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The Huron Expositor, 1987-09-16, Page 2�z.cO:,.. 2A — 1HE HURON EXPOSITOR, SOPTWBER 14, 1987' f4 e r EHuron xpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating • The Brussels Post ' ED BYRSKI, General Manager Published in HEATHER McILWRAITH, Editor Seaforth, Ontario Member„Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Every Wednesday Morning Ontario 'Community Newspaper Association __�.._,,. __ _ Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International.Press Institute Subscription rates: The Expositor Is brought to you Canada '20,00 a year, in advance'. Senior Citizens • 17.00 o year in advance each week by the efforts of: Pat Outside Canada '60.00 a year, in advance Armes, Nellie. Blake, Karen Single Copies- .50 cents each, Gordner, Joan Guichelaar and Bob McMillan, Second class mail reglstratioh Number 0696 WEDNESDAY;, SEPTEMBER 16, 1987. Editorial and Business Offices -10 Main Street, Seaforth • Telephone (519) 827.0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO' Overwhelming response The response of the public to this year's Terry. Fox run, surprised even the organizers, who wanted more participation but .didn't really know if they'd get it. The fact they did, reflects positively on the,Town of Seaforth and its residents. Four hundred and 79 people took part in this year's run, showing a mark- ed improvement from previous years. Only 18 people participated last year, and only three the. year before. Although the 479 represents approximately one-fifth of the town's total population, it is interesting to note the majority of the participants were elementary school students, who were no doubt shamed into participating through a challenge issued by the recreation department itself. While admittedly their enthusiasm for the run was probably fuelled by a desire to out participate other schools in the area, it should be noted, the students participateddespite the fact many of them are probably too young to remember Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. To most of them Cancer would be nothing more than just a bad word - a disease they've never really been in contact with on a personal level. On the other hand, a challenge was also issued to the adult members of the community, and while participation was up altogether there was not as marked an improvement in adult participation as there might have been. One would think the more educated and informed adult, would be more will- ing to take time out to fight such a devastating disease as cancer. Yet the adults were outdone by their children. Regardless of that fact the town must be congratulated on its enthusiastic response to this year's Terry Fox Run. It shows the town is not as apathetic as people think it is. One never expects total .participation in any event, but this year's run surely indicates Seaforth residents are headed in the right direction. That's why the challenge is being issued now, for the town to work, together to -increase participation again next year. Where there's a will, there is definitely a way. Seaforth residents have shown they do care and hopefully that caring will present itself in the 1988 Marathon of Hope. Crown looks good The recent accomplishment of Canadian Ben Johnson as he ran 100 metres in 9.83 seconds in' Rome, faster than it has ever been run before, has resulted in a burst of Candian'pride as those of us at home watched - both live and on.newscast replays -as he crossed the finish line a full metre ahead-of"t S: Spiiiiier"Cafl LaWis': _ �._ _ .._.__..._____.__ Even though it would have been understandable if the "fastest man in the world” had revelled in his victory and basked in the•adriliration of the crowd in Rome who witnessed the race, such was not the case. Instead, his celebration was a quiet one as he ran a short distance down the track sear- ching for his mother's face in the mass of spectators, then shook hands with his coach before accepting the gold medal with an almost self- conscious wave. Such modesty is rare indeed among the athletic super stars of today, another reason Canadians can be proud of Johnson, His modesty is even more remarkable in fight of the fact he again defeated Lewis during his record setting performance. Despite Johnson's repeated victories over Lewis, America's dat'ling of the Los Angeles Olym. pics, the Canadian has never really been given - by Lewis or the U.S. media - the recognition he so rightly deserved. Perhaps now he will. In fairness, it should be noted that Lewis was the first to congratulate Johnson at the end of the race in Rome. Not since 1930 has, Canada enjoyed such a claim as having the world's fastest human as a citizen. The last Canadian to be so honored was Percy Williams whose 100 -metre record was 10.3 seconds. We repeat, the crown looks good on the head of Ben Johnson. May he wear it for a long time. - WAT. illness not all it's cracked up to be It wasn't half as , much • fun as 'I remembered it, b'ut I took a day off work sick recently, Actually, it was only a half- day, as I had already suffered through a morning at the office with one of those nag- ging little summer colds which leave their victims sneezing every five minutes and their heads feeling like balloons. ' Since the rest of the office didn't seem to want to share my misery (they found my constant wheezing and blowing distrac- ting), I decided to spare them my corn --pang-for-the-remainder-of-the-day, Owing, -no doubt, to the fine conditioning program to which I subject my roboust physique, I haven't been genuinely sick enough to absent myself from work in years.. (Okay, I've come in late and hungover the odd time and•I've even taken the occasional Mental Health Day, but nobody's perfect, right?) • Anyway, after spending an afternoon on the disabled list, I have to ask myself why, during my years in elementary and secon- dary school, I often went to -great lengths to get a day off sick?: • This time, it was really boring. My mother wasn't there to bring me gallons of , ginger ale, or tea at the first sign of a snif- fle, and I even had to get up and make my own darn Neo Citran. Life is hard. Worse than that, I discovered 'most of my favorite soap operas were now either off the air entirely (what ever happened to "Texas"? ), or have finally changed their story lines and characters to the point that T couldn't recognize them. Is nothing FROM THIS ANGLE by Patrick Raftis • sacred?'. • Since I' had such a dull timebf it (ended up sleeping the day away) I can't imagine why I went to the trouble of perfecting the --simulation-of-disease•symptoins•in•order-to-- fool my parents into keeping me home from school, There was a time, even before I started smoking, that I could cough so convincingly you'd have sworm ,my lungs were bleeding. I was a pretty fair sneezer too, even if I do say so myself, • Sit on a hot air vent wrapped in a wool blanket for 10 minutes and you could pro- bably convince Marcus Welby M.D. that you had a fever. Once, when I was 12,'I got three days off school with measles, until someone figured out I had developed acne. Of course, when a school-age -child ac- tually does come down with something, he' is nothing short of elated. Who can forget that joyous feeling of throwing up -into the toilet bowl? "Aha! I. got 'em now. There's no way • they can send me to school after they've seen this! Of course, when faking symptoms,•you always had to be careful to avoid over- acting. Appear too Rick -- and vn","• mother was labie to not only keep you home, but take you to see the doctor, Fooling Mom .. and Dad was one thing, but without a ge- nuine disease, you didn't stand a --snowball's—ehanee-with—the—fa'miiy physician. "There's nothing wrong with him. that a good kick in the seat of the pants wouldn't cure," Kindly Old Doc would exclaim! One thing that finally "cured," this absentee fo skipping school through ,the bogus illness route, was that once I reach- ed high school my mother turned the chore of writing my excuse notes over to my • father. Mother's notes were always short and to , the point, "Pat was sick, please excuse:. him," that type of thing, Father was more apt to use several pieces of foolscap, detailing the nature- of my "alleged," il- lness and his suspicions about the validity . of such. claims. The teachers loved them I was fust mortified. At any rate, all those years of feigning il- lness have finally paid off in something productive. If nothing else, I got a whole column out of it, and I'm feeling much bet- ter•today, thank you. ' Public misses out on 4.H project The Safety seminar offered last week by the 4-H club was an "open to the public" pro- gram that was only two Mats long. Four guest speakers spoke on various aspects, of safety and showed slides. We regret to say no one came except the wife of one of the guest speakers, one Ag office member, five parents and the two leaders. The 4-H group went to a lot of work to put TO THE EDITOR tionwimg on cite prop, ant, wttu a lunch to order te,get their credit. And we are sorry the public missed out on it. Betty GIanville. COMMUNITY CALENDAR 11 you're orga'nizrng a n'on'-proof event of interest to other Seaforth area te'sidentS; phone the recreation office at 527-0882 or the Ezpositot at 527-0240. or mail the inter'malion to Cern-Muni; ty Calendar. The Huron Expositor: Box 89.E Se'aferth. Ontario, NliK two Well in adven'oe of the scheduled date Space for the Cothrnunity Calendar is donated by The Huron Ekposrtor. Wed., Sept. 6 P.. Thurs., Sept. 24 ti30' - 4 p.m. Senior Shuffleboard, Euchre, • arid Table Tennis S Centre and Fair a ounPaiIds it at Community 7:30 p.m. Minor ball meeting at arena Sat. , Sept. 19 Seaforth .Fall Fai'r.Dan6e and Barbecue at Seaforth and District Community Centres Wed.; Sept. 23 1:30 - 4 p.m. Senior Shuffleboard, Euchre 13th Annual Clde"rtest at Van Egm'o'nd House 'and Table Tennis at Arena Fri., Sept, 25 Fall Fair at Community Centre and Fair Grounds Sun, Sept. 27 s IIiNJ AF/?A/D iv6r, ./ %N/5 T/NjE, THERE SA/O ta4V YOUR.5E-ATIAN'/1)V/VE ARE ENctiGHTO GIVE,, 77-ee O6'b'EAVE-/-10/ " Hullett man purchases Tye farm SEPTEMBER 16,1887 Mr. David Furgeson, of the sixth conces- sion of Hullett, has purchased the fifty acre farm of his neighbor, Mr. W. M. Tye, for which he paid $2,300. The buildings on it are not of much value, but the land is of the best; and Mr. Furgeson got a bargain. He now has a fine farm of 150 acres, and has excellent buildings on the home place. We wish him continued prosperity. W. H. Verity and Son of Exeter had their safe blown open on Sunday night last, but the burglars did not obtain any booty. Mr. Michael Murphy has rented his farm on the fifth concession of Hibbert, to Mr. Wm. Hudson for a term of five years at an annual rental of $225. The farm contains 75 acres. Mr, Murphy has secured a good te- nant He intends coming to Seaforth to live and retires from farming on account of poor health. Mr. G. A. Deadman of Brussels has taken a ton of honey to the Toronto Exhibition to let the world see what he can do in his apiary. In Kippen, to keep up their progressive reputation, our villagers have appointedp road eetnmissiener, whose duty it fs�to closely examine every morning, thept�tli highways and clear away any and all obstructions to foot passengers as well as teams, In order to make sure of no interrup- tion to traffic the work has to be done shortly after six o'clock in the morning, and anyone desirous of seeing the official at his duties will have an opportunity every morning at the appointed hour. SEPTEMBER 13, 1912 The contract for the neiv Carnegie library building has been awarded as folloWs: Brick, cement work, plumbing andpainting, Mr. H. Edge; carpenter work, Mr. Jos. Keating; and hot water heating Mr. G. A. Sills. The several contracts amount to about $$,700. The first sod for the new building Was turned on Monday. While•moving his threshing outfit one day last week, Mr. Fred Johnstone of Hullett had the misfortune to break through the culvert,into several feet of water in the shish concessi'on, opposite Mr. George Dale's. 'the misfortune delayed Mr_ Johnstone for several hours, but no serious damage was done to the machinery. ' The fine warm weather of this Week has put the farmers .in good. humour again and allowed them to get their harvest finished, although a good deal of the grain has gone IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives 1 into the barns in anything but good condition, • In Kippen Monday and Tuesday were good harvest days, and the farmers made good use of their time in getting in the grain. Many in this part had grain out in the Wednesday morning storm. It is many years since the harvest was so late. This year Mr. T. Mellis of Kippen had the largest plum crop in years and still failed to supply the demand. It was a.difficult matter owing to so much rain, to keep the large erop from rotting. SEPTEMBER 17, 1937 Seaforth schools were closed on Tuesday afternoon on order of the Board of Health, following reciept of a report by the board that a pupil in the public school was suffer- ing from infantile paralysis. The action was taken following a conference between the board and local physicians and Dr. Hobbs, of the Department of Health. The case was a young kindergarten girl who was diagnosed on Tuesday as having the disease. The board took imrriediate ae- tion to close and fumigate the schools. Seaforth council, holding its regular September meeting on Monday night, learn- ed that its supply of fire hose was not up to standard and on the reeommeridation of the Fire and Water Committee, purohased'300 feet from the Dunlap Rubber Company at $L15 per foot. Representatives from three companies were heard. Mayor Chaff presid- ed and all members were present except for Councillor Sills. Meeting in Dungannon last week, the Huron Presbytery of the United Church 'of Canada took a strong stand on the beverage rooms at present in Huron County, and by resolution urged that they should be closed as soon as possible. Fire believed to have been started by a spark from the chimney, completely demolished the two story frame residence of Mr. Edward Flanagan of Dublin at noon Tuesday, and for a time the roaring flames and flying sparks carried by a strong nor- thwest wind, threatened several other frame buildings built closely together In that neighborhood. Only after nearly two hours fighting by the Dublin Fire Department, a bucket brigade comprised of nearly 200 Dublin and district citizens, and by quick response of the Mitchell Fire Brigade was the con- flagration brought under control. SEPTEMBER 20, 1982 Population of Hensall village has increas- ed by 19, assessment figures presented at the September session of the village council Monday night • revealed. Total population is 946. Total assessment is up considerably from last year to $1,950,045, up from $1,068,945. Winthrop football team won the Leo Stephenson trophy last week for the fourth consecutive year. The squad, playing in the Huron Football Association finals, won over Centralia three games to one, in the best of five series. The final game was played in Winthrop on Tuesday night, with the final score being Winthrop 5, Centralia 1. John Boven led the Winthrop attack with four goals, and the final goal was deflected into the centralia goal With Ken McClure and George love both in on the play. With 116 successful fairs behind them, directors of Seaforth 'Agricultural Society are leaving no stone unturned to make the filth fair, being held here Thursday and Friday,, of this week, the outstanding fair in the district. Prizes totalling almost $8,800 are being offered. An amount higher than otner 'B' fairs in the district. First prize in the essay contest held in con- junction With the Seaforth Fall Fair was won by Sally Mowat, Annotineetnent was made by Mrs. Joseph Grummett, a vice- president of the ladies' section of the On- tario Association of Agriculture Societies. A Tuckersmlth entry, took first place in the husking corn field crop competitions this year, A field en the farm of Robert Broad feet, RR 1, Brucefield, topped the class of 10 with 90 points,, A close second was Robert Fotheringharfi, RR 3 Seaforth, with 89,5 points,