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6. GIN ERICM SIGNAL-STAR,THURSDAY; JULY 29, '197M1
�he Broken -M stables
i� a fciniily affair.
BY DON McGEE
41LLhe Broken M Stables is a
f8xnily affair Charlcfs A.,,Mathers
and his sons Charles E., John,
Eugene and' ► Raymond are all
co-owners in .the stable which
presently has seven horses in
traiQ'trr r'n .ku �d • - ' : •
They Douse the horses :in -.a --
barn behind their home, and
have a track for exercising and
training them about a half mile
away.".
John is the official driver, -
while Ray and his brother '
Eugene train the horses, or as
Ray puts it, "John does all the
'driving,,but st thetirnes- comes
down and helps with ' the ••-
training."
The Mather,.' own six of the
seven horses: Sabatone, Judy
Mathers, Imp Mathers, Parker
Mathers, Ogdena Frost and
Sebringville. They also train
Linda's Boy for Uncle George
Mathers of Clinton.'. '
The names must be getting, a
bit confusing by now with
almost all. their horses having
been named Mathers too, but
since it is all in -the family 1 "
suppose that any mistakes I -
might make will not matter all
that much (maybe no one will
notice!). •
Anyway, Sabatone is owned
jointly by everyone in the
' , stables,. _ while the other horses
are owned in one combination
of initials or another by C.E.
_ C.A., J.E., and R. Mathers.
They have lately been racing
' at Clinton :and Goderich, but are
campaigning Dresden Raceway
this q ween with four horses
entered. ,•They have the newest
possession of the Stables,
Sebringville, entered for
to -night.
She is a bay, fire year-old
mare .claimed: by Ray., at: Clinton ..
-Raceway July 11, and has so far
had two firsts out of three starts.
Her owner expects to make back
the money, spent buying her by
the end .of the, year.
Ray plans to take her to
London Western Fair Raceway
at the start of its season.
Sebringville is a Newport
Duke horse, out of Mint Julep.
She and John have so far seemed,
to be a good match at the track,
going identical miles of: 2.10.2
with both of her wins.
"She's not an excellent horse
or anything," says itay, "but
she's good enough."
Imp Mathes is their really
promising three year-old pacer.
He is a son of their mare'i3onnie
P. Grattan. He is alsq at Dresden
these .days'.
Bonnie P. Grattan is now in
foal to H. A. Meadowlands,
1.58.1 owned tiyR. K Feagan
of Goderich. Her colt, Robbie
Mathers (there's ^ that name
again) will soon be joining the
ranks and should do well, with
his breeding.
They have five , other horses
out on grass: Kim Brook, Bonnie"
P. Grattan, Tracy and Robbie
Mathers; andSparkles Bay. -
Altogether it' seems like a
profitable year shaping up for
the Broken M Stables.
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Sebringville wins again at Goderich July 21. John streaks to the finish lengths ahead of the second
horse, going the mile. in 2.1'0.2.
Picturesby Don McGee
John has Sabatons and Ray
the horses on the track they
is driving Mc I Pilot during the almost
have just down from,the farm.
.Sebringvill�e wins for the first time • for. her new-._ owners. •Jahn-John'_s-_fathe�in�.l
� a!w�--Jae--1VlsBaid; ,lrihnny-McBa'td; .lse-
Clinton Raceway July 18. ALL •the happy people in the picture, ,McDaid Jr. anal Judy Mathers.
if you will excuse the expression, are from the left, Raymond, N bid
'-Sebringvilld, a 5 -year-old mare, was recently claimed -by Ray in Clinton. She is 'shown here with
` John shortly after her arrival at the farm.
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A single car collision Friday
evening on Highway 8 west of
Clinton claimed the life' of 77
year old Beryle Parker. Driver of
the ..ar, Mary, E. Parker, 23,
receivedinjuries in the crash as
well. Both women are ,from St. •
.Thomas.
According to the Goderich
ch
etachinerit Of ; the Ontario
It �'af:P1.if4'e ;,t. t b ,'
-ace' • has -net yet been,
,deterrined;
In . other' traffic investigations
'carriedby out this week the
local f'.P.p„ Alan Parson, Hugh
>,p, report
McDonald and Ruby McDonald
of R. R. 2, Lucknow, suffered
injuries when they were involved
in- a two c rash on ^10--11.
concession t th • intersection of
24-25 sideroad, est Wawanosh
Township. The crash occurred
on Monday.
Oh Sunday Harry Chisholm
Richmond, Michigan, Bruce
Scott, Ripley, and Robert
Jefferson of Lucknow, , all
escaped injury when their
vehicles were involved ii'n a three
carx.pile up Sunday on- Highway
20 south. The vehicles all
suffemages.
of
Goderich and Joseph Craig, This week the O.P.P. logged
. is" I4k iVieteav6tii ;'.'Z '• 4 Y bottiP"A1't. oo '. mit I' r
�' two car "collision on 'Lake , df `highways "'and 'other roads
involved paroled.' They also investigated
Road east. The vehicle's
ere ., three thefts one break.
w da aged, but there were and
no injuries.- enter, one disturbance and nine
Harry Tackaberry,
daily routine of exercising all of:'
roposed official plan
outlined at Clinton .event
T.he man who wrote the proposed official
'plan for Huron County, described the idea
of immediate' "land -use, planning on a
provinee-wide basis as a joke when he
addressed, the 50 persons present in Clinton
Thursday night to discuss the new plan.
I4.11 ;,,Keith, ' of G. • V. tleinl eldt and.
' "Assocral 04oF L; ndori who -°was preserltt t ,. --
the,, meeting to explain -the Oath-
remark
lan remark in -answer to criticism that the plan,
was not integrated& fully enough with
provincial planning.
Mr, Keith said his,company had tried to
find out as much as possible the province's
plans for the area when they were preparing
the plan. He said they had tried and failed to
gain'' access to the Department of ,Highways
long-range projection of highway needs in
the area. ,
He said that planning on a provincial scale
was a huge job and that he felt, quite
frankly, 'that talk of a provincial land use
plan iri the near future was a joke.
Mr. Keith said the province was slowly
moving in the direction of 'province -wide
t planning but that any plan for land use on
such a big scale was several generations
away.
He argued, that the Huron plan will have
• more influence on provincial planning in the
`r area than the province will effect the county
planning. n "
The question of integrated planning ,was
just - one of many topics which arose and
were discussed at the' meeting which was
regarded as a success by many of those
present. `
The meeting was chaired by Reeve E.' W:
Oddliefson of Bayfield, a member of the
unty planning_ board Also present to
s�q�r questions was Gary • Davidson, the '.
young planner recently appointed as head Of
•-•the county's planning•department,, ,
Mayor Frank Sills of Seaforth raised an'.
objection to the wording of.`' the proposed
'plan which said that all other plans' in the •
Huron NDP announce
nanies_ of election- teams
election. - secretary,. Ina'- Fisher; -
Clinton. • •
Zone ,.,chairmen have been
appointed ,for all rural
townships, villages and •Urban -
municipalities throughout the
Riding..- Plans for initial
• pre-election canvasses are now in
full swing, with workers to be on
the road -within two weeks.
Campaign workers were
advised ' that NDP leader,
Stephen 'Lewis; is expected to
visit'I-furon Riding after the date
of the election is :announced.
Tentative arrangements have
been. made for calls in Goderich
as well as Wingham.
• Seven, members of the
election team attended a
"'Strategy meeting in London .this
week to,formali•ze the NDP plans
••• and discuss local issues with New
Democratic leader }Stephen,.
Lewis.
Appoint ment --w•as completed ---
this " week of the Huron New
Democratic .,Party:' election team
for the anticipated 'provincial
election in September.
The ' Huron ' Riding
Organization held its nomination
meeting 'in Clinton, June 23, and
elected Goderich Reeve Paul
Carroll :as the candidate 'for the
coming election.
Other members . of the
election ,team are as follows:
Campaign manager, Rick
Dodds, Goderich; official agent,
Dave cower, Goderich; urban
canvass organizer, Shirley "Weary,
Goderich; rural co-ordinator,
Wilf Glazier, Clinton; sign
' chairman, Phil Walker, Grand
Bend; publicity, 'Stan Profit,
Goderich; ' finance, John, Fisher,
Clinton; chairman of the
agrieu'ltural advisory committee.,
Herb' •' Klopp, Zurich; and
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county were subservient to the county plan,M
He said Seaforth had had a zoning bylaw for
five years and .it was working'well. Under his
'interpretation of the proposal. hesaid, the
town Would have to go . to the county on
anything the town wanted to do. ' a
.Beth. Mr.,,.Daiti,dsonS; r. `l�eith.,assured�u
the mayor that it was not the intent' of the.
county to ride rough -shod, over the
intentions of the municipalities. Under the
terms of the planning area' set up' for Huron
Comity in -1.968, Mr. Davidson said,' the
other plans must be subservient. Bet in
actual terms it would be up to the local
municipality to enforce the county plan
through zoning bylaws. •
In answer to a question from Mayor Don
Symons of Clinton who wondered if Clinton
should now go on preparing its own plan'or
rely, on the county plan Mr. ,Keith said that
the plan had been sufficiently general in the
urban areas of the county to allow each
town to plan its own land•use. •
Local' governments were quite capable of
dealing with. local matters, he said.'The plan
had' been set up to deal with problems that
were bigger than one municipality. ,
An example of such, a problem, he said,
was the continued growth of cottage
populations along the lakefront. He said he
saw' no problem in such growth if the
cottages remained as vacation homes only.
,In fact, he said, such a trend would help out
most 'municipalities by increasing asse&rent
without substantially increasing costs.
The problem, he said, lay in the
possibility that these cottages could be' -
"converted to yeah=i`difi 'permanent homes.)
This danger had beef' forseen in. the plan
which warned it would mean. a 40-milelong
city stretching from one -end of the county
to the -'t Ther. Mr. Keith said he knew of no
,,,.legal way a municipality could ;top a home
owner fromconverting his cottage .,.to a
permanent home. If cottages were converted
in large 'numbers, it would bring a demand'
for more, service s and heavy, costs .10, the
municipality.
The plan's call for larger lot sizes for rural
development, -however, was• attacked by
several persons at the meeting. The plan said
Jots should be a minimum of one acre'i•n•size-
if they were to have their -own well 'and .' -
septic tank system and one half acre in size
if. they • •shared. ? com thunal • well -...and : had • .- •
their own septic tank. d°
This was: branded as impractical by one
Man who said he was a small sub -divider, He
said he had been informed by several real
estate agents that if the county plan went
through he might as well stop trying to sell
- his lots to city people because they didn't
want that much land. • ' a►
Phil Durand of AR -2, Zurich claimed the
lot sizes were unrealistic. ,,r
6. Mr. Davidson said the increased lot sizes
were an ..attempt to get hold of the problem
of pollution.
1Vl'r. 1eith added that the standard lot size
recommended for many years of 15,000 0
square feet (a third acre) had been found
over , the years by health officials and the
Ontario Mater .Resources Commission to. be
too small, It was these bodies that now
recommended the large lots, he said.
11'1 any case, a said, one of the alleged
reasons people had country places was so
they could own more land than they. could
in the city.
Mr. 'Davidson said that if soil conditions
On each individual lot 'could 'be .checked, it
might not be' necessary fgr all to have such
large lots. But, the plan, he said, was dealing
with development on a broad scale.
Robert McKinley, Huron M.P. asked if
the plan affected lots which had already
been subdivided.
Mr. Keith said that, previous registered
plans of subdivision *ere not affected and
could continue with the smaller lots.
However, he warned, reference plans of
subdivision, those not registered; were not
included. Large parcels of land "divided'under
a reference plan but still owned by one
person would be, governed by the same rules
as, raw land.
A. "Red" Garon'of Clinton asked what'
would happen in the case of trouble with a
septic tank,.on a ,lot already occupied by a
building.
He was ,told that the plan had no effect
• on this and the department of health would
deal with any problems.
Anson' VIcKiriley, of Stanley, past
chairman of the county planning committee,
told the meeting that one of the purposes of
the original thinking behind having a 'county
plan was to help out the small municipalities
who couldn't , afford 'to set up their dwn
plans, to 4nieet the needs of their area. The
cottage problem was one such area he said.
Mr. Davidson said one of the main purposes
of the county planning staff was to b
co-ordinate action between adjoining
municipalities. •
Reeve Oddliefson,' pointed out -that the
county planning staff was available to each,
of the municipalities and to individuals as
well.
• Reeve -Paul, Carroll of Goderich praised
the plan and said it coincided with
'Goderich', own ,plans' -
There was also discussion on the. official
commencement on August 2 of the county
land division committee which will hear all
applications for land .divisions in the county p
except from Exeter and Goderich which
have their own official plans •and committees
of -adjustment.
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Ashton reunion at Brucefield
The annual Ashton `reunion
was held Sunday afternoon, July
25, 1971, .on the spacious lawn •
of &Violet and Seldon Ross, RR
1, Brucefield, when 72
descendants of the late ' $am
Ashton and Mary Ann Gibbings
met to renew or become
acquainted and reminisce ' the
good old days.
They came from far and near,
Royal Oak, Mich.; Duntroon,
Ont.; London, Stratford; Port -
E'lgin; °Goderich; Fordwich; '
Brussels Seafortti; Clinton;
Londesboro and Blyth. • .
Sports of course ' were a
highlight and much enjoyed,
with the winners as follows:
picture drawing;Dave Craven,
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London, Mrs. Geo. Ashton,
Fordwich; ,wrapped parcel, Roy
Ashton, Goderich; rolling can
relay, . Geo. Craven's team;
licorice contest, Fern Crayen and
,Geo. Warner; ,pre-school children
race, °'"Grant Haves and Cheryl
Lyon; backwards race, Gail
White and Wayne Lyon; shoe
scramble, Gail White and
Rhonda Warner; ' wheelbarrow
race, Danny White and David
Craven, Wayne Lyon and Larry
Baer; hop skip and jump racei'
girls, Lori Young; boys, Wyne
Lyon; guessing ' number ef'
buttons in jar, Lori Young, Jack
White; largest family present,
Mrs. Geo. Ashton, Goderich;
youngest child, Scott Baer, RR
5; Goderich; closest birthday,
Gloria White. •
The• 'peanut scramble is
always a highlight' for the
children. Balloons' were also
given to the children. A
bountiful , picnic lunch 'was
enjoyed by -all , ,
The 1972 executive is the
same as 1971: ,. president, Mrs.
Lorna Radford, Clinton;
secretary -treasurer,,, Mrs. Grace
Easom; , Blyth; •spots, Mr. and
'Mrs. , Elmer Townsend, Seaforth;
table committee,, Mrs: Gordon
Richardson, Mrs. Gladys Wallis,
Mrs. Iia Walters and Mrs. Roy
Ashton. • • -
Mrs. Lorna Radford invited
the' reunion for 1972
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0c eases listecias other.
Bennie P Grattan aid her lrttia° bif, Hobble Matmare it it( telt fig H A. litiadetilabdt,
owned by A. K. Feagan.00w '.Od rreb: Bonnie is also the mothav'of Irnp Mothers, the Stables' really
promising 3.year-old pacer
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With the establishment of the new,
commitfge, land severences' will ' .no longer
have +to go , before 'the department of
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This was an original recoln i q
mendati f
g ono,
the plan which was established on a province
01 wide'' basis • by the provincial government
shortly after the Huron plan became public.,
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