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Huron Expositor, 2004-01-28, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Jan. 28, 2004 Your Community wspaper Since 1860 Tom Williscraft - Publisher Susan Hundertmark - Editor Dionne McGrath - Subscriptions/Classifieds Bernie Pugh Office/Sales Sara Campbell - Reporter Anne Roden - Distribution (M) OUEBECOR MEDIA E-mail us at seaforth@bowesnet.com Visit our home page at www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 35.85 a year, in advance, plus G.S.T. SENIORS: - 33.85 a year, in advance, plus G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 35.85 a year in advance, plus S78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 1 1 Main St., Seaforth. Publication mail registration No. 40029693 held at Seaforth, Ontario. 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Bex 69, featforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Editorial Community survey gives you an easy opportune to be heard When is the last time someone asked you your opinion about your community and what you'd do to improve it? There are always plenty of opportunities to voice your opinion if you want to make the effort by attending a local council meeting or writing a letter to the editor of the Expositor. But, you'll never have an easier chance to be heard than this week when a community survey arrives in your home along with your weekly newspaper. Residents of Huron East are being asked to take an hour out their day sometime before Feb. 6 and respond to 85 questions about life in their community. The survey, a collaboration of the Huron Expositor and Huron East economic development officer Ralph Laviolette, covers a wide range of topics. Where do you shop and why? What would you do to improve your local downtown? What sort of stores would you bring here if you could? Are there enough services for your family, local seniors, local teens? What tourist attractions would you offer in town if you could? What does the natural environment need to improve its health? And, would you volunteer to help explore ways to help agriculture grow compatibly with other sectors? These are just a few of the questions you can contemplate and contribute towards the direction your community develops in the future. Complaints, pet peeves, brainwaves and visions - there's a place for all of them in the survey. Get involved and become a partner in Huron East's evolution. Susan Hundertmark Opinion Random A(ts of foontn. The Expositor salutes the noble efforts of the Huron O.P.P. in their campaign for Search & Rescue.... HELP ! HELP Hang on buddy... I'll save oul risking & driving is very dangerous! You're under arrest! Letter McGuinty is Ontario's Promise Man To the Editor, Whatda ya tWean? Whatch ya talk ...talk.. talk? Ontario has bought its own Music Man in the form of Promise Man, Dalton McGuinty. (Not that I'm a fan, by any means, of phony fiscal conservatives or of socialist controllers with misplaced idealism), but McGuinty sold Ontario voters with crisis(s)(some only liberally envisioned) that only he would solve. Ontario bought the whole band of -promises without hearing the brass, and the uniforms of our future...without being asked our measurements. We were given no quotes on how he would honour back - step promises in See CLOSURES, PageS My'growing interest in buying lottery tickets isn't an addiction yet, I think I am becoming an addict. My problem seems to be only in the early stages but I am finding myself more and more anxiously awaiting for that date when it will be announced that the winnings are mine. Yes, that's correct. My addiction is lottery tickets. With Christmas behind us, I am now left with the question of where did all my money go? Of course, I know the answer to my question, but now there seems to be less money coming in as the bills arrive. This may seem familiar to many people at this time of year. Yet, having a large number of hills to pay is not a familiar to me. As a recent college graduate, with my first apartment and, what is to me, a new car, my debts just seem to be increasing each month instead of going down. So, what is my solution – I go out and spend more money on lottery tickets in the hopes of winning millions. It does make me wonder how many people there are with this addiction and how far they would take it or how much they are willing to spend. A woman from Cleveland. Ohio, who told police she bought a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket potentially worth $162 million, appeared in court last week for filing a false police report and, if convicted, she will face 30 days to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The Ohio woman filed a police report saying she bought the winning ticket but lost it, possibly when she dropped her purse outside a convenience store. Days after, another women came forward with the winning numbers and was declared the winner. I do feel that my addiction is under control and I will not risk false claims over a $1 ticket for a $1,000 fine. Having a addiction to lottery tickets also means having a gambling problem. But, how do you know when you have a problem? The Responsible Gambling Council of Ontario states these are the following signs: gambling for longer and longer periods; constantly thinking about and preparing for gambling; 'chasing losses'—gambling more often and playing higher stakes to "win back" lost money; neglecting family/personal needs; growing debt; often being absent from home and work; gambling to escape daily pressures and obligations; becoming involved in illegal activities to finance gambling; lying about where you ,were and what you were See SIGNS, Pages Vanastra daycare centre discusses ways to attract cliildren, avoid deficit in 1979 JANUARY 31, 1879 Calvin Campbell, of Tuckersmith, presented the Expositor with a pansy in full bloom which had grown in his garden. Rev. M. Graham preached the last sermon in the old church in Egmondville to a large congregation. On Tuesday evening a large number of the friends of Miss Sparks, of Tuckersmith, assembled at the residence of her father and presented that lady with an address accompanied by a set of silverware in acknowledgement of her valuable services as organist at the Brucefield church. The fine brick residence of John Malone, of McKillop, was burned. The fire originated in a bedroom and is supposed to have been caused by children going into the bedroom with a candle. JANUARY 29,1904 Harry Edge has sold his new residence on Market Street to John A. Stewart for the sum of $1,500. All the stages made thcir regular trips on Monday but there were no trains on that day. The clerk of the wea&er out did himself, and favoured us with the coldest and stormiest day of the season. - A rink of Seaforth curlers composed of Messrs. James Dick, Wm. McDougall, John Beattie and Wm. Ament were at Harriston and got snow bound. Andrew Scott, who resides in town and drives to his school near Brucefield, has not missed a school day this year, despite the storms and blocked roads. Rev. Mr. Hodgins and Dr. Years Agone Cooper are in Toronto attending the Grand Chapter of Royal arch Masons. There is almost a wood and coal famine in town. Mr. and Mrs. John Finlayson entertained a number of the employees of the Bell Engine works with their wives and lady friends. The Scotch supper in Cardno's Hall, under the Auspices of the Ladies Aid of First Presbyterian Church, was a splendid success. Taking part in the program were Piper Kennedy, Misses Rathwall and Weir, Maggie McLean, John and Roy Scott, L.T. Delacey, Miss Hazel Reid and Miss G. Laidlaw. The need of a Grand Trunk water tank at St. Columban is becoming more apparent every dXy. No. 1 express became exhausted for want of water and had to wait an hour, No. 4 express carrying 50 passengers got tirc4f fighting snow and both her engines died for want of water. FEBRUARY 8,1929 The farmers in the vicinity of Tuckersmith arc taking advantage of the sleighing and are getting thcir teaming done. The entire neighbourhood of Huron Road was grieved to learn of the death of Abraham Hugill which occurred Feb. 2 inhis70thyear. The hardware store of Messrs. G.A. Sills and sons was broken into early Saturday morning, entry being effected through a door in the rear. Two shotguns, several rifles, a large quantity of ammunition and a pair of skates were taken. Miss Mary Turner, of Clinton, has taken a position in the Gco. A. Sills hardware store. Mrs. Hugh Chesney, of Egmondville, had the misfortune to fall on the icy road near her house and fracture her arm at the wrist. A very enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Medd in McKillop, by the midnight Revellers. A fine program was given by Robert and Edith McMillan, Lorn Webb, Doreen and Viola Clark and Thos. McMillan. FEBRUARY 5,1954 The Seaforth Public School board met to form the 1954 committees. Cliff Broadfoot was chosen as chairman and other committees are: Finance, Dr. P.I. Brady and F.E. Willis; Property, Cliff Broadfoot and W.T. Teall; Supply, J.A. Westcott and J.C. Stevens. Miss S. McLean was re -appointed as representative to the public library board and C.A. Barber to the High School Board. Robert Joynt was re -appointed as custodian. Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Sproat were hosts to a large number of neighbours and friends when they marked their 50th wedding anniversary at their Tuckersmith home. Fred Peel was re -appointed managing Director and General Manager of Seaforth Shoes Ltd. at the annual meeting held recently in Preston. The appointment has been announced of Miss Helen McKercher, a native of McKillop Township, to the post chief of the Dominion Department of Fisheries of the Home Economics Service. FEBRUARY 1,1979 Cutting 13 additional beds at Seaforth Community Hospital will actually save money, hospital administrator Gordon McKenzie told the SCH board. Three beds, as required by health ministry budget cuts, have already been cut. Hospital administrators in Huron and Perth have been assured by the Ministry of Health that if the beds are cut before Oct. 1, 1979, $12,000 per bed, a total of $156,000, will not be cut from the SCH 1980-81 budget. Ralph Weiland, the Egmondville native who was a linesmen for the Boston Bruins, coached the Harvard University hockey team for 21 years and was nominated to the Hockey Hall of Fame, may soon be getting some recognition in his old neighbourhood. There are plans to add a trophy case designed for minor hockey league trophies at the Seaforth arenas and the case will he named after Weiland and contain artifacts from his career. The Vanastra Day Care Centre board discussed ways of attracting more children to the centre in order to avoid a $6,000 deficit again this year. While there are 34 children enrolled at the centre, the average attendance is only 19. The centre is licensed for 34 full-time children. The town of Seaforth honoured Clarence Reeves for his "very unselfish act" in saving the lives of his fellow tenants in the Royal Apartment building.