The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-09-11, Page 7Here First For All Your
CARPET and VINYL
Flooring Needs
BALL-MACAU LAY
LIMITED
Hensall BUILDING CENTRE
rafare•
4ftft"
Phone 262-2418
j11111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIMIIIMMIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111”111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111ffillIMMIIIIIIIIMMU
Ron's Health Centre
HENSALL
SAVE
up to
40%
I II
II
I II
I
II
II
I
II
I
I
II
I
I
I II
I
RON WAREING JAN BAKER
90 Sale Items
Shampoo Deodorant Aspirin
Kleenex Hair Spray Diapers
etc. Mouthwash etc.
NOTE
WELCOME TO HENSALL'S NEW STORES
8 Reasons to shop in Hensall
The best parking facilities Competitive prices
New Stores Stores with the Stock
The largest Hardware in Huron
Famous meats Bakery like mothers
Furniture with prices you like
What can we say about
the Davis government?
Absolutely nothing. It's illegal to say anything.
We are Ontario's Crown employee's and civil servants. Our
political ric hts are virtually non-existent.
Some of us have tried to become active in political parties. We
have been told to quit or be fired.
We think this is ridiculous.
Some of us support Mr. Davis' party. Naturally, others support
the NDP or the Liberals.
But this doesn't matter to the government. It simply believes
we should have fewer richts than other citizens.
We don't agree.
What is the harm in our speaking or writing publicly on issues
such as housing, education and taxes?
Or, what dancer is there for us to put up lawn signs, or
canvass on behalf of a candidate?
The covernment thinks this is wrong. It has made such
activities illegal.
We believe in basic democratic rights.
And this won't cost taxpayers a cent.
We hope you will vote for equal rights ...for everyone.
What more can we say?
Whose rights go next?
Civil Service Association of Ontario
1
...
LONG SERVICE HONOURED — Mrs. Anna "Eenie" McLinchey was honored recently by the Canada Post
Office department for her service of 25 years at the Hensall Post Office. Above, Western Ontario post office
supervisor Harold Elder presents a plaque to Mrs. McLinchey. Looking on are Hensall postmaster Cecil Kipfer
and district postmaster Harvey C. Pfaff. T-A photo
Again business prospered, so in
1973 Ron bought a second store,
the Hensall 5c to $1, As he still
had the Hensall Freeze King Ron
was running three businesses for
RON WAREING
Ann Brock Mary Johns
Hensa115s to $1.00 Store
New Stock
Arriving
Weekly
Our new
Ladies'
Department
"STOCK EXPANSION NOTICE"
Ladies slacks Blouses Pant suits
Costume jewellery Children's wear
plus many more items
Friendly clerks to serve
you
Marg Knight
Jean Waring
NOTE
WELCOME to HENSALL'S NEW STORES
Local business area shows new life
indeed some much larger.
The village is served by two
banks, the Bank of Montreal and
the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce. It has the services of
a baker, barber, photographer,
hairdresser, 5 cents to one dollar
store, three restaurants, a
licensed hotel, a large, grocery
By HILDA PAYNE
Ron Wareing grew up in Exeter
and attended S.H.D.H,S. He
always wanted to get into the
retail business and to begin,
worked at several grocery stores
including A&P London, Centralia
Dutch Boy and Hensall Super
Save. Wanting his own business,
he built the Hensall Freeze King
by the railroad track in 1967 and a
similar business in Seaforth in
1968. These did so well that they
became a full-time operation for
him.
Ron still wanted a retail
business. He also wanted to stay
in Hensall which he considers an
ideal town for his family to grow
up in. The super market was too
big, so about 1969 Ron bought the
former drug store and opened up
Ron's Discount, a variety store.
Petdo#144
Mr. & Mrs.Austin Wheeler of
Detroit visited with their uncle
and aunt Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Munn
and attended the Gooding-
Cunningham wedding.
Miss Susan Luther won a
victory at Toronto Exhibition
when she rode Senator Firefly to
victory twice at the CNE horse
show against some of the top
horses in southwestern Ontario.
"Congratulations Susan."
Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Chapman
spent the weekend visiting with
their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. & Mrs. Don MacLaren, Jodi
and Brooke in Oakville.
Cpl. Doug Wein, R,C.M.P,,
Mrs. Wein and David of Whitby
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Wein's parents Mr. & Mrs.
Harold Parker.
Miss Dorothy Farquhar of
Toronto spent the weekend with
her mother, Mrs. Emma
Farquhar.
store, a plumbing and heating
service, a convenience store and
a farm supply store in addition to
those already mentioned.
And it's growing. All of the
merchants on the main street
expressed a welcome to their new
neighbours and seemed to agree
that the more goods and services
a few months until he sold the
Freeze King.
Today Ron is still progressing.
This year he has built a small
addition onto the southeast
corner of the 5c to $1 and gone
into ladies slacks and tops. His
biggest problem is display, as
space is so restricted and Ron
now has about five times the
value in stock on hand as he had
when he purchased the store.
Business is exceptionally good at
both his stores this year
Ron lives on King street in E
Hensall with his wife Jean and
five children. He has four part-
time assistants and Jean, who
backs him up at every turn.
"Without her," he says, "I
couldn't have done any of it".
They attend the United Church
where Ron has been on the
Church Board in the past. Ron
likes Hensall and meeting the
people of Hensall and feels that
our shopping area has a good
drawing power in south Huron.
The core area of the village of
Hensall, perhaps not a major
market when compared to
today's mammoth shopping
centres, is experiencing
something of a commercial boom
with the opening of a pew store
and the announcement of another
opening next week,
On September 2, Velma
Robinson opened the doors of
"Robinson" a rather unique shop
featuring better quality women's
lingerie and woolcrafts next to
the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce. Next Thursday, Gary
Beaver starts a business career
in "Tee-Jay Family Fashion"
featuring men's, ladies' and
children's wear.
'Do the new commercial ven-
tures indicate an upsurge in the
retail business in Hensall or is it
just coincidence?
"I think Hensall's potential as a
shopping centre is steady and the
fact that a few stores closed and
are now being reopened was just
due to circumstances." says Ron
Wareing, owner of two businesses
in Hensall's main street, Hensall
5c to $1 and Ron's Health Centre,
"In this area we have a
diversified farm population and
we don't have to contend with
things such as strikes and layoffs
to the degree that some areas
do." commented Mr. Wareing,
"One thing I do like to see is the
number of younger business
people coming into the village."
Business is steady, and on the
increase, according to most area
business owners.
One of the younger merchants
Mr, Wareing referred to is Bev
Bonthron of Bonthron Furniture
who took over a family business
and is doing quite well,
Mr. Bonthron has been in
business six' years and in that
time has seen a change in
people's shopping habits as far as
furniture is concerned.
"People are buying quality
now. They want something that
will last more than a couple of
years," said Mr. Bonthron.
Because his products are of a
larger nature, Mr. Bonthron has
found he is able to pull customers
from a wide area, reaching as far
as London.
"I beleive in promotion and
advertise in London as well as
locally", he said, "I think the
village merchants working
together could benefit from
promotion too but it would take a
Chamber of Commerce or
merchants association of some
kind to organize it."
The village had a Chamber at
one time, according to Mr.
Bonthron but a lack of interest
combined with the work being
done by a faithful few led to its
demise.
"Maybe now, with a few new
faces there might be more in-
terest in a merchants
organization. The main thing
Hensall lacks though is housing,"
he said.
Mr. Bonthron intimated that
there was very little if any
available land in Hensall and
gave as an example the large
number of workers employed at
Hensall's Bendix plant who live
in Exeter, Vanastra or other
centres.
"But Hensall's a good little
town with a lot of things going for
it," he concluded, "The only
thing we lack is housing."
Stores such as Bonthron's and a
few others in the village, which
can pull people from outside the
area, generate business for all
the stores in the community.
Drysdale Hardware, one of the
largest hardware stores in Huron
county is a gbod example. Far-
mers and tradesmen from a large
area, in addition to local
residents, know that if you can't
find it at Drysdale's, chances are
you won't find it anywhere.
Hensall, although a community
of only about 1,000 people, boasts
a list of retail outlets and services
which compares most favourably
with other towns its size and
the village could offer, the better
it would be for all of them, even
those with competing lines.
Only time will tell what the
future holds for Flensall's com-
mercial area but right now the
pulse of the business district is
optimistic,
AWERTISEMENT
HOLD POT LUCK
Unit 4 of Hensall U.C.W. met on
September 4 with 32 members
and visitors present. The meeting
began with a pot-luck dinner
convened by Mrs. Laird Mickle.
Mrs. Albert Alexander gave the
devotional, hymns were sung and
the history of each given, She
opened with Psalm 24 and closed
with prayer. Mrs, Albert Shirray
gave a discourse on the Abstract
and the Concrete, followed with a
poem "September" and played
"Somewhere My Love", Mrs. J.
McAllister read "Heart gifts". A
sing-song of old familiar hymns
were conducted by Mrs. Mickle
with Mrs. Tom Sherritt at the
piano. The collection was
dedicated by Mrs. McAllister.
Times-Advocate, September 11, 1975
Page 7
.
HURON
FORMERLY
SHAW
VARIETY
S DAIRY
STORE Quo, CHIKO
1 Nov r9op
HENSALL miALAWH ITING
MAPLE
Milk
LANE 2% BAG
'1•57 .__
CLEARING SUMMER STOCK
BUY 1 GET 1 FREE
1.00K FOR SPECIAL COUNTERS
26 oz.
Pepsi 4/99'.
SHAW'S
Bread 3/9 1.18
SHAW'S ICE CREAM 1 /2 GAL. $1.89
OPEN NITELY TO 10 P.M,
to $1 store expanding
sal1111111111111111111H1131111111111111111111111111111111111111111M1111111111111111111111111 1 1HIMIMMIHIMUM11111111111111111lilillfillillflinft1111111111Hr
ADVERTISEMENT
Meet your merchant