The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-18, Page 841
THE HURON EXPOSITOR! DEORMI3ER 18, 1980
er a tittle bit, of self-analysis I Can confidently report
hat there are voy'foe'things in this *Md. that frighten °
111103 Can add,.•thongh, the few things that de.; shake Me. i4
,
Aettlail$ 'there are, 'two events: Which can Set these
alotnpers n14:ehattering.: ("Jitie 'which We all share; I: •
,itt$peetaS aiw ultimate demise; And it's not sctlyanch the
rea0attan that it will inevitably happen but the question of
how. AnYway, !temp* suppresaion has permitted me YO
'siric the tioug}it deeP, into the mind where it is difficult to
retrieve,. •
The seeond,fetir is the oneyou have to live with every six
tfOntlis .(or so they say). Yhe 'twice annualfear is, of
`course; the hgonizing trip to the dentist. There is'a stream
of • „psychological n thought which says an individual's
perSonality is comprised ef several different features,
among them an adult characteristic, a parent trait and a
childcomponent. If these researchers ever need further
evidence that there is, in fact, the child element, they only
have to join me on one df my visits to'the tooth repairman.
1 have to give Myself credit at least for recegnizing.this
weakness and admitting it openly (although I'm sure the
driller could tell by the beads of sweet on my forehead and
the knuckles whitened -from frantically holding on to the
arms of the dentist's chair).
MINT SHIFTS
It was only sheer, endless pain that drove me to visit'
most recently. It was 11 years ago that the Royal Canadian
Mint shifted its premises from Ottawa to the interior of my
head. A sinful 14 cavities,. at the time, which had to be
repaired in three painful steps. Having survived that
agonizing experience, I promised myself I wduld never
violate the dental creed again - brush regularly, and visit
your dentist every six months. It worked, and for nine
by sHerb Shoveller .
years I Was the prid,e of the Canadian Dental Association.
Thenfpr some reasnril lost tbe faith two years ago. It
:may have been overconfidence induced by dental praise -•
vvho can tell these things but I hegan to feel this mouth
had 'bee'ome omnipotent. That wasn't the. case, and sure
enough the pain made a return krisit and I was on my way
fornnother engagement with fear.
"I'm' telling you right now, doctor, that Pm as big a
chicken as you'll ever get in 'here," I admitted, proud,
though, that I was willing to bare my soul, •
"On c'mon now, you've been through this before," was
the, reply.
''lao many times."
"It won4t hurt hardly at all," was thesnext attempt at
reassitrance..__ - --
"Somehow I think I've heard that before."
Al! that Was before I'd even sat in the chair of death. I
didn't even handle the x-rays with an adult -like calm. The
film, neatly tuckedbetween upper and lower sets on either
,side of the mduth, is only in place for, in total, about ten
seconds. But that was long enough for me to start,gagging
like a skid row bum.
DENTIST'S DEMEANOR
You have to admire the calm demeanor of dentists. If I
had been a spectator at my own gagging episode I am
certain I would have been thorou ghly digusted (not that
there were any visual displays, but the .sound in itself can
stimulate a good imagination). This fellow was 'cdoi.' In
aroaratn*ar
fact, he seemed to understand and offered:a gyitnpatheti
conunent. I appreciate and respect him for that, I know
conldn't spend eight hours a day, with my weak stomach,
listening and, watching that, .
"You only have three cavities,"'he said after studying
the pictures and poking around in my mouth . "You have
a pretty gged set of teeth_there, actually." That floored
Me. Here! ani in incredible pain and he says I have good
teeth.. Evidently the molar didn't get the message.
turned• ,out the fillings needed are in awkward
positions and need to be repaired on separate visits. The
fit -St was that day , and it was to refill a filling gone bad.
"Woh't take much drilling," he explained, "Just a little
to get the old hole smoothed off. Really don't need to
freeze it."
"Freeze it!",.I prefer that needle to the bit!
'You'll hardly notic it, I promise.:'
"Eve' less too, if you freeze it."
'Well .
''Freeze-it-Get-me-good-andstoned,-get
me head to toe. Knock me across the back of the neck with
a crowbar. As long as I don't know what is happening."
There I was, the child elment. of my perSenality in full
control, and the dentist, an intelligent man, I think
realized the worthwhile theory you don't argtie with a
child.
I got the needle and went tinder the drill, and it turns out
he was absolutely right. It didn't hurt . , . much. r
But I'm still not convinced. Tomorrow part tivo of the
three 'part visit with the Dentist series takes place,, and
the mere thought of it sets the heart to pumping and the
palms to sweating.
Once a chicken). .
Gauges to monitor potential flooding
The Ausable-Bayfield
Conservation Authority ap-
proved a motion at their
general meeting Friday to
install a revised flood warn-
ing system, costing 556,700,
over a fwe-vear period on
streams in the area subject 'to
flooding. ,
One of the gauges to moni-
tor potential flood conditions
will be installed on Silver
Creek, upstream from Sea -
forth. Other gauges, which
can provide hourly readings,
will be installed on Mud .? The new gau. ges, will be
Creek, upstream from Port monitored by. a central com-
Franks; at Varna, to prdvide
a six to eight hour warning to
Bayfield residents in the
event of a flood and at
Parkhill to provide advance
warning for Grand Bend.
Bill Mungall, authority
resources manager. said
while the authority -now has a
flood warning program in.
effect. advances in technolo-
gy have made the system
obsolete
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SATURDAY;'DEC. 20
8:00 P.M. to 8:00 A.M.
Grades 7 and Up
Admission $5.00 Skate Rental $1.00
No person 16 years or age or under will be
allowed to leave between the hours of
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by a parent
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EVERY EVENING 8 - 10 :30 P.M.
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simmuiris
TUES. DEC. 30
MAX.WEBSTER
-wit tt special' guest
B.B. GABOR
in concert
MORRIS
TOWNSHIP
125th Birthday
QUEEN CONTEST
RULES:
1 Min 16 -yrs by Jan 1st. 1981
2. Max 19 yrs as of Jan 1st. 1981
3 Singie
4. Morris resident
5. Registration $2.00
6 Sponsors required
BEARD GROWING CONTEST
RULES:
• Open to anyone
• $2.00 registration
• Beards started before Jan. ist may
register
• Trophies given
,4! Registration for both contests from Jan.
1st to Jan. 10th,, 1981.- •
TO REGISTER CONTACT:
Lloyd Michle
Don Nolan -
Diane English
Doug Machon
887-6472
887-6402
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puter teminal at the author-
ity's head office in Exeter.
Mr. Mungall said 515.000
has ,9een included in this
year s budget to start instal-
lation of the new gauges. The
first two will be insta,lled at
Port Franks and the Klondike
area south of Grand Bend.
The resources manager
said hopefully municipalities
within the authority will draw
up pre -arranged emergency
plans in case of flood danger
warnings. He said the only
municipality which now has a
contingency plan on paper is
Bosonquet Township, in
Lambton County.
John Sehlyindt. of the au-
thority staff. introduced
members to the new Erosion
Control Assistance Program,
available to anyone owning
land in the Ausable-Bayfield
watersheds.
The program is designed
to help landowners deal with
minor erosion -problems. and
to help them preserve soil
and reduce watercourse sed-
imentation.
Mr. Schwindt said the
authority will help landown-
ers draw up designs for
projects involving stream -
bank improvement. sheet,
rill and •gully erosion. and
improper tile outtets. The
Authority will also provide
financial assistance to aid an
the completion of apprmed
projects. •
Mr. Schwindt asked au -
I thorny members to alert
landowners to the program.
He said authority staff would
like to find some appropriate
sites to start working on.
excluding municipal drains
or lakefront erosion.
The authority will pay 50
per cent of the costs incurred
during completion of the
erosion.control project. up to
a maximum of 51.000. When
the project is completed. the
authority will erect a MOS to
identify the project.
In other business. the au-
thority members approved a
motion to adopt the Bayfield
Erosion Control and Slope
Stabilization Study as a 1981
project The Goderich road.
which parallels the south
bank of the Bay -field River.
was sliding into the river
and the authority will sp'end
55.000 for sheet piling to
prevent further erosion.
Walton
Thu nit of
the t ( hetd their Christ -
n -as Treeing at the home of
'virs G MC'siu hal and every-
.1.ric moved a noon meal put
the loosing side of the
copper tontesi
Mrs G McNichol opened
the meeting
The Meditation "Hope..
cz as given to Mrs
`feNichol
1 The offering v. as taken ie.
Mrs. Mr, M. Flackwell
Mrs. 6. Love Sr gave the
topic a Christmas theme
"Times, for Memories. • •
Mrs. 6. Love -Jr. read a
Christmas reading. '
Mrs. M. Dennis. president
presided for business. Mrs
L Godkin g„sve a report on
nominations.
Authority members also
approved a motion to pro-
ceed with the next phase of
the Grand Bend Erosioh
Control Project. The 54,000
program will implement ero-
sion controls along the river
from the Brazier property
through to the Green Forest
Motel.
The authority also voted to
make improvements both to
the authority's headquarters
on Thames Road in Exeter,
and to the Parkhill workshop.
Resources manager Bill
Mungall said staff would like
the workshop area in the
administrative headquarters
to be removed completely to
another building. He asked
that the authority earmark
525,000 in the next year's
budget to start this•project.
A motion was also ap-
proved to give Stephen
Township a right-of-way of
2.8 acres on Con. 5,6 of
Stephen to build a new
bridge and approaches over
the Atisable River, near the
village of Crediton. In ex-
change for the land, the
authority will receive a smal-
ler parcel of land and S500.
• Other 1981 projects for the
conservation authority in-
clude floodline mapping of
the Ausable River in the
-Crediton area, further con-
struction on the Rock Glen
Conservation Area's inter-
pretative centre, scheduled
to open in 1982, and the start
of some demonstration pro-
jects on reforestation and
streambank improvements
near the site of the 1982
Plowing Match on t6 edge
of Luean.
Authority members also
learned that watershed plan-
ner John Small has left the
authority to work with the
London office of the Ministry
of Transport and Communi-
cations.
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