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The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-15, Page 3• AND AWAY WE GO, 77 Obviously these men from Seafoith ,were out to do their best when they competed in_aped race in Sister Town, West Branch', Michigan on the Memorial Day weekend in the States__Efom left are; Unidentified, Brian Williams, Jim Cardno, driving the bed, .Jim Rivers and Hank GroothUis. , (Photo courtesy of the WeSt Branch Ogamaw'County Herald.) Expositor asks: tOks: Do you attend local, theatre? (Continued from Page 2) said, "We've never been to Grand Bend but we've enjoyed the Blyth Summer Festival." She said they were planning on going to the Stratford Festival ,this month. Of the Blyth theatre she said, "We have really enjoyed them. (the plays) I think it adds more variety to the entertainment around this area." Mrs. Arnold G. Campbell of R.R,5, Seaforth said she had been to plays at Blyth and Stratford but she hadn't been to Grand Bend. "I've enjoyed the ones at Blyth," she said. She thinks the theatre is a &god ,thing to have around because, "everything, adds to the community,'' she said. I She said there seems to be a lot more around this area to attract the tourists than there once was and 'she thouglit the theatres were a part of that attraction. Mrs. J. Alexander of R.R.2, Hensall said she had never been to any of the theatres but she thought they- were a good idea. "There's a lot of enjoyment in them for the local people," 'she said. - Mrs. Lloyd Cooper of R.R.3, Kippen said she hadn't gone to any of the theatres. She said she had some friends who had gone to them and really liked them and that she would like to go herself. "I thipk it's good to get our' local talent going and some, of the local talent up in Blyth is excellent," she said. !Mrs. George Moore of R.R.2, Staffa said, "We're at an age where we don't go anymore. "I think it's all right for the teenagers. They've got to go somewhere.• They've got to do something." she said. Mary-Jo Ryan of R.R.1, Dublin said, "We sometimes, go to them if there's a good show playing. She said she had been to the Stratford Festival. , She said she thinks •the-theatres are a good — idea because, "people like going to show's." Mrs. Ken Beuerman of R.R.4, •Walton said she has never been to any of the theatres but she said she thought the idea of the theatre in Blyth was great and that she wouldn't mind going 'to it. ' - She said she thinks the local theatres are a good idea - if they don't grow all out of proportion. She said she thinks these theatres help young people from helping to provide - them with acting jobs to (learning about) culture. You are cordially invited to visit ARC Industries Dashwood. play at Seaforth Craft Show, Saturday, Jun& 17, from 10 am ,until 5 pm. Don't miss Story Hour Saturday 1:30 - 2:30 at the Seaforth council approved a grant of $500 to Maitlandbank Cemetery following an appearance Monday night by John Talbot, and Bill Campbell of —the Noitliside__ United Owned cemetery board. The two told council the province had refused to allow grave prices to be raised from the .$100 presently charged , for Perpetual• Care and that •the cemetery faced an operating deficit. Although concerned that St. Junes', Egmondville or even Harpurhey might ask the Town for financial help, council agreed with councillor Wayne Ellis and deputy reeve Bill Dale that the Library, ages 4;7. This week we will be making something for our , Dads for Fathers Day. A reminder that The Co-op nursery school dinner and graduation will be June 19 at 6:30 at the Legion Hall. town has to have cemeteries and that the Town isn't interested in running them. The grant was approved. OHC lets apt. tenders After three years of surveys, applications, meeting and com- plications, tenders are being called this week for Seaforth's second 01-IC senior citizens apartment building. Construction- of the 15 unit building to be located on John St., . should be underway in the fall, clerk Jim Crocker said. Council okays $500 to cemetery -You're invited Hensall council • *Won't prohibit burning by Korl Schuessler I'm forty. Fooled ya. Here all along I thought--and you thought--I was more like' coming on 50. But read on. I'm forty. In the waist. That's what I learned last week at Seaforth's sidewalk sale. I never would have guessed it either, but it took a new pair of pants to prove it. There I was--minding my own business-- with not a stitch of clothing on my mind. But the merchants of Seaforth devised this plan to put out on the sidewalk all their hot bargains. Stewart Brothers had it right on. Outside hung out sports coats and pants on the rack. The clothes pleaded with me to try them on--to cash in on a bargain of a lifetime. The coats had their tags hanging out--declaring once $40 and $50 prices and now--look--only $20 for any one en the clothesline. Whether I needed a coat or not, this was my day. I couldn't resist, especially when I found one with the right size, a good fit and a name label. Sold. One sportcoat. Bul then, every new coat needs a new pair of pants--with the right color to match. And of course I didn't have the right color back at the ranch. I think the store merchants of Seafoth were counting on this. I'd have to spend more time and more money looking for a pair of pants--at the regular price, of course. I moved on to Bill O'Shea's. And I wound up at Shinens. "I'm 38," I said to Emile Iszacovics right off, "I'm actually 37, but I'll settle for 38. He didn't say a word. He just went looking through his 38 waist pants. He came up with a few colors, but not the right blue. "That's all, eh?" I said. "That's all in 38." He paused. A long time. He started to flip through the next stack of pants. "You're really 40," he said. "Me? 40?" "I know you say you're 38, but I can tell by looking, at you, You need a 40." , "That's impossible. Here, took again." I stocked air and brought in my stomach flat. "Well, yes," he said "If you want to go around holding your breath all day, then you can wear a 38. But if 'you want to be comfortable, you need a 40." "I can't believe it." I shook my head. "I'm cutting down, really. I'm jogging. Why, Ieven own a maroon jogging suit. Of course I've been busy lately. In the garden. On the tractor. Haven't had. ime to run as much as I used to . But really. I'm cutting down. I weigh myself every morning. I'm down. Honest. It's all a matter of posture." I stood as straight as I could. My stomach receded--a bit. Mr. IszacovicS wasn't impressed. He didn't budge. "I still say you're 40. I've been in the clothing business for years now. I know a 40 when I see one." He pulled out a pair of pants and handed them to me. "Here's a navy blue. It matches your sports coat." I read the waist label. Number 40, I could see Mr. Iszacovics was 'Conspiring with Doug Leonhardt. You'd think those two put their heads together. Because only a day before while I waited for his father in their plumbing shop in- Btodhagen Doug told me I needed to lose a little weight. Of course he put it to me real nice. He said he was having the same trouble keeping his waist down, and he was only in his late twenties. But nice or no, the word-came through: • FAT. And now Mr. IszacOvics. And now my new pair of pants--size 40. But just wait, you' guys. Honest. I'm not sucking in. I am slimmer. I want to let you know. I wore my new Seaforth coat and pants into Toronto last week and when I got home, I swear those size 40's were loose. See? When I pull them out, there's an inch to spare. And next week, when I get back home, I'M going to ask my wife to take them in. Because Whether you guys believe it or not, I'm 38. not 40. -71.- Something to say by Susan White Mistakes. What mistakes? when you point out our mistakes and ask us for correction. We'd rather have you complain to us, ,see, and give us a chance to apologize and try to rectify the situation than have ourselves criticized behind our collective backs, ;Sorry Marg. On Page 7 we've got an interesting story about Violet an Albert Homer's 62nd wedding annivekaary:-Tlie 'credit for that story and photo should have gone to Wilma Oke but her byline too got lost in the shuffle, Sorry On our sportg page we have a real choice one. In a story on Saturday's quarter horse show in Exeter- we talk about a reining class "for riders four years old and under". I apologize to all those who rushed over to Exeter especially to see tiny tots aside big quarter horses. The story should have said the event was f,p• horses, four years old and nder,-not riders. Finally, over on the Hensall page, we had a girl from Sri Lanka visiting the McAllister family when their visitor is, in fact, a male. We'liget a chance to remedy that soon becasne we hope to talk to him and get a story and_ picture. it's never ending. this mistake business and I'm sure you found your own in last week's paper. townh OUSeS We'll make'em as long as we continue to live and breathe. It's our never ending aim though to , make as few of them as possible. (Or at least "to niake' new ones every week.) That keeps our eagle eyed readers, and ourselves hopping. to the point. The letter that follows makes an appeal to the public for used hearing aids. Close huh? The most I can hope for is that the appeal will stick in the minds of readers a bit better because of my careless mistake. Everybody has one bad day in a week riOw and then, But here last Wednesday we crammed a whole week of mistakes into an eight hour work day. The evidence is likely still around if iron are one of the high percentage of weekly newspaper readers who keep your copy around the house for at least a week. You don't throw it out until you get one to replace it, so to speak. If you still have last week's "Explosion" join me on a conducted tour of Mistakes that are no worse than the little ones we make every week but somehow in that issue, compounded alarmingly. It's the old problem that everybody in town sees our mistakes. - We're glad you do by the way, cuz that means you're reading us. And believe it or not, we like it To the editor: I, like most of your readers, enjoy freedom of the press. What I don't enjoy are those whO take advantage of this freedom and deceive the public. I'm referring to a particular advertisement in the "Accommodations for Rent" by. the now, so-called Carmela Courts, for rental of townhouses.. The luxury setting, and all the 4 many recreational activities Make it sound like a very. "unreal" place, to live, especially for the area involved. "Unreal" is the only way to look at what is being offered. However, lets be realistic and tell it like it is. The advertisement should read something like--rapidly dilapidating, noisy townhouses for rent. Utilities extra (if you can get them especiallyfuel oil--but then we' are all trying to conserve -energy aren't we--even if it means temperatures of about 40-50 • degrees inside your home in the middle of winter--by the way, fuel oil is the landlord's responsibility.) Recreation facilities--this includes a never-ending party atmosphere (a most exciting benefit if you happen to like squealing car tires, loud disco music and the sound of beer bottles being smashed against the side of your ,bititiding „ each , and ,every night--all night--weekends are the most fun, however.) And not to mention the very special language used here--that only a resident of Cam-Ida Court is allowed to use or understand--the only qualification being you start every word with the letter "f";-no age limit to this benefit. Another recreation benefit not mentioned is playing games in the neighbourhood. The favourite being hide and seek—the owner-landlord is hiding audits up to you to try to find him,when something goes wrong (and it usually always does--"nothing serious" though e.g. your basement flooding from clogged window wells (.who needs a m i .1`4r"Tnade my first'' (bah) mistake in the 'current issue. The first big. boo boo isn't. on ,pap.e. 3. it's on page 1. That's where we left Marg HulleY's name off as writer of the story on the freak hail storm that hit Winthrop last week. Marg's our correspondent there and she wrote a fine first person report of what• happened. It had Marg's name on it when it. left my desk but on its way through the, mill it got lost and none of us noticed til, you guessed it. Thursday morning. • • S swimming pool?) or windows broken from U.F.O.'s flying around (who needs tennis courts?) I believe however, I am getting closer to finding him after a long and arduous hunt as one of my clues is he lives in ' London "somewhere". Paying rent is real easy--you just make your cheque payable to your well-hidden landlord, giye it to a stranger (one, of the many superintendents--they usually last a week, two weeks at the most) at your door,, and he looks after it from there--by the way he knows.theanswer to the hide and seek game • but he won't tell. Spacious lawns--that's true, in.what they call the park(?). If you are lucky you have a bit of lawn in front of your townhouse, and a nice, patch in the backyard (which-happens to be a combination of clothes lines, and a community playground for all those very lovely, well-spoken children in your neighbourhood) Oh l• I forgot to mention, all this spacious lawn is cut only once in the spring (it takes all year to grow)--so don't expect this spacious lawn to be-too beautiful. 'I am, thankful the name •of the place has changed from Vanastra townhouses to Cartnela,Court--we got an extra grasscutting thin year). • .There are of course, many, many more "extras" to this • great living, but you would have to live here to "enjoy" them. all. I can only say, whoever wrote this advertisement for Carmela Courts has a very vivid imagination Or simply does not live here--or was he referring to some other luxury living tonwhouses—like London for instance. Signed "A stuck-here,'former Vanastra Townhouse renter, now a Carmela Court renter, then a "who knows what"--if I manage to survive-- renter. Some people ItIVe 17e/tight We-- following littlefakii,ngs in last week's issue to our attention, but first of - them have been discovered by our eagle eyed staff. And as always we wonder why the booboos that stick out like a sore thumb Thursday morning when it's too-late were invisible Wednesday when there was still time to correct them. We start off resoundingly on page 3 in a heading on a letter to the editor that I wrote myself. "Eyeglasses wanted" I wrote. Not creative or original but blunt. ------- Jo luxury r-eader say Arnen It appears that ,Hensall home- owners will still be able to burn leaves and trash on their property • following council's defernient of a bylaw that would have prohibited such activities: • The bylaw which was similar to a bylaw in Exeter that prohibited any burning within• the town was felt to be too stringent for Hensall's fequirements.. Councillor Bev. Bonthron said the intent of introducing a -fire control bylaw was to prevent the. proliferation of burning 'in 'the downtown core. He•said when the • core expands. the incineration of trash could threaten the down- town. "In the fall of the year I just like to smell those leaves burning." said Paul Neilands who said such a bylaw, would cause extra costs to be incurred with the removal of leaves from the town. He cited Exeter where a large vacuum was -purchased to blow the leaves into a town truck. Councillor Homer Campbell concurred with Reeve Harold Knight who said council should give the matter some more thought. In a bylaw that did receive final approval and which would hope- fully solve a problem which keeps cropping up 'in area municipali• ties, a dog licensing and registering bylaw received final approval. — Knight said "1 have no quarrels with dogs: it's just some of the owners that get me upset." hi reply to a questio, from Neilands. clerk-treasurer Betty Ogee said .39 dog tags have been sold and that her. summer as- SiStant Susan Thoinpson. will be a dog census some time this week in order to have a better idea • Of the hit nibe ,bt tags whi.11- could actually be sold, Severs council members said it wasn'T fair for some'pcople to act within the spirit of the bylaw while others ignored the bylaw. Following first 'reading, Councillor Harry Klungel ex- dd'inied "is. that everything they can say about dogs?" Klungel asked if there was any way they could control the barking of the dogs. , Mrs. Oke said the bylaw could not control the .barking with one council member adding. the only way you could control the barking was- to put muzzles on the dogs. Hensall became yet another municipaility which his officially adopted the Ontario • Building Code with the passage of the enabling bylaw Monday night. Knight said the village could do nothing about the contents of the Code . since it was already a provincial statute. The only item which the village had control over was -the - setting of fees. The reeve said one of reasons behind this bylaw's passage was to give the village firm legal footing in the event' of a challenge to its authority in issuing building permits. Such a challenge may take place in Colborne Township. At the May meeting of county council. Huron county planning director Garry Davidson said some legal advisors have said the municipalities cannot issue per- mits unless they have' passed the necessary bylaws enforcing the building code. Council's concern was that the implementation of the bylaw would force the price. of housing up in Hensall. Knight estimated_ the increased cost could run as much as $1,000 per home. The approval of the building code bylatv by council was not unanimous with Campbell going on record as opposing the more stringent building regulations. In passing the bylaw, a fee of $4 per $1000 was set as the fee for the construction of new homes and $3 per $1000 for mobile homes. Building renovations will cost $10 for the first $1000 and $5 per $1000 thereafter with a' minimum chdrge of $25. ' A demoliton fee of $10 was set with the same amount owing for an occupancy fee for incompleted housing. Area residents are becoming more interested in the heritage of their local and one way of preserving that heritage is to preserve pictures of yesteryear, was the message that local photographer Brian Richman brought to council. Richman said there' are hundreds of old photographs in the village depicting former re- sidents and of old buildings. Richman said he had begun making copies of pictures which have been supplied to him by Mrs. Bob Simpson • and Mrs. Minnie Noakes. Richman inquired if some form of government funding could be obtained to hire a student to collect the old photographs from Hensall residents and make topies." He said he would be willing to donate his time in helping the student and help financially. Richman said such program could cost in . the neighborhood of $1000. Mrs. Oke said the deadline for ,applications for most government sponsored work programs was April but that she would contact the various ministries to see if any funding for such a project was availbable. Reeve Knight reported the new comamnity centre has received final approval with several items still to be completed. In the hall, several ceiling panels will have to be replaced due to a leaking roof while the arena floor is not up to 'specifications. On a brighter note, Knight said construction in the arena appears to be.ahead of schedule and some of the items which were difficent have been fixed. A decision to purchase a new , tractor for the arena had been deferred until August with council possibly splitting the new tractor's cost between the 1978 and 1979 budgets. In other business, council: Learned that the ministry of transportation and corn- niunications has allotted $94,000 for the construction of a storm sewer. This is down from $110,000 which the ministry had alloted one year ago.-The project which would involve stream alteration work on Black creek, was -delayed due to an objection •from the ministry of natural resources. Received several complaints over thelarge amounts of water in the village following Monday's heavy rains. Knight said the village could do little about the problem as the ministry of transportation and com- munication determines the size of storm sewers on 80 percent of the average rainfall over five years. Endorsed a resolution from the town of Geraldton asking that municipal borrowing not be af- fected by the debt of the school boards within its jurisdictions after the resolution was passed, Knight quipped "If you can't tell them what books to read, can you tell them , what money to borrow?" Passed a resolution from the town of Strathroy which called for solunteer fireman to be paid workman's compensation bene- fits on a regular five day work week rather than on seven days as is presently done. Have received word that the Wintario grant of $83,000 for the ptugress payment on the arena has been approved following representations from the two local members of parliament. New meters Seaforth will get new parking meters, ones that take nickels and dimes in August, after approval of an arrangement with a meter company at Council Monday night. J.J. MacKay Canada Ltd. of London will install the meters, which will cost a total of $11,476. They'll be paid out of revenue from the meters at a rate of $191 a month for five years. Estimated revenue per month is $1,100. clerk jim Crocker said. Revenue from. the present penny and nickel meters is averaging $4000 year now, clerk Jim Crocker said. Provincial funding cutbacks have allowed Seaforth to hire one, not two students for summer work 'in the clerk's office, council heard Monday night. Bob Maniago of London, an urban design student at Fashaw, is working with Seaforth's plan- ning regulations to make them more acessible to the general pub ;c,. He,s preparing colour codeSmaps rthat show land use in various parts of town, for example. Cost to the town to the end of July will be $1,300. • The town's public works de- partment is also hiring a student for the summer, through Canada Manpower, to assist them with special projects.