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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-01-01, Page 5Wednesday, January 1, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com letter to the editor Thank you from the Christmas Bureau Dear Editor, Thank you just doesn't seem to be enough to say to the individuals, businesses and groups who supported the Huron County Christmas Bureau. The support shown at the bureaus in Wingham, Seaforth, Clinton, Exeter and Goderich was incredible. Each year, I continued to be amazed at the generosity of people in Huron County in helping to make a difference in a child's Christmas. Thank you also to the parents and caregivers who register in order to have a hand in making Christmas a little less stressful and a little more Merry. I would also like to thank our sponsors of the program: Huron -Perth Children's Aid Society, Home Hardware Stores, Blackburn Radio and Platinum Powersports. Without your contributions we would not be nearly as successful. Lastly, I thank all the 400 -plus volunteers who make organizing and implementing the Huron County Christmas Bureau possible. It is because of your untiring efforts that we assisted almost 500 families and their 1000 children. Thank you for experiencing the joy of giving and receiving. Merry Christmas, Barb Hogan Chairperson Huron County Christmas Bureau Paul McGrath for the Expositor Making merry at the manor Holiday cheer was in the air as Maplewood Manor hosted their Christmas open house Dec. 7. Front row, left to right; Santa Claus, Katie LaLiberte and Mrs. Claus. Second row, left to right; Melanie McGrath, Mary Wareing, Kathy McNichol. IN THE YEARS AGONE Rifles and bells ring in New Years 1889 Jan. 4,1889 • Hensall notes - At a few minutes before 12 o'clock the tolling of the John A. Mitchell church of England bell announced that the old year, with all its checkered scenes of joy, pain and pleasure, was dying out, while just at twelve, and a few minutes thereafter, the merry chiming of the same bell, accompanied by the booming of our cannon, in the form of guns and rifles, proclaimed and usher in the glad new year, with all its hoped for joy. • The magistrates of Huron County returned a total of 79 convictions for the quarter ending Dec. 11. Of this number, 17 were by the mayor of Goderich, 7 by Seaforth magistrates, 8 by Clinton, 10 by Wingham and the bal- ance more or less scattered. • The following is a statement of the result of the nomina- tions as far as we have heard: Seaforth - Robert Wilson and F. Holmested for mayor. D.D. Wilson and A. Strong re-elected Reeve and Deputy Reeve respectively by acclamation. • There was skating on the rink for the first time this sea- son on New Year's Day, and the crowd of young folks out shows that this healthful recreation is not going out of fashion yet. Jan. 16,1914 • Old Jack Frost got his work in good shape during the past week and made up for former remissness. The blizzard, which started on Sunday night and blew out about mid- night Monday has drifted the county roads pretty badly in places, and the mercury dropped to ten below zero on Tuesday morning and was about the same Wednesday morning. However, things have moderated nicely since and we are now enjoying nice winter weather with fair sleighing and good skating and curling. Jan. 6,1939 • A suggestion that the Provincial Plowing Match be held in Huron in 1940, which has been advanced on several occassions during the past year, will be definitely consid- ered at a meeting to discuss this issue to be held in Clin- ton Saturday afternoon. The plowing match, interna- tional in its scope, has never been held in Huron. • The Seaforth Beavers opened the intermediate "B" sche- due on Thursday by defeating the Goderich Sailors to the tune of 12-2. The revamped Beaves played the brand of hockey for which the fans have been waiting for a number of years. • A.W. Dick was elected Chief of the Seaforth Fire Brigade at the annual meeting Tuesday evening. He succeeds E.J. Box who has served a number of years and who presided at the meeting. • Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are scheduled to spend an hour in Stratford on June 6, according to an official itinerary made public in Ottawa Tuesday night. They will spend the night ont their train somewhere between Stratford and London. Jan. 2,1962 • Winners in the best decorates homes competition were announced last week by Chamber of Commerce presi- dent W.M. Hart. For the first time, this year the commu- nity was divided into three zones with a winner in each zone. The prize in each case was an electric blanket. The winning residents are Lester Leonhardt of Coleman Street, Wes Coomvs of Egmondille and J. Boussey of James Street. • When he opened the foor of his Welsh Street residence early Friday morning, Grant McClinchey found the inte- rior to be 011 fire. Within minutes the entire building was a mass of flames. The house was empty at the time. Fire Chief John F. Scott estimated the loss at $6,000 including contents. Nothing was saved, he said. • There was keen interest Monday afternoon when nearly 150 McKillop voters crowded the Winthrop Hall for the annual township nominations and ratepayer's meeting. When nominations were closed at two o'clock by retur- ing office J.M. Eckert, a total of nine nominations had been filed for five offices. Jan. 4,1989 • • • • It was a dismal New Years for 209 employees of Hensall's General Coach who were locked out after rejecting their employer's final offer to settle a collective agreement. The employees, about 20-25 of whom are from Seaforth, are still in high spirits, but are preparing for a long picket line vigil. A Goderich man was arrested on Seaforth's Main Street and police seized approximately $1,500 in drugs. The arrest and seizure came as the resultof an investigation conducted across Huron County by Stratford RCMP. Plain clothed RCMP officers made the arrest in front of Keating's pharmacy, and several employees of Main Street businesses witnessed the incident. Seaforth's Stedmans store will be closing at the end of January, but will be re -opening in March with a new look and under new ownership. Don and Pat Deighton, who have been the owners of the Main Street business for the past 14 years, are giving up the store. The Huron County Board of Education and its elemen- tary school teachers are back at the bargaining table. The board contacted the teachers, who have been without a collective afreement since August 31, 1988, and on Dec. 16 negotiators for the Board and for the Huron Elemen- tary Teachers' Association met.