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BY
JOANNE BUCHANAN
Frank Drea, Ontario's
new minister of con-
sumer and commercial
relations, has pledged
swift action against
unethical business
operations combined with
a strong program of
informatiOn for con-
sumers. He has promised
Ontario consumers the
full protection of
legislation but he has also
warned that the gover-
nment can't bail out'
people who sign contracts
without reading them or
buy without checking the
details first.
• For this reason, the
ministry has produced
five new information
sheets about areas of
greatest concern: car,/
repairs, refunds and
exchanges, small
business schemes,
personal • service con-
tracts and consumer
complaints. The bulletins
tell consumers how to
protect themselves and
their •investments and
provi-de advice about
legal contracts.
/The ministry has
;produced -pamphlets and
bulletins on many aspects
- of consumerism. A list of
information materials for
consumers is available.
The ministry is also
distributing posters
throughout the province
in an effort to make
responsibility to "be
informed".
For information sheets
or pamphlets write:
Consumer Information
Centre, Ministry of
Consumer and Com-
mercial Relations, 555
Yonge Street, Toronto
M7A 2H6 or phone 963-
1111.
Preston Haskell of St.
Catharines and a' former .
Goderich boy, has been
named Canadian
Professional
Photographer of the
Year. Of the scores of
ribbons, trophies and
awards he's won over the
past decade, he feels this -
is the top one, out-
weighing all the rest put
together,
Mr. Haskell is 'only the
19th person to be so
honored by his peers in
the 31 years since the
award was established.
In other years no one got
it because the judges
didn't deem that anyone
should be publicly cited
for a "consistently high
level of photographic
achievement."
Mr. Haskell is the first
photographer from the
Niagara Region to win
this top award, as well as
being the area's only
Master of Photographic
Arts and the holder of no
less than 10 professional
accreditations. - These-
accreditations, certifying
that fellow photographers
consider him "worthy of
hire" are in the
categories of medical,
theatrical, arelikteciural,
child studies, candid
wedding, figure studies,
portrait, industrial,
commercial and pic-
torial.
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GARY GREEN
Gary Green, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Green of
Goderich, has suc-
cessfully completed the
Recruit Training Course
at the Canadian ForceS
Base, Cornwallis and is
now enrolled in the Tele-
Communications Course
at the C.F.B. in Kingston.
good lawn -more quickly
than a layer of fallen
leaves, says Bob
Fleming, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food horticulturist.
This layer of leaves will
smother the lawn and
increase the chances of
winterinjury.
"Instead of jeopar-'
dizing your lawn, rake
and compost the leaves
for use in the garden next
spring," he says.
Leaf coinposters are
available at most garden
centres. However, you
can make one at home
using •a three -metre piece
of fencingjoined to make
a ring. Chicken wire or
chain link fencing is
•recommended.
Leaves and other
^garden wastes inside the
•composter break down
during the winter to form
humus. This valuable
organic material can be
added to the garden in
early spring.
"If the material is
broken down into fine
particles, apply it as
mulch," says • Mr.
Fleming. "Otherwise, dig
the material into • the
soil."
Leaves can also be used
to provide winter
protection for tender
trees, shrubs, and
perennials. Hard leaves,
such as oak, beech and
hard maple, which do not
compost well, make ideal
mulch, says Mr.
Fleming. Apply a layer of
these leaves around the
base of tender plants in
the fall -to protect them
against winterkill.
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Noted Canadian
authors Harry Boyle (a
native of St. Augustine)
and John Smallbridge,
ST. PETER'S C.W.L.
Christmas
Fair
•SATURDAY, NOV. 18th
at
St. Peter's Hall
from 2-5 p.ri.
Baking, candy, sewing, knitting and crafts. Tam will be
served.
AmMiaiosummumammamilmamaniumammammoh.
will present prizes
totalling $1,500 at the
annual awards eemmony
for the Dorothy
Shoemaker Literary
Contest on November 24.
The ceremony will take
place at /the Cambridge
public library and con-
cludes this year's contest
in which more than 600
people submitted prose
and poetry entries.
e contest is spon-
soredby participating
librari‘e,s in the Mid-
western library system
including those in Huron
County. Names of win-
ners from this area will
be announced in this
column at the end of this
month.
Branch, Ontario Ministry
of Health, Hepbwit
Block, Queens Park,
Toronto M7A 1 S2 or phone
965-4220.
The Ontario Ministry of
Health has started a
$350,000 dental health\
program.
"We are launching a
new campaign that will
instill long-lasting
preventive, health
habits," Health Minister
Dennis Timbrell said.
"The program employs
creative methods for
involving all age groups,
•but half the .concentration
is directed toward the
younger age groups
because that is when
habits learned are more
likely to endure."
The program for young
people has been built ,
around the cartoon
•adfattet4AVIlitplir
Molar, who will be
promoting good dental
habits through Murphy
buttons, Murphy stickers,
a Murphy the Mighty
Molar story book and
several specialty items.
All the materials will be
distributed to the schools
and to the publp across
the province through the
Public Health Units in
each district.
"There is not a readily
available figure on how
Much Ontarians spend
•each year on their teeth.
But there is no argument
that the cost of treatment
far exceeds the cost of
prevention," Mr. Tim -
bran
November is being
recognized nationally as
Immunization Month in a
concerted attack on
vaccine -preventable
diseases that are a threat
to an estimated 20 per
cent of the children in
Canada. Ontario Health
Education Director
Michael- O'Dwyer is
prepared to give you
more information. Write
to: Communications
Civic Corner
The Goderich Airport
Committee will meet at 8'
p.m.on. Wednesday,
November 15 in Goderich
Town Hall.
The Huron County
Planning Board will meet
at 10 a.m. on Thursday,
November 16 in the -
Council Chambers, Court
House, Goderich.
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: 2 • 7, ;.
Ministry of Natural
' Resources crews, aided
by regularly -occurring
rainfall, fought 843 forest
fires this year - the third
lowest number of out-
breaks during the annual
April -to -October fire
season in 80 years. Our
wet weather has at least
been good for something!
Mathew Affleck of Harrow, Ontario and Lorraine MacDonald of R.R. 3
Goderich are doing field placement work out of the Goderich Police Station
for a month as part of their Criminology and Law Enforcement course at
Conestoga College in Kitchener. Both students will graduate in Aprillrom
the two year course and hope to become police officers eventually – Mathew
on a small town force and Lorraine on a city force. --(Photo by Joanne
Buchanan)
Crime
students here
Two Criminology and
Law Enforcement
students from Conestoga
College in Kitchener, who
are both aspiring. to be
police officers are
presently in Goderich
working out of the
Goderich Police Station
and trying to put school
theory into practise.
Mathew Affleck of
Harrow, Ontario and
Lorraine MacDonald of
RR3 Goderich (and a
former graduate of
G.D.C.I.) say they are
finding their field
• Vote
JOHN
WESTBROOK
for
Board of Education
in
Colborne & Goderich
Townships
placement experiences
very worthwhile. '
Mathew started
working at the Goderich
Police Station on October
17 and Lorraine started
on October 30. Each will
be at the station for four
weeks. While here, they
attend court seesions; go
along on regular patrols
in a cruiser with police
officers; help with in-
vestigations; fill out
reports; learn about
routine charges and gain
knowledge of general.
police duties.
ELECT
BRIAN
KNIGHTS
FOR
COUNCIL
The criminology course.
at Conestoga is two years
long. Both Lorraine and.
Mathew will graduate in
April. After that, they
must acquire a job at a
police department
(Mathew wants a job on a
small town force and
Lorraine wants a job on a
city force) and then at -
turn to page 3 •
The $1,000 Winner in
this week's Goderich and
District Community
Grandstand lottery is
John Lester of Forest. He
held lucky ticket number
755.
The Goderich Post
Office will be open for
regular Saturday service
on Remembrance Day,
November 11 and rural
mail service will also be
in operation that day.
• However, the post
office will be closed on
Monday, November 13
and there will be no letter
carrier or rural route
service that day. Mail
will be collected and
dispatched in accordance
with the Sunday
schedule.
Vote for
GLEN
RIBEY
• for
Colborne •
Township
Council -
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SUTTON
PA 11 K
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For year dIrmprionloyaseigkk roplacing-per-famousdbe.
nor b4ffe,p• wefeature
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3GREAT
SUNDAY SPECIALS
Your Choice:
* Spure ribs
*Roast Chicken
*Seafood Newburg
Which includes: •
Salad barj_Soup or Juice, beverage
dessert, Garlic bread or rolls
(a full course dinner)
$5?5
RESERVE
NOW
Reg. menu also
available
for Christmas
' Parties & dining
396-3444
SUTTON PARK INN-
• Hery-21 N. Kincardine -
11111006011401M10.
We Apologize
for any inconvenience to anyone concerning the Sutton
Park Ad of Nov. 1. The ad should have read as follows -
Sunday Specials featuring your choke of Barbecued
Spareribs. Irish Stew, Roast Chicken or Seafood
Newburg instead of Sunday Brunch. The price for the
Spada! is `S.". This price does not apply to the Sunday
Brunch which begins Nov. 12.
The Kincardine News
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Now taking reservations
for your
• CHRISTMAS
PARTIES
Phone524-9641
AN IDEAL
CHRISTMAS.GIFT
Is a 19,79 Membership
for GOLF, TENNIS
- or CURLING
(1978 Prices guaranteed
if purchased by Dec. 24, 1978)
PHONE 524-9059
Benmiller Inn
We are pleased to advise
DEVON CREAM TEAS
are being served daily froth 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. in
the Woollen Mill Lounge
After Tea visit
The Hollow,
for an unique shopping experience
GIFTS OF DISTINCTION
*placemats, runners & mats, by "The Country Weaver", and "Country Seamers"
*handcrafted toys & dolls, *candles, *handwrought sterling silver jewellery,
*hand -blown glass lamps, *Quilts *Pottery *Hand -painted Stone Cats by Arlene
Stephens *Rheo Thompson Candies *gourmet foods & preserves by "Crabtree &
Evelyn" *"A Taste of the Wild", from Blanche Pownall Garrett *Antiques and fine
_reproductions *China *Gloss *Silver *Stained Glass *Dried flowers *Brass .*Pine
Mirrors *Hasty Notes
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MAW