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EAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH, '2?,A,
:Deciding On requests for grants from legal Organizations 15 One Of
Seaforth council's toughest ioba. .
Vetere damned if you.sion't and damned if you do give Money to the
local parrot breeding club at the expense of a reiltiO0 from the doily
crocheting circle or vice versa.
• Taxpayers want Spending cuts, Out not Where they"II.atfect any of
their favouritesports or spare time activities, '
At this -time of year, as they work on committee budgets with the aim
of knowingsoon how much it will Coat' to run, Seaforth in 1979,
councillors are especially coneciouS Of the_responsibility to give away.
aeaforth's tax dollars to the most worthy cause's possible.
A firm policy on how to handle grant requests would be a good place
to start. Council gets asked for. contributions to sports and cultural
activities, to health drives, to county and town organizations,:: which
work in varloOs ways to improve things around here.
Past councils, according to clerk Jim Crocker, have had a'Policy that
council as a whole or its finance and .general government committee
considers some grant requests. Others, which had anything to do with
recreation or from new programs just getting started, were passed to
.Seaforth'srecreation committee. . . • tils.
The budgets of ..recreation, and the financecommittee each ,have
provision for grant requests. There was the feeling °sometimes that
sending requests to the recreation Committee, made upmainly of •
. private citizens, got cOuncil, off the hook or served as file 13 but the
procedure worked not badly. But actions at recent council Meetings on .
various requests for grants seem to show that policy is no longer being
followed, or at least that it's no tenger working.
In February requests for grants from groups as diverse' is the county
•',Historical, Society, the Blyth Centre for the Arts, Maitland bank
Cemetery and Mental Health Ontario were all deniedby council's
finance coMrnittee. The Huron Plowmen's Association got a $50 grant
approved by the 'same committee. • :
• A tax.refundthat was in effect a grant was approved Seaforth
-lawn bowiers by the Same committee.
At council's March Meeting a grant request from the -local nursery
, school Was, sent to recreation and one from the Seaforth Agricultural,
- Society to finance., though. -councillor, Jim Sills commented' . that •
recreation had already budgeted for it.. There was no mention of who
,rdecides what requests go to Which committees and why.
'Although there's no doubt.that.asbudget specialists Seaforth'S,
.finance 'committee should be concerned With .grants, Most people
would agree that several of the above groups are recreation oriented. .
Councilneeds a sensible.polity on grants written down and followed.
Perhaps council could take a look at the whole grantgivingbusiness
and talk out In the open about how much in grants should be allocated
to competing OeuSes,eports and cultural activities, .self-help groups, "
rural -urban relations, .promotion etc. and atilt mow council to meet an
the other ,dernandit on theiPublic purse.
Backward;
It's been a good many Moons since we've had. as many arguments
and disagreements with • so manyadults as we did over the hoopla
Surrounding the total eclipse of the sun ori Feb. 26. Before we get into
the reasons for those disagreements it is only lair to state that ourview
Was Strictly the minority one;. however . the fact that we were
ootnurnberred hasn't changed our mind one bit,
1 -laving Watched the eclipse of the t un Pack in the summer of 1963
with homemade goggles fashioned from fully exposed, fully developed
black and white film and a -Couple, Of popsicle sticks, We simply could.
not fathom the .kind of hysteria which accompanied this latest
astronomical wonder In our opinion it was a return to the Dark Ages as
' far aS the study of science is concerned. •
Judgingfrom the kind of literature pouring out of eye .Specialists
offices, 'one glimpse at the sun ' on eclipse day tinder any
circurnstances, would mean instant blindness, or at the very least
. impaired vision. Now one would be stupidenot to realize the dangers of
staring at the sun with the naked eye on eclipse day, or any other day
for that matter. But to order people to stay' indoors , was in itself
stupidity. . •
It didn't' matter much in this area. Not only did We not get totality,
but as it turned out, Most of the eastern portion of the eclipse area was
under cloud over anyway.' Regretably the tame conditions prevailed
in Red Lake where stlentists gathered frcirn -around the world, But in
Winnipeg' and Brandon', Man., it was a different story entirely. There
the vieWing was perfect and to have thousands of st'udents shut away
in classrooms Watching the greatest show our heavens have to offer on,
a television Screen, where instant and mulitiple replays are available
anyway was in Our opinion bordering on the crlrninal
' We were heartened to hear of a. few places where sanity orevatied.
• tooth of the border, schools in the path of totality, at least some of
them, tatklect the Occasion as it should be dealt with — scientficaIy
tristead of herding students Ante .:Idarkenedr. --gyrnnaSibrnt; they
purchased vierder'S, glasses of the proper density, took brown Paper
bagS large eriOugh fOr students to fit over their*tradS, cut Out a hole for
the eyes and taped in the glass. Students fitted: the bags over their
heads l watched the approaching eclipse and tiOrin command from a
loudspeaker, tUrnt4 their backs to the tun, tor* off the bags and
turned around for a glimpse of totality before again turning their backs
and putting the bags back on. There Is no doubt in our minds but what
these Students are the ones who Will remember the atflar eclinae of
Feb.26, 1979. Per thousands cif other students the event Will be nOthlog:
more than the Wolk:400f Of a televition special,. to .be,Perripared with
the kind of Special effectsdished up On 8attleatar 'Etlattica. And
nattire being what it IS, these same student's. Won't get another. chane
, to 50041 total eclipse of the sun in North America until the year 2017.
And We have the nerve to COnilder ourselves a Stielitifieally
;advanced, well educated society. SOMetiMea- It seems as 'though there
eurnethino new under the 11 un 8fter-86 —It's 'known at COMItion
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Sugarand spice
By Bin SmileY
• I can muddle around with; a metaphor,
search for a iu1e, f00I with a phrase, or
wait for the very riolit ward to come, by the
bout, without expressing any emotion
other than benignancy', _
But the small, .inanimate things that
besiege our daily life drive me into o fury.
that knows no bounds,
It's not the big, things. I've. mastered
them1can stand behind a; Mcchatlic or a
plumber and nod knowledgeabty with the
best of them..Any damfeol knoi'A that the
driveshaft is connected to the main brake
cylinder or the hot pipe is not connected to
the coal pipe, or whatever they're trying to
tell you.
It's the little things, the things you are
too ashamed to get an expert for, but
haven't a clue how to do yourself, that
Make me break things take the name of
the Lad in vain, accuse my wife and
children of dreadful things, and generally
act like an idiot.
Who's going to oll up a typewriter
repairman, for example, to change the
ribbon on his typevvriter? Or a carpenter to
come and screw a couple of tiny nuts into a
doorknob that keeps falling off?
My wife has just been through one of my
• experiencas.with the little things, and after
ten minutes of it, she ran into another
room, white and trembling, and locked the
She bought me a typewriter ribbon at
Christmas. We don't usually buy presents
for each other, the last few years. The
children and grandboys take Us ter such a
ride that we've declared a moratorium. But
here love for me was too deep. She bought
' me a typewriter.'Mainly because you could
only read the type of the old ribbon with a
magnifying glass, It made an impression
on dm paper but you touldn't see it It was
more like Braille than typing. ,But I was
hanged if I was going to spend a weekend
changing the ribbon, so I just went on.
Finally, she typed out some addresses;
broke the ribbon and practically ruined the
whole blasted machine, as I, pointed tit ifl
afew ill chosen words. .
Well, I had to get this column vvritteri
(and it be late, you can depend on it.)
So I Ore into the bloody thing Half an
hour later, the air was blue, I was black to
the waist With ink, and the fool thing was
typing in red, ."Couldn't you just sort of
switch the spools around and turn it upside
down, or something?" she queried in a
very small voice.
"SHUT UP, YOUR DUMMY" or words
to that effect. 't Aaargh!"
• Anyway, there you are. It's riot one ef
my few admirable qualities. I admit t But
I'm stuck with it. And the people who are
stuck with me are also stuek with' it
I can start screwing- a couple of
one serews into a doorknob,
and wind up with somebody " locked in the
bathroom for a week. I ean put an average,
standard staplei oil the blink 4S seconds,
with staples all over the room, and wire
irreparably bound around the thing you -
punch.
It's ail 'rather hard le Understand. I am
not particularly inept or stupid. Nor am 1
particularly clumsy .' I was a pretty fair
athlete with hood of coordination. I drive a
car'reasenably well. I Married to fly aircraft
with thousands of parts and thousands of
horsePoWer. Yet I go berserk when
cenfronted by a typewriter ribbon.
On second thought, maybe I on
understand it, f get it from my Dod. He was
a gentle man, and yet I've seen him fly into
a fur over nothing. First car he ever had,
back in the twenties. I didta see it, but I've
heard the story. The dealer showed him
, how to operaM it; drove around the block a
couple of times, picked up his down
payment and turned my bad Wise.
He inturn, picked up my mother, drove
herAround the block a couple of times,
, headed for home, and drove right through
the back of the barnthat was to 'serve as a
garage. And he blamed ,triy mothert—
, Another tinie, I saw him cut his finger,
when the knife slipped as he Was earring a
roast, He didn't say a word. Just flung,
some blood on the tablecloth, turned
• purple, sawed the edge of the carving knife
onthe side cif the plate, and ruined both.
Another time, I saw him bread his toe,
By design, not by accident. He had had five
"blowouts' in ten, miles. That was inthe
days when your tube blew but, you had to
jack up the car, take off the Wheel, extract
tube from tire, patch the tube, and go '
, drought the whole process in reverse.
. After the fourth time the air pump hand
operated,'refused to function.' He calmly
, Stood back ," looked the whole operation
• ever, and tired to kick the entire apparatus,
wheel rim, tire, tube and air pump, over
the nearest fence. FM collapsed with a
groan, and my mother, who was an
excellent engineer and repairwoman, as is
my wife, had to wait for the next Motorist
to help out, while my Dad lay in .the back
seat, tmittering through his teeth Words
that I have. since learned are palliativeto
siteh a situation.
So it ain't my. fault It's the genes:
To the editor.
Trees are
.,Gladswood'', R. R. #1 Seaforth
NO,K IWO, March 19, 1979,
To the Editor '
It was a pleasure to read Your editorial '
encouraging the planting of lreeS,
I don't suppose that many people are
aware that my uncle Chas. P. Sills was an
honour graduate of University if Torok() ist
Mining Engineering and previous to World
War 1 *at occupied in that field. During the
Wenner holidays, when he attended Univer-
dity, he oratked as it Forest Ranger at various
locations, eonsequently, because' of his
knowledge of terraio and forestry he also
had a knowledge of the effect, indiscriminate twat information re the growing of the trees '
Stripping of the forests and hedges. had -oft but also Where one tan buy the tuts to plant
the watershed I was made aware of this on „ young trees. At Mr, Cariipbell'S farm
my 16th summer when I drove with mY uncle "Compberty VarM" Niagara on the Lake he
to Peterborough to my aunt Mona Reyttold'S . not only has nut Met but many varieties of
where I was ping to ,Stay for a visit, ethers trees, The Society has a Spring
neede
occuring yearly nowadays,.
I wonder if any readers would be
interested in planting nut trees? My
grandfather Sills used to talk about going out
to the bushes around Brucefield, in his
boyhood, and picking hickory ntitS, beechnut '
Sweet ehestnuts btitterntita and filberts, Try
and find any around here nowt. However,
not only will , all those grow yet but also
pans and English walnuts (the type you
buy in stores at Christmas.)
There is a Society of Nut Growers (SONG)
which one can join and they not only give
As we drove alone there were Mat* Auction and members bring trees to sell pint
occasions when my uncle Charlie was either nuts to plant. The annual fee is $3.0. Since •
giving his very Canded opinion of drivers walnut trees and others grow fast, I should
Who passed him on a hill or netting the imagine that it would be quite profitable
decimation of the bushes stating "The d—d For farmers to plant Some nut frees as MIAS
fools are destroying the watershed." And are Very expensive. Planting a tree or more
his predications have Certainly been proven on a child's birthday would be rather nice I
right, at I don't recall hearing of floods fifty Think.
• Sincerely,
two years ago comparable to the ends Mona Silis Entefisberger
Ativfatiiina aittapiee an din entsillikin that in *8 &inn ectovpoetentlinal ottot the Eft/stasis* sponse
**valid by Oil orroiaitaiti latrii, 4000* with tivAiOttablo alltuvar lot iiltbuitUttii 'WM Ool be chattier{ for but
lui101bt. lb,' IOt at Out applicant. tam ,
WM% avity WOOwiti made 10 loom they tiro heetned with owe, the eubiliniei cannot be responsible 10,6
tha entiiht 404044164 moushihotoi. .
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del)
•• MOM 241879
One day lately an we belonging to John.
Cultintlne of f101ett. gaVe. birth to a 16% ih.
14'lliitbn-ialIentlrontt the -BM- atelS Fire Engine
WOrks'W4, in town a feW'tlitY$ ago for siteof '
onta ti
eomfeheisosirattlei's
of the Guelph-Presbyt
Aerian
held in the town, of Elora Reir. A. P.
McPonald accepted the call tendered hits
by the Seatorth rresbyterlau church*
At * Meeting of the Seaforth ,Chent*
Menttfeetnrer Co, the folloWing7afficeS
were elected. PirectorS: ROW GoverdoelE, .
James Scott, Thernas E. Hays, George
Govenlock, Wm. Murray.
EbTehrheabrdutilacIsinagfbafinerYethiL. °CheceuriPePliCtirebg:ei
by G, C, Petty Jr.
As evidence of tliClie'll8rtett1904t 410n'th Of snow
this winter, we May .relate the experience'
of Micheal McGrath, of this town. ef
$eaforth, M, McGrath went to the bush to
get some Wood, when he got there he
couldn't PO tbe pile of wood. He dug
down four feet befere he come to the top of
the pile of wood'. Mr McGrath has lived in
this vicinity for over SO years and he never
saw the snow as deep before.
Peter Daley has purchased the residence
of John Fowler con Goderich street fOr 582.5.
Dr . Weddle was called to Chicago on
account of the serious illness and death of
his brother there. .
James Lockhart has purchased from Mr.
Foster of Varna his 100 acre wood lot in
Stanley Township.
Robert Bell has purchased the residence
of the late Charles Wilson pay for it 52,400.
• Mr. Fred Crich, who has been salesman
for W. Pickard and Cog, has , gone to
Portage La Prairie where he has secured a
good sitnation.
Robert Willis is having the electric light
installed in his residence.
MARCH22, 1929.
On Friday evening, the home of Mr. and
Mrs, Ed. Mentes, McKillop Was the scene
of a most special and pleasant evening
when the moonlight Revellers Club, Iklitigh-
hours, and friends met to spend a soeial
evening with them before they move to
their new home.
Mi. Statt Reid of Brucefielci has taken a
position in Winghom...
James O'Loughlin of Manley has secur-
ed a 'position With , James Nolan of
Tuckersmith.
The ,fine weather of late had improved
the roads so that the cars can run.
The maple syrup season is going to be
short duration as the frost is almost out of
the SCOnnd-.
Winthrop hall their •annnal flo,04 last
week/the Water being,about a feet deep
some places WOO the vU1age,
The auction sale held by Nir, M.,Sproat
Tuekersmith at the brick yards was the
MOO successful Side held ht the &Wet
t:orn =OPtunet 0*He Ce ahlZtet:t W9h Oofhasth eh:ethn •
working f r him fr 14 years
Mr;Feratts Iforatt of Beechwood has
rented his fan rn kl!t !rat*, Maloneyt
poritiis:4CiftlartabeWleohcalera Zncr ottithhase aaknekn °fa
Montreal as typist and hook keeper,-
poMpoissefKmartsh.lemen. Sat:1;1:7 successful In
Toronto Cor.servatory of music, She is the
Passing the primary examination Of the
•
The Barbara Kirkman AusilarY an*
.PresbYterian church staged a very unique
birthday party on March 19th amottg those
who took part were Fred Wiltis, Margaret
;PMatratn,E4Mnrsal 41,11.13.SKteawirte, GM -Plat RMo.sPs:
Mrs. Merton Ried, Ruth Thompson, Anna
Edmunds, Mary Witigh., Evelyn Grieve,
Merle Keating, JiMmte Scott, Marjorie,
Win, Ian McTavish, Van' Belli Kenneth
Beatie, LOLS Wright, Richard B9a, Ona
Nichols Norma Habkirk, Mrs. W. B. •
McLean, 'Edith McKay, Earl Vail Egmuncl,
Mrs, N. M. Stewart, Mrs. John Slatero
Mrs. M. McKellar', Gerald Stewart. and
!Ars. M. R. Bennie.
MA10126,1954
Seeded from eleven applicants Andrew
tiouston-wat appointed Tuckersmith
road superintendent at a special meeting of
Tuckermsith Council. He succeeds Wm.
Rogerson who resigned.,
Seaforth Curlers, at ' an, enthusiastic
and well attended meeting, took steps to
incorporate , as aptivate company and to
proceed with the construction ef a three
sheet curling rink. The committee responsi
,ble for building ineluides F, Kling, N.
McLean, Win Cainpbell, J., A. Stewart and
,
Harry Ball.
Seaforth skaters members of the Sea -
forth Figure Skating club presented their
annual carniVal to an audience that well ,
filled the Seaforth Arena.
Mr:: & Mrs. Jas. A. SteWart, leader and
organist01
e
selvdenynngitwhen
ahurchwere
rwFireside
service Was held, when Mr. 4r Mrs. J. A.
Stweart were presented with giftsindick
ting the appreciation of the congregation.
The
nest 6ftsin
of tablecr, daedaion
wffileeoctiscasbleanalchair,datahe
lamp.
ehind the scenes
by Keith Rouiston
Wh•o's first?
Everybody ,WaiitS to step inflation but
nobody wants to be the first sueker.
Were into another round Of "I've .got.' to
catch up" in the income sweepstakei.
Right now its the doctors who are causing
the fuss. They're pulling out of the
provincial health insurance program in
record numbers because they don't feel
they're being allowed to earn enough. A, .
grovvintitionber are getting out of Canada
altogether because Canada's government
controlled medical system doesn't allow
the huge incomes that doctors can earn in
the U.S. where doctors can charge
anything they want.) ,
To their benefit, at least the doctors
aren't arguing that they're on the verge of
starvation and need more income,, like
some others in the wage and salary battle
have, Their argament instead is that they "
4freetsfaiolinifialgs:.b, eYhotiintrth:Minetbenit: tohfaotthWeas r the
pro.'
argument of. the teachers' a while bock too
(although many of them also Made it sound
like they were wasting away to skin and
bones becausethey couldn't afford to eat).
The teachers, Considering th,emselvet
professionals looked at the Salaries of
doctors and lawyers and engineers and felt
they vvete as important to society as the
better paid ptofessiOnals.
TEACHERS.
SO , with the gigantic jump in salaries
teachers pilled closer to the incomes of
professionals 'a couple of years back,,
though still along ,way from what doctors
and lawyers were getting. But rimy doctors
can take a look hack and see teachers
'gaining ori them and they feel they shotild
be Maintaining their fernier wide gapk
They need more money. They also take a
look and see laWyers. with Whom they once
shared the top, income 104, Moving
ahead because lawyers Salaries are ,tio-
controlled, Lawyers can • charge what
they wain and as the dominant group in
governments they also promote their own
profession by making laws so coniplieated
that only lawyers can deeode thein.
if doctots could pass a law that said
everyone had to go to the doctor twice
week:
• But toinewhere, Soitietime, Something
has to give, We can't keep tip with this,
'system whete part Of the populatiOn teet
°theta ahead of them and says "1 deserve
as much as that guy" White the goys that
are out front say " alWayi earned t ice
as Intich as that guy so if he gets StOoti
More rvo got to get $200o,"
What's the antwert tau* 1 dont
• know. I don't see why people shotild expect
to always be rich just beaose of their
profession. 1 don't seewhat lawyers
dn for tlio '6,11141f Of Ani`lOtit fltmakiia.
, lawyers were given unrestricted incomes
then doctors, who are of far more benefit
should get as much or more. But then if
we're going to according to the benefit
ttoops°cbieectaYi;steheaflal itmheer. insheoduiclidalb:ktihIles ginuyon
the
world wouldn't allow doctors to save the
Hires, of , people starving to death, and
' lawyers. wouldn't make much money off
people Who had to steal bread just to stn):
a ,
And where, would that leave people like
me? Some people would say thatwriters
and artists :make a very valuable con.
tribution to society' while others claim
. we're just bums who are too lazy to go out
and get a real job digging ditches or
something Who's to make the judgement
of what value each person's contribuion to
' society,
TEE SQUEEZE
So we come back to the Present system'
where the guy that gets the most money I
the guy who can put the Squeeze on soelet
the hardest, Lawyers control the number of1
people allowed tO enter law school so that
there are always just enough; or perhaps
too few lawyers to go around. Thus they
can agree oF law fees and keep thein high '
enough and keep enOugh customed
coming in the door to keep intoineslitp.In
any other business this would. be Called
restraint of trade, but not among lawyers.
And because our society is so compliCated,
we need a lawyer' for nearly any 'legal, ,
ransactidn:
Doctors Used to play under the same
kind of vies,, But then Somebody -Mae tip
withtheidea that medical aid was toe •
important to be given only to those with
money.. We came into socialized medirine
and suddenly the anuitint Of money doctors
earned Was tontr011ed, onlest they'
stepped out of the insuranceprograin and
: billed their patients directly so they could
charge more than the government would
pay. That they ate now doing at a rate that
alarms many people..
One of the ironies of the present ,
situation, however, is the solutions, that
hare been proposed by SeVetit Onions'.
Spoicesitten.for several unit:int ItiVe
demanded that the government teke action
to &teed all doctors to remain within the
government medleal plan. This, in effect,
is .fcireing the doctors to accept whatever
the' goVertiMerit wants than to make. If
that kind of prepotal was made to iny
'Union the sereants Would be so loud you'd
think 'Someone • was tortering theinges
member hew hard the unions have fought
to get and keep the right to Strike frit
government Oniployees? Ali, but now the
thoe's on the *other foot.
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