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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-06-28, Page 4Page 4 Tinges -Advocate, hole 28,1995 Publisher i Editor: Jim Beckett BINMIMs MO111I1p8: Don Smith Pvoduotloe Manager: Deb Lord Barb Corwin taggx heather Mk, Chris Skalkos, Ross Haugh, Ingrid Nelsen P gyp; Alma Ballantyne, Mary McMurray, Barb Robertson Robert Nicol, Brenda Hem, Joyce Weber, Laurel Miner, Marg Flynn jrmt Al Flynn, AI Hodgert front Office & AccountiW; Elaine Pinder, Sue Rollings, Ruthanne Negr in, Mita McDonald, Cassie Dalrymple The Exeter Times -Advocate is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and infonnatlon leadership • • Map Registration Number 0386 adios (05 ) addressed to non latter addresses $ILOO plus $2.316.$.T. "Outside Cance $59.00 plus tis. OST (ktokil iii 40 postage) Published trash Weinadsy Meeting at 424 Malt St., !Exeter, Ontrle, NOM 156 IN J. Esdy Publkstieas Ltd. to Telepho1,I15�663331 • Fax: 619.2350766 11.$.7. tllt3AiZl0e�e 40 nese (85 kat.) or an ter carder address 00 plus 030.00 (total mum ♦ 4.31 OAT. 1.1)1 I OI<I \I.ti It's happening right here ith all the events planned for the July 1 celebrations in Exeter we ex- pect many people will discover this is a good time to stay at home and soak up the atmosphere. In fact, many Exeter residents will be playing host to visitors who have been invited here to see what can happen when the community celebrates togeth- er. The Canada Day celebrations have been built on the success of the past few years developing into a day that can truly be described as "family" en- tertainment Spearheaded by the R. E. Pooley Branch, Exeter Legion, the celebrations have attracted the support of other or- ganizations as well. The Exeter Lions Club, Exeter Agricultural Society, Ste- phen Twp. and Exeter and Area Fire Dept., Exeter Business Association and the Federal Dept. of Canadian Heritage apr. are all working together to ensure a day to remember. The fun events begin Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. with a bike decorating contest which will be held at the Exeter Post Of- fice. This will be followed by line danc- ing at 6:30 and a performance by the Ex- eter Legion Community Band at 7:00 p.m. Activities will continue all day Sat- urday until the day is highlighted with a fire works display at the Exeter Ball Di- amonds behind the Rec Centre. The Exeter Legion Committee Mem- bers: Bart DeVries, Dave Holtzmann, Mike Brintnell and Kathy Masse along with dozens of others are doing every- thing they can to ensure we have a Can- ada Day to remember. Let's hope the at- tendance at the various activities reflects the amount of work that has gone into presenting another successful celebra- tion. Not -so -subtle advertising hen is paying to promote your product not advertising? According to the big tobacco compa- nies, it's when you're sponsoring a sr orts event. Cigarette advertising has been banned from television for many years under federal legislation. But anti-smoking, advocates say the companies have been getting around that easily by sponsor- ing popular high-profile sporting and cultural events. The Du Maurier Classic golf tourna- ment and Rothmans Grand Prix motor racing are two examples of how the to- bacco companies manage to bring their names into your living room without overtly promoting their product. "In a time when government is trying to de -normalize tobacco -industry prod- ucts, these sponsorship ads are legiti- mizing the product," said Garfield Ma- hood, executive director of the Non - Smokers' Rights Association. But the activists are hopeful that a re- cent U.S. ruling against a tobacco com- pany could lay the groundwork for a similar decision in Canada. Philip Morris Inc. agreed to move its ads out of the view of TV cameras at sporting events, after government law- yers showed they were circumventing a ban on televised tobacco advertising. Richard Pollay, professor of market- HE WANTS To SEE MY REGIS►TRTiON! ing at the University of British Colum- bia, says sponsorships do as much dam- age - if not more - than traditional adver- tising. "Because this type of advertising is in- cidental, the consumer doesn't treat it with the same cynicism—there's no counter -arguing," said the professor, who has testified for the U.S. surgeon general and in Canadian courts. There are still too many young people taking up the nicotine habit, and efforts to warn them of its dangers are only be- ing hampered by this insidious form of advertising. Note: And wouldn't it be nice if an ad- vocate group could somehow convince the powers -that be to remove beer ad- vertising from television. These pervasive commercials paint a picture for impressionable youth equat- ing the consumption of alcohol with beautiful people and endless good times. The reality is far different. It's time to stop sending mixed messag- es to children and teens; on the one hand holding school assemblies to warn of the dangers of drink, not to mention televis- ing public service announcements ;about the devastating effects on alcohol, yet on the other hand permitting the brewers to saturate the airwaves with seductive beer commercials Sr. Marys Journal Argus r View From Queen's Park TORONTO - The two major party leaders de- feated in the Ontario election are being coy about their futures, but they are as gone as pet rock and the hula hoop. New Democrat Bob Rae says he Will let the issue of whether he should retire as leader 'sit fora while' and does not feel pressed to decide. Some of his ministers have rushed loyally to say he should stay and others say he should be given all the time to reflect that he wants. Liberal leader Lyn McLeod says she is con- sulting her caucus and officials and her party 'needs some time' to decide what direction it will take. But it seems inconceivable that either could lead in another election. Rae will want to go. Although only 46, he has led his party for 13 years and in four e.ections and, having tasted the beady delights of being premier, would not feel much attracted to drop- ping back to a lesser role leading the third patty in the legislature. Rae might think it worth hanging on if there was an early chalice he could be restored to the By Eric Dowd Raccoons, not Santa down the chimney It was Saturday night, May 20 when Fred Bowers pointed out a raccoon sitting on the top of the chimney at the north side of the Haugh house in Crediton. In to play came Ross' strong right arm and a stone chased the mother raccoon down the chim- ney which would indicate she had moved in, possibly with a family. Sunday morning at church, Crediton's most renowned ani- mal trapper Ted Wales was told of the incident. Shortly after lunch Ted and Jeanette came with a long exten- sion ladder the back way through the fields. With a flashlight Ted peered down the chimney, but was un- able to see anything. The chim- ney has two parts. One was hooked up to the fireplace and the other to the furnace in the basement. The fireplace is closed up with a grate and since the oil furnace was removed the hole in the chimney in the base- ment was plugged with an old mat. The next step was for Irene to open the fireplace opening and light a piece of paper and let it go skyward. Nothing happened, revealing that section was clear. At this point Ross came home and was told to do the same thing in the basement. He re- moved the mat from the chim- ney opening and also lit a sheet of newspaper and up she went. The first result was the mother raccoon came roaring out of the chimney and sought haven in a nearby evergreen tree. Then the fun started. Shortly after the paper started to burn, two squealing, smoking baby raccoons came flying out of the chimney at the basement level and right at Ross's head. Show- ing the most speed in his life and probably the most scared ever he jumped out of the way and they landed on the floor. The question to Ted was, "What do I do now?" and he re- plied from the roof, "Cover them up." A pail and an old coal skuttle were available and they were used to cover the howling young animals until Ted came with leather gloves and removed them to a cage in his truck and later on to nearby woods. Back on the roof, Ted put a board and some heavy bricks on top of the chimney to stop the mother raccoon from getting back down. That was fine until Irene hollered that the basement was filling up with smoke. The board was removed, but that didn't help any. Brave Ross returned to the basement and found that he had just dropped the mat on the floor and some of the embers from the burning paper had fal- len on it. It wasn'ractually burn- ing, but smouldering enough to create obnoxious smoke in a co- pious amount. Grabbing a nearby hose, he quickly snuffed out the almost blazing mat and after it was cooled out sufficiently, put it back in the chimney cavity. By this time Steve Bibby ar- rived on the scene and helped Ted put wire mesh over the chimney and secured it tightly with wire around the sides of ' the chimney. So ended the episode, almost. At about 3 a.m, the next morn- ing Irene and Ross sleeping in the bedroom upstairs only a few feet away from the chimney heard noises of scratchin4 and wire "pinging". Mother raccoon was back try- ing to get down to her abdicated home. This went on again for the next two nights and since that time, alt has been quiet. Instead of bats in the belfry, the Haughs had raccoons in the chimney. premier's office. But electors so emphatically rejected the NDP, chopping it down to only 20 percent, eight percent below its core vote in re- cent elections, that he could not have much hope they will change their mind by another election in four years. Rae had shown reduced enthusiasm for being opposition leader before being surprisingly in- stalled premier in the 1990 election, when he mused over greener looking fields, including federal leadership, and the whole prospect of going back to his rut of five years ago with lit- tle hope of getting out will hardly enthrall him. Rae has been praised by media for his intelli- gence before the election and since his defeat, but not in the campaign when it mattered, and he now knows such fairweather flattery will not bring him votes. More important to his and the NDP's future,. the party lost many traditional supporters in the election because Rae's government cut public sector pay and broke contracts with unions. Many unionists see Rae as symbolizing the Gone cuts, although his cabinet was behind him to the extent that none of its members spoke against them publicly. Rae's departure would prompt many of the disaffected unionists to return to support the NDP and they will look for almost any excuse to do so as the anti -labor policies of new Pro- gressive Conservative premier Mike Hams take effect. There are many reasons why it will suit both Rae and his party for him to leave. McLeod is decent, modest and thoughtful and has shown dignity in defeat unlike some in her party weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth. But she will be about 57 by the next election; a decade older than most recent successful can- didates for premier and more to the point, lacks the fire in the belly and conceit leaders need to keep trying. She does not have for example the determina- tion of Harris, who as crowds queued to shake his hand in one town last week recalled that on a previous visit only one person turned out to hear him. McLeod was a capable minister pressed into leadership by colleagues who felt wrongly that having a woman leader would help get them elected. The Liberals have not always been quick to dispose of defeated leaders. Robert Nixon led in three elections and Stuart Smith in two. But their overwhelming consideration will be that under McLeod they lost an election they expected to win because they had reigned at 50 percent or more support in polls for three years. McLeod was unable to get across the mes- sage the Liberals intended, that they would cut taxes and some services, but with compassion. nor build any personal popularity with voters, as all polis on leadership showed. The Liberals willfeel they cannot risk keep- ing her as leader in another election, but with someone else at least they may have a chance. A