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Huron B of E donates
$800 to trumpet band
The Huron Board Of Education raised $3,000 and will be• provid-
will be paying a small portion of ing another $2,205 •themserves.
the expenses incurred by the' This left a balance of about $800
Seaforth „District High School after an expected Wintario grant
girls trumpet hand when they - of $1,000 is received.
travel to Florida in February.
• 'Out of 'a total cost a .$7,000 tp
send the band to Fort Meyers,
•Florida the , Board agreed unani-
mously to pay up to ;800 of any
deficit.
Principal 'Bruce Shaw in a lette'r
to. the Board said the ,girls had
Chairman Herb Turkheim said,
"We as a Board shduld be proud
of the Seaforth girls. This is the
first high' school . band • from
Canada invited To participate ,in
the annual Edison Pageant _of
Lights:
PRCSSstaff
ets raises
cCutcheon warden
s reevo-br6aks
• Reeve Jack McCutcheon" of
Brussels was elected . Huron's
1976 warden' by one vote, cast
following a tie in Goderich on
Tuesday.
Reeve McCutcheon, 43, and
McKillop Reeve Allan Campbelt,'
56, were tied with 28 votes
following the second ballot.
Under the Municipal -Act, the
reeve of Goderich, Huron's
largest municipality, casts•the tie
'breaking Vole. Goderich 'Reeve
Stan Profit voted—for Reeve
McCutcheon and the race was
over.
A third candidate, 'Clinton
Reece Harold Lobb was defeated
on the first ballot, in his third try
fOr the warden's seat. It was
Reeve Cathpbell's second try.
Seaforth's representatives,
Reeve-John Flannery and Deputy'
Reeve Bill Dale supported Reeve
Ganiphell on both ballots.
Tuckersmith Reeve Elgin
Thompson nominated Reeve Lobb
anti threw his support to ReeYe
McCutcheon.on the second ballot.
Tuckersinith Deputy Reeve
. Sillery . supported Reeve
Campbell on both ballots. as did
McKillop Deputy Ralph
McNichol. " • •
A large crowd sat in the county
council chambers and sto4 in the
„hall outside to hear the cults of
the voice vute'as cleric, Bill Hanley
• called the roll.
Four county councillors, Reeve
Simon Hallahan of E. Wawanosh, added that he's not "interested in
Hullett Deputy Reeve Joseph change for the, sake of change."
Hunking, Reeve Cecil Desjardine Huron is a leader among
of Hay and Turnberry, Reeve counties because county council
Harry Mulvey switched their' has had foresight and has "stuck
votes from McCutcheon to our Week Mil". he said.
Campbell in the second ballot. • He called cutbacks in health
The new warden has been 'spending by the provinee in
reeve of • • Brussels and a Huron. "totally unacceptable."
representative to county council The closing of the Goderich
since 1971. He is Married to the Psychiatric Hospital would be a
former Esther, Raymond and they "serious loss to our community.
have three daughters, Michelle, comn4inity meaning the county
and Jill. His mother is as well as Goderich." •
McCutcheon of Huron's goal should. be to •
provide "the highest level of,.
Gedrge, also of service as economically ' as
pOssible", the new warden said.
Reeve Campbell said he would
work •• with other levels of
governMent, to hold down
inflation."'Something has got to
be done,",he said. He said he did
not favour changing the county
structure. Like an old tractor
that'S working well, it should be
left alone, he said.
The McKillop reeve pledged to
do his best tp keep Huron's small
hospitals open. ,
The last McKillop warden was
the late Ken Stewart in 1966.
County cle'rk-treasurer. Bill
Hanly said after the voting-that
several times in its history county
council has had its warden 'chosen
in tie-vote situations by the reeve
of the county's largest town-,
Goderich. The most recent was
four years ago.
Laurie
Mrs. Lottie
Bruskels.•
A. brother
Brussels. was
1962.
Reeve McCutcheon was
nominated by Hay Township
• Reeve John Ti rthey who said he
had been an excellent•ehairman'of
the . county'S Huronview
committee and was a successful
.b0-n-essman. .
McKillop's Reeve .Campbell.
was nominated by Morris reeve
and 1974 Warden Bill Elsion, who
,noted that Reeve Campbell had
served seven 'years o.n county
council.
-In his Speech before. the
election Reeve McCutcheon said
he had been tagged as favouring.
county restructuring but that he
was only in favour of keeping. the
door open. He said Huron's
present, committee system is
"efficient and thorough" and
Huron warden in
WINTER CARNIVAL COMING UP Some
volunteers from the Seaforth Fire- Department were
out with their old truck Monday, night, helping the
Optimist Club put an ice surface on their baseball
diamond. The outdoor rink at the rec grounds will be
a new feature of the Optimist Winter Carnival this
weekend,' with family skating all weekend long.'
(Staff Photo)
Park by $10,091.00. This was the. '
amount of a grant which has been
received from the Ministry of
• Cui tuk andRecreation according
to Optimist club' president' Keith
MacLean.
Construction of the field-house/
was, completed laSt year. The
building provides facilities for
ttains using Optimists Park as
well ds accothodation for meet-
ings. of the OlUb and other 571,e
Dptimists all „set for winter carnival
The weather couldn't be better their ninth Winter .Carnival this' . skating rink at the. Optimist Pag.
nd . Seaforth Optimists arc -weekend. • ' ," The' Optimists have litioded, the
Coking for record participation in New this year is'a big outdOor . park's ball diamend to provide
. the rink. • • •
Tony .Goldthorpe, i,s who New. nham.' ,.. chairman of thiS year's carnival
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said the carnival's snowmobile
. . • .. , . , 'races 'are'' rmsdy novelty .events.
ea d s Brita ilia
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.i.ii , •, • . ''for local people•• to Kaye fun —,
rather than races for profession,
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organization's.
'Mr. MacLean said that with
payment of. the provincial grant
debt on the new builing it -•has
been reduced, to approximately
$10,000. Total cost of the building
was $48,000. he said and 'avikted
that one of the blg• items:' Of
expense in' the construction pro-
gram had been • 'pa2nient of
interest on money borrowed. The
'grant received ' will result in
cutting • interest payments in
about h'a'lf he said.
House-cobstrUction
doubles here in '75
Ne"w house construction, a
traditional indicator • of growth,
had 'nearly doubled in Seaforth
From 1974 to 1975.
According to building
permits on file at the town clerk's
office 13 new homes were built in
kthn last year, compared to seven
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A BAD EIRE PREVENTED — Glenn McGregor of the, truck into a' s
A
powbank an&%41ed the fire
BruCeficid had-- a—few anxious MOnients_Monday_____deiparitnentaitit.th.e_grevas21pretiy_wellimothered
whertIOW fuel oil delivery truck nearly caught fire. •' by the time we got ther'e," Ghtf Hulley said. The
Mr7Vcaregor. was driving through :Egmondville Chief said that a bit of the oil i the truck's tank had
when he noticed smoke coming from underneath the- . ... , broken the seal and spla1hed on the hot exhaust
truck, Seaforth fire chief Dory Hulley said. He droCie (Staff Photo)
COUNTY COLINCIL PICKS WARDEN -= The halls
and thy''coufity council ,,chamber were crowded
Tuesday in' Goderich when councillors voted for the
1976 ,Huron Warden. Reeve Allan Campbell of
McKillop, second row left; tied with' Brussels Reeve
- Jack McCutcheon on the second ballot but was
The' Huron-Perth • County
-Roman Catholic Separate School
for its administrative office staff
Haid, Francis Hicknell and Board approved salary increases
Ronald Marcy.
at a -Meeting in Dublin Monday
night. All the increases arc the
maximum permitted according to
the• • anti-inflation guideline, .all
,effective January 1. •197.6.
The 1976 salary for Jack -Lane,
Superintendent of Business and
Finance will ,,. be increased by
$2,230 to $22:230- and for Ed.
Rowland, Co-ordinator of Plant
and Maintenance, by $1,025 to
$13,525. .
The board °flied weekly sa lary
rates were set as follows:. payroll
Jerk. $147.55; accounting clerk,
$145.55; secretary to Director of
Education, $152.30; secretary to
Academic ' Superintendent,
$143.'15; secretary to Superin-
tendent of 'Business and Finance
,$153.45. and secretary to
consultants, $128.80.
Effective September 1. 19'75,
hourly wages of school office clerk
typists were advanced by 33c to
$3.63.
Lea Ye' ab scn cifrom • la n u arY
to June, 197n, was granted to
Helena Partridge. GradeS 1 - 2.
teacher at St. ,Patrick's School,
Kinkora and Edith McCarroll was
named her replacement for the
duration of her leave.
The following standing
committees for 19 7 6 are as
follows with' the first named
chairman: Buildingand property-
John •• O'Drowsky. Donald
Crowley, Arthur Haid and F. J.
Vere, ' -Personnel • William'
Kinatin, Michael Connolly, Ted
Geoffrey arrd David Teaben;
Tranwortation - Vineefil Young,
Tea Geoffrey, Joseph Loohy and
defeated when Goderich Reeve Stan Profit broke the
tie. Reeves Simon Hallahan and Bill Elston are at,
front and. Reeve Ed.„Oddliefson, Bayfield is beside
Reeve Campbell. Russell Bolton .of McKillop sits
behind the McKillop reeve, next to Mrs. Allan
Campbell. (Staff Photo)
1976 Huron Warden McCutcheon gets chain of office
from 1976 Warden McKinley. (Staff Photo).
Young art ist
tr,ip to Mexjco.
A young Seale:1h student. Grade •12, is a self taught artist.
Mexico in an art contest
parents. Thin and Brian Haley. IM. has won a trip to
(s,raolitiesr7ed• by the London Art heard about their son's award
ge Haley, Goderich 5t.
The Galler y
piavi
newspaper grandson of Mrs. Norman Knight
Friday by phone. 'He is the
ads, asking entrants
to, send ,
of Market Street.
drawing and $1 to a fund raising
effort, at the Gallas age
'groups were invited 'to 'entirbut
the competition was broken up
into several sections.
Anne Hansen. librarian at
SDHS suggested • to students
there that they enter, . 'Two
won,
students ,acrually submitted..
entries and Brian's drawing, of a
tiger moving through a field,
There are no art classes offered
at SDHS, only an -Art Club which
is ,a "sometime 'thing" Mrs:
Hansen said. Brian, who is Brian Haley
Robert Newnham
Robert Newnham of Seaforth
was installed niaster of Britannia
Lodge No: 170 A,F, & A.M.
Monday night, succeeding Robert
P. Caldwell of Brucefield.
Other officers installed: senior
warden, John Butson,
Staffa; junior warden, Peter
Seaforth; senior deacon,
Dr. William J. Thompson, R.R.2,')
''Seaforth; .junior' deacon, Alfre
Ross, R,R.2, Staffta; inner guard,
Donald Eaton, ,Egmohdville;
outer, guard, David McLean,
Seaforth; secretary, Gordon
Wright; treasurer, Cyril Kirk,
Harpurhey;• senior steward,.
David Tremeer, Seaforth; junior
steward, Kenneth Ca rdno.
Seaforth; Chaplain, Ross Scott,
Brucefield. •
Clair Reith, past , District
Deputy Grand Master .was in
charge of the installation
ceremonies.,, Two - Mr.
NewnhaM's teacher colleagues
from Clinton, William Craig and
Bill Cook, assisted . in the
installation ceremonies.
als. Thelaces arc 'on Satuiday
afternoon, with a snownitibilc
poker rally on Sunday, starting
from the Optimist ark. •
The weekend 'ks off ‘vith a
torch light slim, mobile parade
from the Optimist Park to the
arena. There's a dance thatnight
at the arena to Lincoln Green.
Saturday morning • the
Optimists arc' Sponsoring an
Moth hockey • tournament,
There will be snow sculpturing
at the SDHS grounds too.
The •Atom champs play off.
Saturday „night and two dances
itre being held at the arena hall
and the Legion.
A lot of members hac worked
on ,the .Optimist Carnival. Mr
Goldthorpe said, They include
Harry . Johnston and Wane Scott
who are -organizing the poker
'rally, and Keith MacLean who is
in charge of the dances. . .
Seaforth optimists this week
were. able to reduce the debt in
the new field ,house in Optimists
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Howard Shantz; Finance -and
- Insurance - Greg Fleming, Arthur
The 1976 ad hoc committees:
Board policy and by-ldw 4 Ronald
Marcy, Howard Sham/ and Greg
,Fleming; Trustee-clergy.-liaiSon-
Francis Hickncll, Michael
Connolly and F. J. Vert.
Board Board appointed representa-
tives for 1976 are: Dan Devlin and
Fred Bergsma to the .Stratford
Publit Library board,
David • Teahen, William
Kinahan'and John O'Drowsky to.
Family life advisory committee
and Joseph Looby to the Huron'
Perth Tuberculosis . , and
R espiratory' • Diseases
Association.
The board approved the Hurim- -
Perth Unit Of Ontario English
• Catholic Teachers' Association
Sponsoring a systempublic wide
speaking contest whicl* will he
open to all students from Grades
4 through 8 in' all the separate
elementary. schools in. Huron and
Perth'Counties. The competition
wolf he „two levels
intermediate for Gracies••7 ,and 8
and junior for Grades 4, 5 and 6.
The school winners for each
division will compete at a zone
level where a first and second
ace winner in each division will
be decided and the zone winners
will compete „ in a systetn
competition early in March.
'Awards will be presented to the
winning schools . and winning
individuals and particiPation
awards will be presented tr6 all
other contestants,
The total cost, of the'
competitions will be funded by
the teachers' association.
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