HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-07-16, Page 1•:".:;1,
Seaforth Main Street will be
reserved for pedestrians here to
celebrate when the recently coit-
al, • pleted street is officially opened
next week.
Seaforth Council Monday night
approved a request from • the
Chamber, of Commerce that the
street.-be closed to motor traffic
on Friday, July 24 and again on
Saturday.
• Appearing on behalf of the
C of C and Merchants; Marlen
Vincent, Ken Lingeibach and Ro-
bert Read told Council of„ the
plans for the three day event.
The opening ceremonies get
under way Thursday evening of
next week when Provincial Trea-
surer Hon. C. S. MacNaughton
and Deputy Highways Minister.
A. T. C. McNab officially open
the Main Street and Egmondville
road as well as the new. Silver
Creek bridge at the Lions Park.
The following day, Friday, a
sidewalk sale festival gets under
way on Main Street and-continues
throughout Saturday. Merchants
are setting up •their displays on
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Shown here are,Mrs. Louise Steen, R.N„ and. Keith J. Pekin.'Mr.
Pekin recently purchased Seaforth Manor, Ltd. from Mr. and Mrs.
Bern Henderson. Mrs. Sloan is the head nurse at.the Mang which will
be converted to a full nursing home with a capacity of 50 patients.
(Staff Photo)
Seaforth Manor
Has New Owners
E. Q. Boswell; Seaforth, chats with Rev: Arthur Mayberry of Goderich, one of the blind guests
in attendance at a picnic held at the Lions Park last 'Wednesday for- the Huron County Cjlapter of
the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Mr. Boswell was the chairman of the. coninittee in
charge of the event. The children in the picture are members of Mr. Mayberry's family.
(Staff Photo)
Blind From, Across Huron
Picnic At Lions Park
Correction
• In a story which appeared in
last week's paper concerning. a
minor accident on Main Street,
the driver of one of the cars in-
volved was incorrectly given as
Bryan liodgert. According to Po-
lice Chief Gordon Hulley, the
driver of the car was DennieHod- , gert.
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Whole No. 5340
111th Year'
First Section Pages 1-8
SEAFORTH ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 16, Iwo
Council Agrees
To Close Seaforth Main Street
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Mr. and Mrs. Bern Henderspn
have announced the sale of Sea-
forth Manor, Ltd. to Mr. Keith J.
Pekin.
Mr.•Pekin and his wife, June,
took over the administration of
the Manor on July 7.
Mr. Pekin explained that new
Vanier . Award
To R. 2 C. Sills
Ronald C. Sills, lawyer, Kit-
chener, was one of 5 people to re- ,
ceive the Vanier award at the
Canada Jaycees National Converi-
tion in Regina on Monday. The
awards, named after late Gover-
nor General Georges Vanier,
were begun in 1968-and are pre-
sented annually to., five outstan-
ding citizens judged by the Jay-
cees to have made noteworthy
,community contributions. He IS
the son of Mrs. C. P. Sills and
the late Mr. Sills of Seaforth.
government regulations require,
on change of ownership, that any
home holding dual.licences, such
' as -the Manor, must revert to
single licence operation. For this
reason, Seaforth Manor is now
licensed -as a full nursing home
only. The former residential pa-
tients' have been transferred,
some returning to the Ontario
Hospital in Goderich and the rest
to other residential homes in the
area. Several of the former rest- .
dents remain at the Manor in its
nursing section as a result- of
being reclassified by the Depart-
ment of, Health as full nursing
care patients. .
Seaforth Manor • was esta-
blished by Mr. and Mrs. Hender-
son in 1965 in the forMer Scott
Memorial Hospital building which
they purchased on completion of
the new community hospital on
Goderich Street.
During their years in town ,
they have made a major contri-
bution tO., the community. Mrs.
Henderson was responsible for
reactivating the Chamber of
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the sidewalks.
Highlighted by a street dance
Friday evening the sidewalk sale
festival will provide popular car-
nival games for all ages and pony
and' merry-go-round rides for
the kids. Band programes with
three hands taking part are ex-
iiected early Friday evening while
the sidewalk sale is in progress.
The stores will remain open until
9 o'clock.
Council agreed- to assist in
making the street ready for the
Sidewalk festival and will provide
and erect necessary snow-fence
and move in benches.
Possibility of a county fair
was raised as Council considered
a request from a delegation re-
presenting the Seaforth Agricul-
tural Society.
Answering -a query from
deputy reeve W. Cuthill, John
Murphy said the Department had
been making enquiries that could
mean a move in the direction of
one central fair. He added that if
such a decision was made there
should be- a good chance that the
fair would be located in Seaforth.
"Seaforth is the only class 93'
fair in the county and we have a
large property which we owh."
he said.
-Larry Wheatley who, with Mr.
Murphy, formed the delegation,
asked Council members to advise
the society of any suggestion they
may have as to how the fair could
be improved.
No Change
In Hibbert.
Tax Rates
The 1970 Hibbert Township
mill rate will be the same as in
1969, Council decided at the July
meeting. The enabling by-laW will
.be prepared setting out all rates
after a decision is made on the
Mitchell High School mill rate
and the former Dublin Continua-
tion School levy.
A grant of $125.00 was au-
theifzed for the Mitchell Agricul-
tural Society for 1970.
" A resolution was passed au-
thorizing the Mitchell, Fullerton,
Logan and Hibbert Planning
Board to engage Phillip Planning
& Engineers, Burlington, to draw
up a Planning Area and prepare
by-laws acceptable to the Depart-
merit of Municipal Affairs, the
cost to be divided among the mu-
nicipalities involved and not to
exceed the sum of $7,750.00.
The report on the 'Ausable
River Drain repair has been re-
ceived from Usborne Township
and will be read July 28th, to-
gether with a report on the Mel,
Dougall Drain Works.
Road accounts in the amount of
$31,200 were ordered •paid which
included ' $7,164 for chloride,
$6,035 as first payment on bridge
at Con. 2 and 3-and $7,970 for
road construction.
Payments on the Templeman,
McKaig and Laing Drains were
also ordered paid, plus $7,490
in general accounts.
Council approved a grant of
$500, the same as last year.
A revised by-law to provide
for financing a proposed sewage
disposal plant which the Ontario
Water Resources Commission is
to erect for the town was ac-
cepted.
Revision became necessary
when the 0.W.R.C. questionedsp-
plication of frontage rates to va-
cant land and which under an ear-
lier by-law adopted two months
ago would have raised approxi-
mately 0)0. In the revised by-
law this amount as well as other
adjustments have been provided
for, although the basic principle
of a charge of double the water
rate for all users is continued.
Dog control, long a problem
in Seaforth, continues to present
difficulties Cduncit learned Mon-
day night as it considered a re-
port by Councillor Robert Dins-
more, Chairman of the Protection
to Persons CoMmittee.
A recently appointed dog cat-
' cher - or animal control officer
as the by-law describes him -on
a recent visit to town had dis-
covered a dog at• large, followed
it to a house and subsequently
charged the owner of the hciuse
under the town by-law.
The problem was, Mr. Dins-
more told Council, that the
dog had not gone to its own house
and that thg person charged did
not own a dog at all.
",He should be sure of the
owner before he lays a charge,"
Councillor MacDonald commen-
ted. "If he doesn't know the
owner, he should put the dog .in
the pound."
This doesn't always work
either Councillor Dinsmore poin-
ted out and told about another
dog that had been apprehended
and 'placed in the dog pound which
later 'had escaped - presumably
A 19-year-old McMaster Uni-
versity student from McKillop
was killed about 10:30 p.m. Wed-
nesday when he was crushed by a
car against the front of his stalled
',pickup truck on the River Road,
three 'miles west of Chatham.
Raymond R. Whale was puttink
a chain on the front of his truck
which was to be pulled by a car
parked a few yards in front of him.
Bother vehicles were facting east
in the west-bound lane.
A car driven by-Harvey Mi-
chaud, 23; of R.R.1., Paincourt,
travelling west from Chatham,
swerved partially off the road to
avoid the Car and then swerved
back onto the road where Mr.
Whale was struck.
Well known in this area, he
was son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Mott of Family Paradise Camping
In addition to the direct charge,
the by-law provides a levy of 1.12
mills in the general rate.
Adoption of a part lot control
by-law was deferred to provide
time to reconcile the proposed
by-law with legislation effective
July 1 and providing for part lot
control on a province-wide basis.
Council adopted a sub-division
control by-law as recommended
by the planning board.
A proposal from Barrie
asking for support in opposing
tax exemption privilege enjoyed'
by universities and community
colleges met with little sympathy
when Reeve J. A. Flannery pointed
out the benefits which such in-
stitutions bring to a nainicipality.
rescued by persons ma;,nown.
"The t,dog catcher doesn't try
to catch them. He follows them
and ,then finds who the owner is
and charges him." Councillor
Dinsmore said. Other Council-
lors recalled. an instance where a
16 year old dog had been followed
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Recieve More
Bike Plates
Members of the Optimists
Club will continue their bike
registering program at the town
hall Monday evening at 7:30 p.m.
When the event was announced
several weeks ago the response
was so great that within an hour
the supply of plate's was exhausted,'
Registration was postponed until
an additional supply could be ob-
tained.
The new plates are here now
and the Optimists will be ready
Monday evening when they hope
• to complete the program.
Park, .R.11.4., Walton, in McKil-
lop.
He had left the McKillop park
that morning on an errand in the
Chatham area where the -family
had lived before coming to Mc-
Killop.
An outstanding student, he was
born in Chatham and since the
establiihment of the camping
park had been active In its ma-
nagement.
Besides his parents he is sur-
vived by a. brother and sister,
Linda and James, and by grand-
mothers, Mrs. Thelma Mills of
McKillop and Mrs. Len Lewis of
Chatham. •
Funeral services were con-
ducted in Chatham on Saturday
and burial followed in Maple Leaf
Cemetery in that city.
The Seaforth • Lions Club
played host to the Huron County
Chapter of the Canadian Institute
for the Blind, Wednesday, at the
Celebrates
80th Birthday
With their 80th birthdays but
four days apart, Mr. and Mrs.
John Pethick of Winthrop agreed
on one event to mark the two oc-
casions.
The joint birthday party was'
held Sunday at the home of their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Rapson, in McKillop,
. and featured a family dinner at-
tended by 18 members.
Mr. Pethick is the son of the
late Richard Pethick and liveson
the farm on which he was born
on July 14th, 1890. Mrs. Pethick
is the daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs: John Oldfield and she was
born in Tuckersmith on July 18th,
1890.
Their family consists of, one
son, George, of McKillop, and two
daughters, Mrs. H. J. Rapson and
Mrs. Leslie Pepper of McKillop.
Lions Park for a sports day and•
picnic. Several events were held
to entertain and amuse the guests
while their, picnic dinner was
being prepared.
About- 50 people were present
for the event. Each blind person,
was escorted by a sighted com-
panion. E. C. (Ned) Boswell,long
time chairman of the Lions Club,
Sight Conservation committee
said he was, disappointed that in-
clement weather had reduced at-
tendance and activities at the pic-
nic, but- was overwhelmed by the
gratitude of those who were able
Present
Awards
At HCS
A feature of the recent senior
banquet at Huron Centennial
School, was the presentation of
awards to a number of students.
These included:
French - Beth Bioome, Eg-
mondville; runner-up - Audrey
Gingerich. Music - Audrey Gin-
gerich, Zurich;.. rainier-11p, -
Randy. Wilson, Brucefield. Best
all-round 'girl - Jackie Koene,
.Bayfield; runner-up - Karen
Brandon, Kippen. Best all-round
boy - John Kinsman; runner-up -
Tim West, Bayfield.'High Acade-
mic girl - Cheryl Webster;
runner-up - Kathy Logan, Bay-
field. High academic boy -,Brian
Finnigan, Egmondville;. runner-
up - Jack Porter, R.R. Clinton.
to make, it.
Among those who were pre-
sent were Larry Snider of Exeter,
who is , president' of the Huron •
COunty Chapter of the C.N.I.B.
and Jack Clements, who Is the
Institute District FieldBecretary
for the counties of Huron, Mid-
dlesex and Perth.
Mrs. Velma Miller catered to
the picnic. -
Miss Agnes HaVerkamp,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Haverkamp of R.R.#1, Clinton,
graduated from Stratford Tea-
chers' College. She has accepted
a position in the Dutch Christian
'Reform School, inSarnia,
Seaforth Dogs Cause
Council Problems
McKillop Resident
Is Traffic Victim
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Produce First Mobile Home Unit in New Boise-Cascade Factory at Henson
Officials and employees of
Boise-Cabcade Horne -and Land,
Ltd., in Hensel]. Tuesday 'after-
noon, pose in front of the first
unit produced in the new plant at
the South-West corner of Hensall.
The unit is ,a three hedrooM mo-
bile home which measures 60 ft.
by12 ft. It is destined for sale in
'Sudbury. (Staff photo)
The first unit to be produced
„at Boise .Cascade's new mobile
home plant in Hensall was com-
pleted Monday.
At the same time as the firdt
home rolled off the assembly line,
Boise Cascade announced that the
company had been successful In
bidding on a tender to supply the
Douglas Point atomic power de-
velopment project with 18 dorMa-
tory units capable of housing 20
Men each. These units will be
built in Hensall.'
The first unit produced at the
new plant measures 60 'feet by
12 feet and is fully equipped and
'furnished. It has a •living area,
Combined dining room and kit-
chen, complete bath facilities
and three bedrooms. The first
three units produced are all hea-
cad for Northern Ontario, where
Kingsway Trailer Sales will mar-
ket them in Sudbury, North Bay
and Sault Ste. Marie.
Howard Kirby, the Manager of
the Hensel' operation, said that
although the new plant is cur-
frentlyproducing about one unit a
day with thirty-five employees,
the company hopes by late fall to
be producing eight units a day
with full staff of 150 men. They
are currently aiming to produce
three units a day, in all lines,by
SepteMber 1st. '
In addition to the single unit
mobile homes, the Hensall plants
are geared to produce almost
, anything in the factory-built,field.
One new line which will be intro-
duced shortly, is composed of
two large units which are joined
at the site to form a more Derma-
:lent structure than the single unit
dwellirig, but one which is still
easily relocatable.
Mr. Kirby said that Boise
Cascade, which is the largest
producer of housing in the world,
is also very interested in the de-
velopment of mobile units for
commercial purposes as well as
for private dWellingi. This would
include such things as motel
units, portable school class-
rooms and kitchen, dining and
sleeping units for large construets
Lion jobs.
The' units for Douglas Point
are'part of this policy of diversi-
fication.
Gary Cramer, the Sales Rep-
resentative for the Hensel'
operation, said the nucleus of men
needed to start production in the
new $1,000,000 plant were picked
from employees at the number'
one plant -on the north edge of
Hens , alc formerly General
Coach. e said that the company
will be hiring in the fall to bring,
'their work force up to a maxi-
mura of 300 men - 150 in each
plant.
According to Mr. Kirby, 13olse
Cascade is also very interested
in participating In a pilot pro-
ject for this area in which they
Would • help develop a complete
mobile home park with all faci-
lities, similar to those which are
springing up across the .United
States.
The official opening of the new
plant, Which is located in the
South-West corner of Hensall, is
scheduled for some time in
August. Mr. Cramer expressed
hope that officials from all levels
of government would be in atten-
danee at that time,
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