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The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-04, Page 2612 Main St, Slrloe1$60, $erving ffi Commonity fl,rat 52 -ONO . , Published ot`POPORTt-i, oNTAplci every Thursday morning by, — McLeanaroa, PU0113604 Ltd. ' , . . „ . „ Andrew Y. McLean,;Fghlieher Susan'Whlheetditor Alleepio, News Editor • imnoi oinaclian Community NeWsPaPe'nAss,aolatio.n,'Pniariq,litioekli NPOls.P.PPer 14$401ailen and Audit ljUreau of Circulation ' , . Subscription rateat • ,Canada $18,a year (in advance) , outelde,q;Tado ;33. A year.(1n,ndvanne) Single Coplea - 40 cents each Second olass mall regiliratiort number 06e6 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO; DECEMBER 4, 1980 Fouling our_ nestis Wheeew! Was that your reaction, a big sigh of relief, on hearing that Huron County was a very close second when the government of Ontario chose a site for a $60 million industrial waste disposal arid treatment plant 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 ail 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 90.. .you've got six weeks left. 40, DECEMBER 3;1884 John pQrseY has c&oineticedlh'-ctectieh of 4 new brick laittoicsnlith shop on .the site occupied by that which Was burned. Mr. Greaves has the contract for the brickwork On Monday last, rather a novel sight was witnessed on the northern road. There was $04d procession of teams ladenwith wood extending from the first concession line in, MeicliloP to the ,Huron Road • being a mile and quarter in length, This procession, counting weed, berses, vehicles, and, men MtIstbeve represented a very considerable sum Of money The Tuckersmith Council Met on Monday the 29th. All the Members present, It Was Moved by Mr. Hannah, seconded by. Mr. Mundell that fire Reeve-arid—Clerk ,be instructed to sign a petition on behalf Of this Council to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, to so amend the Municipal Act as to take away the powers of cities, towels and incorporated-willages to tax-ferm-and-garden produce in Ontario but that the Power of market regulation be retained by them. DECEMBER 1,1905 George Hearne of Winthrop has pur- chased Dr. Gouinlock's fifty acre lot on the 8th concession of McKillop Which 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 pur- 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 rtlanY Yeats the only outlet at this point of the Huron road, 's consisted of a 12 inch tile placed three feet g above the water level, k The cost of this gigantic tunnel under the Huron road is expected to rech the enormous sum of pipe Or ten dollars. . On Thursday of last week at the noon hour liensalr was startled by the alarm of fire. It was discovered that the bakery building of Mr. George ingram.at the rear of his shO"P bad caught-hre and was burning quite fiercely. , The debate held in the Methodist Church in Herisall on Friday evening last under the auspices of the W.C.T,U. was largely attended and was instructive and entertain- ing. The subject was: Resolved that Prohibi- tion is the best mean—ds advancingtemperance. Mr. D. Cantelon of Hensall, produce merchant, purchased a large quantity of turkeys last week for shipment. ' • DECEMBER 5,1930 The most disastrous tire 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 etore 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 To the editor: The other band needs members For the past 2 weeks. I have read three articles all about our S.D.H.S.Trumpet Band, how famous they are, 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? Socwherc? They arc fellows from Seaforth and area, who are trying really hard for the past six year. to stay together and provide some good music, for parades and cancerts. 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 new members in that band each year. Grades 12 and 13 leave each year, and now students in grade 9 coming in September and fill the empty places. This is what's happening in all High School Bands all over the country. As tong 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 musieal talent. There's also room for flag "hearers. I often wonder for the past 20 years where all the girls with musical 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 old lady gets home and I 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 rnatter 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. incomparable prose essay Item. After looking forward to my old lady getting home from two weeks in the north country. after laying on arrangements for her to be picked up at the airport and drepped at our doer. after making the house loot as thought I'd hired an expert housekeeper. 1 be it. I was listening to a partitularly neisy TV prewar:Imre. I wandered downstairs about the time she was to arrive. just in tirr,e to fied her epening the cellar door with an expression the Gorgon would have envied She'd gat in a bit early. rang the doorbell when she four.d the door locked No response. She checked the garage. Yes. the car was there; he wasn't aff sorr,ewhere carensing, unless an face. Lights in the house all on. More doorbell ringing. No answer. Finally she fotced. spen cite of the cellar windows and crawled in, dragging her best white suitcase behind her, across the woodpile beneath the window. rd -kept the doer locked. because rd become used to doing so while she was away. Hadn't heard the bell. Five minutes after she got frorne, 1 was wishing she'd go away tor another two weeks. Dav after she get home. I got the ftu. which she took as a personal affront. Lay around groaning and hawking arid 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. Sante of us are indispensable. Like me. 1 teak two days in bed. and retutned to work to find chaos. Three members of my English staff off sick, one of thern fat good, eighteen pieces of admini- strivia to sort out, new timetables to be arranged, and, feeling like a wet rag that has Sugar and sptce By Bill Smiley jalSt b-Ctft wrung nut. 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 no manual or technical et organieatiorial skills. I'm think- ing seriously of joining my son when he goes to Paraguay. Surely 1 could be of some use down there. 1 make a fine pot sf tea. and could teach English as a Second Langaage. and I an an expert of dandling babies Cr2 my knee. Item. Budget. Allan McEachin should be renamed Allan Mach iaveiii. MacKenzie King is chording in his grave as he watches one of his disciples go through the old Liberal routine: you can foci most of the people most of the time; use the carrot as well as the stick; never let your left hand know wniat your right hand is doing; learn to speak out of both corners of' your mouth at the sarne time; and energy taxes if necessary but not necessarily energy taxes. If the average household ran its budget as does the federal government, we'd all be on welfare. And that's just about where Canada stands now. On welfare. Ho,,.owing from one finance company. Holding out its hands to the poor, with gall in one palm. and vinegar in the other. Item. 111 never write another ode to October. This has been the rottenest (rotten, rottener, rottenest?) in many a year. Where are the Octobers of yesteryear, with their magnificant colouts. their clear Moe skies and mellow sunshine, their opportunity to hanl out the boat or get in a last few rounds of golf? It rains. It sleets. It snows. And it's mightly -told, in our parts. The splash of brilliant colour has been turned a sort of dure 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 wearing my safety harness. Twrieyt-eight bucks. Sink plugged. Fifty-two bucks. The Feds are after me for income tax errors. Somebody stole my wallet. Two hundred. Storm windows corning 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 bills going up. Com on sole of right foot killing me. Telephone bills exorbitant. Inflation far ahead of salary increase. Well, I don't have to fill in any more details. Were all in the same leaky boat. However, the only way to do it is a day at a time. Tomorrow. 111 be a day nearer the grave. but 111 have done tremendous things: shaving my face. brushing my teeth, going to work, marking some essays, sating out a squabble among the Grade 10's. The Possibilitiee are limitless. on& Mr. Lorne Dale and family and so 40447 al the fire spread that' if WO with difficulty that they were able to escape to the street. All their PerSOnol, effects and clothing were destroyed. Mr. Dale and family and Miss Dorothy Robinson, who lived with them occupied the, corner apartments over the :Willis storey atid" being cut ' off, from both, stariWays Were forced to Make their escape Over the balconYi which ran along part of the building on, Market Street, and Miss' Robinson . in jumping to the street below had her atilde fractured. The rains and thawing of-- the snow brought rejoicing to many a farrner in Staffa. Some were clrivh& their stock for a mile or more to water. If cold weather coniinuedi _wenticl_ have been &Aga .hardehip....tp 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 ayery keen fight for both Reeve and Councillors and a large vote polled. The council for the coming year will be composed of the following: Reeve, J. M. Eckert; • Councillors, R.N. Dorrance, J. 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 Monday night. L.P. Plumsteel, principal of Seaforth District High School has been notified by National: Trust, TorOnte that. $1*000 ' is available this year from the Scott Memorial _SPItOlarshipuFit,nd towards the purchase of books.,for use in the school's library. ,Under the terms .of the will of'the' late ' Bruce., Scott; a formerSeaforth reseident, ' , five top-ranking graduating students Of the , Seaforth schoolannually become recipients of' scholarships valued at $500 each Siiblect to , the condition that one ol the nve graduating,students must attend University College, Toronto. ..Police village trustees'elected by acclama- tion in Dublin were Gerald Holland, Charles Friend and 'Joseph 1,001/Y, • Heavy Snow, on Tuesday night driven by stong winds reduced visibility to a minimum and brought traffic to a Wilt on many district , sideroads, Unusual,for November, the storm by late Tuesday had reached winter -like proportions While taatt.K highways were. ttatfic... continued to move despite ground drifts that made driving hazardous. - The storm 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 world Keep it upl • 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 inits9etion, express- ing their fears abouri4"overloading," terrorizing the. neighbourhood," "die: types of occupants," and protecting their neighbourhood "as a homeowner." - (This last remark translates roughly as a fear of dropping property value.) 1 guess the milk of human kindness doesn't exactly flow through the friendly twin 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 likely to 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 community, instead of wasting away in an institution. Are you worried about gangs of marauding grand- mothers? And what about the mentally handi- capped? Do we encourage retarded adults to become self-sufficient, to enjoy a social environment akin to that of a family or should we hide them away, along with our feelings of ernharrassment? The mentally disturbed • There's a pneblern - killers, rapists, child molesters. right? 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 what 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 tong) or would you rather see him learn what it means to be a useful functioning part of our society? These group homes have a curfew- 10 p.m. week -nights, midnight Saturdays. If you'rc worried about pun ks "terrorizing 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 heiter skelter, cars and store -fronts are viciously vandalized. Are these the drug -crazed 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 really need help. "Seaforth • The Friendly Town?" Prove itl Robert Tetu. A movement based on hate is being formed out west Ontarians, scorched by the fires of separatism from the east for nearly twe decades can feel the heat corning 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 westerner's 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 as far as western settlement itself. Some of it is real, some of it exaggerated. In Clearing 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 from an eastern machinery company had visited the neighbourhood and offered a special price on 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 an 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 ever 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 our 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 LEITER if sayneone said that to a farmer's fate, the farmer would be tempted to pop him one. Rut thousands of miles separated the frustrated western farmers from the sneer- ing letter writer. in their isolation the westerners could do nothing but commiser- ate among themselves and with no outlet for frustrations the ill feeling can only grow. After a century of bitterness, the -Westerners can see the shoe being put on the other foot now. They are the ones who control 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 establishment to shaft them agian, to hold on to power at the expense of the v,est. How much of this is real and how much imagined is hard tO know for sure. With 100 years of old grievances gathered like a -ehip 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 isn't 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 lede 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 jump 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 unrest. Their cam- paign has not been a campaign of positives but 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 propa- ganda that appeals to people with a lot of pettiness in them. The discourse goes on about Frenh on the cornflakes box, about how the me Minister doesn't want a bilingual country but a French one. They bring up the lack ol a war record by the Prime Minister. They bring up everything that appeals to the baseness of the audience. There are 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 terrorize 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 Klu Klux Klan today here in Canada. They are the petty minds who complain to store keepers in our own towns around here if the French side of a sap 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 in French. They are the people who gruble 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 of the Anglais. But hate is no way t� 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 space occupied by the erroneous Item, together with reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement will be Paw for at the applicable rale. While every effort will be made to ensure they ere handled with care, the Publishers cannot be responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. .1- -