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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-04-22, Page 1nir MORE SALT — They need a little more salt, Dr. W. J. Thompson told his fellow workers as they assisted in preparing breakfast for the congregation of ' Northside United Church following a Sunrise Service on Easter Sunday morning. Assisting Dr. Thompson are (left) Mrs. Thompson, Bob Beuttenmiller• and Keith Snell. (Staff Photo) 'PENCIL SKETCHES BY A. DALE Alf a le is a self taught artist who draws holding his pencil in his ifioUth. Alfie and h s wife Loreen, left, moved to Seafordth in November from Owen SOund. Most of these pencil drawingS have been sold but the Dales hope to reissue some °CAWS drawings on hasti notes which were popular in OWen Sound, (Staff Photo) FROM THE PRESIDENT — When the S.D.H.S. Band was playing in Fort Myers last winter among the audience was U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. In recognition of the event President Ford has sent Barldmaster Geo. Hildebrand this "Certificate of Appreciation" - which- Dianne McGrath of the Expositor , Staff -proudly 'displays, The certificate reads "The President of the United States prebenta 4 this certificate of appreciation to the S.D.H.S. Girls Band for outstanding performance on the-bbdasidh Of the President's visit to Fort Myers, Florida, (Signed) Gerald R. Ford, The White House, WashIngtOn, D.C., February 10, 1976." • Whole No. 5644 ;117th Year • • FIRST SECTION PAGES 1 — eQ SEAFORTit :ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1976 26 PAGES ' Single copy 25: cents. inAchnitlpe, Tuckersmith Rat5:0s.Day,Carp char ti By Wilma Oke The daily rate at the Vanastra Day Care Centre was increased from $5 to • $6 per Child at a meeting of TuckersmithTownship council Tuesday evening. The increase will become effective June 1. The actual cost of a child at the Centre was reported by Councillor Bert Branderborst to be $14 .00 a day. The government pays 80 per cent of the deficit and, the municipality from which the child comes, pays the remaining 20 per cent':~.'. The Huron. County Social Services Department will be responsible for interviewing and setting the rate for any, child of a parent or parents on welfare or who are not able to pay the $6 daily rate. The Day Care Centre Board will pay the Vanastra Recreation Committee a $750 rental fee per month. Earlier this month it was discovered ' e recreation Ogi commitad w ch owns the building had not billed the Day Care for the monthly rent of $500• first agreed on since the Day Care was- opened in September 1975. The increase in rent will help to make up for the missed rent. Allan Guest of Camden Holdings and Harold White Homes Ltd. of London attended the meeting along with Harvey Hammond of Vanastra and Don Perry of Harold White Homes to 'discuss the eleven houses to be started next week in the Victoria Boulevard and Quebec Street area at Vanastra. The eleven houses will be of three different styles, brick and wood combination, with three bedrooms.They are estimated to cost $23,000. each. The firm owns 17 other lots which will be built on after the' presently planned eleven houses are sold. The 11 houses are expected to be ready, for occupancy in September. In other business building permits were granted to: Ralph Stryker, R.R.3, Seaforth, Implement Shed; Jim McGregor,, R.R.2, Kippen, addition to barn, implement shed and addition to house; Peter Westerhout, Clinton, new house on part lot 51, concession 1, •• London Road Survey: Harry Cook; Egmondville, attached garage to mobile home; Robert Core, Egrnondville, swimming' pool; and Dennis Broderick, barn and storage shed. The engineer's report on the Layton Drain was provisionally' adopted when there were no objections. Engineer Henry Uderstadt, Orangeville, attended the meeting to answer questions. Robert Fotherhigharn was the only ratepayer affected by the drain to attend the meeting.. Court of Revision on the drain will be May 18 at 8:15 p.m. Members of Council were angry over the drastic cut in farm drainage loans announced last week' by the government. Tuckersmith will receive only $33,400 this year compared to $40,000 last year. To date loans totalling .$107;000 have'been applied for. Gouncil• will discuss the problem at the next meeting. Council will write Jack Riddell Huron-Middlesbx M.P.P., 'the Minister of Agriculture and Donald Eaton, Middlesex County' M.P.P. to ask them to seek ok' review of the situation and'. possible reversal of the cuts. Jim McGregor of Kippen complained about the condition of the Hensall Road especially the 1 1/4 mile section Klirectly. east Of the village which was extremely bumpy and lacked gravel. Reeve Elgin Thompson said a lack of', money for gravel was partly' responsible for the road situation, ' Mr., McGregor spoke of the • amount, of garb-age that falls off' • the Hensall garbage truck along the Hensall road en• route to the dump at the Usborne Township' boundary line. He said it wasn't fair for township residents to have to face the litter of cardboard boxes, plastic and tin cans. Council agreed it was a terrible mess and will protest to Hensall Council to ask that the truck contents be covered by a tarp. Council recommended for approval a request for severence • • of 1/2 acre of land containing- house to Mrs. Mary Haugh, R.R.4, Clinton. Meeting adjourned at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Despite injuries Alfie Dale has many interests Dan Beuerman was McKillop Reeve 16 years gave them luggage the town of Seaforth crest. At 29 years old Alfie Dale who were out in Georgian Bay. Owen Sound and Toronto, probably has more, talents than A freak accident nearly. 11 followed. Loreen, a friendly, '" the average person. He's, a skilled years- ago left Alfie paralysed warm person, didn't miss a night artist who does pencil sketches from the neck down. He and, his visiting Alfie when he was in and has designed' and sold his wife Loreen had been married Owen Sound or a weekend ,when own hasty notes. He used to play only six weeks. Alfie went he was at the Toronto General. guitar in a band' that he . le •d swimming in a small lake, dove "I'd do what the nurses would do himself: And until he moved to off a raft and injured his spine normally, when I was there," she Seaforth 'from Owen Sound in when he somehow hit the water in says. In Toronto she turned him November, he broadcast marine the wrong' way. on the Stryker frame. When he weather" to ships and small craft Several years in hospital, in went back to the Owen Sound. HIS CB RIGHT .BESIDE HIM — • Although Alfie Dale has been paralyzed from the neck down following a swimming accident nearly 11 years ago, he doesn't waste any time on self pity. Alfie is outgoing and interested in life and an active CB radio user. His CB outfit is his lifeline to the outside world. It sits beside his chair in his new house on Isabella St. in Seaf orthand'Alf turns on the microphone by pressing it with his elbow. '(Staff Photo) hospital,' it Was •Loreen' whO showed nurses there, how the Toronto nurses had applied a • 4 'dressing for bed sores.• She learned all she could about the care her husband needed. Shet• had to or he would never have been able to leave hospital, they both say. Although Alfie can't move, he gets along fine in the new house that he .designee on Isabella 'St. Loreen can help him , in and out of bed with a hydraulic" lift. And his lazy boy chair can be moved to different parts' of. the sunny living room. In the sum- mer, the Dales hope to build an outside patio, with a ramp, so that Alfie can go outside in . his comfortable chair., Alf has a wheelchair, a gift from someone in Owen Sound, but it has "pretty well had it", he says..4Anyway the big chair is more comfortathe. Although he can't get up and dawn the street in it. Alfie started as an artist after his accident.. He was in hospital, doing paint by number sets, holding the paint ' brush in his mouth.. A nurse suggested he could do better; on his own. Arne answered, "don't be silly," but the nurse but a pencil in his mouth and took the paint by number set away. He's been sketching ever since and has sold many of the pencil drawings, mostly landscapes. His art gave Alfie his "skip handle" or nickname that he's knoWn by on the CB network - the Pencil Pusher. He took' CB three years ago after he got out of hospital an'd agrees' that, the airwaves are , getting d. little crowded now. He'd like to get a ham radio operator's licence bdt says that means years df study. , His volunteer'work with his CB for the boating community broad- casting the weather and dispatch- ing 'messages near Owen Sound resulted .in a commendation and presentation from the Owen Sound Yacht Club who had a dance for the Dales before they left 'for Seaforth' last fall. Alfie would like to get into marine work again but "you really should live right on the water," he said. He really enjoyed this work because he was doing something aseful to people. The Dales said their interest in CB radio really helped them • to (Contind'ed on Page 11) •He may be retiring but he isn't going to 'Stop work, Charlie Reeves,, longtime P.U,C. foreman said' as• he discussed his retirement from the P.U.C. staff at the end of April. He admits to being interested in building houses "I've built half a dozen and renovated quite a few" he said.He built most of his North Main Street home as well as a cottage in Bayfield which he and Mrs. Reeves, the former Helen Salter enjoy each summer. Their family includes Margaret, Mrs. Jack Ungarian, Seaforth, Meta, Mrs. Ray Childs, Ottawa, and ,George of Seaforth. The Reeves have nine grandchildren. When Charlie Reeves started work back in 1947 the commission included A. Y. McLean, who was nman and the late Merton eid' and Ed. Keating. The late bavid H. Wilson was town clerk and P.U.C. secretary manager, With him on the staff at that time were Clare Westcott and Andy Calder and the late Ray 4iolmes. A Seaforth native, Charlie Reeves is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gdorge Reeves and attended Seaforth schools. He joined the p.U.C. staff after a career as a mechanic at' Sky Harbor Air School and in Seaforth agi's and quickly learned his new duties and became . Commission experienced in all aspects of and P.U.C. work. In the early days this work included climbing a pole Or replacing a water main deep in' the ground. "But I didn't mind, I had a lot of nerve and wanted to . tackle anything" adding that he still could climb if he had to "but you don't have, to so much now because we have a bucket truck". he': has assisted in training a' number of beginners and has "seen a lot come and go". He worked with Gus Boussey (former P.U.C. manager, now manager at Clinton) longer than With any other person,' he said. "He's 'been here so long in many peoples mind he is the P.U.C." Walter Scott, P.U.0 Manager said. Referring to Charlie's record of service, Mr. Scott said he never refuses an after hours call or a call in bad weather: He's never off sick except once when he broke his leg. He's in every morning at , 7:45 not 8 and he's early, at noon too. The commission and Staff marked Mr. Reeves' retirement at a dinner at the Curling Club Wednesday:_evening when Mr. and Mrs. Reeves and members of their family were guests of honor. The event tame as a complete surprise to Charlie. His wife had invited him to accomp'*ny her to a lodge dinner .,and it wasn't until ' he, saw familiar cars • at the cairling Club that he realized ,what was happening. Following dinner Dr. Rodger Whitmeh of the *commission spoke on behalf of Mayor Cardno who was absent through illness and recalled the contribution the guest of honor had made to the community. P.U.C. Chairman \Ed, Daly, Manager Walter Scott and Tom Phillips representing the staff, also spo ke and made presentations. The employees presented the' Reeves with a trip to Nashville which they take May 21, • the Long time MeKillop"reeve until his retirement at the end of .1963 Daniel G. Ileuerntan,- R.R.4, Walton, died in Huronview on Tuesday, April 13. -He was 87. Born in McKillop the.son of the late Mr. and , Mrs.% Heinrich Benerman:he was educated in.the township. A life long resident. of McKillop he farmed there until 1959 when he retired from active fainting!' 'His w'ffe rithe, %Sinter' Edith Mueller to whom he was' married 'in 1920 predeceased him in 1971. Keenly interested in Municipal ' Affairs Mr.. Beuerman served on the McKillop Township, council' for 21 years and was reeve for 16 years - the longest period during which anyone had occupied the office. -Mr. Beuerman is survived by one son, Robert J., of R.R.4, Walton; one daughter, Mrs. Ross (Nita) Leonhardt, 'of R.k.1; Bornholm; one sister; Mrs. Rhinold (Martha) , Kahle, of Mitchell; one brother, Manuel Beuerman, of Brodhagen; and five grandchildren. 'The remains rested at the (Continued on Page 11) MR.and MRS.CHARLES REEVES Commission dinner honours Jong time P. U C. employee 2 year old McKillop boy • 15leet A 2 year-old McKillop youth fell 15 feet from a second storey window Monday morning and walked' away unhurt. • John Glanville, 2 and his sister Veronica 3, were playing upstairs at thehorne of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.Les Glanville, R.R.4, Walton when the accident occurred. Mr. Glanville said Wednesday that despite the hard gravel young John apparently had ,suffered no ill effects. "I don't figure on sitting down, that's the quickest way to the cemetery!' the well known Seaforth resident said as he recalled the nearly thirty years since • April 14, 1947 when he joined the' P.U.C. staff. Licensed as a mechanic, as an elecrrician and as a journeyman 'linesman, he said he probably' would "do a few chores on my own". "I can pick and 'choose a bit. I've got papers three ways" he said referring to his three licenses. While' he says he has no real hobbies Charlie Reeves is active in the community. He belongs to the 'First Presbyterian Church, the Oddfellows, the Masons and the O.E.S.