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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-10-20, Page 17e 237-3314 ib.764 LOINS $360 $230 $140 $95 $1.55 lb. Approx 40 lbs. $62 Approx o x PriceIlb wt. Side Ribs 3lbs, 1.35 Sausage 10 lbs. 1.29 Hamburg 10 lbs. .79 Liver: Beef 10 lbs. .59 Pork 10 lbs. .49 Oxtails 10 lbs. .49 Stew Beef 10 lbs. 1.19 Back Baton 10 lbs. 1.25 Part slice Side Bacon 12 lbs. 1.48 Approx Cost 4.00 $12.90 1 7.90 $5.90 $4.90 $4.90 $11.90 $ 12.50 $17.75 OTHER #1 #2 r. From Farm of Gerald Dearing WHOLE Approx $69 SO $1.39 lb. 50 $1.42 lb. HALF Approx. $3 530 25 lbs. II 40 lbs. Blade or Chuck Rst. 20 lbs, Minute Stks. 20 lbs. Steakettes 20 lbs, Pork Chops $ 1 1 100 lbs. 20 lbs. Shoulder Pork Chops 20 lbs. Sirloin, T. Bone, Wing Stks. 20 lbs. Sausage 20 lbs. Minute Stk. 20 lbs. Steakettes 100 lbs. 10 mmmmmmmm lie M.* 1.11.11.1 $1110 mmmmmmmmm 37 To complete lob in six weeks Target set at $50,000 Start Heritage fund raising Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1073 imes- dvoca Exeter Heritage Foundation launches its first town-wide fund raising campaign for the restoration of the town hall, November 1, Through the summer months, most Exeter residents watched with increasing interest the progression of the work being done on the building despite delays due to supply shortages and the inclement weather, However, Louis Van Boxrneer, contractor for the job, states the restoration should be completed in six weeks. Help with the funding has come from Ontario Heritage Foun. dation, $47,000; Wintario, 19,000; LIP, 10,900. The local Foundation has raised around $10,000 through various projects such as dances, food booths and raffles and from several donations. Around $50,000 is needed to finish the work. Another $10,000 will be required for furnishing, landscaping and equipping the kitchen. The door to door canvass which is scheduled to commence the first of next month, will be done only in Exeter but the Foundation hopes that many in the farming and outlying community who are interested will either mail their contributions to treasurer, Mrs, Jennie Huntley, Box 838, Exeter or phone Doug Gould, 235.0685 for the donation to be picked up. Certified receipts will be given to all contributors for income tax purposes. The building is being carefully restored as much as possible to the way it was when constructed in 1887. Provincial Heritage experts have offered their advice as to its decor, including the color of paints for the walls and woodwork. The painstaking work on the outside is being done by first removing the paint with remover and then cleaning to show off the original fancy patterns of red brick on the white. The curved arched front entrances have been restored to their original beauty, The new gas furnaces are ready to be turned on and the washrooms in the basement are nearly finished, Upstairs, the false ceiling has been removed to reveal the graceful, arched ceiling above it. A modern kitchen is being equipped to be used for small receptions and other community gatherings and exhibitions, The Exeter Heritage Faun- dation is convinced the building will quickly become self- sustaining with the rental of three choice locations on the street level. One of these is already rented to The Heritage Shop, Members are convinced that more and more residents are becoming enthused over the restoration and are ready to contribute to preserving this piece of the town's heritage and history. If anyone would like to volunteer help with the door to door canvass, phone Mrs, Bev, Read, at 235-1470. Page 17 October 20, 1977 MERNEWS CAN HELP YOU EAT BETTER FOR LESS. Prices effective till Nov. 2 Whole Light Beef lb 92 4 Sides of Beef i6.930 ib $1.14 Hinds of Beef Fronts of Beef CHUCKS 750 lb. Approx 60 lbs. $45 Will point with pride to beauty of restored town hail CHEERING FOR SOUTH HURON — At Thursday's football and basketball games at South Huron District High School, local teams were urged to victory by the Panther cheerleaders. From the left are Rebecca Jant- zi, Pam O'Brien, Marian Martens, Terry Heywood and Julie Mock. T-A photo ,lApprox. 375-400 lbs. Approx. 250 lbs. Approx. 125 lbs. Approx. 125 lbs. By Gwyn Whilsmith It was 1940. My father had bought a business in a town called Exeter and was intent on moving his family there. I didn't want to go. After all, I was leaving my school, my teenage classmates, my boyfriend. It was a dismal outlook. My sister drove up with Mother and Dad to view the town and look for a house. "What kind of a place is it, anyway?" I asked her despondently. "It's really nice," she tried to assure me, "lots of big •trees, a nice front street, and oh yes, it's got the most interesting looking town hail." I arrived a few weeks later in the middle of the night. , .in tile middle of a February blizzard, in fact. The next morning waking in a strange house, on a strange street, in a strange town was not exactly a joyful experience for me. "Go for a walk," my mother urged me, "Get out and get your bearings." With feet of lead I scuffed my way through the snow down Main Street, called in at the Exeter Roller Mill my folks had pur- chased, and then continued down town, To my left was the Exeter Town Hall. "It is interesting," I said to myself, remembering my sister's remarks. "But it looks pretty run down and shabby. Still there wag an air of decadent elegance about the building, like a middle aged matron' who had let herself go with her slip showing and her wig askew, but who, neverthiess had retained strong trades Of a well bred and refined youth, I liked Exeter Town Hall, she had character and s he looked friendly to a lonely young girl, Years went by, Exeter became home and my love for 'her in- creased. I was proud of her prosperity, her cleanliness and beauty. But meanwhile the town hall sagged more and more. Occasionally, someone rushed about applying a coat of white paint in some kind of despetate attempt to spruce up the old girl or at least make her look respectable. Somehow, the cover tip Was never enough. The paint peeled, a brick fell out here and there, the drain pipes rotted away, Slowly but surely she turned into a crippled and feeble dowager. To look at her was to be sad and embarrassed by her unsightliness. A few attempts were made to keep her func- tioning but by and large it looked like an exercise in futility. And yet, if you took the time to look closely you could still catch a glimpse of what she had been . . a proud and lovely building standing guard over the Main Street of Exeter: She was beyond help, they said, beyond repair. She'd served her day. She had to go. Did she really? Must she make Way for a parking area? Must she suffer the indignity of being battered to the ground. . . this ancient ediface, built by our forefathers, that held so many memories? Think of what she had heard? Politicians thundering into the night back to the days of Sir John A. MacDonald. (Even I went to my first political rally at the town hall as a 19-year old), She had listened to endless discussions and debates as the village (and later town) fathers settled the weighty problems of the com- munity for nearly nine decades. In her early days she had vibrated to the tunes of the fiddle as dancers whirled around her upper room. She had even wit- nessed a few Donnybrooks (I'm told) when some of the young men got a bit rowdy, These were broken up by 'the chief' (the one and only policeman) who escorted the offenders to the cooler downstairs. For many years she sat through countless court cases as justice was meted out to the erring, (Again, I attended my first court case in the Town Hall). Look at what she had seen? Main Street bustling with com- merce and trade as hems clipped-clopped under spreading shade trees drawing farmers with wagons heaped with produce or dainty ladies driving high stepping ponieS pulling fancy buggies or surreys. She had watched that sceneevolve into an even busier and certainly a noise' one as trucks and tran- sports roared down the street and cats lined the curbs. Not much wonder she had character! She had seen good times and bad, fortunes made and fortunes lost. She had wat- ched boys go off to war4andretorn as men to honour their fallen comrades at the cenotaph next to her. Scrawny, mischievous youngsters who had played under her shadow grew into famous men and women and went to far flung corners of the world to gain fame and proclaim proudly, "I come from Exeter, Ontario!" Did she really have to go? Was this the end for the old town hall? There are some who disagreed with the stand of the citizens committee and later with the actions of the Exeter Heritage Foundation who set out to save the building from destruction.. . and that's their prerogative. But there are many of us who sup- ported them wholeheartedly and that's our "privilege". Now, it is our opportunity to put our money where our mouths have been, to see that the job of restoration is done well and is paid for com- pletely. And I will put myself out on a limb to predict that the day is soon coming when all the citizenry of Exeter will stand and point out with pride, to their visiting guests, our prestigious and beautifully restored town hall. You wait, you watch, you'll see. Set deadline for wheat insurance The Ontario Crop Insurance Commission has announced an extension of the deadline for winter wheat applications and final acreage reports from October 20 to October 31, 1977. A spokesman for the com- mission said that in recent years winter wheat planting has taken place later in the season. The extended deadline takes account of this changing cultural practice, Last year was a record year for winter wheat insurance with mote than 2,700 contracts being sold to Ontario producers, Crop insurance is sold through local agents. Producers may obtain names and addresses of their local agent from county and distridt agricultural represen- tatives. Applications are also available from the Oritarie Crop Insurance Commission, 1200 Bay Street, Toronto MIA 1137. #3 20 lbs. Pork Ham Rst. 20 lbs. Stk. Beef Roast 20 lbs. Sirloin, T. Bone, Wing Stks 20 lbs. Pork Chops 20 lbs. Dcishwood Sausage 100 lbs. $159 p 10 lbs. 10 lbs. 10 lbs. 10 lbs. 10 lbs. 10 lbs. 20 lbs. 20 lbs., 100 lbs. #4 Stew Beef Hamburg Steakettes Minute Stks. Loin Pork Chops Shoulder Pork Chops Shoulder Beef Rst. Shoulder Pork Rst. 123