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SEAFORTH 0),r1TARIp AUGUST 28, 1980
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A lot of people care about downtown Seaforth,_
—T1W concern .."Wes evident in the faces, the questions and the
comments khthe 75 or so people who crammed ,Seaforth's 0ouncil
chambers Mo day night to talk about a Buslnesslittprovement Area
(BIA).
Seaforth council acted on that concern by passing a motion of intent
to designate a BIA, a motion that sets the program . In motion.
(Merchants inside the area are notified by letter; they have 60 days to
object and if objections don't force a hearing or cancellation, council
will pass a 'bylaw establishing a BM.)
As results from a survey done this summer, slides of neighbouring
downtowns which have been Improved by BiA's and hard working
Individuals, and sketches of how our Main St. could look with a little
colour and sign co-ordination,eall show, Seaforth's downtown has a
way to go.
But as the BIA presentation underlined, there's a huge amount to be
prodd of in our community too. Over 80 per cent, of shoppers
IleterViewed said Seaforth business people were friendly and helpful.
'We've got a proud heritage, potentlalW beautiful streetscapes, plenty
of big old trees, well -kept churches and homes as the slides qt the
meeting showed _
-We-applaud- courtail- action -in -setting' a --81-A In -motion; an"d tiT6
Interest of merchants andphers who took time to probe and question
• the concept.
We think a BIA will be godd,for Seaforth and help it compete with
other town and city shopping ares. But as BIA study group member
Ken Larone said Monday night, -there's nothing magic about it
A BIA is only as effective as the pope who get involved in it. A --'
wealth of ideas, support and hard slugging worl_will be needed before
Seaforth's BIA can be effective. A lot of people can help brighten up
Main St....eoth physically and in atmosphere.
A BIA means people working together and we can't think of a better
way to get Seaforth's downtown moving again.
We hope those at ttte council meeting, and Seaforth business people
who were unable to attend but are interested, will look on this as only
the beginning of their involvement.
With the help of a whole bunch of Seaforth citizens, a BIA can make
a difference to our town.
Farmers' market
a people spot
Once in a long while,a time, a place, people and an event come
together in a way that's really successful. It's' an experience which
leaves people eaying "Wow, Why didn't we think of this before?"
Saturday's farmers' market, sponsored by Seaforth's recreation
committee at Victoria Park was that sort of experience.
A good number of booths, stocked full of local produce, crafts and
baked goods attracted a big crowd of shoppers. Hundreds milled
around, enjoyed themselves thoroughly and,congratulate the hard
working organizers and ambitious would-be sellers who made the
thing work.
The weather helped too...it was a gorgeous summer day. And the
trees and,serenity of Victoria Park contributed a whole lot to making
the market day a highlight of the summer in Seaforth.
For year people have been saying "let's make more use of Victoria
Park': The town's ret cominittee and rec director Bryan Peter did more
than just talk about making Victoria Park a people place.
They went ahead and plugged away, organizing a market, which
proved, not only that people in Seaforth and area are eager to be
outdoor shoppers in the summer, but that It's feasible to use the
downtown park for many new activities.
We're sure there'll be more farmers' markets next summer, and
that properly promoted, they'll draw tourists as well as local people.
And now that the ground's broken, we hope we'll see other groups
following the rec committee's lead and sponsoring flea markets and
movies, plays for kids, and antique car shows, highland bands and
craft shows -the sky's the limit really...in good old Victoria Park.
A hearty thanks to the recreation committee for having the courage
to be first.
To the editor:
Remember the cyclists
As motorists we ali watch out for
pedestrians cressitg the street and dog and
eats who occasionally stray amiss the roads.
• But wh 15 town watches out for the
bicylists?
1 can't co -ant the number cif times I have
had car doets opened on me while I'm
passing by on Main St, betause
people don't take the time to cheek their side
rrarrors GT glance backwards before getting
cot One or two brushes' with a car -door -
death would not bothet me too much. Bat
this happees a coupe of times every week,
Many thanks
am avritirig to thank you for the
overwheiraing support you and your
organization have shown the tlyth Summer
FAtival over the sus/liner.
The Festival has enioyed a treanendous
season this year. Oat audience increased
" greatly this surnreer, anahthe reason for the
increase is due in largelaart to the interest of
the local media in the people and the
program we have here.
I really think that we at the Blyth Summer
Festival are very lucky to have such ,a
AUGUST 27, 31480
" it .is rumoured that the Members of St, „
Jaftlee Catholic Cbtirelt are negotiating for
Thomas Coventry for *0 use of their Pols*.
the pareflitse of the. haudspine residence of
The,flaheentea loBayfteici Wok their nets,
ashore on Saturday and ,will not fish any
more this , acare,
was returning !mine to myoi
-rinringthehad storm, On Tuesday nlghtWAS
street by lightening somewhere in the eye
area stunning lam He is better but still feels
the effect of the shock.
On Tueaday, last Messrs Thompson and
McEwen threshed on the fartn of attraea,
Dallas over. 760 bushels of grain in nine
hours. ,
Street graveling • has commenced in
Exeter.11EPetty ae r tgastrange noise, got OP and
• ft II_ cfts
.„
have become quite common in
late. On Sunday night Mr, Rite,
discovered two boys in the act of stealing
_sonteastliaapigeens.
AUGUST 25, 1905 -
About 9:30 last Friday night while
so often -that I feel forced to ride near the
centre line where it's safer. And I live in fear
everytime I ride by the area where there's
slatted parking. Yesterday I was cut off by
someone who decided on the spur ef the
patent to part right in front of me.
As a bicytlist I am only too aware that we
ces two wheete must ride defensively and
csetiously.
But it would make it a lot easier if
you motoefsts would remember us before
you junm out of your cars.
Susan Dunlop
for support
supportive community around us What a joy
to deal with people who are always so
welcoming and so interested in what we are
doing.
Our sincere thanks to your paper for their
coverage and to the people of the area for
their patronage. We hope we can continue to
enjoy their trust and support in years to
come.
Yours sincerely
Brenda Boner
Publicity Director
,
ears ago
• threshing was going on at the fella, of Geo.
Lawrence; Mitchell, Lours Miller 2,0# Was
drawn into the machine andinstantly killed.,
He 'feeding peas at the time.
A large number of thc young people
Tuckersmith- and Hibbert intend taking in
the cheap triple the west on September 2nd.
Exeter council has offered a reward of $25
• for information .that Will be len to the
conviction of the parties implieathd in the
recent house breaking and petty thieving.
The summer carnival gotten up by , the
Athletic -clubs of the town on .Wednesda
last,Was a decided success. It was held in
Case's grove which made an ideal spot for
such an event.
• The-alocal--millers-grain---dealers-
- complain that farmers do not properly clean
their grain before bringing it to market.
The White Star Line of Detroit will this
a Year run a fill excursion from •Gotiericti to
, Detroit for one dollar,
APGUST29,1930
Chicken theiving is again prevalent in this
,
district and one evening late 'eat week
Robert Weightman,'Illyth had several hens
Stolen, fromt his poultry house, ,
One Councillor McKay had a narrow
escapc from a seriousaccident last Saturday
evening when his car skidded on the noted
sharp turn on the North ROad, three miles
" from Seaforth. No one was hurt except a
severe shake up but the car ia minus the top,
where it struck a telephone pole. This is the
6th car that took itt theasiitch_atihataba
hcld the,first Week' in Septenther' is with.
41.4WO ,OWY9t to the 'dry
Miss Mary Jackson his been entiageri'fte
principaytif,:wachoel in Merlitifor the coming
Yeatai.
$rati'MYMEge,24,935' e e
. Water Shat 20 feet into theair when 'oil
drillers struck a well 140 feet teto the 4reen0
on the:. ferny Of frank 'Nolen last :Week«,
prillerShelieVe the well is one ofthe tersest
water outlets discovered,ln thisarea..
Widely known district residentindDublin
peatinaater David McConnell, 87, die a ,d his
borne in Dublin early Sunday
.weleneect illness.. ..•
Arthur S Bolton of Dublin his been
appointed aiiistent agricultural represent-
ative :in Huron County. He will 'replace
Baker. '
Faced with art estimated 0*ft Of 52,200'
as a result el the stifling hot weather which
d_existed-duringaathe-Old-Boys-Reunlear--
-curvetbis season. '
The annual Flovver Show of theErucefield
Horticultural Society which was to have been
celebration, the association will ask guarant*
ors for 515 each. Guaraniom had signed for
an amount not exceeding $25 each.
Even a long summer goes too darn fast
, Surnmer begins, and the school
teacher, along with his students is reason-
ably ecstatic. Two whole months free to
loaf, swim, golf, fish. play -tennis; scuba
dive, or whatever turns you on.
,
Andsuddenly, before you've had a
chance to hit a ball or catch a bass, it's the
middle of August You hayen't been
anywhere special, you haven't done any-
thing special, it's rained four days out of
seven or been so blasted hot alliyou could
do was lie around and asp, and there you
aree a --couple aof -weeka
about 160 160 kids, fit as fiddles and ready to
make you skip academie rope.
Lucky is the teacher who has no friends
or relatives. He or she can go to Europe,
take a course in anything' from primitive
sculpture to basic Russian , or just lie vi
around in the backyard watching the
bumble bees trying 'to have sex with the
hummingbirds.
But most of us have relatives, and some
of us even have two or three friends, and
therein lies the sudden disappearance of
the summer holidays.
A couple of days here, a little jaunt to see
some relatives there, and suddenly it's last
summer.
My wife is at the moment packing bags
for the eighth time In Aye weeks. and she
swears that after this brief' expedition up
north to ttif cottage offriends. she's going
to pile the suitcases in the backyard,
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
sprinkle a can of gas over them, and have
the first big barbecue we've had time for
since the end of June.
I spent one week loafing. But I have such
a gift for loafing that it seemed like only •
three days.
Then it was apenitialting.teigiup_northitoe
pa up the grandboys. Their mother
insisted that I not spoil them, or try to
entertain them. I did both and we all loved
it, but it took its toll. On me.
Next thing I know. my brother wants a
reunion, because he's leaving the country.
Thomas Wolfe wrote agreat novel: "You
Can't Go Horne Again." Well, you can,
but I wouldn't advise it. If you haven't
been back to your old home town for many
years, don't go.
Progress puts its ugly finger on the most
cherished memories of childhood, and
you'll find that the treelaned, sleepy little
town in which you grew up not only makes
you sad, but a little angry, with all its new
mbtels, sleazy eating places. and fino old
homes turned into apartments or nursing
homes.
a 1 went looking for a corner where I had
kissed a girl every night for two years. As I
slowed down. trying to identify it with the
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
A better world
The Bible says that man wa..s• made in
God's image. One of -the things man copies
most from the God who made him seems to
be the desire to play god.
One has only to !toe at this country we
live in to know how much man likes to
change the world to suit himself. Man first
came to this vast continent thousands cf
years ago when the first primitive peoples
migrated from Asia. These people who
became known as the Indians changed the
country a little to ni-eet their needs but
generally the land remained untouched.
But when the European peoples migrated
to North America in search of new land
they brought with them the determination
and technologies to change the face of the
whole continent. Our ancestors came used
to living one kind of lifestyle and' set Out to
shape the new continent to fit their needs
And they did.
They attacked the forests
that stretched as beyond every horizon and
with only axes and oxen and blood and guts
they cleared the land to the point that wily
small pockets of bushland remain in the
farming areas.
But farmland •.vasn't enough for the new
pianeers They wanted villages and towns
and cities and the cities had to get bigger
Where the trees had gie-an way to
farmian& the farmland now gave way to
houses and stores_ The wheel of time
turned again and the stare and houses gave
way to sky -scraping office buildings and
apartment buildings. Man was now making
the world in his own image of how things
should be.
CAarf SEE NATURE
Whereas early pioneers even as they
attacked the forests stood in awe of the
majesty of nature. men of today living ie
cities can't even see nature. The closest the
city dweller can get to things natural is the
city run parks system. with grass carefully
nurtured and trees carefully pruned hy a
busy staff to look like what man wants
nature to look: well ordered.
But all this panning and changing was
set up for one purpose: to make the world
work better for the heman beings in it.
Somewhere along the way we seemed to
have lost the goal of where we are going. I
was reading an article the other day of a
kind that has become quite familiar. Half
the people who live in cities today. it said,
live in highrise apartmeets. By 1985, 85
per cent of city dwellers will live up in the
sky.
People, the planners tell you. must get
over this idiotic idea that everyone has the
right to own his own home. People must
get over this stupid notion that they must
have even a little bit of green grass in a
backyard. People have to get used to living
in apartment buildings inahe 5ky.
SLIDDiG DOWN
There comes a paint in every civilization
when it goes over the top on its rise and
starts to slide down the other side. it seems
to me maybe we've reached that point. We
have built magnificent systems to serve the
people but we have come to the point now
where the systems aren't flexible enough
any Thom to serve people's real needs.
tnstesd we are asking the people to serve
the needs of the systems.
When we get to that point, when we start
changing the lives of the people to make
things more manageable' for the system
then we are bound for unhappiness. Take a
look at one example of this evident in out
own country. In a goad -hearted attempt to
Improve the lives of Newhyandland outport
fainities the government of the province a
'couple of decades back decided to bring the
people together in larger towns and
villages rather than the little outport
villages scattered gang the rocky shores of
the island. The little viiiages simply
couldn't be provided with the govertment
services to inake the lives of the peopie
'easier.
MONTI G BACK
So the program was started. New
homes were built. �d homes were fload
down the coast to more central iocations.
But it wasn't as easy as it seemed. Many
people just weren't happy in this conven-
fent new • way of life. The program. 1
understand has been abandoned. Some of
the people !think have even mrived back it)
Ina outvotes they ;el; behmo
We are being asked in so many ways to
try to fit into the monolithic systems that
have been built for us today. If people
really like living in cities then they should
by all means do it.
But our society is so out
of whack today that a large percentage of.
people who would rather live in the country
or a small village must live in -cities to make
money, money that will not buy them
happiness because they mast live in the
• city.
Simply telling someone that they will
have to get used to the idea of living in a
30 -storey apartment building because not
everyofte tan 'have a pleoe ?if land of his
own is nbt going to make him happy or
even satisfied. Forcing people info the
pre -designed holes of our mechanized
society is only inviting problems.
big maple gone. replaced by a pizza joint, a
dry-cleaners, and a fish -and -chips
boutique, a kid came up from behind,
slammed me in the rear, and ran off in his
souped -up Zilch, hurling obscenities. I was
wishing I had a .44 and I'dve put two slugs
I drove down the main street, and it
could have been Main Street Anywhere.
Like North Dakota. That was the street
where I hustled deliveries for my Dad.
when he had a shoe store, and le 1 give
me a dime, and I'd go to the matinee,
watch Tarzan beat the crocodiles (almost)
across the river, and go back next Saturday
afternoon, wondering if he'd made it. He
always did, thank goodness.
My brotherand I played golf, badly, at
the local course. I felt completely out of my
element, with all those old, white-haired,
wizened people until I got to the bridge,
spanning the river. The bridge was new,
but at least I remembered sitting on it,
watching the ladies pound their golf balls
into the river. We dived for them, and sold
them back for a dime.
If I'd had time, I'd have driven around
the three-mile circuit Jack Pope and I
worked every Saturday morning. looking
•
for empty beer bottles in the dlichee. We
made a fair buck in those days, probably t
splitting thirty-five cents when we turned
in our goods to M.K. an elderly Jewish
gentleman, much more scrupulous of his
business dealings with us kids than most
tryst company executives would be.
I saw my sister, who, as was always her
wont, tried to stuff more food into me than
a healthy alligator could handle.
I -drove out to an incredibly romantic
place my Uncle John had bought as a farm. .
---Heacouldn4-make-a-nickel-inaluitaburif
had a huge stone house with a butler's
pantry. and about 14 outbuildings: stables,
sheds. barns, the lot. After eaplaining my
safari to a surly chap from eastern Europe,
he said, "Sorright, sorright." So much for
memories.
It wasn't all gone, of course, to be fair.
Some of the old stone houses and hotels are
still there. turned into artsy-crafties or
modera eating places.
The old. smelly river-curncanal is still
there. weed infested, tranquil, full of
suckers and pike. a relic of the war of
1812-16.
But don't go home again. Crowning blow
was when my wallet was either lost or
lifted. and I've been cancelling credit
cards. getting new licenses, and weeping
oyer my cash and my OHIP number ever
since.
Stay home and be happy with your own
rotten pine and all its problems.
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Nick KrauskopPa fine man
BY BEA MALONEY FADDEN
Working for God pays very little tin cash
at times). . But the retirement benefits
are out of this world.
Today is August 26. 1980. The first day
of the rest of our lives. I was planning on
spending August 27 visiting Nick, in
London hospital. 1 left 31 100 late, Nick got
called home Test week. lf Nick Krauskopf is
not in Heaven's Hall of Fame • the rest of
as don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
of even getting standing room, on the other
side.
He was such a good man, loyal to such a
high standard of conduct. Faithful to His
God, to his family to what he believed in,
faithful to his fellow man.
4
I am so glad 1 had a chance to visit him In
February of 1979. No, Nick couldn't tee
anymore. like you and I„ but that man bad
vision, that I can only hope and pray for.
He must have been a groan consolation to
the Good Lord. Nick, like dad, and MIttly
others knew what it was like to have to
work hard. to struggle and sacrifice for
their families. Now when I find the going
tough as we ail do at times in different
capacities. I say a prayer to Nkk. "Show
me the way".
We lost an awfully good, fine, man last
week. Thaok Gad and Company he
has many descendants • We need ail the
Nicks we can get, unless we want society to
go over the brink.
Expositor asks:
Should Seaforth continue with the park m
1131 HEER
On Saturday, August 23, Seaforth held
ane of its first open air markets at Victoria
Park.
Accerding to recreation director Bryan
Peter, the market was a succese. with all of
the 14 participating merchants pleased
with the results.
The market, said Mr. Petet. sold a
variety of fresh vegetablesbaking, flow,
ers. quilts, craft items and paintings,
attractirig an estimated 400 to 500 local
patrons.
This week. in keeping with the current
market interest, the Expositor Asks: "Do
you think Seaforth should continue the
Victoria Park` market on a regitlar basis
throughout the summer?"
"I think it would be an advantage to
Seaforth," said Isabelle Hunt of RR 2,
Seaforth.
"A tot of local peopfe- could sell their
ctafts and vegetables."
"ft would also bring in toutists." she
added.
Mary Margaret Nash of RR 5, Seaforth
said she didn't think it was necessary all
summer long.
However, she did say it was a good idea
for those who have extra produce from
their gardens that Tight nermally go to
waste.
Mabel Patrick of RR 4, Walton, said she
thought the market was a good idea.
rkot
"Vegetabies are fresher from the farm,
she said, adding that anynte with a
surplus. weuld f:a.'e a chance to sell them
at the market.
Eunice Russell of RR 4, Walton, said the
market would give those Who wish to earn
extra money selling produce the oppor-
tunity to do so, without having to open
their own store.
"The market is geocl for those who do
handacrafts. but not enough to open a
store to sell them."
"One a week is a good idea, if it works,"
said Mrs. Russell.
• "I suppose it's something different for
those in town who don't have a full
garden." said Audrey Hactwell of Walton.
don't know if it would be a success
every week," She said. "Sometimes they
carry things on too often and it runs out."
"For the suramet months it would be
worth a tryito keep it up," added Mts.
Madmen. -
"If it works other places, it should v*t.
here," said Charlie Gieeri era Egmendville,
"1 -don't see why it wouldn't be -art
advantage censidering what lays around in
the stores."
Gertrude Driscoll of RR4a Walton said
she thought the market would be a good
place for people to sell their extit produce.
"It is also an opportunfty for tovrris
people who don't have the space for a
garden to get thiegs fresher," she Said.
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