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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-01-08, Page 2wear a night' cap -- my wooly one 1,.use when' I'm shovelling snow off my doorstep: I warmed up a, bit when one Florida newspaper dared to print the truth. ,O.r(the front page it conceded the alligators were getting goosehumps and .the. bull frogs were turning blue. But ,•I' m trying, to. he cheery..aboutalt this. Leak at the sunny 'side of things: • ' 'We don't have to put our food in the frig at - night. It stays good and cold on the kitchen counter. , Not•one single fly has buzzed around my „,. . I'm 'not getting sunburned. l' in not wtraring.Out my swimming trunks, either. They'll he like new for this summer. So will my bottle of sun tan lotion. I tell myself' a change Of scenery is as g od as a rest. And aren't the holidays great ith relatives? I do love to read by efireplac ' I man, art ,.t• • ) electric heater.:. I really do prefer hot chocolate; hot oatmeal and 'hot soup instead of lemonaide and lime rickey. • It's fun to blow smoke rings -- tho'se frosty rings in the air in the living, room -- ten feet, away from the heater in the.Corner. ; And it's.great not to get stuck in the snow. - But best of all, I've landed on a new theory. I think I know how' to stop all this divorcing going on nowadays. Shut' off the furnace! No wander people didn't get divorced in the wood stove,days. They had to stick together for body heat. • To the editor Arena can last another 25 built . I believe 'there has,been ho trouble with the curling' rink. Its roof was built of lumber and asphalt shingles and I notice that .this has been covered wtih steel. This Means more heat:where it was not needed. Now as regards the Arena, there should •rint be any more steel corugated iron because it will only attract more heat. There Should. be scantling two by four nailed onto the pr'e'sent building and then covered With 4 x 8 ft sheets, then tar paper •and asphalt shingles put on top of the timber.; This would make good insulation us well. This would not cost any more fhati .' more"corrugated iron. The sides should be v eneereil with ce:mont blocks to keep the heat out and with a good cetnent•fOOting beneath. When the repair job was done it , • • got into the lidnds of .architeets and' engineers. Before the work, 'vas begun the building should have been examined once• or twice a .vear and all this expense — S78000for the town to pay as a ddbenttirc dCbt — and the work done by local labor and at less than half the cost. ' I do not belie..c the building is incry' bad shape after all this Money was spent on it. As for building a new Arena. it is not needed at '01. It would only disturb the arena needs some work done on the ice making plant. but to try and build a new arena would be of no use whatever, The arena is safe and I do not think there is any use whatever of building a hew.buildins as "the building as it stands is O.K. You would get nothing out of the old building if you destroyed it, nothing whatever. ' No I think this is all fdr now, I am not criticizing what has been done. Please place this iti'wour valuable paper •antilf you think its alright to mad' it at the • counciL ineCting plea.so: give •it to the .... I wish you all a Happy New Year and success with the arena, I may sent a gift . later for the Arena Fund. 4. Walter Murray • R,R..I, Sombra, Ont. , Thu .Falitor: • Sir: I thought I would write.a.,few lines in FeRard5 of :the Arena in Seaforth. This building is 25-years Old but as far as I know -could last 25 years. more. It' it, had been lookett•hfrot in the• first place, The bui)ding should have been bu with, cement hlptks. TM> or three men that knew something. about bbilding should have been sent around to wher'e they were building 'arenas at that time and looked :over some. .of .the..aren as'. that were ....• work.th at already has.boon • done—Time the ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, EditOr DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of CircUlation Subscription Rate,s. Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 257CTS-EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 8, 1976 One small complaint It was 4 lovely Christmas season in Seaforth. The streets were beautifully lighted...from Main and Goderich Streets with the Chamber of Com- merce sponsored decorations to the bright lights on. houses on every street in town.. There was enoug'h snow to' make things look like .an .old fashioned Christmas, but not enough to prevent people from .travelling to see their friends and relatives. Mpst busines*s report tnat saes were good and Most kids report receiving at least, Some of, what they asked for from Santa Claus. Amid predictions that there are hard economic ,times ahead of us ye't,, we didn't hear anyoheNaround Sea-- forth. despairing. ,Maybe we are like the 36% of "Canadians who thin?, 1976 will be'a better year than 1975. (13% don't and;Aypically Canadian': 33% don ',t. , .know.). But, Scrooge,--;like we have to say thattriere was one small thing,wrong with the Christmas in Seaforth. It was the lack of r'liSiform store hoUrs: Many times this newspape was asked what the ChristmaS store' hours were in Seaforth and every time We had to answer that each store was • setting its awn. The Friday after New Years several people popped in to•the paper to ask if stores were opeh that night. Again we couldn't answer, because as far as we,knew no uniform store, hours had been set. Surely the advantages-of having all the stores in town on the same time schedule are well known by now. Business people must know that the shopper who comes downtown to spend and finds half the stores they planned to visit open and half closed may hesitate to shop in Seaforth again. , It's not ,a big deal, but one of the best things Seaforth merchantsplpould do as a Christmas present to their customers before next year Would be to work out store hours 'for the whole town.-and then to let people know what they are. pY Would bigger be better ? ,„, ( ,I,,etter to the gditor: c\,.... ... . } Peop p le in the,public work force seem to get tat and laiy and for some reason always want more without any more productivity. I would like to see more of them try the p ivate enterprise sysfein,,or vvork for an area's slloufd have higher wages than the same family living in this area. This does not, seem to be the case. . Where the large unions bargain for wage rates, they bargain across the whole of Canada for the, same wage •rate for whatever sector of the Public Service -they may be negotiating for. This, with any logical way of thinking, is most unfair to , taxpayers in the rest of the private sector. Otir dear and 'belOVed country is in very hard financial . times 'right now and the sooner all good Canadians realize this and tighten the .belt and pull together now, all Canadians will be a lot better off in the.,, years ahead. A concerned Canad ian Peter Maloney Jr. sy 7 . employer in our free enterprise stem. In this system they would produce or they would get the pink slip. Thew, they soul s a public employee, 'get on with the job at hand an tin life. afire wage e paid th ve in. Fo mac area. This means a family living in the big Metro 1976 means co=operation and restraint Mayor Cardno says With 1976 a year of severe --finaricraltestrainrs, there May. not be much new ahead for Seaforth, Mayor Betty Cardno said in an inaugurak...address ar, the first formal council meeting of the'year MondaL.ntorning. WithAess money •coming- frora Senior governments and school boards being told to go to their local governments if they need more money , holding seatorths mill rate to 10% (the federal guidelines), will require., • „ everyone's co-operation, she ' said. We may have to curtail some, demands and live with what we can afford rather than what we want, she sail' She asked for --- support-from citizerts,couneil and • • from other municipalities. She cited 'several projects which had been completed in 1975, including the arena painting, a new parking lot for the aren4 and curling club and the 'tart made on sewers. She asked residents for their patience during the incon- :venienee that will tome when sewer COTigtruetion is going full steam, in_the spring. The mayor said 1976 ,should bring more work on the areha if fund . raising efforts are successful. She said there is talk of adding two more policemen, to Seafortbs force, but the town may not be "able to' afford' it. Northside United , Church minister, Rev. M. Be. Reuben, gave the invocation at the first Meeting. , Counefflors and invited—gni:4s had a dinner at noOn following the meeting at the ComMercial Hotel, Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD, In Seaforth, McKillop and Tucker- smith shared sponsorship of a senior citizens' apartment older people from all three places could qualify to move • in. -AY-larger building could be put up, with etonomies of scale which would save all of us tax money. Brussels, which is less than half the size dfAeaforth has a newly built 35 unit OHC apartment. Morris and, Grey townships joined Brussels 'in sponsoring it and residents from 'all three municipalities are eligible for apartments. . After a couple of months residency ,in Seaforth, former township people are considered Seaforth residents under OHC rules and qualify as OHC tenants. But this, loophole shouldn't be looked. at a8 an excuse for the .• townships not to get involved in joint' sponsorship. OHC ...says that .14 a eaple in Seaforth have a fairly urgehk need for the good, and reasonably__Orited' housing that the 'tier& older_ _people Befor-e------66nstructiOn starts for • e 14 we think .someone eShOuid be asking if a bigger building would• be . needed if „interested people in -McKil= lop and Tuckersrnith were eligible to move in. ltnot, fine. But it might be a money saving idea in the long 'run to take, a• lop? L-To the editor Shoulci 'consider 'cost of living . . WhenMy brother-in:law Hatryphoned,and said you all come down SoUth for Christinas,,. • we all our bags, and came. izi• ' ' We knew he had the room--in his summer cottage some sixty miles north. of Tampa. On •the map that puts us down at 29°,latitude and '82 ° longitude--not exactly a tropic sort of • Setting, but 'then certainly net a Canadian winter Scenerio either. Hurry's place in the tin is any Northern man's' drearh. It sits on a peninsula that overlooks the lake. There's A dock. A boat at the shore. Fish in the lake. •Tackle in 'the „ • - • garage. 0' Who could ask forIanything more? , I could, The sun. • And while I'm -asking—I ktiow Christmas is' over, but. I can dream can't 1?rohow about a. central heating system? ia, . You know Florida people just won't admit it's ever cold down here. Maybe that's why they neKer trouble themselves with a furnaCe. Instead-Alley settle fora midget sized, heater ,stuck in the .cprner of, the livingrOOrn. "If there's ever a cold snap, this heater 'II do the trick," they say. •If there's ever a cold snap?. .Now a cold snap sounds, like something that's fast -- over. in a .day -or two. But believe me, thiscold'has been snapping for ten dayS now. • • And I'm warming my feet, ii' the corner of the living room. • I ,sleep under four blankets. Last night I wore niy Canadian long johns. ' , And I'm learning some new Arctic survival techniques from my son: wear woo119„, socks to' bed. Scrap all those ic); sheets, And idieep the temperature off' tnv'ears, I In the Years Agorae JANUARY 14, 1876 At the annual meeting of 'the Seaforth Fire Brigade, the following 'officers were elected; Jas.A. Cliner-Captain; D. Hogan; 1st Lieut.L.W. H. Cline, 2nd Lieut.; Geo. Sills, , ' Secretary and C. Armstrong, Treasurer. Donald Ross of the London Road, •Tuckersmith, has purchased the house in Seaforth belonging to Mrs. Diggle. The price paid was $1200. John Stinson of Usborhe says that on -the last day of the old ,$)1 ear he tapped several maple trees from which sufficient sap r n to m ake a fine lot of syrup. A s• ” . of Samuel Halls of Usborne was using an axe when it , ' shoo- •• .out of his hand and cut the main'artery of his left arm. The tea meeting at the Walton Methodist Church on New •Years•Day was a very successful affair Addresses were given by Rev. Stafford of Brussels and Rev. Buggin and Wm. Hill'of Seaforth. The choir, of,„ $eaforth Methodist Churefi was present. • JANUARY11, 1901 , Wm. Rae, B.A. of Walton, who is attending the school'of Pedagogie in Hamilton has been spending his holidays at homi, A number of men who were w.drking at the big drain, , during the'summer, have been engaged by August Hicknell to cut cordwood on his new farm. s • 'Miss Beatrice Punchard of town has been engaged as teacher of a school near Grand Bend. The ice harvest has commenced and we are now drawing ice from the Egniondville dam. • The election for 'public school trustees in,Seaforth, resulted inn-election. A. P. Joynt, for the south ward and the electOrs , of John Rankin for the east 'ward'. James Lockhart. ex-reeve of McKillop left for . Madoc. Wm. J arrott „of Hillsgreen has resumed his studies at Clinton Collegiate. The chopping mill has not been running. owing to some repairs being made. Thos. Cameron hag charge of the work. Thomas Dodds of FeSsenden, N. Dak., is spending some days with friends in this vicinity,. ' Mathew Habkirk of McKillop, drove to. Brussels and, while there his horse got sick and ho had to leave it there for some days. Fred Bonthion has returned from a visit to th6 south and has resumed his position as bookkeeper at !Toll's Knindry. C. Stelck of Hillsgreen is busily engaged in ng logs for J. Moffatt. ' , • JANUARY 8,1926 Several sleigh loads of Brodhagen young people paid a surprise visit to Joseph Simon of McWillop, who is the new blackstitith. Hearty congratulations are' e ended to Miss:• Janet Chappell, daughter of David pel who received word of,', her success as an' art student. , An interesting event took place in, North Broadview Church when Miss A. I. Petrie of Sault Ste arie and Robert Allan of - 'Brucofield were united in marriage. , . Elton Haist of Winthrop left fOr Toronto to take a course in a radio school.. • Wm. Maloney of Beachwood is busy making a Snowniobile out of his 'touring car . • • . Laurie Norris of Cromarty, the member of• the Boys' Parliament from South Huron gave a long and interesting speech at the Y.P.S, meeting ,and telling whal the me#riber ti ,did at Toronto. , • The managers arid trustees of Hensall United Church are busy making itnproVents 'to the manse property, John A. McRae passed away following an illness of two years. The Huntsville 'Forester makes a reference ..to the presentation, made at Christmas to M iss Mabel Turnbull who has been on the staff oLHuntsville•School. They presented her , with a Duofold fountain• pen and pencil. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Archibald entertained for Mr. and Mrs. James Hillen of McKillop. Mr. Hillen is in his 90th year and Mrs. Hillen in her 82st year. A purse of gold was presented to the happy couple: • • J: C. BackerS, whoshas been_ accountant in the Dominion Bank here for some time hasbeen appointed trui.oager of one of' the London branches. - • Miss. Jean Stewart left to take 'a: course in the Shaw . Business College,' Toronto. • Two- rinks. of curlers compbsed oiG.D.Haigh, ' J. Beattie and Ross Sproat, skip, 'and 0. Dick, C.A.Barbcr, G. Bethune and W'. E.Southgate, skip, were in London taking part in a Bonspiel. JANUARY 12, 1951 Employees of the Robert' Bell Indttitries Ltd., marked the retirement from • the' firm of ,a valued employee by the ^ • prese,ntation of a floOr lamp to Robert Smith. The Presenation -• was made by . Earl Robinson: and 'the...,additss was read by Wm'. A.. Hodgeri: • • .• Miss Shirley Bennewies •entertained"at an informal dinner in honour of Miss Joyce Oliver, bride orlast_week. She was presented with a numb& of towels. • .'Mrs. Bert Johnson held a shower in honour of Miss Oliver.: AT this ,ovent she was presented with a miscellaneous show er. Normal School students from the district who have been • receiving practical instruetion in area schools include:. Yvonne . a; • Bolton;. SeParate 'School; Seaforth; 'Mary, S.S.T, Tuckersmith; Muriel Campbell, S.S.1, Hullett; Mabel • Campbell, Egmondville;,, 'Mona Caldwell, • 5,.S.10, Tuckersmith; Stanley'Dorran,ce, S:S.2, McKillop; Norma Leeming, S.S.4, McKillop; Lorraine , Livingston. S.S.3,' Hullett; June Snell, Londeshoro and Margaret., ••SteVens, • Leadbury. The Cancer, Polio and Tuberculosis Committee of the REbekah and Oddfellow Lodges sponsored a'enehre„when the following won prizes: ladies first, Mrs.- A.W.Dunlop; Lone fiands,Miss Mae Smith; Consolation, Abbie Sell); Gents first E.L.,Bpx; LOne Hands, Harry 'Minett; Consolation, James Turnbull. • /Mr. and Mrs. Roy McMane of,Egmondville have purchased a house and 6 acres of land at Pine River, Ontario and will remove there shortly. , . A successful euchre and dance , was sponsored' by the Seaforth Institute in the Seaforth Memorial Comm-unity Centre. Ladies First - Mrs. Gordon Elliott; Lone Hands,- Mrs. , Chas. Eyre; Consolation - Sue Nixon; Gents - Andrew Credier; Lone Hands - Bert MCClure; Francis Kuisser, Consolation. • t Snowed in Amen by Ka'rl Schuessler "ft-r '(.41 i 11 'I Ult 011 fxpositor • The news that another senior citizens' apartment building has been approved for ,Seaforth will be wel- corned . There is no doubt at all that: the 14 unit building will be filled as soon ,as _ it is built...just as the 21 apartments built two years ago'have been full all along. But is our tax money being wasted because , these apartment builqinoS" are tod small? - „ Many older people from MoKillOP and T'uckersmith townships move to • Seaforth when . they retire. They' _aren't eligible to move right into. senior citizens units, though because the apartments are .Seaforth's alone. We think it would be sensible for the Ontario Housing 'Corporation to suggest ' that municipalities -g •et involved together in senior citizens ‘aparitnjents so thatsne large centre • can be built, TNT 'beats a small apartment in Seaforth and another • small 'one (or more likely, no senior citizens izartenent at all) in neigh- bouring townships. Once a need for the rent income .apartrn - • seniors is' proven' OHC pays the whole shot, except for 7,1/2 % of any operating deficit, which the sponsoring munici- pality agrees to pay annually. This amounted to under $2000 in Seaforth —last year. ••, ...•••••. ' t. ^