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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-03-16, Page 2/ r 1 "*E1 WJHuron XpOSItOY' SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Sraforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor Is brought to you each week by the effarts of: Pat Armies, Nell Corbett, Terrl-l.ynn Dale, Dionne McGrath and Bob M Millon. ED BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER McILWRAITH, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. •Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Press .Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription rates: Canada '20.00 a year, in advance Senior Citizens - '17.00 a year In advance Outside Canada '60.00 o year, In advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, March 16, 1988 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephonew9) 5 9) 527-0240 Moiling Address - P.O. Bax 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 11W3 Red Cross hard at work It took so long to bake it... Whoever coined the phrase, "and let them eat cake" must never have had a bir- thday. Let THEM eat cake - sure, but if I never see another cake until next year at this time I'll be perfectly happy. I intend no disrespect for the people who went out of their way to see my birthday did not slip by this year without the tradi- tional candlebearer, but I wish there had not been so many of them (candles as !yell as cakes). I like cake, but when I was sud- denly inundated with the sugar frosted dessert at virtually every turn during the three days preceeding the historical event, as well as on my actual birthdate, it came as a bit of a shock to my system. I'm not used to being spoiled that way. Nor am I used to having my age spelled out in lights. But, although I could care less if I ever see another cake, it is nice to think so- meone did go to all the effort of obtaining one - however they did it. Take my mother's cake, for example - and as the old joke goes - I usually do mean take it. Mom's cakes are a standing joke in our household. No matter how hard she tries mom's cakes never quite turn out the way she thinks they're supposed to - and cer- tainly nothing like the way they appear in the recipe book. Then again - do anyones? SWEATSOCKS by Heather Mcllwraith The funniest part is noone would pro- bably notice (or at least wouldn't say anything) if mom jiust plopped the cake down and let us eat it. Instead she finds it necessary to proceed each cake viewing with a preamble about its flaws - things such as why there are cake crumbs visible in the icing, why the sides aren't iced, and/or why the cake is an unsightly Kermit -the -frog green, or Smurf-blue. To tell the truth we probably wo dn't even realize the cake was supposed to be seven inches in height rather than two, or that it was the cake that was on a slant and not the floor, if morn didn't tell us. Poor mom! Actually she surprised me this year. The cake she carried to me ablaze with light, didn't look all that bad from where I was sitting. In fact it looked so good I was just beginning to think mom had finally mastered the art of cake making. Then the preamble started. This was in fact, not the first cake mom had miyie for this occasion. The other ones, in keeping with mom's tradition, had come.up a littlg short - they hadn't risen as much as the picture indicated they would (and mom made a point of pulling them out of storage to show me). That meant scrapping the recipe altogether and going with the old standby for birthday cakes. The result was a rather nice looking bir- thday cake - which I'm still not sure was the result of the decorating (or disguising) prowess of my sister, or mom's expertise in the baking department. Icing and strawberries can do a great deal to hide the flaws of a cake. Flaws or not, the way 1 judge a cake is by its test. And generally mom's cakes taste better than they look. So much in fact, that I'd have to agree you can't judge a book•by its cover. Besides, who am I to criticize. Cake making must be an hereditary talent - because 1 can't do it either. Beginning in the late 19th century as a humanitarian organization to p wounded soldiers, the Red Cross has continued throughout the years deal- ing with the most urgent human needs. Now, in the month of March, the Canadian Red Cross Society is set to celebrate "March is Red Cross Month". Across the country, the Red Cross is hard at work every day helping Canadians through a variety of programs and services. Red Cross helps thousands of Canadians to a healthier life by collecting, testing, processing and distributing blood and blood products. It provides emergency assistance during local disaster, trains people in first aid and offers courses in water and boating safety. Red Cross is at the local level too. Red Cross programs and services pro- vide physical and emotional assistance to those in need. These services in- clude the short-term loan of wheelchairs and crutches, Meals on Wheels, visitation programs for veterans and disabled persons and transportation services for those who are otherwise housebound. Red Cross comes face to face with every day need and the March cam- paign is a reminder to Canadians all Red Cross services depend on public support. The generous and humanitarian spirit of Canadians makes the dif- ference for the thousands of people, here in Canada and around the world, who depend on the Red Cross for assistance. This month remember - when help is needed - the Red Cross. Questionnable tactic Police in a number of municipalities are warning business owners and professionals to look,,osely at what appear to be invoices requesting pay- ment. Not all bills are what they seem. Complaints about the slick method which an advertising directory is us- ing to select funds are prompting the police to remind people to read the small print on any invoices they receive in the mail. Huron County towns are not to be left out in this warning. Wingham, for one has already received at least one of these questionable invoices, and there have probably been others circulated in the county. It is perfectly understandable why the unknowing and trusting person would process the fake invoice for payment. According to the Wingham Advance -Times the invoices appear to be authentic as the top portion resembles a bill for services and the recipient is asked to pay a certain amount - in the case of the Wingham Advance -Times the amount was more than $100. At the bottom is what appears to be a receipt, but includes the warning the docu nent is a solicitation for advertising in a directory. Because of this dec cf�itner, those sending the invoices are legally avoiding charges of fraud, but such slick tactics smack considerably of questionable ethics, Unfortunately, the reason such borderline practices work are because many of us are either too naive or hylrried to check each authentic - appearing document to cross our desks!. This is particularly true in large companies where one department is responsible for receiving such in- es, another for approving accounts and yet another for issuing payment. Owners should be warned they may inadvertently pay an unnecessary bill and should also inform their employees of that risk. Ordinarily, one is inclined to applaud the clever approach which is often used in advertising. In this case, however, the method is less clever than it is downright underhanded, - Adapted from the Wingham Advance -Times. 'Trust me I'm a professions "Relax, I'm a professional, I know what I'm doing." • These are words we've all likely heard at one time or another, usually as someone is approaching our mouths with a needle, or telling us to cough, or slipping on a rubber glove. "I know what I'm doing," isn't much con- solation though, when you're sitting in a dentist chair and someone has a pair of pliers locked over one of your molars and a foot in the middle of your chest for leverage. This is pretty much the situation a young woman from North Hollywood was in (from what I could learn from a radio report) this week. Two brothers apparently pulled one over on everyone as they posed as dentists and actually started to "operate" on a patient. For four hours these sadists worked on their patient, a 22 -year-old woman. She said she complained of pain, but they said they "knew what they were doing." Before they were stopped they inflicted $3,000 worth of dental damage on the young woman, to say nothing of her pain and suffering. They are now being charged for violating profes- sional codes and face a maximum sentence of only six months in prison. The first thing one wonders when hearing this kind of story is what kind of freaks were MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett these brothers? Probably some kind of cross between the Mansen family and Newhart's Larry, Darryl and Darryl. But there is also the question of what was going through this girl's head? No one ex- pects her to really have any knowledge of dentistry, but wouldn't she know something was wrong, especially when that third hour started to roll around. Candid Camera once did a setup where a man posed as a doctor and had people doing everything and anything he said. He had people braying like donkeys. "Trust me I'm a doctor." That same psychology of blind faith in professionals that got people making animal sounds made a woman willingly surrender to torture. The chances of you running into those same two brothers, or some copycats, is minimal -you'd probably win the 649 first (let's hope so). But if there's any message in this column (which I'm beginning to doubt) it's that you have every right to know exact- ly what is going on when you're with any professional - be it a doctor, dentist, mechanic or whatever. People shouldn't be intimidated by that professional veneer. If a certain young worhan from North Hollywood had raised a bit of a fuss she could have saved herself from a pretty nasty situation, If you don't feel comfortable with what a professional tells you, you should get another opinion. And this shouldn't be seen as a slap in the face by the person whose judgement is in question. I'm not saying if your doctor has cold hands, get a new one, what I'm saying is you are entitled to a certain amount of informa- tion. And many professionals respect this. Recently, for the first time, a dentist held a mirror up to my face to show me what he had been doing. Drilled teeth aren't a pretty sight and I soon wished he hadn't, but at least I knew what was going on. Egmondville Brewery closes down this week in 1913 MARCH 16. 1888 A half -mile trot took place on the ice at Auburn on Thursday of last week, between A.C. Van Egmond's Mohawk Chief colt,"King Billy", of Blyth, and Cassidy's "Tontine" colt, of Auburn. The Auburn horse took the first heat, but the second and third heats were easily won by King Billy. Mr. Cassidy's colt is considered something better than ordinary, having been shown last fall at Toronto, Guelph, and other places, and Mr. VanEgmond naturally feels pleased at his colt beating him' so readily. A young man aged about 20 years,, son of Mr. W. Wemouth, of Hullett, near Londesborough, on Thursday of last week, while chopping in the bush received such in- juries by a tree falling onhim that it resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. At the last meeting of McKillop Council tenders were presented for furnistling timber for a bridge at Winthrop, when the tender of Lewis McDonald was accepted for $250 it being the lowest. Constable Dunlop has succeeded in cap- turing the horse stolen from Mr. Dane of Gorrie some time ago. He got it at Francistown. Two rinks from the Seaforth curling club played a match with the Stratford club in that city on Wednesday and vanquished that pity club by 7 shots. MARCH 14, 1913 The Brussels people are considering the propriety of granting aid to Mr. Wood to assist him in extending his knitting factory in that village. The factory is a valuable in- dustry in the village and an addition of nine- ty feet to the present building to accomodate the new machinery is required to cope with the business offering. Mr. Robert Ross, an old Brussels boy, and son of Mr. David Ross, of that village, has been appointed Secretary -Treasurer of the Electric Light and Water Commission of Kincardine at a salary of $400 per year. We understand that the Egmondville brewery is to be closed down, the pro- prieters having disposed of it to the Brewer's Association. The sleighing is about all gone. The winter has been an ideal one and people are now ex- pecting Spring. IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives The regular meeting of the council was held on Monday evening. It was moved that debentures bearing five per cent interest per annum be issued and that a certain sum of money be raised each year to meet the payment of the said debentures, the money to be used to buy a street sweeping machine. MARCH 18, 1938 After making a last minute rally to knot the series in the first game of the finals on Saturday evening for the McMillan trophy, Winthrop outscored Kinburn 2 to 1 on Tues- day evening to take the round and the cup with a 3 to 2 margin. Both games were played on fairly soft ice. Only two penalties were handed out in the whole two hours of playing, one going to each team. Seaforth council gave second reading to a bylaw authorizing the issuing of debentures amounting to $35,000 for collegiate and public school expenditure. The public school will get $5,000 of the issue with which to com- mence repairs on its 80 -year-old school, while the balance will go to the Collegiate Board for a proposed addition. Mrs. Kathleen Feeney, of Dublin, Clerk of Hibbert Township, was surprised on Tues- day when she received greetings from Dublin, Ireland. The people of Dublin are sending their regards and news to other locales in the world who share their name. The Seaforth Fire Brigade was called out for the first time in recent months at mid- night Saturday when a car belonging to Cliff Smith, of Winthrop, was on fire at Dunlop's service station. The fire was soon under con- trol but not before the wiring was almost completely destroyed. MARCH 15, 1963 Parking meters are coming to Seaforth. Approval for installation of meters along Seaforth's Main Street and on streets ad s- cent was given by council at the re March meeting Monday night. Seaforth's sewer program advanced one step further Tuesday night when Seaforth council signed a new agreement with McLaren Associates, consulting engineers. The new agreement for the proposed $162,000 sewer installation replaces the previous agreement for a $95,000 installation. Seaforth juveniles brought home the Western Ontario Juvenile Championship Friday, defeating Durham 6-5, to take the best of five series. Dublin's new post office is taking shape as construction crews take advantage of warmer weather to get the building closed in. Framing is almost completed and brick laying will commence in a few days. The $20,000 building is being constructed by Looby Construction of Dublin. Occupancy at Scott Memorial Hospital reached an all-time high in February, when the rate for medical and surgical stood at 120.3 per cent of capacity. The occupancy is based on an approved capacity of 33 beds. Completion of 27 'years as superintendent of First Presbyterian Church Sunday School was marked Friday when the church ses- -sion and school staff presented Malcolm McKellar with a wrist watch.