No preview available
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-01-25, Page 2j1Huiron • Ogior t SINCE 186''', SERVING TFH COMMUNITY FIRS' Incorporating ED BYRSKII, General Manager { The Brussels Post HEATHER McILWRAITFI, Editor Published in Seaforth, Ontario Member Canodian Community Newspaper Assoc Every Wednesday Morning Ontario Community Newspaper Association I Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union D i- Commonwealth ,InternationalPress Institute Rates Canada '20.00 a year, In odvonce Senior Citizens • '17.00 a year in advance The Expositor is brought to you Outside Canada '60.00 a year. in advance each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Nell Corbett, Terri -Lynn Single Copies - 50 cents each Delo, Dianna McGrath and Bob M6M11lan, Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, January 25, 1989 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seoforth, Ontario, NOIL 1WO Bearing the un'bear'able L; I feel as though I got run over by a fully loaded cement truck, and unwittingly sur- vived the attack. My bones, my muscles - the very fibres of my being - ache like no ache I've, ever ex- perienced. I can't even breathe without sen- ding pain to my extremities via my shoulders and my spine. And the worst thing of all is, there's no respite - no relief from my agony except time - and that seems to be moving rather slowly these days. It's that darned flu - you know the one that is thriving in this ever fluctuating, semi -- tropical, semi -arctic, so-called winter climate of Southwestern Ontario. The one that won't go south until you do, or at least not until the weather takes a decided, and permanent, change for the worse. I wonder if that's ever going to happen. No doubt I've lived through the worst part of this 'neige by flu' - the nausea, the vomiting, the chills, and the skyscraping fever that threatens to blow off the top of your head. I mean, what could be worse? - and on a weekend to boot. SWEATSOCKS by Heather Mellwraith Nothing. Nothing that is, except for the continued headache, the sore throat, the sneeze, the cough, and of course, that achey run-down feeling. All of which could amount to something worth staying home for, if stay- ing at home weren't so, well, uneventful. I mean, what exactly is a person to do while at home? Being sick, and babying yourself through that sickness, is boring. Once you've surpassed the point of intimacy with the porcelain in your washroom, and slept off the nausea and the exhaustion, there's little else to stay home for. Personally, I had cabin -fever after only one weekend indoors. Television is only en- joyable when it's a luxury, not when it's forced upon you as your only source of entertainment. And, when you've no ap- petite. raiding the rof ioerator is hardly a welcome diversion. Then again, nothing is. Returning to work is hardly the solution either, but then again if only for their own sanity, a person has to keep moving. Myself, I've barricaded myself and my 'bugs' in my office, and have found some solace in doing those tasks I would have been worrying about anyway, had I been all comfy and cozy in bed at home. Someday, maybe they'll come up with an instant remedy for the flu. And when that happens, if that happens, you can bet there'll be plenty of happy Canadians. In the meantime I guess, like everyone else, I'll just have to grin and bear it And if things get too un'bear'able - I sup- pose I could either take two aspirins, and call my doctor in the morning, or find me a proper cement truck to finish the job. HOU) D0E3 IT FEEL TO BE NAMED THE 1988 .SAN co Tlx YEAR LIKE BENZ fHEy GME YOU AN A\A/D .I 1.1-\E_N DUMP ALL OVER YoU Fewer reports 9 Reports offered to Huron County Council by four of its department heads during the'new council's first full meeting were an excellent idea. What exactly the county does can be a puzzle, not only to the seven newcomers this term, but also to the oldhands as services and departments expand. It's a good idea to bring forth comprehensive overviews, especially as a new council term begins. Elected representatives, the media and the public need to be sometimes made more aware of the finer points of conducting county business, Unfortunately a whole morning of these reports is simply too tedious, as the reaction by both council and the few media representatives attests. By the third of four reports, which naturally varied in quality, content and interest, many councillors and reporters had fled to the hallways and were smoking, telling jokes and complaining that their time was being wasted. That would not have been the case had the reports been held to a time limit and had there been fewer of:.,them,. Still, it's a good idea and one worth modifying for council's future edifica- tion - but Tess painfully, please. B.H. - Goderich Signal -Star. YOUR BUSINESS Provided by The Ontario Ministry of industry, Trade and Technology r A humorous A lot of stories, articles, press releases, etc. find their way to The Expositor office, and a select number of them are used in the paper each week. The following chronology was brought into the office on the back of a piece of paper someone had written an advertisement upon. Its origins are unknown, it was not submitted with the in- tention of it being published here, but here it is: THE DEER HUNT 1:00 a.m. - Alarm clock rings. 2:00 a.m. - Hunting partners arrive, drag you out of bed. 2:30 a.ru. - Throw everything except the kitchen sink in the pickup. 3:00 a.m. - Leave for the deep woods. 3:15 a.m. - Drive back home and pick up gun. 3:30 a.m. - Drive like crazy to get to the woods before daylight. 4:00 a.m. - Set up camp -forgot the darn tent. 4:30 a.m. - Head into the woods. 6:05 a.m. - See eight deer. 6:06 a.m. - Take aim and squeeze trigger. 6:07 a.m. - "Click." 6:08 a.m. - Load gun while watching deer go over hill. 8:00 a.m. - Head back to camp. "I've got a great idea for a new business scheme — I was wondering if you'd like to become a major shareholder." Some capital ideas One of the many challenges a start-up business faces is arranging its initial financing. The traditional sources are personal sav- ings, friends and relatives, a person using the assets of the fledgling business o secure a bank loan, professional tinvestors and, finally, asking a government.agene" for a loan guarantee. But initially, you and your personal sav- ings are the most likely source of funds. Other potential investors, whether they are your family, friends, venture capitalists or the government, usually want to test your level of commitment by seeing how much of your own money is at risk. Why should other people risk their money on your prbfect if you're not risking your own savings? While many people are fairly familiar with personal and business loans from the bank, a growing source of financing for small businesses are pools of investment capital known as venture capital funds. Some are small and informally organized pools of money administered by a retired business person. Others are huge .p�ofes- aionally administered ;pools of investment capital running into the -millions. Venture capitalists usually like to .take a big minority position ire the business, often in the 20 to 40,per cent range. They alsu like to have a seat on the board of directors, so they can monitor their investment and offer advice. Their goal is to realize superior returns by investing in a dozen or so businesses and hoping that one or two will do extremely well and make up for the in- evitable losses. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce and provincial government are involved in a matching agency" aimed at introducing small businesses to potential investors. It's called COIN, which stands for Canada Op- portunities Investment Network, and can be accessed through any of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce's 160 branches. The most sought after type of investment oppor- tunity is industrial manufacturing, followed by consumer goods and high-tech manufacturing. While COIN tends to work best for com- panies with hard assets, there is a provin- cial government program, called New Ven- tures, that is particularly appealing to ser- vice firms. This ,program provides loan guarantees to financial irfstitutions that lend money to small businesses. The maximum amount for a loan is $15,000 with a dollar - matching requirement by the entrepreneur. In &,astern, and Northern Ontario, this re- quirement,is reduced to.half of the amount of the loan. Each New Ventures ,applicant must complete a eomprehensivebusiness plan.,and..agree to hire at least one full-time employee. report on the deer Y TW BITS by Neil Corbett 9:00 a.m. - Still looking for camp. 10:00 a.m. - Realize you don't know where camp is. Noon - Fire gun for help - eat wild berries. 12:15 p.m. - Run out of bullets - eight deer come back. 12:20 p.m. - Strange feeling in stomach. 12:30 p.n . - Realize you ate poison berries. 12:45 p.ni. - Rescued! 12:55 p.m. - Rushed to hospital to have stomach pumped. 3:00 p.m. - Arrive back in camp. 3:30 p.m. - Leave camp to. kill deer. 4:00 p.m. - Return to camp for bullets. 4:01 p.m. - Load gun - leave camp again. 5:00 p.m. - Empty gun on squirrel that's bugging you. 6:00 p.m. - Arrive at camp. See deer grazing at camp. 6:01 p.m. - Load gun. 6:02 p.m. - Fire gun - hit pickup. 6:05 p.m. - Hunting partner returns to camp dragging deer. 6:06 p.m. - Repress strong desire to shoot hunting partner. 6:07 p.m. - Fall in fire. 6:10 p.m. - Change clothes, throw burned ones into fire. 6:15 p.m. - Take pickup, leave partner and his deer in woods. 6:25 p.m. - Pickup boils over - hole shot in block. 6:26 p,m. - Start walking. 6:30 p.m. - Stumble and fall, drop gun in the mud. 6:35 p.m. - Meet bear. 6:36 p.m. - Take aim. 6:37 p.m. - Fire gun, blow up barrel plugged with mud. 6:38 p.m. - Climb tree. 9:00 p.m. - Bear departs, wrap gun around tree. Midnight - Home at last. Sunday - Watch football on TV, slowly tear- ing hunting license into little pieces, place in envelope, and mail to hunting partner with very precise instructions as to what he can do with it. 1939 telephone system to change JANUARY 25, 1889 The farm of Mr. James Young, on the Lon- don Road, Tuckersmith, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Rattenbury Hotel, Clinton, on Saturday, the 9th of February. Mr. James Hays, reeve of McKillop, was, on Tuesday last, elected Warden of the coun- ty. This is the second time that McKillop has enjoyed the honor of the Wardenship. Mr. W.W. Cowan, contractor, of Stratford, has been in this town this week erecting fire escapes on the Commercial and Royal hotels. The little bit of sleighing we have had for the past few days has all disappeared again, and we are once more revelling ' ud and slush. The grass is greener and freshe ook- ing than it was last August. . On Friday last Messrs. James Hudson a Charles Robinson sawed three cuts of 16 in- ches in the space of 40 seconds each cut. The work was done on the farm on Mr. Thomas Connelly, on the 7th concession of Tuckersmith. The watch was held by Mr. Connelly. The boys think this beats Hay, Stanley, and every 'other place. Mr. George E. Jackson of Egmondville, has been appointed secretary -treasurer of the Tuckersmith public school board. A very good selection. FEBRUARY 6,1914 Mr. Owen Reynold's sale on Monday of last week was fairly well attended and good prices were realized for the cows especially. One cow sold for $89 while eight brought an average of :$85.30. They were an extra fine bunch and a credit to any farmer. A rink of Seaforth curlers are in•Harriston this week competing in the bonspiel there. The rink is composed of W. Southgate, J. Rankin, J. Taman and.R,E: Brraght, skip. The groundhog came out of his ,hole last Monday viewed .his shadow and crawled hack again to remain for six ,weeks. 1 We understand the new creamery will be open for business on Monday next. Messrs. Sperling and Wright have been installing the new machinery this week. We are pleased to notice that another Seaforth boy is distinguishing himself abroad. The Detroit Free Press of Feb. lst contains an excellent likeness of Mr. W.J. Brownell, formerly of Seaforth, and a nephew of Mr. Henry Cash of Roxboro, McKillop. He has been promoted to auditor of the National Bank of Commerce in Detroit. The old Thomas Dennison farm has been gold to a party from near Bayfield, so we arc informed. It has been vacant for some time. The Curtin farms on the sixth concession of McKillop, were sold at an auction on Tuesday last by Mr. Thomas Brown. The two farms contain one hundred acres, and were purchased by Mr. John Kelly, of McKillop, for $4,550. JANUARY 27,1939 After many years of successful e ark in town, the Seaforth Horticultural Soviet, has been forced to disband through,lacko in terest. The members pay their dr membership, receive their shrubs , i0 1. • i, and there their interest ends. Members of the Seaforth bran' Canadian Legion held their annua. , in their club rooms Monday eve.. l,, an - elected Geo. D.- Fergusonpreside, ( 11 sue ceeds.J.R.,Keating, who has hel ' ne office for:two•years. .At,aqdoubleheader hock"" Jame -Wednes- day night,` Seaforth ,team. i, 'heir own, ,winnit g..one;ga{ne,and losing one Members of the Exeter Badminton Club were guests of the Seaforr , Laub un Tuesday evening when the visitors lost elgnt games to four. The Seaforth Telephone System is soon to be changed to a common battery swit- chboard, according '.o thr in ,,rulation given to The Expositor by Manager A.M. McIn- tosh, of Stratford. More than eight hundred citizens of the district accepted the Seaforth Colligiate In- stitute Board's invitation to inspect the new addition at the Collegiate and the changes and improvements which have been made to he but, 'ling JANUARY 23, 1964 Tenders kor the Seaforth Community Hospital are expected to be called about the first of March, board members were told Tue. ' 'v evening as they reviewed progress whi 1'. hospital architects are making on tb nL' for the building. kph Jewell, reeve of Colbourne, is the 'arden of Huron, succeeding Walter . e. , of Goderich Township. He is the em Colborne township to hold the of - years. ,Id Pryce was elected president of the' seaforth Agricultural Society when r etnbers of the society held the annual i ,seting Thursday. He succeeds Gordan Papple, who retired following two years in Wit office. Ree,t Earl Dick of Hibbert, was re -I elected president of the South Huron Agricultural Society at the annual meeting Saturday afternoon in the IOOF Lodge room, lHensall.