Loading...
The Times Advocate, 2006-08-02, Page 5Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Exeter Times -Advocate 5 Opinion Forum News ROSS HAUGH BACK IN TIME I OYEARS AGO July 24, 1996 - M&M Meat Shop owners Joe and Mary Brockman opened the Exeter store on Friday. The grand opening will be cele- brated on Sat., July 27 and the Brockmans will host a charity bar- becue to benefit South Huron Hospital. The board of directors of Hensall District Co-operative (HDC) is pleased to announce the opening of the new Exeter Co -Op Do -It Centre in Exeter. Popular singer Tommy Hunter dined and stayed overnight recently at the Hessenland Country Inn at St. Joseph. Amy Walper was recently awarded the Exeter McDonald's post -secondary scholarship. This is awarded to employees who excel in work and school. 20YEARS AGO July 30, 1986 - "This is not one of our happiest days in Grand Bend" commented Ted Bartlett in reading an announcement yesterday afternoon that the Bell Aerospace plant at Grand Bend was closing. Only nine employees remain at the hovercraft plant at the former Grand Bend air force base. Bartlett said the final blow was the fact that the Canadian Coast Guard this year placed an order with British Hovercraft and didn't ask Bell Aerospace to bid. Mrs. Emma Passmore, a resident of the Ottawa East Nursing Home will celebrate her 100th birth- day next week. 35 YEARS AGO July 29, 1971 - The proposed addition to the Exeter arena should be a reality by the time the 1971-72 hockey season rolls around. RAP member Bob Pooley said this week that the new addition to house larger dressing rooms and office space would be completed by September 15. Kinsmen president Harry Stuart also announced that the new ice scrap- ing and flooding machine would be in operation by mid-October. 45 YEARS AGO July 29, 1961 - Mrs. James Kirkland, a charter member and Past Noble Grand of the Pride of Huron Rebekah Lodge was awarded the Decoration of Chivalry at the recent IOOF Rebekah Assembly in Toronto. Susan Cann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cann graduated with highest scholastic standing as a certified nursing assistant at Wingham General Hospital, last Wednesday afternoon. 50YEARS AGO July 30, 1956 - Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Desjardine and family of Grand Bend have developed a private wildlife sanctuary on their farm on the Bluewater Highway. They have collected over 100 ducks and geese, deer, birds, bantams, fish, turtles, St. Bernard dogs and a Shetland pony. Ward Fritz of Zurich, owner of the service station at the corner of Highways 4 and 83, notified Exeter council he was prepared to go ahead with a lawsuit if council passes a proposed bylaw restricting the hours of operation for service stations. 60YEARS AGO July 28, 1946 - An increase of three pounds in the individual sugar ration for 1946 was announced from Ottawa. One thousand dollars was sent from Exeter to the Dominion Red Cross headquarters. It will go towards meeting the overseas commitments of the Canadian Red Cross Society. 85 YEARS AGO July 29, 1921 - The village of Zurich was thrown into an intense state of excitement Tuesday morning when it became known that Messrs. Johnson Bros. woolen mill was on fire. A large crowd gathered and succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading although the mill and about 15,000 pounds of wool were destroyed. Mr. R.T. Luker who has been following the races both in Ontario and the United States of late, last week disposed of both of his race horses, Tipsy Todd and The Emblem. I I OYEARS AGO July 29, 1896 - D. Spicer was granted the paint- ing of the dome and wood work of the town hall tower. He is to be paid $25 and will provide his own scaffolding. Lucan council offers a reward of $800 for the con- viction of recent fire -bugs in the village. Seniors' Perspective By Jim Bearss ADULT ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR "Depend on others and you will go hungry." Town & Country Support Services Gets Ready to Golf For Seniors: Town & Country Support Services will be golfing for seniors on Sat., Aug. 12 at Woodland Links, Clinton start- ing at 10 a.m. The tournament includes 18 holes of golf, a full steak dinner, and prizes for everyone. The hole -in - one prize includes two tickets to any destination that Air Canada serves in North America. A day of golf for Town & Country is a great way to be active, and support programs that that make life better for others. To register call Shelley at Town & Country Services, (519) 482-9264 or Faye at Exeter Town & Country at (519) 235-0258 Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament: The Chamber is hosting their annual golf fund raiser at the Exeter Golf Club on Aug. 24, 2006. Cruising with Marion Foster - Ottawa Fall Foliage Spectacular (Oct. 2-4, 2006) A bus tour through Haliburton, Algonquin Park, the Ottawa Valley & the Kawartha Lake region, a steam train excursion in the Gatineau Hills, tour of Ottawa, and more. The bus will pick you up in Lucan, Exeter or Kirkton. Please call Marion Foster 519-229-8718 or Cruise Selloffs 519-227- 0444. The History of the Potato Chip: 1853, Saratoga Springs, New York; As a world food, potatoes are second in human con- sumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are America's favorite snack food. Potato chips orig- inated in New England as one man's variation on the French -fried potato, and their production was the result not of a sudden stroke of culinary invention but of a fit of pique. In the summer of 1853, American Indian George Crum was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. On Moon Lake Lodge's restaurant menu were French -fried potatoes, prepared by Crum in the standard, thick -cut French style that was popular- ized in France in the 1700s and enjoyed by Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to that country. Ever since Jefferson brought the recipe to America and served French fries to guests at Monticello, the dish was popular and serious dinner fare. At Moon Lake Lodge, one dinner guest found chef Crum's French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. Crum cut and fried a thinner batch, but these, too, met with disapproval. Exasperated, Crum decided to rile the guest by producing French fries too thin and crisp to skewer with a fork. The plan backfired. The guest was ecstatic over the browned, paper -thin potatoes, and other diners request- ed Crum's potato chips, which began to appear on the menu as Saratoga Chips, a house specialty. Soon they were packaged and sold, first locally, then throughout the New England area. Crum eventually opened his own restaurant, featuring chips. At that time, potatoes were tediously peeled and sliced by hand. It was the invention of the mechanical potato peeler in the 1920s that paved the way for potato chips to soar from a small specialty item to a top-selling snack food. For several decades after their creation, potato chips were largely a Northern dinner dish. In the 1920s, Herman Lay, a traveling salesman in the South, he ped popularize the food from Atlanta to Tennessee. Lay peddled potato chips to Southern grocers out of the trunk of his car, building a business and a name that would become synonymous with the thin, salty snack. Lay's potato chips became the first success- fully marketed national brand, and in 1961 Herman Lay, to increase his line of goods, merged his com- pany with Frito, the Dallas -based producer of such snack foods as Fritos Corn Chips. Americans today consume more potato chips Jim Bearss (and Fritos and French fries) than any other people required amount into their daily diets. Here are some tips to make eating the required servings of vegetables and fruits easier courtesy of the Tropicana Veggies brand: • Take 30 minutes, once a week to wash and chop your favorite vegetables, such as carrots, celery or green peppers. Store in plastic containers filled with water in your fridge. These vegetables can be used all week as snacks to munch on during the day or to include in sal- ads or side dishes. • Buy your favorite fruits and make a fruit salad. It can be stored in the fridge for several days. Use fruits such as melons, apples, grapes and orange slices. Fruit salad is enjoyable with breakfast or as a dessert after dinner. • At lunch or dinner drink a vegetable cocktail with your meal. Cocktails like Tropicana veggies help to fill you up and are a tasty, nutritious way to include more vegetables in your diet. One 250 ml serving of Tropicana Veggies cocktail contains two of the five - 10 daily serv- ings of vegetables and fruits recommended by Canada are Food Guide to Healthy Eating and is only 60 calories per serving. • Add vegetables, such as cucumber, tomatoes or let- tuce to your sandwiches. The vegetables not only add some crunch and flavor to your sandwich, but also a serving of vegetables to your diet. • Pick up a new fruit or veggie every time you visit the grocery store. Variety will decrease boredom. • Toss fruit into your green salad for extra flavor, vari- ety, color and crunch. • Think frozen. Frozen fruits and vegetables are just as healthy as fresh, and they're ready when you need them. • Save time with pre-cut vegetables and salad mixes and keep an easy -to -grab, pre -washed bowl of fruit on the counter. News Canada HowWe Count: Why are so many Women Poor? Poverty is world-wide problem with its roots in inequality. The world's 225 richest people have the com- bined wealth equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 per cent of the world's population (2.5 billion people). The three richest peoples' assets exceed the combined Gross Domestic Product of 28 developing countries. According to the International Labor Organizations: • Women represent 50 per cent of the world's popula- tion • Women do 2/3's of the world's paid and unpaid work • Women earn 10 per cent of the money in the world • Women own only one per cent of the world's proper- ty World Rural Women's Day; World Rural Women's Day takes place around the world each year on the 15th of October. It was launched at the fourth UN Conference on Women in Bejing, China in 1995 by non-government organizations. World Rural Women's Day aims to remind society of how much we owe rural women and give value and credit to their work. Good Food wins over Bureaucracy: Bravo to the Ontario government for letting common sense prevail when it comes to food served at farmers' markets, church suppers and community fundraisers. Such food still has to be prepared safely, but does not have to meet the same stringent requirements as grocery stores and restaurants. The announcement of an easing of the rules allowed an up -roar about health inspectors going to extremes in their efforts to shut down a charity fundraiser. They not only tossed out egg salad sandwiches but added insult to injury by pouring bleach on them. Did they really think the elderly ladies who were running the event would fish the food out of the trash and serve it later? Apparently the sticking point was the eggs had been boiled off-site. That was the way the ladies had been doing it for 20 years, with no complaint or illness. The incident made a lot of people wonder if bureaucratic concerns for health had run com- pletely amok. The government was doing everything short of pasting up "Plague" signs on church kitchens, where the food is at least real. Ham and scal- loped potatoes, roast turkey, smoked pork chops, straw- berry shortcake - perhaps it is as delicious as it is nutri- tious. The irony is government officials have been bemoan- ing the sorry state of the health of youngsters who con- sume a lot of high -calorie quasi -food items. But the safe- ty inspectors have no problem with the salt -flavored Styrofoam. It is factory -produced from nice, sterile chemicals. There is no way it can go bad because there is nothing in it that could nourish a microbe, much less a child. Church suppers and farmers' markets have had a in the world; a reversal from colonial times, when New Englanders consigned potatoes largely to pigs as fodder and believed that eating the tubers shortened a person's life—not because potatoes were fried in fat and doused with salt, today's heart and hypertension culprits, but because the spud, in its unadulterated form, suppos- edly contained an aphrodisiac which led to behavior that was thought to be life shortening. Potatoes of course con- tain no aphrodisiac, though potato chips are frequently consumed with passion and are touted by some to be as satisfying as sex. The EasyWay to GetYour Five to 10 a Day: Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends Canadians consume five to 10 servings of vegetables and fruits every day. With busy schedules and not a lot of time to prepare meals, some people struggle to fit the See PERSPECTIVE page 6