HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-02-12, Page 88 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Lions kitchen expansion underway
Whitney South
Huron Expositor
Working through layers of dust
and debris, members of the Dublin
and District Lions Club are hard at
work on some renovations to the
Dublin Lions Pavilion.
The club is hoping to finish the
new improvements, which include a
more spacious kitchen and a new
hall floor, in time for their annual St.
Patrick's Day celebrations.
"The kitchen was always pretty
Whitney South Huron Expositor
Lions Mike VanLoon, Don Ruston, Tim Payne and Mery Shewan are just some of the
Dublin and District Lions Club members working on the Dublin Lions Pavilion's new
kitchen and hall floor renovations.
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crowded when we would have
a function with people run-
ning the bar and catering a
meal," said Lion Don Ruston.
"And the floor we have now is
really high maintenance and
not very danceable."
He went on to explain the
work couldn't have gotten
started without the help of a
generous Ontario Trillium
Foundation grant, as well as a
lot of club fundraising and
member participation.
"We're pretty fortunate we
have a Lions Club with a lot of
skilled labour," he laughed.
"Everything's being done in
house, we're all different lev-
els of trades. We have carpen-
ters, a drywall guy, a cement
guy and an electrician all in
the club. It makes scheduling
pretty simple."
The Dublin Pavilion is often
rented out for special events
like weddings, tournaments
and even family reunions.
Ruston said that although the
hall is doing well, anything
the club can do to improve
the facility is always
appreciated.
Frozen Great Lakes not
an invitation for icy walk
Sixty per cent of
lakes are frozen
solid
Debora Van Brenk
QM! Agency
The Great Lakes have become
the great skates — more iced -
over now than at any time in the
past 20 years.
About 60 per cent of the sur-
face of the world's largest clus-
ter of freshwater lakes is frozen
solid. Last year's ice cover
maxed out at about 38 per cent.
Testament to the chill that's
lingered across Southwestern
Ontario, shallow Lake Erie is
icebound except for a tiny sliver
on its north shore.
But don't take that as an invi-
tation to walk, sled or drive its
breadth or length. There are
enough cracks and pops in the
ice, combined with vicious
winds and the occasional Coast
Guard ice -breaker, to make any
attempted cross -lake trek a life-
threatening folly.
In Lake Huron, there's open
water in the middle of the lake
as well as near the east and west
sides of the Bruce Peninsula,
but the shorelines are otherwise
socked in.
Ordinarily, that might mean
an end to the dreaded lake -
effect flurries that draw
moisture from open water and
sweep snow inland, said Envi-
ronment Canada's Marie -Eve
Giguere.
But not this year: Heavy
winds have scudded ice across
any open water and widened
any small cracks into fissures.
"Even when it's frozen up, we
get some moisture through the
cracks . . . resulting in snow
squalls," she said.
And they're not the only
source of moist air, she noted.
An incoming storm from the
southern U.S. "has a good feed
of moisture from the Gulf of
Mexico, an even better source
(of moisture) than the Great
Lakes."
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