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The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-04, Page 2slrice 1860, $ervIno ttlo Community firs( • 527,0240 Publtstmciai SEAFORTH, ONTARIO'eVefY Thursday Morilin0 by McLean Brea, Puhllshers Ltd; ',"•kndreattY; MeLeao, Publiaher ' SU,aati,VVIiite,, editor AIObbrN WSEdttor Member Collodion community illoWsparier Association, Ontario Woe* NowspOp0;eissociotion and dvociit Bureau of Circulation. • • SubSartation rates: •. :Canada $16.4 year (in adVane0). • entattla ganitifa $33., a,YeAr ‘advance) Slagle Gopleaa 40 cents each . „ Sod:it'd oloso mall.rogiotivtion number 0696 , SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 4, 1980 Fouling _our nests ea • •Wheeew! Was that your reaction, a big sigh of relief, on hearing that Huron —Cotinty was every cldse second when the dbvernment of Ontario chose a site for a $60 million industrial waste disposal and treatment plarit last week? Quickly and without reflection We admit it was ours. A plant 'that'll take up 740 acres of their valuable land, not ours. The -nuisance, the dislocation and perhaps the smell and the danger, will face them, those people down near -Lake Erie, not us, the reasoning went. But wait a minute. Whether we live in South Cayuga and have to worry about a multi-million dollar "dump" perching in our backyard, or in a city that's so built up that there'll never be room for waste disposal, wherever we live in Ontario, the problem belongs to all of us. Simply stated, why should one area of the province, whether Huron's fertile farm lands or Northern Ontario's Laurentian Shield, be anyone else's dump? We're concerned too about environment minister Harry Parrot's decision not to hold environmental impact hearings on its own project. Obviously, if the province's own legislation providing for environmentat hearings would result in the waste disposal site being turned down, we shouldn't have these sites. Anywhere. We can sympathize with the minister's goal of stopping random landfill dumping of untreated liquid waste. (It's estimated that 10 to 20 per cent of the 300 or so million litres of liquid waste Ontario industry produces every year is hazardous.) But he should be looking deeper. No society should be allowed to continually produce waste that can't be disposed of safely. Idealistic, yes but Impossible, • no. Not fouling your nest is based on sound physical, economic and historical principles. It's like your mother always said: "Clean up after yourself." Instead of building waste disposal sites, in the face of what's bound to be more and more opposition from the citizens affected, we should be working with industry to eliminate hazardous waste in the first place. It could be that all of us will have to make sacrifices—higher prices, some goods not available—as we work to stop producing dangerous garbage. • But Isn't it worth that to leave our children more than a province that's dotted by a series of dangerous waste treatment/disposal/- management sites? Attention smokers! It's the thought that counts. Last week we warned smoking and non-smoking readers alike to get ready for Weedless Wednesday, a kick -the -habit special event we said was planned by the Canadian Cancer Society for February. The next day we got a poster in the mail from Beryl Dunsmore of the Huron -Perth Lung Association in Stratford and we stand corrected: Weedless Wednesday is coming on January 21. - Take notice if you're quitting or trying to persuade someone else to do 80.. .you've got six weeks telt. PECOKBER. 311880 , John Dorsey haa.commenced the erection • of a new briek:black:mitti shop on the, site occupied by that Which was burned, Mr': Greaves has the _contract for the btick,W9kk' '• On Monday last, rather a novel sight was . witnessed NI the northern road. There was solid proCession, of teams ladeii. with wood extending front the first concession line in ' MeKallop, to the'littron Read, being a mile" • • and quarter in leagt11,. This psoceseion, , counting Weed, heaaes; vehicles, and men , rnust'Ilve'rePresentea ,a- Very considerable sum ofironev:, • TIie TuckerSinith COnneti inerbil, Monday the 29th. All the members' p,reaeot,,. It Was, moved by Mr. Hannah,, seccinded. by Mr: Mundell that ,fire Reeve and Clerk be instructed to sign a petition on behalf of this Council to the Legislative ASseinhly of Ontario, to so amend the Municipal Act as to take away the powers of cities, townsand incorporated_willagesialifirnilna ja—raiir produce in Ontario but that the power of market regulation beretainedby them. DECEMBER 1, 1905 George Hearne of Winthrop ,has pur- chased Dr. Gouinlock's fifty acre ot on the 8th concession Of McKilloptwhich adjoins the farm of W.A. Ross, paying" for it $1300. There are no buildings on the place. Mr. Hearne now owns two good farms of one hundred acres each, having recently pure chased the old Grieve farm from Mr. George Stewart. M. Jordan, caretaker of the St. Columban cemetery, had been awarded the contract of tunneling St. Columban's principal thor- oughfare, Michael's tender was the lowest, and the„ work of drilling, hoisting and removing racks and hard pan is now proceeding at a rapid rate. Reeve Manly and coucnillors NOrris and Jordan inspected the sub way on Monday last. For ma/1Y raFa the onlY outlet at this :point of the Huron Natio' Consisted of 4'12 inch tile placed three feet above the waterslevel. The cept. of this gigantic tunnel under the liurdn toad is expected to rich the enenneus shin of nine or ten dollars. - On Thursday of -last week at the noon -hour, Ifensairwas, atartled by the -itiartn of fire. It was discovered thatthe -bakery building of Mr, George Ingrani•at the rear of his shOp'baa canglittre and was burning quite' fiercely. , The debate held in the Methodist Church in Henson on Friday evening last uRder the auspices of the W,C.T.U. was attended and was instructiacind' entertain- , jpgjhre_subject,wils,:.401-ved that Prohibi- tion -1s- the hest theaas-sialf—siadyaneing-- temperaneeeV. I Mr. .13,--CaratIon or-flen produce merchant, purchased a large quantity of turkeys last week for shipthent. DECEMBER 5,1930 The most disastrous fire , that has visited Seaforth in many years completely destroyed the Boderick Block on the west side of main Street, opposite the Commercial Hotel, early Thursday morning. The fire was first discovered about 3:30 a.m. but had gained such headway before an alarm was turned in that the firmen were powerless to save the buildings. The blaze apparently originated in the rear of the Israel and Charters store as the roof of it was down and the whole store ablaze _when the alarm was turned in. The upstairs apartments were occupied by Mr. Matthews and family, Miss M. McLeod and Mr.. Lorne Dale. and fandly aaat ,s9 rapidly did The fire "sprela *it was Wrth, difficulty that they were.able to escape to the , street, All their personal effects and clothing were deatt9Yed, , ' * Mr, Dale and family and Miss Dorothy Robinson. who lived with them occupied the corner apartirients over ffie WM storey filid", beiog cot off foto both 's4riutilm, were forced to riatike their escape over the, balcony Which •ran along part of the building on 'Market Street, and Miss. Robinson in jumping to the 'street below had her ankle fractured. The rains ana, thawing' Of lie` snow ,brought rejoicing to many a farmer Staffa; more ee rwoewrearderri.vipf cold deiwr esitothcekrfocorn'atilakeor nu.e4 it _ayouldhave been a real hardship to a great number of people. ' Monday, election day, was a real winter day in McKillop. There was a blizzard blowing and the roads Were very .heavy. • Notwithstanding this, however, there was every keen fight for bath Reeve and Councillors ,and a large vote polled. The ceuneil for tha Coining Year will be composed To -the editor: The other band neeas-inembers For the past 2 weeks, I have read three artictee all about our S.D.H.S.Trumpet Band, how famOus they area here and elsewhere. They are making a good name for Seaforth; and right they are; good for Seaforthl But nevertheless, it makes me jealous. You know why? Can we find another Paul Ellis or Mrs. Ellis or Patricia Rimmer, who have some- thing good as say about the Seaforth- Dashwood Band? Somehow? Soewhere? They are fellows from Seaford) and area, who are trying really hard for the past six year, to stay together and provide some good music, for parade t and =meas. Have the SDHS Trumpet Band taken the whole show? It is no problem for Mr. Kalbfleish. Director of the S.D.H.S. Band so come up with a good size band every year since they have the opportunity to put netv members in that band each year. Grades 12 and 13 leave each year. and now students in grade 9 coining in September and fill the empty places. This is what's happening in all High School Bands all over the country. As long as the highschools are provided each year with new students they have nothing to worry about, there always will be new students interested to join the band, even the ones who have no musical talent. There's also room for flag carders. I often wonder for the past 20 years where all the gide with mueleal talents who left the High School after finishing their grade, 12 and 13 went to? Can there not be found one, who wants to go on in the future to join another band. Our former mayor Mrs. Betty Cardno once said, at our Christmas party: "she was so happy." that Seaforth had a marching band again, which was in her words, a real honor to have, in such a small place like Seaforth. To say it again, where are all the good talents to provide the Seaforth Dashwood Band with new prospects? new members? new talents? Hope to hear from you soon! and I won't be jealous anymore! - John VanGeffen Sec. Treas. Seaforth Dashwood Community Band The oldlady gets home and get the flu Shotgun column coming up. Reason? I've just been through a real mother of a flu attack, and the little bit of brain matter still alive. inside a body that feels as though the Gestapo had been having a go at it, is not capable of the usual sustained. melodious. incerriparable prose es.eay. Item. After looking forward to my old lady getting home from two weeks in the north country, after laying on artangernetts for her to be picked up at the airport and dropped at our door. after making the house look as thaught t'd hired an expert housekeeper, 1 blew it. I was listening to a particularly noisy TV programme. 1 wandered downstairs about the time she was to arrive. just in time to find her opening the cellar door with an expression the Gorgen would have envied. She'd got in a bit early. rung the doorbell when she found the door locked. No response. She checked the garage. Yes. the car was there; he wasn't off somewhere cardirsing, unless on foot. Lights in the house all on. More doorbell ringing. No answer. Finally she forced open one of the cellar windows and ceawled in, dragging her best white suitcase biltied her, mess the woodpile beneath the window. I'd kept the- door loc.ked, because rd become used to doing so while she was away. Hadn't heard the bell. Five minutes after she got • home. 1 was wishing she'd go away tor another two weeks. Day after she got honte. I got the eu, which she took as a personal affront_ Lay around groaning and hawking and spitting and drinking plenty of fluids, until she was wishing she'd stayed away for another two weeks.. Item. Doctors and well 'meaning friends urge you to take it easy, that you are not indispensable. Well, they're completely wrong. Some of as are indispeesable. Like me. I took two days in bed, and retutned to work be find chaos. Three members of my English stiff Off sick, one of thern for good, eighteen pieces of adrnini- strivia to sort out, new timetables to be arranged, and, feeling like a wet rag that has Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley just been wrung out, eleventy-seven essays and tests to mark. and four exams to set. I'm looking at those New Career ads in the paper. Can't seem to find anything suiting a venerable gentleman with rio manual or technical or organizational skills. I'm think- ing seriously of joining my son when he goes to Paraguay. Surely I mild be of &mine use down there. 1 make a fine pot of tea, and could teach English as a Second Language. and I am an expert of dandling babies on my knee. Item. Budget. Allan McEachin should be renamed Allan Mach lavelli. MacKenzie King is chortling in his grave as he watches one of his disciples go through the old Liberal routine: KU can fool most of the people most of the time; use the carrot as well as the sleek; never let your left hand know what your right hand is &Sing; learn to speak out of both corners of your mouth at the same time; and energy taxes if necessary but not necessarily energy taxes. If the average household ran its budget es does the federal government, we'd all belin welfare. And that's just abotirwhere Can4da stands now. On welfare. Borrowing from one finance company. Holcling out its hands to the poor. with gall in one palm, and vinegar in the other. Item: never write another ode to October. This has been the rottenest (rotten. rottener. rottenest?) in rriaty a year. Where are the Octobers of yesteryear, with their magnificent colturs, their clear blue skies and mellow stonshive, their opportunity to haul -out the boat or get in a last few rounds of golf? It rains. It sleets. It snows. And it's !nightly cold, in our parts. The splash of brilliant colour has been turned a sort of dun, and the wind and rain have stripped the foliage before it had a chance to show its fancy undergarments. Item. Somebody is after me. Lost a filling. Twenty-one bucks. Caught not vrearing my safety harneas. Twneyt-eight bucks. Sink plugged. Fifty-two bucks. The Feds are after me for income tax errors. Somebody stole my wallet. Two hutdred. Stone windows coining up. Over a thousand. and at the rate we're going. it'll be April before they're on. Brickwork needs about three hundred. Whole house needs painting. inside and out. About two thousand. Oil and gas bMs going up. Corn on sole of right foot killing me. Telephone bills exorbitant. Inflation far ahead of salary increase. Well, I don't hlve to fill in any more details. We're all in the same leaky boat. However, the only way to do it is a day at a time. Tomorrow, be a day nearer the grave. but 1'11 have done tremendous things: shaving my face. brushing my teeth. going to 'work, marking some essays, sorting out a squabble among the Grade 10's. The possibilities' are limitless. of the - following: Reeve. J.M. Eckert; Councillors, R.N. Derrance....1. Campbell, Thomas McKay and Joseph O'Rourke. DECEMBER 2,1955 Seaforth is the centre of the heaviest poultry producing area in Canada, Merlin H. Mode. district inspector of Canada Market- ing service of the Department of Agricul- ture, told' a meeting of the Seaforth Lions Club Mondey night. L.P. • Plumsteel, principal of Seaferth District High School has been notified by National Tt'(10, TorogtO SLOW is available this, year from tho:,$eott Memorial Scholarship **aids, the purchase of pp(*s• for nee; itathe school's library. Under the terms of the will Of the late evr formeroaforth school nr44dat „ti41 annually students000ece;of the of spients cholarships ,Y4146:1,at eaeh:•litible4 to flit,:"C0114A1101.' .Wat'7Thite • slk graduating students Milet.attenia .11111YersitY College, Toronto. Po!ice village tion otrtlip'!teeere4'leole4ctge;t11 'ah4Y4,t,t,echi4orre45:-.,:, :Frion.4.•:14,J0epft • • H avy,snow Tuesday nigh, driven by stong windaletificed'yisibility to a•mininniM , and brought traffic inany district idUearc)utdiisil.k by late Tuesdayhadreacliedwilater-fikeproportions,.7 While Main. highways vleaLe, heavy. :traffic' continuedTcTmove despite ground dats. that made driving Murat's. Thestorm is believed to have been the indirect cause of an accident early Tuesday morning that •resulted in serious back injuries to Gordon Muir, Seaforth Hurons coach. To the editor: Huron blood will tell That was indeed a great honor for the Seaforth High School Girls' Trumpet Band to be seen on TV from coast to coast. But then, as the Expositor used to remark, "Huron blood will tell." Great workl Keep it up! ,Sincerely, Harry Hinchley • The friendly town shouldn't reject group homes To the editor: It was with some concern that I read your recent report on the housing needs of Seaforth. At the mere mention of group homes. several people sprang into action, express- ing their fears about "overloading." terrorizing the neighbourhood," "the. types of occuparits," and protecting their neighbourhood "as a homeowner." (This last remark translates roughly as a fear of dropping property b'alue.) 1 guess the milk of human kindness doesn't exactly flow through the friendly town of Seaforth. although Jerry Hether- ington deserves credit for his more sympathetic attitude. Let's examine the "threat" to our community by group homes. There arc homes set up in order that the physically handicapped ' can achieve a sense of self-worth and cooperation in looking after themselves. Where's the threat? The blind and the crippled aren't likebrto steal a car. Group homes are set up on the same basics for senior citizens. Old folks looking after themselves - lending a helping hand and contributing to the corrimunity. instead of wasting away in an institution. Are you worried about gangs a marauding grand- mothers? And what about the mentally handi- capped? Do we encourage retarded adults to become self-sufficieet, to enjoy a social environment akin to that of a family or should we hide them away, along with our feelings of embarrassment? The mentally disturbed - There's a problem - killers, rapists. child molesters. nght? Hardly. There are many people who have had severe emotional problems. and haven't been able to cope with them. In many cases the pressures of life have been too much, and a nervous breakdown ensues. These people need help to inte- grate back into society. They're intelligent, creative, sensitive and scared as hell. All the good work put into their rehabilitation could disappear in a puff of smoke with one inconsiderate comment from a ''concerned property owner" about the cuckoos in that group home. But whit about the punks? The juvenile delinquents with the black leather jackets, zip guns, and bike chains? Group homes for juvenile offenders suffer an undeserved reputation. First of all the members of the home are selected from youths whose crimes were not serious, and who show promise for successful rehabilitation. Would you rather that a 14 year old kid charged with theft be shipped off to prison and learn how to commit armed robbery, extortion and murder from a real "pro" (if he survives that long) or would you rather see him learn what it mens to be a useful functioning part of our society?, These group homes have a curfew- 10 p.m. week -nights, midnight Saturdays. If you're worried about pun ks "tenerizing the neighbourhood." take a walk down Main Street, Saturday night, any time after 1:00 a.m. You'll hear screaming tires and shouted profanities, beer bottles fly helter skelter, ears and store -fronts are viciously vandalized. Are these the drug-trazed residents of group homes? No, just the clean-cut kids of Mr. and Mrs. Seaforth "havin' a good time." Please don't fight the group home concept. It's the best thing we have to give a hand to some fellow human beings who realty need help. "Seaforth Ihe Friendly Town?'• Prove it! Robert Tette movement based on hate is being formed out west Otitatians. screched by the fires cif separatism from the east fee neatly two decades can feel the heat coming from the other side these days as a new separatist movement grows in the west. Throughout the western provinces old grievances have been fanned by new anger over actions some westerners feel are a declaration of war against them by the economic and *political powers in the wicked east, Mistrust and hatred of the east goes back Is far as western settlement itself. Some of it is real. some of it exaggerated. in Cleaving In The West, Nellie McClung recalls an incident in her family in the 1880's shortly after the family had moved to Manitoba from Grey County in Ontario. A great piece of progress had come to the farm. An agent frorn an eastern machinery company had visited the neighbourhood and offered a special price an binders if the neighbour- hood would order six: Six farmers, including Mrs. McClung's family scraped together the S340 to purchase each of the marvellous machines and looked forward to the ending of some of the backbreaking work of cutting the grain by hand. The binders arrived and so did trouble. On the third round of the field the knotter broke and from then on it was one part after another breaking, men always on the run to Brandon for parts, costs increasing. One part broken was the wooden tongue of the binder which had an old crack in it that had been sanded down and painted over by the Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston company. Ali the neighbours had the same problems but the 'company denied any responsibility. One of the letters read: "Every part of Ger machine is tested by experts, but no machine can do good work in the hands of a bungling operator. and unfortunately we cannot supply the brains. our business is machinery." SNEERING IZTTER If someone said that to a farrner'sface, the fanner would be tempted to pop him one. But thousands of miles separated the frustrated westere farmers film the sneer- ing letter writer. In their isolation the westerners could do nothing but cornmiter- ate among themselves and with no outlet for frustrations the ill feeling can oriIr grow. After a century of bitterness, the ivesternets can see the shoe being pat on the other foot now. They are the ones who contral the most important resourses of eastern Canada. One can hardly blame them for looking for a little revenge. Westerners see government oil policies as an attempt of the eastern establishrnent to shaft them agian, to hold on to power at the expense of the *est. How much of this is real and how nuich imagined is hardto know for sure. With 100 years f old grievances gathered like a chip on the shoulder. westerners may be overly sensitive. Their sensitivity is fanned by western politicians who have a good deal to gain by playing west agianst east. The situation Rill helped by idiotic statements from the Prime Minister such as the one that there is absolutely no chance of independence in the west. But as in so many of these movement, the western separatist movement is led, so far at least, by little people. Little in this sense doesn't refer to the little guy, the ordinary man, although many of the ordinary people are glad to jemp on the bandwagon. , The littleness is in the minds of the people who have been turning out to the meetings, and more so in the minds of the people who have been stirring up untest. Their 'cam- paign has not been a campaign of positives bet of hate. In order to get their audience riled up they often turn, not to the inequities of freight rates, the oil policy and such justifyable complaints, but to hate prop ganda that appeals to people 'with a lot of pettiness in them. The discourse goes on' . about French on the 'cornflakes box, about how the Prime Minister doesn't want a bilingual country but a French one. They bring up the lack of a war record by the Prime Minister. They bring up everything that appeals to the baseness of the audience. There etre people who are glad to hate everywhere. They were the people Hitler whipped up to hate the Jews and give him power in Germany. They are the people who were encouraged to don white headgear and terrodie the blacks in the U.S. from a century after the American Civil War gave the blacks supposed equality with whites. They are the people willing to listen to the KW Klux Klan today here in Canada. They are the petty tninds who complain to store keepers in our own towns around here if the Freh side of a soap can is left showing out on the grocery shelf or if they have to suffer the incredible hardship of listening to half their national anthem sung it French. They are the people who grulde about "Pakis" or inveigh against Boat People being brought into the country. They are the people who built the separatist movement in Quebec through hatred af the Anglais. But hate is no way to build a country. Whether they choose to be united with the rest of the country or independent, the west must stop these little people with their message of hate from running their affairs. Advertising Is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error the advertising specs occujoted by the erroneout (tem, together with reasorrabie allowance* for signature, wilt not be charged for but the belance of the* advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. 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