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A GOOD NIGHT IN THE NEW LOUNGE — A good crowd enjoys the music in the
newly opened Centennial. Lounge at the Queen's Hotel. The Hotel, owned by Jim
and Joan Parkinson since the summer of 1973, is gradually undergoing renovations
to bring it back to its former glory. The Queen's-was Wit in 1876. (Staff Photo)
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QUEENS, OWNERS IN THE NEW CENTENNIAL
LOUNGE — Joan and Jim Parkinson sit down for a
minute in their newly opened Centennial Lourige.The
Lounge has barn board and old newsprint wallpaper,
wall to wall carpet and a couple-of natural brick
• walls. The Parkinsons bought the Queens a year and
a half ago and since then h'ave been renovating it
outside and in. (S,taff. Photo)
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sightseeing tours of ,Canada and
- the U.S. •
He predicted that in five years,
half of United Ttails' charter tour
bitalifeSs • -c e • froin
EAVOtittaii
Simcoc, operating in Simcoe,i n privatel -owned carrier
Port Dover, Stratford, Goderich, ' southern Ontario, with 126
' Ayr and Cambridge: „.
- Lishman Coach Lines•Ltd. of vehicles and 185 employees. we're entirely Canadian
Kitchener, serving the Waterloo owne , ' he said:
region, Paris, Brantford, Guelph, The job of repainting vehicles
Elora, Fergus, Acton and Milton. , in United Trails' new:colors of red
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in new Fi rm
people. ,Rect‘ation News: Iv
buses and employs about 35 Road, Kitchener; now' the home Coupled with' this will be an
' base of the Lishman operations. expansion of tour operations ..
The other-companies' involved Mr. Lodi said the merger-wilg---under _theAtl, Stars Tours. • ____ "Anyone interested in Yoga classes should contact the , , fin the amalgamation are:
Mr. Huddle taieffie-Piarge Mr-canon Office by Friday.--Classes- will-be-offered Saturday make United Trails the largest
Holiday Happenings '75 will be offered this year, five days
of fun during the Mid Winter Break. The program will include
a bus trip, crafts, skating, . games and special events.
Information on the program will be distributed through the
schools. A few jobs for high school students with leadership
experience will be available at that time.
Seniors, remember the craft program every Tuesday at the..
Market Street apartments from 1:30 - 3:30. Tiny Tots Skating
will be held from 1:00- 2:30 for the next two weeks instead, of r
1:30 - 3:00.
The new company is planning a
major expansion in its charter bus
service and package • tour
business. • •
Between them, • the three
companies and their subsidiaries
carry 1.8 million passengers a
year and their vehicles travel
about 4.5 million miles a year.
Operations include charter
buses, inter-urban bUs routes,
school buses, airport limousine
Service and pac,kage tours. ,
Transfer of' licenses to the new
company has been approved by
the Ontario Highway Transport
Board.
Matt Leidl of Simcoe is
president of United Trails.Les
Habkirk of Seaforth is vice-
president and Ross Lishman of
Kitchener is secretary-treasurer.
His brother. Nelles Lishman, also
of Kitchener, is chairman of the
,
"We learned fast", Joan
Parkinson says, when she is
asked boW she and, her husband
Jim picked up the hotel business
when they bought the Que,Prt's
Hotel in Seaforth a year 46 last
summer. Neither of tale
Parkinsons had any experience at
running a hotel when they bought
the Queens but now they seem to
run th,e 16 room hotel, with its two
lounges and a dining room, like
old hands.
Jim Parkinson was a traveller
for a firm selling commercial
cooking equipment and' has a lot
of contacts, in the hotel and
restaurant business on wh
can rely for advice and h p, is
wife says. o an.lk,f dfather
• used to ow, otels in u alkerton
and Oshaw so perhaps there's a
bit of hot f I business in h er
blood-.• They ,bought the hotel
becauSe Jim w. ed to own his
own business.
The Parkinson lived in
Mississauga befor' they moved
here a yeat and a half ago. "1
miss my house so times," Joan
says. It's certain) e a change/
to come from a large ho se to th
five room apartment in he hot
that the'ONvners and, their ilk,
sons Wayne 14 and Jimmy, 12,
and dog'gam, 8, now *copy!
They`have considered buying
house, Joan admits, but says that
it is so handy to be able to
"home" when things aren't busy
and to be available on short notice
when you are needed. r .
Hotel life has been more of a
change for her than, for her
husband, Joan Says.A loCof
younger people come to, the
Queens and Jim was involved
with young people a lot, coaching
hockey, when .they lived in
Mississauga. Joan hid , a part
time job there,' working for a
chiropracter three mornings a
week.
A big change in their ,lives is
the fact that the Parkinsons are'
now together 24 h ours a day. The
hotel is open every day and every)",
night except.Sunday until 1 anti:
In Mississauga Jim was often
away on business.
Both take an active ' part in
running the hotel, do the .
bookkeeping and supervise staff,
The hotel has quite a y oung
staff, with Grey' O'Reilly in
charge of the bar area and Trudy
Broome looking after the dining
fatttros;, 1. .. . upsetting to ' find, fin' example,but'4on't,'i 'have time to Set:
There are joys 10 Alamos, a that „SOn*Pne ;has' butted' out., involved in. ,much.. outside the
hotel. The friend-ship' ,Of your cigarettes9.4, thc. ‘4cyti laid hotel. Jibs Ian for : tpogneit .: in:: e-
custonms is one of them, Joan' carpeting ' in the Centennial.AheeePire.1
two
December l't!oliy; a I vg,:i.e bns:ot ;.3t: elected,a
happy:. : ParkinStan says.But there are . to,Unge. ''
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problems too. It can be pretty The Parkinsons, like Seaforth irrc,'their mother .says, • .
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BEST Qf
TO
JIM & JOAN PARKINSON
ON COMPLETION OF
THE CENTENNIAL LOUNGE
WE WILL HAPPILY BE SUPPLYING
THE SOFT DRINKS' SERVED . IN
THE LOUNGE
TUCKEY BEVERAGES
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and green on a white background
has already started.
Ross Lishman said the owners
of the three companies deeidet on
the merger to meet the challenge
of competition from larger
companies and provide
economies in operations that
result from a larger company.
"The trend is for large
operators to buy up smaller
companies," ' he said. "We
decided that we'd Pool our
resources rather than be
swallowed up by an • outside
• company."
Nellcs Lish man said the bigger
company, with its larger
financial base, will bring
/economics of 'scale and a more
efficient operation that Will result
in better service.
"We can have a central vehicle
maintenance prograpi, a larger
.Tuckersmith hires •
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members on it;
Ross 'Forrest was' appointed
Seven people will be asked to
livestock valuator to , replace accept appointment to the
Councillor Bob Bell, at $3.50 pet' Township's Day Care Centre
hour and 15c per mile. The Board which will administer the
inspector values livestock which planned Centre-at Vanastra. They
includes Councillors Coombs and
has been killed by dogs.
Reeve • Thompson was Branderhorst, Gerry Salton,
Arthur Forler, Barbara HOdgins,. authorized to get a contract to
obtain gravel from Milton Dale of Carol Munroe and Dorothy
Hullett Township, for ten years at Wilson.,
a price of 20c a cubic yard for a
The Ministry of Community minimum of 10,000 yards a year. and Social Services has approved• Tuckersmith has 'a year or two
prelimihary plans for the Centre,
remaining on their present 10 the council learned, and wants to
year gravel contract with Mr. Dle. see
an architect's working They paid 15c a'yard for the first
drawings for the site. Cost should -five and 20c for the remaining five stay within $68,000
for of the existing contract. playground, furnishings,
Council agreed to expand the equipment and professional fees Vanastra Rec Committee from 7
and the Ministry will pay 43% of,
the, capital cost of the heating to 9 members; and to meet with
systenr, which will be shared with the executive of the Vanastra
the rest of the building and said Ratepayers Association at their
that work should begin by March February 4th council meeting.
-L and H Coachway4 Ltd. of an.a '' most mornings 10:30 - 11:30. . .modern . tours business has been
increasing steadily, with tour
currently offered to many of
Canada and the U it tates.
All Star Tour hrough a
working arrangement with Global
Tours based in London, England,
handles tours for visitors from
Europe -- a business that has
shown considerable growth in the
past four years, from $10,000 in
Seaforth.bu con an
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(cont,,redrron, :„.ge,, ,
County. Since the mid-1
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960's, the board. --/Th-..,,,,pkorniv—e-01 cles and the type of .1961, to .$1.5 Million in 1974.
Dave Huddle.of Cambridge is a personnel , that only a larger
firm has fOrganized package tours
Mr. Huddle said low trans-
director and also preSident and company •,ean afford," he said.
to Florida., 11sh vine ,a,tgloalae.,r., moniskg, director of ..444,spr , Les Ha kirk,,,
Atlantic charter flight prices have
U.S. points .,'Unit d Trails will enjo
r.
et§ a brought increasing numbers of
Habkirk it Apaak:41,6Tours Ltd., , g, who'lyaoWneta ropean visitors to Canada,.
5 e V " subsidiiiy. 4S,P1 V ,7 ' ' * st lucre ,, in bliSin s
Motor cel c e . and 15 school . Anany of whom want, to take
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Head office is at 41 Fairway particularly •in.c atter operations,0
room and, kitelen.-
Jim Parkinson and Oreg did
quite a bit of the interior work on
the new Centennial knloge
themselves, including installing
the barn board siding, A lot 9f the
barn board was given to the
Queens 'by friends and customers
in the Seaforth area. People have ,
been bringing things to hang on
the wall of the old fashioned
flavoured room ,tbo, Joan says.
The Parkinsong. fare proud that
their hotel has beed in Seaforth
for so long. "It's 100 years old in
1976", Jim says. ft was built by
Tom' Stevenson and the new
owners are thinking of naming
their dining room after him whet) it
they renovate it. The Centennial * -
Lounge is .of course named in
honour of Seaforth's birthday this
year.
The Parkinsons appreciate the
Queens' fine old architecture and
when' they had the exterior
painted about a year ago they
planned that the pink and brown
(the colour 'choice was limited
because pink and brown tiles had
been applied to, the outside by
previous .owner`i) paint would
highlight the buildings good
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