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Dear Edtt9ri
Bylaw .,.,No, X40' : of Tuckersmith,
Townslii'p: pertaining to the debenture
e
for • the .recreation centra. dated `
November 19, 1974; states in part' ---
"A s ,.ee,.a ate SUifieie. Jjo arse
over and` above all other rates, upon
all. a the rateable, proper ty in the
municipality at --the same time anj: in ..
. the same manner as ether.rates,....
This to me Means -that all the
rateable ;properties in Tnckersmlth h
township were'. to pay for the.
debenture and not just poor Vanastra,
,But to date, only Vanastra has. beeni4
forced to pay the full shot.`
To date Vanastra has had to S1e11
out some $74,849,00 which sh'oul1 have
been spread.over the Whole Township.'
There are approximately 200 >ratelale .,.
properties. in_. Vanastraand about
properties in the
. township, ^o $74,840 divided_ by 2Q0 is.
$374.20,, and divided by 1,200 is'$6a.36 ---
The' $92.36 is what Vanastra should
have paid (each rateable property)..
In other words, each. Vanastra
taxpayer has been,, overcharged.3 :.
L ' $311.4; multiply this by 1'00'pro1Sei,^ties
and the grand total is a $62, ,8.00
overcharge. It just, so happ
the treasury had about that a + - ntto
staCtr:the proposed new addition •I feel
• that the township must rebat to •
Vanastra immediately to each
rateable property $311.$4.
The total amount payable*for 1980 is
-------r----$-15,310. divided by .1,200 rateable
properties in,th 'municipality.would
be $12.75' Per property instead of the.
shafting given to Vanastra of $76,55._
In other words, $12.75 should be added
to all rateable properties of the
municipality plus'•a further $62.37 to
each of the other.- (other—than
(Vanastra) rateable properties of the
municipality. The ,$62.37 would be to .
recover • the $311.84 overcharge to
•Nims: ra =oritrpa br be'ta's f'r"eb
due to Vanastra rateable properties.
Vanastra has been carrying the.
township long enough.
Charles Mazmanian,
\anas>Gra
q'The recent announcement that dur
Member of 'Parliarient for the past 15
years, R.E. McKinley, br Bob as he
was known to his many party.faithful,
•
friendsand • constituents alike, is
retiring ,as taken many of us by
surprise.
a Bob. had given no indicationat h
would step down, itut he has served
-his constituents in the federal riding
of Huron -Bruce long and well,. and
certainLy deserves his long-awaited
vacation. He had a rare combination
of personality traits that made him a
dedited riding man, and an ex-
cellent party man who gained
friendship and respect not only from
:own Progressive Conservatives,
but also from the other parties.
Bob has had some, tough jobs to fill -
during his rewarding 'tenure as our
representative - in- •Otta-wa, -- and in a -
country as large as Canada, and just
• as diverse, that's no easy task. ,Few
people -realize the almost. unhuman
:- -• :demands put on an -MP. He must try
and do the best job he can for his
constituents, while at the sante time
juggle his parliamentary respon-
sibilities. It's a task' few of us would
even attempt. r
• .Over the years, Bob was highly
accessible, and there was no problem
he wouldn't try to solve for any—
.
,_ constituent_even if they were a known
member of the opposite party.
Although Bob would never admit it
publicly, we can guess that one of his
reasons for stepping downwas his
disappointment at not getting any
position at all in the Clark govern-
ment, despite holding down the party
whip's p&sition for innay year's. He
stuck w,ith.. the party during the
Trudeaumani'a craze that swept the
nation in the late sixties, and the
political back stabbing and infighting
that characterized the Tory party
until the•lat'e'seventies.
On behalf of all, those here in' the
central Huron County area- who you
served so (veil, Bob, thanks, and may
all yi r 'future ``sessions" be) happy
ones. y J.F.
"Next time find out if your barber is a Conservative, before you begin .admoutliing
Joe •Clark: y, fa
5 YEARS AGO
- January 2, 1975
The OPP. are, warning area banks and'
stores to be on the lookout for stolen old- '
-al-6 pensio
p n cheques and money orders
that were stolen from the Brucefield Post
Office on Christmas night..
The, OP.P said that no old -age pension
cheqes , hearing" -a Brucefield adress
should be cashed unless Me person can be
positively -identified.
Stolen from the post gffice was 40 pen-
sion cheques, 88 money orders and a small
quantity of cash. The mortey'or'rier writing
machine and the plate were also stolen. On.
the 'same night,the Dungannon Post Office
was also entered and over $400 stolen.
Clihton's Centennial Celebrations of-
ficially started- 'last Saturday; as
registration for the beard growing contest
openedat The four, local barber shops. In
order td^ qualify for the contest, entrants
must be certified clean-shaven by the
barbers. --
10 YEAR�S AGO -
Januaryt'I, 1970
Ninety-two skaters from -14 Western
Onthrio clubs participated in the second
annual 'inter -dub . competition at Clinton
last Sunday. Last year there were only 26
entrafits.: °
sugar • or;dspice
--
Season's greetings
Owing to the exigencies of the
Canadian winter, the decrepitude of
the Canadian postal service, which
can't handle the snail in the height of
-summer, let alone the Christmas
rusk, and various other factors, too
miscellaneous to mention, this may
not reach you until after the holiday,
when all you have left of Christmas is
the , colors, a ..-red "nose and a little
green around the gills.
Howsomever, (and. I do this only
about every 12 years,I am going to
extend that hoary old cliche of the
20th century, "A Merry , Christmas
and a Happy, New Year", to the a whole
world.
-- First, to the editor's arrd0publishers
who have -stuck by__me for more than..
,.,.25 years; every when this column was
_puerile, pernicious, petty, or political
(on ,what they, thought was the wrong
side).
Bless you, chaps and gals, for
allowing me, intothe homes of so
many. Canadians. We're I writing for
only one paper, I would be in a fury of
frustration that these Great Thoughts
of 'mine were',being read by only a
paltry couple of thousand,
Second, and more important, to my
faithful readers, who scold me, ad-
monish me, weep for me, pray for me,
and laugh with me, as we proceed
-together through this vale of tears.
And third, to my wife, whp has born
the slings and arrows of outrageous
Bill Smiley far longer than she cares
to think about, and with remarkable
equanimity. She has never responded
in kind when I was less than kind to
her, and 'through her; , = all women.
Oh, she has respon••' . Yes, she has
responded. And I have.a broken nose,
and a lump ower My -right ear, where
shoe hit me with a plate of roast beef,
potatoes and gravy, from a distance
of eight feet, some years ago. Ah,
those great old days: when you could
sling roast beef ' around. Today it
would be•a plasticpfate and hamburg,
and -I wouldn't' evert have a lump..._
Finally, to my children and gran="
dchildren." Just •by being so rotten,
theyhave.provided me with --acres of
material
for this solumn, and brought
me into touch with hundreds of
parents of, equally rotten kids.
Last, and -absolutely last, to- the
members of my English department.
rememb
our p. s f
• Tuckers th Township council received
the approval of the Ontario Municipal
Boardtissue $50,000 in debentures for the
Tuckersrnith Telephone System. This
money will cover the cost of additional
cable apd switching facilities.
ThUnton PUC is one of several in
western Ontario sharing the London PUC's
elect -alio, equipment. Starting this month,
Clinton residents will receive a single
punch -out cardbill in place of the -separate
green" (hydro)-_ and '_white (sewer and
water) bills with the handwritten data.
The whining noise of the snowmobile is
•heard on the Bayfield Line, scarfing de6r
and rabbits and women drivers into a state
of alarm.
Separate, school teachers must retire at
the age ,65 under terms of a policy set, by
the Huron -Perth Separate School Board at
a meeting on December 19,
A longtime resident of Tuckersmith and
Hull'ett was 90 years old on Christmas Day.
James Carter was born in McKillop on'
December 25, 1879, the son of the late John
Carter andAargaret Dodds.
Mr. Carter has two sons Lorne and
James, eight grandchildren and eight
great grandeihi1dren and three sisters,
Mrs. Margaret Dale, Mrs. Lily McKellar.
You notice I said "my". I don't own it.
I ,merely -serve as_ surrogate uncle,
father .. figure, psychiatrist, and
wailing wall for the odd assortment of
•human beansin oitr department.
But they stand by me: - like reeds in
the wind; like twigs in an ice storm;
4tike snow in'a March sun. And they
also stand behind me - well behind,
when someone is after my scalp. But I
depend on them. To slander me; to
mock my partial plate and hoary hair.
I. think that covers afairassortment
of the people.I want to say M.C. and a
H.N.Y. to. Except for all- my friends,
and they both know who they are.
Now, I don't wish to be anything
less than benign on this occasion. But
it may be more ,of a .hairy Christmas
and ' a crappy New Year than the
• other, if what, Our new Tory gover-
nment has produced so. fat is any
indication of our future.
Not another word. I'll get to that in
.thenew year. Mustn't spoil• this jovial.
,mood I've built up. '
Must ,stick' to Christmas. Well,
there've been some, dandies and some
stinkers. Like most people, the
stinkers are -the ones I remember.
One _was - when ° my mother had
prepared a great Christmas dinner,
for about five o'clock, working from 6
a.m. My older brother and sister went
off skiing with a• friend, My kid
brother and I went off to the special
' -Christmas m'atinee. We'd.' all
promised to be home by four. ,We all
got home about six, the dinner ruined.
A modern mother would have bawled
the daylights out of us. My mother
just looked so hurt it,hurt my heart.
Another . was when my 'total loot
under the Christmas tree was one suit
of long underwear, with the back -flap.
That wasn't so bad.' We knew there
was a depression on; whatever that....
was. But going out and meeting the
_other kids, some of whose fathers
were working, and exchanging,
'"Whadja .get?", was' painful. How do
you describe to, a guy who has -just got*
a pair of sakes the joy, o.xeceiving
longjo ns? " "
Rut there have" been some great
phristmases .too, and they linger.
Decorating' the tree with tiny - kids
looking on. Then ,going out to a
Christmas` Eve party, (the most
stupid social occasion in.. -our calen-
dar), arriving home at 4 a.m., doing..
"up the kids' stockings and hanging
them up, and getting one hour's sleep:
bore tiny hands arep'luckiing at.your
hair, eyes, nose and treble' voices,
"Daddy, get up. We want to ,see what:.
Santa Claus 'brought." Oy veh! -
---- Another great, Christmas, strangely
enough, was 'in prison camp. We had
saved for months .the choice- items
from our rapidly diminishing Red
Cross parcels. From the graham
crackers, chocolate, powdered milk
and other stuff,. we'd made -a magnificient Christmas cake. --
From the prunes and sugar, we'd
made - a potent Christmas brew,
enough•for about a quart each. Dinner
began with hors d'oeuvres, a piece of
cheese the size of dime on a piece' of
sour German bread' the size of a
quarter, Then the entree.' Canned
saltivon and smashed spuds. Then the -
coup de grace, the cake, like lead but
full of calories. And all washed down
a look through
the news -record files
and - Mrs. 'Gladys Flynn -and a brother
John.
25 YEARS AGO
January 6, '0.55.. •...
most keenly contestedmunicipal election
-
seen in Clinton- for years.- The interest '
chiefly centered on the ,question of Local
Option which was defeated by the unex-
,A five -pound babygirl born on. New • pectedly large majority of 147. 'The
Year's Day afternoon at 2:03._ o'clock in' Temperance party expected to win out and
Clinton Public Hospital .was this district's were much' disappointed at the result
first baby of 1955. The proud parents are,,....,....whicb' will be far reaching in its effects.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hill ofRR'1,'Brucefield. Had the bylaw carried it- would have
Dr. J.A. Addison was the attending "heartened 'the cause- in other':
physician: _ municipalities, but this -setback.will make
Mi -s. Harry Ball was • re-elected the fighting still More uphill,
president of the Women's Hospital - • . 100 YEARS AGO
Auxiliary at the annual meeting. January -1,1880 - ' •
The Polish National Union of Canada, The town constable reports that business
Clinton Branch No: 14, held a meeting on in his particular line is exceedingly dull.
December 18 in ,,the Londesboro Corn- The festive stzhbol boy now wiles away
munity Hall,when officers for 1955 were the weery hours banging on the farmers'.
appointed. sleighs. They tvill hang oh, no.matter how ;,
The.Christmas Spirit, which has been so much they are cautioned. '
evident in Bayfield, was slightly dam- Christmas Eve revealed a busy scene in
pened at the New Year .by some petty_ .} towo 4, - T -h e stores were brilliantly
thieving. About five of the colored lights,..::::T'.1"ummated- during the evening, that of
--were removed:, from the .Christmas tree W.H.. •Ransford being .decorated with �.
outside the telephone office .A visitor was. Chinese • lanterns ;and .Harland
`seen removing `these bulbs ' (Do they not • having a transparency on which were the
have these Lights in ,large. cities, we words "A Merry Christmas" while per -
Wonder, that he couldn't have pufchased sons of all classes and a es hurried hither
some? Or-rs.it simply that this.lad wished..
and thither; the majority burdened with
to upset anything traditional here?) A's - parcels •and articles "too numerous to
we've remarked before in this column, we mention."' 4' . -
.are glad to welcome visitors to Bayfield, ' A man named Jas. Watson, who had
but we do ntft welcome vandalism.. been in the employ of Mr ......,Young of
-- 50-YEARS,.G0 ' Colborne, was arrested at Londesboro last
January 2,.'1930 Thursday, on a charge of carrying away a
On Monday, ratepayers of Stanley r suit of clothes belonging to his employer. It
Township assembled in the township hall seems•that the suit had been lent him for
r is it the splendid interest taken in On Wednesday last, a man calling
municipal affairs: himself W.H. Taylor appeared in town for
The work of the past year seemed to be the purpose of exhibiting a headless
.very satisfactorily done and very little rooster. The authorities very properly put
• criticism of any kind was made. "The a damper on the- intended exhibition by•
crooked places made straight and .the,
summoning him 'to appear before the,
rough places made smooth." magistrate, for cruelty to animals, for
Mrs• Fred - Wakefield of Constance, which he was fined $3 and costs, amoun-
received a Christmas box on ' Christmas, ting in all to $7.- It is a shameful outrage
Day in the shape of a real, old, English that anyone is permitted to go about the
Christmas pudding and cake, sent all the country with such. an exhibition as this°
tray by friends in the old land. Part of the rooster's head is cut off and it
On Christmas Day; one ofHolmesville's kept _alive for some time be being fed
most venerable citizens passed another through the gullet. .
milestone in life's journey, when Mr. A.J.
C'ourtice completed his 8-1-st year. Mr. -
Courtice is still hale and hearty and enjoys 4
life and social intercourse with his friends.
Many -kind remembrances were sent him
on his birthday, including a testament sent
from Bethlehem by his son-in-law.
a
75 YEARS AGO
January 5, 1905'
with a wine that was neither-••red'ii„or ••�_ Mr. A. Hooper showed the News -Record
white,- but sort of mud -colored. A ----last week a unique present he had received
memorable evening. -w
Enough. Enough. Think back about
your dandies and your stinkers, an -d
make this the best holiday season
you've ever had, with a sober thought
about the reason for it all, and what it
means to you.
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from the Manufacturer's Life Insurance
' Company•.' it being a perpetu-al-•lir
everlasting calendar.- In the- calendar
there was also a neat clock, the, whole
being handsomely gotten up, a present to
he appreciated'. .
Though there was little outward
cy idence of it, Monday's, election was the
odds'n'ends
ANew ar?_.
In preparation for my 1980 New
Year's column, I dug out the first New
Year's column I wrote - January 1976.
I didn't. list' any personal resolutions:
instead --I reminisced about the past
ear, 1175, ands wondered what 1976
ould bring for Canada.
Reading the ciolumn brought back
some- memories, and surprisingly, I
realized things haven't changed a
great deal. '
The non-smoking' campaign was
becomi-ng increasingly verbal and
active in 1975.
Winning the $1,000,000 Olympic
lottery was the ultimate ;goal..'of
almost every Canadian: Winning the
$100,000 Wintario draw was second,
Now we have an array of.• lotter y
tickets on which to spend our money,
and I'm still wondering, if everyone is
as broke as, they claim they are, how
can they .afford to feed the gambling
fever of lotteries,
• Canadians, .across the land were
afr
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Gettingfitter
Getting
Dear Editor:
In the last decade, PAR-
TICIPactfon, and the Canadian media
worked hand and hand to solve an
almost impossible task; that is, to
make Canadians, who couldn't •have.
cared . less,- aware of, the benefits of
being fit,
Between us,we succeeded in
reaching -more thane SO -percent of the
population, according to recent
market research. Canadians are now
aware of, and "intellectually eom
mited" to, PARTICIPaction's goal of
making Canada. a fit nation.
As we- move into the 80's, a new -
challenge_ awaits us. We must con-
vince this 80 percent to get up- and get
moving:! While admittedly a more
-di-if-feu-It-task, -with your -support -we
feel confident -we can -succeed.
We are convinced that the past'
support of newspapers in Canada has
been invaluable; without it, our task
would .have been impossible. In the
future, 'we will strive to provide you
with fresh creative on a, regular basis
in the hope that together we WILL get
Canada moving!
o
Cordially,
Denise Fortier
Media Communications
Volunteers .did: terrific job
Dear Editor: •"s`upplem'ent,food and gift allowances
Family and Children's Services as well as assist with outstanding
would like to take this opportunity to __ - invokes' incurred bydepots to sup-
plernent articles not available.
A special thank you to our Goderich
Cel -ordinator,- Mrs. Dianne Arm-
strong, her .fellow volunteers,- the
Kinsmen Club of Goderichfor the
time and effort'put into their toy drop
for needy children. This depot looked
after 42 families with •a total of 88
children) The Salvation Army
generously loaned their facilities for
thisiventure.
, Reverend Robert Roberts', - Mrs
.- Kay --Whitmore and volunteers,
working of the Seaforth Town `H tll,r
,assisted 24 families with a total of 57
children. Thank you alland also the
-Lions Club of Seaforth which assisted
in many wayYs._.._, ,,, . .
Mrs. ' Wy�h Homuth, • Clinton,
deserves an extra special thank -you.
Singlehandedly; she looked after 53 -
thank the residents of Huron County
for their generous- support of our 1979
Christmas Bureau.
We assisted 195 families with a total
of 450 children, Receipts to date' total
•$10,623.42. Donations are . used to
by
Blaine townshend
watching and wondering whether
Montree;l would be ready for the '76
summdr Olympics, . as Mayor
Drapeau staunchly 'proclaimed' it
would- be: Questions, like "how high
will •the bill go?" ,and "'Who will, pay
• it?" were still up in the air.
An. enterprising newspaper. car-
toonist suggested that, if the Olympic
pool wasn't 'ready in time, the corn-
, petitions could be held in Trudeau's
backyard.
International hockey games ,g in-
creased and were still exoiting and
env-otional. But Canadians slowly
hegan•to wake-iup_.to• the fact Canada
no longer dominated. .the world of
hockey.
In 1975, the metric system was
introduced to Canadians, beginning
with • temperature readings, then
''mileage rates and, distances, now
weights and measures. The average
Canadian wasn't too keen on the idea
in 1975,.and most of us still aren't. '
Weather forecasters were
predicting a harsh winter for '75-'76,
and I mentioned it would be different
from the,calrn winters we had enjoyed
in Ontario during the two previous
z years. The winters since, then have
been anything but calm!
The Ontario government was
considering new gun legislation after-,'
a series of shooting tragedies,�•and
Ontario motorists had been told to
buckle - up arid s lo•w down.
Canada was wondering who could farn.ylies••-,with a total of 122 ehildreli
be the new leader of the pational.:•----..
Progressive Conservative party. The Thank you very Much Wyn, 'our
• mail system had been interrupted
community is fortunate to have you.
again, and Mother Bell was hinting The 'Clinton Town Hall graciously
about higher rates. M supplied space for this depot. ' .
The federal- government had in -
Exeter Udepot, in quarters supplied
,reduced an anti-inflation program, by the Exeter UnitedChuz°ch.was ably
Canadians were wondering how long manned by, Mrs. Marj' Adams and
the controls would last and how of-•
fectitive they would be. •
The question. was -asked; "Wild we
beat Anflatith1 or will intim-toil -beat
us?"
In 1980, the .worries of inflation, under' the guidance of Captain Iain
unemployment, energy shortages and Trainor of • the Salvation Amy and
Canadian unity are still with us., We volunteers. Porty-three famtilies "and
face nelection
e a i'
n the
ew year in the
middle, of one., of Canada's furious
winters. In Canada and around the
world, uncertainty and unrest still
abound. Have things really changed
•a, that much sfnce,1976.?
volunteers', this depot looked after 33
-families with a total of 75 children.
Thank you very much Exeter.
W'ingham-, the most northern depot
in Huron 'County, did a.. terrific job
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. 108 children Owe a note of , thanks to
these hard workers and se do e. m - :'
We would again,: -.like. - to thank.
everyone in Huron Coit ty who gave
- in any way and .wish you all a,very`.
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