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The Huron Expositor, 1989-07-05, Page 2Huron positor kip SWEATSOCKS by Heather Rebinet Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Neil Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMillan. ED BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER ROBINET, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Community Newspaper Associntion Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription Rates: Canada '20.00 a year, in advance Senior Citizens - '17.00 a year In advance Outside Canada '60.00 a year, in advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0696 ilnesdRiyr July . ., 1989 Editorial and Business Offices - W Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0140 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Who is profitting ? It's difficult to feel good about Canada Post showing a profit when you're watching the corporation's quality of service quickly deteriorating. Canada Post has been in the news a lot in recent weeks following the an- nouncement of its 1988 profit of $96 million,. and the prediction of $800 million over the next five years. And judging from reaction to the announcements, there remains a great deal of distrust of the crown corporation. Particularly in rural Ontario. It wasn't long ago that the people of Brucefield attended public meetings to fight to preserve their postal service, and while Canada Post officials claimed they planned no franchising of rural post offices such as Brucefield, they set about privatizing over 5,000. It wasn't long ago that groups Like Rural Dignity began to protest Canada Posts deteriorating rural service. We can't yet condemn Canada Post for closing down the Seaforth Post Of- fice building, but there is a study in the works to see if it is feasible for the reformed post office to retain the Seaforth building. To most this is unbelieveable, but this is what Seaforth may face. And it is hard to believe that Seaforth customers wit benefit from the same quality of service they have to- day without a staffed post office building. Most companies and corporations try to grow and expand with the future, to use their profits to provide better service. But Canada Post is more concerned with cutting back, even cutting back the very institutions which provide ade- quate service now. So where is Canada Post funnelling its profits. A recent announcement says -the corporation will be paying the federal government a dividend of $300 million. So much for profits. If Canada Post has been mandated to operate on a break-even basis it should not have to channel its resources to some other segment of the government. Canada Post has spent millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to crow about what a good job it can do. Why doesn't the corporation put this money into the system, into maintaining and building on what it has, and give us some real reason to -feel satisfied with Canada 'Post. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Heather ties the knot MCIILWRAITH - ROB1NET Heather Ruth Mcllwraith and Marc Achille Robinet of Seaforth were united in marriage on Saturday, July 1, 1989 at Stanley Park Baptist Church in Kitchener, by Reverend Bill Lewis, The bride is the daughter of Don and Jean Mellwraith of Kit- chener, and the groom is the son of Archie and Mona Robinet of Stratford. Maid of honor was Allison Mcllwralth, sister of the bride, and bridesmaids were Carol Lyn Mcllwraith, sister-in-law of the bride, Kim Languer, friend of the bride, Stephanie Robinet, sister of the groom and Janet Mac- Donald, friend of the bride. Best man was Kevin Bennett, friend of the groom and ushers were Larry Dolmage, friend of the groom, Paul McIlwraith, brother of the bride, Jason Robinet, brother of the groom, and Gary Nash, friend of the groom. The reception was held at the Chicopee Ski Lodge in Kitchener, following which the Robinets spent their honeymoon in Cape Cod, The couple will reside on John Street in Seaforth. r \ KNOW FU/L. WELL- HOV✓ you FEEL ,YOUNG. f N , ^-- B CONTAA1TL( GE-' 7'1E EEELNG. OF EtviPl'INIE: 'c00 Reply to '°frenchification1f letter To the editor: Replying to Paul Copeland in Expositor of May 31st, 1989 and to Elizabeth Fingland in Focus of June 13th, 1989, Ruth Workman is a Canadian Citizen, proud to be a unilingual English speaking Canadian citizen, with credits in French, Latin and German taken as a challenge. I believe in democracy and fair play. I believe that we should have one unifying language and that it should be the English language, recognized as the language of trade and commerce worldwide. Whatever other languages one wishes should be left to his or her choice and not legislated by any government. French has been available in Canada for many years, and I have read that it was a Scotsman in Wolfe's army speaking French to one of Montcalm's guards who made it possible for Wolfe to reach the Plains of Abraham. Several articles appearing in the Lon - Wrong attitude At Council Meeting of June 13/89 I was a part of a delegation to council concern- ing purchase of a tractor and backhoe for the township. I was very disappointed about the at- titude of some members of council in regard to the way tax money is used. When I am told that piece of equipment did not cost much because it was 60 per cent funded by government grant does the council believe that 1 do not know where the money came from to give us this grant? In the last three years- we have had a new township garage and work shop, which I agree was badly needed, and has been in the mill for several years. We have bought a new Mack truck for something over $100,000 which we definitely do not need unless it can be us- ed to better advantage than picking bran- ches on the side of the road in the spring or plowing roads with an angle blade at high speed and putting more gravel in the fields than on the road. Last year we purchased anew grader and when I ask- ed what the grader cost I was told that it did not cost much, that government grant paid most of it. I had to ask three times before I was told that it cost 149 thousand dollars, to which I replied where do you think the grant came from in the first place - from little ,people who have to work their asses off to make ends meet. -In regards to the purchase of .a backhoe, I firmly beieve that :this was a cut and dried decision made by three members of council at the whim of a road superintendent who ,1s ,trying to make a name fbr himself ,through ,a coun- cil that goes .along with whatever he asks for. We are apparently going to have a don Free Press of February 8, 1969 entitl- ed "Crisis in Conferation" — the first by Anthony Westell (Toronto Star Syndicate) and the second by John K. Elliott, Free Press Associate Editor, should, have alerted all Canadians to changes which Trudeau was proposing. With those ar- ticles was a cartoon by Ting depicting Trudeau at the microphone during a Federal Provincial Conference on Office] Languages Act and words "testing..." The Federal Government under Trudeau and Muh-oney have been testing the English speaking people of Canada ever since. France's High Committee for the Ex- pansion of the French Language has been aggressively promoting the use of French in Canada since 1958, but not one leader of our political parties has been honest enough to tell Canadians. Trudeau, as an accomplice, has worked steadily to effect Turn to page 14 about spending backhoe but we will pay for it in the end. Now 1 was always of the belief that the reeve of a municipality was delegated to lead the council in management of township business. At this particular meeting the deputy reeve was apparently running the show while the reeve did not have the courtesy to sit and face the delegation. The only comment which I heard from the reeve was to the extent that our road superintendent was the best grader operator that this township has ever had. I will personally go on record as saying that in the 25 years that I have paid taxes in the township I have not seen the roads so poorly maintained as they have been in the last three years. I might also point out that previously our employees cut the grass on the roads which was let out on contract to a person whose family was involved in council previously. Does this tell you anything? I might also point out that our deputy reeve was so -positive about what he was saying that there was no he was go- ing to discuss the issue, and as far as the tractor being traded in, Mr. Dejong said since he was a mechanic for 18 years he knew it was uneconomical to repair. Now not taking away from .his mechanical qualifications, I might point out that I.have been in the trade for 38 years and have held a Class A Licence since May of 1956, so do you think I do ;not -know what things cost? PS. -From the :statement Mr. Cantelon ,made re: Grader Operator 1 ,believe he awes a public apology to Mrs. Ina McGrath and other ,former township employees who are no longer here to ;de- fend themselves. Wiltnerdcelly ti Kin This week in the editorial department at the Huron Expositor I'm number one, the head honcho, the big cheese - the editor. But I will admit the fact that I'm the only person left in the department to take on this status does diminish the glory somewhat. Heather is off work for two issues. Something about tying a knot. Sounds like a pretty thin excuse for a vacation to me. But while she's on vacation the duty of fill- ing these pages with editorial material falls on me. Now you've probably got a picture of me sitting in my boss' desk with my feet pro- pped on her computer keyboard sipping coffee from a mug marked "Editor" and yelling into an imaginery intercom: "Fast breaking news, stop the presses, stop the presses!!" Well it hasn't quite been like that. When Heather is here my only real worry is getting my stories and pictures done to deadline, and handing them over to the editor. When the editor is away I still have these worries, compounded by wor- ries like "it's Monday afternoon and I still don't have a decent picture for the front page," or "the ad department is calling for a 20 page paper and I haven't seen enough news to fill the first two pages." It's at times like these when I really g for a day MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett begin to long for something to happen: a 98 -year-old local man wins 649, a semi hauling hogs loses its load on Main Street, that sort of thing. One -of the reasons I got into newspaper reporting is because you're generally do- ing something • different everyday. One day you might be standing ankle deep in a barn interviewing a farmer about the condition of this year's crop, the next you could be up at the crack of dawn shivering with a band of local deer hunters, and the next you might spend in the office printing pictures and writing stories. But the editor's job clips your wings somewhat. You wouldn't believe the pile of stuff -press releases, recipes, television listings,- that comes across an editor's desk. And I'm not yet that astute at spot- ting which material should be printed as it comes, which should be expanded upon or turned into a local feature, and which should come to rest in file 13. For example, today I received a delicious looking picture and recipe for Country Barbecued pork fibs and another on pasta salads, a release entitled "To Lower Your Weight Raise Your Metabolism," a travel feature on Prince Edward Island, and something in French. (To name a small portion). All would be of interest to someone, but which to run? Another link less in the chain that binds the editor is all the actual editing of cor- respondence and reports that also come across the desk. It takes time to read through things, checking for slander and grammar and spelling and just lousy writing. So when people on 'the street kid me about how slack I've got it right now, forgive me if I look like I'm about to spring. &&& To Jonathon Wheatley I'd like to say -thanks for filling in for me on Saturday. Jonathon took pictures of the Canada Day festivities in' Seaford] which can be found in this week's issue of The Ex- positor, so I could be present at Heather and Marc's wedding in Kitchener. Seaforth firemen champion hose reelers JULY 5,1889 ANOTHER PIONEER GONE - Mr. Samuel Crich died at his residence in Clin- ton on Saturday Iast after.a long and painful illness, having reached the age of 65 years. Mr. Crich had been a resident of Tupkersmith Township for over ,90 years. With his father and brothers be.settled in the west end, in what is now known .as the British settlement. He was then ,quite a young man and the district ;in 'hieh he located was a wilderness. By the Practice of the most persevering industry he not only succeeded in making a comfortable home but laid up a share of this worid's,goods. lie was an honorable, good living roan arid was held in the highest esteem by all ,w,ho;knew him. Mr. James Wilson, of Brussels, cut three acres of hay last •week. This ls,the,earliest haying of the season. DOMINION DAY - As is •uattalp hall true Canadians, the people of orae, IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Expositor Archives although they had no public demonstration on Dominion Day, observed the occasion as a general holiday. The Stratford Herald says that Seafor- thites dropped over $250 in betting at the lacrosse match in that city on Dominion Day. Those who are foplish enough to bet their, money, deserve to lose it. The members of tlie,Seaforth •fire brigade left romp W.ed esday for Mount CIen]ens, tMictl gala, ere they were to,conI �e eti #,behedthere yesterflay. in a s D. l a,W an siiilhas grepes.in.a:good tete, .. f ,p a ,,ation which haveybeeni kept over,fro ii, ast year. The,Jieavy•arair4sto}7 •,of,t,l'lis;w,eb lodged the grain crops considerably. T>e crops of all kinds are looking remarka bl' well and if they ripen properly there will lx an abundant harvest. The present weather however, is not favourable. J11LYf 10, 1914 Councillor Con Eckert of McKillop met with a very serious and painful accident on Wednesday of last week. Mr. Eckert, who ownsand resides on the Cowan farm adjoin- ing *Alford', was engaged with his son in plaein tiles ' pin. We stooping don ralti on a 4old , i ; ,he tiles, a large stone lyilii on, , e' ;. a ell in on hum, sever rua ebi►1;g r and injuring him internally, Turn to page 1% t