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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2013-12-04, Page 5Wednesday, December 4,2013 • Huron Expositor 5 Whitney South Huron Expositor The Seaforth Lions Club welcomed three new members during their meeting Nov. 25. Lion Bryan Vincent was sponsored by club president Paul Stephen. Lions Lin and Richard Yeomans were sponsored by Lion Stu Morton. The trio was offi cially installed by visiting Lions District Governor Jim Prenger. (Left to right) Seaforth Lions Club President Paul Stephen, Lion Bryan Vincent, Lions District Governor Jim Prenger, Lion Richard Yeomans, Lion Lin Yeomans and Lion Stu Morton. A busy season of giving for St. Anne's Claire Gordon Minister of Public Relations This week at St. Anne's has been very busy. We welcomed the grade eight students from St. Joe's and St. James to the school on Monday to experience what life is like at St. Anne's. The students got tours of the school, real classroom experi- ences and to talk to grade nine students. Throughout the rest of the month we will be welcoming grade eight students from all of our partnering elementary schools. Call 519-482-5454 if you'd like to experience St. Anne's. Co-op students got the opportunity to show off the work that they have been doing at our co-op career fair this week. Each student had visuals and explanations of their co-op to share with all of the students and staff. Our Grade Twelve stu- dents had Grad photos done while the Grade Tens began doing literacy bytes in order to prepare for the Literacy Test in the spring. This week also marked the second week of the advent project here at St. Anne's. Just a reminder that this year we ask students and staff to bring in winter wear for the com- munity of Kashechewan, new or gently used baby clothes for Room 2 Grow, and gifts for pre -teens and teens for the Christmas Bureau in Seaforth. We encourage everyone to try and bring in as much as possible in order to help those in need this Christmas season. Our Students for Social Justice held a Fair Trade Christmas while our Arts students performed at Celebration of the Arts on Tuesday. Our Me to We India Mission Trip group only has a few tickets left for their Indian Culture Night on December 12th. Call the school to reserve your ticket. IN THE YEARS AGONE New school at Walton to open in 1962 Dec. 7, 1888 • Mr. John Little, of the 13th concession of Hullett, shot a lynx on Tuesday night of last week. It was at his stable when he went out to attend to his horses, and he suc- ceeded in getting it up a small tree and keeping it there till a gun was procured, when he shot it. It is a very large one, weighing over 20 pounds and measuring 5 feet 9 inches. • Mr. Thomas Lapslie had six very fine turkeys stolen from his poultry yard last week. The parties took two on Thursday night, and liking the sample, returned for the other four on Saturday night. Somebody is preparing for Christmas. • There has been a tremendous drop in the price of wheat during the past week. Ninety-eight cents per bushel is now the standard price. Dec. 12, 1913 • All are hoping for good sleighing for Christmas, but it doesn't seem as if it will come. • About two o'clock on Wednesday morning the slumbers of our citizens were disturbed by the sounding of the fire alarm. The fire was found to be in the small house south of the railway track occupied by Charles McNamara. The building was considerably damaged before the fire was quenched by the fireman. • Mr. Robert Barbour, son of Mr. Wellington Babour, of Snowflake, Manitoba, and a nephew of Mrs. George Chesney, of Goderich Street, is here just now from the west. Dec. 2,1938 • When a dog knocked over a lantern as he chased a cat, the resulting fire early Friday evening completely destroyed the large double barn on the farm of William Livingstone, in Hullett Township. • Chief of Police Helmar Snell and County Traffic Officer N. Lever investigated the theft of a car owned by Joseph Quigley, of Clinton. The car was found later abandoned on a side road. Police believe it was the work of practical jokers since nothing was missing out of the car. • William Montgomery, popular Winthrop goalie, was elected President of the Junior Farmers' Hockey League at the largely attended annual meeting held in the Dick House Monday evening. Nov. 29,1962 • Crowds estimated as high as 9,000 packed Seaforth streets Saturday for the fourth annual and the biggest and best Santa Claus parade. • Seaforth voters on Monday chose Councillor Earl Dins- more as mayor. He defeated Mayor Edmond Daly by 44 votes. While there was some activity in attracting voters to the polls, interest on the whole was limited, with but 60.39 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots. III Under construction since last summer, the new Walton Public School will be opened officially next Wednesday night. Pupils moved into the new building Wednesday afternoon when a short ceremony was held and SDHS Principal L.P. Plumbsteel, spoke. Nov. 30, 1988 • Almost 400 elementary teachers filled the chambers of the Huron County Board of Education office on Mon- day night, in an unprecedented action to try and get negotiations between the HCBE and its elementary teachers back underway. Teachers left the board room without reading their statement, which the board has ruled out of order, but outside the building the state- ment was read over a loudspeaker. • The issue of abortion is a controversial one and it affects all of us. With that in mind at Monday night's meeting administration and trustees of the Huron - Perth Roman Catholic separate school board sought a knowledgeable opinion on how to answer students' questions about the controversy. • Mayor -elect Hazel Hildebrand has retained her seat on council, despite a recount undertaken Tuesday morning. The end result, after three hours of counting the ballots, was an increase of one vote recorded in favour of Mrs. Hildebrand and a decrease of two recorded for Mr. Dinsmore.