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The Huron Expositor, 1976-07-22, Page 2They first went to Yorkshire to settle the question of John Consitt's age. They found that he was five years older 'than he supposed.. Geo. Murdie of McKillop sold 51, three year old heifers to James Hamilton of Wroxeter for the snug sum of $3,344. • Messrs, Mowatt, Roger and Hogg of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute staff went to Toronto to attend their duties as examiners. There were over 75 applicants for the vacancies on the Collegiate Staff. There were 304 tickets sold at Seaforth for the Orange excursion to Stratford. Wm. Ballantyne of town was in Hamilton this week as a delegate to the Grand Masonic Lodge. A horse belonging to Hugh McMillan of Tuckersmith was tied at Devereauxs blacksmith shop and breaking loose ran away. .It mounted the sidewalk in front of Beattie's 'restaurant when it fell and was captured. The following were ticketed by Wm. Somerville: Mr. and Mrs. ,F.G.G.Minty to Honey Harbour; Wm;_ to Owen Sound; Jennie McKay arid Libby Freeman to Port Huron; Mrs. Thos. Grieve, McKillop to Brockville. Mr. Fisher of Stratford was in town and is engaged in the provision trade in that -city. He was making arrangements with farmers here to rece ive from them a supply of butter for. the use of his customers in Stratford. JULY 16, 1926 Miss Marjory Reid of Walton is engaged to teach in Turnbull's scheblin September. A number of the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs Serb' Fowler of Alma gathered at their home where homemade cooking in aluminum utensils was demonstrated by a student of Toronto University. Many improvements are being made on No. 9 school house-in McKillop. It will be' veneered with brick and a base ment wall erected. The death occurred at SeaforthMemorial Hospital of Angus Gemmel! , 4 year old son of David Gemmel of Tuckersmith. He had been kicked by a horse. Dr. W.O.Sproat has _opened his new office in the Aberhart block and has commenced his profession in Seaforth. Joseph Hoggarth 'met with a bad accident when his arm went through a pane of glass at the Commercial Hotel. ' Miss Marian Watson and Florence'Laidlaw left on a month's holiday in Muskoka. JULY 20,1951 Members of this year's graduating class of Stratford Normal School, who will teach their first year in September, includeg' Muriel . Campbell and Mona Caldwell. About 45" members of St. James' Church, Seaforth pilgrimagecl to the Martyr's Shrine in Midland.' They travelled by chartered bus and were accompanied by Rev. E.P. Weber, parish priest. The 16th annual summer carnival of the Seaforth Lions Club despite being nearly rained out ended with a success, JamesJarrott, of Kippen, passed away in Scott Meitnorial Hospital in his 89th year. • A car driven by Ross M. Savange , Seaforth, was• forced-off the road near Benmiller by a car that failed • to • top. Miss Norma Jeffrey received a fractured hand. $350 damage was done to the car. It's only when we're close together can we communicate. And honest. I promise I brushed my teeth this morning, and took a bath. ' Honest. I'm not going to make an altar call. I promise I won't yell at yOu. And honest. I have no pretensions about the words I preach„I don't need to have a listener like a priest once did. She'd always sit right below the pulpit, one of those high crow's neSt pulpits. And every time he preached, she waited for a bit of his spray to fall down on her. He seemed to spray it - more than say. it. And then she'd cross herself and say, "Oh, a blessing from Godl" But I do need listeners close up. Our closeness says something more than we're just together. It says we're one. We're a communion, a community of believers. We're participators - not Observers of some religious ritual up front. We worship together,- as one body. It means we're with one another. We're for one another. Who can participate and celebrate over long distance? One pastor smiled when word got to him how I'd moved his congregation when I vacation supplied for him. "They'll be hugging the back pews again next Sunday, just wait, and see." That's what I like about supply preaching. I don't have to wait and see. I can keep on mqving the next congregation. I can live under the delusion I'm doing them a favour. Whenever people go to a play, they pay the highest prices for the up-front seats, don't they? And if they're in the back, they'=ll seout out empty seats during act one and move up closer after the first intermission. People come early - at every other pUblic event but a church - so they can be SUIT to get a seat up front... So l'm,just doing my bit. Giving people the best seats-in the house. And I'm doing myself a favour too. BeCauSe the cleser they got, the better like ft. And that'S not a commercial eithrrl A dead comment There's nothing to do in a small town. That's been conventional wisdom for some time now and rriany of us accepted it as our young people skipped off to a more exciting life in the bright city lights. But if anybody who lives here or visited Seaforth ' recently" had trotted out that old line, they would have been 'laughed off Main Street.- There has been so much going on in Seaforth that people were kept hopping, deciding which event to go' to first. For three nights we had the Liorrsearnival; all day Saturday we had a fine Craft Festival •with exhibitors from all over the province. Sunday there were two Ontario Cup minor soccer games with Seaforth teams facing tough, longer established city teams. If you didn't mind a bit of a drive on Sunday, you could have heard some fine fiddling at a jamboree in Mitchell or a country music festival at Pineridge Chalet. That's a typical, weekend In Seaforth. This one was' more of the same with an Industrial Baseball tournament all weekend, a heritage tour of old houses 'Saturday and Sunday afternoon and the Dublin Lions' second Dublinfest on Saturday. If anybody has energy left (and lots of us will) there's,- the rollathon for the arena all day Wednesday and the Kirkton Garden Party Wednesday night. The interesting thing that all these events have In common -is that they are all put on by volunteers. Friends and neighbours sweat and plan and work for their favourite cause and their community. Their motive isn't to make a profit, It's to finance programs that Seatorth and area peOple need. " There's a great sense of togetherness, of working for everybody and having a good time doing It. Programs and facilities that would have to be financed out of taxes or perhaps, wouldn't exist at all are kept going because hard working people see that we have busy weekends. There's more community spirit and more unselfish hard work than the bright lighted cities ever dreamed of. No wonder city people are corning here ,for the weekend, and 'to live. "There's nothing to do in a sm4iltown" is a dead comment if there ever was one. 0 JULY. 21, 1876 Mr. McEwen, contractor for the Bayfield Harbour, says a better harbour could be constructed at Port Albert, for half the money. Th os. Darwin of town .has shown a potato of the Early Rose Variety which measured 81/2 inches one way and 61/4 inches the other. The firemen were out for practice and the engine was tested with two sections of hose, It was placed, at the tank at Lumsden's corner and two streams of water were thrown almost over the top of the flag pole at the British Hotel. $ Another of Huron's \pioneers' has passed away, Mithew Dorsey Sr. of MeKillop died at his residence. He was the victim of a sunstroke. He was a native' of Tipperary Ireland,, M. Y.McLean of the Huron Expositor left on a trip on the upper lakes. He intends going to Duluth. John Wilson accompanied Mr. MCLean. The Good Templars of Kinburn had a, soiree in their hall. An accident of a severe nature occurred in McKillop when Chas. Davis was shingling a roof of a barn. He slipped-and fell to the ground, a distance of 17 feet. His left arm was broken at the wrist. Among the many residences we' mention the following, Mr. Scott a dwelling on North MainSt. a residence for James Stewart on East Goderich St.; J.H.Broadfoot a cottage on the Market Square. Rev. Mr, Buggin of the Methodist Church held services in Beattie's grove on Sunday last which were well attended. JULY 19, 1901 . Messrs. John and Thos. Consitt of Hillsgreen returned from a two months trip to the Old Country. Amen by Karl Schuesfler: Moving people run (Fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community First 4 EAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. 'ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE. Editor DAVE ROBB 4Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 THE -HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 22, 1976 PUNIkhe,d, Or 0 Try area recreation Once again there's a move afoot to get the cpunty involved in recreation. So far the councils of Seaforth, Exeter and GoderIch have agreed with the area recreation study committee who plan to ask county-council to approve and give some grant money to area recreation. According to Seaforth recreation director Clive Buist, the committee would like to see recreation areas established around the county's five towns. The plan might have Tucker- smith and McKillop part of Seaforth recreation area, and they'd share a director, an office and a, program. Communities within-a recreation area could still have their own committees. The Walton Rec Committee would • plan activities at the Walton park for example, recreation director Buist says, but they'd have a. voice in the overall Seaforth Area Recreation Committee , too. Area- boundaries haven't been worked out, but the committee agrees this could be tricky. • "Wars are continually waged because of bound- aries," their brief says. What the county rec people want from County Council is a grant to help set up the areas which they hope will end recreational inequalities in the county. There's talk about asking for two mint, county wide or about $35,000. There are inequalities in recreation in Huron. The larger places can afford full time recreation directors; some of the smaller municipalities don't have the tax base for, that.. Some places in the county have maryelloui facilities for neereation; sometimes pnly the people of one municipality are paying for them in taxes while the people from several places use them. Area recreation, on a trial basis, just may .,be• the way to eliminate bickering betweertmuizicipalities over recreation and give every one legiti- mate access to all the facilities in each area. We think it's worth a try. It must be and uneasy time for members of parliament. First, they were forced to vote on a moral question, the abolishment- of capit'al punishment, in what must have been an agonizing examination of conscience versus expedience, for many. Despite the fact that the bill squeaked through, most M.P.'s must know that most Canadians, are against it. And it's that same majority that elects those same M.P.'s. Enough to make a politician lose a little sleep, eh? Next they saw a comparatively small group _ of Canadians, the airline pilots, thumbing their noses at the government., and getting away with it. And once again, it was pretty ‘hvious that a majority of Canadians was solidly behind the pilots. There is little doubt that most M.P.'s will be happy to get out of the pressure cooker Ottawa has turned out to be this year, and back totheir own constituencies for a couple of months of fence-building, baby-kissing and all the other nefarious activities of a politician on his home grounds. My heart is net exactly bleeding for our M.P.'s but I am more than a little disturbed by the .two incidents that have contributed to their unease in the past few months. On the first issue, capital puilishment, it is • readily apparent, from the closeness of the final tally, that the country is split right down the middle on the issue. And that's not good. But I can live with it. The majority has .spoken, in .a supposedly free vote, and it's not going to wound this country to the vitals if a few murderers are hanged or kicked to death with a •frozen boot, or otherwise executed in whatever cute manner is decided on. ' It's die second issue that bothers me considerably, Per behind the pilots' palaver about safety, and the goieritmetit's obduracy, • 'amoullting almost to stupidity, Concerning bilitigualiktri at our airports, lies a Much darker tutu*, That. is the Obvious-backlash of gtiglish- speaking ditiadiaili to the goVerntnen 's thOsen Polity of hilingliallatn. This hi r backlaskis inklutt barlo ini iny opinion: ift is There's another study underway in the county which aims at finding out what each municipality spends on recreation, broken down so that, for example, arena spending —6y one township can be compared to spend- ing on arenas by others. The rec directors „hope it will clear up misunderstandings about who pays for what that arose when an earlier study over-simplified the recreation , spending picture in Huron. A couple of towns in the county have had to cut back their recreation' programs because of lack of funds - Goderich, for example, has no playground, activities this summer. Other places are involved in hassles over charging fees to non-residents whose municipalities don't contribute to recreation costs. None of this would be necessary if recreation areas were set up. Seaforth's recreation' director doesn't feel area recreation would cost much more than all the smaller programs running independently do now. There would' be. initial setup and adminis- trative expenses, and the grant from the county would cover that. The recreation' people are not suggesting a county wide program - that would be too big and centralized. They've found that counties who have gone -that route are changing back to an area recreation system like the one proposed for Huron. Really they are trying to get official recognition and support, along with a formal organization for a situation that already exists. Recreation in Huron goes outside municipal bound- aries now. . "It'll mean the maximum use of recreation for the minimum amount of money," Seaforth's recreation director says. .Seaforth council seemed to agree when they endorsed the recreation area concept. It's hard to see' how county council, with the good of all' the citizens in Huron in mind, could disagree. dangerous. Again and again, we saw on television perfectly ordinary citizens who backed the ' pilots' stand, even when personally inconven- ienced by the strike. that was not a strike, blurting things like: "I'm sick of having it (bilingualism) shoved down by throat," This is not the voice of reason, but of bias, and I hate to see it in this country which I love so much. For a couple of'centuries, the French of Canada had English shoved down their throats, not by law, but by business, commerce, politics, education. Naturally, they resented it. Now, they're trying to achieve equality of opportunity, through bilingualism, The result is a strong and ugly racialism bouncing back at them from those English- ;peaking Canadians who are biased and bigoted. As.in most bigotry, the retorts are based on ignorance and fear. Civil servants too stupid or too lazy to learn French are afraid for their jobs. Protestants abhor the rise of Rome, even though most French-Canadians these days are more protestant than the Protestants. Conser- vatives fear any change in the comfortable pattern of Canadian life, in which, fin- generations-, a Frenchman' was a "Frog," to ' be looked' down on. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I haven't noticed anybody trying to shove French down my throat: I hold no grief for the province of Quebec. I am as sick of its whining and demands as the next guy. I think its politics are and have been, more corrupt than any of the other provinces, which isn't saying much. I don't even care that deeply about Quebec separat- ing from the rest of Canada. Nations are not sacred. But none of that has anything to do with the French language. I tlNeoght Canadians were growing up, learning tolerance, becoming more sophisticated, more fair. But the latest ugly developthents make me wonder. Are we just a butch of rednecks at heart? Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley When I preach, I move people. Now don't get me wrong. 'I'm 'not talking about my oratorical eloquence. 1 don't mean women grab their handkerchiefi and dab away a tear or two. Or men reach -into their back pockets and put in a few extra dollars in the collection plate. No.-I'm - not talking about that. I mean I just move people. That's it. That's all. Before the service begns, I come out and ask them to move. "Would,the people sitting way in back come forward,- toward the front? And would all those people way up there in the balcony come down? Join us in the front rows of pews?'" You see, I have this thing about preaching to a congregation that's all huddled in the rear of the church. That's the way they sit out here in the country. Here I am - down -front on the altar. With a whole sea of empty pews in front of me. And wa-aaa-y, way out there in the rear, sit* the summer faithful - all crowding the back doors. I try to reassure them. I'm no Moses standing on Sinai where the Children of Israel had to fence themselves off• from the holy mount and the holy man and the holy God. Now, I know. Holy does mean "separate." But do we have to live that far apart? that .far-. .... away? I want to see them. Watch them. See if they're with the. I want to speak to you and with you - not to .a mess of boards nailed together and called pews. I want to see if you're reacting. If you're listening. Preaching - even though it's done by one person - is a two way communication. . We're sending messages back and forth all the time. r I need to see you - see the colour of your eyes. Or at least I hope I do. 'Cause up front I can see your lids getting droopier and droopier, and then finally shut. No colour or whites, at all. Then I know I'm in trouble. My communi- eating is breaking down: Same way when I see . you fuss and fidget. Look out the window or glance at your watch. need to see your face scowl or smile. I tided your. eyes as well as your ears. Lots of listening goes on with those eyes. In the Years . Agone There's light up there somewhere