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The Huron Expositor, 1976-01-29, Page 3Something to Say it THE HURON EXPOSITOR, J.ANVARY-29,'1 by Susan White What we print- Is it. news or' gossi -MRS. McGREGOR IS 90 — A longtime former Seaforth resident, Mrs. Jennie. McGregor, Celebrated her 90th birthday last Wednesday at Huronview where she now lives. Mrs. McGregor was born on the 10th of Tuckersmith to Mr. and Mrs. William McCloy in 1886. (Staff Photo) Mrs McGregor marks her 90th C OF C HONOURS HOSPITAL — The Chamber of Commerce, who haq their annual-dinner meeting Tuesday night, got together afterwards with the Seaforth Community. Hospital , Board,;• who were having their monthly meeting. C. of C. president • Ken:Lingelbach, left, presented a C. of C. award to board•chairman Clayton Looby. The hospital, which was accredited last year, was cited by the chamber for "the quality of service you are providing to the citizens of Seaforth and district." (Staff Photo) HPRCSS family life coordinator named Anthony 'hater ofSt. Cathar- ines was hired Monday night as the co-ordinator of the Fannie' life program by the ' Huron-Perth County RomanCalholic Separate School hoard at a meeting in Dublin. • Mr. ('hater will go into the 19 separate elementary schools under the board's jurisdiction and set up • the family life program. Pilot family life programs have been carriec out in Grade 8 'classes in the schools, and in Grade 7 at St, James' school in Seaforth. during the past two 'years. et, 'winner 01 the teaching staff in thesystem have been, taking the family life courses at 'Ct. Aleromc's College in Kitchener during the pasf two summers so . that they are trained to teaat the program. • Mr. Chater will start his After the delegates left .the duties with the board on February ..l"board endorsed the aims. of the • • council but decided notet4.0tppoint 'one of the Stratford members until it was learned !when the council plans to hold its meetings. The board will hold county professional development day on Feb nary 2.Y•Workshops will be held both morning and afternoon at St. Columban School, St. James' School, Seaforth, and St. Patrick's School, Dublin, The meeting adjourned at 11:10 p.m. (by Wilma Oke) boarckmenther, m reporting on the information meeting held in W ingham with provincial cabinet members, said he believed Darcy McKeough, provincial treasurer, when he said he didn't have any mohey. He warned the trustees that they. would have "to 'take a hard look at all our expendi- tures", • .1 ack Lane, Superin- Conduct 'of Business and Finance, sankhe didn't expect the 'govern- ment to announce the grant rates before Witch as it hadn't in • previous years when "things were a lot simpler than' this year R. D. Labelle and R. Ventreck of the Stratford Advisory 'Leisure Council discussed their. aines• and priorities for leisure activities for over an hoof • with both(' members. The 'resignations of Clement Steffler, principal of St. Joseph's School, Kingsbridge, and Melba Park, Grade 2 teacher at the same •" schOol were accepted. „The.1)or,77-..--;,nte...,41 ;,:pweinent for thr -AceVer af :Nines' School, Seaforth,'-to the Ministry of the Environment which is constructing the sewer system in th6 town. Vincent Young Goderich ou re Invited The Happy Citizens of'Seaforth will meet for euchre•games iii the Seaforth Legion Hall.onThursday, February 5 at 2 p.m. Visitors welcome. Ladies please bring lunch. F WILY SHOES CLEARANCE CHILDREN'S SNOWBOOTS Reg. $15.00 NOW .$8 MENS CASUAL & DRESS SHOES Reg. $22 NOW $1 0 WOMENS DRESS SHOES sr;k1. E T T o $ PRICE 2o TO $1 0 .JIM CROCKER FamilyFootwear. , 527-0102 Seaforth Gasoline Prices GOING Up 15c A GALLON? Dattin B210•( i your answer, Buy one for the Ecouomy: ... Drive it for the Feeling Datsun 11210 Still one of the best ba rgctitts • on four wheels the DatStial?2.10 is a Siiecial .package especial- ogee Ju$1 $3:477:00J)i,uys you one of the most economical ,VOti drive cars tin 1,he road today . THE DATSUN SPIRIT . . FEEL IT • ,•?1, --- Drive One At Gerald's Datsun Ltd. and Feel The Fun For' Yourscif! 41111111k. G-erald's Datsun Ltd. Open From ,barn till 9pm 22 Goderich St. W. Seaforth , ph 527-1010 DATSUN • 0 e 4 * Mrs. John - A. (Jennie) McGregor, who lived with her sisters on Victoria St. in Seaforth for many years, celebrated her 90th birthday last week. •Mrs..• McGregor mOved to Huronview a year -and a half ago. She was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church and of the local WOmen's Institute. For many years ti he was a volunteer with the Cahadian Red (',Coss Society. She was' born on the lOth of • How would you like to have it announced in the , Huron Expositor that you. had bought a new piano and were having it delivered Thursday to your house? Or That you had bought a new car or sold your farm for $3500? • .All of the above was considered legitimate news and part of the whole community's business 100 or 75 years ago.. We know because we read Pearl McFarlane's column "In Years ' Agone" every week before it is set. We marvel at the kind of things people wanted their neighbours to now about them, or at least didn b'ect to having published in earlier cops of this news- paper. Every issue up 'till the 1900's - had at least three full columns of local briefs, the close to home, intimate news that some people nowadays call g%Isip. If your son in •Tordnto got a' better job in Detroit and moved there, you told the Huron Expositor about it and his news : appeared prominently in the local briefs. We suspect that local merchants. "'seeded" the local briefs with juicy items like "Mrs. Jones has had a brand new piano delivered". in hopes. of starting a fad, and a km on an overstocked item. Weekly newpapers like the Expositor, carried a lot of district and national political news too but in place of. the photos, meeting reports and feature stories that we run., in . the old days they carried acres of personal news. Our worlds were a lot smaller 100 years ago than they are now , and it was really important when a man in the same township had a finger cut off in a sawing accident .Ors a group of young people got together to skate on a pond in the moonlight. Roads were rough and trips by sleigh or buggy were slow. It was an occasion when you •had a visitor and you sent a note to the Expositor office about it so that friends and -heighb.ours would realize you were so blessed. 'Trips to London or-Toronto Or even Goderich 'were a big deal ... Commercial sold. That .major events occur in packages of three was proved again this week by the Czerwinski family since 1.967 popular hosts at the ComMercial Hotel here. It started last Thursday' night when Mrs. Czerwinski won $10,000 in the Wintario Draw and her hcrsband Joe received $100 as seller of the' winning ticket. On Sunday night she won $100 in the Olympic draw. its these events were taking •place details of the salethe hotel were being complete , Mr. Czerwinski said Monday' the hotel had„ been sold to Rene and Norman Dupuis who would take possession ifext week. Mr. and Mrs. Rene Dupuis and three children of Kitchener. and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Du.puis and one child of the Sudbury area arc moving here this week. The Czerwiriskis are remaining in Seaforth. , , "We've enjoyed our years in Seaforth and the town has -been A pitgram of decorating ,the interior , . ojNorthside United Churchthirnmer was outlined by Rev. Mervyn Retiber at the annual meeting of the -congregation Wednesday. Extensive work 'required on the heating system and insulation o planned were explained. by Kenneth Lingelbach, ',.r??Reuter was nAmeci chaitenytAr the meeting with ivltsr Oebrg.e Ribcy secretary. igrrl'Ileuhee.Y.iv that it was hofttl the renova ons would be coMpleted by the end of the year as NOrthside will be observing its ontihtliedth birthday in 1977. He reported on repairs done at the church and manse in 1975. Re-.elected to the session to 1980 were Robert MeKercher, William Dalrymple and Lawrence Plumsteel. Elected to the session to 1980 were Marlen Vincent and Frank Golding who succeed Clarence Martin and Leslie Oliver -who. retired. Elected to the ' board of stewards to 1979 were Donald McKercher, • Wayne Hugili, George . Rihey and Ernest Seaforth's 'council looked 'at arena renovation plans at a special meeting Monday' night.. Architect Brian Gamut of StfatfOrd went ovbr the proposed • (Continued from Page 1) attractive detail that he had never noticed before. Commendjmohe speaker ' Mr.Titford . .sand . his recommendations were 9 "good idea".' C. of C. President Ken Lingelbach told the meeting plans had been made to present ---S-e4orth Community Hospital with a C. of C. certificate commending the hospital on 'having achieved accreditation standing. He introduced hospital board vice president David Cornish and Mrs....Cornish and past 'president • Mrs. Jos. McConnell and Mr. McConnell who were guests. Referring[Jit e C. of C. ofR' now in progress, D'Orlean Sills committee'chairman, said already there were 25 regular and .2 associate members. The 'drive is continuing. ' have to write or phone invitations to anniversaries ... here we can put an ad in the local weekly. City people don't know that old friends have turned 90 or retired after 43 years service or have another grandchild, until they read names for the first and last time in print in the • daily paper's (paid) obituary column. Certainly there's been a turn away' from long lists of social notes that many people felt were irrelevant or at best an invasion of privacy and more emphasis on school boards and planning boards and governments that influence our lives now. We think this has been good for the weeklies but it's important not to throw the baby out with the bath water, and get rid of everything that makes a weekly newspaper' personal. We think weddings, m eetings, visitors, minor' hockey and knowing about each other's joys and sorrot4-in a small town is still importanW We don't think community papers should become hard news sheets only, weekly copies of the dailies that serve the big cities.- There's still lots of room in this weekly paper for the annie ersaries and 90th birthdays ; for the little things that are really important in your life. They're important to our• 10,000 or so readers too because chanceS arc they know you or-have something in common with you. We aren't goingle go back to • having a half page of local briefs 'in each week's paper. For one thing we'd have difficulty getting enough news to do that.. • . But we'd like to have moreslqc.:al briefs than we do. We're looking' for tomeone who'd like to write a i n court . A suspect is in Perth jail in. .Stratford charged with a brealOh at the Seaforth • Farmer's Co-Op, Sunday night. Seaforth police said $9 was'stolcn and the suspect will appear in -court in Exeter this week. • The same man has been charged by:Exet cr police with some Minor break- i II'S' there, police said., and has admitted an attempted robbery tit the Sea forth arenl . :January 22. • • $200,000 in renovations to the building and conpeiliors asked " fi ih (o trim everything that can be trimmed front thtut amount. Another 'meeting with the '•architect is scheduled for March. Couneilldrs also met with a representative of the Canadian Ice Machine Coalpady to discus', the purchase Of a different condensation and cooling se-stem to save water in ice making operations at the arena l'ow tr, Clerk Bob Franklin said no firm price was mentioned and council will look into the new c'quipment ,kited whether or not they can 'ERIC W. TIPPELT Son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto, Tippelt of Egmondville, graduated from the De . Vry Institute of Technology in ,,..Toronto. The raduation ceremony was held at the Toronto Airport Hilton H otel.., were 'Eric received his honours Diploma .as an Electronics .Technician. Mr. and Mrs, Tippelt attended the -graduation. Eric started to work January 5 for Picker;., Nray Engineering ' in Hamilton.. Eric was a student at St. James Separate School, 'and Seaforth District High• School, - column. made.,up of the bits and .pieces of life people in Seaforth have. If you're interested in being the Expositor columnist whom readers could phone with news of important trips and interesting happenings, or ,anything else they think other, members of the community might like to know abotit, give us a call. But readers, go ahead arid buy that new living room suite. or even a piano. We'll keep the news in strictest confidence. We promise! ****** We just finished reading a, fascinating diary of a trip to Scotland in 1891 by Janet Mustard. later Mrs. Nell McGregor and mother of Gregor McGregor of Brucefield. One day she evidently want ed her stories about travels around Scotland to reach-a wider audience than those who of letters as she ee rites in her diary that she had just finished "a piece for e Expositor". • We looked up the 1891 back issues and sure enough, there-ts her story, signed "A Huron Lady hc Scotland". Obviously it wasn't done to say who you were when you wrote Expositor readers from far aw,y places. Other 1891 issues carry letters from "A Rambler: and "The Wanderer". * * * * An apology is due to our readers who got their Expositors a day late last week. First of all, the Expositor was late leaving the printing plant in . Goderich because they had problems with their new larger press, in full operation for the first time. After the papers • were addressed by the mail crew, weather was too stormy .and it was too late to make the usual run to the Stratford Post Office Wednesday night. Expositors • were taken .to the Stratford post office and to other local offices Thursday morning and as a result, many' subscribers got their papers a 'day later than usual. We've .had a few, storms over %the past couple of years but we were never hit with the worst until Thursday morning, when the paper was safely in the mail. Our luck was bound to change. Tlickersmith in J886, to Mr. and Mrs. William McCloy. She and her late husband were married in Toronto and . moved to Egmondville in 1939. Mrs. McGriegor has one son, Alec of R.R.2, Kipper], three -grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Her family visited her- last week to mark her birthday. .• • Mrs. McGregor's sisters, Mrs. W.F..Butt and Fairic McCloy.. live at Huronview too. • • 1.4 I something you did once a year if you were lucky. You wanted everyone to know you were galavanting, so you told the Expositor. Big purchases like a new team or especially good livestock or a new house were noted in the local briefs because they loomed larger in the days when people didn't have much. That people were able to buy expensive things was a sign that Seaforth and area was settling down, (\hanging from a pioneer settlement to a progressive, civilized town that 'could afford "the finer things in life". There has been a big change in local papers from those •days. partly because a lot of ex-city slickers now live leg-mall towns like Seaforth and they are .1? mortified to see their names in the local briefs ... no matter who they've been visiting or being visited by. They figure it's nobody's business but their own and maybe they are right. But hardly anybody used to feekkthat way... they were proud and pleased to see their name in the paper (except when it was in the court report.) . ' As for a lot of us who grew up 'reading the. personals and the local briefs (though in a much more condensed form than 75 or 100 years ago), we're used to everybody knowing what everybody else is doing anyway and reading about it ip the newspapermeither thrills or bugs us. It's just the way things are, or were, in a small town. Any of us who've lived away from home and subscribed to a weekly know the hoots of laughter that 'local "news" brings from city friends, looking at a news- paper that isn't a big metropoli- tan daily for the first time in their lives. My sister in Ottawa had a dinner guest who went on and on reading from the Expositor with gales of laughter until she pointed out that she was, in some small way, connected with the publication. The guest was so embarrassed that he wanted to go....129j-ne. But these 'people don't know how deprivedt cv arc. .City people • good to Us"' Mr. Czerwinski said and added he and his,famile;_were moving to ,a residence ,on Jarvis Street Which they . had rented. While he had made no' definite .plans for the future, • he said perhaps he and his wife Mary might do some .travelling.. Mr. and Mrs. Czerwinski; who came here • from • Toronto, purchased the Commercial taking possession July-1, 1967. Mr. and Mrs.Czercivinski • are active in minor hockey in SeafPrth. • orthside plans side redecoratin Seven we 'dilings atitt ' 14 funerals were conducted' by OK?' , " Mini, ter 'during the erear ,and there were seven baptisms, I Break in Mary Czerw inski suspect to wins $10,060‘-' PPP a ar ouncil looks at arena plans AAam Si. agreed with a request • . • • , -.afford it? " from United Trails Inc, to send a ' representative to an Ontario Highway Transportation 11°111.0 • hearing in Toronto on Tuesday February 3. The Seaforth rep support United Trails' application to extend bus, 4;erviee from Stratford to Tayistock and Woodstock; United Trails said thi tliey be able to serve 1 ighway 401 Ideations much more quickly- for bus passengers if they' could make-connections in Woodstock, . Reeve John Flannery presided at Monday nigh't's mcketing, because Mayor Betty ('ardno was ill, Council met again Tuesday night in Committee of (he whole, but had no- decisions to report, according to Clerk Franklin. Every week more and more people discover what mighty jobs are accomplished by low cost Huron Expositor Want Ads, Dial 527-0240, 4 .4.1