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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-11-01, Page 4During recent weeks there has been a growing controversy in my area about school buses and school bus drivers. For a good many years now, school buses have been a bone of con- tention for me, for when my children were younger and we lived in a rural community they rode to and from school each day on one of the big yellow monsters of the highway. Now that my children no longer depend on school buses to get them back and forth to school, school buses still present a problem to me for they are on the highway many times when I want to travel .... and they present a real safety hazard not only for the children who are riding in them, but for the drivers who must share the road with them. Let me first off say that school buses appear to be a necessary evil in these modern days in which we live. Con- solidated schools mean children have much longer distances to travel to classes and they have no alternative but to ride to and fro in some motorized conveyance or - another. But it must soon be recognized that school buses stopping • and starting on heavily-travelled provincial highways are not only a nuisance but the makings of many accidents - major and minor - which leave motorists disgruntled and disgusted every school day from about 7:30 to 9 a.m. and 3:30 to 5 p.m. There is a common assump- tion among rural people that because their children must travel to school by bus, it just naturally follows that they must be picked up at their homes. That's why school buses seem to stop at every gateway no matter how close those laneways are .... and why some buses are even expected to make dangerous turn-arounds on busy roads just to give at- the-gate service to some able bodied student who could easily have walked the quarter- mile to a safer stopping point. School boards all over the province have endeavoured to provide this tremendous at-the- gate service for every child - and many school board mem- bers have taken severe tongue lashings from irate parents who want to know why their children must walk 200 feet while the neighbor's kids are picked up right at the gateway. The argument most normally expressed by these taxpayers is that it is simply not safe for their children to walk on a busy highway at a busy hour. In towns and cities all over this province, however, children from kindergarten through Grade 13 brave the elements and the traffic to walk to and from school. Many of them walk a mile or more. Many of them must cross dangerous roads and intersec- tions, Some must trudge along heavily travelled streets without the benefit of sidewalks, Theirs is a daily problem ..,. and they learn to cope because there is simply no other way to get to school. There should be some real consideration given by school boards across the province to the possibility of limiting the number of stops any school bus makes on a busy highway. Secondary roads may be treated in a different manner, but on main thoroughfares, some special legislation must be enacted to protect the motorist as well as the school children. Perhaps there could be specified stops along the route- no more than one every mile - with signs clearly indicating to the motorists that this is a pick- up and drop-off area for school children. Maybe these school bus stops could have a bench for waiting and a portable shelter for winter months. Maybe footpaths could be con- structed at the side of the road- ways to accommodate not only pedestrian traffic but bicycles as well. Or maybe the best answer is to build sideroads along main highways for school bus travel in the morning and evening hours during the school year and slow moving vehicle traffic as well as bicycles in the off hours and during the summer months. All I'm saying is that school buses are here to stay and there must be some provision made in the future to ensure that as roads become more jammed with traffic, the school buses will create less and less problems. That would be costly, you moan. Of course it would be. Who ever said that safety came cheap? For that matter, who ever said that we should put a price limit on that which would make highway travel pleasant and almost hazard-free? Ph oto cAirt Services 12 I SSAC ST. CLINTON, ONT. tfn SKIP MASSON SMP, - A.P.I. PHONE 482.7441 Business and. Professional Directory OPTOMETRY J.E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST CLINTON--MON. ONLY 20 ISAAC ST. 482-7010 SEAFORTH BALANCE OF WEEK GOVENLOCK ST. 527-1240 R.W. 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(1 street west of Community Centre) 9:45 a.m.—WORSH1P SERVICE 11:00 a.m.—SUNDAY SCHOOL and BIBLE HOUR 8:00 p.m.—GOSPEL SERVICE Tues., 8:00 p.m.—PRAYER and BIBLE STUDY For Information Phone: 481-9379 Sermon Theme: "PRIORITIES" EVERYONE WELCOME Wesley-Willis—Holmesville United Churches , WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED CHURCH 'THE CHURCH THAT CARES" REV. JOHN OESTREICHER MINISTER MISS CATHARINE POTTER ORGANIST MRS. WM. HEARN - CHOIR DIRECTOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1973 11:00 ean, Worship Service GUEST PREACHER - Rev. Cliff Britton ONTARIO STREET UNITED CNURCN "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" MINISTER: LAWRENCE S. LEWIS, B.A., B. Th. ORGANIST AND CHOIR DIRECTOR: MRS. DORIS McKINLEY, A. MU& SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1973 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Confirmation Class 11:00 a.m. Wortihip Service and Nursery 11:30 a.m. Junior Congregation HOLMESVftLE UNITED CHURCH 9:45 Worship Service Worship Service & Sunday School GUEST PREACHER - Rev. Cliff Britton CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Street Pastor Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D. Services: 10:00 a.m., and 2:30 p.m. (On 3rd Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Dutch Service at 11:00 a.m.) The Church of the "Back to God" Hour every Sunday 4:30 p.m. CHLO EVERYONE WELCOME LUTHERAN SERVICES Robertson Memorial School (BLAKE AND ELDON STREETS, GODERICH) SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:30 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE - 11 A.M. Pastor: Bruce Bjorkquist 333 Eldon Street, 524-6081 ( —01'6n:hire wo cow:ludo lot 0 mon is justifitgl by ioith'without the clouds of Iho law, Humans 3:28. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH "EVERYONE OF US SHALL GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD',' — ROM. 14:12 PASTOR: REV. L.V. BIGELOW 10:00 a.m. SUNDAY SCHOOL 11:00 a.m. MORNING WORSHIP 7:30 p.m. EVENING WORSHIP 8:00 p.m. FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m. PRAYER MEETING YOUNG EVERYONE WELCOME PEOPLE'S MEETING ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1973 20th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10 A.M. MATINS Sunday School CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Leslie Hoy, 524.8823 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:00 p.m. Prayer Service and Evangelistic Service 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Service 8:00 p.m. Friday, Young Peoples ALL WELCOME ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH REV. G. LOCKHART ROYAL, MODERATOR CHARLES MERRILL, ORGANIST SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1973 Call Minister - REV. CHARLES MACDONALD of Glencoe 9:30 a.m,--Morning Worship SUNDAY SCHOOL Everyone welcome FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PASTOR: DWIGHT 0. STRAIN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1973 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 cm. Morning Worship and Nursery 7:30 p.m. EVANGELISTIC SERVICE 8:00 p.m. WED. Prayer and Bible Study 8:00 p.m. SAT. Young Peoples I SATISFY YOUR NEEDS r. A BAWER IS A MILO* NO'LL GLADLY MAKE )121/ A OAF YOU CAN SNOW MM: YOU DON'T REALLY NEED ir.1 NklicoiL ‘b't # SNatlibmp, ••4 DON BELL BUILDING CONTRACTOR 225 MAPLE ST. CLINTON 482.9560 MORE FOR YOUR MONEY PERCENT INTEREST ON GUARANTEED INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES TRUST CITY SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY 95 YONGE ST., TORONTO • TELEPHONE 416 864-1090 MEMBER CANADAJEFOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FINANCIAL. ADVISOR LOVE'S LAST GIFT REMEMBRANCE Whether it's a • MONUMENT • MARKER • INSCRIPTION You are remembering a loved one. LET T. PRYDE & SON LTD. HELP YOU DECIDE ON YOUR MEMORIAL REQUIREMENTS IN CLINTON Clarence Denomme BUS. 482-9505 VISIT 77 ALBERT ST. RES. 482-9004 7ag DR. BOB DRYBURGH WILL SPEAK DOROTHYD SCOTLAND WILL SING 0 Westfield 2 p.m. Huron Men's Chapel, Auburn 8 p.m. EVIL PREVAILS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING From my window BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER CLINTON NEW5-RECO1 D, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER A, 1973-41 Mr., and Mrs. Aart Marinus de Vos are residing at RR 1, Bluevale, following their marriage in the Clinton Christian Reformed Church on Friday, October 5. The double- ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Alvin Beukema, amid a setting of green, gold and brown daisies and lighted golden tapers in white can- delabra. Mrs. de Vos is the former Greta Veenstra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joost Veenstra of RR 5, Clinton. Parents of the groom are Mr. and Mrs. William de Vos of RR I, Bluevale. Dick Roorda and Mrs. Dorothy McGregor provided organ music and Mrs. Ruth Townsend and Mrs, Grace Campbell sang the theme from "Love Story" and "The Hawaiian Wedding Song". The bridal gown was floor- length white chiffon over crepe. It featured a high Victorian neckline with square chiffon yoke and chiffon sleeves gathered into cuffs. The neckline and cuffs were trim- me'd with lace as was the em- pire waistline, Lace also trim- med the attached cathedral train and a long silk illusion veil which was attached to a lace-trimmed Juliet cap. She carried a bouquet of orange Sweetheart roses with white, yellow and orange daisies cascading to the floor. Bonnie Veenstra of Goderich was her sister's maid of honor and bridesmaids were Donna de Vos, sister of the groom, of RR 1, Bluevale, and Mrs. Shirley Moesker of Burford, friend of the bride, They were dressed alike in floor-length dresses featuring gold crepe skirts and bodices of gold chif- fon patterned with brown, green and yellow flowers. Gold velvet ribbon trimmed the em- pire waistlines and the sleeves of the gowns. They carried nosegays of white, green, yellow and orange daisies with gold and yellow streamers. Mac Galbraith of Wingham was groomsman and guests were ushered by John Phillips of Windsor and Jack Ross of RR 1, Wingham. A reception followed at the White Carnation, Holmesville. Receiving guests from Wingham, Caledon East, Tillsonburg, Melton, Guelph, Clinton, Varna,' St. Thomas, Blyth, Londesboro and Auburn, were the mothers of the bridal couple. The bride's mother wore a floor.length gown of floral chif- fon in shades of blue. Her ac- cessories were black patent with a corsage of pink mums. The groom's mother wore a floor-length gown of rose crim- plene knit with black patent ac- cessories. She wore a corsage of blue mums. For travelling to Northern Ontario, the bride wore a red and green plaid suit with red accessories. Honoured guests at the wed- ding were Mr. and Mrs. Hans Veenstra of Twiizel, the Netherlands, who made a 'special trip to attend their niece's wedding. Prior to her wedding, the bride was hq.poured, at„ two showers givn by Mrs, Albert Postma for, clpse friendS and by Mrs. Rehorst on behalf of the neighborhood and the Tucker- smith Ladies' Club. The bridal couple was also honoured at a party given by the Wingham Sportsmen's Club. It is much better to sit tight than to drive in that condition says the Ontario Safety League. * * * Rain and colder night tem- peratures already mean mor- ning ice patches in many parts of the province, warns the On- tario Safety League. Par- ticularly hazardous are bridges and elevated roads because icy winds blow above and below relatively thin slabs of road causing rapid freezing. Under- passes and shaded stretches may also hold ice patches. Slow down if you see such trouble-in- the-making. If you find yourself unexpectedly on ice patches, avoid braking, accelerating or turning - keep a constant speed over them. Ontario Street United Church was decorated with stylized bouquets of white, yellow and blue mums for the Sept, 8 wedding of Bonnie Patricia Tyndall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tyndall of RR 3, Clinton and Gordon Bruce Mathers of Clinton, son of Mr. and Mrs, A. H, Mathers. Rev. L, S. Lewis officiated at the double ring ceremony and Mrs, Jerry Moffat was the organist. Given in marriage by her parents, the bride wore a sheer crystalette wedding gown with a long full skirt. It was fashioned with a round neckline, lace bodice and long lace sleeves with tiny covered buttons at band of sleeves. The flounce around the bottom of the dress was trimmed at the top with matching lace, At the ruffled neckline, a row of French lace was touched off with seeded pearls, Her veil was a covered headdress with a long rounded veil with mat- ching lace.' She carried a cascade of yellow sweetheart roses and white daisies. Matron of honor was Mrs. Brenda Armstrong of Bayfield, sister of the bride and the at- tendants were Marilyn Mathers, sister of the groom MRS. GRACE BATES Mrs. Grace Bates of Town- send Street in Clinton passed away in Clinton Public Hospital on Oct. 25, 1973 after a short illness. She was 84, She was born on May 18, 1889, a daughter of the late Gilman Scribner and Marjorie Erb. She lived in Guelph for 60 years and in Clinton for the last four years. In 1910 she married Theodore Bates in St. John N.B. Mrs. Bates was a Silver Cross mother, having lost a son Theodore in the Second World War. She we's also a member of We'sley-Willis United Church. Besides her husband, she is survived by one son Thomas of Guelph; two daughters, Mrs. S.A. (Phyllis) Simmons of Swampscott Mass., and Mrs. H.T. (Marjorie) Porter of Clin- ton; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. E.M. Robertson and Miss K.V. Scribner of St. John N.B. and Mrs. H. Arm- smith of Vancouver B.C. She was predeceased by one daughter. Funeral services were held from the Ball Funeral Home on October 26 with Rev. G, Brit- ton in charge, Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery in Guelph. Pallbearers were two grand- sons, L.P. Porter of Arkell, Ont., and T,A. Bates of Guelph, and H. Merriman, D. Bartliff, and Pat Tyndall, sister-in-law of the bride. All were gowned alike in dresses of polyester swiss dot with empire waists and long full sleeves, Each girl's dress was of a different shade. The flowergirl was Laurie Glanvill,e cousin of the bride and she was wearing a short- length dress with a white swiss dot bodice and a pink nylon skirt, Ron Crich of RR 1, Lon- desboro was the groomsman and Rick Tyndall, brother of the bride and Lloyd Reese, brother-in-law of the groom were ushers and Dean Glen- ville was the ring bearer. Following the wedding, a reception was held at the Pineridge Chalet in Hensall where the bride's mother greeted guests wearing a long rose chiffon gown, while the grrom's mother wore a long ,blue sheer gown. The couple honeymooned in Quebec and are residing in Clinton. Prior to her wedding, the bride was honored at showers given by Brenda Armstrong; the kitchen staff at Huronview; the aunts of the bride at Mrs. Marg Baker's home in Hensall; and Marilyn Mathers. M. Come, E. Wilson, all of Clinton. MRS. MYRTLE RANDS Mrs. Myrtle Rands of Clin- ton, wife of Jabez E. Rands, passed away in Clinton on Oc- tober 23, 1973. Besides her husband, she is survived by three nieces, Mrs. Lenore Sutherland of Clinton, Mrs. John Cameron of Bolton and Mrs, William Seeley of Grand Island, New York; and two nephews, Mr. William San- derson of Trenton,Ontario.,and John Craig of Goderich, Funeral services were held from the Ball Funeral Home on October 25. Intertrion.f:IWits' Clinton Cemetery. Residing in Clinton MATH ERS--TYNDAL.I.