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The Huron Expositor, 1990-08-22, Page 1616 — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 22, 1990 Desire to speak • tram page 2 than quite unknown, and French as spokes) by the fur of French iWans was dismissed as a "deformed and ugly patois` whirl ui us meati pronounced forms is barely understood understood outside Quebec and the react of Canada. I have travelled in Quebec and 1 have lived and worked in Paris, and I 'into assure you that frequently movies and TV programs frau Quebec people can understand what the actors from Canada arc saying in French! I like French very much (and Spanish even more), but 1 haven't tie sibs dein IDMabilingual or trilingual Calladb . In cnna words, J Canada's ora official language were not French but Polish or Swedish yr Dusch or Greek or Romanian or Tumruab or any other of the world's many minoren by relatively �w people, I would sot lean it, nor would 1 feel that I am an un *witoc Canadian for not doing so. If Canada had only one official language, English, I would still be just as interested in being able to speak French and read the novels of Goarges Simenon as he wrote them. Paul Copeland Postmasters speak out on hours Dear Editor Canada Post is about to strike again. Remember all those newspaper ads promising '.better service fro rural Canadians"? Well, 'better service' Canada - Post style, apparently, means something far different than we as postmasters are accustomed to providing. Starting in September, hours at many post offices in small Ontario communities will be cut back fro the sake of 'standarization'. In truth, this means some offices will be ordered to open at 8:00 a.m., and will lock their doors at 5 o'clock. All offices won't be permitted to start business on Saturday until 9 o'clock and close at minutes to a post offices's hours of operation, but for the most part, we're being cut back at crucial times when many customers now do their postal business. As postmasters and assistants, we are strongly opposed to these cutbacks in hours, just as we opposed the noon -hour closures which Canada Post imposed on many mid-sized and smaller rural post offices in Southwestern Ontario the past year, and in Northern and Eastern Ontario now. We have served rural Canada of the best of our ability for the past 90 years as members of the Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association. We certainly don't like being undermined by a postal corporation bent on privatization at any cost, particularly when it inconvenienc:s our customers. We ask readers of this newspaper to consult your postmasters for the reduction in hours planned for your post office. Please clal your Member of Parliament to register your oppostition to this move by Canada Post. Tell your reeve or local town councillor you think 'better service' means longer, not shorter, hours. Abouve all, let Canada Post know how you feel about its 'better service' fro rural Canadians. Write to Mr. Don Lander, President, Canada Post Corporation, Sir Alexander Campbell Building, Ottawa, Ontario. K 1 A 0C1 Yours Sincerely, Mary Anne Doyle, President, CPAA Ontario Branch 613-984-2460 Thanks, Seaforth, for student jobs this summer Open letter to Seaforth itesidents: Seaforth students with whom I On behalf of the Goderich Canada worked for making my job so Employment Centre for Students, I enjoyable. would like to congratulate your Although my visits to the community for responding again Seaforth and District High School this year to provide summer and Seaforth Public School ended employment fro area students. This when school came to a close for the was the sixth year for our office's summer, the Canada Employment Outreach Program to Seaforth. So Centre for Students came to a close far this summer, your community for the summer, the Canada has placed 28 job orders with the Employment Centre for Students at student office for everything from employment for the remainder of hayers to roofers to sales clerks. the summer and part-time in the Our office placed 25 students in fall. Please call us if you have an these jobs. Although this is odd job which needs to be done or comparable to the number to the any other kind of job -- whether it number of orders from last year, we will last an hour, a week, or into feel that there is room for the school year. WE have very improvem ' n and encourage local qualified students on file who are employers to call us. keen to work. The Canada Many of the students who found Employment Centre for Students in jobs through the student office Goderich will remain open until visited me at the Seaforth and August 31 to help with your District High School. Here, I employment needs. counselled students about their Again, thank you for helping us summer job searches and referred to find jobs for area students this them to the job orders with had summer. been placed with our office that Sincerely, week. The students I met with were Dorothy Dyk very receptive to the job search Student Placement Officer techniques I suggested and eager to Canada Employment Centre for find jobs. I would like to thank the Students Hooks • from page 2 Park and Pool this year has now been completed. During recent weeks the river, which runs through the new portion of the park, has been cleaned and widened and two retaining dams built. The flagstone surrounding the diving tower and adjoining the deep pool has been enlarged and a new flagstone walk laid from the highway to the first bridge. During the electrical storm on Sunday the chimney on Mr. T.J. Sherritt's house in Hensall was struck by lightning and knocked off. Much damage was also reported in different sections. AUGUST 26, 1965 Provincial honours were awarded three arca 4-H Homemaking Club members at the Achievement Day held at SDHS this week. These recognized were Mary McKercher of R.R. 1, Dublin; Mrs. Bert Pepper of R.R. 3, Seaforth, and Mary Buchanan of R.R. 1, Londesboro. Each have completed 12 projects. In addition the girls received county honours, having completed six projects. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dale of John St., Scaforth, received word that their grandson, Alfred Dale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dale of Owen Sound, in Toronto General Hospital. The accident in which his neck was broken in two places and his spine injured occurred while he was swimming at Cheslcy i.ake. Mr. Dale was married in July to Lor- raine Graves of Owen Sound. Members of arca councils representing municipalities included in the Seaforth District High School Arca met with members of the board 'nd reviewed the requirements for an extensive building program at the school. Cost of the project has been estimated by ex its of the department at 5600,000. The plight • tress Mgr 2 but crop will dry out more quickly with less damage from the r*unfall. Finally, he has saved the lune and fuel expense of the three trips over with the bean scuffles to control the weeds. Disadvantages of- this method are an increased danger of white mould un the crop because the au can't circulate freely around the closely spaced plants; the cost of wore seed being planted; and that fact that he will almost certainly have to spray the crop with a desiccant to ripen it evenly before he combines. Our beans are planted in straight rows. They've been scuffled three tunes before the plants grew together and filled up the spaces. The milkweed has been wick - weeded and sprayed by hand, giving us one beef week when the rows looked perfect. The idea here is that more air circulation in the rows should dis- courage white mould; weeds can be effectively controlled; and after pulling and windrowing, the crop should ripen evenly in the rows before combining. The disad- 1.1 van vantages are the time and work of the scuffling and fuel costs of the eta trips over the field. Progress an far'? If white mould were ever io strike, this would be the year with all the humidity and rain. Separate rows with au cir- culating are just about a thing of the past because of this year's lush Weed conal? Well, after tfrst perfect week, little thistles ad ragweed, not to mention un- RaRationables such as prose millet, Imbed their heads up. They're pining on us to a most dis- couraging point. With my binoculars, 1 can see something strange and missive growing back by the bush but it's tar too muddy out there to walk back and yank it out. Even if my determinate beans know enough to stop growing and ripen all at once, no such inbred instinct will halt the weeds, and their growth will be green and tough enough to plug the combine. We will almost certainly have to desiccate the crop with Region just to get the combine through it. What's that you say Don't worry, yoll'vsof crop utsuranucl It's a Caltib-22 xtwatioa. On that wet amain dor when you walk through tierows hi -lighted with new greet laves of second growth, you and your uiwranc:e adjusux have w a judgement call. You can't have u both ways - if you go into a lousy -looking crop with the cutting head of the com- bine, you have to deduct whatever you can combine from the in- surance total, and swallow the costs of the operation. You'll never make a profs from ploughing up the mesa and taking the insurance, but you can break even. The uninsured don't have to make this decision. if these are any beans there at all, they wheel into the field and tut the driest spots first to get any amount of discoloured, damaged beans. They gamble the costs of this salvage operation against the fact that if everyone's crops are poor, the price will soar and they'll still break even. To be a bean farmer is to be an eternal optimist. You must always believe that this is the perfect crop and the weather will hold until you get it to the mill. And if that fails, there's always next year... Call Paula or Susan with your News Tips 527-0240 1 BRAT also BULLET Hi Cut Leather -Low cut not shown - sizes 12 1/2 - 6 adidas Ilk ALI .11 THUNDER SIZES 12 1/2 - 3 t p►3 ' : BAILEY' S of Hensall Ltd. Highway 14 262-2020 home comfort people • Furnaces Air conditioning ' Heat pumps • 'We aren't comfortable- ---- until you are! 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