HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-11-29, Page 5All Ontario tryouts
Two players tom the South Huron Panthers Field Hockey Team
were in Toronto on the weekend trying out for the all Ontario team.
Tina Campbell and Becci Farquhar survived the first round of
player selection held at the University of Toronto.
Annual meeting •
Tonight (Wednesday) is the annual meeting of the Clinton Com-
munity Credit Union. The meeting is at 8p.m. at the Town Hall in
Clinton. Roger Culbert, owner of Exeter Glass and Mirror is run-
ning for a position on the board of directors.
Help for families
Once again the Huron County Christmas Bureau is asking for do- •
nations to help area families. Donations may be brought to the Exet-
er United Church Thursday to Saturday, December 7-9 and on Mon-
day, December 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The local managers this
year are Alma Godbolt and Audrey MacGregor.
Christmas tree fundraiser
The South Huron District High School Students' Council is selling
Christmas trees December 2, 3, 9, 10 and 13 at the High School and
a so at Country Market in Grand Bend. Free delivery is being of-
fered for seniors.
It's a bargain in Exeter
Anyone who has criticized the amount charged by the town of Ex-
eter for impost fees should consider themselves lucky they're build-
ing here rather than St. Marys. Exeter's fees are $750 for building
on new lots, $500 for old lots or duplexes and $400 for multi -unit
housing. The town of St. Marys recently set their new rates at
S1,250 per unit for all residential dwellings, including apartments.
Mohawks get Christmas spirit
The Exeter Mohawks are asking all their fans to bring canned
goods of their choice to their game Sunday, December 10 for distri-
bution to the Huron County Christmas Bureau. •
No Chills for Children
Image Cleaners and the Exeter Lions Club are conducting their
annual No Chills for Children campaign again this year. Coats and
other winter items can be dropped off at any Image Outlet where
they will be cleaned by the company and given to people who can
use them. Len Hume said the theme is for kids but "we'll clean any
item of clothing." All items donated will be distributed through the
Children's Family Services.
Contract ratified
HENSALL - Workers at Gener-
al Manufactured Housing won't be
walking the picket line this winter
after the union and the company
signed a contract last week to keep
the plant running smoothly for at
least another two years.
Carpenter's union business rep-
resentative Ken Fenwick said ne-
gotiations for the new contract
went well and were conducted on
an informal basis.
"We accomplished everything
we wanted to achieve," he said.
The contract was ratified with a
93-18 vote on November 6 and
was finally signed by union repre-
sentatives and the company on Fri-
day.
"It was a good contract ntrgotiat-
cd by very reasonable people,"
said General Manufactured Hous-
F
t
ing's vice-president Doug Holmes,
who agreed that the company's ag-
gressive posture in the booming
mobile home market helps the
company negotiate good contracts
for its 185 employees:
The company has doubled its
sales in the past three years.
General Homes, as it is com-
monly known, broke free from its
U.S. parent company in 1985, a
move the union says was protect-
ing the job security of the workers.
The contract calls for a 5.8 per-
cent pay increase for the first year,
followed by another 5.8 percent in
the second. An improved benefit
package includes seniority premi-
ums and an RRSP option.
The contract brings the average
hourly wage of an employee at the
Hensall plant up to $11.46.
60 years
of filling
it up
By Adrian Harte
LUCAN - In 1920s, Harry Lan -
kin was a harness maker. Al-
though only a handful of Lucan
families owned cars, Lankin could
see the writing on the wall and
opened a Shell service station in
1929.
Harry Lankin is gone now, but
his family, two and three genera-
tions later, are still operating that
same service station. They re-
ceived an award earlier this month
from Shell Canada, recognizing
their 60 -year old station as one of
Ontario's longest running.
Don Lankin, Harry's grandson,
and his wife Dorothy say that
much. has changed since the sta-
tion first opened with three pumps.
Harness -making continued, but as
the horses disappeared, so did the
need for harnesses. The full-size
model horse used by the senior
Lankin is now on display at Fan-
shawe's Pioneer Village.
Jack Lankin joined his father in
Times -Advocate, November 29, 1989
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• Changing times - Don Lankin and son Pau! stand in front of the -gas station that has been in their fami-
ly for 60 years. Don is holding a refillable glass oil bottle used- in the 1940s. Paul has the familiar
plastic container now in common use today.
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1934 and the business expanded to
include two service -bays. The
store was enlarged to include a full
line of groceries as a variety store
in the late 1940s.
Don says he can recall, as a
child, the tall and elegant glass
pumps that filled the local cars,
while the attendant cranked on the
lever.
"I can just remember those,"
said Lankin, adding that engine oil
came in drums and was measured
into glass bottles stacked up be-
tween the pumps. A special con-
tainer stood nearby for topping up
car batteries that required frequent
care in those days.
Don joined the operation 30
years ago when he was 18, making
the Shell station a family business
in the truest sense of the word.
Most Lankin children have
worked at the station part-time -
while in high school.
Don's son Paul is now employed
there - representing the station's
fourth Lankin generation
Things have changed since gaso-
line cost only 29 or 30 cents a gal-
lon. Environmental concerns have
come to the forefront. The station
recently had its tanks relined with
a non -porous fibreglass material,
and used moues oil, which once
could be 4old to anyone who had a
use for it, now has to be picked up
for recycling by a licensed carrier.
"Now it costs 5 1/2 cents a litre to
get rid of it.' You have to pay
them," said Lankin, but gave his
full support to controls of hazard-
ous materials.
Shell Canada is also the first of
the oil companies to do away with
leaded gasoline. Although leaded
fuel will disappear by December
1990, Shell has already eliminated
it from their pumps, leaving three
blends of unleaded in its place:
bronze, silver, and gold.
"Bronze is the most popular be-
cause it's cheaper," said, Lankin.
"People are price conscious too."
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New contract - Union representatives and General Manufactured
Housing signed a two-year contract on Friday, keeping 185 workers
from the picket line. Clockwise from front left are chief shop stew-
ard Jim Switzer, assistant general manager Gene Ducharme, vice-
president Doug Holmes, union business representative Ken Fen-
wick, and shop stewards Mike Meidinger and Dan Durdin.
Clinton Community Credit
Union Limited
Notice of
Annual Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of
the Clinton Community Credit Union Limited will be
held in the
Town Hall Auditorium, Clinton at 8:00 p.m-•
on Wednesday, November 29, 1989
for the purpose of receiving reports and financial
statements for the year ending on September 30,
1989, electing Directors and Credit Committee offi-
cers; appointing auditors; for the purpose of amend-
ing By-laws and of transacting all •other business of
an Annual Meeting.
Lunch will follow the meeting. Door prizes.
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This picture was taken in the
1930s when horses were still
regular visitors to the Lankin
Shell station. In the doorway
stands Jack Lankin, father of the
station's current owner.
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