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by Shelley McPhee
It seems that some Clintonlans are
definitely not green thumb experts,
by the looks of the tree planters that
adorned the business area this
summer. •
According to a reptesentatvie of the
Clinton Horticultural Society the trees
are anything but beautiful.
"The trees started out fine this
sumrner but already 'they're dead,"
the horticultural delegation explained
at the Clinton Council meeting on
October 9.
"There's one good specimen, a few
are fair and the rest are not at all
beautiful," the delegation spokesman
told council.
-"We haven't been happy with the
look of the main street,' she added.
"Can't the council, the business
association and the horticultural
society get together and do
something."
"Perhaps the Public Works
department could water the trees, as
they do the hanging pots, in future
years. Those trees need a lot of water
and some business people may not
stuck in
the middle
know that," the spokesman ex-
plained.
When the tree planters were first
situated on Albert Street earlier this
year (they were donated to the town
five years ago by the Kinettes and the
Business Association) it was agreed
that the merchants on the • street
would look after the watering and
ge-,eral care of the young trees and
flowers.
"No flowers look worse than dead
flowers," she stressed. "We wonder if
we should sell our planters at our
spring auction rather than set them
out again."
Deputy Reeve Ernie Brown was
agreeable to the suggestion that the
Public Works Department water the
trees and he noted, "Someone has to
take a hold of that tree business and
see that it's done."
Bob Campbell, member of the
town's business association who was
also present at the meeting added,
"We too are perturbed about the
trees."
Councillor Frank Van Altena
suggested that imitation flowers and
Rules are meant to be broken,
and things are meant to be changed
if they are unsatisfactory.
This radical brainwave hit me
last week while I was treating my
tastebuds to a dinner of Chinese
food.
I felt guilty at the time, eyeing
each morsel of food before I bit into
it, wondering how many calories
that little shrimp contained or how
many_ bean sprouts I could eat
before my intake would be con-
demned as "FATTENING." .1
"Arrggghhh," ' I disgustingly.
thOught, "I can't stand this dieting
one minute longer."
With a -vigourous chomp on my
egg roll my revolutionary plan
began to take hold.
"This dieting is nuts. I'm sick of
thinking about it," I declared as I
vehemently doused plum sauce on
my food.
"Why do I have to be skinny. Who
made up these rules," I wailed
desperately.
My rebellion was enforced when
I remembered reading about a
beauty pagent in Israel for "full"
girls, from 154 to 207 pounds. (Just
for the record, I don't come 'into
that weight category).
_
The principle behind the pageant
is a worthwhile one. The con-
testants and organizors of the first
pageant said that their kind of
beauty has been out of style too
long and in the world today there is
a stigma attached to being fat.
For hundreds of years, , full
women were considered to be
beautiful - just look at the pain-
tings of the masters - but now they
have a bad image because of
fashion. To be beautiful today you
must look gaunt and underfed. In
fact, some. beauty conscious
women today have actually gone
underfed to be stylish. Some have
even died for this!
"Well I'm not going for that. I'll
stick with Jane Russell and the 'full
figured girl' idea," I thought.
And so, while I greedily devoured
the food on the table, something
like a junkie getting a desperately
needed fix, I planned my
retaliation.
"I shall be the crusader for the
cause. I will change the attitudes of
women and create a happier more
genuiune environment females," I
stated.
"No longer will women have to
succumb to the wolf -eyed stares of
men. No longer will we have to.
force ourselves into skin-tight
fashions or be faced with serious
states of depression after a bout in
the ladies' clothing department," I
, schemed.
"I'll get everyone to ban the
"word calorie."
The answer came easily and
logically. It's a simple solution.
Just throw away your calorie
counters. Scratch out The Word in
you dictionaries and enjoy eating
your favorite foods, without a
guilty conscious. Just pretend the
word never existed.
Who invented it anyway?
Probably some bored
mathematical genius was sitting
down to lunch one day and said to
his forkful of mashed potatoes,
"You should have a number."
"I will call you 307' he stated as
he placed the vegetable i his
mouth. "And you," hevsaid to his
next forkful, "shall also be a 30 and
to make my invention more
complex, I'll also add another 15
for the bit of butter you have.
Therefore when I swallow, I will
have taken in 30 units from the first
mouthful and 45 units in the second,
for a total of 75."
The lunchtime game turned into
a major project for the genius and
from his original brainwave, he
numbered every food he ate.
When presented to the public,
some other genius took this concept
a step further and developed a plan
where each human body should
take in a maximum of these calorie
units a day.
"What a ridiculous idea they
had," I thought as I continued to
chomp on my sweet almond cookie
despite the uncomfortable feeling
that was developing in my
stomach.
"Oh, am I stuffed," I later ad-
mitted to my dinner companions.
"My pants are too tight I
wailed, "I'll never eat like that
again. In fact I think I'll fast
tomorrow."
rt
it told
trees may be a worthwhile con-
sideration. HO felt that these would
take less effort, maintenance, cost
and care.
Councillor Ron McKay disagr
with CounFillor Van Altena's
suggestion saying, "I'd hate to see
this program stopped.
Whether Clinton will have artificial
flowers, real flowers or no flowers at
all next summer will be decided in the
near future when the council,
usiness association and the hor-
ti ulture society meet to decide
w ether there is some future hope for
gre urnb'ers in Clinton. -
Tuckersmith agrees to...
• from po'ge 1
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Works grant•to provide recreation for
special needs. Three persons were.
hired for nine months to provide a
specialized program of aquatics and
fitness for individuals who are unable
to fit into a regular aquatic and fitness
program. Clientele includes mentally
handicapped, senior citizens, ar-
thritics, stroke patients or persons
with any other disability.
He read that one condition to
receiving the grant was that the
centre be renovated to accommodate
physically handicapped persons who
would be involved in the program. He
explained in detail that to do these
renovations and not inconvenience
people now using the facility, it would
be necessary to build an addition.
He outlined the grants expected,
which it is hoped will cover 78 percent
of the building costs, with another 11
percent to be raised through public
subscription to match the Wintario
grants. He said to date these grants
have not been given final approval.
Architect Brian Garratt, hired to
draw up plans for the addition, at-
tended the meeting and opened the
tenders submitted for the con-
struction work. It was pointed out that
council has 60 days to consider the
tenders before accepting one or
rejecting all. •
The lowest tender submitted was
from Refflinghaus Construction of
Goderich for $227,480 with work to
•,,start November 1 and finish April
1980.
The other three tenders : Kelly -Lyn
Construction, London $256,456; Genan
Construction of Waterloo $259,151;
and Whitney Construction of Stratford
$263,647.
Mr. Garratt revealed that the
Refflinghaus tender was about $30,000
below estimated cost.
Council gave him authorization to
study the tenders and bring in a
recommendation to Council as to the
tender giving the best chances for the
most funding.
If the construction is carried out,
the architect's fee will be eight per-
cent of the cost and this will increase
the final total cost. In addition to his
petition for the ratepayers' meeting,'
Lloyd Eisler questioned council about
the deficit incurred each year by the
Vanastra Day Care Centre: He asked
why the day care had to pay a big rent
of $700 monthly to the recreation
centre. He was told by the clerk it was
to cover heating, hydro and water
costs._
1-fe" hlTe-nTs-Ti•Yrirth e
use of several day care rooms by
various groups, renting the- space
through the recreation director, did
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not go to the day care centre to help
cut down its deficits. He was told the
rent from one of the rooms used (the
kitchen) did go to he ,4ay care to
reduce its rent, but that it was better
to have the day care with a deficit
than the recreation centre. The
reason given for this was because the
day care was funded 80 percent by the
government and the recreation centre
was not.
Falconer explained: "If you go the
other route you put all the expenses on
the people of Vanastra."
The recreation complex at
Vanastra -- housing the recreation
centre and the day care centre in one
building, and the curling rink in
another building are all owned by the
residents of Vanastra and all debts
against it must be paid by the
residents. Hence the concern of the
businessmen of Vanastra who held a
meeting recently objecting to the
addition to the recreation centre. The
residents already owe $119,000 and
they don't want that debt increased.
The residents of the rest of the
township are opposed because council
had said it would like to see the debt
spread among all the residents of the
township and not just the residents of
Vanastra.
Tuckersmith township council as a
whole manages the recreation centre.
Following the meeting, this press
representative was given a press
release from the ratepayers who had
attended the meeting, announcing "A
public meeting for Tuckersmith
township ratepayers will be held at
Heather Gardens at Vanastra on
Thursday, October 18 at 8 p.m. For or
Against. Tuckersmith ratepayers
organized to oppose council -- on
council's decision on proposed new
addition to Vanastra Recreation
Centre to block increasing taxes -- A
petition will be circulating."
One resident from Vanastra stated,
"We don't want the addition, council
is jamming it down our throats.
Tuckersmith township council at a
meeting Tuesday voted to appeal the
new equalization factors for taxing
purposes as established by the
Ontario government. Appeals must be
registered by November 1.
A tile drain loan application for
$15,000 was approved by council and
the building inspector for the town-
ship, Herman Van Wieren of Hensall,
will attend an Ontario Association of
Properties Standards officers in
London on October 29.
New regulations for dog licensing.
and -livestock-poultry protection act
were sent to council by the ministry of
agriculture and food:
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