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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-09-21, Page 27WANT TO BUY A CAR — If you have $50,000 to spare Bob Hamather of Zurich and Eric Kints of Exeter can put you behind the wheel of this remanufactured Cadillac Seville Opera Coupe. The car is the only one of itS kind in Ontario. Staff photo MPP reports About International year of child Dear Sir, Accompanying my report from Queen’s Park is a letter and information which I received from the Provincial Secretary for Social Development pertaining to the International Year of the Child. If you can use any of the material in your paper please feel free to do so. Yours truly, Jack Riddell, M.P.P. Huron-Middlesex. Dear Jack: On December 21, 1976, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 1979 the International Year of the Child in order that governments and individuals around the world would concern themselves with the present condition of their children. In Ontario, the Govern­ ment has always looked at children as our most precious resource and we have encouraged the growth of excellent health, VAN EGMOND5) CIDERFEST Cider (Crafts Demonstrations Flea Market Etc. Sun., Sept. 24 12-5 p.m. at the HISTORIC VAN EGMOND HOUSE & SEAFORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL Flower Festival and Art Gallery begin at 12 noon Sat. 23 at Van Egmond House. BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY J education and social systems for our children. In 1979, we intend to ex­ pand and strengthen our services and programs for children in the belief that the peace and prosperity of the future depends on the well­ being of our children today. However, while we can produce services and program^ for children, we cannot ensure that these services are used, nor can we provide the love and concern tliat is essential to the healthy development of a child. If the International Year of the Child is to be truly meaningful, it is necessary that individuals and organizations in daily contact with children become involved. I am writing to request your personal support for the Year and hope that within your riding, you can develop awareness and enthusiasm for IYC and encourage ac- of ourbehalftivity on children. Attached suggestions activityproposed thus far for individual involvement. If you can stimulate IYC ac­ tivities within the province, I would be pleased to hear from you. 1. Become a Block parent or set up a Block Parent Association if there is not one already in your neigh­ bourhood. 2. Invite a guest speaker to is a of the list of type of your club, organization, Home and School Association to talk about positive parenting, education, day care, han­ dicapped children, children with special needs or any area pertaining to children that would be of benefit to your members. 3. Contact your local Children’s Aid, “Y”, Big Brother, Little Sister Association or other voluntary organization regarding volunteer work. 4. Contact your local Children’s Aid with regard to becoming 5. Make mitment children, nephews, nieces to set aside extra time in 1979 for an educational or recreational experience, e.g. trip to zoo, museum, conservation area or art gallery; camping or sporting events. 6. Construct a special children’s recreation area in a local park or school yard. 7. Develop a children’s theatre group. 8. Hold an art, music or drama festival for and by children. 9. Set up a system of volunteers to help teachers in the classrooms or on field trips. 10. Plan sports or games events. 11. Develop a family project which involves your children’s creative talents, a foster parent, a personal com- to your own grand children, r r RON RADER Fri., Sept. 22 at GRAND BEND LEGION Skating in ZURICH ARENA Friday, Saturday Sunday Nites Only e.g. build a playhouse, set up a greenhouse, make your own greeting cards, start an aquarium, learn to sail, camp, explore nature, start a vegetable or flower gar­ den. 12. Offer to babysit for a single parent family. 13. Is there a latch-key child on your block? Arrange lunch or after school supervision for children of working parents. 14. Drop in on a new mother to see if she needs any assistance or even just some reassuring talk. 15. Hire young people for home maintenance jobs. 16. Start a young people’s program for home main­ tenance jobs. 16. Start a young people’s program at your place of worship. 17. Prepare a booklet listing the community resources available to assist children and their families - e.g. Block Parents, Parents’ Anonymous, aid to new mothers, courses, groups, societies courses. 18. Set events that include children of all ages - pot luck dinner, movie night, community 5 fair, games night, sports day, hobby fair. 19. Involve children in volunteer work with senior citizens, the physically handicapped, a recreation centre, hospital patients, other younger children. 20. Have your school class office club adopt a foster child in an un­ derdeveloped country. I am confident that we in Ontario can work together to ensure our children’s future and would appreciate your support for this goal. With best wishes Margaret Birch Provincial Secretary. parent education single parent children’s aid -pre or postnatal up family social COUNTRY SIDE CERAMICS Everyone Welcome CHRISTMAS CLASSES r Starting This Week PHONE 294-0071 Sign Up Now B I N G O JACKPOT $500 in 53 calls 11 Reg. games $10sprize 3 Special games $12 priie 1 Share-the-wealth game Wed., Sept. 27 8:30 P.M. ZURICH ARENA SPONSORED BY ZURICH REC BOARD NO PERSON UNDER 16 WILL BE ADMITTED Tired of your present automobile with those slightly worn tires and rusting body? Tired of hearing the kids continually “yammering” in the back seat? Well, if you go see either Bob Hamather of Zurich or Eric Kints of Exeter they might have the solution to your problems providing you have $50,000. Kints and Hamather have just been appointed the sole Ontario dealer for the Cadillac Seville Opera Coupe manufactured by the Grandeur Motor Car Cor­ poration of Pompano Beach, Flnrida What the car is, is a modified version of the four door Cadillac Seville mini limousine which lists in the $15,000 range. This car is special because according to Kints only 200 of the cars will be manufac­ tured. Although the car doesn’t look all that different from the normal Seville, the chassis has been shortened, the engine moved back and a body that is fiberglass to the rear wheel walls has been installed. Kints says he became aware of the cars through his dealings as owner of Huron Produce Limited which has extensive dealings in the United States. The only other dealer for the cars in North America is in Detroit where they picked this car up this past Sunday. He said they expect their major markets to be Toronto and London and according to Kints have already received firm offers for two cars. He said this year’s model will be available as soon as the 1979 Sevilles start rolling off the assembly line. Although the initial price may seem steep the cars should appreciate in value with an example being sold in California recently for several thousand dollars more than what he paid tor, Kints said.One of the advantages of this model as compared to a similar priced foreign manufactured speciality cA' is that this automobile can be serviced by any General Motors dealer. So if you want something original (Kints says he knows of no other such cars in Ontario) with eight coats of silver metallic paint and don’t mind selling either your house or the back forty, this could be the automobile for you. STAFFA 4-H The members of the Staffa No. 2 4-H Homemaking club held their first meeting for this fall project, Thursday. The meeting was opened with the 4-H pledge led by the leaders Mrs. Douglas and Mrs. Renne. The following club officers were elected. President, Kathy McKellar; secretary­ treasurer, Sheila Riley; assistant secretary, Betty Upshall; press reporter, Sheila Riley; vice-president, not elected. For achievement day all of the club members will be participating in a skit en­ titled “Lunch With Enthusiasm.” During the meeting the members discussed the food guide breakdown, their own personal good guide and Canada’s new food guide edition. They also learned fundamentals of measuring how to use metric measuring equipment, how to build a recipe file and where some of the local health food stores are located. Mrs.Douglas demonstrated how to make metric crispy granola, a crunchy com­ bination of natural cereals and grains, perfect for breakfast or a snack any time of the day. feSgiiS NEW AT CCAT — Ed McCann of RR 3, Dashwood is one of the new students at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Above, he gets registration information Monday from director of student affairs Don Orth. T-A photo SV.'” v. iid Times-Advocate, September 21, 1978 Page 27 CLAY CREATIONS — Kevin Epp and Danny Shite enjoy creating clay articles at last week's stay by Usborne Central School students at Camp Sylvan. T-A photo Heaters may be wrong Few more centre repairs The board authorized Armstrong to get in touch with grounds committee and attempt to come up with a location so that drainage work on either the new diamond or old diamond could begin. In the discussion which proceeded, Armstrong volunteered to act as co­ ordinator in order to start the diamond work, in lieu of the fact that the grounds committee which had been asked to choose a site for the diamond at the last board meeting failed to show. After Armstrong had volunteered his services board member Howard Pym said “What’s the good of the grounds committee if we’re to do all the work?” Shaw then suggested that it would not be proper to go ahead on the job without some input from the grounds committee. When making his report on the swimming pool, the rec administrator had some good news and some bad news. The good news was that swimming lesson registration^ jumped 200, going from 600 participants last year to 800 lesson takers this year. Armstrong termed the pass rate in the swimming lesson program “incredible” as 553 children passed their tests. He said this was one of the highest pass rates in Huron county. * Financially the pool did very well he said with the possibility that it might break even. The bad news is that ac­ cording to Armstrong, the pool’s filtering system will have to be replaced in three years with a possible cost of $15,000. In addition, Armstrong said the inside of the pool should be repainted and sandblasted. He said the material which was applied to the concrete is beginning to chip off. The lack of activities for young people in the com­ munity was a concern of board member Gerry MacLean. Armstrong agreed there wasn't much for the young to do in the community but he questioned whether it was the role, of the board to provide such activities. He said that if the board directed him to do so he could spend some money to provide some doings for the younger set. In other business, the board: Learned that the possibility of figure skater Brad Loosley’s summer figure skating school to the rec centre was remote. Armstrong said the Wood- stock figure skating coach made little money and that Loosley told him he didn’t like the ice, which was being used by the hockey school in the day time. Learned that the budget for the rec centre was on target. Shaw remarked "If you look at the whole budget, it looks really good.” Will reinlorcQ the arena boards with a cost totalling $250. Learned that the Fitness Van will be at the rec centre in November. Will invite about 40 people to an organizational meeting sometime in the near future to organize a mini-Olympics competition in 1980. According to South Huron Recreation Centre ad­ ministrator Kirk Armstrong most of the deficiencies in the one year old structure have been fixed but there are st’11 a few areas that have not been repaired to his satisfaction. In his report to the rec board recently Armstrong said the heaters for the stands which have been accused of not providing enough heal may have been the wrong units purchased and that the dehumnidifier units have not had extended warranties granted. Mayor Bruce Shaw agreed with Armstrong that the heater units bought might not have been the correct ones and that there might have been a mistake made in having Cambrian Facilities Consultants Limited act as both the consulting and contracting engineer. Both Shaw and Armstrong did not lay total blame on Cambrian for the units poor performance but suggested it was a good idea that so far, hasn’t worked out. Armstrong stated they should give the unit’s another winter of use to see if the adjustments which had been made to the units are effective. With regards to the dehumilier units Armstrong said there has been a dif­ ference of opinion between the manufacturers of the units and the firm which installed them, as to the effectiveness of installing a crankcase heater to eliminate the problems which the centre has been experiencing. The manufacturer has told Armstrong they will supply the heater units at no cost to the centre if they really want them but it was the manufacturer's opinion that the units were not needed. Armstrong said Culliton Brothers, the mechanical contractors for the units thought the heaters would eliminate the problem of burned out motors for the dehumidifiers. Shaw suggested the dehumidifiers be left as-is for the winter and contract the manufacturer if something did go wrong. With regards to the above two matters, Shaw moved that (he board recommend to council that the manufacturer’s holdback of $16,000 be released but that the engineer’s holdback of $8,000 be retained until all the problems are corrected. In one weeks time there should be an indication where the new ball diamond that’s to be built in the community park will be located. Change fees for fires At the September meeting of the Zurich and Area Fire Board it was agreed to change rates charged to municipalities outside of the Zurich fire area. A charge of $50 per hour for the use of the tank truck will now be charged rather than the former rate of $90 per load of water. For use of the fire truck outside, of the area, the charge will be $125 for the first hour and $100 per hour for each additional hour. Bowling todies Thursday TB R Nogrin 686 7 14 HG K Triebner635 2 2 MN K. Bierling596 5 12 TB S. Wright 618 5 8 TL B. Bowerman 650 7 11 DS J. Rohde 628 2 7 OM S.Lammie604 0 2 HH M. Rohde 512 0 0 GG R Luther 641 5 12 Fisherman's Cove Restaurant Specializing in Fresh Perch Dinners Hours Closed all day Mondays Tues.-Fri. 11 =30 A.M. - 8 P.M. Sat. & Sun. 8 A.M. - 8 P.M. 53 River Road Grand Bend Eat in or Take Out from director of student affairs Don Orth. Party Fri., Sept. 22 HURON PARK REC CENTRE ANNEX For STEVE SCHROEDER Everyone Welcome Lunch Provided J Huron County Family Planning Project Invites You To Attend FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC Every Tuesday from 6:30-9 p.m. HURON COUNTY HEALTH UNIT Ann St., Exeter For Information Call 235-1014 Weekdays or Tuesday evenings Everyone welcome r T Skating 8-11 P.M. BROWNIE’S DRIVE-IN THEATRE LTD. BEECH ST. CLINTON Reception & Dance at for SHIRLEY DeVRIES a RON RADER (bridal couple) Sat., Sept. 30 SOUTH HURON RECREATION CENTRE Music By THE CAVALIERS r LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY — While most of the exhibits in the Discovery Train which visited Stratford this past week were on the inside, vivid graphics on the exterior helped to tell the story of our country. Examining one train's sides are John Osgood and Bill MacDonald of Exeter Public School. T-A photo 7:30-8:30 9.17!. KIRKTON WOODHAM COMMUNITY VISIT DISCOVERY TRAIN - Students from Exeter Public School travelled to Stratford on Thursday to travel through the Discovery Train, a mobile exhibit of Canadiaha that is travell­ ing across the country, Looking at one of the many exhibits are Colleen Glasgow, Montaha Osman, Nellie DeKoker, Pauline Devries and Janet Pfaff. T-A photo BATON REGISTRATION for the Kirkton Komets Mon. Sept. 25th Box Office Open at 7:30 p.m. - First Show at 8:00 p.m. ADULT ENTERTAINMENT to,(m»?ts A ROBOT M SHERMAN Production KRISTOFRERSON • MacGR AW “CDNWV” BURT ERNEST