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Seaforth recognizes top citizens
HELEN McNAUGHTON
....CIVIC SERVICE
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Woman brightens town streets
Early this Monday morning Helen
McNaughton was busy fussing with
greenery that had been messed up
by the wind around Town Hall.
She's become a familiar sight
brightening the streets of Seaforth,
so is this year's winner in the Civic
Service category for the town's
Citizenship Awards.
The avid gardener, who says her
mother was a gardener and "it gets
in your blood", has been a member
of the Seaforth Horticultural Society
for 10 years and is its current
President. Before that she was the
organization's secretary.
Helen has also served as chair of
the Civic Improvement Committee
and co-ordinates all plantings that
the horticultural society does for the
town. Some examples of these
works are the entry garden beds
coming into town, new landscaping
at the library and new flower boxes
on Main Street. She is the one who
weeds and cares for the beds in
front of Town Hall, and has
recently helped dig a new flower
bed at the local Legion and planted
it with tulip bulbs, part of a
Canada -wide Dutch and Canadian
project which we won't see until
spring.
"You plant things and they
bloom," she says. "It's dismal now
but it gives us something to look
forward to in spring."
Her and husband Bob lived on
James Street in Seaforth for many
years but recently moved to Mill
Street, where they have three lots
that keep her on the go with spades
and rakes, and various tools of the
past time.
They have four children: Dan, 21;
Tim, 15; Kelly, 11; and Cody, 9.
So that's lots of help when it comes
to weeding, you might very well
think.
"Are you kidding?" she says.
MARY NOLAN
....HUMANITARIAN SERVICE
Humanitarian has heart
Willing hands and a willing heart.
That's how friends describe Mary
Nolan, this year's winner of
Seaforth Citizenship Award for
Humanitarian Service.
It's the first award she has ever
won, says the 89 -year-old who lives
on West. St. in Seaforth.
She's "a wonder at putting
thoughts on paper" and "has given
of herself all her Iifc", friends who
have worked with her in the
Seaforth and Walton Women's
Institutes add. Nolan has been a
member of the Seaforth
organization' for the past 16 years.
She has also spent many hours over
•the years as a volunteer at the
Seaforth Manor, helping to organize
such things as bingos, euchres and
birthday parties.
The petite and peppy organizer
was born in Arthur but then farmed
north of Walton with her husband
Jim before moving to Scaforth 21
years ago. He dlcd six years ago,
and they have three children, long
since out of the nest: Donald,
Barry, Rebecca (Becky) and Marie,
and 10 grandchildren.
She says she's not as active as
she used to be, particularly in the
winter, but manages to stay
and likes to read.
busy
LYNN DEVEREAUX
....SERVICE TO SPORTS
Accomplished runner now
helps other athletes
Lynn Devereaux grew up locally
and was an accomplished athlete in
her time, but now spends more of
that time helping other athletes
strive for their goals.
She is again a `Winner' in the
service to sport category for the
1994 Seaforth Citizenship Awards.
She has coached ringette, softball
and soccer and served on the
executives of Seaforth figure
skating, minor soccer and women's
softball organizations. That's a lot
of volunteering in the past 10 years,
a lot of wins and losses and no
telling how many hours.
"I enjoy working with the kids,"
:Abe explains,
It is a good thing she does too
1€cause Lyrid, and Tom wPIo live-in
Egmondville, have five children of
their own: Kelly, 14; Kim, 12;
Kyle, 10; Conner ("with a C"), 2
1/2; and, Kalen, 1.
Lynn was best at running and a
familiar sight ripping along area
roads training about a decade ago.
She won her share of distance races
but now only jogs occasionally,
sometimes with the children,
although she is still a regular
participant in the area Terry Fox
Run for cancer research.
She also at present volunteers at
St. James' School, works as trainer
with Seaforth's junior A ringette
team, and has just helped to start up
ladies' ringette locally; once a
week, at all kinds of odd hours in
the night when no one else has
already booked area ice.
Then again, nobody said anything
about easy. It can be a tough job,
but it is people like Devereaux who
go out and `just do it'.
'Friends of library' forms
A Friends of the Library group
may be formed to support
Seaforth's library renovation project
and enhance the library services to
the Seaforth community. Everyone
is welcome to attend a special
meeting at• the Seaforth Branch
Library on Monday, Nov. 28 from
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Margaret Day, from Bluevale,
will be the guest speaker. She was
Branch Supervisor of the Wingham
Library from 1983-1988, a member
of the Huron County Library Board
from 1988-1994, and was a found-
ing member of the Wingham
Friends of the Library. The role of
the Wingham Friends group has
changed over time, from lobby
group and fundraiser for the new
library, which opened in 1988, to
book sale volunteers and organizers
of art shows and quilt displays. The
guest speaker will talk on opportun-
ities and advantages of having a
Friends of the Library in the
Seaforth community.
Jim Crocker, Administrator of the
Town of Seaforth, will bring the
audience up to date on the Infra-
structure Grant to enhance the
Seaforth Branch Library. Beth Ross,
Request for Public Opinion
on the Proposed
Nursing Home Annual
licence Renewal of
Seaforth Manor, Seaforth
In accordance with the Nursing Homes Ad. public opinion is being
requested prior to a final decision being made on the above.
If you have comments or opinions and wish to bring them to the attention
of the Ministry of Health. you may submit them in writing by addressing
them to: Director, Residential Services Branch
Ontario Ministry of Health
5700 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
North York, Ontario M2M 41(5
(416) 327-7357. by December 27, 1994
Please include the name of the nursing home and quote Project *187-95
on all written submissions.
The Director will consider all submissions before making a final decision.
W Ontario
County Librarian, will outline chal-
lenges to library services in the
current economic conditions. Par-
ticipants will then have the oppor-
tunity to discuss forming a Friends
of the Library for Seaforth, and
what ways of supporting the
Seaforth Library would interest
them.
Thank you to everyone
who supported me
both prior to and
during the
recent election.
Thanks to my family,
Bill Bennett and
Bob & Donna O'Brien.
I look forward to
serving Seaforth
bn Council.
Heather Robinet
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1 deeply thank
the good ratepayers
for support shown
in the 1994
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election and wish
them a Merry
Christmas and best
in the years to come.
Hugh F. Flynn
Huron County .
Christmas Bureau
SEAFORTH
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Help Families.
Once again, the Huron County Christmas Bureau will he hosted by Bethel
Bible Church, Egmondville. "The response last year was
wonderful," said Laura & Brian Crawford, "and a true community spirit was
shown!"This year a "giving
tree" will be placed in
Deloitte & Touche. A tag
can be picked off the tree
and people can buy for a
specific "age" & "size" for
each child. Drop boxes for
donations will be placed in
stores from Nov. 22 thru to
Dec. 9.Donations can also be
made directly to Bethel
Bible Church Dec. 5 - 9 (9
a.m. - 5 -p.m.) or call
Laura & Brian Crawford
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