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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-09-07, Page 18 (2)BUILDING Page 16 Times -Advocate, September 7, 1978 D ° A new 'service for Grand Bend ▪ and area. . ,.20 Woodward St. 238-8175 CUT ME OUT • CUT ME OUT. ANDERSON'S TAXI 1110 3W lAD DECORATING AND FLOORING CENTRE Beautify with us • Benlam.n Moore Paints -- • Walrpaper • - • Vinyls qnd Solarium • Wood shades blinds • Drapery Hardware . 238-8603 I 54 511(.1 VISA 15 Main St. Seniors back to fall routine All seniors in the com- munity are reminded that this afternoon. Thursday. fall activities commence in the club rooms in the Masonic building. back of the library -The new room and kitchen, downstairs. are nearing completion and will make for greater, comfort for all concerned Euchre, bridge and crafts will be featured this after- noon. with the first class in ceramics. on figurines. be- ing given if you have not been telephoned it means You are in the second class. but please come with your own craft or to work on the "Colonial Lady" quilt It would be wise to bring your qwn paints to augment those belonging to the Busy Bud- dies. The new executive will take _office this afternoon Come and support them • Plan barbecue - The United Church -Women have finalized their plans for their annual chicken barbeque it will be held at the Lucan United Church. Wednesday. September 20 from 5 to p m. Advance tickets are on sale now through United Church members Advance tickets are adults $3 75. children $2 00 and pre- schoolers free . The Lucan t'nited Church Friendship Unit will con-• tinue their meetings Wednesday. September 13 at R 30 p.m at- the home of Shirley Ryan New members are welcome - ONTARIO HOME RENEWAL PROGRAM The Ontario Ministry of Housing has made available funds to the Village of Lucan to provide assistance to owner -occupants to repair faulty , structural and sanitary conditions and to upgrade the plumbing, _ heating and electrical systems. Homeowners are eligible for assistance under the program by way of forgiveable or low interest repayable loans or both. Funds are available to homeowners whose adjusted family income does not exceed $12,500. For further information, contact: i E.J. Melanson Clerk -Treasurer Box 449 - . Village of Lucan Phone 227-4253 Lucan and district news • REC CENTRE TO OPEN — The new futon Community Memorial Centre will be officially opened Saturday evening. The guest speaker at the dinner will be former Middlesex MPP Bill Stewart. Part of the new structure is shown above.. T -A photo Bil Stewart to officially open Community Centre :1 number of events will highlight the official opening of the new Lucan 'Com- munity Memorial Centre this ween the hours oft and 4 weekend. p.m. the building will be Saturday afternoon bet- open with the board.andstaff present to conduct tours and On l one ve h i e le - answer any questions. ns. A dinner wilt be held in the spacious auditorium at 6:30 in p.m..Saturday '-with lh� of a l l area misha ps hou t °ftaler f=ingguetrit Ail 01 the four .accidents investigated this week . by officers of the Lucan detach- ment of the • Ontario Provincial Police -involved only one vehicle. Friday at 8 p.m. a vehicle. driven by Eric Devlaeminck, Firemen to false alarm An anonymous person called the Lucan OPP Satur- day morning at 10 a m. _and . reported a car fire south of Lucan. ' The OPP in turn called the fire department and "the dedicated volunteers left immediately to put out the fire. There was none and the men found themselves -on a false alarm. -it's too bad that some of the juvenile mentality_ around get their kicks out of seeing other good men try- ing to do their job &little like crying "Wolf": too manv incidents of -this sort could inadvertently slow down the reactions to a real emergency • RR 2. Lucan lett the roadway of • Concession 5-6 in McGillivraj• township. west of Highway 4 and struck a culvert. Constable B. D. Munro listed damages at ., $450. Constable C. S. Fleming estimated damages at S1.950 when a vehicle driven by F'hili_p Harrigan..wRR 3, Lucan struck a hydro pole on the Huron -Middlesex` bountlary. west of Con- cession 4-5 in McGillivray township. The mishap oc- curred at 2.30 a.m.. Satur- day. John Howard Huff ,and a passenger Helen Huff. both %of RR 2. Port Stanley suf- fered minor injuries when their vehicle left County road 22, south of Highway 7 at 1.20 a.m. Sunday. Constable W. T. Hodgins set damages at $2.000. Sunday at 10.20 a.m. a vehicle driven by Douglas .Marshall. RR 2, Ailsa Craig rolled over on McGillivray sideroad 20-30, west of Concession 2-3 and into a corn field owned by hurray Lee. Constable Hodgins listed damages at $700. . • rr U I NSTALL AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR At the touch 6f your thumb! A touch of the button opens your garage door while you sit comfortably in your.Car — sate from shpDPry walks. and completely secure. The U -install fits most overhead doors to 7* high x 18' wide. and is easily installed. • Instant safety reverse • Manual disconnect • Automatic on / off light • Positive locking Features include • Pocket size push button transmitter • Powerful 1 / 3 hp motor • Two minute time delay OPENER 1 99.00 1 Ball -Macaulay Limited Seoforth 527-0910 Hensall 262-2418 Clinton 482-3405 care CENTRE .speaker will be - former Middlesex WIPE' and cornier/ Ontario Agriculture/ Miwrister William A. Stewart. - Admission to the dinner and ' official opening, is by advance ticket only. A show and- dance featuring, The Diahiond Lil Revue"• will start at 9 p.m. Sunday aftetnoon: ,clergy .of all churches in the area will be participating in an ecumenical church. service beginning at 3 p.m A beef barbecue going from 4:30 to 7 p.r� Sunday will conclude the big weekend. -' Tickets for all events are oh sale at the Lucan Com- munity Centre, Scott's Elevator, Lucan Locker, Young's Clothing, Wraith Hardware, Nevin Motors, Don Smith's Donna's Decorating and Carter's general store in Clandeboye. New church entrance Add to Revival Centre Construction of a sizable addition to the Lucan itevival Centre will get underway in the very near future. Lucan council. Tuesday night approved a building permit application•presented by a three-man delegation. Rev. Ray Brewster said a house located at the rear of the present church building located at the corner of Main and Richmond streets will be torn down. The new structure Will house the main sanctuarrof the church. It will be 50 feet by 50 feet and a 23 by 30 foot lobby. • The addition will be ad- joined to the present church building which will then be used fqr Sunday School. and related purposes. The main entrance to the church will be off Richmond street. • In recommending ac- ceptance . of the building application, councillor Norm Steeper said plans' did comply with the village's zoning regulations... Reeve Ivan Hearn com- mended the delegation on the proposed expansion saying, "This will be a credit to your church board. Your recent accomplishments with young people are good for .air community." Rev. Kay Brewster said he expected construction should be completed in about eight. months. He was ac! companied by Bruce Shaw and John Armitage. • • Appoint solicitor Council accdpted .the ssgnation of village solicitor W. K. A. McKay. He Will be replaced by Andy Wright to -take care of legal matters pertaining, to official plans, subdivision agreements, zoning, etc. A request from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to. stsitch to the 'metric system for implementation of killing, for the provincial service' agreements regarding the water system was accepted.' Keee Ivan Ilearn and clerk Ed • Melanson were authorized to sign an agreement with the firm of J. F. McLaren to prepare a zoning bylaw,., The final grant in the amount of $3.418.12 for the official plan has „been received from the Ministry of Housing. Contractor William Rovers of .5t. Marys was given an extension. to Sep - GETS CERTIFICATE — Doug Johnson of the Lucan village works department recently completed a course in surveying at the C.S. Anderson school in Guelph. Above, Lucan reeve Ivan Hearn presents the.aword.. T -A photo A bowling champ By JOY SCHEIFELE AILSA CRAIG Ailsa Craig's Bob Macin- tosh is once again one of Canada's champion lawn bowlers. Representing Ontario .he competed with team members skip Bill Watkins and his two sons. Jim and Bob of London. winning the Canadian championship. August 23 The five day tour- nament was held this year in Halifax. Nova Scotia with nine provinces hying for the championship. New- foundland did not enter a team. A member of the London Fairmont club. this was, the second great win for Bob. in 1971 he bowled dimples with team member .Jim Watkins to take his first Canadian championship. He continued an representing -Canada in the World championship .in 1972 which were held in Worthy. England. This was the first world competition for either Bob or Jim. Seventeen countries in all were represented in the competition. and they were able._lolinish L> .Dintl<l� place. in 1973 they took the On- tario doubles, and finished r that year in the Cana- dian mpetition in Regina. An enthusiastic lawn bowler Bob enjoys taking part in the various com- - petitions, but bowls regular- ly only once a week. He first became interested in the sport at the early age of 14 and played. regularly on Ailsa Craig's own greens un- til they were discontinued. 'Born in Ailsa Craig he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Macintosh, also of Ailsa Craig. - Although he would like to compete again in the world championships. Bob at the moment has- no definite plansit will depend when and where they take place. BOB MacINTOSH tem ber 18 to complete construction of Albert street without any penalties. Reeve Hearn said asphalting would start today, Thursday. He added "from all appearances it will be a good street:" A committee consisting of councillors Larry Hotson and Norm Steeper was named to do a survey on the village's water system and review rates. During the discussion Hutson said, "Our per capita consumption is high because of the water sold outside our municipality. The farm and tarok rates are too cheap." Reeve Hearn commented "if it's managed properly we should have lots of water for a long time." At the August meeting, council .informed Biddulph township that building permits should not be issued until water applications for Lucan water are made if that commodity is needed for the new construction.' Pastor,wjfe back from British hoIida Those present Labour Day Sunday, at the Lucan United church were happy to welcome back Rev. & Mrs. Keith -Brown from their re- cent holiday -in Britian. Rev. Brown took his ser- mon topic, "The Ministry of Daily Work". from Ftihesians 6:1-20 asking the • question "How can a person serve God without becoming a minister or missionary, etc'" And the answer forthcoming "Commitment does not need to be within the church walls. although being a teacher, a youth leader, etc.. seems to be related to the Church building, which is a place where we are trained for- - for our God. or we should be. ' He said that Jesus is the' greatest example any labourer could have. He was an ideal employee and would • have ,been An ideal employer. What a tremen- 'dous difference it would - make if Christian principles. were accepted in all our relationships. Mrs. Wayne Gibson of the Mission and Service com- mittee. presented the monthly "minute talk" tell • - ing of the work done by the "Downtown Mission" ,in Windsor. one of the projects we support. She urged all members to keep their M. & S. contributions coming in to objective by the end of the year. The flowers in- the sanc- tuary were from the funeral of the late Mrs, Lorraine Aulenback. Granton. The prayers and sympathy of the congregation are extended to her loved ones. • Upcoming Events in the Lucan United Church Tonight. Thursdayeahe- regular weekly choir prac- tices commence at 8:30p m. if you like to sing, come and join the group. New members are needed. Young people are particularly in- vited. Next Sunday will be a very busy day in the church and community. Sunday Church school in all departments commences at 10 a.m. .Regular worship at 11:15 and at.3 p.m. there will bean ecumenical service at the Community ('entre to mars the official opening. with all church's taking part in various capacities Everyone is welcome. At 7:30 the London Chapter of the U.C. Renewal Fellowship will meet in Lucan United Church: You are invited to join in a time of fellowship and sharing. Wednesday. September 13. at 8:30,, the Friendship Unit will hold an informal meeting at the home of Mrs. Jack Ryan. Please note change of date because of the chicken barbecue. September 20. All ladies of the church are invited. 111111111111111111111111141 1 1111 1 111 The Light Touch By JACK LAVENDER Highways sure have im- proved. From rural roads where two cars couldn't pass without Colliding, we've developed ex- pressways where six cars can collide comfortably. • • • You're never quite sure what kind of mind o person has until he gives you a piece of it. • • Remember -that old phrase .. crazy mixed up kid"? Could that be Huron Coun- ty's youth standing back and listening to the oyes v.s. the nayes feuding over what books are to be studied in the high schools? • • • Another thing they don't make like they used to is people who con fix them like they used to. • • • To find out how un- reasonable people can be, just tell them you'll accept any reasonable offer. Lt's reasonable: we offer . oft -times some day service of Jack's Small Engine Repair Service 107 Queen St., Hensall 262-2103 ;111111111111111 n111n11n1111111111111I111111 APPLES A. Harvest & early varieties picked fresh daily CRUNICAN BROS. 1 1/2 miles south of Elginfield LUCAN BOWLING .LANES OPENING FOR THE `78-79 SEASON PUBLIC BOWLING Fri. 7-1 1 Sat. 2-5 & 7-11 Sun. 2-5 We will be forming a teen league for ages 14-18 this season to be held on Saturday mornings at 10:30. The price for. this league will be 51.75 (Including shoes if desired) for 3 games. This league will start on September 9. .Junior bowling will be on Tuesdays at 4:00 again -this year. Registration is on Tuesday, September 12 at 4:00. There are openings for the 9:00 Friday mixed league, which will soon be forming. For more information on these or any other leagues and for reservations. - Call 227-4236 or 2,7-1034 Don 8 Audrey Watt i THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BIDDULPH - BY-LAW NO. 18, 1978 A by-law for prohibiting or regulating the obstructing, encumbering, • njuring or fouling of highways or bridges in the Township of Biddulph. Whereas, by paragraph 1 of Section 460 of the Municipal Act R.S.O. 1970 Chapter 284 a by-law may be passed by the Council of a local municipality for prohibiting the throwing, placing or depositing of dirt, filth, glass, handbills, paper or other rubbish or refuse, or the carcass of any animal, on any highway or bridge. And Whereas by paragraph 6 of Section 460 of the Municipal Act R.S.O.1970 chapter 284 a by-law may be passed prohibiting the obstruction of ditches or culverts upon highways. Be it- therefore, Enacted by the Municipal Council of the Township of Biddulph, as follows: 1. In this by-law "highway" means the road allowance of any concession road, side road or street within the corporate limits of the Township of Biddulph. 2. No person shall obstruct, encumber, injure or foul any highway within the corporate limits of the Township of Biddulph. 3. No person shall deposit dirt, filth, glass, handbills, paper or other rubbish or refuse including derelict vehicles, stones and old fen- cing, or the carcass of any animal on any highway or bridge within the corporate limits of the Township of Biddulph. 4. No person shall deposit snow on any highway or bridge within the corporate limits of the Township of Biddulph. 5. No person shall obstruct ditches or culverts upon highways within the corporate limits of the Township of Biddulph. 6. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by- law, upon conviction, shall forfeit and pay at the direction of the con- victing magistrate a penalty, not less than $50.00 and not more than $300.00 -exclusive of costs, which shall be recoverbble under the provision's of the Summary Convictions Act., . 7. This By-law shall come _into force .and take affect on the day of the final passing thereof. " Read a- first ,.second-and-third-•tiiii'e and pc—Ws-id-WO-pen open Council this 1st day of August 1978.' Austin Hodgins, Fred O. Dobbs, Clerk Reeve