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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-11-25, Page 23EASY DOES IT — A workman from new Day Contractor helps guide the drive through the narrow parts of the survey as they move Paul Schmitt's house towards its new location on John St. Mr. Schmitt moved it from Stratford to Grand Bend last Thursday. Walker drain study mapped Waterway to be The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority will be carrying out a flood plain mapping of the Walker Drain in Grand Bend in the new year. General manager Tom Prout and Water Resources Coordinator Frank Beletz obtained permission from the village's council last Monday to send out tenders for the job. which Prout said would cost the village only about $200. The survey will be done on the waterway which runs from just north of Grand Bend Cove Estates and down into the Ausable River. The section to be examined begins just downstream from the Estates and ex- tends to the junction with the Ausable. Like most husbands, mine sometimes requires a slight nudging to get busy at a pro- ject. But once he starts a job, he doesn't quit until it's finished. Such zeal and enthusiasm can sometimes be a drawback. Often. I will go to bed, leaving him at his desk, hunched over his adding machine. doing his month- end bookkeeping. At three a.m.: 111 wake up. and see a Tight in the office. He's lost 10 cents somewhere, and won't go to bed until it's found. I offer him a dime. but he usually turns me down. and stays with his figures and columns. One project. which took a fair bit of nudging to get him farted. was building a new do house for our large springer spaniel, Pepper. Poor Pepper was living in quarters much too small for him. He'd go into his dog house. and spend 20 minutes struggling to turn around so he could see out. If he stretched. his chin rested on the ground outside the door. We tried to teach him to back into his house. but it just didn't work. I finally convinced Victor that Pepper needed a new home. The decision was clinched when a friend gave us a large. black 'P' to hang over the door of the new dog house -to -be. One evening the construc- tion began. A skid on which you'd pile things for a forklift was used as the foun- dation. The interior of the new dog house was finished in attractive wood panelling, left over from panelling our garage. (Don't get us wrong - we normally wouldn't have a garage in wood panelling, but the panels were purchas- ed when a building was being demolished.) In any case. Pepper seem- ed pleased as he sniffed his new walls. But soon the problem began. The building supplies which my husband had purchased were beginning to run out. It was late evening, and the stores were all dos- ed. But he wouldn't give up construction until the job was finished. When he ran short of two- by-fours for the roof trusses, a few extra pieces were snitched from our boat dock in the river. When it became apparent he wouldn't have enough siding to complete the exterior, a piece of siding was removed from our garage. About now, I began to get upset - I failed to see the progress in ripping apart the garage to erect a dog house. But 1 was in- formed that the siding from the garage was taken from a spot up near the eaves where no one would miss it. It could easily be replaced later with another kind of wood, he reassured me. When plywood for the roof of the dog house became scarce. an old, seldom used ping-pong table was sawed up. (It was just a high school shop project anyway, he said.) And before 1 could protest. shingles, left over from our house roofing were 'being nailed onto the dog house. Before I knew it, the job was complete, Pepper had moved in, and the builder still got a couple of hours sleep that night! A day or two later, Victor was back at the dog house Mary's musings By Mary Alderson again. painting it white and gold to match the garage. Unfortunately he did the dog house first. and the garage second. running short of paint before the garage was finished. Another can had to be purchased. The new 'P' was hung over Pepper's door. to match the light fixture over the garage door. and both buildings stand side by side. Now Victor's talking about putting in a heater and stereo system for Pepper, as well as the wall-to-wall carpeting. And Pepper has the biggest and most elaborate dog house in the township, or maybe even the province. I know why the builder was always running out of materials: he got a little carried away as he 'went along. People driving Into our yard will think we have a St. Bernard or a New- foundland. But Victor insists that the house was built according to plans. He made it big enough so that he could get in, along with Pepper! The survey is sponsored by the Canada -Ontario Flood Damage Reduction Program and is heavily sub- sidized by the two levels of government. The result of the study is a map of the waterway defining the max- imum extent of flooding on both banks during the worst storm forseeable in the next 100 years. Beletz said. The Authority will award the job to a private con- sulting engineering firm after getting approval of its terms of reference from the London office of the Ministry of Natural Resources.. Flood plain mapping is done by first doing a topographical map of the target area. Then, hydrological measurements are taken by determining precisely what the waterway's maximum carrying capacity is, in- cluding the effects of man- made obstructions like bridges. The result is an ac- curate diagram of the furthest extent of backup and flooding which can occur given a storm of expected severity. "The Authority has already done studies of Parkhill and Exeter. Along with Grand Bend, studies will be done of Crediton, Stephen Township. parts of Lucan and parts of Biddulph as well." Beletz said. The consultant's calculations will be sent to London for ministry inspec- tion and then to Toronto for perusal by the Flood Damage Reduction Program office before ap- proval. The summary and map will be kept by the Authority in its office in Ex- eter but is fully available to the village for its useage, too. Beletz said the entire project could be done in less than a year. Museum receives grant for publicity, promotion . The Lambton County Museum has received a federal grant of $34,000 un- der the Canada Community Development Program to sponsor a year-long project to promote and organize adult bus tours to the Heritage and Oil Discovery Museums. curator Bob Tre- main reported to the Museum Committee at its monthly meeting Tuesday night. Under the term of the grant. four promotion of- ficers will be hired for the year. one of whom will carry out the actual details of drawing up bus tour packages to points of in- terest in the county for dis- tribution to coach tour operators and travel trade shows. The other two will be stationed at the two museums and the fourth will keep records. and coordinate and Supervise the over-all ef- fort. The committee was pleas- ed to hear the news, and dis- cussion ensued as to how the funds could be best used. Duffy Atkins felt that some attention should be given to promoting the Oil Museum in Petrolia as well. However. chairman Charles Srokosz cautioned that the grant was made to the Heritage Museum. and to be over -zealous elsewhere would make others think "that we were trying to take them wen" he said. "We mus coordinate this pron - tion program. It can be stopped if it is seen not to be working." he said. . In his monthly report to the committee, Tremain •• wrote that under the provisions of the grant program. the Latnbton Heritage Museum and the Petrolia Discovery would work co-operatively to promote their own museum sites. as well as related tourist attractions. The committee. also heard the monthly report from Oil Museum curator Claire Bridges. who said he had been winterizing the museum. This led the com- mittee to discuss heating conversion programs available from the federal government as a way of sav- ing on heating hills. A mo- tion was passed authorizing Bridges to find out the cost of converting his facility to propane or electrical heating and report this to the 1982 committee. Tremain reported that he recieved an account for $500 for electrical work done this spring. New wiring was in- stalled to put a gallery and a storage area on separate cir- cuits. and one radiator was moved. The 011 Museum got further attention as members discussed im- proving the building's sign. Bridges was instructed to move and refurbish the sign in time for the new year. A motion was passed to in- stall small audio display screens in the Oil Museum which would he push-button controlled to read out an ex- planation of what a par- ticular display contained. ,These devices are used ex- tensively in other. larger museums, and the com- mittee felt that they were very reasonable in cost. The same motion also called for a sign in the Heritage and Oil Museum advertising each other. Bob Boyd moved that the new committee hold every third meeting in the County administration building to cut down on travelling time for various members. Boyd later made a motion that county council be asked to make Tremain the direc- tor of both the Heritage and the Oil Museum, with Bridges retained as manager of the latter museum This would reduce administration to keeping one budget per year. he said. The motion was passed. Museum tohire trainee with grant The Lambton Heritage Museum has been given a grant to hire and train a short-term employee under the Ontario Action Program which is operated through Lambton College. The grant money runs for a term of 16 weeks and allows the museum to train an unemployed person in a specific job skill. This year, 19 -year-old Marianne Haverkamp of Brucefield w111 be learning to operate the museum's cataloguing system and will help to make records of its 18,000 in- dividual items. Museum curator Robert Tremain said the application had been made by him about two months ago. "It in- volved setting up a job dis- cription and stating what kind of training would be provided to the future employee." he said. This is the third time the museum has used the program; the first occasion was in 1977. The cataloguing system is the same used by alt provin- A HEAVY LOAD — Work at the Grand Bend Post Office will continue through the winter weather, according to site foreman Ray Eckel, in order that the May deadline can be met. Shown above are Pete VanBokel, Jim Von Bakel and Ray Eckel as they maneuver a heavy steel beam into place. c•lal museums, he said, and is similar to control systems used in libraries, too. "Because we are so new here there is much work to be done to complete our records." he said. Specific tasks include a location file, a donor file. and a master catalogue. Miss Haverkamp was located through the Canada Manpower office in Exeter. Candidates for the program must be unemployed to be eligible. The candidate from the 1977 program now works there full-time. Grant to start work The Huron Country Playhouse has been awarded a $23.712 grant under the federal government's Canada Community Development Program. Four local tradesmen will be hired for two full years to undertake general im- provements to the building and the grounds, according to playhouse general manager Heather Reddick. The playhouse is also ex- pecting response from the provincial ministry of Culture and Recreation about another grant applica- tion. she said. If that grantis given. there will be enough capital to physically expand the playhouse. The target areas for the federal grant money include the washroom facilities; parking space, the playhouse courtyard. and the landscap- ing. There are also plans to build a walkway for the dis- abled. "We hope to make some general improvements to the building. The purpose of these grants is to give work to the local people," she said. The theatre itself was built in 1975 with funds from the federal and provincial governments. as well as private and corporate donors Times -Advocate, November 25, 1981 Page 7A , PLAN FOR THE FUTURE — The Walker Drain in Grand Bend will be studied by consulting engineers in the spring along with waterways in Lucan, Crediton, and Stephen and Bid- dulph townships. Flood plain mapping will help steer future residential and commercial development away from poten- tially flood -prone areas on both banks. 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