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The Huron Expositor • June 6, 2007 Page 5
Theft of memorial angel ornament a blow
to family grieving their mother
To the Editor,
To lose a loved one is an experience of deep
sadness. To memorialize your loved one is a
profound and intimate action that facilitates
healing the void left by sorrow.
Our family was touched when friends made
donations to help memorialize my mother Betty.
We chose a fitting ornament for our garden
which would remind us of the love and memo-
ries that we shared.
We chose a sweet angel which sat upon on a
bench that gazed across our country property.
It was an appropriate reminder of the love and
care which Betty Elliott altruistically extended
to our family and friends.
Looking upon the memorial, our family was
given comfort in our time of loss. We anticipat-
ed sharing the changing seasons with the angel
on the bench. As the large figurine was heavy
concrete, it would withstand cold bitter winters,
or the hot sultry summers, or the seasons in
between. We took consolation that the angel
would look upon us when we were gardening or
brushing soft snowflakes from our shoulders.
Unfortunately, on the night of Wednesday,
May 30 or early Thursday morning, May 31, the
angel was stolen. Be it a prank or be it a
"want" of the selfish individual(s), the angel
that gave such solace for a period of a week was
stolen from its bench.
At least one very strong person or a couple of
people would have been implicated in the theft.
The robbers would have had to walk up a large
hill and carry it back down the hill gingerly in
order to avoid twisting an ankle or some type of
abrasion.
The thieves perhaps, did not realize that the
weight they carried was not merely a physical
weight, but a weight consisting of the bitter-
sweet blend of our grief and loving reminis-
cences. The bench was left empty, a sole
reminder of what was.
The burglars did leave a "gift" in its place.. .
that nothing seems to be sacred.
Our family has priceless memories of our
mother, grandmother, and friend and the
memorial has now been replaced. The angel is
a tangible item.
For those who now have the angel and are in
search of the perfect matching bench on which
to place their new acquisition, the bench is sold
at Merv's Patio in Dublin. Yet, when acquiring
this item, you will have to pay this time... with
money from your own pocket.
John and Bev Elliott and Family
Blyth, Ont.
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400 -seat motion picture theatre
planned for Main Street in 1932
June 2, 1882
Edward McNamara, well known
in this section, arrived in Quebec
frm Toronto with a large raft of
square timber. This is the first raft
to reach Quebec this season.
Hay was sold in Seaforth last
Tuesday for $14 per ton.
While Wm. Soole was handling a
revolver, the weapon exploded, and
the ball entered his mouth and
lodged in the back of his neck. The
ball has not yet been extracted, but
his medical attendants have good
hopes of his recovery.
One day last week, 1,000 bricks
were made in the short space of 25
minutes in the brick yard of John
Sproat, with his new brick
machine. The machine is working
splendidly and gives good satisfac-
tion.
Robert Kettle, of the London
road, near Kippen, has a ewe
which gave birth to twin lambs on
April 9 and on May 9 gave birth to
two more. They are. all living and
doing well.
June 7, 1907
The Hurons played football in
Berlin on Friday evening, defeating
that team by a score of one goal to
none.
James Hudson, one of the veteran
threshers of Tuckersmith, has just
placed his order with the Robert
Bell Engine and Thresher
Company for a new Imperial sepa-
rator, with Ruth Feeder, wind stack
and straw cutting attachment. This
is one of the company's latest pro-
ductions in threshing machinery.
Lawn Mowers - A complete stock
of the best goods in that line. See
our 4 -blade $4.25 machine. Every
one guaranteed. Geo. A. Sills,
Seaforth.
Wm. Elder, of Tuckersmith, last
week delivered a fine span of heavy
horses to a buyer near Stratford,
for which he received $600. It cer-
tainly pays to raise good horses.
May 27, 1932
Leo Fortune of Huron Road East,
brought in the Expositor office, a
freakish egg laid by one of his
hens. The egg is the result of two
eggs, joined together by an isthmus
and looks like a miniature pair of
water wings. One section contains
the white, while the other contains
the yolk and neither shell is com-
pletely formed.
Work is soon to be started on a
new up-to-date- motion picture the-
atre, The Case block on the east
side of Main Street, just north of
the Town Hall will be the new site.
When completed, the theatre will
seat about 400 people and its pro-
jection and sound equipment will
be the latest and best. Cost is
$30,000.
The auditor's statement of the
Town of Seaforth, for 1931, shows
receipts are above last year, as are
expenditures. The amount of uncol-
lected taxes is $10,301.98. Seaforth
has a total taxable assessment of
$1,034,780.
June 14, 1957
William Bradshaw, caretaker at
Maitland cemetery, received cuts to
the face, knee and chest area when
an emery wheel he was using to
sharpen a pair of shears shattered.
Mrs. Bradshaw said her husband's
injury was so painful, he had to
sleep sitting up.
Fire caused livestock and proper-
ty losses of over $25,000 when a
large L-shaped barn belonging to
Urban Cucharme, RR2 Hensall,
burned to the ground. Cause of the
fire is unknown.
A large percentage of corn and
beans have been planted and there
is still considerable acreage to be
planted. The odd field of hay has
been cut and baled, although hay is
hardly mature enough yet.
Miss Ruth Sills, SDHS grade 13
student and winner of six athletic
and scholarship awards, was vale-
dictorian for the graduating class.
There were 16 students graduating
from Grade 13.
June 9, 1982
With little more than one third of
the canvass completed, residents of
Seaforth and adjoining municipali-
ties have contributed over
$214,150 to the community centres'
campaign objective of $516,250.
"The response is most encourag-
ing," Marlen Vincent, who heads
the fund raising committee said
Wednesday. The arena fund is
going to be richer, and the public
gets a chance to have a lot of fun
and celebrate Canada's birthday
besides, thanks to Town and
Country Canada Day celebrations
sponsored by the recreation com-
mittee and Seaforth's Business
Improvement Area (BIA).
Tuckersmith taxes increased dra-
matically this year mainly because
of carrying charges of the town-
ship's Dec. 1981 purchase of a farm
to supply gravel. Reeve Bob Bell
explains the township budgeted
last year for $25,000, but because
council was unable to float a deben-
ture to raise funds for the gravel
purchase (rates weren't high
enough to appeal to investors),
bank interest actually amounted to
$121,570.