HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-12-30, Page 7Wednesday. December 30. 1998
10 YEARS AGO
I ecember 28, 1988 - Betty
Sarah Irvine, brand new daugh-
ter of Betty and Stewart Irvine of
R.R. •8, Parkhill made her debut
in a rather unconventional man-
ner at 6.18 in the morning of
December 27. The baby weigh-
ing in at seven pounds, 12
ounces•was born in an ambu-
lanoe parked at the side of
Highway 4. near County road 5.
The two personnel from North Middlesex
.Ambulance Service in Parkhill were trained emer-
gency medical assistants. •
The Exeter and Area Fire Board has a shiny new
pumper to replace a 27 -year-old truck. The total
cost of the new vehicle is about $ l 60,000.
The top male and female members of the South
Huron Junior Farmers were named 'at the recent
annual banquet.They are Denean Haist and Scott
Eveland:
Exeter councillor Dorothy Chapnnan has asked
council to take immediate steps to change the
wording in the town's official plan to allow local
residents to provide bed and breakfast for visitors
and tourists.
Carolyn Bradford of Usborne .township has been
named to represent Exeter and the townships of
Usborne and Blanshard for a two-year term on the
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority.
Bayfield village reeve Dave Johnston is the new
Warden of Huron County, beating out his only rival,
Reeve Marie Hicknell of McKillop -Township by
. eight votes:
A new car dealership is adding to Exeter's_ repu-
tation as a centre for automotive dealings. Hick
Frayne opened Exeter Toyota last week as the
world's third largest manufacturer.airns at tapping
a gap m the Southwestern Ontario market between
London and Goderich: •
20 YEARS AGO
December 28, 1978 - What does a former mayor
do with his spare time? Bruce Shaw has apparently
taken up the •garne of cards. in a recent garlic •.with
his son David and Ken Lawton, •he scored a perfect
cribbage hand. Shaw was dealt the jack of dia-
monds and three- fives and the five of diamonds
was cut.
Edwin Miller of Exeter was returned. as a director
of Gay Lea Foods Ltd. at the group's annual meet-
ing recently.. Sharply reduced milk voluine and cur-
tailment .of operations in the milk plants caused a
proluund effect on earnings. Despite this, a patron-
age dividend of 10. cents a hectolitre on 80 percent
..of members' milk and two and three-quarter cents
per kilogram butterfat for farm -separated crc.arn.
Local realtor and insurance mars, Mel (raiser was -
the big wiener in a series o+' draws sponsored by
the. Exeter lferitage Foundation.
An ice storm struck just be►foreChristmas, leaving
many motorists' in the ditches of .local highways.
Fortunately, nothing worse than minor injuries
wer'e!reported.
60 YEARS AGOG
December 29, 1938 - War clouds are. on every •
horizon as 1938 closes and 1939 dawns. Palestine,
the cradle' of the church and civilization echoes to
the roar of arena airplanes and her roads, once
.1 trod by shepherds and the Prince, of Peace tremble -
beneath armed war•n►achines. '
' William 1). , Sanders was re-elected by .acclan,a- •
tion to the reeve's chair of Exeter council. The vil
lage showed a balance of $(1,98;3.4:3-firr'tile year
end.
Bell Canada offered its cheaper night-time long
distance rates for a full 57 hours beer the holidays,
recommending people send their wishes "the per-
sonal way."
Mark Drysdale of the Botithruin and D ysdale
hardware store in Hensel has recovered more than
100 boxes of shotgun :shells stolen from' the store.
The goods, were recovered as the thief tried to
cross the border at Windsor.
0 YEARS AGO
December 28, 1 888 -Trivitt Memorial Anglican
Church was officially..epened Sunday with an esti-
mated 1,200 persons in attendance for the first
evening service.
Sunday morning dawned auspiciously. The sun
shone with all splendour, the air • was filled with the
element of purity, the roads being good, success of
the opening of the '1'rivitt Memorial Church ,was
.assured.
Exeter Timu—Advoe,tts
OPi1liOfl&Forum
Thank you for all
your generousity
Dear Editor:
On my way home from work one night a couple
of weeks ago, December 2. 1998, I almost rear-
ended two sets of dog ATV's. What's a dog ATV'?
Read on and you will see.
was heading west on Sideroad 15, Stephen
Township, and almost rear-ended a set of dog
teams pulling two different ATV's or what
appeared to be.
• Being 6 p.m. it was dark and meeting oncoming
traffic, 1 got over on my side of the road as fur as
I could The passing vehicle went past and to my
surprise, "Is that a parked car I see on my side of
the road?" 1 quickly,avofded a collision'. 'Picked off
and shaken up, 1 continued on.
With no lights, on their four wheelers, except
minor cap -style lights, it was virtually impossible
to see the two grown adults and their possible
twelve dogs. Since there was .no snow the first
week in December, it's too bad that you had to
compromise and do your training with four
wheelers instead of sleds - but after dark?
1 know snowmobilers and skiers who are keen to
get on the snow as well; but have the patience to
wait until possible. So my question to you is...Are
you crazy or just plain stupid?
B.SHEDDON
The Exeter Times Advocate surveyed prominent
members to our txemmunity asking for their forecast
of 1999. WIQ It be a year of development. change or
chanllenges? Or will it be a year of cutbacks, hard
decisions or hard work?
Drew Robertson,
Councillor, Stephen Township
The coming years challenges and how to meet
them:
Ensuring that our roots in agriculture are secure,
we can broaden our horizons to embrace wider and
mere diverse ways -of life in the .years' ahead. More
immediately, with amalgamation moved to the front
political burner, -we must practise compromise and
understanding, .putting aside the "ours/theirs" phi-
losophy and actively seeking out the positive aspects
of the melding together of our cotnmuni(ies. This
must ,be done with the ratepayers' and the munici-
pal workers'_ concerns front and centre.Weighty
decisions must be made carefully, not necessarily for
the good in Ute short term but .tor the long term. I
would hope that theses- decisions were made ratio-
nally and agreements reached through consensus.
Many of die local townships will play a supportive
role, to the international Plowing Match in many var-
sed ways. Not only will these townships, benefit frl►rn
this event, but they will have an opportunity to show
the rest of the world what a great place this Is to live
and work. Pride in' one's community can only pro-
duce positive results.
Additional comments: To the families and buss- -
nesse:, may 1 take this opportunity, to wish you all
good health, happiness and success' in the year
aheadt '
This' unedited story was pasted by a news service
recently.
Perhaps k exemplifies the condition ul our society.
' A full-page newspaper advertisement by conservatives
Christian groups. that said homosexuals
could overcome their sexual identity,by
accepting God sparked outrage
Monday among gay rights supporters.
The Christian. Coalition and other con*
servative groups took out the ad in the
New York limes! It is to' be followed by
similar displays in the Washington 1'c►st Rt��
and USA 'Today later this rbeek! The REm
Anne Paulk, a self- described 'wife,
advertisement features testimony of RNON
Mother and former lesbian,' who says POINT TO
she was able to change her identity curious
through a commitment to religion.
Tracey, Canaty of the National Gay. and Lesbian Task
Force said her organization viewed the ad campaign as
a new attack on homosexuality.'
Strange bow our freedom of speech seems to be one-
sided at tunes.
Behaviour problems
TOHUN'I'O -- The public
could find itself excluded from.
the Ontario Legislature cham-
ber for the. first time In history
.. because of behavioural. prob-
lems that pale beside those of
some MPPs. • •
A majority of MPPs through •
Speaker Chris Stockwell .have
said they may take the 'extra- ERIC
ordinary step' of barring all „„..,..ERIC
visitors from the public gal- QuEe sPAarc
leries . because of a series of
incidents in which some interjected and disrupted
debates.
The protests have been against Progressive
Conservative Premier LMike •llarris and his poli-
cies, particularly those of centralizing control of
education and weakening the powers of orga-
nized labor. -
Some protesters have refused to leave and
been dragged away by security guards, and
because the galleries are steep and high there is
risk someone could fall from them and be seri-
usly injured.
Stockwell said rather than having to remove
eople physically again he "may shut the galleries
nd tell people they can watch it on TV."
•
He also remarked that the legislature chamber
a place for members to debate and vote, not for
he public to protest, •and that MPPs should, be'
ble to do this free from intimidation.
Stockwell deserves sympathy for his concern
at a protester may fall, but there have been
monstrations for years, including many against
e former New Democrat and Liberal govern-
ents. It would take an unusually frenzied
monstrator or aggressive guard for someone to
I and that has not happened yet.
Nor is any MPP going to be intimidated by
onymous shouts from a remote gallery. These
people who have much more serious head -to-
ad arguments in their ridings -- if not, they are
fragile to be in public life.
of everyone has access to the legislature on
and the public's opportunities to understand
have input into whet gees on there also have
orae more limited.
arris's government has • brought in more
seping and fundamental changes than any in
,nory. Its legislation often is complex, like its
e omnibus bill which even some 01. its minis -
and backbenchers had difficulty explaining.
ty municipal heads, most of whom are "Tories,
they often are unsure what it is proposing.
:rumens advertisements tell only one side.
us 'Tories have reduced both the opportunities
he public to appear before legislature cont-
ses and. the time opposition MPPs can object
teir. behalf in debates, so it is no wonder
y in the, public are at least apprehensive.
en. members of the public do not have the
y to hire former premiers to lobby on their
If. Fortner NM' premier Hob Rae, I:iheral
d Peterson and Conservatives ,Hill Davis all -
for major law firms and one reason they
Mod' such high fees is they know how to talk
eminent.
MTPs cannot rlitiut that they have set much
example on how to behave. •
I,u•ris,
to claire "1 and my cabinet have been low
sol fanning any flames" in the protests. Hut
•ender often seems to go out of his way to
confrontation, losing no opportunity to label
who oppose his policies as "union busses"
stunting that teachers have provided
►ere" schools and "mediocre doesn't rut it
ore:"
premier enjoys rubbing salt in wu►ntds by,
nlple, joking when met by angry protestors
city; "I don't know:why. every time 1 conte
city they put on a parade for me," and in
r, "I dont (10 prolesls."
nig ago Harris used the choice word "buil- ,
the legislature to describe then NHP': claimtandicappcsd governing front 19(111 to 1995
s that -was a time (114 financial recession.
al leader Dalton Mr(;uinty says Harris
Kremlin and is it bully. NDP leader
d Hampton rules -the 'premier as
rthal and this week a Tory called the
m parties "real sleazebags."
are not people who should lecture any-
ood behaviour.
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