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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-09-07, Page 1• .. • „.. - • w. '4-i' • ...,•:•••,••••.,•-•.•s.••''...;,••••-,,,-•"•-- • '• • • • . • - • :'••• ' - r • '4, •• • • , 10, Pollee bits By Frances Barrick Two Clinton youths were charged after a police raid last week with possession of marijuana and theft of two bicycles. The two were charged under the Narcotics Control Act Saturday Sep- tember 2, and will appear in Goderich provincial court September 11. The town police seized a dozen marijuana plants plus a couple of small packages. The bicycles were reported stolen two weeks ago. Reid Jamieson, 33, of no fixed ad- dress was charged Wednesday, August 30 with break and enter of the Brewer's Retail Store on Mill Street. • Three cases of beer amounting to $24 were stolen and store's door window was smashed. Mr. Jamieson appeared inprovincial court Tuesday, and was released on bail. A two car accident, which injured two persons, occurred at the in- tersection of Highway 8 and Erie Street Friday, September 1 at 1 a.m. Thomas R. O'Connell, 64, of 10 Erie Street, was driving westbound on High- way 8 and making a left turn onto Erie Street when he was struck by a vehicle also going westbound, driven by Michael R. Hawkins, of Lot 5, Con- cession 1 Ashfield township. Mr. O'Connell who was badly hurt and his wife Dorothy were taken to the Clinton public hospital with injpries. Mr. Hawkins was charged with impaired.driving and driving withover 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 113th year—No. 36 Thursday, September 7, 1978 30 cents millilitres of blood. He will appear in 3oderich provincial court September t.8. Edward Becker of 261 Albert Street, in a one car accident hit and knocked but the left corner of Kingswell Welding shop on Albert Street on Sunday Sep- tember 3, at 6:55 a.m. Mr. Becker is charged under the Highway Traffic Act for leaving the scene andfailing to report the accident. The Goderich Detachment reported that despite the heavy traffic over the Labor Day weekend, no major ac- cidents occurred on area highways. There were two crashes, however, that caused heavy property damage but no injuries. • A 1978 car driven by Paul Stanley of Clinton suffered $4,500 in damage when it left Highway 21, 4.2 km north of Huron Road 18 shortly after midnight on Friday and struck a culvert. The southbound Stanley vehicle was heavily damaged in the single -car crash but Mr. Stanley received no major injuries. In another single car accident at 5:20 a.m. on Saturday, Albert Rooseboom escaped serious injury, but caused $3,000 damage to the four-wheel-drive truck he was driving when it slipped sideways and then overturned while climbing a steep hill at Rainbow Valley Camp in Bayfield. The criminal investigation branch of the Goderich OPP wrapped up an old Bayfield Fair success, even without arena 41) Officials of the Bayfield Agricultural Society worst fears weren't realized over the weekend at the 122nd Bayfield Fall Fair. They were worried that with the arena torn down and the exhibits and events spread over town, that at- tendance would be down considerably. But secretary Audrey Graham reported that about 1,500 persons visited the, spread -out fair, about the same" as last year, and the number of exhibitors was up in some classes, while others suffered slightly. The parade, led off by the Clinton Legion Pipe Band, was smaller than other _years, but, featuredsome well- done entries. In the parade, Adam Flowers had the best pony and rig, while Debbie Angus and David Johnston were one-two in the pony and rider class. Jane Reynolds was tops in the horse and rider class, while Rebecca Fawcett was second. Tom Penhale paraded the best heavy horse team and wagon, followed by Allendale Farms. , Other winners were: decorated bicycles, Julie Webster, Darren McAsh, Bill Sinnamon, Tanya Grillmeyer and Scott Beattie; decorated tricycles, Krista McAsh, Cameron Barnum, Dwayne Siert- sema; antique cars, Don Gower, Hubert Thiel, and Thomas Round. Best float was Varna Express, followed by Elvis Presley the Baseball champs, and Van De Haar Syrup; novelty vehicles, Future Farmer, Baby Carriage, Family Fatsoes„ and Brent Taylor; clowns, Sarah Lynn Bauer, Ian Siertsema, and . Shawn Rouse; costumes, Gillian Getty and Ian Siertsema; group in costume, nurse and patient, the, four frogs, the Lone Ranger, and Groucho Marx and $365,000 contract let on new Bayfield arena Bayfield will definitely be getting a new arena and construction will begin next week. Bayfield council and the community centre board awarded the tender last Monday night at a regular council meeting, and hope the arena will be ready early next year. Refflinghause Construction of Goderich was awarded the contract after submitting the lowest bid of $365,000 to build the new structure. Bayfield's 25 -year-old arena was condemned last year by the ministry of labor and was torn down last spring. ' In addition to the $365,000 contract, • the village has to come up with $20,000 in engineers fees and $20,000 for a handicapped lift. However, the lift is covered by a 100 percent grant from the ministry of culture and recreation. Of the total of nearly $400,000, the village must raise $100,000 of tax free •dollars (or donations), while the rest will be covered by a Wintario grant and a provincial Community Centres Act grant. John Siertsema, chairman of the community centre board, said last Sunday that about $35,000 had already been raised including $300 profit from the pancake breakfast last Sunday. first column After one of the best summers in some years, nearly everybody seems to be 'settling back into the normal routine of life. Except for the farmers, who really aren't complaining, it was what the tourist industry calls a near perfect summer - lots of sun and very few cloudy, rainy days. That synopsis is backed up by the weather office, who say .that June, July and August were indeed, very sunny months, but temperaturea were slightly cooler than normal and precipitation was only one half to two-thirds of normal. ' But all that dry weather not only hurt some hay and corn crops, but it has officials of the International Plowing Match wearing frowns already. You see, the rainfall seems to even itself out on a yearly basis and so far we're down 'about four inches and everyone hopes the weatherman doesn't pick Plowing Match week to catch up. Ag. Rep. Don Pullen, who is also secretary of the Huron Committee, who are hosting the match, expected to draw 250,000 visitors to the site near Wingham, says the predictions of the Almanac don't look good and the latest long range forecast in the Country Guide paints an even wetter picture. But the bean farmers are 'happier this year, now that 'near perfect harvest conditions prevail. You remember last year about this ;time we'd already had nine inches of rain in Six weeks and most fields were quagmires. Since ir Oluqui last Week en tattrs truly quail* 'Striokitig, received a lot of cj"in�iit Itseens there are 110, 'ek-ettokers "rOtind. now as ni�kers arid !tatty more have expressed desire to quit but just can't take the initial plunge. What we need is a sort of tobacco anonymous group, just like the former boozers have, so you could get help from someone who has been through the route. I personally quit cold turkey from. 15 butts a day, but for two and three packs -a -day puffers, that's a bit too big of a jump. Oh yes, I'm still hanging on, not even one drag in four weeks. Gasoline prices in town are going up and down like a kid on a pogo stick and as of presstime have settled at 95.9 for regular. Last week they varied from 92.9 to 97.9 with no - lead over the dollar mark at $1.03. +++ The canvass for funds for the arena floor begins on September 18 and runs until the 22, and the committee will have to raise about $70,000 of the $80,000 that must come from donations. Looking at it another way, it is actually very easy to come up with that kind of money, if say 70 people gave $1,000 each or 140 people gave $500 each or 280 people gave $250 each or 560 givers chipped in $125 each or if 1,000 donors parted with $70 each. Now if one figures there are 5,000 people in .the immediate Clinton Area who use the arena, it should be a quick and easy operation to get the money. Simple' ch? -To all yoti purists of our mother tongue, we'd like to apologize' for that little slip of the tongue in last week's column When We Called fall solstice "solace' which ',Most Of us need WSW that ,We must bid adieu to the summer of 1978, Charlie Chaplin. In the homemaking section, Mrs. Herb Beierling of R.R. 2, Zurich was the top. point winner in the.craft section and took home the Village Guild award, while D. MacKenzie was second and won the Simpson-Sear's award. Mrs. Beierling also won' the Dutch Store Award for the most points in the Easter theme. The Club House Products award for the most points in the preserve section was won by Mrs. Bert Evans of Clinton, while Mrs. K. Siertsema of Bayfield won the Scott Paper Products award for the most points in the baking sec- tion. . _ In the ladies' work, Mrs. F. Boa of Hensall won the Simpson-Sear's award for gathering the most points, while Mrs. E. Riley got the H.A. Kidd award for second, and Mrs. Bert Evans won the IGA Food ,Store award for third. Mrs. Siertsema also won the Mary's Sewing Centre award for collecting the mos tp aipts-in-theisew intsect iom - In the flower show, Mrs. E. Turner won the Imperial Bank of Commerce silver tray for collecting the most points, while Doreen McKenzie won the K.C. Cooke florist award for finishing second. The McConnell Nurseries award for most points in cut flowers went to Mrs. E. Turner, while Canon F.H. Paull took home the Steele -Briggs award for getting the most points in the potted Plant section: • In the poultry and pigeon show; Emery Baechler of Goderich, Don Dearing of Exeter and George Tieman were the major winners in the pigeon class, , while J.B. Mills of Goderich, Barry Cleave of. R.R. 3, Bayfield, and George Tieman of Dashwood were the big winners in the bantam class, and Cliff Pepper of Dashwood, jack Mayhew of R.R. 3, Clinton and Ray Ducharme of R.R. 2, Bayfield were the winners in the standard poultry class. Dick Roorda of ,Brucefield .had the most points in the vegetable class, and took home the Cyanimid award, while Mrs. Freda Boa of Hensall took home a similar award for being second. Mrs. William Dolmage of Londesboro won the Steele -Briggs award for the best collection of garden herbs. In the fruit class, which was poorly enteigettl; Fred McClymont :was -the, major winner, taking home the Smith Repair Shop of Varna award for the best bushel of Gravensteins; and the Campbell's Men's Wear award for the most points in the section. In the baby show, the top baby in the ' Turn to page 3 • case"*nthe weekend wheri two area men were charged with several counts of break, enter and theft in connection with two incidents in Goderich last November. 'Constable Lorne Carter arrested Maurice Arian Verhulft, 18, of RR1 Varna and Peter Joseph May, 20,, formerly of the Brucefield area, in connection with tires and rims stolen from a new car at Hayter's on November i9 1977 and $850 in cash and stolen goods from the Sky Ranch Restaurant on the same night. Police had recovered the stolen goods the next day but didn't have enough proof to charge the pair until last week. No, Chief Lloyd Westlake of the Clinton Police Department isn't starting his own garden in. the police offices, he's just looking over a dozen pots growing marijuana seedlings siezed from two Clinton youths last week. The two were charged under the Narcotics Control Act. (News -Record photo) Enrolment drops 3% at Huron's schools With only two exceptions, enrolment at schools in the Clinton area is down slightly again this fall, - • • — Over all, Huron County's opening day school enrolments were down 2.8 per cent from last year. In total, there were 7,140 elementary school pupils present on Tuesday, down 101 from last year, while 4,514 students Grandstand to be dedicated Sat. This Saturday evening, 'September 9 promises to be a fun and festive one, as the town of Clinton teams up with the Legion Pipe Band and the Kinsmen to present an impressive ceremonial dedication of the new community grandstand. Now known as the Kinsmen gran- dstand the $250,000 structure will of- ficially become the Clinton Community Grandstand. This event comes at a time less than one year after official construction approval was given (on Nov. 25, 1977). Also, thanks to overwhelming community support' of various events, the original debt is nearly paid off, another cause for dedication at this time. The Legion Pipe Band will be on hand at 8 p.m. to pipe on the dignitaries. It will be their last piping engagement in Clinton before toey head for San Francisco September 22 to join the mass pipe band in the American Parade of Carnations. Officiating in the ceremonies will be MPPs Jack Riddell, Murray Gaunt, MP Bob McKinley, Mayor Harold Lobb and from the ministry of culture and recreation, Al Sinclair. Master of Ceremonies will be Bob Mann. This event has been in the planning stages since June, when the town council passed a motion to designate cs,)44, • ' r.: , , rt •,;••••,S, •t The Clinton arena Is a beehiVe 'OractiVity this Week as Construction has started - on the replacement of the floor to cost $1400066, Test holes were drilled on Thursday, bUtrib frost WAS tiitiad and contrakersittittOwell had staked to pteha;b);the, floor up on Ttitehi itoti;st. tii*alete$14,000) will be held between 18 and 22 ditittitt and siirroundirig. townshipvit g. (Newetord / the evening a Community Festival. Immediately following the dedication, an outdoor dance will be staged under and around the grandstand area. The tickets, which are modestly priced at only $2.50 per person are expected to draw a large crowd. That, coupled with the fact the band is fast becoming one of the most popular groups in the area, assures the organizers of an extremely successful event. Any proceeds from the evening will go toward diminishing the remaining debt. A hot midnight lunch of smoked sausage and Oktoberfest sausage and sauerkraut will be available. See notice on last page for further details. By Young Canada Works showed up at the five secondary schools. In the News -Record coverage area, only Hullett Central Public School and Central Huron Secondary School show increases in students. As of Tuesday night, 313 students were at Hullett, compared to 305 at the same time last year, while 972 had enrolled at CHSS, up from last year's 965. However, Gord Phillips, principal at CHSS, said he expects 40 or more students to show up before the end of September, bringing enrolment to the 1,015 mark. At Clinton Public School, enrolment was down five students to 411 from last year's 416, while Vanastra Public School lost four students, down to 131 from 135, in its second year of operation. Huron Centennial at Brucefield suffered the biggest loss - 22 students - down this year to 498 from 520 of last year, and Holmesville Public lost 10 students, down to 290 from the 300 registered opening day last year. There are 12 fewer students at St. Joseph's Separate School in Clinton when only 109' enrolled, compared to 121 last fall, while the Clinton Christian School reported 8 fewer students, down to 207 this year from 215 of last year. Turn to page :3 • Two Clinton projects funded R.E. (Bob) McKinley, MP (Huron - Middlesex) last week announced those projects from his constituency who received grants from the Young Canada Works Program approved by the Department of Employment and Immigration. The Huron Information and Multi - Service Centre of Clinton has received a grant for $28,392 to otganize an in- formation directory of community services and to provide a debt con - selling service. This grant will provide for three jobs. Also from Clinton, a grant was given to the recreation for special needs grohps. aThis project is funded with $19,110 and will enable them to start a program of aquatics and fitness not only for special needs groups, but other children in the area as well. This project will provide three jobs. The Huron Park Neighbourhood Resource Centre was funded with a grant of $28,392 and will provide three jobs for people in the area. This centre Will be established to run services and programs designed to meet the needs of all residents of the comMunity. " In Eitiyffeld, the Ever Young Senior CitiZetS Cittb Was awarded with a grant Of $6,279 td terieVate the 13ayfiela-Town Hall In Order to provide a year.round facility for the use of the Senior Club and other Organhations in Bayfield. This ptoloct will employ three people. • the, iVialtland Valley Conservation Authority has received a gragt for the amount of $10,465. This grant is for the proposed project called the technical watershed planning phase 2, which will expand on its maple syrup project and construct park equipment and bir- dhouses. In addition it will provide funding for five jobs. In Grand Bend, the Huron Country Playhouse will receive $6,279 for the dismantling and relocation of a historic chapel to serve as a museum and small gift shop. This project will provide three jobs. The final grant approved was for the South Huron and District Association for the Mentally Retarded of Dash- wood, who received $5,620 f6r the development and expansion of services offered in this area for the mentally • retarded. This project will employ three people. Weather 1978 1977 LO NI 10 AUGUST C C F F 29 23 14 78 62 30 24 12 75 50 31- 21 10. 82 57 SEPT: 1 24 3.5 81 66 2 28 12.5 The 60 3 23, 10 70 51 4 22.5 4 74 MI Rain 4.01 mm. Rain .46"