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Clinton News-Record, 1987-02-04, Page 4Page 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1987 The Clinton News-Rocord Is published oath Wednesday at P.O. Boz 39, Clinton, Ontario. Canada, NOM 11.0 . Tel.: 442-9443. Subscription Rate: Canada -121.00 Sr. Citizen -818.00 per year U.S.A. foreign I80.00 per year It h registered as second claws mall by the post offlte under the permit number 0017. The News -Record incorporated In 1924 thoHuron Nows-Record, founded in 1801, and The Clinton News Era, founded In 1803. Total press runs 3,700. Incorporating THE BLYTH STANDARD ANNE NAREJKO - Editor FREDA McLEOD - Office Manager SHELLEY McPHEE HAIST - Reporter DAVID EMSLIE - Reporter JANICE GIBSON - Advertising LAUREL MITCHELL - Circulation/Classified GARY HAIST - General Manager CCNAeiA MEMBER MEMBER Display advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 13 effective Oc- tober 1,1984. Our Great Toxic Lakes While most area residents have seen first hand or through news coverage the devastating effect of erosion along the Great Lakes, few may be able to comprehend the more subtle danger in those waters, says the Exeter Times Advocate. Experts now claim that there are enough toxic contaminants in the waters to present health risks to untold future generations of humans. A non-government group of Canadian and American researchers has already warned that the health of 37 million people living in the Great Lakes basin is at risk because of chemical contaminants in the water they drink and the food they eat. Mental retardation and sterility are two of the worrisome signs already being evidenced in the population and the cancer causing PCB level is escalating at an alarming rate. One expert estimates it will now take six generations for the effects of PCBs to be eliminated from the human chain. Other factors remain unknown, although they are equally frightening. What is known is that the residents and goverments continue to bury their heads in the sand and the battle has still not been engaged to the point of -taking any major remedial action. The pollution may have been slowed, but that's little consolation when those in the know explain that the impact of the toxic material in the water at present "is far more profound than anyone has even thought possible'. A matter of iittitude My mother is the type of person who reads the newspaper from front to back. There isn't a story or picture that escapes her eye, and when she finds something she thinks I'd be interested in, she carefully removes it from the paper, sets in my room at home, and points it out to me sometime during my visit. I very seldom read the articles she saves for me while visiting. Instead, I carefully pack them away in the "care packages" she sends back with me. After I return to Clin- ton, put all of the perishables in the -refrigerator, hang up the new sweaters her and dad have bought me and distributed the newly acquired household items to their pro- per place, I sit down and see what mom's been reading. One of the more interesting articles she sent back with me came from The Brant News - the weekly newspaper in Brantford. It was written by Marlene Hilhorst in her Achieving in the '80s column and read as "Butt Out" Vanastra kids say Dear Editor: I think if they have Non -Smoking Week it should be "NON-SMOKING WEEK!" Some people don't bother wdth the week, they say, just another week. . To pf e vetiit irt; "rr' itee'it a 1a f, !dr' alien e non-4nloking week longer. Anotherthirrg to help, is, take advertisements out of magazines. Let's not encourage younger ones to smoke. Sorne advice to younger ones...Don't start and on Non -Smoking Week you won't have any trouble. Coyne on everyone butt out on Non - Smoking Week! Kimberly Dixon, Grade 7, Vanastra Public School The Sale of Cigarettes Dear Editor: i feel that cigarettes should not be sold during Non -Smoking Week. Non -Smoking Week was created to help people quit smoking but if stores have cigarettes on the shelves during that time smokers will not hreak their habits. Unfor- tunately i know a lot of smokers. I recall that one of my Fri nds tried to hreak his habit but due to hint seeing cigarettes on the Letters shelves and advertisements everywhere, his resolution was broken. Should cigarettes be taken off the shelves during Non -Smoking Week? Yes, let's do it and let's do it now! Murray Jeffrey, Gr. 7, Vanastra Pubic School NON-SMOKING WEEK Dear Editor: Non -Smoking Week should be longer. Seven days; that's not even long enough to start a diet. Non-smoking week should be Non -Smoking Month so we can give those smokers a chance to quit. it would be a miracle if a person who has been smoking for over three years could quit in one week. Give them a chance it should be - Non - Smoking Month'. .Joan McLachlan, Gr. 7, Vanastra Public School Killing future generations Dear Editor: Listening to the news this week - and there it was - our health ministry con- sidering the opening up of 10 abortion clinics in the province, and this to be con- nected to 10 local hospitals. Is that not shocking news?, At least to us as a Christian community? Are we honest- ly going that far now with our morals that under the cover of "Human Rights" we will start killing our future generation in mass form. What has gone into our minds that gives even our provincial government the right to encourage and financially support such an undertaking? And I mean the "rights" because our present law does not cover this so called Human Rights and does not foresee the protection of the rights in the existance of any such clinics. It only speaks to the right to abortion if the life of the mother -to -be is in severe danger. And are there not loud -speaking ex- amples of nations who became careless and indifferent as to the abouts of the life - future of the next generation to be.? Think for a moment with me about the policies of the French in Europe about 50 years ago. The propagation of neo - How private bills Dear Editor: In light of the controversial debate that has surfaced in Huron County recently over the Library Bill (PR.71, i think it would be appropriate at this time to point out how our democratic system works. in the provincial legislature, which is a parliamentary form of government, the house deals with three kinds of bills: government bills, private member's bills and private bills. A government bill, also called a "public bill", is introduced into the house by a cabinet minister. it represents some aspect of government policy, as determined by the cabinet and is introduced only after it has been extensively examined by the cabinet, of which I am a member. Only government bills may deal with the expenditure of public funds or the raising of revenues through tax- Maltusianism, advising parents to definitely have no more than one or two children. And what became of the nation one generation later? It fell to the edge of poyerty, because there was not enough population to handle the industrial and agricultural economics. Don't we see those dangers round about us rising in our nation? And those dangers do not stop by the troublesome teen-age pregnancies. The pressures increase even more with the availability of abortion clinics - killing by the thousands and thousands. It makes me weary, for the fact is, most mothers -to -be after going through with the abortion, regret and feel sorry they ever did it. Does the weight of this fact have not everything to do with the one fact which no one can rule out, that we are all created in God's image, as the bible tells us? And, that He gives life from the begining of pregnancy. And, that it is our weighing du- ty, all of us, to keep our hands off and pro- tect life in alsincerety. A. Jongejan RR 2, Bayfield. are introduced follows: A farmer awoke one morning in the wee hours. He turned and tossed but he could not sleep because he was troubled. He was thinking about Old Sam, his old mule, out in the barn. Old Sam had been a faithful ser- vant for many years. He got out of bed, put on his clothes and went out to the barn. There, in his stall, stood Old Sam. His head hung low, his knees were bent and his back was swayed, from the many long years of hard work. u The farmer stepped up to Old Sara and gently slapped him on the back. He said, "Sam, for all these many years you have been my faithful servant; you have worked very long and hard but those days are past. You will never have to work again as long as you live because I am going to retire you, Sam. You can go to the meadow and have all you want to eat and drink. From here on it is all on me. Sam was taken to the meadow and, as the days, passed, he seemed to enjoy his retire- ment. Then one day, he was missing. The farmer looked for him in every corner of the meadow but no place could Sam be found. The farmer thought of the old abandoned well. Perhaps Sam had fallen into it. He rushed to the old dry well, and sure enough, there in the bottom of the well stood Old Sam, his head hanging low and his tail swit- ching side to side. The farmer was bewildered. He could think of no way to get Old Sam out of the well, but he could not leave him there to starve, so he finally made a decision. He decided to get a shovel and just bury Old Sam in the well. He threw a shovel of dirt into the well. It fell on Old Saim's back. The mule just shook the dirt off and stepped on top of it. The farmer kept throwing dirt on Old Sam, but each time the dirt fell on him, he shook it off and stepped on top of it. Along toward evening the dirt in the well rose near to the top. Old Sam stepped up out of the well and casually walked out across the meadow. Surely, we all experience setbacks and disappointments from time to time. The im- portant thing is how we face them. We can stand still and let the dirt of adversity over- whelm us, or we can shake it off our backs, step on top of it and go on to enjoy the hap- piness of a rewarding life. ,.ST .,r.ir I•IJ, AA:, ation. The overwhelming majority of all laws and statutes began as government bilis. The next category is that of private member's bills, which can be introduced by any elected member of the legislature, ex- cept cabinet members. These bills deal with a wide range of matters of public policy, but may not involve the expenditure of public money. Such private member's bills rarely receive third reading, but many times cabinet ministers take them into considera- tion when drafting policy and introducing their own bills. The third category, which embraces the Huron County Library (PR.7) bill, is that of private bills. They are introduced, by a. member of the legislature for special Turn to page 5 ShQ1IQy McPhee Ilaist See you around I can't rightly remember that last time i cried while watching a movie. Husband and i don't get out to see many movies these days, but i do reall shedding a few buckets of tears over Love Story. On (;olden Pond, Terms of Endearment, it's A Wonderful Life - then there was the film that we saw on Sunday night. it wasn't your standard movie theatre hill of fare. This was no Cecil B. DeMille ex- travaganza. It wasn't a mega -production in the Hollywood style. it had no multi-million dollar budget. no box office stars, none of the grandiose glamor of an epic film. This film was an hour long presentation, part of the Focus on the Family film series that's being shown at Ontario Street United Church in Clinton. It was one of the hest films i've seen in a long time. The excellent film series that is being shown at the church throughout .January and February features Dr .James Dobson, Associate Clinical, Professor of the Califor- nia School of Medicine and staff member of the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. Dobson is also the author of several hooks and is a highly regarded speaker on family issues. His films have been viewed by more than 20 million people. More than 50 local folk viewed the Sunday night presentation at Ontario Street Church. The film they saw entitled "Christian Fathering" went straight to the heart. i cried. The man behind me cried. i glanc- ed over to see the woman next to me rustling around in her purse for a Kleenex. The woman ahead of me wiped tears from her eyes. Dr. Dobson talked about the potential col- lapse of the family and the need for fathers (and mothers) to spend more time with their children. He stated that a survey con- ducted in the United States showed that on average a father spends only 37.7 seconds with his children each day - just enough time to say hello and goodbye as he rushed to and from work. Another survey showed that the average child watched some 54 hours of television each week. Too many children are learning about life from the television. Too many parents are caught up in the rat race world and not spen- ding enough time with their children. Dr. Dobson emphasized that parents need to spend more time with their children, to teach them in the subtle ways of day to day life, about values, about their beliefs, about the things that are important to them. In the film, Dr. Dobson talked about the death of his father and the lasting impact of that sad event on his life. He talked about the need for parents to build happy memories for their children that would last beyond their death. He spoke of the death of a ftve year old boy, terminally ill with lung cancer and how the boy's mother prepared him for death, and 1i$aven. The film was emotionally stirring and too it was inspiring. We cried with Dr. Dobson and we laughed with him, most importantly we learned from him. After the film Husband commented that he should spend more time with our baby. Another father said he would be Sure to -fix his sons bicycle that week. We all went home with renewed comrnitt- ments and understanding about the impor- tance of raising our children, and about the responsibility we have to "teach our children well," to give them as "code to live by" as Crosby, Stills and Nash sang. The Focus on the Family film series con- tinues for the next four weeks, Sunday nights at 8 p.m, in the Ontario Street United Church gymnasium. Upcoming films include - February 8, Preparing for Adolescene: The Origin of Self Doubt; February 15 - Preparing for Adolescence: Peer Pressure and Sexuality; February 22 - What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women: The Lonely Housewife; March 1 - What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women: Money, Sex and Children. Three films have already been shown, with upwards of 70 people turning out to see the various presentations. The audience has included new parents like Husband and 1, more experienced parents, grandparents The film series is open to the community, it offers informal but informative evenings, and i can guarantee that you won't be disap- pointed if you attend any of presentations. The Dobson Films is our Sunday outing of the week. This Saturday night, we'll be down at the Clinton Town Hall to hear the Seaforth Harmony Kings and Harmony 1-11- Lites. These men and women create Wonderful barbershop style music and are performing in the second concert of the Clin- ton's Arts and Culture Subscription Series. The concert was sold -out months ago and there is a waiting list of people who are hop- ing to purchase last minute tickets. If you have a ticket to the concert and aren't able to make use of it, please call the Clinton Town Hall at 482-3997 in the next few days. There is a good chance that you ticket could he resold. That's not all on the agenda for this weekend around our house. Husband will be heading for the Clinton Arena on Friday night to work at the Optimist Broomball tournament. This weekend long tourney will feature some 28 teams, both men and women's in three days of action packed play on the ice. A additional feature of the weekend event will be a Saturday evening dance at the Clin- ton Arena. The Optimist organizers have spent a great deal of time and effort bringing this tournament together and they are looking for your support too. Be sure to come down to the Clinton arena sometime on Friday, Saturday or Sunday to watch a game. A game of broomball is neer dull. I'll be there too, taking photos for next week's paper. And one more note, don't forget this is the first Saturday in the month (can it be February already) and this Means that the Lions Club workers will be out making their monthly newspaper collection. Be sure' to have your papers out by the curb bright arid early on Saturday morning. Hope you have your weekend calendar tet now. We'll see you around!