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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-04-08, Page 24Page 24 Times-Advocate, April 8,1976 JEFF AND BRENDA BALSDON travel the easy way,while making their mother do all the work. As well as the easy mode of travel, they were treated to a bunch of daffodils by Mrs. Balsdon. The daffodils were being sold by Beta Sigma Phi Sorority to help the Canadian Cancer Society. photo by Youngs. The New Life Mission, "April S lowers" held by parishes of St, Paul's, Thedford, Grace church Greenway, St. John's Grand Bend, was a successful and imspirational weekend. It was conducted by a 20 member mission team from Windsor. Beginning with a pot luck supper at St. Paul's followed by singing, prayers and discussion. Saturday morning a men's breakfast was at Grace church, Greenway, and the ladies held coffee hours at private homes. Eleanor Russell for Thedford; Joyce Hodgins for Greenway; Nola Taylor for Grand Bend. The children's mission was held Saturday at Green Forest Inn, the teenage session at St. John's with discussion and film, "The Cross & the Switchblade." Saturday evening a potluck supper at Grand Bend with singing, film and discusson. Ending Sunday with service of praise and communion at Grace church, Greenway, with Rev. Dixon of Windsor in charge. A coffee hour in parish hall Grand Bend church activities No solution reached yet for parking problem Grand Bend council wrestled with the problem of parking again at its meeting April 5, but could not come up with a viable solution. Con. Bob Simpson said the parking committee had come up with a proposal, calling for one hour parking on Main St. in Grand Bend and the use of the lot at the Ausable centre and the lot owned by Dr. Paul Gerald. These two lots would be used to accommodate cars which moved after exceeding the onehour time limil The Ausable lot was discounted by council after Con. Simpson informed them that the Ausable authority wanted "at least $1,000 a year." Council thought this sum to he too high. Dr. Gerald has not replied to council's requests. Council also felt the problems incurred by switching to one hour parking would be too costly to warrant the change. Tickets and return envelopes would have to be printed, signs made and installed, and a parking bylaw enforcer hired. It is open to question whether or not the fines would offset the cost's incurred. There is alsolalack of alterna- tive parking areas for people who would have stayed the time limit, Reeve Bob Sharen said the villages needs "a large area" that can be attended "without massive man hours." Such a facility, he said, is not available. He also suggested a "joint solution" between the village and the Chamber of Commerce, who want the parking situation changed. followed the service, Church news Eleven people from Church of God attended a Christian Education Conference Friday evening and Saturday, at Welland, with speaker, Sherrill Hayes of Indiana, on recruiting and motivating leaders. A special celebration service in honor of Rev. & Mrs. John Campbell and family's, first year in Grand Bend was held with the congregation participating in a talent program with music and singing. After the service a Fellowship hour was enjoyed in the S.S. rooms with coffee and refresh- ments, Communion was observed in the United church Sunday morning, with Rev. H. Moore continuing Lenten series service, with meditation on the Last Supper. Personals Mr. & Mrs. Bill Brenner and family have returned home after a holiday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. County lowers levy Anew press-way for you! 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Lambton County originally assessed Grand Bend for 2.062 percent, a change from the 2.017, percent of last year. This would have meant Grand Bend would pay a total of $61,500 up from $55,750. Grand Bend appealed the decision, and the subsequent assessment will be "under two , percent" said Reeve Bob Sharen, Reeve Sharen was uncertain what this would mean to the village in dollar figures. The change in the assessment came about because of "a major and a couple of minor errors." said Reeve Sharen. The major error was the subtraction of Courtrite's assessment from Moore Town- ship. Courtrite "ceased to exist this year" said the Reeve, and became part of Moore Township. Instead of adding Courtrite's share to Moore Township, the A PROUD FATHER, Max Tiedeman congratulates his son Chris who received the most valuable player co,ungtiyving Moore township a inadvertently subtracted award for his efforts in a game against Goderich in the Novice "B" tournament held on the weekend. The il Grand Bend team won the Lee Jennison and Son trophy in the Legion-sponsored event. T-A photo. smaller portion than should be. By PAUL SALMON MT. CARMEL Personals The staff and students at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School are celebrating Education Week, April 5 to 9 in proper style. April 5, Kindergarten registration for next year was held. The school's secretary, Mrs. Mary Sullivan, reports that about 26 youngsters will enroll in kindergarten next September, which is about the same number of students who will graduate from grade VIII this June. Tuesday, a retreat was held for grade VIII students at St. Joseph's Parish Hall from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the school held Open House, with a choir program and various displays awaiting anyone in- terested in dropping in. Thursday night at 8 o'clock, there is a Parent's Night and here's hoping that comments by teachers about students are as pleasing as possible! Education Week is wrapped up on Friday with tours through the school highlighting an Open House held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Spring weather that we experienced before the end of March must have been what prompted Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dietrich and their son, David, to do some extensive travelling in our province. March 24, they headed for Ottawa, staying Wednesday night at Port Hope. While in Ottawa they stayed with their son, Michael and his wife Cathy. They also visited Mrs. Dietrich's brother, Father Basil Glavin, and another of the Dietrich's sons, Larry and his wife April. While in Ottawa the three travellers saw a glimpse of the flooding which at present is causing great concern, Acres of otherwise productive farmland layunder water and in some places water had seeped over the roadways. The Dietrichs returned home along the shores of Lake Ontario and were able to see parts of New York state and Niagara Falls before ending up in Mt. Carmel March 28. The people of Mt. Carmel extend a welcome to two newcomers to the village, Mr. & Mrs. Ron Hartman who are former residents of Guelph. Mr. Hartman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Victor Hartman of Dashwood, is taking a position at the Exeter Farm Equipment Store. In Sauble Hockey League action over the last two weeks, the Parkhill team was able to hold the Mt. Carmel team's rampage toward victory in check by beating the Mt. Carmel team 9.3 March 25. Earlier in that week March 23, the two teams played to a 2-2 tie. March 30, our team again suffered defeat, losing a close, hard-fought game in which Parkhill got 6 goals to their 5. Although the overall points standings was 6-4 on March 30 in favour of Parkhill, I have con- fidence that the Mt. Carmel team can make the all important rally in the-finish of the series. In a small village such as Mt. Carmel, which is not exactly suffering from an over- population problem, every creature that dwells here, whether human or otherwise,has its importance. With this in mind, the honorable deeds of Heather Trainor, daughter of Mrs. Mary Trainor, towards one of our citizens, must be mentioned. At approximately 7 a.m. on Monday, April, 5, Heather awoke to the sounds of a terrible squawking unlike she had ever heard before. She went to the window only to find one of Mt. Carmel's citizens, an unnamed hen, being cruelly harrassed by three of our canine citizens. Although the scream which Heather emitted was not too lady-like, it succeeded in scaring off the three villains. Thus we have the thruthful in- cidents behind Mt. Carmel's first fable, the moral of which is: She who helps a hen is highly honorable and heroic. 4-H group show ideas The "Steady Stitchers", 4-11 girls met Monday evening at Mrs. Allan Walper's home. Eleven girls answered the roll call by, "Showing their design ideas for a free choice article." At this meeting they learned two new stitches, the couching cross stitch and couching outline stitch. Home assignment is to com- plete the new stitches on sampler The column that's read for a purpose , . I %go 1111 OF , by Scatty Hamilton t Mail your problems to impact" c/a this paper. All letters will be answered provided a stamped addressed envelope e is enclosed. Some of general interest will be published. 4 Letters must be signed but we will NOT reveal your identity. ' "These Questions arid Answers based on Ontario Law, \ )-- totepublished to inform and not to advise. No one , should try to apply or interpret the law without the laid and advice of a trained expert who knows the falacts ,o,f each case ,may change the atapcptslicastiniocneotfhtehew, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. EXETER Rerall 262- 2823 All the latest BARON FREE SCOTIA ROBERT BELL MOBLE HOMES PHARMACY LTD. OVER of KIPPEN models including and COACHMAN Literature on Request BANK FINANCING 12'/2 Years A division of DAVID BELL ENTERPRISES LTD. 235-1570 or 235-1070 373 MAIN ST. _;, ,. ., e,,Atie,„ - FUNERAL HOME 370 WILLIAM ST. 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IN THIS AREA! v _. ,s, - ..., . 1-40. . ... , ,.. Cry - - 237-3456 MOUNT CARMEL I am writing to you from Nova Scotia about a ridiculous situation. I am the unmarried mother of a baby boy born in January of this year. About a week after the birth I gave him up for adoption to the Children's Welfare. However, I got a good job and could finally support my child so I wrote the Director of Children's Welfare asking for my child to be returned. I was told adoption proceedings had been commenced and that I would have to wait until after the adoption application had been dealt with before I could make an application to get my child back, In order to make an application I need to know certain facts about the adoption proceedings. However, every time I try to find out, the Department of Social Services won't tell me anything, so that I cannot appeal, the adoption order. What can I do? Unfortunately, not much. As late as July 1974, this issue was before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and it was decided there that neither the Child Welfare Act nor the Adoption Act impose a duty to disclose information to the parent as to where and when an adoption order was made. Even though this may pre- vent an appeal by a parent the court will not order the disclosure of this information. It seems in this situation there is nothing a parent can do in the face of the court's policy after an adoption order has been made, c:teet Eceaepteo4 ea Out Pt/cad-ale CARL S. REAL ESTATE BROKER 235-2533 489 Main St„ Exeter T. MONUMENTS LETTERING 293 EST. Pryde MAIN - EXETER 1919 & ST. S. MARKERS tti` Ltd. Son 235- 0620 ANYTIME P44.- .. and learning stitches article. They are also to decide on their free choice article and work on design. Next meeting at same time at Mrs. J. Smeekens home.