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Dear Sir:
The purpose of this letter is
to thank your newspaper for
the excellent press coverage
given to the Ontario Open
Sandcastle Competition
which was held in Grand
Bend on August 20th and 21st.
Your stories and pictures
about this event were all very
good, and I'm sure that this
publicity will attract more
people to Sandcastle Days
next year.
Again, many thanks.
Yours truly,
Susan Deichert
Assistant Sandcastle
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Co-ordinator
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Dear Editor:
Thought that you, your
staff, and your readers might
be interested to know that
your weekly product has been
of assistance to me in prepar-
ing the weekly, late Saturday
night news feature, "Report
from the Country."
Your splendid page one pic-
ture of the hail stones was of
interest to me, and it is plann-
ed to use this as the opening
feature scheduled for Satur-
day, August 27.
Most folks have heard of
golf -ball sized hail -stones, but
never have we seen them.
Hail -stones, to most people,
are big when they reach the
baked -bean size. So such
reports tend to be discounted
as exaggerations. But your
pictures of the double hand-
ful, the pailful, and the shat-
tered plastic bird -bath prove
beyond reasonable doubt that
such freaks of weather do in-
deed exist.
My congratulations to you
folks for reproducing such
wonderfully sharp pictures,
and, also, my thanks for this
assistance, and for keeping
your splendid product in my
mail box each week.
Yours faithfull',
Arthur Carr.
CK('O-TV's
"Country Editor''
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Huron
County Unit of the Canadian
Cancer Society, I would like to
express our appreciation and
gratitude to all the people of
the Exeter area who con-
tributed so generously to the
1983 Cancer campaign for
funds.
As a result the Exeter
branch, under the capable
leadership of Bill Mickle, has
achieved the impressive total
of '20,768.78, which in turn
enabled the ,Huron County
Unit to exceed its $77,000.00
objective of $4400.00.
Efforts such as this enable
the Cancer Society to continue
its important work in
research, treatment to pa-
tients and education of the
public in the prevention of
cancer.
With sincere thanks to all
citizens, service clubs and
organization' who helped out
in this great cause, I remain.
Yours truly,
Jim Remington
Campaign Chairman
Huron County Unit
Canadian Cancer Society
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R.R.#2
Zurich, Ont.
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the space
given my "recent escapade"
in your August 24 editorial
"Not For Classroom". I hope
you will give similar pro-
minence to my reply, in the
August 31 edition of your
newspaper.
Your first objection to my
actions appears to be that I
disobeyed the law in trespass-
ing on Griffiss Air Force Bace
on July 27. I must point out
that there is a precedent in
English Common Law which
upholds an individual's right
to disobey a minor law in
order to prevent a major in-
fraction of justice. For exam-
ple, you would grab someone
else's child if you saw him
heading out into traffic, or
youwould break into someone
else's home if you saw smoke
pouring from a window, and
believed there may be so-
meone inside.
The German people have
been severely criticized over
the last forty years for doing
little to prevent the crimes of
the Nazi government before
and during World War II. Yet
the Nazis made sure
everything they did was legal.
The German people could do
nothing against them without
breaking the law!
Surely if we expect the Ger-
man people to break the law
in order to maintain justice,
we must be prepared to do the
same ourselves!
In refusing to return for
trial on September 8, 1 in no
way attempted to "circum-
vent the law," but to make if
clear that by over reacting to
our peaceful, non-violent
demonstration, through ex-
treme brutality at the time of
our detention (we were never
formally arrested), and by
holding me under very
unpleasant conditions for 19
days on a grade B misde-
meanor, refusing during that
time to even set a date for
trial; and by then pleading
"overcrowding of the court
system" for setting the trial
dale a further three weeks
ahead, the so-called "justice
system" has simply made
itself ridiculous.
Had they set a trial date at
the time of my first arraign-
ment, there would have been
no difficulty in holding my
trial by August 15. Under New
York state "speedy trial"
laws, the trial for a grade B
misdemeanor such as
Criminal Trespass, should
have been held within ten
days. However the federal
prosecution held that this
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NEW CANADIANS — The Chansamone family became Canadian citizens on August
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Niece Lisa, already a Canadian wanted to be in the picture too. (see story on page 7).
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state law was irrelevant.
If the courts were not
overloaded with the cases of
unfortunate people who,
desperate for money, con-
tinually break the law, often
as a result of police entrap-
ment, and these were kept out
of their circle of crime and
punishment; if those with
emotional and psychological
problems, who must con-
stitute 25 percent of the jail
population, were given treat-
ment, then I am sure the pre-
sent jails would no longer be
crowded, and "speedy trials"
(within one or two weeks of
the crime) could be held for
the "real criminals" such as
myself.
I hope it is now clear that
my refusal to return on
September 8 for trial was an
effort to force some recogni-
tion of the injustice of the
"justice system" This is not
quite the same thing as cir-
cumventing the law. The
other demonstrators, who
gave their names, and who
had already been in jail over-
night, received sentences of
three months unsupervised
probation and 20 hours of
community service, when
they appeared for trial.
Since our "crimes" were
the same, it seems safe to
conclude that I got an extra 18
days in the stammer for my
refusal to cooperate.
They could have held me
longer on August 15, as I
made it very clear to the
judge that I would not return
for trial, but wanted my trial
then (it would have -taken all
of two or three hours).
They let me go only
because they realized they
had already come very close
to circumventing justice
themselves, and, as Marshal
Peo said, they didn't want me
to become a martyr. I feel
confident that I have not cir-
cumvented justice, but have
paid my debt to society in full.
In closing, I would like to
state that I take exception"to
your statement regarding my
use of the classroom, and
time taken from math classes
"to promote her anti-nuclear
stance" and "displays and
verbal communication
(which) tend to suggest that
the end justifies the means."
As I have personally
pointed out to you, 1 feel it is
important that my
"escapades" occur and are
publicized during school
breaks whenever possible in
order to avoid just such a
situation in the classroom.
However, as a teacher I
must answer students' ques-
tions on a topic such as disar-
mament, since this will be a
major concern for them all
their lives. While I shall '
always try to avoid the use of
the classroom for these ques-
tions, as a professional
teacher I must exercise my
own discretion in the matter.
The bulletin board shall
continue to be used to display
material relevant to the arms
race and the peace movement
as long as some students con-
tinue to be interested. This is
an extremely important part
of the education of today's
students.
Hopefully this letter will
clarify the reasons for my re-
cent actions. Should further
explanations be necessary,
please feel free to contact me
at the above address.
Yours in peace,
Joanne Young
Times Advocate, August 31, 1983
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