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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1977-12-15, Page 3p 1 t ' People in Profile Hearns busy with many musical hobbies By Shelley McPhee According to Mary Hearn, her husband and five children are neglected. "They'd probably have three nice meals a day and clean clothes in their drawers," she laughed, "if it wasn't for the family's active involvement in music." "But life would be dull," piped in her 16 -year-old daughter Nancy, "But we might have some clothes to wear." It seems to be a running joke in the Hearn family about how much time is Huron seniors get • 510265 Horizon grant A federal government grant for $10,265 awarded to a group of retired people in Huron County has been announced by Federal Health and Welfare Minister Monique Begin. Huron Helpers are using the grant to establish a program of activities in conjunction with the homebound daycare facility that is being established for the seniors of Huron County at Huronview. A total of $361,828 to grants have been awarded to 43 groups of retired people in Ontario. New Horizons offers contributions to groups of retired people so that they can create projects and undertake activities for the benefit of themselves and others in the community in which they live. A complete story on the seniors day care centre can be found elsewhere in this paper. • from page 1 lots, which is the minimum requirement. Councillor Ray Garon suggested, "I think we should write the planning board a letter asking for the reasons." The discussion was then ended and council agreed that this would be the best thing to do. In other business, Clerk Procter told • council that the assessment rolls return ,. will be postponed until January 19. Problems may arise since the assessments must be read and corrected and the tax bills must be printed and. sent out with the first interim tax payment due on February 15. Councillor Roy Wheeler suggested that the first payment be delayed for three weeks, however Clerk Procter suggested, "The best thing we can do is hold tight until January." AA food licence was issued to Dennis Karramessinis for a coffee shop and short order take out shop at 14 Albert Street (former Eaton's Order Office). "Normally they just come, in to the office and get a licence for $1," Clerk Procter explained, "but you may have sorimh objections to this one." Karramessinis wrote the council asking for thelicence, however he may not pass the Huron County Health Unit regulations since it is uncertain whether he has access to a back exit. spent at band practice, choir practice, music lessons and performances, but it is all taken very lightly and it is doubtful whether the musical Hearns would have it any other way. "When you start a project you think that it won't be too bad," explained Mary, but the family still devotes most of their time to music. For instance: Nancy and Jeff have choir practice and band practice at high school every morning of the week at 8 a.m., except for Mondays. That day, Jeff, 15, practices with his barbershop quartet. On top of that, the children and Mary have church choir practiQe once a week and Nancy and Jeff also practice with the Goderich Laketown Band another night. And if that's not enough, Mary and Nancy have been practicing for the Goderich High School musical, "My Fair Lady" twice a week since October. In between that, Mary has time to take harp lessons in London from the London Symphony Orchestra harpist, Madame Marie Lorcini; Nancy is busy with her grade six in piano; Steven, 10, has started taking drum lessons and Linda, 7, is taking Highland Dance. Besides the harp, Mary also plays guitar, which she taught herself, the piano and also leads the choir at Wesley Willis United Church. Nancy plays the trombone along with the piano and Jeff plays a cornet, nicknamed "Elsie." Father and husband, Bill, is not left out of the picture and he plays the trumpet, but according to Mary, he says he can't. Still he is involved in a small band at Wesley -Willis. "Our band plays several times a year;" Mary explained, "this year we're going to play with the Ontario. Street Church band for Christmas." "Maybe we should make an an- nouncement in church that elle people should bring their earplugs," Mary added. The Hearns are quite humble about their musical talents and according to Mary, the children will often say that they are not musically inclined if told they are. Perhaps some of their modesty comps At Vanastra from the fact music is just a normal part of their lives, something they've been brought up with and 'inherited from the past. The fact that music is in their blood seems to be true when 'Mary speaks of her parents, sister and brother along with Bill's family. Bill's mother was a soloist and organist in the church. "Music took up a lot of our spare time," remembered Mary of her childhood in Ilderton. Her father, Lee Telfer, was the choir leader in the church and her mother was the organist. Mary began singing in a choir when she was 19 years old. "My dad's family were all singers. At family reunions they'd all sing. It was part of the fun, singing in harmony," she said. Mary's brother makes his living with music. He teaches the subject in a public school in London and leads the church choir. He also used to have a dance band. Likewise her sister, Irla Stewart, taught music at the Holmesville Public School, leads a church choir in Goderich and the Laketown Band, and the Teen Choir as well. Mary too has made her living at music. When she taught school she spent one year teaching music at the Hugh Campbell School at the former RCF base outside Clinton. During that time she used her guitar talents extensively. "I taught myself to chord on . the guitar. It came in handy in school when there was no piano." However, now Mary's time is taken up by the harp which she began playing two years ago. "I've always wanted to play the harp and it will keep me going for another 10 years or so," she laughed. "It's quite difficult to play, It's more difficult than the piano, but it's like learning to play the piano when you're an adult." Although Mary claims that she can't play too much on it yet and has a lot to master, she has played in church a few times, at a wedding and has been in- volved in two musical plays with the Goderich District Collegiate Institute Escapee captured here Wayne Wesley Ward, 22 an escapee from the Maplehurst' Training School near Milton was arrested by the Goderich Detachment of the OPP in Vanastra on Monday. He had escaped from the training school on November 10 and had been travelling with George Edward Doolittle of Uxbridge. On December 6 it is believed the pair stole a 1978.Ford Bronco truck from the lot of McLaughlin Motors in Seaforth. They have also been charged with three • counts of possession of stolen property. This includes thefts from the outlying areas of Clinton, the Hensall area and Alliston. The pair were scheduled to appear in Goderich Provincial Court . on Wed- nesday morning for a bail hearing. Investigation into other thefts is being continued by Constable Lorne Carter and Eric Goss of the Goderich OPP office. In Orangeville Provincial Court on Tuesday, December 6, Clayton Riley of Hullett Township and Raymond Riley. of Clinton were found guilty on charges of theft of lumber. Drama Club, "The Fantasticks" and recently "My Fair Lady." 'I'm beginning to miss some of the pieces she played before she started My Fair Lady," Nancy added. "I try to do most of my practicing in the daytime," Mary explained. "I tried to be at school,,'' joked Nancy. Despite the fact that the Hearns say their neighbours must be deaf, the family has little problem practicing different instruments in the same household. "At the cottage this summer I had to play outside, because mom was prac- ticing inside and somebody else had the radio on," Nancy laughed. Family practices seem td be an im- possibility around the Hearn's home. Mary explained, "I can't see us get- ting together at once to practice. We're all going in different directions at the same time." "I admire the McMillans in Goderich and the Bradley family," she added, both families which perform together. However, neither she nor her children seem too upset over the tact `their lives are often going in different directions, but at the same time the family is held close together by their common interest in music which deeply involve& them in the church and other activities. Despite their presently hectic life, each has plans for the,future. "There's lots that I'd like to do," claimed Mary. • Nancy noted that she plans to study music in university and hopes to teach. However, she noted that teaching jobs aren't very plentiful, so she may go into performance, with her major in- strument as the trombone and the piano as her second. Jeff hopes to go into engineering when he is finished high school. Despite their active lives, there still remains an underlying modesty behind them. As the interview was finishing Mary added, "Don't play us up too much or we'll have to live up to it." CLINTON NEWS -ft coR Tf IftS„ + a.Pg141E1 I I5, i977,,-PAQE 3 i B ..Aw'YR��, WWF(,. As if trumpet, trombone, piano, drum and guitar playing along with singing practice isn't enough at the Hearn home at 107 Townsend Street, Mary Hearn joins her children and husband in musical talents by playing the harp. However, she tries to do her practicing during the day before her five children come home from school to begin their practicing. (News -Record photo) Boy 5, escapes serious injury in accident Samuel Shipp, .5, of 114 Dunlop Street Hospital where he was treated tor minor 'luckily escaped with. only minor head injuries. injuries after he darted out in front of a • A number of other people escaped car driven by Russell Archer, 39, of 275 injury on Sattirday, December 10. when Raglan Street on Tuesday. two cars collided, causing $2,500 in damages. "Archer was travelling east on Dunlop Rodney, Paterson, 20 of 105 John Street Street when the .accident occurred. received $1,000 damage to his 1978 Dodge ', Archer took the child to Clinton Public when it was in collision with a car driven r, V, d)i .1/ .1, •.., .1, .r. 3.!':-3': * iv * * 3W. ,, .1, ?" iv .r. SIG i a: sEAFoRT•H HAS . Clayton Riley was fined $400 or 90 days in jail with six months probation. Raymond Riley faced a fine of $250, or 30 days in jail and six months probation. Along with that, the pair had to pay restitution of $150. THE ASSESSMENT ACT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS AND TENANTS As a result of a delay in the passage of recent amendments to The Assessment Act, the normal return of the assessment rolls in municipalities and localities in Ontario will be delayed. The Honourable Margaret Scrivener, Minister of Revenue, has therefore extended to January 19, 1978, the date upon which the annual assessment roll is returned in all municipalities and localities in Ontario, EXCEPT those municipalities located in The Regional Municipality of Waterloo where the day upon which the assessment roll is returned will be extended to March 16, 1978. • This extension affects the time period during which owners and tenants may appeal their assessments. As a result, the final date for lodging a complaint with the Assessment Review Court in,respect of any assessment ' contained in the assessment rolls is extended from January 19, 1978 to February 9, 1978. In The Regional Municipality of Waterloo the date for lodging a complaint has been extended to April 7, 1978. MINISTRY OF REVENUE Margaret Scrivener Minister of Revenue T.M. Russell Deputy Minister A • p , •1• .1, is �1, .,C JAG i1Q r,, A6 a. 11� n 3;6 3;1 *CHRISTMASHOPPING IN SEAFORTH ISS 3;6 O Sponsored by the following Seaforth Merchants * Crown Hardware Pulsifer Music_ Archie's Sunoco • Hetherington Shoes Sills Hardware Frank Kling Ltd. Box Furniture $ Seaforth Meat Market Seaforth IGA Seaforth Jewellers Canadian Tire Seaforth Farmers' Co-op Stewart Bros. Roth Food Market Bill O'Shea Graves Paint And Wallpaper Stedman's Larone's Stationary Keating's , Robert 1. Plumsteel Interiors* 4'hs3 0 sp*****8F0O�,�*0 3;eDoc*;o4'o08;E**Ai68;6453;&e'k3'< c'►.0=,6ak31''e *i;E*'b»*9 *3 *%»* EVERYTHING • • •1� by Bradley Atkinson, 19 of 12 Bond Street. The accident which occurred at the corner of Huron and Shipley Streets resulted in damages of $1,500 to the Atkinson'car. 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