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The Huron Expositor • November 30, 2005 Page 5
SMIECEZEIMP
Canadians needn't boost their image with
comparison to Americans, says reader
To the Editor,
There's more to the U.S. than we see along the bor-
der, and I hope Jeff Heuchert will do a bit more explor-
ing before believing that Interstate 90 is a true repre-
sentation of what most Americans live in. It would be
like judging Canada by Toronto's Jane and Finch area.
Jeff felt that after his hassle at the border, the U.S.
should have welcomed him and his friends with a little
bit more. Since 911, security at the border is very seri-
ous business, and Jeff and his friends were wise to con-
sider in advance what not to say.
They would have been even wiser to check the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection website before their
trip to learn what documentation would be required.
They would have learned that they should have had
more than a driver's license.
Border authorities want to know where visitors were
born, and anyone without a birth certificate can expect
to be questioned more closely, and possibly denied
access. Jeff's comment about the border guard's delib-
eration over whether he and his friends posed a threat
to national security may be closer to the mark than he
realizes.
My husband and I have travelled many happy miles
in the U.S. and have never been disappointed by what
that country has to offer. We've seen wonderful scenery
and have had great experiences with friendly people.
One lady in a Montana museum called her retired
friend to drive us out to a pioneer area for a personal
tour. When we had brake trouble in Pennsylvania, the
service department not only worked us into a busy
schedule, but also gave us a courtesy van so we could
continue our local sightseeing, and someone volun-
teered to stay late to finish the job so we could return to
our hotel some miles away.
When an Arizona cafe didn't have the kind of tea I
requested, another customer slipped out to her nearby
office and returned with a bag from her stash.
There's sometimes a tendency for Canadians to boost
their self-image by comparing themselves with
Americans. We don't need to do that. We're good on
our own, and so are they.
Lynda Smith
Seaforth
Thank you from the Fisher. family
for supporting blood donor clinic
To The Editor,
Thank you for holding the
Canadian Blood Donors' Clinic
on Monday Dec. 5 from 1:30 to
8:30 p.m. at the Seaforth and
District Community Centre in
memory of ,our son/brother
Mackenzie Fisher.
Blood transfusions and blood
products were an integral part
of Mackenzie's treatment. He
received over 45 transfusions
during his 20 -month battle with
leukemia, which he lost on
Sept. 8.
Mackenzie requested that
people become regular blood
donors. The act of giving blood
is simple and easy. It only takes
45 minutes to an hour and can
be done by most people from 17
to 70:
Please call 1 -800 -2 -DONATE
and make an appointment to
donate your gift of life.
Bob, Sandra, Courtney
and Matthew Fisher
In the Years ;one
Local businesses sign petition protesting slow
mail service along Grand Trunk in 1880
NOVEMBER 26, 1880
A petition was in circulation the
other day and was signed by every
business and professional man in
town, asking the post office authori-
ties to adopt some means to have
the mails from the east forwarded
with more dispatch than they have
been for the past year. It is aston-
ishing that the people along this
section of the Grand Trunk have
borne so long and so patiently with
the disgraceful manner in which
they have been served.
We regret to learn that Messrs.
Wilson and Co. are likely to be
forced to close their fruit evaporat-
ing establishment on account of
their inability to get fruit enough to
keep it running. They have thus far
been paying about 20 cents per
bushel for the best kinds of fruit.
This of course, is not a very high
figure.
NOVEMBER 24, 1905
On Monday evening, Wm. Murdie
was surprised by having a number
of the employees of the Bell Engine
Co. call on him at his residence and
was still more surprised when they
presented him with a handsome
mantel clock and ornament on
behalf of the employees of the
works.
Messrs. Kennedy Bros. of the
Palace Meat Market, Seaforth, have
been doing a rushing business in
poultry during the last few weeks.
On Saturday last they shipped over
five tons of poultry. In the lot were
about 500 turkeys and the balance
was made up monthly of chickens.
Several farmers in this vicinity
have grown sugar beets this past
season and so far as we have been
able to learn they have proven fair-
ly remunerative crop, that is where
they have been harvested in time.
James Cowan, whose farm adjoins
the town on the northside had near-
ly three acres under the crop and
they netted him $202 for the land
and the labour.
NOVEMBER 28, 1930
The Hon. William Atkinson,
British Columbia minister of agri-
culture, and Mrs. Atkinson spent
the weekend with Mr. Atkinson's
father, Mr. Jos. Atkinson in
Egmondville. Mr. Atkinson came
east to attend the Conference of
Provincial Agricultural Ministers
recently held in Ottawa.
The snowfall of this week has
been the heaviest of the season and
motor traffic is having a hard time.
NOVEMBER 25, 1955
Seaforth Chamber of Commerce
which last year in conjunction with
the Huron Expositor sponsored a
Christmas contest to determine the
best decorated home in Seaforth
during the Christmas season, is
again urging citizens to take part in
a similar contest.
Brucefield fire department
answered a call to the farm of
Russell Hayter, Goshen Line,
Wednesday night and extinguished
a chimney fire.
Bill Fink, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Fink, Hensall, a student at the
H.B. Beal Technical School,
London, was awarded a certificate
of merit in recognition of outstand-
ing work submitted in the group C
sheet metal and drafting projects
division of the 1955 Ontario
Industrial Arts and Vacational Fair.
The 25th anniversary of the
Sunoco distributorship in
Brucefield, which is operated by
Ross Scott, was marked by a social
evening earlier this month when
Sunoco garagemen and their wives
gathered in the Legion Hall at
Exeter.
NOVEMBER 27, 1980
Seaforth has a very worthwile
downtown area. That opinion was
voiced by those attending the sec-
ond town planning workshop
Thursday with Henry Mero, chair-
man. That it must be preserved and
revitalized was agreed upon by all.
Melvin Chester Neil, 41, of
Seaforth, escaped injury Tuesday
afternoon when the cement truck
he was driving slid into a collision
with a CN freight train in Goderich
Township. The unprotected railway
crossing was at Con. 3 and 4 of the
township, about five kilometres
north of Goderich.