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Citizens News October 23, '19E0
A healthy sign
A little over two weeks from now area residents
will be going to the polls in most of the
municipalities covered by this newspaper to elect
their municipal officials for the next two years. It's
a very healthy sign that there are an abundance of
candidates for mpst postitions, especially in. the
townships.
In Hay, theref s an excellent chance that only a
few votes will separate the candidates for council
with both Don Geiger and Claire Deichert having
served time on previous councils. Gerald Schantz, a
well.known implement dealer ran for council in 1976
and missed gaining a seat on council by fewer than
60 votes.
Stanley township could have one of the more in-
teresting elections in the county where Paul Steckle
is challenging incumbent Tom Consitt for reeve.
Both are excellent candidates and have served the
township well over the years. The township council
will certainly have a new look as a minimum of two
Divorce: a
Divorce is claiming more families each year.
Evangelist BillyGraham said last week while in
Edmonton that one in two marriages is breaking up
in the United States but this ratio is reduced to 1 in
40 couples who attend church regularly. He said
divorce ratio is one in 400 couples for couples really
devoted to religion. The answer to a successful
marriage said Graham is the word of God.
He's right.
What's lett for those that could not make the
marriage work' 'These days and in previous years
the law court was the only place to turn to after a
marriage broke up and therefore confrontation took
place causing a winner and a loser situation to be
born.
Dr. Howard H. Irving in his Book (Divorce
Mediation - A Rational Alternative - 216 pages -
1980, Personal Library Publishers) paints an alter-
native.
Irving points out in his book that over one
million marriages will end this year in North
America. He does not offer a solution to stop this
problem, but does offer the mediation route
between parents so that the property division goes
much easier.
The old litigation method is the fastest way and
the most traditional route to go. However, there are
winners and ldsers when the marriage ends when
children are involved.
Divorce mediation says Irving is the way to go
and will help families work out a compromise which
will be suitable to all parties concerned. The
divorce proceedings can be a cut and dry process.
However, dad wants to see his son and daughter and
loses visiting rights because a new man comes into
members of the present council will not be back.
Only Clarence Rau decided to seek re-election to
council.
The possibility of an election in Zurich is cer-
tainly good for the community with Dan Turkheim
and Don Van Patter seeking the seat vacated by
Jim Bedard.
While Van Patter is a relative newcomer to the
community, he made a very good impression at a
Chamber of Commerce meeting held earlier in the
year which discussed the possible formation of a
business improvement area for the 'village.
What Turkheim may lack in political ex-
perience he -certainly makes up for in pedigree with
father Herb a long time, member of the Huron Coun-
ty board of education and uncle Jack having served
on council a number of years ago.
All in all, November 10 should prove to be an in-
teresting day.
real problem
the life of his former wife.
How does one handle this problem?
Divorce mediation will help as son and
daughter will normally not want to cut ties with
mother and father.
They want to be able to see and visit with their
son and daughter. -
What abodt grandparents? Do they have
visiting rights? Irving gives case history examples
of this kind of problem and how someone divorced
from the court system can help.
Court proceedings are seen as a dog fight situa-
tion and the mediation process was from the days of
Confucius says Irving.
Ten thousand lawyers take care of the legal af-
fairs of 120,000,000 people in Japan while 350,000
lawyers serve 220,000,000 people in the United
States.
These figures should tell us something about
how we resolve our problems in North America as
opposed to what the Japanese are going.
Mediation keeps all sides happy as the end
result was thrashed out with all sides participating.
In the same vein marriage disputes which end
in divorce can be ended with a solution.
Residents in Swift Current and district ex-
periencing the divorce problem should pick this
book up and look at the mediation alternative rather
than forking out dollars to either become a loser or
a winner. Irving says mediation costs are lower.
The litigation route is still open if the mediation
process is lost.
Irving's book may help many families. Look it
up if you need help.
Swift Current, Saskatchewan Sun
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Miscellaneous
Rumblings'
By
TOM CREECH
g Crunch your
way to success
Remember Howie Meeker?
How could you ever forget the former NHL rookie
of the year, the former coach of the Maple Leafs and
the current spokesman for Reed Career Service.
Spokesman for what? Yes, that's right,
Mr.Meeker has diversified and is now pushing a form
of guidance counselling service for an Edmonton bas-
ed firm.
The form of advertising in which the hockey
specialist is engaged is not your common, ordinary
form of advertising which current Socks or ex -jocks
usually become involved in. Meeker is not pushing
Swanson "hungry man dinners" where a
refrigerator's door 'is the primary focal point. •
Meeker is involved in a type of advertising which
is related. closely to the upcoming spat of commercials
which presents a new toy: Children see the ad for the
new toy, they tell their parents this item which they
really want for Christmas and parents purchase the
above mentioned item.
In this case Meeker is appealing to the fears of
parents who have no idea what "little Johnny or Susie"
will be doing when their high school education is com-
pleted. Meeker "strongly urges" parents to ask their
school board to purchase the Reed Career Service
program.
'In the second series of commercials Meeker out-
lines what the cost on a per pupil basis could be. When
you add up all the figures the price for the Reed Career
Service program -works out to something like $7,000
over a three year period. The price includes about 130
video cassettes of "real people describing their actual
jobs", a TV set and a video playback unit.
In their third foray of a very well developed media
campaign the company has begun the distribution of
free column titled "Career Choices by Reed.
At least one weekly in south-western Ontario has
picked up on the column, which is typeset and already
for insertion in the newspaper.
Reed's first career capsule was that of a reporter
as viewed through the eyes of.a summer student at the
Edmonton Journal.
You would think that Reed could come up with a
slightly better example of this business.
Nonetheless, you have to give Reed credit; he or
his publicity firm have developed a high profile media
campaign with a well-known spokesman to boot. One
doubts if his money will be wasted.
.•
Peanuts are not a crop which you associate with
this area but a Dashwood resident has proven that the
shelled vegetable can be grown quite successfully.
Irvin Rader of Dashwood had an excellent crop of
peanuts, this past season which -were grown in his
backyard garden.
One of the main ingredients for the peanuts
§uccess is sandy land. An Exeter resident lamed Hux-
table tried growing peanuts in the heavy loam of the
town and had limited success.
In the Tillsonburg area the first large scale
harvest of locally grown peanuts took place in the last
month with reports indicating that the crop while not a
substitute for tobacco in terms of income potential,
could provide an income from marginal land' which
was not under cultivation.
Providing that there are enough heat units, one
suspects that there might be a few areas in Hay and
Stanley townships which could be used for peanut
'cultivation.
A call to the agriculture office at Clinton might be
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