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The Huron Expositor, 1990-03-21, Page 2• SINCE 184Q, SERVING YHE'CQMMUNITTY FIkST: Incorporating, The Brussel* Post Published in Senterth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning to, 1,0ik The Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Paula Elliott, Terri -Lynn Dale; DianneMcGrath and Bob McMillan. .E® BYESKi,•Generel Muiiu er' •HEATHER lit®BINET, Edltee Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press institute Subscription .Rates: Canada '20.00 o year, in advance Senior Citizens - '17.00 a year in advance Outside Canada '60.00 a year, In advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21; 1990 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (319) 327-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO ti 11 wqI1OwLngifl. wa h ro r Those Of .you •readers 'Who have been: r wallowing with me I.n any • redecorating woes,. will be ,pleased (or`inaybe relieved), to know'•that things Are Progressing - t,although less favorably than anticipated, . It finally p an though a completed • o 'riot the shower, without laking off. the slip' cover .that protects It from paint and drywall goop _ I look' forward; to stepping out of that shower oaten floor that is bereft, of grit and dust.. And most of all I look forward .to having the toilet paper roll tacked immobile on the wall,; rather,tban free to unwind itself across 'the" exp�s a of the bathroom .floor, when it is treated' with reckless abandon. My only hope is that that day is not too isoff.. never realized -how --spoiled one can become by something as ordinary as a washroom. Then again, I don't think I've ever had to do without one before. Whatever did they do in those wonderful days of yore? washi°oom � in''tea. distant tutor e.. All that remains now is the installation and pooh up of dpr tub and vanity, the applica- tion of urethane' on our pine floor, 'thie in- vestiture of some form'` of lighting, and some finishing touches of wallpaper and such: Unfortunately, ,. before we can complete the majority of these items, we have • to improve on a slight imperfection in pain- ting, caused by an overzealous, and over particular husband. But that's all.I'll say on that topic. Right now my thoughts are focussed on the endless opportiudties that will he af- forded me once my bathroom is complete. % can't wait to abandon the daily ritual of having to brush my teeth in the kitchen sink - although I have become quite adept at spitting my suds around and not on, the dishes that have usually accumulated there. I look forward to being able to step into by,;ileather Robi>tlet &&&&& Despite my column of last week, which lambasted the apparent greed of major 1e$6u0aseball Players,, I, .have :to say I'm pleased' to see that the lockout between those players, and the owners; is over. Although I regret the eoneeasions that had tti be 'made - and iatmy' opinion primarily by the owners - I am happy for the many fans of the sport, , and for the towns and cities that rely on baseball; for their livelihood. I ani also happy in a way for myself, since I do enjoy taking in a major league baseball game or two over the course of the season. Although it would probably not have been a dull summer without the presence of major league baseball, it would certainly have been a strange one without the usual rivalry that exists at our house because of our different affiliations with the Tigers and the Jays. And summer without baseball? Impossi- ble! The season and the sport have become synonymous with one another. Finally, legislation Environment Minister Jim Bradley and Solicitor General Steven Offer have announced a comprehensive plan to reduce risks posed by large tire storage areas, and to address long-term legislative and recycling solutions. Under the plan, tougher fire prevention and environmental protection legislation, a massive used tire recycling program, and action to secure and clean up existing tire storage sites will be introduced. Proposed changes to the Environmental Protection Act will give Environ- ment Ontario the power to step in and act immediately when the judicial process prolongs a threat to the environment or to the health and safety of Ontario residents. What is appalling is that resident health and safety was given so little consideration before. Under present legislation, the Ministry of the Environment may only take steps if there is a clear, immediate threat to health or property. At pre- sent, tires not on fire are not deemed to pose that kind of threat. No doubt the same sentiments existed about the tire heap near Hagarsville - at least before it went up in a cloud of acrid, black smoke. And while the proposed changes to the Environmental Protection Act should improve the situation, it will also mean the cost for implementing safety measures may finally be shared by previous owners of the opera- tion. Owners of used tire sites convicted of causing pollution will be sub- ject to a maximum fine of up to $400,000. The Ontario Fire Code and the Fire Marshals Act will also be strengthen- ed, and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment will invest an initial $16 million dollars in tire recycling this year. In addition to providing significant environmental and public safety benefits, the tire program should also provide employment and business opportunities through establishing a new recycling industry for the province, while recapturing for productive uses the valuable resources inherent in old rubber tires. Finally we're putting our creative juices to work. Strict measure will also be taken to secure waste tire storage depots across Ontario. An inventory of waste tire storage sites in Ontario has been taken, and precautionary measures, have been taken at largesites to minimize any potential. risk of arson. Notices of violation are being issued for all fire code infractions found, and letters are to be sent to the owners instructing them to apply for Environment Ministry Certificates of Approval requiring security fencing buffer zones and other environmental protection. The Envionment and Solicitor General Ministries' actions will require site owners to separate the tires into piles not greater than 5,000 tires, with fire lanes between piles to inhibit the spread of fire and to provide easy access for firefighting vehicles. They will also require them to take various security measures and construct a reservoir where required to provide water in the event of a fire. And as honorable as all this is, one has to wonder why it took a major fire such as Hagarsville, to prompt such action. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • Outlet a step to phasing out post office To the Editor: I read with interest the article in the March 14 edition of The Expositor of the recent opening of a postal outlet at "Shiner's Store". The article stated that postal services are also available at the Seaforth Post Office but it did not indicate that "Shiner's" is now the ONLY place for Seaforth rural route customers to pick up their registered mail and parcels. These services have been taken away from our local post office and given to the new postal outlet. This is not an additional ser- vice for rural route customers but it is alternate service. To me this appears to be the first step in closing our local post of- fice by starting to gradually phase out ser- vices which have been provided by the post office and delegating them to a private outlet. If you are concerned about this change in service or about the future of the Seaforth Post Office please write to: Rural Services, Huron Division, 300 Wellington St, Second Floor, London, Ontario NSB 3P2 Perhaps if we let our views be known we can save the jobs of our postal workers and retain the high quality of service pro- vided by our Seaforth Post Office. Yours truly, (Mrs.) Joanne Flanagan, RR 5, Seaforth. Farmer's daughter writes Dear Fellow Human Being, I hope you will publish my inspiring piece of writing. If it is not suitable kindly return it. I have previously had four articles published in The Huron Expositor over the years under the name Bea Maloney - Fadden. My dad Wilfred Maloney used to write for your paper. I want to use my pen name The Farmers Daughter for the article - Friends for Adoption. Thanks a million. P.S. I read the Expositor from cover to cover. Its like a letter from home -when you are away from home. FRIENDS BY ADOPTION BY THE FARMERS DAUGHTER They say that if we have one true foul weather friend who will stick by us through hell or high water we are very lucky. If we have two its a miracle, and if we have three we are a darn liar. Yesterday I was heading up home to visit a very fine aunt friend. Marjorie Heenan -Maloney. About Stratford a good idea came to me. Why don't I pull into Dublin and ask Aunt Camilla -Murray - Evans if she'd like to come along. Well she said her hair was in rollers and all fn all it wasn't a convenient time. I said "Aunt Millie it just dawned on me that you and Aunt Marj have a lot in com- mon. You both have earned your . PHB (Professional Human Being). Only God and his friends award people with those. You both suffered through long drawn out illnesses with your husbands before they got the call home. You both judge with your heart and not your mind. You have both been well tested. On the Way back to Toronto I thought they both have three children with a boy in the middle. They both believe that God will see them and their loved ones through any crisis if they are strong enough to ask for His help and the help of other good people. What a shame I can't get them together! Oh well there is always another inning. Unless of course as Dave says its the bottom of the ninth. If we live to be 100 we don't have much time left to enjoy and nourish and never take for granted the fact that a true friend is a gift from God and you can for site have more than one or two if you reach out and adopt a friend. Do yourself a favor—adopt a friend. I learned about adopting a friend from Oatis Sawyer who lives at the Ritz Villa in Mitchell now. He adopted Uncle Frank Maloney. He sure has good taste in friends. Not just cmot There's never a dull moment, that's for sure. Part of my job here involves springing into action when the fire siren goes off and following the fire trucks to the scene. That's me, idling in the Topnotch parking lot in a beat -up blue Chevette, staring down towards Birch St. and occasionally glancing at my gas gag with a prayer that the fire is less than one -sixteenth of a tank away. After the past week or so, I've learned my lesson and managed to keep at least five dollars worth of gas in the heap. Seaforth would be a bit of a hike from Winthrop, even in this weather. Essentially, that's what I'm thinking about when the siren blows. My brain ticks off "gas...film...flash...keys.." while my body struggles to coordinate itself, get in- to the car and battle down Main St. I don't really stop to consider that I'm driving out to witness a potential disaster. On a couple of occasions, I've gotten either a dirty glance or a derisive com- ment thrown at me at a fire or accident. A letter to the paper in early January ac- cused the Expositor - and indirectly, myself... I was the one who took the pic- tures --of exploiting family pain and suf- fering with photos of a car crash. And to be honest, it makes me stop and think. I don't really focus on the fire or the ac- cident until I'm on the scene. When I do, er t rill seeke UGH OTES by Paula Elliott my first instinct is to quietly turn the car around and drive home, and leave the poor people be. But while this is going through my mind, my hands are automatically reaching for the camera, loading film and adjusting the settings. After 10 seconds of hesitation, I take a deep breath, turn off the ignition and turn my brain off,too. I'm not looking for the goriest angle, and I'm not thinking "Wow, this is really an awful fire...look at their home and belong- ings being destroyed!" Totally the op- posite. I was surprised last week when I looked away from my viewfinder at an ac- cident scene and realized that all I'd been thinking about was my light setting. Honestly, my biggest concern was that they were night shots and 1 didn't have my flash. Call me detached, but maybe that's the only way to manage this part of the job. I would dare anybody to label me a `gawker' or `opportunist', either. That would be the pot calling the kettle black. At a fire call just outside of Winthrop last week, I turned from a thankfully unevent- ful chimney fire to see a dozen cars and trucks parked up and down the sideroad, drivers craning their necks for a glimpse of flame. Neighbors were standing in clumps in the warm evening air, discuss- ing the non -fire and looking a bit crestfallen that there wasn't anything more spectacular. 1 fully expected someone to haul out a picnic basket and spread a snack out on the lawn. The human animal is a born `gawker', and the presence of my camera and flash makes the gawking even more pronounced and vulgar, but we all slow down to leer out the car window at a fire or a crash. The only difference is that I get paid to leer. It's not my favorite part of this job, but I would be lying if 1 said that it turned my stomach. It's exciting, essential and a fact of life. Only once did 1! get a really sick feeling, and that was when I'd shot a roll of film before a firefighter informed me that I was taking pictures of a fatality. That's something that you're never prepared to hear, no matter how often you check your camera. 1940 hockey win dedicated to Mom MARCH 21, 1890 The number of insane persons sent from this county to the Provincial Asylums last year was 21. The total number sent from this county since the Asylums were first opened is 416, of which 108 are still inmates. One day last week Mr. John Jury of Ethel, Grey •Township, met with a strange accident. He was going along smoking where some boys were playing football, when one of the boys kicked the ball and it struck him in the mouth breaking his pipe, driving a piece of the stem into the roof of his mouth, knocking out one of his teeth and upsetting him to the ground. CURE FOR THE COLD - Slice two or three acid cooking -apples and boil for half an hour or so in a small pan of water, stirring occasionally with a spoon until the apples are quite dissolved into a thin, pulpy soup. Sweeten with sugar and drink. In less than an hour you will feel the cold giving way, and in two or three hours more it will disappear entirely. The sale on the Tuckersmith farm of Mrs. Finlayson was well attended and everything passed off very satisfactorily. Horses sold as high as $150 each; cows ranged from $40 to $50, and sheep went as high as $20 a pair. The whole sale realiz- ed $050. MARCH 19, 1915 The Bayfield Patriotic Society has sent IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives to the London Free Press a check for $25 to be applied to the fund for supplying the Canadian soldiers at the front with tobacco. There is a strong agitation in parts of McKillop, Grey and Morris for the establishment of a consolidated public school in Walton. A meeting is to be held this week to discuss and consider the matter. A very sad affair occurred in Hibbert Township last week when Mr. Robert Bell of the 6th Concession was killed in the stable by one of his horses. He had been working all day in the bush, and returned about six o'clock to do the chores. While thus engaged he was knocked down and trampled by a driving horse. He was in a helpless condition when found in the stable by a ten -year-old son. The wounds were dressed and all that was possible done for the injured man, but he succumbed to his injuries about 12 o'clock the same evening. Messrs. John Mkenhead and Wm. Dietz of Kippen, who intend to go into the threshing business next year, have purammsymansonsimmammisesimilliamom - chased a new up-to-date threshing outfit These gentlemen are experienced hands in the threshing line and will make a strong team. We wish them every success. MARCH 22, 1940 What might have been a disastrous fire was prevented Monday evening when a blaze in the Boshart furniture factory was discovered and quickly extinguished. The fire was discovered in the boiler room. WIN HELPS MOTHER TO HEALTH - Mrs. Ralph McFaddin, mother of Ralph and Albie McFaddin, star forwards for the Seaforth Beavers, was helped on the road to recovery with news of the Beavers' win against Durham. Mrs. McFadden has beer seriously ill at her home in Stratford. Milt Dunwell, in the Beacon -Herald, said this week: "Add to ailing list: "Ma" McFad- din, who has mothered more hockey and ballplayers than any other boarding house lady who ever stocked a larder. She is suf- fering from ptomaine poisoning. Sons Albie and Ralph, who play for the Seaforth Beavers, could provide the best tonic by scoring enough goals to beat Durham Tuesday night. 11, e 13A