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'SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 27, 1979,
gooymorty fire trucks -
"Fire protection for sale. No township, tOO far." That was the
headline on the srnall fire engine which frank Phillips drove in
Seaforth's Fall Fair parade on Friday. -
The sign on Mr. Phillips* "fire truck"went on to list prices for
various sorts of WO: "giarnS. $25; Houses $15;Outhouses - $2 etc.,
etc."
It was a good parade entry, and gave everyone a badly needed
laugh, comic relief from the Fire Area Board, hassles that have been,
the subject of countless meetings and newspaper stories for months.
But, Whether he meant it to or not, Mr, Philips! float made a Serious,
,point, •
And that 'is, why Should Seaforth and area stop at two fire
departments, the one the town set up at council this week which comes
into being at 12:01 a.m, January 1, 1980, and the one the rural
members of the present FAB insist they will maintain?
There could very well be, as Frank Philips' float suggested, room for
the fertile footwork of private enterprise in the fire protection field.
While fire truck chasers and newspaper photographers run around
in a complete dither at the sound of a fire alarm in the new year, trying .
to decide which fire departMent to follow, private fire. truck operators
could jump into the .fray, . .
And the first one at the fire gets to submit the bill to the unfortunate
property owner or his insurance carrier.
We forsee a situation not unlike the two truck Wars that used to be
common in Toronto and other expressway laden cities. Truck operators
listened in on police radio bands (fire emergency calls in this case) and
raced each other to be first to accidents'. In lots of cases, they arrived
before the police. • •
And all those young people in our area Who dreamed of being
• firemen when they grew up could apply to work for a private operator
and perhaps make a better contribution to their own livelihood than
.present rates for volunteer firemen allow.
Yes, with the demise of the present Seaforth Fire Area Board, the
field could be wide Open.
Thanks, Tuckersmith
• Hats off to Tuckersmith council on behalf of the tnwriship's residents
who use the Seaforth arena.
At a council meeting last month, Tuckersmith agreed to pay $1500 as
its share of operating expenses at the local arena.
For several years Seaforth has broken down the arena operating
deficit and asked each municipality whose residents use the facility to
• pay a percentage on a user basis. And for several years Tuckersmith
was the only township which did not pay.
That resulted in every person from the township who used the arena
for organized sports having to pay a $15 surcharge. For some families,
the total amount was pretty hefty, Arid it hit people close by, in
Harpurhey and Egrnondville who naturally used the Seaforth arena.
Tuckersmith also donated $1000 to the Hensel( arena, since many
township people use it and $500 to Clinton's facility.
The recent Fire Area Board controversy shouldn't be allowed to
obscure the fact that rural -urban co-operation is still alive and well.
Tuckersmith's big hearted, Open minded decision On the arena
proves that. .
'Ratepayers should let their council know the action is appreciated,
:1
To the editor:
Agricultural Society says thanks
On behalf of the Seaforth Agricultural
Societymay we take advantage of your
Editorial Page, to express our sincere
thanks to all those people who helped make
this year's Seaforth Fall Fair (the 134th)
such a success. • Special thanks to the
businesses in the area that closed their
doors to be with us, and the Expositor for
their Contribution ir keeping the public
informed of events before and after Fait
Day. •
Yours sincerely,
• Moore
Ken Moore
President
To the editor:
The British medical system
• Reading last week's editorial on
"Reforming Medicare" shduld like to add
comments which come to my mind On .
returning from a visit to England the
home of Social Medicine since 1948, as 1
came in contact With sevetil examples of the
"care" given by family ptactitioners to their
patients. Let Me give examples.
On a visit, the. reason. for visitings given to
the receptioness, with the result that on
entering the doctor's room, it it net Unusual
to find him Already writing a prescription. In
the time it takes to comtdete details re
address etc, the patient is ushered out of The
room. Avetage time per visit, two Minutes.
Home Vial are still occasionsdlY made but
the period between viSits is fat too long as
itre also needed x-rays, tests and such like
WSithig to enter hospital, even for the
• acutely ill, can be montlun All this is typical,
•of the rushed atmosphere' and inattention of
the MajOrity of din doctors of Great Britain -
Too few doctors, tett Many patients, long
lielaYS hespital saltation are eloquent
of a Siaie run medical' service that
"endeilYOUti against ill costa, to keep
expense* tiewit,
Our medlcid ono* need Overhanibis. As
a nation we rail to the doctor With ever* Mc
rig .
.SUS.:911, 'White
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We've had a husy week ,
the Expositor,working on
two Waal Proiects, oar
display at Seafotttt'n bigger,
awl better fall fair and the
Ileme improvement feature
edition that you'll receive
along with this week's news-
paper,
Both ,projects were at-
tempts to reach out to the
community, to you our read-
ers and we're pleased with
their success,
Our fair exhibit was the the c•orniees, but don't
resolt of a lot of hard work by despair if you missed it in the
.4-tpaif people here, Joo glut Of ttunSs to do and see et
*Lean did the Photographs the arena. If all goes well.
which showed all the Step a we'll have a portable version
We go through each Week t° of the sante eallihit which we
put what we hope is a quality an take along wheo staff
PaPar mYoUr g11,1 tO
Everybody else Patiently eontrtlunitY groups.
posed for same, and Carol Our second big- effort, the
Hunt was in charge of act, home improvement edition*
•ually corallingpeople in tQ is now in your bands. It's the
see it at the fair. result of terrific eo*OPeratiott
We hope you were one of : from areareaders who
Sugar and spice
.13y..1311.11.Srytileyi
' Boy, the world is in some mess today,
isn't it? With two world wars in this
century, and the oceans of blood shed in
them, not to mention the limited wars in:
Korea and Viet Nam, you'd think mankind
would come to its senses, sit back and say,
"Hey, chaps. Enough is enough. Let's sit
back, cultivateour own gardens, and have
a few centuries, of peace and friendship.
Let's .relax a little. try to Make sure .
everybodyhas at least two squares a day,
stop burning up irreplaceable energy, and
make love, not war.'"
Not a chance. Allover this planet people
are starving, shooting, burning, blown
up, raping, mutilating, and demonstrating,
all in the name of some non-existent ideal,.
such as freedom, or nationalism, or
language, or religion, or color. And nobody
is making a nickel out of it all, except the
purveyors Of weapons.
All over the world, in vast areas of Asia,
Africa, and .South American particularly,
there are probably 300 times more
refugees„Orphatis and just plain starving
people than there Were at the beginning of
this century of enlightenment.
• World War 1, with its millions of dead,
Produced a hare decade and a 'half of
peace. It also signalled the beginning of
the end of the fairly fair and benevolent
British Empire, allowed the beginning of
the massive international eommunism, and
by its •punitive peace terms, iaid the
foundations for World War 11.
That one produced as little, or less. It
•'bas•beeh terribly weakened, chiefly by its
external affairs policies, or lack of them,
and the meddling in foreign affairs of the
notorious CIA.
It had its shining moments: the Marshall
Plan to put devastated Europe back on its
feet; Kennetly'S showdown with Kruschev
over the Cuban missiles instalment; an
attempt tomake a better deal for blacks in
their
cltwhneScewere flawed by other events
and attitudes; the backing of right-wing
dictators around the world; the loss of face
in Korea; the treatment of' Cuba; the
meddling in the affairs of other nations; the
fairly indiscriminate supplying of arms to
anybody who could pay for them; and
finally, the abortive, badly -burned -fingers
mess of Viet Nam.
At home tight now; the States has
rather panicky President, growing inflation.
and unemployment, belligerent blacks and.
hardline unions, and a recession on the
horizon. Abroad, it has lost a great deal of
credibility, and seems to be pushed around
by anybody who has plenty of oil.
American imperialism is coming home to
' most, and there are a lot of vultures among
the roosters. Cuba is an out -spoken enemy.
Mexico, sitting on a :huge oil deposit, is
cool, considering past grievances. The
Philippines are gone. Japan and Getniaoy,
the losers in W.W. II, are the winners in
the economic war. The U.S. dollar is no
'longer 'the international monetary stand -
vaulted Russia and the U.S. into the great , ard. The Panama Canal is going. • ,
confrontation that has been going onever "' But let's not forget the tremendous
since. It wrote finis to the British Empire power that lies in the great, half -stunned
and • reduced that sturdy people to a nation of the Western hemisphere, the
drained, impoverished, third -Class power. U.S. of America. The giant May be
It split Europe down 'the middle between, slumbering, having nightmares, twitching
two philosophies, communism and capital:, in his sleep: But he's far from .clead. -
ism. It launched on the world the final There is still a great, latent vitality in the
weapon by which Mankind could write . States. With strong. leadership, and a
kaput to his own species.
Has it smartened anybody up? Not
exactly. Today we have Iranians beating on
Kinds, Chinese glaring at Russians,
Cambodians hammering Laotians, blacks
fighting blacks all over Africa, Jews and
• renewed sense of purpose, the Y-anks can •'
make a tremendous comeback, as they
have proven more than once.
For our sakes, they'd better. Despite
what our ubiquitous nationalists hlather.
Canada is riding on the coat-tails of the
Palestinians toeilig off, dictatorships in 11.S., awl you'd better believe it.. If they
to
114' Wered Our recent refiliest
for! people who've done home
refs Ya
l'm something of an expert
en that subject and a friend
who read our Plea for peg.*
witting to be interviewed
quipped "all you gotta do is
interview yourself"
Thanks to readers' re-
sponse, that wasn't neces-
Soy, And lust as well too.
For if out home renovation
Sectien had included photos
of our house. "Never Done"
out in McKillop,•countless
readers •would have been
asking themselves; "these
before pictures are great but
where's the finished pro-
duct?"
We'
beingre a 1008 waY fr°l°
finished at oor house,
•
but the stories reporters
Alice Gil*, Yvonne Reynolds
and Debbie Ranney got from
other home renovators out
there, should prove„inspir.
ing. l'm going to shove the
section under the better
balfs nose tonight •as a
gentle hint and I suggest all
You other wives out there
'with! 'Idg plans; that as yet -
!tistve sez 10 ti • dot
same.fC4404.tbo,h000.itrkprOYO--.
•.
• rneot stOrtM,
!local„,faacinating •anti T hope!
.yoti. do to They range ifrOnt
the ilieughtfid, ;fateful! plan,
Ping: with which' the Agars
McKillop attacked !Mae.,
VationS, 'te tlie P14 . Carte
house tothe inspiring story
of a vacant Church that Is now •
a hemp and shop south of
here,
"How the rec room almost
wrecked our marriage" is a
story •that just about any
home improver can relate to.
We hope to hear more from
its writer, A, Nony Mouse,
Other stories of area
people's experiences might
help readers who are plan.
eing kitchen, bathroom or
exterior renovations. "Work
with the house you have",,
one lady in Brussels advises
and how right she is. We've
learned tbat the hard way out
at Never Done and finally
learned o take advantagef
what's good about our old
positor asks:
h9USe 11151,040, Of irting to
turn it into a modern split
level.
How successful! we've
bents a Moot pc•int 'Maybe -
readers will have a ohallOo tAt
judge for themselven it•
ftiture home •improvement
edition, (Them,
enough, /Menthe for YOnt,
ilear?)
We at the Expostterstv SO.
Pleaaed with MOO'S' re
-
Sponse to our requests fo• r
!their home renovating storivi
that we plan to ask for rat
help in writing other feature
editions in the future. Start-,
ing this week too, we're
asking you, to send in favour-
ite recipes Par` a Christmas
• eookbook Which well publiflit
in• November as, feature
section of the Paper -
'So oolue.,,T1 ell you good
cooks out there. Send in your
favourite recipes before Oct -
'ober 24. You could win $21
(see the story on page one)
and hundreds of others who
love to ,cook will thank you.
(Plus I need a lot of help if
I'm going to have the family
at our place for Christmas.)
What other .storelif any doe. Seaforth need?
BY DEBBIE RAMEY
• In a Small town like Seaforth, businesses
cater to the essentials of lite and Seaforth
seems—well-served in that respect How-
ever, this week Expositor Asks was eurious ,
to know whether people in the area thought
there were any, other types of stores that
should be added so asked, "What. type of
. store do you think the Seaforth area needs
that it hasn't got already or do you think
it's already well served?" '
Mrs. Lois Hodgert of 132 Main St, N. in
Seaforth said, "1 think for a community of
our size that we have a very well
variety"
Sheadded that she thought the merch-
ants did a very good job of procuring items
if they didn't have Ahem in the store.
"1 think we're notteo badoffat all," she
said. '
Mrs. Martha Billings of 17 Railway St in
Seaforth started to say she thought
Seaford) was well enough already
-but then thought of a business *that could
be added.
"There is something we could do with --a
place to buy your licence plates instead of
going to . Gc•derich--but otherwise it's
great" she said. .
John Talbot of R.R. 2, Seaforth said, "I
seems to me that we have a good variety of
stores at the present time."
Mrs, Barb Osborn of th Helen St in
$eaforth thought a sports centre would be a
good thing. She said Canadian Tire has a
sporting goods section but that she
believed Seaforth needed a separate store
as well that just carried sporting goods so
she wouldn't have to go out of town. She
said she thought of this because of the
minor hockey season coming up.
•
Mrs. Clarence Walden of 83 Main St. N.
in Seaforth said, "I think we have pretty
good stores..."
•
. She added that Seaforth had pretty good
Stores not only in the merchandise they
provided but the way the stores are kept .
clean and the nice store fronts.
, Velma Heist of 29 Louisa St. in Seaforth
said, "Well, it suis me right"
! 'Debbie Dolmage of 182 Main St N. in ,
Seaforth thought Seaforth could use.
. department store which would carry, "a'
little bit of everything."
Mrs. Debbie Rau of EgmondVille said,
"1 would think that the majority of the
things 1 want I can buy in Seaforth. I can't
think .of any other type of store that is
heeded." •
__Behind the scenes
southAinerica, wrnril, revolution suffer, we suffer. If they bleed, we
• . M Central America,:1riihtneti blowing Up hernmorhage, 'by Keith, ROuisto
each other with giddy aban.don, old Uncle Let's not , give it awo: our gas .and oil
There's a new air:. of excitement in
Torn Cobley and all. •• and water and hydro* power. Let s trade
We don't seem to learn much, do we9 shrewdly, like a Yankee. But let's not get
The United Nations, a noble idea, mean and stingy and narrow, either. Let's
conceived with a touch of the greatness be neighbourly.
man can aspire to, isa joke, albeit an For the simple fact is, that if Canadians
expensive one, merely a political sounding- get all upright and righteous and miserly,
board for every new pipsqueak nation that refusing to share, they could walk in and
- wants some publicity, along with plenty of take over this country and help themselves.
foreign aid.•
sniffle.' W e expect all the aged, infirm and
handicapped to receive the best Of modern
Medicine and thisis their right. But with a
diminishing younger population and an
increasing' older population some other
system of ,indoilie and expenditute must be
devised, Is it teally necessary for All spOuSeS
of those over 65 be given free medical care
(no Monthly contributiong to OHIP?) I for
one would have gladly paid my share while
working, Contributions and taxes raise a
certain aMmint but apparently those are not
sufficient.
Is closing hospitals or beds, cutting down
oti hospital staff or increasing home earc the '
ansWer? This is just the Winding toad to the
situatititis mentioned, above. What is the
tottiVer? A Whole tie*. reassessment and
outlook must be annoUnced by he
goVernment, which gives medicil are to
these who need it, and only these. NO! CW
task 'tot the Ministry to formulate this
vide*. Public input in needed and needed
now not complaints when it is too late to
change things.
Hilda M. Payne
RR1 Herman
And nobody, nobody in the vvorld, would
The U.S., which emerged from W.W. II •
lift a finger to stop them.
•
as a great powerful and wealthy nation, End of Sermon.
• mom.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1879
Jelin COwan Of McKillop acted at judge of
sheep at the Guelph. Central Fair and John
McMillan of Hullett acted as judge of cattle
at the Toronto Exhibition,
Messrs.' A.G. McDougall and D.D. Wilson
of Seaforth are busily' engaged in buying
apples for shipment to the old country.
Daniel McGregor of Hatpurtiey has, the
Onest pears in this part of the country.
S. Kennedy and his family have moved to
Blyth where he intends to reside. !
• John Govenlock of McKillop is doing a
large business this season in purchasing
sheep and shipping them to the American
rnarket.
A man in the Winthrop area, has left,
leaving a debt 4' S80. at Mri. Mutchies
store.
SEPTEMBER 3011904
The want of houses in the village of
Hensall, while in itself is s good sign, is at
the same time being found quite an
inconvenience and we are pleased to learn
that seine new buildings are in completion
and showed a very good investment.
Quite a number will dotithience the torn
harvest at Constance which in most cases
will not be a long or difficult task.
It was unfortunate Saturday, the second
day of the milling openings. was so wet and
disagreeable.
Frank C. Willis has opened up a stock of
gents' furnishings in the Store lately
occupied by -Lenroyd and CO.'
Y.F. tolling Was the winner of the
Handsel)* trophy presented to the bowling
club by lames Dick.
Waiter Kemp of trrivii has soldtis house to
James Rankin.,
Melville McPhee has sold a 'house and lot
on Coleman St. to John McDonald for
S350.(10.
rs agone
SEPTEMBER 20,1929
Miss R. Simpson, who teaches at 1110 Hay.
had the misfortune to fracture her arm.
• Jas. Swan and daughter Mande of
Brucefield returned home after spending a
few Months visiting friends at the coasts and
• in the west.
The long droot,ht has been brokenby
some wee showers at Staffa.
Dr. A.R. Campbell of Henson toceived
second prize for best horse in homes's and
outfit and second for horses in other classes.
Messrs. M. McLaughlin of Manley, Ross
McKay and Miss Healy took in the sights in
Midland after spending a few days with Mr.
and MrS. Jas. Eckert
• OCTOBER 1, 1954
Seaforth Lions club markedthe '30th
anniversary Of the founding at a banquet in
the community tentre. In hotiour of the
iAvreknaitdw
n sa , :radG.
s the grItiaeii t s pet' tleRock,:speaker. The
late
ILK !Jones was the first President and W.G.
Spencer the first secretary, Of the 25 tharter
Members, four continue aS active members,
These are CA,.Barber, J E Keating, Jas.
G. Mullen and W ..1. DailoOn.
in a draw held by Ball McCatilay itt
conneetion With their di*play at the Fall Pair,
prizes Were won as folIOWS: First, Betty
tvlaegge, Seaftirth, 510.00 hi merthandise;
Second Bill Scott, $5.00; third, Mts. Geo.
Henderson. litucefield, $3.60! in Merchan-
dise.
The ahhttit tip Top doubles touttuttnent of
the Seaforth titWti Bowling club was rained,
• AIM% 'Wednesday afteltioon. In a draw for a
lip Top suit or coat the May ticket Was held
by Ross SaVauge, '
Wilson Oke, while rating et LiStOWC4
ittifera broken ribt and bruise's When he
watt thrtrivn 10. the traeit,
Newfoundland these days we're told. Even
though the reports of the oil strike when
announced last week were not as optimistic
as the rumours Newfoundlanders ter the
first time in many years are feeling
confident about the future.
The easterners may finally ,have their
day of glory after three decades of being
'nothing more than Newfie jokes. Despite
the . official statements on the oil find,
tumours' persist that it may be the biggest.
-find in Canadian history.
Likewise people in Nova, Scotia are also
looking forward tosgood news front offshore
drilling. People here in Ontario, long used
to being the most prosperous part of '
Ontario are suddenly feeling a little left
out.
• If one takes the pronouncements of the
Provincial government here in Ontario as
indicative of the feelings of the people of
the provinee, one gets the impression that
Ontarians are not too thrilled at being left
behind. We hear Premier Davis and
members of the Cabinet lamenting regu-
larly that Alberta should share the wealth
• just as Ontario did in years past. One can
almost hear the gales of laughter echoing
down from the West where for years they
have felt that the odds were stacking in
favour of the rich eastandthe easternerS
weren't about to change them to give their
western brothers an even break.
The switch in the econOmic geography of
the eountry seems to be one. Peter C.
Newman. editor Of Maclean's Magazine
said in an interview last week that
Montreal is nothing but a branch office city
instead of the oncepowerful metropolis it
once was, Even Toronto is losing t
Calgary as the financial giant tithe nation.
As one of those front' Ontario who's
supposed to be getting left behind in the
economic dust, rim not at all in agreement
with Premier Davit in his view that these
are dark days (1 haven't agreed with hirri on
anything elie to wby start now.) While I'd
hate to see Premier Lougheed turn Alberta
into it country Within a country, hoarding
all the Wealth to himself, I think it's in the
best intereSts of the whole country that
Edmonton and Calgary now are as import,
ant iti the econetnie Salerno of things att
Toronto atid Montreal. If an east eclat
off -shore oil boom cart do tie sante for St.
John't then so much the better.
As long as one area of the countri has a,
httge advantage econtmileally over another
the Country Can rieVer be strong. Petty
jealottsies and ow hatred esn brew 'when
the havenots do without for long Perioda of
time. Sharing the wealth' is much better
and not in terms of handouts from one
province to another but in terms Of natural
Cycles of economic history where one
section of the country has the economic
clout for a while and then another has it
AS long ds southern Ontario is the :Ultural
and economic leader of Canada the chances
of the country developing a true identity
are small; It takes only a glance at a map to
show how little relation we in our part of
the country have to the rest of Canada.
We'te a little island •nearly completely
surrounded, by the U.S...The country as a
' while is northern although southern Ont
-
alio, so long the dominant section of the
country; has little of the same climate as
the rest of the nation. While Edmonton and
Calgary have perhaps even stronger Amer-
iconinfluence than Toronto, a; shift to the
north, away frointhe American border may
help give Canadians a different outlook On
their own country. Likewise Newfoundland
with its unique culture can add a great deal
to the country if the offshore oil Strike gtve,
the. province more economic influence in
Canada.
The prospect of momentum shifting
away from the golden horseshoe are
around Toronte should be welcomed by
those( concerned . about preserving agri-
.
cultural land. That land is Ontario's
greatest asset. As long as We have the hest
farmland in the count*, we need never fear
being it havenot province. Yet as long as
urban growth continues we are under -
Mining that security by eating up the most
precious resottrce, one that can't be
replaced. If industry and business begin to
locate in Edmonton, Calgary and St John's
ecitute Of the new economic realities of
The nation it may do what farm groups and
conservationist* haVe failed to do, to save
Ontario fartnland front urban encroach-
ment.
Ontarians have no reason to te nt the
new prosperity that Alberta is enjoying and
Newforindlind may have toting. We've
bad Out turn at the top. EVen. If we're
passed by 'there isn'st much doubt that
things will still be prosperous enough here
that we won't be On the dole. We have ko!
many things going for in Ontario to
,become one Of the #oor provinces. We they
Oahe the *hest bitty/ell be fat from the
bottom, of the heap even if Neartoundlond,
and NOifa !Steil* jOitt Alberta * riches,
Mr. Davit and °theft should` stop
grumbling and tekbrate what may baths
healthiest develetitnent in the teditiry
Oda tentuty,
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