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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-03-29, Page 21 xpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor Is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Nell Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMillan. ED BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER McILWRAITH, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspoper Assoc. Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription Rates. Canada '20.00 a year. in advance Senior Citizens '17.00 a year in advance Outside Canada '60:00 a year, in advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mall registration Number 0696 V.I'edrueseicyy, March 29, 19P Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Mandatory recycling now Recycling is a priority. Millions of dollars are currently being spent to close filled dumps, locate new sites, prepare those new sites, and maintain them. In addition, this issue is a hot topic during council sessions, and countless hours are being spent con- ducting public meetings. Environmentally, there are many concerns over what is being put into the dumps. Locally, there is the example of the contaminated seepage that is leak- ing into the creek at the Holmesville Landfill Site. Residents are worried this may pollute their 'drinking water, Recycling is part of the solution to this growing problem. By reducing the amount of garbage that goes into a landfill site, operators can focus on the monitoring of waste, Recycling bins are due to be set out at the Holmesville Landfill Site at the beginning of May. This is a good start, but it's only a start. What is needed is 100 per cent participation by the residents of the county. What this means is a blue box roadside pick-up program. Predictably, 97 per cent of the residents who responded to a recent poll, stated they were in favor of recycling. This percentage dropped, however, to 61 per cent when those people were asked whether they would be wIlirig to pay for the service. Taxpayers should realize that likely the overall cost of waste management will drop in the future because, by recycling, the life span of a landfill site is in- creased. As well, the number -of recycling facilities will increase, thus cutting transportation costs. A recycliing program can only meet its full potential if there is maximum par- ticipation. This can only be achieved through mandatory recycling. There are many people who would take the time to sort their trash for recycl- ing. However, there are many who wouldn't; they would consider it an inconvenience. Such opposition can be eliminated through a compulsory program. Of- fenders who do not recycle could be penalized with an additonal charge for curbside pick-up on their tax bills. Waste management wit be an ongoing concern in the 1990s. The sooner municipalities, or the county, Implement a recycling program, the better. CNR, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Expositor welcomes all letters to the Editor. However, while the names of the authors of those letters can be withheld from print, those names must be known to the Editor before the letter gets that far. Anyone requesting his?her name be stricken from the copy appearing in the newspaper, should also be aware that the Editor is under no obligation to keep their identity a secret, should it be requested of them. ewage smell is spring bonus To The Editor: What does the return of spring mean to the residents of Harpurhey? We got one bonus??? that our neighbors in Seaforth missed - "the smells of the lagoon". 1 am sure everyone enjoyed the Easter wekend by being outside in the beautiful weather or even by having a window open. Not the home .owners in Harpurhey. We had to endure the pungent smells from the alleged odorless lagoon. My question is, Are we as residents go- ing to have to endure another summer of these smells as we did last summer? I feel that it is only fair that if the lagoons must be stirred that the pumps only be turned on when the wind is blowing over Seaforth. After all, it is your sewage. A final comment to the builders of Hart Ford - your site is right in the 'Smell Zone'. Persons thinking of renting or building a motel, donut shop etc.. may thing twice. Thank you for your time. Jim MacLeod Harpurhey RR 2 Seaforth Brussels area farmer voting no Dear Editor, Ontario has had single desk selling for Re: Beef Vote hogs for quite a few years. In a recent TV debate with my fellowbeef On March 2, 1 i 9 U.S. Hog Price 42r per producer, Don Hill, Don stated a beef gen- Ib. live wt. U.S. $ or 50e per lb. live wt. Can. $ cy would result in about a 64-80-100 rise in Ont. hog price $1.211 per kg or 550 per lb. Ontario Beef Prices and attempted to ex- carcass, at Th% dress - 41e per lb. live wt. in plain how this would happen. I challenged Can. $. him to show with facts what he was talking Ontario hog price 9e below U.S. hog price. about ... I'm still waiting for the facts! AG Canada data shows this to be typical Some of my neighbors and I attended the from 1983-1988. annual meeting of the Beef Producers For Ontario steer and heifer prices under Change, and were all surprised and disap- todays free market in Ontario are running pointed to hear nothing about this spec- just over or just under the import ceiling tacular 60-80-104 Price Rise. The annual and are the highest in North America - so meeting of this so-called Grass Roots where's the 64-8¢-10e price jump going to Organization was presented with a sketchy come from? verbal financial statement (no painted Turn to page 5A e statement) and most of the meeting was taken up with pronouncements from the podium with an absolute minimum of par- MOD nets $2,400 ticipation from the audience. A few resolu- tions were voted on with practically no To The Editor: discussion by the approximately 40-50 peo- ple who were voting. The 1989 Campaign for the Ontario March Have you heard about the restauranteur of Dimes Ability Fund 'snow over, and I am who added frogs legs to his menu on the pleased to inform you that almost$2,400 has word of a friend who told him, that he had a been raised thanks to the citizens of frog pond full of thousands of frogs, and Seafortharea. could supply as many frogs legs as he could Oh behalf of disabled adults I wish to ever need. A' new chef was Lured ... new thank you most sincerely for your generosi- menus printed... 1000 frogs legs were ty. If you have not made your contribution ordered and the friend delivered only 100 youmay.stilldo;sobyforwarding your dona- legs. The restauranteur frantically asked tions to Box 142, Seaforth. Ins friend for an explanation ...the friend said he was very sorry but... from the noise from the pond, he was sure there were thousands, but when he went to catch them, ... there were only 50 frogs! - OhBoy! a®, Sincerely, Thelma Coombs .MOIDAbilltYFUnd' Death gives meaning to life It seems that nothing - not even life itself, is sacred. And it certainly is not, by any means, guaranteed. Unlike a machine, the human being, when born, does not come equipped with a host of warranties. It cannot be easily ex- changed, nor is there a money -back clause contained on the packaging label which can be pressed into service, when said human being is found to contain defects or malfunctions. No, for the most part the human body, with all its wonders, is a 'take it as it comes' package of human nature. There are no promises of perfect proportions, no promises of golden complexions, and cer- tainly no promises of healthy tomorrows on the label. Each human being is dif- ferent, and none is perfect. And all, must simply do the best they can do given the product they've been assigned. That's not to say that biological short- comings can not be addressed, and even improved, through the implementation of scientific and medical breakthroughs. Cer- tainly there are ways and means of exten- ding life, or at least of making certain situations more bearable. But for some of us, those situations are better to start with, than they are for WEATSOCKS by Heather McIIwraith others. And, there are some situations that even modern science cannot rectify. This column may sound morbid, but cer- tain revelations to me this week, have caused me to gain a new appreciation of life - in fact, a new appreciation of how small my own health problems are in com- parison with others I know, I learned Monday night, that a good friend has been diagnosed as having Lou Gehrig's disease - a fatal disease, which basically results in one's body disintegrating to point of death. Once this disease is contracted (however that is done), victims as a rule don't live more than three years - if you can call what they do those final years - living. It was an upsetting .revelation for me. I grew up as a neighbor of this fellow, babysat his children, and was one of the five members of my family who kind of adopted him and his, as an extension of ours. What makes this situation even more upsetting, is the fact that this man will leave behind him a loving wife, and four children - the youngest of whom is four - years -old. The entire situation is tragic - for this friend and neighbor and for his family/Ind all who knew them. Medically there's nothing that can be done to change the situation. I understand that death is something that everyone confronts at some time, and I personally believe that our lives, and ultimately our deaths, are masterplanned by God. It's just sometimes hard to see the wisdom in some of that planning. I suppose, it just goes to prove, that one shouldn't gear their living for tomorrow, but rather for today. And it's revelations like the one I had this week, that bring that point home to me. Bring on the appliances I think we're about due for another ma- jor household appliance. Even in the limited time I've been on Earth I've seen a number of technological goodies come into our homes, but in the past couple years there hasn't been much action at all. Remember when it was a big deal if you had a microwave? And when they first came out, weren't they a blast? Everyone had to put an egg in the microwave to watch what happened, and there were all the stories of the person who put Fifi in the mike to dry her after her bath. Then came home video, and only the not - so -bad -off had a VCR above their T.V. Not too long ago dishwashers were a big deal, and remember when you had to heat up the barbecue with charcoal briquets? They say the amount of the knowledge in the world is doubling each year (although where they have the knowledge meter is anyone's guess ), and technology is forging ahead. But what do we see in our households? All I've seen in the past few years is MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett rinky-dink stuff like keychains that beep when you clap your hands, heat sensitive light switches, food processors, cuisinarts, and compact disc players. I can now cook my food on a pan lined with the same stuff they put on the outside of spacecraft -Teflon- but the old cast iron pan and a bit of vegetable oil did the same job. All these little things are handy, but they're basical- ly just new ways of doing an old job. We're due for something big. Trying to think of something really han- dy you could use is difficult, but you don't have it all. You don't yet have the Lista- freeze. With this little gem you can pop a six- pack (one that you forgot in your trunk on a scorching summer day) into a little box not unlike a microwave, set the dial for one minute, and when the bell goes off bring out six cans running with condensation. Set the insta-freeze for two minutes and you can freeze an ice cube tray, or 15 seconds will cool down the meat pie you just nuked to a point where you can eat it without blistering your tongue. All this for just $1,500, or $500 if you wait two years after its release. And you could have at least as much fun with the insta-freeze as you could with the microwave. Pop your brother's bowl of cornflakes into the insta-freeze for three minutes when his back is turned so he has to eat it with a chisel. Or give it 10 minutes and serve up breakfast at absolute zero. And if good old Fifi's tongue is running withperspiration on a hot summer day... Saw and planing mill opens in Walton MARCH 29, 1889 Mr. John Hannah, of Tuckersmith, sowed a quantity of peas and oats on Saturday last. This is the first of the season. It is stated that a young man of Hullett, after having eaten a hearty tea, ate 12 large raw potatoes on a wager of 10 cents, and then attempted to drink a quart of milk. The Hungarian Gypsy Band will give another entertainment by special request in Cardno's Hall on Wednesday evening next. The general satisfaction given by their last entertainment should ensure them a full house on this occasion. The Reverend Mr. Fear, of Hensall was in town on Wednesday evening, and was the guest of his brothers Messrs. J.W. and I.V. Fear. The fall wheat and clover in this vicinity look well so far. Mr. Wm. Carnochan, of the 4th concession of Tuckersmith, sowed four acres of oats on Wednesday, and he says the ground worked as nicely as a garden. The Seaforth Salvation Army will celebrate its fifth anniversary by a grand banquet In the Barracks next Monday even - in . The Major and other prominent officers be present. APRIL 3,1914 John McDonald's bigsaw and planing mill in Waltonr.to'replace that destroyed'by fire last year, -resumed :operations on 1 riday afternoonand will keep a dozen or 15 hauls busy. A tremendous supply of ebn and maple logs leas accumulated, especially since sleighing began. The woods are still holdi g out, ;and judging from the piles in Mr. MccD;onald;s yard there is still timber to spare. This mill will be a great convenience to the sut'rounding farmers and a benefit to IN THE YEARS ALONE. from the ExpositorArchives the village, and it is to be hoped Mr. McDonald will be amply rewarded for his enterprise in rebuilding. The syrup season has not been a favourable one. Mr. Thomas Workman shipped a lamb, weighing 88 lbs., alive, to Toronto, and received for it $10.25. Who says raising lambs don't pay? The directors of the Hensall horse and cat- tle show were pleased with the attendance at the exhibition held there on Tuesday. The number of entries were large and the prizes were attractive. The show was held on Main Street and the weather was ideal. To see the ladies flocking down to the stores through thenspring rain on Friday was to know it was millinery opening day in town, when the tale of the new hats was un- folded in the beauteous array of pretty models. MARCH 31, 1939 When lightning struck a garage on the farm of Finlay McKercher, McKillop Township, on Sunday afternoon, a corner of the building was torn away and a number of articles inside destroyed. Quite a number jn this vicinity have tap- ped and report that the flow of sap has not been too,great.as yet, but hope in the space of a few days it will be greatly unproved. Plans whereby children of Huron County may see the King and Queen whenthey visit Stratford on June 6th were discussed at a meeting in Stratford on Thursday evening of last week. Registration of Canadian returned men of Seaforth continues this week, according to Charles Holmes, registration officer. The registration is being conducted by veterans' organizations throughout Canada for the purpose of finding what service veterans could render if the nation should suddenly face a crisis. MARCH 28,1964 John K. Cornish, who this year retires as secretary -treasurer of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System, after 25 years service, has seen the system increase by 50 per cent in that time. Students from the Central, Huron Secon- dary School will visit Milwaukee, Wis., on a student exchange program for a week, beginning March 29. Included in the group of 12 students will be a Seaforth girl, Joan Teall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Teall. Pupils from Nlcolet High School, Milwaukee, Wis., were interested spec- tators when theyvisited area farms Friday, such as Scott Poultry Farms and the dairy farm of Con Eckert. There will always be a place for the fami- ly farm, W.K. Riddell told Seaforth Lions and their farmer guests on the occasion of • the club's annual Rural Relations dinner. Mr. Riddell, who is agriculture represen- Turn: to page 19A e