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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2009-12-30, Page 4Page 4 The Huron Expositor • December 30, 2009 Need for act vi Opinion Proprietor and Publisher, Bowes Publishers limped, 11 Main St., Seaforth, ON, NOK 1WO will ,,,,,, likety. continue into 2010 2009 was 'a'year of protest and citizen activism in the Seaforth area. From the end of January when the Seaforth Coma' nit Hospital ewer uc de a „ ent announced it y p� Y ,. necessary to d doors` :f 8 p.rn. to 8 a.m. each dayto the deve ment of a. ? f as win farm near Sty olun b n and a subdivi iii ve ' pme where the *titter Sa rth Public School o,n : od, Seaforth and a ratepayers have bmn een al i their opinions known about the Chan `... sha ,,, in � en.communities. ile' the n a ' ge that cause the overnight osure wbeyond an, e: s control, the community voiced its disp sure about the ` itterim" cut in local servide all year and many are s it rig re ruitment efforts e n Seafortlfs ER round ti. -ie clock a ' ' e ron Perth Healthcare Alliance is curre4tly col - lectin ty put into its Vision 2013 plan,' which includes a ge ssment of the hours at three of the Al- lxa t €r K s in Sea firth' intan and St. Marys, a IQat might attract more citizen activism in the add* •• C nced about the $ r • number of health con- es, the . St. Columban cern.s �rroung. wind b .: cow .Yty mob , d in the p 'lag to yoke its concerns at a proposed 1Q-�turbix�e :end project in the area, l` ,g the Huron .t couridtabionbers more than 'once ratepaters. .mid, while the v rGvince's new Green Energy Act man - d a greater distance between wind yes and • �dences t .an was ori • � . "opgsed, Owing the de - via r C rA. iglu ;. k g• an Const t o to go back to the drams ►rd � is pleA Duron East Against Turbines cont noes to push for an independent he> study into; the concerns raised by rural peoplo living near went turbines across Ontario. A su r ision, d opment at the former Seaforth I lic' School btrouiht an Ontario Municipal Board hearing to tow or t efirst t o nl ; x decade. ' Armed, whi the development will prof ed, citiitens got a ch ;i ce to ress eir concerns. The contib. vi.c activism and protest is an lldca- tor of a health where ratepayers are taking seriouslyMeir :ibility to be informed and engage in the debate that ''pes the comxliim.tiitty.,,., As we move into 2010, which promiti#i number of ,new issues affecti �Jocal healthcare and the economy, here's hoping that at c activism continues. Susan Hundertmark A.;r Ay yr..QO f "::ir<•S'�(<<r.. �{ti �i?iN4r - 'f.% yourCommounity New-poper Since 1860 Publisher - Dave Sykes Editorial and Business Offices -11 Main Street., Seaforth Telephone (619) 527.0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, ON, NOK 1WO Visit our home page at www.seafarthhuronexpositoroom CanadN QUH ECOR MHl1A NWE ACKNOWLEDGE THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OP THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, THROUGH THE PUBLICATIONS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (PAP), TOWARD OUR MAILING COSTS.' End -of -the -world hysteria becomes laughable the day after the prediction Let's take a trip back in time.. Ten years to be exact. Precisely a decade ago, on Dec. 30, 1999, people in Canada, along with the rest of the First World nations on earth, were panicking. Calling it "mass hysteria" wouldn't be too much of an exag- geration. At the time, a dreaded menace loomed on the horizon, threatening to collapse civilization as we knew it. That phenomenonwas known as the Y2K bug. It's hard to imagine today, because looking back, the whole thing seems totally absurd. On Jan. 18, 1999, Time magazine published a story titled "The End of the World as We Know it?" People worried all information stored in com- puters would be lost, and therefore there'd no longer be hydro, heat or running water. And as a result, we'd go back to living in caves. It's laughable today. It was laughable at 12:01 a.m. on New Year's Day, 2000. But the fear and paranoia were enough to cause people to withdraw their savings from banks, buy a backup generator, stock up on Ron di bave bottled water and even stay home on one of the most cel- ebrated holidays of the year... just waiting to see if anything would happen. Of course, absolutely nothing did. The sound of 10 million people smacking their palms against their foreheads could be heard on Jan. 1, when they looked around and saw the extra bags of rice and heaps of tinned food they stocked up on in the event of a major emergency. In reality, what we had was probably the greatest hoax of the `90s. This decade, another equally ridiculous sto- ry of hysteria was generated, about a scientific machine called the Large Hadron Collider. Buried 175 metres below the Franco -Swiss border, some doomsayers worried this particle accelerator would actually create tiny black holes that would swallow the earth. Of course, that didn't happen. Next year, when the end -of -the -world cult reemerges with warnings about doomsday on 2012, let's not forget how we felt 10 years ago, when we woke up after Y2K with red faces. Wow, can you believe that t e first decade of the 21st Century is already over? A new decade of hope and optimism lies ahead. J SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 38.05 a year, In advance, plus G.S.T. SENIORS., - 36.14 a year, in advance, plus G.S.T. amigo: 38.05 a year in advance, plus $195.00 postage, plus G.S.T. U.S.A.: 38.05 a year in advance, plus $99.84 postage, plus G.S.T. Pt fished weekly by Sun Media at .11 Main St., Seaforth. Advertising is accept- ed on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signa- ture, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. 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