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,SEAFORTI-1, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 14, 1981
Let's support council
We don't envy Seaforth council.
Now there are quite a few times, on the job, covering council meetings
over the last eight years that we could make that statement.
But never quite so strongly as right'now when the 1981 council wrestles
with a tug a, problem: what to do about Seaforth and area's arena.
The choices range from a repair of the arena trusses ($100,000) to a
new back end and new shell over the whole building ($900,000). There
are several stops in between and both less and more expensive
alternatives that have been eliminated.
• We've heard it said, a lot,ithat council somehow jumped the gUn and
"arranged" to have the present arena condemned. "And look at the
mess we're in now", that story continues. Well we are in a mess but we
don't fora minute see how any thinking person can acuse council of
setting-the situation up.
We've watched the progress of council's attempt to find an arena
solution carefully. We've seen them anguish over doing the right think,
making the choice that Seaforth 'and area can afford. We've seen them
attempt to be above board with and seek help from surrounding
Municipalities.
The facts boil down to this: Seaforth and community cannot do without
an arena. Council is trying its best to get one.
We think they deserve support and input from each of us.
But what can I do?
October 16 is World Food Day.
The Foodand Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (founded
in Quebec City on that day 36 years ago). has asked people around the
world--to -observe. World. Food Day...by. ,Decorrfing .more: aware of the
problem of hunger and the need to increase efforts to sitilViev it.
If is appropriate that the day should fall :close to Thanksgiving,, a time
of pielity higrein,,Cartada when:most of us are apPreciating.the_hiessings
of our own share of Earth.
Few are aajortunate.ai we: Nearly 500 million people living in the
World today are Seriously malnourished one out of every eight. Many
millions die, not from starvation alone, but from the illnesses that prey on
the Underfed. In poor countries, one child infour does not live to celebiate
a fifth birthday.
But what can I do, you might ask? Aren't there national and
international organizations whose job it is to help improverthis situation?
Yes,,ffiere are. But with increasing domestic problems in,Canada and
the otrieli industrial ized.countries, these organizations are not getting the
support - finandially or morally -that they need. That is why, in the days
leading, up to October 16,, Canadian volunteer' groups, consumer and
producer organizations, provincial and" federal governments, and
development agencies are organizing. lectures,. exhibitions, "hunger
suppers" and other events to-put the facts of the world food situation
before the public.
You can help by taking notice of these events, by „participating when
you can, by simply educating your family and yourself to a situation that
should not be allowed to continue.
"Food for all" .is Canada's national theme for World Food Day.
Wouldn't it be gratifying to do something, even a little thing, to help
make this ideal become reality?
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
Kim is off io'Quebec
It's been a tough day. This morning, I
ducked home from work to say goodbye to
daughter Kim and grandboys, who are off to
Hull.
(Dear proof-reader, that is Hull. Que.. not
Hell.)
Kim has given up on teaching school,
although she was offered a promotion at her
list school. She loved teaching. and threw
herself into it with the enthusiasm of 'a
knight setting off for the Crusades.
Her summing-up was honest, but not
bitter: "When you put every ounce of your
energy, enthusiasm. imagination and belief
in the best values in life into a job, and
receive in return apathy, sullenness, indif-
ference, and even physical violence. there
must be some better job 'around some-
where." Right on.
I spent a week with her last spring, and
she still retained' a vestige of those
attributes, but it was wearing thin.
I'm amazed 'that any young person wants
to get into teaching. In the twilight of my
own teaching career, I can look back and see
some of the pleasures: summer holidays; the
loCessional class that was fun. and bright,
and made you feel like a kindly uncle. And
that's the list.
There's something terribly wrong with our
educational system, but it's too complicated
to put my finger on.. in this space. When I've
retired I plan to be appoitffert ,to a
Commission (at $100 a day) to examine
problems, make a report, and have it
ignored.
Anyway, Kim is off to Hull, the anus of
Quebec. She wants to learn French, expose
her Children to it, and find a job. I think she
trust halve glimpsed thOSit headline's a few
weeks aito. stating that our top civil servants
were the highest paid in the. world. And
about a third of the civil servants are .iii Hull,
just across from Ottawa.
Maybe she'll hit it lucky and Pierre
Trudeau will fall in love' with her and marry
her. She's just about the right age for him,
under half his. And this would give him a
family..of five boys. Another couple and he'd
have a hockey team. and in 1999 Canada
might win the Canada Cup. But all this is as
likely as yours truly 'going to Heaven.
They left in a battered Datsun that uses a
quart of oil to a quart of Ras. has to have the
radiator filled every 20 miles, and has tires
of tissue-paper. It's an eight hour drive. I'm
praying, something I seldom do, except
when I get in a mess, fall on my knees, and
plead, "For God's sake, God, get me out of
this." Like most people.
But, by golly. Kim is going back to her
roots, whether she knows it or not. Back to
the Ottawa Valley, where her great-
grandmother was an itinerant music teacher,
her great-great uncle a holy terror in fights
among lumberjacks.
She has dozens of cousins in the area, on
both the Quebec and Ontario side, whom
she has never seen. Tonight, if the Datsun
holds up, she'll be staying with her aunt
Flora, in Perth, whom she hasn't seen since
she was about four months old.
Flora will feed her with food, homilies.
good advice, dozens of addresses, and
spunk. The last will be needless, because
Kim has IOU of it, but they can exchange a
bit of *spunk, and maybe a few angles of
feminism or whose children/grandchild are
the best/worst. -
Kim might even see the house where her
father was bungled up. Or the river where,he l
used to catch fish. Or the school in vi•hich fie•
Please turn to page 3
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Let's all stop making excuses and admit to
ourselves why we do or do not want a
Community Centre. The two favorite excuses
to date seem to be: "The seniors in our
community can not afford it! I have yet to
hear any one over 65 make this statement.
On the contrary several seniors have
commented that; When we build our new
arena they hope there will be a heated area
. • .4 •
We at, Bain' industries 'Ltd, want to;
make tbeHtirori County Board"of Education.
end *PAW' COOKY taapayets ak ware 'et Ohle
detitils regarding the nevi 'boiler at the
Seaforth District High SchOol,
1. The Board seems to be of the opipion
that our company had some inflUence in
selecting the expensive base bid hailer. This
is not true. As the Board can see from the
minutes of its own meeting, it decided to
approach us to supply specification details to
the consulting engineer on an exact duplicate
of the Bell boiler which is not heating the
school. We knew that this .now non-standard
boiler would be costly to fabricate and that is
why we gave the contractors pricing an
alternative boiler as well. This was done to
make our pricing more competitive in the
event that the Board was considering.
alternate boilers of other manufacturers. Our
alternate boiler has some fundamental
design that the Board has selected. A boiler
When I left for Alberta at-the beginning of
August, the nation was in the middle of a
postal strike and I had not received a
telephone bill in some time, nor had I paid
one, although I continued to make long
distance telephone calls with wild abandon.
Paying little heed to that awful day of
reckoning I knew would come as surely as the
night follows day, 1= placed several long
distance calls while in Alberta, casually
charging the calls to my home number.
' Midway through my trip west, the posties
returned to the trenches and three nice, big
phone bills landed in my mail box back in
Mitchell. I knew that they would but could do
little about paying them from my location
2,000 miles away.
So, on thatfateful day in September when I
returned home, it was to face the several bills
-itrnry boa along with-notices from-the-phone
company, threatening the disconnection of
my phone serrice if I didn't. Seen pay uP-'
I owed Ma Bell S28.5.90 for three months of
service- a staggering amount to mel though it
might be a drop in-the bucket to yod. For
many 'months before that, my usual monthly
bills ranged anywhere frOm S25 to S50. I had
been careful not to abuse the luxury of the
phone. •
How long must the battle against pollution
go on? •
One would have thought that with the
revolution of public interest and concern
about pollution in the 1960's and early 70's,
the battle, of pollution would have been won
long ago. Pollution is like motherhood, who
can argue against it?
Well aconsiderabk number of people have
been able to not only argue against pollution
'controls but win that argument. In the U.S..
anti-pollution leg-isle-4.mi is actually being
reversed under-the combination .of concern
about energy shortage and paranoia about
too much government interference p In the
United States, you see, it is a businessman's
inalienable right to pollute the air in the,
pursuit of ,profit.
But one, of the healthy things about the
report on the government committee study-
ing acid rain that was released in Ottawa last
week was that for once Canadians looked in
their own-backyard at air pollution instead of
across the 'border, , While we do have
problems with imported air pollution from the
U.S., we have been using it as a handy crutch.
blaming all our troubles on therd instead of
ourselves.
In the commitfee's list of the 10 worst
polluters in Canada for instance, three of the
culprits were coal-fired generating stations of
the Ontario Hydro government owned
corporation. The Ontario government has
been particularly active in lobbying Ameri-
0Cf0Bglii4, 1881
John H. Broadfoot of Seaforth has
purchased the town clock which is in
Cardno's tower, from the manufacturers and
the town will hereafter rent. it from him.
George Gregg of the 14th concession of
McKillop has purchased from Duncan
'McLaren of Hibbert his well-known thor-
oughbred Durham cow" • This cow is
well-known in show circles, and has been a
famous prize winner and there arc few
animals that have left more good Stock.
Last week John Grieve hauled for his
brother William Grieve to Seaforth market, a
distance of 7 miles, 1490 bushels of grain: In
one load he had 2131/2 bushels of oats, in
another 211, and in a third load 222 bushels,
and the remaining loads were proportionate-
ly large. These are pretty good loads and
John must have good well-kept horses to
draw them,
Messrs. G.A. Houghton and T.A. Sharp,
of Seaforth,, are still doing a lively business
in buying and shipping horses.
Wilson and Robertson's new cider mill is
now nearly completed and the hydraulic
press has been set up and will be,ready Jor
operation in the beginning of the week,
t
for them to use while watching hockey
games, ice carnivals, etc.
The second favorite excuse is: "It will be
Seaforth's arena so why should country folk
ean et$ bejndgetlan its output capacity. Net
leffieleney is well asy on control and filing
features.
Our alternate birder can, equal or surpas
both the !mac bid boiler and the Y ork Shipley
boiletin all of these catngories and is in fact
the same boiler design as that which is
installed in the J.A.D. McCurdy School. In
summary, at no time w ere we asked to
suggest what model of boiler we thought
should be specified for the Seaforth High
School.
2. On Thurs. Sept. 29, 1981, I asked the
Board if the consulting engineer gave the
Board any reasons why he termed our
alernate boiler "not acceptable". TheSoards
answer was "no". In other words, our
alternate boiler was disqualified with no
reason.
3. We feel that the Canadian content
evaluation should have swung the Board's
decision in favoutof our-alternate boiler, all
4;k4,
Luckily, I still had enough left over from my
trip to pay the bill, so on the morning, after the
night of my arrival Wine, I raced to Stratford
to the Bell Canada office, clutching my three
bills and my cheque book.
Somewhat abashed and oh, so t humble, I
tried to explain to the stern-faced lady behind
the front desk, why I hadn't been able to pay
up' sooner. She looked unsympathetic and
scolding, and taking my money, didn't bother
to thank me for my patronage. I felt like a
„ lowly criminal and! suspect that's'exactly the•
way she wanted ..me .to feel. ,
And since that time I've been seriously
reconsidering my need for a telephone in my
hone and trying to get up the courage to have
, it taken out.
lt seems that only a person of iron will ,can
resist the urge to make, those' occasional
500-mile calls that just somehow go on and on
and on. With a will of whipped cream, I am
totally unable to control myself or the
cans to do something about the ' acid rain
situation but there are three of the worst
polluters, in the country under the direct
control of the Ontario government. How can
- Bill Davis really expect anyone across the
border to 'listen to him under the circum- ,
stances?
It seems the attention span of the public is
only slightly longer than-an average six-year-
old when it comes to major 'issues.. It took'
several years back in the 'sixties for the
concerned few to make people actually
believe that there was a protnem with
pollution. We had come to enjoy 'the good life
that modern industry, the good jobs, the
cheap products, the modern processes that
gave us both through the use of chemicals of
all kinds. We seemed t be on the way to a
utopia of material co forts. But, we .are
paying a price without nowing it. a price in
affecting the good things in our lives we 'had
been taking for granted: fresh air, clean
water, countryside in its natural state. Many
people didn't want to listen. They wanted to
think that they could go on forever just the
way things were.
The antipollution campaign went on,.
however, until people generally agreed that
there waste problem and that something had
OCTOBER 19,1906
Thomas Simpson of Seaforth has disposed
ci his livery business in Seaforth to T.
Carbert of Teeswater. The sale includes the
bus, mail-carrying, contract and the stable
and property. The price paid was 7,400.
The Colonial Tea Company has opened a
business in the store first door south of the
old Canadian Bank of Commerce building in
Seaforth and intend carrying on a wholesale
and retail tea trade. This a new enterprise
in this part of the country.
James W. Johnston of Hensall, who has
been engaged in the carriage and wagon
making and repairing business is preparing
to erect a neat dwelling at the northwest end'
cf Hensall.
A new firm will shortly open a new store in
Walton in the commodious building which is
being ,erected 'Eli McLaughlin which is•
now 'nearing completion.
Link Longworth who has been enjoying a
pleasant visit with her parents and other
friends in Dublin has returned to Detroit.
contribute?" The' councillor who first made
,that comment ruined e moment when he
added. "why can't u use Bressel" s
arena?1? My point - Wh t is in a name?
other *Mrs being equal.
, •
4.We .fee1 the- Beard Is in 'error ii not
alloy ing us. any considerution a local
maintfascturer,. Especially since ci4 business
requires highly technie.ally trained
employees.
The Board will now have to employ
technicians from as far away as Toronto to do
work which is a matter of routine to us.
We do not believe that the School Board
has any concept°, what induktry means to a
community. This is witnessed by the effort
that every community in Huron County is
directing to attracting more industry.
4. As stated in the minutes of the Board's*
meeting, the Board instructed that the
contract be awarded to the lowest bidder and
that the consulting engineer was to choose
the boiler from the three boilers on that low
crippling amount I give to Bell Canada every
month.
Lately, I've been asking myself how it was
that pre-telephone-age-people ever managed
to survive. year after year, without the
absolutely essential service supplied by the
little black box. Yet somehow they managed
and I suspect the money they didn't spend on
telephone bills went into clothing or good.
nourishing food for the table.
A fellow I recently-mer down eastbas,the
worst case of telephonitis 1 ever saw. In one
month, he ran up a bill with the phone
company of 51,500, with only the occasional
business call contributing to that amount. He
just mild not restnin hiniself when he called
long distance.
The poor chap did not have the money
when the billcame due, though did offer to
pay about, one-third of it right away and the
rest when he could. The phone company was
outraged', of course, and threatened to,,
to be done. Governments, began spending
money to build new sewage treatment
facilities. Tougher anti-pollution legislation
Was brought in and companies were actually
taken to court because of pollution from their
plants.
But the concerns of the sixties and
seventies somwere no longer fashionable.
The anti-pollution campaign waned about the
same time theanti-war campaign died. New
glamour issues took over the front pages of
the newspapers and the consciousness of the
people. Energy shortages. real or imagined,
inflation. Russian egression now held the
national attention. The political pendulum
swung back to the right, toward less
government intervention, more freedom for
businessmen to' make- aprofitit After all, „
people said to themselves. pollution is licked.
But it wasn't as we now see. The acid rain
problem may be the worst of all the pollution
problems. In Scandanavia, for instance, they
have discovered their lakes are dying because
of pollution created hundereds of miles away
in Germany and Britain. Here in Canada the
Ontario government forced INCO to build a
700 foot smoke stack in Sudbury which has
- OCTOBER 16, 1931
Alex Powell of the Kitchener police force is
spending his vacation at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Powell• of
McKillop.
Messrs. Spencer and son of Hensall -are
now pushing on the inside work in•theit neat
new dwelling at the corder Of Nelson, and
Queen Streets, Hensall. 1
Hugh Rinn of the 12th concession of
McKillop had the misfortune of being
thrown from his pony while engaged in the
running race which was held in Blyth on
Thanksgiving Day.
Weekend and holiday visitors in Dublin
were: Gerald Holland, Windsor with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.K. Holland; Mary
McGrath. Toronto, with her father Joseph
McGrath;. Mrs. Mitchell and Vera Mitchell,
1 Toronto, with, Mr. and Mrs. .1 Ines Kraus'
kopf; Rose McConnell, Toron , with her
parents Mr. and Mts. D. McConnell;
Gertrude Stapleton, Toronto wi her mother
Mts. C. Stapleton; Veronica McConnell with
If these people care that much let's go one
step further and place a name•plaeue in the
entrance with contributors listed in order of
amount. This should remind us allt ho the •
centre belongs to!!! The people Not t e Town
and Townships!!! L et's stop the excuses
and start calling a "Spade a Spade'.'.
Thank you
Brenda Reid
Seaforth
tender. In other words. the Boards 414 not
4104 the bikile,r The' consulting engloter
seleeted. the boiler, The Board merely
-Underwrites hiss decisioh.
6. We feel that the installation 'of the
American Made boiler in the Seaforth
Di strict High School is a direct insult to the
employees and management of Robe rt Bell
Industries Limited.
,C.B. Smith, B.A.Sc., P. Eng.
Vice-President
Robert Bell Industries Ltd.,
Seaforth
We hive received hdbrmation that the
$4,569.00 content on the Board's
Canadian Content evaluation form that was
assumed'to be in Canadian, dollars is in fact itr
U.S. dollars and it should have been
converted ta the higher Canadian dollar value
before being used in the analysis-. The result
would be a lower Canadian Content for the
U.S. boiler.
improved air quality in Sudbury by exporting
it to Quebec. This is ,a kind of pollution that is
no longer localized. Just because you don't
live beside the smelter or the generating
station doesn't mean you won't suffer from it.
Further, acid rain can change , our whole
environment. It has already killed life in
many lakes' by changing...the chemical
balance, that we know, but what else is it
doing,
That government committee was
appalled that more research hasn't been done
into the effect of acid rain on the trees that are
important to the lives of many and the
economy 'of the whole country. How is the
acid rain effecting crops which we need to
keep up our lifestyle? How much damage is
done when the acid rain eats , away at
buildings in our cities?
The; ,loot fighting.pollution is. only partly
done. We still must solve the acid rain
problem and then look at the problems of
chemical wastes, of , overuse Of agricultural
chemicals, of so many areas. We can't
probably turn the clock back to the turn of the
century when pollution was mostly non-exist-
ence but we can at leatt keep our world from,
following apart around us. What good are all
the material trappings of modern life if we no
longer have the simple, natural things? ,
her. father Frank McConnell.
Mr. and Mrs. Willi m Dodds and Thomas
Dodds of Winthrop s t Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Dodds, Listowel.
OCTOBER 19,1
Huron County Junior Fa rs choir made
its debut at SDHS Mo ening and was
widely congratulated f the manlier in
which it presented a series of selections.
Tuckersmith township has received a
cheque for $4$92.12 from the federal
government representing a grant in lieu of
taxes with respect to crown property within
the township. RCAF station Clinton is
located in Tuckersmith.
The grant is the first which has been
received on the basis of a new arrangement
made possible by federal
authorities and applies to 1955. It is based on
an assessment of $244,000 according to the
desk, E.P. Chesney.
James M. Scott of Seaforth returned this
week from a bunting trip and brought back
with him st 1200 lb, moose.
Mrs. Gordon Papple, Mrs. James Keys,
Mrs. Les Eryce and Catherine Campbell
attended a conference of Women's Institutes
of the London area in London
12 Mein St. 52?-0240
---To the editor:
One day at a time
by Jim'Hagerty
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
In the years agone
arena excuses?
Life without long distance?
We can't give up fighting pollution
Town rents Canino Hall clock -in 1881
remove the man's phone. In fact, the phone
people became downright rude and began
harassing hint The man's. wife finally could
take no more and,told the,phone company to
take the phone out, which they did. Since
then, the couple has been making every effort
to pay the bill and will finish it off someday.
Meanwhile, they swear they don't miss the
stupid thing- their home is much more
peaceful without it.
Another man I know; living on a fixed
income, has a novel way of controlling his
urge to squander large amounts on silly
phone calls. He makes only calls from his
home phone and places all long distance calls
from a pay phone down the street. That way.
he can't call Rotterdam or Memphis unless he
has the cash to pump into the phone. And '
even if he has some change, he can readily
see it disappearing and has learned to stop .
befere it's air
Unless you're closing big business deals,
money spent on phone calls is largely wasted.
You have nothing to show for the money you
spend.
If you write a letter instead,, at least the
person receiving it has something they can
tuck away in a drawer or an album fio* future
reference.