HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-08-19, Page 1Official band oinq to Siam
this week
ir Newfoundland barbetue and a, dance this
week-end and there was a
good attendance for the
event. About $1500 was made
andais money will go to the
new arena fund and other
community betterment pro-
jects. See page 10 for .
pictures.
The adventures of a trip to
eastern Canada are related by
a local 7-year-old. Debbie
Eaton describes the peOple
her family visited, and the
things they ,saw on their way
to Newfoundland. Set pg. 15
for all the details.
Trip to the Isles
A life-long dream was, realiz-
ed for a Varna titan as he
embarked on a four-week trip
to England and Scotland. For
an account of hig trip and how
he liked the countries see
page 16:
Feature Artist
" The Van Egmonil House
has featured the work of Mark
Fleteher, a promiting artist
from. Kincardine; for the past
'two weeks. Olt Sunday. Van
Junior Fanner Style Eimond house is having a sum nteimat and Mr. Fletcher
Seaforth Junior Farmers , will be there to meet visitors.
held a baseball tofirnainent. a See page 11.
Dog catcher hired
TUC ersmith plans
Johnny. Nielsen •
Nielsen wins gold,
silver at games
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL "
Johnny Nielsen isn't jumping for joy
about his, medal-winning performances at
the 1981 Canada Summer Cremes in
Thunder Bay last week.. Me 20-year-old
Seaforth native isn't being modest. He's
not in peak condition, and he has done
better.
Still, those performances weren't
shabby.
Nielsen won a gold medal in the shot
put, and broke a ,Games" record set in 1969
by a centimetre, with a throw of 16.81
metres. Stuart Runnings of ' British
Columbia was the old record holder at ,
16.80 • metres,. Frank Balkovec of Toronto
finished second at Thunder Bay last week
with a throw of 16.16 metres. The
Canadian record of '20,75 metres still
stands,,set by Bishop Dolegiewiez in 1979.
Nielsen also won a' silver Medal in the
discus at the games with a toss of 43.34
totems, behind Montreal's Luc Poirier who
took the gold with a toss of 47.84 metres.
Nielsen says he expected to do better at
Thunder Bay. Despite the medals, both
performances were shy of his personal
bests of 18.35 metres in the shot put and
47.22 metres in the discus. Those bests
were recorded earlier this year at the
University of Michigan where Nielson is
about to enter his second year on ail
athletic scholarship.
The 6' 2" athlete, who weighs, 220 lbs,
says he's been taking a breather from
intense competition and training lately,
and is finding it hard to get psyched Up.
His training schedule is geared to he'd'
May's National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) championships.
The shot put is Nielsen't favorite event.
He says he took it up when he was in grade
7 after he started tosiing around an old ,
cannonball one of his brothers found in a
held.
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122nd Year
— Whole No. 5819 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1981 — 20 PAGES
so g year 113 advaocv •
Single Copy 40 .centa
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BY GREGOR CAMPBELL AND PAUL ELLIS
A small plane crashed in a soybean field in
MeKillop Township. last night (Tuesday).
killing the pilot and seriously injuring both
passengers.
Provincial police at Ggderich say pilot
Martines John VanBakel, 20. of R.R. 1
Sebringville died on impact. His 16-year-old
brother Ronald was in serious condition at
University Hospital in London this 'morning.
A friend of the family. Robert VanderHyden.
19. also of 'R.R. I Sebringville is listed in
critical condition in the intensive care unit of .
UH. The VanBakel boys' father Herman, of
R.R. I Sebringville. was the owner of the
four-seater Piper that was demolished in the
crash.
Investigators from the Department of
Transport end Constable Jim MatLeod.of the
Seaforth detachment of the OPP were at the
crash site this morning,
Police say the plane took off from the
VanBakel farm near Sebringville. It was
flying low over the Joe Visser farm on
concession 4 and 5 of MeKillop Township
when it clipped a tree about 40 feet high, lost
part of a wing. cleared a corn field and ended
up in a bean field about 1.000 feet away.
Witpeseee..eay.the-plane• cartwheeldd and
came to rest upside down with the pilot and
passengers inside.
The crash happened at about 8:20 p.m.
Police kept spectators away from the
accident scene Tuesday night
ACcording to police and witnesses, the plane had been flying at a low
altitude when it clipped the top of a tree, lost part of one wing• and
cartwheeled across the bean field, coming to a rest upside down.
Department of Transport officials-and-police were-'probing ,the-crash site.
early Wednesday morning. (Photo by Ellis)
Nqrrovii -etcOpe.:gs..„
miytorbike7, car collide
FATAL CRASH — A small private airplane crashed in a bean field on
concession 4 and ,5 of McKiIlop Township northeast of Seaforth Tuesday
evening, killing the pilot •Martines John VanBake!, 20, and seriously
- injuring—the —two- passengers, Ronald--VanBakel; 16, and Robert
VanderHyden., 19! All three men were from the Sebringvilleidittrict.
will be represented at next year's Calgary
Trumpet Band will be at the stampede from
Stampede.
parade July 9. and will perform *ruching
July lietet 14 in 1982. It will participate in the
The plans have been finalized. Seaforth
The. Seaforth 'District High School Girls. -Calgary': 'The tote! cost will_be 540.000.
planning various , events. in,
ones will take a bus to Toronto then fly to
holding' 50-$0 draws monthly. MeMbers are
drills' at various times during the week.
To raise this sum. the band has been
Seventy:girls and 24 parents and chaper-
DOCTOR DODDS — What do you • do when you get' a sliver? Run to
Lynn Dodds, one of the' girls helping run the recreation department's
Playschool program, as 'Erin Quipp, 6, discovered Tuesday afternoon.
(Photo by Ellis)
..90rugdainnigze founex_ma ateagardetnatt: SeafOrth Fall Fair.
and sponsoring a choir at the high school' at'
Christmastime. A baud' rettnion is'"reit*
Bagd director Charlie Kalbfeisch said
this 'is "The busiest we've ever been for
parades." In the pa ' year the band has
_attended 25 parades—ftis nowgetting paid as
much as $400 for each parade. It has bookings
Vanastra
The Township of Tuekersmith. took over-
two lots in, Vanastra for municipal purposes
by passitgby-laws at list night's (Tuesday)
council meeting. Lot 21, Plan 22. which
was vacant and is adjacent to an existing
park. will be used for muniettial parkland. If
government approval is obtained. Lot 26.
Plan 23, which was also vacant and seized by
Tuckersmith for long-standing tax arrears,
will be used to store sand and salt. -
Council also passed a by-law appointing an
aninial control effider fo, enforce existing
by-laws to regulate. impound or kill dogs
running free in the township. The officer is to
, be paid S6 per hour, 21c per mile and $6 per
dog impounded. Residents with complaints
about animals running free are asked to
contact the township office.
Council set in motion a lengthy procedure
requeeting permission from various levels of
government to replace the existing sidewalk.
which is in poor condition. on Centre St. in
Egmondville. A new sidewalk 'might mean
some existing trees would have to be cut
down. Reeve Bob Bell suggested it would
only, be courtesy. and good public relations.
to plant replacements should the necessity
arise. Council agreed. 4 •
for parades for 1982. The band is going to the
Plowing Match in Barrie and is waiting for
.word en Oktoberfest.
The band is training ropkies so they will be
prepared for the upeorifing parades. said Mr.
Kalbfeisch. He also mentioned the band is
upgrading- its- uniforms— gradually, and
employing local seamstresses to do the work.
park
The Township accepted a tender froM
McGregor Farms of Kippen for snow plowing
from• Dec. 15 to 'March 31. ,It was the only
tender • submitted. McGregor Farms will
charge 130 per working hour when ,operating
and $18 per day on standby:unless the cost of
ftiel rises when the charge will be adjusted
accordingly. Council also carried -a motion to
advertise for tenders in the near future for -a
1977-or-later model grader of 190 horse.
power.
'oads superintendent Allan Nicholson
submitted a lengthy report dealing primarily
with drainage concerns in the township.
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Teacher
talks "well
advanced"
Mediator Jeffrey Gandz says contract talks
arc "well advanced compared to recent
years" Izetween the Huron County Board of
Education and its secondary school teachers,
u hose present contract expires at the end of
this month.
Mr. Gandz. a professor in business •
aemihistration at the University of Westerne
Ontario. says nobody should panic because
there has' been no settlement. Negotiations
are always sluggish in the summer months
because it is difficult for both sides to get
together. Mr. Gandz expects negotiations
will be picked up where they left off within the
next 15 days.
The Mediator says the teachers and Board
had "very productive sessions" when they
last met for 'negotiation at the end of July.
The Huron Board has already reached
agreentent with its elementary school teach-
ere fOr itte1961 ,81 contract year. The details
of the agreement won't be released until
September.
t
A leoear-old Harphurhey boy is in
satisf ctory condition at Seaforth Community
llospi al aftPr a motorbike and car collided
ust west Of Seaforth on highway 8 in the mien
our Monday.
Stephen Coombs. spn of Mr.
and Mrs. Wes Coombs of R.R. 2' Seaforth, '
was driving the motorbike when the mishap
occurred at 12:55 p.m. •
Provincial police at Goderich say the hike
shot in front of the car. At,he,request of those ,
involved police refuse'd to release further
details. The driver of the car was not injured.
and was its, only occepant.
Witness ytheear.wasrtvert s10 i46 .by
a woman4110. eivedinto t ie wrong,lane in
an atte pt to avoid the collision, but the bike
cau: her right front tender, the boy was
thrown into the air, and the car dragged the
bike under its hood to the other side of the
fl
highway.
Market will be
THIS Saturday
Due to the rainfall last Saturday . the
scheduled farmers market was postponed' to
thi' Saturday.
Airguet 22, in Victoria Park, the farmers
market will run as it was planned for last week
with abciut LS exhibitors. If there is rain, the
market will move to the arena fit?or, according
to, recreation director Bryan Peter. There,
was a dance planned- at 'the 'Arent last
Saturday, ,So-the market could not be moved
there, Mr.' Peter explained.
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