Village Squire, 1977-08, Page 26PEOPLE
Huron county native Harry J. Boyle will
be stepping down some day soon from his
powerful post as chairman of the Canadian
Radio and Telecommunications Commis-
sion to pursue a new career. Though as an
age when many men think of retirement,
Boyle who already has made a mark as an
author and novelist, a broadcaster at
Wingham, a newspaper reporter at
Stratford and a broadcaster with the
C.B.C. in Toronto is looking over offers to
set him off on a whole new direction.
Back in Huron county recently to see a
performance at the Blyth Summer Festival
of A Summer Burning adapted from his
novel of the same name by Anne Roy.
Boyle said he was hiding out to let the
situation cool off after delivery of his
controversial report on separatist bias in
Radio Canada, the French language arm of
the C.B.C. He was severely criticized in the
media for his suggestion that the media
was inadvertently contributing to separat-
ism in Canada not only in Quebec but int he
west because it wasn't doing a good
enough job of telling Canadians from one
part of the country about Canadians from
other parts of the country. He said he was
amazed at the defensive reaction displayed
by the press.
Another familiar Western Ontario face,
or perhaps Western Ontario voice would be
more apt. will be taking on a new career.
Jim Swan who for 12 ears has helped
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Western Ontario families get up with the
bird", each morning at 6 a.m. has
broadcast his last morning show at CKNX
radio and is headed down the road to
London and DFPL television where he will
host a daily morning television show along
with another former CKNX hand, Carol
Campbell.
He will be missed by those in the north
end of the coverage area of the station who
will not be able to pick up the London
television signal. Not only will his cheerful
voice not be around in the early morning,
but his enthusiastic involvement in so
many facets of Western Ontario life, from
the arts to sports. Despite his early start on
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the day he was often at events in his area
until midnight or later at night.
This love for the Western Ontario way of
life he hopes to take with him to his new
post, he says. He intends to continue living
in Wingham and commuting, thus keeping
him in touch with the people and the
atmosphere he has come to enjoy so much
in the past decade and a half in the area.'
Speaking of changes of professions, Ross
Hargreaves, a dairy farmer from Sweaburg
in Oxford county has the two former
gentlemen topped by a mile. Mr.
Hargreaves has been farming since 1951
but this month he'll give it up to become
minister of Thames Road United Church,
in the Exeter area. A licences lay preacher
since 1963, he finally became ready to
accept the responsibility of being a
full-time minister this spring. He took the
rural charge because "I lean towards rural
people at this point because they're the
people 1 related to and understand. I feel
they would understand me."
Not only is he beginning a new career.
but it also means he'll be going back to
school. To become a full-fledged minister
he faces a year of general arts and a year of
theology at Huron College, University of
Western Ontario, and two additional years
of theology at Emmanuel College, Toronto,
going back and fourth on a train from
Tuesday to Thursday each week. In the
meantime he can perform all the functions
of a minister but the sacraments and
marriages.
After a hard-fought but unsuccessful
election campaign in which he failed to
unseat incumbent 'Murray Gaunt in the
June provincial election in Huron -Bruce
riding, most people expected Kincardine
developer Sam McGregor to go back to his
lucrative business interests in the booming
town. But he surprised many last month
when he announced that he was turning
the running of his companies over to his
aides and was going to spend his time
working in a new area, his concern over the
energy problems facing the country.
During the election campaign a study to
use the excess heat from the Bruce Nuclear
Generation Station to heat green houses for
large scale fruitie and vegetable production
was announced by the government.
McGregor has been behind the move since
the beginning and is instrumental in trying
to get such a complex in the Kincardine
area rather than to the north near Port
Elgin.
The empire of Signal -Star Publishing
Ltd. and it's president Goderich's Bob
Shrler continues to grow. The company
announced last month that it had acquired
The Lucknow Sentinel formerly published
by Don Thompson and before that by his '
father Campbell. The Signal -Star chain has
been growing lately at a rate of one new
acquisition a year with last year's purchase
of the Mitchell Advocate and now includes
local papers in Goderich, Clinton, Mitchell,
Kincardine and Lucknow.
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