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Byr'ipit�m Oke is located in Tuckersmit '
The possibility a opening a school at Mr. Shortreed said,"We want the
anaStra in 1977 will be studied by an ad problem. solved without adding tax
We feel we should make use of
!cfntxnittee of the Huron +�oun;Y
dna ate-
Of Hdunation and a three-man those rooms in *lensed dl and Zurich by
committee representing Stanley and filling them, rather . than add more
cke...., portables at Clinton.
recomn endation came following Ben Bridges of Vanes
rsmith T0Wflships andVanastra.
anu ira.stepped up as
The
a Meeting Wednesday night,Oct. 6 when the first to present a brief. He said he
meetinga was speakingfor the parents and other
aboutkthe people turnedcounty
to Board of concerned individuals from Vanastra,
mid' by the Huron Y on
Educatlon with the ratepayers of tanswer toe said, "We
the idtle �a (oi overg-
ckerstnith and Stanley Townships to termrowding�r is to- have our own school at
discuss proposed school boundary Vanastra." ..
chaoa±es, He predicted such a school could have
chBoard member Wilfred.Shortreed, He
enrolment of 345 within three years.
airman of the ad hoc boundaryHe said, B having a school at
committee which has been studying the Vanastra we eliminate busing costs and
issae, spoke of the over -crowding at theunit." positive factors is the retention of
Clinton Public School which has a -
capacity of 480 students. He said with the family
two portables at the school there are 521 of�leasing BBridgessuggested
of Conest Conestoga possibility
enrolled a, the Clinton school with 194.Vanastr(the Fortner elementary school
t;gtning r n Vanastra. Smith,a when Vanastra was a Canadian Forces
Board. superintendent Ralph member of the boundary committee, Base) or another building in the coin-
" showed maps of the present boundary plA delegation of uarents from
lines in Tuckersmith and Stanley.
le that 60 '+�•
Mr. Shortreed suggested
students from the south end of
Tuckersmith be directed to the Hensall
Public School in September 1977 and 30
from Stanley to Zurich Public School and
send " the Vanastra students to Huron
Centennial School at Brucefield. (This
school was built to serve the students in
Tuckersmith and Stanley and Vanastra
By Jim Fitzgerald
Ah fall, that beautiful time of the year.
The bright • colors of the leaves, the
..
�crispae��tt�`''ai*. the 'Short days, and
long nights., and. .Abe stinking smell of
people burning leaves. Yes, the annual
ritual is here again when many of us
burn what is really a valuable resource.
ilihe town is now offering to pick up
leaves that are properly bagged. on
Mondays, but even that's too much work
for some people. Another thing. do you
know that pound for pound. teaveb
contain twice asa manyrto washroom.
manure? IL seems In a letter to council, the owner ex -
out and then turn around next spring and
spend good money on commercial plained used his wa hroomsswhich �as�a public
wntown
fertilizers. service. Since his sewer bill has gone up.
We'd like to apologize to the local he felt it was only fiar, that the Town
sorority for a headline in last week's help cover obb scaid Sewage and water is
paper calling them hookers. Really,'they
are hooking a rug. and are not ladies ofan enormous price and it sure isn't going
the night. as some people have implied toCttr iCt ndd ustry
cito this
town.
hold their
from the headline. discussion over and talk about it later at
Judging by a story in the latest issue of a committee meeting
the Financial Post, the words of the late Council have also decided
Phineas Taylor Barnum still ring true Leona
today: "'There's a sucker born every
minute."
You remember that pet rock craze of
last year. well now we've got an Ali
Canadian Tame Hole. Apparently, two
ronto businessmen are promoting this
latest Christmas gift. which consists of a
Hole, contained in an attractive jar. with
attached instructions, and retails for
53,95. In just a week and a half. the
major department stores bought out the
entire production run of Holes. Accor-
ding to discoverer Ray Arsenault. the
Hole is a little difficult to see because it's
moving so fast. Indeed as you peer
into
the Hole's jar, you might not think there
was anything there. But there is . . .a
Hole, Furthermore, according to
Arsenault, even if one's Hole escapes,
tile jar has a redee:ning value.of its own.
Or as the late Edward Frn isn evenlbee
said: Never give a sucker
break." -
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For all those hockey players in the
`area Who haven't got the time to play
NHL, WHL, or Intermediate "C"
hockey. there's always the Clinton
Industrial League. which has their
'registration this coming Monday,
October 18th, and the following Monday,
October 25th. The season starts on
November 1st..
For those who inquired about using
Mme gardening tips in this space taken
from a book I generously referred to at a
recent Horticultural Society meeting, we
e:'t. The book is copyrighted.
however, the book "A to Z - Hints for the'
Vegetable Gardener is available from
the "Men's Garden Clubs of America,
5560 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines. Iowa,
5Cia3, " Just include $2.95 plus $2 for
Restage and handling.
Stiillon gardening. Blanche Deeves,
able Middleton and Itolmesvife
sf branch of
iiclent, brought us in tr
complete with blooms on it!
�kitta
e 'it came from Marion Smith up
inn. Maybe we're in for an
inside
Town Talk page 2
'Pg. 5
.pgs. 6 S 7
pg. 10
Chronicle
Shorts 0.•
la field 6ogls l i l a
Classifieds .........pgs. 16,
Entertainment- • pgs. 19 & 20
. Second Section
Bill Smiley pg. 1A
Curt news .. pg. 2A
face gyeerds pg, 6A'
COtnion
owner , �,, � :........ ,. , .� r _:fd -foci,, thes+� prot�►toes...each
• o iioy, Mase are soitrike spuds.
weigh' two pounds, were grown by Brian McAsh of
mpen
g es to handle.
VarnOi, a d are.almost too much for the little on
'washrooms
y� ® o �'Scott an Jason, in the back, hold one large sample, while
Cl
Tuck;ersroith and Stanleys
made a similar recomMend .;
Spokesman for their area cot
was Paul gteckle chairman.
proposed that Vanastra have a"Sc1
its: own made available- to them.
Alternate proposal called #ot t>a
grades 4 - 8 representing 100 of the et
students from Vanastra dirr~eet1
ensalt- on two buses, allow/in
yotmger children from Vanast>`'
attend Clinton undisturbed.
"This would mean the least disr'ul
of children and bus routes," MT. Step
said. "Additional busing Costs r
Brucefield to Hensall has
suggested to be $2.50 per day per
we are talking aboat. 81,000."
Herbert Turkheim, board chairing
who chaired the meeting, tok the grOul
"yob.• seerrt to have the solutions' but it iso
very' difficult to get Ministry officials to
tease or build new schools ---- .
Several ratepayers made suggestion*"
from the floor - using vacant rooms 4it;
Clinton secondary school (none vacant) v
sending students from Harpurhey and
Egmondville to eaforth'P�ubli School
Seaford*
(Harpurney chi goto
now) .
A guest at the meeting unofficially, ..
Lockerbie of the London office of the
Ministry of Education, commended the
school board for discussing the problckn
with the ratpayers and- the ratepayers
for presenting their suggestions so ably.
Mr. Lockerbie, who said he was lathe
area and was attending the meeting with
one of the ratepayers on his own, can-
firmed Mr. Turkheim's earlier
statement. He , "speaking
akifu
of
projecting figures future
enrolment) school age bodieshave to
be present before schools are built. Ycla
have to compete with other centres for'
capital funds - the priority for that s+boa'i
has to exceed another area before o�
(„Con p ted0n:pag's
By Bev Clark
Clinton Council received a request
from Hotel Clinton. asking the Town to
oav
$25 a month for the use of the public
Lockhart
on
behalf
to
give
of
Mrs.
the
Sr
Citizens. a key to the council chambers,
the door leading upstairs and the back
room. The Sr. Citizens need the keys to
get their card tables and set up for their
meetings.
Councillor Brown informed Council
that the clutch in the new truck has gone
again. "This is the second clutch that
has been put in," he said.
"The first one went at 3,000 miles and
the second one. this one, went at 5.000
miles. We've got to find the. cause for
this. It's not abuse. There's no better
truck drivers than we've got and I'll
back that up 100 per cent," he said.
Council will talk to Bluewater Truck
Centre who do the repairs first, and then
continued on page 2)
Over 815 rec. charge
Goderich Twp. scants to meet Clinton
Patriciaand Cr
al are seated in front. Each spud Is
tains g
nearly enough for a meal for the family. (photo by Mary
Chessell)
Goderich Township Council wants to that would permit their residents to use
meet with Clinton Town Council to Clinton's facilities at the same cost as
own residents of town. They also would like to
discus's a recent surcharge the t
placed on non -taxpayers or non- discuss a possible breakdown of costs to
give people using only one facility a cost
residents of the town using Clinton's P P
recreational facilities. The surcharge is br, he town of Goderich has two levies
$15 a head and is designed to give out-of-
towners the right to use Clinton's for out-of-town specific facilities. town rut
dents
are on
facilities on a year round basis.one dollar more than Goderich
The Clinton recreation board pay
recommended the surcharge in a special residents
taken pool in the programs at and
meeting on September 21 and backed it out-ith tof-town organizations pay two
up with a system that offers proof o
payment for -users of the facilities. The dollars more an hour for rental of ice at
committee suggested that the manager the
of a team making use of the rink or ball • The levy is not charged for non -
parks collect the money from players residents orthe non-taxGode Eh avers ploc laying
from out-of-town and that when the hockey
and there is no charge for any
ey
money is paid the person is issued a card program
that allows them to continue using the other,f cil ties.er ries, townshi council
facilities in the future. Ron rnways
A group of Goderich Township nisd�� reequesti g presentation
of Lot �- on met with their council to enquire
Con -
township's position or attitude to the cession T�f est o be esigna ea mobile home
d urban for the
move by Clinton. The ladies said they purpose
Y �.
preferred to remain anonymous
•claiming they had children involved in
Clinton programs and didn't want the•
children to be centered out. Restd e n t s s e e
The ladies proposed several
park on the land presently being used for
a trailer camp site. The request was
tabled pending a special meeting council
has planned for October 14 when they
will meet with the county planner
A request by Cale Doucette for a
building permit was denied by council
but Mr. Doucette agreed to wait 10 days
before starting legal action that may
force the permit to be issue. The council
want the 10 days to lapse to allow them to
meet with the county planner to make
absolutely sure they are within their
rights denying the permit.
Radford's Construction was awarded
the tender for loading and haulingpit run
gravel to the township on the strength of
a 59 cents per yard bid. The only other
bid on the job was put in by Merner's and
it was for one dollar a yard.
The Johnston requested council to
issue a building permit for an addition to
a drive shed. David Dalzeli one for an
(continued on page 2 )
k 4 -way stop
suggestions to the township council that
would provide a possible alternative to
By Bev Clark Reeve mo b ando make the! intersection
Hunter
P suggested thatMary
the surcharge. They gg Murray East of Street in Clinton. made
perhaps if a levy was necessary, the representing his neighbours. asked for a of Mary and Orange Streets afour-way
town mayconsider.setting a charge tip four way stop at the corner of Orange stop fur six to 12 months. If it proved
•Council could change it
on a use basis rather than a flat rate of and Mary Streets at the Clinton Town disatisfactory. w you can do it.
S1.54 They felt that if a person from they Council meeting held Tuesday. October "That's the only ay
township was making use of iyeveral 12.
reeve Lobb saaid
facilities throughout the year that 815 Mr. East said that a few accidents had '•No it isn't.' Mayor Symons said. stilt
mayhot be steep but if the person was taken place at that intersection in the feeling a yield sign was the answer to the
y. past four to six weeks and that a couple problem.
using only one then it was -a bit costs
Council members couldn't comment of small children were almost hit last The motion was defeat4 d and Council
like the
will be looking into other ways to slow
on the situation since they, lik week.
ladies, were not aware of the reasoning The request for, a four-way stop at that thetraffic down on Mary Street
behind the costs. Their only source of intersection had come up before at a
the issue had been taken previous council wid 'roman
information on P il meeting and Mayor ria �erha s a yield • •
.4 from a story on the
Clinton News -Recd
outlined the propose
into the reasoning
matter carried by the Don Symons thought p P
rd. The story merely sign would be sufficient..
1 and did not delve "How often vo people of Clinton want hurt �� �., ` ; ; ��t
Of iauturit'
�........ _-_ cldlot tr !r
lct, arkd offing a tat
back 'b tt'kihg task of ra
dist►stn bf them. ere Oen
leaves. Fick -up will held each
-- -- - use of a wet
very rich ftp of
it also meats the
the problemof
trect gaolers her
the le cv
burg of tt bt
( e site0�`
o, e r four-way stops. We could have them at
The' township council said they did not every street. I think that a yield sign
want to develop any hard feelings with would do the trick," he said.
the town of Clinton but agreed that some Councillor Hunter said there was a
sort of explanation or • discussion desperate need fora stop sign on Mary.
amongst the two groups would have been "People use that road to avoid the
appreciated, The township does offer traffic lights at the intersection of High -
softie recreational programs and ac- ways eight and four," he said.
cording to one spokesman, many of Deputy Reeve Cook felt that the road
those participating are from Clinton and shouldn't have been paved.
Goderich. "It should have stayed gravel. Once it
The township council wrote Clinton was paved it turned into a speed strip.
. Council a letter requesting that a There should be speed bumps on that'
Town Counc � ... . rresen- would slow them down,.. he
meeting of the two or their road. thrt
Wives be set up. They would like to said. , . .
disCus ° possible levy whereby the '•How about leaving a few pot holes
5. a im
voittt01.l tOottt pay an amour sal ttnc tot Money d Councillor kov.
A Bayfield woman was treated and
released from the Clinton Public
Hospital after her vehicle came into
collision with a tractor -trailer last
Thursday. Oct. 7 Bayfield
Elizabeth Hummel of RR 2
was driving on County Road 13.
Goderich Twp. in a pick-up truck when
she collided with a tractorr-trailer driven
by Dwight Jennison 'of Grand Bind, at
the intersection of County Road 13 and
Concession 7 and 8.
Damage to the pick-up truck was
estimated at MOO anddamage to le
tractor -trailer was estimate, • .
Charges have been laid..