HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1977-02-03, Page 3low
ALL ICED, UP — --- Frank Hulley was plowing a
wall of 'Snow ahead of him that was nearly, as high as
the cab on' this .McKillop Township -grader plow
Sunday night, in an attempt to open a township road
for 'the SeafOrth Fire Department. Photographer,,
--Dave Robb tells the.story of that trip in this week's—
Expoiltbf-: •Mr. -Hulley, a snow plow operator for 15
• years says this week's storm was the worst he's
seen.
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You're Invited
directing plows to residents who
needed • to get out over the new'
two' • way radie .systein .-that
connects the office and the plows.
Mrs. McCliaredirected the plows
so that farmers'could,get feed for
liveltoci, hZititig• oil and
take their milk,:out.
Normally, ,McKillep operators
start at 4 a.m. to haye the roads
- opened. every morning. It's not
the school buses that need -the
roads plowed early any mere,
','it's the comet-niters," Mr.
Hulley says. "the commuters just,
ilon't get 'Out if, their, roads
haven't been plowed by '6 a.m.
We know who wants out and we _
try our best," said Mr. Hulley,
shaking his head abont alr the
people stranded from their,jobs '
by this week's weather.-
He gets ails from farmers who
need to get their milk out of feed
in and "we'll be there if possible,
they know that,"
'" The veterart,snowplow,operator-
thinks alt. of' us get pretty: good
Municipal service for the taxes we
• pay. But lie-Seei-a- trend toward
farmers, who have in many cases
huge. investments to protect;
taking...On...their own plowing in
einergencies,..• He gives, the
ekample of. Hullett farmer „N ick
Whyte, whO -got a private
snowblower to open jiighway 8
between .Seaforth and Mitchell
over the weekend so that he could
get feed for his broilers.
''You do what You can, but
under abnormal conditions, you
can't help much," Mr. Ridley
iasaysand be pays, tribute to
McKillop ratepayers who are
always helpful and',
understanding, McKillop road
superintendent Bill Campbell and
a "stand behind 'me council."
The people 'Who live —along
McKillop roads do everything
' (Continued on page' lb).
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THE HURON—EXPoSITOil, FEEIRIJAEk 3, 1917--:;3
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Dale McInnes, manager •
Ofthe IGA On Main
• Street ?, takes the weather
"If anybody
wants to buy some snow,
I've got her cheap" he
said.
Jim Scott, who was shovelling out his car stuck on
Main Street, said:'",l' ve lived here pretty near all my
:•:•'• '''''''''''''''''''''' I'd say this' is the worst winter we've ever ••
had". (Expositor Photo)
Loti Savauge, I, and Pat Marquez don't mind' the
snow. Pat is an, exchange student in grade 13 from
Guadalajara, Mexico,• It's her first experience with -
I snow. "It's cold, but I like it"-she said, and felt sure
that her friends at home would 'never believe what r,
winter is like in ,Canade. , (Expositor Photo)
9m:et • to .Sad
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rm stayed
The storm ,has meant a break in
everybody's routine and I'm sure there are as
many stories as there are people marooned
out in all that snow. If we could just get out to
talk to you all, we would. And if we had room,
we'd print them, all top. We could be the,
Stdrm-Stayed Blues Gazette instead of the
Huron Expositor for several weeks straight
before all the tales were told.
But all we can do,:is write one rnore'tale of
-woe; ours, that you can' add 'to the many
snowed in stories you've already heard.
Now, my complaints to thecontrary, I'm not
'doing too badly. I don't have a husband •-he's '
marooned in McKillop Township --but lire got
two reporters. They talk aboutputting the job
_ahead of the Wilily and this is the week when
I'm doing just that, Maybe it's not by choiee,,
hitt that's__what's happening. •
john.' • Miner, the ,. UWO. Student • who
reported for US last summer,. and many other
times when he'S been sorely= needed _since--
then, is here. Hejoins Len Pizzey who just
started last Week and together they make a
team that would rival the Washington Post's
Watergatetwins.,they!ve.been on the phone-
and at -their:typewriters for two days straight
and I'm, very, very glad to have them. If they
weren't here I think I'd just look at the pile of
storm information that needs investigation_
and writing up and head out, walking honle to
McKillop. •
At the office , oil Monday, the storm
Stayed six were jpined by Expositor empleyees
who live in town and had to dig drifts
to their driveways and walk through snow up
to their knees to• get into work.
Needless tolay, nobody else made it, and
this paper conies to. you Courtesy of a small,
hardworking group. Thanks, you all. ,
Len doesn't have J much choice, but John
,didn't plantebe here this week. Heitade it to"
Toronto Thursday • with Carol and Francis
Hunt to cover Gordon Hill night at the Royal
York. 'The three of them just made it back' to
town Friday morning before the roads started
to close in.
'The worst I e seen'
I
Won't be any mail, we Concluded„"and we
won't be able to get out to get any
correspondence._ There, may not be too many
ads ; •since merchant& are 'reluctant to
advertise when they, fear the storm' may lak
all weekend and customers can't get to their
stores after theParier• IS out.
But everyone hada few idbas about what
they'd contribute •to whatever size paper we
did get oirt,..Joe and Margaret talked about
writinka;„'SptOii,:theit stay in balmy Greece
to ch'80'.44000one up. The rest of us could
write ahont'how far south We'd like to go,es
soon• as we could get out on the roads.
"Exeter", John. kept saying; • to 'our
bewildermept, _
Len could write a tan dance column,e Rhea
could contribute recipes and •I'd Write about
how it feels. When your husband would rather
go home to stay with the dog, than stay with"
you in Seaforth. „-
For tiont page,- somebody had a, fafilastic
-idea. Weld station somepne :at the:, main
corner, with a camera and the Mayor, te get a
photo .of the first car to, come into town from,
either' direction. The mayor could hand them a
frozen rdge or a snow ball or something.
My husband might have• been one of the
first. He arrived Sunday, afternoon, my
sister; after being 'storm stayed with- a very
'neighbourly family between Rostock and
Bornholm:since Friday,afternoon..."Wellicked
a good place," he reported after we got in
touch Friday thankS to some CB'ers,. "they've
, got a pool table."•
He stayed one night with us in the zoo on,
Qoderich St. yVest and decided he had wine
that needed "racking and' a dog whO'd been
alone too long out in McKillop. Colin Young
took him home by Snowmobile Monday and •
dropped him •off. "It's like an ocean • out
there," the bettethallsaid after he got home.
It was a rough trip, even by snowmobile..
But he's happy now, with homemade wine
available - in.- •the basement •• in case of an
emergency and homemade bread Supplied by
'a kind neighbour across the road.
hike the dedicated reporter that he is, John
"stayed around for a few minutes until his film
was developed so'-that he could identify the
photos he'd-taken:pi-Toronto. That was fatal,
bheeepeall.5.H"e. Is
s rills
Tuesd
classesay a
ientIloon ,
London,
he's
a date
still
on Saturday night, and, one issue of the
aUbnoiuvecrsity Gazette, of which he is news editor.
And that's only the 'things he's telling n's.
John and I, along with, Rhea Hamilton;
another Expositor employee 'Who lives • near
Auburn have been storm stayed since Friday
at the p:titililia',s'hoiiSe. Of the seven 'people
staying there, six of us work, more or less, at
the Expositor. INIMY.it's good to haVe close
relationships with 'the people that you work-
.with, but up at 148 Goderich St. W est, things
are getting a bit..ridictilptis„ '
Expositor employees, i , can now report,
react to the storm in different_ ways;-
Pizzey.(he lives dewtjhe road) tap dances, on
snow covered Goderich "St... West in_, public
buildings, everywhere. '
IThea, and My sister Margaret (the only non•
ositor employee in--the"'hange)"": MA.
They've Made up some teal masterpieceS for
the rest of us including Black Forest, cake-and
braided sweetbread. We might not he gaining .
wisdpm, from the snowed 'in experience, , but
we're gaining pounds. . •
My brother Joe plays his bag pipes, slowly
and mournfully, and thus does my mother a
favour by clearing many. of the storm stayed
bodiesI out of hem house for hours at a -time..
John and I play Scrabble, with opponents
who shall remain nameless. who 'try to by ild
words upside doWn • and come out with
spellings like beakon and gardon.
Now, with all those newspaper people
trapped- under one roof for five days, you'd
think we'd come tip with a whiz bang issue
this week. The paper would the main topic
of conversation, right?
Well how good this issue is, is for you the
'reader, to decide but we did .00 •a lot of
thinking and talking about it. Thel:c probably
is stor
•
-We will try again! Seaforth
- -Hospital Auxiliary meeting in the
board room February 15 'at 7:30
p.m.. Candy stripers & mothers
invited.
Dale , --'on' Tuesday evening.
February -8th- at 8...15 p.m. This .is,
the "Resolutions,". meeting
convened by Mrs.' J. MacLean
and Mrs. Motto Will be
. . 7,kt5t'us resolve to. see, our 'faults
"-.The'•- Seaforth, -HOrticultural:''aS, we see the faults of ether's".
Society.. invites, you 'to .their • Roll Call to be 'answered 'with.
Wednesday Feb: meeting at 8 ,"Name something in today's
• p.m. ill . the.. town ha,11';GUest society -that should' be changed."
speaker will be Don - Hasson of A,skit will be given oir"Women's
Stratford Garden Centre showing'. Institute . ResOlutiOnS". Lunch
slides' on landscape - gardening
..and lawn care is•••suggested you
come prepared with. • any
-41:tultionslegarding- the subject.
The' Febryary meeting Of the
SeafOrth Women's Inititute will
beheld atthe home of Mrs. Lorne
.(FormertyliettAtettuty Salon)
open Ttaiclay and Wednesday 9 —
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NOW 'OPENINYp
Ttiesday,-Oebiugry 15•T
PALIONE% HAIR CARE
'congeners, Will be Mrs. R.J.Dolg;
R.M.ScOtt; Mrs. F. Hunts
"Mrs. J. M acLean,
ting of The 77:5% of ' Nova Scotia's Lict& Lacence Board of Ontario will be held
population is 6f British origin and at 114E OANADIAN LEGION -HACT., as
• ONTARIO STR8ET, K-ITCHENER, oh
10.2% is of Frendh origin. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17th, 1977, at the
hour of 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon, al
which time the Board will hear application
hew ficances.in accordance with The
Act, 1975 and Regulations
thereunder;
The foffihrlirig.establiilim‘.41 ha's Applied fora
:titer:to of the'type lndlcated,
applioatibn will be- ehteTtalhed at. the
=--'aforementioned lOcatIoli and time.
• The Forge Restaurant
90 MAI Street, •
Seataft •
Pining toting Vence
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any per-t* who whorls resident in the municipality and
olifeets to aoy.aoplioation may file the
grpunds'orobjetticin at titetiMe and
ptaae.of the.rneetrngorin writing to;
• ' ,/" • timeiitidi PlaittOr.
DIor,tritoode Board otOntario.
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''''' • TAISE.NtiTiGE THAT a Si pee a Mee
ofWhile us are the rest
sleeking cozy in our own beds, or
at least ,:arm and safe at the'
house Where we're storm stayed,
a whole group of people are out, in
the storm', fighting to keep our,
roads open.
Frank Htilley, a McKilTop
Township .snow plow operator,
who lives on, Church Street in
Seaforth,..is one of them. Mr.
Hulley, who's been plowing for 15
years "call 's this week's storm
"the worst, yet."•
He.plowed for 26 hours straight
over weekend and had just •
gotten:to hed Suhday night after
36 hours ‘'ort his feet when an
. emergency' Call came in for a plow'
to •make_ "'path,for the' Seaforth
Volunteer Fire Department to a
blaze at the home Of . Steve'
Murray on concession *and 5 in
IVICKillop. „.„
_ Ifig-Attige MeKillop plow Was
pushing- sip* up about 'IS feet
directly ah;iad of Wand got stuck
outside the Wilfred Drager farm,
on the road to Murray's. '
• .,..,Firemen who were behinkthe
plow 'said - conditions were ,
, imPossible, but Mr: Hidley___ felt .
bad that he couldn't get them
through. With the help of
• neighbours-; the Murays were
able to put the fire out themselves
and the firemen got back to town,
as ExpositorphotograPher Dave
Robb reports elsewh ere in the ,•
• paper.
"It was like an ocean put
there;" Mr: Holley said, still
tired after only a few hours sleep
at the •Drager's ,Senday„ night.
"under -normal conditions I could
have-taken my time and maybe it
wouldn't have happened. You
take all precautions but at the
sable time you •need'tO hurry."
Hulley and his piPw finally ,
got bad' to Seaforth .`'Monday•
'morning,' after' Jack Malwain's
front end loader freedAhe plow.
Ontario .
MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AND
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
THE LIOUQR .LICENCE ACT; 1975
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING .
Sunday night's emergency
wasn't exactly all in a days work
but the township's these• plow
pperators, Art Strong, an
operator supplied by Ryan
-"Bulldozing and Mr.. Hulley, have
been working all through the
storm to keep the snow Off
McKillop roads.
"We've got an outstanding
clerk', • •Marion MCClure,"
Hulley says• and she was in' the
township office most', of Sunday
•
Our job' IS toihelobring people together and encourage
healthier" relationships among all groups. •
" If you would like more information or assistance, contact. k
the Human Rights Commission- at arly of #ie fdlldwing
addresses:
"' H AMILTON
Recentlyarrangementa Were made fo"rigroup of-Indian
children to attend the publiOSChool in a northern Ontario
town. The principal Of.the school in the town was aware
that Indian children sornetimes.had a rough time; t the
hands of other-students, anclio try to forestall this kind ,
Of situation, he called a HUman RightSCoMMission
counsellor to talk to the other children. The counsellor
asked the children if any of them hactever moved to a new :
school, and what they thought it would feel like they were
,the strangers. In this way, he helped them understandhow
the Indian children would be feeling when they arrived, and
.• the integration proceeded relatively smoothly.
agencies like horrie7and-schoOl groups, com-rnu,nityarld
Ontario Human Rights'
a
agenCies,anciChurches, which are available
ission ' —
-Ministry ottaboUi
to help but which many people eyekknow exist, Bette Steph9nson, M.0,
Wherever there'S a difficulty based on ma language, . : Minister -
coloUr or creed, the Human Rights Commission iseVailable
to generate discussion and motivate "people ,t6 develop -
' understanding and respect for the othet!!s point of view.
fit'W
l•gek,
,Community Counsellingisoneof the major roles of your
...Ontario -Human Rights COMrnistion,'We hold seminars -
°•.• and discussions with pOlicainareaswheretnere are--
cominuntcation barriers. between them and minority
-igtOt..ips, to help relieve tensionartiebromote mutual •
understanding...,Weattend Meetings of immigrants and
native-born minority 'groups to explain to thern both their
rights under the legislation and their responsibilities es • "
citizens of this Province. • " , .
We •also help -bring-people info contattwittf1'ocaFf -'7744-
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Telephone: 527-2951
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560 Wellington St.--
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Telephone: 438•x6141
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