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GODERICH SIGNAL-ST1AR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I:2, 1974*- AGEA
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Old opera house now
examplcof fine .architecture
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In a joint issue of the Signal and Star sin 1889 it was reported that the Victoria Opera House,
"one of the finest pieces of architecture in town", had' been remodelled' "five or six`'years ago"
to seat 750, and was "one of the neatest -opera houses in the West". The article affordedMo
clue to the age of the .building, which has often been subject of enquiry. •
Christopher Crabb established his business on Kingston Street ("everything from a needle
to, an anchor") in 1839, and went on to build the block on The Square between Kingston and
East streets, but construction date of the opera house remains uncertain. Arthur A. Wallace, a
rioted Hamilton architect, comments, "The -facade is unmistakeably a work of the 1860s. The
building is reminiscent of the ,,Italian romanesque in Lombardy, •where" brickwork'
predominates. It can be•'cotnpared to the theatre in Brockville: 'Another one in Morri burg was
destroyed in the Seaway development."
In rear of the site where Crabb kept store is a much -remodelled building which may well
belong to the same period. The weathered planks oh the south wall'(shown) are very old, and
.the brickwork, where@not covered, appeared to be the same as on the former opera house. As
far as appearance goes, "it cordo Fhave been a' Crabb annex. •
.q :The part shown in the picture, panelled inside, is used by the Club Restaurant for storage
purposes. (Photos and story by W,E. Elliott)
ARC workshop gets new head
The Adult. Rehabilitation
-"Centre in Dashwood has anew
administrator to. replace Don
Rawlings who resigned as
manager of the workshoi at the.
beginning of theci summer.
Bob Fry, 24, , began duties
last week as administrator -
manager of the .workshop. Prior
to his appointment Fry was em-
ployed as manager of the ARC
workshop in Barrie.
He is a graduate of Trent
University with a BA in
Psychology. After graduating
he worked for four months at a
boys club • near Lindsay as
program director before going
to Barrie.
Fry said that he hadn't been
"at the ARC long enough to
know what•rchanges would have
to be made: He said that work
ih a rtKal area' workshop was
much different than in a large
city, and that changes would be
made only as they are required.
Fry .said that his new
position was a challenge and he
felt that it Was a step up from
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his position' in Barrie because
he would be more or less on his
own, as'far as operations at the
ARC were concerned.
"The field is one in which
things are rapidly changing";
he Said, "and it is •just within
the last few years that society
has begun: to realize the'
definite contribution these
people can make
He said that he really learns
as much from the trainees as
they learn from him:
Public relations and
,cooperation . will be of prime
importance Fry said, because
without public support th ry
workship cannot exist. The
public must realize .that the°
ARC is nOt a "day care centre"
but a workshop where han-
dicapped adults can work and
enjoy an all round program; 'he
said. "The work done is just
one ' important tool in the
rehabilitation program."
The ' Garden of Hope project
at ,the ARC has progressed'well
over the summer and will be
continued 'next year. The back
lot has been leveled and
cleared and' trees 'will be plan-
ted, Co-ordinator of the project,
Olga Zemitis, will be 41eaving
next week but said that she
hopescommunity support for
•the project will continue.
The ,official Opening of . the
ARC workshop will be held Oc-
tober 20 at 3 p.m. Included in
the opening will be a ribbon
cutting ceremony and tours of
the facilities.
- End of summer notes: back
to wort'; babies; the ' speed
limit; and anything else that
crops "up.
It's good to get back to work.:`
For a month. At first there's a
general feeling of excitement as
the' fall term' begins at • •school
Bonhomie among the staff as"
summer experiences are ex-
changed and' tans are com-
pared. The. challenge of facing
a hundred and some new faces
in the classroom. The fine Sep-
tember weather.,
Even the students are happy
to get back. For a month. They,
too, exchange summer anec-
dotes, greet old friends, and
begin making new ones. There
is a feeling of liveliness in the
air.
" One of the favourite pastimes
for the students as school re-
opens is sizing up the teachers.
"Yeah, he's not a bad guy,
.but you can' calk all over him.
His classes are a mob scene.'
"She's a good teacher, knows
her stuff, but she's so dull, no
sensa humour, it makes your
teeth ache."
"He's a real mean -deleted).
Makes ya work like a dog."
And so on. They're usually
'pretty shrewd . in their
assessments. What they don't
realize is that their'teachers are
doing the same. "There's a bad
little devil; have to keep. an eye
on him. Oh, no, not Joe
repeating his year. Why did
they put.him in my class again?
:There's a bright girl; good-
looking too." .And so on.
Utterly bewildered for a
month are the .new kids , in
Grade 9. They come'in all sizes,
from tiny shrimps to hulking
giants. Some - of them come
from small country schools. To
be dumped in a huge, complex
building housing daily about
1700 people, including staff, is
rather frightening for them.
They get lost. That's
reasonable; even some of the
teachers' get lost. But the kids
lose _their books, forget where
their lockers are or if they find
them, ' have forgotten the com-
bination for the , lock. They
have ,to unravel all the do's
and don'ts of a huge and' baf-
fling new system.
But they' get sorted out and:'
after a month; ' they're old'
hands, just as cocky as all the
others. „
Now for babies. Thank=good=
ness 1°'rri not a young mother.
We've' been having a visit from
our •grandbaby, and when it
wa's over, I felt ten years older.
He's a beautiful child and a
healthy one. But he's as active
and .agile ancrslippery as an
eel:
Unfortunately, his gram ,had
cracked ribs, was in `con-
siderable, ,pain) and could' scar-
cely hold him or lift him: As a
result,' she wasn't much good,
as an over -sized toy. That's all
grandparents are, when you're
eight months old. They're fa„r
• better than a rattle. They're
softer (in more ways. than one),
• they make the appropriate
noises, they pick you up and
kiss you when you fall down,
they sing to you and joggle you'
on their knees, and so on.
Well, Nicov Chen "took a
shine", as they say, tome as h'is
new toy, "Ali, look.' He loves his.
grandad", .the women would
coo, when he'd crawl„st*eright
to me, look up ►rnploringly and - nick of time, points„ the kid in
begin to ascend me as though L another direction and sinks
were Mout t Everest. wearily into his chair. Sixty
hits technique was im- seconds later, he feels a painful
pressive. I was wearing nothing twisting of the hair on his legs,
but shorts most of the time. He and off wego again. One of us
would reach up from the floor, never got tired of this little
grakt me by the hair'on my legs routine. • • " '
with .a grip like an orangutan,He's wa ',happy baby, ° but,r�on
pull himself to his, feet, grin- the occasions when he isn't you
ming with triumph and swaying could hear him two blocks
around, ready to fall, bump his
.away. Whenever his Mum went
head and start yelling, shopping, I baby-sat and en
Another beseeching look, and joyed it thoroughly, but did my
I'd hoist him onto my knee. sitting in a constant state of
Then he'd turn around, grab fear that he'd get unhappy. I'm
me by'the hair on my chest, and glad, once again, that I'm not a
pull!: himself up for a little young mother, byt an old gran -
jump, jump, jump, facing me. dad.
When he pt tired of that, he'd
start grabbing my ''nose and 'Finally, the speed limit.
trying to pull it out, or poking There is a proposal that it be
at my eyes, or tearing at an ear. reduced from 70 on the •big
Suddenly, he'd squirm highways to 55 m.p.h. This was
• around and want down. On the done in the U.S. and. Germany,
floor, he'd head, at startling among others, during the oil
speed and with a demonic grin, crisis. There is quite a lot of op-.'
straight for a standing floor position here. I'm all -for it. It's
lamp. He loved it because when been proved that it cuts the car -
you shook it, from ground level, nage on the highways. Save
it made a nice jingling sound, It lives, save money, save energy.
as also heavy enough to brain a How can anyone be against it?
baby. And what's the big rush,
So grandait leaps across the "anyway? It's time we slowed
room and grabs the lamn in the down. '
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