HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-02-02, Page 3So a 'Cali went out for another search party,
They phoned down the line a farmer had seen,
A school bus stranded but it seemed empty.
He told .them he would go back on foot,
,With his wife and a neighbour to have a look,
Pretty soon a call came thru, they're here,
'they're fine, '
`-• We'll take them to our home down the line,
Getting them out of cold wet clothes, •
An,d giving them soup in good hot bowls,
Chris and Julie were put down .fora nap,
' Ware their Mom out her location on the map.
A call, to United Trails was made by Floyd'
Stewart,
He 'said "They're fine and not to worry",
Mark talked to Mary Anne as he was stranded
too,
But new it was okajitihe ordeal was thru.
"Rik story has a happy ending,
But just think when your child you're sending,
Out on a very, very,stormy day,
I think at home they'd better stay.'•
So my advice is to keep your child home,
If ever in doubt of a coming storm,
Then you know...where they are' "hey're safe
and sound,
Anitilyou'll net be worrying when they'll be
found.
We really appreciate your concern,
To give our love on their safe return,
Ever grateful we will be,
For they are our loved ones you see.
*Sent in by her Mother.
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A couple of weeks ago our
Expositor As ks column had what
I thought was a fascinating'
question. "What do you do when
you're storm stayed on the
farm?" we asked, or reporter
Debbie Ranney did,
The question by the way, was
suggested by a reader, Bev
Brown of Bluevale, and we're
giving her the news tip, of the
month award--a year's subscrip-
tion to the Expositor--for
December. •
We're always on a hunt. round
here "for good' topical questions
and I hereby invite other readers
td submit questions that they'd
like to get public opinion on.
Debbie calls people at random for
Expositor Asks, so if you haven't
been called, expect to hear , her
friendly voice ady Wednesday or
Thursdayy, with whatever question
the collectivee-wisdom of staff and
helpful readers can find.
But back to the:what do,you do
when you're Storni stayed'
question... Either the people
Debbie called that week were a
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Janet Chuff, Seaforth who receives her 'cheque from
ar Club committee chairman SteW Coupland.
Subsequent winners of $25 in the monthly draw are
R.S. Box, James Brovin Sr. and EdMund Daly: 'The
final elimination draw, takes place, next- fall 'on
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answers but people refused to let
her hse them when they heard,
what they said would appear in
print. ,
' Nobody asked .nie what I do
when I'm stern) stayed in' the
country„.1 happen, to, know that
my name is scratched right out of
the Expositor Asks phone book.
But, you gtiessed it, I'm going to
tell, you anyWay.
Mainly What I do is bake bread,
And I know fora fact that two of
. my neighbours do the same thing.
Only theirs turns out and mine
doesn't Yes, I could stand to take
that "Let's Bake Bread" course
• the 4-H'ers were working on a
while back, either that or get a
Whole new, draft, proof kitchen.
I was inthe bre ad baking mood--.
as soon as I woke up to howling
winds Thursday, My 'batch rose
beautifully both -times in my
turned"off oven, Then I hit a
_snag. "Bake at 400" the recipe
said and I couldn't leave the
bread in the 'ovenwhile it was
getting up to that temperature.
And the wind.. was whistling ,.
, through our kitchen at something
approaching its 128 km/hr
maximum.
Risen. - )
They'll be OkaY just in front of
the heating' duct, .I decided and
set my beautifully risen loaves
under the kitchen table, just while
the oven . heated up. Well, they
-weren't..:they wilted to half their
Size 'and I didn't realize it till I
took-them out of the oven. '
' The' better half put them in for
me 'because I was busy with the
baby. "They look sort of fallen",
he said at the time, but' I thought
he was kidding. He does that a
lot. .
We salvaged one loaf and told a
neighbour who wandered in for
tea that it was unleavened bread.
"Good isn't it?", .1 said
"especially, when it's buried in
jam."
The failure of the first bread
crop put "me into' -a deep
depression. I love home made
bread, the idea of it, the taste of it
and it hurts to think that I' m,„a
failure' at making. it. (Last year ,
when snowbound' I had another
failure but we won't go into that.) .
"That's. it, 4'm never' going to.
make bread again." "Promise?"
asked ply husband who has to put
up with me, alone together yet,
when I blow the baking. .
Boirowed Molasses
My resolve lasted uhfil the ne
morning when I went so far as to
borrow some molasses from the.,
neighbours to try again with a •
different bread recipe. This one
Was supposed to be easy.
uncle has had great success with
it,though it goes by a pinch-of this
and a feel of that. . •
. Andy got the recipe from Uncle
Vic and had made noises about
making it himself, "Maybe' if we
both do it, it'll work," I said and
talked , him into adding flour
and doing the 'kneading, and he
raised a blister on his finger
stirring it with a wooden spoon.
This batch went into.the turned
off overn too,and there it stalled.
'We-Couldn't even get th'e lump to
rise once. At that point if I could
have seen outside I would have
headed out into the wild blue
yonder.
Instead, I calmed downand put
the whole mess in the fridge. Like
refrigerator ,rolls, I figured.
Saturday I got; heart. again and
the bread rallied ''a little when
another stay in the oven made it
rise a'little. I kneaded it again and,
put it in bread,--pans, -and tried
again'. And that's where it still is,
two inch lumps at the bottom of '
my pans that even Johnny Crich
couldn't do anything with. '
But I'm stubborn see. I haven't
decided whether I'll add more
yeast St this point (would that ,
work, John?) and try once a week
"to get the blanketty blank loaves
to rise or give up and call them'the
four storm stayed memorial- door
stops. ,
But that's it "folks;-''art
expurgated version of what 1 did
when I was stuck at home. When
the baking urge hits next time I'm
snowed in I'm going-to warm up a
Sara Lee 'cake from the freezer.
You're .
invited .
The regular meeting of the
Horticultural, Society will be held
in the Masonic Hall on
Wednesday, February 8 at 8 p.m.
Dr. Rodger Whitman will be the
speaker.
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THE HURON, EXPOSITOR, FEBRUARY12, 1970 ---3
arefhing to s
by Susan While ---
To 'the editor:
A bui4 emergency storms mice On January 26 a raining it sure .was,
When Mary Anne started out in the school
bus.
,Chris and Julie were_ -along with their Mom
When all of a sudden it started to storm.
Ali the students already she had,
When it started 'snowing really bad,
Take them home was the word she got,
No problem here, or so she thought. ,
The last student she had let off, ... . '
When all of a sudden the bus did'-stop,
so she struggled along as best she could, ,
But, try •hard she ,did, it did no good,"
She radioed, home base to see what to do,
Georgewas right there to try and help her
thru, ,. - ! '
They called for help; as a white du was,
George said "Mary Anne stay with the s."
George on the radio, Jim on the phone,
Trying so hard to get her me,
A lot of'concerned people r Hied around,
Hoping the three would soo be found.
The call for help soon got around,
As that stranded bus had to be found;
The call they heard, three men on ski doos,
Went out to look but 'it was n6 use.
The snow was so blinding their machines got
wet, . ,
But, they felt quite sure she would get help
yet, 11.
Back at home base' her location they' found,
Now they felt sure they'd be found safe and
sound. ••
They found out she was near Cromarty,
Meals says Thank you
We wish to thank all the organizations,
church groups and individual persons who
donated so- generously to the .Meals-on
-Wheels' ,project -when we had financial
' difficulties. We appreciate it very much
because now we are able. to carry on the work
without financial worries for awhile.,
Also; _if at any time you hear of anyone in
need of meals, please phone either 527-0996
. or 527-0373 and we would be glad to help.
Expositor asks:
Recently-the London Free Press printed an
editorial on the IOW fee that jurors are getting.
The writer of the editorialdiclict think $10 a
day -plus expenses was enough. Expositor
Asks decided this week to find,out how local
people felt about the question. They were
asked, "Do you think people on jury duty
should be paid more than:SLID:PIO ;travelling
expenses and, other expenses?'.' .......
Eugene.Dale 001 Main St. N. in Seaforth
said, "Yes I do. They shOuld pretty well be
'Paying for your day's twages."
Mr. Dale added that he thought they Should
be, payini.about $25 -a-day.-
Alex Chesney Of R. R. #4, Seaforth said that
;maybe in .1978 it would be in order for the fee
to, be raised if they were going to recruit.
younger people to Seifive on juries.
Mrs: peter SiMpsoo of Egroondville said, "I
Suppose with current wages maybe it wouldn't
be quite enough," but she added that it
depended on the iodividual.
HarrySmith of R. R. #1, FlenSall said, "Yes
they should. I was On jury duty and it's no pay
at all the way things are today. It shoold be,
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Thursday night all 10 of his
Queen's reported' that on.
'rentable rooms were full and
although most of the guests got
away on Friday morningw some
new guests stayed'on Friday
night.
Mr.' O'Reilly said that some Of
the people came from loronto,
Clinton, Goderich and Kitchener.
Sam Little, bartender at the
Commercial Hotel said that of
their 12 rentable rooms all were
full during the storm and right
through the whole weekend.
Main Street in Seaforth was quiet
both days of the storm and most
travel was by snowmobile. ,
Ken Roth of. Roth's Food
Market said that on Saturday, (Continued from Page 1)
people weren't stocking up on in the schools and will respond to
grocerieS the same aS they had the Perth Board.
...The Ontario English Catholic ' after the 1977 storm.
"Maybe they still have stuff Teachers' Association reported
left from last year" he jolted,„,., the finals in public speaking in
Road superintendents in the schools will be held at St.
Patrick's S ;heel, Dublin, on Tuckersmith „ Hibbert and
McKillop Townships reported a rch 9 at 7 p.m, '
few problems and snow plews not e board will not transfer its
being able to go out on Thursday ban account from the Seaforth
and/or Friday because of poor branch of the Canadian-Imperial
visibility 'and drifting snow. Bank of Conn the Dublin
' Alan Nicholson, road super- branch as requested by the
intendent of call
ed
• TOwn- Dublin Manager because there
ship said he the snow plow are no advantages at this time.
operators in at about 10 o'clock on Meeting' adjourned at 11:30
Thursday morning but ihe men pm,
Correction
One typographical error and delegates to ti conventiOn'. 812.85
two misunderstandings caused was spent to send all Seaforth Fall
the Seaforth Agricultural
mistakes in the page one story of
Society's annual 'Meeting in• last week's t xpositor . The Society's donation covered expenses for the
trip. They did not come out of
Queen contestants to view the
CNE quee' contest, -'but'
general ,Society funds, secretary-, deficit is nearly $1,700, not nearly
$11,700 as the-story said. treasurer Ruth Beane told the
$505 was spent last year to Expositor.
send sii delegates to an Ontario
The Expositor apologizes for Agricultural Society convention the errors and regrets any
and the secretary treasurer to a
problems they may have caused one day secretary treasurer's the Agricultural Society.
meeting, not to send three
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Huron
Dublin
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His first student pick-up did not
go to school that day, and as a
result he had an empty bus when
the mishap occurred.
Mr. Eckert was chargrined ,, to
find that school had been
cancelled while he was out on the
road because of the sudden
onslaught of the howling •winds
and blinding snow.
CLE CASCADE — If *nothing else, last week's snowstorm did provide some
pretty photo effects around the Seaforth area as shown by these glittering icicles.
(Expositor Photo)
ICI
An, Expositor-Classified will
pay you dividends. Have you tried
one? Dial 527-0240.
particularly shy bunch or they're
pretty dull—doing much what
they & usually but doing it In one
place, home.
Yes, the , answers that week
disappointed me a bit because I
had a feeling that being storm'
stayed in the country brought out
the ingenuity and resourcefulness
in all of . us. Instead ExPositor
Asks revealed that people read a
lot and sit around.
Debbie did say that she got
some much • more interesting
We 'alga would like to mention, that,
through the generous donation given to us by
John L.Reid of Egmondville, we were able to
send ,17 free' Meals to persons for Christmas
and New Years. We wish to thank Mr. Reid
very much.
Sincerely,
Margaret McNairn and
. Jane-Vincent
Meals on Wheels
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Do you think jurors should be paid more?
brought up to today's standards." ,
He added that he thought jurors should be
paid their regular wages.
RObert W. Kinsman of R. R. #2, Kippen
was pretty much of the same opinion as Mr. ,
Smith.
"It's unfair to those with their ,own busines
and $10 'is just not quite- .enough to
.compensate for that," he said:
Lorne Feeney of R. R. #2.,Dublin said, "Ten,
dollars a- day isn't very much any more. They
should 'be Raid a normal wage--what they're
making at their job," he said.
Mrs. 'Frank Hamiltoo of R. R. #2, Staffa,
also agreed that the $10 fee wasn't very much
and said jurors should get their normal wage.
Sean Duffin of R. R. #1, Walton was the •
only one with the dissenting opinion.
He said that jury duty was really someone's
responsibility and so he didn't , think they
shotild, get 'paid more ;than $10 a day. •
He added', however that if the circum-
stances called for it, such as people who
couldn't afford to go, then he 'thought the
jurors should be paid more.
know -:storm hits Seaforth
froirr Pa(;e ) ) didn't' make it in till about. one —Ontario 1:1-Ydro who had-been on a
o'clock and then they just went
out ton emergencieS. Tuckersmith
plows had to go put'; at 6:30 for
some emergency case 'on Friday
morning because people were out
of fuel; hydro, and food.
Er!nie Harburn, road super-
intendent in Hibbert' said the
township had two plow operators
out on the road on Thursday. to
'pick up a man to take him to the
hospital.
The hydro went off on
Thursday east and west of
Croinatty and ,two snow plow
operators picked up a man from
snowmobile out checking the;
power lines. His snowmobil
went down in a ditch and th
man was walking around or three
-hours because he lost ht
The two snow plow operators-
Gary Kemp and Jim Diehl of
,,,Sfaffa picked up the man at the
-"Winston Jibb farm house -at R. R.
#2, Dublin and took him to the
Mitchell ,Medical Clinic.
Bill Campbell, road super-
intendent of McKillop said the
Township didn't have the plows
out on Thursday or until 5:30 in
the afternoon.
The plows worked all Tight and
all roads were open by eight
o'clock on Saturday morning, be
said.;