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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-07-05, Page 2 (2)J\ • PAG* 37-GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 5. 1973 , • Particiiatory democracy. That's what Deputy -reeve Stan Profit says he wants ands; byall appearances,- that's exactly what Deputy -reeve Stan 'Profit is begin- ning to get from the people of Goderich, although there is some question if it is just the kind of participatory democracy_, the- deputy -reeve was after. To be sure, the minute people actually begin to participate in democracy, they start 'to think for themselves. That's good, but it can be dangerous and damaging for an elected body in •a system which thrives on the normal apathy which_ prevails everywhere. For when people participate, apathy goes out the window.And when apathy is gone, people soon develop a sur- prising desire to be heard. And when people want to be heard, they want someone to listen .... and to act. With this new awareness should come a whole "new- era of co-operation and progress .... but will it. Will elected of- ficials have the wisdom'and the courage ) translate participatory democracy into acceptable action for a, better future? One 'of the most recent examples of local participatory democracy ' is the citizens' committee to, study the possible advent of the shopping plaza. This com- mittee states that while the developers, the planners, the businessmen and the elected municipal officials will all ...)ave a o.cracy ,AMV 41.4 their say, it is the- people of Goderict and area who should be heard and must be heard. -on this matter. And the committee has set out to 'determine, if the people of Goderich want a shopping plaza here; if they will support a plaza; if they are satisfied with shopping locally: These are valid concerns and Rick Robertson and his citizens' committee must be congratulated fdr their'initiative. • But must local officials always listen to the voice of the local people? Can the , local people really expect . th eir. collec- ive voice on such .issues to bear more than the usual weight just because their_ numbers are greater? Participatory democracy as -sought by the deputy -reeve includes local citizens working together to help 'finance the step§ to progress in the community. tut participatory democracy can be much more than that, and in some case its worth is difficult to assess and even more difficult to reconcile in the whole spectrum of facts and figures. The provincial government, too, claims to want participatory democracy. But whenever the grass roots voice is sought, the answer comes back contrary to the views of the°goyernment .... and participatory democracy is nothing more than a fine sounding phrase which pacifies the people. Ii�wdoe,s it happen? - Every ,week - come Thursday and- the - rush of finishing the newspaper is over for another week, the editorial staffsits, down to criticizer. The Goderich Signa- Star. - The trio of writers views the news °with a more critical eye than the most discer- ning leader. Needless to say, time and time again - week after week - mistakes are discovered after it is -too late to do anything about them. And though -the news staff vows to strive for perfection the following week ......thoug i everyone is advised of all errors_ and thereby warned to .avoid similar pro'Sfems in the weeks to come .. mistakes continue tb happen. For the most : part, Signal -Star readers are understanding of the human failings of the news staff and the great team o workers laboring with the casionallY thou` h customers cannot be pacified by a mere apology: or even a promise to publish the corrected item in next week's news. They often. ask • the somewhat redundant question, "How does it, happen?" The Signal -Star from time to time has the privilege to host tours through the plant,. Usually during these tours someone will remark "I had no idea there is so much to putting together a newspaper." While that doesn't explain how" Mistakes happen, it does give some idea' that the margin for error is considerably higher than gone would assume while _looking from the outside in. What ap- pears as sheer stupidity „from that van- tage point becornes_aw' that so feW errors .actually occur in the vast volume of work which is turned _out by the Signal -Star crew each week. If you have -two ,hours to spend drop around to the Signal -Star to hear how the particular mistake you are concer- ned bout happened. There will be an.'. explan 'on. If you haven't that much time, just marvel with others who know that the mistake wasn't"greater. The wisdom of maturity One of our readers brought us a clip- ping recently, a ,. piece written by an • unknown who 'signed herself ,only "Widow X". It contains a few gems of dly wisdom you might find in- teresting: , Years ago, when my widowed mother came, to live With me and -my husband, she. _made our lives,.so miserable, that I determined I would never bring such Qmisery on my, children i,f I ever had to live with them. One day I sat down and wrote myself a letter. In it were some _ .. _. pertinent rules, and Fon. the outside of the envelope I wrote: "To be openedon the day I go to live with my daughter, heaven forbid.", I tucked it away in an old book and forgot about it. I've been widowed and self-sufficient for six years, but recently I was forced to give up my joband go to live with my oldest daughter. I've opened that letter and I think your older readers might benefit from it, as I intend to••Here are the rules: 1. Give what you • can toward your keep. Any budget will stretch just so far. 2. Keep yourself clean and neat. 3. Remember, it is THEiR home. I3e especially _ _considerate -of HIM. He allowed fie' .to bring you here. • 4. Give them privacy at every oppor- tunity. 5. If; they want to go away on a vacation, :but are hesitant because Of' you, offer to visit another relative or friend so they, will be free to go. 6. Don't offer any advice or express any opinions unless asked. r 7. Volunteer information that they might be `too embarrassed to ask for, such as arrangements for your burial, hospitalization, etc.--Wingham 'Ad - Po vance-Times. ghc dioacrtEfj SIGNAL—R --0-- The County Town Newspaper of Huron —0- Founded in1114A and pub, 'shed every Thursday a137West St ,Goderich,Order o Member of the Audit SureivofCircuralion,the CWNAsndOWN)Ir. Advertising rates on requett Subscriptions payable iA advance, SIG in Canada, 14.0 or all coin! res other than Canada; single copies 20 tints Second class mail Registration Number 07111. Adveri,s,ng ,s accepted on 0* condition that, ,n the event of typographical error, thatpertidn of Me advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together With reasonable allowance for signature; wiIt nofbe charged for but, the balance of 0* advertisement *111 bi'oid for at flip appI,cable rate. In the event Of i typographocal error advt.-rioting goods or arvicesalaWrong price, doodsorserv+ctsmaynot bit sold. Adverbs, iv) ,s inertly an offer to sell, and may l. withdrawn at any time .utopias and Editorial Office TELEPHONE 324-5331 tire* code S1! N ..: roust, Clara) evisil.registe.stion ew+»b.r--715 N. Published by lis) -Star Publishing Ltd. ROAEIIT 'G. 1001111 --president and publisher -SHi.ItlY J. KELLER--editor N. W. THAW-.Ledilori•1 star EOWARO J. $Y*$K1--adV IlishIg manager DAVE !I. VOILLIAMS--actvortielng rsprooent i Live °•� DEAR READERS If you have travelled recently in the, Benmiller area you.will have noticed that- the _former woollen mill has taken on,a new look....and if you read last week's Signal -Star you will know it has taken on a new roll as well. It is to- =tie -come- a "rustic hotel -dining lounge" - open to the public generally. There's no doubt about it. Peter Ivey's idea for a first-rate country dining lounge is a good one arid there'sno'spot in On- tario which is more beautiful than Benmiller for such an un- dertaking. But whether the people of Benmiller, and more t% the point,, Colborne Township are fully appreciative,of magnitude of the project and the changes_ it may bring to the area, is; dif- ficult to say. „,4w This column has expressed the view on more than one oc- casion that the area all along Lake Huron but most especially in the Goderich vicinity, is going to boom. Int may be that the Ivey hotel -dining lounge in quiet; peaceful Benmiller is just one more indication of the changes which are to -come throughout the entire district. People want to get away from it all. More and -more, people want ,to mike their permanent homes in quiet green. areas far -from the work -a -day world. The time is long gone when businessmen want to live behind their stores, for in- --stance. Instead, they want to; close up the store at the end df the day and go home to get, lost in the seclusion of ,trees and 'water and blue sky. Look around. You will see a gradual but certain trend away from the urban areas to the rural scene; a'ivay from the core of town to' the suburbs. An exclusive and perhaps ex.. pensive dining lounge,.would have had no place in' Benmiller 20 years ago. But today there's an obvious move towards the wide. open spaces and gracious country. living and people have . the money. and the facilities with which to indulge themselves in this fancy, • Just the past weekend, I spent five days in Toronto and vicinity. People are on the move acrd life is going at a fan- tastic -pace. 3°My intenti +k. was to attend the Ontario ' ,: er Games at Oshawa but it wasionpossible to find accommodation in that city or in any of the smaller communities surrounding there. I finally ended up calling a cousin who lives in Toronto, She advised me she would be - "in, the country" from the closing of school until it reopened but I was welcome to use herhome as a base during the weekend of the On- tario Games. ' So, during the weekend I did a great deal -of driving and a fair amount of eating out. I can tell you the move is on.. away from the cities and towns to the country and money appears to be no object for the vast majority of the people. the crowd sings 0 Canada, with _rows of young, eager Ontario athletes -standing at -attention-- ready fora the starting gun. ' I _liked the motto sported by most of Huron County's business districts though the walking wasa bit more en joyable in the climate 'con- trolled` enclosure. - one youthful- swimmer on her Thirdly, the variety from T-shirt. It read: Thisswimmer store to store. was not all that • _ Finally(. I remembered how vias maide�Cb nada. .; ., .. greai.-fliffpI5" e""'Vittre shopping And that was the tone of the much new under the sun, but I anywhere, anytime. For a short ,whole event. Everyone ' but ' found when one looked through y., while I can tolerate shopping everyone felt very Canadian ,the merchandise in one ladies'' ..... but soon it becomes a drag and very much from Ontario.-•-4store, one had seen the main and I'm ready for something new to, take my -interest ...anything so long as it does not involve tramping around looking , at price tags and com- paring those figures to' the balance in. riy pocketbook. Shirley 1. Keller somewhere else to shop and will migrate readily to other areas __and_other_,centres where food and clothes and, goods are offered for sale. ' I've never been so aware of my citizenship in a long, long time .. or so, ' proud (since the -Canada-Russia hockey series). T saw my • first real live lacrosse contest at the Games. • w _ Lacrosse,ism t all. that popular in this part of the world but the two teams I saw hani- -LL mering it out were from Whitby - and Niagara Falls ...., and they looked like they'd been playing the .gaine 'for years and years. The crowd nearly went wild as the score ended in a 12-12 tie at the" end of regulation-- .tuner;...It.was .annQpnced. ,there. would a 10 minute, over -time period and if nothing was set- tled in that period, there would be a sudden death rule in force. -The crowd roared as neigh- boring. Whitby made it 14-12. Then the fans from Niagara Falls had their innings as Niagara tied it up 14-14 in-the ---:-dying-moments of the .overtime period: . .. And then,_ as if by magic, -the. Niagara team took fire and net ted two quick goals to. ,make it 16-14 just as the buzzer soun- ded to end the overtime: I've watched a lot of hockey in my lifetime; a fair amount of football and basketball; a con- siderable amount of baseball. But to ' my way of thinking, lacrosse has to be the most gruelling contest of them all:..,. and the roughest sport I've giver seen. That game alone was worth the trip to Oshawa. , Speaking of the Ontario Games, they were -an absolute tfellght to watch. It gives orfs°'a 'tnef endoua feeling to stand beneath fluttering flags. while * * * During the weekend I visited two large shopping malls and I, couldn't help but think -of home and, the fuss - which is arising here over the possibility of a mall locall . These malls - Ione in Toronto and the other in Oshawa - were large and contained everything from pet stores to hairdressing salons. It Was hot outdoors but indoors the temperatures were cool and inviting. Prices? Well, prices were high -to my way of thinking but one comes to expect that in these kinds of city plazas where the finest'.in shopping comfort is- offered. There's small doubtthat-a locil plaza, if constructed, could not compare with these 'two shopping. malls I visited. This community just does not have the population base to "support such a pfojctr"-- But ..1 _:.did_make some _.obser- vations which may or may not be of interest locally. . First of all, 'I found the mer - stock in all the ladies' stores in theentire plaza. Fourthly, I discovered , that she, people who reside in . the area of these plazas and shop there -regularly, soon long for DEAR EDITOR Thank you Dear Editor , , .:....: The school year 1972-73 is now part of history. Yet during the year, you have made our, children, our teachers,, our parents, and the public fully aware of what . is going on in - the, educatronal nsther__educational progress ' of every day life. Thanks ' for , your fine coverage be it events in touch football, floor hockey,_ swim- - ming,skating, , basketball," volleyball, '' tumbling, soccer, softball, ,folk and square dance, ' and track 'and field day events. Your acceptance of_;articles on teachers' meetings, workshops, and professional development days has ,,been very gratifying. It has been . a pleasure to have worked with ,you. Yours sincerely, J.B. McCarroll; Physical Education Consultant. Trophy turmoil Dear editor. As a secretary for the Huron Minor Soccer Association. _I went to Exeter to watch the Exeter Centennial- Cup Tour- nament in the Atom age group which is 10 and under. I must say the Tournament was exciting for the young boys tvho showed excellent Talent by all communities par- ticipating. Teams participating _ were two from Exeter, two from Goderich, two from Seaforth, one from Clinton, one from Huron '' Park and ohe from Grand Bend. It waA a lot of fun for the boys and parents and spectators.. I have watched every game played and there were many co*ches from other cora- munitiel who tried to cheer on their teams to win "coaching?" There__ _were Also- many parents supporting their teams Cheering them very loud. At, one game I hay . seen • ' xeter official approach' a ;Sea ' th spectator telling him not shout so Ioud, Before the Centennial Cup bete wild-- a ' clash 6 , between Exeter officials Clash .Ooderich requesting , that 'the Committee would- deal with 'thinmstter,This waac•diaecus,sd cii*nts in these malls totally in- - dependent and lacking in the kind of good business graces I've come to appreciate.. in the smaall,twni$ Iihave`shopped in al xny..lilr in Huron County. Secondly, there was n ire*t deal' of walking, to be done, just AS Much if not more than in" t at the last meeting. -Then it was felt that because of the lack of basic :rules •in • sccer .:.that all communities will'try 'to study the literature given out, so in .--the-future the.- game would be enjoyed by all. - Reports have been given to me by some officials" who -snow soccer, that -hockey, rules have been applied to this game sem- ding a player off for 5 minutes during the game for misbehaviour. In soccer if a -"player is sent off the field he Stays for the game and his con- duct is reported to the H.14.S.A. committee who would deal with this matter. s,,, During the presentation of the Exeter. Centennial Cup to Goderich Atom A - team; an Eiger official in his speech condemned the Goderich coach` from :the Atom A `beam without, consUltation, : and earned a disciplinary action by refusing to' give- the Goderich .....taeam the • trophy to take home to Goderich. "'ire . stated that the trophy will ,.remain-_ in Exeter: Turing the half time of the first gam `'loetween Seaforth and Goderich pressure was ap- plied on thekreferee that he would talk to the Goderich coach and disqualify the gage. The referee refused as he could see nothing wrong with the game and felt it was properly played. This referee promised me and the President Dr. John Underwood that he will make a statement to O:S.A. ° OF Sport (Mario Job Jones. In concluding I ould like to point out That ''1 .M.S.A. com-, mittee had nothing to do with the deniat't of the trophy to, the rightful winners. ' Yours in Short Kaz Btrdny The referee was an official referee of the -0.8,-A. whose ser- vices were requested by Exeter to officiate at the final game. We like LOOKING 7O�Y �M William Lane, :4,.. the Godertch'. Hot': Society received•(, Canad'an Corm Paris 1°el- '' awarded x�oettion, to the ���,.,,y posuthtit�, Revition. Wa.w. StoddNn'' formerly in :Or Presbyterian Lebanon . �. Kentucky, Miss, Constance la who"'taught for years in the. Resell; School, resigned her with a vjew to attea� College in Hanulfoa, her departure to her Goderich, she was pr the choir and Young Union of St. Paul's Hensall, with an add pressing appreciation service as a church w, companied by a Ba, An addition of $50it -ter the salary of Mr.' modern language ma last meeting of the Institute. On 'Monday a ' , against the return Cameron as member ,,legislature for West Hu entered in the -.office McDonald local regist High Court. The peg; James Mitchell the candidate. Corporation Te Beacom was well ple -the new watering cart the _town has entrus charge. He says that holds several more , weight than the old o, easier to draw. 25 YEARS AGO July 5, 1949 Favored with fine the Dominion Day. cel; in Goderich went over quite successfully F time the parade mov the-" morning until. clusion of the pro,•. Agricultural Park evening, the lay's proved most enao,abli The GoderiN held itslast ".`'net` resuming them' the British Exchange The, new. preside, Emerson spoke of lying ahead and of a greater activity now club has a membership one of the largest mem in Ontario for a townt Goderich. Paul Mooney, sono 11D, arid Mrs:-- pleted his four years business administratio, -at' - Pickering ► Newmarket. He won., dlirigton award whacf- for outstanding etintti community life Farewell messages minister and people me closing of --the six pastorate of Rev. R. bull in„ North Street Church. Representatives° congregations' in the Maitland PresbyteryPresbyterian Chur Lucknow when a rece. held in 'honor of ' MacDonlad, newly moderator of the ' Church in Canada. II. about 80O people at Ashfield area School at the Kintail beside Lake Huron. 5 YEARS AQ' July 5,19N A suplementary' program was approved council which involves -This amount include) cover the remainder, Lavis Company work way 8, $15,000 for $4,509 for storm blacktop paving.fros 8 to Maitlaoad to Most production no Maitland 1 of employees Sheaffer Pen Com' laid off for an in,,': jifstment" the c' nounced. mens W In a state toy the company rep01 to " insufficientorder! in relation � ne� prod been found - an inventory adJJu into effect. ' • Letters, to the Edit' WriteyoMr5 .tod_al .:. ,din nd of ., the ,le�L Lou I,ewi uga. bride ,id M Poo R iesag� RAI.1 souk was ter, c blsk' and altar djng her I sat, wit] ga sith•e 4_11 i iliqu high' six whit and l suet { �r PrP uga u -end' ove ell and to own with ilowin re i wit) 'ed statics ,maid clo Miss of the ulber all of! teased of ho atter 1 sil ces, gil emam, ' brot ;were w, fr 'nald 1 he g uga. recep Steal -where