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The Huron Expositor, 1989-10-04, Page 2SH C. it AU, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every -Wednesday'Morning rP The Expositor Is brought to you each weak by the efforts of; Pot Armes, Nell Corbett, Terrl-Lynn Dale, Dianne McOrath and Bob MCMIhb . ED BYRSKI, General'Manager HEATHER'ROBINET. Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc Ontario Community Newspaper Association 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 We nesec 'v DrisCelse 4 '99 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 527.0240 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NWT TWO ver growing problem rter leaving The Expost This is the last time I'll give my two bits in this paper. By the •time this appears in this week's paper I'll have started a new job at The Goderich Signal Star. Same company, same position, just a different paper in a .different town. I came to Seaforth fresh out of college with a bit of advice my newspaper jour- nalism instructor had given me. He said to get a job at a community newspaper, and hang onto it for at least a year or two to get established and get experience. I've had some experiences all right. The first month 1 worked at the paper I took a picture of some business men in a flashy limousine who were looking at the Genesco plant, and who later extorted that film from me to ensure their picture didn't appear in any papers. I've trudged through hip deep swamp water to get pictures of duck hunting season, nearly caught hypothermia getting pictures of the Huron County Deer Hunt, come back to the office reeking of cowbarn after covering agricultural stories much to the agitation of co-workers, and chased firetrucks at all hours of the morning and night. Of course I also got all my real training here in Seaforth. In college they teach you all the basics, but not enough that the first three months of my employment was not a frustrating time for Heather. I asked her TW � { S by Neil Corbett or about this not too long ago. "I asked you a lot of questions at first didn't I?" "You drove me nuts," she confirmed. Pm thankful for the chance and the start she gave me. My co-workers here at the Expositor have made the past two years go quickly. They're a good bunch of mostly gals (ex- cepting Ed and Bob), "old dolls" as I sometimes refer to them, who laugh at most jokes, no matter how off-color, and are themselves pretty quick with the one- liners. Sometimes a little too quick. I look at the move to Goderich as a chance to 'find some new opportunities and challenges, and it's also a chance to get someone with some new ideas into Seaforth. I'm coming around to covering the same events - back to school, fairs, commencement ceremonies, hockey season.. for the third time. There are a lot of ap- proaches to taking pictures and writing stories, but it's sometimes tough for one person to think of a lot of original ldeas. So it'll be refreshing for readers to see new perspectives from a new reporter. My two years In Seaforth have been rewarding. Aside from newspaper training, I've also learned a thimbleful of knowledge about a lot of topics from municipal politics to the effects of groundhogs on bean crops. I've also met a lot of people and made a lot of acquaintances through the course of work, sports and social pur- suits, or any combination of the above. To the -people of Seaforth, many of whom made my job easier in covering variow, councils, commissions, boards and other stories, I'd like to offer my thanks. I'm going to be living in town up until the end of the October, so I should get a chance to say some good bye's in person. Living in Goderich I'm sure I'll get back to Seaforth on occasion, and Seaforth parents will likely see me at ball games or hockey games on weekends when they travel to Goderich. I'll be taking pictures of the other parents' kids. But, for the most part, this is good-bye to Seaforth. Two constants in life are death and taxes. But there Is a third one too - garbage. The problems associated with the disposal of trash have in- creased significantly as public awareness during the past few years has also grown Where to put garbage and what the effects will be of buried refuge are challenging and expensive dilemnas. • Whenever a municipality is searching for a landfill site the most corn- , mon response from the public is, "not in my backyard", Then whose? The dumps surrounding the greater Toronto area are expected to be full by 1992 and In is search for a new locations, Metro Toronto has asked municipalities: throughout Ontario for a new site. Recently Piympton ownship passed a motion preventing any municipality from dumping gar- bage In their township. A developer there wanted to use his empty gravel pits tor Metros garbage it a municipality hasa filled landfill site, and it has room for a new loca- tion, you can bet the dump will stay in its backyard. Such is the case at Me Mid -Huron Landfill Site in Hoimseviile. Once the present site is filled, a new dump will be.put in place adjacent to the old site. Eventually the new landfill site will be filled, and another location will probably be sought n Godench Township. To prepare the new site in Hoimesville will be costly to the taxpayers, but it would cost even more to dump in another county. The developer in Plympton estimated he would receive about $1 million a year from Metro. It is obvious that operating landfill sites will become a lucrative. business in the 1990s and beyond. With development boom- ing. in the Toronto area, the' probable locations for its landfill sites will be farm regions or northern Ontario forests. The day may come when local councils turn areas of their municipality into vast landfill sites as a profti making• venture. Or, they could build recycling plants. In order to reduce the amount of garbage we must recycle and use biodegradable products. Councils. and committees in Huron have been en- ' thusiastic over recycling projects, however, .most residents do not partic- pate To participate in recylcing is as easy as putting out your garbage, and you don't need a blue box to do it. Usomg biodegradable products will help reduce landfill, and it is likely the variety of these products wit steadily increase and become more available to consumers. In the Toronto area now, cities are providing plastic containers for com- posts This would also reduce the amount of curbside garbage and the result would be a natural fertilizer for a backyard garden. The bottom line is to reduce the amount of landfill and to keep dumps environmentally safe. The means are available, they just have to be utiliz- ed This generation must set the standards for garbage control and a cleaner environment which, future generations will live by. CNR. LETTERS Ti3 THE. :EDITOR N, Seafort l 'Coordir, 1`o the Editor: I would like to voice my opinion of, the town. I moved to Seaforth 40 years ago and I found the people very friendly and I wade many friends both young and old. It is a friendly town and a good place to live, so let us keep it that way. Many businesses are still on Main Street. Sills, Stewart Brothers and Klings and Shinens - always nice and clean. We don't need a coordinator at $30,000 a year to tell us what we need for Seaforth. It cost the • Itzt \ • IT WOULD 4EE9d1 TNIg RECYCLING HINGE l5 Noui INTO FERTiLlzER „ r not 'needled taxpa ';• 5 to .1 for thin gs\ at go into this town. P all this money t ether and get new side ks on the stre s. This is a r ement to about 60 per- cent seniors. A r Ind ry coming to town it is too late, let it slip by. So we need good sidewalks and good streets. Too many trees in front of town hall. Boxes and trees are too .tall and we don't need a bronze monument either - $20,000. Spend your money where it should be spent. J.K. Town projects need supioort To the editor: Hurray!! Illiteracy is being defeated in Seaforth. Happy days! The people who wrote the letters to you the last two weeks know how to read and write now. Obviously months ago they. didn't. If they could have, they would have replied to the questionnaire•that was put in the paper ASKING FOR PUBLIC INPUT to help plan the streetscape plan. If they could have read a few months ago they would have attended the well advertised public meetings. Yes - public meetings, two of them that many of your friends and neighbours attended and presented their ideas at. That's how the plan was devised - from PUBLIC input before it was -planned and changed and then accepted. Voicing your opinion is great. I just wish more people would read before they write. Enough sarcasm! The people who gave, and are continuing to give of their time to help plan and im- plement the streetscape plan deserve your thanks not your criticism. Frank, the Seaforth book cost the town nothing. It has and will help promote Seaforth for a long time. Don't blame your municipal council and OCTOBER 4, 1889 On Monday of last week Mr. Wm. Clark of Hullett, near Kinburn, drove his team of rather fractious horses attached to a stone boat to a neighbor's and was in the act of tying them when they suddenly became frightened and dashed off, dragging Mr. Clark with them. When assistance reached him he was lying unconscious, having received a severe fracture of the skull. The total convictions by the magistrates of the county for the quarter ending the 10th inst., are 59, of which 11 were by Goderich Justices of the Peace, 21 by Clin- ton, 10 by Seaforth, two by Wingham, seven by Brussels, five by Exeter, -one by Blyth and two by Hensell. Of the offences 18 were drunks, seven were illegal sales of liquor. The total fines levied amounted to $285, and $200 of this was for violation of the Crooks Act. Messrs. McMann and Dickson shipped a carload of heavy horses to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Mr, Dickson ac- companied them. There is lots of moisture these times, and those who attend shows think a ;little ,too much, but it will make the turnips .grow. On Saturday October 12th, the foot ball season in Seaforth .will be qpened by a match for the Championship of Western Ontario between tithe 4ifriieus Berlin Rangers ;,andtithe',r$leafor h4am- ,OCTt11$ER, 9, t1914 WITH THE CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS IN BERMUDA u The following=letter writ- Jnk w rites R 1 =? e ten by Mr. John VanEgmond to his mother, Mrs. C.R. VanEgmond of Egmondvi le, has .been kindly handed to us for publication. Mr. VanEgmond is a member of the Canadian Volunteer force stationed at Bermuda. Well mother dear I am having all the excitement and experience one could wish and I certainly am enjoying it, something new to see and do every minute. After nine days on the Atlantic Ocean, I have at last arrived here on the hot, sunny island of Bermuda. Me were accompanied all the way by the, warship Niobe, and she,is real- ly some cruiser, and no one ,aboard was afraid of Germans aslong as Abe ,old Niobe was near. .We landed in Bermuda on September 15 and coming :near the -islands was a great sight with all the greenest -of green foliage in all kinds of shapes. We have lovely large rooms to sleep -in And good ,beds and .fairly good meals, at -,least for a soldier, so ..we have ,no ;kick coming on that. Every morning -we have to .get up at 5:30 for exercises for half an hour then in for :breakfast. •We,go,out,agairi at 8 AM end •drill : for ,two ,hours. .and, then,, we ,;are free -.until 5:30.4" . when,again:wetdrjll-for •three-quarters of ;an,;hour.'The sun is so hot it is all .,we 'Northerners ;can ',stand. Fever tis prevalent ,hire .;but if Ave ,only ,keep clean,therejSewerianger. Every<after- ,noonn,weklave:.a bath in;.tbe.ocean•,,and.it is..grand' ,.Some o£ ythe tn,en ,g ht ra ,sea +loiaterthe.othert ayraant[tit'was About 110 feet square with .legseight And,nine .feet ,long, and ;Abe ¢laws„whe',they-41(00d . close employees for going after grant money, It's our provincial taxes coming back to us. Do you want it spent in Seaforth, or down the road? Queens Park and Parlia- ment Hill are the ones to complain to, The coordinator has been paid in large part by the •Seaforth Business Improve- ment Association with a tax we put on ourselves, over and above the property tax and business tax we all pay already. Malls have full time managers, Chambers of Commerce have full time managers, Business Associations have full time • managers. In order for our business area to compete and survive we need 'the help of a full time person. Seaforth's business area provides a significant percentage of the jobs in town and pays a large tax dollar as well. Streetscape Plans, Heritage District Plans Coordinator, parades and promotions are all important parts of the picture. As im- portant, is our active hospital, rest homes, industries and you, the public, giving your elected officials and municipal employees your intelligent opinions. Think. Think about your town and its health and how it fits in the overall area picture. The people working hard and plan- ning to the best of their ability are doing it for you. Working and planning for a healthy vibrant Seaforth. Don't criticize them, work with them. Seaforth Businessperson Council on r iati ulous spree To the Editor, I am glad to see letters of rebuke being written concerning the ridiculous spending • that is being done by our Town Council. The bad part is that it is .being spent all in one place - namely "The Town Hall". Compared to other towns in the surroun- ding districts our streets and sidewalks are a disgrace to the town of Seaforth. There are more home care people being made available so the elderly people can stay in their own homes longer, but ow- taxes are being sky rocketed so high that we will be forced to sell our homes if the Town Coun- cil is allowed to keep on with this ridiculous spending spree. Ida Diehl (a Seaforth Resident) a c u.j® s f! v?'v: overseas s .moi" ® H'YEAIs,:4lll: � ! ri .t' i1 .,E from the Expositor Archives would cut through a two foot cedar ,post just like cheese, so you can imagine the size of them. I'm going to have a crack at fishing one of these days. We marched through the city headed by our own RCR band and were cheered at every step as our whole regiment moved step for step as one man, and the colored girls were all throwing kisses et the soldiers, If Jim or Dan wants a wife just send them down here. The war does not seem to ,be any nearer the end, but the Germansare stop- ped at any rate and they :will ,now ,see; they cannot run the world. 1 had quite a little experience on .board the Canada, coming here. One night I was called up to the orderly room in front of several officers, and they asked me a bunch of questions, Where I ,was born, ,what I :worked, at, if I was. .ever out .of Canada, ,who I could,get references from, and a .whole lot more. TINY thought I .*as a German spy, I guess by having a German name, but 1:soon.ex- plained all ,and they .were satisfied all right. 1,do .not know ,l)tow, ; ong 4,We twill ,be ,here. Some ay,•oihertsojlers.;.are-,coming ere afr �m najn id stwe .are., going .t ' n, land, nbu ,no .toneAnows ,for'. certain. Give -my ,best Aegards to ,all ,old -:friends and. ,tell Boland ferntgohig totaussia.next week, and see what be says. OCTOBER6, 1939 Local officers of the Middlesex -Huron Regiment have received instructions to recruit "D” Company up to peace time strength on a non -permanent active militia basis. This ;unit, with headquarters at the Armories in Seaforth, includes the districts of Exeter, .Hensall, :Wingham .and ,part of Clinton. Six students from Duron and .Perth secondary schools ,on Friday competed for the ;McMillan Trophy .and ;ten other Cups and Shields at the kith Annual Amateur Athletic .Association meet here. Thomas Phillips, .well known Seaforth frait ,wholesaler, ,;wasseriously ,injured near Baden.early:.W,edpesday:molfing„when his car °waste: jlisionot a:, truck. d•Ie Is In St. .iMary's -Hospital, hener. A 19-yearitold .1„o alt -Township youth, •charges ,with ,aedltous cttat'Arices, was ,sen nced.ta` 0.;da jail, i ,,•land costs, efgluI I day,:ad, ul s„tx,mun sin jail.;' Hefetlemss ..,tv.r.W •-em�;lhe .app red Tit (oderieh police sou .on-'fhursduy. Crown :Attorney Il s A a ,the ,court :the ,offence ,took place„ tithe ;Soa£o h '1 all Fair. The young man said he would sooner go over and fight for Hitler; Hitler will win and can't be stopped; that he himself would go over there if there was any way to get there. OCTOBER 8, 1964 McKillop council accepted plans for an administration building which is proposed as a centennial project. It is suggested the building be erected north of the township garage at Winthrop. The Tuckersmtih centennial project will include improvements to Seaforth Lions Park, council decided Tuesday evening, when an enabling by-law was adopted. Suggested are entrance gates, completion of the picnic pavilion, as well as park lighting. Snow came to the district with a Vengeance on Monday evening .and con- tinued snowfalls by Wednesday had covered the grounds.with the white flakes. Police are investigating a break-in at SD13S ;Wednesday night when thieves smashed windows and doors and began ,a hole .through a concrete wall in an ,effort to gain access to a vault in the business office. A SDHS student was named "Queen of the h'urrow"tat the annual Bunn Cous .Flowing ,Match Saturday.;Site ,,v1Kas yAny rtStewait, 17, .daughter Of i¥cK op ,'.L je .:ICen Stewart and ,Mrs. Stewart ;S e wilt represent AHluron.at;the Interinattol Plow - jug Match at .Peterlboro this woo . 0.4 v