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Times Advocate, 1999-09-08, Page 88 Exeter Times -Advocate Opinion&Forum Wednesday. September 8, 1999 Remember when... On June. 30 to July 2, 2000, South Huron District High School will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The Exeter Times Advocate would like to join in the celebrations by sharing articles or pictures which have appeared over the years. YEARS 1960 - 1969 - HI HIGHLIGHTS Assam 11011) eaareet 411P 2000 ja From the Ink Spot SeniorsFootball The South Huron Panthers opened the 1965 Huron -Perth football conference with a tie ball games in Listowel. They fought against the tough Listowel squad to a 13-13 draw. Listowel opened the scoring with a touchdown, but John Franklin ran 91 yards around right end to tie the score at 6-6. Although Listowel took the lead again with a touchdown and convert, South Huron gained a touchdown on the last play of the game with Scott Burton doing the honours. Colter made the con- vert attempt. The seniors next travelled to Wingham where they were defeated by the Wingham Mustangs 8-0. the Panthers defense was the outstanding feature of the game with the offense not gaining very much. In their home openers, the South Huron teams split the doubleheader 'with the Stratford Central squads. The seniors suffered a 12-rloss at the hands of the Stratford Ramblers. The only real threat to the Ramblers came midway through the final quarter when John Franklin made three big first downs and Ron Crown added another to get the ball at the Stratford 7, but South Huron gave the ball up on downs. The Panthers chalked up their first win of the season against St. -atrys by a 27x¢ score on their home field. Ron Crown got the first touchdown with "Toe" Colter booting a con- vert. John Franklin made the second TD with another good convert by Colter. St. Marys scored but the Panthers retaliated with a 28 yard pass from Franklin to Crown resulting in the third touchdown. Scott Burton went over from 2 yards out and Colter added the 27th point. Travelling to the Stratford Northwestern field, the Panthers evened their season's record with a 8-2 win over the Stratford crew. Scoring for South Huron were Dick Colter, Ron Crown, and Paul Mason. The South Huron Panthers terminated the '65 season with an impressive victory over the Clinton Redman, beating them 23-0. Midway in the first quarter, Burton opened the scoring with a touchdown, then in the second quarter Franklin and Colter both booted singles putting the score at 8-0. Colter made the next touchdown and Bob MacNaughton dropped Clinton quarterback in the end zone for a 2 point safety touch. Colter made the last touch- down and also added the convert for the final 23-0 score. juniors The juniors started the season off with a 12- 8 win over Listowel. Hayter and Taylor were responsible for the two touchdowns. The Juniors remained undefeated in their game with Stratford with an 88 yard touch- down by Hayter, 7 yard touchdown by McKinnon and a convert by Hayter. Playing Listowel the junior crew blew a sin- gle point lead and allowed Listowel to tie the game 1-1 with another single. Hayter kicked the single for South Huron. The juniors finished their last game with a 28-0 win over the Stratford Central Ramblers, bringing South'Huron its first junior champi- onship. Scoring plays in the game were a touchdown by Tim Ockenden, convert by Jim Hayter, single by Hayter, touchdown by Kevin McKinnon, touchdown by Terry Quinn, single by Hayter, touchdown by Quinn and covert by Hayter. FOR MORE INFORMA'T'ION ABOUT THE SHDHS "AIL -YEARS REUNION" CONTACT KENDRA ARTHUR 235-4006 (H) on 235-4587 (W) OR PAT RowE 236-7167 OPINIONS AND LETTERS GDCI all years reunion Dear Editor: Goderich District Collegiate Institute of Goderich, Ontario is inviting all alumni and former staff to it's up- coming All Years Reunion on July 1st weekend of the year, 2000. Our Reunion committee is planning an enormous fun - filled weekend. If you were a student for a day or many years, if you volunteered, coached, if you attended night school, or worked as a teacher, assistant, custodian, we welcome you to enjoy the reunion festivities. Our committee has complied over 6500 names, but we feel there are many people we don't have on our list and. many addresses are missing or incomplete. It is impera- tive that we have full and complete information before we mail our "registration information package' in January 2000. Please encourage everyone, all relatives and friends to submit their information. Contact us: GDCI Alumni, 260 South St. Goderich ON N7A 3M5 Phone: 519-524-9402. Fax: 519-524-1710 E-mail: gdci@hurontel.on.ca. Webpage: httpJ/gdci. hurontel. on. ca 44% of cops oppose gun control Dear Editor: It must have come as quite a surprise to the Federal Government and the anti -firearm movement to discover that the Canadian Police Association are 44% opposed to Bill C-68 and firearm registration. During their annual General Meeting i that took place in Regina in Iate August, delegates were asked to completely withdraw their support for the Firearms Act. Only 56% are still in favour of the Bill, while the rest are opposed. A resolution questioning Ottawa's credibility on gun registration was passed overwhelmingly by the dele- gates. The resolution stated that "The. Canadian Police Association recommends that the Auditor General of Canada conduct a thorough review of the firearms regis- tration system-". It listed many recommendations and requests concerning gun control, including the accuracy of information being collected, and the need to know if the time frame laid down by Ottawa is realistic. They want to be assured that Ottawa's plans of being able to recover the millions of dollars in costs from the user .group are reasonable. The C.P.A. resolution asked for "Meaningful consulta- tions" between the government and user groups. This has been sadly lacking in the past. They also demanded confirmation that firearm registration does not take offi- cers "-off the street". At present, a number of officers are being utilized at the firearms office in Ottawa, as well as calling on gun shops, etc. The police demanded that the Auditor General release a public report of his findings to the people of Canada. PETER E. STIczaEE, Thornton, Ont. Carnage on the 401 It was another Labour day weekend that was sup- posed to be for fun and relaxation. Instead the last days of summer have been replaced with death, destruction and mayhem on our main east -west artery. The 63 car pile-up near Windsor resulted in seven peo- ple being burned beyond recognition with an addition- al 45 rushed to the hospital. When does the scentless slaughter on our area highways stop? How many more tragedies do we have to endure until we say enough is enough? The day after the accident my family and I had to go to Toronto and we questioned our safety and peace of mind before heading out on our journey. Would we become part of tomorrows headlines and be one more statistic? Surely dri- vers would be more cautious after the news of yesterdays tragedy? No way, the trucks and cars careened down the highway as if yesterday's tragedies had never occurred. I set my speed control at 100K and every- one roared past me as if I was standing still. Not one OPP cruiser did I see in my rear view mirror. Trucks came up my tail pipe and wove in and out as if they were in a race. The transport drivers have a new man- date to try and fulfill, "Just in Time" deliveries. The factories no longer carry large Inventories, the trucks arrive on a tight schedule and their contents go directly LEONARD LESSER COUNSELLOR Principal's Message What an exciting school year we are beginning this week! The building looks ter- rfic. The total staff of 77 has 14 new faces. The 900 students are eager and ready to learn. The school year will be marked with some very special events as well. To begin with, as the host sec- ondary school of the International Plowing Match, our school has many tasks, assignments and con- tributions to help make the Match a success. We will be taking a whole school field trip to the Match on Tuesday, Sept.21 and some of our students will be involved for the remainder of the week as vol- unteers. Then the activities that mark thearrival of the new century will be special here too. The winter term will see a whole school combine their efforts to produce the popular musical Grease. And final ly, in the springtime we will put the finishing touches on what is shaping up to be a fantastic All Years Reunion in recognition of our 50 year old school. Setting aside these special events for a moment, this year is also a very unique one in that it is the fust year of a new set of secondary school policies for the province which has become known as Secondary School Reform. The changes primarily apply to this year's class of grade nines although certainly all students will feel the effects of imple- mentation to some extent. There is a great deal that is worthwhile about the new reforms. As we work together through the process of making it our own vire will keep .what is good and makes sense from what we have done but we will learn to do things differently as well. Finding the bal- ance between old and new, tried and true and the opportunities for change will revitalize us. The work is creative and like any creative activity we will need to be imaginative, optimistic, truth seek- ing, risk-taking, resourceful and open-minded. This school is, I believe, capable of rising to this creative challenge and of doing so with skill style. Those of us who have made our careers working with kids can't help- but catch the contagious feel- ing of excitement in the air that students bring with them in the early days of September. As we look across the sea of faces may we come to see all students as their parents do, as unique individ- uals, whose strengths and abilities truly make each one of them a once -in -all -history -event. The individual energies and enthusiasms that each student brings to our school ultimately makes it a richer place. It is my sincere hope that our stu- dents' educational experience in this school year 1999-2000 will be a wonderful one. I look for- ward to working with all of you. DEB HOMUTH PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE on to the assembly line. The premier of Quebec, Lucien Bouchard, has a solution to speeding trucks that he wants implemented nation wide; transport drivers would reduce their speed 10 kilometres under the posted limited. Maybe our premier Mike Harris, could reflect on his campaign promise to do away with photo radar. I wonder how many speeders would put their peddle to the metal when they knew that an overhead: camera was focussing on their licence plate and recording their speed? Strange, we are a society that emphasizes honesty, cheating at cards or on exams is a no no yet it's okay if we break the speed limit. As a stu- dent of human behaviour I know that we have to have rewards and natural consequences for our actions. The threat of fines will hurt the drivers where they sit, in their pocket books. The summons in the mail will be a deterrent and a reminder of the cost of speeding; the money can be used to pay for barriers and all of the other improvements that are needed. Maybe we clean up all evidence of the debris of the accident too quick- ly? A crushed bloodied wreck off on the shoulder would be a reminder of what was and what could be if we drive recklessly. The trauma of the deaths on our highways affects us all; no one is untouched by the needless devastation that kills our people. Cars like guns can kill and we the drivers are part of a deadly game of chicken when we turn on the key. It is sort of like having to live in a war zone questioning which bullet (bumper) has my name on it. If our society doesn't alter its driving habits then things will not change. They will stay the way they are and more of our friends and children will die. There has been enough blood shed on our highways. "Most men look at things as they are and ask Why. I dream of things that never were and ask Why Not?"