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The Huron Expositor, 1979-05-31, Page 3A SIGN OF SPRING — SyIs Babe, a snare owned by Bev Nott of ;R.R.4, Clinton has had her first colt this spring, .Syls: Babe, is off Parlow and; Arnie's Bameano and the stud is Keystone Meade, owned by Arnold Campbell of R. R.5, Seaforth: The colt is stili waiting for an official name;. Rarnp.s..discus..se Scaforth.council should be able to make• some ramps or cut aways on Main St, curbs -" • y to allow easy access to the street for people who are in wheelchairsor walkers, Mayor John Sinnamon told the Expositor. Following, a request by, Alf, i_ Dale, ;a • e1 raQ g is who can get around by hirnself in a. motor propelled. wheelchair,, Mayor, Sinnamon said a council committee would • • discussirnp $ roving access to Main •St, for handicappedpeople. ea le. "It shouldn't cost too much," the mayor said. Aoto of Mr. Dale in his wheelchair air in h front of what is for him an insurmountable° curb in a recent Expositor brought a large response from; the public . who called . the town hall in support of Mr. Dale's request, the mayor said. Expositor asks Will the election results mean much of ';: a change? BY DEBBIE RANNEY Well, the votes have a a. a been tallied, the results are in, and . Canada has a new government. With that in mind, Expositor Asks this week asked local people, Do you, think the results of the election are ggoing to mean much of a change for this country..„ Mrs.' Vernon Dale of 30. Chalk St. in Seaforth, . said . she hoped if there wasa change it would be for the better and she hoped no change would be made . in people's pensions, as she had heard different ones say it might. Mrs. Ken 'Hiusser of R.R, 2, Seaforth said, It might be quite a bit of a change.". Mrs. Merton Hackwcll'of R.R. 4, Walton said she really didn't think the election results will change a great deal. "There's not going to be any miraculous change. no matter who's in," she said., Mrs. Jane Davidson of R.R. 1. Bruce field "No. find it hard to see any,,,,Vg difference between. Tory and Liberal' eral •.policies,” She thought a change to the NDP would havebeena change. Bob Goudie' of 103 Richmond Street in Henson, said "As far as business is concerned; not until ,government gets into actin .aain." action again."' He said that with new this government " h ... as; long as he Poe Clark). keeps. saying, ,. "We .the people instead of 1 am,", and giving the money back to the people and letting: them work with it, then it will be good, Mrs. Rod ger Hoornaert of R.R. 2, Ki en said, ' I think he'll have to pP p himself first. I had better faith in the other two than Mr Joe He's Ma be he'll do alright," she added. Peter. Visser of Ontario Street in Dublin said, "No 1 don't think so ' It's ' still a minority government like what we had before. If Clark gives everything he said he's going to give; he won't have any money left anyway. • • • Arnett by -Kart Schuessler I lookedat a whole flock of baby chicks huddling under a_ brooder lamp. My daughter informed me they were all firsts. I never knew baby chicks came in seconds, but, yes, they do. Some imperfection someplace ' foot,; claw, beak, whatever; At . first glance she said you really couldn't. .notice. houhave to scout for the defects, but they're there. .. ' •0 I toldher to ekplain no farther. 'I understood. My whole week, was numbered in seconds. First there Was that VW = that second-handwVW that drove out of my `life when the, owner.'couldn't let it go on the hoist to See if it were second rate. But, that was only the beginning. In our 'house we concluded we needed some brand new silverware and dishes. When' I' say "we" I should be absolutely honest about this. My wife arrived at such a decision. And just as one decision'. can lead to another, so can silverware. What's. a new set of eating tools without some decent platesto match? We concluded we needed a 'good set of dishes. And when you get to our age, you ' figure you might as well buy the best. We've suffered through twenty-seven. years of rag and tag end piecesof silverware. Even when company conies, We ouldn't match up more than three place Settings, and then we'd, have to ;go aborrowing from the neighbors. Mia - matched silverware is to common at our place, our youngest daughter has cQn- cluded she's not going to bother herself als her parents have over the merits of stainless; silver plate or silver. All she wants is some eating tools that match. We ame to a decision. We ordered up sterling and bone china. And that's what We got. They Were sterling and bone alright, but downright defective. The price' had been right, but I remembered Some words+; policeman 'said about Gypsy men selling used cars, If the price is too good to betrue, then it's too good to be true. The names were right._ Royal Moulton and Wililam Ashley's In Toronto. Inter- national Sterling from Simpsons. The labels and hallmarks were all there. But take a Second look. Take areal good second look at the bone china. • The color fades' in the wrong places. Eoreigti grit imbeds into' the glaze. The pattern is off kilter. Flaw unwire dot the surface. And the silver? The cut and deaip :ate • imperfect. The edges rough. Certainly these can't be called fine crafted goods at even finer prices. But they can. Now, it's alright to sell defective and ;;flawed merchandise. 1" have no quarrel: there. It's just that the buyer should be told it's a second and then priced accordingly. You can't pass off second best under the guise of a bargain and have the, customer think he's getting first rate quality. Let's face it. Both sides of .the counter can , get greedy. The customer forever: wanting: top quality at bargain prices. •And the• seller suppying right prices with inferior goods. The transaction can cut both ways - with each one feeding the, larceny in every one of us. And if this wasn't enough seconds ih one week, 'I had one more. On our way out of Simpsons, we walked pastthe leather goods department. 1 spotted a brief case just like the one I had - a gift from my wife a year ago. Genuine leather she told me. And now, one year later, the clerk tells `me it's not actually leather, only a good imitation of it. I couldn't believe it. All along I've carried around my papers in a case I though was leather. Maybe 1 didn't have the real thing after all. Sure, the case does the job alright, but I thought) had the real sniff when I didn't. 1 started to wonder. I ought to take stock. Take inventory. Take count of my whole Self. See if I've been running after the right thing. See. ,if I've been workingwith imitations and seconds when all along I thought I had, the real thing and first quality. • . This might take all summer to do, I called up Sine White and told her I needed a vacation. I wanted time off to take stock. To Ind out if all my material things are second' tate: To see if my life is filled up with the much abundance of things. But I assured her. I'd let all the readers know in the fall, bid a VW come into My life? Are we eating off bone china and, sterling? Can I live with a brief case that's; not the real thing? . I leave you with such burning quest, lofts: Wotthy of an afternoon TV soap program. Hut Underneath' looms the big: question: What's real and unreal in this life? What's worthy of pursuit? Is perfect in an imperfect world expecting too Sornet in + say bySusan cite .Serious, progressive par, ents all know that yotere supposed to encourage your child to explore, to, be independent and, to figure things out for her or himself. At least that's what all the serious progressive books on child rearing that the better half and'I have been reading since we had, our Gaby say. But . recentexperiences, with our year and a half year old have led us tq question, the experts a bit. Once again we've been faced with that. irrevocable fact. . .you can't learn everything. from a book. I mean, where does Dr.. Spock say anything a bout an 18 month old baby who's got a .love affair going with tooth brushes? (And don't tell me an itapr 182, it's not there, an)ihere. Wlie 110.0k, ed.) And :rcpt; .lits: her 'town• suitably pint 41e4, beat up. ,yellow tooth brush. no sirree 1;.guess`her father ,and I are supposed to console oursei. ves with the thought thal imitation is the sincerest fOrtn 'if flattery when she 014.1r, ooth'and;':nail (no pun, intended) to use either my .0 ohbrush or his. Bigger and therefore more status 1 guess She can't seem to accept, that tooth brushes are person- al, individual things. Just ask the friends of ours who took the three of us on a tour of their newly decorated -bath- nom. Gaby hadone friend's tooth brush in her :mouth by the time we caught up, with her. Our friend's wife calmly took it away from her, rinses Stigarand spice sy Bi11' Smiley k out :and put it back MOO ,glass, and didn't mention the incident to the brucb's ,owner, until some weeps later. I )think herr reaction wattl41 have keen a little more violent if it had beet 1•IER. toothbrush. I changed her diapers, in the bathroom of another friend (if this keeps up. yes,. we are going to run out of them) a few weeks later her eyes lit up at the sight of a wall; 'hung rackof tooth brushes. She is attracted to them like other kids, are to Candy. 1 figured that rack was pretty safe though, it needed' more manoeuvering than she could handle to get a tooth. brush out, arta t other ,, bath room•no-no's'were sofely out t Hli 'EXPOSITOR*, of reach. Sb I left .the little dear alone for •a $econd and, game back to f�ind her tri4iinll± tnto the dining room, Our °hstt's toothbrush in '.hear mouth. We got that one away from ;her too, but only by using a rill longer Used tooth brush, quickly rinsodoff as a decoy. If the thought of using someone else's tooth brush turns your stomach a bit, consider this. Gaby's father encourages her closeness. with our dog, jokingly called her big, brother, Tuk, When she. was -reluctantly persuaded one day recently to use her own tooth brush, Gaby decided to share the wealth and used it to brush Tuk's teeth as well: Ile put. up with if. as he does with kid moat of the crazy schemes ,Shelttitintes but mother drew ;the line at that. 'You can imagine 1 know ih± wails of protest she put up when I. took her very own tooth, brush, the one she's supposed to used, away front her, 40. there we sit :dear reader. With a mother who's afraidto open the door of the morning becattse I don't want to hear the cries of "teeth, teeth," when ally young: companion spies her' •parents' tooth brushes With grandparents who, kick. their suitcaseswhen they come for a week -end visit because they want•to be able to brush their teeth with Meir own implements some- time during that visit. The cure for ebullience There e are a 0t of a re5sed peoplein the There's not tn to quiet your jolliness like world, for one reason or another: -illness, some of these items, "Board to Fire 214 mental or physical; poverty; insecurity, Teachers," when your only daughter::; with unrequited love;hemorrhoids - you name it, three degrees and two children, is i her first It's difficult for me to understand depres- year of teaching, and/bound to be one of the sion since 1 have a natural tranquility, and casualties, sometimes even a spot of ebullience. This is Or' this one: "Cancer Dooms Miners." either from genes or good Luck, and: I'm not "Lung cancer deaths among 'hardrock Bragging about it. miners are almost double those of men in Sometimes, when;I feel a bit of ebullience ;other obs." I knew this 35years ago. So did a g, coming on, which is almost every day,.I have the mines. So did•the government. So what to take something for it, just as the has been done in the interval? depressed person has to take an elevator pill . How about, "Food Costs May Soar. "' to get out of the gloom. That's about as startling as reading, in If 1 come down in the morning feeling. November, "Winter May Come," They have fairly, ebullient, I take a small downer to get " already 'soared out of sight, The •headline me with: the normal level of misanthropy. 1 should have read "Rocket", instead 'of pickup the morning paper.. "Soar, • .his depresses me sufficientlythat I can There's nothingto take theextra ebulli- get p b get through the. day without driving my ence gut of a fellow like news stories that tell colleagues and < students silly with sheer us Canada's nuclear plants are not all that cheerfulness.: safe, or that the country is 60 "zillion or If my ebullience starts.,f build up u during something dollars in debt, `or that your the day, after several brilliant lessons, the property taxes are going up 10 per cent this soivin8 of some teachers' frantic problems, year: o the lates s edict from . '' and the craftyevasion . f h eN . a, I don't know what 1 d do without the `the administration, 1 have to take something. media:: 1'd probably springout of bed fn the. to cool me down when I get home from work, morning, singing gaily, So I pick'u the evening paper. ."Here hath been dawning ' This depresses me sufficiently that 1 can Another new day, ° go to bed without chuckling myself awake at. • Think! Wilt thou letit the folly of mankind. if the evening ,aper" Slip useless. away?" doesn't ,cool me out enough, 1 listen to the- I'd probably come• chortling downstairs late news and go to the sack withthe dense".and' cook up a, big breakfast of bacon and gloom that ensures sleep, the only escape eggs and real Coffee instead of my usual tea from it. -- and .peanut butter ,and jam', sandwich. My You're. invited The Seaforth ' Arthritic Society is holding an or - , meeting on. Wednesday, June .6th ;at 7:30 p.m. in the " 'McKillop Insurance Office. All present members' of : the executive and prospective members are requested to attend. September is Arthritic month and some, plans have already been made in setting dates. September •10th to September :24th for convassing the town, of Seaforth and area. You're invited to a meet- ing of all area Senior Citizens at the Kilbarchan Nursing Home June 12 at 2 p.m. Seaforth Happy Citizens will meet in the Legion Hall on Thursday June 7at 2 p.m. • for • general meeting ,and Euchre. • Visitors welcomer, Please. brng 'lunch. Correction As a result of an. error during the recording of Sea- . forth electron returns last week, ':incorrect totals were shown fir pili No. `,165(1) Seaforth. The correct., resift according to returning officer Garnet Hicks, are Couper 7. Craig 47, and McKinley 78. The Seaforth totals are Cou- per 65, Craig , 461, and McKinley 62.' • AWAY PROM THE CROWD—Daisy Martin wisely 'deoided to take refuge in a quiet corner. at NotthSid'e United Church's successful garage and bike sale held on Saturday afternoon in the much? church L.Asement, (expoiltor" photo) wife doesn't eat anything. in8 And leaveher a dirty big mess in the kitchen to clean up, • Then I'd sail= off to school, so happy with. t life that I'd be gawking around at the wonders of nature and probably run over somebody's beloved dog., And when I'dgot to schoohbuzzin with school:.buzzing ebullience, the kids would likely cheer lustily, instead of rolling their eyes and groaning, when 1 announced we were going. to learn some goody ole grammar. That cheer would disturb the rest of the school for the whole day, and. I'd be on the carpet for. • upsetting the learning system. In the teachers' staff room, I'd be a menace. If I' shouted at ' the: shuffleboard,: "Jolly good shot," or "Wella done, sir," . instead of the usual "Don't miss. Don't choke.: Don't' be light. I'd be a moral leper. If a; teacher came up to me, sobbing on my breast about some real or ' imaginary. problem, and: • I burbled away - cheerfully, instead of putting on. my phony, grave expression of concern, she'drobabl think P Y 1'd gone senile overnight. And if I came home and walked in the door and didn't issue myusual sigh -groan, "Holy Ymy Cheese, what a. day!" , wife would know 1 had. This is when'I rust pick up that evening paper. If 1 didn't, who knows. what, wild extravagance:' my ebullience mightlead us intoe . having somebody i goingfor .._ f neWs,, b y P, g g. ,out A number Photos o dinner, attending a movie, -making, love? were left out this week and - There's no end tojolliness iniquities into which • " • , . will appear. . next week. • good; cheer and ohrness can lead one.. With al father* ;who Much 013441+0w* .eletteneff tv►!een daughter and *' is, not toe thrilled et the, thought of them Sharing, a; toothbrush, ,And with a dwindling supply of friends who lock their ,bathrooms rather .than; their cookie jars when they ,see our Gaby coming. Don't get Me wrong, I think it's great that Our daughter is concerned about. dental hygiene at such an' early age. And it's safer than being obsessed with matches: kitchen knives or 'Saturday morning cartoons. But it's a hurdle, I expect just the first of many, and ;a challenge that we serious progessive parents, re going to have to meet. Have you got any ideas? Personally, 1 think people caught singing or whistling to themselves on the street should be locked up. They're liable to 'start a dangerous trend in this country,. Therefore, as a non -depressant, 1 couldn't do without the media. They, are the only thing that protect me from messing up my life, and those of everyone II know by being happy... I make.- deep obeisanceto:them,- with. back turned. That sound you might .hear is the breaking of the wind, 1 may be vulgar but haPPy, a he ealitvr. (Continued from. Page 2j • "Thion Pc s a is in Isabelle.Cam bell', x ,,cutely of Hibbert" and was only in. a farm: house. At. Farquhar I have gone to several, square dances in the hall. Also the hall a Ki n . Loobe 's Hall.inDublin and the PPe, Y t church hall at St. Columban. Allof theselace s bringback memories. P Keep up the history. Herman Speare 3201 Lawrence Ave. E. Scarboro, Apt. 604' Ontario This is the only notice you II receive that your subscription is due:' •. CHECK SCK YOUR ADDRESS : L LABEL aper .your on the front of Y P HERE'S. HOW EXAMPLE: Doe, John D. . . R.R.6,• Walton May .2-1-0-9 Mr. Doe's subscription '.ex - pries the first of May 1979. Tree last digit at "right. indicates the year of expiry. DONTM AI SINGLE ISSUE!! 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