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The Huron Expositor, 1979-04-05, Page 3THE SPECTATORS, --Pawn PaPPle of R. FL #4, Seelefth and frienda, ' watch the start of the Seaforth Optimist Club's seventh annual canoe race from theRgmOndville. bridge, The race attracted, more than 5C! canoeists and crowds otsp%tatera en &Imlay afternoon. (PhotO by Oke) Something to say by Susan White Growin "Aconite: Striking blue flowers borne• on spikes. Recognized as a poison since antiquity, used especially to ' poison arrows. Contains aconitine, a useful sedative for many conditions, .Not to be' -used • without medical supervision." "Sounds good huh?" the better half says after he • reads aloud the above from: the latest 'herb seed cata- legue, absolutely required. reading at our henae :this time of year. "Yeah", 'say absent mindedly "we'd better order some, quick," thinking' that bine flowers would look geed inthe beds hope will flourish atliast around our a VCI f ! f : 'i : f ,, I 1, ,,,, ' BY WitlWA 0.0 The Vanastra curling rink has •been found tone unsafe on three eons under the •liatienal Bunch , Orle and the Ontario building 'code. At a treet or Tuckerarnith Township • council Tuesday night a," preliminary engineering report by ft.M.Bess and. Associates of Goderich revealed that the . building does not meet snow load.. whid Or fire safety requirements. • The curling rink, purchased by the Staff of theformerC.'artadian Forces base near 'Clinton in1960, had been vacant following the closing Of the base until. purchased, itt 1974 by a group of Vanastra citizens. AS part Of The Vanastra recreation complex. The Vanastra eliding rink. Along with the Vanastra recreation centre,,040 owned by the residents of Vanastra but have been . managed by the five member Tuckersrnsith Township council for the past two. years. A large debenture debt incurred when the kg. CoMPICX w 5 purehaSed. IS 40%0y being paid of by the Vanastra ratepayera. litekerimith council leases the rutting rink. to a eurling deb: committee Which ba.* 44 Members This past winter the ceding eltth rented ice time to ctirlers from' Stanley Township. Village of Bayfield And $911,,,IP school 'students to raise money for maintenance costs. Engineers Ken Penn and Lidice Potter of B.M. Ross'and Associates informed council from their Prelim' riarY study Of the rink as to its struttural adellOacy, demanded by officials from the provincial Ministry of Labour. estimated the total costs for the Structural repairs *Mad he about $93,000 with engine ripe costs about 512.000. f.inginee unn estimated this amount would bring 1the building up to National fluilding Code requirements. but added, "We wish to emphasize the building would mu qualify for fire coding. but at the present time the government is not enforcing this:, ....60: -by proof g back deck, Then as I notice the baby • across the room pulling everything out of the book Cases, all the while chanting to herself "no touch" and "oh,. Gaby!",. I come to my 'senses and protest • that the plantthat's fueled cepturies of poison arrows might not,, be the best thing for a flow* Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley Who ears?. • Does anyone in'this ceuntry even care any more . whether the federal election occurs in April. May Or June? Does anyone even care any more whether there is a federal election, in which we might exchange a right-wing reform party. 'for,a right-wing party, either winner being' at. the mercy, in a ,vcite, of a right-wing left-wing party? Day after day; of listening to the news, and watching the news, and reading the news, has created in me, at least, the greatest Sense of apathy lrve ever ex• - perienced in my life. And I have a hunch • that millions of Canadians agree with me. -Dees anyone care any, more what' • Margaret Trudeau, a . rather silly woman with verbal dysentery, aineng other ail- ments, has yet to reveal? Not me. Does anyone Care any 'more how many •Christian Arabs in Beirut killed how many Muslim Arabs le _Beirut? Not me - Does anyone care that Prince Charles was seen jogging on a beach in Australia, that Pierre Berton haswritten another book, tfi'at Canadian writers:and artists and theatres add publishers an claim they need more of our tax bucks to survive? Not me, Only they. • A colleague of mine describes an organization at the university he attended, It was railed the Apathy Club. It put out noticeslike these:. "The Apathy Club will not hold its usual meeting this month." Or, "True to its convietiems, the Apathy. Club • failed to elect a, new president.. when no One showed up. to vote for those who did not run," I have a feeling that Canada is 'turning into one vast Apathy Club. Oh, we're not yet quite completely lifeless. You can' see this by reading the Letters -to -the Editor columns, where all the cranks, quacks and bigots are given a chance to sound off. But when all the news is 'bad hews - • Unemployment, falling dollar, violence, • threat of wars - we are inclined to tune out, and to tune in to some sort of escapist entertainment. This apathy is reflected in all sorts of phases Of our society. U'S considered a big' deal if there,is a 60 per cent turnout for an election. Outside the larger cities, Where there is constant' hype from the sports . writers,' sports are dyring Out Spuill. towns and cities that used to peek their arenas and baseball grandstandS to watch the home boys fight off those infidels from the neat town, draw only handfulls of spectators these days, •• Well, What's the cauSe of all this apathy, • you might ask. I believe it is the result of modern communication systems, which are supposed to bring the world closer together and are, instead, making individuals harder and more se -centred, as they find thernSelve5 -drowning. inn, flood of world "-Wide miseries'which they feel helpless to alleviate. . Does anyonereallyeare about the killing -ofsesaby--seals except those 'directly in - 'volved: the Newfie hunters trying to supplement a meagre living; the protestors who enjoy -the publicity they, get; and a number of old ladies of both sexes, who • compose ferocious letters to the editor cOndemning the hunt, while downing a few • slices of spring lamb and mint jelly? Not me, My sympathies are completely - on the side of the sealers. It's hard, dirty work they do. and they don't do it because they are sadists. any more than the illers in a slaugther-house enjoy knocking sweet little calves over the head, so that you can • have ,your veal and your :calt-akin gloves. When it is proved to me that the harp seal is an: endangered species, I'll join the protesters. Not before. ' • Where were all these silly twits when it was not baby seals that were being slaughtered. but baby brothers, and uncles and cousins and fathers, during the Great Wars 'I don't remember too many letters to the editors in those days. The same sort of people who write protesting letters today about the seals, are probably the 'spiritual descendents of those nasty old women (of both sexes) who went around pinning white feathers on guys in civilian 'clothe during W.W./1 And gave you surly service and short/ measute_ in W.W,11, always ac- companied by the snarl: "Don't you know there's a war 'on?" This to • guys in uniforms, Ah, dear, it ,an age ,wheteseme people Seek to Swell Out of theirlittle selves, to • engorge themselveson publicity, If it were 'not for the ubiquitous media. ever seeking to touch the loWest of emotions, there would be no problems about the seal hunt. The NeWfies would run a few protestors off the edge of an ice flow, and that would be that. How did I get away over here in Newfoundland. if I'm so apathetic? Well, maybe I'm not. And that's a good sign. Apathy leads to constipation, Constipation leads to henimerhoidS. And the next thing you know, my daughter will be saying to 'her kids, "Don't worry, -boys. we nester leetts- tO have a cent. But Grandad ha .piles." Amen - by Karl Schuessler. (C.oritintred from Page 2) them mixed With roses. He May have had On hand a geed ,supply of well -made chinand checks.; He' May havebeen generous and gave them to you. Even if you didn't get perfect parts He gave there to yeu brand new --with a Virgin beauty an its Own. Fresh, clean, unmarried and unspoiled. But the Sweep of years over the face changes the stirface. Time shifts the putt and Makes tiOW eoatours. It moll& different' features atid Changes the !arida- Cape. It can create eanyons of despair or crevice,s.tif beauty. IN something like what Dr, Kubler-Ross, the fluttotts death Mid dying phyatclatie has Said, She says the Sviridavveept of life, yes, ellen the final One, death, can, Make beautiful etchings. She says, "Shou Id you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of the carvings." Maybe you had nothing like that in mind which you told My wife you liked her face. Maybe you just liked it -- the 'surface. Or it reminded you of someone else. I should let it go at that, ' - I don't knew, but my wife would like te think she's accepted Abe Lincoln challenge and Met it -at least in your eyes: 1 like ytnie face. That's; the best eoMplitherit you 'toted give torinyone. And to think! i thought I wrote the last worth aboutgiving compliments in my bdok and this column. So to you otit therde•Whoever it Was that night, I say Again thank.you I like Ante taste, I've been Intine her face all these years and telling her so. 4titri 101 garden that won't, be baby proof. It's hard, we're finding, balancing your sense of gardening adventure and the lure of the strange, with your responsibilities as parents, I mean we all know rhubarb leaves are ''`.no touch" and that, there's some doubt 'about how safe poinsettik is as a steady diet, but just think of all the hundreds of: other plants, fascinating and novel to us, that,are danger- ous to the knee high gener- ation, The kids who put stuff in their mouths first and ask questions later. • If our daughter's instil'ICtS".. are anything to go' by we'd better not Brow anything that has a nice flower that's not _safely edible. She's been • • smelling flowers since she ow: s•t hiebc,wmi pnat phs e1..0,10dn, f hoeWeetrss, in books and on her clothes and mine.. Gaby sniffs out flowers in just about every - 'thing she looks at. . So it's with a big dose of. eaution that 1 approached her., dad's constant • ebrepanion this spring.. .Otto Richter, and Sons Herb Seed Cata- logue, from these renowned • Canadian herb specialists in • -Goodwood, Ontario. , 'I've . been -interested, • mildly, in herbs since my • grandmother preached the virtues of natural medieines when.I was a kid. She was a mustard plaster; bread and milk poultice fan, and maybe because Of her unbeatable optimism, her temedies. worked. ' SPICY Then when. I learned to cook Jt was with a Jot of spices. A ' het peppy spaghetti sauce whipped up by a friend 'in Nova Scotia was a revelation, t� me as a teenager, used to Western Ontario bland, the main flavour for food• when I was growing up. Working on our old house and trying to landscape it with plants that could have been there when it was new in the 1870's has gotten us interested in herb garden. Remember, our pioneer ancestors had to keep their own drug stores,. out the back door. . Last spring a. lovely big herb garden was one of the highlights of our visit'to one Of the nicest places I've seen in North America. Shaker - "town at Pleasant Hill in Kentucky. I've' still got some lavender from Pleasant Hill. and its scent reminds me of the -tranquil weekend wo. spent- among7Iffe Testered buildings of the- old Shaker eettiement. And so, not content With the garclerit of variety took - jag herbs we've tried to grow with ' i/arying degrees of succesS, the better half, and I Are making big plans, with the aid of Richter's catalogue • . Here's' what we'veS got circled's° far. CURDLES MILK Bedstraw. yello: Tops and •'roots are sources of yellow And red dyes. Decoction is used!l for bladder and kidney complaints and has the ability to curdle milk, (hence its alternate name, cheese rennet). Chamomile, Roman: Perennial. Traditional ground clover in Epglish gardens and pathivays. :where it is, cut like grass. • (Crab mid twitch grass, our . present ground cover, look one) Cowslip: Proverbial wild- flower of England, endeared for its fragrant eoldereyellow blossoms. Old reerefif for insoinnia and headaches as .. flowers possess sedative and nerve strengthenieg, pieper- ties.-Cowslip wine, a delVeat&- dessert wine, has long Jacen made from cowslip pips. (Obviously just the drink for. late nights, after coyerihg council 'meetings.) Enumerators .ouf no vi l'he countdown to the May 22 federal election started this Week when 181 enumerators began the door-to-door seareh for voters in the Huron -Bruce riding. Teh enumeratioh, which started Monday, will finish on Saturday • Garnet Hicks, chief returning officer for the riding, said any Canadian subject who is resident hero and will be 18 years of age 1.”, election day is eligible to vote inithe riding in the upcoming election. The last federal election was held inI9'4 In that election, there were 1972 eligible voter's Tuckersmith- Township, and 1350. people cast their ballots. In Seaforth, .1065 of the 1415 eligible voters went to the polls. In McKillop Township, there were 914 people eligible to vote, and 684 people east their ballot, In Stanley, Township, 773 voters of the 946 eligible viaters went to the polls and 767 of 1066 eligible voters east their ballots in Hulled Township. The six Seaforth enumerators ate Riney Kunder, Barb Rivers, ffit Stephensen, Lloyd Bedatd, Louariet Miller and Marjorie Montgomery. The McKillop etitinieratotS are Patriek Delaney, Marin Gordon,, Norieen'. 13enneWies and Oliver Pryce. In TeekerStitith Totenship, the enumerators are Edith LAtidsliorough„ Joy Langan, Ruth Bryan, Ploretted Dovereaux, ma McGrath,. W Wilsre tittd race Cooper. This year, under re -distribution, the riding ' Heartsease: Old English • favourite. Charming purple, • lavender and yellow ftlivers held former renutuic conno- tations between courting couples. Medicinally for dropsy, respiratory catarrh and skin eruptions. (Ob- viously something for just about everybody.) TAPEWORMS Mulberry: Handseme tree bearing sweet, juicy berries that make fine conserves and drinks, including mulberry wine. Bootbark decoction is a traditional remedy for tape- ._ worms. Hardy in south- -western' Ontario and B.C. coastal regions. (Our neigh- bours have an established tree and the !queer we ma from its berries is in.' great' demand.) Roselle: -Lovely. flowers - known throughout the tropics for their flavouring qualities.. Tea made with the fleshy ' calyces has a lemeny flavour and beautiful 'ruby colour. Refreshing hot '.or 'iced. Also • for delicious...preserves, wine, • and a -sour relish similar to cranberry Sauce. Requires a • long 'hot growing seasoe. (I_ think We may he overly optimistic with this orie.) There are kits mere, 40 Some pages of seeds,' plus .eaOkbooks and equipment • aRnied6t6grrocwi a taritog:eidsi , 'but *el! wede ! jl, do well if we get some of, the . abeve to flourish,: and keep everything: that isn't edible 'out of baby daby'S hands or rather mouth'? But even if we didn't Order a blessed thing we've gotten informatmn, romance and -lots of fun out of pouring over L the exette catalogue:. If you re similarly inclined, it • costs 175 cents. and listings will remain in effect 'until December, 1980. Write to. Otto Richter and Sons Ltd., Goedwciod, Ont., LOC 1AO. up'vote • has been changed from Huron -Middlesex to Huron -Bruce, which, means dropping the north of Middlesex from the riding and ; adding Bruce County munieipalities, riding has been expanded to include two townships in Bruce County, The tWo declared candidates le 'the Huron-Uttice riding are incumbent MP -Robert . McKinley, the Progressive Con- serVative candidate and Graeme Lraig of Walton, running for .the 'Liberal party. The NDP party will be nominating- their candidate for the riding later this rnenth. . • . In Perth County. returning officer. John Walsh said there will be 107 enumerators Canvassing the rural part of the riding'. This 'riding MIS also changed doe to tedistribution from the last election, The riding was formerly known as Perth -Wilmot but Will include only Perth Cottnty, in the upcoming election. In The last election, therewere934 eligible voterS in Hibbert Township and 709, people sveht to the eons. The feet- entitnerators iti Hibbert Town- ship are Jean Dill of Dublin. Ruth Lain Of R.R.2, Staffa, Keret' Mahon of II.R.2, Staffa • and James Young of the Staffa area. The Candidates in Perth county are incumbent Bill Jarvis, refining again for the Progressive COtiServatives, David Beidshate, the Liberal candidate and Rev, John Davies, running 'ter the MO „Party, tilIehlt.edlicithvinerthi.s the Minister at .ftibbt er THE:MO EXPOSIT Ft, APR! The engineer Warned. "This could happen, at any time and should be eonsidered if Yott decide' to 'renovate or rebuild." He suggested i"renovations should be done that council might coesider looking at severe areas in the building including the lighting :and plant system:' to determine their condition arid life expectancy. SURPLUS . The engineers in their study of the rink said it appeared as if it was constracted by the Butler building company in the United States but was brought to the Clinton Air 'Base about 1960 from Winnipeg, Manitoba As* war surplus building. They were unable to determine the exact age of the steel clad lattildlog, saying it could have been -built in the 1940's or 1950's, • The engineers Said they foend no real deterioration but some minor rusting. The requirements are for wall girts and siding, steel trusses for roof sectien, repair of pianos which are greasly undersized, some repair work on a tresses. More floor beams because floor foists overloaded by 50 per eent„iali ler a cost of $75;000. Timber framing woetckost another $4,000 and •a roof over boiler room, $2000 and engineering fees of $12,000 for a total of $93,000, • Reeve Ervin .5illery stated, "I can't see spending tatepayer's money on these renovations. 'We'll have to digest this and see what route we take." _ Engineer Dunn refined, "I can see where you would want to see about the grant situation, determine thefir -regulations, . ., new ligbting- •' , , Il. ' Counciller William Brownil $ked, "As of now, the costs will fall back On the 'Vanastra 'Recreation centre?" eeve Sillery assured him -the Vanastraratepayers would be responsible. Deputy Reeve Robert Bell asked the' estimated cost of replacing the -rink with a new, building and he was told around. 5300,000. . Ceencillor Robert Fotheringham said, "If we can't get grants there is no use in us looking at it." - ;FRC/4EN Clerk -treasurer John McLachlan said be was trat sure what community centre grant money Would be available but understood the Wintario grants were" frozen ' at Abe •present time. • • , Councillor ,Fotheringham said, "The other curling rinks in the area could pick up Abe curlers from Vanastra." . Clerk McLachlan wae authorized 'to make an appointment with the Minister of Culture and Recreatien through lack Riddell,. Huron Middlesex MPP te discuss grants and the . ' tituTwreoC'Mf the curling nnkthe" Vanastea, gear* club attended the Meeting, Alex, Telernysfendf and Ivan, Lince end were concerned when ee if the Ministry of Leheur might padlock the door. They expressed the hope grants would be available to renovate The hitilclittg• In other business council, beard Spence Cummings, Development Meer for Huron County, speak of difficulties of attracting industry to the egunty, partly because of the distance from Highway 401.,. HO' diSceSsed too, the problem of attracttng tenriSts. to the area. HO Showed council members Various booklets and pablnPhlel.4 )4)44 ttte PO in ehloride for township roads at 4 egg 1103.50 Of Harrow to supply the tOWnship with vpaeri,r itoons7centres, available le tottriSt. s Teweshirr asecepted the tender of Follattl$ TENDER: " The construction of a_tbird in iEngfomr oninadt swraesq du ii sr ec ud s as dt: englocation,t to en M ere Council Will provide Peter LeReau of Brucefield, with a leder assuring him Of council approval for severence of 3'4 acres of part of lot 36. Highway 4. An. • Ontariei Municipal Board bearing on the severence will be held in Ooderich on April 9 at 3 p.m. ApOlication$ for, laifilding permits were ;approved as fellow's Lloyd -Cooper, „“Keipnpsean,o,PliegepdennitGilier4hnadrdtuwsofibeyininsk; AftR-dri.a2. n Timmerman, R.R,3, Kipper), manure tank and addition ea present barn; Thomas Workman', R.R3, Kippen shed, Passed for payment were the following aecclunts totalling' $47,615.16., including Vanastra Day Care Centre, $4,834,50; Roads, $12:131,26. Vanastra recreation centre, $13,326.55 and general accounts, $17,122.85. Council approved the payment of membership fee ef $10 for Huron County • municipal officers' association meeting to be held Wednesday, May 9, at Clietore • 'Payment of meMbership fee of $20 was paid for a one -day seminar on Urban -Rural Relations in Toronto on April 27.' A resolution from the Toveh of Tecumseh was endorsed requesting a -48-hour cooling, -aft -Period for signing agreements with real estate agents, especially concerned about neople tacking in business exPerienteand senior citizens. Although all items on agenda were not _ completed -the ..meeting was adjourned at 12:30 a.in. Wednesday to meet again April 10, whet) the.; Main business will' .be ' erigineering reports on municipal drains withInterested ratepayers attending. • BY DEBBIE RANNEy • Canada's first National Book Festival' is 00 this Week. The idea of the festival is to proniate -reading Canadian and'with that thought in mind, Expositor Asks decided to find out how many Iotal people did read. Canadian 'books sod whether they .thought such afestival should be held every year. 'Mrs. Bill Chessed the Varna Ccirrestiondent for the Expositor 'said -she had reed some by Pierre Berton: and Farley Miswart,,books by Dr. Johnston whO wrote Beforethe 'Age of Miracles and who tiSed to practice in Lucknow. And although she didraknow whether it had been written by a Canadian author or net she; had read a book'called The Bears and.1 asters' set in Northern B.C. She thought the Festival was a good idea 'to. promote Canadian books -and make people more aware of them arid said, that Canadian books were now apparently beingr.recognized in the -States 'probably because of festivals like this.' Jack Mustard of Brucefield said he had' r ad some books by Pierre Berton. He too thought, thefestieal was a good idea bCcause hesaid We might 3.`get rid of some that'AtiierIcan Junk." 'Barb MCDonald Of Brucetield said she hailn!t.'read Any by Canadian authors! recently but. she' thought the festival would *ou read Canadian books? be a good thing. "I think it would for the student and that to get to know more about Canadian • authors, what they write and who they are,",she said. She thought a festival would be good for - • both students and other people in Canada - • as well. Mrs. Murray Parsons of R.R.1, did ,n't think she had read. any books by Canadian authors since public school but she thought the festival might be a good thing so people could get to know Canadians better, - Mrs. Irvine Ferris of R.R.2, Kippen said she had read quite a few of Pierretertott's 'books'and Brown's book on ghost towns in Ontario and added that she enjoys them. She thought the festival would be a goOd idea because, "sometimes you don't pay attention to 'them (Canadian books)" she said: She added that displays like the i festival bring them out n focus. Although she doesn't have much tirne of for readingat the' moment, Mrs. Dom ' , Carter of Seaforth, said, think we should read things that are Canadian instead of 'branching off into other countries. I think we should be studwing Canada," she said. • ' s share county levy. up If property taxes in Huron County go up in 1979 it Won't be because costs increased at the county level. 'Huron county councilapproved its 1979 budget Thursday, approving a 1.79 percent increase, a, total of $48..000 on a $2,711,000 budget. The :remainder of the, county expenses will cattle from $4.4 million in provincial grants coupled with fees for county Services, Comity Clerk Bin Hardy said a $421,236 surplus from 1978 was used in the, budget to held the county levey down, fie said the urplits, along with an, increase in assess- ment of slightly more than two Percent - enabled council to give ratepayers in me county a break tnis yeate ' The bacvn of Goderiah, theDatgest con. tribetor.. 'te the county coffers, had its apportionment inereased $2,234 to $371,925. Exeter will pay $189,862, $13,140 more than last year. Clinton costs went up $4295 to $141,968. VVingharn will pay $6,389 more for a total of $138,074 and Seaforth's levy increased $6,909 to $90,063. You're invited April meeting of Seaforth Women's Institute will be Wed. Monday night April 5th, SIS p,tri. at the home of WS, 0: Elliott. This is the atittealr Meeting and relieirtS Will be heard from all' .tetranittees; Roll Call: MI ef plants and slieS And also payment of LetteluMrS, R. Gordon, Mrt. 3. Keys, Mrs. 'C. Steseliet and Mrs., S. Stott. " The April meeting or the Striforth Horticultural Seel- ey will be held at the Mitterde Hall on Wednesday, April II, 8 pati. Dr. Aubrey Crieft a former Seaforth resident Will Show on birds. Everyone welcome._ The MonthlyMeeting Of Seaforth Hospital Auxiliary will be held Tuesday, April 10th, ei.M. Board Room of Seater -tit Condittinity Hospi. tat. tverytine welecinte. Ladies of First *atbyter. Ian Church Seaforth are asked to attend the Synodical at ; K ru1 y in Church, Gridetichi Tttestlityt; April 10th, and Wedivitjayt April 11th..'