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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-01-08, Page 13• SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 8, 1976 — "SECONDSECTION PAGES 1A — 8A H emory trains- co Was an occas ion • a ( a VII • Nn. 7". .4.= .76" %MM. No help on Florida trip Band's request for gran turned down by council organisations do," he said. In other hosiness, coin-Ted a greed to write off $106.44 in business • 'taxes froni Reel Vantygheni who moved out of toss n iri August a•nd to refund $70.51 in taxes' to .LloYd Eisler on a portion of his building that was not used for h-(siness until December. The' town signed a five year agreement with the' Seaforth Curling Club for, the Use of the new parking r6t Jusi•Sbuth of the curling rink*. Signs will let arena users know they can park there. A bill forgravel-and hack hoe ,work at the new .parking, lot for the aretia and curling club. for $1631.50 front John H. Mellwain Sand ,and Gravel was passed for Nyment. 'An agreement between John C., Ward; wiis'e firm is bringing cahle TV to .Seaford) and the PLIC„, doesn't need to he signed by 'the town, council decided, becale•le a previous agreement with Mr. Weird lays down council's position, 'tn.:hiding requitement that' installations he made with supervision from the town foreman. Architects. Kyles, K,•les and Garratt will lie asked to shave, a'hother 510.900 off the plans they arc drawing up for. arena renova- tions. Councillors want the cost kept to 15200,000 and• will request • Meeting in January, 'not , the February • 2, date that the' architeas suggested ,,„4, A 1955 bylaw dealt the original s eyv c r s tc nralo n vfatn Street -Was.a tit Mended to conform with, the' increased water ..rates. The RI(' got council's okay to charge a number of water_ users who are. connected Co, the -Main, Street, sew'er's a maximum $100 • 0 do a survey to clear' the title to firm 4 B.M.Ross & Associates to lts,tow el, t Council aSked the Goflerieh '".'part of die land that the town .., ptirehae1 from Kelly Dalton last H PR C. .- s eparate: ,..,;.,ri,„ i.:.,..,, in the area where . ' s Cho the town plans a trailer . park, is at ' . ' • • , , • the extreme' south west end of . A 48.year old Mornington vice-chairman. fast year. Brantford Street near the . new Township dairy farmq, Arthur He succeeds' David Teahen of OLIC well.. . Haid of R.R.4, Listowel, was Stratford,- , ' acclaimed•chairmanof the Huron, .. Mayor Cardno said the, town , .. . - .hopes to .extend ,Brantford. Sireet Perth County Roman Catholic W e SI onto the land' but needs a--Separate School' Board at• the inaugural Meeting of the board in Both T Mr.. Dublin Monday night. He was Geoffrey have before Vasto Construction stopped for the holidays. guron's MOH Dr. Frank Mills is interested .in talking about using eounty-plumbing inspectors • to eheck vonnectio to the sewers, deputy recce Dale said: The, strict regulation of what is allowed to run off into storm . „ sewers once the sanitary . sewers are 'connected will 1, .be.a "tremendous change in this • tow n," councillor Campbell cominented. Couicallor Wayne Fill': agreed that a lot of drains which. shouldn't -have bee,r) were. conneved.to storms. "There'S a terrible smell after a heav5'. .clear title before anything clan he done'. Cistowel farmer, was acclaimed as the hew chairman of the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board at- a meetingr—i-n Dublin MondOy: New vice chairman is Ted Gedffrey, left, of Zurich. • (Photo by Oke) BOARD .Arttru-r HEAD SCHOOL Haid, riqht, ' .., . . Zurich TedGeoffrey of R.R.2, Zurich, becaine vice-chairman •hy.. acclamation. Haiti and Mn, been members •of Council hears The city of Port Myers will 0. The whble hand trip sounds contribute $7500 to the - trip, rather "pie in the sky" Cott neihor based on $100 to boarkeach band Campbell commented, including member for the week NI Florida, their proposal to rent a wole the band's director"said. "It's all plane 'to fly to Florida. "Thu (and paid once we get there." is an. asset to tilte'inmunity but it The difference cost between a has better hacking than Most here has to„ lie a limit"; councillor Jim Crocker Bill Bemiett wondered f1 any other municipalities were being asked for griw.,.. dry not Scalorth girls in the hand." he said, ilk() 1,111Lu4i0Iled hunch "glory" . the town would gel out ol the band playing in tar oft Florida, 4,7 BCVVI.', .10 in Flannery anti. deputy reeve Hill Dale agreed, Councillor George Hildebrand, who leatjs the hand. wasn't at the meeting. Councillor John Sinn d thun ryas ;111...,[111 At council's fillst .1976 meeting Konday, night (Ouncillor. irand, "appearing .a delega- tion rather than a member • of conned". .said. he wanted to straighten unit sotItc,' the facts that .stert•oundi'd emitteds deci- sion to refuse a grant (tithe hand. The SDI IS hand didn't bill the town-for playing in the (.entennial parade. the • ninneY $150 was offered. by tho'se in charge because all other participating hands were Mayor ('ardia),agreed that the • hand didn't ge't -$750 to accom- pany Seaford:. Lions to a parade in Hamilt'."1.Mr . Hildebrand. Cald• $1,.000 and the girls themselves _Ile contended 'that the money • about $701) u•ds the cost. went h) "DO we any idea it the ---Seaforth's ('entettnialand. that Boardial rthtention is giving them • hod, told emitted only iie kt,d.„„. wider ritte, The capital cost of the flint the were comtemplAi4ig No 011c k !Wks ')f",',5 ',ewer has nuts •en paid . 17(.7- , taking. the band, • ' .•tir (nrdno said ree 'director and with the higher water rates 'Several council. members told (Ike. Buist had told her that the"( large water P.Sers Who have been hint th w at heft„...the .$750 was to.2,11, could probably recoecr part ecrntrih ti lin gIO thV s.`-'we'rs,41.6r • , 'ranted tithe Lions, they believ- of a 'grant to the band if it wit- could otherwise be charged - mn"L'Y would pay for clionn011ed through tjte recreation !nor': than $100. . • • . Work ' on sewers .won't he the • hand.' ''A' qtr I was budget.Fecn motion is concerned that $750 W:`, fo r the defeated, there is nothing tertercontinued until a 'week after' the new year, reeve John Flannery reported hut residents of Street, were connected to seiwers Seaforth council turned clown a request front the Sedforth District Plig,h School Girls Trumpet Band For a ',grant to help them, fitulnce their playing, trip "to Florida in February. Council 'Met in a special se'.ion Tuesday, December 30, to clean up 1975 bus trip and hying could be• only husiness. about $15 a person, Mr. Hilde- Citing about $90(1 in donatirms brand said. The girls in, the band to the hand already in 1975, will pay the difference between councillors vot'e'd down a motion what is. raised and the . tab to give the hand a $5111) grant. themselves, he added. The Huron Councillors pointed out that they County hoard of education is. gave the hand $750 to accompany waitingth see how much the hand the local Lions Cluh to,a parade in gets in a grant from Wintario Hamilton and then . paid them before -agreeing -to donate some' $150 , to play in Ceneuntijal money for the trip. Wintario could parades last summer.. --- match funds raised dollar: JOr dollar, hut there is no,..„ firm .ixikkminitkrie4tt'Stet, he saier. • Mayor Cardno said. s'he told SDIIS principal Bruce Shaw that perhaps the hand's requeSt for a grant came to council at a • bad time. We can entertain another • 'request 'if things look differenet after"thiS, information," the. .mayor said. "As far as I am concerned.., iail,„l'only work there...there will lie no' other request to this council,'' the hand leader replied. ( ourioillor -Charlie Campbell lelt -that going the hanir grant for their trip to play -in d • kiison Festiy .,(.ights lit ads would set a fireceolent. "It would leave the (100r A1J.J..11: open. There aid other. groups that .puhliciie Sea toi•th to' lust, gii2:.tt an extent.... • .•Tht• SDIIS band is ,"the only high school hand in the county: I think we has c' some. obligation to support it," Mayiir Betty Catlin() tiointedout. Mayor Cardno said Omineillor Hildebrand hacf told her that the hand doesn't know the twat of the, trip yet, heenuse ait Imes tire changing. 11c.• • told her that the band ail x'itiary.-hoped• to raise about Hospital dosing may mean more work for police, The planned elpsing of the and Sea forth's poke cruiser' Goderich Psychiatric Hospital will could conceivably he 'tied- up on lie a blOw to SeLlforth''. Police trips to London or Owen Sound Department. That's what town (the other psychiatric , hospital council heard at a special' en'd of. Wm. health •minister Fronk Miller the year meeting last week. suggested local people :use), When, the local police lace a- Mayor Cardno said, - 2 Problem witli someone who Provincial aitthqrities obviously seriously emotionally upseif nosy. don't know much about the bad tile\ can tal;e. them ,tti...6iitierereL-L weather that this part of Ontario Where e'v will get help. Major gets in the winter, yvhen they Betty ( ,ircino said. The pace also expect people to go to London or take people' to. the detoxification Owen Sound, deputv. reeve' Bill centre at the GPH.' 'Dale said. It the hospital is closid. London.- Councillor Wayne'Ellis yy ill. have thcowarest detox centre, suggested that ,council draft a letter protesting -the' closing to present to Premier Bill Davis and Counjillor Jim Crocker shook - his • head over " goyerivinent's priorities. -They can close a' the Board ince it was. formed in hospital and then pay someone. 1969, $.1.5000 to study goats." 'he said, -Rev. J. Durand of Zurich. Mayor Canino questioned why Dean . of the Huron-Perth (ioderich was being closed -and Deanery, expressed a few: psychiatte' hospitals in London czntnensts..and led the' devotional and St. Thomas. ten miles apart. e etrose Weren't being touched. A borrowing by-la. w was passed Councillor, decided to. draft a for $1 million. letter before January IS. band..: helping .the Lions' send , prFf\ cut the hand corning hack lit the hand," councillor .('.harlie r ind iteking lor a donation again, said. sidd, .me' • January 15.- . who will Meet. WIth-loval councils Members of ,tlie Ontario eabinct and school boards in Winghani on .• 01 board , tir IS yr I v , .01.0j • aei*NATIONALt. K.. . LET US ASSIST YOU WITH YOUR WEDDING PLANS COME IN AND ASK FOR YOUR FREE BRIDAL ' GIFYREGISJER Also receive a ' free 6-month subscription to The Huron Expositor order, your invitations. littrou Expositor A S K F R ) —.0 INVITATIONS 0 ANNOUNCEMENTS • INFORMALS • ACCESSORIES • soot-covered' wifitiow sills. Then emit(' the cry. "Board:: and the slow rriOvcotent of thctrain as- it crept out of the station, hells elanging and exhatist<4 barking a'; it Kained:speed. There wasn't a ride .in the whole world-% to compare with it. Too had so many, Aries have been .dbandoned for mert.enary reasons. It was fun, too, to meet . the train,. especially • at ,Christmas wh0-1 relatives were coming home for •shoto s kit. You could go to the station early sci as not to keep.: anyone wondering at they Were going to get a, ride home Or not.. . . ay. the min utes„ _ while he . • Yon eenV he t he sch.edu lel I:sled telegeaph flattered intermittently by the door to see if the train was and the giatfit sloe c sighed and on time. When the whistle was the pipes hanged. Finally the heard, and the headlight could he „whistle would be heard, long and seen piercing the distance you low ,• as it blew for a crossing a • would Tame:. .in'w'ard on the cos n. miles down the 'track. 'platform anti search the faces of. -Bohnding ul; and out to watch, tho';' WhOrwere getting off. Great sou could see it slowly come into Clouds of ,steam ated up toy:black against the winter's hetween the coaches and drifted snow, a column of Hack smoke into the frosty ai At last you trailing alio\ y the coaches and could spot tin' person or person's .steam ,squirting out the 'fbr xvhom you wen in 'hearth, sides of the tram as f.l slowed into They would descend the steps, the station and stopped with the arms laden with, gift parcels and bagga ge car directly, in front of suitca ,,e in hand and peer around they e‘pres'••, agon readied to to see who was there to pick them, pic k up expresz, parcels and the up. There was always mud) making a clatter that pui/led -as he communicated s,ith the outside world. As' he 1:landed out the tickets, he doubt- less recalled the days when as a bm he' hosed trains.. It seemed to take force er for the train to •arrive. You could sit there and chew your woollen mitten or walk around the room and Hook at the large framed pictures of hotels operated by the Railway, snow-capped nrountains or a canoeist on a northern riser ii ith his fishing line 'poised for a strike. 'The eight-day clock with its octagonal face slowly ticked By W.G.Strong va Now that .the ChriStmas Season is over and toe IN CT,' I , Ca I. upon uS , ..,many Of- -us received- members of. the family who had moeed aW4ay• or else we think a trip ourselves to- spend the occasion with them. In almost every Case these comings and going', were by car. is oh a few taking the tins. It was not toe long ago that anyone making ;1 trip in or out of town would do sohy the chief means tbr Iranstiortation available the train. At one time this area was well set ved {iv pastirnger and' Fre train's . ,There w.cre..trains np..and down the Grand Trunk throirgh. Seaford). by Candian Pacific through Walton and .hy London. Huron and Bruce throligh Bruce,- field. It is hard- to belies e, that. there were at least four passenger trains. daily except Sunday.. • • The railway station a busy place' as the trains used to . rattle and roll..sound and pound up and down the-line. In addition to the -depot there ii erg the express room and the freight sheds with their utilitarian ramps, water tower, Storage tanks, stock- yards. "'storage sheds, factories, ,mills and ele‘ atm-, besid( sundry sidingS. I remember Ilion . well. Think of the employment the railroad gas e to the area. and countless • other uw. ns-t icke t agent, express „ agent, freight ," ag6nt, sectiou, men,. not ,least,...of:. the. (16\ ii' of the lit al stage' • coactl.,,,Yes• I rememtler the 55.60) • „ and aging depot that stood beside • the•railroad-tracks that lead to the prct land .of fantasy, 'I hr events of cbddhoo(l for some inelplicable re a son.. stand out -with beyOnd comprehension. Travelling in' those days frit. a girl or boy was 1.011 anti the hel,ght of adventure. Trains,.. expecially the hissing and clanking "and smoking and , spark-spitting en: gines. attracted and . fascinated ,• young and, old alike. especially • -the boys who. at time„envisioned . tht‘msolv es' as' a future fireman, , - engineer, conductor, mailman or haggageman. 'Stand and Watch ,The • men were „perhaps.' ,rpoye.,,,, concerned with what wentyn and around the station. If certain- bad 'all attraction for them. Vnie would trictu almost est:1.y ' train that came in and mane people lotcd [ a nd and watch. to see who got off or ,on es cry coatti' Between trains they could talk • to those employed around the station or"isit the freight.i•shols. to examine the contents and to see who .wits !. getting t‘ hat and is hence it came. AMan could loaf there all day and yet appear to he busy. • Tra‘ ening by train was exciting' First there was the announcement . of tin!" impending trip to -awaken .. an interest anal then followed the preparatiOns for it. This meant that you had to' wear your best. [110,.(2 Uncomfortable Sunday go to Meeting (..10f11(.", hunt it is worth eeery minute of it. There the walk front the hotel horse stabile sy here•the • genial hostler at- the Dick House or the Commercial blanketed and tethered the ani- mar,, vi course someone had td remain behind at home to kc"p the fires burning and look alter the . finials. When you" first entered -the ~ration one sass the old pt•ttelliud. -st0,.e., radiating . ..11K„.„,1 kci Office', the agent "syitIi tits pot (Thy I green ; eve-shade hunched user-his'key.' Friendly Soul The conductor was always a triendly• soul and particularly so at the Holiday Season, .•IHe greeted octITonC and offered to help you motint the seM tit. tfic.'„"ir with which ,people can now visit, distance fuis pretty well taken. the .. excitement out of anyone coming home. "The aging depot that stood • beside the tracks, Still gathers * .memories of those who'came and. , coin!). Adults probably clid not like the ho.t, dry air and the pungent smell,of coal .gits as they entered from ,the frosty atmos. phert.. Soon tt c were seated' op the prit kh green plush' uphols- tiired, seats within reach 'of the' ntailhata . hugging and kissing and talking at these reunions and, no doubt. with .1tist These days, relatives usually show trp in a ear and, while always welcome, their coming causes hardly a ripple. The ease • N.