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The Huron Expositor, 1989-05-17, Page 2• HUr rxpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating ED l)YRSKI, mineral Manager HEATHER McILWRAITH, Editor The Brussels Post Published hi Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor Is brought to you each week by She efforts of: -Pot Armes, Nell Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and cob MsMlllan. 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 year, In advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wedeuesda , May .117, 1198 ' Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 327-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Soar 69. Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Get a job It's just about that time when the majority of classes are over and students are on the -lookout for summer employment. And it's also that time for local business people to consider the additional tasks their business may produce from new until Labor Day. It makes sense then that it's time for employers to consider hiring a student to do such tasks. The Canada Employment Centre for students is currently working to solicit the development of summer jobs for the young men and women of the area. This pubiicitiy takes the form of contacting local business people a11d offering suggestions, posting available jobs, and aiding students in the correct way to find and secure summer employment. In the past a branch office has been set up temporarily in the Seaforth Library building for such purposes. Finding suitable employment is a tough job in itself. Competition is high and jobs are few. Student employment offices know this and do their very best to bring employee and employer together for their mutual benefit. If you have a student at home who is looking for work this summer, why not suggest a visit to the area employment centre&?o They will offer good, up-to- date advice, as well as a complete list of available jobs being offered this summer. Summer is the time fora summer job. Take advantage of every resource to help you find one. Adapted from the Lucknow Sentinel. Time to rebuild Now that John Turner has announced he is stepping down as leader of the Liberals in Ottawa, the time has come for the party to think of rebuilding. .,Not.many� anadians waraesurprised that Turner is caillzlg,it.quds.dt:s:been sort of a genial acceptadde.,since the November federal elebtion that ha. would vacate his position. The only question was when it would happen. Turner, who will pilot the Liberals until a leadership convention is called, likely late this year, leaves after aperilous five years as leader of a party that has still a long road to hoe before it can successfully challenge the Progressive Conservatives. The leadership of Turner was on rocky ground right from the beginning as former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau handed out a long list of patronage plums before leaving and Turner let them stand. Shortly afterwards, these appointments came back to trouble Turner in the 1984 election campaign. He was brutally attacked by Conservative leader Brian Mulroney in the TV debate of that year, and his weak defence was that he had no choice but to approve and accept the patronage appointments. The Conservatives swept into office with the largest majority in Canadian history and a number of observers were penning Turner's obituary. Despite criticism from members of his own caucus, Turner held on and the fact he was able to maintain control and lead his party into 'another election campaign is testimony enough to the fighting spirit of the Liberal leader. He came back strongly, in the 1988 campaign and beat Brian Mulroney fair and square on the free trade issue in the television debate. Although the Liberals did not gain victory, they did pick up enough seats to give Turner a new measure of respect. This campaign was his finest hour. Turner appears to have chosen a good time, not only for himself, but for the party, to resign, since it will likely be another four years before we go to the polls again. This should give the party ,enough time to get its act together. In the months ahead, the party will have more than a leadership race to deal • with. There has been a rift in the caucus over the Meech Lake accord and this will have to be healed before the Liberals can move ahead again. The upcoming leadership race should be; upbeat, but.after the hoopla settles down, the new leader will have to put the highest priority on getting the party back on' the right track again. While some may remember Turner as serving the second shortest term (79 days in 1984) as Prime Minister of Canada, he should be recognizedas being responsible for the fact the majority of Canadians voted against free trade. He was a strong Canadian, a leader with integrity and a great sense of mis- sion. As Ontario Premier David Peterson said, "He articulated the soul and values of the party." Exeter T -A. A promise of a night to remember I've watched with amusement over recent weeks asarea highschool studentsprepared for their spring proms. And as one might have expected, my observations have pro- mpted some recall of the prom days of my own youth. It hasn't been all that long since I primped and preened before a mirror in preparation for thebig event, butboy, how things appear to have changed during that time. First off, I don't ever remember the occa- sion being referred to as a prom. At my school (and we may have' been an oddity) the event was called th&Spring"Formal. And probably for good' reason - the attire we females sported, was formal in the truest sense - floor length dresses that required hours of dance practise ahead of time so that there were no slip-ups (or fall downs) on the dance floor. In fact, I remember my friends and 1 wrapping ourselves in blankets and donning high heels in preparation for a waltz around the basement with an older brother. As for the guys, they did not go to near the elaborate lengths that they seem to go to nowadays. The rental of tuxedos for such an occasion was unheard of, and limousines - well,. they were for weddings only, and no guy wanted to plant a seed like that in the mind of his date for the evening. (I don't think Winnabagos were prominent back then either). ' So, in retrospect, I guess we were a rather SWEATSOCKS by Heather Mcllwraith dull lot - still a little stiff and reserved in our ways, and certainly not innovative or ex- travagant. We got to where We were going in a carborrowed from our parents, or we walked. Only es a last resort were we taxied there by either mom or dad. And we were certainly no fashion plates (or maybe we were back then). Generally the girls wore loud patterned, smock -type dresses with a tie at the rear - accented with beaded purses borrowed from grand- mother, and the clunldest of high heel shoes available on the market. Whether or not the shoes and purse matched was irrelevant. The guys, on the other hand, either squeezed into the suit purchased for their Grade 8 graduation, or drowned in the one worn to church by their father. Some were more daring and sported those polyester leisure suits that were a 1 the rage 10 years ago. Everything - lapels, ties and pant legs included, were wider than wide. However, as different as proms are today, from my day, they probably still have at least one thing in common. Most of the couples who attend are probably out on their "first date" so to speak, so the atmosphere was usually less than totals relaxed. I remember specifically watching from a bedroom window as one date walked, cor- sage -in hand, up the Janeway - to the wrong house. Thank goodness his embarrassment exceeded my own, or that date may never have come about. And I remember the apprehensions I felt when I accepted an invitation to the formal, from a guy I knew only as my total opposite. He was the school's mathematics and physics genius. I was, well...a student of the arts. That situation was remedied however through the help of various teachers, who sensing my dilemna, spent the majority of their night dancing around us and whisper- ing such statements to me as, Pie -R - Squared, E+mc squared etc... But, whatever the situation at these proms, and however much they evolve, one thing probably never changes. Proms (or formals) are an event anticipated from the start of highschool. They generate a special aura - and a promise of a night to remember for all time. °" ��'' �%%%-%'� �-•.,.moi .^ . ✓ice. ems. I'd like to teach some teachers Ata professional development day in Ex- eter last week I saw a lot about multiculturalism, but I also saw that teachers don't necessarily make the best learners. At the PD day all the teachers in Huron County were signed up for seminars wherein they could hear other professional's ideas, so for a while they became students. I sat in on one of these seminars, and after watching the teachers who became teachees I don't feel too bad about the way I behaved in classrooms. In the corner where I was sitting there were conversations going on, people were fidgetting, and a couple guyswerejust star- ing out the window. I kept expecting a chalkbrush to come sailing in our direction, or at least to hear "what's so interesting out there...?" or "do you have something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?" After all, the speaker was a teacher and for all my experience that's how teachers get their student's. attention. One bold soul sitting next to me evenpull- ed out a jackknife and started giving himself a manicure. If one of that teacher's same students had done that he would get off lucky to get his knife back at the -end of class. Now these teachers, and I'll say that none of them were Seaforth teachers, may -argue that they could still hear the seminar -and it was a good one in my eyes- while carving, staring or gabbing, but do they buy it when their students use this same argument? It's too bad one of the teachers wasn't taken in the side of the head by an eraser the way they'd do their own students for not MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett paying attention. In Grade 4 I had a teacher who would get your attention by throwing chalkboard erasers, rubber erasers, or whatever was handy. Once she even lobbed a Bible. And if you were the kid talking you seldom had any notice of her pickoff. The entire class would suddenly go strangely quiet and you would glance up from your conversa- tion, but by then it was already too late. You'd see the 70 -year-old Mrs. Randall in full Windup, balanced on one leg, leaning back with the other leg in the air, -looking like a major leaguer with beanball written all over him. Arid Mrs. Randall had half a century of practice to hone her missiles. If you were talking or daydreaming while working in class you could be subject to another attack. Mrs. Randall had long hard fingernail' sand she'd sneak up behind you at the height of your disruptiveness and rap you three times on the top of the head. I think some people call a variation of this a "noogie". My grade five teacher was a gentle soul who would bring a meter stick down on a desk with a resounding whack that caught the attention of every kid in school, or fail- ing that was satisfied to yell himself -purple. But he was the school principal and had to maintain an air of control. Grade six had learned something from Star Trek and he would come up behind you and pinch the sides of your neck gently but firmly between a thumb and forefinger and quietly lecture you. If you were being only mildly distracting he'd absently rap you on the head with the business end of a pencil. In spite of all this hostility, there was only one time when a teacher in full rage caused me any real pain, and that was Grade 7. This was a man with an inferno temper who was reprimanded by the school for once chasing a student who had swore at him all the way to the fleetfooted kid's home over a mile from the school. He told me that as mach as he was bugged, he now had it under control. However one day he lost it, and for some unremembered and likely unprovoked reason he charged to my desk and, knocking aside my halo, pinched my ear and carried me from the classroom while my toes sought to find the floor. That smarted. But that day in Exeter nobody's ear or neck was pinched, no heads were noogied, and chalkboard erasers were on safety. It's too bad because those teachers might have really learned something. Maybe someday I'll get to give a PD Day seminar. and to do=ctor ,in 1914 MAY 17, 1889 At a :meeting of the town council held on Wednesday evening the mayor and clerk were authorized to make arrangements for the meeting of the Fruit Growers ,Associa- tion. The town band was given the usual grant of $100. Tenders are tobe,asked -for the work of street watering and supplying unsereened gravel. The eppointmentof.Jas. It. 'Wrightas Chief of the fire ,brigade was confirmed. Themayorwas1nstructedto Ball a,public meeting for this evening: to discuss theBlectric Light byelaw. Mr.•,Samuet'Walsh, the.veteranstage•pro, prietor,Jbetween Wroxeter, Brussels and Seaforth, :will •run excursion,trips.,with, bis stage itoSeaforth ,every;Saturday.One fare (66 :;cents) ,pays the return Arip ,from Brussels, Mr. Henry Tolbert has commenced the wotk lofcap airhtg sand ireepnxtruCtiug: the tEgmondvllle Brewery, awhioh ,was blared ,by ifiresome;tl meaago. tMAt,,22;.1191.4 'The °A4ly,dro'ElettriC. power,,is •Iheifg in- itroducedinto:thoSOIDEngine‘Worinianttthe IN THE E 4 E :t ,t. fromthe the E sitor Archives whole machinery ,hereafter, be run by thatpower. -The power was introduced into the :wood •working :department a year ,ago :and it has worked. so, satis£actor'y;that Mr. Bell has, decided to;dispense withrsteam,en- tirely for,power uzposes. A;good.many ers:in this vicinity ,are • complainh#&.tof the `.amageabeing+done iby .,°the "Wire worm M sthe ,.early sown ;lapring the .tow 001114,isl+, " - entiieg ,on ,a rpart,ofGAder ch tae ��oi1usea: dust ,allayerAnd 111 satjafa�y-wI l:,adopt011 for all. to st, ts-insteadaofwater• The raliway 00411-on/ilfain�Sttreet,Gwas ,tlie .scene-01.another� -serious ,accldent On SSAt lay atr dal hlhoughsflrioudi it;was;a litmliracle itwas no -ve?Pnlucho re,serioius. • Dr. J:G. Scott was ;driving south just as the 10:45 passenger train was.approachiag the station.~He did ,not notice the train ..until he was on the track and then it .was,almost •on him. 'The horse made a sppring forward,, but the engine struck the bind wheel tbggywith;suchfoprce;astoturowthedoctor out of the vehicle, ,alighting ,on the ;hard ground several feetaway ,-The,buggymas badly-smaslt(ad andtberiiar to '.Plea torn from r •We ;horse. TAIe' , , 1 r eW gendered ,-uneonsciops .,and was ;severely br tazld ,eut, but fortune y no hones were : rokken. This is ,a ooti . is &andlit,isan outrage�ggat1. t -has been Ine .ectcd or.so,long. 14,1A -'Y j0 1939 . Pupils sof ah0014 suktio.4,4 Constance, made Huron, County utdstory on Monday when they planted the first .of the ,woodlots ,which -eventually ,all rural schools in Huron will .have adjoining the school house. When Their Majesties King George and Queen. Elizabeth stop in Stratford on June 6.th, one ,of, the police on duty there .will be Chief Constable }Ielmar Snell of Seaforth. preserioe willl^,be the result of an invita- I0triie I°, OAreceived this week from Chief Con- stable Bea, „of ,!Stratford, :to oast hanO& .ct'ow that pre,. expected.,ill - cluded�ttlti eorowd atiziqus tonary omage to;T,heir _jostles, will beneartly;6, Huron , school dren. 16,1l, >r eaforth CAWI i a, de hied 10 ••d �Q�a �y: !rough a , 1. , �a tiup...; o' ., 0 Rte' ' � 'a',",Q "�' .7 0149 er, 111 t • f , Te•rj,Gjibdna„ Police are investigating break-ins involv- ing -three Seaforth .schools which occured Monday night. Seaforth 'Public, St. ,Tames Separate ,and the Egmondvllle school were entered. Police said similar break-ins oc- curred in Palmerston and Wingham. A new bus line to serve passengers bet- ween Seaforth, Egmondville, Brucefleld and RCAF Station Clinton will begin opera - ori neat week, according•to Les Habkirk, of bkirrk Transit Services, who will operate *belittle, ' When provincial honor pins and cer- tificates were .awarded on Saturday to sis Huron County 4' H HHomemaking Club girls .at -the Clinton. Aehievement Day, :on .hand were ;two fi the have volunteered ~`.heir 4ffirVos over a years as club -leaders . + ..Roes Gord 1, -Seaforth, s and-herddghter Donna:: Black and r m 0,0,1wiStanleyBlaa , AR 1 Beigrave• grand l re&eived,provincial boners 1pietion-of-12 4H IIomernaking I�.