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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2006-10-04, Page 5Opinion ont" oad4yesident says signs won't. stop reckless driving To the Editor, I read in last week's paper they want to put up speed limit signs of 50 km/h when coming into Egmondville along Front Road and have the OPP enforce it. I spoke to Barry Mills about this matter and wished him good luck. I live on Front Road which is a one way street, between the highway (Kippen Road) and to the end of the Egmondville Cemetery (Van Egmond street) There are eight signs of the highway traffic act - two stop signs, four one-way signs, and two do -not -enter signs. This is in a block. Most of these signs are ignored. We have people. going the wrong way, even some that live on the street. We had idiots run- ning the stop sign by the end of the ceme- tery. And we have speeders, some going the wrong way. How they get stopped at the highway is a mir- acle. Why put up more signs? I have asked the OPP to enforce the law on this street and nothing has hap- pened. There are children on this street out playing and riding their bikes. I am afraid that it is going to take an accident or someone's life before something is done. I sincerely hope that this does not happen. Patti Geldhof Egmondville The Huron Expositor • October 4, 2006 Pali 5 Frank Phillips photo The Seaforth Lumber yard at Goderich and East William Streets in the 1950s. Archie's UPI Service Centre and the Seaforth tourist booth at the same location. New railway station in Walton receives its first coat of paint in 1906 SEPTEMBER 30, 1881 David Sproat, of Egmondville intends on going to Townbridge to take care of the flouring and saw mills in that village. These mills are the property of John Thompson of McKillop. John Murray, shoemaker, has engaged with Wm. Logan of Seaforth who intends resuming the manufacturing business again. It would be largely in the inter- ests of humanity.and sole leather if the town authorities who have charge of the sidewalks would take a promenade along the walk on the south side of John Street the first dark night that comes. If they suc- ceed in accomplishing the journey without some of them getting their legs or neck broke, they will do well. On Monday night last, about 11 o'clock, three men in a buggy drove up to John Leyden's hotel in McKillop and professed to be look- ing for a pail with which to water their horse. Mr. Leyden had taken the pail into the house and was just in the act of opening the door to give it to them when they took a stick and smashed in three win- dows and then jumped into the buggy and drove rapidly away. OCTOBER 5, 1906 Nellie McDougall of Egmondville left this week for Portland, Oregon whereshe will visit her sister, Mrs. Chas. Stewart. The new station in Walton is now receiving its first coat of paint. The work is being done by J.G. Crich of Seaforth, who has the contract of painting all the new stations along the Guelph railway, with the exception of the Guelph and Goderich stations. Mrs, F.J. Kerslake, Reta Kerslake, and Wm. Fell, Mrs. Kerslake's brother have gone to Detroit and Grand Rapids to visit their sisters Mrs. McMillan and Mrs. Hall. W.A. Ross has sold his farm near Winthrop to Thos. Broom. The price is about $7,500. OCTOBER 2, 1931 The Expositor has to thank Mrs. Charles Eggert of McKillop for the gift of a beautiful big pumpkin. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hays, Jessie Tucker and William Weizer of Detroit were weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Sills of Seaforth. John Armstrong of London is hol- idaying at the home of his daugh- ter Mrs. Ferg Bullard of Winthrop. Dorothy Thomson of Kippen is attending the Western University in London this year. OCTOBER 5, 1956 Donald J. Stewart who has been called to the bar at Osgoode Hall, has graduated as a barrister and solicitor. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart, Seaforth, he is associated with the local legal firm of McConell and Hays, Seaforth. Long a landmark, the two-storey frame building which housed Seaforth Lumber Ltd. has been wrecked. The remaining frame building on the property has been - sold to Charles Reeves and is being removed. When the sulky he was racing at Dungannon Thusday upset, John Campbell, McKillop was dragged along the track and suffered a frac- tured leg. It was his first accident in 12 years of racing. SEPTEMBER 30, 1981 When Seaforth council met with local township councils Wednesday night Hibbert township agreed to finance a share of Seaforth's arena reconstruction, based on residents' use of the arena. The president of the Seaforth Agricultural Society says, "on the whole things went really well," with the 136th Seaforth Fall Fair. The Vanastra arena meets labour ministry building standards and Seaforth council will rent it for this winter. Seaforth's' arena has been condemned by the ministry and must close its doors Oct. 15. A well-known Seaforth business- man and historian, William M. Hart, died at Seaforth Community Hospital on Friday, Sept. 25.