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ning department) said contrary to rumours,
the lines will not be providing expert
capabilities or hydro or just service to
London. Instead they will strengthen the
supply of power for all of Southwestern
Ontario.
Council raised questions concerning land
acquisitions and the possibility of using
No dump in Ashfield "tomorrow"
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County, which borders the township.
"I'm very much opposed (to a landfill
site)," said Reeve Zinn.
Warden. Fred Haberer of Zurich said he has
written a letter to environment minister Keith
Nortattristbig to,be let in on anything-taking
place in Huron. No answer has yet been
received.
"At this time. there is no action we can
lake:" said the warden.
Reeve William Elston of Morris Township,
chairman of the planning committee, said a
landfill site is one thing the_county doesn't
want.
"There are some things we have to accept,
others wedo not, we don't have to accept
this." said Reeve Elston.
Two compete for
Huron warden's job
BY STEPHANIE LEVESOUE
Reeve Harold' Robinson of Howick
Township and Reeve Grant Stirling of
Goderich Township are standing for election -
as warden at Huron County Council's Dec. 8
meeting.
Reeve Robinson is making his second
attempt for the warden's chair. He was
defeated by a 16-15 vote last election by
present Warden Fred Haberer of Zurich.
Reeve Robinson started in municipal politics
as a Howick councillor in Jan. 1965, and
became a deputy reeve in June because the,
reeve vacated his seat. He was out of office
from 1973 to 1976, when he served on the land
division committee. During his time on
county council he has served on property,
social services, warden's personnell. Huron-
view, development, executive and roads
committees. He has been chairman of
property, Huronview and social services
committees.
He says the biggest challenge next year
will be to fight inflation. Wages are one of his
particular concerns.
Reeve Stirling first sat on county council as
Goderich Township's deputy reeve in 1961.
From 1964 to 1968 he was reeve, then left
county council for six years. He was first
elected to township council in the fall of 1954.
As a county councillor he has served on the
agricultural, roads, Huronvievv, executive.
social services and health committees. He
has been chairman of the roads and social
services committees.
Reeve Stirling is also concerned with
inflation, and says "we must practise as
much restraint as we can."
The election and inauguration of Huron's
1982 warden will take place at Huron County
Courthouse Dec. 8 at 2 p.m.
Citizen of the Year to
be announced soon
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
It stuck out like a sore
thumb but all summer
thought it was a duck. I must
have skipped class or some-
thing the day we studied the
difference between ducks and i
geese. Turns out it was
Simply a goose of a different
feather, a pilgrim goose I'm
told, but a silly goose never-
theless.
A female too. I might add.
She chummed (maybe
more, but we won't get into
that) around with some Can-
ada geese near the mouth of
the Hayfield River all' sailing
season. From boat to boat up
and down the river. A familiar
sight to the weekend warriors
who kept this strange gaggle
fed and fat. with corn chips
and ether such staples.
Where she came from 'is
anybody's guess.
This. one basic barnyard-
type goose with all these
other high-class black and
white geese, the kind you see
on postage stamps or in
paintings. They were insep-
arable, the' butt of many
rather rude jokes, but a great
conversation piece'.
But seasons change and
instinct is thicket than love.
or whatever. Summer went
and the Canada geese winged
'it to wherever. The other
goose couldn't go. She could-
n't fly, though that didn't
stop her from trying. The
sailors turned out to be
'fair-weather,friends too, and
our goose kind herself in a
far less pampered snack
bracket. The fishermen fol-
lowed, butfewer and fewer as
nights on the river got colder
and colder.
It's not easy to fend for
yourself when you've forgot-
ten how.,
And I guess this is what
really bugged me. That goose
didn't have a fighting chance.
It was either going to starve
or freeze to death, whichever
came first. Lump it or lump it.
I phoned up some natura-
list types but I'm not sure
they knew what I was talking
abdut, especially since 1 still
' thought it was a duck we ivere--
dealing with. "Just another
—reporter—with some stupid
questions,' sounds like he's-
fromthe city." Susan encour-
aged the rescue attempt.
gave me the afternoon off,
and kept telling me to write
about it. I still think it may
ruin my image. And the guy-
we borrowed the net (which
we ended up not needing)
from in Vanastra thought we
were wingy and wondered
why we didn't just shoot it?
over about a' month. I found
out geese have great eye-
sight. I had also always
thought birds were dumb and
"this- is where the word
"birdbrain" came from, but
she was no "dumb cluck" (I
know - they, honk). Almost
too smart for her own good.
"Someone's tried. to catch
this -goose before," my
friend remarked after the
first,,, expedition.
The next time we used
eXcellent Tasty-Nu buns as
bait but the bird wouldn't
even consider coming out of
the water until we went
away. She was losing weight
fast and fair-to-middling
hungry though.
"Let's give her a few more
days and come back with
some corn," he said. "But
get that goose!".
Sure enough, needed my
wool socks and long under-
wear but Thursday, the
goose came walking out of
the water after that corn like
she was strolling up the aisle
with a new hat on Easter
Sunday. Meanwhile the
other guy snuck up behind
her, let fly wt h ya araighi-
arm worthy of a middle
linebacker, and she was in
the bag. A great moment in
Canadian sports, '
She was hungry and ate
corn all the way home, but
made little fuss. I always
knew it was a nice goose.
But she ate an awful lot of
corn?
I see this caper could get
quite expensive. And trot
sure if a goose will make it
past the computer as a
dependent when it's time to
declare such things on next
year's income tax.
But I learn more about life
in the country every day.
Wild goose chase
"Because it's a nice
goose." somehow didn't
seem like the right thing, to
say. I would have asked him
how one goes about holding a
goose. after one has caught
one, but kept my mouth shut.
Unfortunately I have no-
She was too smart
where to put a goose. My cat
might not approve, and
friends balked at the pro-
spect of a pet goose, however
nice and pleasant her person-
ality might be. Although
everybody agreed in prin-
ciple it was-.a.-sad story'; and
the facts of life can indeed be
mighty harsh.
A BLEEDING HEART
But there's this couple I
met in Hullett. He knew a
goose when he saw one, how
to catch one too, knew he had
some kind of bleeding heart
on hi4 hands, wondered
where we were going to keep
her but didn't let that stop
him, and sort of entered into
the spirit of the endeavour.
The Great Goose Expedition-
ary Farce was thus born,
It took three trips spread
IN THE BAG — Ahungry goose itIbles.on some corn A good time was
had by all: (Photo by Campbell)
The Great Goose Expenditio ,:ary Force
current right of ways Hydro officials
explained purchasing land won't come until
after final approval which is about tx%6 ‘earS
away-.
It will be done on an individual basis with
land owners. Officials say right of ways would
be •,?)nsidered but noted they had been
planned along lot lines
Bingo may aid the arena fund
No definite' meeting between tliii6n
County Secondary School Teachers and the
board of education has been set. but there has
been no breakdown in talks.
Professor Jeffrey Gandz, mediator ap-
pointed by the education relations commis-
sion on Tuesday said both parties are still
considering their pusttions. He anticipates a
meeting in theateit couple of weeks.
"I'll call the patties together..-basically
when I think there is a possibility of some
movement to be made." said professor
Gandz.
He said negotiations are still active and are
not heading towards a work stoppage.
Seaforth's recreation com-
mittee, in conjunction with
•the local branch of The Royal
Canadian Legion and other
area groups. may launch
weekly bingo in town early in
the new year.
Recreation director Bryan
Peter says the committee has
been doing the groundwork
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL with the Legion. it looks like
a "go". and it is i ,pc,1 the
bingo will begin th e first
A salt mtge..* -ker from
Clinton was Milled Damtar
Inc. in Goderreh'ridav oper-
ating a dump truck Dead is
24-year-old Gordon Wayne
Powell. Goderich Polic Chief
whose involvement and con-
tributloris to the community
make it a better place to live.
last winter involving people
who did not hold a driver's
licence or motorized snow
vehicle operator's permit. Of
71 such individuals, 40 were
younger than 16 years old
and one younger than • 12.
Snow said of the 673
snowmobile accidents re-
corded in 1980-81, 51.7 per
cent happened on roads and
highways. The number ,of,.
injuries was up t13:5per
and collisons increased 17
per cent.
talks
Fatalities up
Council's recreation com-
mittee has chosen Seaforth's
"Citizen of the Year" from
the four nominations it re-
ceived by the Nov. 20 dead-
line. The whiner will be
announced at the next rep-
lar ouncil meeting. Dec. 14.
, Recreation director Bryan
Peter says the committee is
not displeased with the num-
ber of nominations. "They'd
like 200, but then again it
would be harder to pick•ctne
too." The public seems more
aware of the award, Mr.
Peter says, though many
people think of a worthy
nominee but forget to write it
down and forward it to the
committee by deadline. The
rec committee made its
choice at a meeting Nov. 25.
Frani!, Phillips was Sea-
forth's first "Citizen of the
Year" last year. The annual
award goes to an individual
The number of snow-
mobile collisions and injuries
increased and there were 23
fatalities involving the veh-
icles in this province last
winter. the same number as
the winter before but down
considerably from the 38
fatalities in •1978-79.
Ontario's Transportation
Minister James Snow recent-
ly released the figures, and
expressed concern about the
number of on-road collisons
It was like saying good-
bye an old friend.
For on the weekend we
dragged our 30 years plus
dishwasher out of the kit-
chen. stripped out the motor
and other parts i "you never
know when we'll need a piece
of hose that size," the •better
halt says) and laid it to rest at
the McKilJop dump.
Although the thing had
stopped working a little more
than a year ago, it stayed in
ns oecustOtned place under
the kitchen counter. My hos,
band nevercoosiders himself
beat and periodically he'd
pull it put. take the screw-
driver to it and muse "if I
could get THAT part. maybe
it could be fixed." It gave
him something to do, like.
On my part I guess it was
the status of being able to say
"'yes. we have a dishwasher**
plus no idea of what to do with
the hole under the kitchen
counter if we removed it. that
made me favour leaving the
non-functioning appliance to
I mean, a dishwasher that
doesn't work is better than no
dishwasher at all, right?
Buying a new dishwasher
was out of the question. It
would make everything else
in the kitchen look ancient.
Besides., we don't have very
good luck when we buy new.
Remember the car episode of
Tuesday in February.
Profits would be forwarded
to the arena board.
P.D. King said the cab fell on
its side was was crushed
when the'truck; rolded with
fine salt, reversed on the
edge ofa pile of salt and fell
about 20 feet.
a few weeks ago? Likely there
was a new appliance tax
rebate we missed out on too.
You're
invited
The, junior segment of
the WOSSA "A" girls' bas-
ketball championships will be
hosted by Seaforth District
High School Saturday. The
Oxford and Lambton confer-
ences will square off at 9
a.m., followed by Seaforth
and the champions from
Middlesex Conference at 11
a.m. The championship final
is scheduled for 4 p.m.
The senior segment of the
championships will follow the
same format. It's at Mitchell.
• The SDHS Whippets are
defending champions.
The monthly meeting of the
Hospital Auxiliary will be
held in the Board Room at the
Hospital. Tuesday, Dec. 8th
at 6:30 p.m. and will include a
pot luck supper with meeting
to follow. Members are, re-
minded to bring, tickets for
the Xmas draw as the winner
will be announced at the
meeting by Santa Claus.
The Christmas meeting of
the Seaforth Women's Insti-
tute will be held in the
Seaforth Public School Tues-
day, Dec, 8 beginning with a
potluck supper at 6:45- p.m.
Roll call - bring a Christmas
decoration or ornament for
an exchange Gordon Wright
will take us on a 'trip to
Scotland.
All interested Women are
welcomed to tie La Leche
League meeting Wed., Dec.
9 in the morning 9 a.m. to
11:30 at 86 Queen St.,
Hensall. Topic of discussion
will be "The breast fed baby
and the family."
(The real reason is we spent
the new dishwasher money
we'd saved on a trip to New
York last Christmas.)
Funny how you still feel
those big spending gestures
in the pocketbook* Year
AnYWAy it was a Special
dishwasher. One of the early
models we think, as its.rust
owner was a lady who likeato
try new fangledinventiOOS It -
Was white with peach colour-
ed trim that Matched the
of our cupboards.
(The countertop.is red...don't
ask). It was awkward to load.
You rotted it out, lifted the
top. took the top shelf off, put
the plates etc. inside, then
put the top shelf back on and
added cups, glasses etc.
That led to more than one
accident. As when a relative
dropped the fully loaded top
shelf containing some pre-
cious wine goblets. after I'd
made some particularly juicy
revelation. (See Jim Hag-
garty's column across the
way this week on the impor-
tant conversations you can
get into while washing dish-
es).
While the antique dish-
washer did a pretty fair job
there was none of this pot
scrubbing stuff. Pots were
scrubbed by hand. Bin it had
its consolations. We'd have a
nice history lesson every time
the dishwasher's previous
custodian. my aunt, came to
visit. She had the machine's
pedigreed down pat. Second
owner was someone from the
teacher's college; third a
teacher who didn't use it
much; fourth my aunt who
had to give it up when she
moved to a place that had a
more modern, built-in model.
The thing broke down a feet
other times and that led us to'
discover marvellous place in
London where you can get
parts for just about any
appliance of any age. "Never
seen anything like it". said
my uncle gleefully when he
_ shared this company's exist-
ence with us, "and I've lived
all over the country."
Then there was the snob
appeal of owning such an
ancient, 'still functioning
allelline. Why yoe bad teat,
dishwasher 'we' ,NOE
eephosole, shneee..„
had Water, out at our
rettevittion abode.
But all good thing* must
cane to WOO, and the push
In this case was wolfhltut by
my slater. She moved to a
small house with no room for
a dishWaSher, her t9OfOOtitto
to a large house with its own
dialtwaaller, And they do
tottedllteir acelladitatiddialk
waSbertneoer-onftaboUt its
taus.
Great at first glance but as
the,better .struggled to
Matta the large wooden top-
ped portable in the space
once occupied by its smaller.
predecessor he exclaimed'
"how did we ever get into,
this?"
An important question and
we pondered it awhile. The
answer seems torbethat when
people give, we take. And
that we're rather Scotch.
Donations that -other people
might (sensibly) turn their
noses up at, we accept and
then try to adapt.
Adapt we did and the
new(er) model works very
well. It juts out from the
counter a 'bit and doesn't
exactly look House Beautiful,
but at our place that means it
fits in.
Now, if there are any
like-minded scroungers out
their, the old dishwasher is in
the southeast corner of the
McKillop dump. You can't
miss it. And we might even be
persuaded- to part with the
motor' and hose.
Popular with
the boys
Thirteen more boys have
registere_d for beavers, cubs
or_ scouts since the 1st
Seaforth Scout Committee
launched- the new programs
Nov. 16, meaning total re-
gistration now stands at 73
boys.
Correction
In last week's obituaries
the name of ,Jack-tati'i wok
advertently omitted-as one of
the pall bearers of the late
Norman Rowland.
50 YEARS OF MEMBERSHIP — Six ladies were honoured as
50 year members of St. Columban Catholic Women's League
on Tuesday. From left are membership convenor Madeline
Murray, CWL president Angeline Swart, honorees Mary
Moylan, Anna McLaughlin and Mary O'Connor and Father
P.A. Oostveen. "It's not a little thing to have been a member
for 50 years and contributed all that time for the good of the
community", Father Oostveen told members as he presented
the 50 year pins. Unable to attend were 50 year members Marg
Lane, Elizabeth Murray, (a resident of',Marion Villa, London)
and Esther Barry. (Photo by White)
Something to say _
by Susan White
No breakdown in
Huron county supports hydro line
Man killed