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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1984
• Second class mail registration Number 0898
KidScount too
The future:Of Seaforth, for that matter of •Ontario and Canada are our
kids. Thougfl they contribute much to society and .are. indeed Citizens, we
often fail to recognize them as •such... .
But that alt about four years ago when the'Ontario Community
'Newspapers -Association (OCNA) decidedr o jonor upstanding junior
citizens of Ontario: Since then, .over 400 kids -have been nominated for
their contribution to;their communitlea: And each year, 12 are chosen as
the top junior citiaens of this province. •
This year is special and an effort Is being made during the bicentennial
year of Ontario to honor our young people. The awards are co-sponsored
by the OCNA and CP Air and all kids between the ages of six and 18 are
eligible. '
Alt kids are outstanding, but there are those who stand out more
because of their volunteer service work, saving a life, or overcoming
handicaps to excel in school and sports. Andst of these kids are
ordinary, care -free, freckle -faced youngster, , ho despite their
achievements, wouldn't think twice about saving- life, doing service
work or helping the elderly. But most of all, they're still kids — junior
citizens.
Locally, several youngsters have been nominated for the Junior Citizen
of the Year Award. Though we've had one winner, Lisa Andreassi, who
won in 1982 because of outstanding service to her fellow students and
community; David Cronin and Brenda Pullman were nominated In 1983.
However, all kids nominated and those not nominated are winners.
This was proven earlier this year -when all 365 Seaforth Public School
students from kindergarten to grade eight wrote letters of protest to the
Canadian government for disallowing a Seaforth man and his mother
from Hong Kong to be reunited.
But the kids were united as was their community on the lssue and as a
result, mother and son are together after a 30 yearsepptatforh' OW.that's
what's called outsialjdiag'citiiene, And the kidp;� p1 ';tluejfrraipirodesf, -
are proud of that one achievement.
If anyone wishes to nominate ,a group or Individual, more Information
Is available at this newspaper. Remember — kids are citizens too! -R-W.
To the Editor
Subscription paid till 1989
Dear Sir.
Pleacr find enclosed your coupon
allowing a 20% discount towards - my
subscription to your fine newspaper.
My subscription is currently paid to
February 1989.
Along with the coupon 1 enclose my
cheque for 5150. covering a 10 year
renewal increase period.
May I thank you for your kind assistance
in this action.
Yours truly
M.C. Farrell
101 Atlas Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6C 3P2
Editor's Note: M.C. Farrell's Huron
Expositor was due in 1989. With the 10
•year renewal, the Expositor • will be
'delivered to the Farrell home until 1999.
Pre-school successful
To the editor:
Another successful year has drawn to a
close at Seaforth and District ,Pre -School
Learning Centre and the pastboard of
directors would like to thank thosmembers
of the community who so graciously and
willingly help us each year.
The list includes Seaforth Public School
who offers support each year and works us
into the Kaiimavlk program. Bill Eisler who
picks up our garbage, our n ' •,r boor Bill
Austin who cuts taus front con. Jack
Mcflwain for the use of shed fot
decorating our floats, the , , r station,
fireball, veterinary clinic and area farmers
Martenes and Eckerts all of whom took time
from this busy schedules to show the
Its not all
Tl Editor:
The recent series of articles in Focus
magazine on the day-to-day workings of
the General and Marine Hospital in
Gnderich was, in its full context, intimat-
ing and most revealing. But there was little
or no mention of the reactions and opinions
of the importance of the group of
incumbents who comprise between them
the whole aspect and meaning of a
hospital, whether it be large or small, and
they are the humble and precarious
patients who unfortunately fund themselves
at the tender mercies of the staff.
At this time of writing (dune 9th) 1 find
myself one of those poor souls dependant
upon the dedicated hospital staff in
Seaforth Cominunity Hospital, end al-
though it's notmarily a 'life -and -death'
situation which beholds my presence there,
my mind is at ease if not the whole of my
body. A :`
The day begins at the unforgivable' hour
for all patients around 6:oo. Why so early is
not exactly clear for all that it entails is k90
second minor thing of checking your blood
pressure and body temperatinre, you
probably know what t meats. The nurse
sticks that long: glass tube into your mouth
"under the tongue please - and hold it
there for a tithe" That's easy enough for
younger people with teeth but we oldsters
with no teeth sere a* heti have a problem.
And then you watch the veins in your arm
swell up fife huge non-coihfarming Water
children around on field trips.
Also the local businesses and members of
the community in general who support
our
various fundraising projects through dona-
tions or purchases. And to the Seaforth
Industrial Hockey League and the Seaforth
Legion Branch 156 for their 'generous
donations to our school.
The Nursery School has an excellent
teacher and facilities and offers high quality
pprre-school activity none of which could have
been achieved without the fall support of
the community.
in
Board of Directors 83-84
Seaforth and District Pre -School
Learning Centre
„®v in"
pipes daring the blood pressure test.
Goad, you say to yourself and 'snuggle
back ander those very tempting sheets and
blanket just as though it was the morning
after "the night before" hoping, to grab
another hour or so. That's what you thinkl
About that point, the night shift go home
and in comes the brand-new. all sparkling
day -shift, full of vim, vigour, frolic and
' font
There are four of us in the ward.
sn "Wakey, wakey, you guys". And in
response, many uncomplimentary remarks
are heard from each corner of,the room
reminding me of the unsavoury qualities of
our old sergeant -major. To ensure you are
more awake, a wet, but warm facecloth is
liferaily thrower at your head - to freshen
up. 1 don't relish one iota about
"freshening up" as you struggle sleepily
to sit on the edge of that damnably hard
hospital bed. Your mind in turmoil and
soine•df your body Wracked with pain you-
accede to the inevitable - no morn sleep
this morning. Comfortingly you hear the
shirting add stopping of the chuck wagon
e n inating from down the corridor, turning
despair to a real awakening -= food and
drink!
After allowing a reasonable time tri enjoy
your fust meal of the day when the :fart is
fair, but inythingtastret toed when you're
hengtty, then the real attain begins. Lake a
'SWUM ofvoractous bees, the nurses invade
Vraw SEE 'ON' PAGE 3
Canal
Is your life a cultural wasteland? Do you
do the same old things, talk to the same old
people on the same old subjects all the time?
Are -,You: scare ,to,.Jake r< Aisk, ilk
someone youe- 1neyer, seen- 'before, .ttB
something- -the., „neighhbours, ..wilt, mutter,
about? Do you want a decent tombstone,,ngg
flashy, but dignified? '
Of course you do. You're a good
Canadian. You believe in personal 4CCOrlinir
censorship, the family as a unit...and capital
punishment.
On the other hand. Do you go for a swim at
midnight, ' sing a song at dawn, smoke
marijuana, drunk fairly heavily, march in
protest parades, live in sin, abhor censorship
and capital punishment, and contrive to do
something, that will offend friends and
neighbours?
Of course yon do. You're a good
Canadian. Yon believe in individual liberty,
acid rain, dirty movies and sexual irrespon-
sibility.
It doesn't matter which group you belong,
to, or whether you're somewhere in
between, you ail have much in common.
You despise the government, but won't
elect an alternative. since you despise it
even morsip You are cad; by inflated and
high intMst rates, wether - :you site. a
60 -year-old farmer trying to keep the place
going,or a 20-. punk trying to
maiain his habit.
You are basically anti-American, though if
you were asked why, you 0011tdn't give he
answer that was articulate. -
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tapI S'•"GOLF CLINIC Appcojkt
mately ,40: women learned some
golfing 't ps front -Reit. Oolg at the:
Seaforth Golf and Country_Club for
the pasts - three Weeks pn Mondat(;
n'lgMs; • r (Hundertinarkphgt4);
ians are becoming paranoi
GATIAND-
SJU r. 'ra cer 1 's) ulc,;ls mxi ...o,l "A!.
Yotr::feel frustrated, in this land of wood
and water/, not to mention nuclear power,
because, if you are getting on in years, pip
see everything eroding around you, and ifif
you are short in years, you see nothing but a
stonewall between you and your aspirations,
You wonder vaguely, if you're old enough,
what became of the Canadian dream: "the
20th century belongs to Canada," And if you
read -the papers and analyze the news, you
realize hof, while Canada -din has a liigh
standard of living, we are very low on the
totem pole when it comes to production,
strikes, economic stability, peace, happiness
and good will: toward men.
If you're very young, you don't�ive a
diddle. '['here's tots to eat, warns es. -
and the old man will kick in a decent
allowance so you can feed the video
machines with their war games.
•But if you're a young adult -just about
ready to launch into '"Meal" life, you're so
beet idered-about unemployment, and cxra-
toting university fees; and the increasing
shadow,ef the computer, and the wealth of
choices of a future (all lacking ;in security)
fiat yobeanbeeeMe to depressedyou dreg
Oat, ar dive itito a stream. and • fight against
the current.
Jif atifn
This Isn't it doom and gloom column. It's
merely a look at our nation today. It is so rife
with suspicion, fear of nothing much,' anger
over nothing much, that we arc becoming
paranoid.
From the Prime Minister, though the
head of the Bank of Canada, right down to '
your local alderman, you have test trust. and
feel that the ship is heading for the reef with
n at the helm.
is lititiseits'e; of course. Cains`$a bats
been going through this miasma ever since
1867, and before. Maybe the guy at the helm
is blindfolded, and maybe we have scraped a
few rocks but the ship's bottom is still
sound, and ice haven't hit the big reef yet, If
vie do. we can always scramble into the
Croats, and become the new Boat People of
Korth America.
We've had the French-Canadian separa-
tismthing with us for generations, John A.
Mac ionafd itittost tut the country .oh the
rocks„ f"trlancialiy and poirtii allyt bat he
dared to take a dance, and had vision. We
survived a terrible depression. and came out
sxdelling of roses rand the stench of our dead
you ng men) in two world wars.
"Cheer trp, you dour, gloomy Catfnidcs,
When you have to settle for one meal of
H�w car e mVies are d
People who write oolumns tics news-
papers are often accused of having, all the
answers. 'just have questions; Tots atheist
I want to know how come in the movies.
people never seem to have anyvisibtl'e•'means
of support? (And I don't just Meat shote of
the scantily -clad well -endowed ladies'). 1
mean, everybody 1 know Tres ttswork et least
eight honks a day. just to put bread ort the
table. But in the amides, ppeo�ple never stein
to have to take tune -out frunt car chases et
making love to go to a him -drum
nine -to -five job. Where do they get Cite
money to put gas in the car at 48.9 cents a
litre to get in those car chases? Where do
they get the money to buy satin sheets for
the waterbed?
How come, for instance, when detectives.
in movies or television take a case, they
ays end up not getting any payment for
it? ey always get embroiled accidently or
they take a case as a favour to some
gnnind wheat•aday, add • have huddle
around a charcoal brazierto keep .r�wirmr
then you can whine, though few wall listen;
just as f9v of uslisten to the to ofthe,
.tie. a c,�,,t'!u}ng311t> 'inlet+
get.about the Yantis -i you don, t°'likt!
theiracutturc invading. us,:turn off your TF
set anti get out y our Eskimo carvings. T(Stt
Yanks Won't invade lass physically,; Unit
thcyhave to, and thele`$ not Much we =alit
do•about that.
if 'you can't afford your megageki
increase, you were probably over `ifeefied
in the first lace. (het rid of that
pt its swimming pool and tee;'' room and
itch. a -tent. Preferably in. the local
ctmctcty, to suit your mood. ,
Wi
pull inyour. its,) tmp,lhat t,:._
the boat and .the cottaige. If yots look if it
objectively. they're just* big pain in the arm
to work. Take a bus to the City
instead of your gas -gobbler plus parking
fear. Learn to do your Own elcmentiry
phum Ting and electric work at night school.
Ladies. Get the knitting needles out and
matte lots of shawls, sweaters?, scarves writ
wept socks.You did it for the troops
On a,. And > " ,itchy anti 111• Sing
sortie orMerit were, b' kept'b* Warta..
Stop spanking your chitchen with tikes -
mitts Let them earn their~own money
through odd jobs, or de withatit.•
Let's stop gro_1p'ttrblia ,'and: net hack to a
Spartan, rewarding 0, wht • Cdea t are
M rte iinpartanttitan physical cu cifort.
you, he said,
BEHINOTHEC ■-.NES_•
• y Keith Rouu1ston
irresistable tale by a pretty Lady and they
end Trp not getting a cent alit of it. And 'yet
they tanalways drive Porches or Corvettes.
- HOW canoe -people tri those beer otnrner-
cials can always be sipping and looking
happy while I get gas and get miserable from
one glass? And how conte those smiting,
gorgeous young people can drink all that
beer and still expertly ride surf boards or
p ktthot aft balloons. 1 can't even do it when
I''m cold sobet.
• How 'cane in movies and books. people
become a than (or woman) in one blaze of
glory when they first have sex? Does that
mean that someone who's celibate still
hesn't grown tip when their 82?
How come in tltgse Mode edtase scenes,
people can jump cars over entire rivers
Without bridges, land on the other side'with
hardly a hair out of place, and leave the
stupid villains (who often are also plice it
seems) funning on the oilier side? Mean-
while, iftdtivecsver a deep pot hole I parte to
take my car in for S2Sfr worth of repairs.
How come in movies everybody' lives is
marvellously interesting aparhinents? Neatly
everybody k know who rives in a city
ap tttttent lives • in one Of finite boring
iu rise boxes so sianilazey
they look lthre tfi
were sta,i,ped out with a cookie cutter: Cities
am filed with thousands of these plates
. where people are stacked tike heirs iii a
ar&-layer operation yet nobody is the{
nitwits ever seems to rive int one,_
People in the u,uvita usually lrfi 'tri
penthouses with wonderful views of the city.
(icon never see a parking lot from tiheetiir�
baltxitiy, tame to think of it, they don't have
balconies, they have tertaces.)` Flow people
can afford to rive in these places' that must
cast' what most of as stake in a year for a
ntoetft's rent is beyond ate bttft every-bodyt
sty to have ante. 3Tsny Civ sun m:,
lvingroos s er balconies tending upstairs to
the bedroom,, and acres of glass avertookhtg
the lights ofthe city. Even people who don'8
five in penthouses live in interesting older,
places tt1te converted factory lofts. -
And not one ever has coda/oath,
SOcret Meetings not necessary
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture! has
Made a mistake. It bas decided to stop
leposfets from attending federation strategy
meetings. 'flits boa temporary measure taken
by the federation executive, tint it inay be
ntade,permenent if OFA directors approve a
resolution to that effect -
The federation executive is reacting to the
adverse publicity they received when a
Lidice County resohition called for Dennis
Timbre?, Miaisternf Agriculture for Ontar-
io, to give retreactsse stabilization or resign.
lie did not resign. ltealsofailed to assist the
troubled red meat fainters that the federt -
tion wol trying to support- This first Mistake
by ,"the OFA did cause sone adverse
s, but thereal Ramage rosy be don
by eir strong teakction to the press They
should neves have even considered secret
policy theethigs.
Ifnoone knows what action isbeing taken;
COUNTRY CO`NER
by Larry
then they cannot criticize it. This- affords
sone Proteetion bat it also prevents total
support hen members of our today. If
people do not know ezactty what yon are
doing and why you are doing it,, they hesitate
to stand with yen.
The imermtbetship of an orgenizat t. arid
the non -t mbers the organization
. °h.. .. •W,.e t
chat t renin av a rrgt`i .tD
the policies ate-ot�es of titin ' t , iza
tion`. until top, they Were inforitte gh
the media. They Innew whit their orga!niiza- •
tion was doing. The public Wits allowed to be
aware of these polities and to pcmnde their
I®n
input. The e - ce of hidden polrstes
to iarages +,t It , .._`- credibility.
Secrecy is r refu_ • the beompe te:t.'
We don't . , it. We have sone e 'very
rarified, .. ' t and concerned leaders
mtheOFA. • noneedtofear publicity.
The OFA Etats u , " seine mistakes, but it has
atlsn been res '+ , :le: for many benefits the
atgtfi ftnral , „nity -now enjoys. The
goldresuhtss04''d• Haitian's efforts far
outweiglaguy alightsetback from its errors.
Thee liforWk. Timbrell s resignation was
a tfiafraction. It drew the attention of the
btiL away from the teat issues. The
fv ts',•IVfr.thter brellknew, and: the
ptiblickttewthathewonjgft design. ftwasa'
Sensational request and everyone paid
attention just to see how the game was
played. Very few . =..le discussed the plight
of the red meat . ' .r . They were busy
waiting
tri
see Mr. ` . ell react against the
faThis threat ofi nposedatec ecyearl also bea
distraction. The media and the public will •
become More Concerned with what there is to
hide rather than: whit the actual problems ih '
the agricultural Washy.
Members of the OFA, if the farming
cointridnityhitseverneeded�you,itis now. D ,
net fah that deed. Don't destroy yoair
credibbifty. Stand tail. Invite the whole world •
toobser"veyyovrpolieysessions. he proud that
the journalists who attend, feel your actions
are worthy of public coverage.
Mistakes have been malt', but the OFA
must admit it and move on. The OPA has .
tried, land that is what OFA members should
be proud of
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