HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-12-03, Page 33The Signal -Star, December 3, 1970 -- Kinsmen Anniversary Supplement — Page 3D
Highlights • •
Continued from Page 2
Kinsmen is Richard ` P. (Dick)
Rendek. He has a message for all
Kinsmen on the inside front
• cover of the Kin.
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KINSMEN CLUB ACTIVITIES
OVER THE PAST 23 YEARS
Newspaper- clippings from the
Goderich Signal -Star in the year
1947 indicate the busy schedule
of events arranged by the
Goderich Kinsmen club
immediately after they were
organized.
Some of the events were:
Inter -club meet held in
Kincardine; 1947,. representatives
of Goderich Kinsmen Club filed
an entry with O.H.A. for an
intermediate "B" hockey team:
It is surmised they will be placed
in the same group as Seaforth
and Clinton. •
An account of the Goderich
Kinsmen first .encounter with
another team appears in a later
edition of the Signal -Star. The
Goderich team loses 10-8 to.
Seaforth.
Goderich Kinsmen ...sponsor a
• carnival in courthouse park on
Monday, August 2, 1948, their
second.
Feature event of the carnival
is a draw for a brand new 1948
Studebaker.
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It was won by Harold Wise,
19, of R.R. 2 Clinton.'
Goderich Kinsmen attend a
charter night for a Kinsmen Club
being organized in a
neighbouring town in Huron
county, W. Wingham Kinsmen
Club is founded' on Friday,
November 19, 1948. Notice
Appears in the Kinsmen
scrapboolof a paper collection
organized to help and in
co-operation to raise- funds for
the club.
A monster bingo was held on
January 21., 1949 at Goderich
Town Hall.
The scrapbook contains a
plentiful number of photos
depicting the 'frolics and capers
of Kinsmen at their first
Halloween night masquerade ball
in 1948.•
As early as 1948, Goderich
Kinsmen had organized and
promoted a Traffic Safety
Campaign. nw
-Early in 1949, the Kinsmen
organized the Goderich
Octogenarian Club which
flourished for some years under
the ,inspiration of the late'
"Dick" Black.
"Under .the sponsorship ' of
the Kinsmen its operations will
include the maintenance of the
small park at the junction of St.
Patrick and Arthur streets.
In the same year, the
Kinsmen promoted a safety
campaign amongst Goderich
bike riders by encouraging them
to apply Speetru-lite to their
bicycles. It was supplied free of
charge by the Kinsmen.
In October 1949, Goderich
Kinsmen won a national
Kinsmen trophy, the Founders'
attendance trophy.
The percentage attendance
figure at Goderich during the
year was 99.5 percent.
1957: Kinsmen open
22,OOO ,park
—During—their-23 years of --life b -,a child -may -be -saved by
community service, Goderich
• Kinsmen • had no prouder
moments than when their South
Street park -playground was
officially opened July 1, 1957.
The Signal -Star headlined the
event, "CLUB'S DREAM FOR
KIDS IS REALITY AS PARK
OPENS.
An account of the occasion as
it appeared in the Signal -Star is
as follows:
"Years of planning and toil
were rewarded Monday evening
when the Kinsmen playground
and wading pool were declared
officially open blr Elston
Cardiff, MP for Huron.
Mayor John H. Graham cut
the ribbon as a large crowd of
youngsters and their parents
looked on.
"It is my hope," said D. J.
"Pat" , Patterson, Kinsmen
playground chairman, "that the
being in this playground rather
than out playing on the street."
The playground, located one
block east of the' arena,
represents an investment of
about $22,000 by the club.
Official ceremonies begario
after the Goderich Pipe Band led
a parade of children into the
park.
"This is a proud night for the
Goderich Kinsmen club," said
President Earl Rawson. "This
represents many hours of work
and many thousands of dollars."
On behalf of the club, he gave
special thanks to Goderich
Kinette club, the Ontario
Provincial Police and -the Town
of ,Goderich for donations and
other assistance.
The club hopes to add more
equipment to the playground as
time goes on, the president said.
Kinsmen' provide club
room in Public Library
The Goderich Signal . Star
publicized the opening of the
new club room In the public
library in 1951 with the following
novelty lead paragraph:
"Wanted — A least one
•experienced chess player. Must
have lots of spare time and an
unreliable knowledge of the
history of Goderich, sufficient
to provoke arguments about
such - matters, as the
identification of former
members of ToWn Council. Also,
a card table with a hard top,
strong enough to withstand
several lively games of euchre.
Anyone having a knowledge of
• the whereabouts of the above,
please contact D. J. Patterson,
Patrick Street." ---�
"Pat" Patterson, chairman of
the Kinsmen Club's
Octogenarian Committee,
recently supervised the opening
of the new club room for "the
oldest people in town" as they
call themselves on the large
banner hanging on the wall in
the basement of the library.
Around the banner are
displayed pictures of former
Town Councils dating back to
1923.
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An average of about ten older
members of the community "visit
the club -room each day: There
they find not only their friends
to chat With but magazines and .
games a. well.
N.B. DONATION OF AN
INHALATOR TO THE TOWN
OF' GOIERICH BY THE
KINETTE CLUB WAS A MOST
IMPORTANT FUNCTION OF
THE• KINETTE"S. THIS
DONATION TOOK PLACE IN
1952.
Goderich Kinsmen contribute
a cheque for nearly $1,000. to
the Goderich Arena building
campaign fund: Past President
W. J. McGrath made the
presentation to D. D. Mooney,
Goderich Arena building fund
chairman.
•' Goderich becomes Focus of
Kinsmen Club Activity on
September 30, 1950, when
District No. 1 of Kinsmen hold
their Fall Council Meeting at the
Park House.
In 1951, a Carnival sponsorgd
by the Kinsmen on August 9,
raised $2,500 for Kinsmen
playground on South Street.
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