The Citizen, 1985-10-30, Page 11A 100-year-old bridge in Huron
County held over 32 tonnes last
week. Pretty remarkable fora bridge
with a two-tonne load limit.
However, the 32 tonnes were for a
load test on the structure known as
Ball's bridge, located off County
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1985. PAGE 11.
Historic Huron bridge withstands modern torture test
BY MRS. MAC ENGEL
Knox Presbyterian Church cele-
brated the 120th anniversary on
Sunday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m.
The guest minister was Rev.
Harry MacNeill of Avonton who
spoke on' Good News Bad News".
The soloist was Mrs. Gloria Wilbee
from Walton who accompanied
herself on her guitar for the solos,
"Whispering Hope" and "One
Day at a time."
Mrs. Stewart Steiss was organist
for the service and accompanied
the choir of young folks for their
number "Give me oil in my lamp."
It was a happy occasion with many
visitors present. All enjoyed a
fellowship lunch following the
worship service. Rev. Don
McInnes was preaching the anni-
versary service at Avonton.
PERSONALS
The family of Mrs. Wm. Dads-
well, Harriston, had a get together
recently. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Smith and family attended. The
Terpstra families had a gathering
on Oct. 20 in the Community
Centre.
Hospital
Continued from Pg. 10
appraisal committee would come
into being. The board should
decide on the structure and then
move on to the next order of
business.
This led to a motion by Mrs.
MacDonald-Exel that the commit-
tee be set up as proposed, with the
requirement that it report to the
joint conference committee on a
regular basis. The motion carried,
with only Dr. McGregor voting
against it.
-Wingham Advance-Times
Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Miller recently were Ruth Halliday
and Jeanette Galland, Toronto,
Jim Kelly, Seaforth and their
daughter Jodi from Sudbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Barnes and
Mrs. Robin Clay, London visited
Mrs. Ida Gordon.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Knight, Jeff
and Gerald visited in Toronto on
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Knight and family. They
celebrated the birthday of twins
Harold and Leslie.
Mrs. Pearl Stevenson, 14th
concession who has been a patient
in Wingham Hospital for some
time, had the misfortune to
fracture her hip in a fall and was
transferred to London.
Murray_Crawford is a patient in
Listowel Hospital.
Mrs. Stuart Stevenson was the
speaker at the W.M.S. Thankoffer-
ing in Seaforth on Oct. 24. She was
accompanied by Mrs. W. Streckler
and Mrs. M. Engel.
Colborne townships meet over the unique. He notes that while the main
Maitland River. The bridge is owned structure is old, the timber deck with
by the county. creosote
The wrought iron bridge came
under close scrutiny for four days
last week as engineers from the
provincial ministry of transportation
and communications (MTC) gather-
ed with their technical equipment to
test the strength of this bridge built
in either 1879 or 1885, records aren't
too clear which.
The tests were simple enough.
First wires were strung along the
structure and connected to the
computers. Then, a 20-tonne truck
was driven on the bridge slowly and
then slowly taken off. The actual
tests took no longer than five
minutes each.
For each additonal test, one
two-tonne cement block was added
each time until 32 tonnes were on the
bridge.
It was the computer though that
actually did the work. Printouts
indicated what was happening to
the bridge when the tests were being
done.
Ranjit Reel, an evaluation engin-
eer with the MTC suspected it would
take several weeks before the actual
test results would be available to the
county road department.
Bob Edgar, county bridge super-
visor, said pinned connections under
the deck of the bridge make it
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