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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1977-04-07, Page 3Dave• Robb 'PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY . , Weddings - Anniverbaries • Portraits - Industrial Teeth & (3roup Pictures 52;7.0064 ri • THE WALTON INN Easter Sunday , • Baked Ham & Sweet Potatoes Banquet 14Family Dinners Closed Monday 887-9293' ..; 'MEAT SEAFORTH , . MARKET Fresh Meaty PORK - $1 191b. SPARE RIB • Fresh Killed ROASTING CHICKENS •8 0; 7 lb. ' We'have a good selection of Ready to Eat Hams Custom Killing and Processing Now Available Phone 527-0040 1 It ARDIGRAS And BONG SHOVV Featuring Amateur Talent A Sponsored by The SEAFORTH OPTIMIST • CLUB' TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE. BONG SHOW - 2 P.M. W/ Lincoln Green • DANCE MATINEE 4 P.M. WI Lincoln Green' BEEF BARBEQUE 5:30 by Campbell Cardiff DINNER MUSIC 5:30 7:30 W/ Jetset, BONG SHOW FINALS 7:30' - 9:00 MARDIGRAS BALL 9:00 - 1:b0 W/ Shannon L.C.e, "Casino" "Bong Show" • Licenced games $200'.00 Cash "Prizes TICKETS AVAILABLE At; SEAFORTH. 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More photos ,on the sporth page. omething .by Susan White THE HURON ExPomo.R,.A.PRIL 7, 1977 Do la When this newspaper makes mistakes, .. don ... of our way to make funny ones.' We'll never equal the headline in a neighbouring newspaper, Ot shall Jemain nameless) which read something like • "Local, native heads U.S. John". "Deere plant" got left off that one somewhere between the editor and the press. But last week we had a little " (By Len Pizzey) Log construction, though it is often thought of as the first method of construction for the pioneer, was not in fact used by the first people who settled either Canada or the United States. The early American-settlers built frame shelters. of the type with which they were familiar. in England, and' the French who came to Canada used a method of construction in which notched planks were fitted into grooved uprights. Log construction of the type we Might consider "typical", is thought to have been introduced into North America by Swedish settlers who came to Delaware, though other Northern EurOpean people,' especially the Germans, were familiar with the method, and May well have built houses, using logs. British colonists in Ontario did not build with logs until the 18th century, and even then, it was used mainly in the fringe or frontier areas, where . the ,_,need for quickshelter was greatest . Log houses were normally, built without a great deal of "care, Settlers simply • wanted protection front the weather as soon as possible, and built hastily, hoping to replace their first structure with a finer one later. It was common for a log house to become structurally unsound in only a few years. This did not matter to the builder, because in_most area-s. saw mills spring up, and clapboard houses could be built to replace the log dwellings. „ Few early log dwehings survive anywhere itil• the province.. Those that do, are somtimes difficult to recognize, since se ttlers often • covered the original log structure with clapboard or brick. Log hohses can seldom be :dated easily. unless • records have been kept. Construction. methods changed little over the years. and it was not uncommon for a new log house to be built in an area where established settlers had already graduated to more sophisticated dwellings. Early, log houses "usually had walls eight feet high, with the roof rising from the top log. Later houses were often built ten or twelve feet high, with the ceiling remaining at eight feet. The logs continuing two or four feet above .the • ceiling created a "knee wall", allowing the owner to put a sleeping loft above the first floor. The houses picttired here are both of later date. after the mid 19th century, and have these.knee walls,' Log houses had a tendency to rot, and the need for "chinking" to, fill in the spdces. between the logs was a real disadvantage to the settler, since it often fell out. and made the house cold in winter. Cedar and hemlock were the wood, favored in log building, because each resisted weather well. In addition, hemlock was said ,to preserve iron ,driven into ,it, and was favored for houseS that , were to last for long periodS. .The niost important development in , log • construction was perfecting a 'sound "keying" technique to-hold the corners together.. Dovetail key Mg, provided a very strong joint, and was always used hi military log building. Both of the houses pictured use this dovetail keying. ,Tne- joiritS all slope downward and outward; alloWingi water to drain out of the joints, preventing th.1 . 'freezing that could shift walls and the rot that ' would ruin a building in a few seasons. , - The top house, owned by Norman MacLean,` of, Egmondville, was built, in the"1860's or 70's, and was moved to its Present site from Tuckersmith Township. 'It has been extensively restored, but retains the. 'Urging logs. The window and door Openings retain their original proportions. Spelt • openings were normally cut 'Into the log ,.after it was completed. This hosue did not have a fire place when it was built the first time. By the mid 19th century, wood stoves were commonly used for: heating., even in log dwellings. The large tire place was added during restoratiOn-td"fill a large hole. that had been cut in the wall to allow machinery into the building, when it was used for storage at its former location. The clapboards on the gable ends had covered' the. walls, but were removed to exposethe keyed log structure. The house in the bottom picture stands between Brussels and Belgrave. It was built in 1856 with logs from "a nearby v"4iodlot. Here.' as 'in the MacLean house, the logs have been squared ' with an adze. the marks from which can still be seerfoi) .. the,wood. It too was heat ed with a wood stove rather than a fireplace. The inside 'of: such dwellings were often plastered to hide the rough log faceS. • Tuckersmith taxes board 20 (16). mills;•Vanastra water and sewage, Reg. Plan 22.. 66 (120) mills, and Reg. Plan, 23; 36 (51) mills. For Vanastra garbage, a. rate o $33 for each household. has' been set.- the same as lakt year. , "to inspect the work _they'. wer4 "flatly „told „by the county that! they would not do • Deputy•Reeve, Robert Bell and Councillor Robert, Drummond said council was never informed by the -homeowners at Vahastra of any complaints they had with , the installation of the meters, and rest of council confirmed this. Mr. Belt said, "The installations were spread over a two month period and no one complained to us during that time. Now a' Montt after the meters are installed we. get a' complaint, -Council's hands are tied. How do , we police a thing like this? The 'county hea4 unit refused to do it." The reeve, said that fallowing Mr. Gates' complaint to him prior to the Meeting he had asked Dr. F.' Mills lof the Health Unit to check into the problem. New housing deVelopments in , Stanley Township,. should • be restricted to existing urban7ar eas- and non agrieulturalland, and Ole number of new' flanges shoidd be carefully controlled, according to most of thertearl, 100 people who attended an Urban Development workshop in Varna Tuelday night. The meeting was the fourth in a series of six to draw' up a secondary land use plan for Stanley Township. Township farmer Bev Hill ,said the question, of growth for the Township's hamlets should 1?e• carefully considered. He said people pollution could seriously blight the area's natural beauty if overpopulation was allowed. He also stressed that increased population meant • increased demands, for services, and said this could result in 'an 'increase in individual farmers' tax load. • • Former Huron County Warden Anson McKinley told the meeting that "urban areas in a rural municipality ,,never :pay their way". He said the secondary land use plan should provide an alternative if by-laws do not allow the building of new houses 'along rural , roads. The Township should consider designating areas where •eight or ten .houses.,could be built, to*. .discourage strip development along existing ri,ads, he said.. Township ' resident Ross Whittaker said if the secondary plan seeks to encourage new housing developments in the hamlets., then it, should. contain measure s.. to• protect the quiet atmosphere that attracts 'people to. the hamlets. He said the plan should restrict the development induStry-tob eloSe to -hamlets., and should discourage farmers from installing large dryers and. other such equipment on the fringes of the housing areas. Township resident Glenn • Hayter asked if developers ofnew ' hoasing•would be responsible for providing services to n ew lots..or if that• Was. the 'responsibility of the Township. -3 Approaches . Huron County Planner. George Penfold said the 'Township could. take one of three approaches to the problem, He said • the Township could buy lots, service theM, .a,nd 'sell them 'at cost to encourage growth in the haMlets. Alternatively, the' • municipality •. ctinid . provide (Continued from Page 1) For Brucefield street lights the rate is 6 (5) mills; Egmondville street lights. 10 (9) mills; Kippen street lights 10' (10) mills; Vanastra street tights. '5 (5) mills; Harpurhey street lights. 1 (5) mills; Vanastra community centre (Continued from Page 1) :Uderstadt to bring in a report .on the Tyndall drain which George Romanik believes caused severe flooding at his trailer park during recent spring rains. Building : • permit applications were approved. Robert Sallows And Don Hoffman, Egmondville, `'flew Modular homes_;_ Charles Geddes. Egmondville. addition to house; and John Haverkamp. 'Lot ;35, con. 2 •LRS, broiler barn. The salvage yard Ii cence for ill. Brown at Egmondville was enewed. Robin Gates of Vanastra 'attended the meeting to complain about the way the water meters were installed in homes at Vanastra and said that council paid the installation costs without having the job inspected for faulty workmanship., Clerk McIntosh said rwhen the Huron.Health Unit was asked ' .dilly of our own.- Now everybody • knows that school trustees get a lot of flack. They're always being "accused of wasting time at conventions, wasting taxpayers' money, not knowing much about the schools. . .you name it,- they're accused of it. That's why it's so refreshing to see one trustee, Dorothy Williams of R.R. 4. Clinton, trying to set the record • Services and charge the developer directly , or could charge a fee of $1,000 dollars for severance 'to serviced Iota:- Normally, he said, providing services to lots "ends tip being the responsibility of the developer." The question of severances for small lots on farm land, a central .concern at -previous. meetings, was again discussed. In response to a question from the audience about the number of people requesting rural severances, Deputy Reeve' Paul Steckle said Stanley Township Council has teceived t*about 100 requests for building permits since the Huron County Plan became offiCial in 1974, and that of thes,e "only 12 or 13 have been, turned down.': "A lot of *tit people have wanted to remain on their farMs for retirement, keeping a little piece of the farm for themselves. I'll have to be honest and say we've tried to discourage this". Mr. Steckle said. George Penfold told the • meeting there. . are 68 small scattered lots in . the Township withod't houses on them.. He said in addition theraare 45 lots of less than 20 acres and 78 lots of 25 to 50 acres that would have to be • dealt with in the plan. Audience meniber Bonnie Ray. who said her request for a lot severance had. been turned down recently, told the meeting there was no point in hot letting people , build on land that Was not being .used *agriculture, Others in the audience felt fringe lands near Bayfield that arc not usable farin land should be declarOd -riebans areas in the new secondary' plan. Mobile Homes In other matters, the consensus among the audience an the question of ,whether mobile homes should be. allowed in the Township was that the secondary plan . should recognize the difference between the.large and permanent type of mobile. home, and those that can be easily moved. The audience also felt the new plan, should recongize the eXistence of buildings ofhistorictil interest in the Township. George Penfold said this would allow the Township to delay demolition orders on such a building for a ,.period, of six months, giving intereSted.people a chance to acquire the property for historical ,preservation. The ' next workshop,. dealing with the Natural Environment and Extractive Resources. will be -held in Varna. April 12. 5tr'aightill a. regular letter to .the ratepayers via the newspaper. last week Dorothy talked about an education conference that she and board vice chairman Marian Zinn attended recently in Niagara Fall's. It was an interesting account of the attempt to-promote community participation in the schools, something Dorothy says we've had here in Huron since the one room school days. But our heading pretty neatly undermined everything Dorothy was trying to say in her story. "Trustee tells what happens—at-- education conferences" the heading was supposed to read. Somehow, it came out "What happens at euchre conferences." And we don't know how' it happened. We write a lot of "Win at euchre", "11 t tables play euchre", "Euchre played here", etc. headings around here last thi g Wednesday afternoon for tho e little euchre stories scat- ter d throughout the paper. And sonlehowsa tired person on our , headline machine or a tired . headline writer who'd writteh one too many euchre headlines that You're Invited Seaforth" Hospital Auxiliary meeting on April 12 in the Hospital Board Room at 8 p.m. Invited guests will attend from the Clinton Hospital Auxiliary. Seaforth Woinen's Institute will hold their April meeting at the 'home of Mrs. Doris Hugill, Tuesday, April 12 at 8:15 p.m. "Theme will be "Easter." Roll call is to be answered with an EaSter quotation, and a commentary on the Holy Land ,will be given by Mrs. Norman MacLean. 'This is the Annual meeting with payment of fees, and all reports from committees to be •given conveners. Lunch committee' will be Mrs. 'B. Coleman, Mrs. K. Campbell, Mrs. A. Taylor and Mrs. F. Kay. Seaforth Horticultural Society invites you to the Wednesday, April 13 meeting at 8 p.m. in the Town Hall; The guest speaker will be Jean McKee of Benmiller giving a slide" presentation and talk on perennials, their care,, planting, dividing and transplanting. ConStance Mrs. George Counter, Kassandra and.........Vicky spent Friday in London where 'they visited with Miss Rita Down, she returned to spend the weekend with the Counter Famiy.. Mr, and Mrs. Hugh' Dimaline and David visited on Sunday with Mr. Carl Uhler of Walton. Mrs. Bill Storey, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dale attended-the funeral of Sunday for the late Elmer Dale of Clinton. Sympathy of the community is extended to , the family. Note the' change of date.' Everytine is welcome to attend the Foresters Dessert Euchre to be held on,April 19th. Desserts at 7:30 followed by cards. ckersmith clerk Restrict new housing, Stanley meeting says 114y, ',41itzStIt.tgea "euchre conference" for "education conference." . So now it's our turn to set the record' straight,We want to say categorically; that Huron Board of Echteatio.n, trustees Dorothy Williams • and . Marian Zinn weren't playing euchre on the taxpayfr's time at that conference in Niagara Falls. I bet they don't even like to play euchre, or they don't anymore since that headline appeared. They were learning about education folks, and the euchre was all a figment of the Huron Expositor's imagination. We're sorry Dorothy and please don't decide you aren't going to risk sending the Expositor your next trustee's letter. We promise to give it *a nice safe, unimaginative heading.