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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-01, Page 25SUGAR 'N' SPIC'E Blll SMIM Every so often I'm reminded of how very lucky Canadians are. We are not smarter than ,• other people. Goodness knows, ' we are no more industrious. We are just luckier, because we happen to be living in this country at this time. When you consider that we are just a drop in the bucket of the world's population, you can see just how blind lucky we are. Millions of people on earth today are literally starving to death. They will be dead, stone dead, in days, months, a year. Millions more are just above ve• the starving line. They eke out a barren, ' bhinted; hopeless existence, just one step' away from the animal. These hordes are subject to all the other things that go with a minimal existence, besides hunger: cold, disease,, ignorance, fear, and perhaps worst of all helplessness. And we complain endlessly, we Canadians, about such horrors as inflation, postal strikes, taxes, and all the other relatively, piddling burdens we bear. We " howl with ,outrage when ,butter jumps 15 cents a pound. us pearl have a stroke when the • price of beer and liquor is, raised. The very wealthy feel a deep, inner pain because they can retain only 55 percent of their income. But what does it all amount to? The consumption• of butter will go down for a few weeks, then rise to new highs. The • 'consumption of-' alcoholic beverages will not even tremor, but go steadily upward. And the richwill become richer. • Talk about fat cats, or buxom beavers, and we're it..• The Lucky Canadians. The envy of - the world, . Oh yes, we have poor people, quite a few of them. But you would be hard put .to it to find anyone in Canada literally starving to "death. Or freezing -"---to death. -Or. dying because there is no medicine for disease. Truth is, the vast majority of Canadians eat too much, suffer from over -heating rather than ,cold and are much more likely to die from too much medicine than they are from disease. And even, the poorest of -our poor, with all the buffers that ,welfare provides, are materially millionaires, compared with the, poor., of many• other countries. You, Mister, wheeling your Buick down the highway and beefing about the cost of gaffs, might just as easily be pulling a ricksha in'Calcutta,"'wondering whether you could last until you were 30, so you could see your first grandson. You, Young Fella, who made $10,000 in six months with a lot of overtime, and quit, working so you could draw ., unem- ployment insurance, could be sweating it out in a South African gold mine, or a Bolivian tin mine, for enough bucks a week to barely, feed your family. And you, Ms., whining about' the chess the hairdresser made, t the cost or complainingabou of cleaning worinen, could be selling yourself in the back streets of Nairobi to keep body and - soul together, if' you'll pardon the expression. But you aren't, and I'm not, and we shouldn't . forget it, mates. We were lucky. We live in Canada. Once in a while this hits me like a punch between ttie eyes. One of these times was on a recent holiday weekend. We were spending a weekend with Grandad, in the country. It was Gold and blustery outside, and I spent one�pf those rotten - lazy, thoroughly enjoyable Some ofy • Playhouse CLAY — Silo Unloaders - Feeders = Cleaners Stabling - Log Elevators - Liquid Manure 'Equipment - Hog Equipment FARMATIC - - Mills Augers, etc. ACORN - - Cleaners - Heated Waterers ZERO- Bulk Tanks Pipeline 8, Parlour Equipment ,WESTE EL-ROSCO-Granaries B & L -.Hog Panelling Bulli Tank & Pipeline cleaning Detergents, Teat Dip, etc. Bovadine Dyne Losan Uddersan Foamch'eck Kleeneasy LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS RR 1, Kincardine, Ontario Phone 395-5286 building f and rises. n Benson Tuckey, Chairman of the Huron Country Playhouse Building Fund Drive an-. niiunc .d today that con- tributions and pledges to date now total $45,000. • According . to Mr:' Tuckey, Who is also Honorary Chairman of the Playhouse Board, "We need much more ,and soon to get the building up and open for the 1975 Season on June 25th." "Three Charitable Foun- dations make up a .significant portion of the money thus far raised," said Mr; Tuckey. Mr. Bruce Sully, Goderich and ' Director of the Sully Foundation,"presented a $5,000 contribution to Mr. Tuckey on Thursday. Word was received earlier in the week that the. Charles 'Ivey Foundation -grant of $15,000 was being matched by the Richard Ivey Foundation, London. . .It is hoped that the Foun- dation grants will be matched by the various communities which the Playhouse serves. Thus far total gifts and pledges from individuals and various businesses are as follows Grand Bend . $7,450; "Hensall and Exeter each $850; London $535 Parkhill and Dorchester each $500; Cen- tralia and Bayfield each $100; Zurich $50;. and from', various actors who have worked at the Playhouse $60. "Not bad for a start but;we'.ve $80,000 to go and somehow we're going to make it," said Mr. Tuckey.'.' Construction is being stepped up on the Playhouse , site, working against the June 25th deadline. While the main priority is to get the building up in time, there is also the problem ofgetting it equipped. The Playhouse (Auxiliary) Guild is, tackling the purchase of the front curtain' while James Murphy, Artistic Director at' the Playhouse, is attempting to ,negotiate the loan • of various stage equip- ment ft?om other theatre companies. - t times when there is nothing o do and nothing to worry about: eating and drinking; playing cards, enjoying the fireplace, readint; watching television. The only fly in the ointment was the constant decisions to be rinade, At breakfast, for example. ' Banana or fruit juice? Coffee or tea? Bacon and eggs or ham ,and eggs? Toast and jam or fresh bread and honey? Evenings were even worse. An hour after dinner, I had to decide whether it was to be coffee,and cake with ice cream. or tea with 'butter tarts. Then there was the bedtime snack and more decisions. But •it was watching television that blew up the puffed-up dream that life was, after all, good and gracious, cosy and comfortable, warm and wonderful. There on the "news," with nothing to hide it, was the non - Canadian 'worl4. Children with the bloated °bellies and stick- thin limbs • of the starving. Other children, torn and bleeding and screaming with pain. ..., Mothers howling their anguish because they had lost their children and couldn-t find them.. A refugee plane, alvith more than 200 "soldiers" and only five women or children aboard. And everywhere, on that naked- screen, people, suf- fering, terrified, running like rats, from nowhere to nowhere. Not'mucfi you and I do ex- cept feel horrified. It's all too liar away. But at least we can stop. bitching-imour--own--baeky-ard, and face the facts. that we're not smarter, or harder working or better looking. Just lucky. WATER DRILLING Latest modern equipment Domestic - Industrial - Municipal Free Estimates You and your family deserve the best of wafer sd don't hesitate to call TOM LANG PHONE6410 OR COLLECT 855-4605 2 MILES NORTH ON HIGHWAY 21, GODERICH One :Experience '15 grant application here The Ontario Government has announced that a special summer employment program, Experience 75, will' provide 7,500 jobs for students this summer at a cost of $10,000,000. The many programs that comprise Experience 75 will be operated through the various Ministries of the Ontario Government. Program 13, which was formerly Youth in Action will come' under the jurisdiction of the Sports and Recreation Bureau. The program will „grant an estimated mated $810 000 throughout the province to municipal authorities, recreation committees and other community agencies . to develop summer recreation programs. The individual grants will be limited ' to $5,000 but the program . does not provide , funding for ongoing programs such as playground and swimming pool activities;, The program is looking for new, innovative programs with a view to useful come unity projects that perhaps could be . carried on throughout the year. The program will provide employment for approximately 1,300 students and is intended to involve a maximum number of people and , develop useful community services. The programs' will be cost shared and recreation departments,- have the opportunity to extend their existing services or .to develop new . programs to service community needs or special groups. Goderich recreation director, Mike Dymond, told the Signal- Starth on,e—gra-n has --been - applied for under program 13 in co-operation with the Goderich Sailing Club. The program is to provide two staff members to give sailing instruction to the' group between eight and 18 years of age. The program would ' also include a junior racing program, a safety program and safety patrol instruction. For the past two years the program has been conducted under the auspibes of the Ontario Sailing Association and has involved from 40 to 60 youngsters. The deadline for the grant applications is April 15 and the announcement of approved applications will be made early in May. Information and ap- plications can be directed to Program 13 co-ordinator, Jeff. Such, formerly/ of Goddrich, at 939 Western Road, Apt. 3C, London. - Students interested in the Program 13 should check with Goderich recreation ,director Mike Dymond. ' Riddell challenges Drea A call for more stringent gun controls coupled with an attack on Ontario's. rural population sparked a furor in the Ontario Legislature recently. Tory MPP Frank Drea (Scarborough Centre) insisted that Ontario' should "register the character of the person who owns firearms, not- withstanding the fact the federal government has jurisdictional rights to deal with handguns." Drea wants the Ontario government "to see the people who have rifles and who have handguns. It means that they are going to come to us and they are going to have to tell us what they want them for." ' In a speech which drew furious heckling from, op- position MPPs Drea snapped: "I know all of the yahoos and rednecks ° from ,the farm country are going to say'' this sort of legislation "will take, away the .22 rifle from the ' stockman ' Who wan s o rodents or to shoot wolves." "Careful now," an honorable member cautioned. • BRUCE MACDONALD ELECTRIC Domestic-CommercialAndustrial 133 'Britannia Rd. 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Plan .may provide you with the key that will open the door to your own home. • - OHC -:has• allocated. -serviced building._,lot$ for the construction of 22 three and four-bedroom detached houses for sale under the .H.O.M.E. Plan. These houses will be distrib'uted.on a first come, first-serve•asis. The houses will be located in the Suncoast Estates subdivision, bounded on the north by Sunset Drive and on the'south by Suncoast Drive: Families interested in purchasing a House should contact the builder of their choice. Since the H.O.M.E. Plan is designed to help families became home owners, applications are re- stricted: (a') to couples with or without children. or (b) to. individuals with at -least one legally,„� `dadpehdent child. - J 1 , BUILDER • . TYPE AND PRICES Glenmark Homes Ltd-. . 11 three-bedroom cio Alexander and, Chapman . detached houses, $23,600 Realty Ltd., • • 8 The Square, Goderich, Ontario Tel:. 519-524-9662. p Delbar9nvestments of 8 three-bedroom Goderich Ltd, detached houses, $22,800; 36A East Street 3 four-bedroom Goderich, Ontario - detached houses, $23,800 Tel: 519-524-2332 By leasing the land on which the houses will be built, OHC removes the land costs from the necessary down payment for a, house. As a result the home may, be purchased with a'down payment as low cas five 'per cent of .the house price. With a minimum down payment, a family with a current gross 'annual income of $11,240 may qualify for house. �... The Tots are offered on the basis of a 50 year. lease, with, the home owner having the option to buy the land `any time after five ye'a'rs of the lease '-have elapsed. Monthly land lease payments will be $61.79. Mortgage financing for the purchase of the houses is being provided by the Province of Ontario at 93/4,per cent interest on a five-year term with an amortization period -'of 35 years. May 1, 1975, has been designated the qualifi- 'cation date on which eligibility requirements such as residency and income will be consid- ered. Applicants must have ,resided in Ontario for at least one full year immediately 'prior to the 'qualification date, The houses are availabie'to single income fami- lies whose current gross annual earnings do not exceed $14,500 and to two -income fami- lies whose incomes do not exceed $17,000. In, the latter case, the major wage earner's income must not exceed $14,500, Monthly carrying charges, including mortgage payments, ground rent and estimated municipal taxes, must not amount to more than 30 per ,,cent of families' gross annual incomes... Preference'will- be given to applicants who do not own a home on the qualification date. H.O.M.E. Plan houses must be owner -occupied and not rented. ' Families who have •previously benefitted from a provincially -sponsored home ownership pro- gram are not eligible. H.O..IVI E ■ •COMMUNITY • ,y,,dtVELOPEO BY ONTARIO HOUSING CORPORATION AN AGENCY OF a THE PROVINCE OF" ONTARIO $ ff? 1111.. y.4.....................................................t .irtiti�.. 1111 •• . . 1111, � 1111.. 1111 1111 1111. .