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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-06-29, Page 217E:Huron 411 XPOSitor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor is brought to you each weak by the efforts of: Pot Are. Neil Corbett, Ber'cri-Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMiffan. 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 a year, in advance Single Copies .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, June 29, 1988 Editoricei and Business Offices Attain Street, Seaforth Telephone (599) 527-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Sox 69, Seaforth, Ontario, MU IWO Full agenda • Canada Day is approaching and once again the Town of Seaforth is plan- ning an even fullier agenda than in previous years. This year in addition to the traditional fireworks display, Seaforth's Canada Day committee has once again arranged for the Firemen's breakfast and the Poker Rally Leisure Walk. In addition there will be a noon presentation to Japanese Exchange student Mayuko Yoshioto and an ex- hibition ha game between the 1972 and the 1988 Merchants hardball teams. Tiat game will take place at the highschool at 3 p.m. The fireworks display will begin at dark at the highschool, and a food booth will be put on by the local firemen at that time. A flea market will be held Saturday in Vic- toria Park. To help ensure the continuance of a fireworks display in Seaforth on Canada Day, the general public is being asked to contribute towards its cost. Sponsored by the recreation department the approximately one-hour fireworks display is expected to cost $2,500. One half of this cost will be covered by a grant from the government's Canada Celebrations Committee. Unless the rest of this cost can be defrayed through the extraction of money from the general public, there is always the possibility the fireworks display may be eliminated from further Canada Day celebrations. Because it operates on a break even basis the recreation department cannot afford to absorb the remainder of the cost. To. do so would mean other recreation programs would suffer, since they would be depleted of funds in order to help make ends meet. But collecting money at such an event as a fireworks display is never an easy task. Too many people are able to watch without having to pay for the privilege. The recreation department is, however, going to try. Member of the recreation committee and other appointed people will be stationed on roads in the vicinity of the high school, to collect money from pedestrians and -or motorists who plan to enjoy the show. The committee has set a price of $2 per person or $5 per car, for entry to the display area. It is hoped all those attending will be generous, or at least honest in their contribution towards this celebratory and beautiful tradition. Plan on attending Canada Day celebrations in Seaforth. Dollar bill preferred When Canada's one dollar coin was introduced about a year ago, most people simply ignored it and continued to use the familiar dollar bill which didn't weigh down their wallets. The populace was told the "loonie" would make vending machine use and bus fare payments much easier. The dollar bill, he populace was told, was on the path to extinction. Much to the chagrin of the bureacrats, the loonie is not being used and the dollar bill is still the preferred currency. Loonies are cumbersome. Dollar bills are crisp, neat and colorful. Nor has the vending machine industry responded overwhelmingly, there are still many vending machines that have not been adapted to accept the forlorn loonie. Now federal bureaucrats, having watched the floundering of the loonie, want to force the coin down our throats. They want to take the loved dollar bill out of currency and make us use the loonie. Can you picture it A flustered senior bureaucrat who promised his superiors the loonie would catch on, sitting in his ivory tower pulling his hair out screaming: "I'll make them use the loonie, I'll force the ignorant peasants to love the loonie." The problem is a loonie is just a loonie, but a dollar bill is a dollar bill. To say otherwise is lunacy. (From the Perth Courier). LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Seaforth supports youth well Dear Seaforth: On behalf of the Canada Employment Centre for Students I would like to thank your community for continuing to support its youth by providing them with summer employment. Our office has already placed a number of local students in jobs at area businesses, farms and households, and we expect to help many others find work as the summer progresses. 1988 has marked the fourth year of our Centre's Outreach Office in Seaforth. Since the beginning of May, I have spent Tuesday afternoons in the public library reading room, where I have tried to help area young people in their summer job searches and talked with potential employers concerning our Student Employment Office. By bring- ing our Services to your community in this way, our Centre strives to make our ser- vices more accessible and useful to Seaforth's students and employers. Over the past eight weeks, I have been pleased to discover that most of this area's students have had little trouble in finding summer employment. It is great to see a community which supports its youth so well However, our office would like to en- courage more Seaforth employers to list their open jobs with us. If you tell us about your available summer jobs, we will make any qualified local students aware that you are looking for help. No longer do you have to depend solely on the chance that someone will walk in off the street looking for work ! As well, only you, the employer, makes the final decision concerning who is to be hired. Best of all, our assistance is free of charge! The Student Centre wants to help you, and in the process will help local students more effectively. Although I will no longer visit the Seaforth library this year, fell free to contact us if you need any job done, no matter it if is at home, business or farm, or it is will last an hour, day or throughout the summer. Or, if you have any questions concerning govern- ment programs or grants call us any time until the end of August. In Goderich we can be reached at 529-2744 or in Exeter at 235-1711. We still have many capable students who are keen to work, and ready to help you! Once again, thank you for your com- munity's continuing support in finding jobs for students, and we will see you next year at the Student Centre's Outreach Office in Seaforth. Sincerely, Bonnie Turner, Student Placement Officer. Give me 90 seconds with cha Call it whatever you like, but I call it a gross athletic overpayment. Even if the event had lasted more than a fleeting minute and a half, payment of $13.5 million dollars to the LOSER of the heavyweight boxing championship bout, still would have represented an injustice - at least to my way of thinking. I mean, just think of what you'd have to go through at your own job to make the same amount of money. All the hours of pain and giving, only to see the cents col- umn growing instead of the dollars. It kind of makes a crashing left -right to the head seem rather attractive. Certainly it represents the easier route to striking gold. Knowing Michael Spinks got a guaranteed $13.5 million for his pain, and Ironman Mike Tyson, somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million for inflicting it, makes me yearn for the opportunity to get into the ring myself. I probably wouldn't even need 90 seconds of the champ's time. And since I'd probably be knocked senseless by the first punch there wouldn't SWEATSOCKS by Heather McIlwraith be much pain. I probably wouldn't wake to the after effects until days after the bout. By that time, unbeknownest to myself, I would have probably convalesced. How's that for a convincing argument? Then again it wouldn't be much of a show for boxing fans - but then again neither was Monday's event and it featured two professionals. In fact it was probably more entertain- ing to watch the pre -bout hype about Tyson and Spinks - it certainly lasted longer and it didn't cost anything to view. Certainly the event itself was less than a bargain. Anyone who left their seat for popcorn was bound to miss the fight, or, excuse me - the punch. ' To quote almost everybody, "Tyson was given more trouble by Spinks before the fight began than in the ring." But maybe that was the plan. Perhaps Spinks anticipated he would lose out in the ring, and determined at least to make a showing on the sidelines. In that respect anyway, he succeeded. Whether or not he actually placed is questionnable - but he did show. But seriously one has to question the logistics of a 90 second work out paying out an estimated $33.5 million in wages. It would certainly seem that boxing is a lucrative business. And, if that's the case, then perhaps a career change is in order. Hey, give me 90 seconds with the Champ! -- • •• • .k.k•\\\\kk,.. - ; ,„, \\N : '''' • • •••... - • .-.7fs\s' , Bell strike Every month at about thisiime, I declare my hatred of the Bell Telephone company when I open my mail box and find their bill. But lately that hatred is growing. Bell has made it almost impossible for me to contact friends out of town, made making long distance calls at work a hassle, and put me in my girl friend's bad books. And I still have to pay their bill. Sunday evening I was supposed to go to a barbecue in Goderich with the above men- tioned girl and her family. But work had me running late and I headed home instead of to Goderich, thinking I could call and smooth things over. But all I got when I dialed her number was "due to a temporary condition your call cannot be completed at this time," and that's all I've heard for the past two days. Now I'm almost scared to call. I've tried to call a friend in Toronto but can't get through there either. I'm obviously not the only person being inconvenienced by this strike. At work, trying to contact sources of information in Goderich is almost a lost cause -it would almost be faster to drive there. Probably cheaper than toll charges too. For a particularly important story I call- ed the operator to see if she could put me through to Goderich. On about the tenth ring an operator picked it up. I knew I was in inspires hatred MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett trouble when I heard a casual "hello" rather than the typical "operator, may I help you?" I explained the satiation the best I could and handed it over to him. He hummed and hawed a lot, and I could picture him scrat- ching his befuddled head on the other end of the line. I wanted to ask if he was one of about 5,000 management personel trying to do the job of some 20,000 experienced Bell employees, but I thought he might hang up on me. New on the job?" I asked him. "Uh huh" came the reply over a slow tap- ping of keyboard keys. After trying for about 10 minutes to put the call through, all the while expressing his disbelief that it wasn't working, he decided he should get some help. My thanks to whoever helped him, because I finally got through. But that's the only successful long distance call I've made in two days. Bell management said they would be trying to 7amo• keep up with consumer demand when the strike began, but as far as I can see it's already too much for them. There is nothing I hate to hear on the phone more than a Bell recording (except maybe the muzak people play when they put you on hold). I've shelled out quite a few dollars to Bell over the months for the convenience of long distance calling, and they are pretty quick to charge you 60 cents if they help you out on a call. But now that I -and everybody else - is being constantly inconvenienced they should maybe knock a few bucks off this month's bill for the people I couldn't reach out and touch. What if everybody refused to pay? We'd likely all be disconnected by Bell, but maybe the Tuckersmith phone system could use some expansion. Then if there ever was a strike we could all browbeat the locals back to work. I hope this Bell strike is over soon. It's a hassle at work, and my personal life can't bear it. Seaforth looks at sewerage system JUNE 29, 1888 Over a year ago Messrs. Wanless and Govenlock and other magistrates acting as magistrates for the enforcement of the Scott Act, adjudged about a dozen hotel keepers to be guilty of violating the act. The hotel keepers appealed against the decision, car- rying their cases before the county judge, who after hearing the evidence adjourned them from time to time, and finally gave judgment last week, dismissing all the cases but two. THE BOYS IN RED - In its camp notes the Stratford Beacon -Herald of this week makes the following reference to the 33rd Battalion and its commanding officer: "Lieutenant- Colonel T.T. Coleman, commanding officer of the 33rd Battalion, is a genial fellow and is the happy possessor of a waggish manner which makes him a favorite among his fellow officers. His battalion turns out 347 strong this year and is accompanied by a first class band. The officers of this bat- talion have expended $665 in procuring white helmets for the men, which indicates that a reciprocal feeling of good will exists between officers and privates. The county of Huron has generously voted 25 cents a day additional pay to the volunteers whilst in camp. A HIVE OF INDUSTRY - We had the pleasure a few days ago of looking through the extensive and well arranged furniture factory of Messrs. Broadfoot and Box of this town, and were agreeably surprised to see so large a staff of workmen employed. Since getting into their new premises this firm has greatly increased its machinery and facilities. JUNE 27, 1913 Mr. McNally, the Provincial Medical Health Officer for this district, was in town IN THE YEARS kdONE from the Archives for a couple of days last week. The doctor was making a survey of the sanitary condi- tions in the town and consulting with the local authorities. He says that cesspools for inside closets are forbidden by law and should be replaced by a properly con- structed septic tank system or the town must establish a general and up-to-date sewage system. A sewerage system in Seaforth under existing conditions would be a somewhat herculean undertaking. We now have a very complete and effec- tive drainage system, but when that was established the question of sewerage was not a vital one and has only become so since the introduction of inside closets. Early haying has been in progress in this vicinity during the past week. The crop is very poor, and will not require much barn room. JUNE 24, 1938 Plans for an enlarged and improved Lions Park were presented to the meeting of the Lions Club on Monday evening, when the report of the parks committee was received. The plans include an enlarged park with playing field, a central pavillion to house dressing rooms, etc. and a number of over- night cabins. No immediate start on the work is anticipated, but the program will be proceeded with as funds are available. Members of the congregation of Northside United Church gathered at the Parsonage Monday evening to bid farewell to Rev. T.A. Carmichael and his family, who left this week for a new charge. Until 60 years ago, what is now known as the village of Dublin was Carronbrook-the change of name taking place on Dominion Day, 1878. Residents of the village will observe the Diamond Jubilee of the day with a monster lawn social on Wednesday even- ing of next week. Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Gemmel] of Highview Farm, Tuckersmith, highly esteemed residents, celebrated the fiftieth anniver- sary of their marriage on Friday at their home in Tuckersmith, when friends numbering 150 called during the afternoon and evening to convey congratulations and good wishes. JUNE 2'9, 1963 Building permits issued in Seaforth dur- ing the first half of 1963 have topped permits for all of 1962, the town clerk's records show. Building activity has spurted ahead so much over the last year that the 1963 January to June total of $87,650 more than tripled last year's total of $27,000 for the same period. The Chatterbox, published by the students of Seaforth District High School, hit the streets last week in a blaze of color. The yellow covered magazine under the supervi- sion of Laurel Cocks, has taken on a greater concept of unity this year as accounts of all activities and events are compiled and set under their respective sections, such as classes, sports and graduates. 0