The Times Advocate, 2006-03-08, Page 5Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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Opinion Forum News
ROSS
HAUGH
BACK IN TIME
I 0 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1996 - Lorraine
Findlay of the band Lorraine
filmed a music video segment
recently at Gar's Bar and Grill in
Exeter.
Sunday's annual carnival of
the Exeter figure skating club
was a huge success. Adopting the
Beatles theme was the idea of
club carnival co-ordinator Lorrie
Hrudka who felt their music
would appeal to both parents and children.
35 YEARS AGO
March 9, 1971 - This is Education Week in
Ontario, but area students and parents learned
only that they live in the province's snowbelt. It
was actually a "review lesson". Parents had been
invited to attend classes during the week, but for
the first two or three days they couldn't get
there, neither could their children.
Another severe storm in the area Saturday
night prevailed until Tuesday morning. Roads
became plugged Sunday night and in some areas
they were not cleaned out until Wednesday.
The Grand bend pee wees won the WOAA "D"
hockey championship by defeating Belgrave 7-6.
The coaches are Bill Baird, Bob Chapdelaine and
Griff Thomas. The captain is Kevin Datars.
45 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1961 - Ross Marshall of R.R. 1,
Kirkton was elected a director of the Holstein -
Friesian Association of Canada at the annual
meeting held lately in Toronto.
Jim Neil, R.R. 1, Exeter won the turnip cham-
pionship at the Huron Seed Fair for the second
year. He is the son of Earl and Jean Neil.
This week Dr. M.C. Fletcher of Exeter marked
the completion of 35 years of service to the com-
munity.
At Tuesday night's SHDHS board meeting,
principal H.L. Sturgis and chairman Larry Snider
both endorsed the current proposal to establish a
trades school in Huron county.
50YEARS AGO
March 9, 1956 - Hydro and telephone crews
are still mopping up after the worst storm of the
winter which played havoc with wires and poles
and caused damages estimated at $75,000.
Bonnie Heather McRae, Dashwood; Sandra
and Linda Walper, Exeter and Carol Brown,
Hensall were district pianists who won honours
at the Stratford Kiwanis Music Festival this
week.
Bonnie Doerr was the winner of the public
speaking contest at the Home and School
Association meeting Tuesday evening. She chose
for her speech topic "Wonders in the World of
Science".
60YEARS AGO
March 8, 1946 - Andrew Bierling, after five
years with the Canadian Forces in Canada and
overseas, has returned to his position with Jones
and May.
Mr. Elmer D. Bell who previous to the war
conducted a law office in Seaforth has purchased
the law practice of Mr. J.W. Morley.
Mr. F.W. Gladman, who at one time was asso-
ciated with J.G. Stanbury, now Judge Stanbury
of St. Catharines has taken on as a partner an
Exeter boy, W.G. Cochrane.
85 YEARS AGO
March 11, 1921 - Mr. Frank Coates of Usborne
township has purchased from Mr. Charles
Upshall the 50 acre grass farm north of
Winchelsea.
Mr. James Scott has sold his home and prop-
erty in Exeter to Mr. George Coward of Usborne.
I I 0 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1896 - From an authentic source we
have lately received confirmation of what
appeared to be idle rumour from Farquhar, to
wit: "That while prospecting last season in the
district lying between the village of Lumley and
the northwest boundary of Usborne, Fred
Stewart discovered a ruby of almost priceless
value, whereupon he immediately filed a claim
with the proper authorities. Mr. Stewart intends
taking out papers to develop the said property in
the near future.
Messrs. Bawden and Howard intend to build a
large skating rink in town for the coming sum-
mer.
Seniors' Perspective
By Jim Bearss
ADULT ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR
Coming Events:
South Huron AdultTrade Fair & Information
Expo:
The 4th Annual Adult Trade Fair & Information Expo
is again planned for Wed., June 7. Hours are 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. at the South Huron Rec. Centre in Exeter. List of
vendors coming to fair, at present are: The Jewelley
Box, Gary Bean Securities, Scotiabank, Hopper Hockey
Funeral Home, Crest Centre, Right Path Consulting
Group, Huron County Pork Producers, Municipality of
South Huron (Cemetery Division), Jenifer Regular, Total
Energy, Heartland Credit Union, Queensway Nursing
Home, Exeter Villa, Huron Patient Transfer
Euchreamas:
"Lucan Senior's Sunshine Club's" Annual Shamrock
Euchreama Wear your green hat and come out to the
Lucan Community Centre on Thurs., March 16. Win
from the Leprechaun's Pot, special draws, game prizes
and a delicious lunch is provided for a day of fun.
Kirkton Women's Institute is sponsoring another
Euchreama this winter on Thurs., March 23. Held at
the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre, Kirkton. The
game starts at 10 a.m. and lunch is provided and you
have a chance of winning prizes. Contact Jean Copeland
at (519) 229-8225 or Helen Shute 229-6159 for more
information.
Exeter Seniors are sponsoring a Spring Euchreama
on Fri., March 31 at the legion. Games start at 10 a.m.;
Delicious lunch will be served around noon. Prizes and
share the wealth draws. Cost: $5 for the day.
Anne Cann has accepted the gift certificate for Dining
for Seniors for the month of March. "Dining for Senior's"
is held every Tuesday at noon at the Lions Youth Centre,
125 John Street West Exeter. Congratulations Ann and
enjoy your meal!
Irish Stew:
On St. Patrick's Day, March 17 plan to go to the
Masonic Hall behind the police station in Exeter and
enjoy a great meal of Irish stew. Sponsored by the
Eastern Star and for more information contact Jim or
Brenda Hennessy at 235-3671 or Sandra Hern 229-
6947.
Annual Chili Lunch:
Exeter Lioness is hosting their annual Chili Lunch on
March 31 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lions Youth
Centre, 125 John Street, West Exeter. Take-out is avail-
able. Tickets available from any Lioness member or call
Mary Lou 228-6878.
Rainbows, Children's Support Groups:
VON Palliative Care Volunteer Program, facilitated
groups supporting children through death and divorce
WED., MARCH 22 6 p.m. — 7 p.m. Lions Youth Centre,
125 John Street, West Exeter. For more information or
to register contact Kim Winbow 235-2510 VON
Bereavement Consultant.
Legion News: Coming events
Soup and Sandwich at the Royal Canadian Legion RE
Pooley Branch #167, Exeter on Fri., March 17 11:30 —1
p.m. $6 per person and take out is available.
Pub Night:
On Sat., March 18 7 — 11 p.m. at the legion.
Entertainment will be by Jim Ashby & His Group. Come
for the meat draw 4 — 6 p.m. and stay for the Pub
Night. Oven Stew will be served. Cost: $5.
Ambulances Stay In County:
No more non -emergencies ride to city!
It has been announced that as of April 1 non-
emergency ambulance transfer of patients will no
longer be an option in Huron County. Exeter resi-
dents will now need to look at other ways of getting
to medical appointments. Before Huron County
Council passed a bylaw forbidding the practice,
patients with certain medical problems and with-
out access to the necessary transportation methods
required to suit their health needs were able to book
ahead to get ambulances to take them to non -emer-
gency medical appointments. After a recent study that
found a number of these trips took ambulances outside
Huron County borders, council voted to cancel the prac-
tice to assist Ambulance Services to comply with provin-
cial Ministry of Health guidelines that require medical
emergency response time by ambulances to be no
longer than 16 minutes. The council felt that if ambu-
lances were outside the county borders they would not
be able to meet the guidelines in a time of crisis. In hope
of filling some of the gap that is a result of the of the pol-
icy change, 23 -year paramedic Dean Boyle has started a
company to assist those in need of non -emergency med-
ical transfers. Called Huron Patient Transfer, Boyle's
company will use two traditional style ambulances with
double stretcher capacity to take patients to their
appointments. Cost of private Ambulance Service will be
a flat fee and a per kilometre charge. Huron County
critics have stated that this is one more example of the
gradual privatization of healthcare in Ontario.
Happy I 20th forAutomobiles:
The automobile celebrated its 120th birthday on
January 29. On that date in 1886, Karl Benz applied for
a patent for his "vehicle with gas engine operation."
Patent DRP 37435 for the Benz Patent Motor Car grant-
ed in November of the same year is regarded as the
birth certificate of the automobile. In later years the
Benz organization and the company formed by fellow
automobile pioneer Gottleib Daimler would merge to
form Daimler Benz. Karl Benz is, therefore, credited as
co-founder not only of Mercedes-Benz but also the auto-
mobile industry itself.
Several months after Benz filed his patent for the
automobile, Daimler, with his master engineer Wilhelm
Maybach, attached his Daimler engine to a four -
wheeled coach producing the first "horseless" carriage.
Following Daimler's death in 1900, his largest distribu-
tor, Emil Jellinek, asked Maybach to design a car more
advanced than any other; it will be named for Jellinek's
daughter, Mercedes. The resulting Mercedes of 1901
defined the car, as we essentially know it today.
Unlike other inventors, Benz did not merely install an
external combustion engine into an existing coach chas-
sis. His design extended to the entire vehicle: it was
clear to him that a vehicle powered by an internal com-
bustion engine was subject to engineering principles
quite different from those applying to a horse-drawn
carriage.
Benz created innovative technology with classic engi-
neering methods: a small horizontal, single cylinder
four-stroke engine running on gasoline, electric ignition,
carburetor, water-cooled radiator, and steering and
tubular frame.
With these features, the first motorcar came into
being in 1886. The vehicle was an absolute original. All
automobiles produced since that time stand as heirs of
the Patent Motor Car. The rest of the Patent Motor Car
story belongs to history. Three vehicles were completed
by 1888. Bertha Benz, the inventor's wife, who drove it
with her sons 53 miles from Manheim to Pforzheim,
secretly took one of them out. Thus Bertha Benz
became the "first woman driver." The journey gained
much publication for the vehicle, and Benz sold a num-
ber of cars to customers as a result.
In reality, a four -wheeled vehicle, The Benz
"Victoria," followed in 1893. This again incorporated
numerous innovations, including double -pivot steering,
which is still employed in today's automobiles.
And so it continues; with each vehicle, the automobile
improves just that much more — to this very day with
introduction of the 2007 Mercedes-Benz S Class which
exemplifies the essence of generations of innovative
technology from Mercedes-Benz, the world's first car
company.
Smoke Alarm Facts:
• Test your smoke alarms once a month and change
the batteries every year.
• Never remove the batteries for smoke alarms. If
nuisance alarms are a problem, try moving the alarm to
another location or purchase an alarm with a" hush
feature" that temporarily silences the alarm.
• Smoke alarms don't last forever. Replace smoke
alarms if they are more than ten years old.
• Make sure everyone in the household
knows what to do if the smoke -alarm sounds.
Develop a home fire escape plan and practice
with the entire household. Evacuate immedi-
ately — remember if a fire occurs, your home
can be impassible in a matter of minutes.
• The Fire Code amendment comes into
effect on March 1. After that date, fire depart-
ments will be enforcing the regulation in com-
munities throughout Ontario.
The Ontario Fire Act will require smoke
detectors be installed on every floor of a home including
the basement. Smoke detectors must also be installed in
each sleeping area. Think of smoke alarms as seatbelts
for your home — you wish you didn't have to use them,
but when they're needed and they protect you and your
family from harm, you are forever grateful they were
there and that they were working. For more informa-
tion contact your local fire department.
The SweetTaste of Maple Syrup:
Spring is right around the corner and that means it's
time to satisfy your sweet tooth. Without a doubt, the
traditional annual visit to a sugar shack is one of the
best ways of feeding this craving. But why not add
something different this year, such as a tasting menu of
See PERSPECTIVE page 6
Jim
Bearss