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MeKiliop grader operator retires
BY (...i:(OR CAMPIWI.I
Expositcr Staff
Frank HuIlcy is retiring and
he's ready for it.
He has a swing made out of
old bus and plough parts on the
porch of his home at the corner
of Church and Centre Streets in
Scaforth.
He used to pack this in-
genious perch, made from an
old roller -chain drive, away
every fall but found he enjoys
it so much out there that he
soon took to bundling up and
wandering out to his quiet spot
on the porch in thc winters too.
He could bc spending even
more time on it soon.
Hulley has been grader
operator in McKillop Township
for 33 years but his retirement
becomes official in two days,
at the end of June.
Council, township officials
and his replacement had a
retirement party for him in
Blyth last week. They
presented him a fine wooden
wall clock and a couple of
plaques, one from the Good
Roads Association, for his
more than three decades of
service. Simply calling him a
grader operator doesn't do him
justice.
"You name it 1 did it," he
says.
In his time with the township
he says he drove seven graders
all told, five new Champion
graders and before them two
old Austin -Western units. He
has worked with five different
road superintendents in McKil-
lop, starting at the end of Bill
Manley's tenure and the start
of Wilson Little's, followed by
Ken Stewart, Bill Campbell
and current Road Superinten-
dent Wayne I oImage.
As the fellow that had to get
his act in gear for winter
storms before many others in
the township could over the
years, Hulley says the worst
storm he ran into was in the
early 1970s. There was a fire at
Steve Murray's home in
McKillop and he was breaking
trail in the snowplough for the
fire trucks that wcrc following.
But he says the storm was so
bad he "just buried" the plough
near Wilf Dragdr's on Conces-
sions 4 and 5 and neither he—
nor thc firemen got there.
Luckily the Murrays were able
to put out the fire themselves.
In general winter storms were
dillys in the 70s Hulley says.
The "snow blew in like
cement" staring back then and
he had to back the ploughs up
and take other runs at it," he
says. "That was when you
started to get soil erosion and
half of your snow was topsoil."
Hulley remembers dodging a
close call during another winter
storm later in the 1970s when
Mrs. Paul McCallum was al-
most more than ready for the
Minnows at
lagoon
Earlier this month 900
pounds of minnows were
"planted" among the three cells
at thc Scaforth Lagoons to help
with midge fly control. Ad-
ministrator Jim Crocker told
Seaforth Council's June
meeting that the tree planting
phase of the control program is
now complete, and he is
working with the Ausable-
B a y field Conservation
Authority "to finalize the fish
plan which will probably result
in bullheads (catfish) being
introduced."
In response to a query by
Coun. BiII Teall, Crocker said
minnows breed four or five
timcs per year and down the
road a situation could arise to
harvest these fish by license
when they get bigger.
"That might be an oppor-
tunity to recoup some of our
costs," Teall commented.
Coun. John Ball took issue
during discussion at the regular
Junc meeting town Council
with a motion carried by its
financc and general
government committee that the
municipality "support Scaforth
BIA by way of sponsoring ads
for the community yard sales
and sidewalk sales during
Scaforth Homecoming."
He docs not feel the sales are
appropriate to the occasion and,
wondered out loud why the
municipality had no input in
their scheduling.
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Council agreed with Deputy
Reeve William Tcall's com-
ment at its Junc session that
Monday night bingo proceeds
of the recreation department
should bc put in the local
newspaper "so people know
where stet; money is going".
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birth of a child, so the grader
doubled as kind of an am-
bulance with Dr. Underwood in
the co-pilot's seat.
"It was iffy but there was no
delivery in the grader," Frank
recalls.
Hulley adds he feels good
about his replacement so will
rest easy in retirement. Joe
Ryan, who just turned 24, will
now be doing the grading and
ploughing in the township.
"He comes from good stock,
was raised on heavy equip-
ment, and can turn his hand at
anything," Hulley says. Hulley
spent four years with Stirling
Construction out of Windsor
"compacting and building roads
all over" bcforc starting with
McKillop. Dan Bcucrman was
Reeve back them. Hulley says
there are also three -and -a -half
years spent with the army in
his past, on the west coast, all
over the country and Ontario".
Hulley and his wife Betty
just returned from time off in
Alberta and were busy catching
up on assorted chore, around
the house last wcck. He's not
worried about having nothing
to do, and says he has been
actively planning for retirement
the past four years. He built a
workshop in his garage, has a
host of interests and enjoys the
yard work, gardening and bird
watching. The Hullcys always
get a kick out of the annual
Optimist Club winter house
decorating contest, which they
have also won so many times
they have retired to an almost
annual honourable mention.
And if that enthusiasm pales,
well, he can always bundle up
and put the old equipment to
good use with his feet up on
that perch on his porch.
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Frank Hulley of Seaforth officially retired last
week after 33 years working for McKillop Township.
Youth group helps parade
The Scaforth and District
Youth group will be following
the horses in this summer's
Homecoming parade closer
than 1... people.
The group is providing a
poop and scoop brigade to
follow the horses, and has also
been hired to move tables
between events during
.Homecoming that first
weekend in August, to help
raise money for the permanent
youth centre they hope to es-
tablish in town.
The youth group gave an
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February formation at an infor-
mation meeting last wcck, re-
affirming its aim "to raise
enough revenue through
fundraising, dances, donations
and support from service clubs
and Council to cover the
operating expenses of a per-
manent location fora minimum
Of six months."
Once this initial seed money
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hopes to pay for such essentials
as rent, utilities and insurance
by "continued fundraising and
dances and by grants," accor-
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The group says it is pleased
with the support it has received
from Scaforth and so far has
raised more than S200 from a
car wash, $482 from a "Whecl-
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dances. Local businesses have
donated more than $600.
Optimist Hall was donated
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used it for meetings, social
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Future events and fundraising
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"doesn't just fall on a few", the
group's newsletter states. The
would-be volunteers must fill
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from Seaforth Police.
Anybody who wishes to
volunteer can get the ins and
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Short move for Library
The Seaforth Library will
holiday slightly north and
across Main Street pier this
summer.
Council accepted the recom-
mendation of its finance and
general government committee
to lease the twin vacant store
on Main Street, formerly oc-
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a temporary home for the local
library while its regular buil-
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The building at 59 and 61
Main Street South was more
recently rented by Elections
Ontario, and Council agrccd at
its regular Junc meeting to rent
it by letter of understanding,
rather than by fonnal lease
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