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THURSDAY, MARCH 1 6,1 97 2'
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Sociai , Services
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Qmrittee busy
A number of groups in Goderich
and area'ai"e making use of the
incentive grants provided for by
the Federal and ....Provincial
Governments this ' winter and
among them is the Social Services
Co-orclinating Committee of
Huron County. Financed by grants
from the Local Initiatives
Program and the Manpower
Programs, they are,condiicting a
survey of •social services in the
county.
The survey, of the overall Before the survey winds up in
.health and;social service needs of • May, it is planned that 1000 people
the county is being conducted by will be interviewed. In the first
Rersonal interviews with local °---three'-weeks of work those taking
Officials (elected and appointed) the survey have already talked to
professional and senfi- 250 persons. •
professional people, community Three interviewers are at work
leaders and those who nowuse the in the county. Susan Bell is
existing services. ` responsible for flhe areas of Hay,
, It is lipped that on the basis of Stephen, Osborne, Tuckerstrhith,
this survey the use of present • McKillop and Grey townships as
seryices 'fid the , need for well as the communities of
additional facilities , can be Brussels, Seaforth, Hensall;
determined. Exeter,' Zurich and Dashwood:
In the central portion of the
county, Art Maybury will
interview officials in Colborne,
Goderich, Stanley and Hullet
townships and the comrnunities of
Goderich, Clinton, Baybield and
other villages in that area.
Mrs. Kathlene MacDonald is in .
charge of northern Huron County
and the townships of Ashfield,
West and East Wawanosh.
Morris, Turnherry and 1-Iowick,
_ a -well •as the urban areas of
Wingham and Blyth.
The committee explains the
survey may well serve to better
study the'directio_ n of services in
the district and to make people
more conscious of the fact that
social services are .now operated
on a•county basis
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Association's members
will elect new officers
A meeting of the local- One item, a. workshop for
Association lor the Mentally . retarded adults at the regional
Retarded is scheduled for level still ' appears unsolved
Moncia'y, March ;0 at 8 p.m, in. . although.Associati,1n members at
the last meeting voted ag 'insr
Goderich's` participation in the
proposed project at Clinton in co-
operation with the South Huron
Association for "the Mentally
Retarded.'. s+
A 'certain segment Of the
Association's members,feer that
a workshop at the local level is
most ideal.` Others are opposed.
It is generally agreed that when
membership has been clearly
defined following the , annual
meeting, definite aims and
objective's for th€ local
Association will be forthcoming.
Queen Elizabeth School. ,The
invitation is out for all interested
persons10 attend the meeting 'and
to support the needs bf the
Mentally retarded in this area.
.Main business of the evenink-
will be to elect a new slate of
officers for the • coming year.
Additional effort has been put
' forth in the past few weeks to find
candidates from the community
for all offices.
Other husiness'will•be to .clear
reports of the 'past year's
activities and to formulate plans
for the upcoming months.
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those interviewed are asked' folr
their opinions on the Various
subjects as to how they .are
administered under present
social service programs.
Suggested changes and possible
new programs are also asked for.
The social services, committee
is ,ender the direction of Isabel,
MacDonald and consists of John
Fleming a consultant from the
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GDCI petition
qathers 100
'signatures
'The Natura group at GDCI
reports this week -that atrout 100
signatures from Goo i k. we°re
-rtlacgl on their petition for
provi'i cialregulation of
snowwobiles,' and have been
forwarded to Prime Minister -
William Davis.
Committee chairman Cathy
Crl'uickshank said there,' was„ no
difficulty to get the signatures.
Miss Cruickshank also said
The survey. as it is'presented, . )•.4 that the Spring Break will find the
deals in a number of various interest here for ecology.
areas. These 'include social ° Indications are that if sufficient
services, 'teenagers, 'senior concern- i s felt in _the
citizens, welfare, health municipality, the Natur•a-%
services, psychiatric services c o m m i t t e e w i-1 1 organ i•z e
housing, recreation and crime. • . programs to clean up certain -
Under, each of these -subjects, areas of the town inthe future.---
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The social services co-ordinating.committee of Huron County, who
• have organized the social services survey presently under way, are
seen inthei r office at North Street UnitedChurch. The workers here
are, left to right, Art Maybury,. interviewer, Isabele MacDonald,
Ontario overnmen incentive grant finances
k program at Ioca!Pioneer Museu
This spring when visitors to. Program, a nunir of neglected' building such needed items as,new
- and-reside.nts_.of., ' Goderich. visit -...-areas-at .h =museum-`-- -re -being.... sh.ow...case.s..fo.�.:,vaL .us. xhi.b.its.�
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the Huron Pioneer Museum for repaired, updated and expanded: painting both the'r•oonls inside the
the first time in the 1972'_season museum and some 4rpas outside
they Will . notice a great many " ” The first program. undertaken .
changes. Through the Property. deals with the physical' makeup of
' Planning and Development the facilities themselves. A grant
• Committees of Huron''' County totaling $10,050, which. provides'
Coudcil, as well as two grants for th'e•employmentof 5 men for a
from, 'the'• Pro'vinc'ia1. total of,.525 man days, (or 105
Governm,en't's Incentive
working days) will deal with
if weather permits later this P r o g r,a m, number .t w o.
„spring, general t'ep,ii•r and upkeep presently underway at Ow
around the rnuseurn and the museum, deals with the re
moving of.exhibits, cataloguing. of all items 00
exhibit. a •. massive tmdertakilit: •
when it is considered that 'there,
are well - in excess of 11,000
exhibits on display. At the salve
time the items will he revalued -
and further research undertaken
with. a. view '10 -rewriting the
museum booklet. The informative
book on the exhibits Was la st doilf•
in 1967 and since that time, has
just been added to. As a result
there 'are many new' items to be
included and the reorganization et
displays'wil'l affect it somewhat
as well.
This program was ,. granted
$6,312.50. by the Ontaril.
Government and employs. at the
moment, two persons,' It is hoped
a third worker will be added to the
staff soon to help complete the
work, . z
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This busy winter at the Huron
m is under the
direction. of Raymond Scots• hmc'r
and Mrs. Friedel t'1anz, who are in
turn responsible to the committee
of Htiron County Council
mentioned earlier who planned
the work now in progress.
Mr.,Scdtchmer notes that w lte'n
the museum was originally sot ,up
the -founders could hardly see into
the tf rture and even guess at bow i1
would grow. As a result the 1972
reor.ganiza.tion°has been
necessitated to better centralrr.e
.exhilts related to each other'
' The new show cases for e'tample
will help to show off the exhibits
much better and will also provide
more room in theme already
crowded facilities.
By the,end of May this year the
programs presently underway
will be'Wound up. the organizers
sjress that work will be_ far from
completed but a good sta rt will `t.e
made. it is estimated that to
c°' tti p'1 e t 'the n tr c 's• s a al
cataloguing and research it might
take for to five years.
The museum will- he open
during Young,. Canada Week this
tsar for the first'time•fn 1972 and
hopes to :open officially in the
summer to another boom year. In
1971 • between 23 and 24,000
Persons toured the exhibits,' 1970
was the record year with 254000
persons visiting the facilities.
director, John Fleming, Department of Social and Family Services
consultant, Chris Rompf, statistical clerk, FRev. G.G. Russell,
chairman of the steering 'committee, and Basil Hall, coordinating ,
committee chairman.—staff photo
in wiIIrepluci
workmen on such jobs but also a
....,_her: entage of -hp total f)roje f
- :fonds to, go, into the purchase
materials needed for the work
Works grants not only furnish
the funds necessary to pay twc)
w
Ias sro�ms
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Although there lias still
been no formal presentation made
to the Huron County Board of
Education 'or to the Ontario
'Dept r'tmeat of Education.
updating of Vietorio:Public School"
in Goderich is ''on •the books''
a.ccorclirig 10 Director of
Education Dr,J, Cochrane.
Mr. C s hrane said this week
the new w•i1tg (It Victoria School is
in the capital forecast for
presentation' ,to the ('ntario
.govertlnhent anis that it is pos:siblt'
a start could he made on the
project.. I n l ii t_.- _.4.977, .._f.o.i;.
coIilprletion 111.1973..
Victoria School is the oldest
elementary school in the county of
Huron: Cochrane noted. He said
Construction ..4,14, 011 acid11100 at
.Exeter had bee planned ahead of
Victoria -School, hut added that
additional 'grants aI•4' 0VO1lahle
for reconstruction at schools
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of the .. .. ,. ., ...
Hats were the order of the moment when this:ph t graph,was taken. The hats are being carefully
�oo County Museum. Mrs. Barbara
tared as art of a rteu�1Dcatelogurr►g protect unde�iray at the Huron Co . y ,
regia p
McWhinnie, seated, and Mrs. Rita Ryan are: in charge of the project,
wilt in
more than 35. years old. The
Exeter school fell short of that
irtcenti'v.e goal and :the 'Goderich
project was pushed ahead. -
Tentative plans call for ,
reconstruction of •the original
portion "of the srchool which
includes eight classrooms and the
library.,• .
It is not known the size of the
additioii- which is being
consi40red bee"uuse the school
hoard must "prove enrolment"
and will he permitted to.huild only '
suftic;ient classrooms to house
ti1eY tudentspresentl•y:rt Vdetaria
School and those pupils enrolled .
at Queen Elizabeth School.
The following piece of
inlornlation.w•as contained in the
Director's Monthly Memo to all
staff members in March:
"Feasibility studies."a•rze.•-well-klit
under way regarding constructio'V""":""
of an addition to Victoria Public
School, Goderich, to replace the
original portion of the building
built in 1910. The Board has also
decided to • integrate the Queen
Elizabeth School for the
Trainable Retarded in ' this
proposed addition: This • will
,complete the integration•pr.ogram
of schools for trainable retarded
children iri what we think is a big_
step forward in the educational
program of the county."
riday fac�off:for
oung Canada Week.
The 3rd'
2annual Young'th•nada Memorial Arena ..planned a one -
Hockey Week—known by some as day hockey tournanl'ent for hoes
The Biggest Little Hockey Series under 12 years of age and sent out
in the World—will begin Friday. word that the tournament was
March 17 at 6:40p.;m4 with three C open to any hockey club 'within an
series games. area of 30 miles' of Goderich.
The official opening of the event Eleven teams entered this one -
convened by the Goderich Lions day event which was won by
Club will be a 2 p'. m. Saturday with Luckrow who captured the .Reg.'
a 13 s er i e s , game b e t we e'n - McGee trophy as winners of the
Streetsville and Elmira. ' tournament which h>i5'come
'`Eighty-eight teams are entered known as "The 'Biggest Litt1`e
in the 1972 contest inc lading the Hockey Series in the World" The
now-poptilar St. Lambert,
Quebec,. 'boys• who with -their
manager Dduglas Parsons,, are
expected in Goderich Wednesday.
Their first •game is 2 p.m.
Thursda-y against Collingwoocl.
Goderich'5team plays its first
game Tuesday": March -21 a -t 4:20
p.m. against New Hamburg.
AA final is slated for Thursday,
March 23 at '7:50 p.n1.; A final •is
Friday, March 24 at 7:50 p.m.:
with the retraining finals alb'
scli,eduled for Saturday. March
25}--1) final at 5 ppm.; C final at
.6:,,20 P.m .;,anct i3 final at 7:40 p.m.
There are ten trophies to he
awarded
The history cif Young Canada
Week was written for this year's
souvenir program by Arnold,
McConnell. Ile wrote: - ,
"Twenty-three yt'ars ago a
couple of chaps interested in"the
youth of to -morrow had •an idea of.
holding a hockey tournment for
-'these youngsters on the
Wednesday of Easter Week bark
in the spring of 194.9.,
"Nip Whetstone,. who was then.
chairman of the Goderich bions
Club's boys atirt-'gi•i4s-`eeni'tui tett "
and Lorne Wakeliii. manner of
the ifewly opened ,.Goderich
'McGee trophy. is still competed
forin'the annual series. 1 ne cup
goes ti) the Champions of the
division.
"The secon l tournament had 37
'entries, which was won by
Waterloo; the third event drew 33
" clubs, this tournament w.as won by
Goderich; each year the Young
Canada Week - Tournament
continued to have Many more
entries until it reached a high of
87 clubs which is all that could h4',.
accepted for a wek4,k-long
tournament- 'the largest number
of • clubs ever to play in the
tournament was during Canada's
Centennial when 100 clubs took
part in Canada's Birthday --an
extra day was needed to play the
13 extra clubs fon this one.
.:It is.interesting to 'note that
Winnipeg.Mtistangs were the fist
club from • outside' of -Ontario to
play in the tournament, this was in
1954; sincethen cliihs from as fat"
away as St. Johns, Newfoundland,
in the east; Vancouver. in the
west; Lynn'Lake: Manitoba, in the
north and Los ••Angeles,
California, in the south .have
played in "The Biggest Little
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Asports, higt11fightofthe year for military cadets onboth sides of
the border is the. annual Royal Military College, West Point
(USMA) weekend, held this year at RMC,, ,Kingston, when the
cadets show their skill at pistol and rifle shooting, their strength
at hockey and thei r wit at debating. �Cmoncthe to _shooters on the
RMC match rifle team isbale Wardley, son of Mr.d-Mm
W. M. Wardley, Goderich. Now in his second seasg Oh the'ri`fle
team Cadet Wardley is a graduate of the Goderich District
Collegiate Institute. The match was won by USMA.
'four accidents 1QVOIY�
eight: no injuries result
The Goderich Municipal Police
Fore report a busy: week as ,far
as motor vehicle accidents were
concerned as office'Vs,
investigated 0, total`" of four
involving eight autl)rilohiles.
On March 10 at 4 Ori cars driven
by Arthur Tho►nas of J61East
Street in Goderich was in
collision with 0 parked car 'owned
by Wayne J. Perkins of 197
Rayfield Road, causing a total of
$600 damage to both vehicles. The
mishap occurred on West Street.
A tw,o-car accident , at the
intersection of Victoria and East-
--Sti•eetg0n-March 12•raused a total
of $400 damage to vehicles driven
by Dianne 'H. Swan of -36A
Hamilton Street in.-Goderich and
Hugh lt•. Davidson. of R.R,4,
Goderich. The collision happened
at' about 4:30' p.m.
March 13 saw two more
accidents. The first at 5:1'0 pan.
at the corner of Victoria and
Nelson Streets, when car; driven
by Douglas ,1. Bea-verof 2,30 Blake
Street West in Goderich and Alvin
Roy Daer of 162 Mary Street.
Goderich collided. Total damage
was estimated by investigating
officers at ,x+`305
' Fifteen minu'es later a rear -
end collision occurred ''bn, ,> the,
4square involving vehicles driven
by Benjamin M. Wilcox of 131
Keays Street, Goderich and
Robert J. Towton` of R.R,2,
Goderich. Damage totaled $270 in
that :crash.
,There Were no Ihytt;ries
reported in any of the mishaps.
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