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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-04-12, Page 22E+1n:u, xpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Pose Published In Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor Is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Nell Corbett, Terrl4ynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMillan. ED BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER MCILWRAITH, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper 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 yearin advance Single Copies • .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, April 19, 1989 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Mailing Address • P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, 1401( 1WO Cure reliant on public It has long been known that cancer spreads through the uncontrolled "growth of malignant cells. Scientists believe that the change from normal to malignant and the resultant uncontrolled growth is triggered by certain damaged or defective genes. Of the 100,000 genes carried in human cells, only 50 have the potential to trigger these changes. Despite those odds, this year more than 100,000 Canadians will be struck by cancer. Many of them, however, can be helped through the efforts of the Canadian Cancer Society. In addition to funding cancer research, the Canadian Cancer Society has been educating the public through the years, about the value of early detection and preventative practices. And its Patient Services program has a wide range of services and emotional support programs to help the cancer patients and their families In 1988 the Seaforth and area branch of the Canadian Cancer Society asked $8,600 of the community. The objective of its 1989 campaign is $9,100. Door- to-door fundraising will take place in Seaforth, Egmondville, Brucefield and Walton this month. A mail -in campaign has been undertaken in the rural areas; dessert euchres are scheduled and daffodil sales are expected. In a further ef- fort to raise funds, BOW, or Bike or Walk for Cancer is being organized by Rod Lyons and his staff at Lyon's Food Market. Scientists believe that in time, 'Cancer can be beaten'. Each year, more money is allocated in Canada for cancer research than is allocated for any other disease. This financial support, as well as time and effort are paying off. Today more people are living longer lives; in the 1980s, one of every two pa- tients under treatment will survive at least five years, compared to one in five during the 1940s. Of all the Canadians who are diagnosed as having cancer during 1988,'50 per cent will be alive and considered well in 1993. That's a' whole lot better than it used to be. Cancer can be beaten. You can help by supporting the annual fund raising campaign of the Canadian Cancer Society. • eing a student, no easy task I'd forgotten what it's like to be a student. And although my job ensures that I am not able to leave my work at the office, and that I have a fair number of assignments due on a weekly basis, somehow, it's a tad different from being a student. Maybe that's because I'm getting paid for my work, or maybe it's because I'm not getting graded (even though, in a sense, I probably am). Whatever the reason, I've definitely con- cluded that the work -a -day world, is in many ways easier than that of the student. That conclusion comes on the heels of a recent decision of mine, to return to school. One would have thought I'd in- flicted enough punishment on myself going through the education circuit the first time, without opting to take on post univer- sity studies too. However, it seems some demon in me has an unfulfilled thirst for knowledge, so here I go again. And it's hard - harder I think the second time around. Obviously when I made the decision to go back to school, I'd forgotten just how much effort school required. Well, one could say I'm being re- educated in a number of ways. SWEATSOCKS by Heather McIlwraith As a repeat student, I'm finding that those good study habits that eluded me in highschool and university are still eluding me. I find it nearly impossible to discipline myself to sit down and complete the task before me. After a hard day's work, preceded the night before by a late meeting, I find it difficult to do anything but procrastinate about the work to be done. No doubt, being required to write essays and stories, is the last thing I feel like doing after I've done much the same thing for the majority of my work day. I'm reliving the resentment I felt during my pre -now school years - when having a paper due meant having to forego a night out, a favorite television show, or simply vegetation time. I get the guilts when I opt to paint the house, talk on the phone, wash dishes or even address wedding invitations instead of cracking open the books. I get frustrated when I hear people en- joying the outdoors when I'm stuck, star- ing at a blank sheet, in my typewriter - even though I know I wouldn't enjoy myself if I were to joing them, when I had the dark cloud of homework hanging over my head. I get upset too, when I realize that the on- ly way I'm going to be able to finish an assignment, is by pulling an all-nighter - something I thought I'd put behind me several years ago. However... This time I can't really blame the system for the academic demands it has placed on me. This time it's all my own do- ing - and all I could do, is do it. In the long run, the extra effort will pro- bably be worth it. Experiences with chewing tobacco This week I saw a man in a restaurant, having finished a meal, put a mitfull of black tobacco under his lip, and got thinking that r I could easily have been a tobacco chewer. Ball players aside, only the odd individual is a tobacco chewer. A kid in my sixth grade class liked chewing tobacco -he said it kept him warm- and he was an odd individual. When I think of a tobacco chewer I think of my father. A logger, a shave over six feet tall, well over 200 pounds, and with a mop of dark curly hair that would make you think he was Italian, but who if asked would swear he is "a good Irishman." On the breast pocket of every one of this man's shirts is a small circular impression created by a can of Copenhagen - the hard stuff, and the most foul. The tobacco most chewers use is Red Man or Beech Nut or one of the other types that comes in a small pouch. This stuff smells like raisins mixed with animal dung, and that's exactly how it tastes. But Copenhagen, a.k.a. snuff, comes in a snuff tin and consist of tiny morsels of moist black vegetable matter, which smell and taste like whatever you would be least likely to put in your mouth. And several times a day my Dad will take a generous pinch of snuff, or "snuise" as he calls it, and stick it under his bottom lip. It has gotten him in trouble too. My grand- father was a Baptist minister, and being raised Baptist means you "keep God's bodies healthy." So, if you want to keep in good graces then visiting, you just don't make"ittibviot thatyou drink.,smoke, chew etc. 1 ...... ,. This isn't so tough. if you're a smoker, you can just find someplace to sneak one. But chewing is another matter. You can't Local government needs to answer questions Dear Editor, Last week your paper carried an ad pro- claiming the week of April 10-15 as "Local Government Week". The stated theme of this week was "We're Working For You!" The citizens of the town were invited to "find out about the many services local government provides in your community". We should, through your paper, like to in- form the people of Seaforth that since March 21, 1989 we have been trying to obtain information relative to the establishment of a subdivision in the north end of town. By -Law 26 of 1988, passed on .August 9, 1988, granted six zoning changes and four variances. There was no objection by last year's council members or Seaforth residents. The variances, in total, have an effect on 34 out of 54 lots in the proposed sub- division. All appear to serve the sole pur- MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett fj "sneak one" because you have to savour the , snuice juices over several hours to get your fix. Fortunately, if you just put a little chew in your lip, no one will be the wiser. This was my Dad's tact -avoid a hassle. But on one visiting trip, as we pulled up to a stoplight with my grandparents and a cou- ple of cousins in the car, Dad casually rolled down his window and 'let fly a stream of tobacco juice. He would have gotten away with it too, if my young cousin sitting on the driver's side had not piped up: "Ee0000uuu Uncle Ron, your spit is black!" "No it's not Mark. You're color blind," didn't avoid the hassle. But I almost followed in my father's footsteps and became a tobacco chewer myself. . When I was in about Grade 4, not long ago, I rode around the B.C. and Alberta pony rac- ing circuit with a friend and his family. I considered myself a regular cowpoke, and helped with the horses and throwing harness and getting wagon and chariot teams ready for their drivers. A lot of the regular cowpokes liked a good chew, so it was only reasonable that my bud- dy and I score a couple packages of Beech Nut. I wasn't crazy about the taste, but we took small portions and after a while it wasn't so bad. I might have been a hooked tobacco chewer to this day. I may have even become involved in professional baseball. But at one race someone saw these kids with a bag of tobacco and asked if he could steal a chew because he was out. The guy.took about half of what we had left in one bulging cheek, and when he pulled down his bottom lip to fill 'er up too we saw a crack in his mouth that almost gavelling two lower lips. Needless to say, it helped us "kick the habit" pretty quick. "BEji/DEQ/ 1130/LING O/L, FORADDED SECUR/TY. !!/EiiE F/LL/NGT 5 /"fb9T u//m' AL/CLEAR pose of increasing the number of units per- mitted to be constructed, and as a result maximizing the profit for the developer. Last week a number of concerns which we consider important were presented in writ- ten form to council. To date these have been ignored. Questions remain. a. Why is a subdivision which will even- tually increase Seaforth's population by 10 per cent, serviced by a single 8 -inch sanitary sewer pipe? As one person com- mented, "For an eight inch pipe, that's a lot of —." b. Does the remainder of the town's Lack of progress very costly To the Editor: nothing about the badly needed jobs it could In recent weeks a great deal has been said create. and written about John Hart's proposed If this development is not allowed to pro - mall. Most of the opinions offered are from ceed unhindered Mr. Hart's only option may the viewpoint of local businesses. be to locate it elsewhere, nobbing us of I sympathize with core area merchants possibly several new businesses, and any and the investment they have, but restric- ting the malls uses will not make their pro- blems disappear. As one businessman in- dicated "a competitive store doesn't have to worry". Perhaps allowing Mr. Hart to proceed unobstructed and unrestricted will help re- tain part of the vast exodus of money which now escapes our core merchants anyway. With increased shopping options in Seaforth consumers might. be persuaded to shop at home with more consistency. The distance to other centres that have a larger selection and perhaps lower prices is not the deterrent it once was. This mall with a grocery and department store just might snake Seaforth the town to shop in to say spinoff they could generate. John Hart is willing to invest a large amount of private capital in a venture that can do Seaforth nothing but good. Commer- cial areas in any direction are thriving and expanding while we sit and stagnate. I support Mr. Hart and his project and I suspect many area residents share my feel- ings. Let's not make the mistake of forcing this development out.of our area entirely. Progress may come at a high price but lack of progress surely costs more. Why not let the consumer, the group whose opinion really counts, decide what businesses the mall should include. A resident population need to know how a 10 per cent population increase will affect our sewage treatment capacity? As it exists, word has it, that sewage treatment is presently presenting a problem. Who will pay to in- crease capacity and/or efficiency to satisfy environmental considerations? c. Why is council prepared to allow the greater surface of the proposed subdivision, to be surface drained by shallow open drains? Is this ignoring the requirements of the local building By -Law, as to storm sewers and creating a situation where cer- tain lot usage on this property is open to question? Some time ago a local taxpayer was com- pelled to demolish a constructed foundation which contravened the same By -Law. Does the developer of a larger property receive different (special) consideration? The advertisement mentioned at the beginning of this letter indicated that Local Government Week presents an opportunity "to get involved in the process" and "to highlight local government's direct and con- siderable impact on the quality of our lives". For at least one month we have been directly involved and we can say without reservation, You (local government) are not working for us, and yes there will be con- siderable impact on our lives - an impact that may well be detrimental not beneficial. More questions need to be answered. Thank you. Seaforth needs selection Dear Editor: "The Huron Expositor" I think that the downtown Seaforth businessmen who oppose the Hart Ford development with possible mall facilities, should wake up. They should be pushing for and supporting any such .development in- stead of opposing it or restricting it. I have been a resident -of Seaforth for five years and am a potential consumer. We hear about all the tax dollars being ,spent to .promote the BIA or.whatever, for :downtown business,; but this takes the cake. .If there,was a mall with many ser- vices and ,products available located just westof Seaforth, it would, draw,, people drom a large area to shop in our: town. Sure, -they would go to the mall, but also to the downtown stores to check out prices and have a, much larger variety to choose from between the two locations. As far;as- one -man : presenting.. arguments to(McKillop. Township council .and Swaying Yours truly, George Ring Shirley Ring Sylvester Paulus Janina Paulus Dianne MacLeod IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives their decision; it es too bad!" He is not even a resident. How -often does he shop in Seaforth, or London, Goderich or Stratford? Every two weeks, I and my family go to Stratford and do a lot of shopping there. In Stratford, for example, you have K -Mart, Towers, Bi -Way, Woolco.et cetera. You shop the malls .but also check out the little stores downtown. If there.was more selection and price competition in Seaforth, I too would shop in. town and nothave to go elsewhere. Why not let Seaforth this.develop- ment instead of :chasing it and possible con- sumer dollars away. ',Arnow I am not the on- ly .one .who,lives -in town and -shops out of town .for better ,selection. I don't want Seaforth to, be only.a:place for retirement. Let's.getsome life into this town.with good selection and good competition. Robert A. Litt 33 Ann St., ,Seaforth, Opt. NOK 1Wo Hart development is a good idea On the matter of Hart Development: When a vote is 26 yes 18 no and 7 no com- ment I wonder what is the matter with this town. I, like others I have spoken to, think this is a great chance for Seaforth to do something right for. a change. Even 28 of the business people think ideals agood one. It's the 18 business people,who are afraid:tbey will lose pennies from their own ;pockets that can tuin it for everyone..With;this new develp- ment I, like others, would not have to -drive around double parked cars .and trucks or buses, if ,we had'tltis.neew:project. 1 would like to;let the people,and business people of this townknow it is a good idea. 26 to 18 should, tell;the couricitsomething. •-G1arenceEast Winthrop church burns mortgage APREL 19, 1889 CHECKER MATCH - A checker match will be played in the mechanics institute on the evening of Good Friday, between ten representatives of the Mitchell club and a like number of our town players. Any in- terested in seeing the games will be admitted. THE SCHOOL CONTRACT - At a meeting of the Public School°Board held on Monday evening the contract for the erection of the new wing to the public school building was awarded to Mr. Wm. Sleeth for the sum of $1,579 to complete the whole building. The tenders were all very close but Mr. Sleeth's was lowest. The work will likely be proceed- ed with at once and will be completed and the building ready for occupancy by the close of the mid -summer holidays. THE -STOCK FAIR - The Stock Fair, under the auspices of the Tuckersmith Agricultural Society, was held in Seaforth on Tuesday last. The weather was delightful, being a genuine spring day. There was a goad crowd of people in town and there must have been as many as 50 horses of all kinds, besides several bulls. Many of the horses, both light and heavy, were among the best in the country. They were shown on the market square instead of on the Agricultural Grounds. This was a mistake, as there .was not room enough to show the animals to advantage. There was no judging done and no.prizes awarded, but the merits of :the several animals were pret- ty thoroughly canvassed by the onlookers, most of .whom :seemed to be deeply interested. Mr. William Whitesides has gone to II�Bina where he will join the Northwest MountedPolice. Farmers inthis vicinity,are now all busy seeding. Thegroundisinsplendid condition, and With. avourahle .weather many will be through next week. APRIL 24, 1.914 Rev. B.S. Smillie, B.A., of the London Road, Tuckersmith, has been appointed a missionary to Central India by the Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church. A very happy company gathered in Cavan Church, Winthrop, on Friday evening last, for the burning of the mortgage which was placed upon the church property, when the church was opened six years ago. The fine weather of the past week has set the -thrifty housewives housecleaning and the good man has to take his meals from a barrel head in the wood shed. There was a heavy frost on Wednesday night which will be hard on the fall wheat and clover. APRIL 21, 1939 Mr. and Mrs. William Butt, highly respected residents of Tuckersmith and later of Seaforth, quietly celebrated the 52nd anniversary of their wedding at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Butt were married in Hensel] on April 20, 1887, by Rev. Mr. Torrence. Working in conjunction with a central committee and the' town council, the Seaforth Lions Club is making arrangments to see that children of the district are taken to Stratford to see the King and Queen on June 6th. President Elmer D. Bell, of the Seaforth Amateur Athletic Association, was in Ex- eter Friday where be attended a banquet and meeting called for the purpose of form- ing an athletic association in that town. Mr. Bell told of Seaforth's experiences and of the success the association has proved to be here. APREL 18, l964 Seaforth council will press for early recognition of the Egmondville road as an Ontario development road. A contract for $8,978 by Frank Kling Ltd. Turn to page 17 •