The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-09-20, Page 44
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Matter of pride
40.
ingham's decision to pass a doogy-doo by-law
has much more to it than just municipal waste.
In what may seem to some to be a rather friv-
olous waste of council time, the by-law actually has
some meat to it.
Consider, for example, a community that cares not
about animal waste on municipal lands. Fortunately in
Wingham we have some splendid park land to take ad-
vantage of — a green space that virtually spans the town
from east to west. With the domestic animal kingdom
given free reign, that park land would soon be lush and
green with fertilizer, but definitely of no use to the hu-
man residents.
Stooping and scooping may be a small inconvenience,
but it is a matter of pride. -It's an act of kindness and con-
sideration to others who want to take advantage of the
municipal land without having to scrap off their shoes
following an evening walk. It's a signal to others that if
they so desire, they can spread out a blanket on the bankS
of the Maitland and picnic free from aroma, flies and
stains.
Many other municipalities have entered into such by-
laws with success. Granted enforcement may be an issue
for debate, the by-law should be self -policing. Its basic
requirement for pet owners is to simply consider their
neighbors in the community. Afterall, we are all .involved
in this big stink together.
Open the doors
The debate over whether or not to allow community
groups to use space in the fire hall is nothing short of
concerning.
The building, which is municipally owned, has some-
thing the community needs — adequate space. To deny
this to user groups with a long track record of communi-
ty involvement and betterment is troublesome in a com-
munity that so often goes to these groups for support on
certain projects.
The Optimists, which support youth development in
Wingham, are an honorable group. It is doubtful thei
monthly meetings will result in scrums in the fire hal
parking lot. However, without their continued commit
ment to youth, the chances of the fire hall being vandal
ized by bored teens is much more likely. Even more s
judging by the growing crowd that hangs out in Cruick
shank Park across the street.
We've all seen the kind of reaction these service club
3 receive when they want to address serious community is
sues — such as meeting space. Pretty soon our communit
groups will assume that complacent attitude too many o
us have about Wingham and simply stop meeting.
What a shame that would be. •
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SEPTEMBER 1948
Harry Posliff, until recently a
member of Kerr's Drug Store
staff, has enroled at Western Uni-
versity, London, for the coming
term. Margaret Nimmo of Wing -
ham will enter the University of
Toronto in the household science
program,
Ontario Premier George Drew
announced Monday that he will
be seeking the leadership of the
federal Progressive Conservative
Party. MPP John Hanna of Wing -
ham has announced he will sup-
port Mr. Drew in his bid to re-
place Mr. Bracken.
The Wingham Legion Hall will
be dedicated at a special service
this Sunday afternoon.
Excellent weather favored the
28th annual Belgrave School Fair
last Wednesday. This has been de-
termined the biggest fair yet, with
entries° of 2,100, exceeding the
previous record by more than 300.
Jack Walker has purchased the
furniture and funeral business of
A. J. Walker and is now in
charge.
SEPTEMBER 1961
Would you believe that a
Volkswagon could hold nine
adults? We didn't either until it
was proved last week when Ivan
Gardner was returning from a ball
game down country and had to
pick up the passengers from a
friend's broken-down station
wagon. •
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Madill
moved last week to the Harold
Pocock home; Mr. and Mrs. Dick
LeVan moved to the home for-
merly occupied by the Madills;
Monty Bennett moved to the
Rowsell home on Centre Street
and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hayes to a
home in Hillcrest.
Trophies were presented to sea-
son club champions at the Wing -
ham Golf Club last week. Those
receiving trophies were Jim De -
neau, Matt Boyd and Martin Gar-
niss, junior champion.
SEPTEMBER 1971 '
Doris Marie Ross became the
bride of James Lawrence Taylor
at a ceremony earlier this month
at Chalmers Presbyterian Church
in Whitechurch. The couple has
taken up residence on the groom's
farm in East Wawanosh.
Jack McLean, a farmer in the
Wroxeter area, will be installed as
Grand Vice Chancellor of the
Sovereign Grand Priority of Can -
da, the national body of one of the
orders of Masonry, at a ceremony
to be conducted Monday night at
Stratford. Mr. McLean joined the
Forest (Blue) Lodge at Wroxeter
in 1943.
Finding high-stepping boys and
girls is the aim of Patti Robertson,
who presently is seeking members
to form a Wingham Majorette and
Drum Corps. Formerly of Owen
Sound, Mrs. Robertson was the
Canadian International Baton -
Twirling Champion in 1967.
Jennifer Anne and Andrea
Lynne, twin daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. David Wenger, were bap-
tized at St. Paul's Anglican
Church on Sunday morning.
SEPTEMBER 1981
A plaque was erected in the
Gorrie park earlier this month in
recognition of the work of the late
Norman Wade, historian and
founder of the Gorrie Community
Club. The plaque was donated by
the Gorrie Women's Institute and
placed in a kiosk built by the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority.
Karen McMichael was crowned
Queen of the Howick Fair.
Dianne McLean was'runner-up.
The congregation of Wingham
United Church said a final good-
bye to its minister of 13 yerars at
a service held Sunday. Rev. Barry
Passmore and family are moving
to Owen Sound.
Liberals searching for another
TORONTO -- Ontario's Liberals are
starching for yet another leader, but
don't blink or you may miss him (or
her.)
The Liberals, who are head-
hunting this time because Lyn
McLeod was humbled by Progres-
sive Conservative Mike Harris in the
June election, change leaders as
commonly as others pick out a new
suit. This will be their seventh leader
in three decades, on top of four inter-
im or caretaker leaders, while their
rivals in opposition, the New Demo-
crats, have managed with only four.
Probably even few Liberals could
name all their leaders in that time:
John Wintermeyer, Andrew Thomp-
son, Robert Nixon, Stuart Smith and
David Peterson before McLeod.
One Liberal MPP, Philip Givens,
a former Toronto mayor, justified
having a different policy from Nixon
by saying "leaders come and leaders
go" and was merely noting brutal re-
ality. The Liberals should advertise
their job as short-term with not much
prospect for advancement, because
in half a century only one of their
leaders (Peterson) became premier.
If the Liberals have learned any les-
sons, they will pick someone who
has ideas'and strong convictions.
McLeod was.• an efficient minister,
but brought no ideas except an ambi-
tion to do good -- no one doubts she
meant well. She set up task forces to
consult people all over the province
and find out what they wanted her to
do, and after three years they told
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her to cut government and taxes. In
the election, she unveiled a massive
volume of promises on these lines,
most of which unfortunately Hams
already had made. They never
sounded much like personal goals
for which she had passion, but rather
as if they had been worked out by a
committee whose members each had
added convoluted, confusing provi-
sos and reservations.
From"the time he ran for leader,
Harris had firm ideas, mostly about
cutting government and taxes. He
was ahead of voters' thinking, lucky
a tide from many places helped
sweep them around to• his view, but
also converted and impressed be-
cause he believed what he said.
The Liberals should look for a
leader who has fire in the belly.
McLeod waited for her policies to
arrive by courier. Harris was laughed
at when he became leader of a mini-
scule third party and even more
when he cornily called himself "The
Taxwfighter." He acted like he was de-
termined to be next premier even
when few turned up to his meetings
and he was told there was no chance
for someone in the same party as
Brian Mulroney.
The two most talked -of as candi-
dates for leader are deputy leader
Sean Conway, the longest -serving
Liberal MPP, who chose not to run
earlier and mused about quitting pol-
itics, and Murray Elston, who ran
second to McLeod and quit the legis-
lature, none of Ikhich indicates con-
suming ambition. The Liberals need
a leader who can communicate. As
polls showed, McLeod never made
her name known despite the novelty
of being first woman leader.
Harris tried every stunt he could
think of, including taking a portable
phone in the legislature and asking if
he could use it to reach then NDP
premier Bob Rae, absent often on
phone-in shows, but also used more
direct, often simplistic, clearer lan-
guage voters understood
A new Liberal leader also will
have to resist a flood of demands
that the party turn sharply left after it
swerved an emphatic right in the
election with promises to cut $4 bil-
lion from spending and balance the
budgetin four years.
Cuts in government and taxes are
what voters overwhelmingly want,
as other provinces and a Liberal fed-
eral government have found, and a
Liberal leader who suggested return-
ing to big spending would have as
short a career as his predecessors.
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