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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-11-29, Page 3RETIRED MERCHANTS HONOURED — A number of business people, now retired, who had spent at least 25 years ..on Seaforth's Main St. were honoured at the Chamber of Commerce annual meeting last week at the Legion. Those who received plaques from left are Thelma Dale and her husband Lorne, a retired barber, John and Mona Crich, former bakery owners, Peg and Elmer Larone of Larone's Stationery and Gifts, Glad and Art Wright, a retired grocer and Esther and John Thompson who ran a shoe repair business. (Expositor Photo) Third town in county Clinton BIA waits for OMB •approval The Clinton Business Improvement Area (81A) project is now waiting for final approval from the Ont- ario Municipal Board and for the town's official plan to be inaTizeo. • The Clinton council ap- in Clinton objected to the proved the BIA plan in BIA plan. If council approves ' October, but it may take two the BIA budget now being or three more months to . •• receive OMB approvaldrawn up, then council will levy a special charge on all Only two of 90 businesses the businesses in the BIA to ' tJg?? Young SPS students staying borne in droves provide funds needed to make renovations and other changes in the downtown area. The levy on the busi- nesses will be based on each one's assessment. While waiting for OMB approval and the official Primary students at Seaforth Public School have been the victims of a mysterious "bug" recently which involves high temperatures, dizziness and headaches. Seaforth Public School principal Paul Carroll said there has been up to a 25 per cent absence rate in the Grade 2 class at the school and last week there was a 35 per cent absence rate in the kindergarten class. Mr. Carroll said the Huron County Health Unit is monitoring the situation. The .principal said the bug seems to be restricted to children seven years of age and under the lasts anywhere from three to five days. He said with the high temperature many children are experiencing, parents might be advised to see their doctors if the child is experiencing a fever. The bug hasn't yet affected students at St James Separate School.' plan, BIA organizers are • going ahead with preliminary plans. David Anstett, BIA chairman, said they have already received calls from • various engineering firms who are interested in prepar- ing preliminary studies of the downtown area and what changes would make the town more attractive and convenient for tourists, busi- nessmen and shoppers. "Our first change in the area will be something big, and concrete so everyone can see that the BIA is accomp- lishing something," Mr. Anstett said. "If we're collecting tax dollars, people want to see what it's going for." • • • • At a recent meeting of the BIA members studied sev eral projects that can be undertaken when they re- ceive OMB approval. Mr. Anstett.noted that the work the BIA has done in other centres like Bloor West Village "was excellent. THE lURON EXPOSITOR, N ()V EMBER 24 IBM ,l.'it .0, 'by Susan Whit. A family project homemade present What's the best Christmas present you, ever received? Chances are it's, something small you got during lean times when you eaneeted nothing, Or something your mother or grandchild made, with a lot of thought care and time but not very much money. Those are the present* remember best and my hus- band says the same. That's why this year we set out to make Christmas presents, to come up with gifts that let us give a little something of ourselves. ("Who wants us?" the better half asked at first, a little cynical: about this new regime, but he's come around and is now whole heartedly • making things for Christmas.) Of course, we're buying lots of presents too, doing our share to increase the Gross National Product and our own Personal Debt Load, but, we're also having little workshop sessions at home, making the truly individual, You're invited You're invited to the December 'meeting of the Seaforth. Nursery School Tuesday December 4th. 8 o'clock in Lower library. P.S. Door Prizes. • • • Correction A photo .in last week's one of a kind items that our friends, and relatives will never forget, • Like homemade horse, radish. We have a good two:1 rows of that pernicious weed, in the garden and this year we determined to grind and bottle some, the ideal home- made gift for gourmet (or brave) friends. The stuff is so hot that after the first grind the fumes in our kitchen were as threatening as those in Mississauga. So that evening's Christmas gift • workshop adjourned outside where we ground horse- • radish in 2°C temperatures while the wind got rid of the stink. Don't believe people who tell you it's easy to make Christmas presents,the best ones use upblood, sweat and tears. • A lovely idea for a home- made present was featured in a recent Goderich Signal Star story about a couple who • put together individual family history books for two daughtisslast Christmas. The books included family trees, photos from all stages of the • girls' lives, details about f• amily medical history that everybody should know and lots of other interesting things. The albums involved a terrific amount of work but the datighters were thrilled. 'That's almost .like giving someone a time machine, a walk back through the past. If you've got a lot of time available, think what the gift of a detailed family history, a sort of biography, would mean to a senior citizen, a young adult who's just left iline It's theon or really iYtegift to anyoneY°thane you love, absolutely unique. For the sake of nil MY relatives out there who read this column (I give quizzes at family reunions) I should hasten to add we have other projects under way for Christmas besides the horse radish. Nothing as elabo- rate and thrilling as family histories but we do have unique gifts for you. For example: a number of gorgeous wallpaper samples were unloaded on us recently and we're in the process of setting a record for the number of useful items that can be covered in same and become decorative as well as useful. Shoe trees, cutlery drawers juice , address books lampshades, jewellery boxes' to name just a few. Those of you who have reason to believe you might be on our list had better get your Santa letters out fast as the, best of these are going to be in great demand. We're on a bit of a back -to - nature kick at our place too so other Christmas work- shops, and out two year old takes part in these involved making things with milk weed pods and teasels. And I must say after we've ex- hausted decorative boquets, tree ornaments and tiny dolls • I'm in the market for a book called "100 Fun Christmas Things to Make with Teasels and , Milk Weed Pods." That's because we've made about all ..)f the latterthat we can give away but still have . . cutline informationC . It• • many =AY Weeds Stacked, on the dining worn norm I think we could use Puts of them, along with the sun flower seeds we grew in the garden, to make a home- made wild bird seed for our friends with feeders. The better half says he could find some wild thistle seed too.. My how popular that mix would be with neighbouring farmers! • That's the problem with a • lot of homemade Christmas presents I fear. The donor is a little more pleased than the recipient. I'm reminded of a couple • we knew when we lived, in Toronto -she very stylish, neat and tidy,, he leaning to hippy. One Christmas be worked long and hard making her a fur trimmed long leather coat, bright and em- broidered. It was lovely in its • way but not something she would voluntarily wear in a million years. Their marriage of ten years ended not many • months later and I've always thought the inappropriate but loving gift was the straw that broke the camel's back. I guess the moral is don't take homemade Christmas gifts too seriously. If you get a jar of extra hot horseradish or a boffin of our famed dandelion wine that's been gathering dust in our cellars for years, from us for Christ- mas this year, don't be insulted. Just try hard, really put your mind to making some- thing equally dumb to give showed Mrs. Mattie ugar an stce By Bill Sm ley McGregor admiring some • . handicrafts for sale at the Legion bazaar. The crafts were made by Mrs. 'Alfie Dale. The Expositor • apologizes for the error. ' (Continued from Page Z absent-mindedly, as salt and pepper, have not inured me to what our kids today i'nncirl,.r I • - Girls wear T-shirts the are not even To the editor: funny, merely obscene. As do boys. Saw one t e other day on an otherwise nice lad. turning into a nation of slobs. • Message: "Tha all you virgins — for nething" The Queen is a frump. God is a joke. The country's problems are somebody else's problem, as long as I get mine. I don't deplore, I don't abhor. I 'don't implore. I merely observe. SadlY. VVe are • Behind the scenes Health Unit ready Mali gof downtown movin 44 just society • The h h • "There is no juStice!" "We want justice!" Next to food and a place to lived justice is probably the most sought afte1 right in the world. • The American Declaration of Indepen- • dnece called for "liberty and justice for all" and ever since the American people have been talking aobut the lack of justice • in their society. Pierre Trudeau in his acceptance speech on becoming leader of the Liberal party and prime minister of Canada said we must build "a just society" and sincepeoplehave been pointing out how far short he fell from delivering the promise. For if justice is highly desired, it is also most difficult to obtain. We've always heard the complaint about something not being far and the retort that "Who said life was fair." Fairness and justice are indeed not guaranteed in our svorld. Absolute justice isn't a right under any form of government around the world. Even the church doesn't dole out completejustice. The problem is that justice, like right and wrong, is supposedto be an absolute but like WI things involved with human beings is subject to individual interpreta- tion. What is justice for the person on one side of a dispute may not be just for the other person. .4.1/ .6461.• So long as humans deal with humans there will always be a problem with justice. Faced with an accident involving two individuals with no' witnesses, for instance, how do the authorities charged with administering justice handle the situation? So often it comes down to the • word of one person against the other. In such a situation the decision often is not a just one. One person mayhave a superior •social position making it more attractive to believe his part of the story. Perhaps one person is a consummate story teller beingf .4 able to convincingly tell the story how they want it to sound. Even if the situation is equal " both individuals see the story slightly differently, each thinking they are leas to blame than the other. Whatever the final outcome one or the other or both is suet° think that justice hasn't been done. Sometimes even when justice has been done there Is injustice. What about the • man charged with a crime when he 1ii Innocent? In our complicated judicial y seem a Orson hat little chance if he, &mei to defend himself in court so he, mat hire a lawyer. The accused hi ss.mIid1ntJetthIbuthethen must face the prospect of working for several • years to pay back the heavy debt he's accumulated in paying the lawyer to prove what he knew all the time. Some justice. We tend to blame our politicians for WI that is wrong with the system of justice in our country. Every case of injustice brings cries for improvements in the system. Our system can of course be improved and should be but it isn't easy. In fact many of the injustices we now have are due to the fact of trying to prevent injustice. Our law has become so complicated only specialists can know all the ins and outs. People seeking justice are at the mercy of our lawyers who are the highest paid of the professions because of their position of Over the 'years we've had to deal with the problem of the more powerful member of our society using that power to get an unfair advantage over less powerful members. We've tried to prevent this on the one hand by more laws and on the other by increased government interference. So today we have the fact that a good portion of all the letters sent to those "Action Line" type columns in daily newspaper are complaining about injustice at the hands of government bureaucrats whose job it is to protect people from injustice. In fact one wonders ifwe can stand the injustice of any more justice. Our solution to all problems whether they be economic or judicial has always been • action, in other words more government. That hasn't changed the problem though. We still have economic problems. We still have a lack of justice. • The fact remains that all our problems go right back individusi members o -society. If we were all perfect we wouldn't need government action. If we were all at • least willing to think about the other guy as much as ourselves then we'd have few of these disputes. But not everybody is 'willing to play the game by the rules. In any group of people at least a few will be willing to ignore the rules when it suits • them. A this, more will get into disputes because they honestly see things different- ly than their opponent and refuse to back down because they're tired of being taken „advantage of. So we expect government to 1311ve us justice. nut governments are run by imperfect people too. And so we don't have a just sockry. Canadian government , church and civic groups, and individual citizens have been responding to the current plight of Indo-Chinese refugees in the most humanitarian way possible, namely, opening the doors of the country and their homes to these unfortuante homeless people. A small number of refugees have already located in Huron .County. I would ask sponsors of refugees to inform the Huron County Health Unit prior to or when a refugee arrives. These people immigrating to Canada will have been exposed to illnesses much different to the illnesses prevalent in Canada. It is important for their sake that they receive appropriate 'health_ care as part of their acclimatizatiOn to. Canada.•• Many of you, already involved in sponsoringrefugees, will have been through much required red tape. The Health Unit does not wish to add to this but rather to assist the refugees in the maintenance of their own good Health and to ensure the • residents of Huron County that they may safely assist them. We would welcome the opportunity to assist sponsoring families or groups and will make this process as easy as possible for all concerned. Yours sincerely Brian Lynch, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health, County of Huron. (Continued from Page 1) people pride in downtown." Seaforth Main St.'s unique architecture • Sally Hannon of the Community Renewal Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Housing said a BIA takes at least a year to get going , because all businesses inside the area must agree to co-operate and administer the program. She explained that once BIA boundaries are proposed every business inside the area has 21 r days to object If one third of the businesses, plus one third of the assessed value of land in the area object, council can't approve the BIA for two years. Ms. Hannon showed a Mm on Main St. improvement programs in several towns. What's good for one is good for the whole community said an Elmira merchant in the film. In St Thomas where businesses fixed up Main St with their own BIA dollars, customers often comment how nice the' downtown looks, a clothing store owner there said. fi A BIA is the only way we're every going a a , Vo un eers nee e „ to compete with malls, said a Coburg merchant, also in the filin. 'We're building • (Continued from Page ) extra enrichment may become frustrated. He said the preventative learning needs identification program in the United States has "failed miserably" because after the • problems were identified, no provision was • made for follow-up procedures. At Seaforth Public, the volunteers,' working with the teachers, prevent this from happening. There are now 75 children among the 350 students at the school who need special • attention. The principal said volunteers in the school can increase the level of services to the students without increasing the cost for taxpayers, which would result if additional teachers had be to brought into the school. Also, the volunteers increase the inter- action between the school and the community. The principal said when the • county system, with its central admini- stration, was introduced in 1969, the ' •schools seemed to lose their place in the community. Now something like the VOlunteer program can restore co-operation and communication between the school and the surrounding community. Last , year, in the first year of the program, Mr. Carroll said parent volun- • teers were used in three of the school's 13 • classrooms on a regular basis. This year Volunteers were requested in •eight out of the 13 classrooms, and the Increimed demand meant the program either had to be stabilized or additional volunteers had to be recruited. • Paul Carroll has opted for recruitment aid said stuales have already shown that and heritage value was mentioned several times. Mr. Shewfelt said in Goderich it had been better to keep any heritage designation separate from the BIA since "one might have killed the other." He added, he'd done an about face on historical buildings, commenting that new people don't come to our towns to see neon signs, but for the old buildings, parks and . the quality of life. "We're kidding ourselves if we don't get involved", the Goderich businessman said. "The 80's will be very competitive. If we don't stay in stride, we won't be there. The party's over for small towns." Planning board chairman Gord Rimmer told the C of C that the present updating of Seaforth's official plan is an ideal chance "for the business community to band together and make sure the revisions are in accord with their desires." Ms. • Hannon and Mr. Shewfelt were ( introduced by Jerry Hetherington and thanked by A.Y. McLean. using volunteers in the classroom makes a are the ones who In the years ago. ne smigeni ntf . "In the end, the kidsicant difference in pupil achieve - profit," he said. • Yvonne Vanslyke of Seaforth had done parent volunteer work in another rural area before moving here. She said, "I guess when I came here, Paul Carroll said he was interested in starting a parent volunteer group, SO 1 came along." Mrs. Vanslykt, whose son is a pupil at the school, has done some office work, assisted the teachers and helped with the reading program since volunteesing. She said she comes to the school Friday mornings "because I enjoy working with 'kids and this is where I can do it.' She particularly enjoys the one-to-one relationship with the students and said when people ask her why she volunteers, she tells them she considers the work worthwhile and hopes it will be meaningful , for the pupils as well. Jane Rimmer of Seaforth is another parent volunteer at the school, even though her youngest children are now in high school. The former teacher said she volunteers because she likes being with the kids. For a half day a week. she assists With *reading group, conducts math drills and sometimes lends* hand with clerical chores.' Anyone wishing to add their own talent* to the volunteer staffean call NW Carron' it 527-0790. • (Ctintinued from Page 2) presentation and Margaret Patrick read the address. The Egmondville United Church have • secured the services of Miss Violet Tyndall as organist and Roy Buffin as choir leader. The grain buyers and millers are very busy men at Hensel during this season as all • kinds of grain is coming into market in large DECEMBER 3, 1954 While 18 ratepayers were nominated for: 12 offices there will be no election in Seaforth this year. When the 9 o'clock dead, line had arrived on Tuesday night only sufficient qualifications to provide for the filling of the vacancies had been filled. Mayor E.A. McMaster was returned to office for his 5th term. Reeve Norman' Scoins enters upon his third term as Seaforth's representative on Huron County Council. H.H. Leslie who also was nominated for reeve qualified instead for council History was made in Seaforth when two women were elected to tlie Public School board, Mrs. A.W. Sillery and Mrs. J.A. Cardin°. Announcement was made in Ottawa of the appointment of Frank Fingland G.C. of Clinton as County Judge,for Huron. So large that it seemed to be almost 'something new in maple leaves Was a Akt '14{/ •iror J.k.•..•,14 • k sample which -Cleve Cochrene picked from a young hard maple tree growing at his John Street residence. The leaf measures 11 • inches by 9 inches with a stem of 11 inches. Response to the Christmas Seal appeal of the Huron T.B. Assatiation is good according to Mrs. J.B. Russell, secretary 01 the association. Members of the Mitchell locals of the ConcentratedProducers Association meeting at Willow Grove re-elected Wm. Boyd of McKillop as president and Irvin Trewartha as secretary,. Norman MacLean, Elmore Stephenson and Rod Doig are on a hunting trip by the * Blind River district. The Seaforth chapter of the 0.ES. held successful euchre in the 1.0.0.F. hall in aid of the Hurricane Hazel fundThe prbe. winnes were tattles' Mn. Coats, 10.ehaadi, Helen Recites, consolation, Sarah Modeland, Men Dave McLean; lone hands, Alex Dennis; consolation :*n Forsyth. More than 225 persons were prow* at Knox Presbytetian, Church!, Goderich fat the annual Huron Cott* COI* ct bitimpost, Staged in connection with ,dits Norah., scission of countil. Ho* for tht mist wet Warden W Dalt *neva of Hailstt. Large cominesitiona worn ponant. service* 10 First Frosbyinitail am*wes, the dwelt obsorvid Ns IPS 0 • 1