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109th Year Issue No. 27
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1980
Teachers leave GCS
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
Tres, hydro lines down, trp ler flips ,over
Residents of Bluevale were busy cleaning
up” on 'Friday morning after a small ,twister
swept through the area, uprooting trees,
tearing, down hydro lines and even taking
some tin off the roof of one harm,
Metal sheeting was ripped off the roof of a
barn owned by Gord Ruff who lives on a farm
just outside of Bluevale. Only part of the roof
came off and large hunks of sheeting Were,
scattered throughout the field in front of the
Floyd Herman is leaving Grey Central
School . in Ethel. Although he will still be
teaching in the Huron County area, the
people of Ethetwill miss him, for he was well
, known for both his contribution to the school
and to the productions of the Grey Central
Home and School AssociatiOn.
After eight 'years, of teaching at .Grey
Central, Floyd will bp teaching at a school in
Colborne; He: came ,directly to,Grey COOtrat
from Toronto Teacher's college and while
there has taught music to the Kindergarten,
to. Grade 8 classes as well as teaching the
grade 8 class.
At the school in. Colborne, Floyd will also
be teaching the Grade 8 class and music to
Grades 4 to 8.'
"I have particularly enjoyed my work with
the Home and School. Association and their
plays. I shall indeed miss the daily contact
with the people of Grey. I hope to continue
my friendship with them and be back to the
school as many times as possible," Floyd
said.
Floyd, his wife Liz and their daughter live
in Blyth and will continue to do so. His wife
will soodbe opening a' gift and craft store in
that community called The Blyth Saga.
No new teacher has been hired to replace
Harris Campbell of Bluevale was another
who suffered some of the more ,extensive:
' damages of the storm when the wind moved
his trailer 30 feet back in his driveway and
flipped it over onto, its side. The trailer was
taken right off its lacks.
Stephen Kuchta wasn't home during the
storm, so only his dog was there to see the
roof of the carport lifted off by the wind and
dro ed a short'
Floyd, pdsitions have merely 'been shifted
around a bit and teacher Dave Colquhoun
will be taking over some of Floyd's duties
with the Grade 8 class.
Kindergarten teacher Barb Livermore will
also be leaving Grey Central but won't be
moving too far away as she will be going to
the Walton Public School.
There' she will teach tne kindergarten
61AraS'Vell PhySiCal'
and library to the classes. of Kindergarten to
Grade 3. This is a full-time position whereas
her job at Grey Central was only half-time.
She has been at Grey for three years and
previous to that taught Kindergarten at
Brussels for one year and before 'that was at
Hullett Central School in Londesboro. She
has taught at many other schools as well and
altogether has eight years of teaching
experience.
Her -first job after she graduated from
London's Teacher's College was at the
Exeter Public School.
She said she has enjoyed working at Grey.
"I've enjoyed the people and the staff and
the people in the community," she said.
Barb Richmond of Blyth will take over as
the kindergarten teacher at Grey Central:
t front lawn. Another tree, a willow, also came
R.E. McKinney who lives beside the
" Streets alse saw one of the trees on his
property iopple, over. The willow tree, toppled
se close to-the house that Mr. McKinney was
unable to get out his one, door on Friday
morning until some , of the branches had
been cut away. \ Some of the tree branches
inches in diameter.
Arthur Caswell who was helping out at the .
MacBlacic property saw the storm upset two-
wagons and_force the tongue of one wagon
into the ground and break it right off. He
also said two sheets of --plywood had' been-
taken off the barn.
Mrs. Helen. MacFarlane was busy :trying
' to shut all the windows in the house when
the storm came up.
While her husband
Murray was trying to help her shut one
window, he saw some of the siding come off
of the house.
Mrs. MacFarlane thought
maybe it was just some of the shingle
i protection that people put in their gardens
that was being lifted by the wind; but it did "
turn out to be some of the siding off their
house, The thing , that amazed her was that
no nails were bent the siding .just pulled
straight out.
Hydro was out, in many homes in Bluevale
for about five hours, from approximately
6;15 to 11 p.m. as the result of power lines
which were knocked down.. A number of TV
antennas and towers were ,also broken as a
result of the storm.
John Hoelcstra, a Meteorological Present-
ation Technician at the . London Weather
Office said very strong winds were observed
on radar about 6 p.m. and the storm just
started to hit Wingham between 6 and 6:45
P.m ;He said #here was quite a strong area of
thunderstorms -from the northern edge just
touching Wingharn to the southern edge of
Highway 8, that triggered severe weather
warnings.
The storm stretched for an area about five
; miles wide and 10 miles long and just
touched the north end' of Stratford and the
south end of Kitchener.
The storms started in Michigan and came
through to Quebec and Ontario.
According to personnel at CKNX in
Wingham, weather equipment at the station
;recorded.winds of up to 80 kilometers per
hour around '6 p.m.
barn and some pieces even ended up near PP i were on the roof of the house, but Mr. ' e ouse,
the front lawn.. . . . Mrs. Don Street lamented the loss of her 1 McKinney said he didn't think much
ff Mrs. Ru ,said when they looked out the favourite blue spruce -given to, her grand- damage had been done.
windoW, all they could see was a white wall mother over 50 years ago and which stood He described the tree as being three feet
of rain and after the storm they noticed that approximately 60 feet' tall until Thursday ` through at the bOttom, over 150 feet when
the roof had come, off the barn, night's storm toppled it onto the Street's \ standing and with branches which were 18
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Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
You pray in your distress and in your
need; would that you might pray also in the
fullness of your joy and in your days of
abundance.
—Kahlil Ghran
*****!,
Those mischievious gremlins have been
playing tricks in this column again. In the
Short Shot last week, qiiestioning the fund
raising methods of Rex Humbard 'and his
wife Aimee, what should have read "be-
seeching letters" came out in print at
leeching, letters. A bit confusing was it not?
******
There will be no lack here of things to keep
the youngsters busy and amused this
summer. The wading pool is already open
for use and playground activities „are
underway. These are under the capable
direction of Misses Cathy Sholdice and.
Brenda Knight. Both of these young ladies
have had instruction and experience in the
supervision of playground activities. The
children will surely enjoy the programs ,
planned for them and parents should have
no qualms about trusting them to the care of
Cathy and Brenda from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon
and 1:00 p.m. to 4 p.m.
***sip*
Get your children smartly outfitted in
reasonably priced clothing this Saturday,
July 5th. You can do that by selecting good
used children's clothing at the Brussels
Figure Skating Club sale. Babies and young
children outgrow their things in' a very short
time. Much of the clothing to be offered for
sale is practically new. Look for ad.
elsewhere for particulars.
******
School is out and the kids are happy
(unless, of course, they did not make it to the
next. grade). The teachers are worn out with
all the strain and stress of the year, long
struggle to educate reluctant pupils. They
are looking forward to a summer free of
troublesome and lacka-daikital students
who had to be disciplined, pushed and
prodded to get them out of their hair and into
another teacher's hands: Disciplined? Do
they really get disciplined by teachers these
days? Certainly not the way they were in my
day. They do not get ordered up in front of
the class, ordered to hold out their hands to
receive hefty whacks with a stinging Strap.
Of course 1 was a model child and never
suffered that indignity. That statement is not
altogether truthful. I did not get strapped
bat my good behaviour was the result of the
faet I was so aware of the instrument of
torture that tested in the teacher's desk; also
the promise of my Dad that if I. ever got
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SURVEYING THE DAMAGE—R.E. McKinney holds part of a power line
that was felled in Thursday night's storm in Bluevale. In this picture he is
standing between the branches of an old -willow tree which also fell over
in the storm and although the top portion of the tree hit his roof, Mr.
McKinney didn't think much damage had been done.
,i • (Photo by Ranney),