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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 10, 19791
j.fl:ep+e are the coaches?.
Soyour kid wants', to play baseball or soccer this summer?
Well, unless more adult volunteers come out of the woodwork for
coach and manage teams, he or she may be out of luck.
Getting adult volunteers for Seaforth's many minor sports programs;
has always been a problem. But in the last couple of years it's reached
near crisis proportions, • •
The kids are wilting.. More than a hundred kids register every year
for soccer. and, baseball here and there's no indication that the summer
of 1979 will be any different: But the same few people, becoming fewer
everyy'ear,; volunteer to teach and guide our future sports stars:
According to Charlie Campbell of the Seaforth rec-committee, the
lack of adult leaders is so serious that there just won't be any Seco er
and baseball program for our kids thts.sumrner, period; 'unless more
--adults volunteer to help:
At a time when adult baseball for both menand women is booming
and a ladies' soccer team is doing very well, it would be a shame to net',
be able to offer our young people a chance at the same sports.
Al} -.of us take from our community. It may be time for all sports
minded adults 'in' Seaforthto examine their consciences and their
schedules and • see if they can't find just one night a week to give to the
kid's programs. Time,' to decide to give something back to the
P
tri other words`, that isn't: for our own selfish gain.
'community, Pyoungsters'
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If many= eop le would volunteer a little time for ports,.
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the lead ,would: be lighter on everyone. . •
T he alternative is a generation who won't learn to play baseball and
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soccer well. And then who'll,make, up the 'atiullt.teams 'of the f utre?
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If you can:give just a little' tirtje; call rec director ctor Clive Buist at
You'll promise We oull feel needed.
527-088, P
�ttncil's a real eye opener
Doyou knout what:a township council meeting is all about?
councillors '' ou
are doing ? If
v' . what -theelected
Do you have any ideayou w doing? worthwhile to
the answer to these questions. is"no'',.then it might:be wort wh
attenda cooncil meeting, and' find out -what politics isall about.
There aremany taxpayers n tax .the Townships of Georgian
rs.
SaY,Lakes, and Muskoka .that. hava the faintest idea what their
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councillors are up .to,: and what/ is being decided duringcouncil
meetings. •
As taxpayers, you have the right toknow, and you are entitled to sit
in on council meetings, and form your own opinions. Lately though,
some of those opinions'mi ht reflect the fact that "the louder' you: talk,:
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the more voices you drown out
. ...
Council meetings in 'both`. townships as of late have become forums.
for voice 'battles. Some of the. softer spoken councillors, .listen for an
opening to sneak in a few words, but are mowed down by a sudden
Burger of louder words, that carry the discussion.
At this week's council meeting of the Township of Georgian Bay, it"
Was a verbal game of 'football. A private businessman in the township, t;'
approached'council on a matter of garbage containers, and ,an
agreement where the township yktOUld be responsible for the containers '.
pick-up. and P P •
Council indicated that they were not prepared tosign an agreement
toproVide this businessman with a garbage box. They would provide
htm with a container, but theydidn't
want to sign any a
reement for r
pick-up, in case at some future date,the businessman insisted that the
township provide six garbage containers instead of one..
Mixed into the discussion was an element of Logic, 'The obvious
was anger, and while the shouting match carried On, . the
ingredient ,
element ent of logic decreased at a low but steadyrate.
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Other citizens that had come to approach council on private matters
ers
a.s
were treated. to a: verbal display of the:lruder the better, andlong'
as it's loud it doesn't have to make tense."
There were a total of three consecutive shouting matches during the
intensity the
card.i
Each presentation gained n. n ens ity y fro rn. ho
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previous, almost attempting to do one better.. The final statement
uttered by an unhappy businessman was you can all go to hell,"
No doubt there is a place for anger, yelling and cursing. Maybe out
in a field somewhere, where only the cows can hear the vocal sighs of
human discontent. Not in a council chamber, or for that matter
anywhere in public. If there are problems, there, are solutions, but
while there is rapid fire voices penetrating the air, these solutions are
harder to grasp.
Maybe if more taxpayers attended township Council meetings, the
councillors would be' a "little More behaved. Like the inspectora> that
. .
• oncerused to frequent public schoots, to Check progress cand DodoCt ,
the taxpayers might also be able to pass ttltigeme t espe tally before
the neMxt election. w yZThe Georgian gay Beacon
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Coming soon...Niagara fruit
In the years agone
Itdirertistrip'is **intact on the condition that in the' evert of a typopraphkat error, the advsrtlling' i 1 e
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occupied by the erroaectoi tfeet, ttytiMter Mtn reetuoitebte alletiniraob far eipnliture, wile net be ceased for but
the'Wince of the onvertlsesnerit *lit be 'petit for at the ettplldeWA rote. • '
White evs eflott will be,'nail. to insure they arta Ise tdldd with care, the publishers tionotbe reopbnsibid for'
the rmturn'of urtsolieitid rnrnuredptl lir Ahetort• '
Electric railroad ad expect a to
MAY 9th, 1879
The other dal~,. a son of John Doig of
Tuckersmith, aged 4 year, fell and broke a
bone of his arm above the ++rist.
The fine new hotel recently erected by S.
Rennie of Hensall. was formallyopened last
avicek. The hotel .:is° situated opposite the
railway station, •
Thos. Ncitans.of Hailokk clipped a sheep
in his flock a few clityS age. of 11 pounds of
good clean wool, . .
At the last meeting of the town :Cou'ncil,
the special committee appointed to ascertain
the -probable Oast 'of putting Vittoria:
Square in 'proper shape, would' amount to
John. Ward
has ttvo of the finest driving,
colts,. in this part of the country.
MAY 13TH, 1904
The prospects are that the,Stratford to St.
Jose •h electric railroad will' be a realization
at an early date: The right of +vay.,has. been
purchased' from St. Joseph to Hcnsall ,and
F.H. Hamel .C.E. is nowoin "over the
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ground fitting the levels forthe grading.
Aecording to the assessors returns, for the
village of Blyth, the population of that place
is R16. beinan increase of eleven over last
e,
year.
The fall -Wheat. which' looked 'middlin
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we •Whorl' the Snow vent away; has no+v a
poor appearance. ' •
ld'r
Robert Bailey of 'Bayfield cccived word of
his ' appointment as head waiter on . the
Survey •b'oat Bayfield and left for Owen
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Sound.
- The merehants•of'Rayficld have agreed to
close their stores each Tuesday and
Thursday evenings at 6 p.m.
A good' many farmers in Kippen district
intend -trying sugarbeet growing this season
anda re,, now preparing c rthe 'round for the
g.
reception of the seed.
'the farmers'of Beechwood .have • finished
seeding., They all had to plough up- their fall •
wheat, as it was a complete failure.
On Suii'day morning , last about nine
.o'clock the citizens were disturbed by the
dread fire alarm. It was . soon ascertained
that the: trouble was at Di;ck's Hotel:
. A:M. Campbell ditown has: thisseason so
far disposed of 13 new covered buggies: and
• most of then', to farmers..
Wm. Abcrhart has sold. the. Collie property
in Egmandville to Wm, Bubolx.'for the sum
of $800: •
Workmen are :now employed excavating
for the foundation of the: new addition to :the
Presbyte_ rian chtireli
Wm. 'Crich 'of 'Crich ••Bros.. bakers; .'is
nursinga very painful] hand: He was raising
an umbrella whena.splinter from the handle,
penetrated' under the nail of one of his
fingers resulting in blood poisoning. New
telephones have hien placed in the re.
•sidence of Robt. i3cll, Godcrich St., East,
and: the telephone men'' are coming next
week to build a 'line out to Mr. Turnbull's
near the mountain.
., r.G. Woghorn succiededi t captoring -a
loon last -Week.,m-. MAY 10, 1929
' Thos. Purcell has leftto:resume his duties
Behind the scenes
•by.Kfrith Rogisto.n
Next to Margaret TrudeaU, nobody in
this country .makes news like, Ontario
Hydro. But unlike Mrs. Trudeau who
provides a good deal of unintentional
humour, Ontario Hydro's actions are no
laughing. matter.
When it conics to the pros and cons of
the atomic power situation I' think 1'nh
about as confused as the ordinary citizen.
One thing however is cvidetht, Ontario
Hydro has behaved in a thoroughly
irresponsible way to the people it is
supposed to be serving: you and Me.
in this part of the country there are few
people today who would put much stock in
anything Ontario Hydro has to say. Hydro
Chas been a sort of reverse example of the
ofd tale :about the young boy who cried
wolf, 10 his case, he yelled false bad .news
so often that people didn't believe him
when the welt` really did come. In Hydro's
cake. they've downplayed bad news so
often that people . don't believe them any
mote even when they are telling the truth
Thera are probably Mary • arotane 'tete
Whit ctmild doubt' that Ontario i-1, goo
officials ktiow• how to tell the truth,.
-• Farmers along the route of the power
corridors from the Bruce atomic plant
likely be anon that group, They
tc'otild f g B p
salt' so much of Ontario .Hydro's` double
dealing that they're bot likely to ever have
"midi faith in the utility again.
• For the rest of us it's just 'a ',rase of
listening in disbelief as Ontario Hydro tells
its there'snothing tosorry about no Matti r
What happens. Hydro told us for years for
instance thatthe Bruce plant was safe front.
intruders. That Vi'as at a time when fears
had been expressed that terrorists could
enter nuclear power plants and either
sabotage them at .groat risk to surrounding,
inhabitants. or steal enough nuclear mater-
ial to construct an atomic bomb.
�osepJ in 1904
with the King Construction Co. at Elginfield
with the cement' mixer which had been
shipped from Midland to Loran.
A large number of friendsand neighbours
of Mr. andMrs.MartinMurray !Murray of'Manicy
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gathered at their home recently to spendend a
social eveningWith them 'before .:their
removal to their new home in Dublin. During
the evening Mr. and Mrs. Murray were
presented with, two handsome chairs and: an
address..
Alex Well, of Londesborp has received a
car load of Western oats.
Richard Taylor of Chisclhurst has rented:
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the fifty acre farm now occupied by Archie
° liodgert and is busy putting in the crop.'.
Seeding operators have been held up for
one week owing to the rain. •
Isaac Jarrott of Kippcn has treated
himself to a fine new_Plymouth car.
Owing to the wet weather, seeding has
been slew, but will be finished this ;week in,
Tuckersmith.
hasr
rented his
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Geo.`Bell of Tuckersm th
:Ha
farm ' for the season to -.Messres. , Y
,Houston and Si rn ,
son.
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n and others Alex Darling of St. Columba
. a: sp len.did. new road
have madep by
extending Union .St. Eastward. Gravel - is
beingby hauled farmers .and others
interested in helping the new protect.
Well drihing'onthe canning factory. site. in
Dublin is oecu iii the attention of a
pY g
number of men,
The IvteColl Frontenac oil :company of
Toronto have let the contract to H, B., Edge of
Seaforth for four 15,000 gallon oil tanks and
also for the foundation of a new warehouse
25 x 50 feet.
Mi s 'talad s .McPhee has successfully
passed:.her final. examinations at. Queens
University obtaining her Bachelar of Arts.
•
Chas. Case of -Walton had :the misfortune
to fall from a load of hay. breaking hes collar
bone.
• MAY 14TH, 1954
Friends Of Miss Lorna Alguire honored
her at a shower at the'' home. of Mrs, F.5.
Bragger, when an address was read by Mrs:
Joseph' Rowland. The: guestof honor was
presented with a popup toaster.. Miss
Alguire who has' been on the staff of Scott
:Memorial Hospital leaves for her home.
Crashing a large plate glass show window
at. Daly motors.early Thursday afternoon a
ear came to rest with the front portion
surrounded by radios and accessories: that.
were on display ;in the window.
Geo. N. Turner, former treasurer of.
Tuckersmith for30years died at his home in.
Clinton. He had .celebrated his 90th birthday
F ec brar. 20th.
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pofficers
More than 200 area municipal ,
mayors, reeves, : clerks and other officials
attended' the annual -meeting of the Huron
County Municipal officers association at
Londesboro when J.M. Eckert was named
vice-president.
W ile May .12 has been designated as
s
national hospital day in Seaforth Hospital
day is being' held on Sunday. The change
was make since it was felt a greater number
from the district would be free' to visit Scott
Memorial Hospital on Sunday,
Ontario ny. dro's 'supposed to , serve you and me
A group of, people who were in
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opposition do nuclear power plants acctded.
.to test' the claims' of security, They took ;a •
i cane ashore on
boat out into Lake Huron, c
the property of the plant, entered the plant
and wanderedaround for quite a while
..before they 'were dkeo.cred. Ontario
Hydro assuredus tha' there really wasn't
anything `to fear, ghat the intruders really
' get an where Where they
didn't g t y Y could have
done something.scrious..
For years critics of nuclear power plants
had been saying that. there were potential
disasters waiting to happen. Ontario Hydro
and similar officials across North America
said there Wag nothing to fear, that these
opponents Wert alarmists and trouble=
makers. 'then canie the Three Mile !Stand'
incident in the U.S. where many of the'.
problems predicted by the critics actually
happened. During the incident the "ex
perts" told us there was really nothing to'
worry ;about. When' the worst didn't
happen they said that sec, there wasn't'
really anything to worry about.
Meanwhile we in Canadawere being
nssttred.by Ontario Hydro that it couldn't
happen here. Then word leaked out that
` many of 'the same things hart already.
happened here but that Ontario Hydro had
plh
kept the information quiet. Nothing to
Hydro worry about. Ontarioydro told us.
'Then last weekend while . trying 'tor
correct. a problem in one of they reactor0,,
two workmen entered the reactor building'
and ended up getting mucic heavier than
r
re ._ ecommended doses of radiation. Nothing
to worry about Hydro said. Just a
ni
e ui Ment failure that didn't wattthe men!
that they were in danger:
Nothing to worry about. 1` tVon de x if
Hydro told that to the two men itt gtiestidtt
and their families, when these people
vented about the effects of the radiation':'
Also interesting is how Hydro can assure
e
us on one hand that their saf safety systems to
prevent a tragedy r are fool -proof and at the
Sante time ,use. equipment failure as an
excuseevery
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time one of thena incidents
nt
s
happens:.
But most evident is the fact that Ontario
Hydro hasn't been giving Us the straight
;goods, whatever' .they are. Like many.
ver '
experts whether they, be in government, , in
sciencee or some other field, the officials of..
Ontario Hydro and Atomic Energy of
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Canada have decided that the' ordinary
people le don't have enough intelligence to
wh's • goingthey
understand at oh so' must
bep rotected from themselves,. These
official"s know what is best for us so they'll.
keepas much informs ion to:them' el es a
tr _ s v s
possible and whenever someone questions
them, , they'll
li say that everything is allright
and
and those who criticize don't know enough
g
to betaken seriously.
But democracy doesn't work that way.
'Democracy depends on providing as touch
information to the people as possible so
they Can make intelligent decisions. Sure
theeo a Can sometimes bestupid,
p ppl t can be
swayed too easily otte way or another, can
make the wrong deciston.'But I'll take the
decisions of a well-informed populate
ahead of the devious workings of Ontarrio
Hydro bureaucrats any day,
i editor:
dn'
the • �t
or:
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�e �. dsorry thy
couldn't t
at end, banquet
Editor's ndtei Seaforth gee' director Clive
the:liowin 'letter trom
Buist received 'fd g o
W ilands wife which was read at
Cooney e
the minor hockey banquet honoring him
Saturday night.
Dear Mt. Burst •
Cooney has been tlriablc to find'the sedond
pack which 1 mentioned to you during out
rodentp hotte conversation and feels he must
have given it away long Since. But this in one
of the two he used to win the first two games
1-0 in the semi-finals Bruin-
Canadian' series which led to the $ruins then.
defeating the ns .s ' ark Rangers to win their
• lfrst Stanley Cup in 1928.29.
Though I treasure hit onto tretnaihing,,
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sweater, after having given' the other to
the Hockey Hall of Fame, we feel that if his
home town friends and neighbours are kind
enough to honour him so .beautifully, they
should have it with our appreciation. We had
it dry cleaned and are sorry mote of the
`battlesears Weren't removed. It might be•,
Of interest to know Cooney .wore #1
throughout his entire hockey Career.
Thank you all again for yoor many
kindnesses and all„ the hard wetland effort
such' as this entails. Words can't tell you how
sorry *c ate we • shall riot be there to, enjoy it.
Sincerely,
attitude Weiland