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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-06-17, Page 2A2—' THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 17, 1987 :1,,, Hu Huron 4,C A O•itor.,BLUE • RIBBON SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST ' ' AWARD .._ ._ _ 1987• Incorporating •• ' .The Brussels Post ED BYRSKI, General Manager, Published in •• HEATHER McILWRAITH; Editor . 'Seaforth, Ontario ' . . Member Canadian Community: Newspaper Assoc. Every, Wednesday Morning Ontario Community Newspaper Association n silo Pressounul i4 1 Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute' ., Subscription rates; The Expositor Is brought to you Canada '20.00 a year, In advance . each week by the efforts of: Senior Citizens - 97.00.. a year in advance Pat Armes, Nellie Blake, Outside Canada'60,00 a year, In advance Bessie Breams, Karen Gor- Single Copies - .50 cents each dner, Joan Guichelaar and Bob - McMillan Se'cond class mail. registration Number 0696. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1987. Editorial and Buslneu Offices -10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (S19) 5.27.0E40 Mailing Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Seniors 'Month June is the month dedicated to Senior Citizens across Canda. Indeed it's about time 'Canada recognized both the past and present contributions -of seniors. In Ontario, the government IS just. now beginning to realize the complex 'needs'of senior citizens. And these needs are,being met, thanks to groups such as the United Senior' Citizens of Ontario (USCG), a group of seniors which lobbies the government for necessary changes in policy affecting seniors across the province. - .. In, a recent speech to members of the local chapters of the USCG` in Lucknow, Minister for Senior Citizens Affairs, Ron Van Horne, said a "quiet revolution" is now taking place'with seniors making their needs known to the government. One of the profound changes sparked by the diligence of the seniors' groups was the establishment 'of the Ministry of • Senior Citizens' Affajrs itself. The ministry is the first of its kind• in Canada.. - Also significant was last year's"White,Paper called A new Agenda"; a blueprint for change in the way the Ontario government views the question of needs of the province's elderly in the future. • ' Two crucial areas the government hopes to address are the prov?cion of a clearer definition of extended care to;seniors and a new program dubbed "One Stop Shopping" 'which will allow seniors access to the gamut of ser- vices available (VON, Meals on Wheels etc...) without. dealing with the maze .of services individually. With government and seniors groups working together, an'enriched way of life and increased services for the elderly appears to be just around the corner. No support for concert On Sunday, June 7th we brought one of Canada's top bands to town for a very enter- taining evening: Tom Cochrane and Red Rider put on a super show and it's a real shame that more people from this area didn't see it. I had the opportunity to talk to Tom Cochrane before the show Sunday night and he told me they would put on a good show regardless of how many people were out there. I think everyone that was there en- joyed the show. Some people asked why the show didn't run till midnight, that was an advertising er- ror on our part and we apologize for it. The bands played as long as they were supposed to and then some. For years people in this town have been complaining of how boring Seaforth is and how they wish there was something for them to do. We gave the people in town something to do and they threw it back in our face: , I can honestly say that for every person from Seaforth at the concert there were three (3) from out of town. Yes it's true we lost money on this con- cert. I feel real sorry for the high school stu- dent's council because they worked hard ail year long to raise money. Then they help us put the concert on thinking the student body would support them fully. Well they were wrong, only about 40=50 students showed up. I guess our biggest mistake was not hay-. ing a bar. If we had a bar the place would Tanning is an impossible task I'm beginning to believe it's impossible for an active female to' get a perfect tan. Although I've never really had a problem before -mainly because I've usually opted for the'shade, this year I'm encountering a multitude of them. They all stem from the fact my extracurricular activities seem to be taking me places where there's just no escaping the sun. I wouldn't mind so much, except that now, instead of maintaining a nice even shade of pale, I'm sporting a rather uneven coat of reds and whites. I fact - I feel like a candy cane. I've been told I now have good color, but that too, is debatable, depending which side ' you're looking from. It also depends what clothes I happen to be wearing at the time. Noone Ls going to notice that my tan ends just above the. elbow, if what I'm wearing doesn't. And if I'm sitting down 'the fact that my tan doesn't circumference my body is barely detectable. When I stand up though, the difference is unmistakable. • But I've yet to figure out how to solve this dilemna. There's no avoiding the fact that 1. TO THE EDITOR 1 have been full, everybody would have had a good time and we wouldn't have lost money. It's too bad that people can't leave the booze alone for a night or that they have to rely on booze to have a good time. I can't count how many people asked me if it was going to be a licensed concert, when I said no, they said they weren't coming. It's a real shame but it's the truth. I'm not condemning the service clubs in town for holding licensed functions. They should alt be commended for all the hard work they have done over the years raising money and putting it back into the town somewhere. On a better note I would tike to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who helped make the sf• Yw a success even if financially it was a failure. Special recognition should go to Mary Margaret Kelly and Mark Jones for all the work they did prior to and on the day of the concert, all the girls who sat at the door tak- ing tickets, andihose who worked at the con- cession stand: Marjory Anderson and her crew in the kit- chen for cooking such great meals for all of us, all the security guards, the arena staff, Turn to page 4 FROM THIS ANGLE by Patrick Raftis PO goes against edict • "Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor However, I think I might miss those let - hail, nor dark of night, shall stay these ters from Ed McMahon, informingme that couriers from their appointed rounds." I "may already have wont" Well, it seems what the elements have Maybe we should scrap the current been traditionally unable to do, has been system of mail delivery altogether and go accomplished by a combination of thick- back to the old Pony Express system. That headed forces, in the form of,Canada Pott way, if the letter carriers wouldn't deliver and the Letter Carriers Union of Canada. the goods, the horses could probably do it Wha's right and wrong in these occa- . without themMaybe faster too. sional postal disruptions (beleive it Or not, While all this is going on, a more serious there hasn't been one m six years) is com- labor problem is being entirely overlook- pletely irrelevant to the discussion here. In ed. I heard a radio report this morning the eyes of the average person, Canada detailing the beginning of the strike of Post is wrong because, well because. some 400 actors who supply the voices for a they're Canada Post; the letter carriers number of Saturday morning cartoons. are wrong because their getting paid $13.43 Bad enough we aren't going to have any peraren'tmail opento Saturday mornings, now and the rest of us - and'.on hour theyre both wrong they because let this, we will also have to settle for re -runs of the thing slide to the point where regular Mail Flintstones and huckleberry Hound.. delivery is threatened. Maybe we couldwork out an acceptable Canada Post is going to win itself some compromise -- one that would get public support by keeping at least inter everybody back to work. ---Get-the-str_ikin etter.-earriers-to-do-th ittent-maTi--delroery-going in -striking • . � voice-overs for the cartoons. That wa areas by the use of (dare I say it) "scab y, all labor". The carriers have already won . those people who are at work when their themselves some points by making this amail ers p on usually makes his de i; y veries rotating strike, so they won't be shutting and never have a chance to talk to talk to the ,entire mail system down all at once. them could at least have a chance to hear That's all well and good until this thing their voices coming out of. the mouths of begins to turn ugly, picketers attacking ' such cartoon favorites as Yogi Bear and. replace 'merit workers and such things Bugs Bunny. you could Meanwhile, imaginethe fun Let's hope it doesn't get that far. Meanwhile, the rest of us may have to wait a little longer for that tax refund Che- que, or that letter from Aunt Matilda; but we'll also get a few extra days of solvency before the old Visa bill comes in. Fair enough trade, f would think, have if your mail was brought to your house by, say, Porky Pig. "Whaddya mean, nothing 'but• bilis again?" "Th-th-th=that's all folks!" ' I'm sorry, but somebody had to say that. SWEATSOCKS by Heather M'cllwraith Bolin lowpubm t 11 have to live operation,ss I get a sex change y which will allow me to morals bare my upper tor - with the tan lines. And they'll probably get worse. For some reason the sun prefers not to leave its mark on certain parts of my anatomy. So army-thighsgr-oarredderwith each ball game I. attend, my shins grow whiter in comparison. I seem, to be fighting a losing battle. Not only do I have a tan line where my watch is, but I•have several criss crossing my back as well. Even when I.attempt to remedy the situation it seems I ultimately end up with. stripes somewhere else. My feet seem •;to be another problem area. Some days, when %'m able to kick off my shoes and allow my feet to absorb some rays, the result is favorable. But, on thnen days when I chose to go golfing, the result is a ring around the ankle, and a rather in- credibly retarded look. I've contemplated taking lounge chair in • hand and forcingmyself to lie out in the sun, but I know I wouldn't have the pa- tience for it. Even if I did, it would probably wouldn't give me that even tan I'd like. No doubt it would just make the red skin red- der and give the white skin a little tinge of ,pink. I''d still have those tan lines. Well, at least some of them can be camoflouged - until I decide' to wear something a little more revealing., The way things are going though I'm afraid I'm even more paranoid than ever about being seen in public in a bathing suit. Then again, it's not like d was ever an earth shattering image in a bathing suit. ° WELL, wrrM Neu) COAcHE4 co5riNo- 02 MiLUoN ArJD moDEFoi zlN& OLD CAr{5, $ 6OO•.7HoUSAND --- YOU KNOW HOU) r( 15 SANK you'FoR MA✓E-CC/Na VIA Book worth the wait Impressive, nice, nicer than nice, awesome -words can't describe the new book, released by Ruth Churchill Peppier, Hanover poet, and Jim Ford, photographer extraordinaire, publisher, promoter, relief druggist, and man about town. Oasis in Time didn't come out on time. Peppier and Ford were hoping the book would be published and released over a year ago, but that didn't happen. It's a good thing too -the wait was worth it. The comination book of pberns and photography, a first of its kind, is a mar- riage ar riage that works. Photographs were careful- ly chosen to enhance the theme of each poem. The poems, written from the heart, speak for themselves. The photographs, though they round out the message con- veyed by, the poetry, also have their own story. Ford briefly explains each photograph, where and how it was taken, for the amateur photographer who asks, "How does someone take such beautiful photographs?" Much thought and preparation has gone into Oasis in Time. There's also the sweat and tears, but a glance tells the reader it was a labor of love -it's a gift. That's exactly what Oasis in Time is, it's a perfect gift. It's the kind of book you would find on someone's coffee table. It's a book you can pick up, read, and put down, only to SENSE • AND NONSENSE by Ron Wassink read more of later. The only hard part is putting it down until it's been read, then re- - reading it a second, third and fourth time. Response to the book has been se positive that Ford says plans are underway for a se- cond printing. "People say, 'What a nice gift book.' One lady called Ruth at the office, crying, saying hots nice it is. Our friends have been blown away, they can't believe it. Ford says he and Peppler knew what they wanted, they just Weren't sure.how it Would be accepted by the public. Now that the book is available locally, and ill book stores across Canada, saying the book has been ac- cepted is an understatement. The book appeals to two audiences, those who. enjoy poetry, and those who like pie - tures. Book lovers are getting the best of both worlds. As for the delay in publishing, Ford says it was a blessing in disguise. "It was like hav- ing a baby -it was incredible. A baby is born when it's ready and it was the same with the book." A poem entitled "The Gift" at the front of the book, even before the foreword by Haygood Hardy, expresses Peppler's feel- ings most appropriately. THE GMT Only my words Havel ' To give you; Fragmented thoughts - Stored in my heart Like precious Golden fruits. Little jars of words Lying on Cool cellar shelves Waiting through The dark hours of winter For your need. Only these I bring to you, For I have need To bring you A gift - Even these poor things. -Ruth Churhi l Peppier Oasis in Time. It's available at Hoist Of- fice Supplies m Walkerton as well as in several Hanover locations, It sells for $29.95. It's worth much more. Workmen relay sewer with tiles JUNE 17,18$7 - The procession for a Jubilee Celebration in Seaforth will commence to march at 10 A.M. sharp, and all persons intending to take part in it are particularly requested to be in their places not later than 9:45 a.m. Dr. Col - aim will act as Marshall, and will be assisted by a number of Deputy Marshalls. Workiten are now engaged opening out the Main street sewer and are relaying it with tile. The sewer is to be renewed frons Market street to Goderich street. Mrs. W. M. Akins of Atlanta, Georgia, ar- rived in Seaforth on Friday last to spend a_ few weeks with friends irk tbwn. A daring attempt to burglarize Messrs. Joseph Kidd and Son's safc at Dublin was Made on Saturday night, ma e Quite a number of delegates left this star tion in Hensall on Tuesday to attend the Sabl bath School Convention held at Goderich. JUNE 21,1912 The contract for the erection of the new school in Zurich has been a'ward'ed to Mr. Cudmore of Hensall. Mr. Albert M. Johnston, son of Mt. W. H. Johnston, teacher of No: 14, Stanley, and Strachan, :of Brussels are equal in IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives the recent examinations of the University of Toronto for th'e Fulton scholarship in mathematics and physics. The value of the scholarship is $60: Rev. Walter Scott of Edinburgh, Scotland, has been in the ,Seaforth area for a few weeks. Mr. Scott is a clergyman of the Free Presbyterian church and he`has come TO' Canada to administer the sacrament and perforin other ministerial duties to the few people scattered through the country. At the last regular meeting of the Seaforth town council accounts to the amount of $652 were passed and $500 were placed to the credit of the Collegiate Institute Board and 8150 to the Separate School Board. JUNE 181'937 Seaforth and district had its first display of donkey basbeall on Saturday evening when a crowd of nearly 1,1110 saw two team's in action at the bons Park. Two circle quilting bees were held this weekin Winthrop, one at the home of Mrs. Sol. Shannon on Wednesday afternoon and the other at the home of Mrs. Thomas Pryce, Thursday afternoon. JUNE 21, 1962 Hvron-voterrttood-firrn-fn-suppert ofthe- - =— Government in Monday's voting and return. ed Elston Cardiff, 73 -year-old Morris Township farmer, for his seventh term. He was first eleeted in the former riding df Huron North in 1940. Rev. ft. Currie Whitey", minister of Hen- sail and Chiselhurst United Churches for the past three years, and who has accepted a call to Central United church, Stetford, and Mrs Winiaw, were honored at farewell p resehfatton at ' .Hensall'. United church Wednetdaf evening, June 20 and presented with a hi-fi re'c'ord player.