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The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-12, Page 2pecially when smokers "Were around. —Mb. Muriel McLachalan of R.R.3, Kippen said they had considered it and,,"I thing every home should have one." Mrs. Mary Bruxer of R.I. 1, Dublin said,. "No. 1 guess we should but we never have," She thought it would be a good idea to have a smoke detectors. Peggy Price of Egmondville said her family had one now and she thought it was a worthwhile investment. - Roy Dalton of 57 George St., in Seaforth said he had never thought about installing one in his home but "yes, definitely" it goodis idea.loof 76 Nelson St. in Hefisall said he hadn't really thought about was Boba Carlisle installing one. Mrs. Frank Forrest of 158 King St. Hensall "NO, we haven't up to the present time." She added that she had seen smoke detectors advertised but she said she just didn't know that Much about them and it would depend where they had to be put in the home. "We just haven't talked that much about it," she said. ~ugar b The lop.0foritirtg he Auroo xilosito Since 1560. Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor ALICE GPM, NewsEdItor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Asspciation Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation 1 In a time when health authorities are concerned over Canadians general lack of fitness, it's gratifying to learn more children than ever are involved in team, sports in Seaforth. Unfortunately, while-younger Seaforthites are getting some much needed exercise taking part in sports from soccer 'to baseball to hockey, older members of the community are proving too willing to leave the _ _work.of.coaching.the teams small loand_of faithful volunteers, Not surprisingly, some coaches are becomiryg frustrated by the lack of support for the teams and they won't be /offering their services again. The sad story. was documented last week in the Expositor in a sports page story by Alice Gibb. Now while coaching „requires -a certain amount of dedication, knowledge and a genuine love for the sport, supporing the. team your children are 'on doesn't take more than a few hours every now and then. It's pretty much, a rule of thumb that any ,team. does. better on home ice or home playing field. One major 'reason is players ilavetheir•-• fans out. in full force to support-them and Ai encouragement. In Seaforth, this isn't alwayS the case. One of the-major disappointments. faced by many coaches of young teams this summer, was to find only three or four people in the bleachers to" cheer their teams on. Often these were the same loyal supporters,while other parents simply dropped their children at the park and went home to have a beer, maybe watch the pros in the major leagdes On teleyjsion or simply to do other. . things. Coaches even found it difficult to tr4nsport teams 'to out-of-town games since they couldn't find parents willing to spare a few hours and a.car to help drive the kids. As one assistant coach„pointed out, it's sad watching young children putting their all' intoe game and not having anyone standing on the sidelines to give therm a well deserved pat 'on the back: . • It's not surprising some coaches are beginning to feel like little more than babysitters who are giving parentsspare time to do other things.. . If parentSfeel it's worthwhile to have their children involved in team sports as players rather than „spectators, then it's.time parents 'did, more than pay their child's registration fee and drop him or he?. off at the • park or arena. . With hockey season now approaching, Seaforth needs coaches, assistant coaches and volunteers to take turns. driving to games. But perhaps even more importantly, kids on the teams need to feel their efforts are appreciated, whether they're playing in 'a houseleague or competing out of town. Next time you take you.child tothe game, why not stay andwatch the action? Who knows, you might even find you'd' like to try your hand at coaching. A hard man to replace Arthur Maloney is going to be a hard man to replace. Mr. Maloney, who has been the province 's ombudsmanlor the last three years, is leaving the offibe to step back into his criminal law practice. His often thankless job as ombudsman has involved investigating reports, and complaints lodged by private citizens.against government agencies. The position of ombudsman was' first created in Scandinavian countries when government officials became concerned that the rights of the ordinary citizen were being threatened by the Increasing red tape of the government bureacracy, In the time he's been in office, Arthur Maloney has investigated omplaints of people being illegally detained in the province's mental health centres, cases of land expropriation by government agencies and the complaints of residents of the province's penal institutions. As the province's first ombudsman, Mr. Maloney has als0 devoted considerable time 'to publicizing the office and making himself available to the public at open sessions held around the province. The ombudsman has earned harsh criticism from Members of the government who feel Mr. Maloney is 'spending too "Much Money' in fulfilling his job or else is interferring in matters best left up to the elected members of government. ,Whether these criticisms are' justified will be partially answered ty Mr. Maloney's successor who doesn't fabe an enbiable task in filling his predecessor's shoes.. We hope Ontario's second ombudsman will overlook his own personal political beliefs to the same extent Arthur Ivialorey has in the past in his role as guardian of the, rights of the individual. In an increasingly complex world, the ombudsman's office is one of -our most-effective government watchdogs. To the editoti Thanks for the jobs Already the summer has passed, and the 1978 Student Employment Program is drawing to a close. At this time I would like ,to.take this opportunity to thank the many people of our area who helped to make the 1978 Student Manpower Program a success. Over the summer, our offices in Exeter and in Goderich had 630 jobs filled by students. This was an increase of 4'8 placements front this time last year. As More and more people learn of our program, we are able to find an increasing number of jobs for students. I hope our torinntinities Will lend their support again in 1919, as they have, this year. I'm sure I sneak for many students when I this second week in October has some- thing for everybody. If you're Canadian you can sit down to a dinner of turkey, squash and pumpkin pie and say "Thanks, Lord, for another year of harvest bounty." If you're American, you can say hip, hip, hooray for Chistopher Columbus. Because3 on a moonlight night 486 years ago, Columbus sighted land in what turned out to' be a new world.' America. And if you're Jewish, you can celebrate the most important and sacred of holy days, Yom Kippur, the Day Atonement. You can take your pick. And mine is Thanksgiving. But to be more accurate, I'll take the words, Harvest Festival. Because harvest is what this time of the year is all, about. Once again, the riches of the land pours out in staggering amounts. The harvest comes in. The harvest come home, Despite the no-rain and then the too much rains, despite the beetles and pegs despite the winds and cloud, the earth gives.ip an extravagant harvest. The churches especially the rural ones By Debbie Ranney ' It's Ore prevention week and it was- with— thought in mind that this week Expositor Asks decided to ask "Considering that it's fire prevention week have you ever thought about installing-a smoke detector in your home? Mrs. William Carlson of R.11.1, Seaforth said her family alread,has one ar&-has had it for about a year. "We're really happy with it. It makes_us feel safer," she said. Mrs. Jack Butson of' R.R.2, Staffa Said, "Yes we have one in our home and we gave them as Christmas gifts. Of course we haven't had to use them but I think we sleep better knowing it's there." The Butsons got their smoke detector in the fall of last year. Mrs, Clifford Eedy of R.R. 4, Walton said they had thought about it but they had electric heat in their home and she imagined they probably woudin't get one until it was compulsory. She added that she thought it would he good if detectors were contoulsory es. One of the deepest satisfactionsinwritinga column of this kind is the knowledge that you" are getting into print the angers and frustrations of a lot of other people, who have no recourse for their resentments, and consequently take them out on the old man or'the old lady. How do yob know this? Well, because people write you letters cheering you on to further attacks, and other people come up to you, perfect strangers. shake hands warmly, and say, "By the Holy Ole Jumpin! Bill, you really hit the nail on the .heed." This can be a little *disconcerting, as you are never quite sure which nail they are referring to. If the congratulator is a woman, I smile ' weakly and change the subject. Because sure as guns, though she thought you were one of nature's noblemen for your assault on male chauvinism last week, she'll turn on you like a -snake when she reads tomorrow's paper; with the column exposing female chauvinism. Speaking recently to a class 'of potential writers in a creative writing course, I tried to pass along the personal satisfaction one gets, from this type of personal journalism. ' I emphasized the "personal" satisfaction, because there's a lot more of that involved than there. is _ of the other kind, financial satisfaction. Columnists • and free-lance writers have no union working for them, nor any professional a ei on, —as have doctors, lawyers, tea' ers. They have only the own talent and wit and perseverance with hick to' penetrate the thick heads and t cker skins of editors and publishers. But it's a great f eling when you vent your wrath. say. about the rapaciousness of mechanics, and you are button-holed six limes in the next three days by people with horror stories about mechanics you can scarcely believe. Trouble is, they all want, you to write another column about mechanics, and put some real meat into it: This means, in effect, that they would happily stand in the wings and applaud when you were Sued for libel. Some readers would like you to be constantly attacking whatever tt is that they don't like. Capitalist friends are aghast when you refuse• to launch an assault on capital gains taxes. Welfarist friends think you are-a traitor and a fink when you won't.attack the government for not providing color TV for everyone on the take. I am not by nature an attacker, and I think there is nothing more boring than a writer of any kind who tries to make a career of being a "hard-hitting" journalist. Once in a while my gently bubbling nature boils over. Throwing caution and syntax to the winds, I let my spleen have a field day Thanksgiving day ,Monday was spent around our house bringing in the final produce from the garden, and I c'an't think of a Much- better way to spend the day. Looking at the calendar it seems —impossible that it, was only those few short months back that we plowed up the garden and worked the soil fine and sowed the seeds, all the time thinking of the bumper crop we'd bring in. We never thoug t, f course, of -the weeds or the long hours elf work involved in helping, thaie seeds do what comes naturally. Somewhere along the line the prospect of that bumper crop got hist. Like true farmers we worried because' there wasn't enough rain, celebrated when the rains came then cursed when the rains refused to stop when we'd had enough. The conditions of the summer seemed ideal for weeds. You'd just work your way through the garden and get it all clean when you'd look behind and see the weeds to your knees where you'd started out. Somewhere along the line in late August or early September we gave' up and let the weeds have their way. Thus it was something of a surprise to us when we went out to dig the carrots which'• we could hardly see and found them large and plentiful: so plentifnl we—don't quite know what we'll do with them all. It's the same with the beets. We had cucumbers coming out our ears before the frost came too and without any effort to protect them from frost, our tomatoes _kept producing until Thanksgiving weekend. , Now if we had been the kind of meticulous gardeners for whom a garden with more than three weeds two inches high is a catastrophe, this bounty wouldn't have been so surprising. But somehow, given the conditions, it reminded use again just 'how lucky we are to live in such a land of plenty. People in' many parts of the '‘World must strive long and hard just to get enough' food. to keep' them alive. Here, even under less than perfect conditions, we have an over abundance. Yet for all our gdod luck, we Canadians don't seem to have much appreciation for Out •good fortune: Thaeksgiving probably had less Meaning than our other holidays. lbw many Canadians really stopped and took stock of all they had to be thankful for on the weekend/ Instead most Were busy worrying about the failing the ,rising cost of living or the high itheniplOYMent. We're like the man who looked out on a sunny day and saw one tiny cloud On the horiton and then spent 'so Mitch time and try to throw some sand in ,the grease with which many aspects of society are trying to give us a snow job. And that's one of tbe finest paragraphs I've ever writtenf -if mixed metaphors are your bag: Fair game for the hard-hitter are; garage mechanics, plumbers, postal workers, supermarkets, civil servants, and politicians. Most of them can't hit back, and everybody hates them, except garage mechanics and their wives, plumbers and their wives, etc. Smaller fry are doctors, lawyers, teachers, used car salesmen. Tfiey all squeal- like (Wig rabbits Wit attacked, but nobody pays much attend n to them except doctors and their wives. e c. etc. There. are a few areas-s that even the hardest hitters avoid. When have you, lately. read a savage attack on greedy farmers, callous nurses, or unloving moth- ers? And yet. there are lots of them around. One of these days, perhaps, one of these hard-hitting writers will muster enough guts, after about five brandies; to launch an aft-out attack on the• audacity of women, th in king they're as good as men. Boy, that fellow will learn what real hard-hitting is all about. Personally, i can't stay mad at anybody long enough tobea voice of the people, or a public watch-dog, or • any of of —those obnoxious creatures who try to tell other people how they should feel. • - The only constant in my rage is the blatant manipulation of self-seeking politicians who will twist and warp and wriggle and squirm and bribe for self-perpetuation in office. Best example of the moment is Torey governMent in Ontario, which has called a totally unnecessary election in that province through sheer hunger far greater power, • Otherwise, I get a great deal more joy from touching the individual life than inflaming •the masses. When I get a letter from an old lady in hospital, •crippled with arthritis, who has managed to get a chuckle out of my column, it makes me feel good. Recently, I got a letter from a young Scot who has immigrated to Canada. He says: "I have learned more about Canada and Cartadians through reading your column than all the accumulated wisdom from the Canadian, newsmagazines, novels and TV programs I have absorbed.", Now there is .a .man with his head screwed on right. If I, as 'a newcomer, tried to get my impressions of this country from news- magazines and TV programs, I'd catch the first beat or plane home. So, I guess I'll just try to go on talking to people, getting sore, having some fun, ,looking for sympathy in the war between the sexes. That's what life is all about, not plumbers and politicians and other horrors of that ilk. M0000! Amen by Karl Schuessler October grateful enough. Having to feel thankful can be suffocating and a never-ending debt. God can be made out to be some petty tyrant. Someone who says "Look at all I've done for you. Now be. grateful." Or you're made into a kid again with your mother right behind you and whispering in your ear, "Now, say thank you to the nice man." But in harvest• hOme festival you don't have to come that r ute. Thank-you come as a response to erwhelming gifts., They come automatically to God,, the lavish Giver. That's why 'L like the Harvest emphasis. The Giver of the harvest accent. Thanks- giving will come sure 'enough. Spontaneous enough. 1 just read in the la test United Church Observer magazine an• article editor by . Al Forrest. He said about ten years ago a trend set in to down play the fruit of the field celebration. Instead the more sophisticated city folk wanted a fruit of the loom sort of thing. So on one Observer Thanksgiving magazine cover, was pictured an altar with a garden tractor, bicycles, toys, a couple of electric typewriters, two chain saws and, one small pumpkin. The• church, was going to celebrate the harvest of the lathe and the drill,the power saws the jack-hammer. But the idea never caught on. As modern , and up-to-date as all those things were, the thought never made a public smash. .A cornucopia of factory gadgets just didn't do the trick. Besides, back to the land and back to nature becameiii. Pollution, litter and non recyclables were Out. Why celebrate all that on a harve, altar. So it's back to land and the bounty of the land on Thanksgiving altars. Al Forrest lauded his old boyhood church for all its harvest plenty lavished everywhere in the church: on the altar, on the window sills, in . the corners and round the center posts. Everywhere: Everywhere. The goodness of the earth all over. It took time to decorate that old church yes. But to Al it was all worth it. It was one of the best days of his year. And the memory sticks with him still. A lavish altar. Lavish gifts. A lavish God. We do ourselves and our children a great favor, if we'd take the time and celebrate this kind of day--a harvest home day. Expositor asks: Have you considered installing ,a mule detector?. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year , Outside Canada (in advance) S20.00 a Year SINGLECOPIES — 25 CENTS EACH A SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 12, 1978 They're our kids say thank you to our community: we appreciate the employment offered by local citizens who hire students to work in their homes, their businesses, and on their farms: we also appreciate the publicity given to out efforts by the local media; and we appreciate the work done by, the enthusiastic young people who are our. pregtarti'S own best advertisement. Thank you Seaforth and area. Jeannette M..Finnigan, Student Placement counsellor (197f) Canada Manpowei Centre for Students, 35 East S t tea, Coderieli Ontario. NIA 1N2 take their cue. And at this harvest home festival time, they lavish -their altars in bounty. The whole front of the church blazes in the oranges of pumpkins, squash and carrots. It-sings out'in golden tones of grain and zucchini. The stalks of corn and the loaves of bread proclaim the blessings of another year. And confronted with this staggering goodnesS, you can't help but pause and marvel. Yes, this has been a good year. As the Lord •promised. His seed time' will produce harvest time as long as the earth endures. Faced with all the richness, you have to admit to this earth's goodness. You have to say thank you. I like this approach. I like the order of that approach. 'The altar declares the bounty of another Lord's year. It spreads out the banquet of his harvest. And then you respond. You react. - So often Thanksgiving gets twisted. The accent is on my giving thanks. I become the center of the attention. I examine my feelings of thanksgiving. The burden is put on me--up front. And all too often, I'm scolded into saying "thank you'''. I'm shamed. I'm made to feel guilty that I'm not Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston The best way to spend Thanksgiving worrying 'about-the possibility that the one cbud could bring rain that he couldn't enjoy the sunshine: On the weekend I also watched the news and saw pictures from Vietnam where war is raging again, this time between the Communists of Vietnam . and the Com- munists of Cambodia. The poor villagers of. Vietnam who don't care about politics of any sort are caught in the middle of a war again' as they and their ancestors have been for centuries. Compared to this, what does inflation matter? There were pictures too of-the death and destruction in Lebanon where the so called "Christians" and the so called "Moslems" are destroying their homeland in an attempt to destroy each other.' Watching that, we should' be so thankful just to live in peace, 'even without all the other great things we enjoy, The only people in Canada who seem really thankful are those who have had to do without what we have today. People who lived through the Depression and have a good memory realize how good our lilfe is today. People who lived through the horrors of the war and remember it well feel the same way. Unfortunately our population is made up for the most part of people who have never suffered or who have convenient- ly forgotten the suffering and can see only the whole bunch of golden eggs that might be inside the-goose and we're too impatient to let her give them to us one. at a I'm biased, but I think a good deal of the probletif with Canada is that people aren't cbse enough to the land anymore. In my garden .1 can see the miracle of life. I can remember that pumpkin we bought for Hallowe'en two years ago that we saved a • handful of seeds from. We planted the seeds and last year got a few More pumpkins and _planted their seeds and this fall we have A several large pumpkins ,each bigger than the7 original pumpkin we bought. That's the miracle of nature. I've also seen the time when beautiful young plants shrivelled up and 'died in the heat or when seeds didn't come up at all. These things make us more appreciative of tbp success. Here in the country and' small tdanis, we're kept in touch with the realitie of life. The earth, the changing Of the seasons, the-hardships and the goOdtintes all give us a kind of wisdom that can never be learned in the classrooms of the greatest universities. 'We realize more than a city person can the place of -man in nature. And hopefully, we at least are thankful for our blessings.