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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1977-01-20, Page 3had better count our blessings ' that we aren't shopping in New York. To be poor in New York city • wouldn't be a.treat. We saw tons of slum 'bnildings from ,our commuter train, but - that's as close as we got to New York's ghetto areas. It's hard to believe desperately poor sections are part of the same city as Rockefeller Centre where a giant outdoor Christmas tree smiles down on all passers by. And where ablegg..... passersby can have a skate at the outdoor rink for only $4 a session. Maybe well get •a view from the underside of New York oil oar next that sus:.`' You 1117 -Tie ..an a Smile with., ccrie'of)-Th:Ose,. 1973 FORD CUSTOM 4 door Sedan in blue with a 351 V8 automatic double power radio. Otte munet taw' mileage. 1973 FORD GALAXIE 500 4 door._ Sedan in limestone green with a 351 V8, automatic, &able power, radio, rear defogger, air conditioning, One owner. 1975 G.M.C. 1/2, tab- Pickup in two tone green and white equipped with a 350 V8rantomatic double • power, Sierra classic package, radio side mouldings,' step bumper, One Boner, , See Ken at..... 1972 FORD LTD. 4, door sedan in 'green with a 351 V8 automatic Double power, radio ' , rear defogger, Vinyl roof, One owner. 1974 CHEVROLET Belair 4 door Sedan in dark brown, 350 V8,- automatic, " Double Power; rear defogger, radio, Wheel discs. One OW—tier. 1973 DODGE Window Van in green metallic equip .ped-,•with a' 225 six cylinder stick shift. Snow tires, trailer hitch. One owner. BILL. MOLAUGIILIN MOT RS LTD. We Bring It All lo-gether SERVICE SELECTION SAVINGS SATISFACTION It was a shortsession when Huron County"'Council met -Tuesday afternoon with the councillors passing a series of motions.aiined• at establishing the mechanics of county governtnent for the upcoming term, Top item. op the order of business was ' approval of the report from the .4977 WStriking Coinmittee setting .1.141.the various committees and boards • for the next Year. , Terms of office were established at the same time so the various groups would' have • one retiring member eache-year.:- West Wawanosh Reeve ROSeit Lyons was named •to chair the • Invited. • _ The public is invit ed to attend a meeting of the Architectural Conservancy of • Ontario, Huroncounty Branch, at Seafortli: Public School` on Thursday, jarmary 27 at 8 PM. Peter Steket.-- a Well known ',,architect from Niagara on the Lake who supervised restorations at the Grange, Toronto-And Victori'a Hall in Cobotirg will be guest speaker,. The ACO „sponsored house tours in several ;areas , of Huron County "this Summer, V Something to ay THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JANUARY 20, 1977 by Susan White ewYork city is crazy about life —: `71re Architectural Conseivancy • of Ontario, Huron County Braiteh, is sponsoring -their second free winter leacture series for local people whe are interested in restoration and conservation of old buildings. Thefirst meeting - .will bp held in Seaforth Public -School-at-8 :pan T; -next-Thursday, January' 27. Peter John Stokes, of Niagara ,on the. Lake, . 'one of , Canada's '. leading restoration architects,' „ guest speaker. Mr. Stokes,,.• whq-upeivised restoration at -Viet° a Hall in Cobourg g and was" a consultant when Upper Canada:,, Village was created, will give an -illustrated • talk on. the projects' he's been involved with. .., The newest member of "Seaforth's police force will be moving to town as soon as he can find a house. "There isn't too - much to rent right now," says Constable Angus MacDonald,..31, who joined the force on December 20. For now, the constable is staying of the Commercial and his Free lectures on. arch itectural We spent an afternoon in the fabulous Metropolitan Museum conserva. tion start Thursday , Of Modern Art and saw an Egyptian exhibit, • ., • Russian- 24, at Eketer Public School, will hear Richard Rogers of the ., Ontario Heritage Foundation: The Foundation is the financial., and advisory arm of the provincial government on. restoration. This summer it gave a grant of $50,000 to restore and revitalize the old Exeter town hall. Kenneth Kelly of Heritage Canada is the third speaker in the free lecture series:dwho will speak ' .at, the Little Inn, Bayfield, on ' • March 31. He'll'show slides and -talk about the coast to coast activities of Heritage Canada, the inain federal restoration agency which has projects in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia and the Klondike New ` looking .for.H.hoose . • empty bus. 'DRESSED FOR THE WEATHER -That 's what 69 Reo'ple entered the ....Anetherlfight we 'slowed for a' Optimist Winter Qrnival• snowmobile poker rally did on Sunday, but so'cold . stop light and when my brother- that a entrants were "on the verge of frOstbite" when the rally ended• after an. '''''""`". in-law said -." Will., you-,look at hour,. according'• to carnival co-chairman' Ken Cardno. The abui•se was cut, in half that", with a note of awe itritig • • . .voice, we all looked up to see two because of freezing.temperatures. (g.xpositor Photo).. , n aked' Women„ dancing in their . . lighted apartment house window, • Atigui "Gus?' • the But that was interesting too in. its .. 1 who • Before I spent Christmas in New York, I was part of the silent majority who think that city is a place: Afterdoll; ii' bankrupt. Its crime rate is?high .and peple get mugged or killed on the Streets in broad daylight while other people walk blithely by. 'I didn't expect much from New York-. I was prepared for snarly, uncaring people, grimeand litter, armed guards and hoodlums. New Yorkers don't have the time or inclination to talk to each other, let aiong gawking tourists, so don't expect a warm welcome or any jolly "experiences, I cautioned myself. But boy _was.] wrong. As the ty • commercial that's heamed out at -- the locals puts it "New York is ' crazy crazy about life." NYC is the most interesting. lively,place I've been- M a long long time. (Sorry about that Huron County). Everyone we talked to in our long_ walks up and down the streets and bus : rides and subway and train trips . was friendly and helpful. We felt a lot *more welcome there than we did in niany - big European cities and --New Yorkers' concerti about strangers putsgood grey Toronto to shame. -.We' had la couple ,of • brushes with craziness. Traffic down , Fifth Avenue was SlOWed to , a crawl by a vicious fight between, two motorists who had bumped -into each other One night. But we had an interesting talk ,about that With a couple of native New , Yorkers who were on our nearly som o e f -'Andrew • Wyeth's paintings.. ' The Met building seemed about the size "of • the whole town of Seaforth -and we- had lunch in its cafeteria which is sort of an _indoor 'Cointyard with fountains..and -statues: ; • We walked miles and went in and out of all the stores with legendary names _dales. Saks Fifth Avenue. Lord and Taylor and. Macys and' Gimbel~. Partly• by accident because we .stayed on a bus too long, we went throtigh,Greenwich Village where your brain gets assaulted by the,huge . variety of stores and • 'restaurants and people. There. were three of us left on the neatly empty bus •wheii'my . -husband went up to ask the -bus driver where we went wrong. The ' other passenger, a well dressed lady, said-shedber.glad-to-irehrlis. - and' 'procedded to rhytne off places of interest as we drove by. Then, the. bus ,driver took .us to a bus stop out of his way, told us -what bus to get to our destmatker (Gimbel's bargain basement; and • even gave us a transfer so we wouldn't have to pay . another fare': Now, were the 'snarly N ew YorkerS? ' The brother • and sister-in-law we stayed with live half an hour out of NYC by train and every' morningwe' rode into' the eighth wonder of the 'world, Grand -Central Station. it's a bit like Toronto's Union, with a huge domed ceiling and central hall. But it's almost a small city'of-its own, with lots of restaurants and stores under one roof, The . commuter ' train service is fantastic, not cheap, but really. efficient and hordes of business .people travel in and out every day from way up in Connecticut. • At Grand Centtal's Oyster par where •cooks. in white hats-- and. coats make each Order of oyster stew up fresh with live oysters, in • front of customers, we had a big bowl each. • Restaurant meals weren't as 'expensive as they are in Candian cities ... and- we' got some'idea first hand about what Americans mean when -they -say Canada is pricing itself out of the tourist • trade. InLittle •a• dingy old neighbourhood with narrow streets, cafes and private clubs, we had the best Italian' food Ii can remember, three courses • and wine for, under $10 each. • hard to describe but there's- a feeling. iA,tskew York City that, here is where is all -happening. 'ft's stimulating, exciting': It's not called the Big Apple for nothing.. (My brother-in-law says the „biggest apple always grdyys at_the top of the tree and New York gets that name because it's the top city in the English speaking world. But those,- assumptions are prot2ably open to dispute, but if's an -explanation. 1' know in m.Y. heafT7hat ' you can't really-tell moth about a city :in four days. but I have this feeling that -it would be a great .place to live That's sonic admission from ucenfirmed rural -dweller who loves life -in the country, I'm not ready to pack up and ., • move. There's the problerii of What a weekly newspaper editor would do to keep body and soul. together in the great Metropolis for one thing. But 1 sure am:going for another visit. soon. If you get Ueliancete go, take it,New York, indeed something to see. Just -about ..everybody knOWs, someone who's taking off down south soon as part of the annual Great Canadian escape. It looks Tike (Inc quarter of our staff (yes, that's--more- than 'one person) is heading South- in febreary. Unfortunately, your's truly isn't one of them. We had our trip to New York, we got-new basement in' the house in the fall- 'and we 'clad the assorted other expenses' that ' come with renovating an old. house. -When the Terrible Two were in Europe, we had made plans that, come hell or high'water,. we'd "Meet- _them in Portugal in February. They fixed that by coning home in December,' but considering the bank account, times just as well. What we're going to do, on the suggestion of some kind friend, is put up big sun and surf, full colour • posters in the new basement; sit down there on the lawn chairs and dream. • It was surprisingly easy to find our way around in downtown New York, becau se all the east west streets and most of the north-- smith ones are numbeted,. Pretty soon we were running -around like Se Boned. city • dwellers, looking • .fer a certain store on East...3%h.: Street' or a restaurant on Second Avenue. Store windows are filled with .. wierd and wonderful things but. we're still shaking Our heads abOut what was featured in one interior decorating and fancy furniture shop. Nestled on a fine Oriental carpet.. was a full size, stuffed. Holstein, cow. The cow, head, horns,: tails and all was in a reclining :position •• and 'was evidently supposed to. be used kind .of. like ,a bean bag chair. I , hope • teachers take school kids past that window so-that they can get...a pretty good idea of 'what -a real cow looks like. It'd . be a shame if it was stuck up in the Fifth': Avenue apartment of whatever strange , 'person'Whei ' 7 would buy it. In another ,stere we found out that Seaforth. and 'arcaladie,s who Make crafts and goodieS for IOCal e bak sales and bazaars could get rich pretty quick if they tooktheir wares. to New York. The Store. called the Women§' Exchange, was founded•abbut 100 years ago to sell womens' homemade goods ' and . help then; to become economically. independent' --- Their specialty is an ordinary sized chocolate cake at $7.50. Small jars of. jam are $3,aud Afghans are priced at $100 plus and quiltS are several hundred each. The Exchange , alsoruns an antique store arid old. dishes that might fetch $10 ,here were priced at $75 and a small crazy quilt from the - 1.920'§ Was $340., • We' Collectors and lovers of good food • Douglas RichardsOn, author of . "Ontario Towns" and a lecturer at University College, 'Uniyersity of Torontq, will be the:final ACO speaker, April-28 at the Little Inn'. , Dr. Richardson''s book includes a photo of Main St„ Seaforth, and he was in town last summer with a group • from - t e Ontarie ,Heritage Veundation who looked at Cardno's Hail, St. Thomas Anglican. Church 'and the former Seaforth Public School building. All' the meetings are free, and are at 8 p.m, on the, last,Thursday ef. the month. The Huron ACO sponsored a heritage tour 'of building with interesting archi- ' tecture in several Huron towns, including Seaforth, last summer.„ The:-Seco-lid meeting, February• ostumes from the Hermitage and • . Meals...en Wheels has been serving the Seiforth area for Over 'two-y,bars now and is stillgoingi -strOng. • . They serve up to 10 and 11 mealy per daY'and over:the period -of a month' this adds up to 'quite a . few meals. With- all. thiS -poor winter driving the meals are still getting through. • 'The'Farintill $1.25 per day and you ,receive 4-hot 'meat with soup and dessert included, in throw-away styrofeent containers. _ . 7-There ..is. always a need fbr velptiteets to drive or to sub for Some of ,the regular driVers:. The. Rib :entails one hour,.of 'time per month, if even that inueh, theAtealisijided up at zit'30 in el hel home. tne afternoon and cielivereto tne When the program started• some considerable- donations were made. Now that was 2 years ago, and although the program is not in dire financial need - they can always use donations. This Christmas was a good one, Mrs. Vincent says. Christinas meals were delivered as well as a little gift for every, recipient on their list. If you woultillikelto help "time' wise" as a volunt4r driVer the :ladies to contact a't'e:, Mrs. Jane Vitieent, 527-0373i, Mrs.Beth Thompson, 5274378. If you would like- to help finaneiaIly. the lady to Contact is: Margaret "McMairn 527-0996. 1977 Road Committee for. 'a terita Of two years. Also-servieg on the committee will be. councillors ,• ,McNichol' (one year); councillors J. Stafford (a two year appointee),d •T A Mil three year • appointee). 'Also. sappointedto - the Board were private citizens p.H.Mcl(enzie of Dttgannon, Mrs. N. Gray of Belgrave and Elgin Thompson Of Clinton. was named to chair the Planning 791tard for 1Turon during •the next year. Working with Mr. Clifford will be Grant Stirlitig(ene year), Allan Campbell (two years), (two--• years), C.K.Campbelialttee years), John, Ti nney (four .years) and J C ' Krauter (five...years). , Th omas Consitt,.deputy Reeve _ of Stanley Township, will serve as _chairman on the Huronview for gals -w use Years), Eileen Palmer (three - years) and provincial representa- tive J. Morrissey;, ' Cecil Desjardine, Stephen Township Reeve, will serve. as -chairman of the Huron County Library Board for the .next year. He will be werking with Commis§ion at the PUC's first meeting'of the year last' Wednesday. Dr. Whitman is a veteran PUC member who' "'Vas "elfairifran -of the commission froiii- 1972 until 1975, was re-elected in December. _ „ - r" "" Other PUC members are new commissioner Gordon Pullman Dr. Rodger w I Morley will chair the- .„ . . Usborne Deputy Reeve next year. Also, serving on that committee will be F.E.Haberer (one year), Gerry • Ginn (two ' years); Ed. Oddlelfion (two years), D.S.Eadie (three years) and R.M.Bell (three yeah). Social services committee • in' 1977 be made up of J.F.Mac)Donald (one year), J.F.Flannery years), H.E.Wild (two years), H. Elliot (three years) and. JR.Huriking, Deputy. Reeve of- Hullett Township as chairman. County Council named R. Westcott of Exeter, E. Hayter of yarna, G. Reed_of Dungannon, J., Hazlitt of Goclerich and J.L.IvIcCUteheon of Brussels to and Mayor Betty Cardilo. the 1977 Land Diiision Committee. PUC members dismissed which operated its newer well and upgrading of the PUC lane pump, y development of the 'new well site, oure near Brantford• St. in the south west corner of, town'. _ • The commission -hopes - to bring the newly drilled- well into operation this year, according to PUC manager ToM' Phillips. • • The manager , ..and two cornmissioners. will attend the Association ' of • Municipal Electrical Utilities convention in Toronto an February 27 28 and March 1. T wo PUC ethloyees 'will attend the aecidvii? -prevention fety seminar its Mareli in allabridge, "the best place to learn about new eqttiptyient and ideas," Mr., said. • Harold Knight -(ffiree years) and W.E.Simmons (three years). The Development Committee for 1977 will be chaired- by Clifford aray,*-Gray Township Deputy Reeve.. Also appointed were VV.J,Elston ,two years); C. Deichert ('twoyears). J. Dawioe (three yeats) • atrd H. Robinson 0 (three years). • •t ,, • BiII Dale hea count Appointment of the .1977' 'Board of Management one Exeeutive Committee during the Property Committee saw Hullett year: Other, Board members - iAl h it M'On • Township Reeve John Jewitt appointed were Joseph Kerr (one V V year), W.G.Zinn (t wo, years) . ..,_ ,. i `named to a one year term as chairman: Other committee • Norman, Durst (6w years) _ and -. • , . , • • members Will be' Simon Hallahaii, R.S.Macauly (three years). ' ea s UC (one year), Robin Lawrie' (two Board, of Health Chairman for . . • ' •• . years), Ervin Sillery , (two years) 1977 will .be: Seaforth Ddputy wife and two daughters,aged • D.R.MacGregor (three yeats) and Reeve W.J.Dale-, Also servictig on Dr. Rodger Whitman- Was three and five, are staying with Frank Cook (three years).. the Board- will -be D.A.McNeil appointed 1977 Chairman of the '. , her family in London. • Goderich Reeve Bill Clifford (one -year), P, D.Steckle (two Seaforth • Public Utilities •' Constable MacDonald,,, is .- a-- '- native of Scotland. He 'lived in • London, Ontario for- 12 -years' before going back to Scotland in-. 1972. He went home. for family reasons and says•hedidn't intend: to . stay away from Canada permanently. -The' MacDonald family came, back to Canada this • 'fall. The constable worked ' as a policeman in Scotland, . Some of - the police •'procedures are different, but the law is pretty much the same in both countries; he says., • .... Constable MacDonald -worked for three and a half years with the Strathclyde RegiOnal Police In , Scotland, a 12,000 man force which polices. a large 'area that..:, . includes the' eitrofq,lasgow. The Constable was stationed in Oban, a fairly small town On the Firth of Lorne. ' ' He has 16 weeks training from the Scottish Police College, which -'''-' means that hp Wilt not have to take extensive traininV-perhaps only a 'short refresher- course, at r' the-OntatiO Pace College ill' Aylmer.