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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-09-01, Page 190 Huron twins mark 90th birthday Albert Nethery, left of Hamilton, and Mrs. Mary McGill, both natiVts of Huron County, celebrated their 90th birth-' day recently in Brampton.(Brampton Daily Times photo) BY JACK CAMPBELL Brampton Daily Times "I am one-half hour older than my twin sister," said 90 - year -old Albert Nethery of Hamilton. "So that's why you have been bossing everyone around for years," quipped the daughters of both Mr. Nethery and his .twin sister, Mrs. Mary McGill, Mr.,,Nethery and his twin, Mary McGill, celebrated their birthdays August 20 at a family fathering at the home of Mrs. McGill's son, Glenn McGill, 8 Marsden Crescent, Brampton. - It's just a family gathering for the Nethery and McGill families, but when the two families hold a reunion, a sizeable crowd attends. Mr. Nethery has three children and three grandchildren and his twin sister has five living children, 12 grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. Relatives were in at- tendance at the party from California, Montreal, Wiugham, Hamilton, Bolton, Brampton and other points. The twins were recipients of many small gifts and bouquets of flowers from their families and also received a framed certificate from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and a plaque from Premier William Davis. The 90 -year-old twins vyere born in a large log house in East Wawanosh ' Township near Lake Huron. They were both educated in one of the original "little red schoolhouses" and were both Goderich doctor is appointed new MOH BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Members of Huron County Council met Friday morning for a brief session and approved the appointment of Dr. Brian J. Lynch as assistant medical officer of health, effective September 2 nd as acting MOH effective October 1 r an initial three month period. Dr. Lynch, presently in private practice in Goderich, will become MOH when he has successfully completed the University of Toronto course in public health. He will succeed Dr. Frank Mills who was also a Goderich physician in private practice before joining the 'ounty as acting MOH and obtaining his ublic health degree through the University of Toronto. Dr. Mills leaves. Goderich for an MOH post in Sudbury. 41 Effective September 2, Dr, Lynch's salary will be $32,000 per annum. When he has completed his course at the U of T sometime during 1978, his salary will be increased to $36,000 per annum. His salary for 1979 then, will be negotiated with other county department head salaries, in accordance with county policy. "Dr. Lynch has agreed to remain as MOH in Huron for a period of five years • and will enter into a five-year agreement with the county. The agreement expires December 31, 1982, and is renewable after that time. , The Board of Health, chaired by William J. Dale of Seaforth, interviewed Dr. Lynch and made the recom- mendation for his services to county council Friday morning. It is usual procedure that the committee make its decision concerning a department head, finalize all of the details with the suc- cessful . candidate and then take the matter to county council for final ap- proval. Chairman Dale expressed his concern in this instance that the information about Dr. Lynch's position appeared in the press . before county council had approved the matter. He said he heard the story on the radio twice this morning of the county council session. "I just don't like this coming out before our meeting," he told council Friday. "It tends to make rubber stamps of the 45 members of county council." Goderich Reeve Bill Clifford was even more adamant about his feelings that the story should pot have been published in the press or broadcast by the elec- tronic media until county council had approved the hiring of Dr. Lynch. "I don't know what action we can take to see that it doesn't happen in the future," said Clifford, "but up with this we will not put, to quote Churchill." The source of the story was not revealed, although Dr. Mills said he was 'questioned concerning the matter by a reporter who already knew that Dr. Lynch was the likely candidate tor the MOH's post. In other business, Mrs. ,Lorraine Devereaux of Seaforth will become the new nutritionist with the Perth District Health Unit and the Huron County Health Unit. Her salary will be $15,000 per annum and her duties will com- mence this fall. Mrs. Devereaux will work part time in each of the two counties, county council learned. A joint committee on health services for the two counties recommended the idea of a hiring a fulltime nutritionist and sharing the salary. Dr. Frank Mills, Huron MOH and Dr. Susan Tamblyn, Perth MOH, wilt work with the secretary -treasurers of the two health units to draft a suitable agreement concerning the shared employee. "It just shows we can work together on certain things," said Reeve' Dale who expressed his satisfaction about the decision. Reeve Harold Robinson, however, felt hiring a nutritionist was unnecessary. He said few people in Huron and Perth are suffering from malnutrition and felt the duties of the new employee would have to be carefully laid out and scrutinized.. "The elephant has got his trunk in the door," said Robinson who was referring to the much disputed amalgamation of " Huron and Perth health units. Smaller classes urged by new OFT president • "Declining. " school enrolment should have the effect of lessening the number of students in every classroom. If we truly believe in the quality of educational opportunity, providing teachers with more ap- propraite numbers of students to work with is a risonable means of ensuring it," said James J. Carey, the newly elected President of the Ontario Teacher's Federation. Mr. Carey was elected at the annual meeting of the Federation's Board of Governors held last week at the Prince Hotel in Toronto. , He succeeds Ross Andrew as President of OTF, the or anization representing • 000 teaehers in the ince. "Teaching is a person-to- person process, Teachers attempt to educate each student to the limit of his or her capacity. We are more concerned with a student's progress than a student's grade placement. Those outside education sometimes $ confuse that with a lowering of standards. Obviously smaller 'classes would Smile Golf liars have one ad- vantage over the fishing kind ey don't have to show ing to prove it. NOTICE to Students of Clinton and Vanastra Public School Classes at Clinton and Vanastra Public School Commence TUES., SEPT. 6 at Regular Times, and Dismiss one hour earlier than normal. enhance the educational process," said Mr. Carey, who, as a father of five and a veteran teacher, is deeply concerned with the quality of instruction Ontario's students are receiving. "At this present time," Carey explained, " when we already have a surplus of trained teachers, we should substantially reduce the size of our classes to enable each child to learn more ef- fectively. This is expensive only if one ignores the costs of later diagnosis and remediation of learning difficulties, special education and adult re-training." In addition to having served as first vice-president of the Federation for the past year and as a member of the Executive since 1974, Mr. Carey has been active in his own affiliate, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association. He has been a member of the Association's Provincial Executive since 1969 and was presiddnt of . OECTA from 1972-1973. formerly TRIANG LE DISCOUNT . CRAIGIE'S SPECIALS Refills °. 994 • •I. • • •• • 1" Vinyl Covered Binders $1•29 Duo - Tang 2-39 4 Get Smart Pressboard 11 5/e" Binder ONLY 89 GAGE 3 INA PKG. Exercise Books. 1.29 BIC59 cent' VALUE Pens ONLY 94 Exercise Books 494 GAGE - 4 IN A PKG. Exercise 694 Books Watch for the official opening coming soon! brought up on the family farm. _ Mr. Nethery said his father needed help so he left school when a youth to help his family on the farm. When he was 30 years of age, he moved to Hamilton and was em- ployed at Tolman's Brass Foundry until he retired. Mr. Nethery is a humorous story -teller and his stories include the incidents in his career when he was one of Canada's checker cham- pions. "I have a plaque at home for winning most games at a ,. major tour- nament. When I reached the age of 80, I was dropped down in classification, but I kept on winning so they moved me up again," he said. "I still work at it and I love a game," he said. Mr. Nethery said his most engrossing project was tracing his family's history. "I traced our family through Canada, to Ireland, to Scotland and finally to Scandanavia. Working at the. history was like a disease. I couldn't leave it alone," he said. Mrs. McGill, a delightful lady and now a resident of the Tullamore Nursing Home, was an accomplished church organist and pianist in her younger years. She was married .while still on the farm and she and her husband farmed for many years in the Clinton district. Mrs. McGill lived in Clinton prior to moving to Brampton to be near her family: Although Mrs. McGill said, "you don't need to mention that," another bit of in- formation came from one of her daughters. Mrs. McGill was an avid horticulturist pnd grew several hundred varieties of iris. She also developed several new strains of the beautiful flower. The two families were gathered together recently to trade stories of bygone days and to do honor to the twins whose memories go back nearly 80 years when they were youngsters attending their little red schoolhouse. rf CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977PAG.E 19 Welby tone (left) of R 4, Seafortb, accepts the 51,000 cheque he won on Saturday at the Zurich Bean Festival from past Grand Knight Leo Hogan: The draw° was sponsored .by the Seaforth Council of the Knights of Colun*bus with the proceeds going towards local charities. (Expositor photo) Independent ShippOr to United Co-opera!iv. of Ontario Livestock Dept. Toronto Ship Your Livestock with Roy Scotchmer Monda Is Shipping Day Fro arna Stockyard CALL B F1EL.D565.2636 By 7: 0 a.m. Monday For Prompt Service No Charges on Pick-up tf THE ANNUAL MUNICIPAL ENUMERATION STARTS NEXT WEEK The annual municipal° enumeration will begin on Tuesday, September ;6,, 1977. During this month, an enumerator, carrying a proper identification card, will call at your residence fora few minutes to check basic in- formation required in determining : • the allocation of education property taxes between the public and separate school systems; • the distribution of provincial grants to local governments to help reduce local tax bills; • the preparation of jurors' lists; and • population information needed for other municipal programs. The enumerator must record such information as the name, age, property status (e.g. owner or tenant), school support and residency of all members of the household. When the enumerator visits, please check that the information on the Enumeration Notice is correct. If it is not, revise it and verify the changes. If you are not home, a Notice will be left for you. If changes are necessary, please make them and mail the Enumeration Notice, as soon as possible, in the self addressed postage prepaid envelope accompanying the Notice. For any additional information, please contact the local assessment office. Huron -Perth Region W. F. Jenkins Reg. Assessment Commissioner Phone: 524-7326 Zenith 66-500