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Citizens News, April 13, 1978
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Back to school
For the first time since the middle of February
secondary schools in Huron county will be
operating on a basis that approaches normality and
this paper welcomes it!
At the time this was written it had just been
learned that the teachers and board had reached a
tentative agreement in a marathon bargaining ses-
sion that started Saturday morning and with but a
few hours rest concluded at 5 a.m. Monday mor-
ning.
It's been a long time since the classrooms of
high schools in Huron county had their normal use
and the one group that knows this better than
anyone else is the students themselves.
The one question that remains unanswered and
probably will never be, is the effect that this strike
has wrought on the students of Huron, on both the
educational front and on their respect for the
teachers and for the body which oversees education
in this county.
Another question that comes to mind is why,
suddenly, the board and teachers decide to try to
work this thing out?
Could it be that both sides were getting sick and
tired of the cat and mouse games that each side
was playing and in addition, that the residents of
Huron wanted this dispute settled?
The thing that counts is that the secondary
school students of Huron will be resuming their
education.
Speak your mind
From time to time, we are advised by some
consumers' group or other to write to the ap-
propriate office if we don't like the way the adver-
tising agencies are trying to boost the sales of their
particular product.
Whether it's liquor, tobacco, lottery tickets, or
just "that terrific new bleach" or "it really is
cling -free detergent", the advertisers would be
wise to listen to the voice of the people. If it offends
the few who write, it probably has the same effect
on thousands of others who would write but don't
have the time.
And when you have spokespersons from eight
major religious denominations on your back, and
you are sitting in a creaky political chair, you don't
need a computer to tell you how many voters that
represents, and you do something fast.
A brief sent to Premier Davis and seven of his
cabinet ministers stated in simple terms that the
committee wanted the Ontario Liquor Control
Board to act as a control board and not a marketing
board. It also contained a few suggestions on how
the government might slow the increase in the con-
sumption of alcoholic beverages in Ontario, which
has outstripped the population rate increase by a
country mile.
The government didn't even wait for the brief
to arrive. They took action, which seems to be a
step in the right direction, on the amount and the
style of advertising alcoholic beverages.
Other action is promised, including the drink-
ing age and marketing outlets. Vox pop, the voice of
the people has been heard and heeded, at least until
the next election.
Personally, we never could understand, how the
evil could be removed from something by giving
the government a slice of the profits. Liquor is a
dangerous drug, tobacco is a killer, and gambling
wrecks homes, yet these three items become
glamorous, and almost a necessity when the
government is paid, legally, to turn a deaf ear and a
blind eye to the effects.
I can't speak as a teetotaler, and I remember
what a lousy set-up we had under the prohibition
years, but I don't see how a parent with a cigarette
in his mouth, a drink in his hand, a copy of the race
results in front of him, or her, all approved by our
government, can criticise today's young people.
The young politicians could better serve the
people by using a greater proportion of this Judas -
tax dollar to bring home to the customers the dis-
astrous effects of over -indulging in any or all of the
three "fun things".
Let's advertise the fact that even the best
brand of beer doesn't make anybody a better
hockey player or ensure a young executive a top
position on the board of directors. Let's show them
how a smoker's oxygen starved lungs can turn that .
suave, debonair, athletic model in the commercial
into a wheezing, hacking cripple with a hole in his
chest by the age of 40, or less. Let's explain how it
is impossible to win on the horses, or Wintario, or
Loto Canada, due to the exorbitant amount the
operators and the government have to slice off the
top!
You can tell your member that you are tired of
having our government play us for suckers, and you
want him, or her, to do something about it.
Or would you rather be a fish?
Thamesford Town Crier
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Miscellaneous
Rumblings
By
TOM CREECH
Worms and
other
silly stuff
Mention was made a few columns ago about the
amount of mail which finds its way to any newspaper
office. It was also mentioned that most of the above
found its way, to the most convenient trash container.
Some of the stuff, if not earth shattering in impor-
tance is at least worth a look and sometimes worth a
laugh.
The following is a selection of third class mail that
should notoreyou
b to death (but you never can tell).
The first item of interest (I use this term loosely)
comes from a Marcel Demas of Raymond, Alberta.
M. Demas really digs worms; in fact he'll send us
free of charge a brochure and bait price list from
Western Earthworm Farms so that we can all get
started in this down to earth business.
"Fortunes have been made in the earthworm
(vermiculture) industry,” the letter states, and that
"a young California truck driver, on welfare because
of a back injury, started a few years ago and is now
president of a corporation with close to a million
dollars in annual sales."
Either this guy won the California state lottery or
he has a heck of a lot of worms because according to
Demas, 160 beds of these creatures will yield 1200
pounds of worms at $2.00 per pound.
The most common commercial worm is the
redworm, lumbricus rubellus, and "when supplied
with a warm loving environment (a heated water -bed
with quadraphonic sound?) will reward its owner by
turning to a life of pleasure" (watching reruns of I
Love Lucy?) .
In recipe parlance, mix equal parts of either
manure or peat moss with 100,000 of those bisexual
devils and in 60 days you'll have enough earthworms
to drive even the most vociferous of trout into ecstacy.
According to a worker at the newspaper, a friend
of his located in Grand Valley, Ontario has a good
business cultivating our little red friends. Markets in-
clude organic gardening and farming, composting,
lawn improvement and refuse disposal. Redworms
eat garbage and sewer sludge and turn it into castings
which is an excellent plant food.
There are several vermiculture handbooks on the
market these days with one of the most successful be-
ing written by Hugh A. Carter of Plains, Georgia.
The presidency, peanuts, beer,an evangelist and a
worm farmer; different strokes for wierd folks.
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Now for the information which you've all been
waiting to hear: the Gong Show comes almost to
Canada!
Thanks to Chuck Barris Productions in associa-
tion with Concert Express and the Bob Ubanks
Organization, the official Gong Roadshow will be at
the Convention Centre in Niagara Falls, New York.
Auditions will be held at the Skylon tower on April
22 and April 23 with participants being chosen for the
show in the convention centre.
The overall winner will receive a cheque for
$112.62 and the official Gong Trophy.
The one thing that this P.R. release does not men-
tion is the amount of bucks that people who come
to watch the show will be forced to pay or whether any
of the usual guest celebrities or "Chuckie baby"
himself, will be there.
We are assured that the set "will be just like the
one seen on television with the same wacky, zany
talent."
If you want my advice, buy a box of fruitloops and
watch the real thing on the boob tube.
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The most informative bit of information which
Please turn to Page 5
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