayfield discovered in 1880 JULY 30,1880 An old chap was begging for alms in Exeter a few days ago, urging as a plea for sympathy that he had lost his right arm. Some of the boys thinking him a fraud, caught hold of him and on opening his coat found the missing limb snugly tucked in underneath his garment. On Wednesday night of last week the barn of Richard Blatchford, Concession 4, Usborne, was struck by lightning. It was soon ablaze and it was not many minutes before the fire had communicated itself to the shed adjoining. About 12 tons of hay were lost. On Saturday last, as Mr. Charles McTavish of the 6th concession of Turnberry was unloading a load of grain in his barn, he made a misstep and fell to the barn floor fracturing his jaw. He is however doing well as can be expected barring that he can't eat anything but spoon vittles. JULY 28, 1905 All of Miss Woodley's music pupils in Brucefield were successful in passing their examination with honours. Chris Ward, Varna while picking cherries, had the misfortune to fall, taking half of the tree down with him. In the Years A Otit• He was badly shaken up but no bones were broken. The Brussels Post has just passed its 25th anniversary under its present management. Haying is over and the wheat and barley is nearly all cut. It is a good crop. Saturday morning H.B. Chant, mechanical superintendent of the Doherty organ factory, .Clinton met with a severe accident. A belt was being adjusted to a motor, over which he was stopping when the belt caught and tore the motor from its fastenings. The end of the motor catching him square on the forehead fracturing the frontal plate. AUGUST 1, 1930 The King Government defeated — The Conservatives capture 137 seats. The Huron representative is Conservative George Spotton. Farmers in Varna are busy these days harvesting fall wheat, which is a really good crop. A big celebration was held in Zurich on Monday night when it became known that Thos. McMillan was re- elected as member for South Huron. The local church services were not as well attended on Sunday last as they should have been, many claiming it was too warm to attend services but we venture to say that the heat would be much more oppressive at the different beaches on Lake Huron. The sympathy of the community is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Haney, of Tuckersmith in the death of their twin son aged four years. A few days ago the little lad had his leg broken by a motorcycle while playing in the barn. Later pneumonia developed and he passed away. AUGUST 5, 1955 Marion Hemingway, 15, Brussels, is officially .crowned by Mrs. E.A. McMaster, wife of Seaforth's mayor. Miss Hemmingway is "Miss Centennial 1955." While cleaning out a forage harvester last Wednesday afternoon James Ryan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Ryan, Walton, had his right hand caught in the machine and was forced to have it amputated at the wrist. Cigarettes were taken from the Starlight Drive-in Theatre snack bar five miles east of Grand Bend. Police believe thieves forced the lock on a back door about 2 a.m. Hensall Kinsmen decided the children of their town need an artificial ice arena. Nineteen members of this organization got together and planned a "Bean Festival." Over 1,000 people agreed it was a good idea by attending. The profit was about $700. JULY 31, 1980 In 1979, the city of Stratford had a total 440 recorded violations under the Liquor License Act. In Seaforth, a town one-tenth the size, violations that same year totalled 107, approximately one quarter of those of Stratford. Tuckersmith Township council's plan to correct a six-year old by-law is meeting opposition from residents and property owners of Vanastra. An arrest by Seaforth police has resulted in a large scale investigation of a loosely operated syndicate out of Detroit dealing in illicit drugs. The results followed a report of Friday to police from the Seaforth Medical Clinic which suspected a person was attempting to obtain prescription drugs by fraudulent means. I'm signing an on-line petition to abolish the death penalty.