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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-12-22, Page 5l ))11L1W Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my clientele A special thanks for making my first year in business happy and successful. Julie's Family Hair Styling Main St. Dashwood Call 237-3577 C•042 Cid Nd: Q[A PCA id SyG 4 tSt7. i AU A43 WI* No1440 * MenyChris turas Local contractor retires When he started as a one- man contracting business, all he had Was one truck, his two hands and the deter- mination to succeed. Clarence McDowell, owner of C.A. McDowell Con- struction of Exeter, is retiring from the business after 30 years of work. He will, however, continue to operate the Ready -Mix concrete business on High- way 83 West which he started eight years ago. McDowell auctioned off his equipment and tools - some 600 separate items all told - Friday at his Exeter yard. The crowded yard was over- run by buyers and interested shoppers who raised hoods, inspected truck and tractor bodies, and searched carefully for bargains in the booklet listing all mer- chandise for sale. McDowell has worked all across Ontario, but some major work was also done here in Exeter. He rebuilt Main Street sofrte nine years ago from Huron Street to A Thamesroad. He also built the nurses' residence which is the dental clinic today. The remodelling and ex- pansion of the former town post office (no municipal office) is also his work. "We did some of work in virtually every small town in this area - Clinton, Goderich, Zurich, Seaforth," he said. Going further afield, his crews have travelled to communities like Chalk River, Sioux Lookout, and Mount Joy, near Timmins. The Chalk River contract was the largest in memory, he said; it was for a sanitary sewer system and was worth 11 -million. The men finished it in one season, starting in May and finishing by December. As business grew, so did his payroll. At the peak, McDowell had about 130 men working for him. "The boom period for us was six to ten years ago. It was a time when municipalities were ex- panding, water systems 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 MARILYN MARTENS, DALE ARMSTRONG (C.T.C. Manager) Counsellor FINISHED AFTER 30 YEARS — Taking his retirement the construction business after a lifetime of building, Clarence McDowell said he might take a short vacation. He will continue to run his concrete business on Thames Road. from Our warmest of wishes are extended to you and your entire family for a Merry Christmas! May the feelings of brother- hood, love, peace and tranquility last through- gSSOG\P out the year! � r O.tuart oust TRAVEL SERVICE 1 EXETER, ONTARIO ' NOM 1S0 3 23s_ Lk. k.%assaeave0tusaoQiiss�s.,... 0571 Nisi Nat NA NOS NOS Pick Zurich man Continued from front page and diligently• to bring the people of the two com- munities together on the issue of the union of the two school sections." "Eventually, and in large measure due to his effec- tiveness as a trustee, a new school was constructed," the letter states. The school was named Ecole Ste. Marie, and offered a bilingual education to Catholic children of the area. to the end of grade 10. Rau was then elected to the new board of trustees in 1960. and he continued to serve ratepayers of the new school section until the for- mation of county boards in 1969. He stepped down as a trustee for two years and in December 1971, he was elected as the separate' school representative on the Huron County Board of Education. He continued to serve the Catholic ratepayers of Huron County until his retirement in December of 1980. "As recently as 1980, a spokesperson for the Ecole Ste. Marie school communi- ty. when addressing the board of trustees, expressed the view that the school had been a "long term benefit to the community, to our province and to Canada". History, thus, acknowledged and gave credence to the sometimes frustrated but diligent efforts of Charles Rau." the letter to OSSTA stated. Stephen council Continued from front page 12, 1982 at 10 a.m. in the Exeter council chambers. A severance application from William McCann at Lot ;4, Concession 12 was ap- proved. The spacing of trailers in mobile parks will be changed from six metres on the Huron County Draft Plan to 4.5 metres which it should be according to spot zoning. were being improved, sewage systems were being built, and the government was updating the road system," he said. Contractors like him are constantly bidding on jobs, he said. "When we finished one job, we just load up and move the equipment to another. Sometimes there is a delay before we can start excavating due to paper- work, but we were always busy." As a rule, contractors work in the summer months but McDowell occasionally had to continue through the ` winter. "It's tough on the' machines and tough on the men. They can't work as fast as before," he said. McDowell has seen some good workers under him, too. Wayne Gregg, his super- visor, has 19 years of service with him. Wayne Ford, an equipment operator and Allan Becker, each have 15 years of experience with the company. His workers now number only about 15, and they should be able to find work with other contractors in the spring, he said. McDowell moved his equipment yard to Exeter 10 years ago from Centralia, where he lives with his wife. They have one daughter living in Oakville. MINIM mum Times -Advocate, December 22, 1981 EFFICIENT SELLERS — Ken Lund, of LVG Auctioneers of Toronto, waits while competing' buyers bid kr the price of a truck. According to Clarence McDowell, the owner of the equipment being sold, the entire stock of 600 items would be bought by the end of one cloy. to LL,I 4 4 0 0 MAKE YOUR DEAL OF THE YEAR NOW! Sources say more snow's on the way — and so are a blizzard of unbeatable deals on non-current Ski -Doo® snowmobiles at your nearest Ski -Doo dealer. Act now while he still has the Ski -Doo model you want in stock. Take advantage of this super Yellow Tag Sale and strike up a deal with your participating Ski -Doo dealer today. WITH OUR THANKS THIS CHRISTMAS Receive 1 FREE PEPSI Glass 40. with every pizza ordered (while supplies last) BOMBARDIER ski-tloo. 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