The Huron Expositor, 1979-03-29, Page 3PASTORAL SCENE -• This is one'ofthe quieter competing in the Optimist CO's seventh
spots on the Bayfield River which will be filled annual. canoe and kayak races,
Witt) canoeists on Sundayafternoon who are (Expositor Photo
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=:A SNOWY WOODS -- The weekend's snowfall
was a sharp reminder that spring hasn't quite
-put down roots et. Anyone venturing out for a
p Y Y 9.
walk•in the woods might have found theydidn't
g
look; much different than they did in Januar
oes
R t
ace s weekend
You can paddle your own
canoe, try a canoe for two. -
anything but tipping your
canoe in the Seaforth Opti-
mist Club's annual canoe
race down the ttyisting Bay-
field River. '
° The race will be held o
Sunday afternoon, starting
from the Egmondville bridge
at 1.p°.m: and ending at the
Vanastra bridge east of Clin-
ton,-
Arnold Stinnisen, one of
the race organizers, said the
club, has already been contac-
ted by a Toronto YMCA
group, as well as canoeists'
from as far away as Wallace -
burg and Windsor,; about
entering the race.
, Last year. 27 ..couples and.
six; singles competed in the
race. First place was won by
theteam of BrianMurray
and John Calcutt of London
who finished the course in
one hour and 20 minutes.
The classes in the Optimist
Club race, are service clubs,
SPRING -PEEKS OUT hese' fearless snowdrops one of the firs si ns
�` pfirst g
of sprig,weren about tO be daunted. by Monday's snowstorm. These
flowers kept ri ht o blooming
on the lawn of the Van ;Egrnond house.
(Ejtpositor Photo)
Election ;called for NIS 22
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educated in North Bay and worked in
industry :from 1931.39. After serving with
the Queens Own Rifles and the RCAF', he
graduated as a miniter front; Victoria and
Emmanuel Colleges in 1947.
He..is..married, to•..the _.former, Elizabeth..
d has six children.
iUi s.an a n
Lamont mone K n
Rev. Dames was in the active ministry for
35 years, and'scrved as minister of Parkview
United Church, Stratford for the last seven
years.
r parents without
He is a directtl ofou.
Partners and the chairman of the committee
for social action of the tendon conference of
the united Church.
Prfine Minister Trudeau waited longer in
his term i to call the federal election than any
peacetime prmc ministersince R B•...y
Bennett in 1935. The five year
term. ,...en
ds
Ally S so Mr, Trudeau Could' only have
waited; another six weeks before calling the
Vote,
The standing in the House Of Comrhons,
When Parliament was dismissed` on. Monday
night were: Liberals 133, Conservatives 08,
NDP 17 and two seats Vacant. " Under
or l redistribution
�rlect a , 24 new Seats will be
added to the Commons this election,
bringing membership to 288 from 264;
Mr. .Trudeau,59, will, be'faeing his fe‘irth
'federal election campar'gn wiileat.will be the
first campaign as party leaders' for Joe 'Clark,
39, the PC leader and. Ed Broadbent; 43, the
NDP leader.'
the family category with one-
person under -16 years and
the other over' 18 years old,
old, mixed amateur for a
male and female, mens ama-
.'teur, mens advanced ;oma
_teur.,--mens-.expert .:and the
kayaVclass, which' can be
paddled by one or two per-
Registration for the differ-
ent classes wilt be held
Sunday morning at the
Egmondvipe bridge at 9:30
The first three finishers in
each -category will receive a
trophy and all participants
receive a chest from: the,
Seaforth -Optimist Club to
'show that they braved ' the.
elements to compete in they
event.
Breakfast will be:`se
before ore the races and a dra
for a 14 foot {gg.. on uin can
oo A
will be. held 'following the
races at the Seaforth` Optir
Mist Club building: •
Proieeds from the race will
be used to assist in Optimist
Club youth work andfor the
Bunny Bundle fund which is
used for work with crippled'.
children,
•
tng
i4tWhite_
"We're mothers, first and,
career women second: at least
when our kids our sick," a
friends said to nee. and how
true it is.
There's probably not a'
mother alive who works
.outside the hone who hasn't
felt a terrible pull in' two
directions, You know you're
essential at work but a sick.
kid needs mother too.
Often there are child care
problems. Even if your
youngster only .has a slight
case of the sniffles you're
reluctant to take her out to
the balaysitters or to daycare
where she'll infect other
kids.
Sometimes: there are
.urgent financial pressures
blessedly somewhat relieved
in our society. What if you're
a single parent who
absolutely has to work in
order to eat and that means
leaving a sick kid or even a
healthy kid in child care
arrangements that .,are leks
than satisfactory?
Of eourse your first
allegiance is to your children,
it has' -to be. But the issue
really doesn't arise until
there's an emergency,• mast
of us juggle our motherhood
and ourjobs in normal times
(with the help of family,
friends and sitters) quite
well. ---
But the pressure on.
working mothers, and on
single'.fatherst guesstoo, can
be immense when something
goes wrong at home.
1 don't know what the
answer is, perhaps
understanding employers'.
more community support for
families who arc alone and
maybe; dust maybe, more
sharing of the responsibility
for children by their fathers.
That'll likely bring, a .11 t
from readers ' because not
many people can see the
sense in father staving home
from his $12,000. a near job
with • a . sick child' while
mother goes in to work part
time for $3 an hour.
And probably. that -isn't
very 'sensible either. But.
Mill, many husbands and.
fathers are faking : on more:
responsibility , at home,'
sharing the bathing, feeding,'
dressing and beddingof the.
kids with their wives, just as
they share bringing home a
pay cheek or work on •the
farOnm.
•'ce• a, child actuallybas
two primary •care givers::
„that's ; the. awful term the.
new child care books use.
. and: ma 'and pa really share
in its card, maybe some of
143 occurrences in March
that children: versus job Pres.-
sure - that now falls ,alntost'
exculsively on mothers will
be shared ton.
1 hope so, because if often
seems the • expectation$,
mothers who work ntttside
the home: (maybe all
mothers).have of themselves
are unreasonably high.
A letter to Ann. Landers.
this µ•eek 'illustrated, this
perfectly. A. woman with
II three kids under eight and a
full time job who had total
responsibility for the house
and yard wrote that she felt
she— should take part in
eommunity and church
activities too. "I feel like 1,
never get anything done, I'm
not well organized. Others
seem to accomplish sq much
f RON EXPO$.%TOI
tore' than 1 4e the pouf
entan wrote
This math.er efi:Pected her
self to be Superwoman and
east no blame. She feat there
v►ras, something wrong with
her. The real problem, and
..Ann Said -self not in so many,
words, is where the beck is
her husband?
Probably having, a drink
with the boys in the local'
hotel, after a full day at work
and a: nice hen* cooked
..supper with well behaved
kids, courtesy of the afore
mentioned Superwoman.
That will have to--ehange
You're
invited
Seaforth Happy Citizens Will
meet for Euchre in Seaforth
Legion Hall on Thursday
April S at 2 p.m. visitors
welcome. Please bring sand-
wiches.
' The Seaforth Figure Skat-
ing Club will tie holding their
Annual Meeting on Thurs..
April •S at 8 p.m. at the
Seaforth Community Centre.
During the meeting officers
for the new year will be
elected and plans for the
79/1.31) Skating season will be.
made, All parents are urged
to attend if a 'successful club
is to operate next year.
ircus
coming
• Hey kids! The circusis'
coming to town.
'Seaforth ;A,e,ricultural
Society has announced that it.
will be sponsoring two per-
formances of the Martin and,
Downs circus at the fair-
grounds on Tuesday, May
29. •
Agricltural Society
president :Ken -Moore-- says
the circus, which appeared in
Brussels last year under the
sponsorship ; 'of the . agricul
tural society there, was very
• popular with 1oCal people.
'It's a fine show Mr.
Moore told the Expositor.
The ,circus include,
prancing horses, aerial
trapeze acts. wizards. of
balancing and . juggling;.
clowns and of course, the.
• circus elephant:
•
•
•
the
but it won't be wit out a
.fight: Men who have no
' ponsibility on the home
front anda paycheck from,
their wives to .spend have a
good thing ,going,' and they
know it. They won't giee`tt
up, without :a struggle.
Public welc
ki
e general public. as
well as members. are 'invited
to attend Tuesday's meeting,
of the Seaforth Chamber of
Commerce.
It's at 7:3Q p.m at the town
hall and will feature two self
Ont tntee .ntOtheM with a
double: fond to that realize•
there's- nothing, wrong with.
them, it's their spouses''
attitudes that need changing,,
We're on our way.
Ah,, boy.isa't if funto live:'
in interesting times?
ami C of
motivating films, one called
"You Can: Burp ss you#seif
"The films, OrNfrrific and
valuable to anyone who's
interested in self improve-
ment," said C of C president
Betty Cardno.
Sugar unr� spsce.
By, Bill Smiley
Like; most people in this country with any
intelligence, I welcome the advent of
spring, which in Canada consists mainly of
mud, slush, Cold rain and; colder winds...
It is the end of that suicidal season in
which we get more and more depressed.
irritable, and bone-weary of living in a land.
where the national sound symbols are the
wet sniffle and the barking cough, the
stational sight synibols are the filled -In.
driveway and the rusting fender,
It's a trying time. For years, I've
advocated a mid-February holiday to Save
the national psych from self-destruction,
I've suggested calling ,it National Love
Day, the third Monday In 'Feb.: a day to
love your neighbour, your neighbour's
wife, yourself; and life,, not necessarily in
that. order. •
But i've been blocked, year after year,
by politicians, who fear the opponents
• might score a victory if it were named: Sir
John A. MacDonald Day or Sir Wilfred
Laurier Day; and by the industrialists and
business community, who blanch with
terror at the th ought of paying .their,
;employees for one more non productive
day in the year. Hell, a third of their
employees` -days are 'non-productive any-
way. They may as well throw in a bonus.
Yes, I'welcomc spring, but there's one
aspect of it that 1 very nearly loathe. That's
• when the first yellow sun begins to filter
through those murky storm windows,
which we daren't take off until mid-May.
It isn't the sun that bothers me. It's the
Old Battleaxe..She throws away her
survival kit, the :cataracts, ,are peeled from
her eye$,: and she starts:driving-me out of
my skull,
"Bill _Smiley, look at these drapes!" 1
Iook. They look fine to me. Same old ones.-
we
nes•we had in January. Green and gold with
carctic s oke and hot air
igfro th
m m e
ancient furnace,: but perfectly serviceable
drapes.
. .
"Look at that rug. Filthy! Look at the.
chesterfield. The Boys have ruined it:.am,
bananas,` yoghurt! Look at that woodwork.
ft was off-white in ,the fall, and now it's,
off -black! The wall paper is disgusting!"
Well; I: look up, from my paper with every ,
demand, andeverything .• looks: just the
same to me as it did' a month ago.
Comfortable. Warm. Lived-in, f venture
such an opinion. It is met with a torrent of
abuse, > self-pity; and ; materialistic
avariciousness.
"You don't care, do you? You'd live in a
pig -pen. wouldn't you? Other men help
their wives -keep the peace decent, don't
they? Have you no eyes in your head?
Aren't you ashamed of this "wreck" room.
that used to be our living -room?"
Faced with a barrage of rhetorical
questions, I shift uneasily and answer,
"Yes" or, sometimes, "No". I never know
what to .say, but. it's -always the wrong
thing. •
Frankly, I. don't care. And yes, 1 would
live in ';a. ,pig -pen, if nothing .• else were .'.
available, And no, other men don't, 'help"
their wives keep the place decent. Not
decent men. And yes, I' have eyes in. 'my
head, two of them, one apt to be black after
this column appears.
I merely blink benignly, start talking
supportively. Yes, we should have new
drapes, How much? Yes„ we should have a
new chesterfield suite. How much? Yes,
it's time we got rid of that old dining -room -
suite, which we bought second-hand for
$100. 20 years ago. How much for a new
one? Certainly, the rugs need cleaning and'.
the whole house redecorating. How much?
it always comes out to somewhere
around $8,000.:I -remindthat: we have to
borrow from the bank to pay the .income
tax. That we have two cars which we could
sell in a package deal, to an experienced
mechanic. for $400. That if we don't have..
some brickwork" done, thewhole house will
fall down, and we'll be sitting there, in full:
view, on our new chesterfield.
I suggest that ' she save: money from
. teaching her piano pupils, pay back the
$1,000 she has spent , on long-distance
phone calls to her relatives, and take . -job
as a cleaning lady for a year, and all will be
jdoozy. New everything.
She counters• r with a o about
arrows ab ut the
booze. ill the cigarettes account, and` all
b ga s
the .money 1 gamble: away on lotteries.
I remind her .$ Y entl that if she hadn't
spent a cool throusand'on gold chains last
summer in Switzerland, we'd be in clover.
And so' it goes..
After a week or two of this, we have
arrived at . an impasse. 'The sun keeps
shining, ' something important, •.like the
,children, crops up, and we sail happily into
a> new• year, with the wreck ,room in tact:
warm, comfortable, lived-in. Doesn't cost a
nickel. And you know something? Nobody
cares.:
More vandalism here Amin
Aloysius McQuaid of North Main Street,
Seaforth was fined $200, and his driver's•
licence was suspended for three months
after he was 'found, guilty of an impaired
driving c arge n pr v nciai court, Go ch.
The impaired driving charge resulted from_
an incident on March 16. .
` Mr..McQuaithalso was charged, with the
possession of stolen property' and received a•,
three month suspended :sentence on this.
charge. The defendant was charged with this
offence after a number of stolen tape decks
were recovered in his • possession by the
Seaforth police on March 12. •
The Seaforth police continue to be plagued
..
by a number of reports of vandalism in town.
The front of Box Furniture store was
damaged during the weekend and stones
were thrown through the notice board beside
the Seaforth post office.
Bill Riley of Seaforth reported someone
had wilfully damaged his car which was
parked on a vacant lot next to Luke's
Machine Shop. This incident isstili under
investigation.
Also, the scaffolding at Topnotch 'Feeds
aster Seals need
1,5�J0 Lions report
• The Seaforth Lions• club, which are,
sponsoring the 1979 Easter Seal Campaign to
the Seaforth area, have reached half their
Campaign goal to date.
D head he Lions
arrvin Bannerman, heft of t s
Club committee: which is chairing the
Cam ai n, said' the dub had' collected
p g
.$1557.50 by Monday afternoon,
This year the club had hoped to raise
$3,000 in the" atea to assist the parents of
physically 'handicapped children in the
purchase of wheelchairs, braces and arta
ficial limbs as well as helping to pay the cost:
of sending the children to sumnter Cant s:
The. official Easter Seals Campaign Tuft
front' March 5 until Easter Sunday, but Mr.
Bannerman said donations will be accepted
after the campaign's cutoff' date.
Mr: Bannerman said, Iota! organizers had
hoped donations would � , , d be around the 52,000
mat, k byth
is
point in the. campaign, T e •cl b
h u
sent Easter seals to residents esidents in Seaforth and
Walton and :the ruralMail-routes _. .
served -by
catt iers from both post offices,
Mr. -Bannerman said • dentitions '
" , are Still
"dribbling in" " but tot at the'rate the eltt(f
had hoped,
t.ast year the. Lions 'Club r#ised 32;208 to
assist' in with
the: walk crippled children, ,
pp
r:
gal
Ltd,:: was pushed over and damaged again.
thisweekend by persons unknown.
Police Chief John Cairns said the local
iolice force has investigated 143 occurrences
since Masarii 1;'making it "the busiest month
We've ' had this year." The chief said crime is
down but vandalisnt is on the increase."
Most months, the police investigate an
average of 100 occurrences.
The chief said vandalism seems to be on
fthe increase' across the ,:province, He:..
attributed last week's incidents partly to the
fact it .was the spring, break for students and
"they just didn't '`want togo to bed (at
night)."
Penalties for vandalism range from pro-
bation to a 5506. fine and restitution for the
property damaged in' the trident,'
The police chief also reported that the new
radio equipment has arrived at the Seaforht
police station and will be installed later this
week. When the dispatch system which links
police forces in five Huron County towns is
ready for, use, there will be an official`
opening of the s�tem at the G
oderich police
station. When Seaforth re idents
want
report an incident to the police, they will.
continue to phone 527-1500 under the new
system .......,
Hospital not worried
P
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presently eight beds in the ward:
Mr. Mackenzie' is also currently studying
new
ministry Y of health guidelines i tr
oduced
.for f chsa e eare beds.. The ministryst
rY
announced earlier this year that patients
stayinging in chronic cara beds for more than
60
days would be assessed a Chronic fee
payment of$9,80per
day,
The levy of the chronicrcare fee is effective
lit provincial 'hospitals on April 1.. Mr,
MacKenzie said a number of people are
exempt front the
a rent including l
atients
bit welfare, veterans with warrelated
iilntsses 'and people with incoht below
certain amounts. Al$br Mr. 1 l"u.Kcnrie stud
. if a 'family finds that paying the chronic fee*
payment is causing. financial trouble it can
appeal tfie, fees. While patients tine
old age pensions may ualif for a reduced
fee, Mr. MacKenzie 'said "someone like
E.P. Taylor?' would •tikeely be assn ed
•
y or a uess er
If you have a tiredandworn out old teddy
bear hanging around your house, don't
throw that felioit,"out.
And when 1 say a tedd} bear,''I mean a
real, honest -to -goodness stuffed toy teddy.
Heaven knows what a teddy bear
could mean! 1`ve heard it used as. a 'word of
endearment for, an old grandfather type.
And the way our language is degenerating
lately, I'm sure it Could be a name for some
rock group..
When I say teddy bear, I mean a teddy
bear --those brown, fuzzy wuzzy 'bears all
kids like to cuddle.
Did I say kids? No: dear, reader, if the
truth is known, teddy bearsare for
grownups too..
I learned that last week when 1 walked
through a Textile Museum on Bloor Street
in-Toroit .lv
want to o .ass
use you right off t
did not walk up that long flight of stairs to.
. that museum to see teddy bears. 1 ready
wanted to see the curator, Max Alien. Max'
is a full time radio producer for CBC anda
part time assembler Of rugs, wall, hangings
pillows, quilts, clothes,and whatever else
comes under the name of textiles.
Max said he got the idea of displaying;
teddy bears 'wlieti lie teidlt''a second look at
his own tedd bear It da ned h'
Teddies are made out of:- cloth and they
would make a perfect candidate for his
museum,
Max, mind you, is all of 39 years old.
He's ntan, enough td admit he s had his
teddy beat all of his life,- So have lots of
other people. ABri
tis • racing car driver
brings his teddyto the races. Together
they roar up to s peeds of 403 miles an hour.
ipr,
Then there s the King of .:.flan. .e
g Tideland. d He
takes his teddy bear on all his travels: And
there's a 'certain mountain climber who
stuck his teddy in his backpack, when he
scaled the Matterhorn:
Many of the' bears in Max's"ttutSetint,
look as if they'd. h.. , . .
. -_ tali tk Most of thetn_;r�m
lidy 10 toddle Offle ;the Great Tedd •Beat
Y
Land in the sky.
But Max wants old teddy bears. lie says
if your bear looks'^•worn, that means only
one thing. He's been a much Loved and
hugged beat: ••
Max can't be botheered: retelling teddy
bear history. How teddies all got started
when a 1902 Cartoon , showed ' ;President.
Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub. At
least that's one story. There's another, one
about the caterer who needed a centerpiece
idea for a presidential reception he was
planning: One day he saw in a toy store
some stuffed bears made by the Steiff
family in Germany. ' •
Since Teddy Roosevelt was a sportman
and wildgame hunter, the caterer decided
to dress up the bears as hunters and
fisherman and put them on the center
tables. The 'guests loved
them: Theycalled .
them teddy bears. Teddies bears were in.
Max doesn't write up things like that
aver his eddbear
collection: He's
interested inr?OUR teddy
bear, in YOUR
story, and about YOUR teddy beat. Max..
prints uyour story p p a boveyour teddy in his,
museum.
' ` MAX• "doesn't go'roralt the pschologizing
bo t s h all the littlepeople and big
people love teddy bears, He'll let other
people talk abou bears as pacifiers and
as
the first alternative to mother's undivided:
'attention. He'll let other people say that
teddies are soft, portable, supportive and.
d p
en
dabbe..
aiwa s
thate
1 wished'.1 had a teddy bear to bring to
Max. I told him. we do have an old toothless .
lion sitting on a 'bed upstairs:
"Nope," said Max, !' We want
only
bears."
"But this lion," 1 said, "thinks he's a
teddy beat."
' "No," said Max, "Your lion only wishes'
he were a. teddy bear. Didn't you know?
Y
'Every stuffed beat -wishes he'vvea a teddy
bear, and 1udky is .a Man who. owns One,
Hoag ital coin (Rteee will study Y luses.
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