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The Huron Expositor, 1978-04-13, Page 3to the Huron Plowmen's Associ- . Mien and to deny a request for funds for souvenirs by the Seaforth Pep Wees, Th, rec committee is sending letters to.organizatiohs which use • the arena, like the IHL, minor ,hookey, oldtimers hockey, broomball, junior hockey and the agricultural society, asking for names of people willing to sit on a fund raising, committee for a PA system there. A-tnnyitation to participate in Dublin's Centennial July 1 and 2 was forwarded to the rec committee. Mayor Betty Cardno and Reeve John Flannery indicated they will try to attend the. Organization of Small Urban Municipalities conference in Stratford May 4, 5, and 6. A restatement of cost sharing arrangements with MTC unchanged from previous years was signed. A request from Mary E. Maclean to have a parcel of land , at the north end of West William Street rezoned residential (at present half is residential and half commercial) was sent to the planning board. A quote from David DeVries to machine scrub,- and---wax- Tower Hall and library floors for $55 and clean windows at both buildings for $165 was accepted. Council agreed to adjust the 1977 general ledger to get rid •of a surplus of $42,000 which had been spent in budgets over a number of years but stillshowed up on the books as a surplus. The Turner barn on Coleman .Street will be demolished, the property cleaned up and the owner billed, council heard. A bylaw authorizing the sale of land in the industrial park to Gerald Groothfus which' was passed in January was corrected with the ' purchaser Gerald's Datstin Ltd. Council agreed to designate May 1-5 clean up week and to have free pick up of large garbage articles advertised in the Huron Expositor's spring supplement. Two benches from .Victeria Park will be loaned to SDHS students as part of the decor for the school formal, council agreed. Clerk Jim Crocker's proposal to have two summer students, one ., in planning and otie in admini- stration work in the town office this summer was approved, $104 of their $130 a week salaries will be paid by the province, if it okays the students, leaving a total cost fo'i 30' weeks of about $750 to Seaforth. Most people heard Sternpn' Tom Connors ,a couple of weeks ago, refuse to accept his Juno award because he was tired of Junos being , handed out to performers who weren't really Canadian 'at all. Many winners of Canadian . music's highest honour, showed up, in this country just long ' enough to collect and then jumped back across, the border to the U.S. where their real work was, :Stompin' Tom alleged. It was easy to write Stompin' Tom's 'criticism , off as grand- standing, an attempt at personal publicity. Too easy. Because Canada's most Canadian country and‘ western singer has a very good *Ont. What other country in the world, he asked, would give artists who spend 90 per cent of their time in and gear 100 per cent of their music to a foreign 'country, the USA, national awards? He set me thinking. Why do we still feel. that -success or even experience in the US is making it while success in Canada means an artist wasn't good enough for' the' real (American) world? Can you imagine an Aussie singer who works almost entirely in England —winning top Australian prize or a German pop star who was born in France still being considered a French entertainer? It's not bloody likely but it happens all the time in what passes, for a national music industry in Canada. Partly I think it's the .old Canadian inferiority complex. By recognizing international achievement in national. music awardsNe are saying there is no Canadian music or no Canadian standard. We are saying that Canadian performers are just b it players in a big-league where the shots are called by Americans. There's no Canadian culture. What we have here is an international culture that's not quite as slick or well developed as, its American original. Stompin' Tom 'made the point that 'we have to be especially You're invite-0 'Van Egmond open. meeting, 8 p.m. Library) Seaforth Public School, April 18,' 1978. Film Free. We hope to see you at our arts, flower and plant, show on Wednesday May 24 from 2-4:30 and 7-9 p.m. in the Anglican Church Parish. Hall. A film entitled "Two is a Crowd - is to be shown at the Stratford Public Library on Wed. Apr. 26th at 8:00 p.m. This is the story of an unwed newspaper ,.,man who faces a dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. The pro- grame will also feature Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Weston of London. An auction sale raised $26.00 to • Cancer month be forwarded to help Mrs. Mary. MacDonald Coffey with tier medieal expenses: (Mrs, Coffey , made medical history by giving birth to a healthy, boy after a car accident left her in a coma for 2 months early in the pregnancy. Donations can he made thru Royal. Bank branches on Cape Breton Island. The Alliance fo.rtife (a pro-life group) annual meeting will be ,held in Winnipeg on May 26-28th and Mrs „Joyce Thomas of Milverton, and another delegate will .be attending. ., •• Next meeting will be at St. James Church, Stratford, on 'Tuesday. April 11th at 8:15 p.m. Kippen WI meets Somet;ting to ay (. . I THE4-11JRON EXPOSITOR, 'APRIL 13, 1978 Council brief by Susan White Measuring success k. At its regular meeting Monday night, Seaforth council dealt With the following patters: request from Clinton for support for the polkeipommuni- cations centre ,to be built there was shelved until Seaforth gets more information about costs. Seaforth decided not toi reconsider its stand against county wide • senior citizen housing eligibility. Th only tender, from Sills Hardware, oft,$670, was accepted for lighting and electrical work in the council chambers. ,ktender, again the only one, to remodel the upstairs arena cloakroom to a bar was awarded to Ron Driscoll for $796.85. , $5,000. was budgeted for street lighting in town in 1978, the same amount as last year. Council will inform Junior Storey that any dead branches on the tree in front of his Goderich • Street West home will be trimmed but that a tree expert says the tree is healthy. The Town accepted a 40' strip of land next to Side Street from • Cornelia Knetsch so that a lot Mrs. Knetsch owns south of the strip would have enough road allowance frontage to qualifyfor a severanc-e. Council agreed with a rec committee motion to donate $50 Some stern Last fall, when it rained for 40 days and 40 • nights and then began to snow for about a similar spell, I received a couple of pretty stern letters from readers. • One was from an elderly gentleman, the other from a clergyman. Roth excoriated, me, in their different ways, for being blasphemous. Cause of their concern was a pair of coluMns in which I suggested to the Almighty that we'd had-enough precipitation, " matte could, stop duMping it on us anytime, . The E.G. wrote a cross letter to his editor and sent me a copy, The preacher wrote me a long, personal letter, telling me, Shouldn't be so "chummy" with' God. He offered to pray forme, and sent along a modern version of the Bible.' containing such words as "booby- traps", which rather alarmed me, accustomed • as I ani to- the austere ' and dignified King James Version:" Well. I wrote some pretty bitter columns about the Canadian. winter. But after six straight weeks of glorious, clear,' sunny ' weather, I'm beginning to wonder who is - -right, me or my critics. . Maybe 'the Lord does read my column', , • ptobably on one of His frequent lunch breaks, I didn't pray In Him for some decent weather. (told hith rather snappily, that we were fed up ' with what He was dishing up. He didn't strike • me down with a thunderholt, although I noticed my. arthritiS became pretty keen there for a few weeks. Maybe the Lord mused, something like this: • "By .love, . maybe Bill Smiley is right. Maybe, I did forget to turn off the taps there for a few months, It wouldn't be the first time. I remember a few years back that business his 'i of Noah.and hfiiy. 9 ,1c1n forgot about them until it was nearly tooliate." • 'I get so darn sick of people praying for better health, better crops, more money, happiness. and their own Worthless hides when they're in a jam that I sometimes turn' off My hearing aid. I'm supposed to see the little sparrow fall, so maybe .1 shoed pay attention when a smalltown columnist goes out of his way to remind me that 'there is more than sparrows and a lot too much of it. "I'll let him sweat it out 'for another couple of weeks, just show him that you don't challenge My will with impunity. Then-I I - turn on the sun for a solid six weeks, making the scoffers realize that the day of miracles is not past. Six weeks of sunshine in a Canadian. winter! That beats walking on water any day. "Just for the Heaven of it. l'Rdu mp some snow and wind and ice aqd rain on those fat cats who go sent], every winter, and let those I'm tired talking about the weather. I wish someone would do something about it. Seems:as if these past few weeks that's all I hear. Weather. Weather. Weather. ' I walk into any store and what's the first thing the clerk greets me with? "It's a bit chilly out there this morning, isn't it?" He doesn't lead off any more with "Good Morning" or "Is there something I can help you with?" No. He's all weather. And when I lie down on the chiropractor's table, do you think he asks me how my back is? Not at all. He's right into the weather. "That's -a-mighty --heavy fog we had last night." And when I say "fill'er up' to the' gas station attendant, you'd think he'd ask if wanted my oil checked. But no Sireee. "That ice storm sure slowed everyone down, didn't it?" See? See what I mean? It's weather all over. All days. All the time. And not just today's weather. But yesterday's weather. Or last letters Canadians who stayed home, ndt exactly' my chose6 people, but at least my frozen people, write nasty ietterS south, telling their relatives of the blue skies, radiant sun, and crystal air back home. "Smiley's going to have- to pay for it, of course. He might as well find out: once and for all, that you don't get chummy or cocky ,with ry Me. That's a special sphere reseed for -preachers and politicians. , "Let's sec, No use increasing his arthritic pain or his. backache. That only drives him to. blasphemy, and. We don't want to encourage that. I could wreck his golf shot. But that wouldn't work either,' It's, already so_lo,usy he'd never even notice it, "No, it has to be something more subtle. Maybe I could put a bug in his wife's ear, and have her diag him out of bed at seven every morning and share .the 'agonies of „ that Half-hour of exercise she does with that dame on the T.V. That' would ruffle. him More than somewhat. "But it's not enough.*„Wouldn't be clear to him that I am an almighty, omnipotent, fierce and vengeful God. He'd probably think it was merely his wife being obnoxious. And he'd daim he couldn't do the exercises With his bad back and his bad neck and his bad shoulder and his bad.knee. • • • • "']`could always rot the 'rest of his teeth,. which arc pretty, well ready for the boneyard, anyway: At least he'd suffer the humiliation of going around drooling and gumming his food for a while. Bat with these blasted modern dentists, he'd soon be going around with afistful of big, white, . attractive Molars, and thinking he. could start smiling at women again. "Nope, it's got to be something that would really get to him. l could easily have him fired from his job for vagrancy, bad shuffleboard, mopery, gawk and not preparing lesson plans. He's guilty of all and each of them. But it / wouldn't do. He's so lazy I think he'd go straight on unemployment insurance.. "Got it! It will hit where it hurts. turn his grandsons against hiM. I'll make them see that he's spoiling them rotten warping their characters, that he swears, drinks, smokes, gainbles, and is altogether a most' -reprobate and unfit grandfather. "But...would it take? They don't really care if he drinks, smokes,, etc. They need him for running across the 'room and jumping. on. They need him for kisses when they hurt themselves. They couldn't care less if he were Old Nick himself. as far as morals go. "Ali. well. 1 guess I'll just have to let him go to hell in his own inimitable way. That's punishment enough for anyone." week's weather. Any good newpaper man knows that's old news. Dead news. Hut when it comes to the subject of wea ther, it's news every time. I figured .1 might as well join them. 1 know their intentions are good. Trading weather bulletins with each other is a way of being friendly. I suppose it can substitute for a "Good Morning". Probably some people figure saying "good Morning " is trite. "So they tune in the weather. But that can get dull too. So I figure I can be a little original. Say something a little more profound, Something :like, "Highest rainfall average in March since 1945". Or. I could come out with "In 1944 the farmers Were out on the land by this time." Or "I heard the other day that old Sam Block had his potatoes in on April 15th back in 1935. But it dime to no good. 'Cause rain poured for ten days straight and drowned thein all out." ,Since I'm resigned to relating weather news, I figure i have to pay attention to all that weather history the weatherman comes out with. Listen when he tells me how ,the winds blew years ago. Sugar- and Spice by Bill Smiley . (Continued from Page 1) open to visitors and gymnastic displays in the school gym will be held throughout the day. On Friday, parents and other members of the community are •again invited to visit the school and take part in a school assembly. In keeping with the "Speak:ter Me of Yourself" theme, students have been busy preparing special projects which will be on dist)* A, pot luck supper preceded the animal meeting of the St. James Catholic Women's League held in the school lasts Tuesday, Mrs. Ewart Wilson, presided and opened the 'meeting ,with the League prayer. Mrs. 'Ray Hutchinson gave a reading "A Prayer" and the minutes were' read and approved. The' eectitive and conveners gave their annual reports showing a successful .year. Mrs. Wilson thanked everyone for their help and co-operation during the past year. -- in the classrooms. First aid demonstration Kindergarten students have • completed a series of posters on• "Me" while- Grade 1 •and 2 CWL elects of officers [By Betty Glanville] couple. Proceeds of the dance will Heather Brodhagen, a first aid go towards purchasing supplies 9 instructor and Betty Glanville, a -such as bandages and blankets. 1 78, slate brigade member, will do a first aid demonstration at Egmondville If you or any 7 organization, ducation I could turn absolutely brilliant and start talking about the gale that howled off Lake Superior and sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald 'a few years back. Biggest disaster the Great Lakes ever had. Maybe no one would suspect I'm not a historian, only a listener to Gordon Lightfoot's song• about that sea tragedy. , But I have another idea. Let's drop the weather. Shift subjects. The next time,] see someone, I'll surprise him. Start off on mother theme. Of course, the topic has to be universal -- something 'everyone is used to. I could start off with -- say-- trees. Yes, now how would that do? Everyone knows and sees trees. We're all on common ground there, What if -- when I pulled into your yard -- I said right off "The winter's sure been hard on •the trees this year. Why, I saw ten branches split off on my way over to your place". Or how about? "1 ne•Per saw so much winter burn on ,all the bushy in all my life". Scrap the ,et's face it. I'm sfill talking about weath .vfaybe I could talk about cars, "Man, there are lots of Dodge ,Darts running ' United Church it was announced at a meeting of St. John's Ambulance at 'the arena. The demonstration for a group of girls led by Mrs. Don Papple is set for April 12th.' Future meetings of brigade members will be held in the board room of the Seaforth Community Hospital. During the meeting Heather Brodhagen demonstrated bandages and their uses. • Brigade members are having a dance April 29th at Hully Gully. There will 'be a •deluxe buffet lu nch and admission is $10.00 a In spring, a young man's fancy may•turn to thoughts of love but Many a woman thinks of her new wardrobe. • • • Over The past two months the Ministry of Agriculture and Food hasspensored a course for Huron County . women titled "Personalize Your Pattern." During the course participants have learned .how to take a and, make propt.r aLijosi- ments to ensure a perfect fit for their garments. Other. members have gone on to re-desin tarts of . their patterns to give a 'completely "new". look- to their Outfits. Re-designing a pattern may include changing the position of the darts, converting 'darts to gathers or tucks, adding pockets solreev ecisl .anging necklines and st-iclents will be displaying art work centering around them- selves and their families. The Grade 3 and 4 students have completed -booklets about themselves. The Grade 5 students at St. James have completed creative writing activities around the theme "This is Me" as well as learning a special song for the week, and they are holding a around town this morning". Or By golly, there are plenty of windows that need washing after this dirty winter." Oops. Weather again. Then how about colors? "That's a great green suit I saw Joe had on this morning". No good. Not everyone has seen Joe with his new suit. I have to remind myself. The subject has to be common. To everyone. The least common denominator . The bottom line. I got it! Death and taxes. Oh, but that's no, ,way to greet the day. I need something light and airy. Cheerful. I'm back to weather again. It may be dismal, but at least there's hope of spring in the air. This weather has to change. It has to get better. And you can't Sby that about death, or taxes, or broken limbs or red burned bushes, Okay. • "I'm still in the game. It's called weather. "Hello, Mrs.' Rock. Yes, it is cold, blustery day. Not fit for April at all, is it? But I know in try bones spring is coming any minute now.'• invite other womeiL to drop into!. the. summary days where they'll be presenting a fashion show arid reporting on activities during the project. Guests May get ideas for their own spring wardrobes when Huron home economist, -Grace. Bird, gives a presentation on co-ordinating •a wardrobe and planning • • -additions 'to'your wardrobe. Admission ,to the summary days is free. The South Huron summary day will be held in Ontario , Street United Church 'Clinton, on April 18 at 7:30 p.m. The North Huron summary days will be held in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church ,Wingham, on April 19 at 1:30 p.m.' Maryanne Mennell, R.N.A. Plans ort fora field trip were finalized and . -Roberts-,eutlined--••• -the characteristics of a good baby Now the membei ould like to ladies group, etc. wish to have .a speaker or demonstration or first aid help at any' group organization please' contact the brigade by phone or write to Ken Holmes, Jim' Palen or Betty •Glanville. There is no charge .for our services. The ,brigade's next meeting is. April I9 at '8 p.m. at the board room of the Seaforth 'Hospital. The subject ' ""Know --•-'your ambulance and radio'. For further information please contact, any of the above names or brigade members. careful to nurture and Value Canadian music ,(and Canadian TV, and writing and theatre I'd add) because we are so swamped, so surrounded' by *the American versions of all those things. • We speak the' same language. We look alike and in many cases act ali ke and have similar roots. It's so simple really to forget that we are different countries and that our music, our theatre., our TV, isn't and shouldn't be exactly like theirs. I've got an American husband, •and I should be very careful here to explain that none of this is anti-American. Remembering that we are different and celebrating our ,differences in what we have to do because we live next door to a giant. Rolling over on a mouse doesn't do an elephant any harm but the mouse will never be quite the same again. So, it's nothing - personal although I know it's hard for Americans to accept the fact that special "Japan Day", to mark completion of a social, studies unit. The senior students have writ- ten autobiographies and Grade 8 students will be presenting a slide presentation on the EduCatien Week theme. Some of the Student's' wail( will be On display during the week in Seaforth Stores and. businesses. not similarities ' to, our great neighbohr to the 'south. Which is not to. say that' we. Canadians couldn't learn a great deal from the U.S there's the matter of a Freedom of Informa- ,,tion Act for example. , While 1 was thinking •about Stompin' Tom and the Canadian. American music- issue I watched some of the Academy Awards presentations. It seemed ironic and also to disprove what Stompin' Toni and I are , saying when right at the beginning,two Canadian' films won Academy Awards. - But wait a minute. Both the NFB films, 'a cartoon short and a' semi-documentary on a tough and beautiful little girl called Nadia, "I'll find a way" won Oscars in foreign film categories. Canadian music will be really Canadian when the Stompin' Toms who stay here and sing about' us, about Canadian experience,. not watered down Canada, to survive, has to stress _ international stuff win the Juno awards. And when all the other guys are competing where they _belong, for Junos for the best. • The Ladies Aid of First Presbyterian Church met April 4th with Mrs. Ann Agar, president, opening the meeting with prayer. Hymn "All hail the Power of Jesus Name" was sung. Miss Janet Cluff gave the history of Ed. Perrant who wrote the hymn . Mrs. Mae Habkirk gave a reading "Spring". Miss Ethel McKay received the penny collection. The Scripture lesson was taken from Matt.28 and read by Miss Ethel McKay Mrs, Mae Hatikifit gave the , prayer. Merril, ors will have a bake sale in the church the third Friday in Council OK's RUC (Continued from• Page 1) The PUC has $25,000 in reserve . from last year for the new well and has already paid $8,800 leaving only $25,000 to come from this year's revenue, according,to Mr. Phillips. There was some questioning by councillors on the fact that billing and collecting will cost the PUC $10,000, about a fifth of the maintenance budget of $51,900 but they agreed that the cost is 'the PUC's responsibility. Mayor Betty Cardno, council rep. to the BU.C. , said she'd ask about the cost of computer billing every month compared with the PVC's 'earlier manual billing every other• month and report back to council "for information only". • Lacties-Aid plan bake sale its • differences frOm, sitter as Well as the parental responsibilities. A warm thank you' and gift were given to the' guest speaker. Meeting adjourned. Kippen East Women's Institute will meet on April 19 at the home of Mrs. Jack Sinclair in Seaforth, Ontario, As this is the* annual meeting all reports in duplicate . must be presented. Mrs. Wm. Bell and Mrs. Ernest Whithouse will pro'vide lunch and members are asked ,to wear a daffodil in honour of, Cancer 'month. Mr. _ and Anderson. have returned from a winter holiday in the south. Mr. and' Mrs. Alex McGregor have returned from a holiday in, the south. .. Mrs. Norman Dickert is visiting with her sister Mrs. Ruth Dickert at Harriston. Kippen area girls wishing to take the 4-H Garden Club are asked ce- contact the leader Helen Roberts within the next week. They must be 12 years of age by May 1 1978. Northside UCWplans -luncheon Correspondent Rena 262-593'5 • Kippen II Busy Buddies held their 4-11 meeting at the home of Mrs. Roberts. Meeting opened with the 4-H pledge f011owed.by the roll call "An important rule of • Baby Sitters" whict ,was answered by 16 members. A talk and demonstrastion on. First Aid waS given by the guest speaker, Members of Unit I of Northside U.C.W. met at the home of Mrs. Harold Connell for their April meeting. • President, Mrs. Malaniuk opened the meeting with a poem "April" and conducted the business. Plans were made for the "Luncheon" being held Wednesday, April 26 in Church Sunday School room. Devotions on "Joint heirs with Christ" was presented by Mrs. G. MacKenzie. Hymns were read by Mrs. W. Cuthill and Miss Ruth Cluff. Scripture' from Romans; Chapter 8 was read by Mrs. W. Broadfoot. Mrs. •MacKenzie talked on "Christianity is answer to World Problems", an article written by Padre Young. Mrs. E. ,Stephenson, Seaforth, told of her visit to Tobago, one of the smaller islands of the Caribbean. Temperature were not below 85°F. while she was there and the rainfall :y light-She enjoyed a meal eat,, evening prepared by a native• cook using vegetables grown th're. Mrs. Stephenson was introduced and thanked by Mrs. J. McGregor. Lunch was served by Mrs. MacLennan, Mts. Elva Ellis and Mrs. Grace Broadfoot.• foreign musicians: A familiar byline has been' missing from the Dublin pages of the Expositor recently and I'm sure many readers regret as I do that Vince Lane has retired from his weekly job as St. Columban correspondent. New corres- pondent is Mrs. Fran Malone and we welcome her to these pages. "I don't know a-Soul in St. Columban" a reader said to me ay year or so ago "but, I always read Mr. Lane's' column." I think a lot ef_Euositorteaders felt that way. Vince Lane, while covering the St. Columtian local Scene .very well, often used his column to comment on modern trends and old fashioned rememberings. Everybody .remembers his weather predictions and the continuing saga'of Mr. Lane and his garden shed. Mr. Lane's health hasn't been too great lately and he no longer wanted to be tied down to a weekly column. We've urged him to send us a bit of a story once in awhile 'though when he has something he wants to say. Summary days include Mrs. Alvin Smale, chairman of the nominating' committee, conducted the election of the •• offieers-for LW ill Hwy ear., with- the results: Spiritual Director - Fr.'Laragh; Past President -'Mrs, Ewart Wilson; President - Mrs. Ken Vincent; 1st Vice - Mrs. 'Herman Hostei .2nd. Vice - Mrs. Robt. McNaughton; 3rd. Vice - Mrs. Dave DeVries; Recording Secretary - Mrs. James Patin; Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. Anne Van Dooren; Treasurer - Mrs. Harry Hak. The May meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 3rd, due .to Confirmation on Tuesday, May 2nd, The meeting will be preceded by Mass at 7:30 p.m. The annual clothing drive for the St. Vincent de Paul Society will be held on April 29th. A discussion followed on books used in the schools. If anyone has any objections to voice, they could 'write to their local M.P.P. or their aka school boards. Amen_ by Karl Schuessler Tired of weather