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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-05-10, Page 1r' L I%you're. nwt gubscritsi g: xa The Wingham Advance Tunas, i you're missing out. Use this coupon below and subscribe todayt Name: Address: - City: Prov.: Postal Code: Subscription rates Canada within 40 miles (65km) ad- dressec, •to non letter carrier, address- es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. ❑❑❑❑DEED DD❑❑D❑D❑ Expi Date: Visa] Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed ❑ Return To. WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 NV J Council bans clean cardboard Teeswater adds recycling bins for materials TEESWATER - Teeswater council banned clean cardboard from the village's landfill site at its regular meeting last Monday evening. However, it was not an easy decision. It took two motions before it was finally approved. The motion also stated that clean cardboard must be put in the village's recycling bins, which are now in place. Coun. Steve MacDonald in- formed council that he had re- ceived complaints from resi- dents about- cardboard boxes being left at the curb. "Garbage placed in cardboard boxes should be picked up," he said. "The garbage shouldn't be emptied and then the cardboard box put back." Although the purpose of the bins was for cardboard collec- tion, Coun. MacDonald said that the council still hadn't made it mandatory for cardboard recy- cling. "If the cardboard' is ..contami- nated, we're (the town) the one's who'll have to pay," he said. Coun. MacDonald said he would like to see all cardboard pick up. Coun. Margie Bates said that it will be the serious recyclers who will be using the bins. . Coun. David Montgomery said that the residents should be made to use the bins, or they should not have to use. Coun. Karl Lang made a mo- tion that recyclable cardboard in town be put into the bins sup- plied, by the village, and that it would not be picked up. Culross Township residents would have to put their cardboard into the proper bins at the landfill site. The motion ' was defeated when Reeve Bruce Kissner cast the deciding vote. "I'm opposed to this , (mo- tion)," he said. Coun. Lang then made his motion to ban clean cardboard from the landfill site, and that it must be placed in the bins. The motion carried 3-1. yy Council news Editorial Letters V -E Day Sports T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 8 Page 13 Page 19 Page 20 Page 24 Page 24 A LOOK AT.. Wescast Industries celebrat- ed one million hours of no lost time. Page 7 The Wingham Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and Information leadership • ebt 1t Our monthly business profile returns this week. Joe Brophy and Forever Fishin' are featured. Page 6. 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Day...Jim Saint of the Wingham Legion lays a wreath at the cenotaph. Map of the locations at the time of unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. It's • • years • since Allted • Fifty years ago this week -- May 8, 1945 -- Germany signed an un- conditional surrender to end World War II, one of the bloodiest con- flicts in the history of mankind. It became known as V -E Day, for vic- tory in Europe. • Two atomic bombs dropped on Japanese cities would end the war in the Pacific three months later and the world was left to pick up the pieces from what had been a bitter and prolonged conflict. The end was bittersweet for those whose brothers, sons, fathers and friends had paid the supreme sacrifice. The Town of Wingham lost 13 of its best sons and although it has been said many times, it is true that they paid for our freedom with their blood. It had been six long years since Adolf Hitler's tanks had rolled into Poland and the world learned the meaning of "blitzkreig,” war fought lightning fast and relentlessly. This. time, Britain and its allies took ac- tion, declaring war on Germany on Sept. 3, 1939. Canada declared war on Germany on Sept. 10 of that year. Then came the job of mobilizing and training troops and putting war -time production into place. Many local boys joined the 99th Battery here in Wingham when it mobilized in the late summer of 1940, but some had signed up even earlier. Away back in 1939, no one could have realized the terrible toll taken by the conflict and the chang- es it would exact. From the ashes of World War II emerged two new "super -powers": the United States and the Soviet Union. Canada gained a new sense of indepen- dence on the world stagewith its own army in the field 'and its own commander. On the home front, things would never be the same again either. Women went to work as never be- fore, in the factories and on the farms and even with the return of the servicemen at war's end, life would never be the same. Many have remarked how much their world had changed in the few years they were overseas. When the full impact of "The Holocaust" was felt and the world learned that over six million people died in a most cold and calculated fashion just because they were Jew- ish, an innocence was icist, never to be regained. Never before -- and possibly never since -- had the choice between right and wrong ap- peared so clear. The memories are indelibly in - Surprisingly, many more people scribed on Henry Otto's mind: the associate the June 6, 1.944, D -Day day the world declared war on Nazi landings with the end of the war Germany; D -Day; the Allied inva- than V -E Day. While the Allied in- sion of Europe and April 25, 1945, vasion of Europe did mark the be- the day his hometown in northern ginning of the end, some of the Germany was liberated by the fiercest fighting of the war was yet Americans. to come. Otto, who has farmed in East However, by early 1945, it was Wawanosh Township for 20 years, becoming evident that Germany grew to young manhood in Hitler's could not hold on much longer. Its Germany. The. experience has famous death camps were liberated molded his view of the world and early that year and the Reich that left him with the belief that things was supposed to last 1,000 years are never as simple as they may at was on its knees. first appear. The pages of The Advance- When Great Britain, France and Times from that year provide evi- Canada declared war on Germany dence that the war was coming to a in September of 1939 with the inva- close. The April 5, 1945, issue sion of Poland, Otto believes that quotes British Prime Minister Adolf Hitler was genuinely sur - Winston Churchill as saying, "The prised. After all, the Fuhrer, or hour of success is near." Members leader, had been virtually unop, of his war cabinet were orderedto posed in early conquests of the remain close to their posts during Rhineland and Czechoslovaks. the four-day East& weekend holm- When the war started, 13 -year - day. old Henry, with a schoolboy's de - Please see VICTORY/8 light, was ecstatic. The reason -- he believed his teachers would volun- teer for service and be shot. Unfor- tunately, for the lad and his friends, that did riot happen and their class- es continue. • Life in Germany molded view of world for Otto MORE ON PAGE 8 orris Township Ratepayers Face Tax hike...Page .4, Henry Otto The Otto family lived in a small village about 60 miles north of Frankfurt. It was an old town with massive stone buildings and held the distinction of being the place where the Reformation started in the mid -1600s. The village was peopled by farmers and laborers. Henry's, fa - Please see REMEMBERING/9 t