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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2014-03-12, Page 5A banner week at St. Anne's St. Anne's School News Claire Gordon Minister of Public Relations This was the last week of school before the start of March Break and the Eagles made sure it was a banner week. The swim team travelled to Brantford on Monday to partici- pate in OFSAA. We are very proud of all our athletes that attended and especially those that placed within the top ten of 'A' level swimmers. Our Boys Hockey team partici- pated at WOSSAA in London on Tuesday and we're proud of their Silver medals. Wednesday was also Music - Fest in London, a competition that our concert band took place in. Overall, they finished with an amazing silver standing in their category. The staff and students came together to celebrate Ash Wednesday as a community. The prayer service was a great way to prepare for Lent, as we focussed on giving to others with student and education activist Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, as our inspiration. On Thursday, students received their interim reports, giving them an indication of how they are doing so far this semester. Staff and students are cur- rently on March Break and enjoying their time off from school. When we return on March 17, we will be getting our Grade lOs ready for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, wishing our drama department all the best at the Sears Compe- tition and our badminton team good luck as they head into their first competition. Parent -teacher interviews will take place Thursday, March 20, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in our gymnasium. Whitney South Huron Expositor Shrove Tuesday at St. Thomas Bob Simpson flips some flapjacks at St. Thomas Anglican Church's Shrove Tuesday dinner on March 4. Guests enjoyed pancakes, sausage and all the fixings with some of the proceeds going to the local food bank. Have an opinion? The Huron Expositor welcomes letters to the editor. They must be signed and accompanied by a phone number for information clarification. It is important to note, letters will not be able to be printed without the author's name attached. All letters are subject to editing due to possible space restriction. Letters can be dropped off at the office, mailed or emailed: The Huron Expositor 8 Main St. P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ont. NOK seaforth.news@stuunedia.ca Wednesday, March 12, 2014 • Huron Expositor 5 IN THE YEARS AGONE Firebug investigated in Hensall March 8, 1889 • Rev. William Wye Smith, of Newmarket, whose recent volume of poems has been so favourably received by the press, and who has long been known as one of our Canadian Literateurs, will visit Seaforth in a few days in the interest of his volume. • Messrs. George Turnbull and James Holmes cut on the farm of the latter one day last week ten cords of wood in seven hours. They did not loiter much, or waste much time sitting on their hands. IN The Canada Pacific Manitoba car was at the station here on Thursday of last week and was visited by a large number of people. The display of products was much the same as on former occasions, but people seem never to weary of hearing about Manitoba or looking at anything that comes from there. • Wheat has taken another jump upwards, and as high as from $1.03 to $1.05 has been paid during the present week • The Seaforth auxiliary of the Women's Foreign Mis- sionary Society raised during the past year for mission- ary purposes the handsome sum of $275.47,being an increase of $18.95 over the previous year. • Last Tuesday evening a man who had been imbibing very freely was driving along Kippen Road, Mr. Robert Millis was driving ahead of him and the pole of the intoxicated man's sleigh struck Mr. Mellis on the side of the head and glanced off, otherwise he might have sustained fatal wounds. When spoken to regarding his furious driving, the man got out of his sleigh and wanted to fight, but was unable to stand up under his heavy load. If such men were more frequently brought to justice it might have a wholesome effect on that class of gentry. March 13,1914 • Dear Expositor - I want to say that the two parties who were credited in the prize winning list of Hensall Seed Show as winning first and second prices for seed corn, were not entitled to a prize at all, as their crates exhib- ited were imported from the south. - An exhibitor. • A meeting representative of several of the fraternal societies of the town was held in the Oddfellows hall on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of discussing the matter of improving and beautifying the Maitland Bank Cemetery. II Last summer H.B. Kirkby had the contract of putting in the John Street Sewer in Brussels. On completion of the work he put in a bill of extras claiming he had to dig through rock The council contended there was no rock to call for such payment. He is now threatening a lawsuit to force payment. March 10,1939 • Fire early Friday morning in Hensall completely destroyed a garage and an adjacent frame building containing apartments and offices. The Dashwood and Zurich fire departments assisted local residents to fight the blaze which took hours to extinguish, • Investigation of two Hensall fires which within five days destroyed a vacant residence and five store black of stores in underway. Officials fear that a firebug might be at work in the village. During the second fire on Tuesday night, Chief Leo Hedden located footprints leading to the blazing building of Geiger's Mill nearby. • Elmer D. Bell, president of the Seaforth Athletic Asso- ciation congratulated nine-year-old Neil Beattie, shut- out king of the Bantam League. Of eight games, which his team, the Midgets, have played, Neil has had seven shutouts. • Owners of pistols and revolvers are required by regula- tions to register those firearms with police depart- ments and while registration forms have not been received here, Chief of Police Helmar Snell has received word that the registration must be completed by June 1. • Seaforth and Clinton will try again to break the dead- lock, as Tuesday's game in Stratford resulted in a five all overtime tie. The nearly 2,500 fans who saw the game were almost evenly divided, Clinton supporters talcing the seats on one side of the rink, and Seaforth on the other. There may be a better class of hockey played in other leagues, but it couldn't be any more exciting than the last period of this game. The Colts were leading 4-1 at one time, but the Beavers over- came the lead to go in front 5-4 only to lose it to Clin- ton with just about two minutes to go. Feb. 27,1964 • Tuckersmith council was urged Tuesday to take action to curb speeding and dangerous driving through Egmondville when a largely signed petition was pre- sented by Mrs. Charles Geddes and Mrs. Ivan Carter. The petition also south council action in providing additional street lighting and warning signs. • Word was received Thursday morning of the sudden death in Florida, where he was vacationing, of Mayor Earl Dinsmore, following a heart attack. No further details are available. • Tuckersmith area board and members of Tuckersmith council visited recently built district schools at Walton, Brussels, Turnberry and Howick on Friday. • McKillop council is continuing negotiations in an effort to recover the coast of repairing township roads damaged as a results of detours made necessary by Seaforth sewer work a year ago. • Seaforth curlers were in top place at a bonspiel held at Clinton RCAF Curling Club when eight ladies' rinks from the district took to the ice. March 8.1989 • The Huron County Board of Education and the Huron public school elementary teachers have ratified a new two-year collective agreement. The teachers voted to ratify the tentative settlement on Feb. 21 at a meeting at the Goderich Township Hall in Holmesville, and the Board ratified the agreement at its regular meeting on Monday, March 6. • Jim McIntosh, an egg producer from Seaforth has been elected by the 75 egg producers of Huron County as their Director to the Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing Board. Mr. McIntosh replaces Past Chairman, Bill Scott, who will be stepping down from the Board at the end of March. • In a special meeting called for Thursday, Seaforth Town Council endorsed a motion from its Economic Development committee that approves the proposed highway commercial development project of John Hart. The development, which calls for the relocation of Hart Ford Mercury from South Main Street, Seaforth to that portion of land posted to the west of the Freeze King on Highway 8 in McKillop Township, also calls for five other projects - most already on the list of permit- ted uses for highway commercial land. • The Seaforth-based snowmobile racing team, Team Fun, had another successful season in 1988-89. One driver on the team, Bill Anderson of Seaforth, turned professional this year, and his partner John Munn of Hensall won a snowmobile. • Two young ladies from Hensall were winners at the Huron County Public Speaking championships in Clinton. Victoria Bisback was the Senior first place winner with her speech on Ben Johnson and the Ana- bolic Steroid controversy, Lisa Campbell, also from Hensall was third in the Junior Division with her tallc on the subject of her father.