HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-02-15, Page 3Melizza Geiger had to leave her sewing machine And crocheting idle on Sunday
afternoon and instead pick out a party dress: Mrs. Geiger's family joined
together at the Orahge Hall in Clinton for a pot luck supper to celebrate her
90th birthday. (News-Record,photo)
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1979—PAGE 3
People in Profile: Meliiza's 90 but still active
by Shelley McPhee
She vowed to give the News -Record
"heck" if there was too much written
about her, but really a 90th birthday
can't be bypassed with .out some at-
tention.
Melizza Geiger was 90 years young
on February 9, but to her, it's no great
milestone.
"I never thought I'd get so old," she
laughed. "But you know, I don't feel
any older than I used to."
This sprightly lady wears her age
well and although she has difficulty
walking, her wit and enjoyment of life
overcome this problem.
Mrs. Geiger, who lives with her
daughter and son-in-law, Jack add
Romayne McClinchey on Fredrick
Street in Clinton, finds that the days
are just not long enough for her.
"Everyone's busy and sometimes
I've got nothing to do. I could go all the
time."
She spends her days crocheting,
knitting and sewing shirts for her
children, nine grandchildren and 17
great-grandchildren.
As well, Mrs. Geiger has enjoyed
making a countless number of quilts
for her family. Each stitch of all her
work is done with care.
"It's better to be fussy than not fussy
enough," she said.
Mrs. Geiger also looks forward to her
Vanastra won't raise rent...
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day care centre board chairman)
refused to go along with the motion,
resulting in a tie, which called for the
reeve to decide the result. He voted for
the motion to hold the rent the same
after stating, "You're putting a lot of
weight on my shoulders." To which
Falconer replied, "Well, you're going
to earn that extra five dollars,"
referring to the increase in allowance
approved earlier in the meeting for the
reeve.
The controversy over the -request for
the rent increase... -arose because
Councillor Brown was unhappy, -that the
ratepayers of Tuckersmith had to pay
the day care deficit of $6,000 for 1978
and heis trying to make sure the deficit
is not increased in 1979 but decreased
or eliminated.
Mr. Brown assured council he was
not in favour of closing down the Day
Care Centre but "it should pay its own
way. I know it is a good school but I
object to children going there free," he
' said, referring to two children of a
single parent in ,attendance at the
OPP warn trucker
school from a community outside
Tuckersmith. The mother is unable to
afford the daily fee of $6.00 for each
child and the municipality, in which
she lives, has refused to pick up the 20
percent share of the deficit for the
child. The provincial government does
pay 80 percent of the deficit. This
leaves the residents of Tuckersmith
paying the 20 percent.
"It's a service to the community"
stated Reeve Sillery.
One councillor suggested that no
municipality would:.want to pick up its
20 percent share of the deficit for each
child if some municipalities get by
without paying.
"The municipalities do it on their
honor," Deputy peeve Bell said.
Council agreed to send out requests
again to the two municipalities who do
not pay their 20 percent --Clinton and
Bayfield.
"With new councils this year they
might have a new line of thought,"
stated the reeve.
Council agreed with Councillor
Falconer who said, "I think it would be
Watch for snowblowers
Goderich OPP Constable Bill Wilson
warns drivers to slow down when the
MTC snowblowers are cleaning off the
highways.
"Generally, the blower will stop
when traffic's coming. It's their
policy," he noted.
This reminder came after a
February 10 accident on Highway 8
south of the Benmiller-Holmesville
Corner that involved two vehicles and a
snowblower.
George Heard, 52, of RR3 Bayfield
was;" operating the blower along the
highway, blowing snow across the
road, when a van driven by Earnest W.
Read, 48, of Clarkson entered the
whiteout. A second -car driven by
Harold Lloyd Wilton, 58, London was
following behind, also entered the
blowing snow and collided with the rear
of the Read vehicle.
Damage to the Wilton stationwagon
was set at $300 and $125 to the Read
van. The $58,000 snowblower was not
damaged.
Dorothy Govier, 31, RR5 Clinton was
sent to Clinton hospital overnight on
February 9 after the car she was
driving on Highway. 4 south of Clinton
veered into the west ditch and struck a
mailbox.
Two other passengers in the car were
uninjured and the car was not
damaged. Damages to the mailbox
were $20.
Icy roads resulted in a February 9
accident on Highway 8 west of the
Hullett Township Road 15-16.
A car driven by Freida Smith, 56 of
RR5 Clinton and a cab of a tractor
trailer driven by Kenneth A. Price, 28,
of Mississauga were both westbound on
Highway 8. The Price vehicle at-
tempted to pass the Smith car, but due
to oncoming traffic he tried to pull back
in. He hit an ice patch and collided with
the Smith car.
No one was injured but damage to the
Smith car was set at $1,000 and $200 to
the cab.
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poor public relations for its to ask Ash-
field to pay for the one child from that
township when the mother is one of our
employees." (The employee is Diane
Durnin, recreation manager.) Ashfield
has never been billed.
Referring to the rent problem bet-
ween the day care and recreation,
Deputy reeve Bell asked, "Who is
subsidized more?"
Clerk McLachlan replied, "There is
no doubt --the day care receives more."
Reeve Sillery said that when the day
care can get an 80 percent provincial
grant to help pay the costs, it all comes
hack to help the community. (Any
deficit' at the recreation centre must be
picked up by the residents of
Vanastra.)
stuck in
the middle
visits at the seniors Day Care at
Huronview but she doesn't attempt to
go out in the winter.
"If I get in a snowbank, I can't get
out," she laughed.
Her days are also spent watching
some television and she particularly
likes any musical shows, like Tommy
Hunter and the Sunday morning church
services.
"A lotpof programs should be off the
TV," she protested, "they're not fit for
kids or me. It's not like it was in the old
days. If I had to see those programs
back then it would have made me
sick."
But really, Mrs. Geiger hasn't seen
that many changes during her lifetime.
She philosophized, "It's not really
any better. They think they do it better
today but we had it alright too."
Mrs. Geiger was born in the Zurich
area and her parents were Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin- Pfile. Later she
married Roland Geiger and the couple
farmed and raised three children,
Clare of RR 2, Zurich, Romayne of
Clinton and Delbert, who died.
"I don't want to expect too much
from my kids," she noted.
She went on, "Don't ever give up
your own before you're done. I mean,
what did they do before they had these
nursing homes?"
Mrs. Geiger has enjoyed the past 89
On this basis, council members,
except for Mr. Brown, consider it
better to have the recreation centre in
good financial condition, rather than
day care.
Mr. Brown said he was more in-'
terested in reducing the $6,000 deficit
that must be paid by all Tuckersmith
residents. He said he was against the
rec. centre wanting to use the day care
and paying nothing. He said in a lot of
people's eyes the day care is "a damn
expensive baby sitting thing."
Councillor Falconer seconded the
Brown motion, to keep the rent the
same, saying he felt the council should
not turn down the day care centre
board recommendation. (He was a
"member of the board in 1978.)
More on the great Russian cures buy herbs. Could it be they're more
for what ails you. Sorry readers, I interested in the vodka though?
However, the medicinal herbs cost
$30 and up, depending on your
ailment and some people have paid
up to $750 for the plant parts. It's no
wonder she can live in a large
houseon a private lot said to he the
size of a football field. The house is
surrounded by a half- block of
buildings including a garage and
storehouses.
Even more suspiciously, police
records show that Elena has been
convicted several times in the past
for "illegal doctoring."
The . Soviet's Medical Gazette
refuses to say the vodka -and -herb
concoctions really worked. But even
if they didn't permanently cure the
illness you can be pretty sure that
the patients felt no pain for awhile!
don't know how I keep finding these
odd remedies, but like the
gooseberry youth elixir I last wrote
about, this other Soviet. "medical"
prescription is a real* doozey, or
should I say boozey.
You see, it seems that a woman
from the Siberian town of Irkutsk,
wherever that might be, can cure
any ailment with a few herbs.
.Sounds reasonable, right, but the
actual magic ingredient in Elena
Vasilyevna's potions is vodka, three
bottles of the stuff.
What else would the Russians
drink? But, really there is some
stipulation behind this prescription,
it must be used before eating.
It is said that great lines of people
stand outside her mansion waiting to
Tommorrow night, Friday Feb. 16, At 8:30 p.m. at
the Clinton Arena. Come out and support your Jr.
"C" Mustangs in their first playoff gamel
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at the arena.
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Mustangs
• on your
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years and says if -she had a chance to
relive her life again, she'd do ° all the
same things.
"I was never scared to get old. It's
not that bad. It's alright as long as you
have things to do. Some people
don't get bored," she commented.
It's doubtful that this active lady
could ever be bored. In fact for the last
two weeks life with her family has been
rather hectic with plans being made to
celebrate her birth"day.
Getting her hair done, picking out a
dress and getting ready for a party and
pot luck supper had to be repeated
twice as her first Sunday party was
capcelled because of the weather.
However, last Sunday her family all
gathered at the Orange Hall in Clinton
to celebrate.
Mrs. Geiger could not let her bir-
thday pas, without a comment, "You
know, they have such big birthday
cards now. I guess they just want to get
more money out of you."
e levels to stay up
All of the Great Lakes
with the exception of
Lake Superior will
continue to be above their
long-term average levels
during 1979, although
Lake Erie is expected to
be about five centimetres
(two inches) lower at the
end of July compared
with the same period last
year.
An advisory issued by
the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers says the level
of Lake Huron at the end
of July should be about 10
centimetres, or four
inches, higher than a
year ago. For the same
period Lake St. Clair is
expected to be 2.5 cen-
timetres pr an inch
higher, and Lake Ontario
at about the same level as
last year, although
slightly above its long-
term average.
At the end of January
the elevation of ' Lake
Huron, ,was about 2.5
centimhetres higher than a
year ago, or about 18
centimetres above the
long-term average, but 45
centimetres below the all-
time monthly mean high
for January, set in 1973.
Lake Erie's level at the
end of January was about
25 centimetres, or 10
inches, below what it was
a year ago and five
.centimetres lower than in
December. Erie begins
its seasonal rise this
month.
Has best boar
Wm. J. Turnbull,
Brussels had the highest
indexing Yorkshire boar
in the • group which
recently completed test
at the Ontario R.O.P.
Test Station, New
Hamburg. This top in-
dexing Yorkshire Test
Station graduate had an
index of 142 which
combined very low back -
fat thickness of 10.7 mm
(.42") , average daily'
gain on test of .87 Kg (1.88
pounds) per day and feed
conversion of 2.5.
Top indexing boars in
the entire group of 104
boars was a Duroc from
the herd of Andy
Schertzer, Tecumseh
with an index of 150 and a
pair of littermate Lan-
drace boars from George
and Barbara Taylor,
Princeton with indexes of
149 and 143.
Also among the top
eight boars was a
Hampshire from Dan
Lester, Forest.
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