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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1977-01-13, Page 2FACE 2 ; C14NTQ1 NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, JM 4UARY.13, 1977 Town Talk by Peggy Gibb • Last week's feast of news items Is over - We are now into the famine. Blame it on the weather, - well I could do that but as my colleague and peer on page one has doubtless already filled his First Column with denunciations of Old Gentleman Winter I'll refrain from adding mine. One Word" though, - nothing but praise for our Town's Public Works men = we at the News -Record office' think they- have done �a wonderful job on the streets!'And not forgetting, the County Roads and Highways crews. It must be like playing : Russian Roulette driving those enormous plows through the snow banks with near r .to nil visibility. As for your writer - suffice to say the one mile hike from the homestead on the Bayfield Road to the doorway of the News -Record last Monday and Tuesday mor- nings was just the right tonic for blowing away the -cobwebs and a real challenge to short -. legs in negotiationg three foot drifts. +++ Last Friday evening, the combined staffs of the four offices comprising the Signal - Star Publishing Chain - Clinton, Goderich, Kin- cardine and Mitchell held,, their annual dinner party, this year at the Saltford Valley Hall. It provided an excellent opportunity for those whom we only recognize by a telephone voice to become attached and recognizable with a body. + + + We have to add' our congratulations to an , ex - member of the News -Record staff, Mrs. Joanne Ramaker, whom many of you will remember as handling your subscriptions. As . n`Ine elsewhere, Joanne gave birth to Clinton's 1977 New Year's baby. Congratulations to her and Herman. +4+ Central Avenue Secondary School in Woodstock can boast a young Clinton native on its staff - and boast iliey have 'done. In the recent edition of the • school's newspaper Miss Christine Hartley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Hartley,' North Street, was voted, by very popular demand, "Teacherof the Month" for December. Christine is • a Physical Education Teacher on staff there and received. this ac- claib in her first year of teaching, Council reveals paving program Deperuding•°'on tlfe cost, and whether between Georg and John Streets, sanitary sewers on grie Street, four there is any money left in the roads asking that theur•street be paved as soon houses now served by septle•tanks. budget after the massive job of snow as possible. r Councillor Ron McKay said that clearing is finished, _Clinton council ' Spokesman•forthe group, Ross Carter, ' council would soon be forced by the decided last Monday•night to go ahead told council the residents were 'blessed ,gQYernment to put in sewers for all those and reconstruct three more streets in with dust," and;vere "not getting. full areas nowon septic tanks, but Councillor town... value for their tax .dollar." He said all Roy Wheeler asked that the Huron Council resolved to ask the town's residents on thestreet had signed the county health Unit be contacted to find engineer B.M. Ross ' to draw up petition. • out which home was 'dumping the specifications for rebuilding all of Because the list of reconstruction sewage into the drain, which is partially Walker Street, James Street from King streets had already been drawn for 1977, an open ditch. to Maria Streets, and High from Kirk to council works chairman Ernie Brown East Street. Tenders will be sought next told the delegation council would con - month,. + + month, .sider their request when the 1978 list was •- Council also agreed to put the final Bird enthusiasts and recipe coat of asphalt on the four streets they, collect rs get out your pen- reconstructed last year.. ° The subsidy on road reconstruction, cils. Here is a recipe taken given by the ministry of transportation from the current edition of• and communication each year,'has risen h d 10 per cent to $49,900 council learned, _ the company , installed on Ransford, the Huron Tract. - the , in- formative booklet public a while the maintenance subsidy has risen by the Ministry of Natural •to $35,700. The town, however, must Resources, Wingham- This is s erid equal amount to get the full called simply "A Favourite p an q Winter Recipe" and runs: subsidy. Ingredients - heat to Council also received a petition from a boiling: delegation of Queen Street residents, 6 cups water 1 cup shortening or melted Many new faces suet Add: 2 cups' cornmeal '/2 cup flour made up. in other business', council decided to hold back a $3,800 payment due to Huron Pines Construction until the town's engineer and the Public U.tilities Commission w's satisfied a new drain .. 1. cup white or brown sugar, or honey or syrup Mix and bring to boil. Cover and turnoff heat. Finally, add whatever extras in the way of seeds, raisins, nutmeats, peanut butter, or other tidbits may seem ap- propriate. Pour into pans and chill before placing at feeders. The foot note to the above recipe reads that it is a "sweet -tasting mixture with wide appeal. Looking it over while I typed made •-me think it must be quite "the'' exotic, gourmet dish of the bird kingdom. • Anyway, it's pretty cold and windy for our feathered friends, and as I read some time ago, when the mercury drops birds need° an afternoon - feeding to keep their body temperature up throughout the night. +++ Don't forget Winter Car- nival started last night. For the past few years we have been cryingout for the snow to make it • successful. Somebody up there heard our cries - so all we need now is everyone's participation. Once again, Ruth Lombardo is -giving her time and effort to running the whole show. Street was operating properly.. Another drain, the Mary Street drain, also carne under discussion, when they learned that the storm drain contains human waste, and the ministry of en- vironment wants council to install Committees change There will be a lot of new council faces on local committees for the next two years, as Clinton council at their regular meeting Monday night approved the recommendations of the striking committee, with only one exception. There will, be two new councillors on• the town's recreation committee, Councillors Ray Garon and Ron McKay, leaving Frank Cook off for the first time in eight years. Deputy -reeve Cook, however, long , a critic of the police department, has been given the chairmanship of the police committee. Other appointments are: industrial, councillor Garon; protection to persons and property, Councillor Wayne Holt- zhauer; finance, ' councillor Roy Wheeler; special, the new mayor; sanitation and waste, ' councillor Rosemary Armstrong; by-laws, reeve Royce Macaulay; public works, coun- cillor Ernie Brown; and general government, councillor Ron Mckay. • Other appointments .to committees outside council include: hospital board, councillor Armstrong; industrial com- mittee, councillors Garon and. Wheeler; - cemetery board, councillor Brown and deputy -reeve Cook; fire area board, councillors Wheeler and Holthauzer; planning board, Reeve -Macaulay ; waste disposal, councillor Armstrong; Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority, councillor Brown; Central Huron Agricultural Society, councillors McKay and 'Wheeler; and Maitland' Valley Conservation Authority, Harry Oakes. In other business, council will look into a request from Elaine and 'George Vance, who run an "Epp Home" for troubled adolescents at 162 Albert Street in Clinton, to see if there is a by-law prohibiting such a home in Clinton. Council 'was unsure whether the establishment was an institution of a business. II 4 - St. Marys man rolls perfect game Every bowler's dream;,; became a reality for a St. Marys man who bowled a perfect game during Men's Inter -town league action at the Clinton Crown lanes last Saturday, January 8. Bob Newell received $200 cash prize for -his perfect score of 450 points,•and is - only the second man in -the CrownLame's history to accomplish such k feat, ac- cording to Crown .Lane's Manger Joe Atkinson. - "Only six or ei:h t perfect games are 'n a whole year," ou an idea of how e) is." bowled across Ca Joe said, "just to rare it (a perfect g A Clinton man, Ken Johnston bowled the first perfect game at the Crown Lanes, on November 3rd, three and half years ago. Mr. Johnston was also, bowling, for the Men's Inter -town league when his dream came true. Stanley holds first session Stanley Township Council announced its appointments for the new term at its inaugural meeting on Monday, January 3rd. Along with .Mel Graham, who was re- appointed clerk-greasurer and tax collector, and Betty Graham, who .was appointed deputy clepk-treasurer, the following appointments were an: nounced: Ausable-Bayfield Con - -servation Authority - Paul Steckle ; solicitors - Donnolly and Murphy, Goderich; auditors - Durst, Vodden and Vender, Goderich; municipal Drainage Engineers - C. P.- Corbett and Co., Lucan; livestock ti evaluators - - Wm. Caldwell and Elmer Turner;. pound keepers - Bert Greer, Bill S-teekle, Jack Hamilton, Jack Coleman, Fred -Gibson and A.J. Mustard; fence viewers - Darcy Rathwell, Cliff Henderson, and Charles Rau - Robett Turner (alter- nate) ; tile Drainage Inspector -. Donald Brodie; Clinton Fire Area Board - Don by Bertha Mac Gregor Mr. Ernie Davis, who recently underwent surgery in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, returned to his home on Sunday. • • Const. David Beer, RCMP, and Mrs. Beer returned to their home at/Port Coquitlan, B.C., after spending the holiday season with the former's mother, Mrs. John Beer and brotl ers-and .with. Davitd's grandmother, rs. Fred Beer. . and Mrs. Ro'bert Keyes rand Bend, were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker: Mr. George Dowson, who has been a patient for the last several weeks in South Huron Hospital, Exeter, returned home this week. - • Queensway news • Mr. and Mrs. Syd Pullman of London , visited Mrs. Bernice Lavery. Howard and ' Marions Johns visited Mrs. Mabel Johns.. Chester and Ilia Bunn, Iva Ridley, Greta • Lammie visited Vera Lammie. Mr. and Mrs. Demroach, Camp Borden and Leslie Mitchell, .„.Crediton, visited Louise Mitchell. Edmund Jeffery, Madge Desch,. Mr. • and Mrs. •C1'emence Jeffrey visited Pauline Jeffrey, Shirley Prouty visited Lynn fatimore, Almeeda Parsons, Isobel Sproate,• Roy - McDonald and "" Harold Gleanville. Hazel McNaughton visited . her mother, Mrs. Ada Smillie. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Taylor"" visited'Adeline Taylor. Rev. Van.. Essen of the Bathel Reformed Church, Exeter conducted the Church service on Tuesday ac- companied bythis wife. Unit 4 of the Hensall United parch entertained the residents with music, bingo -- and treats on Wednesday with Mrs. Earl Rowe in pharge. DRINKING& DRIVING 'DON'T MIX - One -of bad spots in Clinton during the last storm is Vinegar Hill at the north end of town. Traffic was reduced to one,.lane through the, cut which is nearly 12 feet deep. (News- Reco7rd photo) McGregor; Zurich Fire Area Board - .Clarence Rau; Huron County Farm Safety Assoc. - Don McGregor; Recreation Committee (two members from council and up to 10 members from outside of council) - Councillors Donald Brodie and Clarence Rau; non -council members Harvey Hayter, Jean Rath - well, Arnold Taylor, Gerald Hayter, Howard Armstrong, John Paul Rau and Mary.Erb. In other business, council approved the following grants: Salvation Army $100; Canadian Mental Health Assoc. - •$35; War Memorial Children's Hospital - $35; Baird's Cemetery Board - $40. In reports made to council, it was learned that building permits -in 1976 - totalled $1,236,400_ General accounts stand at $14,673. and the roads accounts stands at'$6,047, The next meeting of Stanley Township • Council is on Monday,' January 31st at 8 p.m. ************** ANNOUNCEMENT. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 • • • • We, at K.W. Colquhoun Limited are faced with mixed emotions. We are sad on the one hand to announce that after 30 years of service to the, commuhity we must advise that our name is being changed effective 4 January 1977 to Geiser Kneale Insurance Agency Incorporated, who have 'purchased the interest of the late K.W. "Danny" Colquhoun. On the other hand we are pleased that this change of name will in no way affect the continuation of service to the community in the area of insurance, real estate, and investments. Our new association will mean that all of the present stiff will be available to serve you in the coming years. • • The recent heavy snowfalls have been hard on all snow removal equipment as crews try to stay ahead of the seven foot fall. -Here Don Wallace of Zurich works -on a plow at the ministry of transportation and com- munications' Clinton work centre. (News -Record photo) • • •. • 1 i •• • • •• The new company will have at its disposal a wider range of companies Which will result in competitive marketing, and a much fuller range of services, available to you the customer. We look forward to seeing you, at the same - office, with the same faces, same phone numbers, same post office box. • • .• *************** Model 800 with Waned' ' and Regulator. *** Higher pressure models also available. *** Takes only 4 sq. feet of storage • space (Model 800) • POrnprfally atcessible for. easy maintehance. • 25 foot 3/8" ID nylon high pressure hose. • • Triple plunger long -life reliable pump. • Push Button Motor starting switch. _ .. . 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