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The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-29, Page 1nsitort Whole No. 5755 119th Year , WE'LL MISS YOU! Sister Florence Kelly who thjs'yqar is leaving ,ifter years as principal of. Si. Patrick's School in Dublin was iiilisenteci: with 4 set, of luggage by stalents an -PIA Meiners:From left are, Greg.,:fy,an, Jenni r Horan , ,Ken SchoonderwOerd, PTA' reprasentativa Helen .K04)copf and Si r ,F9,N -1nce. • e• road is upstion. dies A Londesboro area farmer died last week of asphyxiation after being overcome by sulphur dioxide fumes in his barn. Norman Cecil Cartwright. 36, of R. R. #1, Londesboro was working near the entrance of a tank of liquid manure located under the barn last Wednesday morning. Mr. Cartwright went into the barn at about 9 a.m. and was found unconscious on the floor about one hour later. An autopsy revealed that Mr. Cartwright was asphyxiated and it is believed poor ventilation combined with last Wednesday's humid. Conditions contributed to the accident. example, how did the pit look before work was started, how does it look now and can it be rehabilitated? He said the act covers only some townships in the province and McKillop Township does not fall under the provisions of the, pct. • Mr. Davey said any time local residents are concerned about conditions in area gravel pits, they are invited to call the Ministry of Labor in London at 672-0280. Frances Breen, 'a McKillop resident, has already called the ministry to express concerns about the, hazards of winter driving along the road near the Con. 2-gravel pits. Separate b FAREWELL PICNIC — Reverend Mervin. Reuber and wife Lo 'a were treated to a farewell picnic sponsored by the Sunday School 'of Northside United Church. Rev. Reuber is retiring from the Ministry and the couple moved to Stratford Tuesday. (Expositor Photo) Ipside this week kite /iuron (fxpositer Sta fa minister retires P. 4 Hur ri-Perth track meet P.13 Meeks married 55 years P.17 Area graduates P.24 , SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 29., 1978 24 PAGES $12,00.i Year in Adynnen• Single copy 25 cents ruckersmith buys new mower for Vanastra grass roved expected or Centennial Shea loaned photos that had been collected- from many Dublin people. •-• Dublin's Joe Looby took centennial supplement editor recalli villa VL Highway #8 and Perth Road 10 in the village of Dublin. The board had asked both the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ontario Provincial Police to survey the existing traffic situation at the intersection regarding the difficulty in entering No. 8 highway due to vehicles parked at the corner, blocking visibility. Although none of the school buses coming to. St. Patrick's School, Dublin, haye been involved in an accident at that intersection, William Eckert, director of eduction, said "we feel it's quite a hazardous situation." Mr. Snow informed the board thatt staff from the regional traffic A FOND FAREWELL — The congregation of the ilibbert United church filled The church last Friday night for the retirement party for their minister Rev. Burt za-964Fho has been. minister in' the charge for 85 years. Here Bob Norris presents Rev. and Mrs. Daynard with a Snapshot album featuring highlights of 'their years with the congregation. (Expositor Photo) By Wilma Oke Tuckersmith Township council authorized the purchase, of a larger lawn mower for cutting grass at Vanastra at a Special meeting of council Thursday night at Brucefield. June Tomkins,', assistant recreation director at Vanastra, told council the present one, although almost new, has been breaking dawn continually and she feels it is partly because it is not large enough. Clerk Jack 'McLaughlin will. invite ten clerslor,a14:Aoll power mower with a 38 to 40 cut. Thepreseht mowar-eost-$6$0-plus the trade-in of the. former- mower about• a year ago. Diane Durnin,"recreation director, suggested that the town- ship buy the mower as "our land is township land". Council made no decision on that issue. • Council signed a revised fire agreement with Clinton Fire Area ' Board which calls for Tuckersmifh to assume slightly more. than two per cent increase in _its present agreement -with the .board. The increase which will bring Tucker- smith ratepayers' share to 7.85 per cent •of the total cost of running the borird, is due to the extra coverage given in the township in the industrial area at Vanastra.' At the present time Billed-1dd Fire Brigade provides fire pr,otection for all of .Vanastra but when the.- new . agreethent ,goes into effect when all the other municipalities sign, then Bruce- . field bill cover the . resic'Leitial, area only. • - - A group of Vanastra business Men would• like to see an ektranceway to Vanastra off No. 4 HighWay, The former entrance- Barry • Davey, of the mining.. health and safety. branch 'of the Provincial Ministry of Labor, said owners of the Kling gravel pit, Con..2. McKillop Township, the scene of a- recent traffic fatality,- had been asked to erect a fence or berm around part of the pit on the south side of the road, nearest,td the road allowance, . • Mr. • Davey said even a fence would. not have prevented the recent accident, due to the 'speed at which the vehicle was presumed to be travelling when it left the road. The six • foot high earth berms, are now. in place. Mr. Davey said elle pit had been inspected by • Russell Connolly from his office two 'weeks prior to the accident and the pit owners had been asked to t make repairs. \ Gravel pit operators are rurally given about a month to ffen ce or berm (build .an earth way off the highway was closed becauSe the Ministry of Transpor- tation and CommunicationS said it was a traffic hazard situated on the slope of a hill, Numerous accidents had occurred with cars slowing and turning into the -roadway, some. serious. •' Council .agreed it would be a benefit as now the several entranceways arc all off the perimeter road. The perimeter road off No, 4 Highway has a turning lane and is several rods away from the hill. • ThebtiSiti es S smith Council will meet with , officials from .the Ministry of industry and tourism at , the Sandpiper Inn, on June 28; to discuss the road. The Huron Health thin has declared the former partly demolished shed in Egmondville. • now owned by aprivate.citizen. as a health- ' hazard and . has • authorized the township to 'clean it up if not done by the owner by July 6: The owner of the wrecked building on the south part of lot ' 29, plan 23,, Vanastra has been ' given the same notification to clean up' his property by the Unit. Council turned down a reqpest from the Huron County . .Historical Society for a grant. The Society will be notified that council makes its grants in January and the late., request is not bUdgeted Building permits were 'granted to Lawrence- Butt, Lot 26, con- cession three HRS to change an -old house to a barn and storage shed and to•Jim Cooper at LOt 23, concession 2 LRS for a shed. Meeting was adjourned at midnight. of dam) around 'a pit site which is considered hazardous, after being notified by the Ministry 'Of Labor inspector, he said. Glen Chesney, of Frank Kling Ltd., said they: hope the six foot high berm of earth fill would stop a car in the future. HoWever, he showed the reporter a natural drop beside the road, down to a farmer's field which is adjacent to the Kling pit and is. not fenced or bunted, Mr. Chesney said he understood McKillop Township council had talked of cutting the hill down further to reduce the natural falloff between the road and the surrounding land. McKillop Reeve Allan Campbell said the council will level this section of the Con. 2 & 3 road when the ston ey is available, but this may be two or three years from now. , He said he had • expected to receive complaints from - area policy of visiting all gravel- pits once a year both to inspect the. operation of the pit, the safety of the peo t le working in the pit and extra precautions are required to prevent outsiders' ' from getting into the pit. • Mr. Davey said 'there are currently in excess of 3,000 gravel pits in the area which come under the . jursi`diction of the London office of the Mini4try of Labor, Mining, health and safety branch. • Mr. Davey said this -time last year, he had only four pit inspectors to cover the entire territory, but this year his staff has been expanded to 12 inspectors. He said Russell Connolly, a member of his staff, will return to inspect the Kling pit in July. He added even after fences are erected around pits, trailbikers or other private individuals often .cut through sections of the fence within a month. Gravel pits in some areas of Ontario fall under the Pits and Quarries Act, which is adminis- tered by the Ministry-of Natural Resources. Mr. Davey said this act is •primarily concerned with the rehabilitation of the pits - for lby Alice Gibb] The Huron-Perth. Roman Catholic 'Separate School board has aproved an $18,000 expendi- ture to provide a principal's office and health and staff . room at Precious Blood School, in Exeter. The board will move one board-owned portable classroom from its Zurich school and re-locate the three existing portable clasSrooms now at Precious Blood to make more efficient use of space and -provide a modular unit for'the two offices. In the past, the one office has doubled as both the principal's• office and the staff room. With a kindergarten program starting at the school in September, board members agreed the relocation of the portables into modular units connected with the school would make better use of the available space. " Although David Teahen put forward a motion requesting that the conStruction work 'be put to public tender, the board voted to have C. L. MartinLtd.. of the Kitchener area, proceed with the work, This firm has handled the moving of portable classrooms for the board for some time. In other business, the board accepted'the resignations of three members of their staff, and' granted One leave of absence without pay. Martin Skillen, Grade 3, 4 There'll be some nostalgic stories, lots of handshakes and laughter and probably a few tears at this weekend's centennial celebrations •in Dublin. Over 900 people have indicated they'll be "coming home" for at least some of the special events planned for Saturday and Sunday whether it's the horseshoe has prepared a special 40 page supplement on the 'village's history which is included with this week's e ditioff"of t ''''' The opening event of the festivities is a giant parade down, the village's main street, starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Among the highlights, of the 'parade will be over 100 floats, marching 1).nds, and the _contestants in the Centennial Queen competition: Contestants who want to try their luck in the , horseshow tournament on Saturday after- noon, which has $150 in prize . money, can register at Dublin Park at 12:30 a.m. Another skill tasting event during the after- noon will be the tug of war across the Liffey River, with area men's slowpiteh „teams testing their rtuteAS 14:Wt. baffle, Other Saturday afternoon events include the judging of the Centennial Queen contestants, a concert by Lincoln Green in- the community centre from 2 p:m. to 6 p.m. and a beef barbecue in Dublin Park, starting -at 5 p.m. • • . Tickets for the barbecue-will be aVailable at the registration desk in the park. Saturday's festivities are ending with a 'dance in the community centre in the evening, with Lincoln Green supplying, the, music. On Sunday, a . special home- coming mass will be held in St. Patrick's Church, at noon, followed by a social hour' where former residents of the town can renew old acquaintances. In the afternoon, ball games will take place in the park and a bed race will be held' on Main Street at 2 p.m. , During the two days, St. Patrick's School will be open to display pictures and antiques teacher at St, Mary's School, Goderich, and Harold Zettler, Grade 7 teacher at St. Joseph's School', Kingsbridge, both submitted their resignations. Thomas Kilgallin, the custodian at Holy -Name of Mary School, St. Mary's, submitted his resignation due to poor health, .Mrs. Denise Culligan, special education teacher with the board, was granted a one year leave of absence, without pay, from September 1-978 to August 31, 1979. The board also received a reply . from James Snow, minister of ,transportation c and • communica- tions, to its May 31 letter concerning- the intersection of Closed Saturday This year, stores in Seaforth will be closed on Saturday, July 1 for the Canada Day holiday. The stores will be open as usual on Monday, July 3. The Seaforth Post Office will be closed botteSaturday.-July 1 and Monday, July 3. There will be no incoming mail or rural delivery. The mail will be picked up from the outside receiver at 1:30 p.nt, Monday, July 3, . The Seafotth banks will also be closed on Monday, July 3. issue: And we suggest anyone, Dublin resident or not, will find a good time and a "welcome home" in the village this , weekend. office in London had investigated the complaint and "their findings reveal that parking prohibition signs are currently in existence on Highway #8 for a distance of 45 -fn in the west and 20 m east of Perth Road 10." "However, it was noted that motorists are parking in this prohibited zone on Highway #8 in front of Kramp's Service Station and Lunch Bar. Therefore, art additional ' parking prohibition sign will 'be erected ai this location to more clearly define the prohibited zone," Mr. Snow said. The minister added a review of collision statistics indicated there had been a number of accidents (Continued 'on Page 24) residents following the recent traffic accident, but had not heard' from either •neighbours or received a report froni the Ontario Provincial Police, He .said the' privately owned Mackenzie pit on the opposit side of the road from the Kling is also v o the roa allowa e and that ouncil consid protective e sures such as t e erection of a sandbar or berm. Reeve Campbell said erecting a guard rail beside the road isn't the answer since this is done more for site protection than- the possibility it could prevent a car from going off the road. He said one car this spring had already gone through a cable 'guard rail erected beside another township road, Mr. Davey, who supervises pit inspection in southern Ontario, said the .Ministry has a general Near gravel pit Safety g the history of the Alice Gibb on a Our Of the village as well as providing . so that she could highlight some ors with a place to sit and of its architecture in the issue,- at. Herb Brown loaned the Dublin The members of the committee and District Athletic' Associ- who have spent the <last year ation's scrapbook, an invaluable preparing for Dublin's centennial collection of recent sports history. are Herb Brown, Lou Maloney, Many other local people, some • Ron Ferguson, Louis Kramers, of whom are thanked in the tournament the beef bar izeatm.,or—' /me , Feeney. ',Joe•--Sheze—Bob - Ernie Fleming, Matt 'McCreight, supplement, contributed time and, ate special homecoming mass on Cronin and Sister Florence Kelly, Several Expositor staff Sunday at noon in St. Patrick's Margaret Rowland, Helen members worked extra hours over • Church. Krauskopf. • ' John the last couple of. months and The centennial committee, Schoonderwoere Mary Litwiller, evenings and weekends over the which has been meeting for 12 Audrey Hoff, Mary Margaret Van last couple of weeks. Alice Gibb months to prepare for the Bakel and Julie Van Bakel, pulled the whole effort. together festivities, are now finalizing last The Expositor's Dublin, with countless, interviews, phone minute preparations. .Centennial suppleMent was calls and consultations.. . prepared with a great deal olkelp All of-ua at the Expositor hope In honour of the village's 100th from local residents. .Mrs, JOE'alrou.rrea'aers enjoy the special -birthday, The Huron Expositor oard adds to Exeter school