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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-9-7, Page 20Page 20 Times -Advocate, September 7, 1994 LARGE AUCTION SALE To be held at Richard Lobb's Auction Building in Clinton for Huron County Board of Education plus several local consignors. Saturday September 10 at 10 a.m, VEHICLES - sell at 11:30 a.m. 1985 Ford 66 passenger school bus, 1985 16 passenger school bus, 2-1984 Ford 60 passenger school buses, 1979 Ford LTD car, all vehicles sell as is. Not saftied, 8 ft. x 12 tt. green house, new 5 ft. x 7 ft. tin shed. APPLIANCES, ANTIQUES, FURNITURE 2 fridges, clothes dryer, up- right freezer, 14 cu. ft. chest freezer, 3 colour TVs, light oak dining suite with corner hutch nearly new, 2 other dining suites, wood exten- sion table, antique settee, 2 spooled type beds with box springs and mattresses, single box spring and mattress, like new, 3 chesterfields, chesta bed, dressers, odd chairs, high chair, violin, wooden floor lamps, bridge lamp, small pedestal drop leaf table, 5 bells, mechanics tool box, some tools, garden tools, gun stock chair, 4 ft. florescent lights, 2 gas engine grass whips, push lawn sweeper, plus our usual offering of items too numerous to mention. Terms: cash or cheque with proper ID. AUCTIONEER Richard Lobb 482-7898 Clinton LARGE ESTATE AUCTION THURS. EVENING SEPT, 8 AT 5 p.m. at South Huron Rec Centre Exeter We will be dispersing a large offering of well kept furnishings and misc. items from a well kept Hamilton estate plus local additions. HOUSEHOLD, ANTIQUES: Lovely 9 pc. dining suite with ext. table - 6 chairs, china cabinet, sideboard, Malcolm hutch and buffet, maple drop leaf dinette table and chairs, wall unit entertainment centre in mint condition, good chesterfield and chair, sofa bed (like new), reclin- ing lift chair, several dressers and chests of drawers, RCA and Mag- and colour TVs, good clean single beds, chord organ, 3 stereos and speakers, microwave, auto washer and dryer, what not shelf, cof- fee and end tables, several pendulum clocks, several good clean beds, a large assortment of china and glass incl. dinnerware, cups and saucers, fancy vases, stemware, coloured glass, kitchenware, bedding, riding lawn mower, some tools and hundreds of useful and collectible items. Auctioneer: Bob Heywood 235-0874 pyo •G LARGE AUCTION OF PROPERTY AND CONTENTS Saturday. September 10 at 10:30 a.m, on location in the Hamlet of Kippen PROPERTY: Consists of a nice 3-4 bedroom family home with stair- case in front hall, full basement, elec. wood combination furnace, large eat -in kitchen and family area, attached garage, hydro updated, 4 pc. bath, being offered at 12 noon subject to a reasonable reserve, $5,000 down - balance in 30 days. GUNS: 222 and 303 rifles, "FAC required" HOUSEHOLD, ANTIQUES AND MISC: Oak dining table and 6 chairs, nice bonnet chest, secretary desk with glass doors, antique oak sideboard, old dressers, chests of drawers, old cupboards, walnut china cabinet, pressback rocker, gate leg table, drop leaf table with barley twist legs, antique beds, odd wooden chairs, filing cabinet, trunk, blanket box, F/F Mclary fridge, 30" Moffat range, auto washer and dryer, chest freezer, elec. sewing machine, Electrolux and Valet vacuums with power heads, small plant and lamp tables, corner what not, microwave, davenport, chrome table and chairs, double pedestal desk, colour TV, stereo, oil lamps, china and glass, chest of 8 setting of silver plate flatware, blankets and bedding, quilt frame, kitchen- ware, hand and garden tools, 11 HP riding mower, and hundreds of useful and collectible items. Contact: Auctioneer: Bob Heywood 235-0874 for viewing of property. Pro- prietors: Mr. and Mrs. Rochus Faber Van A well prepared resume will help you get the job you are looking for! A resume detailing an applicant's work history and education is extremely helpful to an employer who is seeking a person for a specific job vacancy. Your personal resume should accompany your letter of application. Here are some guidelines to follow in preparing your resumes: ❑ Make it clear, concise and easy to read - and no longer than two pages ❑ The resume should be typed on 8 1/2" x 11" white paper with enough white space to prevent a cluttered look O Start with your name, address and phone number O Next under a sub -heading "W k -History" detail the previous jobs you've held - in reverse date order - that is, last job first. O Use a separate paragraph for each position and precede it with the dates you held that position. O State the job title, a brief description of the responsibilities - and the results you achieved. 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By Val Thomson is it too late for Lassie? In the room at the Red Cross where you donate blood, there's a T.V. An ad for the movie "Lassie" carne on and the fellow in the chair next to me com- mented, "I think it's a little too late for Lassie." I knew what he meant but didn't exactly agree with him. 1 suppose there are some kids who would think Lassie is too old-fashioned to be bothered with. 1 haven't seen the movie but 1 expect it's non-violent and perhaps a little too realistic to appeal to kids who think that shows have to be violent and/or fantastic to be good. Many chil- dren think if it's not in cartoon form, then it must be boring. The man in the chair went on to say, "Kids sure watch a lot of crap these days." I agreed with him. on that point. "And just wait until they bring in these other 500 channels," he added. "Well, thankfully, they won't be coming to our house," 1 re- plied. "We don't have cable and we don't have a dish. We get 5 channels, one of which is French, and sometimes that's too many." He looked at me somewhat surprised. "Well, it will come in on your computer line," he said. "We don't have a computer," 1 answered. "Oh, you will. Your kids will have to have one and they'll bug you until you get one." I told him it was possible but rather doubtful that we'd be get- ting one. "These channels can even come in through your phone line," he told me. He had me there. We do have a phone. I'm sure if I had told him we didn't have a telephone, he'd have gone over to the win- dow to see if my horse and wag- on were parked outside. He seemed determined that these 500 channels were going to seep into our house whether we liked it or not. "Can't we just say we don't want them? Can't we just not subscribe?" I asked. "I guess .so," he replied, as if the idea had never occurred to him. People sometimes forget they have choice. Yoti can say no. If crappy TV shows are on the channels you get, then don't watch them, and don't let your kids watch them either. You can't watch garbage and expect your kids not to get interested in it. They will follow your exam- ple. if 1 suggest to our kids to watch "Road 'to Avonlea", and then leave the room, the chances are slim that they'll watch it. 4 However, if I turn it on and stay there watching it, they will too. 1 like "Road to Avonlea" by the way. 1 grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie" and "The Waltons" and I really liked those shows. My favourite cartoon was the Bugs Bunny show, and f still know most of the lines. Once when i was in high school, my friend Irene and I •'r were driving through town and talking about Bugs Bunny car- toons. We got laughing so hard that Irene drove right through a red light. Sure enough, we got pulled over. We told the officer we honestly never noticed the light, but we didn't tell him we had been laughing our heads off over Bugs Bunny cartoons. He told us to pay more attention in the future and let us go. There are people who will say that Bugs Bunny cartoons. or "Merrie Melodies" have their share of violence and I can't deny that. However, even as children we recognized it as a sort of slapstick comedy. We knew that you couldn't drop huge boulders on someone and expect them not to get hurt. We knew that if something explod- ed in your face, you don't just pick your beak up off the ground, stick i back on, and walk away. I know it sounds contradictory and people will disagree with this, but to me, the type of vio- lence in those old cartoons is somehow different than much of what is portrayed in many of to- day's cartoons. The old cartoon characters were not constantly battling hideous forces of evil and were not obsessed with power. It's hard to explain. It's just different somehow. We had two channels availa- ble to us for most of our child- hood. It was enough. We still watched our fill of TV, probably too much by our parents' stan- dards. I can't imagine why any- one would want 500 channels. I also don't know why anyone would want MTV in their home. I've never seen MTV, nor do I want to after having read about it. An article appeared in "Focus on the Family" and was written by Bob DeMoss. I'd like to share some excerpts with you. • "Probably the most destruc- tive message reinforced by MTV music videos is this: Women ac- tually want to be raped. They're dying for it. When they say no, they really mean yes." • When MTV's Kurk bider was asked about the concept of sex within marriage he replied, "There's definitely a feeling in the media today that marriage is square, it's over - that we should be talking about non-traditional marriages or something." • "MTV is ►here your teens can watch Snoopy Doggy Dogg rap about how great drugs are." Mr. DeMoss says that MTV is producing a generation of "Vidi- ots" or "visually illiterate" view- ers. This is accomplished by flashing images on the screen so fast that viewers cannot "discern the implications of what they are experiencing." They aim to numb the brains of the viewers and they admit it! Another quote from the article states, "Bob Pittman, one the network's creators..has long un- derstood the power of this medi- tun. Ile says, "If you can get their emotions going, make them forget their logic, you've got Custom Round Baling 4 ft. wide by 3-6 ft. high Scott cohsitt Varna, Ont. 565-2728 Or 2334297 t 'em. At MTV, we don't just shoot for the 14 -year-olds, we own them." If you ask me, it's not the teen- agers whose brains are numb. Then there's Beavis and Butt - Head. The article refers to them as "animated juvenile delin- quents" who "get excited about lesbian sex, watching people urinate and joke about perverted sex." In one episode, Butt -Head held an aerosol can while Bea- vis held a lighter under the spray. There were many incidents of children trying to copy them. In Ohio, a 2 -year-old girl died in a fire set by her 5 -year-old broth- er. In Australia, 12 families lost their homes when the apartment building they lived in was set on fire by teens who tried the trick in their living room. MTV claims no responsibility. They put the blame on the par- ent, or else suggest that the kids who try these things are prob- lem children anyway. My ques- tion is: Why give parents one , more thing to guard against? Why tempt a "problem child" with dangerous stunts? The swer, of course, is mon- ey. Sad b true, MTV is very successful. Th ctairrt--tee not just a channel, but a "cultural force. People don't watch it. They live it." That's a scary thought. In an ad campaign, MTV tried to make fun of the older generation and used the slogan: "MTV: Some People Just Don't Get It". It's a good thing that some of us "don't get it" and it's too bad there aren't more people who don't. This stuff goes way be- yond Daffy Duck getting his beak blown off. It's time to take the remote control into your own hands, folks. Don't let your kids become "vidiots." TV, videos and movies can be entertaining and educational in a positive way. There are good shows out there. Adults have to set examples and rules so kids will recognize the crap if and when they see it. I don't think it will ever be too late for Lassie. The sooner that type of show makes a comeback, the better. P.S. There is a video available from Focus on the Family called, "MTV Examined" If you want to see for yourself what it's all about, I would be happy to pass the address along to anyone who is interested. New dialing system for telephones will affect everyone TORONTO - September 4 marked a small change in the way telephone users across Can- ada make long distance calls. Currently, anyone making a long-distance call within their own area code only has to dial one or zero and the seven -digit number. Starting September 4, they will include the area code as they would for any other long-distance call. The only ex- ception is are code 905 where this practice is already in effect. The change itself is not dra- matic, but will affect everyone, since more than 60 percent of long distance calls are made within a phone user's own area code. All long-distance calls will now include the area code. The change is necessary be- cause North America is running out of are codes that telephone numbers can be assigned to. With increased use of telecom- inunications equipment such as faxes, cellular phones and mo- dems, more than 13,500 new numbers are being requested every day throughout North America. The limiting factor is the for- mat of the area code. Tradition- ally area codes have a second digit of one or zero so as not to be confused with the first three digits of the local telephone number. As the limit of phone numbers in a region is reached, new boundaries have to be de- fined and new geographic or 'area codes' introduced. But, all traditional area codes have been assigned, so new area codes will have to contain sec- ond digit from two to nine. To allow switching equipment to distinguish the area code and process calls we now will in- clude the area code onoall long distance calls. From September 4, 1994 until the end of this year, Bell Onta- rio is introducing a conversion period to allow customers time to modify their telecommunica- tions equipment to accept the changed dialing pattern. However, customers arc en- couraged to make necessary conversions and to start using the new dialing pattern as soon as possible. It is important that telecommunications equipment now: re -program auto dial and speed dial features, faxes, mo- dems, pagers, answering ma- chines and cellular phones. FORM 9 SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC AUCTION The Corporation of the County of Huron Take Notice that the land(s) described below will be offered for sale by public auction at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on the 4th day of October 1994 at Huron County Court House, 1 Court House Square, Gtxlerich, Ontario N7A 1M2 Description of Land(s) 1. Part I.ot 13, Huron Road Concession As per Instrument No. 256137 To of Goderich, County of Iluron vine of Ontario 82,542.58 2 Unit 10; Level 1 Huron Condominium Plan No. 1 And its appurtenant common interests As per Instnrment NO. 261487 Township of Godcrich, County of limn Province of Ontario $11,418.60 3. Fast Half of Lot 11 Concession 13 As per Instrument No. 127521 Township of Stanley, County of Huron Province of Ontario 815,781.44 4, Part of Lot 5, lake Road East Concession Designated as Pan 1, Reference Plan 22R-1730 As in instrument No. 242045 Township of Stephen, County of Huron Province of Ontario 89,316.72 All amounts payable by the successful purchaser shall be payable in hill at ?he time of the sale by cash or money order or by a bank draft or cheque cenified by a bank, trust corporation or Province of Ontario Savings Office. The munkipalityor board makes no representation regarding the title to or any other matters relating to the land to be sold. Responsibility for ascertaining these matters rests with the potential purchasers. This sale is governed)), the Municipal Tax Sales Act and the Municipal Tax Saks Rules. The sticcess I purchaser will be required to pay the amount bid plus accumulated taxes and the relevant land transfer tax. Minimum Bid $ (set out the cancellation price as of the first day of advertising.) For further information regarding this sac, contact: THE TREASURER OP THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF HURON COURT HOUSE SQUARE, GODERICH, ONTARIO N7A IMI