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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 4, 1979
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Many 'parents and sports enthusiasts are understandably dis-:-
appointed, with the decision of delegates attending the Ontario Minor
Hockey Association's recent annual meeting.
Delegates turned down a resolution to ban bodychecking; among the
three youngest age groups in minor league hockey, a resolution which
might have prevented future injuries to young players.and removed
some of the: connpetitive pressure from the game.
It's, obviouls 'from; the meeting that a wide gulf stili,. exists between
the hockey :eitebl!shment and the parents of children playing minor
league hockey. A recent survey by the Ontario Hockey Council
dramatically i•gtdicates that parents were in favor' of banning the body
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check. for younger. p vers, Parents, also :indicated they wanted Tess:
emphasis on winning the, games and more emphasis. by the coaches to
teach the basic hockey skills.
Why didn't 'the delegates take the wishes of parents . into
consideration? Or if the parents' arguments weren't convincing
enough, why didn't they listen to .NHL players and coaches who are
warning us if we're.going to compete internationally, then• we have to.
teach youngsters to stick, handle, ,shoot the puck and pass, instead of
simply playing defensive hockey, '
Although therearealwa s parents who. become a nuisance either by
interfering,with the coach or their behavior at games, the. Ontario
, . by ._ g m
Minor Hockey Association still :should have lent an ear to the collective"
Wishes of parents.
This week when the Ontario Hockey Council and the OMHA sponsor
•their joint; public forum. in Stratford, we .hope Seaforth and area
residents Will attend and air their views.
Hockey is, Canada'•s national sport. But like any sport, especially' a
sport; invoiving children, It should be played, for fun. and not solely to •
.. win!
Whois I onsib •le.
When a- child, riding Y .. a bicycle in an elle 'al manner,' becomes
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involved in -•an accident, who .•w o is really res P•.onsiile for the tragedy?
It is true that the child should know the rulesofa a roadwhile' on a
bicycle: He shouid stop at stop sins, he should not ride on sidewalks
he should stay on the right side of the road; he should signal before
turnip • he should; not ride double on a bicycle; he should never ride at
night without lights'
But how does a child get to know these rules?
He should learn them from hisp arents..lt, is, as a matter of fact,the
'responsibilityof the parent to ensure that hischild knows the rules
before he 'is ever allowed to go out onto the road;
Therefore, it follows that if the child gets into trouble, there is agood
chance that he was not taught .and, Cautionedadequately on bicycle
nt that r lack' r�of
safety by his parents, or t at his' parents proper canto his
actions when he is out of their` sight. Either -way, the parent could --and
in our opinion, : should --be held responsible when 'a child gets into
difficulty with. -the law while operating his bicycle.
• We would have toagree with the member of town council, who said
that.ar ens should be required to pay fines and to retrieve
p r t 4 P Y , t
impounded isYcleswhen a oun staer finds himself in difficulty with
the law over the way he operates his bicycle. That Way, boththe parent
and child might better learn that there are certain responsibilities, and
rules, for the safety of the cyclist, that go along. with the pleasure of.
bike -riding.
.There may be some argument that parents cannot be held'
responsible for the actions of their children. We are not sure, but we.
seem to recall some talk very recently about a new law in Canada which
does make parents responsible. Council might be well advised to check
this possibility outthoroughly before proceeding with any proposed
changes in its 'bicycle -riding bylaw.
Taber Tirnes,:,Alberta'.
To the editor:
Seaforth Dashwood band
reports busy year
Well it was a successful year again for.
the Band. Many invitations iin this area to
beautify the parades, have been great, as it
has been for the past four years. Many towns
and cities recognize our band as people do
still like the old fashioned marches in music.
The places we were invited to were,
Clinton,lattsville, Auburn, Zurich,
Dashwood, Lucan, Blyth, Mitchell,
Vanastra, Exeter and Blyth again for the
Annual Thresherman's Reunion.
What's wrong with Seaforth? Well it's like
the old saying still goes, heron are,' seldom
recognized in their own city, no matter what
goes on in Seaforth, they don't need us,
because we've never been asked:
Besides parades, we gave a successful
concert at victoria park; we played a concert
at the beach for Dr. Ch Toll's 50th wedding
anniversary and we gave Tribute to one of
our well known members who passed away
this summer, Keith Sharp, an outstanding
member of our Band.
Not accepted' were invitations to' the
Plowing Match. in Chatham and Ilderton
parade, because Some of the members were
unable to go for reason's of workand vacation.
time.
And so that raps Up another good year, an
'enjoyable: year and invitations for next year
are in already for 1980 parades and that's
good feeling,to be wanted.
JohnVanGeffen Sec. -Treat
Seaforth-Dashwood Band
AdverNelnp 11 aoeepied on the rendition this In the Brent of it iyeiigilehjei error the advertleine 1pace
o.rupted by the erreneeua tient, i%gather with reeeenibte aiknwnce for *tomato'*, velli not be **reed for but
Me herons of the. adverthWetnent-will be pill' for at the eturne.W. rate'.
White every ettert wit be made ti Ueure they are hsnd0W with care, the pi,blbhers cannot be responsible tor
t i filum N' ur itollO ted nwnwetiple e► pbitei. •
SS#12 McKILLOP IN '1915—A pencilled' note on the photo says it was.
takenon the school's silver anniversary, 84 years ago. The photo was.
loaned to the Expositor by reader Jim McClure. of R.R. 4 Walton.
Students and teacher. are, from ' back, .left Gertrude McClure, - Roy
Henderson, James McClure, Elsie Doddls, Christina lairksnn (teacher)
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In the years agone
OCTOBER. 3,1879
The neck tie social in the Canada.
Methodist Church was very well attended...'
Work on the new Presbyterian manse has
been commenced.
M. Robertson has erected a neat -frame:
residence on north Main which he intends.
to occupy as soon 'as it is finished:
W.N. Cresswell carried off nine first
prizes at, the Western Fair,
London, for his
gof ri
paintingsvarious .kinds. .
. John. Alexander of •McP
Killo has sold' his
farm on the 9th concession of McKillop. to
Wm. Alexander for $1..,500...
H
Medd of:the 1 th concession of• 11 Hu lett'
recently purchased a 100 acre farm of which
95 is5
a0
, for 3 ,00,
Dr: Stewart has' w as returned from ...his
European tour and has resumed the practice
of his profession in Brucefield.
OCTOBER 7;1904 .
Farmers atKipp* i n.
are still bu'sy'with the
roots and threshing. and consequently'busi
g
ness is somewhat slow u town.
When ,Mrs. John Dodds and Mrs. A..
Somerville of McKillop, with a little :girl,
were returning from Winthrop in a horse and
;buggy, they met With a serious mishap. The
ced rearing horse commen. . r 'ng and pitchi' • -
mg.tivhen
the bit' broke. Mrs. Dodds and the littlei
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Dinah Staples, Jennie Calder, Elva Staples, Mary Cutthill; 2nd Arthur
Henderson, Oscar Cuthill, Watson'Sholdice, Elmer Beattie, Glen Cuthill,
Tommmy Beattie, Margaret Alexander; front Jean Alexander,
Viola
Morrison, Mabel Bolton, Helen Alexander.
ecktie social
were thrown out and Mrs. Dodds found;titat
her leg was fractured above the knee.
Cantelon of ; Hensall ,is making large
shipments of apples from the station and
local buyerslarge shipments of hogs.
James Murray is. having his residence on
Crombie Street raisedup and a cement
foundationplaced under ;it.
n• o h oftown has disposed of his
John McL t,.s t pos ..
blacksmithin business .:here to Robert
McIntosh.
Wheat has gone.. up to 51,08 and flour to.
53;:00 per hundred. •
Ernest Murray and Alvin L. ,McLean of
Tuckersmith have gone to Toronto to take a
course in the School of Practical Science..
James Shea's sale of 'livestock was a
financial success.
• Messrs. Pearce and Murdock of Walton
hadan auction sale of Western ponies and
disposed of 18 at prices ranging from $30;00
to $90.00.. •
The Metheditts ot Walton are busily
engaged in . moving ,:the church to the
parsonage grounds.
OCTOBER 40 1929
Norman =Parsons: of Staffa met with a
serious accident while working ,'-at A.A.
Colgluhaurs'. A team ran'. away. breaking his
leg.:
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
Theytogether'
came in a strange way is a
reminder of the strange universal way
people act. One was a letter to the editor in
a Torontonewspaper and the other was a `.
lengthy article by Adrienne. Clarkson on.
rediscovering her roots in: ancient China:.
The letter was from a British immigrant
to Canada who
suggested that immigrants
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should love their new land or leave it, He
criticised people from Britain or Jamaica or
India or Pakistan or any other country who
came here for freedom acid then spent their
time crying about all that was wrong with
their:new land and making unfavourable.
comparisons to their homeland.
He's right of course. It's incongruous for
people to escape the poverty and perse-
cution of other lands to come to the wealth
and freedom of Canada, then sit around
and dream about their native land. Yet it's
not something new. Native Canadians may
be upset by the complaints about the
imperfections of Canada from newcomers
but they should remember that they are
descended front people who had the same
complaints.
Take my own ancestors as an example.
Although I'm pretty typical Canadian, a
real mixed bag of nationalities, the main
stalk of my family tree was from Scotland.
The Scots came to Canada after they had..:
beenitshed
off their eland d by their
landlords: Others came to escape the
poverty brought about by the industrial
revolution. One would think that the new
p:
landthat offered them the chance to escape
the dead ends they faced in the old would
make them turn their back. on
the past But
ut
what did they do?Weil they organized
societies to keep the olduag fa�e and:
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culture alive in the new land. In my old
hometown they had Highland games that
drew thousands Upon thousands of ex-
patriot Scots from across the province.
a success in 1879.
.The town scales at Bayfield which have
been out of commission for several years
have been repaired and put in place at the
edge of the square. •
The county crusher at Manley begun
be un
work in the McNaught pit and the gravel
g P
trucks are drawing the crushed stone to the
county road which has just been graded in
the 'pine swamp:
R0bt. Archibald,
a , James St. met with an
•z
unfortunate accident., He was standing on a
ladder when it moved and thinking he was:.
about to fall, jumped to the ground: He
fractured his leg, •.
Pat, the little daughter of Dr. and Mrs;
F.J. Beechely was crossing the pavement in
front of her when she was struck and
knocked down by .a car, the wheel passing
g.
over' her leg andfracturing it.
• OCTOBER 8, 1954
Announcement was made by F,C.J: Sills;'
president of the Seaforth Highlanders Band,
of . the appointment of Ernest Westonasp
Band Master. He„succeeds S.J. Smith who
resigned; recently. 1
Seaforth fishermenaine new . -.
g d laurels'
duringthe past week with outstanding•
catches. Fishing in Lake.- Nipissing, Enos::
Boshartand Chas. Felkar caught 33 pike and
pickerel, the, largest of which was over 3 feet
in length. Mrs. Fred Sinclair :hooked, and
landed a rainbow trout that weighed .10
pounds. She and her husbandwere fishing:
in the Nottawasgu river.
Traffic beganto move Over
the :new' No. 8
highway west of” town this week.
The Huron Exo itorTro h presented s Trophy, p sented a
number of years ago to the McKillop School
Fair to :be awarded each year to the school
having;the highest number of entries inthe
fair, .has been, won by Beechwood. Mrs.
Mary Murray is the teacher.
About, $50.00 was realized from a tea and
hone baking tale sponsored by the Seaforth
chapter of the Order of the Eastern Stars.
The residence of the late Chas. Stewart at
the corner of Church and Centte;Streets has
been purchased by Joseph 'Rowland, and
Miss •Pearl Thamer.
D
August u
g charm* and son Thomas and
John Murphy are on 'a motor tripto
Edmonton s
m plop and other...points in Western'
Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Barber and Mr. and
Mrs. John Modeland are on, a motor trip
through the New•England States.
An evening was spent, ent, at the home of Mr,.
and Mrs. James Webster prior to their'
departure for their new home at Amberley.'
We`ll
Even more stran e
was the fact that they
were so willing to clasp to themselves the
very,; symbols of the, oppression that had
driven them,'across the sea. We hear so
much about Scots nationalism today, about
how the Scots have been Put upon by the
English yet the Scots settlers have been
among the strongest
supporters of the
'monarchy in Canada Sir John A. Mac-
Donald said proudly '`A British subject I
was born and a British subject I; will die."
And he was the founder of, the new land:
But the Scots, the Irish driven here by
the potato famines, the English from the
slums of London and Liverpool Were able to
conveniently forget, the misery of thein
homeland once they got a little prosperous
over. here. They sought to transplant as
much of the lifestyle of their homelandas
possible. They romanticized "home.'*
Only in the second and third generations
did people begin to put the proper
perspective On things and yet even a
century later the ties some have to the
homeland are still made of steel as witness
the Monarchist League or the .Orange
Order.
In her story as part of a whole issue of
Weekend magazine about the/30th anni-
versary of the Chinese Revolution, Adri-
enne Clarkson shows that much the same
feelings were present in the Chinese who
came to Canada. By the standards of most
other immigrants the Chinese did not find
Canada a land of plenty: They were
allowed only the most menial of jobs in
laundrys or restaurants or building rail -d.
ways,• They were persecuted by many
self-righteous whites. But the tie to their
homeland was strong. They scraped to-
gether their mono ` And sent it home to
� Y.
their villages in China. Ms. Clarkson
visited villages that were built with the
doinrritions of overseas Chinese, many. from
always complain..
Canada. Those Chinese in Canada could
have used "the money to make their own
lives easier but they cared about "home."
Unlike the Scots or Irish many even went
back to China to
Our friend the letter writer suggested
that the new immigrants should' love
Canadaor leave it
e but not try to change it.
But what the East Indians and West
Indians' and the Italians and even the newly
arrived Britishers are saying is just part of
the way' people are. I remember a
childhood friend who moved. to our
neighbourhood from Komoka who used to
anger the rest of us 'because he made it
seem like the only interesting things that
had ever happened •in the world had
happened in Komoka.
What we need:,more of in this, :coun
todayis wisdomst try
the wisdom to know that
some things. can't be changed, that: some
things are part of human beings. We:need
to look more at our. history and learn
lessons it has to teach us. If we know that.
people coming, to a new land, even a new
town will always romanticize the place they
came from then we can ',live much easier
with the knowledge, Instead of getting
angry, tense and retaliatory we can smile
the wise smile of knowledge that this will'
pass. We cantknow that someday the sons,
and daughters of• these new arrivals will
feel the same .anger toward the gripes of
another generation of newcomers,
Sugarand spice
By s�tlSmiPey
An anniversary to remember
Me and the old lady had another
wedding anniversa rylast Week. Holey ole
Moloy, how the :years fly byl
Usually, we remember our anniversary a
week or ten days.,after it has gone by, and
laugh about it. We don't believe much in
anniversaries, as do some `people who
squabble all year, then go out to dinner'
with -.wine and roses, and are back
pounding on each other within two days.
One year I actually' remembered and
brought home eighteen yellow roses. She
fainted dead away with shock, and When
she came tot gave nie the devil for wasting
all that money.
y
This year, I thought ht
Y , g about it away back
in August, and filed it away in my memory
bank, determined to surprise her t this year.
Show her, by George, that there was some
fire, or at least a few embers,underneath
that wisp of smoke.
My firsttho i
ught was #o sneak off whh.
her en iigetnent ringand,.•
g B have it re set in
24•carat gold. I hadidea a . .
impractical li; to dismiss the:.tale,' as
impractical for two reasons. First, I'd have
to remove her finger to get the ring to the
jeweller, .Secondly, the price of fold west
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