HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-07-16, Page 22THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1986. PAGE 23.
Roy and Marie Krauter, former Kitchener residents, recently moved
to Londesboro to open up a new business that they call the Trading
Centre. The Krauters have been collecting their merchandise for
about a year and sell everything from old to new. Their store can be
found in Londesboro on Highway 4. — photo by Kathleen Carter.
Satellite museums
could be in future
Trading Centre newest
Londesboro business
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equipment like threshing ma
chines and even windmills which
will be presented dramatically
against a full two-storey window.
Back ontothe street again the
visitors will see a number of other
shops from the photographer’s
shop to a chapel as well as the huge,
60-foot Canadian Pacific Railway
steam locomotive.
During the question period the
150 people present asked about
everything from the building
schedule to the use of the museum
for school classes. Mr. Breed said
the project would take about four
years to complete from the first
construction to the finished build
ing and exhibits with the museum
open at all times during the
construction period. If funding
falls into place, construction hope
fully will begin next spring.
Mr. Breed also explained that
there is a room available for
classroom use and as the develop
ment continues, the museum staff
will be speaking with teachers to
get their ideas for the best way to
make the museum available to the
schools.
There has already been some
discussion with the Huron County
Board of Education, explained
Dave Johnston, Reeve of Bayfield
and chairman of the museum
committee, on greater use of the
museum by the schools.
Goderich Mayor Eileen Palmer
commended the presentation, say
ing when her council had fought to
save the museum she had expected
some upgrading but this was
beyond “our wildest dreams’’.
Bill Trick asked if there was
provision for expansion. Mr. Breed
said the building will fill the
available land but that if expansion
was necessary, it would be possible
to take over the 4500-square foot
work area and build a work area
somewhere else. This, however,
would be 30 or 40 years in the
future, he said.
He discussed the possibility of
using the extra artifacts of the
museum to create satellite muse
ums to better serve the county.
“I’d love to have a storefront
museum in Blyth” he said, to take
advantage of the heavy traffic, of
the Blyth Festival. At present the
museum has an exhibition in the
basement of Memorial Hall.
Ethel Poth of the Huron County
Historical Society questioned the
size of the area for the archival
collection. The research room will
be 225 square feet and the stacks
area, 700 square feet. Using
movable shelving in the stacks area
there will be enough shelf room for
any future collection, Mr. Breed
said.
Mr. Breedsaidthemuseumis
already starting to promote itself
as an attraction for U.S. tours so
that when the museum is ready to
go, it will have a high profile with
tour operators.
Mr. Breed asked for an indica
tion of approval or disapproval for
the plans and was given a strong
vote of approval.
Stiff penalties
for polluters
Persons who pollute the environ
ment will face jail terms and fines
as high as $100,000 a day under
new legislation introduced recent
ly by Environment Minister Jim
Bradley.
Imprisonment for up to one year
for individuals is complemented by
a tive-toid increase in maximum
fines for pollution offences by
corporations. Daily corporate first
offence fines for actual pollution
violations go from $5,000 to
$25,000. The fines are twice that
for subsequent convictions. Impro
per handling of hazardous waste
can bring fines as high as $100,000.
Londesboro gained a new busi
ness recently when former Kitch
ener residents Roy and Marie
Krauter opened the Trading Cen
tre in the former Mitchell’s Family
Market building on Highway 4.
The new store offers an eclectic
collection of merchandise, mostly
second hand.
The Krauters say they started
the trading centre because it was a
nice change and it would be a
challenge. They picked Londes-
borobecausethelocationison a
main highway, and Roy says,
“ You ’ ve got to be where the traffic
is.’’
Roy, a former rubber plant
worker, and Marie, a former
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there will always be risks involved
in a business such as theirs,
because they don’t know what will
be most in demand by customers.
They started collecting their
merchandise about a year ago,
buying from other trading busi
nesses and from various flea
markets in Ontario, and have a
little bit of everything “from old to
new’’.
“ We get anything we can get our
hands on, but it’s mostly second
handitems,’’ the Krauters say,
and if one takes a glance at the
store’s surroundings, you can see
everything from old cameras to
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