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Concerns beyond their years
Their concems are bigger than ours were at that age. But then,
it seems as d their responsibilities are becoming more and more
awesome.
For the young people - the students and the teenagers - of the
1990's, there is plenty to consider as far as a future is concerned.
It stretches much farther now than getting a car, getting a job, and
buying nice clothes. The Earth is at stake, the environment is
endangered, and Third World tragedies are encroaching onto our
North American doorsteps.
The teenager of the '90's now has to be a 'globally aware'
citizen.
This summer, the Canadian Red Cross Society will be hosting
a Youth Conference on International Development. Set for August
19-24, at the Maple Lake Conference Centre in Parry Sound, the
conference will be a think-tank, workshop and encounter group all
rolled into one, aimed at increasing awareness and understanding
of international issues. Stressing leadership skills and effective
community and volunteer involvement, the course will be a step
towards grooming the leaders of tomorrow, whether they end up
serving internationally or right in their own neighbourhood.
Youths between the ages of 16 and 19 are invited to apply, and
the deadline is August 7. Applications can be obtained through
any Red Cross branch.
The Red Cross, usually associated with giving blood, has much
more than just blood donor clinics to worry about. A non-political,
non-profit organization with no religious affiliations, the Red Cross
is dedicated to preventing and alleviating human suffering
worldwide. It promotes mutual understanding, friendship, co-
operating and lasting peace.
And so does their Youth Conference.
With their world and their future at stake, it's going to be up to
today's young people to take a stand and take action. With their
energy and enthusiasm, things will take a turn for the better, but
the Global Commitment must be made.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Canada Post hostage
Ever heard of a place called
Westwold, British Columbia? That's
where residents held a Canada Post
car "hostage" in early July. The
reason: to save their 112 -year-old
federal postal service.
How about Heron Bay North,
Ontario? On July 10, members of
the Pic River First Nation Band
there set up a roadblock into
Pukaskwa National Park in an effort
to save their post office, also over
100 years old.
Mings Bright, Nfld; Aroostook,
N.B., and Falmouth, N.S., are also
fighting hard at present to save their
post offices. And there are many
more.
What does all this have to do with
you? Well, since rural communities
right across the country are subject
to the same Canada Post policy,
your town could be next. Canada
Post calls its privatization scheme
"equal or better service"; we say
it's a sham which always leaves
somebody the big loser. Usually it
is often customers and rural route
drivers too. It all adds up to yet
another way rural Canadians are
devalued by the powers -that -be,
who usually live in cities, far from
the consequences of their
ill-conceived schemes!
Here's how Wes Keller, Editor of
the Shelburne Free
Press/Economist, sees it: "Canada
Post has a curious way of satisfying
the concerns of its customers. But,
on reflection, maybe the corporation
is simply acting in a manner consis-
tent with the attitudes of all levels
of government in the final decade
of the 20th century. Those attitudes
reflect a notion that governments
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RURAL ROOTS
by Jeanne Kirkby
Combining fever
This column may be "old hat" to my fellow farmers who drive the big
machines and know so much more about the mechanical parts of
farming than I do. But bear with me while I try to explain to our friends
in town the affliction known as "combining fever". We all have a duty
to educate the consumer.
Every year about this time you notice the wheat fields are dead red,
and the tops are crimped or hung well over. When the sun is warm with
a few fluffy white clouds widely broken apart and fast moving, there's
a lot of looking up into the sky, and nobody had better talk when the
weather map comes on the telly. Good drying days!
if any project was underway when this state starts, it must either he
finished immediately, or put on hold until the wheat is off the fields.
i have a farmer friend who stepped on a nail through his rubber boot,
spent that evening with a neighbourhood posse chasing cattle that had
escaped, and woke up the next morning with a severe crick in his neck.
His harvesting equipment is ready to go, and in his spare time he is
trying to tear down a woodshed and build a new garage all in the period
of two weeks "before the combining starts". He looks like he's escaped
from a war.
In our shed, the door is open with the combine facing outward. The
cutting head is on the machine, various nuts and bolts have been
tightened and oil has been squirted in the necessary places Wagons are
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Housework not my best point
This has been arlcxha Iniataung
week for me. At this job I've boos
hired temporarily m mplace
who is replacing editor
Miro is ce maternity
leave This
week I am replacing that reporter
who is on holidays and Gan play ung
editor for are short week.
les taken all of my time and I'm
barely keeping flip. 1 have atones 1
would like to wrus and photos 1
would lie to develop this week but
simply can't because of the lack of
time.
That are pros releases ses io read
through and edit if 1 decide they are
important enough to print. 1 have to
prepare birth, death and marriage
announcements, and Seaforth is
busy with living these days. Sports
scores galore keep corning in and
they tate a bit of time to put onto
And, of count, the
rings all day with people
waaliag to talk w me about
whinier concerns them.
The beat thing to happen to me
this we is my friend staying with
me for a few days to help out. He
used to wait for a newspaper in
Pon Elgin and had nothing to do
this week. He's taken photos and is
doing most of any darkroom work
this week, which is a relief for mc.
When 1 fmish work, or actually
just leave the office, 1 have more
work to do at horse. My house is a
mess and all I've accomplished this
past week was the laundry. The
vacuum cleaner is still lying in the
middle of the livingroorn floor and
will stay like that probably for
by Susan Oxford
soruct ie tO COM. When I Set
Kane I've been so toed that 1
haven't cooked for myself for
awhile. Dinner some nights has
consisted of a couple of Twinkles
and peaches eaten over the kitchen
sink.
The fact that my daughter has
gone canoeing in Temagami with
her father and some school teachers
has a lot to do with the decline of
my domestic bliss. Now that 1 don't
really have to cook or clean, 1
don't. I tell myself 1 have to get
bads irrMD a routine because tae way
I'm going now could be foresight
lino the future on how I'll be living
when my daughter leaves home for
school.
So now here 1 ani living a life
free from housework and coming
home dead tired to a mess abode.
I figure that when my daughter
does leave home I' U have to get a
big dog that eats tons of food and
og
de that it have huge potions
of leftovers. That should help keep
me in line as far as domestic
drudgery is concerned.
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Sufferings of a TV head
Morning panel discussion shows
get a lot of flack, and a lot of
devoted followers. Some deserve
more of one than the other, and all
of them are essentially filler —
your life will not be the lesser
without them — but face it folks,
they're fascinating.
And we're hooked.
As you read this, I'm probably
parked on my duff somewhere en-
joyed my (HA!) holidays. Nothing
exciting was planned for this
hiatus, just slothing around, and
Monday morning subsequently
found me curled up on the sofa
gawking at Donahue and Geraldo.
I decided to forego Oprah. I didn't
have that much time to waste.
It seems as if the intelligence
level of these morning gabfests
ebbs and flows. A couple of years
ago, I worked evenings and crawl-
ed through the mornings on coffee
and talk shows. One day, I'd be hit
with a five -expert -panel exposee on
environmental awareness, and the
next day would find Oprah conduc-
ting a rigorous investigation into
bad haircuts and incompetent
hairdressers.
Equal time for both pressing
topics, of comornin Donahue was ROUGH NOTES
This past g,
urse.
trumpeted onstage in a fanfare and
a flurry of feathers, in a program
that appeared to be featuring the
Las Vegas showgirls. Not my cup
of tea, really, but Donahue is an in-
stitution, so I tuned in.
What an error. The man parades
the women onstage, elicits a stan-
ding ovation in their honour, and
proceeds to quiz them about sagg-
ing bustlines and ensuing employ-
ment prospects.
Way to go, Phil.
A flip of the channel, and there's
Gerardo, mustache bristling with
outrage as he grills an attorney on
the American justice system.
As I said, Oprah was probably
swimming out there in the void,
but the bad hair -do edition was
three steps back for the woman in
my books.
Now, you can discredit Geraldo
Rivera all you like. A man who
gets his beak broken by skinheads
to up his rating can be a little
suspect, I admit.
But he's risen bravely above the
by Paula Elliott
empty -tomb -of -Al -Capone embar-
rassment, and gone on to bigger
and better things.
No matter how early in the mor-
ning it is, or how few coffees
they've had, no one likes to be
pandered to as an idiot. With his
sagging line of commentary,
Donahue is an embarrassment.
Geraldo, at least, assumes an IQ of
shoe -tying level.
And he knows what to talk about.
As a former journalist, he knows
that the flash and raunch is out
there, and that the people want to
hear about it. If the lowest com-
mon denominator wants to hear
Donahue expostulate on cup sizes,
let them. That denominator will
always be around to keep him and
Oprah in Gucci's for years to
come.
Wouldn't it be great to flip a
channel and see your next -door -
neighbour or Aunt Phyllis fielding
questions from an audience on the
hot topic of the day? These talk
show hosts have to start drying up
after a while. If they can't come up
with something bright to say, they
should open the discussion for total
audience participation. Maybe even
set up a boxing ring somewhere on
the set for the wildly divergent fac-
tions who just want to skip discus-
sion and duke it out.
Of course, I'd need a few more
mornings off to properly research
the possibilities Starting tomorrow.
Besides, Donahue will be doing a
two-hour special on social
rehabilitation of people who pulled
wings off flies in their childhoods.
And how this has affected job
prospects. I wouldn't miss it for the
world.
Cows roaming at will in 1890's backstreets
AUGUST 2, 1940
An effort to locate oil in Huron
County will commence Monday in
Hullett Township on the farm of
Bert Allan, near Harlock.
Machinery is in place and ready to
start. A public meeting is being
held in the Town Hall here on
Friday evening when the oil
situation will be discussed, he said.
A two -foot square hole in the
middle of the floor of Silver Creek
bridge, on No. 8 Highway at Lions
Park, created a dangerous condition
on Thursday until highway
employees erected barricades and
commenced repairs.
The Imperial Oil Station has
completed the purchase of the
Queen's Hotel barn and lot on
Ooderich St. East, and has com-
menced the work of erecting a
modern service station there. F.
Ingram and Son, Stratford, have the
contract.
The almost unbelievably hot
weather which has blanketed this
district for ten days was broken to
some extent this Wednesday, but
not until almost daily lightning and
wind storms had caused con-
siderable damage to buildings and
levelled hundreds of acres of�cn s.
The most serious of the storms
occurred Friday morning when fire
caused by lightning completely
destroyed a large hank barn on the
former Scott farm, a short distance
west of Leadbury on the 13th con-
cession of McKillop, and owned by IN THE YEARS AGONE
William Somerville. The barn con-
tents, 60 tons of hay and 300
bushels of grain, were lost along
with a hay loader and fanning mill.
The fire was visible for 20 miles.
The heat wave resulted in a big
increase in water consumption, up
many thousands of gallons daily
from June. The heat, however,
failed to bother 85 -year-old G.C.
Petty of Hensall, who in the midst
of it painted the exterior of the
Petty Block in that village.
AUGUST 1, 1890
The Toronto Hotel and saloon
keepers have decided to raise the
price of whiskey to ten cents a
glass after the 1st of September. It
would be a good thing if the Huron
hotel keepers would do likewise.
The Burdock Blood Bitters artists
were here this week painting the
town black and white.
If Mr. Lusby would make an
occasional exploit around some of
the back streets he would have no
difficulty in picking up a drove of
cows running at large, contrary to
the provisions of the cow by-law.
On Monday last the fire alarm
was again raised and the firemen
turned out. Some person at the
Commercial Hotel, in attempting to
throw a lighted match out of a
window, allowed it unnoticed to fall
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on the window sill. It ignited the
wood, and after smouldering some
time gained sufficient strength to
burst out in flame. A few pails of
water extinguished the fire and no
serious damage was done.
As showing the quality of the
immense hay crop taken in this
year, it may be mentioned that on
the farm of Mr. J. Struthers,
Tunrberry, a single stalk of timothy
measured considerably over seven
feet in length.
JULY 30, 1915
Mr. Wm. Bristow, who had the
contract for the new school building
being erected in School Section No.
4, McKillop, has competed his
work and the carpenters are now
busily getting the roof on. The
walls are built of cement brick and
present a very handsome ap-
pearance.
The euchre and danceven by
Mrs. A.A. McLennan at the Com-
mercial on Wednesday evening in
aid of the Red Cross was the most
successful entertainment of the
SC$sor1.
Brussels, Grey and Moms in-
dependent Telephone Line now has
940 telephones on their circuit and
still there is more to follow.
This Monday, No. 6 warehouse
owned by The Ogilvie Milling
Company was discovered on fire,
and an alarm sounded, but for-
tunately the services were not re-
quired as the blaze had been dis-
covered before flames made any
headway. it was found to be a
deliberate case of incendiarism as
oil -soaked rags and waste were
found underneath the building just
below. Twenty to 25 thousand
bushels of wheat were stored in the'
building. This is the second attempt
to bum the warehouse and in is
likely that an investigation of the
circumstances will be bid.
AUGUST 5. 1965
Construction of the new
Municipal Offices to serve McKil-
lop Township is well advanced at
Winthrop. The new building.
located north of the present
Township garage, has been desig-
nated as the McKillop Centennial
project and will contain offices for
the Township officials. as well as a
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