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The Citizen, 1992-09-30, Page 26PAGE 26. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1992. Past dairy princessess share their experiences Continued from page 19 program, she added. Here is a list of Huron County's past dairy princesses with an update on the dairy princesses from North Huron and a few memorable stories from their reign: 1957- 1958: Betty (Storey) Dale— Mrs. Dale lives at RR 2 Seaforth on a cash-crop farm. She is a retired dairy farmer and in 1983 had, along with husband Lloyd, the top Jersey herd in Cana­ da for production. 1958- 1959: Marlene (Johnson) Kirkby 1959- 1960: Patricia (Marshall) Down 1960- 1961: Doreen (Howatt) Taylor— Mrs. Taylor resides on a farm at RR 1, Belgrave and is a Registered Nursing Assistant. She remembers when she competed that all dairy princesses were required to wear a white hat. "I had been nursing extra hours and the Dairy Princess competition was that evening. I didn't have a white hat to wear so I made myself a 'Pixie Hat' from a bedpan cover (a clean one). It proved to be lots of fun. 1961- 1962: Wilma (Dale) Scott—Mrs. Scott is a florist and part-owner of Christmas and Coun­ try in Blyth. She resides at RR 1, Belgrave. Mrs. Scott says the most interest­ ing thing that happened during her reign "was that I fell in love with the boy who was to become my husband two years later." That boy was Murray Scott. 1962- 1963: Joanne (Alton) Hughes—Mrs. Hughes lived at RR 2, Brussels when she was a dairy princess and she now lives at RR 2, Grand Bend where she is a restau­ rant owner. Morris council to meet with Blyth Creek drain landowners Morris Twp. council decided to advertise for a person to work at the township waste disposal site at their Sept. 22 meeting. The position entails accepting waste arid maintaining the site. The position had been held by Calvin James who died Sept. 12 after being pinned underneath a tractor. Council decided the disposal site's other worker, John Cronyn, would manage the site alone until another person was formally hired. In other council news, the chief building official, Leo Sanders, said Huether Farms was advised they must clean up the pile of debris from the demolition of the bam on Lot 26, Concession 4 before the demo refund is issued to them. This property was also given approval for re-zoning from agri­ culture one to agriculture four. Mr. Sanders, along with Reeve Doug Fraser, Deputy-Reeve Clement McLellan and Clerk-trea­ surer Nancy Michie will attend the Rural Servicing Study presentation in Clinton on Oct. 8. The township's drainage superin­ tendent, Gary Nicholson then gave his report. He was joined by Glenn Montgomery, ower of Lot 1, Con­ cession 6 who was concerned that his one drain has never been con­ nected to the municipal drain. Council said they thought the drain had been connected. Mr. Mont­ gomery then told council the catch basin going to the Hunter property is four inches off grade but Mr. Nicholsn said it wasn't true because he had measured it. They also advised Mr. Montgomery that he should not work on the drain but rather, allow Mr. Nicholson to look after repair and maintenance. Mr. Nicholson told council the 1963- 1964: Sheila Mae (Ross) Lewis 1964- 1965-1966: Brenda C. (Houston) Mathers 1966- 1967: Dr. Iris Marshall 1967- 1968: Helen (Good) Lyons—Mrs. Lyons lived at RR 1, Londesboro when she was Dairy Princess and now resides in Lon­ desboro. She's a clerk with the Londesboro branch of the Hensail District Co­ op. 1968- 1969: Marie (Trewartha) Webster—Mrs. Webster lived at RR 4, Clinton when she was dairy princess and now resides at RR 3, Auburn. She is an elementary school supply teacher. "My reign gave me the opportu­ nity to travel and meet many inter­ esting people," she says. "The weekend at St. Thomas Dairy Princess School was one highlight of my year." She says recently, while her son was looking at photos of her as a dairy princess, he exclaimed on the boxes of rigid discs she was given and asked what kind of computers they had back then. "He was quite disappointed when I explained they were disks for straining milk and not for a com­ puter. Times have changes since 1969!" 1969- 1970-1971: Phyllis (McK- ague) Hammell 1971-1972-1973: Janet (DeBoer) Macatee— Mrs. Macatee now lives in British Columbia where she is a homemaker but she resided at RR 1, Bluevale while she was a dairy princess. Her favourite memory of her reign was being one of the five finalists in the Ontario Dairy Princess Competition. Another highlight was when she was asked to attend the Ontario Milk Marketing Board's annual catch basin along Hwy 4 at the Montgomery property had been installed deeper than the original one. Council advised Mr. Nicholson to be in attendance at drains when repairs are being done and he said he would try to be. Still dealing with drains, council passed a motion saying "the town­ ship of Morris will flush and clean the tile of the Grasby drain and bill MTO for the costs; since the flush­ ing and cleaning is required due to the construction of Hwy 4. The contractor and the MTO have left the construction site and are not available to proceed with the work." Trapping from the McNeil drain will not be authorized for payment, council decided, because it was not authorized by the drainage superin­ tendent. Council plans to hold a meeting with landowners concerned about the Blyth Creek drain. The drain had been repaired and a new piece installed by Dale Bachert but it did not conform to the drainage report. Landowners will be asked if they want the drain restored to its origi­ nal state or abandoned. 'factor orc ndt .. Kap CMdtW off aMfUtoulron' ■form banquet and dance at the Royal York hotel in Toronto. "The other finalists and myself stayed the weekend at the Royal York, worked at a dairy booth during the day and attended the banquet and dance. It was lots of fun." 1973- 1974: Margaret (Eckert) Mahoney 1974- 1975: Mary Ann (Mil- tenburg) Vandersluis 1975- 1976: Janet (Gielen) Will- son 1976- 1977: Audrey (Peel) Jack- son 1977- 1978: Dianna (Brand) Hardy 1978- 1979: Jean (Siertsema) Bennett—Mrs. Bennett is from RR 3, Blyth and now lives in Lucan. She's an RNA with the VON branch in Hensail. She fondly remembers that her dad was her escort to her first offi­ cial function at the Seaforth Wom­ en's Institute. "They were really excited about having a man in the audience." Another favourite memory includes participating in the Auburn and Wingham centenni­ als. "I'll never forget my experiences and the fun that I had!" 1979- 1980: Susan Zielman 1980- 1981:Dtanzie (Oldfield) Van Vliet—Mrs. VanVliet lives at RR 1, Walton and is a clerical stenographer with the OMAF office in Clinton. She used to live at RR 4, Seaforth. "I enjoyed all aspects of being the county dairy princess,"she says. "I remember especially the visits to area school and the enthusiasm of the school children." 1981- 1982: Ruth Zielman-Zehr 1982- 1983: Marion Taylor— Miss Taylor lives at RR 3, Dash­ wood but resided at RR 1, Belgrave while she was dairy princess. She is a registered nurse at Uni­ versity Hospital in London emer­ gency department and an ambulance attendant with the Wingham Ambulance Service. 1983- 1984: Muriel (Huth) Arm­ strong: 1984- 1985: Denise (Nethery) CRAFTS Complement your own home Give a very special gift Supplies to make it yourself QOt $9Q00 • </ J to kJ J i fl NUFF SAID! Come Out and See For Yourself Open 12 pm - 6 pm Gillie TJiiiage 9fora! Grafts HWY. #4 LONDESBORO 523-9168 3 WEEK CRAFT COURSES Starting Oct. 13 Filling Fast! Call NOW to register. Tedesco—Mrs. Tedesco lives in Wingham and is a teacher at Brus­ sels Public School. She used to live at RR 4, Brussels. "A favourite memory of mine is the Goderich Township 150 parade in Holmesville," she recalls. "A very large float was prepared with a big sign on the top displaying my name and title. I had to use a ladder to climb onto the float! We came to a bridge and we were not sure if the float would fit under so they got a screwdriver handy just in case I had to take the sign down in a hurry. Luckily we squeezed under the bridge and we could continue in the parade." 1985- 1986: Liz (Stewart) Becker 1986- 1987: Angela Nethery— Miss Nethery lives in Blyth and is formerly of RR 4, Brussels. She is a secretary at Central Huron Sec­ ondary School in Clinton. She says her entire year as dairy princess was full of interesting events and one of her favourite memories was hosting Gayle Lewis, the Ontario Dairy Princess at her home: "Gayle and I visited Bob and Glen McNeil's farms and in the1 course of two days I had seven school tours. While I was dairy princess, I had the chance to meet many new people from all walks of life and meeting Gayle was certain­ ly a rewarding experience." 1987- 1988: Brenda Nancekivell 1988- 1989: Lisa Boonstoppel- Pot—I live at RR 3, Auburn, a few kilometers away from the farm I lived on while dairy princess. I'm a reporter with this newspaper. The most interesting thing for me while I was dairy princess was the questions school children would ask after my presentation. It was inevitable that at least one student would ask "where do calves come from?" I never knew what to say! I Little Lar lings Lair S tudlo Hairstyling for men and women Call Karen 477 Turnberry St. N. Brussels 887-6942 FT didn't want to lie but who wants to discuss breeding with a nine-year- old? Fortunately, the teachers would step in and I could get back to talking about milk and cows instead of the birds and the bees. 1989- 1990: Marlene (Albers) Glanville—The RR 2, Bluevale native now lives at RR 4, Walton and is currently employed with Seaforth Canadian Tire. 1990- 1991: Tanya Boonstoppel —Miss Boonstoppel lives on the family farm at RR 1, Auburn. She recalls that children would be very inquisitive about the gender of cows and bulls. "After explaining in what I thought was a safe answer that bulls have horns and cows don't, one little boy said he had a cow and she had horns. Well, I was little tongue-tied at that one. Making ice cream was also great. I was a way to keep the children involved and it tasted good too." 1991- 1992: Morgan Murray 1992- 1993: Amy Terpstra PART TIME R.N.A. required immediately at Seaforth Manor Retirement Home', Pharmacology course preferred. 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