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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-11-18, Page 2, 2A -- THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 18, 1987 Huron . xposito.r• SINCE 1$bO, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST incorporpting ER BYRSKI, General Manager The Brussels Post' HEATHER ' McILWRAITH, Editor Published In —$ec*f+ortb,-Ont-orto Member-Canadian-Community-Newspnper Assoc Every Wednesday Morning Ontario Corrimunity'Newspaper Association Ontario Press Council 4.�ss. Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute • • Subscription rates: Canada '20.00 a year, in advance The Expositor Is brought to you Senior Citizens • 97.0P a year in advance each week by the efforts of; Pat Outside Canada '60.00 a year, in advonce Armes, Nell Corbett, Dianne • Single Copies • ,50 cents each McGrath and Bob McMillan. Second class mail registration Number 0696 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987 Ediforiai and Business Offices .10 Maln Street, Seaforth• Telephone (519) 527.0240 ' Mailing Address • P.O. Be* 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK iWO Student •mortality In the spring of 1985 the Huron County Board of Education received a coroner's report concerning the death of a Huron County secondary stu- dent, The report suggested secondary schools in the county make students. more aware of the hazards of drinking and driving. This brought about the eventual birth of the Alcohol Drug Awareness Program for Today which has been a bigsuccess at educating Seaforth students about the hazards of substance abuse. • The ADAPT program ran in all high schools in the county from Monday; October 26 to Friday, November -6. Although we don't yet know how suc- cessful theprogram has been in other schools, at Seaforth District High School it has made a big impact. Speaking confidentially to students at the school., one would expect them to have some reservations about having to listen to people preach to them on an almost daily. basis for two weeks, but the students were very receptive and had almost exclusively good things to say, In a town like Seaforth there is often not much for high school kids to 'do on weekends. Although jumping into a car with a few friends and a case of beer seems like a dangerous way to relieve boredom, it's a common trend among teenagers everywhere. Thinking about what can happen gets submerged when having a good time. Attitudes are short sighted even after someone has an accident and comes close to death. They just got "road rash," and the whole thing can be brushed off. But the ADAPT program used some pretty strong tactics to get students in touch with their own mortality, Listening to the mother of -a -child who was killed in a drinking driving accident, or an ambulance attendant who has to face the results of alcohol misuse on a day-to-day basis, has to have some effect on the way a person thinks and the choices they will make.. According to the organizers of the program and the students themselves, ADAPT made a lot of students take a look at what they, are doing. They have been given necessary information about choices they are making and will continue to make, • Some of the people responsible for making ADAPT a success in Seaforth are Terry Johnston who was the chairman of the county -wide project and Linda Doig and Terri Brintnell who were members of the ADAPT committee and helped to coordinate the in -school program In Seaforth. It is now up to the students to bring about any real change. The organizers of the ADAPT program have done the most that can be done, and have done a good job. -N.C. RIDE curbs impaired The Ontario Provincial Police Christmas -New Year RIDE driver check program began Sunday, November 15 on a province -wide basis, The OPP RiDE program is a year-round anti impaired driving campaign, stepped up for eight weeks during the peak of the festive season. The two-week extension of the Christmas -New Year RIDE blitz, which ran for only six weeks prior to last year's program, has proved effective 1n screening twice as many motorists, and • getting hundreds of impaired drivers and liquor law violators off the roads; Impaired driving Is still one of the most significant factors in approximate- ly half of all fatal motor vehicle accidents Investigated by the OPP. "The OPP RIDE program Is an essential means of reducing the risk of accidents and fatalities on our highways at any time of the year," said OPP Commissioner Archie Farguson. The potential for danger has traditionally increased during the Christmas season, and for this reason the OPP will place a high priority on taking im- paired drivers off the road. In last year's Christmas -New Year RIDE blitz, OPP officers checked 357,167 drivers across the privince and charged 1,193 people with alcohol- related Criminal Code of Canada driving offences. A total of 2,938 motorists were taken off the road with 12 -hour licence suspensions and 1,595 people faced Liquor Licence Act charges for having alcohol easily accessible to the driver. The OPP will operate a minimum of 40 RIDE check locations across On- tario every day, stopping more than 20,000 vehicles weekly. All available manpower, aided by auxiliary members, will be committed to the RIDE program during the two-month Christmas -New Year blitz. The OPP RIDE checks may inconvenience the motoring public, but their main purpose is to save lives and prevent accidents. Itis in everyone' s best interest the OPP stop impaired driving Injury just plain frustrating I thought I had It all figured out - a few stretches before the game, and - ria injuries. Boy, was I wrong, Those stretches didn't help, me one bit. We were only midway through the first half of the game, when I, in diving for the ball, came up lame instead of with a shot on goal. But I perservered and finished my shift, Then of course there was the sheer embar- when I did,could not lift myleg onto the gas I continued to play the game, and predic- rassment of it all. Not only have I been in- pedal withut excruciatinpain. tably compounded. my Injury before my Meted with the standard names of Gimpy, It even infuriated me that I had to walk in team retired to the dressing room, Limpy, Hoppy and Slow Poke, but the injury the slow lane on Seaforth's Main Street in You'd think common sense would have itself has been subject to some speculation. order to get to and from the Post Office, overridden my need to perservere. But no,Nobody-is,eve „satisfied-wittrthe-rather-bar--bank-or-wherever. and now I'm paying for my stubbornness SWEATSOCKS by Heather McIlwraith I never realized how vital a person's Ing, but truthful, explanation of what pro And it infuriated me that when I dropped a meted my condition. ieceof correspondence hamstring muscle was, until I pulled mine. p p ndence off my desk at work Nor did I realize how painful an .injury to - But 'aside from the mental and physical there was no possible way I could pick it up' that muscle could he, until of course, I in- anguish I've been through this past week, myself, at least not without a poker. jured mine. I've gained a whole new respect it's the real inconvenience of the whole thing And perhaps even more infuriating was (or should I say sympathy) for those foot- that bothers me. I can handle the aches and . the fact I couldn't pick my purse up off the ball players..inflicted with this insidious in- pains. What I can't handle isthe restrictions floor, after putting it there while I hung up jury called a pulled hamstring. I never those aches .and pains have placed on my my coat at the Chiropractor's Office. thought it a depilitating injury - until now, life. (Although I should be shot for being so It's not so bad today, but in the first days It infuriated me when it took me what stupid to put it there). after the injury I truthfully thought death seemed like hours to climb the stairs to my But even more frustrating than all the would be less painful. Every movement. I apartment, although I must say while . it things I have mentionned, is the fact the in - made, whether large or small, was a major wasn't easier, it was faster coming down, jury, the one that has made . me . Land_torturoas undertaking, They.stillare, It infuriated me even further when I could MISERABLE, did not even come in a winn- but thankfully on a smaller scale. not slide in behind the wheel of my car and ing effort. My poor team^was edged out 3-2. CFL support is wavering The Canadian Football League is slck and will, in all probability, die in the near future. If the league does kick the bucket, the funeral services will probably not attract a large crowd, given that two CFL playoff games played on the weekend drew only about half -capacity crowds. That, in, cidently, Is a sure sign that support for the league is wavering. The CFL has always been scoffed at by fans who prefer the National Football League variety, but when push came to shove and the playoffs rolled around, it seemedthat interest was always renewed. Many a "fan," of the league, including this one, has been heard to claim that he only watches the playoffs and, of come, the Grey Cup. Ironically, as long as this was happen- ing, the league had a chance for survival, because it doesn't take long to figure out what kind of revenue it means for a team to draw in excess of 50,000 spectators at to- day's ticket prices, even If only for a cou- ple of games per year. With interest in the playoffs waning, the league has had it, unless some changes are made in a hurry. Part of the problem with trying to run a pro -football league in Canada, is the at- tempt by owners and organizers to mimic • the American game. Oh, I know, the field's a different size and there is one less down and one more player in Canadian Football, but those differences don't affect how the game is packaged. The CFL's problem conies from trying LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Big union leaders should be ashamed of how they're apposing freer trade, Bob White of the autoworkers, Shirley Carr of the CLC and Jeff Rose of CUPE are all indulging in' irresponsible scaremonger= ing over the freer trade pact. They make Chicken Little look like Rambo. They have no confidence in the creativity, entrepreneurial ability and eapa'city for hard work by Canadians. Big union leaders want Canada as a pro- tectionist backwater where they can con= time to coUect their $1.0 billion In forced Won dues each year, The jobs of big union leaders are On the line, not those of workers. These left-wing, big anion leaders want movernment to be able to tax triere, spend ore and regulate more without facing cempetltive pressures. • What is inert shameful about the oppost- tion to freer trade by big union leaders is they're not even' representing the views of workers who are forced to pay union dues to them. A recent national poll by Globe/En- vironies found 4$ per cent•of union members supported freer trade while only 38 percent opposed it. Yet Bob White spent $400,000 of the forced dues of workers in double page ad's across the country opposing freer trade. Bob White's spending spree is a good ex- ample' of why Mery Lavigne launched a con- stitutional court challenge to the use of fore- eed d sinon dues for political parties and Bob White and other big union leaders are violating tho basic political freedoms of hun- dreds of thousands of Canadian workers by using forced union dues in this way. hone Mery For these workers' sakes, we ti Lavigne Is successful in stopping this tong - Mint practice. David Somerville, )?resident, National Citizens Coalition FROM THIS ANGLE by Patrick Raftis to sell their players as sports celebrities of the same stature as the NFL stars. The dif- ficulty here, is that Canada doesn't have a high-profile college football system com- parable to the USA. Every sports fan south of the border can name the top 10 college players (read pro- spective NFL stars) and even non -fans probably know who the Heisman Trophy candidates are. Top NFL prospects rate the kind of ink that only potential National Hockey League first-round draft picks rate here. So, in order to compete with the high- profile NFL stars, the Canadian League has been forced to import name players from the American College ranks. In order to get them to forego or delay an NFL career to play football in a land where nobody cares about it, big bucks (American bucks, thank you) have to be shelled out by the Canadian teams. Football is one area where free trade has been in effect between Canada and the United States for years. Any player is free to sell his services to the highest bidder, resulting in a financial crunch for the CFL. Football also sells the idea of violent con- frontation between large men. That's .a large portion of the attraction for the average fan. If that's what they want, it makes sense that Canadians are unwilling to shell out the price of a ticket to see heavily -padded men bump into each other, when they have the option of viewing the armed assault that takes place in any hockey rink In the country every night. The CFL's only hope for survival is to become a truly Canadian League. Forget the imports and play with Canadian talent, which in this field comes a lot cheaper than the American variety. Fans Just might come out to watch some homegrown talent playing their own game. The next step would be to make It our own game. Drop the number of players per side to nine, thereby opening up the field to a more skilled game. Reducing the number of linemen would allow teams to develop more intricate and exciting plays, similar to the recently popularized Arena Football, which is a fast -paced and in- teresting game. The CFL has to realize it will never replace NFL Football as the real thing as far as purists are concerned, so play the game on Saturday afternoons, when no one else Is playing football. Offer the fans something different and they might respond. If not, then let the whole idea of a separate Candian league rest — in peace. Convicted thief slips through police NOVEMBER 18,1887 Gilmore, the supposed notorious thief, who was tried on Thursday in Exeter for burglarizing B.C. O'Neil's bank, was let go scott free as no further evidence could be found against him. The regular meeting of the Young Liberal Club will be held in their rooms on Tuesday evening next, when the subject of commer- cial union will be again taken up and decid- ed. It is hoped there will be a large turnout of members, as the subject under discussion is a very live one, and all having the in- terests of the club at heart should en- courage, by their presence, the participants In this debate. Mr. E. C. Coleman has been appointed Lieutenant in the Seaforth Volunteer Com- pany. Mr. Coleman will make an excellent officer and will be very popular with the men. Miss Mary Tyreman, daughter of Josiah Tyreman, of Seaferth, who has been teaching at Carlingford during this year, has been engaged to teach a department in Mitchell public school at a salary of $250 per annum. A very destructive fire occurred in Bayfield on Saturday night last resulting in the total destruction of the flouring and saw is of Mr. Thompson. The origin of the fire is ' idanown. Mr. Thompson s loss will be very heavy, and the burning of the property IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives will be a less to the village and neighborhood as they will not likely be rebuilt. NOVEMBEEt 15,1912 _ While .working on the Clark bridge linecement abuttiients, fifth of Morris the cem mixer was placed upon the sectien of the old bridge remaining. The latter gave way and down went machine and men into the river, They had a fall of about fourteen feet. With the exception of a. cold bath none of the men were had but John Little, of the fourth con- ' cession, who 'received a nasty cart on the Nee. The cement mixer and the engine at - Welled were fished out of the water not much the verse. Special missionary services will be con- ducted in the Methodist Church next Sun - clay, when Dr. Wallace Crawford, of China, will preach at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. On Monday evening the Doctor will take his audience by miming p1eture•throughthe mission stations in Japan and China. 1± arrners in the Ki en area have been having trouble. Silo filling this fall has been a discouraging task on account of the heavy rains. There, are still fields of corn in that part to be harvested, and the soaking rains of this week make things look blue. At the rate their potatoes are rotting, very soon there will be a famine with Ripper] people, and the only remedy will be to fall back on turnips and beans. In the Western Foundry moulding shop in Wingham, Mr. Marshall Bell, while pouring off a hot ladle of iron, upset the metal over one of his feet. Although the burn is not con- sidered dangerous, the boot protecting the foot, Mr. Bell will be laid up for some time. NOVEMBER 19,1937 Solemn tribute was paid to the memory of the Seaforth and district men who gave their lives in the eat War at the Remembrance Day service before the soldiers' tonuinent in ictoria Park on Thursday morning. The short impressive service was largely. attended. Alterations and improvements to the rink building, mooted several weeks ago when the present owners Dr. E. A. McMaster and • Targ, image It