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The Huron Expositor, 1996-07-03, Page 44-THt HURON RXPO$ITOR, July 3, 191N1 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR • Sales PAT ARMES • Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscripltions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL • Reporter BARB STOREY • distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 a yeor, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS: -10.00 o yeor, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 32.50 a year in advance, plus 178.00 postage, G.S-T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signol-Star Publishing of 100 Main St., Seoforth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held at Sioforth, Ontario. Advertising is occep ed on condition that in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with o reasonable allowance for signature, win not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for of the applicable rote.. In the event of a typographical error, advertising goods or services at a wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time. Tiro Huron Expositor is not responsible For the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies ore to be sent to The Huron Expositor. Wednesday, July 3, 1996 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Street.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Editorial Elimination of CP will have immediate and profound effect Opinion Mowing: the lawn...there oughta be a law Gramineae monocotyledon- ous is a lethal killer of men over the age of' 40. . They are long, green, ribbon-like, insidious growths that spread like the wind and grow in all directions until they choke the very will out of men exposed to them on a regular basis. Women, of course, love thein because they do not go forth into these manicured fields of death every weekend to face this verdant virus head-on, in a battle man has been losing since that first ridiculous reap, the cruelest cut of all. No, these are not the latest diseases to invade man's prostate ... they're the green plague of blades of grass that surround his house and torment him to death. "Honey," they yell, "the grass needs cutting." And like Moonies, blinded by the bond of a queer cult, men lurch forth with mowers. in hand to cut the hideous heads off these slimy blades so they can grow back thicker, higher, greener, faster. They're growing right now, the sick little angiosperms, as 1 write this, as you read this, at night, on bank holidays, on Father's Day for goodness sake. Lawns here, there and everywhere, like air, that. need to be trimmed and fertilized, watered and oxidized, pampered, weeded and raked. Mowing the lawn is the stupidest, most pointless, 'The speed with which many newspapers last week immedi- ately called for government intervention in the possible demise of the Canadian Press wire service and/or a review of the concentration of press ownership in this country - makes one wonder why our independent "Fourth Estate" and "free" press doth grovel so fast. Some have gone whining for a protective wing from the fed- eral government right off the bat because our current colourful press power, Conrad Black, is quite simply good at what he does. . . , He nlns 'newspapers,- some among the world's best and oth- els considered far worse, that make money: A lot of observa- tions he has made about the state -of the industry he is eating up in this country are smack dab - right on - boring, pre- dictable, getting 'worse, probably dead as a dodo shortly if the business doesn't get back to basics and pull up its socks in this Internet age. Black is a good businessman first and foremost, and one of -ourown - a Canadian who made good elsewhere, in the ,big - buck trenches in the ink -stained rough-and-tumble of . England's Fleet Street among other places; before coming home to roost with what some now say is a vengeance. • • If CP does g� down it will have a profound and immediate effect on the newspaper business in this country, and even more so on its broadcast affiliate BN, which brings you- a hefty per cent of the news you hear on radio by wire. This is not necessarily a bad thing.. 'Despite the doom and gloom and talk of ogres, the smart, tough newspapermen, and women, will survive and thrive. For news, is the still the name of this game and•it still sells, goes better with a cup of coffee than a 'laptop, and Black knows it. And if the "old boy" network can't figure out this simple fact there is a wired and 'hungry young generation out there with some interesting new tools that just might blow us all away. . Papers are in the information business,not some kind of sacred trust.. If they' don't make money you eventually lose them. . - Let the chips fall where they may in this changing techno- logical age. But government and a ftec press should never be bedfellows in this democracy. It is in a large part because of ill-advised government restric- tions on foreign press ownership in Canada that thc shrewd Mr. Black has risen so rapidly to such prominence. He has lit- tle competition. There are only so many press barons to go around • • And some of these are foreigners, you see. who need not apply here. You can be a Canadian success story on Fleet Street, but not the other way around because of this accepted but twisted logic. The nationalists won't let you. These thought police want you to think their way, with what one wit at The Economist covered in a nutshell recently with the comment that Canadians seem to have a distinct "passion for the bronze." This flag-waving jingoism has protected the complacently mediocre. . - Because no nationality knows anything more than any other about truth, which indeed makes us free - and is what good journalism is all about. Without fear or favour. - JGC Golf tournament raises funds Dear Editor: • thank the golfers for partici- .On June 1, 1996 The Lung Association, Huron -Perth held the First Annual Golf Tournament sponsored by Horizon Pro Health. What a great day it was! Thcrc was beautiful weather, a terrific golf course and thirty teams of golfers. Over $450() was raised to support thc work of The Lung Association. So many individuals and businesses contributed to the success of the event. Many more individuals and busi- nesses donated wonderful prizes. We would like to pating and making the event so successful. Special thanks gots to Tim Ertel from the Mitchell Golf Course, The Lung Association Golf Committee, Mark Philbin of CJCS and the volunteers who worked at' the tournament to keep things running smooth- ly. Our warmest thanks to everyone for your support. Sincerely, . Anita Looby Fundraising and Volunteer Co-ordinator The Lung Association, Huron -Perth Counties useless, worthless activity - practiced by man. Who was the first weak- willed, hen-pecked husband to succumb to this folly? I know it was a woman's idea, but like all really bad ideas, it needed a man to make it a reality. "Honey, I think you should take the sickle and cut the field between the house and the road." - "Cut the grass? .But where will the cattle graze? Where will the pigs root? Where will I park my buckboard? And _when I run out of paper, where else can I just reach out and grab a handful o_f long grass to..." "Honey, did you hear me?" "Yes, dear. Do you want me to trim around the outhouses or move them to the back?" "Put 'em in the back and ' turn the soil closest to the 4 house. I want.you to plat" some flowers for me." "Flowers'?! You can't eat flowers! You can't feed. . flowers to the animals! Flowers don't have no - value!" "Honey, did you hear me?" "Annuals or perennials, dear?" At the very least, I hope a - flower was planted in this man's memory -- the purple pansy, the one with the yellow face. I wouldn't say my grass has been growing extraordinarily fast these last few rain - soaked weeks, but I can't remember a summer when I needed a machete to find my car in the morning. Never mind that mowing the lawn breaks your back and makes you a moveable feast for mosquitoes -- it's very dangerous. Every summer some guy, while refueling his lawn -mower, coughs on the fumes, -spits his�cigarette into the gas. can and inadvertently, we. send another proud Canadian into space. Every summer, some guy will try and clean the underside of his mower while it's still running and yet another green thumb lands in the neighbour's rock garden. Every summer some guy will kick a wad of grass off the mower's wheel and instantly --`toe jam'. It's criminal, the time and money we spend on our caring for our lawns. And what do they give us in • return? Ant -hills. crabgrass, -prickly weeds and dog poop. Think of it this way, your lawn might he the only thing in your life that you really cherish, that gives you more grief -than -your kids. Years ago; I was, in Danny Zack's Bar in Buffalo, New York on a Saturday afternoon, when Danny's " wife called ro remind him the grass needed cutting at their : cottage in Crystal Beach, Ontario. It was the last time Anna would ever need to make such a call because after he hung up, Danny called a Fort Erie pre -mix concrete company. As the waves of fresh cement washed over the lawn, women wept, men drooled and the blades made squeaky little dying noises like lobster in boiling pots of water. If you're ever driving through Crystal Beach and you see a cottage that looks. like it was built on the sidelines of a basketball court, that's not just Danny Zack's cottage, it's a monument to -men everywhere who have the courage to stop the insanity. Men don't climb mountains because they are there and they don't go to thc North Pole to be with penguins - - they go there because there's no grass to cut. If they had an outside draft tap like Danny's cottage, we'd all go there: PHOTO BY DAVID scow .TEAM EFFORT - Members of the Clinton Fire Department, in light -coloured uniforms, help Seaforth firemen, right, battle . the Main Street blaze on Sunday moming. The PUC bucket truck was used to spray water in the upper floor. Seaforth boy hunts for treasure in Yukon FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR - JULY 10,1896 COWS 'POISONED . We havemade mention before of the dastardly outrage perpe- trated upon the farm of Mr. Christopher Miller, of the township of Hay. We see chronicled a similar one from Elgin 'county, near St. Thomas. A dispatch from that place, dated July 3rd, says: Some miscreant perpe- trated a diabolical crime yes- terday. When Dugald D. Campbell, who lives on Oneida road, near Southwold station, went to get his stock, he found 10 cows and two horses violently sick. In a few minutes two cows s were dead. Mr. Campbell telegraphed for Dr. Edmunds, V.S., of St. Thomas, and the latter, on examination, found that the animals had been poisoned by eating paris green. A strip of ground in the pasture field, six feet long and two feet in width, was found covered with the , poison. Mr: Campbel•I has had no paris green on the farm for years, and the work was evidently done by enemies. A HURON BOY'S EXPE- DITION - In the Nanaimo, British Columbia, Free Press, of Juni; 25th, we find the fol- lowing reference to the adventures of an old Seaforth boy, son of Mrs. Sloan, of this town: Mr. Thos. Glaholm received a letter yesterday from Mr. William Sloan, now en route to the Yukon. He writes from Lake Bennett under date of May 24th, and states that he, together with thc rest of his In the Years Agone party, comprising eight men altogether, expect to leave in the course of four days in their boats. Their destination is known to one man alone, who religiously preserves the secret until such time is as it is necessary to divulge it. He has led his companions to believe, however, that he has discovered a bonanza. A number of miners have threatened to follow the Sloan party in order to learn where this rich strike is locat- ed, but as soon as the ice breaks in the river the latter will give their pursuers the slip. In some cases' the cur- rent rushes along at the rate of 20 miles an hour. JULY 8,1921 ST. COLUMBAN CWL - The euchre given by the CWL in the parish hall on Tuesday evening, June 28th, was a most decided success, both socially and financially. The prizes were won by the following: Ladies' first prize, handsome table runner, won by Mrs. Michael Downey; gentleman's first prize, umbrella, won by Mr. Frank Melady; third prize, box of stationery, won by Mr. Louis O'Reilly. The chairman of the evening was Mr. William Moms, voiced the sentiments of the League pertaining to the president, Mrs. Wm. Dorsey, the other officers and members, who helped to make the evening so enjoy- able to all. AN OLD TIMER - While taking the census in McKillop recently, Mr. R. Scarlett came across one farmer who holds the record for the number of years spent on one farm. This was Mr. John Flannery, of the 14th concession, who purchased his land from the Canada Company in 1863, and is still working the same farm. Fifty-eight years is a long time to reside in one place and Mr. Flannery has seen many changes in the town- ship in that time. JULY 12, 1945 FOOTBALL TEAM IN SEMI-FINALS - Scoring a 2- 0 victory over Ethel in a foot- ball game at the recreation grounds Friday evening, Seaforth won a berth in the Huron Football League play- offs. The 'first goal was scored by J. O'Connor from E. Mclver; the second by F. "Production" Sills from J. O'Connor. * * * A home -run by Bill Smith featured a softball game between Clinton Radio School and Seaforth at Lions Park Wednesday evening, when Seaforth won 29-3. TWELFTH ANNUAL SUMMER CARNIVAL -. Two nights, Wednesday and Friday, July 17 and 19, each jam-packed with entertain- ment thrills are planned by the Seaforth Lions Club for the club's 12th annual sum- mer carnival. Heading the Wednesday night entertainment are the Whirlos, an amazing roller skating exhibition. Also on the program are Pat Mclnstosh, a singing comedi- an of the, old Scholl, and Gordon Bernisiski, an out- standing accordion player. The Ovettes. popular 'magi- cians, and the Ripleys, an acrobatic team that is as good as any in thc business spot- light will appear on the Friday night show.. A special feature on Friday night will he thc 50-piecd London Police Boys' Band, which recently captured hon- • ors at the Waterloo Music . Festival. The Lucknow Pipe Band and the Seaforth Highlanders Band will be on the program both nights. JULY 15, 1971 The walk and hike-a-thon to Bayfield sponsored jointly by the Seaforth District High School and Seaforth Recreational Committee last month produced $1,922.79 figures released this week reveal. Top producer was Cindy MacDonald who brought in $95. Top hoy was Ron Henderson with $45.83. *** Seaforth Town Council, meeting Monday night, received the 1970 financial statement from the town auditors. Clarkson • and Gordon of London showing a surplus of $8.874 for the 1970 fiscal year. *** Bus schedules serving pupils in McKillop Township attending Seaforth Public School. St. James Separate School and St.. Columban , Separate School will he inte- grated when school resumes in September.