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A little fairness
Election fever is coursing through everyone's veins lately, and
we in the media have the unenviable task of sifting through the
hoopla and presenting our readers with the basic facts. Expect the
newspapers to be crammed full of campaign trail tidbits, all -
candidates meetings highlights, and plenty of updates.
Another thing that you will notice is equal coverage for all
candidates in Huron County. Campaign news and highlights for all
parties will be given fair billing over the course of the next two
weeks.
Our policy for the duration of the campaign is to remain non-
partisan. Mention has been made of the fact that the story about
candidate `X' was found to be a certain length longer than the
write-up on candidate `Y', and that candidate 'A"s photo was
thought to be printed slightly darker than the one of candidate 'B'.
This is not intentional.
With the Huron County election race being covered by a number
of newspapers in this group, the election trail is being followed by
a number of different reporters. In the interest of equal billing and
fairness, articles are being shared among these Signal -Star group
newspapers. If one story is found to be slightly longer than
another, this is coincidence. If one photograph is found to be
slightly darker than the next one, this, too, is coincidence or a
matter of better lighting at a certain location.
Equal billing for all parties, to the best of our ability. This is only
fair. And in the midst of an election, we all need all the fairness
that we can get. P.E.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Desire to speak French is
long standing
Dear Editor:
The article "Desire to become
bilingual attracts students to Laval"
(London Free Press, August 7,
1990) reveals how attitudes to the
French language have changed in
Canada since I began studying
French in Toronto when I entered
grade eight in September 1940.
At that time French was tought to
English speaking Canadians fro the
same reason that people all over the
world for several hundred years
have been learning French; because
it is a great world language. From
the 17th century until World War
Two, French, not English, was the
premier international language of
the world. In those days people
were not considered to be truly
educated, no matter how much else
they knew, unless they were alos
able to speak French. Knowing how
to speak French enabled people
who did not know each other's
languages to converse. In the speing
of 1962 Jacqueline Kennedy was in
Rome where she had an audience
with Pope John XXIII. The
president's wife spoke excellent
French and Spanish but very little
Italian, and the pope did not speak
English. No problem. They both
spoke French.
Until fairly recently French was
tought in shcools in Canada so that
students could become acquainted
with, if not proficient in, a great
language and culture. The teaching
of French was not a political act, as
it has become during the past
twenty years, designed to produce
belingual Canadians and political
stability. Becoming a bilingual
Canadian as a patriotic duty was
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RURAL ROOTS
by Jeanne Kirkby
The plight of the bean farmer
The fact is, we're up to our knees in rainfall this year. Surrounded by
jungle growth on all sides, I sit here while the outside air is hot and
steamy and covers everything with a fine mist. Have I ever complained
about drought? I should bite my tongue.
Behind our house is a huge bean field. For those in town, these are
white beans; the kind that you get in a pork'n bean can. People who
grow white beans are into suspense and pain. From the time of planting
until they're in the wagon, you never know if you've got a winner or
a disaster. One never forgets the smell of rotting beans in the field.
And finally, if all the crops are good, the price drops. Pray for bad
weather in Michigan during the harvestl
This week, 1 learned the difference between a determinate and an
indeterminate bean and I've just about decided that a determinate bean
would have the best odds on ripening in this weather. A determinate
bean such as the OAC Seaforth seed, produces a plant that grows in
limited stages. First leaves and stem and then the flower develop, with
each stage stopping before the next begins. Finally the plant con-
centrates only on developing the seed. Indeterminate varieties such as
Stinger or Ex Rico have overlapping stages of growth and may produce
new leaves and flowers while the seed is developing. If you knew what
the weather was going to do in September you'd have no problem
choosing the nght variety for spring planting.
With the warm weather and this rain, it would seem that only a
determinate bean with definite inbred limits of growth would know
when to stop developing and start ripening this year. But again, "the
game isn't over until the fat lady sings", and one can't be certain how
the harvest will turn out until the harvest is over.
My hmther's crop is "solid seeded" this year, which means that the
seed is broadcast evenly over the whole field. The advantages of this
method are that the beans can be combined standing, thus eliminating
the step of pulling and windrowing. If it rains during harvest, his crop
Tura to pap INA -
Boats are fun, but are awfully messy, t
1 did aomahuig ! wanted to do
tug yean this weekend and weal
boating with some friends. We
drove to the Minden arca and spent
two days on a Liu lake in the
Kawarthas. The boat we used was
snail, maybe 12 feet king. with an
old mutcx that burned oil.
It was uaavo nag to watch boat
etiquette. By no means is my
friend's boat great but he had no
cbplama with it and if something
he took u in stride. We
meta friend of his up the a who
had a brand new fancy bort with an
engin so new 1 didn't sec any dust
or carbon on it Yet he had
problems with the boat.
This fellow needed a boost. He
needed a fancy particular type of
wrench. He needed & pair of nylons
to act u a fanbelt. Of course, being
on the lake and ui swimming suits,
nobody had any nylons to help him
out with. What he ..aur needed
""° besodumpodiceve
'"'°°"the° "'` JUSTTHINKING
of sane .,any fraud sad there tic
his friend Mei commarads
rceosicispeti3a1 took'.
Minden is a fumy luck awn with
entrance signs dirt loot something
like km• poks with Maiden
carrot ialo them. Dnvulg sow
Modes is like driving through the
front gates of camp. The local
newspaper was two sections with
lots of feature articles but ab-
solutely no news. Obviously if you
want to know what is going on In
that town you'd have to read papas
from other towns close by or find
someone in the know. Everything
looked peachy and squeaky clean.
Boating is actually a strange clung
to do. You zip by other people in
boats and wave at than. Being sin
many boats up there your arm gets
by Susan Oxford
really urad of wavulg. Boris art as
t ndividual as cars. Older people
dove great big boats that can hold
a party of 20 people, all sitting on
dock chairs. Couples with lids have
boats that can sheat a family and no
more and the boat has extra nooks
and astasias for the parents to hide
in. Women didn't scan to have
bolus. The women 1 met in boats
were using someguy's boat. Guys
have boats with funny names like
Brat and they spend lots of money
on designer engines with bnght
colours. Some guys have cheap old
boats they put no money into and
seers to get a lot of mileage from.
Water that boats have been in is
darker than usual and is coated with
a then layer of oil that shines in the
inn. Satin` an any boat you can
smell exhaust fumes no mattes what
direction you are facing. It's
amazing to see the trail of oil,
gasoline and rainbows loft by a boat
as it speeds along from lake to lake
through inlets, bays and rivers.
1 hope that I didn't do too much
harts w the lakes this past
weekend. 1 hope that from my
walks along Lake Huron 1 didn't
have a zebra mussel clinging to my
shoe and inadvertently let it free in
the Kawi'rtha lakes.
Someone help me out here. I've
been trying to get around in
Seaforth, and I can't figure out how
to do it without fearing for my life.
Lately, it seems, walking is out of
the question. We bipeds are having
a tough time dealing with rug rats
of all shapes and sizes on bicycles,
and you can't even elevate yourself
20 feet off of the sidewalk without
getting hit by a bike.
Last week, a worker on the Main
St. sidewalk was just about
catapulted off of his ladder by a
pinhead on a bike who didn't heed
the worker's shouts and barrelled
straight into the bottom of the lad-
der, skidding it three feet along the
cement.
Another Seaforth resident reported
that her husband came close to
having his pins knocked out from
underneath him by some wheeling
demon.
And about a month ago, I in-
nocently rounded the comer by the
Triangle Discount and had a bike
whiz past at me out of the blue so
close and so fast that I could feel
the hot "whoosh" of burning rubber
on my legs.
And things can only get worse.
Bipeds beware
With school starting again in two
weeks, and a good two months of
good biking weather left, there's
going to be a rush on crash helmets
and elbow pads at local sports
stores. With the wrong people
buying them out. The walkers.
School lets out at about 3:30, so
plan to stay off of the Main St.
until 4:30 or so on a given week-
day.
This is option number 1, Seaforth.
Option number 2 is a serious crack-
down on these yahoos.
At the beginning of the summer,
this paper ran an editorial and an
article on bike safety and tougher
bike laws being imposed in town. I
see no evidence of either being
practised.
I can hear a chorus of parents
already: what are our kids going to
do? They can't ride their bikes on
the Main Street.
I have to agree with them on that
point. I'd pit the Autobahn against
Seaforth's Main St. any day. At
least on the Autobahn, the drivers
have to know what they're doing.
Funny, my driving instructor never
mentioned anything about the
safety, much less legality, of
ROUGH NOTES
by Paula Elliott
driving 5 kilometres an hour, tur-
ning without signalling, stopping in
the middle of the street to chew the
fat with your neighbour and pulling
out four feet in front of oncoming
traffic. But that's another kettle of
fish altogether...
No, maybe the younger kids can't
ride their bicycles on the Main St.
And by younger I'm talking about
kids 10 years old or less. But is it
going to break their little legs to get
off of their bikes on Main St. and
walk the whopping four or five
blocks? Let's talk semantics for a
second. SIDE WALK. It's called a
side WALK. Not a sideride, or a
sidepedal or sidewheel. There's
nothing wrong with riding the back
streets, but hogging the Main St.
sidewalk is another story. It's rude,
not to mention just plain stunned.
Face it. In a larger town or city,
these kids would be slapped with a
bicycle infraction so fast that it
would make their heads swim.
Again, the chorus breaks into
song: But this isn't a city, it's a
small town. O.K., but don't
sidewalks serve the same purpose
no matter what size the town is?
And Seaforth is also a town full of
older citizens, mind you. An 85 -
year -old lady will not win an ar-
gument with a mountain bike going
30 mph, I guarantee you. And
senior bones take a long time to
heal.
If Seaforth bikers can't use com-
mon sense and consideration, then
they shouldn't be using their
vehicles at all. People will remem-
ber the face that ploughs them over
with a bicycle and then pedals off,
no mauer how cute it is.
Hooks meet Hose in 1890 baseball action
AUGUST 22, 1890
At the Firemen's baseball match
in Bayfield, on the Civic Holiday,
between the Hooks and the Hose,
the former won easily by a score of
19 to 10 with one inning to spare.
The Hooks had the best of the
game throughout, but at times the
Captain of the Hose tried to rally
his men on to victory, but when he
saw the Chief caught napping on
second he lost heart, and threw up
the sponge in dire disgust.
The Seaforth Flax Mill has now
started operations. It is one of the
best and most complete establish-
ments of the kind in the country, is
a credit to the enterprising
proprietors, and will be a boon to
the town.
Mrs. and Miss Sage of Walton,
the far-famed musical glass players,
are booked to play at Boston, Mas-
sachussets from the 1 Sth to the
22nd of September.
A 12 -year-old daughter of Fran-
cois Carricre fell over a cliff at
Labadis Hill, Levis, Quebec last
week, a distance of some 200 feet.
She escaped with some bruises.
Messy. W iddcr and Bengough, the
well-known threshers, with their
new Peerless Threshing Machine,
recently threshed in one day nearly
900 bushels of good, heavy wheat
on the farm of W.A. Dougall of
Hay, Messrs. Wilson S wenerinn and
Peter Munn doing the feeding. This
is what might be well termed
rushing things.
Mr. George Whitely has sold his
celebrated trotting mare, Florence
G., to Mr. E.C. Coleman of
Seaforth for $2,400. She is one of
the very best horses on the
Canadian turf, and we believe Mr.
Coleman intends her for breeding
purposes.
AUGUST 20, 1915
Mr. Joshua Pollard of McKillop
has sent us a few heads of Barley
taken from a field on his farm, as a
sample of his crop this year. The
heads are of great length, and filled
with plump grains, and if Mr. Pol-
lard has got his crop safely housed
he will have a big yield of grain
that will be very hard to beat.
Mr. John Laing of has disposed of
his fine 100 -acre farm a mile east
of Cromarty to Messrs. James and
Russel Scott for the handsome
figure of S9,000. We understand
Mr. Laing has purchased a
residence in Seaforth, and intends
moving there this fall.
'There are persistent rumours of
peace -proposals emanating prin-
cipally from the German sources
but as yet nothin definite or of-
ficial has appeared in this direction
and present appearances seem to
indicate another winter campaign.
IN THE YEARS ALONE
from the Expositor Archives
64.
Germany would, no doubt, welcome
peace if she could obtain a peace
that would satisfy her Prussian
Lords, but the Allies are not just
yet prepared to listen to any
proposals of this nature.
An exchange remarks: A single
gallon of gasoline will do wonders
most anywhere but nowhere has it
been applied to better purposed that
on the farm. Here are some of its
stunts: 1t will milk 300 cows, bale
four tons of hay, mix 35 yards of
cement, move a ton truck 14 miles,
plough three-fifths of an acre of
land and make enough electricity to
keep eight lights going in the
farmhouse for thirty days.
AUGUST 23, 1940
Chief Constable Helmar Snell of
Seaforth testified in police court,
Goderich, that he had found Bert
Gummerson of Atwood sleeping in
the cab of a truck parked for the
night on Seaforth's Main Street.
Gummerson, he said, could not give
a satisfactory account of himself
and so he was arrested on a charge
of vagrancy. Accused had been
drinking. Gummcrson pleaded that
he had been on his way to Port
Albert to get a job, but the
magistrate observed Seaforth was
not in a direct line between Atwood
and Port Albert.
Cardno's clock, which for nearly
70 years has kept time for the
people of Seaforth, last week under-
went a face lifting operation which
leaves it looking like new. The four
faces, hands and numbers have all
been repainted and a number of
necessary repairs were done by
Harold O'Dell.
In all, 1,148 people from 16 years
of age registered in Scaforth to
vote. While there arc but 1,309
persons eligible to vote in the town,
the increase is explained in the
addition of those in the 16-21 age
group and by the fact that many
visitors registered here.
Mrs. Harold O'Dell was the hos-
tess at a kitchen shower in honour
of the bride -elect, Miss Leona Box,
at her home on Jarvis Street Wed-
nesday evening.
New work planned for the Lions
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