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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-05-11, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1988. CranbrookS,—,— Compiled by Mrs. Mac Engel. Phone 887-6645 Cranbrook people Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cummins, Toronto, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stevenson and family, Whitby, visited at Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Stevenson’s and attended the Sowerby-Gordon wedding in Brus­ sels, April 30. Rick Knight has been working in Toronto and is now back at the University of Waterloo for the summer. On behalf of the Cancer Society Yvonne Knight would like to thank the canvassers and those who donated the $800 collected in Cranbrook and area. Girls from the Youth Group visited at a Mitchell Nursing Home with Mrs. Weir and she taught Grey Central Echo PIN DAY by Darren Hemingway On April 27 at Grey we had a pin day. All the girls from Gr. 4 to Gr. 8 pinned on tags with their name. Beginning at 9 a.m., if any girl talked to a boy the girl gave the boy her tag. The boys tried to get the girls to talk, and many of them succeeded. Most of the tags were gone before lunch, although a handful of girls took their tags home with them. Most boys received a tag, butthereare always a few who aren’t that lucky. We all had fun participating in this special day. KI WANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL by Jimmy Cook This year Gr. 2-8 are going to the Stratford Kiwanis Music Festival. Gr. 2 - 6 are conducted by Mrs. Whitmore and Gr. 7-8 are conduct­ ed by Mr. Colquhoun. Grey Central has placed very, very well so far. We have won many awards. We are glad to given this chance to perform in front of others. BORDENBALL HOUSELEAGUES by S. Stewart and K. McGuigin We have just started bordenball houseleagues. There are four differentleagues ^hat consist of two or three teams The leagues are senior girls and boys and junior girls and boys. On the senior teams there are about 8 or 9 people andon the juniors 6 or 7. In this game you throw the ball back and forth but you have to keep the ball away from the other team and when you go to score you throw the ball underhand in to the net. It’s simple and easy to learn. OUR NEW CLASSMATE by A. Williams and L. Schyff Monday, April 25, a new student arrived in Grade 7. His name is Thomas Rechsteiner. He came from Switzerland and does not speak much English. He is 14 and a half and enjoys sports and music. He will be going to Quebec and Ottawa with the Grade 7 class during the second week of June. We are very pleased to have him here. MRS. PARSONS by R. Boyd and L. Hemmingway On April 27-29, Mrs. Parsons our school resource teacher atten­ ded ECOO - Colours of Computing, which was held in Toronto. Here, Mrs. Parsons presented two work- shopsto teachers at the Confer­ ence. They were: 1. Computers and the School Resource Teacher; them to knit. The Youth Group and friends went to Ranton Place where they enjoyed swimming and other activities. Eight members of Cranbrook W.M.S. attended the meeting on May 4 in the Atwood Presbyterian Church when Helen Barker was guest speaker. There will be a miscellaneous bridal shower for Wendy Smith in the Cranbrook Community Centre on Tuesday, May 17. Everyone welcome. Anyone interested in playing ball, come to Lloyd Smith’s on May 12 for registration. 2. Creating and Using Data Bases for Computers. “It was an excellent confer­ ence,” Mrs. Parsons commented. She also attended lots of work­ shops. For example: keyboarding skills and ICON computers. Mrs. Parsons hopes to attend the conference again next year. TALENT SHOW by L. Schyff and A. Williams On Wednesday, April 20 a talent show was put on by the Grey Central students. The talents ranged from skipping to singing. There were auditions the day before and teachers picked the Health Unit needs more room for staff Huron County council will have to help members of the Huron County Health Unit find more room because the number of people working in the present office and the case load is increasing, council­ lors learned when the Board of Health report was presented on Wednesday, May 4. The offices of the medical officer of health, dental director, director of nursing, health educator and nutritionist have to be transferred to Clinton either to a spot at Huron vie w or find another location in the community., At the same time the Public Health office should remain in Goderich either in the court house or possibly in a storefront location. Council also learned the public health locations in Wingham and Exeter have to be upgraded to accommodate the needs of health unit programs, one-stop access and HAARC. Space presently at Seaforth should be utilized by the health unit and the present office in Brussels should be retained. There is an opening for a speech pathologist in the county and eight applications have been received. Four of them are from Ireland, two from England and one from Wales and Canada. References are being sought to help in the decision making process. In the Huron County Pioneer Museum report the council learned that staff at the museum have taken possession of the new 4-H club camps at park On Tuesday evening the Cran­ brook 4-H Club had their outing at Benmiller Conservation Area. The youth leader Jean Locking demonstrated different types of camp fires. The members cooked their supper over two of these fires under the direction of Stacey Boyd, the food convenor. Jean then went through some of the activities in the member’s pamphlet. The convenor of the program committee, Angie Williams, con­ ducted some activities. Everyone walked down to the falls to see the trout going up the river. They then held a marshmallow roast. The clean-up committee, under the direction of Jolanda Vanass, clean­ ed up the site and put out the fires. most suitable talents put on. Refreshments were served afterwards. Many compliments were said about the talent show. SCOTTISH DAY by T. Vandale andD. Hemmingway We had a presentation day about Scotland. It included the singing of Scottish songs by the grade 6 class, a speech by Julie Riddols, the highland fling by Bronwyn Dun­ bar, playing of the bagpipes by Mr. Don Dunbar and a 5 minute film called ‘‘Pipers and A”. Also 19 parents were present for the presentation and stayed after­ wards for cookies and tea. building and moved into offices in March. When the open house was held on Sunday, May 1 two of the guests were unable to be present. Lily Munroe and Huron MPP Jack Riddell couldn’t be present due to other commitments. Museum pro­ ject director Claus Breede was pleased with the number of people who were at the opening. “We had about 400 visitors come for the opening and tour,’’ he said. He added that $350 were taken in from donations plus the selling of memberships. The museum will be open throughout the year now and Breede was pleased the town of Goderich will soon have the construction around the museum complete. When the agriculture and pro­ perty committee report was pre­ sented council approved grants for 14 agricultural societies in the county. There were two applicants for the position of hospital representa­ tive for the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich. Joseph Porter, vice-principal of South Huron High School, Exeter and Michael J. Donnelly, a lawyer in Goderich and lifelong resident both wished to be the representa­ tive. Council voted to ask Donnelly to be the representative. County council gave permission to Moira Hoogeveen of Islington to use parts of a book entitled ‘The Settlement of Huron County’ in a screen-play she recently wrote concerning events surrounding the election of 1841. Obituaries FRANK CARTER Frank Carter, former resident of Brussels passed away on Sunday, May 1, 1988 in his 90th year. The funeral service was held at the M.L. Watts Funeral Home in Brussels, on May 3 with intern­ mentin the Brussels Cemetery. Rev. Charles Carpentier officiat­ ed. Born in Hooper, Washington, U.S.A., May 29, 1898, he came to Canada in 1910 with his parents to homestead in Alberta. During the First World War he joined the army. In 1931 he married Hilda Davies who had moved to Alberta from Hereford, England along with her parents and seven brothers and sisters. The couple farmed near Sedge­ wick, Alberta until 1942 when he moved to a Brussels-area farm on the Fourth Concession of Morris Township. It had originally been a Sedgewick pharmacist’s (George Crooks) ancestral home. He travelled from Alberta to Ontario, ahead of his family, during an extremely cold early December on the freight train with his livestock. It was a long and difficulttrip whichended with a wonderful welcome and lots of assistance from his new neigh­ bours and their families (Russell Currie, Pearl Lowe, Jim Bryans, Francis Duncan, Charlie Davis and Bill Henderson). He never forgot it nor probably did they -- seeing these “Westerners’’ with their seemingly untamed horses, etc., arrive in what was then a settled, three-generations-type farming community. Upon retirement in the ‘70’s he moved into the village of Brussels. Later he went to Hanover where he became active in lawn bowling and senior’s activities -- thoroughly, enjoying retirement life with those around him. Eventually he moved to Whitby to be closer to both of his daughters living in Toronto. He was an active member of the Whitby Lawn Bowling Club until last summer. He enjoyed curling in both Sedgewick and Brussels and was a founding member of both the Brussels Senior Citizens’ Club and the Brussels Lawn Bowling Club in its present location. He was instrumental in the club’s acquisi­ tion of the old railway station for a club house and had it moved to the Brussels fair grounds. Also, hewas very proud of a trophy in his name which is still awarded annually in August by the Brussels Lawn Bowling Club. He was a life member of both the Brussels Curling and Lawn Bowling Clubs. He had many fond memories of his friends and years spent in both Brussels and Hanover. Frank was predeceased by his wife, the late Hilda (Davies) Carter in January 1963. He leaves two daughters, Betty (Mrs. Gary Ire­ land) and Kathy Carter both of Toronto, one brother George of Kamloops, B.C. who is in his 83rd year and one sister, Nellie Whit­ ford of Surrey, B.C. who is in her 86th year. Serving as pallbearers were J ack Bryans, Gary Ireland, Doug Hem­ ingway, Bill Turnbull, Wayne Lowe and Jim Bowman. ROBERT HOWSON COULTES Robert Howson Coultesof the third line of Morris township died Monday, May 2,1988 at Wingham and District Hospital after a short illness. He was in his 83rd year. He was born in Morris the son of the late John Coultes and Ellen Miller, and received his education at the Stone School on the second of Morris. He married the former Ellen Stonehouse on Sept. 16, 1933. The couple farmed on the third line until they moved to Belgrave in 1966. She predeceased him in 1978. Mr. Coultes served on the board of the Belgrave Co-op and also served for several years on the board of the Wingham and District Hospital. He was a member of Knox United Church, Belgrave. He had been a resident of Brookhaven Nursing Home, Wing­ ham for a few years. He is survived by two sons: Bill and his wife Muriel, and Glenn and his wife Dorothy, all of the third line of Morris. Also surviving are five granddaughters, four grand­ sons and four great-grandchild­ ren. He was predeceased by two brothers, Asiland John and two sisters, Cela Keating and Lena Mitchell. His nephew Jack S. Walker of Goderich conducted the funeral service on May 4, 1988 at the McBurney Funeral Home, Wing­ ham. Rev. John G. Roberts also took part. Interment was in Brandon Cemetery, Belgrave. Serving as pallbearers were four grandsons, Paul and Steven Coul­ tes, Paul Cook and Mark Matheson and two nephews, Bruce McDon­ ald and Kenneth Mitchell. Flower­ bearers were grandchildren Lisa Matheson, Alison and Andrea Coultes and Mark and Tim Coul­ tes. FLORENCE G. JOHNSTON A resident of the Bluevale area for many years, Florence G. Johnston passed away Sunday, May 1, 1988 at Victoria Hospital, London, Ont. She was in her 72nd year. Born August 18, 1916 in West Wawanosh Twp., Mrs. Johnston was the daughter of the late John McQuillin and Elizabeth Habick. She attended school at St. Helens and Lucknow and graduated as a Registered Nurse from Stratford General Hospital in 1938. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother and grand­ mother. She was known for her musical talents, culinary attributes and handicraft skills. Especially remembered as.a caring nurse and for her steadfast friendship. She was a member of Bluevale United Church and was church organist for many years. Also remembered as an active and valued member of United Church Women, Bluevale Women’s Insti­ tute and Bluevale Senior Citizens. Left to mourn is her husband Carl E. Johnston; one daughter Marie and her husband Neil McGavin of RR 4, Walton; two sons, Keith and his wife Bonnie of RR 2, Bluevale and Dr. Terry and his wife Theresa of RR 1, Atwood. She was also loved by 10 grand­ children Brian, Cathy, Jeff and Heather McGavin; Donna, David and Carla Johnston; Michael, Mark and Matthew Johnston. Also survived by brother Frank McQuil- lin and his wife Laurine of RR 1, Lucknow. She was predeceased by her parents, sisters Ruth McQuillin and Dorothy McCabe and a brother Fred McQuillin. Friends and neighbours paid their respects at the McBurney Funeral Home in Wingham. Fun­ eral service was held at the Bluevale United Church on Wed­ nesday, May 4, 1988 with Rev. Bonnie Lamble officiating. Inter­ ment was in Wingham Cemetery. Pallbearers were nephews Ivan McQuillin, Kitchener; Brian Mc­ Cabe, Toronto; Terry Wilson, Wingham; Ken Johnston, RR 2, Blue vale; Glen Johnston, RR 2, Bluevale; Murray Johnston, RR 2, Bluevale. Flowerbearers were Ross Pea­ cock, Milton; Barry Harris, Lam­ beth; Barry McQuillin, Oshawa.