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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-05-17, Page 31PY $ s n Their laughter was infeet.. 30.0S and We teamed. A lot from each other- Bet if 'it* hadri't speken English, their visit would have been a dead loss 'for all ef us. I I'M taking about the letir ' ' Peiversite Layal toornalism Studenta who,• cattle to The : liutOn gsnesiter to learn ?bent community ,newspa„ pers laSt Tharsday. The kids Were Wight and,•knowledg- able about journalism, in general and abeut Canadian .\\ polities, They were eaga er t learn and asked thooght . provokingques-tioes about this newspaper and how we try to cover the earrent ** 'Canadian election campaign. But my French is of the . very, very mety-learned years, ago at $PHS„ variety and their visit *bald have been embarassing for ate if h hadn't been fer their excel- lence in ,English and their willingness to talk tO Me in ray mether tongue. Of our se tbey Were in •Ontario, English speaking: .QUEBEC STUDENTS HERE — Four journalism students from Laval Universite in - Quebec viSited the Huron Expositor last Thursday as part of an exchange Visit with UVVO. Ater learning about commtinity newspaperat the Expositor, they had a tour of Carndo Hall courtesy of Ken Cardna. The Tuckerstio.ith (Continued fromPage I) Court of Revision on the Broadfoot Drainage Works was held, There were no appeals on the drain, estimated by the engineer to cost about $22,100. The bylaw for the drain was passed and tenders veiled for conetruetion. • Nick Blom, Merlin Bender and James McGregor attended the council meeting on • the Clark Dram The plan for the drain is to L.� sent, bacic to the engineer for revisions. - WIPING eERmin„. Applications for building permits' were approved for Don Papple, a lagoon which he ' has enclosed with a fence for safety's sake; , William' Pepper, 'storage Shed; - Howard Dayman, new residence; Bill Henderson in appo. sttIdents are spending the next two• weeks working on Toronto dailies. From left are Andre Qitles Lauzon, Jean -Yves Roy, Doug Howard of UVVO sohOol of 40uMaliSM, FrenCe Simard and Marc Fortier. (Expositor Photo) THE HURON EXPOSIT* , MAY homo 'so to. .4Peak-' Ont We heat lot ahent seperatrn iSand Qebeceia who want to speak o 44 their right, their native JangPage anywhere Canada. r11 regret to my dying day that I didn't take them along to the CAticliclafee 'Meeting. the same day at $1311S., fl had the time wrong and the Laval students left jilst before it 'began.) They would have been irapressed and heart- ened I think by the serious nes with which the Staforth students questioned the can- didates on their attitudes to uebec. That understanding of the importance of federal policy tat Qtlebee was not shared by itt, least oae Of the caedidetes. And 1 suSpect unfortunately that his lack of understand- ing is closer to the attitude of many adult' VOtets in the county, than is the students' search for sqlutions. Maybe, 1 hope, t'm wrong about that, The Lavat students very kindly listened to my explan- • worried about manure tank safety Egmondville, a new residence and storage shed, A demolition permit was granted Roberta Plumsteel, RR 5 Clinton for a barn on her property, A tile drainage loan for $5,400 wee approved. Clerk McLachlan reported that to date 380 dog tags have been sold in the township and only four people have refused to pay for a tag. A warning letter will be mailed. The township will place two large signs, 4x6. near Highway 4 on. the west, of Vanastra, and near Highway 8 on the northeast stating that Vanastra • has industrial sites for busines firms. The tile drainage allocatiOn for the township will be 892,500 compared to $90,200 'last year, it was reported by the To the editor. I was very disappointed with the article ' in last Week's paper with regard to the upcoming field trip at Seaforth District High School. The information given to the newspaper Was very harmful and biased. As chief organizer of the trip I want to present the true story. To look at our agenda andsay that there was nothing beneficial for the students is ludicrous. To start with, a majority of the students • have not even been on a train. That. in itself, is a very good learning' experience,. The necessity to be account- able and responsible to other people is also a learning experience. Fut-the rmore, how can travelling through Canada's two- largesteities not be a learning experience? I could go on and on but the beneficial aspects of the trip of this sort would become repetitious. A second concern regarding the trip is the cost. A very cursory look at the cost shows what a fantastic bargain it is. If any peiSOTI were to trace our steps during the trip; it would cost them 5224.00 compared to our,S 100.00. Expensive? $100 for rail fair return to Quebec City, three nights hotel accomoclatioti, four organized tours and a baseball game? It seems to ,me that $100 is a steal. The amount that students spend on incidentals is obviously up to each student, but it certainly does not have to be $100.00. Another concern voiced at the board of education meeting was the lack of parental input. On March 7, 1979, I sent home With each student, an information letter outlin- ing the proposed trip. This lettcr askcd for family discussion and an answer by the 21st of March. It also mentioned that if Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario. Council has been notified that an Experience /9 grant has been approved for 51,320 to hire one employee to travel across. the township to set up Summer activities as requested by the township residentWhere there is interest. CUB PACK Council will call a meeting of representative$ from the Vanastra Lions Club and the Manager of the Vanastra Reereation Centre to work out A time for the Vanastra Cub Pack of 16 boys to be able to hold their meetings in the gym at the centre. one night aweek from 630 p.m, te a 114.M. A complaint from Maureen., Densmore and Glen Smith cob leaders, said they were not Teacher defends there were RI)* questions regarding this proposed trip, that I could be contacted at the school. I am sorry- if any parent felt pressed into allowing their son or daughter to go on this trip-. ' The statement about spending the first two days on the train and the next onthe bus was obviously totally inaccurate. Seeing an Expos game is the -culmination of a tour of the 51.6 billion Olympic site. To , go to Montreal and not tour this facility would be a shame. Also, the entire trip is by train, including the part from Montreal to Quebec. Our itinerary shows that by the third day of the „trip, we will have done much more than have attended an Expo game. . . Yet another concern vas the ratio of student to, chaperones. Due to the unnecessary opposition to this trip, we now have -only 32 students going. ACcompany- ing these 'Students will be five parents in addhion to the three teachers. To me, this is an excellent ratio., The parents going are Mrs. Ruth Ribey, Mrs. Brenda McIntosh, Mr. 8c* Mrs. Ray Ptimeau and a special guest, trustee Mrs. Dorothy Williams. On behalf of the students 1 Would like to publicly thank these people for the interest they are showhig in the success of the trip. I feel, however, that the biggest diservice done by the attitude expressed in last weeks' article was the generalized • grouping of my students behaviour. For nine years now, • I have taken Seaforth students to all parts of the province and not Once have 1 had any cause to be anything but very proud of their conduct and mariners. Students will aspire to the level of conduct demanded, and my stedente Beitirld tite scertes by Keith Roulston So you're tired a the length of the present election campaign. You're red up with the pettiness of the Opposing parties . as they pick away, at each other. You think there mutt be a better way to ran the country. Well cheer up, this could be worse, Indeed they once were in, this ountry 1 • happened tO be reading W.H. GrallaM'srbook The Tiger of Canada West teceittly amid couldn't help but tompate eleeticitis in the 1800'S With those a today. 1 think even the meat cytneal of us will agree that there's been a marked improve- ment. After the 1837 Rebellion there Were attempts to assure more dentotratie praetices in Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) to prevent sortie Of the abttses by the rich and powerful which 'had caased the rebellion. Tiger Dunlop nl, Who had beeoe a severe critic Of the Canada COMpany for which he had once worked in bringing settlers to major areas of Hurclh and Petah cotinties had decided to nm for the seat his brother Robin had held until his death. He WAS representing the interests Of settlers (particularly a group of well-to•do- settlers of Colberne township known as the Colborne Clique) against the • tittiadit Company and ita tePretentative Capt. James Strachan, on of the infarnour Bishop Strachan of the old fatnily Compact. But hit OPPitsitinit Was more than that. Hit oppoiltion Wit SW the Ortingeriten, the proteatint frith movement which strtick being given the gym, , but were crowded m104 small room in tbe Day Care Centre. Council has no final word on what grants will b available from the Ministry of Ornate and Recreation to help reduce the estimated 593,040 cost to bring the Vanastra 'curling rink up to meet safety requirements. It was found dangerous to snow loads, wind and fire. Councillor William Brown said he would not like to see tlie ratepayers called on to pay the difference not covered by government gratitS. Councillor Frank Falconer said "It could be decided to have the ratepayer's pay the osts. The meeting was adjourned after 12..30 Wednesday.• knew that I am VerY proud Of Our sehoet, and that My expectations Of their conduct arc very high. • In closing, 1 feel that everyone should be concerned about what is going on bete a,t the. high school.' Thi$ concern 'should, hoWever, be one that is founded on facts. not on heresay or incorrect information. ViIIag to clea Our stUdents deserve' our confidence and our support. I. feel that the board should be approving the trip for our students.as an act of confidence in their level of maturity and self worth, .not merely to maintain a status gee. Thanks for your interest Terry Johnston racto nsall It WAS, cleanup 'tme: at Hensall couneil Monday with the Bendix Number One plant, Omega Contractors and the village asked to do something about the un tidy „ appearance of the village. Councillors Klaus Van Wieren raised the matter saying he was dissatisfied with the condition of the streets that had been torn up in the . winter .for the installation of the storm sewer. _ Reeve Harold Knight suggested the villages engineers contact Omega to see what could bedone about the Street's cottclition, • . Van VViereit suggested that the village's main street should be swept every two weeks until paving is installed. * Works soperintendeht Gar y Maxwell said the town of Exeter sweeper., could do the job in less than two hours, . COuticil at Van Wieren s -request will ask the Bendix plant which fronts an Highway 4 to keep their., Propert y clean. The village learned that it proposed cleaning of the main branch of the Black Creek drain will cost the village slightly over 53,000 out of a total expenditure of $101,000. Knight and councillor Harry Klungel will attend a meeting Thursday, in Zteich called by Hay township to discuss the proposed cleaning, Jokingly, Klungel asked if the drain really needed to be cleaned, 'It all goes away eventually, doesn't In other busineSs. council Learned • Dry$ale Applicances -Witt ". be 'constructing a oew building Ota the site where the former Pill Fuss Plumbing building was .locafecl; Received notification from the ministry of transportation and eqmmueications that a subsidy payment of 537,500 was on the way. -attioes in Engliih. and. pose 'their geestion$: flaWleSaly. my only langeaee'other than in' their Brat One. Couldn't help but think 0000 how 1 d get along on a similar visit to a commuoitY paper in Quebee. 114 be suttk absOlutely,.,and that'S rotten shame.* . Although Yery aWare poli- tically, the Rear studenta weren't' seperatista at. leaSt not strident, doctrinaire ones.i AA of them Said they'd work anywhere in Canada, as long as they could work in French, That SOO of narrows their job search field doesn't it? Although the Official Langu- ages' Act guarantees the tight of Freneh speaking Canadians to essential servi- ces in their own language, the reality is quite different. Witnese the no-holds-barret fight for a French language high school in Essex county a few years ago, or a Manitoba, Francophone's present fight for parking tickets in his language. No, outside of the odd determined pocket of resis- tance, the only place where French speaking Canadian$ can wcirk itt ilWir native language is Quebec. And don't tell me that isn't a big reason why many Quebecois want their province to leave .the rest of 'the country. • For the life of me, 1 have trouble understanding the dislike many English speak- ing Canadians have for speaking French. Europeans„ ki are proud of speaking 'more than one language. It's a necessity in' a continent that's smaller in area than our whole country, and it's an asset. That's ‘Vhat speaking more than one language in Canada should be --too. Sure I don't speak French very well be- Yt3ufa invite eauSe rye ZleVer needed to speak anleas Vm in 'Que hee, But te keep Cafl. ada, united We've gat tO " 4Para4 the Opportunites for who siWak canadeff. -.other official, language. know VerY few peeple ,wautd read it if we p4rited a Page of the Eapoaitor in french every week and tbat's not my point. But we might see a rebirth of services the FrenClt language in areas of the eottntrY. northern Young Canadians learn Fren- ch in school, taught properly and atearlier ages, we might even see Canadians whose first language is. English, opting to work in French, (Well likely see that soon in Quebec.) Quebec knowswhat it wants. English Canada has All persons iMeresteeia ' heritage preservatton are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Huron 13r5satch, to be held at p.m., Thursday, May 24th at the Van Egmond House, Egmondville. The guest speakert Murray Hay, landscape architect from Rockwood, will talk about the landstaping of heritage, • yet to come *Wet to the aspi the French spe of that province. Wheal think Of those four *right Quebecois students who toured our office, I hype. We COMe up with some answers fast, And I have to admit that I wish against all reason that we did have a French section in this newspaper. It would be just great to have one A Ontario, southern Manitoba, New Brunswick, Cape Breton Or even, Huron's own St. Joseph — . that already have French .speaking people. As those talented students as an employee here. Ah well, v'est la vie. And merci attx ethdiants de Laval f�r an eye-opening morning. JUST EAST OF MITCHELL Two local girli, Angelee ,AnrireaSsi, 17, of seaforth and Jeana Eliot, 18,, of Staffa were killed, rriday night , when their car hit this tree broadside,' just east hou.ses- of NI itche I. (Expost 'or Photo) Amen by Karl Sc'huessler I can't let all those Ted and white, carnationfrom Mother's Day go awilting Nvithout my sending out wishes to all you mothers out there male and female. ." Yes, it's come to this. In the 70's mothers oame in both sexes You can now find males staying at home and tending the house and, baby while mother goes out to work to bting home the bread. Mothers are no longer A large f?9,1flber, ,of baqing bread, they're making it. Mind I stories Will ' 'this new state of affairs .comes through appear next 'Week the compliments of women's liberation. The movement reminds us that a man can be as mothering as a woman can. By. mothering I meanthe traditional wornanlY virtues of patience, caring, loving and tending. The ' fell arms of tenderness can belting te , both, Elections have ittiprcoved- read about the woman irt the U.S. army. She men and women. " I Wasn't all that sutprised then wheri • possible for all the soppottets to get The Orangentent meanwhile walked back and forth 'outside the hoter Swinging clubs • and shouting threats at aitytine who tried to ,enter the hotel who Wasn't on their side. Then on Monday nightthey rioted, attacking the hotel 7and beating up the owner, beating up anyone who was known to be. 'a Dunlop supporter and even dragging Some from their beds, beating them and leaving them in 'the bush on a cold March night. Dunlop's supporters had been afraid of such a happening so had asked that troops bebroughtin from London and only the word that the ttoops were now in 'Clinton quie the violenee. But the nexemoroing • the Strachan Supporters were lined along 'the porch °title hotel SO deeply that it took both moral and physical strength for a Dunlop Witt to get into the hetet to Cast his vote. 'When the troops attived, this Mad of violent intimidatieri Was weakened but the Canada COmpatly. had another plan, It 'began juggling the'boolis and giving deeds, to supporters who didn't Own theielabdi SO' they eould vete. When the election finaily ended it was LSI to 149 for Strachan. But juttiee did triumph* The Rand Was found out tutit titti4-0 eventually WAS decrial victorious. So lleSt time you watt to complain about „ the present election campaign retticittber bow things could have fear into the hearte of those who opposed it in those rough and ready days when Huron , County was gill a frontier. ` Today our leaders jet back and forth across the country to 'sell themselves and their policies to the voters. Their ease of getting from one side of the nation to another is contrasted to the effort t 'needed by Dunlop and Strachan to just get from Voter to voter in the /Own tiding where roads wete Stilt mud trails, bridges often non existent and VoterS Scattered over a wide atea from Sttatford to Goderith and a huge area to the north and south. A good candidate in these days would have needed t� be bilingual; not English and French, but English and Gaelic, ,because there Were Many who, Were just 'met from Sccitland arid the highlands and didn't understand English the best. At list the election artivdd, but the real fun had just begun. Unlike we today who will haVe a few hour S .of peace before the actual election, there was 50 stIch thing as a cooling off period in those days, Electiotteerihg went on right until the last possible minute. 'Mete weren't polls stattered doriveniently throughtlet the but one only, in Goderieli, wNeh was hardly a convenient place for most of the voters•Peopte had to travel all the way from Stratford and St Marys to vote there. Although the' tandidates had been 'Campaigning for weeks, they still had to be officially nominated. A platform called "the hustings" was tet up in the square, where the nominations and speeches Were to be made. Choosing theofficial nornin- ntor and Seconder was done Wit1reat card to make the best imprestion. Whert Dunlop's nereinator tried to 'get Up to the .platform to make his nomination he Was nearly stopped by Orangemen who wanted to prevent him from making the tomin- 'Ation, He made it, but when Straehan's torn came, Dunlop's people managed to find out that his norainator was not eligible to Make the nomination because he wasn't qtWed as a voter itt the election, Wee the noininations were made, the, 'eleetionS could begin. The voting was to take place itt Ratteribury's Britith Hotel. There was a voting, book •and each Voter had to step forward and identify himself and prove that he had a right to vote. Only . these who tould present a cleat deed tO the land they lived on could vote, to they had to bring the deed with them. Then they had to say but loud ia front of everyone in the . building whieh patty ot andidate they stippOrted„ Woe to the Man who owed money to a prominent Tory but voted for a Reform candidate, or vice vetsa. His thoiee Would soon be knoWn all over the riding, ' The 'voting could go on frean.Menday mita Saturday as tong AS one Vete Was CAM every how.* Strachan's support pante generally front around Gederielt while Dunlop's eanie 60111 farther away so it WAS oecessary for DutilOp's people to make , sure they kept the pools open as long as , claims her husband and thild as dependents. He mothers their child all day while she soldiers. And when thetime came to move to . her new post, she spent hours trying to • , convince the army about her mothering husband: She insisted the army had to mOve her family just as they do With soldier , huabarids. The army hadn't caught up with the times. They couldn't quite get it that the mother was the father and the fa ther Was the mother. But you May think thisis all "silly. In this casethe male is a Male anda woman a eVoinan. It's jest that ' they've traded traditiOnal role.s. With this -couple each orie haa the right Set of mental equipment to do her job well. - If this keeps tip I Can See strange things happening to Mother's' Day. Fathers will keepsake a stach of mugs with "M'otiter*- Written. on them, 1 can tee the time when men will treattne their "Mother's Day cards and their pillows with "'Mother" printed across the top -- those black velvet pmllows that end up in sentiments • like "Mother the wotd that means the world to Times ehonge and $0 has nuitherlitaad Thee was a time when motherhood was prinie and prize: when ;motherhood and -.apt& pie Were equivalents of the good Wcij When trititherhood'hadn't slipped to tenth! 'place in the soak of happiness for married women - after Such things, as siacial life, suoess, and tecoguitiort, Obviously the lady who started all this, mother's day remembrance Inthe States had no idea hot women' would change_ their views cat cradle and caring, Anna Jarvis never dreamed we'd start calling mothering traits -- human traits quatittes both men • and women are capable of. • Alma Jarvis !lever knew howwe'd react to Victorian sentiment, Hew we'd Smile at all thote Victorian sweet meths and tastes. 'How wed Follett mother'piliows and put them mn museums -- not as tokens of respect andlOve - but as quaint pieces of gush and extess. She 'thought she was paying her mother the highest tribyte when she convinced her hometown church to mark the first anniver- sary of her Own , mother's passingwith ad Mother's Day seryiet. She never intende" :the idea to data on the world over. Evidently Shed never heard of the ancient Anglican Mothering , Sunday -- a day set Aside in tnid-Lent t hiatxtur mothera. She thought she was erishrinhig in, priceless prose her 'feeling that "mother is• the name first lisped by A little child and last whispered by the dying Soldier." Anna Jarvis didn't khovv how future generations -- after reading those tender words - would pound their -fitttotheir heart and exlaiM, "It gets me -- right here." Net With real feeling, of course, hut with Mock fakeryhnAa Jarvis .didn't know' the gitilt she'd impose on every kid in the Country to come up with something for mother on Mothers day, Or to make groWn‘up children dial a leng distance telephone call et at least send. a card, at most flovvers. Each second Sunday of May she jogs the conscience of every benign. Have I dent in? enough for dear Old moDid 1 do etiongh .t*P.! 4781111don't?'worry. Mum has her YvaYS., Dan Greetiberg inhis guide to fostering %het gnat in hit book lioWto Be lewish Mother say, "Don't let hint know you fainted 'riViee in the Stitterntarket froth fatigite, �us Make sure he 'knows you're not letting hint knSit".10'71.eireitSith; Says it beat: "My MOW got tip every morning at Sa m 110' littatker what tine it Was. But no Matter. I'M, still fOrI MOM. Lethie laY*• Minty for Mem! "Every dilly of the YOnitif 'EVery hour of the day: e••