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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 1999-06-16, Page 44-THR HURON !EXPOSITOR. Awe 16, 1999 1 41 xncsitor G11011]t szvti►I1 H .\Rt.v Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 Tern. -Lynn Hort - Publisher Sorry Hilgendor4f - Editor -Suson Hunderlrr ork - Reporter Lorry Dalrymple Soles . Pot Armes - Office Monger - Dion,* McGrath Subscriptions/Cbssifieds Bovvc • Ptt%ltsherx Limited tn•3.Y, d S., VWn E-mail us of Seoi.orth Obo enet.corn . sSJJiSs'Rlr'y7!+ kArif: 10CA. • : 14 a veer ..•••. C- 57 SE';+ s 3: X c.,•eo. '- odso•:ce n..: : C. S •. YSd S �Ye•y' i$S'l4 a VP.," S S X CYs'.aT° 1. 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Son 60, Seeferft, Ontario, NOK IWO tv - -•. , Publication Moil Registration No. 07605 Extra care needed around carefree kids Youngsters ore getting excited as summer holidays approach but. a recent Safety Fair has shown us o need to watch put for them even more . .. , injuries ore the leading cause of depth in children -under the age of 19. ' .. • • One .of the events in the safety fair was o' bike t`odeo held by the -Optimist Clob. The rodeo reinforces rules of the road children should already.knaw if they 'are out shoring the roads.with motor;vehieles — wever,. they're kids- and wheh that schoot bell s for the last day of classes, a certain sense of :' • _ �+ure. and order leaves their minds asthey head : 'he carefree fun that summer play brings ^ ;dren should be using their hand signals arid' ,. thing for troffit,.ahey-shouidn-t run infb the street :easing o baseball, they shouldn't dart out between corked cors on their skateboards • But again, they're kids and in the frenzy of the fun, they forget That's why adults need to be extra vigilant in looking out for them oll the time. Summer holidays ore o time when kids ore in oclielYOH around, 011 the tftlie and ifs o good timeto remember toaake extra core in looking out for them STN HATS OFF to the more than 50.z. volunteers who raised more than $8,000.00 in the Spring, Canadian Cancer Society door-to-door campaign. Great Wor'k!! Opinion You may not believe how it all can come together: f=or this one you will have to ,pay attention - it shows the remarkable way some things come together...and you may not believe it.' . . First. let me tell you about Mrs. Roberts. She was our habvsitter .all through the 50s and t,0. She and her husband carne from England after the. war. They lived in Scarborough in atown house on a side street off Warden Avenue near Law rence. She came every Thursday night and Virginia and 1 went to the movies. The .two storey town house complex was L-shaped and went around the corner where the. other. section was on 'Warden Avenue. Her daughter lived in a similar house around' the- corner - her trent door was just a few feet from . from, street. Her daughter was married to a truck • driver who drank a lot and at times was- quite asquite abusive: Over.the years this - resulted in a lot of arguing and fighting. they had two. beautiful young. daughters - and sometimes Mrs. Roberts would brim_ them to play with our kids when. - she came to babysit. 1 sometimes felt she ,wanted to get them away from the c►!naant arguments and fighting of their ' -parents; - One day everything changed. Mrs. Roberts' son-in-law ~topped drinking • ,an 1-hecame a model husband and father. • In fact, he joined -the church about a half • mile furfhcr north' that ,was also,on Warden Avenue. It was little short of a Miracle. Charlie Evans became- i3 model hushand and father.,One'of the • Toronto ,papers did a ,story- on "')'lie Truck Driver \Vho-Carries'A Bible in His Cab.” • Somehow. peace came to the town hogseon Warden Avenue. ' . Now. put Mrs. Roberts -and her.family in' the back of your mind while l add .;inother dimension to the story:..and it's all true. in the early 1960s 1 was, involved, in setting up the Ontario Government offices in Dusseldorf and Milan. While there: I met a Dr..Gastone D'Arin who vias cabinet secretary in the regional government.for.the area around Genoa. 'Wt. became good friends and in the mid 1960, Virginia,and t visited with him. He w as very active in scouting. in fact he held .a position in the international Boy Scout Association and was part.of a group around the world whose unique .hobby was collecting stamps...but only .tamps that featured scouting. in 1976 he ,sent a telegram asking if 1 could arrange to have a display put together of all the Canadian stamps issued- that -featured' Boy Scouts. He w anted . it sent :to Genoa for • an international meeting of the "Scout% on Stamps" Organization' who were meeting for a week Tater that year in Genoa. He contacted me because the post office in Ottawa refused to help. ' Al called C'�_. Bitrk, chairman of the Metro Toronto Board of Commissioners 'ot Pollee Bob Bick was a friend from - the 19 -ti, in the ,early days of the forrnanon of Metro Toronto When .he was piLked to head up the police by Pre►rucr. trust. 1 sought his advice for he %as. as well president of the Boy Scouts o1 Canada. , • ' Bob' referred' me to the owner of an insurance agency in Don Mills who was a "Scouts on Stamps" collector". His name was Pau) Varley and he not only had a complete set of all the Canadian Clare Westcott wonting stamps...he. said 1 could borrow them to send to Genoa - as long as the j were shipped with care and were• insured. He deliveredthem to my office v here government services people carefully • packed them and arranged to air express them to Genoa. Paul Varley ssas a pleasant and affable young man who had•.taken offer his father's general insurance husiness He was married with a couple of. children.' When he responded to my letter of thanks for letting us borrow his stamps • he signed.the letter. "yours in Christ" and enclosed a couple of -religious pamphlets. The stamp collection was 'eventually . returned to him in good order and it was a _while before I saw him -again. He called .some months later and said- he would be coming- in to• see me and he did.. was leaving the insurance business and moving to Africa with his wife. and. children...to becomel a missionary. For the next couple of years we kept in touch bs letter. I was -able to be a bit - helpful in sending him,Ontario-pins and a Canadian flag and a few cassette tapes . of songs he wanted to -teach the children in the native village where his mission was located. ' • He came home for -a few ,months when his wife became ill and dropped in to my - office. But soon he was back in Africa. ' It was quite. a while before we Met again...but-one day hewalked into ms Queen's Park office with a friend whom • he introduced as Pastor Jim Willson. a; fellow Evangelical minister. Paul had. become a pastor and decided to stay in Canada...in fact he had already .been. preaching in the Toronto area for -some. months. Pastor Wilsons church Was' on Warden Avenue in Scarborough. on -the east side just south of Ellesmere.. When he mentioned the church 1 told him l knew it well for I had lived in that area since 1954. in fact 1 told him that our babysitter's daughter and. her husband and their two children attended that church. 1 went on to tell them what Mrs. Roberts had told Virginia and I about the miracle, that . saved .the marriage of her daughter. Mrs. Evans. How all of a,sudden he stoppeddrinking and fighting and became a losing and considerate husband and father. . Paul looked at Pastor Willson and siniled and said...;yoti mean Charlie Evans. the truck driver whti carries a Bible at his side in the cab.- ' I'm sure I looked surprised that we both knew ache same man. Paul looked at his friend again and said something like, "'shall we tell Clare what -- happened." Pastor Willson nodded. and Paul continued. - . "i'm sure you will be movedby what I am going to tell you...it's something that happened a few years ago:". He continued, `'for the only explanation I can give is that the and wonderful thing • As he went on his he was • Telling children...I'm-sure 1 of joy reflected in really wanted to tell me about something he had been pan of. ' that gave -him great satisfaction. "A few years ago Jim' Willson and I conducted services at -a hall in -the Cabbagetown area - downtown. and we were returning to our ...church. driving .tip Ward n Avenue." He went on to say that it • S dark. with • wet snow and rain -and the evening rush hour traffic was very heavy...probably because Christmas was not far off. "We,were.driving slowly because -of • the weather and the traffic and 1 can ' remember hearing the slap. slap. slap of the wipers on the windshield." Then • Paul looked right at me and said. "Clare. as We crossed Lawrence Avenue I said ' to Jim. stop stop right here. someone is in trouble.- The car had stopped right in front of the door to the Evans' town house...and created somewhat of a traffic' : problem. • Jim then continued. "Even though horns were•blowing, and I'm sure- some of the motorists were angry. we left the car on the street arid approached the house. The• door was less than fifty feet. away. immediately opposite where,: we parked." - -Through the door w e 'could hear shouting and crying in the house - and even though -we rapped loudly it was - some time before anyone carne.! ' Then -Paul continued. "A girl 'about 9 or 10. --opened'-the—door -and -called-_her_ • mother...and by this time: we were a few feet. in_ side and could see a.man standing • in the kitchen," As Paul spoke hit •voice.Iowered and the words came out :slowly and clearly. "What happened in the, next 45 mtnutes was truly the- work of the Lord...for all' of a sudden there -seemed to be a feeling of calm. It was as if: an outside hand touched everyone with the spirit of God." "We 'talked and prayed and read .the. Bible...and even cried." Then Jim spoke. "indeed Clare...the;redemptive - potential,othuman beings is, immense when the spirit of the Lord moves between people, as it did that night in Charlie's•Eyan s kitchen." Jim went on. 7We left. feeling that we had, taken part in something -that even Pad and I.could not fully understand - but' we were proud that somehow we were the instruments of good os'er evil. "The Evans family have continued to be in touch with God and at peace .with themselves and worship as a familv'in our. church:" Had 1 not been asked to sent! the Scout 'stamps to Italy 1 might never have tound - outhovs it .was that the truck driver in-law of our babysitter came to .arra a Biblein his cab: y The events of that winter, night vt ith our babysitter's daughter and her family put Some ri'ssing thin:. together But not without some roundabout 15'. +.t • and turns that involved the chairman of ._Metro Police. Dr. D'Arin in Italy. along with the Boy Scouts and postage stamps and, a couple of preachers on a snowy December night,..and 'it seems the hand of another was also there.' Although the Lord may triose in inysterious strays. according to Paul, his good works that night did 'not include deterring the police from putting a 520:0(1 ticket on their car for. parking illegally in front of Charlie Es•ans' house. Lord does amazing s." . voice changed: as if a story to his could see. a feeling his face ..as if he John Doig of Tuckersmith built barn at io and another at 81 years old: June 14, 1899 John Phillips. who has conducted a very ,s sful;blacksmithing.bus►ness in. Blyth ;: urthased James: 9.rmstrong's frm in Holten. The old Bell rest 111 Tuckersmith. buil dance at the'Kippen Mills NM in 1835. is receiving a --t ►rough oserhauling-,sr the hands of Paterson brothers of j{ensail. __.._ gib. Wm. Mcgeoc:h Sr.. and daughter M►ss Bella. moved intoligmondville and'will likely beu,ii►e perrtianent.re_ sidents. - Wro Archibald of Emgondville.is haying a beck i',undation Placed under his residence. ••J ( Grey is having the foundation e!.cav,Jled-forthe new residence .which he • purposes on Cxiderac'h St.• -• - P. Keating 'of town• is doing an, immense' business rn'his lumber yard this season, -There fs more building going on this yCar than usual LJm lairnber is very scarce: Fldward Tighe 'arid Beatnce.Carnye wheeled • iroin Guderich In Seaford) in one hour and 4(1 Minutes and were the guests of Mrs. James Mctiauiiye. " • Samuel McPherson and William Ha' i.wel 01 McKillop have each purchased title ot Bell's best parlour owns from 'Messrs. S(011, Bros. in Seafortji. .• J. Warden of Staffii is nialung. preparations • to build a -new house this summer'. • The saw 'mill at Brucefield narrowly escaped destruction by fife. The men had just finished their work and had •kft when John Kaiser. who was driving past, noticed that the place was on fire. In a shut time the fire was put out. John O'Connell of Dublin while chopping woodhad the mistotune bo inflict a deep wi►utid in hit toot 1- V; Hess lit Zurich w a, a w itue., Ill the /lethal) robbery case at (soderich June 12, 1924 !v1+.- .Margaret Live o) Constance let on .'Saiur,la} for New York where She goes to finish her course al Nursing at Bellesiew 1tospiraf. --- - - - •• Not many rt►en hoe io du work again of the same kind 62 years thereafter, but John Doig of Tuckersmith has had.such experience at the age ot 10 he flnished.a hay barn for his father. A the aye of Kl years he sawed new.rafters to replace the ones he had made 72 years before. Master Frank Stapleton of Dublin had his toret.unger badly crushed in a trap door. The wound was later dressed at Sealonh-Hospital, pan of his finger being amputated We notice in the Globe's list of successful Students. the name of an old Stanley Township boy. A►nold Petrie has been su,ce.slul in obtaining his IS Paedi Je• receised his early education at No 14. Stanley under W.11. Johnson. Win. Sinclair of Kipper was in Goderich a,.ting as one of the jury men. ' • On Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bristow of Seaforth mended the graduation -exercises in ( ,n Hall; Toronto. where their son Russel i i . ►v ed the degree of Dental Surgery. 1)r. Bristow tett Toronto to attend Alin Arbour Lmsersity . While canvassing in Mitchell, Miss Hattie french sold 85 ►k►zen.artificial sweet peas made by, Violet Pyper, who has been an invalid for three years.. • Judge J.A. Jackson of Lethbridge, an old In the Years Agone Lgmondville boy, leaves shortly for Paris, France, 'where he will represent the Canadian Amateur Athletic Association at the Olympic Games. !Mss Mac •McClinchey of town was in the _.gtaduating.class at Wellesley Hospital, Toronto June 17, 1949 • John Finlayson,. secretary treasurer ot the lonner•Robert BellEngine and Thresher Co. Ltd. received. a very beautiful club hag from the employees.. The gift was a token of appreciation for the many years of service • rendered the coinpany by Mr. Finlayson. Rev. F.K.'-Moylan of St. Columban wa; welcomed home at a party in the parish hall. He.has been engaged in missionary work the past four .years in the Dominion• Republic, West Indies. . St. Thoinas Church, Seatorth, will mark its 90th anniversary. 1t was in the year 1855 that the Reverend W. -Cresswell first held Services of Holly Commtfnion in Knoxc Hall, Harputhey. In 1859, is small house of God was •erected and named after the Apostle, St. Thornes. Rev. D. Glenn Campbell of town addressed the Women's Institute at the home of Mrs. Wallace Haugh. Mrs, John Hillebrecht presided. The citizens of Zurich paid their respects to A.F. Hess. This outstanding citizen for 'years rendered efficient service to the municipality as clerk treasurer. M a bee held recently al the farm of James ('pshall of Tuckersmith. neighbours and t i tends from the line gathered to do a tine act m the way of helping Mr, Upshall to get the manure spread on his fields. They had•six spreader and three on tour tractors 'and from 1:30 pini. to 6 p.nr•. had the job • completed. They were serveda deli sous meal by 'Mrs.. Upshal) and her helpers qp Mr. and Mrs. Robert McFarlane of --Winthn+p-have-united int) their_ new home 1n . the. village: . Stewart'Do)inage is busy putting in cement work for 'Mr, McLlwain's. residence. W.E. Hawley's garage and garage at the manse. • Edmund Daly is in Toronto this week attending a Ford tractor and implement field course. '• •• June 18, 1974 . Sealt►rth Council approsed a Day Cafe Centre fur Seatorth,•Monday evening and informed the clerk to prepare an enabling by - 14w. - Thanks to the Seatorth Chamber of Commerce. the whole town will have a chance to listen to mu.R, outdoor, with a series of Band Concert. in Victoria Park. The •Achievement Day on the project Taking a Look at Yourself was held in ' Seafonh un Saturday for 130 girls from 10 4= • H Clubs, . Following, months of 'efforty by man voluhreers,.a (Nealy: on Wheels program got underway in Seatorth on Monday. - Over 1000 people • turned 'out ' for Pragres'sive Conservative rally, at Pineridge Conservative rally at Pineridge Chalet in • jfensall on Sunday to hear Robert Stanfield, eat beef and patronize a bar.