Clinton News-Record, 1974-02-28, Page 8Police report
Dr. Graham Bowker of 42
Rattenbury Street, a local den-
tist, suffered a fractured left leg
on ,February 23 when the
snowmobile he was driving
struck a car driven by Ray
Kennedy on Victoria Street.
On Saturday afternoon
Gregory Montgomery of RR 2
Goderich was injured when he
was struck by a car near Vic-
toria and Cutter Streets. He
suffered cuts and bruises when
he slipped on the ice and the
car hit him.
Wallpaper droops from the walls of the town hall
auditorium. Fallen plaster lies with other rubble on the
floor.
What should we do
with the Town Hall?
Give us your answer
Check one only:
O Tear it down and build a new one on the same
location?
O Preserve the old town hail and build a new
municipal complex?
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O Renovate the old Town Hall and use it for of-
fices?
O Other (please write clearly)
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What should we do with the Town
AfilltindigyAbiu&MINIUMOR
demned several years ago by
the Clinton Fire Department
after a prisoner set fire to one
of them.
The six man. Clinton police
department are crammed into a
single room PP the main floor
in an office that is PO bigger
than an average-sized kite**.
They have two extra heaters to
keep the place warm and the
windows are taped to keep out
the wind. The panelling is
coming off the walls because of
Yellowed. banner proclaiming
"God Save the drapes
across the wail midst the decay.
The building, except for the.
first floor, has largely been
ignored for decades and
allowed to fall into a State ,of
nearly total disrepair.
The needs of Clinton's
municipal government are ,
currently being surveyed by
James F. .14.acLaren and
Associates, an engineering firm
from„London, and they will
bring a report to council in the
very near future on the
feasibility of either renovating
the Town Hall for municipal
uses, or tearing it down and.
erecting another modern
building on the site. .Another
alternative, although expen-
sive, would be to preserve this
historic Town Hall and build
new offices elsewhere.
The final decision will be up
to the 'council, but the News-
Record thinks that everyone in
town, and for that matter, any
former Clintonian, are entitled
to express his or her opinion on
the future of .the old TOwn
Hall. Fill out the coupon on
this page and mail it to the
Clinton News-Record, Box 39,
Clinton Ontario. You may in-
elude your name and address.
The News-Record will assem-
ble all 'the replies,. tabulate the
answers and then pass the
replies, along with the results
to the Clinton Council, who
will have the final decision.
This is strictly an opinion
poll launched by the News-
Record, and' it in no way in-
volves any other party in town.
Let's hear from you.
16Y JIM FIT. ZGIERAL011
With clinton's 109th birth,
day coming up next year, the.
talk in toter) .council and among
local citizens has turned to
various projects that . would
commemorate .Clinton's Ceti,
tennial,
Many projects have, been
discussed to mark the occasion
and one idea that seems to be
getting a lot of play is the Clio,
ton Town Hall,
Built in 1880, five years after
Clinton's incorporation as a
town, the 94-year-old structure
has, for a large part, fallen into
disrepair. Both the Town police
4H CLUB
At the Huron County 4-H
Club Leaders annual meeting
recently, club leaders judged
the different entries in the 4-H
Gate Sign Competition. This
competition was sponsored by
the Club Leaders' Association
and. had a total of 13 entries.
The winners are as follows:
first - Brian Lobb, R.R. 2 Clin-
ton; second - Karen, Susan and
Wendy Tyndall, R.R. 4 Clin-
ton; third - Philip Young,
Dungannon; fourth - Mary
Ellen Steckle, RR 1 Zurich;
fifth - Christine McNeil, Blyth;
sixth Glen, Linda, Shirley and
Joyce Dougherty, RR 6
Goderich; seventh - Michael
Moore, RR 5 Wingham; Fran-
ces and Adrian Rehorst, RR 6
Clinton, and Jerry and Fran
Logtenberg, RR 1 Dungannon.
Clinton IV
4-H Club
Meeting one of the Clinton
IV Club began Monday,
February 18 at Carnochans
with ten members present. The
discussion included the impor-
tance of your image as you ap-
, neared to others, We also
discussed some prominent
figures such as Phyllis Diller
and tried to analyse why she
dressed, talked and behaved
the way she did.
The club, "Taking a Look at
Yourself" is designed for the
girla to help understand the int.,,
porter-ice of personal grooming,
good storage, and development
of self-image or self-concept.
Each girl may make a personal
item or do a research
project.—lay Joanne Gibson
and the clerk's office have com-
plained that their offices are
crowded and antiquated and
not conducive to a working at
mosphere,
Most of the town's business
is conducted from the first floor
of the three storey structure.
The clerk's office, the police of-
fice and the fire department all
Operate out of this floor, As
well, it ' houses the council
chambers that also once a
month, acts as a court room
and a meeting place k The com-
mittee room is also on the
lower floor.
At the back of the •first floor
are the jail cells that were con-
Clinton Police Chief Lloyd Westlake points to tape that
keeps out the drafts. The cracks have since been
plastered, but the building continues to settle...
all the water leaking in. They
have no locker space, no
questioning area and no
washroom facilities,
The second and third floor of
the building were condemned
years ago as being unsafe and
now are .full. of trash and
memories of an era long gone
in. Clinton. The, second floor
auditorium, once the cultural
centre of Clinton, is abandoned
and dirty, Wall paper droops
from the walls, _and thousands
of dead bees litter the floor.
Many of the windows have
been broken, fixed and then
broken again. Memories of the
auditorium's past are scattered
on the floor. Over here some
old band music, over there an
old . scoreboard used to keep
track of some long-forgotten
. ladies' badminton games.
Among 'the debris, pigeons
have nested and their dung is
scattered on the cathedral-type
sills from where hundreds of
persons in the past used to look
through at the booming town.
Scattered :n the junk and
debris are many valuable
things from the town's past,
now carpeted in thick layers of
dust. Pictures of the town's
fathers, some dating back ,over
a hundred years, lie neglected
and dirty on a shelf, subject to
.the whims of the weather that
comes through the broken win-
dows above them, Past town
records and some long-
forgotten awards suffer a
similar fate.
Climbing the stairs to the
third floor, a skelton of a small
bird lies moulding on the stair-
way, and at the top, an old
dressmaking manikin,
beheaded and tottering, stands
guard at the window. A
Once the centre of cultural affairs in central Huron County, the auditorium of the Clinton
Town Hall was condemned and is now only filled with memories of the past. Chief Westlake
stands and looks.
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Pictures of the town's fathers fie covered In dust, and are water-stained from years of
neglect. Old town records suffer a similar fate.