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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-05-21, Page 17BEAUTIFUL ICE CREAM — Pupils at Grand Bend Public School took their dress rehearsal for Anne of Green Gables outdoors Friday to ph.otagraph the ice cream scene. The children will be presenting the musical next Wednesday and Thursday at the school. More pictures are on page 2A. Staff photo Page IA MAY 21, 1980 Price Per Copy 35 Cents Crawford says Grand Bend "ripped off" Playhouse to use lagoon COMMODORE SALUTES — Commodore John Warren on Straight Arrow salutes other boats as they move by his in the sail-past. Pipers supplied music for the occasion.Staff photo • WILDCAT SETS$Alktm -'-BciP CPmpbel,watches out the%side as hcsteers,the.Wildcat)n the race Saturday. His family and neighbours crewed the ship while pipe band member Hari* Grimshow looked on. Staff photo Busing kindergarten might be considered ov-,111 YACHT CLUB EXECUTIVE — Looking after Grand Bend's yacht club this summer are: Vice tommodore Russ Lingard, rear coornodore Bob Campbell, past commodore Ben Cramer, wharffinger Keith Thar, and in the front row treasurer Al Jeffries, commodore John' Warren, and secretary Len Hume. Staff photo Mary's, musings BY MARY ALDERSON On being a land-lovei -.Rawsmsde ENGINE POWERS WASHER — At the Lambton Heritage Museum, Grand Bend, Harm DOURICI of Forest shows how a gasoline engine powers an old washing machine. The museum is hosting a gas engine and antique craft day on May 25. Museum getting ready for pioneer festival Sail-iebrtdion!! I took a chair out on the balcony and wrote some letters, After .an hour of watching waves lap against the building underneath me, I began to feel queasy. I crawled back to my bed. Room service couldn't even tempt me with supper. I know enough to take Gravol pills before I even go near an airport. I've learned that one pill prevents sickness, while two pills will put me to sleep and the whole gruesome flight. I have been able to survive several flights without the need of the little white bag, Except once.. We were flying home from Panama City, Florida. Now, Panama City has a very small air- port, and therefore only very small planes fly out of it. You have to land in Atlanta to take a bigger plane home. How small is Panama City airport? Well, as we were waiting in the airport, the pilot, wearing a cowboy hat, 'walked up to our small group and said, "Y'all wanna git on the plane now?" It happened that hurricane winds were battering the coast of Florida's panhandle that day. Our little plane climbed a few feet in the air, and then seemed to drop down about ten feet. That continued all the way' to Atlanta. Misery loves company. I certainly wasn't alone with the handly little bag, You'd think that someone with my history would know better than 'to take a i Caribbean Mite, But all my+ Lambton county board of education director Norval Cheeseman told Grand Bend council Tuesday night that there is a possibility kin- dergarten pupils may be bussed to Bosanquet Central school next fall. Cheeseman said that if there aren't enough children enrolled in kindergarten, bussing may be considered, although many other factors* are involved, he added. He said that the children would have to go for a full day every other day, rather than straight half days if they were 'riding a bus. Cheeseman met with council to discuss various problems in the village, He told council he would look into the matter of having the border line between South Huron District High School and North Lambton Secondary School changed. At present the line runs down Main Street,sending students in the village to two different high schools. Council told Cheeseman it would like to see the village all go to one school. Because the village is all in Lambton County, it would like ing a t-shirt with the boat's name, Straight Arrow, on it; tries to cover a grin as he salutes each boat. Fin on board the Wildcat. We return his salute with a loud blast from the so-called canned horn, At least, it appears to be an aerosol can With a horn on top. Skipper of the Wildcat, Bob Campbell; is rear ma- Triedore of the yacht club this season. Campbell lives in. London and teaches secon- dary school in Arva. His crew consists of his wife. Isobel. and son Geoff. Geoff has the honour of squeezing the born. Also helping out are his. neighbours, 'Carol Bleadon and her sons Curt and Ian., I'M not the only passenger on Wildcat. Harry students to go to high school in Forest. Councillor' Harold Green told Cheeseman that he would like to see an arrangement made where students who' live just out- side the village come to Grand Bend Public School. "It bugs me, A school bus goes right past our school to pick up , kids in a sub- division." Green explained that a bus from Huron county picks up children along Gill Road, then goes right past Grand Bend public school and drives them 14 miles to Stephen Central. Green also said that he would like to see the bor- derline between Grand Bend public school and Bosanquet Central school moved from Pinery Park to the Ausable River cut. Green said that the cut was supposed to be the dividing line. Reeve Robert 'Sharen pointed out that pupils from the cut area could get to Grand Bend school in snow storms, while they might not be able to get to Bosanquet.,0 Green asked Cheeseman if the proposed loss of_ one Orirnsbaw, of the Forest' Legion, Pipe Band, makes up the other halt of the passenger list, ' Prior to the sail-past, the, pipe band had announced the Sail-past. COMmodOre Warren is .a member of the pipe band, and had per- suaded his fellow pipers and 'drummers to join the festivities. Several members of the band are on Warren's boat, and piped during the sail:: past, kilts blowing in the breeze. Following the sail-pa0, yacht club members gather fora race, There are two starting times, one for Smaller, vessels, and one for the larger boats, Wildcat, a 34 foot yacht, races. with the larger boats: The skipper has to watch the pier where the timer sits. A series of coloured flags indicate the number •of minutes before, starting time. The yachts jockey for position, Then a gun and a flag, announces that the race is on. Campbell's ' instructions consist of mostly "trim the jenny" or "ease the main sail". The "jenny" or gem:4 is a jib sail, I learned. The jib is the front sail. Campbell, explains that because this isn't a formal , race, he isn't going to bother changing the jib sail. Nor- mally, a race would call for a different sized sail. But 'this race is just for fun, and is just the first in a series this summer. We travel about three miles out into the lake, turn around a marker and head back. There's an off-shore breeze blowing, which Campbell says can sonaetitoe's be tricky because of the unexpected gusts. coming off the land. A few 'times the Wildcat seems to stand on. edge,. but she settles down nicely, We're damp, but we don't know if it's just the spray of the water or if it's raining. After the race, the yachts, dock. Campbell warns :not to stick out an. arm or a leg to stop. the Wildcat as she slides, in beside the posts. With a big yacht, you just don't do, that. You're more apt to break bones than. change the boat's ditwtion, The yacht club serves wine and cheese along the. river, bank. The drizzle, Changes to a. heavy rain, and, they move into the club house. But it doesn't seem any party spirits are dant- petted. Woman injured on bumper cars A woman was taken to South Huron Hospital in Exeter by an officer of the Grand Bend Ontario Provincial Police detach- ment after she was injured when her hair got caught in a bumper car ride. Cristal Towle of St. Catharines was treated and released from hospital. Ontario Provincial Police at Pinery Park investigated an accident Friday when a car struck a deer on highway 21 just south of the park entrance. There was $650.00 damage• to the car driven by Judy Pysznyj of London. There were no injuries in the accident which was in- vestigated by ConstableR.L. Hodge. Constable C.F. Russell investigated a single car accident on the port Franks Road Saturday. Damage to a vehicle driven by Dean Leblanc of London was estimated at $600.00'. Again there were no injuries. ,Pinery OPP laid 107 charges under the liquor 'licence over the holiday weekend. The recently opened OPP detachment in Grand Bend laid 34 liquor licence act charges, 32 of which were seizures. One impaired driver was charged in Grand Bend. herd• wer charged under the highway traffic act by Pinery OPPand 54 by the Grand Bend detachment, Seven narcotic control act charges were, laid by Pinery. Six thefts were in- vestigated in Grand Bend ranging from tapes to bicycles. Pinery OPP in- vestigated two thefts. One incident of•wilfulidamagewas investigated by the Grand Bend force, Pinery OPP laid 39 charges under the provincial parks act, and investigated an additional 26 miscellaneous occurrences. It was with great trepidation that- I ap- preached my excursion with the yacht club Saturday. I have' a tendency towards motion sickness, and I didn't know how I'd feel after bouncing about in ,the choppy waters of Lake Huron for a few hours. It was also my first time out in a sailing vessel. Tendency towards motion sickness--heck, I get sick as a dog just riding in an elevator. I'll wander around a department store for an hour just looking for an escalator, or even climb a long stairway, to avoid an elevator. During my university years, room-mates used to get exasperated with me because I wouldn't even look at apartments in high rises. Actually, it's not the elevator ride that Upsets Me, it's the stopping and starting that turns my stomach. But with my luck, somebody wants On or off at every floor, This motion sickness has plagued me all my life, Yes, I confess to being one of those whining little kids in the back seat on long car rides, I really don't even need motion to make me sick--I just have to think I'm in motion. I once had the occasion to stay in the Holiday Inn in Windsor. My room had a beautiful balcony jutting out over St. Clair River. Seagulls circled above. What ,a beautiful location, I thought. board of health and Other officials, they had decided that the best way of correcting the situation would be to put in a line from the playhouse to the newly constructed sewage lagoon. Amos pointed out that although the playhouse does not pay any taxes .into the village, they do benefit the village by bringing. tourists. Councillor Bill Baird told Amos that the playhouse should apply to the Ontario. Municipal Board to be an- nexed into the village. After the delegates left the meeting, Crawford called for the recorded vote. "We're not here to be popular," he said, again asking council to stick with their policy of not giving village benefits to people who don't pay taxes in the village, Baird agreed that he didn't like to support the motion. He said that if council goes along with the 'playhouse's so-called friends assured me that wouldn't feel a thing in a big cruise ship. Wrong again. When your room is in the very point of the bow of the ship, well under the water, and you can feel the boun- cing and hear the waves splashing right outside the wall, you get seasick, When Gravol ceasedto benefit me, I went to see the doctor on board, and he gave me some even stronger magic pills. I survived the cruise, by living only for the daily trips ashore, I still had my "sea-legs" a few days after getting back on good old terra firma. Every night when I went to bed I still felt like I was swaying with the ship. Finally I went to see a doctor, who diagnosed my problem as labyrinth-itis. Don't laugh, there is such a thing. It feels like permanent seasickness. It came back to haunt me last summer when I decided that our boat tied up at dock was the ideal place to get a sun tan. I sat in the boat with a pile of magazines and soaked up the sun. When I stood up, I couldn't walk. So you can see why I was a little worried about going sailing. Fortunately, Bob Campbell and his family and friends are excellent Sailors. "Wildcat" remained upright--at least most of the time. I enjoyed the "sail-past" and the race very much. But then, I had taken one of those little Magic pills about an hour before casting off. Preparations are nearly complete for Lambton Heritage Museum's special pioneer day this Sunday. "We'd like to invite everyone," said curator Bob Tremaine. Antique engines and pioneer crafts will be on display from noon to five p.m. The museum, located five miles south of Grand Bend on highway 21, will be featuring several types of antique gasoline engines, including tractors and autos. Also included will be the Mogul 8.16 which was manufactured in 1914. It is the oldest tractor in Lamb- ton County and has a top speed of two miles per hour. Another feature is an old steam traction engine. The Homesteader's Antique Engine Association from Ilderton will be ex- plaining the operation of twenty engines which they have restored. Portable engines will power saws, mills and pumps in order to demohstrate their various uses. Local residents will be demonstrating pioneer crafts. Kay Penhale of Elimville will be demon- strating basket weaving, and Catherine Junker of Grand Bend will be showing how pioneers made their corn husk dolls, Laverne Jackson of Wyoming will be demon- strating harness making. The old fashion art of curling right to sit here and bitch about being taken advantage of." Sharen told him that the playhouse is in a category by itself. "We do get taken advantage of, but we don't want to cut off our nose to paper, quilling, will be demonstrated by Dawn Crab, of Grand Bend. Stained glass work will be done by Wolfgang Suppan of Grand Bend. Jean Thomson of Thedford will use sheep's wool for weaving and spinning. Chair caning will be demonstrated agreement to suit both sides. Sharen suggested that the village would look into taking over the ownership of the line after it was con- structed. They would also have to be on the look out for "midnight diggers", people who might tap into the line illegally, he added. by Finlay McKindley of Uttoxeter and Joyce McColl, Forest. Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase many of the craft products. During the day, films on Canadian craftmanship will be shown, and two pipers from the Forest Legion Pipe Band will entertain. anyone else that does it," councillor Keith Crawford said. Sharen also said that Owen should be told that his tenants in the old Peek and Seek have not paid their transient trader's fee of $300. "He goes on television and talks about rabble, then lets them open, knowing full well what our rules are," Sharen said. Owen said in a television interview with CFPL, London last week that he would not be opening the Village Inn over the holiday weekend because of the rowdyism irf the village. At a proposed business improvement area meeting last week, Owen said that he didn't like all the "rabble" that comes to Grand Bend. He said he couldn't see any point in fixing up the village, because it would be destroyed by vandals. In a recorded vote, council decided to agree in principle to let Huron Country Playhouse pipe sewage directly into the new lagoon. Only councillor Keith Crawford would not support the motion. "I can see the problem and I do sym- pathize,"Xrawford said. But he told council that they are complaining about • ff" and "taken advantage of" by the surrounding areal. He 'said that council came up with a policy• not to let outsiders take advantage of . village benefits, and he did not want to make an exception of that policy. Earlier in the meeting council met with three representatives of Huron Country Playhouse board - Bettie Gibbs, Bill Amos and Jim Kneale, Amos told council that the playhouse was having dif- ficulties with their septic system. After consulting the By MARY ALDERSON With the kink of a "canned" horn and a salute, Wildcat passes inspection, I guess. I had prepared myself for a very formal event. It. was called a Sail-past. I was told that the commodore anchors his boat out in the lake;, and all the Metribers of the yacht club sail past while he ,in- speets. That's what happened, but it :was certainly far from for- mal. Saturday was the open- .ing of another yachting season. Commodore John Warren anchors his boats and with coloured flags announcing that it is part of the Grand; Bend yacht club, the.. sail- past begins. Warren, wear- ' teacher at Grand Bend public school is the first step in closing the school down. Cheeseman told him that 50 schools ,in the county are losing teachers, and that it doesn't mean a school will be closing, Councillor Keith Crawford asked Cheeseman if the recent secondary school teachers strike was a' "blessing" because of the money saved. Cheeseman said that it wasn't because of the number of students who dropped out, and because of the problems he is now having getting universities and colleges to accept the students. "It's trite to say, but no one wins in a strike," Cheeseman said. He said that an arbitration hearing will be held on May 30, and they hope that a settlement will be made quickly after that. Cheeseman told council that while it appears that the education levy is up 8.6 percent over last year, it is really only up 3.2 percent because of the money saved during the strike. plan, they would have to make a strict agreement. "I'd like to see the agreement buttoned down so damn tight. It would have to be a one time deal," Baird said. Reeve'Sharen said that council could support the proposal because the spite our face," Sharen said. playhouse is a non-profit "I don't like doing it, but we organization. haVe to," Harold Green "Here We. are ,SaYing„„we „, added: , Another .suggestion was cad, make -ati exception. I Crawford said that.-,the -that meters be put on the line think it stinks. No pun in- summer would be over both at the playhouse and at tended'," Crawford said. before the playhouse and the the lagoon so that a close After 'the motion passed, council would be able to watch on the amount of Crawford said, "We have no come up with a legal sewage could be kept. Council may charge Village Inn owner Grand Bend council decided Tuesday night to have Micheal Owen of the Village Inn charged under the construction safety by- law and the building by-law. Reeve Robert Sharen told council that Owen owns the old Peek and Seek building to the east of the Village Inn and the old drugstore building on the west side. Sharen told council that Owen was making renovations to the drugstore building without a building permit, and it was not made safe. "A building inspector put a stop work order °nit," Sharen said. Sharen added that he understood Owen was putting pinball machines in the building. All council Members agreed that Owen should be charged under the two by- laws, "He's the one saying we need police enforcement, -We'd chargenotonly him, but