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Usborne taxes take
five, percent increase
The majority of property
owners in the township of
Usborne will find an increase
of five percent when they
receive their 1983 tax notices.
At a special meeting Tues-
day, council approved an
overall farm and residential
mill rate of 210. In 1982 the
rate was 200 mills.
The rale for township pur-
poses was reduced from
67.6771 mills a years ago to
63.695 mills this year. The
county rate is up 3.199 mills to
34.260 mills while the public
school levy is set at 61.482
mills, up from 54.191 mills and
the secondary school rate is
up 2.586 mills to 50.563 mills.
The rate for elementary
separate school supporters is
RESTORATION FUND — Organist Karen Wallen sits at
the keyboard' of the magnificent old pipe organinTrivitt
Memorial Church. Proceeds from a'concert by the Strat-
ford Boychoir this Sunday will begin a fund to restore
the 95 -year-old organ to its original grandeur.
HISTORICAL GRAFFITI Anglican rector Jim Sutton
points out places in the old organ pipes where boys
carved their initials long ago. The graffiti will stay when
the Trivitt organ is :restored.
about the same as for public
school supporters al 61.549
mills.
The overall commercial
rate in the township is 247.137
mills for public school sup-
porters and 247.059 mills for
those supporting the Huron -
Perth Separate School
system.
The 1982 budget as
presented by the auditor and
approved by council calls for
total expenditures of
81.000.856.
The tender of Mac Hedged
for the grass cutting contract
at Thanes Road ball park in
the amount of $400 was
accepted.
A fee of ;5 will be charged
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Fund established
to restore organ
Establishment of a fund to
restore the magnificent.. old
pipe organ in Trivitt •
Memorial Anglican Church.
begins this week with a per-
formance by the Stratford
Boychoir. '
The approximately 40 -voice
choir. with accompanist Dr.
Ralph Topp, Exeter, will pre-
sent a varied program rang-
ing from classicalselections
through romantic.and con-
temporary, including works
by Canadian composers, in
the church on Sunday, May 29
at 7 p.m. Rick Topp. Dennis
Webster and Mark McDon-
nell, Exeter, and Wayne Scot-
chmer, Hensall, are members
of -the Boychoir.
All proceeds from the 85
tickets, aside from the
honorarium given to the
choir, willbecome the first
deposit in the restoration
fund.
-The red oak organ, made
specifically for Trivitt by Ed-
ward Wadsworth and
Brothers of Montreal; has fill-
ed the sanctuary with its un-
mistakable, inimitable voice
for 95 years. A search through
church records shows very
little money has been spent on
the instrument in that time.
Rector Jim Sutton said one
estimate, for 820,000, has been
received, but the restoration
job will be put out for tender.
The instrument will be
removed from the church for
six months to betaken apart,
cleaned, rebuilt, returned and
restored.
"lt should then be good for
another 95 years", Sutton
remarked.
Dr. Topp considers the
organ a challenge to play.- It
is an old tracker whose
mechanism opens the pipes
through a series of levers, and
some of the action has stiffen-
ed and slowed through the
years.
"It is a lovely instrument
with a unique sound► I hope
the original beauty of tone is
preserved". Topp said.
One other unique feature of
the Trivitt organ will be
preserved. When the organ
was first installed. the huge
bellows were pumped
manually. Boys assigned to
that task in the dark,
cramped little room housing
the organ's working heart
relieved their boredom by
carving their names and the
date in some of the towering
wooden pipes. Their han-
diwork will remain.
TURNING THE SOD — Mayor Bruce Show took over the controls of this huge backhoe to help mark the beginning of the construction of
the new Canadian Tire Store, Tuesday. Among those reluctantly standing near the machine with the Mayor at the controls are, from left:
Ray Fields, Cliff Marsden, Rick Frayne, Reeve Bill Mickle, Gerry Walker and Mike Williamson. MF Builders and Designers are in charge
of construction and Frayne Chev-Olds are the developers of the facility for CTC store owner Walker.
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EXETER, ONTARIO, May 25, 1983
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Cold, wet conditions
plague area farmers
Continued wet, cold
weather is. causing area
farmers •a ` considerable
amount of concern, and while
ag rep Don .Pullen shares
some of that concern, he re-
mains optimistic that the con-
ditions will straighten around
to reduce some of the pro-
blems and the expected losses
dueto the lateness of seeding.
"There certainly is concern
i out there due to the lateness,"
Pullen said yesterday.' but
added that even the obvious
plight of some farmers in the
county is not as severe as
that being experienced in
some other areas.
While the weather has stall-
ed seeding, it has also stalled
growth of the crops that have
been planted.
"Some early crops are not
doing much." Pullen said,
noting that many grain fields
were "patchy" and the hay
and pasture cropshave been
Driver to ' face • trial
Louis Klepic, 37. of 380
Southdale ftd., London, was
discharged at a preliminary
hearing on a charge of
criminal negligence causing
death Thursday but ordered
to stand trial on counts pf
dangerous and impaired
driving.
Klepic is also charged with
• driving while under suspen-
sion in connection with a
single car crash Dec. 4 which
ratan,. injured . Natalie
Joe Wooden looks back on 27 years at SHDHS
•
Leishman. 8. of Dashwood;
who was a panger in the
vehicle:
Publication of evidence at
the preliminary hearing
before provincial Judge
Douglas Walker was banned
at the request of defence
lawyer Murray Neilson. No
date has been set for the trial
Klepic was charged after a
vehicle left Hyde Park Road
about one kilometre north of
Highway 22 shortly after.
• midnight.
stunted.
Most of t he grain has been
sown in Huron, although some
remains to, be planted. and
the ag rep said it is getting
pretty late for that.
Corn producers are also in
a quandry and it was in-
dicated many may have to
consider earlier maturing
varieties than they had
planned. .
Pullen lamented that the
late planting may prompt
some to consider beans rather
than corn, and he notes the
market outlook for beans is
questionable.
He also predicts more soy-
beans than ever will be
planted, altho\rgh again.
unless there is a quick change
in the .weather, some may
have to switch to earlier
maturing varieties.
Noting he is not one•to hit
the panic button, Pullensaid
the start of the 1983 season
has been extremely disap-
pointing, although he quickly
adds that some sun and warm
breezes ,would improve the
outlook considerably.
ASSISTING DONOR — Marie Brunzlow, convener for Wednesday's Red Cross Blood
Donor Clinic assists donor Rae Wild. The clinic was sponsored by the Ausable River
Nomads.
Five await sentencing
Five area people will be
sentenced- on June 21 on
mischief charges related to
damage caused to an apart-
ment in a- Carling St. home
owned by Gus Gregus last
JuThl.
e five were convicted in
Goderich court on Thursday.
and Judge Carter reserved
his decision. -
Those who will be sentenc-
ed will be Kenneth Denomme,
Zurich; Barry McCallum,
• Kippen; Michael Parsons,
John Stephens and kialph
Bremner, Exeter.
Damage to the apartment
unit was substantial as holes
were punched in the ceilings
and walls'and butter and ket-
chup were smeared on walls.
Charges against seven
others were dismissed.
Leaves for Clinton position in the fall
Today's students work harder, less disruptive, more skillful athletes
"Keep our Joe. The man
you know.''
That was the wording on
one of several placards which
appeared on the walls at.
South Huron District high
School last week as students
reacted to the loss of their
principal. Joe Wooden, who is
being transferred to Clinton
'this fall as part of a major
shuffle of high school
Principals.
While modestly pleased at
the reaction of some students.
Wooden admits to having se-
cond thoughts about accep-
ting the voluntary shift to a
new school.
;'I'm not leaving easily," he
said this week, "I've enjoyed
it here."
However, he suggests that
education in Huron operates
as a system, and if there are
perceived advantages to hav-
ing that, system, the move-
ment of staff is one method to
see if there are.
In the spring of 1955,
Wooden hitch -hiked to Exeter
for a job interview with ILL.
Sturgis, then principal, and
•started on staff as geography
teacher the following
September at a salary of.
82,800.
He was one of a record
eight new teachers joining the
staff that year and one, Ken
Ottewell, remains. Others on
staff at the time and still liv-
ing in this area are Glenn
Mickle,' Lauretta Seignor,
Morley Sanders, Edith and
Andy Dixon. The enrolment
Only two collisions
on holiday weekend
Only t‘%a of the four colli-
sion's investigated by the Ex-
eter OPP this week occurred
over the first holiday weekend
period of the current summer
season.
OPP Sgt. 'Ray (:lover
reported a quiet weekend in
the area as police were call-
ed
aIIed out to handle only ,i lew•
minor incidents and liquor
offences.
The first. of the holiday
weekend crashes occurred on
Friday when d vehicle driven
by Gary Dcitz. 92 Brock St..
Hensel!. struck a bridge on
concession 2 of Ilay Tdwnship
and rolled over.
The driver and his
passenger. William Rowan.
RR 2 Zurich, suffered 'minor
injuries in the mishap.
Damage was set at 82,000.
On Monday. 'a vehicle
driven by Christopher Brair.
North York. left Iligbway 83
just west of Dashwdod and
struck.a tree. There were no
injuries and damage was
estimated a $900'
Last Monday. a vehicle
operated by Randall •Pet•
tapiece, RR 1 Monkton.
struck a -cattlebeast on.
Highway 83 east of Huron
Road 11. Damage to the vehi-
cle was listed at ;900. The
animal was owned by Henry •
Poortinga.
The other crash occurred
on Thursday when a vehicle
driven by Kenneth McCann.
RR 2 Crediton, had a utility
trailer it was hauling discon-
nect from the vehicle and
struck several trees and
shrubs along the side of Coun-
ty Road 2 south of Zurich. •
Damage to the trailer was
82,250.
was around 400 and the staff
totalled 18.
Wooden has seen the second
generation of many area
families pass through the-
local school in the past 28
years and can't really begin
to accurately determine the
thousands of students who
have attended.
He does"know that no mat-
ter where you go, you in-
variably run into a former
student of SHDHS.
Wooden, only the fourth
principal at theschool since
World War II, took over the
reins in 1967 after the short
stay of Douglas Palmer, who
succeeded Sturgis.
The enrolment at the school
hit a high of 1,100, but has
since dwindled to under 900
and he expects there will be
about 870 on hand when school
opens this September. That's
about the same number when
he became principal.
He iuggests the current
enrolment would probably be
lower except for the scarcity
of jobs. This year's grade 13
has a record number of 85 as
students stay at the books in
view of few job opportunities.
There will be less than 200
grade niners arriving in
September and a sign of the
shift in the school district
population is the fact that
more than 25 percent of those
will be from Exeter. In the
past, the town has furnished
only about 15 percent of the
student population.
Wooden sees little dif-
ference between the current
school popluation and those
he encountered during his
first day in a new career.
There's the obvious change
in dress, but he claims the
character hasn't changed
much, although admits that
being so'involved through the
years may make it more dif-
ficult to perceive changes.
One of the other changes is
the fact there is little dif-
ference now between the
students at his school and
those in large urban centres.
"That wouldn't be true 25 or
30 years ago," he suggests.
Having done some practice
teaching in Toronto he notic-
ed a great difference between
the city students and their
rural Ontario counterparts,
but recent trips to the city
• have convinced him there is
now little difference. He also
sees little difference between
the town and rural kids at
SHDHS.
One of the things that hasn't
changed is the fact that
SHDHS students are and
always were "pretty decent
kids;"
It may come as a shock to
parents, but the veteran
teacher claims today's
students do considerably
more work than those of the
past as they get involved in
essays,individual projects
and seminars.
They are, however, involv-
ed in fewer non -athletic.
LOOKING BACK -- SHDHS principal Joe Wooden, who is being transferred to
Clinton in the fall, looks over one of the school's scrapbooks with secretory Doris
Schwartz and teacher. Ken Ottewell. The latter joined the staff at the same time
as Wooden, whle Miss Schwartz was on hand to greet them. Wooden will be
honored at an appreciation night being staged on June 10.
events as many of the school's
clubs have disappeared.
Inter -school competitions
on the athletic front are at-
tracting more students than
ever. A list compiled just .
recently•by Ron Bogart shows
that one-third of the school
population engaged in inter:
school athletics during this
year. .
Former school athletes
may also be surprised to
know the principal thinks to-
day's standard of athletic skill
achievement is much higher,
due to; improved equipment,
coaching techniques and the
availability of watching pro-
fessionals perform via TV.
Today's athletes not only
have better skills. they have
to pay to participate. This
year, SHDHS students raised
half the school's 825,000
budget .for inter -school
athletics. .
While TV may have helped
students in athletics, it has
had a detrimental effect on
their scholastic abilities. In
fact, Wooden terms it "pro-
foundly destructive" in many
ways, not the least of which is
it inhibits imagination and the
ability to fantasize.
It has also had an adverse
impact on their reading skills.
"They don't read as much
or as well," he laments, ad-
ding that without imagina-
tion, a child is severely
handicapped.
in that area he feels
previous students had skills
not possessed by today's
students.
However, he still thinks the
advanced students at the
school know more than their
predecessors. primarily
because the curriculum Is
better, although he says to his
chagrin, that his own area of
geography is one subject
where that advancement has
not kept pace in the'
curriculum.
It and history lost out in the
credit shuffle," he suggests.
Wooden, who has taught ,
throughout most of his 28
years, finds kids of today less
distruptive in class than those
Of 25 years ago, although he
adds part of that may be cited
as apathy or less imagination.
However, he also thinks the
credit system has helped in
that regard as fewer students
get lost in courses as they are
placed in streams where they
can cope.
In the past, a student who
got lost in math had little else
to do in class but be disrup-
tive,while today the student
is placed in a class where he
can keep pace with his/i)er.
ability.
He cites some problem
areas with the credit system,
.one being that those in the
"middle" have been lost as
most students appear either
at, the upper or lower end of
the spectrum.
Wooden is obviously not
among those concerned about
the academic direction of the
system. He claims there have
been a great many good
educational.things that have
happened and adds with some
medest pride that SHDHS
was usually in the forefront in
the changes.
"We are usually among the
first in Huron to try things,"
he says, listing timetable in-
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New truck okayed
by Stephen council
Stephen township has pur-
chased a new four wheel drive
pickup truck for use by the
road department. '
The lender from Seaforlh'
Motors for $10,500.45, the
lowest of five received wasac-
cepted subject to Ontario
Ministry of Transportation
and Communications
approval.
Rental rates to township
ratepayers 'for use of the
grader was set at $44 per hour
and 828 for the backhoe
machine.
Six tile drain loans totalling
$43,900 were approved.
A borrowing bylaw on the
Gill municipal drain and
amending bylaws on the Mud
Creek and Faulder-Muller-
Nagle municipal drains were
passed.
The 1982 auditor's report
for 1982 was received and ac-
cepted. It shows a surplus of
81.469.
The Ontario Ministry of
Housing has informed council
that no- new money will be
available this year for the On-
tario Home Renewal in
Stephen. All that will be
available will be funds com-
ing back in on repayments.
Council has agreed to share
advertising concerning
Canada Health Day with the
town of Exeter.
Approval has been given to
the Dashwood Friedsburg
Days committee to serve
alcoholic beverages for the
annual event scheduled for
July 29 and 30.
An agreement has been
signed with Ontario Develop-
ment Corporation for leasing
of the Iluron Park recreation
centre annex. In turn i1 will be
leased to the Stephen Op-
timist *Club.