The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-26, Page 3Few challengers for B of
This , year's Huron County Board of
Education race isn't the battle it has been in
the past:
A number of trustees on the board have
already been acclaimed for office.
One of the races which is shaping up is for
'the trustee's position representing Seaforth,
McKillop and Hullett TownshiP'.
The incumbent trustee John Henderson of
McKillop, is being challenged by former
trustee Molly Kunder of Seaforth.
• Both Seaforth area members ' of the
Huron-Perth 'Roman Catholic Separ
School board were acclaimed. They are
Ivichael Connolly of Tuckersmith and Ron
Murray of McKillop.
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
There's also a battle for the trustee's seat
from`Hay Township and. Hensel] and Zurich
where • Herb Turkheim, the incumbent
trustee, from Zurich, is being' challenged by
IVfinnie. Noakes •of Hensall. •
Dorothy Williams, ' the former school
teacher who represents Tuckersmith and
Clinton on the board was returned by
acclamation:
Harry Hayter and Clarence McDonald
were acclaimed as the two trustees
representing Stephen, Usberne and Exeter.
Robert Peck, the incumbent trustee, was
icclaimed as the school board representative
from Stanley, and Bayfield.
There will be a race for the trustee's
positionin 'Goderich and Colborne Township
where. incumbent trustee Shirley Hazlitt is
being challenged by John Westbrook,
In Goderieh, three candidates David .
Gower, and incumbents Cayley )7fill and
Dorothy Wallace are running yor,„, two
trustees' positions.
Mrs, Marion Zinn was acclaimed as the
tmstee representing As hfield and West •
Wawanosh Townships.
John Elliott, the incumbent trustee, is
being challenged by Lloyd Barth for the seat
representing ratepayers in East. Wawanosh,
Morris and Blyth.•
Donald MacDonald was acclaimed °to
represent Brussels and Grey ratepayers.
Another contest in the upcoming Nov. 13
election will be- in Turnberry and Howick
Township and VVingham were four
candidates are running for the two trustees'
positiOns. The candidates are present
trustee Jack Alexander, Bert Morrin,
Murray Mulvey and John Swan.
Charles Rau has been acclaimed as the.
separate school trustee on the Huron County
board of education representing Stephen,
Usborne, Hay, Stanley and Tuckersmith
Townships and the villages of Bayfield,
Clinton, Exeter 'and Zurich.
Eurgenc Frayne has been acclaimed as
the separate school trust-6'6'On the Huron
county board of education representing
Colborne, Grey, McKillop, Hullett, Ashfield
East Wawanosh. West WaWanosh, Morris,
Turnberry aneHowich Townships and the
Towns of Goderich, Wingham, Seaforth,
Brussels and Blyth.
Ted Geoffrey. will represent ratepayers in
Hay Township and the village of Bayfield.
Keith Montgomery will represent Morris,
Grey, Turnberry, Hullett and Howick
Townships and the towns of Wingham,'
13russels and Blyth on the separate school
board.
Arthur Hiad will represent Logan,
Wilmington and Wallace Township separate
school ratepayers as well as ratepayers in
the towns of Milverton and Listowel on the
Huron-Perth board.
A bumper crop
Accident damages1100
I grew a bumper, crop this year-weeds.
that is.
The variety proied fantastic. You name it.
I got it. Twitch, Burdock. Plantain. Bind.
Dandelion. Deck. Thistle. Goldenrod. Pig.
Morning glory. Wild Carrott and Lambs
quarter. You think of any kind of weed
Ontario comes up with, and I swear it's
grow.ng in my little tree plantation.
You see, I had thiS genius of an idea. Plant
on my old farm house property nearWalton a
NOvzile forest of little trees. The Ministry of
Natural Resources was good enough to give
them to me. All I had to do was plant, tend
and care for them.
And if nature Showed herself kind, in the
ten years I'd have Christmas evergreen
trees for sale. And if nature extended her
graces another forty or fifty years, my heirs
would have black walnut trees to gell.
That's the government's stipulation-and
fair enbught too, You can only sell the trees
it gives you as • mature trees-cut trees-in
other words.
Well, let me tell you. Nature hasn't been
that kind. She knows, how to.devastate with
raw winds, packed ice, meagre rain and
Chewing
The little creatures of the forest get their
bite too. Rats and mice and rabbits nibbl
away at sapling trees as if they're fresh
cheese. And blot and blight vanquish
another section.
But through it all, I know how to extend a
fair amount of optimism. I can say nature
and her friends thinned out my mini tree
plantation over these last few years. I can
ay I have plenty of room now,to drive my
tractor through the widened rows, tree rows
I'd planted too close to begin with.
Trina, my tractor, can libw plow- up a
whole jungle of toots joined together in the
deepest of wedlock. Notice I said plow. Trine
.1criowS only one attachment those two plow
Shares that turn over the longest of top roots
and the Stringiest Of gangly quack, grass
roots.
Man, do I believe in growing quack grass.
(5r is it twitch? Orcrab? or Quitch? or couch/
Or scutch? Any way yo say it, I have a
bumper of it. Both on top of the ground and
under it.
I understand I'm not the only one, This
kind of crab joy is spread all around. I read in
the newspaper that weeds in Perth county
are costing 1.25 million dollars this year. In
Huron it's even more 1.8 million.
And the agricultural rep said that weather
may have something to do with weeds on the
rampage, but the main, reason is poor
management., In other words, he's saying
' it's mostly my -fault. I don't know' how to
manage my weeds properly. I don't identify
my weeds: Get the right herbicides. Apply it
at the right time and at the proper rate.
if there's a time of the year that finds me
making resolutions, it's fall plowing time. 1
don't have to wait for New Year's or the ag
representative. All I have to do issiand knee
deep in weeds and play hide and seek with
my little saplings.
I shake my head. It's going to lie different.
I'm going to get my weeds under control
Next year I promise to plow more. Cultivate
more.vIdentify more. Herbicide more. I
swear: Never again Will this vveeds-111--
my- trees happen.
That's another good thing I can say about
nature. She willin5 to give me another
chance. A new year. Next year. I hereby
resolve my tree plantation will prosper-and
wit t--weMs.
But then that ag rep spreads a little
derbies§ on my good intentions. klewarns
me I'm about to reap a whirwind. He says
most of my_weeds have gone to seed by now
and they've spread their next year's
potential into the ground. He claims it's
going to take- two and three years of '
enthusiastic weed control to tackle this
year's heyday.
I get the picture. I'll get the Second chance
alright, but I'll have to sweat like summer
plumbing to gain Control once again.
1 t seems as if nature, like a wrathful God,
visits the iniquities of the fathers unto the
third and fourth generations:
An, accident involving two
Seaforth residents resulted
in $1100 worth of damage to
their cars.
Mrs. Grace Pepper failed
to yeild at the intrsection of
John and Jarvis Sleets last
Thursday and collided with a
ByWihtta tike
Ontario Hydrds Board of
Directors approved rates for
1979 which will result in
January in an average in-
crease of ,9.8 per cent to
municipal PUC's.
At the • Public Utilities
meeting in Seaforth Wednes-
day. Manager Torn Phillip s
said he did et see this
tensing an increase in rat e.-10
lora: hydro consumers at
this time,
P U.C. will tender for the
'construction of a 4t1 x 4p x 12
foot high cement block build-
ing with a steel roof to bouse
the pump at tit( te o: the
new well on Welsh Street,
P.U.C. workmen will do the
vehicle driven by James Neil.
Mrs. Pepper has been
charged with failure to yield
for a stop sign.
Constable Charles Akey of
the Seaforth police force
advised local businessmen to
check that the front doors 'of
finish work such as painting.
electrical and plumbing.
P.U.C. will tender as well
for a one-ton truck with or
'without a hoist to replace the
1974 International dump
truck.
Ed. Meyer of Huron U.F,
Foani Insulation Clinton,
sill repair the brickwork on
the pumphouse he' Ind the
Pk.C. office anu the •re-
sidenec and fill in the five
basement window to save
heating costs at an ap-
proximate cost of $1,900 for
the whole job.
Approval was given for Ia n N a irn of Mitchell to
tai his fourth year line-
man's learner crew, a!
their besinesses are secure.
The members of the police
have discovered a number of
doors which weren't secured
properly during recent rout- •
ine inspections.
Orangeville from October 16
to October 27.
foreman William
Marks will attend a two-day
IVIaitenarice workshop at
Constellation Hotel. Toronto;
Novemb6 i 4-15.
Mallager Toni Phillips Will
attend a meeting in Goderich
October 18 of -Association of
Electrical Utilities, District
No. 6.
At the conclusion of the
meeting the Com rn iSsio ,
were asked if they intendeo
to seek re-election. Chairman
Gordon Pullman said it we:,
likely he would. Dr Rodger
Whitman said he would nol,
Mayor Betty Caruno 18 the
third member.
Girl breaks leg twice in 2 months
Patricia Flanagan. 20, daughter. of Bill
Flanagan, 'RR 5. Mitchell is a patient in
Stratford General Hospital after breaking
her leg for the second time in two months.
Miss Flanagan broke her leg on Aug_ 20 in
a soccer game against a London team played
on the Seaforth District High School
grounds.
Her leg broke a second time when she sat
. down in her home to watch television. Mr.
Flanagan, Patricia's .father, said hospital
authorities believe the original pin put in
Miss Flanagan's leg was flawed. since it
snapped sp easily.
Mt. Flanagan said his daughter will likely
remain in hospital for about 12 days after the
pin has been reset.
Ontario Hydro rats up
but no change here
Those
• falling
leaves
Wtl
HEY, I LIKE THIS CLEANUP BUSINESS: — Tony Todd,
a visitor to Seaforth last weekend, obviously didn't mind
posing for a few candid shots as he helped rake some of
our town's fall harvest of colored 'leaves:
1
':RAKING UP THE WINDFALL — Last week's winds broUght down a
bOutiful harvest of leaves, so Mrs, Marlene Etrition of Seaforth and visitor
Tony Todd of Michigan spent part, of their weekend cleaning up
summer's debris, (Expositor Photo)
WHEN AUTUMN LEAVES COME FALLING
DOWN — Irwin Johnston spent some of his
,weekend involved in a task faced by many area
residents - Taking up the reminders of last
8ummer. (Expositdr Photo)
Not since an ad for a
manure spreader carried the
line "this is a load of bull"
(or words to That effect) . .
that thank Heavens was
before my time. . . . have
Expositor pages attracted so
many eagle eyed readers.
A few people in the know (1
obviously wasn't one of
them) got a laugh out of the
time in the not too distant
past whenWe ran a perfectly
lovely photo of a big bad bull
with a ring in his nose on our
editeriej page. The caption
said Morey;'
That was one joke We could
easily have avoided. Our
publisher was touring the
layout room when that par-
ticular capiton • was being ,
attached, and said in his
opinion bulls didn't mom
I figured that I knew as
much about bulls or maybe a
bit more, since I live in
MeKillop, as the publisher
does and decided, I must
admit without the advice of
farm oriented people who
work here, that I'd heard lots
of bulls say "M0000".
But I reckoned without a
real bull expert, Johnnie
Crich-. John's got time to
critique the paper now that
he's retired from the bakery
business (and yes, I admit
the critique can take a good
long time.) '
He was in first thing
Thursday mo:ning to tell me
that bulls don't mono they
ropogar!
The jury's stikout on this
one though. I'm 'going bull'
calling one of these days and
•
You're
invited
You are invited to a
Senior Citizens Card. Varty at
St. Columhan Parish. Hall on
Monday Oct 30 ,at 1:30 p.m.-'
I'm 99 per cent sure I'll come
up with one who moos. If
you've gOt a mooing bull, .
that apparent oddity, or at
best a hybrid, in your feed lot
or barn, could you let me
know?
I'll be out to visit with my
tape recorder and we'll show
" them.
THE HURON EXPO tTOR, geTOBER 20, 1
omething to say
by Susan White
A bull who m000s
From time to time. I get
complaints that there are no
comics, and few jokes in The
Huron Expositor. (If you are
one of the people who'ld like
us to carry comics, I'd like to
hear from you. We've been
thinking about it, now that
there are some fine Canadian
comic strips available.)
Several occurrences just
lately though have lead me to
speculate that we don't need
a special comics section. Our
comics, most of them not at
all deliberate, are scattered
throughout the paper.
It's one of the joys of being
a community ,press editor.
You put the paper to bed,
secure that it's pages are ."
clean, calm and dign:ned late
Wednesday afternoon. But
you never, never, know what
you're going • to read on
Thursday morning.
Not long ago I read in the
classified ads, that we had a
cat house fqr sale. "Do the
occupants go with it?" one
local real estate man
bounded in here early to ask.
We told' him to call 'the
number in the ad and find
out. "Who 'knows", we
added "you might get
another listing."
Then there was the week
that we advertised, one after
. another in order, in the
das,sified coming events
'-column, an adult health
guidance clinic 'then belly
dancing classes and then
expectant parent education
elasses. Natural progression,
so to speak.
That was pointed out to us
by an educator in the com-
munity who apparently just
wouldn't believe assurance
' horn everyone involved that
the ads and their order were
pure coincidence.
Tuckersmith council
ets few questions
By Wilma Oke
Only about 20 ratepayers in Tuckersmith
Township turned out for the ratepayers'
meeting called. by the township council
Monday night.lncluded in this number were
the spouses of some of the council members.
John Broadfoot of R.R.1, Brucefield, was
invited to act as chairman by Reeve Ervin „
Sillery, who was acclaimed reeve for another
two-year term.
Also unopposed was Deputy reeve,
Robert Bell.' Councillor Robert Drummmond
was ineligible to run for office in the
township because he had sold his farm and
moved into Exeter. Incumbents Frank
Falconer and Robert Fotheringham will
share votes on election day with Candidates
William Brown of Egmondville. Robin Gates
of Vanstra and " Harvey Hammond of
Brucefield.
Reeve Sillery suggested that the whole
township should support the Vanastra
recreation centre financially, and not just the
ratepayers of Vanastra. He explained that
when several Vanastra residents approached
council several' years ago . to set up a
recreation, cqmplex at no cost to the rest of '
the township, they were give the go,-.ahead.
ReeveSillery said it was a little shortsighted
on council's part.
To date none ofthis debt has been paid off
except through whatever grants council has
been able to secure from the governments in
way of community centre grarfts because the
recreation complex "is not a money making
project", the reeve said.
Reeve Sillery said tha the centre is now
due for further alterations. The whole
council forms the recreation committee
managing the centre. Council took over it
two years ago. Prior to that several residents'
`of Vanastra formed most of the recreation
Committee, along with only two members of
council.
'Frank Falconer said he could not see any
reason for the'debt at Vanastra to be carried
by the whole township. (When the centre
was built council was adamant that it was the
responsibility of Vanstra alone and must
never be a financial burden on the rest of the
township.
Councillor Falconer said he felt it was a
good idea for council to be responsibible for
the managing of it.
He said the debenture debt carried by the
Vanastra ratepayers (which they hope to pay
off gradually in their taxes) amounts to
$119,000 as at end of 1978 with interest of
$11,000. being paid this year.
"1 feel Nanaastra has come a long way and
with an united effort we have done an
excellent job, he said.
Clerks
Councillor Falconer remarked on losing
the township clerks who resigned early last
year (Jim and Brenda McIntosh) He said he
felt the quit because of too many complaints
and too many -telephont calls.
"I feel the ratepayers of Tckersmith
should learn a lesson from this," he stated.
He said the present clerk, Jack
McLachlan; earns $18,000 a year but this is
no reason for people in Tuckersmith to
complain to him about everything."
fteeve Sillery spoke of the new grader and
new truck bought by council, also the
purchase of the former Bank ofMontreal as
the township office at Vanastra. He spoke of
council's unsuccessful attempt to get the
county to take back the Hensall road which
has been in poor condition. He said the
council is paving -a section at this time.
The reeve pointed out that the township
owns the curling rink at Vanastra and rents it°
out to the Curling Club. He Said council had
an opportunity to purchase the old arena at
Vanastra this year but turned down the offer
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the construction of the Glengowan Dam
personally.
Mr. Swart said he feels the dam will only
be used to flush out sewage for the city of
London and that he had heard the dam
would be obsolete in a decade.
Incumbent Reeve McPhail said he was
present when the UTVCA vote was taken on
the Glengo'wan dam and "I was thoroughly
, disturbed at the way it was handled.'
Mr. McPhail said most of the authority
' representatives-voted in favor of building the
darn.
He said Mayor Jane. Bigelow, London's
triayor, eonitirtned to him that the dam is only
a stopgap measure for the city and that it Will
as he felt "Tuckersmith could not afford to
take it on at this time.- .
He said he serves on the property
committee of Huron County council and he•
represents tht township on the Clinton Fire
area board where they recently pUrchased
new radio system and beepers for the fire
trucks and the men.
Thanking his fellow council members for
their support during the year, the Reeve said
"I could not have had a better council if I had
handpicked them myself." ,
Deputy reeve Robert Bell regretted that
there weren't more people at .the meeting ,
but said "it's busy time at this time 'of
year". He said he had been tile •drain
inspector and that loans were down this year
to $35,200 from last years' total of $10.1,000
for a 13 month period.d
He 'said there was another $55,000 to
spend this year if any one-wanted a tile drain
loan.
Mr. Bell said building permits this year
amounted to $1,177,750. up substantially
over the $1,325,000 used for construction
last year.
Councillor Robert Fotheringham ,said he
had found his first two years on •e'cil a real *
challenge, but interesting and arding.
He .sadi he represented the itownship of
the Seaforth Fire area board. Ile said new
two-way radio set had been bought for the
trucks and the base‘ and this gave better
communication system between Clinton, and
Mitchell and themselves. He said the
firemen had been given beepers so that they
can all,be signalled in case of fires or •other
emergencies. ,
He asked for the support of the ratepayers
on election day and said "I'll try to do my •
best for the township".
Ilensal Fireball .
Councillor Robert Drummond reported on
the Hensall Fire area board which has
completed the construction of a new firehall
for appeoximately $80,000 which°, will be .
officially opened soon.
Council okays
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the municipalities pass a by-law authorizing
participation in the operation of the county
communication system.
In other business council passed a by-laW
appointing building officials (Henry Van
Wieren of Hensall is the building inspector.)
• a by-law to regulate issuance of building
permits; and agreed to hold a special
meeting on October 26 to study the
procedural by-law.
Flooding
Council discussed a flooding problem at
the rear of IGA following heavy rains or
spring snow melting.
Councillor • Jim Sills said there was no -
problem of flooding in the store from the
alley as long as the water went into the
sanitary sewer, but now the ministry of the
environment demands this water go into the
storm sewer.
decided:er that if Bruce Hoelscher,
store owner, would negotiate the easement
with the Bank of Commerce the town would
do the work on a drain and secure
permission from the county to cross under
the sidewalk and road to connect it to the
sewer.
To assist the Seaforth Branch of Royal
Canadian Legion to get a Wintario grant the
town will 'end a letter indicating it endorses
the work done by the Legion.
The next regular meeting of council will be
on NoveMber 20 because of elections on
November 13.
be obsolete in 20 years.
Mr. McPhail, in response to another
questioner who expressed concern that the
authority was being run from the top, said
only three representatives on the IJTVCA
voted against the dam - Mr. McPhail; who
was representing I4ibbert township, the
representive from Fullarton and a third
representative from Logan Township.
Matt McCreight. and Louis Maloney,
incumbent trustees for the village bf Dublin
and Jerry Murray, who is seeking a position
on the three man board, also spoke briefly
during the meeting.
The third incumbent trustee, Don
MacRae, was not, able to attend the
ratepayer's meeting.
Hibbert , has candidates' meeting
e.s