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1t exhibit juden8 and,
of deemed an overwhelming
es*by the organizers.
turday got off to a great Start with
an; excceilent parade which included tie
1 Pipe Band, many nice floats,
#tinny, some representing .the
ad old days" and sottte jtast
representing the village, like the library'
float and the church float. There were
teams of herses and horses with riders,
antique cars, bicycles, tricycles and
people in costumes.
The parade prizes were: floats --1st,
Bayfield library; 2nd, The Old
Homestead Trailer Park; 3rd. Ernie
Wagon; horse and rig - 1st, Bud
Robinson; horse or pony and rider 1st,
Ross Coutts; tad, Debby Angus; 3rd,
Betty Kaptein; 4th, Adam Flowers;
antique cars - 1st, Don Gower, 1929
Pontiac; 2nd, Kelvin Merner, 1927
Pontiac; 3rd, John Campbell, 1930 Ford,
Novelty vehicles -- 1st, Jody Merrier,
Woodstock; 2nd, Little House on the
Prairie; 3rd, The Devil Vehicle;
decorated vehicle -- 1st, Julie Porter;
2nd, Ann Laudenback; 3rd, Nickie
Stevens; 4th, Byron Fisher; decorated
tricycle --1st, Peggy Barnard; 2nd, Bob
Fisher; 3rd, Kelly /Brandon; nursery
rhyme or story book costume - rst,
Gordon Comptom, Big Bad Wolf ; 2nd,
Mary Clare Beechie, Little Bo Peep;
406, 3rd, Karen Webb, Mary Poppins; 4th,
Dean Henry, Dracula.
Any period in Canadian history
costume - 1st, Karen Bushel and
Lauren McEwan; 2nd, Lisa Telford and
Janie Sturgeon; 3rd, Jordy and Ryan
Price; 4th, David Stevens; clowns --
cpen to all ages, 1st, Ken Knights and
family; 2nd, AI Veates; 3rd, Mazy
ggerty. and Maicaim. Get t. r.,.. r
Other interesting acti`viti`es we
opening ceremonies, which included the
fair opening by Jack McCutcheon,
Warden of Huron County, who was in-
troduced by John Siertsenta, the Fair
Board Chairman. John then introduced
Tom Penhale, the president of the Fair
Board. who welcomed the crowd.
Ed Oddleifson, Reeve of the village of
Bayfield .introduced the other guests on
the platform. There was Robert
McKinley, MP; Jack Riddell, MPP;.
Anson McKinley" Reeve of Stanley
Township and Gerry Ginn, Reeve of
By Jim Fitzgerald
Inflation, that dirty rascal, leaves no
one untouched these days. it seems..
Everything is subject to his brutal touch,
even the parking meters in town, which
for more years than we . care 'to
remember always made the penny
useful for something other than
*;hanging flints in one's lighter. What
will we do with the lowly copper now that
penny parking is only a memory? As of
last Monday, all the meters in town were
changed so the cheapest time span on
them is now a nickel, for 30 minutes.
while a dime will only buy an hour now.
and two bits now keeps the cop away for
only two hours.
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With the summer. what there was of it,
fast drawing to a close, so apparently is
the baseball season, with only the
Clinton Colts and the Clinton Housewives
eft in any sort of competition. The Colts
battle Sault Ste. Marie this Saturday
afternoon at 2 p.m. in the second game of
the all -Ontario semi-finals, with the
third game, hopefully, set for 8 p.m. The
Housewives, meanwhile, take on the
Goderich Super Stars tonight, and
Clinton, having won the first game of
that final series, hopefully won't need a
third game.
Goderich Township, each of thealnex-
pressing their pleasure at being included
in these ceremonies.
Also present en the platform were
Pirie Kitchell and "Peaches", the
sieepydog from the Junior Talent Show
on CFPL TV.
Around the grounds some of the other
interesting attractions included old.
tractors, steam engines, and other farm
machinery from days gone by, as well as
ospitai can
Patients will be readmitted to the
second floor of the Clinton Public
Hospital, if the need arises.
Doug Coventry, administrator of the
hospital and Art Aiken, chairman of the
Hospital Board consulted with C. W.
Davis, a senior administrative con-
sultant with the Provincial ministry of
health, earlier this week. Although the
amount was not divulged by the Hospital
Board, it is assumed that a substantial
amount of the original $225,000 budget
cut has been given back to the hospital.
Mr. Coventry said that at the present,
the top floor does not need to be opened
because there are only 24 patients in the
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some very well kept antique +cars. There
was a horse show and a liorses oe p t-
ching demonstration with Eimer oli,
the, champion. For the- dog lover, there
was a dog show with Pirie Mitchell and
Peaches.
Frank McFadden represented the
Bayfield Conservation authority for the
tree -planting ceremonies.
The baby contest with Dr. Addison as
the judge was very difficult with so
reopen
'loo.
hospital and the Board is continuing to
make efforts at cost savings. •
The original . budget cut of $225,000
caused the top floor of the hospital tote
closed and the lay-offs of four full-time
employees as well as 14 part-time
staffers. A further 13 persons were
shifted from full-time to part-time work.
Meanwhile, Seaforth Community
Hospital learned that they would only
lose $1,384, causing a reduction' in the
ambulance dispatch centre. The original
budget submitted to the ministry of
health for approval was $1,044,764 of
which $879,734 was for salaries and
wages.
-Mr, and Mrs. Bert Rowden marked- their Golden Wedding Anniversary last
week with a reception that was well -attended. (News -Record photo)
Celebrate 50th
Air force uniform wins bride
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What many people have feared might
happen to the Clinton Kinsmen Raceway
is coming true this Sunday. The place is
finally going to the dogs. Actually, the
dogs are Greyhounds and two non -
betting exhibition races will be held at
the Raceway this Sunday. with. the first
set for 12:50 p.m., just before the first
1e, and a second race set for about
550 p.m., between the second and third
races. In dog circles. they call them
"steak" races.
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And just in case you missed it, the
ealtther office says that except for two
weeks, August this year was another
lousy summer month, to go along with
the rotten July. Although we only
received less than half of our normal 2.75
India Of rain, the average temperature
W'*IS slightly below normal. And fall's
only tan days away.
By Shelley McPhee
When Young Martha Lockhart from
Proton Station in Grey Township set her
eyes on Bert Rowden, decked out,in his
airforce uniform, it was almost like love
at first sight. However, Miss Lockhart
probably had no idea at the time that
she'd still be looking lovingly at Bert 50
years later as they sat in their
Iivingroom celebrating their golden
wedding anniversary.
But so it was. and Mr. and Mrs.
Rowden were greeted with lovely
flower's and gifts from more than 100
people who arrived at their Joseph
Street home on September 1 to help the
couple mark their 50 years of marriage.
Even though Martha went into
training as a nurse and worked in
Toronto for two years. she came back
home to Bert. a quiet home wedding. and
a memorable honeymoon to Niagara
Falls.
"it was a rough boat ride across Lake
Cornroast .tonight
Ontario from 1 oronto to Niagara."
laughed Mrs. Rowden. "I was sea sick
all the way across."
The couple made it back to dry land in
Goderich Township where Bert attended
to his faming and Martha kept busy
raising her two daughters, Mrs. John
(Muriel) Manning now of Blyth and Mrs.
Edward (Lois) Wise of Clinton. Martha
had time however to become a member
of the Rebekahs and Bert a member of
the Oddfeliows.
Eighteen years ago,, the couple
decided to retire to their present
residence in Clinton and they have kept
busy with their many friends. 10 gran-
dchildren ,their clubs and the Anglican
Church in`Clinton.
They have obviously made their place
in Clinton as was seen at their open
house organized by their daughters and
afterwards by a_ dinner attended by 65
friends and relatives and later a dance
attended by another 125 at the White
Carnation in Holmesville.
Conservation area to be opened
Although picnicking along the
Bayfield River has been enjoyed by
Clinton people for the last several years.
the park will now be officially opened as
the Clinton Conservation Area today.
September 9 at 8:30 p.m.
Under the organization of the
Rayfield-Ausable Conservation
Authority, 12 acres of land on the
southern limits of the town were pur-
chased from Maynard Corrie three
years ago at the cost of $10,000. With
additional help from the Clinton Kin-
smen, Kinettes and the Beta Sigma Phi.
donations were given to help clean up the
land and to build a picnic pavillion for
59.000.
While the official opening is scheduled
to take place today. September 9. people
have been using the park over the
summer and plans are underway to
increase the park area. An additional 10
d Fair
many perfect biabies. The winners. were;.
1 der six Months --1St, Richard Smith.
son of Kr, and Mrs. Matt Smith of
Bay'fa eld; 2nd, Matthew Turner. son of
Sr. and Mrs. David Turner of Varna;
over six months -- 1st, Julie Betties,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Betties of
Goderichand 2nd, Dean Smith" son of
Mr: and Mrs. Stan Smith of Woodstock.
In the judging contests. Mrs. H.
Beierling of RR 2, Zurich won the Village
Guild prize for having themost points in
theme and handwork section, while Mrs.
Ross Trewartha won the F&R Hobbles
and Gifts certificate for garnering the
most points in the liquid embroidery
section.
Mrs. A. Barnett won the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce silver tray
for picking up the mostpoints in the
flower section, and also took home the
special K. C. Cooke Florist award.
In the ladies section, Mrs. F. Boa won
the Simpson -Sears Certificate for
collecting the most points in the ladies
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A special' ceremony was held at the Ag cul iiral grounds grounds'iluringthe B'ayfield
Fair last Saturday when .a Centennial Maple tree was planted by the Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority. Left to right standing beside the, Authority's
special machine are councillor McFadden, Elgin Thompson, past chairman of
the A -B, Fair board president Tom Penhale, and Reeve Ed Oddlelfson. (News -
Record photo)
Vanastra to get meters in
by Wilma Oke-
Tuckersmith Township Council ac-
cepted the tender Tuesday night of W.D.
Holford Construction of Seaforth.. (W «A.
Holahan and Donald Twyford) for the
installation of water meters at Vanastra.
Their tender was 57,842. The work is to
start October I or as soon as the meters
are received by council and to be
completed by December 31. There ate
over 200 services to be installed.
The Holford tender was the lowest Pf
two received.
Mark Bell, operations officer with the
Ministry of the environment was at the
meeting to discuss recent smoke tests
made of the sewers at Vanastra. The
report of the test listed some 25 to 30
sources of water . jnfilt Shin, into the
sewer system.
Mr. Bell explained that this
overloading the sewage plant
hydraulically with storm sewage as well
as sanitary sewage upsets the treatment
plant process.
A discussion was held on the best way
to go about making the repairs, 11 of
them are on township property and 18 on
private property.
The 11 the township has to repair are
on township road property in Vanastra.
"A costly situation", commented road
superintendent Allan Nicholson.
It was decided the township roads
department would try to do the work on
the township 'properrty, but . an outside
contractor may have to be involved.
A tile drainage by-law for 59,500 was
approved.
Requests for building and demolition
permits were approved as follows :
acres of land have been bought just"
north of the present park and another 37
acres have been purchased behind the
park. Besides. that. 170 acres of land,
east of Clinton on Highway 8, is now
under a reforestation prop= 'and a
tree nursery is located thea. This land
will also be developed as part of the
Clinton Conserva tion Area in the future
and when tied into the land along High-
way 4 will reonect the Bayfield River
between the two highway i,
Although no actual plans have been
made, washroom and other facilities
may be built in the future if the present
parkland is well used.
At the official opening today. a plaque
will be unveiled by the Bayfield-Ausable
Authority. the Clinton Kinsmen and
others who aided in the project. A corn
roast and dance are also scheduled as
part of the celebrations.
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Tows Talk .......... page 2
!kids 'a' Ends Pt- 4
Sports pg. 6
Sasser Stock survives ....... pg. 11
Bayfield Bugle pg. 14
Fait results pgs. 154 19
Classifieds pgs. 16, 17 & 18
Entertainment pis, 19 1129
Adrian Timmermans, RR3; Kippen,
steel grain bin ; Ron Brady, Egmond-
ville, porch; Robert Allen, Brucefield, •
new implement shed; Bruce McGregor,
RR 2, Kippen, steel grain bin; Martinus
Guichelaar, RR 4, Seaforth, steel grain
bin; Ken Rogerson, RR 5, Clinton, ad-
dition to implement shed: Gerry Moffat,
RR 3, Kippen, addition to house; George
Lerchis, Vanastra, porch; Muni ay
Traquair, RR2, Kippen, covered
swimming pool; Art Haverkamp, RR 5,
Clinton, two steel grain bins ; and
Ontario Hydro. Clinton, demolition of old
house on part Lot 5, concession 1 HRS.
Passed for payment were accounts
totalling 580,484.24 including Vanastra
Day Care centre, 53,549.28; Vanastra
Recreatiga, A8, �i-49.,,,, + ,AW3,7
and general, $ 2;605 8 .
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Tuckersmith Township will give part
of Ransford Road located partly in the
township and partly within the town
limits of Clinton (east side) to Clinton.
Tuckersmith Council will meet with
Clinton Council . at • Huron Centennial
School, Brucefield at 8 p.m. on Sep -
October
tember 14 to discuss the annexation of
the land south of Clinton in Tuckersmith
Township extending to aril including
Vanastra, as proposed by the town.
When the press representative asked if
it would be an open meeting, peeve
Elgin Thompson said it was all right
with him if the meeting was open but
was not sure how Clinton Council would
decide. Clerk James McIntosh is to
contact the Clinton clerk for their
decision.
Tuckersmith received its 1976
resource equalization and support grant
of 5105,494, of which the township will
keep 560,000 and the remainder goes to
the countygof Huron.
: „..1740, year 'T,+ac ,ears ith the
nil tttcipality tespoiittib` ie for n.orninatlon
or' separate school board members for
Tuckersmith, Hensall, Zurich and
Stanley Township, and is also respon-
sible for the nomination of Huron County
board of education members for
Tuckersmith and Clinton. These are both
changes from previous years.
Enrolment down
By Bev Clark
Enrolment in Clinton area schools is
down slightly this year with only 3,032
students enrolled as of Tuesday in the
seven area schools.compared to the 3.090
enrolled the year before.
CHSS had 940 students enroled as of
Tuesday. September 7 compared to the
985 enrolled the year before. The school
also has three new teachers. James
Howard is teaching history : Margaret
Robinson is teaching English and
Marlene Storey is teaching music.
Cliton Public School reports a rise in
enrolment figures this year. As of
Tuesday. 600 students had enrolled.
compared with the 573 students the year
before. This school also has five new
'teachers: Marlene Britton. June
Restorick, Darlene Vecsi, Robert Hanna
and David McConnell'.
The Clinton Christian School has 200
students enrolled this year. compared to
the 207 last year. A husband and wife are
new teachers at this school. Alan
Lutgendorff will be teaching grade six
and his wife Margriet will be teaching
grade four.
• Huron Centennial School in Brucefield
has 550 students in their classes this
in area
year, compared to the 574 students
enrolled last June.
St. Joseph's Separate School is up 10
students this year. They have gone from
99 students last year to 109 students this
year. Gerda Vandenhoven will be
teaching french and grades three, and
four.
Hullett Central School in Londesboro
reported 326 enrolments on Tuesday
compared to the 335 enroled last year.
They also have three new teachers.
Rosemarie Cook. Debra Bennett and
Barbara Livermore.
The Holmesville Public School is down
10 students from last year. As of
Tuesday. 307 students had enrolled
compared to the 317 students enrolled
the year before. There are no new
teachers at this school.
Enrolment in the 19 separate schools
under the jurisdiction of the Huron -
Perth County Roman Catholic Separate
School Board is down 17 per cent
compared to last year.
•
John Vintar. Director of Education,
"reported enrolment Tuesday was 2.990
down from 3,072 enroled last year in the
two counties.
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