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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1997-11-19, Page 13Page 12 Times -Advocate, November 19, 1997 CQMM UNLLY Back in Time... Ry Ross Haugh from the' archives of the Exeter Times Advocate 10 YEARS AGO November 18. 1987 - Four young men have joined the -Exetertown police force as auxiliary officers.. They are Ken Mcfntosh, Sean O'Rourke, Steve Dalrymple and Liam Brennan. • - 20 YEARS AGO November 17.. 1977 - Ge- rald "Jumper"- Cornish, an employee with the Exeter works department for the past 38 years was honored by council- on his -retirement this week. Mayor Bruce -Shaw not- ed that Cornish had been • a dedicated, hard worker. This week;Exeter Postmas- ter Harvey Pfaff presented 25 years -Public -Service awards to Doug Sweet and Bill Lenk new Morrison Dam in Ushorne Township was unofficially christened . last' week when rains and melting snow filled the• 40•million gallon reservoir .and. water rose • I ti inches over the trip Of tile spillway.. Offi- cials said the reservoir tilled in Tess than a day: A safety patrol program was launched for public school stu- - dents at Hensall last week. Senior students . supervise crossings at four intersections near the school- four times a day, headed by Captain Jerry Drysdale. Students - from Dishwoed, • Staffa and Crediton were iI among the seven to be awarded - UWO bursaries' recently by the . Huron County. scholarship committee. They were Robert Clarke, R.R. 3. Dashwood; •Donald Dearing, R.R. 1 Staffa and Katherine • .Ondrejicka. R.R. I. Crediton, who received a scholarship for. the girl from -the-county-with-the--highest-av=,- erage at the university. • SO YEARS AGO November 1.8, 1947 - The new highway between Exeter and Dashwood is being built. Plansc. were discussed at the Lions Club meeting 1 Friday: night for setting up an organi- zauon to raise and administer.a • fund for the erection of a hos- pital in Exeter. The London Civic Sympho-'' ny sponsored by the Exeter Recreational Council are -pre- senting a high class musical program in Jannes•Street Unit- '. ed Church this evening. • 75 YEARS AGO November 17. 1922 - . On Tuesday of last week, there • was a break -down in the en- gine that hauls the train. from the north. The freight engine was used to take the train to London. On Monday -while Mr. E. • Rowcliffe was driving south on -Main Street -with W.J. Stat- ham's bread wagon he was run into by Dr. Graham's auto. The car struck the horse and carried it a short distance. The•shafts • of the wagon and parts of the • harness were broken. and the_ horse .slightly bruised. About 200 cars of celery have been shipped from Thed- ford this fall. - Exeter boys winning in the Junior Farmers Improvement • Associations of Huron County plowing competitions were Ol- iver Rowcliffe, Harold Jeffrey. Earl Shapton: Victor Jeffrey. Milton Luther. Alvin Pym and Carman Doupe. Thursday. the South Huron girls field hockey team won the first ever Huron -Perth conference in a tournament playoff involving six teams. • 35 YEARS AGO November 17. 1962 - Exet- er's second newspaper pub- lished by members of Room 13 at Exeter Public School was distributed following its first publication. Thursday. The paper was complete with cartoons, news stories, editori- als and jokes. Members of the staff are David Frayn e. Nor- man Howey. Karen McAr- thur, Randy Jones, Ron Du- rand, Gary Worm, Graham Hern and Linda Wells. Biddulph Township Public School Board ha taken an op- tion on eight acres of land on tltc flan of Rank Hard � #M 'A Cealyd howl. • The Meritorious Sery ce Medal, the highest award of the Royal Canadian Legion was presented to R.E. "Ted" Pooley during the Remem- brance Day service at Exeter Legion Hall, Saturday night. 40 YEARS AGO November 19. 1957 - The Millen tree a collection for children of CPRI ><jr Mary Peterson Centralia correspondent CENTRALIA - Centralia United Church was.a busy place on the week- end. Neighbors, friends and. family gathered at the church on November 15 to enjoy a turkey dinner.. Many people participated by conking the turkeys, preparing the meal, and donating pies. Peter Scott was the guest speaker at Centralia and Zion West United Churches on December 16. with a message entitled "When Love is Not - Enough" • Donations of toques, mittens and socks would be welcomed to be given to the children at CPRI. Place them on the 'Mitten Tree' at Centralia, United Church. - .If you have extra coats or jackets for children, the Granton Masonic Temple is collecting them for needy -children -and youth. Contact Larry Hern for more information. • • • The Official Board for Centralia and Zion. will meet at -Zion oy i ' November 26 at 8 p.m. Novemher 27 will be the 'Christmas Fun Night' for the Sunday School. children at Centralia United Church. It' you wish to donate funds or cook- ies to support this program, contact Shellie McLeod. The Manse Committee is looking forward to preparing a turkey dinner for the members of Centralia Faith Tabernacle on November 28. If you can help or could donate pies for this event. call Ray Mills. - Centralia Faith Tabernacle • There will he special services at the Centralia Faith Tabernacle this week from Thursday to Sunday with Evangelist Lorraine Gibeau. Worship will he held at 7 p.m. from November 20 to November 22. On Sunday, November 23. Gibeau will minister in •both the 11 a.m. worship service and the 7 p.m: evangelical service. Everyone is welcome -to these services. Nursery assistance will he pro- vided. Euchre results. High Hand winners in euchre at Heywoods recently were Ruby Beaver and Helen MacDonald.. Edith Eaton and Harvey Latta were•Lone Hand winners. while Wilmer Scott won the Special. Mir gots a very close look at hospital work LONDON - .Brianne Wehbee.s experience during- the Grade nine "Take your kids to work day" was . a little more intense than most stu- dents. On Nov. 5. Webber endured a,12 -hour shill with her mother Pat- ty. a registered nurse on the sur- gical floor -of the London Health -Sciences University Campus. • VPehber's day included a tour 'of. . the operating room during knee sur- gery. the intensive are unit and the • Pathology Con i mprguel. In the . morgue. - she Saw 'sev.eral different organs. • . "1 think the most .fascinating event was when 'the pathologist handed me a human - brain to hold."' Webber said. ' "The pathologist also showed us •a hrain that, had Alzheimer. Com- paring the Iwo brains. you could. 'see that- the .AIzheimers' hrain. was discolored and all shrivelled up compared to the normal hrain." she explained. On her mother's tloor. Wehher had an opportunity to talk with pa- • tients awaiting howel transplants, • "One-of,the patients is a young girl who has been on the floor for three years • waiting for. a hovel transplant. •I now know how im- portant it is for people in sign the hack of their licenses to donate_ - iheir organs." she said. • . Brianne and her mother have shirts with the slogan "Why fiend your organs -to heaven. heaven knows we can use them here." Grade nine student Brianne Webber spent a day with her mother Patty at the London Health Sciences University Campus in the. "Take your -kids to work day" on Nov. 5. As part of the routine, We_ bber retrieved bloodwork information -from the computer. "This really didn't mean much to_ ire' until- I actually get to meet someone who. needed a transplant of an organ. it really -does make you think.".she said. Wehher's hands-on visit included helping her mother look up patient blood work on the computer, taking the patients' temperature. pulse and hhlod pressure. -"13y the ,end of the shift I was to-- tally. omtally exhausted and mom informed • • me it was a steady day but not an Overly busy one. I don't know if i could have handled One that was busy," Wehher explained.-. Patty Webber agreed.the day at the hospital was an excellent ex- perience.: for her • daughter. Ac- cording to Patty..'Brianne can now appreciate. why she is exhausted when • she returns to- their' home near.Exeter at the end of a shift. 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