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Huron Expositor, 1999-09-08, Page 44—TH1 HURON fEXPO$ITO11, September 6, 1999 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Terri -Lynn Hart - Publisher Larry Dalrymple - Sales Scott Hilgendorff - Editor .Pat Armes - Office Manager Susan Hundertmark - Reporter Dianne McGrath - Subsaiplions/Ckesifieds II Bowes Publishers Limited S,i.4rs !%SY' Moto Cm/,wiw - A Q.. C) E-mail us at seaforth@bowesnet. conn SUBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS' - 30 00 o yeor, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S T. USA & foreign. 28 44 o year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES • Published weekly by SignolSIor Publishing at 100 Main 51., Seoforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario. 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Box 69, Sealed'', Ontario, NOK 1W0 Member of the Conodian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Remember the kids when school issues heat up Just days before students headed back to school;the politics started with Dalton McGuinty, Liberal leader of the Official Opposition attacking, Premier Mike Harris. The concern is that his education cuts mean out-of-pocket expenses for parents and students heading back to school. Included in the examples is a list of 23 items Grade 4 and 5 students in Nepean need costing parents more than $ 150. Looming on the horizon is the ongoing issue of school accommodation that will lead to more attacks against governments and school boards from other governments and the public. While issues like these can't necessarily be ignored, let's just remember that regardless of what's happening around the school system there is something much more important happening inside. That's the educating of our children. Just as affected by the issues are the dedicated teachers inside who -are trying td prepare their students for that issue -laden world outside. Let's not forget that as heated as the issues get, those teachers and our community's children still need our every day support. STH Opinion Can we grow into a nobler purpose of work for 1ory of God? The desks were pulled to the two sides of the room and placed to face each other. At t one end of the two rows stood a single desk for the moderator. It was the scene for a debate that was soon to begin. The participants were the Grade 6 to 8 students of the school. I know, because I was there. Back in the days when S.S. #6. near the junction of Markham Road and Ellesmere, before the 401 cut its swath through the farms just to the north. the great debate centered on money; specifically "Money is the root of all evil." Sides were freely chosen. The debate was on. To our young minds, this was great fun but also serious. The best arguments were put forward. In the end the moderator, one of the Wilson boys, declared that the side arguing against the statement had won. It had been, of course. a trick statement. The defendants of the statement had in many . cases not distinguished the difference between "Money is the root of all evil" and St. Paul's admonition that "the love of money is the root of all evil." Ministers' study By Rev, Nicholas Vandermey First Presbyterian Church This, of course, happened in the Dark Ages when Bible readings in schools were not only permitted. but compulsory. What were you thinking of on Labour Day?• Did you celebrate your work? Many of you, reading this, may think, "This doesn't apply -to me. I don't have a job." Not because you are unemployed but because you are retired or because your work is at home. We are culturally conditioned -not to think of work as work if there's no salary attached. Money has for many of us led us to devalue work that is detached from financial benefits. When we fail to value the work of stay-at- home parents or of those who. receive no remuneration for some task it's easy to feel devalued as a person. to lose a sense of human dignity. And we have attached just enough prestige to salaries: There are so many things we want for which we need money, that it is hard to distinguish real needs from wants. Labour, more and more, is not a service, but a means to an end, namely, our financial goals. More often than not, we are inclined to look forward more to payday than the work that leads up to it. We don't want to make the mistake of the team that argued that "money is the root of all evil." Wecan't do without it. We rely on money for the many services we need. It is just that there should beenough of it for everyone ina society that cannot work on the barter system. We need money to operate the charities that are an integral part of our society. Even churches need money - just ask any one of them especially if the board is cash-strapped. - Perhaps. however. Labour Day is a good occasion to re- evaluate what is most important. Havewe slipped into a mind-sef in which we really do love money because of what it can buy? Is profit our . motive? Do we care that there are people in our society whose work results in a loss, as long as we can have cheap food? It's doubtful that we'll ever get away from the pressure to makeas much money as we can. But can we not re -focus our thinking by valuing all work. paid or unpaid, in terms of our service to each other? Elton Trueblood in Personal Security. Through Faith wrote, "If ours is God's. world, any true work for the improvement of life is a sacred task and. should be understood with this aspect in mind...No religion is irrelevant if it helps people to see the hidden glory of the common things they do...People with no sense of the glory, of their work. people from whom has departed the whole idea of work as sacramental, will not long do a good job. Our civilization which ceases to advance is- already...in full decay." Do we work for the love of money? Can we grow into a nobler purpose of work so that•.we do it to the glory of God and a service to others? Alrnanac..tries to keep life a little easier with the approach of the new millennium With -the arrival of the new millennium.' life might be -a little different, but the basics. remain the same. That's why. even at 208 years of age, The Old Farmer's Almanac still includes recipes. advice for your garden; the latest news on consumer trends, and weather forecasts, of course. Where else would you expect to find home remedies for your pet along with when to look. skyward for the best spectacles of the next century? (Halley's comet returns in 2061. promising a better show this time around.) • Readers of The 2000 Old Farmer's Almanacwill enjoy a publication that prepares them for the future (from fashion to home decor, celestial blue -is the color of -- the millennium), remembers the past. and entertains them today (learn ,how to make.a musical instrument out of an oven rack). Add recipes using native berries. the ins and outs of raising "chickens, and a special report on romance, and the all-new Old Farmer's Almanac is ready to enter its fourth century. On September 14. 1999. The 2000 Old Farmer's Almanac,,Canadian Edition, still sporting its familiar yellow cover will , be 'released. It has hundreds of pages packed with articles. fascinating facts, and useful astronomical information for every day of the year, 2000. The arrival of the new', millennium has many groups planning to make time capsules as a way of marking their spot in history. The 2000 Old Farmer's Almanac offers some invaluable advice: Don't bury it. Thr unusual recommendation stems from the fact that more than 80 percentof time capsules are ---lost underground. Since The Old Farmer's Almanac can be • considered a "muni" time capsule itself. the editors are offering free copies of the 2000 edition to the first, 1,000 nonprofit groups that want to tuck it inside their own time capsule. Even:though it is 208 years old. the Almanac prides itself on remaining up-to-date. The opening pages of this year's edition feature "Consumer Tastes and Trends for 2000." It' includes fashion fads (French cuffs for men are in): food trends (spicy: exotic flavors are in demand): and the hot collectibles for 2000 told pistons and connecting rods from famous race cars will "rev up"' your collection). The weather predictions in The Old Farmer's Almanac always generate attention. This year's forecast calls for winter to start out mild in November and December. with' below -normal temperatures moving in from January through March across most of Canada. Expect above -normal snowfall from Ottawa See UMBRELLA ,Page 4 How to access us Letters to the Editor and other submissions call be made to us by noon on. Mondays at: seaforth @ bowesnet.eom All letters and submissions must be signed and accompanied by a day -time telephone number. All submissions are subject to editing for both length and content. Don't forget to check out our homepage at: www.bowesnetcom/expositor/ Surtax on non-residents using facilities comes closer September 8, 1899 Geo. Hal! of McKillop has sold the east half of Lot 33 to Jaynes Smith. This lot contains S0 acres and has on it a bunch of good wood and was sold $1,300. The. saw mill of Kelly Brothers. on the 12th Concession of McKillop. had a close call from destruction by fire: -Fire had been burning in the bush around the mill for several days and on that afternoon the ivind drove it to the mill. Dennison's threshing outfit was at work at Mr. Simpson's -close -by- and came to -the- assistant•e of Messrs. Kelly. Mrs. and Miss Barrows, McKillop, were at the railway station here intending to go to Sheldon No. Dak. an d while waiting for the train, she became ill. The journey had to be postponed. Miss Maud Hartry, Cassie Gillespie and Annie B. Murray are attending the Mitchel! Mode! School and Miss Sadie Phillips is attending the Stratford Model School. Wm. Dale of Huron Road, Tuckersmith, is sending a pair of heavy mares and foals, and a neat driving team to the London Exhibition. Messrs. Geo. and Christopher Dale are.also sending a string of heavy horses. Jacob McGee of Egmondville is improving his premises by having a neat stable erected. He is over 80 years of age and intends fitting himself out with a horse and buggy. Miss Ella Laidlaw left on Wednesday for California where she intends to make her home for some time. Messrs. McGregor Bros. of Kippen recently sold a pair of heavy draft geldings to Mr. McLeod of Brussels. The grain market at Kippen opened up for the season. Mr. John Moffatt - is at his post as In the Years Agone in former years. Thos. Ward of Varna was in town on his way. hone from Toronto where he had purchased a lot of stock steers which he intends to fatten at his barn at Varna. September 5, 1924 The annual Labor Day Scotch doubles of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club was held with 32 rinks in competition. W. -Thompson.---and . Dr.-._.Bechley...took possession of the Savauge Trophy, the runners up being Musty Sproat and J.M. McMillan. In the consolation Dr. F.J. Burrows nosed out Harry Stewart and Jack Beattie. . Ross McGregor of Constance attended the Toronto Exhibition this week. Miss Blanche Wheatley,' Miss Verna Adams, Miss Beulah Scott and Miss Mabel Livingstone have all returned to their school duties. Mitchell Bros. of Manley have purchased a new gasoline tractor to run •their threshing outfit. One of the few remaining old settlers of McKillop in the person of Wm. McGavin Sr. passed away on Saturday. W.C. Callfas,. thresher at Zurich, had the misfortune to injure his knee cap while at, work and will be laid up for some time. Wm. R. Dougall. Hay Township. captured a live eagle. It swooped down and caught a chicken and landed in a clover field. It had a broken leg and was unable to fly away. Miss Scarlett of McKillop has been engaged as assistant teacher in the continuation school at Hensall, I hos. Sherritt of Hensall. in jumping down from one of the timbers in • his.barnto the granary. had the misfortune to.break one of the bones in his foot. • Miss Fergus Campbell, who has been the guest of Miss Bethune. leaves for her home in Nashville Tenn. - Miss Mabel Turnbull and Miss Ella Turnbull have returned to, their schools in Huntsville and:Toronto. The oat harvest in Tuckersmith is almost competed and considerable threshing has been done. • September 9, 1949 • Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chas. Eggert are. shown after their marriage at the home of Miss Grace Tremeer, Kippen. Bluth Fall Fair was opened by Premier Leslie Frost. Bannochburn Pipe Band and the Blyth Lions Club boys and girls hands were in attendance. Kathleen Glens. Edna Bailey and -nanc_v Ford left for Victoria Hospital, London where they will train as nurses. Very Rev. Thos. McQuaid: SFM, a native of McKillop, has been elected Superior -General of the Scarboro Mission Society. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McQuaid of McKillop. Something unusual in raspberries was brought to the Expositor office by Merle Cooper, Main St. Seaforth. Picked in the garden of John L Smith, the branch was laden with ripe berries:: Miss Margaret Patrick has resumed her duties in Toronto as teacher, The following new teachers went to their schools, Miss Peggy Willis, near Tavistock, Eleanor Weaver to Leadbury, 1' • Archie Hubert .to Ingerspll, Edith . Blanchard 'and Donna Watson to the Nowick School area. ' Miss Theresa Mciver has returned to Petrolia where she•has'resumed her teaching duties. . Fred Beattie was in Niagara Falls' - attending the funeral of the late Dr. E.T. Kellam. • McKillop Fair is being held at No. 6. school. This is the second annual fair after a lapse of several years. ,An extensive program of house cleaning and face lifting has been underway in the• Town Clerks Office. Bandstand has been painted in a light color which contrasts with the green, of the trees. September 12,.1974 A surtax to be' applied to non-Seaforth residents making use of Seaforth recreational facilities came a -step nearer to reality at a meeting of Seaforth council Monday evening. David Papple who this week celebrated his 89th birthday. was in the Expositor office to renew his subscription, carrying on a family tradition that has continued for nearly a century. About 400 people came to watch almost - 200 motorcycle riders race over a 1.1 mile mow -cross course near Walton on Sunday. The race was the first .event sponsored by the local Maitland Dirt Riders Association. Enrollment on opening day in the 19 separate elementary schools in Huron and Perth County showed a decrease of 99 pupils from last year according to a report given the trustees of the Huron - Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Enrollment is 3,167.