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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-08-29, Page 2Huron � xpositor Ct 1040, *UMW° TH COMMUNITY porn Incorporating The growls Post Published In i.oforth. Ontario Ivory Wednesday Morning 141244.411 10 G7a01c1. Osonswei Mawae.r t1aATN ti00111t!. asitl9.r WWII STAMP: Puwie tUll.n $wsu. O:fiord AOVIMITISlNO; Terri-4yww 0.6. CiAS1161 laud. ACCOUOMI1Ses M *rums Olaww. McGr.tA Limes Pwllsw.n Member Cunudean Community Newspaper Assoc Onsorw Cornnwntty Newspaper Assocbatton Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Frees Union MternoteNtei Press Institute Subscription Itisee Corrals *woo o year in advance Senior CMissns '19 CIO o year in advance Outside Cil tsdo 44.00 a year in advance Single Copies - 60 cents sock Second doss moil registration Number 0690 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1990 Editorial and Mnln.es Offtc..s 10 Main Street. $.*forth T.lephon. (319) 327-0200 Pas $27-0242 llAalllrt0 Addr.ss - P.O. Goa H. $.sheath. Ontario. NOK 1 MIO Less than it could be At the risk of flogging a dead horse, something has to be said about the Huron County All Candidates meeting that was held on Friday night in Clinton. Organizers are saying that the debate, involving the five county candidates for the September 6 election, went well. Others are not so sure. Those who attended made the meeting what it was, though: far Tess than it could have been. Sponsored by the Federation of Agriculture, the meeting was designed as a forum for Huron voters - and most notably the farming populace - to air their concerns and get some answers. Concerns were aired, but too often they dealt with issues that had little or nothing to do with agriculture, and in fact had little or nothing to do with the county. Asking county candidates what they would dot OKA was in Ontario, or why gas stations raise their prices concurrently in town, is a waste of time. The issues are real, but the questions were a little off the mark, to say the least. They never should have made it up to the panel. The turnout also left a little to be desired. With 120 to 150 in the audience, the candidates - looming up and well back on the stage - were speaking to rows of empty chairs at the front of the auditorium. Some candidate's responses were illuminating, but most were staid and well -rehearsed. And hopefully the audience was alert enough to catch the odd glaring grammatical error when certain candidates strayed from their notes. If not, they have no-one to blame but themselves. Politicians are often accused of not doing their homework, but this time Huron County voters didn't do theirs, either. Hopefully, this Thursday's meeting in Clinton with the OSSTF will yield better debate. Time is running out. P.E. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Nursing Home care is also a choice with dignity Dear Editor: With our politicians preaching about the lack of dignity and security of nursing homes and retirement homes. I'd just like to say that if the family of the resident cares enough to find a "good" home we can add much to the quality of life this person leads. True, it would be nice to be able to keep Mom or Dad at home but with constant increases in cost of living, how many families don't need two in- comes? I'm not against homecare either for they do playa vital job in our society. However, to make families feel that they are admitting to failure should they choose to live in a nursing or retirement home I think is a shame? I work at a wonderful facility where we offer two levels of care. In our Retirement Home, we offer apartment style living which allows our residents to be as independent as they choose. We do not restrict their comings or goings. We offer social times, nutritious meals, and housekeeping services as well as assistance with medications but most importantly we offer the security of knowing someone is there if they should fall or need emergency assistance. Our nursing home on the other hand assists those who require more care. It is clean and homey. Our Turn to page 18 • RURAL ROOTS ; by Jeanne Kirkby J Let's talk restructuring Like housecleaning, elections bring us the chance to pull out all sorts of ideas and government programs for thorough inspection and a public airing. Let's be very thorough so that there are no surprises after the polls are closed. 1 don't think there's been enough discussion on the question of the proposed municipal restructuring. Perhaps by letting my imagination roam freely on this topic and providing a few possible scenarios, we might be inspired to use one of the local All Candidates' Meetings to ask questions on this topic. We need to know what changes to expect from the proposals now on the table. We also need to tell the political parties what changes we want and what lifestyk we hope to preserve in Huron County. The government white paper, Tpwards 4rs 441( n v was distributed in January, 1990, by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs. This article proposed sweeping changes to our system of municipal government. They speak of "a minimum population base of 4000 as a guideline for a viable local community", and they go on to say that. "under the principles for strong local government described, 4,000 in many instances would be too small". They speak of "representation by population" and seem to be dividing the area into "natural service areas that would provide an adequate financial base for the services demanded". Services mentioned include planning; roads; waste management; economic development; sewer and water, fire; building inspection; recreation and library services; social services including the elderly and child care; and municipal administrative services. What does this mean to Huron County? In census year 1986. our total population was 55,996 people who Torn to page Ui • 4 New look of war is shuUJng I'm convinced the world has gone abrolule ly crazy now that a's per- fectly acceptable for a new mother from a civilized country removed by thousands of miles a war cone m go tO war. This weekend a picture flashed across seven newspapers; a picture of the new look of war. In u a young .American women dressed in a military uniform with a gun strapped around her shoulder is hokiing her seven -week-old baby, possibly for the last time. before the woman marches Off to war. The father is a young roan and is watching before he'll take the baby, turn around and march home to do his work plus look after the baby. This is absurd. War is stupid and this picture best portrays the stupid- ly and absurdity of war, especially war inn the 90's. 1 fully expect this picture to be a national newspaper photograph award wine . A sever- week-old baby going house w uh us fad r while its another guts to war makes no sone to ante. This is an blc thing being dune and it's to know who's at fault. Who ut slaking the choices far this couple? Have they put themselves into a situation that is too difficult to get out of? How can this man allow the to happen? Have they over-ealsaded their credit so much they fees she has to fight this war? If she refuses will she go to some kind of military prison? Did both of them not want this baby, or only one of them want this baby? Don't female military people in the U.S.A. get some time off work after having a baby? JUST THINKING by Susan Oxford Maybe this is the way this (Ample wants dun. to be. Perhaps sloe feels that this is liberation. Good luck explauung cwt to a troop of Iraqi soldiers. Perhaps the young father thinks it's fuse to let Mom go to war while he returns hums and dumps the baby off with a babysit- ter while he goes to wort, he worts. Who else but this young couple can know what is going on with themselves? Maybe they haven't got a clue what's going on and everything is out of control. To me this photograph is the most shocking one I've seen. it's more shocking than pictures of dead people, accident scene*, war :terse:, pictures of disease or starvation (although pictures of starvation still get me angry as 1 see so much gluttony around me.) Everyone I showed the picture to is horrified and most say 'that's a pretty sad statement about what we've become when Mommy goes to war.' i . i/• / � . / • /• -� �_� i� _ .y� • u' _' .ms Do's and Didn'ts All right, everybody. Time to get depressed. Labour Day weekend is coming up, and we all know what that means. It's time to mull over all the things that we didn't ac- complish this summer. Should I start with the body and move on to the mind, or lump all of those broken resolutions of the spirit and the flesh into one? Speaking for myself, there's so much that I didn't get around to this summer, I don't know where to begin. First, there's the obvious "things that didn't get done in the winter that I'll finish off in the lazy, hazy days of summer" category. A goose egg here. In the past two weeks, I've added another five rows onto the Christmas present / pre -St. Patrick's day gift sweater that I've - now been knitting for a grand total of eleven months. Once I get the cuff done, though, the front, back and sleeves will come together in no time... Up in my room, my desk and typewriter are all set up and waiting for the muses of inspiration to grab me by the scruff of the neck and plunk me down in front of them to rattle out a bestseller. It seems the muses take a summer vacation up in the Haliburtons somewhere. Then there were my great ideas about playing on a soccer team, working out three or four days a week, brushing up on my sign language, painting more t -shirts, reading ten or 12 books and lear- ning to play the bagpipes, one of my wilder holdovers from LAST summer. Friends and relatives have all congratulated me on not going through with this last grand scheme, and I'm sure that my neighbours would add their thanks, too. Not only do I feel like a total sloth, I look like one in comparison with my pre -summer visions of my end -of -summer self. I've toasted myself on the beach for a whopping 10 hours this summer, over three days, roughly one day a month. The last time that I soaked up rays was in the first week of August, and I tanned with such a fierce deter - of summer 1990 ROUGH NOTES by Paula Elliott mination that my teeth hurt at the end of the day from gritting them. I can always argue that 1 look ghostlike on purpose in the name of health. The three or four workouts a week were supposed to culminate in a sylph -like body. That didn't quite work out as I planned, either. But a home truth struck me this summer, and this is that summer is a lousy time for me to try to lose weight. All of my summer clothes are loose and comfy - nothing worse than sweating through a heat wave in a tight shirt - hence, when it's time to munch or go for a brew, I feel like I've got tons of room left to expand into my clothes. That works fine for these baggy summer duds, but in last week's cold snap, I tried to don my Levis. They defied me. I trusted them, and they let me down. With my list of summer resolutions gone to seed, I figure that it's time to move on from this wasted chapter and start anew. I don't bother with fall resolutions at all. I go for the big guns and start working on the Christmas plans right away. Again this year, I'll mail my cards out on time. I'll bake shortbread and pecan pie, cut down a tree, roast a bird and make all of my presents by hand. But if this summer is any in- dication, I'd better check and see what time Woolco is open until on Christmas Eve. Dublin train station gets the axe in 1965 AUGUST 29, 1890 Mr. William Evans of McKillop left here on Tuesday with six fine young stallions for Lincoln, Nebras- ka. He had two roadsters, one Per- cheron and throe Canadian Clydes. We hope he will make a good sale, and will come back with his pock- ets well -lined with green -backs. Mr. Wm. Harkshaw has rented his hotel in this town to Mr. James Murray, the very obliging and ef- ficient baggage -man at the railway station. Mr. D.D. Wilson returned home from his extended European tour on Tuesday evening. The town band and a number of citizens attended at the station to give Mr. Wilson a cordial welcome home. One day last week as a young man was walking along the beach near the harbour in Goderich, he picked up a Spanish pillar quarter bearing the date 1788. Such coins are curios nowadays. On Friday of last week, while a threshing was in progress at the farm of Mr. W. Ohler of Colborne, a son of Mr. Michael Swann met with a painful accident. Some one above him had laid down a pitchfork, when it slipped down, the prong catching Swarm in the breast and piercing a lung. Under medical treatment he is doing as well as could be expected. The first gale of cheese from the Belgrave factory was made on Tuesday of last week at 84 cents AUGUST 27, 1915 As will be seen by our list of travellers ticketed by Mr. William Somerville, Mr. Alexander McAr- thur, an old and highly respected resident of Seaforth. left this week to visit the land of his youth, Oban, Scotland. Mr. McArthur is over 80 years of age and the journey is quite an undertaking for a man of his years. He is considerably beyond the age limit to join the army and fight for his country, but it requires no little courage for a man of his age to risk his life on the perilous water of the Atlantic during these days of Getman sub- marines and such other life destroying agencies as infest the great Atlantic these troublesome times. it will be the wish of Mr. Mc Arthur's many friends, however, that he may escape all dangers, have a pleasant visit and return safely to his old home here. A cable has been received from Miss Bessie Porter, of Clinton, stating that she was safe at Queenstown. Miss Porter was a passenger on the steamer Arabic which was torpedoed by a German submarine, and was on her way home after spending a year in England. She intended returning some time ago, but she was afraid of the subs. AUGUST 30, 1940 The Seaforth Bowling Club held IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives a local chicken tourney on Monday evening when 16 rinks were in play. In spite of the rather cool weather, the bowling was good and competition keen. The prize winners all received chickens. Announcement was made this week that Alice McIver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter McIver of John St., stood second in the Province in the recent Grade 3 piano examinations. Miss McIver, who is eleven years of age, is a pupil of St Joseph's Convent. During this summer, 39 young children of Seaforth and district have learned to swim at the Lions Pool, according to instructor Don McGregor. Classes, which were held each week day morning during the season, were discontinued this week owing to the cold weather. While attempting to extinguish a fire that had set one of his trouser legs ablaze, George McNail Sr. of Blyth, member of the Huron Coun- ty weed spraying unit, had both hands severely and painfully burned Monday north of Seaforth. Stewart Brothers Back to School bargains: Boys' corduroy breeches, S1.95. Boys' whoopee pants. 79 cents to S1.59. Botany woof car- digans, embroidered, S1.98. Bib - style overalls, $ 1 to $ 1.25. SEPTEMBER 2, 1965 A meeting to consider the pos- sibilities of providing Junior D hockey in Seaforth during the coming season is being held at the Arena this Tuesday evening. The Board of Transport commis- sioners has given CNR permission to close the station at Dublin. Tile station, which was established for the Buffalo -Lake Huron line in 1858, will be manned by a resident caretaker to handle small shipments. but the station will no longer be a railway "official point". As the CNR moves to close the Dublin station, notice has been served on municipalities along the Stratford- Goderich line of further alteratinna in service. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nicholson and family of Egmondville, while on a motor trip to visit Mrs. Nicholson's mother in Midland, were involved in an accident 20 miles south of Midland. Mr. Nicholson and daughter Lynn were hospitalized) but were released two days later.) The car was extensively damaged. f