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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1984-02-01, Page 2. , ,7•;. '44 . r • . ;• '','•'.:' ,,, 0 ---'liur ' ,lle , ,. „ ,,,,,..•„ ....„ , ,„..„,,,, sm,e,8600 09 the OM/mortify *sr ”, . • inrbting .4tti4s*4Ailii'Piis; ''' founct4tOie . , 12 Main St. , • : bwrogso ' Published at SEAPORTH, ONTARIO. every Wednesday morning:. JOCELYN A. stimpa, publisher ' RON WASSINK, Editor • KATIE Ci!LEARY, AdVertlaing'Representative .. . , \ , ••1 A .1" ..,•••••;;;;;;r1!' p.4 Member Canadian doinniunitif giowsoapar AMP Ontario CO munitylkwapaper Assagiation and Burootol Circulation A member of ,The Ontario Press Council • Subscription ratea: Canada $18:754 year (In advance) Outside Canada $55.00 a year tin advance) Single copied 50 cents each • - , • AYH' 4 ' • . . . . . SEAFORTH, oNitARio,*EDNESDAy, FEBRUARY"; 1984 . . , " Second dines Mail registititlert-iumher oeqe, • :Birth control week: To Mark Birth Control Week in 'February, 'the Toronto health department will hand out 10,060. Condoms fo teenager,: The condems ere - free and are tiart 9f a counseilintV8OPsion On birth control. Thefree condontidea hal•stirotili(ted a lot of'response but there are no such plans forlheSe8forth area. Karen Byers, teacher at theSeaforth high SChOOt doesn't plan to ghie away cOndoms,in her family studies class. Instead, they will discuss birth control. The Seaforth.branch of the Huron County Health Unit does04 plan tb hand.outbondOms either. Besides they say they don't have 10,000 to give away. , • To use �r iiiit to use birth control is up to the individual. But first'we must educate teens about sex and 'birth control. Birth control; whether It be condoms, 'the p111 or IUD, is available anChhould•lie. Rik handing Out freebies could make a game out 431; seX, , • ' - If teens aren't educated, what good are the condoms. Teens should be educated about the responsibilities of sex; abortion 'and sexually transmitted disease. The statisticd Of the latter two are alarming. • The free condom Idea has created a lot of publicity. And many -people• ••• don't agree with the move. Some .critics say the plan only promotes prom iscu it y. Health officials say teens who receive free condoms will also receive counselling. They say they're encouraging responsibility. It's embarrassing for a teenager to walk Into a drug store and buy condoms and it will probably be equally embarrassing to walk into the Toronto health unit and ask for a freebie. Chances are It won't work. Sex education should be taught In the home and In school. If that was the case, we wouldn't need free condoms. - R.W. A thought for 1984 I'm the fellow who goes Into arestaurant, sits down andauatleotly waits while the walii.eS6eb and waiters tiiiiih my I'm the fellow who goes Into a deparlmentMoreand stands quietly while the clerks have a little Chit --chat. I'm the fellow who drives into a service station and never blows his horn, but lets the attendant take his time. You might say that I'm the good guy.... But do you know who else 1 am? I'm the fellow who never comes back! It amuses me to see businesses spending so much money every year to get me back as a customer, when I was there in the first place; all those businesses needed to do to keep me as a customer was give me some serviceand extend a little courtesy. —Anonymous Some business owners past this in their store with the following •concluding sentence: If ever you feel this way about (name of business) I would appreciate you calling me personally. Try it, maybe It will work In your business too. (Editor's note: The above article was loaned to the Expositor by a reader.) dtG1 @dkcv • Doctors and hospital praised To the Editor I wish to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Maikus. Dr. Underwood and the staff of Seaforth Community Hospital for the excellent care and attention that 1 received after my accident. Since this mishap occurred on a Sunday - n was necessary to acquire "on call" medical assistance as well as the osteopath doctor who was not "on car but came to my rescue during the supper hour. The medical people are very dedicated and little do most of us know how much personal time is sacrified in this manner. Marian Pullman Give Gretzky a break To the Editor 1 read the Huron Expositor every week with great interest. Many items are very stimulating. some are provocative. Last week on the sports page. I read with great disappointment. the sports column. how sick it was with Wayne Gretzky. Perhaps they were only being facetious. Well 1 am one and there are many more here in this town that think the amazing Number 99 is the most spztacular player in the National Hockey I gee. Again this season he continues his artistry on ice with 60 goals and 92 assists. stretching his points record to 50 games. When he gets that puck at centre ice. his passes seem to be guided by radar. talk about magft. He adds so much to hockey Just by being on the ice. One sports columnist wrote about his excellent peripheral vision, which literally allows him to see more than most player's. go what about his commercial band - won, 1 think he looks great in G.W.Gs. Give him a break, he is only 23 years old and very famous. Let's be proud of hint. V.I. Vincent Seaforth Support appreciated Dear Editor: Town and Country Homemakers would like to thank all those who supported our fund-raising campaigns in 1983. Thanks Murray and Pat Gaunt of Virmgliam for acting as honorary chairpersons during the course of the mail out campaign. We appreciate the support of your newspaper through your enthusiasm and cooperation in publishing feature articles on homemaking lett fall. We are, indebted to the donors who supported us with their generous dottiat tions. The dollars are put in a contingedey fund and used to help private date -win Huron County who need linmeiniking services but cannot pay the full coat of the service and do not tpiadgy fot 'gs'sigtitike _from any other source. We designed the Campaign to run until Christmas and are still receiving donations. The need is ongoing. Donations are appreciated at any time. We, also want to acknowledge the support given by the community to the successful amaryllis bulb campaign during the Christmas seeson., • We thank the community for the continuousand Vowing support that Town and Country Ilorneniakets has received over the last six years. • Tours very truly. Thee Thick Acting Chairman of the Hoard • • i••••••,. 24:EPIIMZW1 /1P2MILWESMIMMIV 4 )1.'?;"'4 ‘:. Part.qfthe iiit YVntfir •.14it! oclatlon 01 bin ataits•• evident series)In ibo , of four phOtaarapha a two second: time (W091010h4t011) 4 ."4*e. .; • st, • 4-1 '1'. • ,•• • i 1 o;',,,liZ•7 ••• •• • ".•1• ' First ' frOMIOns of. The first thing all New Zealanders wantflo ;. know. a neighbor telltus, IS."what do Yditl,„ 'ra rfri) e t bon it© wethink of New Zealand? Des de the fact that ve been ere on a molitrili : on• ,,t." e much Idea what's what Ina lot of areas (and w,e share the language; Eye got a lino rcspcct fot people sOckeittigrate and hatP, learn tite lingo along With everything eiset we love to throw out our find impressions. First thd New Zealanders. r'fliey're friendly, helpful, warm, enthusiastle- and °Infiniti:1c. We think they've got teased to be. A nountry of 3 million people riot aleek of a lot larger than Toronto) and physical * size of the.state of California niiinufiCtittei just about everything it necds,.riglithere: To a Canadian who learned` in tuftVersitylkat Canada's branch plant economy moat of necessity be tied to the US beet:hat of economies of scale - "weirejast tee small", this is a revelation. And people are conscious $tuzoa!k, Tfh, L • • • e alatt4 difference between life here -",gotl-life itr Haw County. Here in Pahnerston Noith, • it's balm balmy,nothot Ince your Jolynr August badtoboug SV6•41bUtIg • .ntid'ean iet too cool. • too. You see them looking for the Made in a e s ores. There's a booming wine industry; ,nearly all the food packages in our kitchen; cupboards ate tninJe here! there are-sentd lovely fashionable Made in NZ clothes in the stores (though, as at home, Hong Kong and Tal_yfaa made clothes, especially thirciten's, are cheaper. . and WO -dor) and the farniture; fabrits, blankets etc. are all produced here, for this mark, of just 3 million. tutototitta know rieW.Zealiatad Ogps* were 'way down in Noveintiar. but my understanding of how the economy works is zilch. In the nem , year though we 11 probably learn more than we want to know. There's an election :On. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon seems very unpopular gust like the Tiudeau-bashing that goes on <.at home) and his economic policies....including a wage and price freeze -are being dissected. We get very little news of Mirth America, but we have heard about the cold snap and terrible storms. (One friend even clipped out the forecast end weather/nip from her fecal paper.and airmailed it over.) So, the weather in January, it's safe to say, Is the biggest toviN on, THE #040 • A front page spry le last fright's paper warned elderly motorists to be careful In the region's .wind. Pour of them have been blown off the road in the last three weeks. (More about New Zealand's gaits some other time. They're two-lane, curvy, steep and 'full Of would-be Gran. ; drivers.) Me ours, this is a rich g country (rich in what it produces—Ai re as in Canada, many fal-m incomes are declining). Thick, creamtop milk is delivered to the:end of Our driveway every morning. It's 30 cents Please see FIRST on page 3 Money making career is used car lot 411 Wenn spend a lot of time worrying that their children will find careers thetwiii make them happy, wealthy and wise and with one teenager ready to enter high school nett year, I'm no exception. Back when my generation will, growing up we were constantly brainwashed by parents , and teachers that if only we'd set a good education the world and its riches worild be at ourfeet. We were all erinttinceithata university degree Would let es live like the Rodrefellets, and it seems a lot of us have been dying to oto so ever sine. We've. got the debts te jitinie . Anyway, we're Mere realigtie ii1 the 80's, knowing that a college degw-- doesn't even guarantee you a job, let dew felt that will pay a king's ransom. So I've been scenting amend ter alternative careers flittly,kids so they r'ehsupport Inc in my old ae In a manner I haven't been able tOffOIt1 to becoMe accustomed to at this point,in my Iife I've planted the Seeds with my daughter to become an orthodontist, for instance. This 'land titc,Isc@gt@s britolth RouPoon• • ,tante naturally to mind after taking her to to come. It isn't just that we nave to continue theotthoilontistdoY.ein anion:tent the lied - to live with the bomb, acid rain and Pierre con& °flint% arideeeing the long Tmdeau, .it's that for a good many of us, the of kida with ettough silverbi their Months to futute will mean staring all day into a little make it Silver Speen far alt Orthodontists kid blinking television ,set that seems bent on to be born with. • • driving us to distraction by wiping out a- 1 knot hoW ninth 1 paid for the right to whole day's work with the touch of a wrong watch that line -hp glakiniti that that *AS button. I:twat-as conipated.to' some of the Wheal The stress will get to us. It's not natural. walk he's doing to give these other kids After all, if God had meant us to spend all million dollar striffeS. 1 altO he* that day looking at a television screen he would Canadeggl-fatedirievie booreef a few years have given us an ACIDC converter in our ago wa,§ fhliMeed by orthethmfista looking sides so we could plug in our computers for a ter break:, • anywhere. rnt not foe sut aeareer. of looking ,Another good alternative career is selling giklitirteli little Mitt th, iS appeahng to my eye glasses to all those people who will be doaotie r, as if is for me. Poe been staring into computer screens eight hours a 1 gat altetnatineielfigare there shorild day. be a great market for psythiatrists in years But my favourite, non -fail; money -making n career is to- set up a used car lot in Los Angeles. Even just a cursory glimpse at the television tells you that there must be an inexhaustible market for used cars out there. They crash, blow up. spindle, crumple or mutilate mbre cars in an hour on television police shows than in a year in all of Canada. It most mean a bonanza for anyone selling' used cars in Hollywood. The one frightening thing about that idea is that this is notjust far-fetched imagination on the part of Hollywood script writers: that people in Los Angelis actually drive that way. But from an economic standpoint, that's even better news. If people crash that many cars in real life, just think of the market for replacements. But if the idea of living with those maniacs is frightening, there's still a great opportun- ity. At the rate Hollywood is going through used cars, I figure there's got to be a shortage SOM. We can export our old clunkers from Ontario for them to blow up. Okay kids, I've given you the ideas. Get to it. Make me rich. Canadians are boring conversationalists Canadians, °tithe whole, are probably the most boring corinetationalitigitt the entire world:' I don't say that idly, merely to put back up. I say it from agonising personal experience. • It's not because we are a dull people, though we are. tea not because we're stupid, became we aren't. It seems' to be based rather on a sort of philistinism that labels intetesting conversation as a "Cissy" pastime, fit only for dilettantes, idealists, Englishmen of a certain backgronnd, educated Europeans and other such intel- lectual trash. Next time you're at a dinner;party or any similar gathering, lend an ear. The dialogue will depress yon deeply. Perhaps the real fault lies in the fact that we are basically ,a national ()Vitiated:0U, andthat we have becorne more and Metes°, with the withering of the churches and the increasing affluence of our society. Ofirtottles of conversation change with the decades, but remain awesomely lanae in their content. A few decades ago, men could talk Air hours about cars and hockey, while Warden chattered incessantly about children and red . • Nowadays, the men talk Abend real estate and boats, and women go ' Ott and ha about • Women's Lib alt4 the trip &toed they haVe fist takfm or are juitt about ttititireAnd th "Levy all say the same thing" or near entingli. s traca and opOcQ 5111,7 lIiSfitfty All of the, especially the men, are white. "They're black; we're white." absorbed by their vacations, the sadistic Behind the politicians, but not far., are the crtiatyof the tevelineitepartinent, and their civil servants. Empire builders, defenders of cruiser or a swimmin Odin thibackyard. Everything secret. The public is the enemy. ittekt actinisitien, * ether it's awer the status quo. Everything in quadruplicate. editors Get a gaggle of , 0 together all they Always go through channels. Keep your talk shop, gel& and n much advertising nose dean. Don't,get a black mark on your lineage they 'tattled last ear. Seldom a word record. Dull, dull. ' Amide powerful eclitorial,canmaign they are Ah, ha! The farmers have been sitting going totlituncktO hilt an evil or promote a back 'enjoying this. They're every bit as bad god v.: as the rest. It's the government's fault. It's Dig up a deliberation of doctors, put a the chain stores' greed. It's the fickle public. glen in each hand and listen to the drivel It's the weather: too wet; or, if the weather is about ; the iniquities of medicare the perfect and the crops are superb, it's taking ingratitudeofPatient.S.;ffin penal taxes they too much mit of the land. pay, and the Wade/mann they just bought down south. Not a &St nor a gaming in the binith. Lawyerstire just as bad. They may be a bit Mere sophisticated than the dotter's, but theyftejust as dull. Dropping hints of inside dope tin politics. ObSesSedby the possibility Of :giant ig elegy ot ii.thevety least, a Q.C.Crietaat e blues about the taxes they 00- A .party of ',attaining even wort. down xe per cearlast year. Catt t compete .lostruy fo' attention. ,brick-slappartevnty- with -these lousy foreignein who Work for 4hinithatia mann—, and:hkeattiiings needling '"peatiuts. Toe mirth goverment inferrertheemy, seeing egerithing itt black and oho; Business men are just as culpable of devastating dullness in their conversation. Teo ntititiir fottris to 110 out. Lazy Clerks. Setorid-rate workmen. Those dam' shopping plazas on. the edge of town. Manidattarers ate in the sante boat. Wages are too high. Can't get parts, what's the -matter Withthose people? Too much absenteeism On Monday morning. Profit Dentists ditto. They are just as dull as the others, but they commit the crime Of asking a pardeularly dull question when your mouth is so full of junk that all you can do is grunt, and then think you are interested and agreeing with their piatitudes, when what you are trying to say is: "Shut up," turkey.** Ks' you know, I always save the best to the Jast. When it comes to dullness supremo in conversation, I have to hand it to the teachers. They go on and On and on about some kid who just won't do his homework, or some meaningless memo from the office, or some student who decided to spend a nice day in God's great out-of-doors instead of in a dell classroom with a dull teacher. . Maybe I've been harsh in this somewhat blanket condemnation. Certainly none of my friends are dull conversationalists. Maybe that's why I have so few friends. Or -perhaps my remarks are based on pure envy. 1 haven't got a condominium in Florida. I haven't even a row -boat, let alone a cruiser. 11 haven't a two -car garage. That's it. Jealousy. I don't have a swimming pool or a little plate -- just 40 acres, Mind you — in the countty. That'S`why i can't stand around With the doctors and lawyers, etc., and Commiserate with then on the fact that the pricelf steak is going absolutely out of .reach of the ordinary professional man is making only • forty-fwe thou a year. t•