HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-12-30, Page 1FOR THE CHURCH — St. James School grades 1 and 2 made a nativity
,scene out of paper and presented it to Father Caruana shortly before
Christmas so it could be displayed in the church during the holiday
season. Presenting the picture to Father Caruana are Shawn Coombs
(kneeling), (I to r-) Monica Ryan, Brian Little, Steven DeWolfe, Mike
Nolan and Erin Quipp. ,
(Photo by Rimrner)
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Three accidents mar holidays
Jean Wilson
Inside this. week
Christmas visitors
Correspondents report on
-who visited who for Christ-
mas. throUghout the paper.
For news about you and your
neighbours, , have a look.
More correspondence next
week,
Double celebration
Edith and Norman Baird of
'RR1 Brucefield had lots 'to
celebrate on Christmas day.
It wat also their 50th wedding
anniversary: See pg. 3.,
Year in. Review
Another year is about to
bite the dust so it's time for
the Expositor's annual year in
review feature. It starts on
pg. 4. '
Last one
The final installment of a
monthly feature we've been
running since January, ''1Our
Main Street and Its History".
is included in this issue. It's
on The Huron Expositor. See
page 10.
With' good memories
Susan Dunlop off to Rhodesia
Susan Dunlop was restless,
Wanting a change in scenery and job. she
has declined returning to her, job at Van
Egmond House to work in Rhodesia, on the
continent of Africa.
Hired by the Rhodesian government and
recruited by the World University Services
of Canada. Susan leaves Jan. 2 to begin the
three-year teaching job.
Her high 'school is in Deft, near Victoria
Falls. She will be teaching rural children
historyAnd English.
Susan will have three breaks each'year of
about four weeks in which she can do some
travelling. She was told that the borders will
be open so she is planning to buy a
motorbike and tour the African countries.
Susan will experience a drastic weather
change on Jan. 2 when she leaves Ontario's '
sub-zero and snowy weather to reach the 30
degree C temperatures in Rhodesia. Their
summer will be in progress when she
arrives. "It'll be great, I don't like winters"
"she says.
While she is excited about what lies
ahead of her, Susan saysshe has many good
memories from her year in Seaforth. "1
loved the people in Seaforth and I have a lot
people to write 'to," she says. "The Van
Egmand Foundation was good to work fof
and i fedl„ that what they're doing is
worthwhile and good for the town." "•
Susan was hired by the foundation,
through a federal grant which ran out in
November. When another position opened
through another grant, Susan declined, "1 -
get restless. Usually I only stay in one place
for a year so this up-coming three-year
contract will be a long time. She says.
The job in Rhodesia satisfies two of
Susan's needs. The first need is financial,
for she knows ate will-have slob for the next
thre years. Secondly. it will satisfy her
curioutity. "I have always wanted to see
Africa." she says.
In two years Susan will return home for
sir weeks at Christmas with all travel
expensei paid. "I keep telling my mom that
WS net for three year* but two Christmases
that I'm going," she says,
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Three people received minor injuries, and
estimated damages totalled $4,500 as a result
of a collision between a pickup truck and car
at about noon Sunday, on Huron County Road
3 at concessions 3 and 4 of Tuckersmith.
Township. Provincial police at Goderich say
Maria Leishman, 35. _and Andrea and
Christopher Leishman, ages 11 and 9
More than 100 friends and relatives helped
Mrs. Jean Wilson celebrate her 90th birthday
at the new auditorium in Huronview in
Clinton Sunday afternoon. Actually Mrs.
Wilson's birthday isn't until Jan. 11, but the
family decided to celebrate the occasion
during-Christmas holidays so more people
could attend.
Jennie, Wilson (nee McKay) was born in
—Mullett TO 'hip in 1882. Her father. Robert
McKay; was nce warden of Huron County.
She married Lorne Wilson oft—the 4th
concession ofTuckersmith Township on Sept.
9. 1914.• with the late Rev. Dan' Johnson of
Varna officiating. He was born in Auburn. a
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.D..Wilson.
and moved with his family to Tuckersmith
when he was j2-years-old. They took a
respectively, were all 'taken tp Seaforth
Community Hospital with minor injuries.
They were passengers in the car, driven by
Paul Leishman of Paris. Ont. The pickup was
driven by Carl Richardson of R.R. I
Brucefield, who wasn't injured.
Earlier in the • day, • at about 1:45 a.m.
week-long honeymoon to Toronto by train.
where they enjoyed the Canadian National
Exhibition. Both were avid gardeners and
active in Brucefield's United Church. 'The
couple farmed,for 40 years at RR I Brucefield,
In Tuckersmith; before retiring to Brucefield
in 1955. Mx. Wilson died in 1974.
'The Wilsons have nine children, eight who
survive: Dorothy (Mrs. Ray Mason) of
Windsor. Hazel (Mrs. Roy McGonigle) of
Seaforth. Ethel (Mrs. Jim Devereaux) of
Seaforth. Marion (Mrs. Jim Andrews) of
Ilderton, Madeline (Mrs., Walter Bain) of
Stratford and three sons, all of Brucefield.
W.D,, Mac and Stewart. Another daughter.
Evelyn (Mrs. Charles Merrill) is deceased.
Mrs. Wilson has 22 grandchildren and 16
great-grandchildren.
Member of a pioneer Seaforth family and
long time businessman. John Alexander
Cardno died suddenly at his home, Wednes-
day night December 23rd. He was 67:
Born in Seaforth in May, 1'914, the second
son of the late John Mitchell Cardno and
Margaret A. Campbell, he attended Seaforth
schools and on graduation joined his father
and brother in the Cardno grocery and bakery
business. The Cardno firm had " been in
business since its founding in the,,,early 1860s
by. his grandfather and was located in the
Cardno block which has dominated the
Seaforth streetscape since being . built in
1876.
On the death of John M. Cardno in 1942 the
Kippen
robbery
case
adjourned
The case of an 18-year-old Listowel man.
charged •with armed robbery in connection
with an incident at MavIlan's General Store
in Kippen, Nov. .28, was adjourned at
Provincial Court in Exeter last Tuesday.
Ernest Edward Lynne is out of custody and
scheduled to appear again when Provincial
Court next sits at Exeter, Jan. 26.
The charge was laid by the Exeter
detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police,
assisted by its Listowel detachment and arca
police forces, after, a man with a pellet gun
asked the store's co,oWner Merle McLellan to
hand over the, eoinenta of the till, estimated
by police at from S65 to S70, early that
Saturday morning. Nobody Was hurt during
the incident, and Mir. Lynne Was arrested at
his home in Listowel the following day.
south of Clinton at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 2,3. caused
an estimated S350 in damages and 'resulted in
Rita Lazet. SO, of Clinton being taken to
,Clinton Public Hospital with miner injuries.
The other vehicle was driven by Thelma
Black, 27 of London.
Returning to civilian life in 1946 he was
associated for several years with .Baldwin
Hardware and later with Habkirk Bus
Service. About 20 years ago he acquired' an
interest in Watson and (teat insurance which
he ofierateduntil his retirement in 1974 when
the firm joined with Eaton Idsurance to
become Seaforth Insurance Agency Ltd.
Mr. Cardno was a member of the Seaforth
The contribution of a Seaforth dentist,
who for nearly 10 years was respoisible for a
series of summer band concerts in Victoria
Park, was recognized last week when
Seaforth Council named Dr. Charles Toll
"Citizen of the Year."
In naming Dr. Toll council acted on a
recommendation of the Seaforth Recreation
Committee presented by Rec. Director
Bryan Peter. He said Dr. Toll had been
selected from four who had been nominated.
"We wanted to recognize £he hours and
hours'of volUnteer work that Dr. Toll put into
planning the band concerts and in reactivat-
ing the local band," Mr. Peter said.
While Dr. Toll is a dentist by, profession
his first love has been music. He learned to
play 'a band instrument as a child when an
older sister presented him with a trumpet
and in the nearly eighty years since then
music and bands have been priorities with
him wherever his profession has taken him.
Born in East Wawanosh he attended SS
No. 10 in'the township and later returned to
teach there. A veteran of both world' wars he
was discharged from the army medical
corp following illness which plagued him
while camping on Carling Heights, London
in 1916. He served in -the Royal Canadian
Lions Club tnr 23 years and for many years
was secretary: Interested in' the work on
behalf of the blind he was active in the club's
blind committee and in recent years had
headed the annual area CNIB campaign. He
was a member of Seaforth Branch 156 Royal
Canadian Legion and of First Presbyterian
Church where he had served on the Board of
Managers and in the choir,
`Heist survived by his wife, the former Mary
W. Barber, to whom he was married in
Seaforth in November 1941:
He also is survived by a son. Kenneth John
Cardno of Seaforth and grandchildren Chris
Dental Corp. for five years during the second
war,
After teaching for some years. be
attended the Ontario College of Dentistry
and graduated in 1928. Returning to Blyth to
set up his private practice there he recalled
during the tough '30's, often exchanging a
tooth-filling for a chicken or potatoes,
Following his second war service he was
with. National Health and Welfare as a
dentist in the Eastern Arctic and for 20 years
practised in Trail, British Columbia. For a
time he also served in the Yukon 'and along
the Alaska_ Highway.
When he came to Seaforth, Dr./Ton took
m the task of building yip_ the Seaforth
Highlanders band. He invited members of
the Dashwood band to join with Seaforth and
encouraged young people to-become inter-
ested in the band. From this involventegL
came the series otsummer band concerts
which Dr. Toll arranged in cooperation with
the Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Toll and his wife Laura, formerly of
Parry Sound, celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary in the summer of 1979.
Dr. Toll recently returned from work at the
Carribean University on the island of
Monsaratt with which he has been involved
tar several, years.
_Colouring
winners
next week -
Because of the volume of entries and the
holiday festivities winr zrs in the Expositor's
annual Christmas colouring contest will be
announced in next week's issue.
and Kevin and by a sister, Mrs. (Margaret)
Sam MacKenzie of Georgetown. He was
predeceasd-by a brother. Nelson C. Cardno.
Rev. T.A.A. Duke offiyated at the funeral
and committal service which was held
Saturday afternoon- from the Box Funeral
Home, Seaforth.
Pallbearers were Les Habkirk, Glen
Chesney, Jack Muir, Peter Kling, David
Stewart and Donald L Stewart. Flovverbear-
ers were Ronald S. MacDonald and Lloyd
Hoggarth. Temporary ' entombment at Pio
neer Mausoleum, will be followed by burial in
Maitlandbank Cemetery in the Spring‘
Brucefield's Mrs.
Wilson will be 90
Sunday. Thomas Murray. 26 of R.R. '4 Walton
also received minor injuries when the 'car
he was driving struck a bridge abutment on
Huron County Road 12, just north of
Seaforth. Goderich OPP estimates damagejrr—
the vehicle at $4,000.
A two-vehicle collision on highway 4, just
_brothers carried on until the end ofi 02 when
Nelson retired and enlisted in the RCNVR.
Two years later in 1944 the business was
closed when John Cardno also enlisted.
Member of pioneer family John Cardno dies
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