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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-06-05, Page 44-TNt HURON EXPOSITOR, Jun. 5, 1555 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELIOR - Sales PAT ARMES Office Manager • DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds PAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL • Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL - 32.50 o year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS. • 30.00 a year, in odvonce, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign: 32.50 o year in odvonce, plus $78.00 postoge, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St., Seoforth. Publication . moil registration No. 0696 heldat Seaforth, Ontario. 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Wednesday, Juno 6, 1996 Editorial and business Offices - 100 Main Street.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO Member of the Canadian Communitewspoper Associotion, Ontario Community Newspe s Auociotion and the Ontario Press Council 011, Letters to the Editor Hibbert holding essay contest Dear Editor: As you and your readers may or may not know, the Township of Hibbert is cele- brating 150 years of incorpo- ration this year. Many events have been planned and we are hoping for good summer weather to carry these events out. The weekend of Aug. 2, 3 and 4 is our celebration in Dublin. Events there will include a parade, displays, volleyball tournament, pro- ducers flea market and the opening and closing cere- monies. In the interest of having a memorable -closing-address; the weekend committee is having an essay contest which will be open to anyone who has lived, does live or aspires to live in Hibbert Township. The theme of the -essay will be "What has liv- ing in Hibbert Township meant to me." Persons of all ages are invited to submit their entries. The winner may be asked to read all or part of his/her essay at the closing cere- monies, or excerpts may be included in the final address. Entries will be judged by a committee and a prize may be awarded. Entries should be sent to: Stan Christie, RR 1 Mitchell, ON, NOK IWO. Stan Christie RR 1 Mitchell A rare opportunity Visit the mine, send a kid to camp Exclusive tours of the Goderich Salt Mine swill be offered to peo- ple who help send a child to camp. The first 120 people who make a $50 dona- tion to the Huron County Children's Aid 4 Society (CAS) Summer Camp for Kids will .�� visit the largest under- ground mine in North America: The tour will include dinner with your host and an opportunity to win one of two port -to - port trips on a Great Lakes Salt Carrier. The chances of winning the port -to -port trip is 60:1! These are exclusive opportunities that are not available to the general public. Participants must be 18 years of age or older. • To book your salt mine tour phone the CAS at 524- 7356 or 1-800-265-5198. The offer closes on June 28 and volun- teers are available to book your tour from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. In 1995, 219 children took part in day camps and overnight camp programs with help from the CAS. This year the CAS hopes to accommodate at least 250 campers and a fund raising target of $58,000 has been set. Financial support of the summer camps program is not provided in the provincial operating grants of the soci- ety. This is a non -mandated community outreach pro- gram funded by private donations. Historically the Summer Camp Fund has been under- funded. This year Sifto agreed to partner with the CAS to alleviate this problem. Sifto will sponsor some unique fund raising and awareness raising events with an objective of raising $20,000 for the camp fund. The mine tours and trip on the Great Lakes ship are exclusive opportunities that will help this fundraising effort. As well, the logo which depicts the partnering of Sifto and the CAS will be displayed on ships in the Goderich harbour. CAS summer camp opportunities arc designed to meet each child's needs. A child may attend an area camp for a week, or they may take part in day camps in various communities. In 1995 the CAS formed its own day camp which allowed 75 children to experience outings to the London Children's Museum, Burgsma's Zoo, the Grand Bend Zoo, as well as bowling, movies and swim- ming lessons. SUMMER CAMP FOR KIDS To bee or not too beast - talking two We celebrated a mini -mile- stone recently in our family - Zachary's second birthday. There was icing on the face, cake everywhere, laughing and screaming and that was just me. Zach had fun, too. He's talking a lot more, destroying more things and generally being "two." I know he's learned a lot in the last few years but I've also picked up a few things as a parent like how to hurdle baby gates at every doorway and how to change a dirty diaper in under a minute on park benches, crowded rooms, car seats and other not -so -level surfaces. Zach's already picked up two important words for every teenager: keys, car. And he's speaking in a lot of three -word sentences like: dog -farm -car and up -bed -bot- tle and deposit -in -account. The following is a list of translated toddler language: Zach's word - Meaning "Shoot -shoot" - hockey "Neo -neo" - noodles or French fries "Poo" - Pooh (bear) or Poo (bum) "Big Car" - truck "Bee" - Beast, as in "Beauty and the Beast" video. Like most other parents I, too, have a private collection of Disney products in my house. As soon as you have a baby, they should hand you a shareholder form for the Disney Corporation or just take regular payroll deduc- tions in care of old Walt's company. I'm not sure whether Zach will even remember being two or not. l remember a few things of when I was two but it's more like just snap -shots, things like the backyard, the sandbox, toys I had, my tour of duty in Vietnam and the house we lived in for a few years on Centre St. which doesn't exist now. I remember falling down the stairs at that house. Funny, I can't remember much after that -.Until I got to our house on Wilson St. and smashed my head through those storm windows (and then it gets fuzzy again until about high school). Anyway, what was 1 say- ing? Yeah, I'm getting older. There's white hairs showing up now in my eyebrows and moustache (hut that might be leftover birthday cake icing). Depending on who you talk to, kids either get better or worse from two on. And I keep hearing from various stressed -out parents - "just wait til they're teenagers." I'm thinking, "great, they can get a job and help with mort- gage payments." Maybe I could even rent them out their room. Yeah, that's it. Anyway, I'm not planning Zach's future. (But when he becomes the first ambidex- trous major league Cy Young winner and NHL all-star to win the Nobel Peace Prize then I'll know those first two years were REALLY impor- tant). PHOTO BY MICHAEL HAMON FIELD DAY - Sunny skies Saturday had many local farmers out in the fields. The tractor in background, at right, is on its way to plant 100 acres of soybeans (60 acres no -till, 40 acres conventional) for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank project east of town. Six area farmershelped with the planting. Seaforth's Foodgrains project is' the largest of its kind in Canada. Weiland named to Hockey Hall of Fame FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR • JUNE 12, 1896 A COLLISION - A colli- sion which ,might have proved disastrous, took place between two rigs on Main street, on Saturday evening. Mr. John McClymont, of Tuckersmith, was driving north, at a higher rate of speed than the law allows, and when in front of The Expositor office, he met a gentleman named Lindsay, from near Ethel, who was driving in the opposite direc- tion. Some misunderstanding seemed to exist between the parties as to which side of the road they were going to turn, and the result was that the two horses cameitogether. The shaft of Mr.' McClymont's buggy ran into the breast of Mr. Lindsay's horse, penetrating it several inches, and it is a wonder that the animal .was not killed. Besides the drivers, each rig contained two ladies, but they escaped injury. Drivers should be more careful on Main street, particularly on Saturday nights when there are so many rigs about, and they should be sure to keep to the right side as far as possi- ble. THE NEW TOWN BELL - The new town bell has been put in place in the tower of the town building, and was rung for the first time on Tuesday. The bell was manu- factured by Mennely & Company, of West Troy, Ncw York, and weighs 1,500 pounds. On it is inscribed thc names of Mayor Gray, Reeve Gunn, and the members of the fire and water committee - Messrs. James Gillespie, J.S. Roberts, J.G. Wilson and R. Winter. The bell will he rung at 6 o'clock in the In the Years Agone morning, as well as at the hours at which it has been customary to ring the bell formerly. The work of putting it in place was done by Mr. P. Keating. It is not quite as heavy as the one in, St. James' church, but thc tower is more Open, allowing the sound to escape more freely, while it is very similar in tone to that in St. James' church. JUNE 10, 1921 BOWLING TOURNA- MENT - The third annual Scotch 'Doubles bowling tournament for the Merner Trophy, under thc auspices of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club, was held on their splendid greens on Wednesday and drew a large entry, there being 29 rinks in competition. Weather condi- tions were perfect, and the greens keen and true and 'as a consequence the bowling was above average and many close and exciting finishes were staged. Major Hcaman and'R.N. Creech, of Exeter, the win- ners of thc trophy thc two previous years, afterwinning their first game went down to defeat in the second round to Cantclon and Goodwin, of Hensall, who in turn lost to Rennie and Whitesides, of the same club, who camc out into the finals against Dr. Burrows and W.G. Willis, of Seaforth. The final was an excellent gamc and very close until the last few ends, when the Seaforth pair drew away and won by a score of 12-7. This is the third time that Rennie and Whitcsidcs have been the runners up in the trophy' event, so that no one will begrudge them its possession another year. The two rinks to reach the finals in the Consolation event were Cantclon and Goodwin, pf Hensall, and J.E. Willis and R.E. Bright, of Seaforth. Owing to the lateness of the hour, however, when the finals were reached and to enable them to go home, the Hensall rink defaulted and took the second prize. LOCAL BRIEFS - Reeves Grieve, of Seaforth, McNaughton, of Tuckcrsmith, McQuaid, of McKillop, and Armstrong, off Hullett, arc in Goderich this week attending thc June meeting of thc County Council. - Mr. J. J. Merner, MP, has returned from his parliamentary duties at Ottawa. - Word came to this office this week from a large publishing house in Toronto asking for the loan of some of our employees or thc names of any in Seaforth who had been a year or more in the printing business, to help them carry on during the strike, now in effect in that city. The Toronto printers arc striking for $1.00 an hour for a 44 hour week. JUNE 14, 1946 Scaforth defeated Ethel 1-0 in a Huron Football League game in Ethel Wednesday night. The 'winning goal was scored by Eddie McIver on a pass from Angus McLean. SEAFORTH - Goal, Geo. Kruse; defence, Tom Sills, Jack Nicholson; half hacks, Ken Doig, Jack Holland, Ross Nicholson; forwards, Angus McLean, Allan Nicholson, John O'Connor, Harold Nicholson, Eddie McIver; subs., Alvin Dale, r Eric Doig. * * * R.A. McClure (Bert) returned from overseas Tuesday and was met in London by the family and spent the day with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Brown. A son of William McClure and the late Mrs. McClure, he wast overseas since January 1945. He served in Gcrmany with the Highland Light Infantry as part of the occu- pational forces. JUNE 17,1971 Egmbndville native Ralph Cooney Weiland was hon- ored last week when he was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Others named at the same time included sllch hockey greats as the late Terry Sawchuk; the late Harvey "Busher" Jackson; Dr. Gordon Roberts and Arthur Wirtz Sr., Black Hawks presi- dent. A member of the Bruins Stanley Cup teams of 1928- 29 and 1938-39, Cooney Weiland was lauded by selec- tion committee chairman Frank Sclke Sr., as " a terrific • center icc man, a great team player and also a great coach at Harvard. He is a selection in which all of you can be proud." "I'm glad they decided to do it while I'm still around to learn about it," said Cooney. Born in Egmondville in 1904, he graduated from Scaforth Collegiate Institute before making hockey a career. He played I 1 years in the NHL for the Bruins, Red Wings and the old Ottawa Senators. He coached the Bruins to the championship in 1941.