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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-10-09, Page 12• • liVingham Advance -Times, Thursday, October 9, 11975 A NEW BUSINESS opened in town last week to the delight of many Wingham residents and the satisfaction of the owners. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Podhorny, of Belmore, already have a booming business in their shoe repair store on Diagonal Street. Mr. Podhorny also does orthopedic prescription work. New, shoe service • instant success Wingham welcomed a new business to town last week, and. from the looks of things it's al- ready a success. Alfred's Shoe Service opened its doors to customers last Wednesday and by Thursday morning owner Alfred Podhorny and his wife Elizabeth were knee- deep in shoes and boots. It was a case of the demand finally reach- ing the supply: a shoe repair ser- vice is one business this area has sorely lacked. Mr. Podhorny said he is not surprised at the good response from area residents. When they left Kitchener several years ago, – he explained, many customers wrote letters asking them not to go so far away. Shoe repair ser- vices are scarce everywhere, it seems. Mr. and Mrs. Podhorny hive lived in Belmore for three Years now, in an old school house they purchased and renovated. Mr. Podhorny said they left Kiteh- ener, where they had lived since arriving to Canada in 1956, be- cause of the high prices and cost of living in the city. Mr. Podhorny is a native of Sudetenland on the northwest border of Czecho- slovakia. He learned the art. of shoemak- ing and repair in Germany and was self-employed for about five years before becoming a bus driver for a while. When he re- turned to the shoemaking busi- ness, it was to study prescription work, and even work on hand- bags and different leather pro- ducts. So welcome to Wingham, Mr. and Mrs. Podhcirny — Kitch- ener's loss is our .gain. Mrs. R. Dickson leads WMS study Whitechurch Mr. and Mrs. Murray Rutiodoi off Thamesford were ThtirSthqr visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Emerson. Whitechurch W.M.S. will meet October 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the Sunday School room when Mrs. Andrew Gaunt will show her pictures of her trip to the Hely Land and give a commentary. This is for all members of the community and men are invited too. Tom Potter off Caleclon called Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Emerson. Langside congregation at- tended Whitechurch service on Sunday at 11 a.m. where Rev. Dr. W. Stanford Reid, Professor of History, University of Guelph, had charge of the service. Dr. - Reid was in the pastorate in Montreal followed by profes- sional duties at McGill University and lately at Guelph University. BELMORE — The September meeting of the W.M.S. of Belmore Presbyterian church was held in the Sunday School room. Mrs, Ralph Dickson, president, opened the meeting with the call to worship. This was followed by the hymn, "God Gives His People Strength". Mrs. Arnold Jeffray read the scripture, Romans 12: 1- 11. She also gave the meditation and prayer. Mrs. Dickson was in charge of the Bible study. She reviewed the studies that the group had during the past year. She concluded the study with a poem, "Lord of Here and Now". The hymn, "Christ Is the t,ord", was sung, followed by prayer. Mrs. Kenneth Dickson served lunch. Lions Tnet over $500 in Olympathon Walk Take 18 enthusiastic Walkers. Add a 10 -mile route. Top with sunshine and a cool breeze. An you have a good description of the Wingham Lions Olympathon held Saturday. The group netted $527.70 for Olympic athletes in training and the Wingham Lions, an achieve- ment worthy of praise. "For the number of walkers, it was very good," Archie Hill, president of the Wingham Lions said. He Vexplained that more walkers had been anticipated, ,based on the number of pledge sheets taken, but only 18 came through Satur- day morning. "We're quite pleased with it," Mr. Hill con- cluded. By far the youngest participant Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gibson and family spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lougheed and family at Niagara Falls. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tiffin held a birthday party for their daughter, Joyce, home for the weekend from Toronto. To help celebrate the occasion were Mrs. Ethel Stewart, Wingham, Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffin, Barry Tiffin, Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs. Bevin Tiffin, Stephen and Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tiffin, Lori and Michael, Wingham, Miss Gayle Rintoul. The former Des t Roches house on 2nd Concession of Kinloss is rented to people from Gue1r,11. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Durnin were Sunday visitors with Mr. and, Mrs. Clayton Scholtz and family of Goderich. On Thursday evening Mrs. Dave Gibb, Mrs. GeorgeWebster and Mrs. Bill Rintoul attended the 70th anniversary of St. Helens Women's Institute. Those on'the Walk-a-thon from Whitechurch were Tammy and Lisa Stone, Janet Laidlaw, Clara Milligan, 'Dawn Adams, Vicki Scott, Debbie Hickey and Donna Thomson. fi - The other participants in the in the Olym athon was ve month-old Tharen Keil, but one can' rightlysayshe actually 'walked'. Tharen and her sister Kirsten, 2, started the event as piggy -back riders on Mr. and Mrs. Bill Keil. At the half -way mark, however, they switched to buggy riding, not as exciting but much more comfortable. The Keil family was sponsored as one group and earned $115.50, the highest amount pledged in the Olympathon. The second highest amount pledged was riding on Brian Gosling, with third place going to David Scott. The first to finish the Olympathon, just after noontime, .was Mitchell Braun who broke • akvay from his group near the end to capture that honor. walk were: Archie Hill, Ed Wright and daughter Debbie, Paul Hickey, Marlene Taylor, Lisa Cook, Kim McGregor, Corey Montgomery, Shelley Jones, William Miller and John Fergu- son. They all finished the walk. The total route was 10 miles long and took the Olyinpathon participants from the Day Care. Centre to Highway 86, then to McLean's sideroad, on to the B- line, east to Josephine Street and • back to the starting point. The walkers went the route twice to make the 10 miles, and check- points along the way provided supervision and refrshments. Each participant also receives two dollars for completing the 10 miles. Young people meet at Langside ttf ON YOUR MARK, get set, and Archie Hill, president of the Wingham Lions was off and -walking to set the pace for the Olympathon Saturday morning. Mr. Hill was not the first to finish the event, but he did finish it to earn $44.70 for the day. Council Briefs By Shirley Keller A very brief report of a special meeting of the Huron County Board of Health with county hospital and medical representa- tives was presented during the regular session of county council Friday, October 3 in Goderich. Reeve E. W. Qddleifson, chair- man of the board of health, said the primary purpose of the meet- ing was to get a feeling or expres- sion concerning the appointment County Council was told by De - of a steering committee to con- sider the possible formation of a. District Health Council between Huron and Perth. While the majority of persons at the meeting agreed that Huron County should be a DiStrict Health Council on its own, the formation of a steering commit- tee was approved in principle. This committee would consist of the chairman of the boat'd of health, a representative of the administrativesection of the county,ahospitals, a representa- tive of the medical profession, two lay people, the warden, the medical officer of health and one member of the nursing profession from each county. 0-0-0 The Huron County Planning Board has hired two new persons. Malcolm J. McIntosh has been, supplying the drugs under the old system, but declined to change to the new method when requested, council was told. Rieck Phar- macy in Goderich has agreed to install the necessary equipment to provide Huronview's drug needs on the new system. The purchase cost of drugs for both systems is identical. 0-0-0 -WHITECHURCH — Twenty- three young people attended the meeting of the Whitechurch- Langside Young People's Society which was held in the Langside church on Sunday evening. The meeting opened with a singsong with Hilda deBoer as organist. Fred deBoer conducted the worship which was based on the topic "Miracles". He read scripture from St. John's Gospel, chapter ten, and led in prayer. • The members then formed dis- cussion groups. The offering was received and dedicated and the secretary, Wendy Kay, read the minutes. Following another singsong, games were played. Grace was sung, lunch served and a time of fellowship enjoyed. Those planning to go to the Young People's convention at Fonthill are Cecil deBoer, Hilda and Simon • deBoer, Helen Weirsma, Marty Young and Wendy Kay. THE TURNOUT for the Wingham Lions' Olympathon was by no meOns overwhelming Sattirday—only 15 persons participated in the hike—but the enthusiasm of the small group mere than made upior the lack of numbers. The first step in the event was registration in the NntyjnornIng. eitgaged as CoMmuniityllianning velopment Committee Chairman Warren G. Zinn of Ashfield that United Trails Inc. has received an extension to its Public Vehicle Operating Licence. The company will provide a passenger, baggage and freight service soon between Toronto .In- ternational Airport and Goder- ich, Holmesville, Clinton, Sea - forth, Dublin, Mitchell, Sebring - vile, Stratford and Shakespeare. 0-0-0 • A new sound system has been installed in the council chambers to facilitate council members as well as visitors and the press beyond the rail. • A new amplifier, two additional speaker columns and a inicro- phone mixer on the clerk's desk to control the volume level have been installed by Chisholm TV of Gotierich,„ technician with a salary rangeof The press table, located in the $10,660 to $13,910 over five years. most distant point in the council Roman Dzus was engaged as chambers, behind the spectators Rural Planner to replace Nick against the back wall in the Hill who left the county employ. corner, still reports difficulty in Mr. Dzus' salary is $16,000 per hearing the councilmen whose annum with a salary adjustment backs are to the press table. for 1976 to be negotiated with the • 0-0-0 planning board. Durst and Vodden Chartered An additional' planner will be Accountants have been appointed hired for the county in January. county auditors for the year 1975. The proceeds of the six Commu- A. M. Harper who has been nity Planning Study grants ap- proved across the county will fin- county auditor for many years, has now become associated with ' ance this staff member. MacGillivary and Company, The extra planner is required to speed up the completion of Chartered Accountants of Listo- wel.. secondary plans in Huron. Mr. Harper requested that 0 0 0 MacGillivary and Company be A new drug card system will make drug handling at Huron- named county auditors, but view easier and will reduce the council agreed Durst and Vodden amount of storage space re- of Goderich, also interested in the quired, county .council learnedappointment, would be the choice. Friday. ' 0 . 0 0 A patient's monthly supply of Ken C. Flett of Clinton will be drugs is sealed in plastic on a card, Chairman John Tinney of the county representative on the new Huron County Housing Hay Township explained. Authority. Exeter Pharmacy had been ED WRIGHT, daughter Debbie and John Ferguson looked a bit tired but still determined as they entered the B-line to complete the last few miles of the Lions' Olympathon Saturday. The weather was perfect, but some of the partici- pants wished for a little less sunshine and a little more breeze during their second trip around the arranged route. HURON COUNTY WARD'EN Anson McKinley officially opened the Howick Fall Fair Saturday afternoon. Mr. Mc- Kinley praised the fair for bringing people together "for a better community" and expressed'his admiration for the • work involved: "Everyone has put a -great deal of effort into the fair." 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