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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-03-14, Page 2Si • onee winner -, Up until now I've` kept rather -silent on e issue of baseball, endrin particular the ebali lockoutthat seetns thesfdays to:_ throwing just aboutevery sport$ ;Fart to to arfrenzy; a ' Now' however., wi the major league baseball lockout' --'00,411.4. of ending. soon,- the time for -alienee has ended • 13asebp1Ps spring ts'ainingrlocko'ut Passed its 26th day Monday No formai talks took; place, and nolle 'fere; schodyled. ",It' was predicted by Union Chief lion Fehr that the owners would dot lift the lockout, and legal experts said the players have no legal remedies.;other- than to •;,prove bad- faith bargaining. personally I'm til -ed; of it all, I love :baseball as muuli �s the neat person, but - a.. I mustsay that I side. with the .owners"in Ineoip®ratIng The Brussels Post. Published In, Seaferth, Ontario_ Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor Is brought to you each week by the efforts. of: Pot Armes, -PauloElliott,- Terri -Wan Dale, Dianne McGrath and lob McMillan. BYRSIKI, Gwai�ll !> einaaler (IEAThElt'ROBINIE!. Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc., Qntarie CCpmmuriity Ngwspgper igasdc)ation' Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription Rates: Canada '20.00 41 year, in,pdvancy Senior Citizens . j17;OQ a year -in: adygricO Outside Canasta '60,00 :a year an advance •.?' Second class mail :registration Number 0696, Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Mein -Street. 'SraaI rth Telephone (319) 527.0240 - Moiling Address - P.A. !lox 69, Ssiaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Sales pirorlpt* concerns this one. I feel .for "small _town America" who relies each spring on the .arrival ,of major league baseball teams anxious for spring training, and I feel for those dedicated: fans, who plan thein vacations to coincide with the scheduling in the Grapefruit League. But I can't help, but think that major league baseball his progtessed well past the point of being simply a sport that pits the combined skills of one team, against those of another. Baseball in my opinion, has become a The recent decision by Canadian National '(CN) to put the For Sale sign on their Goderich and Exeter Subdivision railway lines, should come as no surprise to the main users of the line. As one person said, the railways are streamlining their operations just as the airlines have. CN has proposed the 112 -kilometre (combined) stretch be sold as one short -line railway, to the highest bidder. CN has tried to ease fears by say- ing the line will be sold to a responsible and' reputable buyer. Hopefully this means the railway won't fold. a year after it is sold and the owner declares bankruptcy. However, sales of short -line railways to entrepreneurs in the United States has proved to be quite successful. The Canadian government open- ed up the doors for the selling off of railways, when it revised the National Transportation Act in 1987. At present, a couple of privately owned short - lines are in operation in the west, but this is CN's first attempt at such a sale in Ontario. What CN is doing is they are testing the waters for short -line sales in the province. The Goderich line is by no means CN's most profitable rail system, but it certainly isn't a losing proposition. According to CN statistics, the two lines moved a combined total of 550,000 tons and 6,000 carloads in 1988-89. - if CN cannot find a worthy buyer for the short -line - and what they say is true - they will continue to operate the line. The existence of Sifto Salt in Goderich is dependent on the rail line, and to a lesser extent, so is the Hensel) Coop and other operations. The ever present fear with this deal is, this short -line will meet the same fate as did Canadian Pacific's Guelph to Goderich line. That line is no more, the tracks were torn up, and the bridges demolished. However, both main users of the CN line are optimistic its future is ensured through its use. LETTERS TO THE 'EDITOR.;' gluttonous llid to -o Obtain outrageous: sums of money>; for 4dj ing a Less than strenuous day's -work. k 1 real' don't believe that major league baseball players have a rough po •things at least not financially.: Today thofey Tarek ars. the 'highest 'paid professional athletes, earniwith ng rage the• two, year players wof ho waint tAs he right to enter -arbitration a year earlier, an aveincoe ,O0 0. rhe --Londe tly�-pointed— out, that's ahnoatias :mach as the president of the United States earns. I don't see .there, is, any comparison bet- ween the two jobs. In actual fact, most professional baseball players are doing a job they would pro- bably otherwise be carrying on as a hob - b3', *nilly because they love the game. No doubt they love. thegame even more now that they 'are':getting paid to play it, and getting paid well. I should think they'd be satisfied with what they've :•, got, because in my books it is plenty. Personally, I'd much rather see them paid on an "as -you -play" basis, rather than 'based on -the prey oull,yeai's output. A lot .can happen m a; Yearr: aid' certainly there's no mceiltive'to perform when you're already grassing $2 Wilton a season, or something glow to it. Right now the blame a)eems to be,on the owners, who in fact imposed this lRetiout. Comments made suggest that in doing so the owners not only locked the players oatt, but locked the fans out as well. On Men- -day -that sentiment appeared -particularly evident, since lack of a settlement placed baseball's opening day in jeopardy, and it appears the season's first cancellations are not far off. That in itself is a shame. However, the fans will survive. Small town America will survive. The people who won't however, are more than likely the owners and the players. Both stand a lot to lose this baseball season. And much as I'd like to see this issue resolved, I do hope the owners at least won't let money win out over principle. It's won far too many times already. Massive nuclear power expansion unnecessary Dear Editor: AN OPEN LETTER FOR PUBLICA- TION IN ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS Polls show that most Canadians are op- posed to nuclear power: we don't want the risk of a serious nuclear accident, we don't want to generate even more radioactive wastes, and we are naturally alarmed when studies show an increase of childhood leukemia around nuclear facilities. Despite this, Ontario Hydro, our publicly -owned utility, has recently announced that it wants to build as many as 15 more nuclear reactors, in four different stations. The possible sites are Darlington (in Newcastle, near Oshawa), Wesleyville (near Port Hope), Bruce Nuclear Power Development (near Port Elgin & Kincar- dine on Lake Huron), and on the North Shore of Lake Huron (between Bruce Mines and Espanola). We have all seen Ontario Hydro's multi- million dollar propaganda/advertising blitz in newspapers and,magazines and on TV. Much of the advertising gives lip service to conservation — what they don't tell you is that only about 5 percent of the cost of their proposed plan is dedicated to demand management (including conservation). Hydro has claimed that the cost of the plan will be $61 billion, but the real cost including inflation and interest on borrow- ing will be $200 billion or more. The single largest cost will be for nuclear power expansion. A recent study done for the Ministry of Energy identified the possibility of 8300 megawatts of peak demand reduction through efficiency improvements by the year 2000, at an average cost of 2.6 cents per kilowatt hour -- less than the cost of nuclear power! Hydro's plan calls for on- ly 2000 MW of induced efficiency im- provements by the year 2000. The dif- ference represents the capacity of more than 7 Darlington -sized nuclear reactors. A real commitment to efficiency could eliminate the need for any nuclear power under Hydro's lower Load forecast. Ob- viously, there is even more potential for electricity demand reduction if we are will- ing to pay a little more for oar electricity. Concern for the greenhouse effect has been cited as a reason for building a dozen or more reactors. However, nuclear power can never be a solution to global warming because carbon dioxide from fossil -fired electricity generation is responsible for on- ly about 10 percent of the total greenhouse effect. In addition, energy efficiency has much greater potential to reduce the pro- duction of greenhouse gases. Each dollar invested in efficiency displaces seven times as much carbon dioxide as " a dollar in- vested in nuclear power. Nuclear is, at best, ineffective as a solution to global warming, and at worst, will divert Money and efforts awajr from' the read answers. The public should not sit back while our utility seeks approval for unnecessary and massive expansion of nuclear power. Many environmental groups are preparing to take part in the public hearings at the en- vironmental assessment later this year. Everyone should write to Hon. David Peterson, Premier of Ontario, Queen's Park, Toronto, M7A 1A1. He is ultimately responsible for the decision. For more in- formation or to get involved, write to Nuclear Awareness Project, Box 2331, Oshawa, L1H 7V4. Yours truly, Anne Hansen Irene Kock Nuclear Awareness Project, Oshawa. Reader shares information on abortion To the Editor: I read recently an informative piece in a publication of the Campaign Life Coali- tion of Canada and felt it should be shared with others in the community. It reads as follows: "HEALTH" Worldwide experience is that whenever abortion is available for "health reasons," abortion becomes easily available. If there are some restrictions on the meaning of "health," the restrictions are like to be vague enough to invite wide -scale abuse. Abortionists who have been defying the law openly for years will not be restricted from committing _abortions by such terms as "seriously," "substantially" and "social." Those and similar terms have no legal or medical definition and are subject to the most liberal interpretation. THE PRO-LIFE SUGGESTION An act to amend the Criminal Code HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Commons, enacts as follows 1, Section 287 of the Criminal Code is amended to read: PROTECTION OF HE UNBORN (1) Every one Who, With the intent to cause the death of±`rlti unborn human being, uses any means to Catty out that intent is guilty of an indletfible offence and is liable to imprisonment: for' life. (2) Every one who, ifi doing anything or omitting to do anything that is the duty, of that person to do, shine's wanton or t'eckless disregard for the life and safety of an unborn hiltilan being and thereby 'dated the death Oft that ainherit human be; ing is guilty of an indictable offence and Turn to page 18 •' The Blob Cometh Lock the doors! Hide the children! Run for your lives! It's "The Night of the Green Blob"!! Huron County is being encroached upon by vile, slimey green blobs, and a few smaller yellow ones, that threaten to eat the land right out from under our feet and stink everyone clean off the map. And is the County trying to do anything about it? Hardly. In fact, they're sending a swarm of planners and engineers •out to aid and abet these creatures in their takeover bid. The fright wave proves to be unfounded when it turns out that the green and yellow blobs are magic marker scribbiings on acetate maps. "Relax, everyone", the planning department consoles the bitter and anxious crowd, "it's just a few paper tigers passing through the townships." Not a bad premise for a schlocky horror film, but this time it's for real. The County of Huron presented their Waste Management Master Plan preliminary 2A report at two public meetings last week, one in Hensall and one in Blyth. On display at the meetings were a series of composite maps, part and parcel of the infamous Constraint Mapping Process, a procedure that has basically ruled out most of the County as a poten- tial landfill site. The department has done their job, I must say, but looking at the maps with one restricted area laid over ROUGH NOTES by Paula Elliott another, and another, and yet another, the whole scene looks a little disheartening. This is the where the Green and Yellow Blobs come into the picture. On the final map, the areas that are still in contention as landfill sites -pitifully few of them - were colored in hectic green .and putrid yellow. A particularly scary huge green smear, looming in McKillop Township, jumped off of the map and hit me straight between the eyes. Strong men blanched, a few women fainted, and children screamed. All right. Maybe not. But McKillop peo- ple began to get a tad panicky. The Township Reeve c)ahned, for the record, that she wasn't going to start worrying about it yet - after all, this is just a preliminary study - but there was an edge to her calm that she can't be faulted for. This is a big issue, about a very big heap of garbage, and that was a very big Green Blob on the map of McKillop Township. The planning and engineering group smoothed the feathers somewhat, stating that hydrogeological testing on that Blob might prove it to be unsuitable anyways, and that will be that. Such testing can't be done until the study becomes "site specific" and two or three areas are pin- pointed and by-lawed. `So if you can't do hydrogeological testing on the site yet,' a member of the audience quizzed, 'how can you say that you've taken those factors into consideration?' 1 almost applauded. Essentially, this huge study could go through and a single soil sample could send it whimpering back to square one. But in the meantime, the Green Blob continues to squelch and pulsate merrily away in the corner of McKillop Township. You can't exactly drive by and take a look at it, but its there. Township residents had better keep their eyes peeled so that it doesn't sneak up on them. Maybe the County of Huron should send their team of Planners and Engineers out to McKillop Township with a few hundred green magic markers. Local woman crafts 3,240 part quilt MARCH 14, 1890 Mrs. Baines, an old lady residing in Sun- shine, has during the past few months, much of which time she has been so unwell as scarcely to be able to be about, pieced and quilted a log cabin quilt con- taining 3,240 pieces. One evening recently an elderly gentleman of Exeter was found helping himself to his neighbour's choice wood pile, and while in the act the owner happened to spy him and took him to task. He plead- ed to be pardoned and stated it was the first he had taken and begged not to be exposed. The Goderich Signal says: One third of the fools of the country think they can beat the doctor healing the sick, one half think they can beat the doctor healing the sick, two thirds of them think they can beat the rnfilister• preaching the gospel, and all of them know they can beat the editor in run- ning a newspaper. Miss, Cora Carmichael, a little girl nine years of age, stetted lately from Natirn for California. She had a ticket tied routed her , neck to show whither stns was botakti:>It a long jetitney ter a little tot of atihrine to Make alone. The only tiling very plentiful the present IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives ut week in Brussels is tramps; no less than three were here on Tuesday night and they were all heading for Owen Sound. MARCH 15, 1990 Every highway leading from Seaforth was closed at some time on Wednesday as a Wald -March storm swept over the district, piling deep drifts on main and concession roads. Highway 8 became blocked a mile and a half west of Seaforth and thirty cars were, marooned there until released by snowplow early iti the evening. Wailter,''little slily of Mt. Brad Min. Fred R. Persona of SeafoNt, suffered serious scalds on Saturday afternoon when he put his erns in alt` pan of hot water. The burns are responding readily to treatment and he is now out of danger. Cann rs who the$ week are working on bei of 'the' '*dilation Army Red Shield brave report that' they haVO been well received throughout the town. Seaforth's objective is $1000. Members of the Seaforth Fire Brigade honored Ross J. Sproat, a retiring member, on the occasion of the brigade's annual banquet at the Dick Hotel. Frank Sills, who was toastmaster, spoke briefly while Allen Reid presented Mr. Sproat with a Signet ring. Hog cholera, unknown in Huron County for the past 40 years, has broken out and at least 12 farms are known to have cases of the disease. One farm in the Wingham area destroyed 50 pigs by order of the Federal veterinary. MARCH 12, 1915 The following letter has been received from Mr. H.J. Dorrance, a McKillop boy, who is now at the battle front with the lst Canadian contingent, sent to Mrs. James Morrison of Walton: "Dear Aunt Lizzie - As.n writing this under active service con- ditions, and within sound of the guns. I am rare to page 18 •