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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-09-06, Page 24�xpositor SINCE 1560, SERVING THE commumTy 'FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published In Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning Tho Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Nell Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob MCMI Ilan. ED BYRSKI, Gener©l Manager HEATHER RARINET, 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 year, In advance Single Copies • .50 cents each Second Gloss mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, September •6, 1989 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK. TWO Special youth sought Exhuberant youth. Every community has it. Every community needs it. Every community is unique because of it. Exuberant youth. Often responsible. Occasionally irresponsible. Always exciting and vital. Exuberant youth. It's the stuff that good citizenship is made from. Seaforth and area has plenty of exhuberant youth. Just look around you. And somewhere in this community there's one or two excellent nominees for Junior Citizen of the Year awards sponsored jointly by the Ontario Com- munity Newspapers Association and Canadian Airlines International. These young people may have shown great courage and bravery. Or may have worked tirelessly for others. Or may have overcome serious per- sonal loss or tragedy. • If you know of a special youngster between the ages of six and 18 who exemplifies the very best of Canadian youth, it's your, duty to nominate hime or her for recognition. Every nominee receives a certificate and ap- proximately 12 will be chosen to be honored in Toronto at the spring con- - vention of publishers and staffs. The winners are transported to Toronto with their families and are given the VIP treatment. They meet with the Lieutenant Governor and are presented with a gold lapel pin, a plaque and a gift of cash. It's easy to make a nomination. Just come to this newspaper, pick up the nomination form and fill in the blanks. If that's just too inconvenient, simply send us the name of. the youngster you are nominating, his or her address and telephone number, and a bit of information about why you feel this young person should be nominated as Junior Citizen. Be sure to send us your name, address and telephone number so we can get in touch with you if necessary. - We'II do all the rest. We're looking for the ordinary kids who quietly and persistently make their contributions without fanfare or hoopla in a variety of life situations and circumstances. They act without prejudice or fear, expecting no reward but making a measurable difference 'wherever they are. If you know someone like that, don't hesitate. Nominate today. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Days of yore tough on students After taking a look at the Junior High School Entrance examination given by the Department of Education, Ontario, in 1912, I am considering myself fortunate to have been educated a little more recently. I mean, that was some kind of examina- tion! My memory may be short but I don't recall examinations of that sort when I was in university, let alone Grade 8. And thank goodness. A person would have had to undertake a mountain of studying just to achieve a mediocre grade, and what an exciting existence that would be. Personally I have my doubts that even someone with his/her PhD could complete the examination easily. Certainly myself, with five years of high school, a universi- ty degree, several extra courses, and eight years in the journalism field, to my credit, would consider myself much too ignorant for such an examination - although maybe I'm just more brain lazy than anything else, Made up of nine pages, the examination covers a wide range of topics, from com- position, geography and arithmetic, to reading, grammar and writing. All com- ponents of the examination were marked out. of 100, with the exception of the writing segment, which was graded out of 50. Neatness and spelling were considered in the grading of the composition segment, and special attention was paid to correct- ness of letter formation, slant and connec- tions, and to freedom of movement, in the writing segment. To be more specific: In the composition segment the student was requested to write two essays, both of SWEATSOCKS by Heather Robinet 30 lines or more. The first gave the student a choice of four topics, with one of those detailing the life history of a butterfly, or of a grain of wheat. The second, in the form off a letter, had to, by description alone, convince an English friend to come visit Canada in the fall. In the geography segment, the student was, among other things, required to draw a map of South America, and on it locate the Strait of Magellan, Buenos Aires, Rio Janeiro, Caracas, Valparaiso, Cape Horn, Cape Blanco, Isthmus of Panama, Colom- bia, three mountain systems, and two great river systems - maybe not a big task if that's what one studied, but certainly more fitting with what I studied in high school, than what I did before that. Other geographical know how expected included: naming and accurately locating seven British possessions, outside the British Isles, and telling how each became a British possession; writing a descriptive parapraph of a river, treating of its origin, the work it does and its possible utility to man; and naming of six of the leading manufacturing industries of Ontario. In the arithmetic segment, which pro- bably would have been the one to give me the most trouble, the student was presented with nine word problems. One, asks what per cent profit a merchant would make, if he/she marked his goods up 25 per cent, but allowed customers a six per cent discount.. Another, asks the cost, at $60 an acre, of a piece of land in the form of a right-angled triangle whose two shorter sides are 1648 chains and 975 chains respectively. (Ten square chains make an acre). The reading segment involves the evaluation and interpretation of various poems; analysis of prose; explanations of symbolism; and the quotation of one of three poems. The grammar segment involved the analysis of sentences; identification of parts of speech; and completion of a number of other equally unexciting gram- matical tasks. The writing segment not only tackled penmanship, but one's ability to write out bills and receipts. Is it any wonder people were satisfied with a Grade 8 education in those days of yore. I mean, a Grade 8 education then, is certainly equivalent to, if not far superior, at least in terms of the three Rs, than what kids are often getting today at the high school level. Boy, am I glad I was not an overloaded kid of the early nineteen hundreds! Teenager offended by quote I am writing a letter concerning last week's issue. One article particularly caught my attention. It referred to the death of Brad Taylor and a quote from Seaforth's Chief of Police regarding the impact of the accident on teenagers. I, being one of Brad's closest friends would like to express my feelings. As for no kids being taught a lesson or learning as a result of Brad's accident that is definitely not true. I know for a fact that there are a great deal of Brad's friends that have taken different views towards drinking and driving. Many people say that all teenagers haven't any respon- sibility and all they want to' do is cause trouble. Well, NOT AIL TEENAGERS ARE BAD! ! ! In today's society teenagers find very little to do. What do people expect us to do, sit around and watch movies at a friend's house all weekend. That gets a little boring. Our closest non-alcoholic club is in London, which makes it very hard to get to if you don't have a driver's license. People say that teenage years are the best years of your life and that they are the years you remember always. Well if this is true why do teenagers get picked on for many things they do? Some teenagers are not responsible but that doesn't classify all teenagers as such. Teenagers want to have fun just like Ire anyone else, they're not just out to cause trouble. We are trying to make our teenager years the best just like I am sure everyone else did when they were 16, 17 and 18 years old. I personally know that Brad's death hit very hard and will never be forgotten. It's not fair to say it had no effect because IT DID. I would like to say that as I walked down the main street of Seaforth on Monday the 14th of August I overheard many adults talking. The things that were said were very rude. For example "It's about time something like this happened," or "he was just another one of those drunken teenagers." Those adults probably don't even know what happened. I would like -.to finish off this letter by saying I was personally very, very upset when I read the article and so were all of Brad's other friends even Brad's parents commented about the article. Accidents can happen to anyone, unfor- tunately this accident involved a "TEENAGER" and death. Maybe some- day people will understand and accept the fact that teenagers are people too. They may even give teenagers a chance to prove it. Don't forget everyone was or will be a teenager once. Sincerely Tracey Bennett BLAST FROM THE PAST - This photograph of the SS No. 3, Hullett, taken in 1925, was brought into The Expositor by Bill Millson. The Kinburn Foresters Hall now stands on the former site of the schoolhouse, it having having been destroyed by fire. The students in this photograph are: Back; Lorne Pinkney, Jack McKeown, Charlie Wakefield, Willis Phillips, Geo. Nicholl, Jack Moore, Edith Riley, Grace Scott, Ella Armstrong, Josephine Barwick, Emma Jamieson, and Fred Fowler (teacher). Middle; Hazel McMichael, Isabel Jamieson, Mary Dolmage, Viola Clarke, Helen Britton, Doreen Clarke, Margaret Youngblut, Isabel Sundercock, Phyllis Turner, Doris Lawson, Clifford Jamieson, Bernard Riley, Fred Youngblut, Do'nelda Adams, and Fred Riley. Front; Alex McMichael, Edna Arm- strong, Hattie Armstrong, Jean Wakefield, Ethel Dexter, Stella Armstrong (holding sign), Ella Dexter, Hazel Jamieson, Edith Britton, Jack Sundercokc, Allen Dolmage and Charlie Sunder - cock. Johnston's Studio, Wallaceburg, photograph. Job in jeopardy, computer in control Writers may one day be obsolete, thrown by the wayside, replaced, by the same thing that's replacing people in many oc- cupations -computers. As you learned in a column at the top of this page earlier, The Expositor has entered the computer age. We had com- puters of a sort before, specialized ter- minals for the work we do, but they were nothing compared with the new IBMs. The IBMs can think circles around the obsolete MDT's, not 'to mention people. Of course there are .a lot of word pro- cessing things it does to make it superior, like editing functions, but I'll get to some of the interesting stuff. First there's a built-in thesaurus. At the touch of a couple keys I can call on the computer's memory to provide me with words more interesting than those in my own vocabulary. For example: Right now, as I was typing this column, I asked the computer for an alternative MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett word for "obsolete," an ominous word, and the thesaurus gives the list: dead, disused, extinct, outmoded, outworn, passe, superseded, antiquate obsolesce, outmode and superannuate. I never used to be a big user of thesauri, they can make writing .a long chore and often aren't of any use. But now that there is one literally at my fingertips for fast consultation... Suddenly I have a rich com- mand of the language. Also at my fingertips is a spell check program. As soon as I finish writing a piece with a couple keystrokes I can have the computer proofread it for me, counting all the words and the mistakes simultaneously, so I also get an idea of how long the story will be. This should eliminate the majority of spelling errors which dare to mar the pages of The Expositor. So now if you've got any complaints about spelling mistakes in this paper, tell it to IBM. Now you are probably sayingsure the computer is good with words, but it can't put them together. You're wrong. This baby has a program called Grammatik which goes through your work as Turn to page 19A • People turn out en masse for Seaforth lacrosse SEPTEMBER 6, 1889 An umbrella mender got a deck load of grog on board one day recently in Brussels, and undertook to take a snooze alongside the ditch north of the bridge. Some urchins found him and roiled him in- to the water course. Spectators say it was difficult to say who was frightened worse, the soaker who cried "murder," or the 'ths who undertook the sobering process. rord dogs have discarded their .,:les elative thereto the Beacon says: t aa the dog has again been Nre:,cnted with the freedom of the city, the cow is pushing herself into ,notice. Some parts of the city are said to look and smell like a cattle fair. One morning lately a roving bovine was sampling the grass on the St. Andrews' Church ,property, while another was getting in some landscaping work in front of Governor Nichols' residence." The bears have been ,having a abig time in Louis Holler's oat field in rey this summer, but in spite .of the dozens of hunters Bruin and his family lave maw. ed aml yJhave,maiwg- ed to .eseupe ,so far. It is a long time since any sporting event has created so much interest in this com- munity, as the lacrosse match between the clubs of Stratford and Seaforth on Tuesday last. The people of the town turned out almost en masse, while the trains from the east and west brought in a large number of visitors from Stratford and Mitchell on one side, and Goderich and Clinton on the other. Fully one half of those on the grounds were ladies. Unfortunately the long dry spell broke on that afternoon, and about half an hour after the match com- menced, and when the grandstands and grounds were packed full, and with scarce- ly any warning, the elements burst forth and rain came pouring down in torrents. It is needless to say that every person got drenched, and it was ;a had time for the fine dresses, hats, ribbons and feathers of the ladies. One prominent gentleman in town estimates the damage to female gear at fully ;$14000. The match, :although con- 'stderably lOP011ed spolled by the ram, was evenly 41 ted, and linteresting throughout. The nes t, a :shore of three to one in favor of 'ord, does not givo any correct, idea of IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives the play of the clubs, as both clubs are so evenly matched it is impossible for even the most skilled critic to say which is the best. SEPTEMBER 11, 1919 A SEAFORTH LADY ROBBED - The passenger train on the Grand Trunk Railway from Toronto to Detroit, on Satur- day was entered by two robbers, the passengers held up and robbed of their valuables, and two of the passengers shot. Two masked robbers boarded the train soon after it entered Detroit city limits, fir- ing revolvers and ordering the passengers to hold up their hands. One of the robbers reached m a linen closet, grabbed .a pillow slip, and into this the passengers were in- etructed to drop their valuables. As one robber collected the booty, his companion backed him up with a revolver. ornelius Bozekerk of Berlin, making some resistance was shot through the stomach and another man, Joseph Sitzler, of Shelvy Ontario, attempted to get into an adjoining coach and notify the' Itrain crew. Be was not quick enough, however, and fell with a bullet in his hip. At this junture both ban- dits ran to the door and leaped off the trahi, earrying their plunder with them. The whole affair had lasted but two or three minutes. Miss M. Johnston, of Seaforth, declared the robbers got $5 from her and she saw every person who was threatened by the guns gave up their money. In company ,with Mrs. (Dr-) Hodgins, .also of Seaforth, eihe`t�was:gg, , : to ,Detroit to visit 'friends. Mets. however, Was not moiested.as we 84 0.4 the robbers tbonght Mrs. Johnston carried the was ;for alemm, . It 1v. matches perience they will not soon forget. The Fire Brigade had two runs this week. Early Monday morning they were called out to the residence of Mr, W.A. Crich. It seems that Mrs. Crich, while fill- ing the tank of her gasoline stove placed it on the kitchen coal range which was hot- ter than she thought, the heat of the range causing the gasoline to explode, setting the interior of the kitchen on fire. The firemen were promptly on hand and extinguished the blaze, but not until the woodwork of the kitchen was considerably .burned. For- tunately Mrs. Crich escaped serious in- juries. Her hair and her hands were Blight- y singed in her .efforts to subdue the Hemet. Tuesday the firemen responded to an alarm caused by the burning of some rubbish near the railway freight house, as the fire communicated with a pile of old railway ties. SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 The: feet that Great Britain had on Sun- day ' enlaced Mr on Germany was bro :.t fere* home to the people of this et on Monday with the announcement m xrpage as,BA•