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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1981-08-27, Page 1MORE BEANS Doug O'Brien carries one of the many trays of beans used at the Bean Festival in Zurich, Saturday.Staff photo Hungry crowds devour more beans than ever! While Zurich Bean Festival Chairman Chuck Erb was obviously pleased with the increased crowd, the highlight of Saturday's 16th annual bean fest was the new salad and volunteer help. Erb said workers came out really well this year, noting people were eager to pitch in and help. The kitchens ran out of bean salad at ,1,p,m. as the 'old fashioned bean salad, new to the festival this year was well accepted by the lerowds. Though Erb did not estimate the size of.. the crowd attending this, year's function, he said dinners served were up by. about 1,000 this year. Last year's crowd was estimate( at 15,000 and about 7,000 partook of the all - you can eat bean dinners. Erb said the kitchen staff served up 18 more flats of beans than were served last year. He said this was estimated to be about 1,200 more dinners. Attendance at the Friday night teen dance was not up to levels hoped for, as Erb called it a medium at- tendance. Most were probably gearing up for the Saturday events with Bean festival crowds swelling record levels.' Erb estimated the break- fast attendance at 1,000 people up from 700 last year. Seven contestants were competing for the Miss Bean Festival title which was won by - 17 year old Michelle Durand. Michelle, from Zurich, was sponsored by Small World travel. Miss Dashwood Friedsburg, Sally Ford, was rtmner up. Other contestants and their sponsers were : Jackie Schenck, William's Hair Styling; Patty Meloche, Laporte's Meat Market; Pain Bregman; Ferguson Apiary; Joanne Pepper O'Connor Mineral Homes; and Patty Bedour, Fisher's Abattoir. The team of Slim Harburn Staffa and Dave Kyle, Hensall, lead 52 competitors to win the Fred Harburn Ontario Doubles Cham- pionship in horseshoe pit- ching. World Cham') Elmer Hohl, and teammate . Keith Lovell, Kippen, took second. In the championship's B side, the team of Art Burg and Ab Jolliffe, placed first followed by Frank Solman and H. Knott. The festival concluded with a sell-out dance Saturday night. Erb said the doors at the arena were closed at 10:15 and no more Please turn to page 2 FIRST WITH LOCALNEWS AUGUST 27, 1981 Price Per Copy Ce.its (Hensall plans work on 84 NOT INTERESTED - Eric Groot seems to pay more attention to the Zurich Bean Festival crowd than the balloon held by his mother Elaine. Staff photo A plan for reconstruction of Highway 84 in Hensall from the village's west limits to Highway 4 was presented to council for con- sideration Wednesday by Gary Todd, the ministry of transportation and com- munications project manager of planning and design. The reconstruction, which will take one summer, "is badly needed because the main street is in bad shape and it's been needed for some 'time," said Reeve Paul Neilands. The ministry will contact all the property owners affected by the reconstruc- tion, said Todd, as he pointed to the planning map on the wall and told council the program will involve no property acquistion. . Both sides of the main street from Brock St. to Elizabeth St. will have sidewalks . replaced and at the corner of Nelson and King Streets a catch basin will be installed, a culvert will be' removed and a gradual slope will be made Huronview blast injursll Gasoline fumes leaking from a broken underground line were blamed for an explosion that rocked Huronview and sent 11 people to hospital, Thursday afternoon, and one of those injured indicated the fumes had been evident for some time. Vera Thiel, Zurich, a day- care patient at the Huron County home for the aged south of Clinton, said she had noticed unusual fumes in the day-care area for seven weeks before the explosion which caused damage • estimated at $500,000 to a wing of the 310 -bed home. "All the Thursday day- carepeople complained. -The fumes were there every week. We opened the doors as much as we could," commented Mrs. Thiel in a telephone interview from a Clinton hospital bed where she was recuperating from severed tendons in her wrist. Flying glass cut eight participants in the day-care program, two staff members and a resident of the home. Several people were singed. Most of the day-care patients were sitting outside the auditorium when the explosion occurred and this had been cited as one of the main reasons why more serious injuries did not oc- cur. Mrs. Thiel was among those working on crafts. "We • heard this BOOM BOOM and I fell off the chair on my face. Then I picked myself up and all I could see was blood. My eyes felt funny. I could feel the cuts on my face." "I could hear the fire trucks and ambulances coming," said the Zurich woman. "I felt dizzy and two women who worked there drove, me to Clinton Public .Hospital." That night, she had a lengthy operation on the tendons of her left hand and was treated for cuts on her face and arms. . "I had a funny feeling, a premonition, that I wouldn't be at the (Zurich) bean festival. I had no enthusiam at day-care. I had a funny feeling," said Mrs. Thiel. Jack Carter, chief engineer maintenance supervisor, who was outside his office not far from the explosion, said he never had any suspicions of gas before. Administrator Wayne Lester credited staff members for their quick action in removing other Huronview residents from the area in a quick and ef- ficient manner. "When the explosion happened, I ran to the area, assessed the need and or- dered ambulances," he reported. "My staff func- tioned in proper accord." The five persons kept in hospital were all listed in satisfactory condition. They were day-care coordinator Rosemary Armstrong of Clinton, activities director Sandra Davidson of Goderich, day-care par- ticipants Vera Thiel of Zurich and Shirley Haggerty of Clinton and Huronview resident Irvin Trewartha. Released from hospital after treatment for cuts, bruises and minor burns were day-care participants, Ann Bennis of Zurich, May Gibson of Clinton, Barbara Bellfleur of Clinton, Olive Harvey of Exeter, Ann Dyskstra of Clinton and Elizabeth Alexan der of Exeter. Please turn to page 2 to accommodate wheelchairs, said Todd. The proposal will resolve drainage problems west of the CN train tracks and the section of the highway from Highway 4 to Nelson St. will be resurfaced. The entire ex- isting sewer system beneath the proposed area will be removed and a new system will be installed at no cost to Hensall, said Todd. The proposal will resolve drainage problems west of the CN train tracks and the section of the highway from Highway 4 to Nelson St. will be resurfaced. The entire ex- isting sewer system beneath the proposed area will be removed and a new system will be installed at no cost to Hensall, said Todd. "We won't be improving sidewalks because they're not the dept. of highway's responsibility," said Todd. The boulevard is a concern because it is hard to main- tain. "We '11 have to pave the boulevard unless council promises to maintain it," said Todd. "Grass grows through the pavement anyway, "said Reeve Paul Neilands. Coun- cil decided to maintain the boulevard. A healthy beech tree at the corner of Wellington and King Streets will have to be cut down because it's a hazard. On the south side of Brock St., two trees will be cut down because excava- tion would kill those trees anyway, said'Todd. All light poles in the proposed area will be replaced, he said, and the entire project completion is expected in the early part of the five-year program but "our target is within the next three years". Council will decide on the proposal Sept. 14. On vacation were: clerk Betty Oke and councillor Dick Packham. Plan lung rally The Huron -Perth Lung Association is sponsoring a "Breatheezie"" Rally at the Perth District Health Unit, Stratford on Monday, Sep- tember 21 at 7:30 p.m. QUEEN OF 81 BEANFEST -- Michelle Durand 17 of Zurich was Crowned Mks Zurich Bean Festival, Saturday.