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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-08-02, Page 2• Sinee1,860, Serdng the COrillnilnitY First Published at SEAFORTIL ONTARIO every llitirsday roraiiig: McLILkN BROS, PUB1.15,}Mll$ [TP • ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE. Editor ALICE GIBB. News Editor .Meniker Canadian Community Newspaper ASSOcialoP, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associat,tt and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates Canada (in advance) S13,00 a Year , Outside Canada (in advance) $25,00 a Year SINGLE COPIES 30 CENTS EACt1 •Second Class Mail Registration Minter 06% TelenhOne 7-P249' SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 2, 1979 b4 A Christian example One of the basic tenents of Christianity, perhaps the rock on which it is founded, is love for one's fellow human beings. A congregation in Seaforth, those who belong to the parish of St. James' Roman Catholic Church, Is practising the true -spirit of Christianity in a very practical •way and its people deserve the congratulations of the whole community. The people of St. James' Church have arranged to sponsor a family of Vietnamese refwgees. Details of the sponsorship have to be worked out with Canadian Immigration officials but the church is providing a house, the former J.M. McMillan home on Victoria St, and a committment has been made. • Some people in Seaforth are not too sympathetic to the plight of the Vietnamese boat people. "We don't have jobs for our own people", the argument goes. And. anyway, "we don't need any more immigrants in Canada." Those people, many of whom cali themselves Christians, need to look into their hearts a bit. To try on another person's shoes or awhile and imagine their own family, hungry and tired, adrift in a leaky boat, seeing children die, old people drown and other horrors that are hard for comfortable Canadian minds to imagine. Real people are dying in an attempt to make life tolerable for their families. Those of us who are comfortable have a moral and a Christian • obligation to help any way we can. And those who would let the boat people drift, and in effect condemn • them to death, should look back 100. or 50 or 25 years in their own family, history. • Their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents were once immigrants to Canada too. They came, perhaps from Ireland, during the potato famines, or Scotland when poor people were literally forced off the land or from Europe after the last war, seeking relief from an intolerable situation and a better life in Canada. Nearly all of them found it. And we owe it to their bravery and far sightedness to give Vietnamese boat people the same chance. • Remember please, that none of us are native Canadians in the strict sense, except the Indians and the Eskimos who were here first and no doubt sighed "there goes the neighbourhood" as they came into contact with wave after wave of new settlers. As for the argument that we have no jobs for Vietnamese refugees (perhaps 50,000 of them if Canadians rise to the sponsorship challenge our government has given us) just ask.a farmer who has produce that • needs picking how many Canadians are clamouring for his jobs. Fact is, there are jobs for hardworking immigrants who'll do them. Maybe • more important there are opportunities in this rich and ernpty land and those who have the guts and will to get out of Vietnam, will be able to grasp them. . - Other churches, local service clubs, WOMenS' institutes have all shown in the past that they care about people and that they can put that caring into action. Seaforth people, have usually welcomed strangers and we hope their response to the refugees, when they arrive will prove that "The friendly town" is more than a 'slogan. In St. James' Church we've all got an example to follow. Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston Paying more, getting less • Prime topic of conversation these days • on any street corner, across any backyard • fence, and certainly with any chance • meeting in a supermarket is inflation. Remembering the good old days when things cost less has always been a pleasant preoccupation for nearly everyone, :at least as far back as 1 can remember. Maybe • there was a time in centuries past when the • old days weren't remembered fondly but I don't think there's ever been such a time in • the 20th century. • For me, though, it hasn't been the fact • things keep going up: in price that bothers me so much as the fact that even paying • more, I'm often getting less. I'm presently in the midst of stripping accumulated coats of paint off an old kitchen table we bought from a friend. I don't know how old it is but it's still in fine shape after maybe fifty or 100 years of wear. It's replacing a kitchen set that's only 10 years old. Over the years many of the chairs from the old set have disappeared so we ordered some unpainted chairs. Of the six ordered, two had to be sent back because so little care is taken in curing the wood nowadays that the rungs on the chairs dried out and split during shipping, But at least, the chairs are real wood. Today when you look at a nice carved piece of furniture in a showroom you'd better give it a rap with your fingernails because it just might be plastic. Solid wood is virtually unheard of in furniture today. Wood of any kind sometimes seems scarce in furniture. I get even more uptight, however, about • food. No I don't complain much about the • price of food because 1 grew up on a farm and live with farmers onit11 sides of me and I know that very little of the price of the food is taken by the farmers. What I do object to it that we're not getting is good quality in many areas. Here we live in the middk of one of the richest agricultural areas is the world add • yet we're hard pressed to get 'fresh • produce for our tables unless we grow it ourselves. Because of modern manufac- turing and distribution systems, the milk you drink may have come from a cow on a farm just outside town but it may have travelled to Barrie or Toronto for process- ing before it got back to your table. The • eggs you buy might have come by a nearby farm but unless you have a special deal with the farmer, they're likely a week or more old by the time they make it to your refrigerator. Some foods are not like wine: • they do not improve with age. Oh I know in many cases the food products have improved to some extent because of better storage techniques. A week-old egg may actually be in better shape than a three-day old egg of a half century ago because of refrigeration, better sanitary conditions and new storage techniques but why shouldn't we be benefitting from techniques, not being penalized by getting eggs that are at least a week old? On the other hand there are some things that are really hurried along when, we'd be better off if they weren't. Because of the economics of the situation these days farmers have to push produce throngh • their food factories as quickly as possible. The "efficiency" of the modern farm is • such that slaughter time often comes now before an animal reaches the equivalent of its teenage years. Chickens have hardly learned to crow before their heads come off. They're force fed under a 24 -hour -a - day light to make them grow faster. Hogs are given high-octane feeds that may give them stomach problems but Will get thent off to market before they have a chance to suffer too much. Such practices help keep the fanner in business and help keep the cost of food down to the consumer but they sure don't do much for the tastebuds. Nobody wants to eat a tough, fat old pig like they (Continued on Page 3) pOire'; • • • - ositor asks; Wes $ranc4 kjis ljow t4y Ijked Sogforth. . • BY JANE ALLAN What kind of impression does Seaforth Ove to someone from "out-of-town"? The visit of the people from West Branch, Michigan on the weekend offered a good opportunity to answer this question. The Expositorasked the West Branch children, ranging in age from eight to 18 what they thought of Seaford'. Most of the interviews took place at the Seaforth Community Centre where the young people were Feller slating on Sunday night. "1 love it," was the enthusiastic reply of Shawn, a West Branch girl who was staying at the VanDoornik, home. Shawn likes Seaforth better than West Branch and said that she especially liked the "crazy people", indicating her Seaforth friends. Also staying with the Van Doorniks was Kendra, who wishes she could stay here. One difference she noticed between West Branch and Seaforth-was that there is no pollution here. Kendra wanted to thank the people of Seaforth for letting them stay here, Unlike Kendra, who liked Seaforth for its “guys", Jeff, who stayed at the home of the Ungarians' in Seaforth, liked the girls in town! These opinions seemed to be shared by many of the visiting girls and boys, respectively. Jeff who is 13, enjoyed the dance Saturday night the. most. There was nothing he didn't like about Seaforth and he would gladly come back. "It's pretty nice" said Lee, who stayed with his brothers Tom and Tim at the Stewart home in town. He added that he liked Seaforth "even better" than West Branch. The roller skating was Lee's favourite activity. Jack, who also stayed at the Stewart's, • agreed with Lee in saying that they would come back if they had the chance. Jack said Seaforth was "O.K." but he liked the beach at Goderich the best. Amy, a young girl who stayed at Charles • Campbell's while in Seaforth liked the town as well as her hometown, but wasn't sure What it was she liked- 04 soy She liked the people here. Jim and Ward, who were staying at the' borne of Gary Osborn, both, liked Seaforth as well as they like West Branch. Both said that they could come again and neither could think of anything they didn't like. here. Ward especially enjoyed the ming. This was a second visit to Seger* for Joe, who stayed with the Wilsons in town. He liked meeting people in Sestforth which he likes as well as West Branch and says it's an "O.K." town. He mentioned that there was more activity in Seaford', but added that he thought thatmight be because the West Branch people were visiting. Mike, who is 12 and stayed with the Glews in Seaforth liked everything about Seaforth and said that it seemed bigger than West Branch. His friend Brian, also from West Branch, mentioned that Sea - forth lacked a "MacDonalds," although there was nothing else he disliked abont the town. • The Seaforth "natives" wanted to get their word in as well in saying that "Seaforth is a number one spot," To the editor; Council is - commended • I would like to commend the town council for the lowering of the sidewalks to facilitate • the use of wheel chairs. It is certainly nice to see Alphie Dale and Harold Maloney and others able to be out and about. One further step could be taken and should not be too costly - namely the installation of ramps into the Town Hall and the library. Sincerely, Betty Cardno Gooselierry 4¼" picked in Harpuriiey in i879 AUGUST 1, 1879 J.P. Brine of Harpurhey showed us a sample of goose berries, of the English Greening variety, which were grown in his garden. One of the smallest measured 3 and % inches the one way and 4% inches the other. Mr. Brine cannot be easily beaten as a grower of fruit and vegetables. The fall wheat and barley in the vicinity 61, Seaforth, have been easily all kept and the greater part has been housed in good order. Messrs. Thomas and John Govenlock shipped from the Seaforth station 700 sheep for the Liverpool Market. • • Messrs. Wm. Fleck and John Jarrott threshed on the farm of Joseph Hudson, 594 bushels of fall wheat and 116 bushels of • barley in one day. A cricket match was played between Brucefield and Clinton, resulting in favour of the latter by one inning and 26 runs. • The crops through Stephen and Usborne • are looking excellent and farmers even in the face of great national problems are wearing • cheerful countenances. • A company calling themselves the Red Stocking Minstrels composed of half a dozen • tawdry looking females and three or four • illvisaged men gave a show in Cardnos Hall. A load of new wheat was sold on the market on Wednesday last at 97 cents. It was •an excellent sample. AUGUST 5, 1904 • The threshers are again at it in the vicinity of Kippen. Much of the fall wheat will hardly pay for the threshing of it. • Robert Cooper of Kipper' recently sold to Mr. Donovan of Seaforth, a four year old colt sfo2r00woohic.li he received the handsome sum of Alex Ross and wife left Brucefield for Depot Harbour,. • where he has a good • position. •- • During the severe storm on Wednesday, lightning struck the barn on the farm of Thos. Connor near Walton and the barn and contents were burned to the ground. J.J. Cronin of Hensall- shipped a large number of fine cattle which he had purchased from Geo. McQueen and N.J. • McDonald. W.G. Willis of town has now got located in his new residence which he recently pur- chased from G.G. Wilson. Arthur S. McLean who has been in Alberta and British Columbia for the past three years returned home recently. He likes the west. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Turnbull of McKillop are on a driving trip to Mitchell, Tavistock, Thamesford, Chatham, and other places. AUGUST 2, 1929 Messrs. Clarence Bennett and Clarence Steiss of Walton, and Geo. Eaton and Walter, • Eaton returned recently from a fishing trip to the north. The late hot weather is rushing the harvest and it is feared there will be a lighter crop than expected. Wm. Britton of Constance brought into the office here one of the finest samplesof oats we have seen so far this year. It measured 5 foot 101/2 inches. Miss Florence Beattie and James A. Stewart who are pupils of Prof. A.W. Anderton of Clinton, passed very successful- ly in their Vocal examinations. • The many friendsof Mrs. Ellen Murray regret to hear that she had the misfortune while coming out of church to fall on the step and fracture her left arm. Messrs. Helen Lane, Elinor Burrows and Elizabeth McLean returned from Port Bruce Tuesday. John McAe has commenced the erection of a handsome- new residence in Egmond- Geo. Hays, Kenneth Beattie and Arthur • Golding who spent the past two weeks camping at Bayfield have returned home. AUGUST 6, 1954 Hullett Twp. ratepayers will pay the same rate as last year - 10 mills, a meeting of the council agreed. Seaforth Fall Fair will be enlarged this year, with the program extending over three days, directors of the Seaforth Agriculture • Society decided. Special plans are under way to ensure that the merchants and manufac- • • • • • • • • Sugar and spi• ce.• turers displays in the arena are better this year. Ross Savauge and Keith Sharp told the • meeting. • John Beattie, who at 86 is Seaforth's oldest bowler, in his first appearance of the season proved he well knows the game, when he walked off with the first prize at the weekly tourney • of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling club. Other winners were C. Glew, Mrs. C.J. Walden and Mrs. J. Kaiser. Margaret Collins of Seaforth, will teach next term at S.S. 10 Stanley, and John Laudenbach of Seaforth will teach in Sarnia. Well known throughout the district and a life time resident of McKillop Wm. McClure celebrated his 85th birthday. • For nearly 30 years a member of the staff of the Seaforth Public school Miss Mary Hartry passed away in Scott Memorial Hospital. • • While standing on a ladder to trim an evergreen at the home of Mrs. Lou Simpson in Hensall, Robert Duganan suddenlyshim- ped over between the rungs and was dead when Dr. J.C. Goddard arrived. He was in his 75th year. ' • The army worm is leaving:McKillop. Mr. and Mrs.L. Tebbutt of town . left for the west coast and will be calling at various . • places enroute, By Bill Sri, iley For energy wasters it's the time before the Fall It's a littlelike being an observer of the Fall of the Roman Empire. That's how 1 feel as I read and hear the latest energy crisis news. One of these days, in the not -distant future, the last drop of that black stu ff is going to drip -into the last receptacle. How then, brown hen? Will we freeze in the dark? Well, a heck of a lot of red-blooded Canadians will need every, bit of that red blood to avoid doing so. • • - • It's not as though the hand -writing has not been on the wall. It's just that nobody has been looking at that particular wall, We've all been looking out our picture window, instead. I've been thinking about it during a particularly busy week in which a dentist saved one of my ancient teeth, a doctor gave me an allergy shot, and a barber removed some of my ancient white hair, Needless to say, 1 drove my ancient car to each of these places. None of them is more than a ten-minute walk. On my way to one of them, I drove down to the dock, parked, and watched about three thousand boats trying to wiggle their way out of marinas, so that they could open her up • and cut a Swatch across the lake with their oilburners. At the doctor's people were complaining because the air-conditioning wasn't work. ing, The dentist used a high-speed drill in his air-conditioned office, With all the fluorescent lights on. The barber was sweating, turned up his air-conditioning, washed his hands in hot water, and switched on his electric clippers. By George, I thought, it's going to be quite a change. 1 visualized the dentist .liumping away with his old foot -powered drill. The doctor 'giving me a shot by flashlight, because there are no windows in • the joint. The barber using the old hand -powered clippers and shaving my neck with cold water, in a steamy -hot barber shop. It wouldn't bother me too much. I was brought up on wood stoves, coal -oil lamps, a block of ice in the refrigerator, and a coal -burning furnace. But it sure would bother the doctor, the dentist and the barber, along with practic- ally every human being in North America . under the age of sixty. • It's going to be quite an auction sale,•I thought, when that last drop of black stuff • flows from the last spigot. Listen to the auctioneery. "Lincoln Continental, 1982 model, like new. Tear out the insides and you have a grand out -door rec room for the kiddies. What am 1 bid ? Do I hear thirty dollars? "Here's a real steal. A forty -foot cruiser Atith built-in cupboards, septic toilet, sleeps six. Get a teamster to tow it into • your back yard and you have a dandy • sleeping cabin for guests, Will somebody start the bidding with twelve dollars? • "And here's another beauty. Three 1980 Thunderbirds, worth S23,000 the day they were bought. Cut the tops off, remove the wheels, and they'll make beautiful flower beds. Not ten dollars apiece, not even nine dollars each, but the three for 524.98. "And here's today's superspecial, She's only thirty-five years old and guaranteed to work day or night, not like those electric things that were always breaking down. An almost automatic dishwasher. Yes, ladies • and gemmun, the real thing. This little • lady came on hard times. Her husband had A heating oil franchise. She's Willing to wash your dishes like they've never been • washed before. Only 5300 a week." And so on. Snow mobile, aircraft. It's going to be a great day for the junk dealers. On the other hand, there's the bright side. Just as people today pay fabulous suins for • junk furniture dug out of attics. the good • folk of 2010 A.D. might go as high as 5200 for an ancient, beautifully -finished Cadillac or a fine specimen of four -burner electric stove with infrared oven, They'd make To the editor: • nice conversation pieces. • Away back there, I failed to continue the analogy to the Roman Empire. But it's there. They had their bread and circuses as the countdown approached. Our arenas, like theirs, are packed solid with sweaty, sadistic spectators watching the gladiators. We don't have enough Christians left to throw tpAhe lions. But we can always fire the coach ; which is almost as good; • (Continued on Page 3) Interested in sponsoring? Refugees from Vietnam, the "boat people" are still being picked up on the high seas. Our federal government has announced a program to match the number of people that is assisted privately. Now it is up to Canadians to take the initiative to do something. If every community would consider sponsoring a family, it would be amazing how many could be assisted and no great stress placed on any community. The argument of unemployment con - cerns some people, but just this past week 100 young Germans were brought in to pick tobacco, If 100 came from Germany I'm sure many more are coming in from other countries. I would like to hear from anyone interested in sponsoring a fainily, or their feeling regarding the "boat people." Canada became a great country - all due to people from other countries. Sincerely, Betty Cardno Clinton says thanks The Clinton Lions Club have recently completed a draw for a Camper Van. During this time we were allowed to visit various activities put on by the Seaforth Lions Club. Our Club greatly appreciated this consid- eration and we would like to use space in your paper to let the citizens of Seaforth know. During this time we also visited Goderich Lions activities and 'received excellent support from them also. WO feel that the goodwill generated by the hospitality of both clubs has been an extra bonus to our activity. The Van was won by Mrs. June Harkes of Listowel ticket N 1403. Once again our thanks to all. Yours truly, . The Clinton Lion' Club. L.H, Tbeedorn •