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The Citizen, 2015-05-07, Page 23THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015. PAGE 23. Recently returned from the trip of a lifetime are Betty Hulley and Ken Carnochan and Betty’s children and their spouses. Eleven in all visited Scotland tracing Betty’s family’s roots. They left Wingham on March 31 and returned on April 11. Betty’s great-grandfather, George Addison, and his wife, Jane Webster, emigrated to Canada about 1850. The couple settled in Bandon, one of those small communities that has ceased to exist now for it was dependent on water power for their mills. Betty, who owns the land of the site now, is able to recognize remnants of the settlement just east of Londesborough off Bandon Line. In the summer of 2014 David and Fiona Addison of Falkirk, Scotland came to Canada to meet Canadian relatives. Addisons have settled in areas of Ontario other than Huron County. The couple spent some time in this area and were given the history and tour of Addison interests by Ken and Betty. There are some of these original Addisons buried at Hope Chapel cemetery. This visit encouraged Betty and plans were soon being finalized to ‘go home’. The group flew into Amsterdam and on to Glasgow, Scotland where they rented two large vans for travelling. Ian and Wayne successfully chauffered the family despite driving on the wrong side of the narrow roads and encountering roundabouts every few miles. They stayed three nights at Dumfries touring the southern part of Scotland. They visited the farm where Ken’s family lived before coming to Canada in 1832. The 400- year-old house, still in the family, has been added to and remodeled and has been a bed and breakfast. On to Falkirk to be reunited with David Addison who acted as tour guide for some interesting travel. They visited Stirling Castle and Edinburgh Castle, along Loch Ness [saw no monster] to Inverness and on to Banff on the North Sea. This is the big farming area of the country and home of the Addisons. Farmers were busy planting their spring crops, mainly barley for the distilleries, and also wheat and canola. Betty remarked that most farms were just 50 acres in size. They visited several cemeteries where Addisons are buried. According to Betty very few of the Canadian Addisons have traced their roots home to Scotland. Daffodils by the millions were in bloom and much larger is size than ours. The weather was sunny and spring-like for their visit but has apparently reverted to cold since they came home according to David. Betty is quite excited about the holiday so be sure to ask her about the trip and to see some of the many pictures they took. John and I met Denise in Stratford on Saturday and she, too, was still excited about it. Regular readers of this space will remember that I occasionally remark at where life has taken one of our village residents. This week I want to tell you where Rob Johnston, son of Jim and Rosemary, spent his winter. Living in London, Rob had driven a truck for Prance Trucking out of Exeter hauling a dump trailer, flatbed or tanker for 11 years when he was encouraged by a good friend, J. J. Hern, to head west. Along with another trucker friend, Vern Zurbrigg, Rob headed for Grand Prairie, Alberta last October where it was rumoured jobs in his field were plentiful and the pay was enticing. Rob landed a job driving a 2013 Mack truck with a pneumatic ‘blow’ tanker and hauling sand for Sand Boys Trucking Ltd. of Fort St. John near the Alaskan border. Temperatures there could fall to -45°C. This company hauled sand for Calfrac Well Services, which used the sand for fracking. Fracking, hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting gas from deep in the earth by creating fractures in the rock. The fractures are widened forcibly by pumping a water/sand mix into the well. This releases the pockets of natural gas. The six types of sand the truckers hauled arrived on site from the United States by rail. Rob had a week of safety training and orientation which included CPR, an H2S sour gas and wildlife recognition. Fireproof coveralls and hard hats were daily attire and medivac units were always standing by. Rob and the other drivers travelled roads developed by Progress Energy to the wells and many times needed tire chains. Because of the steep incline of some of these lease roads, tow cats were strategically located to winch the trucks up the gravel roads 10 feet at a time and over bridges. This work is being carried out in the Rockies after all. Johnston worked seven days a week until mid-March. Sometimes he manned the skid steer or retrieved trucks broken down along the route to the well. Taking a short time out at his parents’ home in Londesborough, Rob, who enjoyed the winter experience, is headed west again to haul gravel up more mountain roads in Red Deer, Alberta for the summer. Speaking of Canada’s north, our son Brent was on a short work assignment in Iqualuit recently and remarked that sitting out on the tundra under the northern lights was a marvelous experience. The Londesborough United faith community lost a valued member on Sunday, April 26. Dorothy Tamblyn had been a faithful member of Londesborough United Church until she took up residence at Huronview a number of years ago. Sympathy and prayers are extended to her family and friends by the community. Martin Wilts has given up his scooter for a few weeks as he recovers from hip surgery last Tuesday. Best of luck with the healing process, Martin. He’ll be looking to get back to coffee time. Continued from page 1 maintain the status with the Ministry of Environment by using it municipally and saving those operational costs.” Deputy-Reeve James Campbell stated that, while he wasn’t against closing the site, he felt there should have been more notice. He said he had already observed illegally- dumped garbage near the site because people thought it was open. Campbell was informed, however, that the site was never intended to open until June. Reeve Neil Vincent said the illegally-dumped garbage would be dealt with accordingly. “We will have staff check and see if they can identify whose garbage it is, because that is an illegal dumping no matter what,” he said. “We had this discussion all through last year. This is an expensive way to handle things. Yes, there is a little extra mileage for those in the south, but, for a lot of years people in the north [of the municipality] had to travel just as far to Moncrieff Road and I think it’s just too expensive.” Councillor Trevor Seip moved to adopt the recommendation with Councillor Brock Vodden seconding. Councillor Ray Hallahan, who has long been opposed to closing the site, said the low use at the site was due to the municipality limiting what could go into it. He said that banning tires, bailing twine and shingles, as well as e-waste, led to the reduced usage. Seip said he did understand that $2,300 was a relatively small amount of money, but that this was what council had promised to do: find efficiencies. Hallahan, however, felt this was the wrong place to start. “I guess this is the start of us cutting services,” he said. “I don’t understand why we would start in East Wawanosh. As it is, we get garbage pick-up bi-weekly.” Council voted to close the site to the public with both East Wawanosh representatives dissenting. Later in the meeting, council approved a motion to have Church bring a report on all the waste and recycling services and cost back to council in hopes of finding efficiencies or ways to enhance services. Landfill site closes Locals trace history back to Scotland on trip Johnston finds success in western Canada Tracing their roots Betty Hulley is seen here with her children on Addison Street, which is located in Port Knockie in Scotland. The family recently went to Scotland for a vacation and to learn a little bit more about their family history. (Photo submitted) Playing the walk The Norm Barlow Band took centre stage on Saturday as the Huron Perth Alzheimer’s Society held its Walk for Memories in Clinton. Dozens turned out for the fundraising event. (Vicky Bremner photo) By BRENDA RADFORD Call 523-4296 PEOPLE AROUND LONDESBORO NEWS FROM LONDESBORO