HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1996-04-24, Page 5By Ross Haugh from the
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Exeter Times Advocate
10 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1986 - Exeter
council members received
good news this week when
auditor Jerry Mills of Kime
and Company reported a sur-
plus of $102,335 on the
town's business for 1985. The
comparable figure at the end
of 1984 was $25,297.
The first ever Exeter Home
and Garden Show on the
weekend at the South Huron
Rec Centre was an unquali-
fied success.
Dirk Coolman, show co-
ordinator for the sponsoring
Exeter Optimist Club said the
most asked question by exhib-
itors Sunday night was,
"When can we sign up for
next year." More than 5,000
persons attended the three-day
show. It is hoped to make this
an annual event.
25 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1971 - A complete
history of Exeter will be pub-
lished to coincide with the
community's centennial in
1973.
SHDHS principal J.L.
Wooden has been preparing
the history and Monday night
Exeter council decided to take
the project under their wing
and have the book published.
Last week, Hay township
council accepted a petition
from three businesses in the
municipality asking for a liq-
uor vote.
Eight municipalities in the
Bayfield River watershed
have voted to join the Ausable
River Conservation Authority.
35 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1961 - Five mem-
bers of the junior girls bowl-
ing league in Exeter travelled
to Sarnia Saturday and re-
turned home with the trophy
for their first place finish in
the Western Counties junior
tournament. They were Mar-
lene Harness, Darlene Snell,
Helen Campbell, Sue Ann Lin-
denfield and Phyllis Madge.
Mrs. Ruth Durand is their
coach.
40 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1956 - Hensall
Public School Board is consid-
ering several sites for the erec-
tion of a proposed $120,000
six -room school for the village.
A farewell party was held on
April 20 at Sharon School for
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pfaff and
family who have moved to a
new community near St.. Mar-
ys.
Mrs. Ted Jones was named
president of Alpha Pi Chapter,
Beta Sigma Phi, at a dinner at
the Dominion Hotel in Zurich
in honor of the 25th anniver-
sary of the founding of the or-
ganization.
50 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1946 - Rev. J. Har-
old Snell was named chairman
of Huron Presbytery at Thurs-
day's meeting in Wingham.
The Board of Education vot-
ed to provide Exeter Public
School students with text
books, note books and pencils
beginning with the fall term.
About 79 men staged a bee
for the digging of postholes at
Exeter Agricultural grounds
last Wednesday. Over 300
posts were put in to fence off a
portion of the new race track.
75 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1921 - Messrs. Re-
stemayer and Kleinstiver are
this week opening a new hard-
ware store in P. Mclsaac's
shop in Dashwood.
Mr. T.W. Palmer of Hensall
has sold his confectionery and
grocery business to Mr. Do-
naldson of Teeswater.
Fire which apparently started
ipGeorge Brock's blacksmith
shop in Hensall Tuesday eve-
rting destroyed the shop and T.
Murdoch's livery barn and the
wood shop of Colin Hudson.
100 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1896 - Mr. Hamil-
ton is running his mill at Grand
Bend at full blast and is dinning
pine for Mr. Brenner. The ma-
sbns are busy plastering Mr.
Bossenberry's house and will
soon have it completed.
The severest thunder storm
in many years struck Lucan
Friday afternoon, playing hav-
oic with telephone poles. The
tilephone instrument , in Mr.
Stanley's home was also ren-
dered useless and frames torn
from pictures hanging on the
wall.
• In Dashwood, the butcher
Mr. Pfaff is wearing a plug hat
as the addition to the family is
a boy.
A new post office is to be es-
tablished near the Thames
Road church. We understand
that John Allison Sr. will be
the postmaster.
Tines -Advocate, April 24,1996
Aircraft engineering
Wilson Boynton is president of the newly opened Renaissance Aeronautics Associates in
Huron Park. The aircraft engineering business designs, maintains, modifies, repairs and in-
spects aircraft structures. Located on the campus of Centralia International Academy, it
also teaches aircraft repairs.
Mt Everest climber relates
his experience on mountain
to every day .life obstacles
GRAND BEND - When Jim
Hayhurst joined a Canadian expedi-
tion that attempted to climb Mt.
Everest, he returned with an in-
spirational story to tell. But his sto-
ry is not about
mountain
climbing; it's
about over-
coming the
obstacles faced
in everyday
life.
Hayhurst is a
successful for-
mer ad-
vertising ex-
ecutive with
the Hayhurst
Group and
Chairman of
Outward Bound Canada. Since he
returned from his journey to Ever-
est he has travelled across the coun-
try recounting the experience and
promoting his book, The Right
Mountain.
On Thursday night he stopped in
Grand Bend to share his story to an
audience at Grand Bend Public
School.
Hayhurst and his son Jim Hay-
hurst Jr, who also joined the team,
never made it to the top; however,
they accomplished something
bigger than reaching the moun-
tain's summit. They
discovered their
core values and
what success
means to them.
With his candid
style and humor,
Hayhurst led the au-
dience through a
series of slides doc-
umenting his trip.
He described the
challenges the
group faced while:
climbing Everest,
linking them to the
all encounter in daily
challenges we
life.
He told the audience the choices
he made on the mountain were no
different than the personal and pro-
fessional choices we make that
shape our lives and define who we
are.
"Few of us are likely to attempt
an Everest summit...but we each
have an- Everest of our own," said
Hayhurst.
One of His most important mes-
sages relates to limits and how im-
portant it is to recognize them. Em-
barking on an alpine expedition is
dangerous. Knowing when to quit
and come down saved his life.
This, he illustrated, is similar to the
way we need to realistically assess
our mental and physical limitations
before we set our goals.
Hayhurst's decision to tackle the
tallest mountain on earth tested his
limits to the fullest. The journey
had a profound effect on his life
and when he returned was com-
pelled to share the personal fulfill-
rrrnt he found- on the mountain -
with others.
Today, Hayhurst travels widely,
presenting The Right Mountain
seminar to businesses, schools and
other organizations across the
country using the mountain as a
powerful metaphor for defining
success.
"I didn't set out to give speeches
and I didn't plan on writing a
book, but I found enough people
wanted to hear it," he said.
Defence sub -contracts awarded
to eight London area firms
LONDON - Patrick W. O'Brien,
Member of Parliament (London -
Middlesex), on behalf of his col-
leagues, Joe Fontana, Member of
Parliament (London East), and Sue
Barnes, Member of Parliament
(London West), recently welcomed
the awarding of London Defence
sub -contracts worth $5,022,785 and
involving eight firms. The Diesel
Division of General Motors is
praising the contribution of these
eight firms to the Light Armoured
Vehicle Program.
This program is good news for
the Canadian Forces which will
soon be taking delivery of a new
generation of Tight armoured vehi-
cles, known as the Coyote. These
vehicles are required to replace the
retired fleet of Lynx reconnaissance Fluid Power Systems, Militex Coat -
vehicles. After some 30 years, their ing and Paron Sandblasting and
useful service had come to an end. Painting.
The total value of the sub-
contracts awarded to these firms for
the Light Armoured Vehicle pro-
gram is over $5 million. In addi-
tion, they have filled, or are con-
tracted to fill, another $15 million
of business for General Motors De-
fence Operations. This success not
only helps local economy but en-
hances London's reputation as a
centre for quality manufacturing.
The companies involved are Dia- 1
mond Aircraft, IGD Machine &
Tool, International Name Plate,
London Dry Strip, London Preci-
sion Machine & Tool, Mil-Aer
/ RSP
1 Yr. Yr. -5.316
3 Yr. - 6.25%
5 yr. - 7.00%
Segregated Funds
1YR. -31.07%
5YR. -9.17
"WE HAVE IT ALL FOR GREAT CASUAL LIVING"
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Stratford Festival appoints
new general manager
STRATFORD - Michael A. Meighen, Q.C., President of the Board of
Governors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary E. Hofstetter
as General Manager for the Festival, effective September. Hofstetter will
replace Gary Thomas, who has recently taken on the role of Director, Fes-
tival Theatre Renewal Project.
A native of Kitchener, Ontario, Hofstetter conies to the festival from
Sheridan College, where she has served as President and Chief Executive
Officer since 1988. Sheridan College, with a $100 -million budget and
2,500 full and part-time employees, has the third .largest Faculty of the
Arts in North America and is particularly noteworthy for its programs in
theatre performance and production, design, and classical and computer
animation.
Hofstetter, who first attended the Festival at the age of 12, added that
she and her husband, David Riggs, are very much looking forward to relo-
cating to Stratford.
Fluently bilingual, she has won a number of creative writing awards and
has taught English, art history and theatre at Neuchatel Junior College in
Switzerland. She hold an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of
Guelph and a Master of Arts degree, specializing in English, from the Uni-
versity of Western Ontario.
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