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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-12-05, Page 2Huron xpositor SINCE 1.60, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST hooseperettlis The Srw••is !nosh P-± Lad lo Seeder*. Ontario Every Wednesday MorwlmB ID /wtlliu. ei...r.l a■..4_ 1.114 MN M1s, v..rfilig -� ,OAIr sau,srraa Adinree s Items aesh MUM 110111111. r.,.. IA UAW: hum Odom atrE, 111100110,10611 ACCOVIIIIMIlt air Aram Show 16411666 Lank aha illissabat Canadian Con..munny Newspaper Assoc 006erie Cam.wunnr New.pope. Association l]a.srie Press Council Ca.M1.n.waaI h Press Oman intern ion ie Press Instfivho ssuiecripiiow Rotes Cando '22 00 o rear rn advance Senior Csts:ens '19 00 a rear in advance Outside Canada `66 00 a her in advance Single Copse. 60 cents each Second Gloss mail reUgtreno. Number 0196 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1990 Editorial end alwlwaas Offecss - 10 Mein Street. Mort% Telephone (31) 927-024 ha $27-211311 Melling Address - P.O. ba M, mores, Ontario, fqK 1110 Work for a change On December 6, 1990, from 7 to 7:30 p.m., a candelight ceremony will be held at the Godench Courthouse Square Its' purpose is to honor and remember the victims of the Montreal Massacre. One year ago Canadians were stunned by the news that a lone man with a gun waked into the School of Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique du Montreal and killed 14 women_ During the days and months that followed the question was raised again and again. Was the Montreal Massacre of 14 women a random and isolated act of a madman, or a larger societal problem of men hating women? Beyond a doubt, the Montreal Massacre stands out as the most dramatic act of violence against women in our nation's history. But it is not. Violence against women is an insidious part of Canadian life. Ninety-seven women were killed by their spouses/partners in 1988, and 119 women were killed in 1989. These statistics are frightening and tragically real. But, they do not speak of the countless acts of violence such as rape, assault and harrassment. Nor do they speak of the fear that every women and girl must cope with daily. All residents of Huron County, women, men and children are invited to attend this candlelight ceremony, to remember and recognize the need to end all violence in our society. And to recognize the need for men and women to make a personal commitment to work together for this end. If we are not part of the solution, then we are part of the problem. First moum, then work for change. Hockey team To the Editor: The players, coaches and fans of the Wingham Optimist Novices want to extend their thanks and congratulations to the Organizing Committee of the recent Seaforth Gold Puck Novice Hockey Tour- nament. Every aspect of this tourney, from the professional manner in which it was run to the consistency of the officiating and the friendliness of everyone connected with the event, is a credit to the Town of Seaforth. We are certainly hopeful that we will again be invited to participate, extend thanks -Letters and wish our best for the continued success of this tournament. Again, many thanks for an en- joyable day. Your friends The Wingham Optimist Novice Hockey Team John A. Leitch Manager Legion says thank you Dear Editor. I wish to express on behalf of the members of Seaforth Branch 156, Royal Canadian Legion, sincere thanks to the people of Seaforth for their help cooperation during the 1990 Poppy Drive. As a result of their generous contributions, the net results of the drive show a much appreciated increase over most previous years. The Legion also appreciates and thanks the merchants who cooperated m allowing poppy col- lection boxes in their stores and to all those organizations, businesses and individuals who contributed wreaths and who took part in the memorial services on Remembrance Day. It was greatly appreciated. Sincerely Bob Watson Seaforth Branch 156 Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Chairman Democracy means "by the people" To the Editor: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney still clings to Canada's bilingual myth even though 98 per cent of respondents across Canada want a referendum held on Forced Official Bilingualism. He increased cynicism and sank any credibility when he empowered a former Chief of Lan- guage Police to command "Spicer's Forum on Canadian Unity". Our politicians are failing Canada miserably, wasting billions of tax- payers' dollars, sewing disunity and ripping its very soul with irrespon- sible lemming -like party politics. They pass divisive myth -based language laws they can't defend. Tolerant Canadians ran out of cheeks to turn on September 6, 1990. Ontario Liberals were booted out of office the first election after they snuck through the controversial provincial Language Bill 8 based on Canada's bilingual myth. in 1988 federal politicians shoved through Bill C-72 (The Official Language Act) based on the false hilingc;al premise. i've not seen one substantive defence of C-72. only politicians calling critics vile names. Kid stuff. After 12 requests to our politicians, they've failed to list any advantages that would benefit all Canadians if C-72 is enforced. 1 understand it would dictate that a federal civil servant could, on a whim refuse to speak English on the job and demand to speak and be spoken to in French only (work m the "language of their choice"). Language Police would enforce such a demand. My numbers, quite rightly, have been questioned. I've double- checked at the library (you can too) and according to the current media directory, excluding our province of Quebec, - 98 per cent of our daily newspapers, 94 per cent of radio and 88r cent of TV are in English. Qu bec has outlawed out- side signs in English. Canada bilin- gual? - Piffle. I'm sending this letter -to -the - editor to over 200 newspapers and many radio and TV stations across Canada. I've received thousands and thousands of informative heart- warming words from concerned Canadians, proud of our country but ashamed of our politicians' blunders:-BillionguliSm - Crippling deficit - Failing ecrxio my - Taxation without representation, and - Just plain lack of common sense. Democracy means "by the people". not "Dag and pony shows every four yeas". SCORE TO DATE 'iwa to per. 17A • what's tar and dark and arts pasta out cot style? My husband. 1 erre up to my elbows a spagtictu on the we end, thanks 10 m y desrn to do the wench wdely thing. and treat my husband to his favorite usual un hu birthday. (1 won't mamas how old he is, but 1 will :kale that his age is still smaller Aso his waist sae„ although the two are fast converging on tate another - thanks to hubby's Italian - styled appetite). however,e� is my concerns c erns about ayhusband' s cspwr,ding middle, I went ahead with my pasta dims un Saturday, event avails ammo of the neighbors over a add to the festivity of the occasion, and to help us denolash the canning pot full of noodles and sauce that I ultimately ended up with. And that's not to mention the couple of loafs of garlic bread 1 concocted, the caesar salad that one - ' • so graciously donated, . the Pasta to t elbows -Sweatsocks ummosenc at app luras that arrived wursesy of another To coin a phrase. we had food caning out of our arra. And then than was ate clue. So beat was l ask pt oraDg my wifely duties to the meliat this year (1 was much too IN last Docamber, courtesy baby, to even look at a spaghetn noodle, munch lea's cook one myself), that 1 even learned how to make my "chubby" hubby's favorite cake as well - a cooCtacxuuo that resembles as ifloo, and goes by the name of Fskamo cake. Boy did I have fun making that one. Admittedly not the neatest one w the kitchen in the fust place, I had quite a mess on my hands when I tried to fust bake the cake, thiel :tune and aloe it, sad piece it bet - wean altornatiiog Isyers of Isms is a bowl I had chosen because of its strikinif resemblance to an igloo. All this while balancing a sow- quise-active baby Rebecca, an my y the cake came out of the mould in fairly decent shape, and what thaws there were, I was able to hide with a layer of whipped trate icing and maras- chino cherries. Thank heavens for g. In fact the whole event went fairly well - except for the mounds of spaghetti left over bon Saturday eight. Thane mounds however, and a secoaid Eskimo cake, succeeded quite well in feeding a second arouD of 10 oeanle on Swill, Problan as, awe's atiY left over. 1 could be ealisig for days. 'thea agar, it wouldn't be the first ume I've bad a surplus of the mulch -loved meal un my hands. Last time my husband made it. he generated tie attune amount as 1 did to food my army of 20. Only his was mice was that that amount could adequately feed lust the two of us. Right, but only if we both agreed to eat u three times a day for three mss_ Mc, well, much as I enjoy a spagtE w dinner, I'm just not that committed to it. Some people very affected by event It's been a year since I woke up to the creepy news about the women students in Montreal. It was unbelievable then, as it is now. I went to work at the library that day and felt terrible about the event all day long. The women I worked with talked about it Everybody talked about it. All day I kept thinking about it. Later that day I phoned a girl friend of mine because I wanted to talk to her, a feminist, about it. I asked her if she had heard about it. "Susan, I can't talk right now about it. My daughter and my brother are in that school and I'm worried sick about them. I can't hold up the line," she told me. "I haven't heard from them yet." I felt thoughtless to have forgot- ten her daughter, whom I had met and talked about her studies with, was in that school. I didn't know anything about her brother. I thought to myself "Oh yeah, what about the guys that were there, too?" I was only thinking about the women, and I was brought back to earth by my girl friend, a feminist, who was concerned about Just Thinking everybody. The next day she called to tell me that her family were alright. Her daughter had left the school early that day and her brother wasn't in the school that day. What a relief that news was. She left for Montreal a few days later to see her family. This summer I met her brother, Ray, for the first time. He's about 29 -years -old and a very nice young man. He came over to my house with three other students from that same school to meet his sister and have a party. I wondered what kind of an effect that day had on these young people so I watched them very carefully. Nobody talked about it. Ray was ever so helpful around the house. He helped with the cooking. After dinner we went outside and he brought out chairs for all the women. All day our conversation was pleasant and my girl friends and 1 often turned the Beer charges delayed DECEMBER 5, 1890 An immense crowd assembled at Union Station, Toronto, on Thursday evening, last week, to welcome the famous African explorer, H.M. Stanley, and his wife. At the lecture, later on there was a large attendance, but there was no such crush as was looked for. In fact, there were quite a number of vacant seats. Among the attractions on the platform were Mrs. John Livingston, senior, brother of the great missionary explorer of that name, and Messrs. John Livingston, jr., and N.M. Livingston, the two sons of Mr. John Livingston, sr. At the close of the lecture a handsome, maroon, morocco -covered portfolio album was presented to Mrs. Stanley by the Ontario Society of Artists. The album was filled with beautifully execute(' photographs. The fair recipient smiled sweetly and mach a very pretty speech in reply. Fergus and Elora now have a complete system of electric light. The two villages will be supplied from one power and dynamo which is situated in Fergus. Salem will he hitched on in a few weeks. A veteran of the War of 1812 and one of the oldest residents of Wel- land, in the person of Mr. Clen- dening, has just died at the ripe old age of 97 years. Deceased has drawn a pension for a great many years for his share of the War of 1812. DECEMBER 4, 1914 Five liquor charges were tried before Police Magistrate Morton, of Wingham, on Friday, in which John A. Ayerest, of Toronto, acted for the crown and R. Vanstone for the five hotels. Two detectives were present from Toronto, and gave evidence. For selling beer, which the Government analysis proved to be 5.62 per cent alcohol, Mr. Lep- pard of the Exchange Hotel. was asked to pay $100 with $2.40 costs or three months in jail. John Put - land, of the Brunswick Hotel, whose beer was proved to be 5.62 per cern, was taxed the same. H. Shaw, of the National Hotel, was discharged, as his worship was not satisfied of the length of time the cider in question was exposed. J. Schaffer, of the King Edward Hotel, found 1 I1 by Susan Oxford whole talk towards these young people. They were concerned about the environment and talked about what kind of work they would do after graduation. Whatever work they did do they hoped it wouldn't be with a company that didn't care about the environment. They talked about travelling and where they would like to go and why. They were young and full of hopes and dreams for their futures. And they were some of the nicest students I have ever met. When it got very dark outside we went inside. Ray helped bring in the cha-s and put them in their place. I went upstairs for something and when I came downstairs into the kitchen I found Ray washing the dishes. I helped him dry them and put them away. He began to tidy up after my company and I told him "Thank you, Ray. I think you've done enough for me already. I'll finish this work here." He was trying so hard to please me and be helpful, yet I found him to be no trouble at all. I wanted him to relax. He went into the living room with the other people and we all con- versed some more before they decided to leave. After they left I felt good about having met such nice young people. Perhaps this Christmas I'll be seeing Ray again. I'd like to talk about what happened in Montreal, but, of course, I can't bring it up. It's the sort of thing you let the other person mention first. He's in engineering so I'm sure he knew some of the women students killed that day. I might even see my girlfriend's daughter at Christmas. Again, I'll wait until she starts to talk about it, if she does. I wonder what these two young people and their friends will be doing this Thursday. for want of evidence -Years Agone The John Swans case was enlarged for one week to bring more -evidence. Robe- Bailey, manager of the Sterling Bank, in Bayfield, was shot through the eye while out hunting black squirrels near Bayfield, on Thursday afternoon. Two grains of shot entered his right optic, inflic- ting ugly wounds. He was rushed to the hospital at Goderich, where every effort is being made to save his sight. The Waverly Hotel property, in Clinton, has been purchased by Mr. Wesley Walker. He intends conver- ting the building into a factory. DECEMBER 13, 1940 Search continues for the bodies of Leading Aircraftsmen Debenham and George, of the R.A.F , who were victims of a drowning fatality in Lake Huron, near Port Albert �on Saturday. ng operation's have been carried out over a wide from the Archives without success. The opinion that the bodies had been carried under the ice has been expressed by old- timers. Meanwhile a day guard has been posted at the scene of the fatality. An inquiry intorlhe tragedy was started on Monday by Flight Lieut. C. Fletcher, adjutant of the camp, but was not closed. The adjutant stated that Deben- ham and George who lost their lives, had gone to the lakeshore with L.A.C. s Spencer and Bartley for the purpose of taking photographs. Debenham and George had crawled out on to a hummock, or iceberg, as the officers termed it, for the purpose of having their photo taken. They were standing up when the ice suddenly gave away under their feet. Debenham was the first to go, the official account relates, and George really made a gallant effort to save him but he himself finally had to give up and Torn to eMA - a