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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... • from page 1 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. 1_ A._ - 4,44111u110111 1 x;11 �!�' _ 1� ■r apt lrriptiiUIU UIIIl'IIUU i, -torn - -- - « "-E 15 ua: L.. L.1, uff �'Lw U 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 CPEST. TOOTHPASTE Como on out for the Junior "C" Mustang's HOSPITALITY NIGHT - Saturday, February 17 at the arena. Congratulations to the Mustangs • on your Second -place finish In the league. HEAD & SHOULDERS LOTION SHAMPOQ, 300 m1. EFFERDENT DENTURE CLEANING TABLETS 48's 482-3924 _482-3925 OPEN: Sunday -Thursday 11 a.m. • 12 midnight Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. TRIANGLE 'aD U N ..s i10 38 The Squaw*, GODERICH/Main Corner, CL NTON/Main Corner, SEAFORTH ""OUT OF THIS WbRLD SAVINGS RIGHT IN OUR OWN NEIGHBOURHOOD" 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. THE BASE FACTORY OUTLET "The Store That Saves You More" We have lust received a truckload of ASSORTED FABRICS our large purchase of these fabrics allows us to pass out- standing savings to you the consumer... YOUR CHOICE METRE - for Now Available! kW1K-SEW PATTERNS These patterns were developed to make sewing easier and faster - but you are still able to make a professional looking gar- ment, whether you have sown for years, or are Fust a beginner. 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