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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-03-11, Page 2Huron pOStOr) -' SINCE 1860, SERVING THE:COMMUNITV FIRST ncorporating Brussels Post • 10 Main Street 527-0240 • ED BYRSKI, General Manager Published In SEAFORTH, ONTARIO" —Every -Wed n esda Hnorni ng HEATHER.. McI.LW.RAITH,' Editor' The Expositor}'is brought to you each week by the efforts .of: Pat Armes, Bessie'Broome, Marlene, Charters, Joan Guichelaar, 'Dianne McGrath, ;Lois McLlwain, Bob McMillan and Cathy, Melady BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1985 .Member Canadian Community, Newspaper Assoc. On.tariobommunity Newspaper Association Ontario Press:Councif ' Commonwealth Press Union International, Press Institute 'Subscription rates: Canada. $20,00 a year, in advance . Outside Canada $60:00 ayear, in advance"' • Single, Copies - 50 cents' each eacn • ' WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1987, Second class. mall registration Number 0696 Justsix:�fthosed:.ay Everhave one of those days? Ever have six,` in a row? I didn't think so, I guess I don't live ' right. . , Twenty-four hours ago, I was sitting at this terminal (I never liked that word; sounds too final) wracking my grey matter for a.eolumn idea' d coining up' with white space. In other reporting . words,, I couldn t think of anything. Mydislike for re ortin on the vagaries of 'surpassing the total combined value of every Now I have an idea, but I. d rather not tackle the fnunicipal Budget most likely stems from automobile I've ever owned were dismissed iL : my own inability to come up with a balance as "too little to make a difference." It was an .On -my -desk -sits -an -ominous -pile . of ' , fiscal progranrfor-my-owrrnreagre-financial—intimidating experience. dishevelled papers, This, in itself, is nothing affairs, After all, how can someone who's Anyone who begrudges the -elected offi: new as ominous piles of dishevelled papers Visa billresembles the national deficit be • . gals of a municipality the minimallremunera- are.always-finding-their-way--to-the-top-ot nY—reasonably expected-tti-comprehend-the—tion-they-receive-for-their-labors should desk. They are attracted' to it like flies to a . multi-iniliion'dollar complexities of municipalindeed take the time to attend a budget monetary matters. It's ridiculous. session of their local council. You don't have During the course of .Monday night's•' to agree with their every use of the taxpayers' budget session, amounts totalling more than ,money to appreciate the magnitude. of the twice the annual salary of the average, task they take on justby agreeing to be• the community, newspaper report were referred . caretakers of it..• to as "not a large figure.'" Numbers. -' Continued on Page A10) OM THIS ANGLE - by Patrick Raftis LETTERS .TO' THE EDITOR OPSTF foster 'excellence The Ontario Public . School Teachers' Federation is dedicated . to fostering excel- lence within our public school system, and, because of this, it carries out a variety of unique programmes to pursue this goal. The members of the OPSTF believe that educa- tion does not go on entirely within the walls of our schools; there are a variety of situations in. which adults engage in many valuable educational activities. These include taking part in: church committees,' athletic, groups,. volunteer clubs and recreational activities; the list could go on. Thereare a number of clubs who meet on a regular basis, and they are continually searching for guest speakers who would be willing to discuss topics of interest with them. Because of this, a number or OPSTF members have ,volunteered to speak to Sincerely, service clubs on a variety of•issues which may Richard Maertens be of interest to them - the topics are listed below. Please feel free to contact Richard Maertens, Chairperson of the Public Rela- tions Committee, at 335-3566 to book a convenient time for the speaker to present - his -her topic of• interest to your club. Topics: The Liberal Arts in Education; The Rationale of the Curriculum; Education in Germany and England; Learning Activities for Preschool Children; Lion's Quest Pro- gramme; Autism: A Better Understanding; Inuit Culture; Values„ influences and Peers Programme; Grade 4 Cirriculum; China; Individualizing Education; Heart and Stroke Foundation; Leadership. We hope to add more topics to this list, but it's a good start on this exciting new venture. Why not. give us a call? leftover lunch. It's the content•of these documents that is causing me some concern. • They are covered with that most dreaded of all printed commodities - NUMBERS!! That's right, it's budget' time.. -MOVIES ARE .. D ENOLI&, 4, BUT TFIE LOORST PART i,UAS WILyof) TAXING THE PoF oRN ! " Ivo Lc) 'PL,wyN6.4 --a OH encourages a disposable era We are all part of this instant and Board the ultimate plan that would protect disposable era - it takes the hard wok out of the environment, protect agriculture, pre - everyday occurrences and allows for a fast vent acid rain. preclude 'nuclear waste and and efficient lifestyle. This automated era has reduce theoverloaded landfill sites - all a short history. but rapidly we are paying for without a change in lifestyle. It was rejected it with the after effects of its waste products - • for the more fashionable and popular pollution of our water, air and soils. solution. Due to -proficiency and efficiency, agricul- tural commodities have glutted the market - is this the cause of a misguided theory that agricultural land is a disposable resource too? Today, we have sefficient good agricultural land; today, Canadians have the cheapest food in the world; today, we have a glut of grains- but what about tomorrow? We gave the Hearing Board a plan to offer to the Ontario Government an opportunity to regain control of Ontario Hydro. We gave them a plan to use electricity efficiently. A Ontario Hydro has made a commitment to society to encourage this instant and disposable era, despite the financial or ecological cost. This sentiment has been further encouraged by lenient governments who provided, for Ontario Hydro, the exemptions to the very legislation that was meant to protect this province. Agriculturalists care about the environ- ment, they depend upon it for their livelihood as well as for their recreation. 1200 landowners of Bruce. Iluron and Middlesex • plan to reduce acid gas emmissions, to reduce Counties provided the Consolidated Hearing nuclear production of electricity and thereby Shop locally,citizens told Dear Editor: As a former resident of Seaforth and with a daughterand son-in-law who have a business in Seaforth, I have been interested to read in your paper about changes to the main street and all the efforts being rude by a few dedieated citizens to keep the town alive. My concern is that Seaforth tan only exist as a viable community if it can provide all the necessary services. So far it has been able to do SO Mid has been fortunate to have available good providers of necessary services both business and professional. However. the eittzens of Seaforth who earn their livelihood in the town do not see fit to support local business, whirls supports thein in so many ways; eg. taxes, donations, wages, etc. Even though there are good' stores on Main Street, they shop elsewhere. We have good doctorsbut people go to Clinton. Babies are not being bom m our hospital but I notice birth announcements for Stratford. Clinton and Leedon. Can they not ( realize that it these tacnrttes are not used, then they will be closed. We do have optometrists, dentists, chiropractors, law- yers, accountants, but Seaforth citizens do not patronize them, and take their business to our competing towns like Mitchell and Exeter. ' , Frites in our pharmacy, hardware stores, clothing stores are the same as everywhere in Ontario and the merchandise is the same but yet the people of Seaforth take their spending dollars out of town. When they want credit, then, they visit local bust esses who have to extend itor be criticized. "They don't get such a privilege in other places. Business people themselves are guilty of this and they should be aware that the people they patronize in other places are not the ones who do business with thein. ' Please encourage the citizens of Seaforth to exercise common sense!! J. Montgomery package - is not a //waste Dear Editor: , I would like to respond to the February 86, 29k7 Sense and Nonsense" column which' appeared in the Huron Expositor under the headluie "'Package is waste of money,' Til the eelumn Ron Wassink said Islinaid be blamed for the Fdodland Ontario pierritition ir, which media outlets were sent a message ii% a fortune cookie. AS a matter of fact, I think the farmers and consumer alike will be thankful for (lila type of promotion carried out by Foo hand Farmers, im...a Over the .past few years the image 6f the Junior Perm -eft has become tarnished; •pbssiblydtretoignoranceino'ethan anything else Being as Mardi is Junior Farmer Meriiberf sh'i • Month, I' would .like to' take ati ...:...p ig-. , -a opportunity to enlighten some readeta on flits organization. ' • We are a youth group for people between the ages of 15 mitt 10, Perhaps the Brost Nolhmon miscon'cepti'oh botrt J ir Patin, cisstfat you have toliVe ilii "afamibbe ,., randier. Not true! There are dose blind Wernher* from all across Ontario coming from different walks.of life. We, all strive toward our motto' of "Self help and Comrrruitity Betterment The self help part of our motto is acii'e ell. • b taking art '° rksh ps frit • my mem ers a ng: p m wo 0 nuclearwaste, to produce electricity from our natural resources and to . utilize energy efficient technology (available but hidden from view. ) W e gave them' a plan tonmtert all aspects of our environment - air, water, forests, wildlife and lands. We gave ahope to the future generations of our Province. The Board rejected this plan. Instead, they favored eliminating a transmission corridor in the north, and recommended the use of agricultural lands for the • building of transmission corridors between Bruce to London and London to Nanticoke. Nothing else will be changed -; acid gas emissions continue, nuclear wastes continue to grew with nowhere safe to put them, garbage sites invade our backyards with their cancerous sediments teaching into our waterways and Ontario Hydro continues to crack the whip over the Ontario Government, Who really won that publichearing? We all lost our environment will continue to decline, _ our agricultural resource Will be irrevocably invaded, and. the future genera- tions Will be the ones tb bear the cost. The Foodland Hydro Committee is down but riot out, we won some battles and we lost genie, but the war is not over yet. For once agriculture stood firmly together. We are better for it and we hope that the Government. of Ontario will'recognize the opportunity we have placed before them • to change the future of this Province without changing its lifestyle; , Yours truly, Jane Rose tMts,1 Foodland Hydro Committee CC. The Hon. David Peterson, Premier of Ontario . .. 'the Hon. Jack Riddell Minister of Agriculture and Food The Hon. V"mcent Kerrio Minister of F�iergy The Hon. Jim Bradley Minister of the Enrvironment Mr.Doug.Reycraft -M.P.P. For Middlesex of money" Ontario, in order to sell our own good, Ontario, produced products. - All of the promotions of Poodland Ontario are designed to -increase consumption Of • Ontario fresh and processed products. And increased consum $tiorrinemismoresales for Ontario farmers and fresher, tastier food for Ontarro_Lonsumers. Our Portland carnpaigii includes televi- Sion and . billboard advertising porno Ontario produets, bracket reseatth, cost • ty groops sliming programs with commb i... and promotional activities with food stores. P tarrilphed comm� ii'cation skills, leadership training rograms cultural events, organized Spott- ing programs, ti_. in`g activities and vanous travel opportune- • ties.Some very successful people ate' ex Junior Partner, members. Gbmrriu'nit l etteridept is achieve'cl ,,__. . , .nity ort' through worlang With the comma many different projects Card parttes;'sowV'e. da ; talent 5hon!vs, canvassing and blood Benet in few of tine things Junior" donor cmlcs are. e things enjoy doing for the Community.,, We are all efithusiastic, hard working, fun 10vin'-bunclr o'fpeople who will rite to oily" challenge;,_ e'. are winners! If you are interested m becbirung a member, feel' free to tontactafiy e,dstrngmember. They Il' be glad to help' yore: Paullloggarth A Proud JunierFaitrier restaurants and the media. The fortune cookie promotion mentioned in the calurnlrt Was designed to alert the press tb the fact Foodtand is starting its ttew promotion Season. We regularly supply the media with information about Ontario fresh and processed products in addition to recipes usWg the good things We grog. today's competitive world; W'e always try to get the best value for oily promotional dollar We have to compete With sophhsti; sated cortiiiiifnications firms f orstiacelin food pages that's Why Peedlaiid decided to use the fortune Cookies as an inelipensive vehicle' to attreet.Media attention. The ooaktes and bakes cost $780 and were. s'eiht•to• 590' friedia outlets , r,'....atet. .. dland' Ontario staff Unfortun e , )!od ,,. , ... , the didn t•realize the boxes m width' he toolnes were packed carie herd the lit S as the order WAS contracted out to a Toronto firnrl The codkdes-themselvestvere made in Ontario,. We plan' to cantin'tre to prornhote Ontario p ...... our variou§ fresh and "mer§sed fdbdthroug , Foodland _ Ontano program:;. I hope your readers will hearing and seeing a lot about Ontario peeductsii the• next few months. , 'We Want to ensure that both consumers and producers gain Maths= benefit froni the good food we grow in Ontario Otiir new ' alo an' sayS it all "On`tari'o; there`s ri'o taste g, 'like homey'' • Youtss»icerely; JackRiddell Miliisterof Agtieultureati'd Fried SENSE AND NONSENSE by Ron Wassink Home town Lobie's verse about home town in his col- umn this week made me sit back and think what home town, really means. I always thought I knew, but after an incident two weeks ago, I'm not sure. - I always relate home town as being a place people call home. It's a place where, unlike the city, you know your next door neighbor, belong to a volunteer organiza- tion, know the person across town who's in the hospital, and a place, when you go to the post office, it takes half an hour to get there because you talk to all the people you meet on the way. Home town, to vie, means small town. in turn, that means an easy going way of life, Small town means, at least in Seaforth that you have inexpensive recreational ac• tivities. And lots of them at thaL I'm sure if you checked prices near the city, you wouldn't be able to compare the green fees of our golf course or our curling fees. Small town also means we don't have to 'drive for hours•to canoe the Saugeen River, or ski Happy Valley. Anil when we go to our cottages along Lake Huron, we Meet ninny of oat neighbors. ¶' jot hi itself is a continua= tion of small town life. But best of all, home town means if you buy an item ata total store and want to return it, the sales dark doesn't get you to fill out a form in triphtate'r The emnptaint department is the owner of the store, pro- bably the same person you purchased the item froth, My problem is what the ward "home''' means. I've aiways,lilted in a 'Untie towrn" and though I may have moved away from home towns, i stilt think of tbeni all as home. Palmerston used to be never thought that movinaway met I moving away but ant had left. I Was raised in Haiti arid' means. . though I haven't been part of that communi- ty for years, other than church, I still con • - sider it home. Now I'm in Walkerton, am helping out on three organizations, and I consider this to be home. The confusion all started when 1 watched a midget hockey game in Ifarriston last eekend. The Palmerston team used the Harriston arena because of booking pro- blems hi their own town. It was one of their quarter -final games against Port Dover. The coach of the Palmerston team, a friend and a cop its Mount Forest, also has a son playing for the local midgets. I'd heard how good number 1e was and decided to watch him play. As soon as I walked into the arena, it was like pfd home week. Assisting with the coaching, duties, was .Allan Patterson (brother Don lives in Walkerton). Allan us- ed to be the only mechanic I'd trust my car to whenever(which was often) it broke down. lle's still a great nleehantc, bid due to distances 1 haven't gone to Al and El's Garage in ages. l must apologize to Don for calling his brother Allan, Don. When At came elver,1 got his name wren, even though I knew better. There were ninny faces f recognized, most of whom I knew by name. But there was no way I was going to embarrass myself again .by getting a Mule wrong. After thatmdidentI evasemend, kveillime someone calve ever to find out What r ViteS doing, I rarely called them by Warne. • I started to gnestion my trip to the arert* after Dave Moore, enstodian at the Palmer`sfon public Minot asked me it I was home for the weekend 1 really dial know' how to answer buil because kited inever oc� carred to Mt that I had ever left home' (Continued on Pa" e AIn) E' • TH: R S by .ter a-cilanne tnyg •aycurse e Freckle • No ainountof'elboty 'e, teniori jiikCe of vanishinewe ream wain t rid of thein MyY re' . Mymothers freckles ere he to stay comforting words were, "freekieV are 'a signof beauty.' I knew, even flreih, that a. zilli'ori reckies' does not a Raquel Welch make'. ()lithe erase ofted heiran'dfreckle$ When! my friends were ba'sting lin the sun at Bayfield i wSs easy to spot (the one lir the shade with the t ttleneck bathing suit) 1 WAS a fast beerier' but a slow learner: I burned' arid, blistered avid peeled countl'est times digit suffering from sun su3ike n3 a valhantteeriage attetnpt at tanning. My tiv'a best frie,'rrds got darker and darken•, lying between them on the sand I looked like tile rang T an Oreo' tooke, i soon liee'atfre a strawberry cream. shorts were Short then Halter tops bare°d the back. Tube tops d lire shoulders: it . was skin, skin, skin. tt'Otias-fredile5•,'frecldes, • fr`eddes.• 'Ictday 3 m resigned to the fact ,Lihbt .I'll nevem' liaVe the niaiiogan ' ter; that tints' head's. Mytteerces s'onnetiines ion together to give fila golden, summer= glow fiat n'os"v'. well froul l , I don't give & dam. Lying in the suntedarkenfnyskinislet myMeadfagood time Iget mytori" while-I"mgolfhig, mind you it'S a bit unev'eh, white forehead; Mitre feet, shorts Mid Sleeve inlets rind elle white • hand Not etectly Beach 111 0ket Ringo, .. .. i n tenons s . , . d shit riratei�ial' ,.. . Y love' the new suntan lofions ori "ns. 1 seldom irisin ori t "ore 1 head fee safes. the the golf eo1fr5e, the pool, th'e beach; yes ieveh the beach, armed with everything; from number. 4 to a number 15' aria I tail' lea e nib turtleneck bathing suit behind ft eats a fortune but its WY its, everyr penny. It's also a lot like paint by nu'rnbers,; Number 4 for my face' and!Iegs number' 8 fat arms and' feet number i for my nose and' everything that used to be eovered,by the' turtleneck bathing suit. Paint by numlierivas . alvtays,futt acid if I get bored With that, weir, with all these freckles 1 can always tilay pits - the dots!