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The Huron Expositor, 1988-06-22, Page 2Huron �xposrtor SINCE 1860. SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post ED BYRSIQI, General Manager HEATHER McILWRd11TH, Editor Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pot Armes, WAS Corbett, Terri -Lynn ®ale, Marone McGrath and Bob McMillan. 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 - 97.00 a year in advance Outside Canada '60.00 o year, in advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class moil registration Number 0696 Wednesday, June 22, 1988 Editorial and Business Offices • 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone Q519) 527-9240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1190 It Was hit and miss on Father's D It was a perfect day for Father's Day. The sun was shining, there was little else going on, and it was a great day for a drive. Once I traversed the 'one hour plus' distance between us I had all the time in the world to spend with my dad. Or so I thought. As it turns out, my 'one hour plus' trek home was longer than my visit with my dad. When I arrived at my parent's domicile dad was just winding up some loose ends in preparation for a business trip up north. He barely had time to acknowledge my greeting of 'Happy Father's Day'. In fact, if .I hadn't accompanied my mother when she drove clad to his port of departure, my visit probably would have started and ended with that 'Happy Father's Day' greeting. As it were the car ride gave us a bit more time together, athough those few minutes hardly afforded us the opportunity to strike up,a hardy con- versation, or just plain visit with each other. Instead it seemed the conversation took on a lecturous tone, as mom and I, like overprotective parents, pestered dad not to overdo in the next couple days, then badgered his fellow travellers to take care SWEATSOCKS by Heather McIlwraith of him. Dad must have been glad to be rid of us. To say I was disappointed in Father's Day would be an understatement. Although dad's absence afforded me the opportunity to visit with the other members of my family, somehow it wasn't the same. Much as I enjoyed my visit home, it wasn't the Father's Day I had en- visioned. Dad's absence kind of threw a damper on things. 1 suppose dad's brush with death a few months ago has made me more aware of how little time we have to spend with one another. And I suppose I resented the fact that someone would dare to arrange a business schedule which would have my father absent from his home, on the very day he was expected to be there. I could have accepted his absence far better if I'd known he was at a ball game, enjoying himself - but travelling tor business reasons? No way. For some strange and unexplicable reason Father's Day does not seem to be as universally accepted as Mother's Day. I think it should be. In my opinion fathers need to be acknowledged as much as mothers do, and the fact that Mother's Day exists as an almost sacred holiday, and Father's Day does not, hardly seems fair. Certainly in my own life my father is every bit as important to me as my mother. But the world doesn't seem to see it that way, and thus incidents such as the thoughtless scheduling of travel ar- rangements over Father's Day, occur. But I suppose, we must make the best of it. And as disappointed as I was in the way my Father's day turned out, I am grateful I arrived home in time to spend even a few minutes with my dad on his special day. So many people are deprived of even that. ire a student week Could you use an extra worker to combat the summer rush in your store& Have you been meaning to dean your house windows, but just have not found the time& Is the lack of a hired farm helper keeping you from taking a well-deserved vacation& If you are faced with any of these concerns, then the Canada Employ- ment Centre for Students may be able to assist you. Have you given any thought to hiring a student to complete that work that needs so desperately to be completed? What better time to consider the possibilities of student hiring than during the week of June 20-24, which has been nationally proclaimed as 'Hire a Student Week'. Although the Canada Employment Centre for Students ac- tively promotes the employment of young people throughout the entire summer, the purpose of this special week is to increase public awareness of the student employment situation as well as to increase hiring. Primarily student employment guarantees any type of task can be com- pleted at very affordable costs. Minimum wage for students 18 and over is $4.55 per hour and for those 17 and under, $3.70 per hour. Rates for con- struction and domestic vary. Students are available for any length of time, whether it be simply for one hour, one day, one week, or longer. Fulltime employment is preferred. Hiring a student provides the opportunity for today's young people to gain valuable work experience, career -related or otherwise. Given these reasons, then, the benefits of hiring students, both from the perspective of students and employers seem apparent and definitely worth considering. The Canada Employment Centre for Student serves two main functions - to find jobs for students, and find students for jobs. The procedure for doing this is quite simple. An employer notifies the office about an employment position available for a student. He or she forwards such information as hours of work, length of employment, wage, duties etc.. Given this, the student placement officer goes through a file of student who have registered and contacts those who are qualified. Interested students are then referred to the employer who in- terviews them, chooses one, or asks for more referrals. Employers are ad- vised to notify the student placement officer when the position has been filled. Although it cannot be guaranteed in each and every case, this process usually takes less than 48 hours, saves time and effort, and is free. The Canada Employment Centre for Students is located at 35 East Street in Goderich (235-1711) and operates from 8:15 a.m. until 4:39 p.m., Mon- day to Friday. On a more local level, a placement officer works out of the Seaforth Library on Tuesdays. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PROPOSED BANK CHARGES LEGl5LA7lO/') Letter commemorates martyrs To the Editor: Open letter to our Baltic Friends in memory of the "Baltic Martyrs" who in June of 1941 were deported under Soviet Guard from their homelands of Latria, Lithuania and Estonia to the wastelands of Siberia. Dear Baltic Friends, On this anniversary of June 1941, we bow our heads in sorrow for our Martyrs, brave and strong. And we who live shall raise the flag in honor of our mart d dead, and down the years of time, we yet, remember still, lest we forget. Oh, Emblem of Freedom! Sacred Flag Wave in honor of our martyred dead. Stand tall and straight! Commemorate - June of '41. You fly to commemorate that frozen bed, where lie our brave and valiant dead, and down the years of time we yet remember still, lest we forget... Lest we forget. Julia Eckert -MacLean Pole wants correspondents The Huron Expositor recently received a 70.391 Szczecin letter from Poland asking for penpals. Poland Anyone interested can reply to: Wojciech Pluciennik The following is the letter he sent to The Ojca Bejzyma 2.6 Expositor: ^dei - - ��c^ << (9 r S IC DEA \►K L%Ic OJCA 8EI Z Y4MO i_ -G She`-ti��s�l Exec ,) Q ,,,,c E� 1�EE .17 , n71 rr� CD,LA c(RIC, L..1( �rlE C� (pt._ le -k{, aoIJ .ot__,L",iC kannn. c �t J C l wi,l�n { n Corti Od1�GccC'E 1+L. {�lL CAADHs c(d. Adventures in smoking came early Tobacco companies are taking a beating and I love it. Limitation on advertising were a good start, and the surprise announcement an American federal court jury had found a tobacco company liable for the death of a smoker was a leap forward. The next battle is a Vancouver man who is filing a suit against a Canadian tobacco manufacturer. Roger Perron of Vancouver is suing R.J.R. MacDonald Inc. for damages for the loss of his legs. Perron has a disease which cuts off the circulation to his limbs and which is aggravated by smoking. This is the first time a Canadian tobacco company has been sued for damages resulting from smoking. My only regret is someone had to lose their legs to do it. Smoking is definitely on the outs. Less and less people are smoking. Even growing up in my generation there wasn't much peer pressure to smoke that I could see. Those who smoked did so because they thought it did something for them - relaxed them, made them skinny, or they just liked it. But I can't say any of my friends who smoked MY TWO HITS by Neil Corbett ever told me to "smoke and be cool." Ex- cept my baby sitter. I was in about Grade 2, and fairly idolized my baby sitter Ade. (Adrian was his real name). Ade thought smoking made him look cool and didn't mind saying so. My sister and I wanted to look cool -who wouldn't- so we joined Ade in a few puffs in the living room. My sister claimed she loved it (she still smokes today) and I did too when I could squeeze a word between coughs and gasps. But my sister and I weren't the discerning smokers Ade was and our smok- ing venture was doomed to he found out. When Mom got home from work the smell in the house made her immediately suspicious, and when Inspector Mom found matches dropped on the living room rug our goose was cooked. Or our lungs were about • to be. We tried to claim Mom must have dropped those matches there, but for some reason she didn't believe us. She pulled out two cigarettes from her package -she smoked some Export A monsters that came in a green package- and gave us each one. We were seated at the kit- chen table for another smoking session. If smoking hadn't been much fun with Ade it was hell with Mom who insisted we inhale if we were going to smoke. That cig turned me as green as the package it came in. My sister still claimed she was enjoying herself, although she looked a little emerald around the cheeks herself. I don't recall if I ever made it all the way to the butt, but I was eventually set free after promising I would never smoke again. It was an easy promise to keep. Building boom hits Seaforth in 1888 JUNE 22, 1888 Mr. Alex Wilson left on Monday last to join the Wimbledon team of which he is a member. He will have a nice trip. This will be his third visit to the old country with the team. The Seaforth Volunteer Company, with their officers, left on Tuesday last for Strat- ford to put in their annual drill. There was a full corps and the boys looked neat and presented quite a soldierly appearance. A good many from town went to St. Marys on Tuesday to attend the races there. Mr. Whiteley's "Florence G." took the 2.3 race in three straight heats in competition with some of the best horses on the Canadian turf. She is being handled by Mr. T.A. Sharp and never was in so good fit for work as she is now. Mr. Charles Williams is erecting a new frame residence on the Street South of Market Street. New houses are springing up as if by magic in all parts of the town and mechanics are very busy. The warm weather seems to have set in in earnest. During the first three days of this week the thermometer averaged 92 in the shade and 120 in the sun during the afternoon. There are three new brick residences be- ing erected in Egmondville just now. One is a handsome red brick on the site of the old school house, by Mr. Wallace; one im- mediately opposite, by Mr. McKay of Tuckersmitk, and the other in the same vicinity by Mr. Jacob Schmidt. Egmondville is commencing to look up and if this wave of prosperity continues it will be seeking incor- poration as a village. JUNE 20,1913 Mr. Dan Truemner, of Dashwood, met with an accident while bringing a load of pigs to Exeter. While coming down the cemetery hill the king holt pulled out and the IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives wagon went over the embankment. Mr. Truemner was thrown from the wagon and the pigs scattered in all directions. The horses turned around and ran for home. Mr. Truemner's son, who was following, helped to round up the pigs and brought them to town. Resplendent in their bright new uniforms, the Hensall band marched to Rogerville on Monday night of last week and serenaded Mr. Robert Patterson and his bride, who had just arrived home from their wedding trip. The boys were hospitably entertained and returned home rejoicing. Thirty-five years ago there were ten licensed hotels, one saloon and four liquour stores in Seaforth, two hotels and one store in Egmondville and one hotel in Harpurhey. Now there are only four hotels and one store in Seaforth, and no licences in either Egmondville or Harpurhey. JUNE 24,1938 Announcement was made this week of the establishment off a modern and up-to-date medical clinic in Seaforth. Dr. E.A. McMaster, who has been in practice in Seaforth for a number of years, will have as his associate Dr. J.C. Calquhoun, formerly of Ethel, who has purchased the practises of Dr. F.J. Burrows and Dr. G.C. Jarrott. The clinic will be established in the residence of Dr. Burrows, which has also been purchased. The second of the series of boxing and wrestling bouts was held at the Seaforth rink on Saturday evening with the crowd reaching the 800 mark, to double the previous attendance. The local and outside boxing was good but the wrestling was a keen disappointment to the fans. Mr. E.C. Boswell, Manager of the Domi- nion Bank here was the guest of honor at an enjoyable party at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club on Tuesday evening. The evening was arranged by a number of his friehds on Main Street to honor him prior to his marriage which takes place on July 2. In an effort to perpetuate the memory of the pioneers who settled in the Roxboro district, a cairn to the district of the Scott and Dickson, first settlers to new homes for themselves along the Maitland River in McKillop Township, is to be erected this summer at that point. The cairn will be built on the site of the old mill once operated at Roxboro by the late James Scott, father of Archie and James Scott, of Seaforth, and Joseph Scott, of Roxboro. JUNE 20, 1963 Seaforth took first steps toward communi- ty planning on Monday evening when a com- mittee recently named by council held an organization meeting. Chaired by mayor Earl Dinsmore, the meeting named M. Ross Savauge chairman and endorsed a proposal that early action be taken so as to provide protection for Seaforth residents through zoning. Planning for Seaforth's new Community Hospital advanced a stage this week when representatives of the Ontario Hospital Ser- vices Commission of the board's architects and of hospital planning consultants sat Turn to page 16A • 1