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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-07-18, Page 131 .. J -...,.,-,... __ C - _,- - - THE SHIP'S WHEEL — Wayne Moody stands at the helm of the Gary-M, and squints into the haze that covers Lake Huron PICKING THE CATCH — Using a picking hook, Rick Moody yanks the fish out of the nets, T-A photo COFFEE BREAK - • When the fishing is over R.I. and Wayne Moody. elax in the restaurant with cook sill McNiohol and Edith T-A photo WORK ON SHORE — Karen Harris shovels the fresh perch into a potato peeler which takes off their scales. T-A photo Sewers not wanted, church seeks other routes Grand Bend United Church is still seeking a way to avoid installing two sewer hook-ups in the vacant lots used for outdoor services. Leroy Keyes and Allan Walper attended Monday night's meeting on behalf of the church to request that council make some changes to avoid the unnecessary sewer connections. Council had previously refused to exempt the church from the mandatory hook-up rule that says all buildable lots should have sewer connections. The church was reluctant to comply with this ruling because they said they would never build on these lots, and the sewer con- nections, which would cost them $700, would never be used. Adequate hook-ups would be installed in the church building and the manse. The delegation from the church requested that the lot which the church is on and the two vacant lots be rezoned as institutional. At present the church lot is zoned commercial, and the other two lots are zoned residential. Council pointed out that they would still probably require sewer hook-ups, Instead, it was decided that the church should try to eliminate the two lots which are zoned residential, and incorporate them into the lot on which the church stands, Reeve Sharen explained that although it would then be all one lot it is still possible to have various zones within the one lot. Councillors agreed that there would be no objection to making the three lots into one. This would make it necessary to install just one sewer connection for the church building. The procedure would cost roughly $100 plus legal fees, the church delegation was told. The delegation was in- structed to submit a letter of intent to council, and apply to the land division com- mittee. They were advised that these moves would have to be made quickly because sewer construction Work would soon be in that area. - ,---- . --, A 1,1 Page lA Council goes JULY 18, 1979 Price Per Copy 25 Cents "in camera" Closes doors to discuss fire pact Fishing still needs hick r4 WATCHING AND WAITING Seagulls ride onithe roof of the Gary-M waiting for the at fish and suckers to be thrown their way. • T-A photo BACK INTO THE LAKE, Rod Faulkinson, R.T. Tiedeman, and Rick Moody feed the long lones of nets back into the lake. T-A photo Colonials tie Taxandria The Grand Bend Senior soccer team tied 3-3 with Taxandria in the game played at home Sunday. This is the second tie chalked up by the "Colonials" who have yet to lose in regular league play. The Taxandria team proved to be strong op- position for the Colonials who had to come from behind during the entire game. Spokesman for the team, Tony Mennen said, "It was hard work, especially on a hot Sunday afternoon." Grand Bend's goals were scored by Tony Mennen, Dave Nolan and Bill Van- denbygaar t. The Grand Bend Bantam soccer team lost to the Sarnia B team 2-1 on Saturday afternoon. Bill Mennen scored the only Grand Bend goal. The pee wee game was cancelled this week end. If it takes luck to catch a fish, then Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for Wayne Moody and his crew on the "Gary-M". "But that's summer fishing," Wayne says. The Gary-M, one of Grand Bend's commercial fishing boats, only brought in about 100 pounds of perch last Friday, compared to 600 in a normal day. Although luck still plays a role in the fishing industry, fishermen don't need to depend on it as much as they did in years gone by. Wayne Moody has a lifetime of experience in the fishing business to fall back on, along with instruments that weren't known in past years. Wayne started fishing as a boy on Lake Erie. The equipment found in the cabin of the Gary-M augments his experience. He has radar to spot the markers on the nets on foggy days, and another device to tell him how deep the water is. The nets are hauled in by a machine called a puller, and put down by another deyice. Although it still takes manual labour, the jobs of moving the nets in and out of the boat are no longer as cumbersome as they once were. The nets themselves are better than ever before. A modern substance called monofilament has replaced nylon in fishing nets. The monofilament tightens around the fish when it swims into the net and then stretches to enable the fishermen to pull the fish out. Fish can't help but get caught in the monofilament. "If they're not in those nets, they just aren't down there," Wayne Moody says. The day starts early for the crew on the Gary-M. "Usually we go out at six, but in the summer we wait 'till seven," Moody explains. The best fishing is , in the spring and fall, Wayne takes the wheel of the Gary-M, while his 21 year old son Rick, Rod Faulkinson, and Rick (R.T.) Tiedeman look after the fishing. Everyone on board the Gary-M is paid on a com- mission basis. Their paycheques depend on the amount of the ..,catch;-,and what it sells for. Rick Moody and Rod Faulkinson both get 15 per cent of the take, while Wayne takes 13 per cent. Although Wayne says that R.T. is "pretty good for a boy 13", the youngest crew member only gets seven per cent. The other 50 per cent of the income goes to look after the Gary-M which uses about 200 gallons of diesel fuel a week. The Gary-M is about 30 years old and originally came from Lake Erie. Wayne bought the boat six years ago in Collingwood. He's the first to admit that his fishing boat has been around. The Gary- M is now sporting a neiv coat of paint, which Wayne paid his crew an hourly wage to apply. . At the same time that Wayne bought the Gary-M, he went into the restaurant business. Wayne's partner, Bill McNichol is the cook in the Fisherman's Cove, which is located right beside thek river where the Gary-M is. The Fisherrhan's Cove features a menu of fresh fish. Renovations last winter have made the little restaurant an attractive place to eat, and it's a popular spot in Grand Bend. Wayne's wife Edith and daughter Sheri both work in the restaurant. As well as redecorating the restaurant, the Moody- McNichol partnership put on an addition where the fish could be cleaned and refrigerated. They also sell fresh fish from the new addition, Karen Harris prepares the fish for the restaurant or for sale, After the catch is weighed, she shovels the perch into a potato peeler, This device whirls the fish around until all the scales have come off. Karen cleans them up and puts them on ice. The fishing business still presents some problems. Finding good help is sometimes difficult, especially in the busy seasons when everyone is looking for experienced workers, Wayne says. They have also had troubles with people stealing their catch. A fisherman who is out in his rowboat and not getting anything will sometimes get frustrated and pull up one of the Gary- M's nets. The nets are marked by a buoy and a flag, with an anchor holding the long line of nets in place. A Grand Bend Council went behind closed doors at the end of Monday night's meeting to discuss the fire agreement, or rather, as councillor Harold Green put it, "the fire disagreement." Letters. concerning the fire protection problem came from both Bosanquet and Stephen townships, but the dispute was not discussed when the letters were read eaflier in the meeting. Grand Bend and the two townships have bean unable to come to terms on a fire. protection contnct this year. Council has already Dear R.S.D. Sports Den, I was really excited when I read about your rotten sneaker contest in the newspaper. At last, I thought, a contest I could win. You see, I haven't won anything since I took the six month and over baby contest at Thedford Fair in 1955. So here was my big chance to be a winner! I had a pair of the rottenest sneakers you'd ever want to see. All I had to do was find them. I raced to my parent's house and tore through the closet. I usually kept these sneakers under my father's muddy work boots. Finally I asked my mother where they were. Now, she claims that I told her it was alright to throw them out, but anyone who knows sneakers, knows that you don't throw them out just because the toes are gone and the suede has stiffened. Anyway, she said she put them with some old shoes to be thrown away. I didn't get alarmed, yet. My father is a hoarder, and I figured that he had the bag of old boots stashed away in the barn. I'd find those sneakers, But my father let me down, for once he actually let the garbage collectors take some of his hoard of discarded goodies. I was heartbroken to learn that my sneakers were really gone, Why, they were just nicely broken in. They camefrom DeJong's clothing store in Grand Bend in 1972. At that time, everybody was wearing white leather sneakers with blue suede racing stripes. These were different. They were ,blue suede with white leather stripes. I went in- to the store in my bare feet and wore them out of the store. When school resumed in the fall, blue jeans were our official uniform, and these sneakers went with every outfit, Wearing them all the time meant you didn't have to bother changing your shoes for gym class. The same was true of Damages high in two car crash Damage was estimated at over $5000 in a two car ac- cident on highway 21 at county road 5 last Wed- nesday. A car driven by Donald Schram of London was damaged at $2500 while the other driven by Donald Vanos of Forest was damaged at $3000, A passenger in the Schram vehicle had minor injuries. In Grand Bend a car driven by Catherine Richardson of Cambridge and another driven by Lloyd Tyndall of London collided on Ontario St. About $500 damage occurred and there were no injuries. The Grand Bend detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Police laid 36 charges under the liquor act, while the Pinery park OPP laid 15. Three thefts were reported in Grand Bend and two in the area served by the Pinery detachment. Grand Bend force' laid three charges of wilful damage, but all were minor in nature. The Pinery detachment laid 35 charges under the highway traffic act, and the Grand Bend detachment laid 31. The Pinery OPP also charged one driVer under suspension, two people under the provincial parks act, and two people under the nar- cotic control act. 'thief in a hurry will cut the fisz, out of the net, leaving a hole. Last summer Wayne put extra weight on the anchor, so that the nets couldn't be pulled up without a machine such as his. Another problem is that of Mother Nature. Storms damage the nets when logs and pieces of timber are forced through them, and damage the boat when it is tossed around.But even though it was Friday the 13th not all the nets were empty. Besides 100 pounds of perch they brought in, there were five pickerel and a countless number of what Rick calls "seagull food." But even hauling in seagull food is time consuming. These fish, which are mostly suckers and catfish, have to be pulled out of the net byhandwith the picking hook just like the other fish. Then the fun begins for the seagulls. After a couple of hours of waiting around the boat, sitting on the roof, or floating on the water nearby, they finally get their reward. The seagulls squawk and fight as the catfish and suckers are dumped into the lake. The fish are pulled apart between the greedy beaks and some of the larger gulls even swallow the big fish whole. ecause of Friday's small catch, Wayne decided not to set down any more nets in that area close to shore. The next day they would be going farther out to where the nets for whitefish were. The whitefish are shipped to markets in New York, Chicago and Detroit. And there's still plenty to eat at the Fisherman's Cove. As Wayne says, it comes straight from "our boat to your table." held many "in camera" discussions on the topic. Only once has Reeve Sharen spoken openly on the disputes between the three municipal governments. However, Reeve Bob Sharen did speak openly on another matter at Monday evening's meeting. Sharen spoke in grave tones and went through a long preamble to explain the problem of the lack of by-law enforcement, Sharen said that he and council receives "all the flak" when by-laws tiP the VilMge'' aren't en- forced. Excessive noise, littering and parking violations were the problems encountered on the weekend. Much discussion followed concerning the need for a by- law enforcement officer. Paying money to the Ontario Provincial Police to patrol the village enforcing council's by-laws was also discussed. Another problem discussed was the lack of a compound or a place to lock up cars after they are towed away. Council did not come to a' decision concerning the by- law enforcement problem, but decided to look into all alternatives. Two delegates from the Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce, Nick Carter and Bob Simpson, attended the meeting. They were chastised by councillor Harold Green for charging visitors to park on the beach during the Burgerfest, weekend, Green said that council gave the beach to the chamber and did not intend that chamber could charge parking fees. After the chamber delegation agreed that fees would not be charged another year. Green complimented Please turn to page 4A curling clOb, and these sneakers went out on the ice every Monday night. It wasn't long before the suede on the right toe was smoothed off from my long slides to the hog line, They were so comfortable that I wore them every day during the summers of 1973 and 1974 when I served hotdogs and milkshakes to the hungry campers at Pinery Park in the con- cession store. I remember well the day that Richard Nixon quit. Some kid had spilled a sticky snow-cone on the floor of the store, and my sneakers stuck to the gooey syrup every time I had to walk over that spot. I threw a newspaper over the sticky spot, and then my sneakers stepped on Nixon's face as I delivered orders. These same sneakers saw me through my brief basketball career. When you're 5'2" tall, you don't really count on being a basketball star. But in my last year at North Lambton Secondary in Forest, there were rumours that the senior girls basketball team would fold if more players didn't show up. To save the team, a bunch of us shorties joined. We won one game during the season, and that was against Sarnia Northern while they were having a 'flu epidemic. But those sneakers saved my feet from being trampled when some of those six foot amazon girls we played against didn't see me. The sneakers carried me on a trip through the Rocky Mountains and on several school excursions. One time I was visiting a school in Washington D.C. and the kids there wanted to know where I got the great looking sneakers. They groaned when I showed them the "Made in Canada" label because they said they couldn't find those in 'the States. By now you can-guess how rotten these sneakers must Please turn to page 4A atims_efori BY MARY ALDEF'SON