HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-04-10, Page 13Clinion, Ontario.
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Thursday, April 10, 1975
110th Year -No. 15
Most of the children in the area re eived an extra two days
holidays as most of the schools were closed Thursday and
Friday. The buses, unable to get down the snow -choked roads,
stayed in the lost, such as this one of Joe Murphy's in Clinton.
There was a massive clean-up job necessary after last week's
freak blizzard that duthped over a foot of snow on the area.
Along the main street in Clinton, work crews spent days loading
the snow into trucks. Here Joe Whalen of the Clinton Public
Works department loads a scoop from Albert last Monday. The
storm started Wednesday afternoon and even though the snow
let-up somewhat on Thursday night, the high winds continued
for adother four days, causing heavy drifting.
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Jim •FiIzgerald
Most children were back in their classrooms on Monday, and
the exams at Central Huron Secondary School, delayed two
days, finally started.
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Disrupted was a well -used word last week in the area as a freak April snowstorm dumped 12 to
18 inches of snow on the district. There was no rural mail delivery on Thursday or Friday, but
service returned on Saturday. Here Don Smith delivers to the RR 4, Clinton route.
A cold and starving robin, his food covered by a foot of snow,
stands almost beggingly on a doorgtep at a Clinton home on
Saturday. Some experts believe that thousands of migrating
birds that returned early perished in the blizzard.
Township, highway, and county road crews had to battle ten -foot drifts in some places to open
up the roads, but despite the heavy l4�idwdd, tenon car�e�s in were
Goderich n Township with St.Saturday James
. This
picture shows a buried stop sign
Church in the background.
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Young and old alike were out lash week clearing off the early April snowfall from sidewalks and
driveways. Here Cliff Glazier of King Street shovels snow 'from in front of the apartments ort "
that street.
After being out plowing reads for nearly 16 hours, Joe
Whalen of the Clinton Public Works Department takes a
well-deserved coffee reak at the Town Shed Thursday i
night. All roads crews in the area worked long
s
clearing up after the biggest storm in 30 years.
All that's showing is the top of a parking meter as Walter Gardiner tries to clear some of the
inch snowfall from in front of his barbershop on Albert Street. Most highways in the Clinton
area remained open during the storm, but our neighbours in Blyth and north weren't as lucky
as up to two feet fell in that area.