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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981
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Homeowners who had ,urea formaldehyde
foam insulation installed are giving the
government a fight in a battle for compen-
sation and residents in Huron County may
join the fight.
Grant Chisholm of Lucknow has set up a
meeting for Wednesday, September 9 in the
Lucknow Community Centre and all area
homeowners with urea formaldehyde insula-
tion are invitedto attend the information
meeting.
Recently a HUFFI group was formed in
the Perth County area and Chisholm says the
LI... case of
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The Lucknow and District .Fire Depart-
ment has beendelayed in responding to, fire
alarms at times, because people calling the
department leave insufficient information.
If you should be so unfortunate as to have
a fire entergency, particularly in a rural area,
and are :reporting it.,tothe department,
please be sure to state clearly your name, lot
number, concession number, township and
phone nuibber. -In Ashfield Township .state.
whether the emergency isin the east or west
division.
If this procedure is foil •wed, the fire
department has better chances Of serving
you efficiently.
Pulling
team
hous
clans
The Lucknow Tractor Pulling Team of
Glen Porter and Art Helm faired well at a
recent tractor pull in Adrian, Michigan
cleaning house in the 7,000 modified and
9,500 open classes..
Helm's "Second Choice" took first in both
classes, with Barb Helm at the wheel in the
7,000 class winning her first trophy since she
began driving a -year 'ago.
"The Noisy Lady" made. • her first
appearance at a pull since she was ,rebuilt
this .past spring and showed she hasn't lost
herstyle, taking second in both classes.
The Michigan pull was sanctioned by the
Great Lakes Tractor Pulling. Association and
Michigan Tractor Pullers Inc.
problem. is serious enough to .band Huron
home owners together. •
"The meeting is open to anyone and if
there is enough interest . we will work
towards forming a county group," he said:
"There are some horrible stories about it
(the foam)."
MPs Dr: Gary Gurbin and Murray Cardiff
will attend the meeting along with a repres-
entative.of the County Health Department to
answer questions and concerns.
The featured guest speaker at the meeting
is Bill Bremner of Mississauga, interim
chairman of HUFFI. Bremner is the former
owner of an insulation company and became
involved with HUFFI as a matter of
conscience since he was involved in recruit-
ing dealersfor the since banned insulation.
Bremner believes that the companies
selling and installing the foam .insulation
were mislead by the government and manu-
facturers on the proper procedure to install
the product
Urea formaldehyde foam insulation was
given the green light by the government in
1977 despite the fact that many countries
had banned use of the foam. Many home-
owners took advantage of the federally -fund-
ed Canadian Heine Insulation Program
(CHIP) to .install the insulation but the
government banned its use last year.
It is estimated that as many as 18 per cent,
of the pori esvitlx the foam have ;problems.
The main problemis that thefoam has been
placed
in 'the- wrong type' bf structuresand
only homes with an all wood structure can
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ropose low cost loans for farmers
The . Ontario Federation of Agriculture
(OFA) is enthusiastic about a federal
proposal to provide low cost loans for
farmers.
OFA. president Ralph Barrie said farmers
have been pushing federal government for
over a yearto provide affordable loans.
The announcement was made by federal
agriculture minister Eugene Whelan in
Toronto' yesterday.
He . said the Farm Credit Corporation
(FCC) Act would be amended this fall to
allow the corporation to receive outside
funds. Investors will not have to pay tax on
the interest so loans could be made to
farmers at 14 per cent,
Barrie said he hopes the federal govern-
ment . will make . it a priority item when
parliament reconvenes
"Low cost money, and lots of it, could
keep thousands ° of Canadian farmers from
being forced out of business: We need help
and we need it soon." '
Barrie cautioned that over the past two
years, Whelan has made several other
suggestions for giving FCC more funds. "I
hope this isn't jest another trial balloon", he
said. •
Barrie urged the federal government to
make its intentions known • as quickly as
possible.
A lot of bankers will soon be deciding
which farmer goes and which one stays. If
they know for sure help is on the way, it will
make all the difference."
Barrie urged all farmers to let the federal
government know . they need help right
away,
Local hamlets have interesting histories
Belfast was once Altonville, Lanes had a blacksmith shop and two churches
By Ted McConnell
Record SStaff'QVriter
Who has ever heard of Donnybrook,
Ontario? Or how about Belfast, Prosperity,
Mafeking, Marnock and Lanes?
.They exist - at least on the map of
Ashfield, East Wawanosh and West Wawa-
nosh
awa
nosh townships south of Lucknow and
Wingham.
Little remains now of these communities
that tried to make it without either water-
power or railroad, and failed. But there are a
few people who have preserved histories and
legends.
Lanes, for instance, is one hamlet with a
history. .
A sign oe a utility pole reads, Lanes -
Population 5. "And that's that," says
Bernice Kemp, who with her husband and
three children make up the population of the
hamlet, eight kilometres southwest of
Lucknow,
' "If anyone overpopulates Lanes,it won't
be me."
William Lane came her as the first settler
in 1873 and two reminders survived him: the
hamlet's name and the general store he
started,
But Lanes never' really had a chance,
although in its heyday, it had a blacksmith
shop and two churches. It served then, as it
does now, a farming community.
The last blacksmith, Harvey Miller, left in
the 1960s but the general store remains.
One year after the store opened, 'the
owner's son, John Lane, became the first
postmaster at x5 a year. In 1886, William
Lane, John's brother, enlarged the store and
post office and the postmaster's pay went up
to x8.54.
I icliard Lane, another son of the founder,
took over the store in. 1894 when the job of
postmaster commanded SIO a year.
Others operated the store over the years
and in 1923, Ervin Zinn came from' Hanover
to take over the business. He expanded the
services to include a cream -testing station.
Ail storekeepers since the business was
founded have . lived in an attached house.
The Kemps bought life business in 1976.
Go east from Lanes along. Ashfield
concession 2 for six kilometres and you come
to the crossroads ,community of Belfast.
When surveyed for a townsite in .1-858, it was
named Newcastle. This name was scratched
out on the map by some person unknown and
the name Altonville penned in in recognition
of an early surveyor, Joseph Alton.
When settlers arrived, they were nearly
all from Irtyeland and some of Erin went to
the county
seat th�errch, got the map and
after nkin
inking over Altonville name, wrote
in Belfast, the name that has continued
s• The map indicates Matching, three
kilometres south of Lanes, but no remnant of
this settlement remains. Ho doubt Mafeking
was named after the South African city but
the settlement of Huron County was
completed well before the 1900 date when
the" African centre gained prominence
because of its 217 -page siege during the
Boer War.
Prosperity has not lived up to its optimistic
name. It was 15 kilometres south of Lucknow
but has disappeared as community.
St. Augustine was named after the Roman
Catholic church built Ahree kilometres north
of Prosperity. The fine stone e church remains
and is still in use and there are about a half a
dozen homes in the corner communiity.
South of Lucknow is another community,
St. Helens, but in this case the church was
named after the harslet. St, Helens Calvin.
Church is carved above the door. The church
is still in use and is a part of a joint United
Church charge with . Trinity Ashfield.
St. Helens is the largest of the hamlets
with a population of more than 100 and
streets laid out. It once had a retail centre
but the last store, Siecker's General Store
recently closed,
You drive past Marnock but there is
nothing to indicate it sas ince a centre for a
farming community, so drive on to Donny-
brook, a name that conjures up thoughts of
fighting and bloodshed. •
Although named by its pioneers after the
village near Dublin, there is little to indicate
the Huron County village ever lived up to its
name. 1-/.•