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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-03-31, Page 5Back in Ei Time from the archives of the Times - Advocate 10YEARS AGO March 30, 1983 - Residents of Crediton and Dashwood alarmed about the threat of closing their Bank of Mon- treal sub -agencies demon- strated their support for re- tention of the facilities. More than 250 attended a meeting in Dashwood accompanied by many signs of protest. All members of the Exeter police department have com- pleted a CPR course and are now trained in providing emergency aid for heart at- tack victims. Barry Reid of Exeter and Harold Robinson from How - ick have been named to the Huron Housing Authority. The R.E. Pooley Exeter branch'.of the Royal Canadi- an Legion has donated $1,000 to help purchase a new wan _for 'residents of Hu- ronview. March 28;1968 =Miss Bar- bara. Dougall, RR 3, Exeter placed' third in • the "Miss Broomball Queen" contrail - ton 'at •the :Ontario Junior Farmers, Sports Day at Cen- tralia Industrial Park. The fourth tfirm to locate at Centralia Industrial Park is Ferro Plastics Association of Toronto, 'Vancouver and Montreal. Loss was estimated at $25,000 in a fire whie h lev- elled the: large two storey poultry bam on 'the Kippen area farm of Elzar Mousseau. Huron's Medical Officer of Health Dr. C.P.A. Evans re- ports that births in Huron county are decreasing. In 1962 there were 1,292 births and five years later the num- ber was only 825. The • death rate dropped .p®ly fractional- ly from 592 .to o 1. April 1. 1943 - The E, eter tax gate forr.1943.,will be up itwo. salliThila39 Mills. tet; , provide tot* implored drain age. The drainage will be done as soon as labour is available. Most are now em- ployed in civilian work at the Centralia airport and in re- building of the canning fac- tory. A bingo and dance will -be held Friday night at Cook's Hall in Centralia sponsored by the Centralia War Service Board. Admission is 25 cents. Not since the boom year of 1920 have sugar beet prices looked so promising as in the summer of 1943. Prices this year will be $7.75 per ton, $10 for 16 percent sugar con- tent and $5.75 sugar return. The output of bacon hogs in ilium county was stepped up from 70.000 to 123.000 last year with a similar in- crease in dairy and poultry products. <C.9Q'YEAR6,440 March 30, 1983 - The bridge on the Thames Road. opposite the farm of George Armstrong at Farquhar is in bad condition. Teams cannot cross the bridge at present. Landlord Greb is making improvements to the Huron House in Zurich for the con- venience of the travelling public. Mr. Abraham Snider has sold his 91 acre farm on Concession 13 in Stanley township to Mr. D.B. Stecklc for/$4.500. This makes Mr. Stecklc with over 500 acres, one of the largest land own- ers in Huron county. INVESTMENTS Is Segregated Funds 2YR.-11.45% 3 YR. -11.89% 01C/RSP 1 Yr. - 5.75% 3Yr. -6.50% 5Yr. -7.25% 1 Hensall business expands specialty ice products to meet demand Above, Julian Bayleystencils a design on .a 300 pound block of ice, and shows .the end res:It of the snice sculpting. :1 .G333i1g13Vti U1 137:171 J1 ,i,:,1 A.•-. M• Gaiser•Kneale 235-2420,2384484 • OIC raw subject to change. Short. Samwar available. S.sregaudfwd iotas vert octant pout prformuwc4. sere Montt will ,wry. •vat) By Catherine O'Brien T -A Staff 1-IENSALL - For the past two years, lceculture owners Ann Rose and Julian Bayley have been pro- moting and selling specialty ice products from their Hensall based company. Now they have added something Snice. Snice is the name of the new product tine introduced in January. This crystal clear 300 pound block of ice has been developed to provide more attractive sculptures at weddings, banquets and snow carnivals. The name Snice, Rose explained, combines the reaction heard most often at bridal and special event ex- hibits. "People would say, 'That's Nice'. We heard those words so many times it began to sound like one word." The expansion into ice block pro- duction was simply to meet a de- mand, Rose said. Potential buyers were interested in ice blocks of similar gaality to the specialty ice bowls make by Iceculture. "Most ice blocks on the market now are cloudy on the inside rather than clear," Rose said. This prompted Iceculture to im- port the necessary equipment from the United States to produce the slick or crystal clear ice blocks. As with the ice bowl, the special- ized equipment allows air to circu- late through the water during freez- ing of the blocks. Rose believes lceculture is the only company in eastern Ontario developing this kind of ice. The blocks are sold in the region and spanning outwards to Windso- rand Toronto. And although Snice is still in its infancy stage, Rose and Bayley expect it to become as pop- ular as the company's ice bowls. It takes about 48 hours to freeze the ice blocks in the specialized equipment. The block is then thawed to mom temperature before being carved. This guards against the 40 inch by 20 by 10 block from cracking•,during the sculpting pro- cess... A design .pattern is then ATTENTION LOT OWNERS 7beNsw Hoven Spring Cash Back Offer Ends April 30 The Champlain ROYAL HOMES • Free site inspections at your lot • Custom design --your plan or ours • Full basement with full height. insulation • Forced air heating • Maintenance free eavestroughs • 10 year warranty 1 Your Lot. Your Dream. Custom Built.« • Fresh air systems THE WI,NGHAM MODEL HOME AND DESIGN CEMi2E. EAST dN HWY. 86 1-800-265-3040 OR (519) 357-244 drawn onto the block before carv- The base price for the bowls is ing tools, including a liainsaw, are S120 plus the cost of the decors - used. The production of the ice bowls is a little simpler. The decorations are added when the ice reaches a thickness of one an a half inches. Items such as silk flowers, business cards, jewellery or coins are insen- cd for a personalized touch and are held in place with clamps until the ice grips the decorations. It takes between 25 and 48 hours to make a bowl. The longevity of these creations depends on a number of factors in- cluding room temperature and the amount of detail in the work. Gen- erally a piece lasts more than six hours and can be refrigerated and "The weather is so unpredrk.I.1 used again. ble," he said referring to_a lack of The prices vary with the com- snow during winter carnivals in the plexity of the the work. A single past few years. "But with ice carni - block of ice cost $75 and a cared vats there is less dependency on the piece, depending on the amount of weather because the ice is guaran- detail, can cost upwards of $200. teed." tions. At present lceculture makes four blocks a week, but Rose said they are in the midst of expanding pro- duction. "Block sales are a growing interest." They are also in the midst of compiling a list of carvers to suit the needs of the client list. Rose and Bayley arc also looking towards next winter as they prepare proposals for ice carnivals in the re- gion. Bayley sees a strong market in cities that traditionally had win- ter carnivals and arc now looking for alternatives. Am Rose displays one of lceculture's specialty ice bowls to be used as a decorative and functional centrepiece. USIINISS EICI CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Kime,Mills,Dunlop. Chartered Accountants Daniel B. Daum, B.A., M.Acc., C.A. Meager 412 Main St., P.D. Box 2405 Exeter, Ontario NOM 1S7 (519) 235-0345 Fax: (519) 235-3235 I John A.M. 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