HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-01-23, Page 1TUG OF WAR WINNERS t-• Shirley Van Loon,
R.R.2, Kipper) hold0he Challenge Trophy .won by
her team from the Chiselhurst Broomball Club in the
Women's Section of the Tug-of-war event Saturday
afternoon at the Seaforth Optimist Winter Carnival.
Pictured with her are Margaret Van Dyke, Marg
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is 'carrying out a construction
program at Victoria School in
Goderich "we would like to see
arrangements, made for the
accommodation of Grades 7 and 8
to be taught at this school."
" In his letter Mr. Bushell had
pointed out at the presentOne all
Separate School children in
Goderich who attend St. mary's
School and living more than one
mile away, are bused to and from
school in the morning, at noon
and after school. "We feel if this
can be done for some children in
our area, it can be done for all,"
he wrote.
R. I I.., Cunningham,
transportation manager for the
board, who had looked into costs
of busing these students. advised
that the quoted price from Huron
Autoniotive and Supply.
Gocr&rich, is $40 per day for a
morning and after school route
around the perimeter of Goderich
(similar to thg .route followed by'
the Huron-Perth County Roman
-CAtholic Separate School Board)
or 60 per day if transportation is,
live Seaforth area young injuries.
people were injured in a single . Bryan Somerville, 17 the driver
car accident on Huron County-lNef the car was:: admitted to
Road 12 south of Winthrop early
Saturday morning.
In Seaforth Community
Hctspital in satisfactory condition
is Mrs. Bryan Somcrville;.18 of
Winthrop with hip and head
hospital with two broken ribs and
a bruised lung. He was Peleased
from hospital on Sunday,
Brian Godkin,19 was admitted
with a broken collarbone and
released on Tuesday.
Alex Robertson, 17 and John
MICKEY MOUSE AND THE MEECES — In a Mickey Mouse number at the Figure
Skating Club's Centerinial Carnival Fridaxriight there were Mickey Mouse fan club
members and some little mice or "meeces", Some of the skaters in the number
were Janice Underwood, Susan Ball, Laura Chesney, Andrea Pinder, Karen Munro
and Janice McCue. (Staff Photo)
Single car crash injures
5 local young people
ALMOST 3 MONTHS IN HOSPITAL — Mary Penne,
16, has spent many long weeks in Seaforth
Community Hospital since she was thrown by a bull
Octbber 28. Mary is continuing her school work
(she's a Grade II student of Mitchell High) from her
hospital bed and is amazingly cheerful. (Staff Photo)
fiord Rimmer heads
Planning Board
Gordon Rimmer was elected
chairman of the Seaforth
Planning Board at the board's
inaugural, meeting Monday
evening. He succeeds Lloyd
Rowat who has served - as
chairman for the past two years.
Vice Chairman is Ken
Lingelbach. The board
re-appointed Ken Oldacre as,
secretary'-treasurer.
Other members are' Dr.
J.O. furnbull, Mr. Rowat' and
council representatives, Mayor
Betty Cardno, Reeve John F.
Flannery and councillor Wayne
Ellis.
Mr. Rimmer also was elected
as chairman of the committee of
adjustment. Vice chairman is Kett
Oldacre. Other members are Mr.
Rowat, Dr, Turnbull and Mr.
Lingelbach. The town clerk am
as secretary-treasurer.
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FIRST WAR WAR VETERAN — Duncan Aikenhead, a
longtime resident of Seaforth;.. since he retired from
his.Staniey Township farm, was 95 on Monday. Mr.
Aikenhead, a First War veteran, was honoured at a
birthday party at Seaforth Manor where he now
lives. (Staff Photo)
Oldest area veteran Duncan
Aikenhead 'celebrated his 95th
birthday on Monday. A resident
at Seaforth Manor. he is in fair
health although confined to a
wheel chair.
Mr. Aikenhead was born in
Stanley Township,. ono of nine
children of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Jamo's Aikenhead.
As a young man he enlisted
early in the First World War and
was wounded on three occasions
before being discharged. •
Following the war lie married
Catherine McDermid and the
couple farmed ' in Stanley
Township until retiring to
Seaforth. Mrs. Aikenheaddied in
1963, q\ brother, Malcolm S.
Aikenhead lives in London but
• was unable to attend the .birthday
event arranged by the Seaforth
Manor staff.
A number of friends called to
extend greetings and he received
many cards. Tea was served when
the staff sang Happy Birthday to
him, Among those who called
were long time friends, Mrs. Ada
Reid and Miss Mabel Whiteman,
'4 A great carnival, all, events
successful",. was the way Martin
Murray, chairman of the Carnival
Committee summed up the 8th
annual Seaforth Optimist Winter
Carnival Sunday evening.,,
A highlight of., the three-day
Carnival "was the snowmobile
McCauley,' Betty Glanville, Caroline Swan, Joan
Steinbach, Betty Stoneman and Georgina-Reynolds.
Genesoo Shoes placed second.ln the Men's tug of
war event Fullarton placed first and a Stanley Tvvp.
team was second. (Staff Photo)
Optimist Winter
Carnival success
--been Ottt'Of traction but still has to
The Huron County Board of
Education is interested in having
a School Health Co-ordinating
Committee established in the
county. The board chairman's
advisory committee was
authorized at as board meeting in
Clinton Monday to ask the
,Executive Committee of Huron
County Council to meet to discuss
setting up the committee. It
would include elected
representatives from each body.
The suggestion to form the ,
Co-ordinating Committee was
made in a letter to the Board by
Dr, G.F.Mills, Medical Officer of
Health for Huron.
Trustee Mollie Kunder of
Seaforth, chairman of Education
Committee said with the,
co-ordinating committee the
board voStbd know ahead of time
of new types of programs
introduced into the schools of the
county, such as the birth control
type of program put into the
schools„ which she learned of
second hand. She said the sooner
/he board and council committees
meet the better..
Trustee Charles Thomas of
Brussels said the Board of Health
in Huron is different than in most
other areas where the Board
covers more than one county or
where there-are separated cities
or towns. -He said in Huron the
Health board is directly
accountable to Huron County
Council only and the two boards
are in a position to co-operate
more fully.
Complaints from parents of
Grades 7 and. 8 students in
Goderich regarding the distance
they have to walk to school to
attend classes at Robinson
Memorial . School was referred
back to the Management
Committee of the Board and the
academic superintendents of
.education for further study. The
parents reel it is unfair for some
of their children to have to walk
more than two miles to and from
school daily in all kinds of
weather to get to that school when
-they have Victoria Public School
in their area with Students up to
Grade 6 only.
Ronald Bushell, representative
for the concerned Goderich rat
epayers, in a letter to the Board
last month stated that all the
children should be bused who
had to walk one mile or more one
way to school and that while the
Huron County Board of Education
lay flat on her back, unable to get
out of bed.
About ten days ago Mary got
out of bed for the first time and
was able to ride around the
hospital corridors in a wheel
chair. "I got out about 3;30 and
didn't get back into bed 'till about
9", Mary says, "I wanted to
make it worth my while.-
Broke
A" nurse explai niSe
Leg
the jolt
from the bull broke Mary's leg at
the thigh bone, an area that can't
be held in place by a cast. The
frame .and weights that held
Mary's leg up for so many weeks
were necessary to keep the upper
leg still until new bone" could form
around the, old break while the
fractures were held in place.
The frame was taken off when
enough callous formed to hold the
fractured bone together. Mary
has had physiotherapy since then
and she can now move her injured
leg, slowly. She doesn't know yet
when she'll be ',able to go home
but says there's been some talk
of a walking cast that will extend
right up her, leg. For awhile
though, she'll be confined to a
wheelchair.
Mary is'in enthusiastic, lively
girl with a lovely smile. She
doesn't refnember much of her
-first month in hospital because
the pain then was pretty had. But
the weeks confined to bed since
then, enough to depress a person
much older and less active than
Mary, have left her, in a pretty
gold mood.
e nurses, she says, have a lot
to do with her optimistic outlook.
"They try to keep me happy. I'd
be in a much worse mood if it
wasn't for them". They regularily
played cards.with her when there
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to be provided at the noon hour.
D. .1. Cochrane, Director of
E cation, pointed out if a single
b t was used to make the double
run morning and night then some
students would be deposited at
the school long before bell time
and then would be late leaving
after school.
Mr., Cunningham said to use
two vehicles the total cost per day
was reported to be $80, and Mr.
Cochrane said he questioned the
extra high cost for this. E. Cayley
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Swinkles 20, were admitted with
minor injuries and released the
same day from hospital.
The car southbound to Seaforth
went out of control when on an
icy patch, into the ditch and
struck a tree. The five occupants
of the car were thrown out.
The car was 'demolished.
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HERE COME THE SNOWMOBILES — A large ' Friday night. Seaforth streets were alight with the •
number of snowmobiles participated in the Optimist . torches (brightly lit highway flares). (Staff Plyoto)
Winter Carnival's torch light parade to the arena
-1-1uge crowd
poker rally Sunday afternoon.
Carmen Leggate of •11...R.,1,
Arkona, was the lucky winner of
the $50 first prize in the event by
Picking up playing cards for a fUll
poker hand of three nines and a
pair of sites.
The 140 entrants in the per
rally picked up a seal ed. envelope
containing a playing card at five
different spots on the 20-mile
c:xturse which led through fields,
along concession roads to the
Hullett Wildlife Park and back to
the Scaforth • ik•rieultural
grounds. The entrant who picked
up the best poker .hand was the
winner.
The. second place winner for
$35 Was Doug. 'Mcladv, both. of
Dublin. 'who placed sixth and
eight respectively.
The Carnival got off a
rousing start Friday night .when
over 60 snow-mot:111.es were driven
through the' town to the
Community. Centre in a torchlight
parade.•
_After the parade the Seaforth
Figure Skating Club presented a
program . - The Wonderful World
'of Disney and Schultz under the
direction of club professional,
Dan Carey. Featured with the
members of the Seaforth Club
were guest skaters from the
Preston, Figure Skating Club
including. Lloyd Eisler Jr.. of.
Seaforth. who is. the Men's
Juvenile Champion of Western
Onlario.
- At the snowmobile dance at the
Community Centre the judging of
the beard growing contest Was
held with 30 entrants. Gordon
Miller was judged by Lorne Da le
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It's pretty hard to be cheerful
-and alert when you're an active
teenager 'Mit, has spent more
than ten weeks flat on your back
without moving, but in Seaforth
Community Hospital there's a
"sixteen year old girl in those
circumstances who is about as
cheerful as she could be.
Mary Reline has been in
Hospital 'here since she was
thrown by a bull on October 28.
She was feeding cattle in her
father's barn near Staffa. While
she was cl robing across a board
in the barn a 2200 lb. bull came
up from behind and knocked her
flying for several feet. She landed
on a cement floor.
The bull wasn't wild, Mary
says. • •If he had b'een I might not
he living. After he knocked me
flying, he walked away." He was
probably just hungry.
Mary sounds almost fond of the
hull. a four year old which was
raised by the Rennes from a calf.
Needless to say, the bull is no
longer with us. But before he
cut to his "reward", he left
another injured person in his
wake.
Mike Doyle was injured by the
same bull that threw Mary. about
two weeks after her accident
when he was at the Rennc farm,
loading the bull onto a truck to be
sold. Mr.Doyie suffered tissue
damage to his leg. The leg has not
healed properly and Mr. Doyle
was a patient in the local hospital
last week too.
But Mary has been in hospital
continuously since Oct. 28. For
"seven weeks aria four days",
she lay in her hospital bed, with
her leg strung up in traction,
weighted down by a 22 lb. weight.
For about the last month she has
hrown by a bull,
e
in in hospital