The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-15, Page 11ffdndTrotting
by Margaret fleal
No matter by what name
he was called—be it harness
horse, carriage 'horse, oadster,
,or standardbred — the road
horse played an important role
in the history of Canadian
transportation.
He hatiled the produce to
market, took the folks to
church and school, delivered
the milk, ice and mail, the
midwife, doctor, lawyer, mer- "
chant and .chief, and was the
pleasure' horse of the elite.
It was only fifting that he
should,'be,.pne rbf,thefirstv if
not the very first to travel the-
Trans Canada Highway from
'Vancouver to EdmOnton.
The highway; over its most
difficult stretch, „was not yet,
open for traffic. It was strewn
with . boulders bigger than
horse-vans, and had stretches
of open-tie trestles over deep
gorges and wild rivers. ,
The tunnels were in-
complete and switch-backs
had to be made to negotiate •
hairpin turns around towering
mountain shoulders beside
sheer cliffs that dropped off
for hundreds of feet. •
When Art Hunter and Don
Mohler left Vancouver to take
their horses to Calgary to race,
they decided to ,try to go
across the shorter new high.'
way route. When they came to
the mountainous section tliley
were stopped by barricades,
and pulled into a roadside
service station. They asked the
grease-stained, overall-clad
propttetor if it was possible to
use the road across the
mountains.
The man was friendly and
helpful and went 'to' his, tele-
phone and made a long-dist-
ance call. When the- party
answered he, said. "Hello —
Phil? " And then he proceeded
to explain the prbblem.
On..completion of the call
he told them arrangements had
Jgenre-rtiade for them to, cross,
providing they would wait
until 5 p.m. the next day. Mrs.
Mohler prepared food, - while
the men ' cared for the 17
horses.'
When the road construction
workers changed shift the next
day at 5 o'clock the travellers
started their hair-raising night
trip, escorted by a friendly
poliCeman..
It was only then they
learned the full name of the
man who had been on the
other end of the garagemahis'
phone.' It was none other than
Phil Gagliardi, then Minister of
Highways for the province of
.British Columbiai
Produced by the Pirblicity
Department of. the Canadian
Trotting Asipciation and
Standardbred Canada - the
historical division of CTA.
SWING! — Four teams from West Branch and Rose
City, Michigan competed in the ball tournament with.
. Seaforth on the weekend. Here fellow teammates
looked half pleased and halt exasperated as this
gentleman took a swing. (Expositor Photo)
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Fund cowry tee n nied
BATTER UP — Here players looked expectantly at a
batter on the plate waiting for the next move when
Seaforth's sifter town West . Branch was up to ,
compete with Seaforth players in a ball tournament
on-the weekend. Teams from Brussels and Winthrop-
also competed. (Expositor Photo)
Atins arena Oomtnittee is rhereb rs.
looking for quotations on a new The improvements can
PA systern and Improved lighting partially raid for by gayer
.at the cohnnunity centre and a
committee to raise funds locally
was named at Monday's council
' meeting.
Members are: Peg Campbell,
treasurer, Clive Buist, Jean
Hildebrand, Alf Ross. Elva Ellis,
Councillor Bill Bennett and Gary
Montgomery. They'll appoint a
diairman who can appoint -other
Naturally speaking
Fiddleheads
by Steve Cooke
'Fiddle-heads have been a long time favorite
'of the forager. Apparently the Indians learned
about fiddleheads by watching black bears
gorge themselves on them in the spring when
they emerged from hibernation,The-Indittns
in turn showed the white man when he arrived
and in some • areas fiddleh•eads are a staple
vegetable in the spring.
Fiddleheads are the young tightly coiled
howls of the Ostrich fern (Pteretis nodulosa).
They are found in clumps along streams and
on rich fertile slopes in wooded areas. One of
my favorite spring meals used to be a crisp
watercress salad with a touch V vinegar and
salt, a couple of butter fried speckled trout
and a heads.
heap /of fresh picked
fiddlaeads. I 'say "uced to", because
unfortunately. tiddleheads will have to be.
stroked oft' our list.
Professor Martin Kuehne at the University
of Vermont ha made sonic important
discoveries reg,trding. the edible ferns in this
country. ,Apearently. some ferns in Japan
were banned from sale because they found u
carcinogen present called Osmundalin. This
rusty little item has been directly, ti eked to
stomach cancer. Using.. the findings of
Japanese scientists '.as • a-basis, Professor
Kueltne has found that the Non h• American
ferns contain Osmundalin in significantly
higitter-qua attics than-the-J apanese-variety.
I'm going -to quit. I hope you will too,. but
who 's going to tell all .those bears?
For the-back lawn forager. we have another
plant which is good. both as, a cooked
Vegetable and a salad green. The plantain is a
stemless plant with leaves that grow from the
root in 'a rosette. The long parallel veins in the
aiptieal. shaped leaf make it hard to confuse
with anything else.
The young leaves are best for a salad since
the veins in the older leaves tend to give a
stringy texture to the 'feast, Some people may
object to the slight bitter taste. hut that is no
reason not to cat it. Simply. mix it in with you
regularlettuce and reap all the benefits orthe
high' vitamin .A and C content, •
Wh en boiling for a vegetable, don't use
water or boil tob long. There are no
toxins involved here, so keep all those
vitamins whole and helpful. Salt, pepper and a
little butter, and guarantee you'll be hack
fcr more.
wants and the ,PA system gets
be first priority, councillor Bennett
ment told council.
At its June meeting. Monday
night, Seaforth council: hired
Doug Anstctt as public works and
arena employee at $4 per hour for
07 months and $4.25 there-
after;
"-heard that particulars on the
extension of the Huron Street
storm drain and on the paving of
Goderich Street would be avail-
able within ten days;
-agreed to call tenders on new
kitchen floor, modifications to the
portable stage and repairs to roof
flashings at the arena;
-heard a second stove has been
purchased for the arena at an
auction for $80;
-received a letter from Tucker-
smith council, denying Seaforth's
request for an arena contribution:
-commended constable John
_Burgess for his „89% mark on a
ten week course at Aylmer Police
College;
-heard that the Ford police
cruiser passed the MTC safety
check and the alev cruiser needs
sane minor repairs;
• -learned that the Town has
almost been completely
canvassed by dog tag sellers and
those refusing to register dogs
will be charged by police under a
Town bylaw;
-endorsed a Geraldton
resolution asking the province to
either give municipalities
authority over education
spending or ask that the OMB not
confider Board of Education
borrowing as part • of the
municipal debt;
agreed to seek help 'from the
Huron County Library to pay for
either carpet or floor refinishing
in Seaforth's Library;
-learned, that Mayor .Cardno.,
Reeve Flannery. deputy reeve
Dale vend Clerk Crocker will
attend the AMO convention in
Toronto. August 20-23,
-agreed to refund sewer service
charges to the Seaforth - Lawn:
Bowling Club. which is not
supplied with a sewer snub:
-passed a bylaw levying $50 per
bed or $2.200 in taxes on Seaforth
Community Hospital and
approved a per patient use grant
for 15 Months to the Hospital of
$1.461.:
-Passed • another .bylaw
approving purchase of a strip of
land from Cornelia Knetsch for
$1;
-agreed ' to refund fiat rate
sewer charges to a Market Street
homeowner who had been paying
them for three years under the
.impression sewers were hooked
"Let's list them once a yearand
ask people to, clip it". quipped
councillor Ken Roth as Seaforth
council faced a request to
proclaim two different weeks at
Monday night's meeting.
Earlier in the meeting council
already proclaimed June 25-July
I as Royal Canadian Legion week.
Council decided though to
leave Hire, a Student Week.. June
up, and suffering from an over-
flowing septic' tank. The home-
owner just • paid $42'8 to get a
sewer hooked up.
19-24 and Senior Citizen Week.
June 18-25.. unproclairned.
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The early game on June 6
saw the Bluetones, winless until
this date, beat the previously
undefeated Ken Smith Pools
14-11.
Charlynn Brown had two
doubles for the Blifetones and
Susan Hoorneit a triple as the
Bluetones played their best game
Of the season. Joanne Matthews
and Norah Eckert had triples for
The Turf club after dropping a
close decision to West. Branch
advanced to the 'B' final with an
easy' 11-2 victory over the Vil-
lagers. They played a good .
fielding' game and took the
trophy. with a 7-3 win over a
determined Texaco nine. Texas(
had adVaneed with a 3-0 win over
the Teachers but found the Turf
Club too strong as they again
became bridesmaids.
The visitors also. took top
honors at the slow pitch diamond
and they returned home well
weighted down with silverware
and to a well deserved rest as the
local people kept the visitors well
entertained.
Industrial Ball
The weekend tournament took
a lot out of several teams and the
Queens took advantage of a tired
and down - hearted Mainstreet
squad to post an easy 15-0
victory. Mainstrcet playing their
fourth game in two days didn't
have much left and the Queens
struck early and were never.really
threatened as they walked away
with the game.
The second game Sunday night
was the most exciting when two of
the fresher teams met. The
Village nipped the Firemenlv a
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robin tournament Was held in
which the West Branch team won
three games. 'the Winthrop
Warriors won one game and the
Winthrop Oilers won one game. A
team .called Dancers Standard
were consolation champions from
West 13ranch.
In the Women's slow pitch
another round-robin tournament
was held, in which the Brussels
Bombers competed. West Branch
defeated Brussels. and Seaforth
beat both West Branch 'and
Brussels but in the final garde
West Branch defeated Seaforth.
Ken Smith Pools.
In the late game Brown's Auto
Repair' defeated the Orangettes
17-14. Doubles for Brown's Auto
Repair went to Tish.Dill and Joan
Steinbach.Su§en McAlliger..had
a ftiple 4nd .koati,Steinbdeli' had a
Nolte run. Pali}, Scot and Terry
McNichol had tripples for the
Orangettes and Debbie Gricliat
had a doublb. •
Weeks unproclaime
Players must have been evenly
matched because a baseball team
from Rose City. Michigan won the
A championship and the Seaforth
Turf Club won the B champion-
ship at the fastball tournament
that was held in Seaforth on the
weekend,
Seaforth was to have been
competing with its sister town
West Branch, Michigan, but in
the fastball game Rose' City
showed up instead.
There wa also a slow-pitch
tournament on the weekend. In
the men's slow pitch a round-__
ithigan team
is 'A' champ
Unbeaten team loses
Industrial scores
9-4 count. Both teams had been
knocked out of the Tournament
early and appeared better rested
as the game see-sawed back and
forth. The Firemen kept the score
respectable but just haven't hit
their form yet 'as ,they look like
anything but last years playoff
champs. The Village had been
. 'struggling but look as if they arc
corning around as they gained
their second win this seasen..
Monday's action was post-
poned , due to 'the weather..
This ,week Will hopefully see
things get back to normal when
the Firemen and Turf Club start
thingS off with- the Texaco and
Mainstrect finishing . Sunday's
action:The Teachers will supply
the umpires for these games-.
Monday's games will be of-
ficiated by the Turf Club when the
Travellers and Villagers 'start
things rolling the the Queens and
Teachers finish off the weekend.
Standings to Date
W L Pts.
Teachers 3 1 6
Turf Club ' 3 1 6
Queens 3 2 6
Texaco 2 1 4
Mainstreeti 2 2 4
Village 2 3 4
Travellers 1 2 2
Firemen 0 4 0