The Huron Expositor, 1981-09-23, Page 1122nd Year
Whole No. 5824
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Letter from Nigeria
Don Melady of St. Columban about a recent visit to Niger-
is a new CUSO volunteer in Ia'n royalty. See pg. 4
Nigeria. He wrote home
Appointment
A Walton-area man has. Ontario Charolais Associa-
been named secretary of the tion. See pg. 12.
Fast furrowing
, The Huron County Plowing
Match was held near Brussels
on the weekend. See photos,
story. on pg. 12.
Good
ternpu, of
PgrentS
About 150 adults attended leSt Thursday's
"Coneerned Parent's Night" at Seaforth
District 'High School where the. problem of
youths who drink and drive was discussed.
There have been an unnaturally high number
of fatal accidents in the area this year, some
Of which involved youths who were doing
both.
Terry Johnston. who heads the physical
education department at SDHS, organized
last week's night for concerned parents. He
was pleased with the turnout, but says "the
worthwhile part is yet to come." He hopes
parents and children can come togetherje,
this community and prove it is possible fCii
young people to have fun without drinking.
Local Leos and the Lions Club may organize
another meeting in the near future where
parents and youths discuss and work on the
problem together.
Mr. Johnston says last week's meeting was
divided into three rough .segments: Ire
described the programs offered at the school
on alcohol awareness. clips of a film produced
by the Addiction Research Foundation were
Khown. and . an open discussion- followett-------
Anybody with constructive suggestions, who
might have been shy about presenting them
at last week's meeting, is urged to contact
Mr. Johnston at S.D.H.S.
Day Centre to
start Monday
The Huron Day Care Centre, homeless
since an explosion Aug. 20 at Huronview in
Clinton, moves tomorrow (Thursday) into
new quarters in the same building and will
resume its temporarily discontinued pro-
grams Monday.
The new quarters are smaller, in the craft
area at Huronview, but Centre co-ordinator
Rosemary Armstrong isn't complaining,,
"We're really anxious to get started again,
especially before the colder weather arrives
when -things become more difficult fer the
'homebound.." says 'Mrs. Armstrong. She
says the mutual support she has seen since
the explosion among, people who normally
use the Centre, and the telephone calls she
has received have: "really convinced me the
services we offer are worthwhile."
.The Centre's stroke recovery club re-open-
ed at Vanastra recently, and will continue
there Wednesdays.
The Centre provides social. educational
and recreational activities for Huron county
people who are homebound because of age or
disability, as an alternative to institutional
care.
Mrs. Armstrong says the Centre is
desperate for donations because funding is
tight and getting tighter, and money-making
Pr. 'eci5,,Sech AS its. annuaLgaft sale. were
"b own - to bits" with the explosion at
Hu onview's auditorium. She says the Centre
needs about 510,000.
To help try and raise some of this the
Centre is holding a garage sale at the Clinton
Legion this Saturday (Sept. 26) from 9 a.m.
until 3 p.m'. Donations can be picked up by
truck by phoning the Centre. The Day Care
Centre also plans_ to send letters to area
service clubs in its search for ninney
It's your last
chance to save
This week is your last chance to save on
subscriptions to 'the Huron Expositor. On
Thursday. Oct. 1 the price goes up to $1 7..a
, year, 50 cents per single copy. —
By subscribing or renewing now you'll save
SI per year. Big savings are available for
those yvho,buy the-Expositor week by week.
You'll save $10 over the new single copy price
by purchasing a subscription before the price
goes up.
Mr, Eckert reported the drop represented
an overall 1.4 per cent decrease. In an
accumulated decrease. using figures gather
the-deelitte repre-SentS-Mii Per
cent. .„
Mr. Eckert said there as an increase in
kindergarten students which may mean
enrolment will start picking up again. The
director of education said there was a greater
decline in grades one to eight in the Board'.
19 schools.
. In Huron County. there are 136 kindergar-
ten students. 131 grade one students. 126
grade two students. 116 grade three
students. 128 grade four students, 120 grade
five students. 138 grade six students. 143
grade seven students and 14 - grade eight
students.
,0—Inside this weekkt
Dianne Oldfield of Seaforth
Huron's Queen of the
Furrow.
DUBLIN - There has been a loss of 37
students in the Huron-Perth County Separate
School system. The board projected adrop of
40 students. ,
At the Sept. 14 meeting of the Huron-Perth
Separate School Board. Director of Education
William Eckert reported the total enrolment
was 2,586 students in both counties. This
compares 2.623 students in 'both counties in
September 1980. ,
Perth County'has a total of I.19' students,
compared to 1.213 in 1980. Huron County has
a total of 1,389 students, compared to 1.410
students in September 1980.
Busin ess beat
Is a pew feature we hope to,
run weekly. This week it's
about Harry DenHaan of
Niagara Farm and Business
Consultants who recently
moved to Seaforth from
Hamilton Sec pg. 5. Is your
business doing something we
don't know about which the
community might be interest-
ed in? New products? Techni-
ques/ New people? We can't4
repOrt it if we don't know
abdut it. Why net give us
call?
the Seaforth Fair Board when 'it was
organized in 1845. Not only the name but the
location has changed over the years. Twice.
Early fairs were at Harpurhey but moved to
Tuckersmith -Township twftere- dye p-gfilti,
school riOw is) in 1861. The large exhibits
building and poultry accommodation were
burned "under mysterious circumstances"
Lots new at Fall Fair's
3day "81 edition
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
If attending-the 5eAforth Fall Fair isn't a
one-shot excursion for you or your family. a
new wrinkle in this year's 136th running of
the fair which gets underway tomorrow could
cut your costs in half.
It's a passport which costs 56, and would
save you that Much again if you were to pay
for entry eacturlay until the fair ends Saturday
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Negotiations have broken down between
the Huron County Board of education and its
secondary school teachers. Mediator Jeffrey
Gandz says "The parties are still a fair
distance apart" and the provinces Education
Relations Commission will appoint a fact
finder within the next few days.
The Board now employs 245 secondary
school teacherst. a figure that includes
principals.
Mediator 6andz is a professor at the
University .of Western Ontario's school of
business administration. The chief negotiator
for the Board in these negotiations is Peter
Grvseels. His 'counterpart of the teachers is
n r Seciforth vet
in 1898. There was no fair the next year. But
the Seaforth Turf Club bought land for a track
from Ed Coleman. which the Seaforth
Agricultural Society in turn purchased (with
help from an
d
and the twiships of
McKillop and Tuckersmith) as a site for the
fair where it remains to this day.
-BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
The last time Don Muir left Seoul it had one
periteon Witte; barely standing, noitreds and
a population of about 300.000. The bridge
was blown up shortly after. That was in 1952
during the Korean War.
Mr. Muir, who lives on James St.. in
Seaforth. went back earlier this month as part
of a I4-man Canadian delegation on the
Korean Service Veterans Revisit Tour.
He received a medal as an "ambassador
for peace" from Maeng Kee Lee. the
president of the Kereart"Vefeinn's Associa-
tion and a fomer Vice-Admiral in the Korean
navy.
Things had changed in Seoul.
Now the South :Korean city has a
population of 7 . 8 million, all kinds of trees. 11
bridges and six more under construction. All
the old villages have been torn down and new
ones built, he says.
Bullets, rarely fly across the North Korean
border 25 miles away. But it's still a
tension-filled tone. one where you don't go
out for an evening stroll.
"They treated us like royalty. with a police
Shirley Weary. The teachers' contract
expired at the end of August.
Elementary school teachers in the county
Seaforth has received approval from the
Ontario.; Municipal Board for its Business
escort andthe works, saysTrora Muir. who
accompanied her husband on the expenses
paid trip from Sept. 5 to 15.
Mr. Muir was a private i the Princess if
-Patricia Regiment. of -the anadtan - 25th
Brigade during his service in Korea from
April 1951 to April 1952. Thai regiment is the
Town BIA gets
B approval
Improvement Area. The next step, according
to downtown merchant Jerry Hetherington.
is to elect a board of management from
businesses in the area.
The board will need to draw up a budget.
have it approved by members and be ready to
go into operation when funds become
available with the payment of 1982 taxes.
Both the. board makeup and any budget
must be approved by council. A public'
meeting for merchants inside the BIA
boundaries has been called for
Wednesday. Oct. 7 at 7:30 at the town hall.
Anyone interested in serving on. the BIA
board or committee is asked to contact Mr.
Hetherington at Hetherington Shoes before
the meeting.
Don
only Canadian outfit ever to receive an
American President's citation, which it won
after being overrun at Ka Pyueg. Mr. Muir
visited this site, as well as various cemeteries
in the country during the revisit.
The citation Mr. Muir received along with
the medal at ceremonies at the Hyatt Hotel in
Seoulon Sept..9 reads in part: "(we) express
the ever-lasting gratitude of the Republic of
Korea and our people for the service you and
your countrymen preformed in restoring and
preserving 'our freedom and independance,
it is My privilege to proclaim you- 'an
'Ambassador for Peace' with every geredwish
of the people of the Republic of Komar
ratified their new contract with the Eciaril
Monday- Details -will be available in next -
week's Huron Expositor.
Muir-
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.
Mount Carmel, 1 73 (187 ); Ecole Ste. Marie.
St. Joseph's 47 (48); Precious Blood Schcol.
Exeter. 91 (80): St. James School, Seaforth.
139 (143); Sacred Heart School. Winghatn.
113 (120); St. Boniface School. Zurich. 1 -0
( I 68):,St. Mary's School, Qoderieh. 199 (189).
Mr. Eckert said there are no staff changes
because of enrolment figures.
ASTRO.:LINER MEETS THE HORSE — The 136th morning's sunshine when this horse got a glimpse at a
Seaforth Fall' Pair starts ThurSday and will continue new-tangled ride called the Astro-Liner.
through Saturday. Workers were setting up in Wednesday
(Photo by Campbell)
from H P system
Thursday night or at three local businesses: VAN EGMOND HOUSE — Heather Davies and her aunt Joanne Doherty Vincent Farm Equipment Ltd., Bob and
Were in period Costumes when a Wintario cameraman. .visited variety__ store. anti The muteh
Egmond House to get some promotional footage Thursday. The annual Expositor.
Ciderfest will bye-held at the house this Satiirday and-'Sunday. This year's fair runs for three days. unlike
There will be free rides in . two in previous, years. And that's not all '
a Labbatt's balloon, a flea market and 'antique displays and that's new.
.de .rftlISTMtliS bah days. Saturday there will be 'a Bavarian (beer) tenrlig
Th
htsefor wir"-tiuld-be local hell drivers Saturday
on the grounds, and Sunday all kinds of things are happening. (Photo by night, and some pro stuntmen called the
Campbell) Castrol Dare Devil Team will do it their way
with many minutes of motor madness under
the lights Friday.
The Fair Queen will 'be crowned at 10:30
p.m. Thursday night and judges have their
work cut out for them. There are 12
contestants, the most ever.
The annual parade leaves Optimist Park at
a.m. Friday. The Seaforth District High
School Girls Trumpet Band will lead it. horns
a blaring.
What else is new? ,
There will be helicopter rides available
from the adjacent SDHS grounds, bicyle
races in five divisions starting at 1 p.m.
Saturday a new class for sheep exhibitors.
and an elaborate quilt display for the ladies at
the curling club.
The "big" midway will be back for its
secondseason at the fair.
It would take.a book to tell you everything
that will be transpiring for the next three
days. And books are boring. So why not check
out the real. thing.
Whatis now called the Seaforth Agricultur-
al Society, which puts on the fair, was called
rop of 37 kids
night. The passports are available at the gate . ---
In Perth County, there are 149 kindergar-
ten students. 173 grade 'one students. 148
grade two students. .LS-1 - grade three
studeets. 1.34 grade four students, 148 grade
five students, 154 grade six students. 157
grade seven students and 163 grade eight
students.
In a school-byschool breakdown, the tot al
enrolmeirt-is as follows (with ,1980 figures in
brackets): St. Patrick's, Dublin. 196 (209); St.
Patriek'S. Kinkera. 132 (134); Holy Name of
Mary School. St. Marys. 186 (188); St.
M arx's, Hesson. 101 (1021; ImmacuTaTe-
Conception School. Stratford, 138 (141); St.
Michael's School (grade seven ,and eight
only). Stratford. 168 (166); St. Ambrose
School: -Stratford. H,4: -(-161-1;- St- Joseph's.
Stratford, 118 (116); St. AloysiUS School.
—Stratford. 186 (193); St. Joseph's, Clinton.
128 (122); St. Columban School. St. Colum-
ban 59 (67); St. Joseph's. Kingsbridge. -8
(89);
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