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He doesn't want to stand on a ribbon cutting, hand shaking, flag waving campaign — that's for
the birds. Charlie wants a better Huron Riding and he means it. He's a digger not a scratcher.
He'll discover those area problems and he'll meet the people concerned face to face to discuss
them. And he's not afraid of getting his boots dirty if its going to promote Huron and
Middlesex.
He's a member of the Tax Review Committee of County Council and a member of the Social
Services Committee. He belongs to many Federal and Provincial animal breeding associations.
He's served on the Regional Development Council for eight years — latterly as vice-president
and he's served on the Huron Planning Board — last year as chairman.
Charlie is a farmer and understands farming problems. He's convinced that the sugar beet
industry could be revived in Huron and Middlesex. He feels there are better ways of marketing
corn in peak periods and he'd like to encourage more Canadian farmers to become involved in
livestock breeding.
And Charlie will fight for other benefits, too. For instance, he'd like more area development, he
believes in Goderich Harbour as a potential Great Lakes port, he feels that Sky Harbor airport
should be maintained and would fight for a subsidy, if necessary.
Stimulation of local industry is another key issue Charlie believes in. He wants to give incentives
to light industry to boost local economy. And he wants to make sure the 'brains' of Huron and
Middlesex stay in Huron Riding instead of heading south or to the cities.
A better Huron Riding is worth fighting for. Charlie Thomas is a fighter.
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people is his job. That's why he's a good man to
know,
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Town
BY. MARE RUDD
' The wily commercial building...
A week ago Sunday when the
wind was Sa high and Lake
Huron so rough, the Arthur
Clark family Of Clinton decided
to walk out on the pier at
Goderich. Much to their
amazement, a large fish flopped
out of the water onto the pier in
front of them.. At first they
thought it was a large rainbow
trout but when they got it home
and examined it more closely,
found it was a five and a half
pound Coho salmon. The fish
measured about 26" in length
and 13" around. Some fish story
don't you think?
* * *
On Friday of this week the
Koffee House features a group
called "The Eleventh Hour"
from Toronto and Saturday
night "The Jericho Road" from
New Hamburg will be there.
Both evenings the programs
begin at 8;00 p.m.
* * *
Under the Pits and Quarries
Act which was passed in On-
tario in 1971, in certain areas of
the province that are
designated, anyone who opens
a pit from now on will be
responsible for restoring the
land to use, instead of leaving a
hole in the ground.
This doesn't always mean
filling in but something can be
done about it.
In general, the Act requires
that in those designated areas
applicants for quarry and pit'
licences will have to submit, in
quadruplicate, site plans which
will include the anticipated
final grades of the pit and what
the ultimate pit development
will entail.
Only five areas ,so far have
been designated, or made sub-
ject to the site plan regulations;
the Niagara Escarpment; Bruce
Peninsula; National Capital
Commission Greenbelt around
Ottawa and the Toronto and
London areas.
At one quarried area near
Leamington stockpiled top soil
has been replaced, the ground
levelled off slightly and the land
developed into a golf course and
subdivision.
Many farmers with water-
filled pits are not pushing the
tailings into a shallow end to
boost the water levels and
stocking for their own use or for
fish farming.
In Komoka, a village outside
London, a contractor purposely
dug out his gravel to create rec-
tangular pits for "aqua
culture",
Another town turned a quarry
into a fish pond and park for the
citizens. It's now the centre of
attraction.
The uses of exhausted pits
and quarries are as unlimited as
human imagination--swimming
pools, trailer parks, more land
for housing, apartments, shop-
ping centres....
In Levack, an abandoned pit
was landscaped and a new high
school complex was built; it in-
cluded a baseball diamond,
track and football field. Instead
of bleachers, the football spec-
tators sit on the old slopes of the
pit which have been grassed
over.
One of the best known
reclaimed quarries that we
know of in Canada is the But-
chart Gardens in Victoria, B.C.
It is hard to imagine that such a
beautiful place could once have
been a real "eye-sore" but it
wan.
The Ministry of Natural
Resources says that "some
people are confused about the
Act. They don't recognize the
benefits or the importance of
finding new uses for old pits. It
requires imagination and per-
severance but those are qualities
Ontarians don't seem to lack."
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Hall for 1899, but undoubtedly
Frank was a member before
that time. He was a member of
the Vestry continuously from
1926 until his death in 1938. He
was also auditor of the church
books in 1929. But his little.
pocket-memo books provide a
greater insight into his
involvement than these cold
statistics. Several notations
through the years say "to church
twice," "to Anniversary at Lobo
Church," "Missionary from
China visiting," "Bible Society
at night." Mrs. Edwards also
left evidence of her post as
Treasurer of the Ladies' Guild.
Entries for 1916 show
collections for the Belgian
Congo, Missionary Collection,
Widows and Orphans
Collection, etc.
Frank's community interests
included serving as auditor for
the Village of Bayfield from
1898 to 1902 and again in 1915.
He received a payment of $2.00
annually for the latter years, He
was apparently popular with the
town fathers because there were
several other stores in the
village but from the early
records we learn that every few
weeks there was an entry for
"supplies for Town Hall from
F.A. Edwards."
Frank Edwards' greatest
talent was as a businessman, He
had attended Woodstock
College in 1883 and studied
bookkeeping (we have his text-
books.) All his life he kept
detailed records of his transac-
tions. He had a finger in many
pies and he made money. He
made commissions on renting
cottages; he had one of the first
telephones and received
messages for the villagers and
the Village for a price; he
bought and sold property in
Bayfield, Grand Bend and Lon-
don; he kept a horse named
Queenie for his delivery
wagon and hired her out. Dr.
Newton-Brady and Mr. Paull
tells me he used the Edwards'
horse with his own cutter when
he needed to go out of town
during the winter while he was
Anglican minister in this charge.
Lucy Woods has also mentioned
Frank Edwards' horse, Queenie
in several of her columns. Frank
was a strong believer in adver-
tising. An early flyer addressed
to "Cottagers, Campers and
Summer Guests" lists merchan-
dise available at V.A. Edwards,
Genl, Merchant, 13ayfield, next
The Albion, and closes,
"Anything not in stock promptly
procured - Goods Delivered". In
a 1932 Huron County Directory
for summer residents, his ad
read "F. A. Edwards, Bayfield's
Leading Store", He was also a
progressiye businessman. An
item in the Clinton • 'news-
Record
An item in the Clinton News-
Record for August 31, 1900 says
"F.A. Edwards of Bayfield is
adopting the new gasoline lights
which makes a decided im-
provement in his store."
And what could you buy in
his store? A package of invoices
for 1910 proves that you could
get: Cider, at least 13 kinds of
cookies including Shoo Fly
Rings and Arabian Bars, scar-
ves, ribbons, fur caps, handker-
chiefs, barretts, back combs,
frilling, rope, paint, corsets,
overalls, china, auger bits,
hinges, shaft splicers, nails, lan-
terns, fish lines, tools, knickers,
thread, yard goods, garden
seeds, plus• a full line of
groceries.
Frank Edwards died Sept, 1,
1938. Mrs. Edwards continued
running the store for a few years
and finally closed it with the
merchandise still on the shelves
and lived in the house until her
death in 1953. They are buried
in the Bayfield Cemetery. Their
daughter had married n 193 5
and was living in Alberta. The
house stood empty or was rented
until 1959 when Floy sold it to
Lorne and Anita Sparks. It is a
tribute to the youth of Bayfield
at that time that none of the
windows of the house or store
were broken, because most of
the windows still have the old
glass with imperfections in it
that make it interesting, and
that that kind of glass is not•
available for replacement.
Lorne Sparks and his family
(wife and five daughters) lived
in the house and operated an
antique shop in the store from
1958 to 1968. He astutely ap-
preciated that the antiquity of
the building was an asset to his
business and did nothing to
change the store.
Lorne Sparks and the
property to Donald G. and Lois
A Lance in August, 1967 but
retained tenancy until July
1968, We have modernized the
plumbing and done some
decorating in the house, but
have done nothing to the store
except add an easily removable
partition to give us more space
to hang pictures. We have
continued to operate it as an
antique shop.
It hardly seems possible that:
in this day and age there can be
a commercial property in daily
use with windows, front doors,
shelves, counters and floor built
in the 1850's. We know from the
comments of people in the shop
that these things are noticed
and admired. One of my pur-
poses in writing down this
history is so that the next owner
- whoever he may be - will
notice them also and hopefully
retain them, perhaps even for
another one hundred years.
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