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Tuckersmith reeve honored
after 20 years of service
Among the guests were
representatives from many
municipal councils in the county.
Mr. Thompson is retiring at the
end of December after serving 20
years on Tuckersmith Council,
the last 15 of them as reeve. The
70-year Tuckersmith farmer
served for nine years on the
former S.S. No. 3 school board as
well.
Mr. Thompson was presented
with an anniversary clock by
councillor Cleave Coombs who
read the address and reeve-elect
Ervin Sillery,
Cleave Coombs, retiring after
11 years on council, and Lambert
Branderhorst, retiring after six
years, were each. presented with
engraved desk sets by deputy-
reeve elect Robert Bell,
The testimonial to retiring
Tuckersmith Reeve Elgin
Thompson which was read by
councillor Cleave Coombs who
himself is retiring this year
follows:
We are gathered here tonight to
pay tribute to a man who has
given freely of his time and
talents in service to his fellow
residents of Tuckersmith, Elgin
has not restricted his work only to
RETIRING REEVE HONOURED — Elgin Thompson who retired this
year as the reeve of Tuckersmith after serving the municipality for 20
years received special recognition at an Appreciation night, Friday at
Vanastra. Above, Thompson accepts a gift from reeve-elect Ervin
Sillery. Photo by Wilma Oke
A group of 20 members of the
Salvation Army Citadel of
Goderich along with their Cap-
tain, Grace Herber visited the
Home Sunday afternoon. The
Band entertained in each of the
sitting rooms and the rest of the
group distributed gifts of fruit to
all of the residents which was
greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Shirley Luther led the
Christian Women's Club song
service in the Chapel on Sunday
evening accompanied at the
organ by her husband, Eric
Luther.
Three new residents were
welcomed at Monday's program.
They were Mrs, Frances
McLean, Miss Christina Isbister
and Mr. Alex Dark. Marie Flynn,
Lorne Lawson and Norman Speir
provided the old tyme music and
the Clinton Christian Reformed
volunteers helped with the ac-
tivities and led the Carol singing.
Seventy student of the Precious
Blood Roman Catholic School of
Exeter presented their Christ-
mas Concert on Tuesday af-
ternoon. The students had raised
the funds for the trip and the
the local level, as he has served
whenever asked, at the county
level, and to a broader area both
on the Ausable-Bayfield Con-
servation Authority, going
through its offices to Chairman,
and at the Provincial level, on
both the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario
directorate and the Provincial
Conservation Authorities
directorate.
"We must not forget Grace, his
wife, as I am sure Grace, by
being at his side when needed,
has been a great benefit to Elgin.
Also many of the home chores
must have fallen on Grace's
shoulders as Elgin's involvement
in public affairs has kept him
away from many of his duties at
home,"
"Elgin was never one to
neglect a call from a concerned
ratepayer. Over the years, there
has been several occasions when
Elgin has been asked to inspect a
fence between two neighbours
who had not been seeing eyeball
to eyeball, On these inspection
trips, Elgin would quite often
take one of his fellow coun-
cillors."
"On these occasions finding a
concert was greatly appreciated
as the Huron County Board of
Education has not made any
allowance in the school budget
for visits to the Home.
Mrs. Coates accompanied the
school choir and a chorus from
each of the grades in the singing
of several Christmas songs.
Nancy Van Bruwaene en-
tertained with accordion solos;
Janet Kints and Susan Gregus
each played piano recitals. A
play "Santa on Trial" was
presented by Grades 5 & 6. Mrs.
Lawson thanked the students and
teachers on behalf of the
residents.
Winners of the draw sponsored
by the craft room were Mrs.
Melinda Nivins of Clinton, who
won the mat and Mrs. R.
Harrison of Goderich winner of
the lace cloth. The draw cleared
one hundred and twenty dollars.
The Home was saddened on
Monday to learn of the sudden
death of the former
Administrator, Mr. Harvey C.
Johnston, of Clinton, and the
sympathy of the residents go out
to Mrs. Johnston and the family.
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About 250 guests from across
Huron County met at the
Vanastra Community Recreation
Centre Friday night to honour,
Elgin Thompson, the retiring
reeve of Tuckersmith Township.
Santa Gets
Worried
By IVAN CHAPDELAINE
Grade 3
Grand Bend
Once upon a time it was
Christmas. Santa had no sled to
get to each house. There was not
enough time to make a new one.
Santa was worried that there
might not be any Christmas Eve,
Then Santa saw something in the
air flying around.
It was a fairy. Santa called the
fairy. The fairy came to Santa
and said what would you like.
Santa said I would like a sled. In
a twingcle of an eye their stood a
slead with pink front and green
at the back. The to sides were
pink with green pochadots. Santa
made his trip after all.
Christmas Is
By TOMMY HUMER
Grade 3
Grand Bend
Christmas is a time of year
when family's gather around the
Christmas tree. They dance,
they sing on Christmas Eve.
They wait by the chimney for
Santa to come who bring you
toys. Santa Claus is man that
filled with joy. So on Christmas
Eve wait for Santa under the
Christmas tree.
Christmas Hope
By JANE SIMS
Grade 8
Usborne Central
The fantasy of every day,
Is beyond compare
With what we feel at Christmas
time,
In which we truly care.
Our angry thoughts are packed
away,
And warm wishes we cast
around,
"Merry Christmas" we all say,
And carols are the current
A "iund.„,
1141dren4tand with giant eyes,
As key look at the toy delight,
Adults too are making lists
To have on the Holy Night.
Christmas time is wonderful,
Let us hope that every day,
We may all love and feel the
peace
As in the ChriAmas way.
Nineteen Days
Until Christmas
By PATTI WILLIS
Usborne Central
I hate that Santa Claus, he just
makes me tired. He thinks I
should work here all year round
and never go on the Christmas
trip. But this year all us elves
are going to fool Santa Claus. We
will make all the toys have
something special on them and
have the pleasure of putting
them in the stockings,
Everyone talks about what a
good natured old man Santa is
and he should be once he has all
the good times.. All he does is
walk around and keep us busy.
I've got a meeting here tonight
and all the other elves will hear
my plan. Right now we're
putting the last coat of paint on
the toys, the hair on the dolls, the
ribbons on the teddy bears, the
last stripes on the candy, the
tails on the animals and tuning
the instruments.
In two hours we meet in
Santa's workshop. After they
enter I say, this year we're going
to go on the Christmas journey.
Of course Santa will not give his
consent so we will have to do
some plotting. Listen to my plan.
You know Santa, Claus always
takes a nap before he starts
away, We shall put a sleeping
powder in some water and get
him to drink it. He will sleep till
way past time for him to start.
Then while he is asleep we shall
take the reindeer, presents and
start on the Christmas journey.
Now toyman you will have all
yoUr curly dogs, spinning tops,
fluffy sheep, speeding trains
ready and I want you to get the
reindeer ready the night before
Christmas and Dollmaker I want
you to have your dolls in fine
shape so some of them can talk
and you can wake us up on
Christmas morning at midnight.
Hornman your horns have to be
able to tooti-toot-toot and you
can make sure Santa drinks the
sleeping powder mixture.
Candymaker you can have the
candy canes and sugar plums and
have a' list of all the good boys
and girls. I will wrap all the
presents and make sure we get
started on time. This will be fun
putting all the goodies under the
trees and in stockings to all the
good boys and girls down South.
Oh, I sure hope it works. Ha, Ha,
Ha.
solution must have been quite
difficult. I believe that it was well
phrased by a son of one of Elgin's
fellow Council members a
number of years ago when he had
accompanied his father on one of
these field trips. He expressed it
quite candidly as only a child can,
when he asked his father
"Daddy, which side of the fence
should we be on?"
"Elgin was elected, to serve his
first term on council com-
mencing in 1957. Elgin along with
Frank Falconer, Victor Lee and
Arthur Varley served five years
Under Reeve Ivan Forsyth from
1957 to the end of 1961. Ivan
retired in 1961 and Elgin decided
to seek the reeve's chair and was
elected as reeve to serve con-
tinually from 1962 to the
present."
"Elgin has always directed his
team with a tight rein and kept a
careful eye out for expenditures,
as evidenced by the slow rise in
the township mill rate, In 1961,
the rate was only 9.0 mills, the
same as the public school area.
By 1972, these rates rates had
slowly risen to 21.6 for the
township to 20.5 for the
elementary school rate,
However, by 1976, the elementary
school rate had risen to 28.0
compared to 20.0 for the town-
ship,"
"Over the past twenty years
Elgin has guided the township
through many major develop-
ments. One of these was in 1966
when the township became
engulfed in the controversy prior
to the construction of the Huron
Centennial School at Brucefield.
This important development for
our area even required the at-
tendance by Tuckersmith
municipal representatives for
one week in the Court House in
-Goderich,"
"This type of open conflict
though, is not typical of Elgin's
political nature. Elgin prefers to
assume the more quiet roll of a
mediator and attempts to con-
ciliate any potential difference of
opinion,"
"The next major land mark in
Elgin's Reeve-ship was the
closing of the Canadian Forces
Base where we are gathered here
tonight, and its subsequent
purchase and development by
private interests into a thriving
new community within
Tuckersmith."
"The establishment of
Vanastra within Tuckersmith
and all of the related services and
facilities that have been
developed within this community
has been a real strain on the
council of the township. However,
throughout the development of
Vanastra, Elgin has many times
shown his political skills at
working out solutions to what
originally may have appeared to
be an insurmountable obstacle."
"We are all going to miss Elgin
as Reeve, as he retires from this
phase of his political career.
However, I am sure that he is
going to still remain active in
many organizations. At County
Council, in recent months, his
fellow councillors have been
refering to Elgin as the Senator in
respect of his many long years of
service. However, at this level
of government we cannot reward
such good service with a Senate
appointment as can be done at
the Federal level at Ottawa."
"There are many many more
good things that could be said
about Elgin. However, in closing,
I would like everyone here to
show their appreciation to Elgin
Thompson for his ac-
complishments, and to his good
wife, Grace, for her solid support
-- and at this time the township
would like to present Elgin with a
memorable gift,"
BROWNIES ENROLLED — A number of girls were enrolled io.„, e Exeter Brownie Pack Thursday after-
noon, Back, left, Kelly Johns, Kim Van Der Weil, Catherine Davison, Karla Josephson and Cheri Wedlake.
Front, Julie 131Ommaert, Kelly Hem, Lisa Rankin, Laurie McLelland and Marilyn Hamilton. T-A photo