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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1997-01-08, Page 9Times -Advocate, January 8,1997 Page 9 Suncoast buys FORBBr = Stibcv.et Sip Com-. pity Lt4 of Grand Hend has pur- chased The House of Flags in For- est, Ontafio. The House of Flags is a company which specializes in the design and manufacture of custom made flags, banners and pennants. The company's retail outlet, which is *at the same location, stocks flags from almost all coun- tries of the world as well as adver- tising and specialty flags, flag poles and,niounting hardware. Owners of Suncoast Sign Compa- ny, lseter and Brenda Haist will be training at the Forest location, in,all aspects of flag manufacture and de- sign under the direction of respect-. ed flag maker Deanna Helm and . her husband Gerry. House of Flags In May 1997 the flag company will be moved from the Forest lo- cation to the vacant building at 98 Ontario St. S., Grand Bend. ' The House of Flags will continue to specialize in custom made flags and banners. however there will be -a significant effort to increase the retail activity at the Grand Bend lo- cation. The company will offer over- night delivery of in -stock Canadi- an, Provincial and Corporate .flags and accessories across Canada. . installation service will also be available for all pole sets. Three of four people will he em- ployed initially. however with in- creased. marketing efforts the com- pany hopes to•add to this number. Back in 'Time.. By Ross Haugh from the archives of • the Exeter Times Advocate . •JO YEARS AGO January 7s 1987 - When he was chairman of council's property committee about 10 years ago, current Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw; had a Budget of zero for maintenance of the town hall and was of the opinico the building should be derr6lished. At 4 New Year's. Day levee marking the 100th anniversary of the huildig. Shaw appeared to still be in a destructive tripod as he start- ed a fire in the facility. However, the fire was welcomed by mem- berst f the Exeter and District Heritage Foundation as the item be- ing ♦turned was documentation for loan given to the Foundation by coujcil when the town hall restoration project was undertaken. - -Andy DeBoer_ was the town crier on Wednesday and again 'on N Year's Day as he urged local citizens to -attend the.levee to m k the town hall's 100th birthday. .. teven Roy, an employee of Exeter Collision recently received a p clue from Fanshawe College for outstanding achievement in auto lardy repair. . . . 35 YEARS AGO ' January 5. 1962 - South Huron's' New Year's baby arrived a couple of days late this year, but, boy, was he in a hurry. Baby boy Dietrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dietrich of Zurich caused - quite a commotion at South Huron Hospital Wednesday night when. he decided to cash in on the prizes of the 1962 stork derby. He made such a fast spring in the home stretch that he was born tartly in his father's .car and partly in the hospital. He even had a special escort on arrival - OPP Constable Don Westover. One hundred schoolboys. members of the 41st Ontario Older . Boys' Parliament, meeting in London last week, donated $398.07 to send their Premier, Paul Wilson of Exeter to Africa as a partof the • Crossroads Africa project next -summer. - Government representatives, Senate colleagues and Liberal offi- cials were.members of the large congregation which attended funer- . al services in Seaforth Tuesday for Senator William Golding. 84, , who died Sunday in Seaforth Hospital. Mr. Golding was a Liberal - member of parliament for the- Huron -Perth riding for 17. years and served in the Senate since 1949. He recently marked his 30th year in Canada's parliament. Stiffer enforcement of traffic regulations can lessen the toll on the highways, the year=end report of the Exeter OPP detachment indi- cates During 1961, the four -man detachment, almost doubled the numjer of prosecutions under the Highway Traffic Act over the pre- vious year. The result was a significant decline in the number of deaths, injuries and accidents. 45 YEARS AGO January 4, 1952 - Harvey -C. Pfaff was elected president of the Ex- eter Legion branch with Stan Frayne as secretary. Members of the Turnbull family, numbering 58 held their annual gathering on New Year's Day at the dining room of the Brenner House i? Grand Bend with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Webb as hosts. 50 YEARS AGO Janusy 5. 1947 - A new furnace has been installed in the Exeter town Mill and was used for the first time to heat the building for Mond •'s nomination meeting. Do aid Traquair, Helen Snell, Marion Cowen, Norman Hanni- gan, enneth Jones and Peter Fraser, students of UWO were home for th holidays. . Mr. .W, McBride, who a year ago, purchased the coal business from C. Allison has sold to Harry Bierling. Wi iam C. Allison '(headed the polls for councillor for Exeter for 1947 with eight candidates in the field. 60 YEARS AGO Ja�uary 4, 1937 - On Monday, Hilton Ford of the Lake Road thres�hted 576 bushels of white beans grown this past summer on 22 acro) of land. Rteve George Westcort and Mrs. Westcort of Usbome township wet hosts at their home to members of Usboote council and offi- ciak and their wives at an oyster supper. r. Glen McKnight of Clinton is taking over the Massey -Harris agOncy in Exeter and has moved his family.here. 85 YEARS AGO' January 5, 1912 - Fraser Brown, one of Crediton's star pitchers he's received M offer from the Berlin team. one of the teams in the Canadian League to pitch ball during the coming season. • Clarence Snell, Willie Heywood, Tom Sanders and Charles Duns - ford have gone to Chatham Business College. For the ft t time in the history of Ontario the hotel bars have been n cbsed on stmas Day. The law has beer in force for two years but in 1911 hristmas Day fell on Sunday. Yitcank>_scakit more than yiair licence drinpng and driving. •• *Alernity . o•,.. 1 11114.Tsts • 9x mtw, astax w�»..,.ra raja 'aal�& $Kwr rales �iar bat nasi_ ear ea Aram OIC 1 RSP 1Yr. 370% 3 Yr. 4 75% 5 yr - 5.50% l vi 24.71% 3 NI 11.18 Learn CPR - Save a life .,: Pm** Karr Taking -a photo recently of a group of firefighters taking their CPR recertification brought to mind a living example of how our emergency response system can, and should work. . The story is tree. It happened In i small] 'town pear Windsor. An off duty police officer, Sgt. Rick Doyle. decided to go jogging. He suddenly collapsed unconscious into a deep ditch. As luck would have it, passing motorists saw him fall. Lucky, too, was the fact that they knew CPR. While two men did CPR on Rick, who had stopped breathing and had no pulse, a woman drove into a nearby village and called for assistance. - A crew of volunteer firefighters equipped with oxygen gear arrived at the scene almost at the same instant as the ambulance and a local doctor. Again, Rick was lucky, The ambulance had defibrillation .equipment, which was quickly put to use. Just before the ambulance • crew administered the third shock, Rick's heart started beating and he was rushed to hospital. With appropriate medication, and thanks to the fact he was in excellent physical condition, Rick made a dramatic recovery and returned to active duty only a week later. He is alive today for a good many reasons. First of . all, the men who saw him fall had taken CPR training and knew exactly what to do.. Secondly, effective medical assistance was close at hand. Today, only one year later, . Rick Doyle speaks to groups of people promoting CPR training. His community is wet on its way to achieving the goal of having the highest percentage of people in the nation trained in CPR. The entire county where he lives now has 911. emergency service, and the fire department has its own defibrillation equipment,' purchased with funds raised locally. It's a story which is bound to make it on network television one of these days: Nothing on Rescue 911 recently can compare with the excitement, the drama, and the happy ending. alae:IY•'Nak es. 1.... ilia' r'e.'fti leer..01br"3fir: lillRir `-t ee MU 7 IcIIf�i�l} NNE :I�ii i�p iFINE9 MI® !II lR��•",aa4i I n at;1 :Tin ill .7.9i1.4 MR Shir,MIL.7111: AIM IRM %tnttallna.. e:xl. As a textbook -example of everything ha ing the way it should, it can't be surpassed. If only one of the links i the chain of response.had been missing, an excellent police officer member of the community would no longer be with us. _ You don't have much time to play with in a case like this - four to six minutes. CPR is not a difficult technique io learn, and it works. It • doesn't save every life, but a 30 per cent survival rate is better than zero per cent. These days, ambulance attendants can provide treatment once limited to a hospital emergency room. They almost routinely use - defibrillators and one day soon will be permitted to administer certain - life saving drugs. Many already have the training. • . With tiered response, some fire departments including volunteer departments, are also trained in defibrillation. All emergency personnel including firefighters and police officers are trained in first aid and CPR. . It is truly exciting -to see what emergency crews can do to save • lives..But the first link in the chain is still the person who sees someone fall. He is the one who has to alert the emergency medical system, and the one who has to keep the casualty alive until help arrives. All the sophisticated equipment in the world won't help the man whose heart stops beating if no one starts CPR within that crucial four minutes. If you have never learned CPR, now is a good time. If you need to brush up on your knowledge, don't wait. Call your local St. John Ambulance group, your hospital, continuing education or even the fire department and find out when the next coarse is. You might be the person to give another story like Rick Doyle's a happy ending. - Charest to hold townhall meeting GODERICH •The Hon. Jean Charest. Leader of the PC Party of Canada will be holding a townhall meeting in Goderich, Ontario on January 16. This meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, located at 390 Parsons Court and will conclude at. 12:45 p.m. A light lunch will Me served at 11:30 a.m. Charest will be interested in hear- ing the ideas and attitudes of the people from the riding of Huron - Bruce regarding all matters of na- tional and regional significance. Tom Jasper, a well known mem- ber of the Goderich community, will be acting as moderator of this event. Ids slurs Ns we ego mew •I M Nwlir Middlesex Board joins new non-profit corporation ' LONDON - faced with declining revenues and increased demands, the Middlesex County Board of Ed- ucation will join a unique new non - f:. profit corporation of Ontario school boards. The new cooperative ven- ture, called the Ontario Member *School Board Corporation (OMSBC), will bring boards across Southern Ontario together in an un- precedented effort to find new, cooperative ways to cut costs and raise revenue. The Board approved membership- at its regular meeting of December 16. . School, board directors from across Southern Ontario have been meeting for months to develop the corporation.. says director of educa- tion Ted Anderson. "As directors we have worked Since August on the idea of finding a cooperative forum to share our knowledge and expertise. and to fo- cus on our common goal of sup- porting - student success through revenue generation and coo sav- ings. We brought together our col- - lective experiences.in cutting costs and generating revenue and decided that we could hest meet our goal through the creation of a non-profit corporation that would formally Zink the boards into a. powerful force for cooperation. Trustees have been. kept up-to-date and I am pleased that they have agreed to be- come part of this exciting new ven- ture." he said. Over a dozen hoards have .been a part of the discussions- to date. and each' director is expected to bring a recommendation to join the corpo- ration to their board by the end of: December . "Over the next month we expect other boards to vote on member- ship in the consortium. Obviously. -it would he unfair to those boards who have not yet made public their decision to participate to now re- lease prematurely the list of poten- tial member boards. I do expect, `however, that there will be a formal launch of the new OMSBC- in early . January when we will reIe sse the names of all members," adds chair- person D.M. Mcilmoyle. . The new, non-pmtit corporation will, • support innovative education and training programs which will promote the cause of education and benefit communities. • • make awards to individuals or organizations in recognition et ac- complishment in the field of educa- tion, • administer a central buying group for member school boards and investigate and implement rev- enue generating and cost-saving in- itiatives. Until all member hoards are de- termined.. no decisions • will he made on the specific activities to he undertaken. - "The sky is the -limit. Each board has been successful in pioneering new ways to save money and gen- erate revenue to support students. Here in Middlesex we have, for ex- ample. been the lead board in estab- lishing the Technology Leadership Centre committed to meeting the -computer training needs of teachers and other education and business staff, and in the "Blazer" media purchase project_ By bringing the collective energies and ideas of the hoards together we will be able to accomplish much more than we ever could. individually. Once ap- proved by all boards, this has the - potential to have tremendous bene- fits for our students and our com- munity." notes Anderson. 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