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Clinton News-Record, 1985-07-31, Page 4LINTONNEWill FID DAY. JULY 3i1198 The. Clbntan Nenwitenerd le published each W.400001t at P.O.801c39,,: Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM ILO. Tel.: 482.3443, Se{ ipxlen Rate: CPn9da - $19.78 r..fi,ltJt.pn • 1310.73-ReF yner. ' torstpn -:83.04 per year 111 ie repisterod,os aocond 600411milli.by the pose office ander the permit number 04.17• The Kewe•Record Incorporated in 1924 the Huron News -Record, founded in. 1881. and The Clinton News Era. founded In 1$65. Total prose. rune 3.700. Incorporating r THE RUTH STANDARD OONA J. HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher SHELLEY MePHEE - Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager MARY ANN HOLLENRECK - Office Manager e4A MEMBER MEMBER Display advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 13 effective October 1, 1984. Keep the kids alive 1 Over the last decade, 84 children under the age of 15 have died in farm - related accidents in Ontario. This accounts for 18 percent of known farm fatalities in the province. In other words, almost one in every five ac- cidental deaths on Ontario farms claims the life of a child! Farming isn't like other industries — the home and the workplace are intertwined. On many farms, children are free to roam where they please. This creates a great potential for disaster. Many fatalities have occurred simply because the kids were too close to operating farm machinery or other dangerous farming activities. A majority of Child fatalities involved innocent bystanders who were either unaware of the dangers or had placed their trust and confidence in an older person to protect them while riding machinery or playing in dangerous areas. In many 'instances, the operators of the machinery were not aware of the children's presence, and did not expect the kids to be where they were. In other cases, adults carelessly allowed children to ride as passengers on tractors: To prevent these needless deaths, it is the responsibility of adults to, keep tight control over child access to dangerous situations on the farm. The following suggestions from the Farm Safety Association may help rural Ontario to avoid tragedies! 1. Remove keys from all tractors and self-propelled equipment. Access to keys must be tightly controlled. 2. Never allow children to ride on tractors, machinery, ,or loaded wagons. Be firm, no matter how harmless the situation may seem. 3. Children should not be allowed around areas where dangerous work such as silo filling, grain bin loading, mowing of hay, etc. is being per- formed. 4. All hazardous areas such aslagoons, manure pits, ponds, and wells should be secured with child -proof fencing. • 5. All farm chemicals should be stored in locked facilities. Control ac- cess to keys! - 6. Never allow children to play in farm structures, grain wagons, or other machinery. 7. Don't allow youngsters to enter pens orclosed 'areas with farm animals. This is of particular concern where young animals may be pro- tected bytheir mothers. • 8. Preventaccess to high places where falls, could occur (hay mows, utility poles, etc,'.) 9. Make sure that all machinery has its .guards and shields in place. Older children should be properly trained to do.the job safely before they are allowed to operate machinery. 10. Restrict young children to fenced -in play areas near the farm house. Behind The Scones By Keith Rouiston Grounding the Grinches In the cynical ,1980s it sometimes seems the Grinch has not only stolen Christmas but every other day of the year too. William C. Heine, a former editor of the London Free Press who still writes a column in the paper recently took a rap at the tor- nado relief effort in Ontario calling it a lot of foolishness. There is, he said, insurance to cover losses from things like tornados and if the people didn't have it, it's their own fault if they'rein trouble. If they argue that they couldn't afford to buy enough in- surance, they should not own a house in the first place. I've heard at least one other person ex- press the same opinion. It's easy for all, of us, of course, to be glib like this as long as • we're not personally involved. Yet the reaction of the general public to the plight of the tornado victims is one of the few reassuring things about human nature that we've seen since the "me" generation started to take over a' few years ago. From the crews of Mennonites and other volunteers to the concerts. given by big stars like Liona Boyd to raise money for victims, • the outpouring of brotherly love in the On- tario population is a welcome reaffirmation that people still do have a heart in the hard- headed '80s. Equally reassuring is the response to the African drought by the public in general, but particularly by the rock stars of Britain, the United States and Canada. The recent Live Md concerts and television shows will pro- bably have earned more than $100 million when all the money is counted. - How ironic that the so-called bad boys of the rock music industry, the people who so often seemed to be out to prove how cynical, how outrageous they could be, are the leaders in humanitarianism. Compare this to the present attitude of baseball players, the all-American, clean-cut . symbols for young people of so many generations have been pleading mistreatment from the owners of baseball and threatening to strike unless they get a better deal. The poor dears only earn an average of $300,000 a year. Even marginal players earn more than $100,000 a year. And we haven't seen baseball players organizing any effort to help the Ethiopians. , Oh the grinches stand in wait of something to criticize about the Ethiopian situation too, telling us that this is just dband-aid solution and so on, but the effort is, in the long -run; as important as the results. Those people who suffered from the tornado would have eventually rebuilt their lives without the generosity of the Ontario public. They will probably admit that they were lax in not having the right kind of insurance or not be- ing vigilant enough in keeping their in- surance up to date with the latest infla- tionary costs ( how many of us are guilty of that one). But they gained so much more than just money from the tornado relief fund: they gained a feeling that people still cared about others. Left to their own devises the victims would have suffered through but probably been bitter for the rest of their lives. Instead they have a new faith in their fellow humans. Those who. would, like Mr. Heine, make everything in this world a business transac- tion are, like those who would make everything a government responsibility, cheating us of the important need for people to pull together in times of emergency. 'Other people's pollution Dear Editor! I am writing about the Clinton Monster Bingo and the Vanastra Bingo. A person can sit down at an empty table then people come and sit down at the same table and start lighting their cigarettes. I thinly" they should have non-smoking areas. Wli'T"do non-smokers have to put up with other people's pollution? Some smokers light up their cigarettes and leave them burning in ashtrays, or they hold the cigarettes and the smoke drifts into other people's faces. Some people only take two or three drags from their cigarette and that's it. Ahhh summer.... Time to sit on the front porch, go to the beach, play baseball, take a vacation, relax. Summer has long been associated with vacation time, the easy living season, and rightly so. After all who wants to think about holidays in the dead of February. (Unless of course it means a Caribbean cruise). But the majority of us rely on our cars, our campers and our lawn chairs for holidays and relaxation. And summer, love- ly, sleepy, warm summer, is the best of the vacation season. Too bad we couldn't leave it at that. We simply try to pack too many things in during our short summer season. Along with the busy social schedules that we set up over the summer months, many of us live under the illusion that summer is the ideal time for lots of fix -it -up -around -the -house projects. Sure we might knock one or two off the list, but for the most part our plans are always greater than ambition or time allows. This summer the list at the McPhee-Haist house has been a lengthy one.—Paint the house. Perhaps the summer's most am- bitious project. Agree that it is too big. to handle. Hire someone to do the work. —Rebuild the chimney before it falls down. How hard can it be to put some bricks and mortar in place? Briefly consider tackling the project. Agree that it is too big to handle. Hire someone to do the work. — Landscape the front flower beds with shrubs. Decide that shrubs will beeasier to care for than flowers. Can't decide what kind of bushes to plant. Maybe next year we'll hire someone to do the work. — Thoroughly clean all windows and eaves. Particularly difficult since both husband and wife intensely dislike heights. Consider buying bungalow? Agree to recruit brother - By Shelley McPhee in-law for the job. —Wife wants new kitchen and bathroom floors. Husband says no. No agreement reached. Put on list for 1986. —Ditto with painting living room and repapering bathroom. —Sand and revarnish weathered, pine siding in large carport. Agree that husband can tackle this job. Look at it often. So far no progress made. - —Be original and make all Christmas gifts. Great rainy day project wife says. So far lots of rain, but no Christmas gifts made. Carry over project to fall list. —Invest some savings in new lawn fur- niture. Promptly agree on furniture style and color. Find new chairs so comfortable that decision is made to postpone all sum- mer fix -it -up -around -the -house plans. Agree that relaxing summer is most important .project. Raspberry season It's raspberry picking season and the Food Advisory Division of Agriculture Canada suggests two . ways of taking the fruit from mundane to magnificant with Raspberry Muffins and New Wave Raspber- ries. Raspberry Muffins 500 mL all-purpose flour - 50 mL sugar 15 mL baking powder 1 mL salt 175 rnL milk 75 mL oil 1 beaten egg 250' int raspberries Sift together dry ingredients. Combine milk, oil and egg. Add to dry ingredients mixing only enough to moisten. Fold in raspberries. Fill greased muffin tins. Bake at 190 degrees C. Makes 8 muffins. New Wave Raspberries 1 envelope (7 g) unflavored gelatin 350 mL white grape juice 200 mL regular or diet lemon -lame soda pop -375 mL raspberries Soak gelatin in 125 mL juice about 5 mum 'Add to remaining juice and bring to bog , stirring until gelatin dissolves, Remove from heat and stir in soda pop. Refrigerate until partially set (about 2 'hr.). Fold raspberries into gelatin mixture. Pour into 4 serving dishes. Refrigerate until set (about 2 hr.). Makes 4 servings (175 mL each). Upcoming events Members off the Clinton Golden Radar Senior Citizens Club are reminded that sum- mer holidays will be over on September .4 when the first fall meeting of the club held. Remember that Thursday, August 1, the date of the annual Clinton Library Boos. Sale. This popular event gets underway on the library grounds at 10 a.m. Bargains are guaranteed. Friday, August 2 is the final day to enter that .Bayfield Penny Sale. Be sure to buy your tickets and try your luck. Saturday, August 3 in Bayfield the annual Ratepayers' Association meeting gets underway at 9:30 a.m. at the Community Centre. Bayfielders take great interest in their community and each year this meeting offers them an opportunity to quiz their municipal politicians and plan for the future of the village. Discussion at these annual meetings is always lively, 'thought provok- ing and sometimes controversial. • Holiday visitors Allan and Laura McDougall and children Angie, Shane and Marcia from Sudbury spent a . week's holidays with . Ker McDougall at R.R. 5, Clinton. All aboard. I by Anne Narejko In sflpportQf midwifes Borrie people pass out at bingo because the cigarette smoke is using all the oxygen in the air, and the smokers don't see why they are passing out. I think there should be a no smoking rule in a public area. It would be much better for everybody in the long run. But smokers don't think of non-smokers. I wish they had a little more consideration for their non-smoking players. Dear Editor: I feel yourreaders should be made aware of Women Today's involvementin the Mid- wifery Issue which has recently been so pro- minent in the news media as a result of the Coroner's Inquest regarding the baby death of October 11,1984 in Toronto. Women Today members are celebrating the Coroner's recommendation to license midwives in Ontario. Women Todayhad already responded to this important issue by donating $250. to a fund to help cover the midwives legal fees. In Toronto last October, the International Conference of M.A.N.A. (Midwives Alliance of North America) was hosted by the Mid- wifery Task Force of Ontario. At that time a private members Bill was introduced into Parliament which sought to amend the Health Disciplines Act and establish Mid- wifery as a self-governing Profession. This Bill was blocked at that time by the Torys. The Association of Ontario Midwives, which is an amalgamation of the Ontario Nurse Midwives Association and the On- tario Association of Midwives, were. pleased that this inquest should be called at this time. It provided an opportunity for them to bring in expert witnesses to clarify the con- • fusion about midwifery and to give hope to growing consumer demand for alternative child bearing options. Consumer demand has been escalating for more family centred maternity care From one of the non-smokers. since the mid -'70s. More families want to ex- perience the birth of their new member into their midst in a non -pathological at- mosphere. Midwifery has at its centre the philosophy that birth is part of the normal physiological life cycle. Midwifery teaches, encourages and nurtures a family to realize their natural abilities and potential to fulfill their role as loving care -givers to a new human being. And as the newborn needs to be received into a loving nurturing environment, so do midwives need to be allowed to practice in an accepting environment. A working rela- tionship between the midwife and physician is inherent within the process. Midwives are trained to recognize potentia problems and then refer the woman back taller physician for medical care. One of the first projects of Women Today was to interview women about their birthing' experiences and attempt to establish a dialogue between the parents ( consumers) and service providers (nurses, doctors, hospitals). The goal of this project was to enable women. to become more aware of alternate choices for the birthing of their children. Women Today. has continued to be involv- ed in this issue. In 1982, Women Today surveyed all doctors and hospitals in Huron County regarding attitudes to birthing issues. In 1983-1984 Women Today members formed a Birthing Committee presenting Sagar and SpkQ fihns in towns spread across Huron County, illustrating comparative views and .ex- periences of child birth. • Women Today has identified this as an essential family issue. We will continue to be active on this issue and look forward to the eventual training and licensing of mid- wives in Ontario. We encourage your readers to write Murray Elston, MPP, Queen's Park, Toronto expressing their sup- port for the development of midwifery as a birthing alternative for the '80s. Sincerely, Jean Schoebl for Women Today Honesty, alive and well in Blyth Dear Editor: I would like to thank the person who found the keys that I had left in the trunk of oar car, a Pontiac Le Mans, and who brought them to the Blyth theatre where a young lady called our licence number. • The honesty of the people involved greatly added to the pleasure of the evening spent in your delightful town. Mesmeranda summer SUMMERTIME in this country is a mix- ture of so many wonderful things that I would happily leave for the next world, at once, if someone said to me, "Sorry, old boy, but you'll never be able to spend another summer in Canada." Perhaps the fascination of a Canadian summer might be compared to falling in love, once a year, with a passionate, un- predictable woman. Just as you are never quite sure where you're at with such a dame, you are never sure of what 'a Canadian Summer has in store for you. She might greet you with the warm, seductive scents of June and, just as you are about to seize her, retreat into a frame of mind so chilly that you're diving for your recently discarded woollies. In July, she turns on the charm full blast, clutching you in a sizzling embrace that makes your head reel and your feet falter. But when you throw caution to the winds and submit yourself entirely to the affair — in By Bill Smiley short, when you go on your holidays — she has a change of mood and weeps for two weeks without pause. When August comes, her murmurous langor, the sheer, delectable sight and smell of her, sends you running once more into her round, golden arms — and her perfume gives you hayfever. On Labor Day, leaving you frustrated, ex- asperated, exhausted and broke, she smiles once, enigmatically, and heads south to look for fresher lovers and bigger bankrolls. Ah, she's a bad one, old Mesmeranda Summer. She delights in making kids whiny or sick, giving them sunburn, and directing them into patches of poison ivy. This for the sake of tormenting their mothers. She doesn't like women, you see, that is young women. And ,her malice towards them is easily grasped by looking at the costumes shej persuades them to wear at the beaches and io town. I wouldn't he surprised to 'hear her chortling merrily about the topless swixn suit silliness, which she Sincerely, Marion'Pencose, Scarborough doubtless started. Teenagers she likes to tease. she fills • them with mysterious urges and yearnings which make them drive like retarded orangoutangs, dance in their bare feet amid broken bottles and rattlesnakes, and fall in love with people who should be put away in institutions. She's not pure evil, though. She has a rather soft spot for the older folk. She warms their arthritic joints with her hot tender hands. She fills their lonely hearts with pleasures in her loveliness. And she reminds them, in subtle fashion, of the days When they knew her long ago, when they were young and passionate themselves. Every time I feel the cool, smooth bands of Children after swimming,'every time 1 walk a lonely beach and see fights across the bay, every time I hear the -silken rustling of her garments in the evening trees, I know I am onee again in thrall to that wonderful witch * the Canadian summer. And I'm glad.