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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-07-14, Page 3'OM KEEPONG UN ER CONTROL Firemen were busy Monday morning in keeping the fire at the Hessen Haus Restaurant under Control. They hOsed the buildings next' to the restaurant to prevent the fire from spreading. (Photo by Fereira) THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 14, 1982 — A5 The joys of old age SainVhfing by sumin WM@ We all know we're getting older. But whether we're getting betier or not likely depends on the eye of the beholder as well as on our individual capacity for seff-delusion. It's a heck of a shock to read the latest Statistics Canada report and discover you're now older than the average national age...which is 29.6 years and creeping upwards. We're a nation of old fogies, folks, with fewer Canadians aged under four than aged ovet 65. And like most of us I'm on the down side of that figure. • A nice present as II approach the dawn of my 35th birthday. And yet, age has its satis- factions. Being with the majority has its satisfactions too. ,, As the national age continues to rise (and it will, it will. .babies just aren't being born like they used to be) things will be directed at and , catering to us oldies but goodies. The classics, nostal- gic rock and roll, jazz and other good music (in the opinion of those who've reached the average national age and beyond) will replace acid rock and bubble gum music as popular radio fare. There'll be more books and magazines for those of us with, um mature tastes than for those who are hardly wet behind the ears and lacking in what the rest of us call Life Experience. Cars will become easier to get in and out of, clothes will flow instead of form fit, restaurants will specialize in salads with a glass of wine instead of chips and gravy with pop. For the marketing people are never ever slow to notice a trend (the exception that proves the rule is Detroit's reluctance to stop turning out gas guzzlers that make nice lawn decorations but which no one can afford to drive... even they though have learned) and Canada's trend is that a lot of us are getting old, fast. Of course that fact is not EXCHANGE STUDENTS—Twin sisters from Three Rivers Quebec, have spent two weeks in Dublin and Mitchell through a school exchange program. Isobelle and Natalie LeBlanc arrived in the area on June 29 and returned home July 13 with their exchange partners. Above, hosts Lori Lynn Stapleton, from Dublin, and Nicole Uniac, from Mitchell with their guests. (Photo by Fereira) INSIDE IS A MESS — The Hessen Haus Restaurant was completely destroyed by Monday's fire. The fire chief and the fire marshall went through the.rubble trying to find some clues as to the cause of the fire. (Photo by Fereira) Ifcm gi@ MAW Join in with the Seaforth Sponsor Committee and wel. conic the ,new group of Katimavik Nunteers at a potluck pichir and swim at Lion's Park. Thursday. July IS, 4:30 6 p.m. If you can't join the picnic. drop in to say hello Katiniavik will begin working for \ ou on July 26. Sugar n spice Continued from page 2 'house that burns about 51.300 in oil. not to mention taxes and stuff." "Why don't ae just hunch. the way families used to do back in the depression. with everyone kicking in what he can, and nobody going on the dole or missing a meal?" Why couldn't we hunch at our place. I pursued. Our son could mow the lawn and shovel the walk, which cost me about 5300 a year. My daughter could get a job as a oaitress. steal food from the kitchen. and she'd have no outlay for babysitters. We could all grow beards. cxcept the oonien. and sase on raYor blades and shaY ing cream. We could dig up the backyard and put New,,,Katimavik crew arrives . Seaforth.... population increased by 12 today w ith the arrival of young people frotri across Canada who are beginning a nine•rnonth stint w ith the federal goy ern - mem -Katimavik program. The youth y olunteers are being welcomed at a potluck picnic and swim at Lions' Park Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The welcome.will he,preeeded a community tour and visits to the half dozen work -sites in Seaforth where they w ill donate approximately h.000 hours ot y 0111111eCT labour between now and next I he young people. between 1- and 21, represent Canada front coast to coast. They arc: Kim.Biggar. Toronto: Caroll Blurt-cr. Mont real Joe Lindner. Prince George B.C.; Sonia Bouchard. .Aruida. Jocelyn,. Dufour, Repentigny Varlene Guido. Chicoutimi. P.O.: David Holyoke. Rio h'. en. 001.: John Kearney. Belleyille: Ed 1 eh. mann. Prince George: Sheila Murphy iiironto: Rob Parlee. Victoria: and Cary Hideout. Bristol. N.B. One of the ntain ohjecti‘ es of the 1,482 Katinlayik program is to establish dos,' community contact and become in 1olumccr service oherever a need is made k two n. he pre, ions Riot in, as 11, grvip assisted thc LonimunitY centre protect 6'. selling tickets for thy commit nit cur Hie rico group hopes to find some o a 5 to help oil!, this and other oorthy causes. too, ..• !heir first workday . after a toosseck orientation session, o ill he .Jul> 21,. lhe, 0 111 begin oork prowcts for the Dion of Scolort)i. the k on Fgoiond Foundation and scotorif, 1V1lton Public Schools. Vandalism increases 0711,1.'niccl to, increased 't MI.(1:111%111 111 h t he 111(111... vommittee has asked the local for'.,. • to -increase their surscillan).e " Police committee chairman Iro in Johnston sold ;it eolith. il lsIonda, night that he thinks k of fob opportunities oml resulting Irustration inas ha‘e something to do oith rise ill 110 andalisrn incidents in loon. Po no tables and a 'flag ha,e been ilystrosed at Victoria Porkhe said. Signs Around too n hose been delaced and a parking nict,•r as pulled out of the sides'. alk. LION'S PARK — Joan Sills serves a customer at the Lion's Park cdncession booth. There have been two break-ins it the booth within the last month, with morelhan 5250 in cash and supplies raken. a (Photo by Fereira) es TO flI9flTSCflOO Despite lack of funding from the provincial minisin of education. it looks like Seaforth will hose a program of night school classes beginning this I thanks lo action by the re . - committee and co-operation [from SDHS. Toon council heared Monday hight that the ree committee plans to offer the same classes as the Huron Board of Education ran at the local high school -last winter. on a break even basis. • SDFIS o ill be asked to provide facilities for free. The ree committee hopes enough people will register to let the fees stay at lato year in a garden. We could buy a huge treezer, hi•jack a calf and a pig, shoot a deer and live on the fatta the lan'. The grandboys could grow up with a real sense of family: the great•grandad, grandad. uncle, grannie, mother. instead of the nomad life they lead now. . The women could abjure cosmetics and save n mint. She. my wife. a great seamstress. could "run up" clothes for everybody. We could put in wood Stoves. cut down all the maples and oaks on the property and laugh. at the oil companies and that latest leech, Consumers' Gas. Wc could build a still and save a thousand a car. The possibilities arc endless. But she still sat shaking her head the way you do w hen listening to someone senile. Then I played my trump. "And wed save about 51.500 a year on long-distance phone calls... Her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. I think hunching is going to so ecp the countts. Hoo about you? confined to our country. The United Nations has recogniz- ed the trend and is hosting a conference on aging in Vienna this month. As an Older -than -average Canadian in this year of the senior, person lobbied our publish- er,' suggesting I be named this newspaper's delegate to same. Without success. Still, just to show readers, and the publisher, that I'm sincerely interested in the subject, not just in a trip to Vienna, I've got some adiltnce informa- tidn on the sort of stuff this conference on aging is going to dik-uss. As more people than even before in the world live into their 60s, UN experts have come up with just a few of the secrets of a happy old age. They are, according to the conference on aging's head honcho, a good breakfast, sex and moderate drinking. Without exactly listing his scientific sources, the gen- tleman, who's called William Kerrigan. says a good break- fast helps your metabolism; ., one should not crease sexual activity at any stage in life and doctors feel alcohol in moderationis better than no alcohol at all. Mr. Kerrigan is on extremely firm ground. Who's going to look for scientific sources for advice that's calculated to make so many people happy? Although the clipping I have doesn't mention his age, Mr. Kerrigan is obviously one of the majority. over that average Canada 29.6 years. If not he should be made an honourary senior person as he obviously has the interests of the rest of us close to heart. There will be twice as many grandparents as babies worldwide in 40 years' time, the - UN 'expert—says, and among conference topics will be what to do with us all. ' 'They can't simply be put out to pasture or dumped in rocking chairs ---that's another way of sentencing them to death." go along with that. and so I bet will all of you.who are on the down side of 29.6. A topic that is not mentioned as being on the conference agenda is just who will be working to keep . up the payments on the pensions us majority folks expect in our rapidly approaching old age. But who, least of all us over 29.6-ers. is worried about that? We're too busy following doctors' orders. as regards to breakfastbooze and that other stuff. level. from 510 te 525. While new programs and instructors v. ill be soughtrec director Bryan Peter will contact all of last year's instructors about repeating their courses, Courses offered will include: furniture refinishing (Harvey Beuermana adult vol- leyball (Terri Lynn Dale). .stained glass (Wolfgang Suppan). crocheting (Bessie Broome). photography (Dick Burgess), bad' minton (Terry Johnston), sewing .(Susan Wheatley). men•s basketball (Honard James). ceramics (Mary Carroll). children's basketball (Ed PcIss). ladies basketball (Deb Dawson). tennis (Kathy Laronc). May use Hensall Continued from page 1 people in its population. Reeve Paul Ncilands noted that llsborne Too nship. nhich currently uses the durbp %%anted more use of. It. ReeNe Neilands however agreed to ill, proposal to inyestigate the usc of the dump for the 600 Tuckersmith residents_ , Council passed a bylaw for the reconStru, lion of Brock and "Oxford streets at on estimated cost of 580.000. Councillor Cecil Pepper quipped that th, r, o ;isn't much point in opposing the b‘lo,i , %111Ce thc oork has already tiseen don, Clerk Betts Oke said the bylaw should ha‘i. heel1 passed last month but that .Y5 011. progressed more quickly than expected (Ilin dint Pepper added that the ,ork dom. was -too good.' a job. lho curb and gutter puts the rest of the tow n to shame thc councillor said, adding .11101 noo people will want sin -41\3r work done throughout the village. Council passed a motion to rebuild sidewalks along the south side of Richmond Street. Routh. Works superintendent Don Towton noted .side'.s all( work had been budgetted and cost, have already been quoted. About I ,320 feet of sidewalk at a cost of\ about 58,40 per foot will be rebuilt. Towton said it was planned to lay sand on the existing sidewalk and lay thc„ nea sidewalk on top. That way there would he no problems with the. sidewalk settling and cracking. Youneil members pointed out 'feat raising the sidewalk would tend to flood some people's front yard o hen it rained. It o as left o ith the oorks superintendent to co-ordinate 1111. project. In other business: Council conducted an insurance re, leo out, Dose Reid of Frank Cowan Insurance and agent Don .loynt. Reid told chuncil that municipalities are at the incrvs of the cotil- when damages arc being awarded. He advised council that its one rnillion dollar liability on the arena o as op loo , He suggested council up the insurance lcs cl a hit ey cry year to a five million dollar Counail agreed to raise its limit to too million this year and also raised benefits for fire fighters insurance to 520.000. Council authorized the village to lend temporaryfundsup to 535.000, to the PIA.. for reconstruction of watermaims and serv• ices. The reeve noted the contractor wanted IQ. bc paid. before subsidy' was returned hy the MTC. The village agreed to take a 550 ad in a flyer being prepatcd by the Bla for a 'moonlight madness' sale. July 29. A fiensall resident was advised to seek legal advise and an agreement with his neighbour before he removes a hedge between the properties. Neilands S'aid the town was not really involved in the problem. Pie clerk agreed. noting Hensall does not have a fence bylaw. but that there May be problems tithe hedge is considered a boundary between the proper- ties. Tuckersmith councillors John Brownridge. rec director Diane Durnin and reeve Bob Bell at Seaforth council Monday night. (Photo by White) Tucker/smith asks for grant A delegation from Tuckersmith ex plained thc township's request .for help ith its Vanastra Recreation Centre protected 540.000 1982'deficit to Seaforth council Monday night. And when den. Jack McLachlan finished speaking. mayor John Sinnamon assured him Seaforth had been concerned about the wording -projected deficit' "If we were sure of it we wouldn't object, to paying our fair share.". Clerk McLachlan explained the rec centre. which had been run at a deficit before township council took over its management in I9-5, had been hreakine even until costs, especially for fuelrose sharply in 1981. • By shaving expenses to lower than las't ,year'sfund raising by centre staff and a 10 percent fec hike, the clerk said this year's deficit should he 540,000, Seaforth re- sidents make up -.28 per cent of tfie centre's users of regular. schedules programs. Recreation director Diane Durnin an cred queries from councillors Bob Dinsmore and' Irv. in Johnston about re0 centre users. "Thanks, that clears up our questions... SInnamon told the del egat ion yi Inch also included reeve. Bob Bell and councillor John Brownridge. The request 03,6 referred to coined' s finance comniittee. I oter in the meeting Seaforth cciuncil acknoo 'edged a 52.251.90 grant from Tuckersmith tow ards last year's operating deficit at the old arena The amount reflects the niirnber .of users from the tow nshtp.