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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 18, 1979
• 4.004choke:
Seaforth council, made a wise choise Tuesday night when it
• appointed Bill Bennett to fill the vacancyleft-by the resignation of
• councillor Jim 'Sills.
A two term councillor who chose not to stand again, in last year's
election, Mr. Bennett's quiet wisdom was an asset to past councils.
He's a very capable man who was the guiding force in the extensive
• renovations at the 10441 arena and' he served creditably on many -other
• council committees, •
Sills too has made an excellent contribution to Seaforth during his.
three years on council, lately. as chairman of the Public works
• r
committee, He wiU be missed.
Although council Members clid notactivelY seek posSible appointees
• to the vacant council seat another local man, Gary Boyle, should be
• .commended for being interested enough .in Seaforth's future to let his
• name stand too. We agree with the hope expressed by Mayor John
Sinnamon that Mr. •Boyle continue his interest and run in the next
election.
BUl Bennett, beaa6Se Of hiS wide experience, is a welcome addition
10 Seaforthcoundil. He's welcome too because of his sense of .humour
• vvhicli lightened many a dull or a. tense moment at past meetings.
•
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Public Interest
It was an unusual meeting that Seaforthcouncil held this week. Not
because it was only a half hour in length, but because a small but
• . interested audience watched the proceedings.
Spectators at local council meetings,araustially as scarce as hen's
teeth. VVe, who have the responsibility of reporting those meetings to
the taxpayers in the pages of the •Expositor think that's a shame.
A former council, seeking ways to get the public out to see what
• happens at counCi I ,advertised the time and date of each meeting in this
paper's corning events columns. That's been dropped, probably
because few people took enough note to bother attending.
But we hope Tuesday night's audience (who somehow found .out
• When the meeting was and bothered to attend) signals a renewed
interest in how our local council operates.
Council itself is encouraging citizen interest in its work With:.its
sensible decision last 'month to allow Mitchell-Seaforth Cable TV to
film its regular November meeting. •
We at the. Expositor want to encourage that interest too. Whenever
we have enough notice of a town council meeting (regularily held the
.second Monday of the month at 8. p.m., but special meetings are
. sometimes held on short notice) we'll list the date and time in our
„regular You're Invited column on page 3. We'd like to offer the same
free space to any of the local toWnstilp councils who'd like to give their
• ratepayers extra notice of their meetings too.
That Said,. we want to point out to readers that the November 12
• meeting of Seaforth council should be one not to miss. It could Mark,
• the final resolution of the Fire Area Board question and with TV crews
invited you cou Id just see yourself on the tube coupie of nights later,
T� the editoIr::
• • Here's who to contact
to book the band
• Editor's ?4ote, The folloWing letter is a reply
t� one froni the president of the Seaforth
Agricultural Society in last •week' t
Expositor.
Thank you for anst.t,erlog my letter, arid
since you made public •our friendly con-
versation by phone. I feel obligated to
answer your remarks again, and keep an
open, mind, for your have personally taken
it seriously. and 1: hope -other people in
charge of an organization do tOo.
• Snide .1 am four years in charge as
'Sec. -Treasurer of the band, I accept' .all
invitations that come to me by mail or phone,
by. inquiring first from our council if it it at
all possible to have a good. sized band
aVailable.
You as a great organizer, do the same
thing I pre some, to go to • the proper
chantmeIs. to talk to various heads -Of
orga.rizaticins, clubs, societies schools. to
set up your parades and fairs, and have it
well orgahized. I do not accept an invitation
if I know that many' of °Or band members
cannot Make it, but if I can dome up with a,
reasonable group, let, OS say 26 out of 34
members, I'll actept
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OCTOBER 17,1879,
A great breadth of fall w heat has. been
SOWU in the vicinity of Goderich and is
• looking well, John Wallace. BaYfield .Rd. has,
180 acres in and James Burk about 60, acres,
JameS Houston of Tuckersmith met with
painful accident. He was chopping woodj
with band axe when: hc trUck. his wrist
• making a .deep wound.
Michael Heffernan Of TtlekerSmith, at 'the
recent southern Fair in Brantford 'bought the
first prize Leicester ran.
Mr. itninintett, Well 'diggershowed tts, a,
curiosit in the Shape of a. lizard which he,
fished up from a spring in. the bottom of a
well. .He had itiSt finished digging a well 00
the farm of Tom Fear near Londetbero.
Thos. Adanisof$eafOrtit has shOWO MS A
bunch of fall wheat 24,4 inches in length.
Old Billy Whiteford who, bas been evading
the officers of the law was captured at farm
house in Tuckersmith. He was Suspected Of
having serfire to a barn in Brucefield.
A spelling match was held at WitithrOp.
w hen Robert Burns and Maggie Sales were
elected eaptains. Theside chosen by Mr.
Burns carne off victeileus.
OCTOBEB21,1904
Gantelon of Hensall it and has beep,
shipping a number of car loads of green
aPPIes.
Thecontract for redecOratin the
• room of the Presbyterian Church has been
awarded to Mr McQueen of Shelbourne.
Autumn leaves Photo by Merle Gunby
Sugarand spice
• By Bill Smiley •
I ain't refined
• Some. people, much too refined to
indulge in pornographic books or blue
• movies, get their voyeuristic kicks from
reading the 'Personal" columns of the
newspapers. •
• Not me. I ain't refined. By the time I've
skimmed the front page, been bored by the
pompous editorials, I'm through with, the
paper. It is strictly for wrapping garbage.
• If you had asked me, and 1 thought it
wouldn't be possible, 1 would have
suggested to you,' to invite • us to the
entertainmentnight, the night to open the
fair, and we could have given.a concert and
joined the rest ofthe entertainers, which
people seemed to have enjoyed very much.
It it not your fault, but we were t.ery
disappointed not have been invited; at the
• entertainment night of Wintario Draw in our
town in June, since we have received money
from Wintario to pay for our uniforms;. this.
was also put in the newspapers last year.
Nov., te give you and, all who want to know,
the proper channels to get in touch with, as
I did in the past, here are the names again;
Harray Mass, Exeter, President Seaforth
Dashwood Band; Frank Vanbergen, Dublin,
1st Vice -President; Fred Jensen, Mitchell,
2nd Vice -President; Jerry Martene,
Seaforth, Councillor; John Vangeffert, Sed.-
• Treas., Seaforth.
I hope this will be of help for those who,
Want to book the band in the near futtire.
T hank you:
• John Vangeffen
Sec.-Treas.
Seaforth Dashwood Band
Home economists set up group
Last year a group of home economists,
dieticians and home economics teachers,
both active and retired, met to form a grOup
called the Huron County Home Economics
AssOciation. One of its goals is to provide a
chance for professionals to gather together
and discuss common problems and learn
new techniques for education. It has proven
to be a very worthwhile organization for
those who are involved.
By publiticizitig our eventa and giving you
an account or our meetings for the news,
paper, we hope to intetetti those. of the
community who are also interested in home
economics education to come tb our
nieetings as well.
Thank you for your cooperation and t
hope you will find space to print our meeting
reports Mee a month,.
• Yours truly,
I.Grace I3ird
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Pod
• Heine Economist.
Raton Counti Home Economics
Assoelation.
Never do 1 read the classified ads, selling
everything from houses and cars to bodies.
• I haven't time, And besides, they're all the
saline, Whether a:car; a house, or a
body, it's the greatest buy of the century.
Many of them carry the same message:"Must be seen." . '
•
Well. I strayed. Yes, I wandered, The
• anther .day, loOking -through the ads for
teachers in the hope that I could find my
daughter's address in Mobsonee (she
hasn't written us in over three weeks and I
have a piercing picture of her and. the
grandboys stumbling arotind the tundra
• looking for the place), I staggered, by some
• mischance, onto the "Personal" column,
No wonder those warpies read it, the
,
:people who leave the room, nose in air,
when s,me one mentions sex, or tells a
funny, slightly offcolor joke. It's a kaleido-
scope of sex, sin, silliness and sickness to
warm the heart of any peeker through
others' windows •
I read with rst atnusement, then
amazement, a: hen a bit of shock,
though I am fairyunshockable.
This appeared in "Canada's National
NewSpaper", which maintains a lofty
moral tone On most of its other pages,
It was like looking tinder the rug in a
highly moral dowager's house, while she is
out getang tea, and finding a lot of dirt
under it.
• First under suspicion are the items
ander "Massage". some of them are
innocuous enough, but what about this
one: "No appointment needed. 10 a.m.' to
10 p.m. 7 days a week," With a woman's
name and phone number,
Maybe she' S just a hard 'worker, who
doesn't get up tee earlY, and doesn't like
days off, but I doubt it,
Then you come to the section headed:
"Resders4Paintlitiy, floroicdpes," Again
some of then are legit,. as legit as a
Calder of this town 'haS rented. hitt farilt
, to Chas. Ailey for five years.
Heare, the well known piano man of
;Clinton, has recently disposed of a car load
of Newcombe pianos,
While out in the country Wm. Cudmore
bad a slight mishap. He and his son came to
ttbeech tree and they tied their horse to the
fence and started to gather nuts. The horse
,ttroke away and started off at a lively gait
and collided with a telegraph pole.
John Bulger has purchased the west half
of the double house belonging to Mr. J.
McLaren on Market Street,
The beautiful weather of the past week
has been, agreeable to the politicians and
everYtingeflsoe,
J.Martinthe old Hannah farm, West of
Egmondville, shipped a car load of sugar
beets grown on his. farm to the Berlin
factor,
Wm. Graham of Clinton, Inspector for the
Berlin Sugar Company has in his possession
4 sugar beet grown by Thos. Newson of
Brussels which weighed 71/2 pounds.
• W,R. Davis, editor of the Mitchell'
Advocate, was in town on Thursday. M.Y.
McLean of the Expositor and Mr. Davis were
office mates in Ayr and their friendship has •
never grown cold.
OCTOBER 18, 1929
Miss Alice Archibald of town has leased
her residence on Goderich Street east to P.
Berm of London.
• Henry Henderson had the misfortune to
fall from an apple tree in Egmondville and
• badly injured his foot.
Qscar Ducharme Jr. has sold:.his 95 acre
farrnonthJeamBeisMueWasasete!•
highway417ay to his
neighbour
Edgar Butt of Kippen is having a fine new
cement veranda put on the front of his
general store which will improve its
• appearance. '
•
The oyster supper and concert held in
• Carmel Presbyterian' Church, Hensall was
• quite largely attended. Rev. J. Mcllroy gave
a short address, Miss Kathleen English as.
reader and Willy Bell, comedian of London,
• delighted the audience' after the supper.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Dorrance, McKillop,
were taken by surprise when members of
Edelweis • Rebekah Lodge called at their
home to wish them happiness in their
•wedded life. A few happy hours were spent
in euchre. Roy McGeoch captured the first
• prize, Mrs. Haigh lone hands and Mac
• McKellar.. the consolation.
-
•At the annual meeting of the Ontario.
Medical Assocation in Woodstock, Dr, F.J.
Ourrtnvs of town was elected as n Nice,
Clx4Sensafoelirlrb. Lawn *WHIM Club had., a
successful MOT' and dance in the OWVA
club. rooms. The winners at euchre were
ladies first - Mrs, T.G. Scott; lone hands,
Mrs, Eartlielk owns first,W.G. Willis; lone
hands, W.R. Smit; lucky ticket Mrs..
O'Neil.
An interesting and pleasant event took
of
FPolarceestand lyof S
when foMrnr;crandMresa. :fa% therf:L°englett
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thgAirpp•56oitntIt'nwtICIrt4ic9n)fgBiEaRnnn2ei2vw,eilrsp9a5orsit. master in
Seaforth was announced when Frederick E.
Willis was sworn in office. Always active in
the Middlesex Huron Regiment, Mr, Willis;
enlisted soon after the outbreak of war and
served overseas from June 1940 to October
1945.
Anew slate ef officers elected to the
Men's club of First Presbyterian Church
includes: 'president, James A. Murray; vice
president! Scott Cluff; secretary -treasurer
• K.1. McLean and executive Ross Hamilton,
Elmer Rivers, Wm -Ball and Keith Sharp.
Seaforth assessment has increased to
$87,290 it was revealed at council Friday
-evening, when assessor W.E. Southgate
presented the roll for. 1955,
The Home and School met in the; public
School and Miss Mabel Turnbull introduced
the guest speaker Miss Rena Fennell,
• A bale of clothing recently cOmpleted by -
the Seaforth branch of the Canadian Red
' Cross Society was shipped to headquarters
of the Ontario division of Toronto,
• The balance of S300,000 needed to. finance
the erection of the new Court }louse and
County Building in Goderich will be raised
through the issue of debentures over a.
period of 5 years, necessitating an annual
• levy of 1.2 milles.
Matthew Armstrong, former well known
-Hullett- resident now -living. . in Seaforth?
celebrated his 90th birthday.
Ernployee s and friends of General Coach
of Canada at Hensall were guests of the
Company at a turkey dinner and dance in
xeter. Over 100 were in attendance and
each lady was presented with a cersage.
Over 300 attended a reception in the
Seaforth Community Centre in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Mervyn Godkin, newly weds.
They were presented .with a ;Studio couch,
platform rocker and apurse of money, Irwin
Johnson read the address. and Roy Elliott
made the presentation.
• Two hundred persons enjoyed a turkey
buffet dinner sponsored by. .the. Fireside
group of First Presbyterian Church,
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
•
So what if t
• It's the time of year most sports haters
•cry the most. They loOk in vain through the
television listings trying to find their
regular programming. Instead; they see
• only baseball, football and hockey. And
• they groan.
It is fashionable to dislike sports. To
dislike sports some people .feel puts them
On a level above the common herd. They
can look down on the people who go out to
football or hockey games as beer guzzling,
boorish neandrathals who can hardly speak
-three words in a row without tripping over
their tongues. Of course' this kind of one'
track mind is prevalent on the opposite side
• of the picture too as those who see sports
• as syinbolie of virility' and manhood and
• think,those who enjoy art', 'musicj or theatre
as long haired hippie creeps with question-
-able sexuality.0 •
One of the greattins Of televized sports
for the "serious" people is when, it
dislodges the oational, news for a few
tminu;tes, to show the end of a game. How
ridiculous. The Vevision news boys
'charge that so/nettling at important as the
news should be delayed fora football or
• baseball or hockey gante. Surely the world
will come to an end if we don't see '
Knowlton Nash exactly on time.,
They're right of course about one thing.
Sport is meant for playing, not watching,
The "thinkers" in our society feel even
that is below them. 1 remember back to my
college days wh n in first year we were
supposed to have a compulsory physical
'education period just once, a week. It -was
joke 'as three,quarters of the students
found some excuse notto go. For them the
idea of a good mind and a good body just
didn't go tOgether;
I pity them. They really didn't know. .
what they were missing, Most of us, even
those who tised to play sports but have
grown up and left it behind, don't .know
what we're missing. It ca back to me
with a flash of recognition the other day
when I was Watching a baseball game on
television. The sittlatien' was tense. The'
game could be on the line. A ball was hit. A
great play was made, The batter was out
And across the field a player who wasn't
even involved in the play himself lept three
feet in the air in jubilation. For me the
instant connection was. Made, I remember
that feeling. A feeling unlike anyether you
can mune,
•
• The 1970+s have beefl a generation Of
getting back t� fitness of running, jogging
and playing ganieS, but still a large
proportion of the population looks down on
anything physical. They re out for the
there fortune-teller can be. But are some
intriguing ones: "Mrs, Selma will help you
in all problem's of life. No problem so small
that she cannot solve (How about big.,
ones?). One visit will convince you."
Hanky-panky? Sure sounds like it.
But . that is kid stuff, only mildly
titillating, compared with. the sick,
arrogant; lonely, blunt, no -holds barred
medicine that comes tinder the heading:
Companions Wanted. This is 'where the
real meat of the "Personal Column" is,
and I imagine an inveterate reader skint'
the masseuses and the fortune tellers
quickly, and gets. ,down to peering into
private lives.
When 1 was in the weekly newspaper
business, there was the occasional pathetic
guy who would come in to the office and
place an ad: "Successful young farmer,
good farm, stock,. house, seeks partner
• interested in matrimony. Write, Box
220B."
It was pathetic- becaUse we knew the
guy. He was 53, ugly. His farm was sixty
acres, mostly second -second -growth bush
and pasture, His "stoek" Consisted Of two
pigs. four chiekens, and three Mangy cowS.
His "House" was a shack without
plumbing, heated by a pot-bellied stove.
He never received an answer, but would
come in once a week for two menths,
asking for the mail from Box 22011.
But these city slickers are a lot more
subtle and tough. I'll give you a few
examples that curdled me a bit, The egos
are"Professionalfantastiman, married,
mid,thirties, seeks married Woman for
afternoon or &ening Meetings." How
would you like to be his wife?
"Gentleman, kib, owner, lives
in new apt, seeks charming,attractive iady
to shafe 1.' , life with." N6 Menden of
marriage.
"Middie-aged business man seeks
younger male companion.' ' Well.
"Sophisticated. gentleman, creatiVe
type, Seeks the pleitAire Of sensuous
woman 30.45. If an Citing affair with all
appreciative male is your style, send
snapshot and Ohne to. HO could
be 80. >1•
But it's not all Men, 'Lady. ILC.03
(Continued Olt Page 3)
he news is late?
pleasures in life..Pleasure seeking leads to
a new emphasis on good food, on alcohol;
on drugs and on all kinds of information on
how to getthe most pleasure firm sex. Yet
these people ignore sports which has
• pleasures to equal any Of the other thrill.
A team sport provides the opportunity
• for both individual and community fulfill-.
Ment. The player Whoa lept in the air at the
• play .of another member of his team
probably got more sheer joy out of
• watching the play than he did in participat-
ing in one. Yet: he also has the thrill of '
doing well himself and knowing that hea
achieved not only for himself but:for the
other members of his team. Thcise players
learn to work with each other to depend on
each other, even if they may not even like
each other away from the playing field.
• Team sports provide a greatlesson for
anyone. Making our world work depends
• on working together towards a common
•goal despite our personal differences. This
• is most easily seen in sports where the goal
is so visible; so obvious. On ,a good team,
players are brought more closely together
• than in any situation outside the family
except perhaps when soliders are under
fire at war. In fact there's a great similarity
between sports and war. They both bring a
sense of dedication, of discipline. Sports,
of course bring happiness instead of death
• and bloodshed. It has the benefits without
the hardships.
• Something that is often derided in spirts
.• is the competitiveness. Players Compete
with themselves and with others. They
constantly drive themselves to do better so
they can reach the goal of winning the
game, Yet what's different from the
painter, the writer, the dancer? Don't they,
drive themselves to try to de better? Don't
• they all dream of being "the greatest"?
Competition is what improves thevvorld.
Misplaced competition causes problesns to
• be sure. The hockey coach who is scr
• competitive he drives his players to foul the
opposition is not different from the dancer
in a ballet company who plays politics to
get a good part. Competition is part of
human beings. Like most things about
humans it has its good points and its bad.
Sport is, in effect, a reflection of
humanity,. its good points and its bad. It
can teach us a lot about ourselves and our
world if we'll only take tittle to play and the
watch.
Sport is, in effect, a reflection of
hunianity. its good points and its bad. It
can teach us a lot about ourselves and our
world if well only take tithe to play and to
watch.
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