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Opinion
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till here
s been gears sin our parliamentarians in Ot-
d un i3n ously to eliminate child poverty.
d °nce that noble proclamation, it must leave Cana-
dia> s' wonderiingjust how far we've come in terms of elimi-
nating any kind of poverty and elevating the fortunes and
lives of the distiklyantageddisadvantaged and less fortunate.
the sa,„ r ty is that we haven't achieved much of any-
th ng. Aid statistics ` :' bear out the truth that when it
k t
comes tt el hat poverty, we have failed the c, ldren.
A >ft on dedicated tis ..e eradication � d
elir. d and f released its annual
re **tautly that T g a is inactivity a goy-
,
�• Y f
e p E >> v anys r ice of 1~ieadwa on the e
`4y demotes that Canadian fits
#I d
20:00, the f n en poverty, sa
not n in'thiStT
f
i he' n er c10 er
}`" ,nmentio t . mow lauislea
by 26 per cent
' - effort that >< u t 1►e
S
, five in
�
o nine. Th:#
a• *ted effort to
.�x> ...::
five years, an
oni ' on misconceptions that chi pov` y is caused by
broken m mss and a lack of effort on th l t of n
en. to f t k are onded. In fact over;
chs ren i in poverty ,
p rty cotiaie from two-parent.
anal 40 giant of those Tamil `; 3iave at leas ► ` f
working ,t
ne ,k6K'91��� !J'" i H�lf%f 4h.H'::%NAL YlI 4lL t. .1..,.J.....
_.. c% .i1'x
e study points out is that more.
parent but are unable to
ese statistics
es have 'a
the cycle
7 data, a
year when' the economy was at its height and a tine before
jobs were lost and many more fulltime worked' turned to
parttime solutions to wC 0-4, ,,, r < 9 4.;« y 4*;.4,.r}
If We, are going to make -,gains on the po ' .`'' issue, the
, ernment has to do something even when' a economy is
sailMng up large deficits. People who work full-time should
be,able' to sustain themselves and their families.
The ecor.umy has shed hundreds of thousands of good
paying jobs and people are forced to accept part-time work
and jobs that pay $10 to $12 an hour, which simply per-
petuates the cycle of poverty and creates a generation of
children, who will grow to be poor adults with low family
in: n%e.
vera action is required irw. Or, we will continue
to see a wring disparity betweenthe haves and have-
nots and a deepening cycle of povey.
GOderich Signal -Star
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Seaforth people have picked up their
mail from the same spot dor 100 years
"I wrote a letter to my love
and on the way I dropped
it
Letter writing has been
around for thousands of years,
and for just as long there have
been ways to get those letters to
the intended recipients.
Carrier pigeon, fleet -footed
messenger, pony express, stage
coach, and in more modern times planes,
trains and automobiles.
Oh, by the way, you wouldn't want to have
been one of those "fleet -footed" messengers in
Greek or Roman times. Should you have been
the bearer of bad news, you would have been
killed (hence the saying" don't shoot the mes-
senger").
Let's hope our postal service has come a long
way from that particular practice. (Though I
do get a lot of grief for what is or isn't in peo-
ple's mail on any given day.)
Last week the Seaforth Post Office celebrat-
ed its 150th anniversary.
That's right, 150 years!
Long before Seaforth was even declared a
village let alone a town, it had a post office.
Now we all know the story of how our town
developed. How Harpurhey and Egmondville
Ron & Dave
i
So... Have you
been a good boy
this year?
You mean
you don't
know?
Liz
Scott
were each a booming metropo-
lis and Seaforth was nothing
but a swamp.
"Guide Board Swamp" was
actually the first name of Sea -
forth, because there was liter-
ally nothing here except a sign-
post with directional arrows and
mileage to other places (Hey, do
you think M.A.S.H. stole our
idea?)
Well, along came some stellar thinking gen-
tlemen and they decided that this little area
had promise. The key to any town's success
in a pioneering environment was the railway,
and these gentlemen made the railway an of-
fer of land, and promised to build the station,
thereby ensuring that Seaforth got the rail-
way.
And, the rest, as they say, is history.
As Seaforth began its growth spurt, the area
post office which had been located in Har-
purhey, re -located to Seaforth. No record ex-
ists of exactly where that first post office was,
but by 1863 it had moved to the James Dick-
son Block which was on the corner of Main
and John.
The next move in 1869 was to the Samuel
See POST, Page 6
I thought you had a list,
and you were "checking it
twice, trying to find out
who's naughty or nice?
V
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by David Lacey
HEY RON!
There is no list!
He doesn't know
about the "incident"
We're home f reel J
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