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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-10-16, Page 3a NOW THAT'S A 'PUMPKIN' YOU- CAN -BE PROUD OF!—Pumpkins grow bigger and better in the Andreassi garden at 51 ,Louisa Street, Seaforth under the gardening expertise of Angelo Andreassi. Shown with the gardeher are'-his-ton,i'vlartin; a visiting 'niece - Kendra - Nichols and his daughter Lisa. The vital statistics of this pumpkin squash, called Atlantic Giant are that it weighed 220 pounds and had a 94 inch diameter. (Photo by Oke) To the editor: • Hockey not as poor as column indicated As one who is greatly interested in sports, I am very pleased to see more press coverage of all sports activities of our community in your newspaper. No matter what extra curricular activity young people choose. they have to start at some level. Referring to last week's comments on a young hockey team, I wish to express my concern on tlie article that was written by an amateur sports writer and photographer who gives of his special talent to your newspaper. Since I was a spectator at this hockey game and possess a little hockey experi- ence as a hockey player. hockey coach, and hockey parent , I feel that I am qualified to make these statements. I realize that the hockey game was not of Junior 13 caliber. but it was their fiist game and the first experience that some of these boys encountered at the junior level since some of them are still midget age. Other than. a *ceuple incidents which could have been prevented if the referees had been more observant earlier in the game. the hockey wasn't as poor as indicated in the sports column. After travelling to Exeter for an exhibition game Sunday evening. the Seaford) hockey players were disgusted to find the "write-up" from the Expositor tacked on the bulletin board of the Exeter arena. This type of publicity does not help these young hockey players nor the town which they represent. Even though Junior D hockey isn't as glorious as Junior 13 hockey, it still provides that extra activity which young boys need at that age. As a parent. 1 appreciate the time which interesarraaults spend in their efforts to make our young people responsible citizens. —Jack MeLlwain „ Neilsen wishes team the best Last week I made some blunt statements towards the style of Junior "D" hockey. I would like to apologize to the players associated with the Centenaires and the management. I meant no ill -regards toward the team but merely stated what I felt. Last season was a good season for me. 1 had a good time with the team and enjoyed playing for them. 1 wish them the best of tuck in this up -coming season and in the future. Yours truly Dennis Neilsen Band needs new members Another successful year of concerts and marching in paradeslias almost come to an end for the Seaforth Dashwood Band. For the past six years the band has been in parades in several places in this part of Ontario. Most invited the band back every year. Eke: Mitchell. Lucan, Seaforth. Blyth, Exeter, Dashwood, Clinton. HurorrYiew and the muddy Plowing Match in Woodstock. There six bands were involved. walking and marching through the muddy acres. it looked like all the bands had been doing the plowing, instead of making music. The uniforms looked like a mess after the parade. A few more parades are on the list, a Santa Claus parade in St Marys in November. another in Seaforth. and Exeter in Decem- ber. The Seaforth Dashwood Band needs new members soon, if its to continue to exist. Some of us are getting older and moving so that they have to quit and I am afraid our band. like so many others in the past. has to come to an end. and become history for Seaforth. until somebody has the courage to start all over again.in about ten years from now John Vangeffen Sec. Treas. Seaforth-Dashwood Rand Races in. Hensall Continued from page 1 emigrating from Scotland, is employed at W.G. Thompson and Sons Ltd. This is the first time he has run for a seat on council. and Me. Skea said, he hopes ,there is an election. rather than members being ap- pointed by acclamation. Although Mr. Skea said there really isn't one issue that made him decide to run for office, he said he is concerned with the village's downtown section, and the fact there aren't as many stores in buSiness as there once were. Mr. Skea is married and has three children. Cecil Pepper, 45, of 96 Mill Street, Hensel], has decided he will also run for a seat on eouncil. Mr. Pepper, who is married and the father of four daughters, has lived in the village for 21 years and in the area all his life. Although Mr. Pepper said there really isn't one issue which motivated him to run. he said he would like to see more interest in the beisinesses on Main Street. Mr. Pepper said he doesn't know if council can solve this problem and added all small towns seem to be facing the same problem with store closures. Mr. Pepper said he would also like to see a government- operated senior citizens home n Mensal]. The candidate said he will be campaigning by word-of-mouth. Richard Packham and Klaus Van Wieren, who have both served on council for one term, have indicated they will also be seeking re-election in the upcoming municipal election Nov. 10. If there's one thing Americans now how to do, it's promote, a friend who's in the ad business said to me one time. ° I Was reminded of that national characteristic on a recent vacation trip along the highways and byways of the American north east. (Could it be that one of my earliett memories of TV - - -Dinah Shore singing "See the USA in your Chevrolet" sub- liminally caused me to take the trip in the first place?) Anyway. . . You don't get that aloof, alienated feeling on US thru- ways thaTYOrrfe-el-,-SIU-ge-iiiii— solemn in your own little car, on Canada's 401. That's because all around you in • 4..r...SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER leo MO r.s Something to say Speeding lanes are cars used by their occupants to com- municate with the occupants of other cars. I'm talking about bumper stickers, which are, I'd estimate, 100 times more popular in the USA than here. Cars constantly push their messages at you. As the better half and I commented on the, phenomena we real- ized, here's a story and we --atarterl---cotettin—sayingsq- analysing them and even trying to determine if the sticker. common to each by Susan White state said aomething about that place's inhabitants. SOME GEMS Here follows some of the . gems from our collection, most of them non- commercial, some self- explanatory. The others you can join us in pondering. The speedy New York Thruway, a scenic tollroad, yielded This is Pig Country; Arthritis . s a Big Pain; on; Save a Life - Learn CPR; and my favourite mystery sticker, Austin - PA., The Town that Wouldn't Die. Moving into Massachu- setts we found strong ethnic sentiments as in Thank Goodness I'm Polish and I'm Proud to be Irish. Mass. drivers are also fairly Correction Brian McGregor, formerly of Egmondville also gradu- ated from Grade 13 at SDHS in 1970. After graduation, Brian joined the staff of the Toforito-Dominion bank in Seaforth. Siti‘C'e•then, he has worked in Fort'Elgip; flatuiliaa ton; Peletb broil and ' Cota " lingwood. Brian and his Wife are now living in Peterbor- ough again where Mr. McGregor is assistant man- ager of the bank. The couple has two children. Behind the scenes • by Keith Roulston What can we Sooner of later just about all of us complain about big government (the sooner being whenever we buy something and have to pay Bill Davis a seven per cent tax, the Later being when we see the amount •of federal tax deductions on our paycheques.) We can all see how our mdhey is being wasted by the government on services that we wouldn't ordinarily buy ourselves if we had the choice. Farmers, for instance, may feel their money is being wasted subsidizing urban transit system or the expensive operation of airports. City people bemoan . money being paid to subsidize farmere. City o and rural people both can complain aboui the money being wasted through grant a to artists. Few of us seem willing to do anything however. Everybody likes to see services and the first place they look to for these services is the government. In Canada big business is onc of the first areas to cry about the amount of government "interference" in the marketplace. ff only the government would get the heck out of the road aral let the businessmen do their job. they tell us at least three times even day. the country would be much better off. And yet business is one of the most guilty parties in creating the need for big government. Businessmen have been quite willing to let government pick up covs for a lot of things they could be doing thesetves but can't be bothered COMPANIES GET INVOLVED Just how companies can get involved in aspects of the lives of their workers without involving government has been demonstrat ed many times around the world. There ;as an instance related on the weekend of hey. a London company is getting involved not onk in making life more pleasant for the a orkers Lan in helping the whole community at the same time. The 3M company of London two years ae-a bought 16 vans. The sans are rented to employees who drive the vans and pick up fellow v.orkers and transport them to eork for a fee of S25-5.35 per month The ss stem has saved as much as 52000 for one employee who makes use of it It has saved the company by helping it delay the time %hen it will have to expand parking facilities. not to mentiort the benefits of having employees arrive at work relafed and ready to work instead of needing a strong coffee to steady their rieryes after a mornmg of fighting traffic. What's rrtoye. the sy stem is now self-sustaining as far as cost goes This system also helps prevent govern The gremlins were at it again! The cutline under the picture This Is The Way To End A Hike, in the story on the Bannockburn colour tour, should -have read: Bill and Cathy Dennis, and Bill Mun- egail,,,eespaces manager for Ausable-Bayfield Con- servation Authority, had the kettle on in plenty of time to provide hot chocolate for hikers at the end of their hour-long hike through the woods. do ourselves? ment expenditure. A company spokesman estimates that each of the 16 vans saves about 6000 gallons of gas that would have been burned if each person had had to drive to work by car. Since every gallon of gas burned is subsidized by the government in these days of international cartels, that is saving the government money. The spokes- man also says the yans will prevent 2.2 tons of pollutants going into the air of the city every day. That saves the government money and improves the city. There's also the reduction of wear and tear on the streets and roads to be considered and the fact that if every company took up a similar plan. traffic would be reduced meaning there wouldn't have to bc so much new madbuilding and thus less government spending in that area. EDUCATION COSTS One of the areas that big business has been most apt to sit back and let government do it while complaining about the cost of government is in education. Canada has become a nation that has to import skilled workers for many technical jobs because our businesses would rather import than train. They also depend on government supported universities. community colleges and trade whoa) rather than shouldering the responsi- bility of building training programs into their businesses. , Another groa mg area of concern is child care. with more an'd more women working out of the home In many countries. child care is provided hy the company where a large percentage of the employees .are women. Its a healthy arrangement because the child can go to work with mommie. go home with mornmie and perhaps see her on lunch hours. But not here in Canada. Faced with the pressure from V.OTTICKI to provide quality environments for the children of working women it is the government that has had to respond. Your taxes are going up because very fee businesses have been willing to make the kind of moves to support their emplosees that businesqw in other parts of the world have made Government Yen seldom has invented a need for something Government most often responds to need. often much slower than the public would like Government has grown in this country usually because of the excesses of big business (unfair wages and working conditions in the early days. pollution etc. in later times ) If hg business doesn't like big gosernment it should get us act together and try to meet the needs of the population before government is forced to Mero challenges Continued from page 1 started out killing chickens when I first started working." He followed that ,aith ten years as a welder. then a period whee he worked in general contracting while °peter ing a Canada Bread franchise. before finally settling into the real estate business. Mr. Mere %as born and raised in Seaforth He and his wife Diane have one son. Mark. 13. So you'd like to run Continued from page 1 in the town or township in which ',on are running. Unlike previous electionsthis year candidates may file through an agent. Filing dates run from today. 0, t 16. to October 20 at 5 p.m. • area municipal offices can be contacted for assistance: Seaforth - 527-0160 -Jim Crocker. Clerk McKillop - 527-1916 - Met lure. clerk Tuckersmith - 482-9523 - Jack McLachlan. clerk Hibbert - 345-2931 - Charles Friend, clerk Logan - 345-2339 -Mara Scherbarth. clerk Stanley - 482-9908 - Melvin Graham, clerk Mullett - 52.3-4'40- Harry Lear, Clerk Write a letter to the editor today! O.areaaaat "eileeriare political: America Love it or Leave it contrasted with I'll Fight for the Right * 4rm Bears. Among th%; am- biguous bumpers were those proclaiming • Machinists Do it Better; Join the Bloodlines and Warning: 1 Brake for Unicorns. An east coast b mper sticker that could b come popular in Huron proclaims Milk Drinkers are more Pas- osionate, Heading-toward-s-the— ocean the nuclear debate heats up and cars say Split Wood, Not Atoms; Go Solar; No Nukes is Good Nukes and a personal favourite, Nonuke of the North. A SENSE OF HUMOUR America's sense of hum- our is still alive and well when its cars sport slogans like This Car is Censflpated , It won't Pass a Thing; and Have you Hugged your Lawyer Today?; Have you Hugged your Beat ihtlay?e and other variations on the hugging theme. * A cause, you !mire it, and then circulate a bumper sticker, promoting it, like If You Think' Education is Ex- pensIve, Try Ignorance; Honk if You Like the Beatles and Despite Inflation, the Wages of Sin are the Same. There are more in my colleciton if you'd like to find a slogan to suit your current project. They can be viewed by appointment only here in -Seaforth-.--- ----- In parting here's a thought for today that some poor driver coined in the probably vain hope of improving expressway traffic. It's A Little Courtesy Won't Kill You, something I've been thinking of getting printed up for the Seaforth Friday noon rush hour. ABCA tto study Silvercreek flooding by: ALICE GEBB The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Au- thority has launched a study of potential flood relief problems on the Silvercreek flood plain. Bill- Mungal 1 resouces manager for the authority, said a staff member of James F. McLaren Engineers has been engaged to study potential problems. Mr. Mungall emphasized the problem would occur only if there was a "Hurricane Hazel type of flood." If an emergancy of that magnitude ever occurred, Mr. Mungall said 100 homes in Seaforth and area could be flooded. The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Au- thority approached Seaforth council over year ago with a request fcr permission to complete the study. Mr. Mun'gall said the study will outline measures to keep property damage to a minimum in the event of serious flooding, measures like building dykes and enlarging channels so water could escape more quickly He said the problem the study anticipates isn't seasonal flooding but "the worst possible flood that could happen." Mr. Mungall said the authority hopes to have the report completed by the end of the year. The resources manager outlined the study during a visit of the watershed management board to the Seaforth sewage lagoons. Members of the board toured the area Thursday to- view some of the water quality programs outlined in the Bayfield River Drainage Basin Study, published last spring. In addition to a visit to the Seaforth • lagoons, where John Penner of Harpurhey, operator of the lagoons, outlined the water treatment program, board members also visited the East Huron Poduce Lagoons in Dublin, and the Clinton Sewage Treatment Plant. -TROUT FARM John Small, watershed planner with the authority, and one of the tour guides, said board members were also going to visit Trick's Creek, downstream from the Clinton treatment plant. He said the creek, where a trout farm is operated by Bert and Elmer Trick, is reputed to have "the best water quality in the whole system." Board members were also accompanied on the tour by Bruce Balands, from the Ministry of Enviroment office in London. Members of the board on the tour included Paul Steckle of Stanley Township. Cecil Desjardins of Stephen Township, 13111 Thirlwall of Lobo Township in Middlesex County. Fred Dobbs, Sy Simmons of Exeter and Harry Klungel of Hensall. 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