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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-09-13, Page 5SOM. .4.,..:14404 White • I ' It's clean Off *he desk day at my office, spMething that I try to do every ,six months, whether the desk needs it or not. And it's the sa me kind of day fpr this column, time to Write abut those little wisps, ideas that have been my mentalbaggage for too long. Pet example I read nen eently that many people who were studied somewhere' went through extreme marriage problems, fighting and kicking and screataing. without any symptoms of ,stress hecoming very .ape parent, IL ROADWORK UNDERWAYLavis Con- struction of Holmeeville s continuing road • reconstruction work on the Corner of Adams Street and Goderich Street West, The workmen' Giant pumpkins, home baked tarts, tower, int; chocolate cakes and unusual pets . they're all welcome at the annual Seaforth Fall FAir, which is just around the corner. Anyone who wants to enter the compe- titions at the fair is reminded they still have time to ready their entries. A copy of this year's prize list is enclosed with this week's Huron Expositor. Once again younger fairgoers are remind- ed the Seaforth Lions Club is sponsoring their popular pet show, so take another look at your cat, dog or rabbit and see if it looks like a prizewiener. Jew priest • (Continued from Page 1) country, followed by tuberculosis and a high infant mortality rate. While there were medical facilities on the hacienda, Father Cooney said most of the better doctors were concentrated in the In the five years he was there, Father • Cooney said, "1 think what we ac- complishecl was that the people could trust another institution - they could see some hope." One idea which caught on in the country was the credit union or co-op idea, first brought to Peru from the Canadian Maritimes. ' CREDIT UNIONS . Father Cooney said prior to the establishment of co-ops, there would often be one man in a community who would ' operate as a kind of home savings bank. The men would give him $1 a month to put away for them for some special event. Then at the end of the year, the banker Would give the men $10 back, keeping the extra money as his banker's fee. Father Cooney said these men were "complete crooks" but when the credit union idea, Was introduced,, they tried to create enough opposition to stop it Fortunately, Father Cooney said, they weren't clever enough to stop people from accepting the improving banking system. Father Cooney believes Peru will some- day catch up - "when Canada and the United States start playing fair (with the country-)" He said very often the aid given to countries like Peru usually comes with a hook". The hook is that the country must use much of the foreign aid to buy Canadian made goods and products. Father Cooney said someday developing countries will catch on to this fatt, just the way the oil-producing Arabnations did. Then they'll raise the Prices of their goods - sugar and coffee in Peru's ease - and the country's standard of living will get a. much-needed boost In the meantime, the priest said developirig 'countries need help, just the are laying down new roadbed and will be putting in curbs and sidewailtS i:)y. the September 28th CeMpietion date. (xpositor Photo) ----- -- The sitIn says it all on Adams Street. #14k • o enter t . The fair opens Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:30 with a Western hprse show, followed by some entertainment with Mrs. McKinleys ukelele group at 8:30 p.m, The fair gets underway. when Huron County warden Jack Tinney declares it officially epee, and following this,ceremony, the public has a chance to meet this year's fair queen candidates The queen will be etowned during the evening by Joanne Rimmer, the 1978, fair queen. On Friday; the fair resumes with the parade down the town's Main Street, Special parade guests are the OPP Golden Helmets, in Peru way immigrants to Canada needed help when they were getting started in this country. . Working in a developing country "is a young man's game", Father Cooney said due to the physical conditions so after six years, he returned to Canada. The return was very much "a re-entry process" and it took some time to adjust to Canada again, In comparison to the Peruvian lifestyle. Father Cooney said this culture seems very materialistic, with a tremendous 'emphasis on buying things. . Since returning to Canada, Father Cooney hasbeen at All Saint parish in ' Strathroy where he helped in the building of a new church. He said Strathroy is a very different kind of town from Seaforth due to the immigration into the Area. In the 1930's for example, many Hungarian and Belgium families settled in the parish. Then there was a large Dutch immigration following World War II, and more recently, many Portuguese families settled in and around Strathroy. Father Cooney said there are a number of small factories in Strathroy which required a large pool of labour, and since many of the Portuguese settlers came from the Azoreswhere farming methods are very different, they ended up working in industry rather than agriculture when They came to Canada. One program established by the parish' wet a one tutoring program to heipPortuguesestudents learn the English language. Father Cooney said the plan to bring a Vietnamese family to Seaforth is still in the works, but the big element is having a local committee to integrate the family into Canadian, life:. He said that will be the major ehallenge facing the parish. Meanwhile, when Father Cooney -isn't pursuing church business, he's pursuing another personal philosophy - keeping fit. In the surnmer, he jogs and in the winter, cross --country skus to burn up his excess energy. Expositor asks: ls feektowit 00-6.0ed In $00:foithi?' BY ligilmut RAMEY Since 53 people showed up at the planning meeting for a teen town in Seaforth on Monday night it's obvious that somebody thinks the teen town idea is a good one, This week, Expositor Asks decided to find out what the local area people thought of it end asked, "What de you think of the teen town idea for Seaforth?" ChriMirte Goostene of 182 Jatvis St. in Seaforth Said, "I think it's great It might help keep' the ehildren off the road,'' • She said there were a couple of thildren In her neighbourhood who were interested in it and liked the Idea. "I think it's a terrific idea. If they can run it thetntelves it might mean' more to them than if an adult ran it," she added. Mrs. Ellen Gotild of 168 Jarvis St in Seaforth Said, "I think Its a terffic idea, We always had a teen town when we Were growing up. "I hope the adults Will sepport,B,” she added. Mrs, Margaret . MeNairn -of RR 4, Seatorth thought the teen town wOuld belt • VeryloOd idea. "I 41gi't think theret enough Of yOung --eople' to do, 1 think if there were mere things for them to do they woulldret get into Mischief. I really think it would be a good thing," she said. ' "I think it a very good idea," said Mts. Garnet McClinchey of 62 Jarvis St. in Seaforth. "We don't have enough entertainment .fer children. 1 think people should get out and support it and help Make it a succees, Children here in Seaforth are very lax for things to do," she added. Mrs. C, 'Pretty of 106-50 Market b in o Seaforth said, 'I think it'S great becauSe they had that (teen toWn) her before and it was good for the kids." Anether wOnlati, Who Wished to remain, anonymous said she thought the teen town idea was fine and that she thought it should help with the teenage problems. Mr. Andrew Crozier of RR 2, Seaforth Said, "I think its a geed idea., Quite a few years ago 'when ut beye' Were semi( they enjoyed it," she said, "1 really think it's a great idea tieeactie I think the town needs something for the youth in the onlitemity," said Mts. GlOtia RaVeg Of 181"Man St, in Setiforth. a ...precision metorcycle team, who will be. performing at the fair later in the afternoon, 4 . The livestock judging and 4-H competition starts at neon,•and the light and heavy horee Anti -noise byi Noise tame under attack at Seaft3rih council Monday night When a bylaw that regulates horns, loudspeakers, sirens, whistles and bells, yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing was passed. - The excess noise bylaw is an 'attempt to• 'cOntrot late night unnecessary noise, , Applicants can apply for exemptions to the by law and sounds "required by or Authorized by law or in accordance with good • competition gets underway 45 minutes later. Hotseracing fans will want to be in the", grandstands at 2:30 p,m. when the harness races start. . aw passed here Tuckersrnith donates The $15 surcharge that residents Of ,Tuckersmith who use the Seaforth areni pay vvill; probably be dropped, Seaforth council! said Monclay night. • This follows the recent, donation from the township of $1500' to Seaforttes areea, _ ltio..d...fhe- safety practices" are not covered, A clause that automatically exempted "noise!' in connection with listed tradifional, festive, religious and other acttvities, was deleted from the bylaw. Seaforth police have been charging un- necessary noise eomplaints under the High- way Traffic Act. The by-law is an attempt to handlethe problem v 'thin the town. to arena ending a policy of several years of refusing to help with operating costs. Similar grants were made to other arenas which Tuckerseafth residents use, The money is the township's share of the . . arena's operating deficit, based on the use from Tuckersinith. by Keith Roulston he truth about power The fuss over nuclear power has died automobiles and continued to use them. down a bit of late withno resolution in sight: - For the proponents of nuclear powet, of course, the very fact the storm has eased is victory' for them.' As long as public criticism stays silent then. it is a tacit approval as far as Ontario Hydro and other nuclear industry people are 'concerned. Even when the uproar in the aftermath of Harrisburg and the Schultz revelations about the operations at the Bruce station was at its highest people such as Premier Davis were saying that nuclear power must continue to be expanded. One of the people who provided some of the shocks during that controversial time a few short Menthe, back was De. William Porter, the Man who headed the commis- sion looking into electric power plahning in Ontario.•While, the politicians and utility experts were assuring us that something like the Three Mile Island accident couldn't happen at an Ontario Power .plant Dr. ' Porter said it could and probably would if the use of atomic power increased. He , pointed out that while theotility people tell you that there's only a �he-in-amillion thence of something going wrong those odds decrease each year by the sheer fact that there are More and More pewee plants beine built. lf there is a one -in a -million chance of an accident at one plant, there is a two.ina -million chance when you have two plantsand so on. Today with so many power plants being built the odds are getting toe close for comfort .At the time he Made these statements it was a refreshing bit of candour on Dr. Porter's part. We had been told for so long that nothing could go wrong and yet it had and we were still being told that nothing had really gone wrong, that it had all been blOwn Out of proportion, We just didn't know who we could trust any More itethis CoMplicated iesue. Here was a voiee with seine honesty. • Yet if the honesty Was refreshing from Dr. Porter at this point, it became absolutely frightening a couple Of weeks ago when he was interviewed on a television pUblic affairs program, an interview whiell strangely received little attention at the tittle. Again Dr. Porter was quite candid iibrait the risks of nuclear power but he said the Ceske were worth the bertefite, Even if there Wilt a nuclear accident, and up to 25,000' people were killed, he said, he'd endOrse the- use Of nuclear energy. We have he other choice, he &heed, His backup for this insane argttmnt wa$ That after all we heeded electricity te save lives in Places like hospitals. He also argues thiit other things such tit airplanes were also dangerous but We Continued to Use them because of their benefits, And indeed over the Years we probably have killed Off 25,006 people in airplanes. Wo've else massacred thousands mere itt But the flaw in the argument is that in the 'case of airplanes and automobiles, people know the risks they are taking. They accept: the risks for the benefits. We haven't been told the risks and have only been sold the benefits. In addition with the danger Of planes and cars it is the people getting the beeefits who take the risks. It is easy for someone say in London, to say the risk of nuclear power is 'worth it for the benefits received: but it isn't him that is taking the risk. He's rolling the dice with the lives of the ,peopte Hying around the Bruce plant taking all the risks. And with 'cars and planes We risk Only lives, not the immense changes that radiation leaks can; bring to the whole environment. .Of course the argument about needed electricity for hospitals is so ridiculous ft hardly dignifies response. Our hospitals already have electricity to save lives. The, increase in demand on the part of hospitals for electricity is not large. WS servicing the 'demand for industry and the home that is the reason for expansion of nuclear power.' The. proponents Of inielear pewee are right when they say that it'e either build more power plants or get along Without some of the luxuries we might have in the corning years. Those who question the expansion of nuclear power must ask themselves if they're ready to make that sacrifice, The politieiatte and planners are probably right that most of the population would rather take the risks thae give up the luxuries they feel are their rights. But the politicians and planners are dishonest in net telling people the real facts and telling thern the alternatives straight from the shoulder. We need t� be told the truth about the dangers just as Dr. Porter told us and we also need -to be told we have a•ehoice, that by conservation we can redilee our demand for power arid reduce Ithe need far atomic power. The people in centrist of the utilities, however, don't want us to have that choice apparently, They want to go on our merry, Wasteful ways even if it means thousands get killed in an accident. Ontario liydro is ineXcuseable in its deceit, Nearly every day we hear about this or that small happening at the Bruce plant, each' time being assured it is ecimpletelY harmless, We get so tired' of this daily report that we begin to think that Hydro officials arc giVing us all the faete.• It is only much later that we find out that while a Werket stubbieg his toe yesterday was widely reported, 4 year Or so ago the whole Douglas Point and Bruce .e oitiptex. was shut dowe because there was gehuine oticern there might he melt deeeti ited ate were never told. •• • 1 don't know all the filets' on ritteltir power but I think it's damned well time we were given the truth eo we can Make mit oWn choices. We've had enough of this whitewashing. THE HURON EXPOSITOR* SEPTEMBER 1 It- Was etilY when the 4riarriage problem -a Were,1"e" solved though a decision to, separate end/or divorce and that deeieien became public knowledge that the high blood Pressure and othee atreaseelated physical thing put in an appearance. So it looks like it's not what we do to, each other that really gets to us We cloe't really get upset anfil other people know what we're doing to each other. Which confirms me ie my cynieali belief that it's more im- portant that justice be seen to be done then it is that justice be done. Not that this is national • marriage breakdown week or anything,. but I've been re- flecting recently about the really nasty things we all do, to the people we live with, faniiliea and friend,. as: Wel as spouses. And I don't mean bicker - Mg, back stabbing, name calling, hooting and hollering, but the big things, It's co-operation in these really =vial platters that's the domestic cement that holds our lives together and makes themeesy, pleasant, even. Things like taking the leer ice cubes out of e tray end petting it back in the freezer, 'empty. Or using up all the teothpaste but not haying more. :Finishing a toilet paper roll and 1:1Qt fetching more from the linen cup- board. Bulb snatching from your spouse's favourite reading light. Drinking all the orange juice and then putting, the empty container back in the fridge. 'Puttidg efOtM ;PO elothes on 'the floor of 10/4 ,closet inateed of in leandre laalriPereOr /a" WA iy;e0 aart 4:40, to"ric an i411a eg tee 1:111: 41PP' r Pared dessertthen putting it . fully covered in foil and three h:tluacltinthe art, ersw ocu. Care'. .pboard These are the really serious matters on the house - held front. Like most women, forgive a husbandor child a lot, but I consider any of the above an, open de- claration o'fwar Abeen on a war footing in our hpesehold for sometime. Now that I've come clean and made it public, watch this column for the stress signals that psychologists say are ,the next step. ugctr an spice By Bill Smiley It's good to get back- . Man, it's' good to get back to work after a, long, hot, wet, cold,' dry summer. A good many teachers,' with a -long summer holiday, AO something exciting, interesting, or at least constructive. Some go on exotic trips to faraway ptaees, and return to bore You with their experiences for the next ten menths. Others go to the Stratford Festival, or take a course in potting pottery, or go on a long boat trip in their own boat, of have an affair, or make fifty gallons of peach wine, or grow a beard. 'Still ethers build a patio, or tear down a bare, or take a summer course to improve their qualifications, or prepare their courses fPr the fall term. Or something equally dull. Every year, it's the same thing with me, 1 make great plans for the summer, 'areund the middle ofJune. Write a book, go to the Yukon or .Newfoundland, revisit boyhood' hauntihave an affair, grow a beard and long hair; catch a hundred- bass ; shoot a. par retied in golf. And this ehminer, as sa-Often.. accomplished absolutely zilch.. • . 1 barelygotmy weekly column written. I, travelled no more than 120 miles from home, Ire -visited nothing except the town library. The Only affair I've had Was with a big cedar deck their in my back' yard. I'm clean-shaven and short haired I caught one nine inch bass. I did shoot a par in golf. On one hole. have to admit what ITV wife suggested every second day all summer, "You're a lazy hum. " Well, we're not ail perfect. I did get 'quite a few meale. Peanut butter sandwich and banana for breakfast. Freshmade sandwiches from The Oasis for lunch. Chicken pies, fish and chips, turkey dinner, Salsbury steak and gravy, all of them frozen, for dinner. Sometimes, when my menus began to repeat themselves, I'd send out for 'Chinese food. Otte night, carried away by some wild primitive instinct, I actually cooked up fresh potatoes, green beans, and a chunk of $2.98 sirloin. But made the mistake of making steak gravy. It came out looking like the inner side of a diaper, and nobody. could eat the steak. • One other memorable meal was a stew 1 made, The usual sttiff ' 'onions, Carrots, meat, a couple of spuds: It tasted a little flat, So I bit the spice cupboard and chucked in a few shots of everything but mustard, then Squirted in about half a bottle of VVorcestershire sauce, The steak . had body and a je ne sais quoi that my old lady tried to figure Out for days. Aside from the cooking, there wasn't much to do. Poe, various and sundry reasons, too miscellaneous to list, wd weren't able to do any of the things we'd planned„ Maybe that's Why we wound up with a phone bill nudging the $200 mark. Per month, A sick brother, the colonel, in hospital in Mentreal, flown our from James Bay after a ceilapee,The breakdown of a deal to rent a eamper and go visiting!. - Worrying and trying to help, as my daughter had prepared to head for the other side of James Bay to teach Iridian kids music. Five years ago, that girl, could hardly write a, cheque. Now here she Was, arranging all the details of -a major move, with MP small boys: travel tickets, baggage shipment, getting a piano crated, trying to dispose of a cat that won't start, and coping with a hundred other problems. Jolly good for her. And getting through 'yet another wed- ding, this time a niece from Edmonton, with my old lady running in circles over gifti, clothes and all: the other garbage , connected with weddings. • Vented to see Kim and grandbOys off • anethe north: Did you ever try to get a hotel room in Toronto during the C.N.E.? Travel' • agent Called twelve hotels. and thc. only thing she could come up with was a deluxe double, whatever that is, at $76.00 a night. A tittle rich for the blood, what? A one-night stand we could hack; but we wanted, it for four. What would yeti do? I won't tell. So, all in all, the summer was a big, fat bore. Not any .help was Me With a fat, arthritic foot when my wife was fit, and she with some kind of horrible sore back when my feet was fit. It didn't help that the lawnmower went on the blink, and 1 flatly refused to take it back to rhe robber who charged me $55.00 to get it going la's( time. -Let the dam' grass grow. That way the neighbours won't be able to sec that I haven't painted the falling -down back porch." Oh, it wasn't a tete' loss. 1 had a serious chat with my contractor neighbour about building a back deck to the house to replace s the tumbled heap of stones 'Onto which the; French windows presently permit access. , We may get it done next year. Neighbour's - too busy. I called a guy twice to come and do scene brick -work. He'd, •be there for sure. Haven't seen him.yet., Water tank in teller began to leak. s200 for a new one. •' Sat by the hour, !Peking at cedar wanner - furniture, stripped to a grey-white by five years of weather, and studied just how it • would look When sanded and stained and varnished. It's too tete now to get it done ' this year. Read three hundred books. Watched . three hundred third -run movies. Almost blind from reading. Piles bad from beer. Man, am I glad to be back to wOrkt • RonMarcy heads HPRCSS declining enrolment -cornmittee.. BY 'WILMA oitE Ronald Marcy of Stratford was nained chairman of the declining enrolment commit tee at a niceties of the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School board in Dublin Monday. The committee vvili meet early next month to tope with the problems arising from the gradual decline in the number of students. The decrease in the number enrolled in the 19 schools in the system this September is 61 or 2,1 per cent. There are 2,642' pupils. . Since 1014 there has been an accumulatedi decrease Of 19.1 per cent, , St. Boniface School, Zurich- showed the; largest decrease with 18 fewers pUpils, while at St, Joseph's School, Clinton. there was an increase of PY . The board, extended the 'deed of absence, for the janitor at the Clinton school, Edward' florian, to Monday. Septtieberli because! Of Meese. The beefed decided not to endorse a resolution from the Leeds and Grenville County hoard of education requesting supped for A petition' to die provincial government to ind'ude driver education in , the regular :secondary school eurrieuluen and to allocate holds accordingly. , The board decided'not to Ask the ministry, of education to put more motley into , secceidary schools for driver education as it would mean less, money for elementary Settee's. As well, it wae Said With no secondary schools in the system in Huron and Perth, that it , was not a particular problem 'in this area. Several trustees who. felt .."It's our children involved, whether in separate or public schools" were outvoted'. It was announced that ti prefessional activity day Will be held on Priday, September 14 at St. Pattiek'S School, Dublin arid St. Colunibati Scheel for all principals • Mid staffs, through teacher workshops. Priteary teat:hers Will be involved with language arts mid family life, while jeelet teachers will 1140 language arts and physical education; and the intermediate tearhers, family life arid geography. the werk of secretarytor the board Meetings wilt be taken' over by Carol Campbell of Winthrop replacing Bev Smith of Walton who has moved to Stratfotd.