HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-02-20, Page 1. Ready For "ice-Nicks '69"
Members of the Seaforth Figure Skating Club are hard at work preparing for the club's
19th annual winter carnival "Ice-Nicks '69", which this year is being held in the arena Sunday •.
afternoon. This year's production is under the direction of Mr. Bruce Brady. Some of the young,
performers are shown here at a rehearsal as final details for the carnival are being worked out
They are Tracy Baker, Barbara Chesney, Barbara Brady and Margaret Sills; (kneeling) Jayne
Baker and Corrie Habkirk. (Staff photo by Haley), '
Relate Travel Experiences
While Touring gurope
Single CoPie'i, 12,. Cents
.00 4,YeaT:i4 AdVanae
• •• ....• •
• Is104..:309 -Skaterg streamed
040 'at the•-: Seaforth
areaealada..Y •4401"14#.*Er4.11k Sills led tn:Te:*47.1w,.4 fund-
miPirkk.0c404449# which rais-
ed -*Ver. 42;200,-In"•Pledgetribd
donations.
The.;. Sitatft 25* • of which
completed the full, 10 hours,
were sponsored for each minute
they stayed on the ice, A num-
ber of skaters had more than
20' sponsors.
..The skate-a-thon was organ-
ized by the boys' and girls'
committee of the Seaforth Lions
Club 'and money raised will go
to_ renovate the Boy Scout and
Girl Guide hall. Chairman for
; the event was Ed Taylor.
Tales of blisters and sore
Muscles atid even -worn out
socks were common on Monday
tcarniag, • although no --injuries
or accidents were reported.
Seaforth police constable John-
Sirmanion, ,laced on his. skates
at 1 p.m. and •his wife took over
for him a few hoifts later when
he began hip ,shift. She was
one of 25 who were still skating
at 11 p.m.
Mayor Sills, who earned $11
in two hours returned to the
Ice for the last hour to join his
three daughters who completed
the skate-a-thou.
Ross Govier, son:of Mr. and
Mrs. RolArt Govier, Seaforth,
accumulated the most money,
earning $87.60 for -the Scout
Hall.
Bill O'Shea, Jr., son a 'Al'. and Mrs. Wm. O'Shea, Seaforth,,
wag second. Be earned $70.00..
Two other Seaforth skaters
were well sponsored. They were
Jeanne DeGroot with $61.50, a
daughter, of Mr, and Mrs. Jes,
eph DeGroot and Susan Kun-
der with $59.20, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kunder.
D'Orlean 'Sills was awarded
the prize for the oldest skater
to participate and three young
toddlers received prizes for the
youngest skaters. They were
Debbie Dinsmore, Shelley Dale
and Lou Strong, all aged two.
The oldest skater to last the
ten hours was Don Wood. Two
seven-year-olds went the dis-
tance. They were Janine Melan.
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. 'is. Melangeni Bekiirtb. and
Joanne daughter;
and Mrs.Trapk§,04...•:--,.
004 0Atfi:s.,to,'COItiplete the
10 hour • marathon. Were ::iRobert'
Beuttenmiller, 11av14e.,W129mt,„
Gordon. Cartiochan, 4,im'Coaper,
Debbie Elliott, James'. Flannery,
Shawna GrahaM.,. G. Groothing,
Kevin , Henderson, Paid, Hulley,
Craig • Maiden,Raedy„',NICCII*,
they, Dianne Ph'dlips,ItaretvRO,
Bier, Marlene Sinnanion,.•4atte
Sills, Margaret • Sills, 4amett
Snowden,. Annie . Stinniasen2
Stephen Southgate, Dawn Wood .
and Randy Wood.• •
Skaters -.participated •• the
event from Seaforth, .Mitchell,
-Walton, Kippen, St. Columban,
' Staffa, Clinton, Goderieh,.•Kit-
chener and Michigan.
Seaforth Skaters :test Endurance at Skate-a-thon
unty Site Best
annum, a reported.' 110*OVO
it met,elear at.thitiitielf the
--Idard.' of education would. be
taxed since it is a county-bady
similar to other• county bodies
not normally subject to proper-
ty taxes iin Goderich.
Cochrane also said the. space.
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rent and Certain otheryexpen.ses.
This could amount to $2,509 per °
the county; availability of cleri- the best play was awarded to
• 'county••ageneles. Uhler_ for lure. .Comes the
Seaforth firemen honored two
former members at their an-
nual banquet at the Seaforth
Legion Hall Tuesday night.
Honor
Former
embers
choal
.r
Fred 'Uhler, 'RR Walton,
was named best actor for the-ft,.
third consecutive year at' the'
Huron County Junior Farmers'
Drama Festival, held in the Sea-
forth District High School audi-
torium.
Mr. Uhler took part' in 'the'
play "Here Comes the Bride",
presented by the Seaforth Jun-
ior Farmers and produced by
Mr. Uhler ,and George Towns-
end, RR 3, Seaforth.
Best actress was Janette Mer-
rill, RR 1, Clinton, a me per
of the cast.of."Nobody, Slees"
presented by the Clinton Jun-
ior Farmers and produced by
Della' Allen, RR Goderich and
Mautms Bakker, .RR 3, Auburn.
Miss Merrill. was commended
for ' her naturalness on stage
and good use of her hands.
The Merton Keys trophy for
Actor
Named
Cue were presented with desk
sets for Mir service with the
Seaforth department.- Mr: Bons-
sey has moved to Clinton vyhile
Mr. McCue is now living In
Stratford.
About 50 firemen and their
• moo were on hand' for the
banquet and -a social hour
which followed.
Mayor Frank Sills expressed
appreciation to the organization
on behalf of the town and Rob-
ert Dinsmore spoke briefly, as
chairman of the protection to
persons and property commit-
tee,
'0,rirtin• Criiinty Board of Edii- • _recommendation' by director Of
eaten members Were taken by eduCation'. John... D.Cochrane,
sniptise • MOnday. erW 8 supervisor. ,James .qtililteri and
Goderieh .adininistotOt. 'Any B.
Pote:tt:nliatb;tqa4040fr TawA, coiriitY.'heard •
ship presented, :Of-tducation offiees be housed
eieved. last Oriday,W.dhairman In the upper 'floor of the new
Jabal .: Clinton, '-which assessment building. •
could
to '
a considerable sav- • In • the . report' made by Mr. ing county ,taxpayers if ap- Cochrane, rent in the prtiposed proved.' ' Clinton site in the nurses', rest-.
Armed with, rough 'sketchei dente would be $9,000 per an-
of a wing in,Ventral Huron See; in Cardno's Hall, Seaforth,
• 7' Midat7 School,Clinton ,Elliott $7,208 per year;. and in the as-
pointed out the advantages to. .sessment building,' $5,000- each
consider the. site as the location. year plus $1,000 annually'. for
for the, board of education of- , five years (or until the lease
flees. • • was broken) to pay for certain
The suggestion came in' tfte office ,furnishings - and some
heat,of discussion concerning partitioing,: , .., •
Other factors: considered in
the director's report were the
distance to meetings for board
members (it. was• noted this
.coUld change.- with each elec- •
SeafOrth Nail ve lion); the distance to schools in
•
George Townsend- and Fred
-LRoderick MacLean,_ superin- While-We site over the assess- R. S. Bousgey and John • Mc- 'TWO plays were present-
dent of Kitchener' and district, ment building was not large and ed this year.
Adjudicator Walter Almes of
the Seaforth. bigtriet High
'School staff fouled the Clinton'
play because some of the cast
did not know their lines, and
the prompting was poor. He
criticized the Seaforth play be-',
cause of., the oldfashioned
clothes worn by the bride,
which he said made it out of
date.
Participating in' the winning
play were Donna Reynolds, Al-
lan Carter, Girvin Wynja, as
well as Mr. Uhler and Mr.
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is Promoted cal staff; and . proximity to
schools, has been appointed as- would afford no board room,
natant director of education for Mr. Cochrane pointed out the
the Waterloo County _Board of board could • continue , to hold
Education. , meetings in the court houSe. '
Mr. illael,ean, a Seaforth na- He admitted this might cause
tire, is the son of .the late Mr. some inconvenience at meeting,
and Mrs. R. MacLean of Eg-
mandville and received his ear-
l.** education at Eginandrille
Selma Seaforth High School ,
and Stratford Teachers' College.
Mr., MacLean was with the
Kitchener 'Amer& for 27 years.
He bonnie an inspector in 1958 He indicated the' board:might
and was, appointed superinten- have to pay 'taxes on the God-
dent -in HO. efich premises in addition to
Directors and officera of the M Mutual Vire In.
littrance:;0ampativ ,were re-eleeted to . office following the an-
viiok, Shown fel/owing the meeting are
(Seated) Ira. Margaret Shalt, SeertittitY-treastiret /Ad istity.
Return.
McKillop
Directors
John H. 'MeEwing, RR 1,
Blyth was eleated, president of
the McMillan Mutual -Fire In-
their annual meeting Friday
afternoon at the Seaforth Town
Hall.
He succeeds Milani R. Peps
per of BrucefieId.
Other officerg are: viee-presi-
dent, 'John Nfoylan, RR 5„- Sea-
forth; Secretary-treggiffer," Ufa.
Margaret Sharp, Seaforth; .dir-
ecters re-elected for.. a three-
year term, Robert Archibald,
RR Seaforth; Allistair Broad-
foot, RR 3, Seaforth; William R.
!-43Optphr
Pepper.
directors are: 'William
S. Alexander, n 2, Walton;.c.
Seaforth Girl
is Runner-up
„Joanne Bode, 11-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don-
ald. Bode was runner-up in the
division finals of, the Legion
sponsored ,public speaking con-
' test held in Exeter on Saturday.
There were 11 contestants in
the event which was, won by
Danny Milne of Kincardine.
Miss Bode was junior winner
in the, elementary division of
the Seaforth Legion sponsored
speaking contest held in Sea-
forth recently.
Welcome 12
Nevi Members
Twelve new members have
recently been Initiated into Op-
timism to Seaforth following
the club's annual membership
drive, bringing the total mem-
bership of the Year-old club to
37.
The new members include
Kenneth R. Campbell, Kenneth
J. Coleman, Joseph P. Czerwin-
ski, Robert Dempsey, Peter De
Coo, A. E. Dick,' Donald C. Ea-
ton, T: L. Habkirk, Hefty F.
Johnston~ Walter A. Scott, Lar-
ry Wheatley and Wm. Smith of
Stratford. '
Jack Durst and Bill MacLean
of Egrtiondvilie who early in
January began a year long trip
through England, Europe and
Asia are well on their way and
in a report from Rome dated
February 2nd, tell their exper-
iences to that time.
This is their report:
After arriving in Wreden-
bruch„ Germany on JanuarT 6
following our flight from Can-,
ads we picked ,up our Volks-
wagen Camper and got on the
road.
Because of the cold weather
in. Northern Europe we headed
South to the Mediterranean
Coast 'through the cities of Col-
ogne, Bonn • and Saarbrucken,
Germany. Across Franeb throu-
gh Meti, Lyon ,and Grenoble.
• We arrived on the warm ceast'a
week after we started; where we
spent a week before travelling
to Italy as far as Naples and on
our way back we have stopped
at Rome for a week. We' then
are going back to the Riviera to
spend a few more day&
On our stop over in Iceland,
we received somewhat of a sur-
trains as well ,as the tiny pict-
uresque villages of Upper Bay-
aria,
Our plans of skiing in' the
French Alps were shattered' by
the fact that there was no snow
and heavy rain .
On the French Riviera we
spent 3 clays camped in Ger-
m - n war rem'ins overlooking
the sea. While here we met en
old French couple „who were
reilly thrilled to meet two Can.
adians. Speaking in broken En-
glish they told us how they hid
a Canadian soldier for 2 months
from the Germans during the
war. As they Were leaving the
wife, in tears, thinking that Can-
ada was a small phice asked us
to find out if he was still Tilling
Having talked with them and
other French people, they ex-
pressed the view that DeGualle
was too old fashioned in his
ways. Others we have spoken to
find Trudeau young and appeal-
ing for a political leader. We,
moved up' the coed to -Nice
where we spent 4 days. Here we
met and talked with University
students and. were surprised to
ed to the warm climate and the
casinos at Nice andNion:cco.
While in Nice we saw part of'
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May Open
New Pits
McKillop Council at its Feb-
ruary meeting authorized Road
Superintendent to seek tenders
for gravel and to interview pit
owners. Council agreed to open
new pits if owners will provide
an access road and complete the
necessary 'stripping.
Council approved a $1500
grant to the Huron Crop and
Soil Improvement Association,
a grant of 435:00 to the Salvat-ion army as well, as a $10.00
grant 'to the Huron Ilisterital
Society. •
WI 3. teeming and Art. And-
Regional Tiniest
preaentatitres *to MODA and 'the
erson Were hinted township re-
"S AgreeMent was reached, be•
tween the Wirt of Emilidon
and assessed land •amens 'le-
galling the Pryce , Drainage
Works.
time in the -event. the board
would request to „•see certain
documents on file, etc, but
Cochrane felt this need not be
a problem because meeting
agendas are planned in advance
of• the actual meeting.
reno. ,,surance Corapaity following The cameraman caught a glimpse of a number Of the
nearly 300' persons wlio donned their skates to participate in •
the Seaforth Skate-a-010m Over $2,200'was Pledged for
rations at the Seaforth Boy Scout Hall (Staff photo by Haley) ' s-.
W. Let:mina*, BR 1, Bornholn;
" IarVeY Feller, RR 2, Goderich; --
Norman . Trewartha, RR 3, Clin-
ton;" J. t McEwing; and John
Moylan.
Major losses by fires and
lightning to buildings and live-
stock and other losses such as
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Finds - Balloon -
On Walton Farm
Robert McMichael, RR 1, Wal-
ton, recently found the remains
of a balloon, dangling from n
tree on his farm.
The balloon carried a card id-
entifying it as an entry in 'the
Glencoe Park Recreation Dis-
trict Ice Carnival of 1967. That's,
Glencoe. Illinois.
The Card identified the own-
er of the balloon as four-year-
old Todd Lasatck of Northfield,
Hlindisi, who had entered the
balloon,hoping to win, a prize
for the -balloon travelling the
farthest distance.
Mr. Matiehsel doesn't 'know
how long the balloon may have prise as 'there was no stiow,but
Director's Are Returned To Offtoi) . ,
Ian; John Metwing, president; Wm. Alexander; C. W. been in the-tree bid he mailed it was -23F. • , was free in Frante. Le6111Ulidt; (standing)' Allister W'ciOdfixt ....trin2 It _'Pepper;...,, back the' card, The yOtingster,.-r, What attracted our attention I~ or the first tithe While being
Nerrnan TreWartnin Had nob Archibald, (Stand photo by Fraley) now aged six, may still receive in Germany was the use of here we Met a few North
a prize.
Amer-
death locomotives and electric lean people who were attract-
find that University education