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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-02-01, Page 4Page 4 Times -Advocate, February 1, 1989 Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1985 Published Each Wednesday Morning at Exeter, Ontario, NOM 1SO Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386. Phone 519-235.1331 ROSS HAUGH Editor HARRY DEVRIES Composition Manager CCNA JIM BECKETT Publisher & Adsertising Manage, • • DOts SMITH • Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada: $25,:00 Per year; U.S.A.. $65.00 Keep your.heart The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario kicks off -its 31st an- nual fund raising campaign to- day, February 1. - The Foundation needs to raise a record - $26 millionfor its research and educa tion programs combatting the disease that claims more lives in Canada each year than all .other diseases put together. This campaign is not only about mon- . ey. It's. also about raising public aware- ness. Much can be done to prevent cardi= ovascular disease. It's a matter of teaching Canadians that healthy living pays. Heart disease and stroke remain the leading causes of. death. in Ontario and Canada. Approximately 80,000 Canadi- ans and 30,000 of them from Ontairo die each year from heart disease and stroke. Every one out of two Canadians is at risk. In the last three decades, research find- ings have made invaluable contributions to improvements in cardiac surgery, heart transplants and treatment for con- genital heart defects. According to J. Douglas Sheppard, president of the Foundation, the public's financial support is critical to further -ad- vances in the field. Heart and Stroke Monthisn't. just a time to �aise funds for vital reasearch and education programs, it also hleps to remind people that many instances of these diseases are highly pre- ventable-. • Heart and Stroke Foundaiton of Onta- rio funds more than two-thirds of all heart and stroke research in the province and cannot rely solely on governments to underwrite research. Some of the burden must be. borne by the public. It is, after all, the -goal to improve the odds of the majority, not the minority. The Foundation allocates 79.2 percent of its money to research and 10.3 percent to public and professional education. Ac - Daddies; i think I'm a fairly liberated man. I agree with most things liberated Women write ,and say and do. Women should have every opportunity open to 'men. 'rh, boo d be- allowed -and en- • couraged to become research sci- entists and electrical engineers, carpenters andbricklayers, fire- fighters arid sergeant majors. So why is Duncan playing with hiwclectric train, Alexander with his chemistry -set, and Stephanie with her dollies and dollhouse? Because of Eli,.dlxahr a-riu ilio. • Bccausc we're weak and out of step with reality. Vie should have given the dollhouse to the boys and- the . workbench to Stephanie. But we are steeped in our chauvinist tradition. We hate • to -admit it, but we actually enjoy it when our daughter plays with dolls. Last Saturday she was having a birthday party for Melanie. Or was it Melody? It doesn't matter, because the dolls arc used to fre- quent name changes. "Daddy, i don't have any doll food in the house. Can wc buy some?" "Of course, Stephanie," I. said, 'let's go shopping for doll food right away.' cording to Sheppard, our society is slow- ly learning to be more nutrition and ex-. ercise conscious and we must continue to educate .the public until better lifestyle habits are the norm: . Sheppard is optimistic- that the Founda- tion will achieve its fund raising objec- tive. An estimated 65,000 volunteer fund raisers. will be canvassing- residents throughout the province during Febru- ary. Strong community involvement is critical to the campaign's sucess. Volun- teers are among the Foundation's most valuable assets. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a registered not-for-profit organization. Its mandate is to reduce death and disa- bility from heart disease and- stroke by raising funds for research and education. - The Foundation's fund. raising and edu- cation programs are delivered by volun- teers in 72 chapters across Ontario. There is some good news. Since 1955, deaths from heart disease - and stroke have declined by 34 percent saving .ap- proximately20-,000 lives each year. Stroke related deaths are also decreasing. Since 1980 they have dropped by five percent a year, largely a -result of effec- tive. high blood pressure treatment pro- grams. - More than 2.6 million Canadians could reduce their risk of heart disease through better awareness of and control of their blood pressure. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario needs your help to fund life- saving reaearch. Please give what you can. Your volunteer time and your dona- tion dollars are critical to winning the fight. • Donating the price of a muffin or a cup of coffee each month would go a long way towards improving your odds against Canada's number one killer - heart disease and stroke. By Ross Haugh daughters and dolls We borrowed a huge truck. Stephanie and I and Stephanie's 59 dolls all climbed in and drove all overtown looking fora*-14 PETER'S POINT • by Peter Hessel .41saaussur T. • , ice food store. wound you believe there aren't any? We had to buy all kinds of ingredients for mak- ing our own doll food. We brought home 397 cartons full of doll food ingredients, which we spread all over thc kitchen coun- ters, floors, table and chairs. The whole downstairs was filled with doll food ingredients. Then we realized that we didn't have any doll food cookbooks. Not even a single recipe. So we all hopped back into thc truck and drive back into town in search of a doll food cookbook store. We found one and loaded thc truck full of doll food cookbooks. When we came home, we piled all the hooks on the dining room-tabte, but when we opened them we realized that theyy_ were all wrif !en i tnese: either Stepha- nie nor 1' know any Chinese. None of her dolls know Chi- nese. The boys were no help, and Mommy - who know •just about everything - wasn't at home. • We borrowed ao.ho �nl,,,t�s,. to c a o into it, and then we drove into town to look =for some Chinese interpreters. -We- lonnd- hunch of friendly Chinese girls who came with us to read our doll food cookbooks and to help us make doll food. They were all sitting around the dining room table chattering in Chinese and Eng- lish. At first it was very confus- ing, but then we were finally getting somewhere. Everybody was having lots of fun when Mommy came home. Mommy took one look and said: "Mat is all this messin the • kitchen? And what are all these books doing on the dining room table? And who are all these peo- plc."? We had to take everybody and everything back into town. It Please turn to page 5 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited TWO COFFEES... REGULA?_ 0 C It was a lunker How big do fish get and how long do they live? We don't' have the exact an- swers to those two questions, but will send along some information gleaned from the latest Canadian- Fishing anadianFishing Annual. The magazine reports the larg- est muskellunge ever caught in Canada was landed on October 16,1988 by Ken O'Brien, an ac- countant from Toronto. O'Brien along with two friends Mark Aristonc 'and Rob Yama- mota, fishing from a 14- foot alu- minum boat on the famed Moon River Basin landed the muskie that measured 58 inches in length and 30.5 inches in girth. It tipped the scales at a reported 65 pounds, the best muskic taken in Canadian waters since a 61 pound, nine ounce fish was land- ed in Eagle Lake in 1949. O'Brien's monster was just a few pounds short of the world record of 69.15 pound trophy caught by Art Lawton in the U.S. waters of the St. Lawrence River in 1957. M to the agc of thc fish, Dr. John Casselman of thc Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and a muskic expert estimated the age of the big fish -at 29 years, --phi -or minus one to two years. The age was4ietermined by re- -cleithrvm tome -from . • the e t side of the muskic's pec- toral girdle. It was also deter- mined that the fish had shown good growth with continuing po- tential, but had suffered a poor year in 1971 and had grown very little in length. in the past nine years. •• While most muskie fishermen use heavy line and equipment, that was not thc case with 1 From the editor's disk by: M Ross Haugh O'Brien. He' used a four -inch black and silver Rapala, a three- quarter inch split shot, a five - inch wire leader and tight -pound Trilene line on a light rod and reel. The fact that the line didn't break from sheer weight alone during the 15 to 20 minutcfight, was startling. This proves that fish can strike at any time and usually at the most unexpected time. O'Brien and his friends had been fishing . all day Saturday and` until close to noon on Sunday and all they had caught was one small pike. While thinking about the age of this fish , . we gave John Schwindt a call at the Ausablc- Bayfield Conservation Authority .to get some local information. - John told us that during last year's fishing derby at Morrison Dam, a 21 inch smallmouth bass was.. caught `and released. He added, " I would guess it to be • 'about 15 years old. That's cer- tainly a trophy fish in this arca." Schwindt estimates that four to five years is the average age for most fish in--arca_watcrs. He knows of a northern pike caught. near thc Devil's Elbow in recent years that weighed 20 pounds and was probably 12 to 13 years of agc. This year's annual fishing der - jay at Morrison Dam sponsored jointly by the Exeter Lions; The Ausablc Bayfield Conservation Authority and the Authority Foundation is scheduled for Sat- urday, May 13. * * * *. We hope most of our readers enjoyed Ken Lawton's letter to the editor on puns in last week's issue. 'Lawton, a rctircd 'guidance teacher at South Huron District High School is the step -father of school principal and Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw. In telling Bruce.a joke the other day, he said, " We should lock you and Ken in the same room and throwaway the key." A few interesting puns and plays on words appear in this week's Stephen Tiger Times col- umn from Stephen Central School.. . _ Starting right now, wc will end each column with a pun. H rc is the first one. "Etc,: an a1 br via - tion used to make people believe you know more than you do." Too late smart I hate trrbrag, but the 'truth will until 3 a.m. to cough up a fur ball out. It's a fact. When I was young to the accompaniment of some of (in my teens and twenties) i was the most offensive noises one can realty smart. You could have :he...dr flus me anything, and I would have had while crouck , i111 d11JW1,,I, U\,11vt,1C41 111 cul aUtllorlta- tive manner that brooked no'argu- ment. I knew everything -from how my neighbour should bring up her children to how the world would be run if I were in charge. Somehow, in the intervening years, I have lost some of that intel- ligence. Perhaps it's becaise I smoked heavily for 30 years, despite reading time and again that each cig- arette permanently zapped 1,000 brain -cells. However, I was smart enough to quit in 1974 while cigar; ettes were still a bit more than $5 per canon, compared to the 522 or so one must pay now. Now that Ivicw cvcrything from the relative serenity of middle.agc, i have a host of questions to which I have no answers. Here are some examples that would stump an Einstein. Why does our Himalayan cat wait Reynold's Rap by Yvonne 'Reynolds does this disgusting mess leave per- mancnt stains on our treasured Indi- an rug? Why does the six -ounce capacity of a glass containing tomato juice increase to one imperial gallon as soon as i knock it over? And why does no one want to sit next to me at banquets and dinner parties? How docs one tell when yogurt has gone bad? Why docs a tiny piccc of tin foil . from a piccc of-toffec:cause such a terrible reaction when it comes in contact with 'IQ ii:ulars? rind great difficulty in .telling a modern miss her fly is open??.; Why docs my dinncr.companion's plate always look much more ap- pealing than -What i ordered? - Why do I find a vital use for something i have hoarded for two decades, two' days after I have thrown the article away? Why do little children wait until you have dressed them in three layers of clothes, a snow suit, boots, hat, two pairs of mitts and a scarf to tell you they have to use thc'bathroom. Why do our goats pick the most inconvenient times 10 deliver their young? Or is it only inconvenient to us humans? Why do 1 .give my husband a sneak preview of my columns? He insisted on adding a question or his own? Why has he stayed married to his crazy wife all these years?