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Comply with laws
Finally the Ministry of the Environment has introduced new legislation
that will Impose real punishment on those corporate citizens who cut
environmental corners to make an extra buck.
Environment Minister Jim Bradley's recently Introduced legislation
will make it cheaper for corporate citizens to comply with environmental
protection laws, than to violate them.
The legislation, which suggests imprisonment for up to one year for
individuals, complimented by a five -fold Increase in maximum fines for
pollution offences by corporations, strengthens the current penalty
structure, which is little more than a "licence to pollute our air, our
water, and our food chain."
it further protects the people of Ontario who want a high level of
environmental protection, and those corporations who do make an extra
effort to obey the environmental laws.
Daily corporate first offence fines for actual pollution violations now go
from $5,000 to $25,000. The fines are twice that for subsequent
convictions. Improper handling of hazardous waste can bring the fines as
high as $100,000.
As an added deterrent the new legislation allows the courts to strip
offenders of profits obtained by the commission of their offence, and to
order the offender to take abatement and restorative measures on
application by the ministry.
So, with the incidents of environmental pollution seemingly on the
Increase such legislation could not come at a better time.
Perhaps now that corporations stand to be more heavily hit in the
pocket book, Incidents such as the spill Saturday of hydrocarbons Into the
St. Clair River from three Chemical Valley plants can be avoided. Maybe
now protection of the environment will figure more prominently in
corporate decisions. -1-1.M. •
TO THE EDITOR
use common sense
Drivers are urged to
Everyone is saddened about the death of
three Clinton area students who attended
Central Huron Secondary School In Clinton
this past school year. 1t makes you kind of
wonder how someone's life can be shortened
so very fast.
Summer has just begun and we all must be
very careful of how we drive in order to save
our lives and maybe someone elses. We
should take precautions when we are driving
our vehicles whether we are old or young.
Every year Were are somany people ' ed by
accidents and it makes you think, "How can
we make that number decrease?"
1 know for sure the aeddent will make
other people now think a little when they are
getting into a vehicle to drive or to be a
eager. But this won't stop many of us
because we think that it won't happen to us
until the day when it Will be very late.
nee verysoi•'ryfor the families of the three
teenage boys who will mourn of their lost
lovedones. Theyhad a lot of meaning to their
parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters or
their friends during some good times or bad
times.
What lam trying to get at in this letter is to
remember, when you drive oret in a vehicle,
to be a passenger, to think fore you do
something foolish, even if the rest of the
people in that ear are your friends.
oPLNION
.�. in dark again
Caught g
If you read last week's Expositor, you are
probably aware tb"at for two luau's yesterday,.
every home •and office in Ontario had to Set by
with five per cent less electricity than normal,
Ontario Hydro intentionally caused this
power drop, for the purpose of conducting a
test .to ensure that there will be no power
interruptions ih the event of a breakdown of a
large generating unit.
Now a five per cent reduction erne big deal.
So you wait a few more seconds for your toast
to pop. Most people canlive with that.
However, the whole 'exercise did. seem to
cause some people to be concerned.
My boss, for instance, was interested
etlouggh to quiz me (since Icover the local PUC
meetings, I'm the closest thing we have to an
expert on matters electrical) about the
possible effect of the cutback on our
typesetting machines.
I got thinkingeven more about our
dependence on eectricity over the weekend,
when a brief storm swept through the area
causing a complete power blackout for about
six hours in the town of Harriston, where I
happened to be visiting my parents.
Now around their place, nothing, certainly
not a little thing, like total darkness, is going
to deter my mother from organizing a card
game or two. So, after my father had fired up
an old gasoline lantern we dealt the cards and
attempted to play by antique lighting.
Myparentshad adistinct advantage in this
game, having groWn up before electricity was
common and seemed able to tell hearts from -
diamonds with barely a squint. My partner
FROM THIS ANGLE
by Patrick Raftis
and 1, with our eyeballs attuned to more
luminous light sources, were less fortunate.
I quickly dismissed thoughts about using
the dimness as a cover for cheating, after
deciding it would be too embarrassing to get
caught.
After all, if you can't get away with
reneging, at euchre in'a dark room, you'd
never survive �on a Mississippi riverboat, now
would you?
Aside from slowing down the pace of our
card game,' a blackout of this duration causes
innumerablelotherinconveniences as well.
Ever tried washing your face or brushing
your teeth with a flashlight in one hand? Not
easy, I assure you. Perhaps the lack of electric
light was the main reason people used to
bathe only one night a week. They were afraid
they'd slip on a bar of soap, drown in the tub
and not be found until the sun came up. Not a
pretty. sight.,
Before electricity, there could be no
television aid radio of course, leaving
reading as the most common form of solitary
entertainment. How anyone ever read a
whole book by candlelight is beyond me.
After reading a couple of paragraphs of the
stories in the newspaper, the print all began
to blur before -my eyes to the point where I
could barely tell the black from the white. So
much for absorbing information by the light
of a smell flame. How did anyone ever get
enough reading and writing done to pass high
school?
If a few hours of enforced early darkness
could be this troublesome for me, I have to
wonder how others, with more riding op the,
continued supply of power, were taking the
blackout.
Anyone with a freezer full of meat must
have begun to sweat once the power outage
passed the five hour mark. Personally, I was
beginning to wonder how the two beer and
three eggs that were the sole content of my
refrigerator were handling the heat. I needn't
have worried. They came through okay.
Some computer systems, 1 understanda
retain their memories for only two or three
hours after a blackout, so I imagine there
must have beery a few systems, , which
developed a permanent case of amnesia
during Sunday's six -hours of abstinence.
While I suffered only minor inconvenience
from the blackout myself, I did learn a lesson
about taking electricity for granted. Next
month,:I may even pay my utility bill without
grumbling.
OBSTACLE COURSE:.!- Running an obstacle racer was A(le,0'! the
fun games for youngdfe'rs In the Summer Playground program -at the
Van Egmond House last Thursday. After the games, a picnic lunch
was served. In the foregroufld, Janette Gowan and Michael Janmaat
The boys will be sadly missed by the staff
and students at Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton during the next school year.
Everyone in your school does mean
something to you because they are also a part
of that school to which you belonged. So
please try to drive safe this suQmerl
Yours sincerely,
A 1986-86 Grade Twelve
student fromC.H.S.S.
Thank you Huron "
As our Chapter concludes its fiscal year we
would like to ac nlowledge all those who have
contributed so significantly to its success.
Your concern for the well being of others and
your contribution, making the work of the
Foundation visible in our community, has
enabled us to reach and in certain cases
exceed our objectives financially as well as to
establish valuable health education progrant-
roes in Huron. The encouragetnentgenerated
by your support has provided us with the
confidence we need to continue the campaiggil
against heart and stroke disease by way of
research and education.
Thank you for helping us, help others.
Staa"nConne i
President
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Townsman tops in shooting
JULY 19, leas
Our young townsman, Mr. Alexander
Witten has again distinguished himself at
Wimbledon by corning bet at the head of the
team in revolver shooting.
Mr, James G Chesney, of Tnicretsmith,
has left with us a real Curiosity in the shape
Of ailonion state. The stalk itself is fout feet,
three and a half niches long and four inches
around the thickest part: Out of the very top
of that long stalk are 'growing seven large,
well -formed onions and each of these has a
k ng top, and one of 'them bat seed formed
on
Miss EMB Johnson and Mrs. Bright, of
Se'afortih attended a garden party at the
Methodist parsonage, Brussel.", on Tuesday
evening last Week and another of the Skala
gatherings on Wednesday evening, at the
residence of Mr 'Tho& Heritage, sixth
&in -on of Grey. Both ladies gave Milsteinsale
moons which added very much to the
atirattronss of the, several "parties.
JULY 21,1911
The following in this „County have passed
the intermediate chid primary examine-
toile before the:Ontario Medical Council
• F5nal' Willtaifi Geiger, Hensall; Duncan
Allison, 13elgrave >nt; rnhediate, Ilhtncain
Allison, Belgraver Chas Alexander and
E H. McGavin, Seaforth Pinery, S' J•
• Couiter, Hensall
There was a big fire in the Zurich swamp
last week, the smoke from which was plainly
visible here:
Mr. M.Y. Mclean,,M_P. forSouth Huron,
left on Monday for Ottawa," to be present at
the • timeenirtg of Parliament. fie was
accompanied by MIs, Mcieaii' and Miss
McLean.
tr.y the course, while from left: Bobble Janmaat, Jennifer Van
•Bakel, Suzy Dinsmore, Lydia Bakes and Johnathon Bakos wait their
turn. Rattle photo
Let the green grass grow
Lawn cutting was never one of my strong
suits.
Now that could be because i never had
much practise at it. As I recall it was always
my brother who tackled the ritual (which was
supposed to be weekly - and most times
wasn't) of cutting the grass. My sister and 1
slaved over the equally undesirable chores of
trimming around the fence, gardening and
cleaning the pool. (and that last task was
especially difficult in the wake of my
brother's lawn cutting tedmiques. His
refusal to attach the gross catcher to the side
of the machine gave licence to run -away
, which inevitably left the pool looking
Ike a verdurous graveyard.)
But despite the fact it was my brother's
appointed task, there was the odd occasion
when I tackled the job of cutting the grass
usually at the request of one or another of my
parents. And since I wasn't used to being
asked I didn't have the time-perfek d
excuses quick on hand like my brother did.
You know, excuses like - "It's too wet to cut
the ", "the washing's on the line and 1
don'twan`t to walk my sweaty b* through
it", "they just sprayed the lawn for weeds
and we're not supposed to cut the gas for
, another couple days" and "the
telawn doesn't
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look right when the grass is
looks ninth better when the grass is a little
longer. I think we should wait a couple more
days."
So. inevitably, when f was asked to +nit the
JULY 170036
New heat records were set up during the
past week in this district as Well an
throughout the cetintry, thernlort'ieters on
Main Street reading as high At 105, until
Tuesday when a north breeze dissipated the
heat to a contain extent, However, lower
.ternperatures brought no ram
Seafortli, like neighboring Mitchell has
been unique in these parts for its Method of
suing automobiles on the Main .Street:,
There- is angle g1e parlcittg for one roW of CAM to
the middle of the pavement. There is so
mut& traf£e during rush hours in Seaford►
that the town Minden is debating a proposal
tosub'stiuute angle paridng on both cum for
the nri?sent system.
3ULY20t 1$91
It takes more than asphalt paving- to hold
badr a mushroom that is anidous to: giuwA
:a
iii hroorri recently forced its way through a..
thick asphalt sidewalkoin . Victoria Street+
F5ist indication of tine growth was a bump'' int
the sidewalk, *hide was• n•oticed by Len.
Ford, several days latera crack"'appeared
and disclosed the fungus, which grew to a
height of an inch above the pavement.
Mrs. JamesRivers marked her 97th
birthday; at the home of her" daughter Mrs.
W i7liam Drover and Mr. Drover, on
Tuesday
•
A charter Member and past president of
the Indies • MilSlatyto Branch 150 Royal
Canadian legion, Seaforth, Mrs. George
Eaton was • made a life member of the
a's'sociation at a ceremony in the Legion -Hall
Wednesday evening The, presentation was
Made by past president Mrs. Jack Taylor.
SWEATSOCKS
by Heather Mcllwraith
lawn, I ended up having to do it on the very
same day. Fortunately though, while I found
the front yard easy to mow, circumstances
were against me when it came to the
"meadow" outback. Much to my disapppooint-
mentlfound lwas forced, against my will, by
an uncooperative and uncompromising land-
scape, to give up perfecting my lawn gutting
s s when 1 tackled the back yard. Not only
did it present innumerable obstacles which
were difficult to manoeuveraround but it also
consisted of more than enough inclines to
make fawn cutting - simply - miserable,
Although the piece of machinery we used
was far from being classified an antique it
was heavy. So while it practically propelled
itself down slopes it stubbomly refused to go
up them unless coerced by someone a trifle
larger and a trifle stronger than myself.
I can't say 1 didn't try though.On one
occasien, tri an effortto get the job one 1 was
actually forced to call on the services of my
sister. And when she and 1 stili couldn't push
the knower up the slopes, we were forced to
recruitniymother. That endeavor also failed,
and the result was not only a machine which
refused to budge, but three•sweating and
giggling females who opted in favorof a swim
rather than a neatly cut lawn.
It's been a while since rve had to cut even
the front lawn at home. And here in Seaford] I
don't reallyhavea lawn !can callmyown, but
1 haven't been totally relieved of the task.
Just last week I tried my hand again at
cutting grass • with better results. • I think.
Things seemed to go much smoother - once
the machine got going anyway. After that I
had no problem t ovingg my grass cutting
machine up and doom inclines. You see, this
time 1 didn't have to push it. It propelled
itself!. Thankfully all 1 had to do was steer It.
But that too, wasn't as easy as I thought it
might be, and the net result was a few rather
chewed up tree mots and other parap
hertalia
that got in my way (except the picnic tables,
which I moved.)
And with that awareness of my poor
driving I guess I should be glad the machine
didn't travel any faster than it did, much as 1
wanted it to.
But then again • I think I drive much better
when I can go faster. At least then I ain't be
lulled to sleep.
Smith slurs positive image
1 don't pretend for a minute to be a vast
storehouse of knowledge on the tented South
Africa
Mott of thy information comes from a.more
often then not warped western press and
from Wilbur Smith's brilliant writing. Smith
Was bore in Africa and forabout 20 years has
enthralled millions of readers with his
htglt-octane adventure stories. He blends
hisiorieat fact with ficial and non -fictional
characters to weave some of the mostrouilsing '
tales I have ever read. Virtually, alt of his
settings occur in some_, part of the dark
continent and many in South Africa. He is
known for his meticulous ikeseardt acid what
we get is a poignant, frightening insight into
this part of out World.
Whatever hap„sin this ndi', beautiful'
tardy du`ri g_ ' e next weeks and rnontli's'
• will have a profound effect on all of us The
Western Media,chooses to follow the exploits
of Bishop Desmond Tutu, a pre hungry
little Map wl'i'o, really thirst t represent'
anyone in South Africa and the' African
National Congress, .a radical, Coneritinist.
balked organisation who have now started a
campaign of bombing and murder. Their
stated goal is to drive out or bill all Whites and
make ib,?,e0 !try *fituallyungovernable for
anyone. The A.N.C. issued a phvelamation a
month ago that said they would now start to
kill little White: boys and gids. while these
her ighted butchers from a darker Afnca get.
loads of Western media attention the largest;
legal political i enaerit - black or White'. la-
.
CORNUCOPIA
by Dave Broome
South Africa, gets virtually ignored.
Zula'Chief Mangosutlru Bub ale is
tthe
teedeerofS'oathh"Africa's iargest• ..._ pn iii
cal
... -.
organ�zadon that htmibers seven on
strong The good news is that Buthelezi is a
moderate and realizes the only way to
equality is through peaceful means.
South Africa has a vast; efficient military
that can; crush any black uprising with a snap'
of the fingeriand the Zulu leader. is. Val
awareof thatfact P.W. Botha has yet do
all his mihtdtymightandif he isforcledet7
so because of nitir'derous African National
Congress msurxe'(dion we Will tee a; bl'ood
bath ran a monstrous scale that could last for
years and onlystrengthen Botha's resolve to
keep apartheidlintact. •
Yo•u will have noticed the U.S bas
remained strangely silent on the matter of
South Africa and for good reason.
The Cape, of Good Hope is a 'strategic
shrppinglane and if the Soviet backed A.N.C.
were to sue'eeed in their' quest 10 govern and
then establish ;a Russian base the conte-
quences would be a nightmare forall of lis.
` And to give the Soviet Union as ess'to South
Africa's vast treasure house of deifies would
1
be totally unacceptable to the Americans.
Even more terrifying is the fact that South
Africa exploded a nuclear front about six
years ago and the prospect of a nuclear
arsenal falling int° the hands of murderers of
little boys and girls is it heinous prospect. The
international implication are tiiuly.'odious.
The United States hopes, `like everyone elsel'
that apartheid can be dismantled by pea
means and the country remains a staunchly
democratic ally. If not, th'e tI S. may have
little ehafce but to intervene en a rattily
Feed They will be daniited if they do mid
damned, if they, don't and either Way, the
world holds its breath.
What South Africa does not need alit
Western politicians issuing sanctimonious
platitudes and pretending to be hone than
thou when none of these morons can even
come close to solving less important pro-
Mems at bottle. If 1 hear a Joe Clark Or Bruin
Mulroney threaten South Africa with totally
useless . .sanctions on e more time, 1 am going
to puke,
Fortner long distance runner Bruce Kidd
gamed more press last week for hit anti -Zola
Budd statement than he' did while finishing
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