HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1999-11-24, Page 7,V i e*dsyJ Iovember 24. 1999
Exeter Time e
I O YEARS Adb
November 22, 1989 - Mayor
Bruce Shaw said this week,
"It's incredible and amazing
that building permits so far
this year have surpassed last
year's 12 month total by more
Than two million, over last
year's figure of just over five
million."
20 YEARS AGO
November 21,1979 - The
1982 International Plowing Match will be held in
Middlesex County in the Lucan area. The host
farmers will be Allan and Liz Scott, owners of
Scott's Elevator's. The Scott farm of 120 acres is
located directly to the west of the Lucan
Community Centre. Other farms adjacent to
Scott's owned by Jack and Tom Hardy and Jack
Porter will likely be part of the tented city.
Susan Zielman of R.R. 2, Dashwood was
named 1980 Dairy Princess of Huron County by
the Huron Milk Producers.
Jane Sullivan of R.R. 3, Dashwood was one of
99 delegates and staff attending the 48th
national 4-H conference at the Ramada Inn in
Toronto.
At Friday's SHDHS Commencement, the
Moncur Scholarship for the top female and male
students in grade 13 was won by Anne Dearing
and Robin Little. Valedictorians were Betty Beer
and Dave Holtzmann.
The Paul Brothers and Shirley entertained
Friday at the annual convention of the Alberta
Trucking Association in Calgary. They left
London airport at noon Friday and 24 hours
later were back in Toronto.
Trophies were presented to Jim Dietrich, Jim
Guenther, Rob Dickey and Barry Baynham as
the top players on the 1979 Dashwood Tigers
baseball team.
35 YEARS AGO
November 21, 1964 -The top three positions
on Exeter council were filled by acclamation
Friday along with the five public school board
posts. Jack Delbridge took over the mayor's
chair and Derry Boyle was named reeve. Ralph
Bailey held his deputy reeve seat.
The driver education course is slated to start
at SHDHS around January 15, due in part to the
persistence of board member Rev. John Boyne.
To date there have been 36 students sign up to
take the course.
40 YEARS AGO
November 22, 1959 - Chester Mawhinney,
• carving out his second career in municipal poli-
tics posted a surprisingly large margin in win-
ning Monday's three-way contest for town reeve.
Charles Kyle, a young Tavistock businessman
won the $500 prize in Exeter Kinsmen's Grey
Cup football raffle.
Sale of General Coach will likely further delay
settlement of the contract dispute between the
company and union which has been under nego-
tiation for nearly six months.
SO YEARS AGO
November 23, 1949 - According to C.S.
MacNaughton, chairman of the property com-
mittee, the new District High School building
should be completely ready in January.
Bert Ostland was named president of the
Exeter branch of the Canadian Legion.
Proceeds from the Junior. Farmers fall dance
amounting to $60 are being donated to the
South Huron Hospital fund.
TS YEARS AGO
October 3, 1924 - On Tuesday evening a horse
driven on Exeter's Main Street by Benson
Tuckey became frightened and started to kick,
getting one of its feet between the shafts and the
dashboard. The cutter was somewhat broken
and the horse's leg cut.
The merchants advertising their Christmas
merchandise and still doing good business in
Exeter are Jones and May, Sottthcott Brothers,
R.G. Seldon and Harvey's Grocery.
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Eggs were selling this week at 60 cents a
dozen for extra large, hogs were $9 a cwt.,
wheat $1.38 a bushel, barley 82 cents a bushel
and oats was 45 cents a bushel.
I OYEARS AGO
November 23, 1889 - The new Lucan High
School is drawing to completion and sixty-five
pupils have already signed up for opening day.
ROSS
HAUGH
SACK TINE
Opinion&Forurn
OPINIONS AND LETTERS
Trespass order is
need for certain few
Dear Editor:
This fall we have had the unfortunate experience of
having to deal each school day with large numbers of
teenagers congregating on the property of the South
Huron Recreation Center, especially at noon hour.
Despite frequent reminders not to be there, these
young people persist in their behaviour. Acts of van-
dalism, physical and verbal fighting, the use of
obscene language and the use of banned substances
have all occurred as a result of these young people
being there. At the present time we have had no
option but to issue a blanket trespass order against
all South Huron D.H.S. students stating that they
may only access the properties and facilities of the
Rec Center during school hours when under the
supervision of school staff members or when partici-
pating in an out-of-school skating or hockey activity.
Of course, outside the hours of the school day this
trespass order is not in effect.
Our one regret in taking this action is that some-
how all South Huron D.H.S. students will be seen as
being guilty of these offences and hence warranting
these actions. That is not the case. There are many
students who have not ever acted irresponsibly while
on the properties or in the facilities of the Rec
Center. However, in order to enforce the directive to
stay off the property this trespass order is needed.
We all look forward to an immediate correction of
this situation that we anticipate will occur.
Sincerely,
Des Hotvtvrx, Principal, South Huron D.H.S.;
Ric GRAHAM, Principal, Exeter. Public School;
Cam STEWARDsON, Recreation Manager,
South Huron Recreation Center.
Please accept
the challenge
Dear Editor:
My name is Jacquie Northcott. I am 15 years old
and am a member of a group called Youth Making a
Difference (YMAD). As a group, we have been col-
lecting signatures for a petition against child pornog-
raphy. Being a Canadian is the only requirement for
signing the petition, to prove to the Canadian govern-
ment that the citizens of Canada are against the
legalized possession of child pornography. This will
hopefully help to reverse the legalization in B.C. and
encourage the other provinces to keep child pornog-
raphy a crime. If the law doesn't protect children
who will?
I am writing this letter to challenge your town or
city to take a stand and help us! We are challenging
every community across the country, during the
month of November, to collect one-half of their popu-
lation in signatures. Encourage local businesses,
community centres, churches, schools and youth
groups to get involved. Have a community blitz day.
We know that every community is able to do its part.
Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, a town of approx. 1900
people collected almost 1300 signatures. If they can
- do it, so can the rest of us. By helping us collect sig-
natures you are helping protect children.
November is a month to remember our freedoms,
and those who fought for them. If child' pornography
becomes legal in Canada then the freedoms our par-
ents and grandparents fought for would be thrown
away. We must continue to fight to protect the chil-
dren and their rights and freedoms. Children are the
future. If we .allow them to be abused in this fashion,
and believe that it is okay, then what kind of future
will this country have?
I hope that you will accept this challenge and help
protect Canada's future. ` We have already collected
12,000 signatures, but it is not enough. We need
everyone's help. Please call us, or fax 'us at (204)
896-YMAD or email- vs at ymadehome.com, for a
copy of thepetition or more info.
. Sincerely,
JACQtns Nonmcarr, Winnipeg, MB
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Not best way to remember
TORONTO - Erecting a 30 -tonne monument
Is not everyone's idea of how to honor police
or anyone else these days, but Premier Mike
Harris has stifled any objections that might
be raised in the legislature.
The Progressive Conservative premier.
announced his memorial to police officers
killed on duty, which will
cost taxpayers $675,000, in
his spring speech from the
throne and workers have
been seen for the past cou-
ple of months assembling it
in the legislature grounds.
Not all MPPs share
Harris's enthusiasm. One
Liberal told a reporter the ERIC
government was going over- DOWD
board and another the AVIEW FM"
money would be better QUEEN'S PARK
spent on helicopters to chase fleeing cars.
But a government spokesman characterized .
this as 'shameful that anyone would criticize
a tribute to fallen police officers. These peo-
ple put their lives on the line every single '
day.'
Harris also has now made a speech in the
legislature in time set. aside to praise police
and their work, in which the opposition par-
ties naturally joined, and in which he
appealed to MPPs to 'put aside partisan dif-
ferences.'
The premier suddenly moved a resolution to
approve his monument and asked it be voted
on immediately and the surprised opposition
parties felt obliged to support it, realizing any
reservations they had about the statue would
be seen as anti -police.
Not many would object to commemorating
police, who risk their lives for the community,
but society has found more useful and practi-
cal ways of honouring people than erecting
statues.
There are at least a dozen monuments of
various sorts around the legislature buildings
and most are a century or more old.
The most noticed is a statue of Queen
Victoria, the longest -reigning monarch,
unveiled in 1902. The others include several
premiers, the last, of Sir James Whitney,
unveiled in 1927.
More recently, premiers have had buildings
named after them and no fewer than eight
bear the names of former premiers. They
would have• been built anyway, whether they
were named after...a premier or not, so they
did not cost taxpayers extra.
After the government stopped adding to the
legislature `complex, premier John Robarts
had a university library named after him in
Toronto anduniversity medical research
institute and school .for the hearing impaired
named after him. in London, his home city,
which seem suitable ways to honor anyone.
William Davis, .Robarts's successor, had
funds for university students and geriatric
nurses established in his name. There was a
move to name the domed stadium in Toronto
after him because of his help in building it,
but it proved such a drain on provincial
finances he must feel Iucky he refused.
Ontario's first woman cabinet minister,
Margaret Birch, had a wing of a hospital in
her Scarboro riding named after her.
James Snow, a longtime transportation min-
ister, stepped on the accelerator a little early
and named a major stretch of highway after
himself while he was still in office.
The province named one of its buildings
after Roberta Bondar, Canada's first woman
astronaut, but has just been revealed embar-
rassingly to have it on a. list of buildings it is
considering selling to raise money.
MPPs have given donations to a bursary,
which the government will match, to help stu-,
dents in the name. of former finance minister [
Floyd Laughren, who was a well -liked.,
longest -serving member of the legislature
untie he retired recently.
A lot of these memorials. seem more useful
than a monument. Besides, what will the gov-
,ernment 'do sew. for otherslike firefighters
who abs,risk their lives?