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Birds, flowers, paint
figure in parks pl�n
BY JEFF SEDDO.N
The 125th Anniversary of thqf
town of Goderich will be
m,isical and green if the town's
Parks Committee gets its way
this spring. The committee,
Chairman Elsa Haydon,
Councillor Dave Gower and
Mayor Deb Shewfelt, is
organizing a number of spring
projects designed to further
e ante the natural' beauty of
t; e Prettiest Town in Canada.
The ,projects planned by the
committee ,.involve the
residents of 'Goderich, the
town's works department and
the parks department. They
consist of tree, planting,
establishing more garden areas
in the town, a general cleanup
after the winter layoffsand a
plan to encourage various
species of • birds to make their
summer home in Goderich.
The tree planting scheme will
be done through a new
celebration in Goderich, Arbor
Day. Elsa Haydon has in-
vestigated the organization of
the treeplanting day and is
hopeful that the last Friday in
April will be set aside„this year
to observe the holiday.
"Arbor Day provides an
opportunity to promote a public
interest in trees and forests and
allows us to express our faith in.
the future through tree plan
ting, an unselfish act',” ac-
cording to the Ministry of
Natural Resources.
The parks committee has
organized a day long -series of
activities to celebrate Arbor
Day which . will begin early in
the morning.
School children in. Goderich
will wear old clothes to school
on the Friday and will go out to
designated sites throughout the
town to plant trees, Each school
will be assigned an area of the
town and the Grade 5, 6, 7 and 8
students will go to those areas
and plant their trees.
After that each student will
be supplied with plastic gar-
bage bags and will take part in
a spring cleaning of their area.
The junk collected by the
Service far 28 years
4.
students will fie hauled away in
trucks'suppiied by the town.
The committee hopes to
involve the high school in the
project. Mrs. Haydon said that,
the student council
representatives, will be con=
tacted and asked to take part in
the celebration in whatever
manner they choose.
After the morning planting
and cleanup the children will be
invited to one of the town Parks
and treated to a picnic. Other,
town' committees such as the
recreation board will be in-
volved in the celebration ,ac-
tivities of the clay. w
In. the afternoon a "political
plant"' will take place involving
members of council, provincial
and federal members of
parliament and represen-
tatives of the Ministry of
Natural Resources.
The gardening done In the
town green areas this summer
will be a public effort, ac-
cording to Elsa Haydon. The
parks Committee has contacted
Goderich Kinsmen take
place in naVI- stheme
The Goderich Kinsmen Club
recently celebrated its 28th
anniversary. Service to this
community wasbegun in 1947
by a group of young men
dedicated to a better way of life
in .Goderich. Charter president
was Dick Cornish.
The Association of Kinsmen
is celebrating its 55th an-
niversary this year,. reports
1975 ' Goderich Kinsmen
President Start Connelly.
The first Kin meeting was
held in Hamilton February 20,
1920, ',organized by._ the.,club's
r&eoghlieii'f 5..11 irrdbii g i `
By 1924 there were four clubs in
the association. Hamilton,
Montreal," Winnipeg and
Vancouver.
Now in 197,5 there 'are. 502
clubs with 15,229 members who
believe in the motto "Serving
Their Communities Greatest
Needs".
At a Winnipeg Convention in
1926, decision was reached that
Kinsmen should remain
national, not international, and
•
Planning Board
that kinsmen active members,
those who can hold office, must
be no older than 40 years.
Ten years after the ititial
meeting of Kinsmen, Kin wives
became actively organized,.
again at a Hamilton meeting.
In 1932 the Kinsmen Ladies'
Club of Hamilton conducted its
first project to assist their men
to raise funds for a variety of
worthy projects.
Twenty years after the first
meeting of the women, . the
name Kinettes was adopted and
the club song -approved.
41 . `Goderibli-'KinettClub
was chartered in.1948 with Mrs.
Grace Patterson as president.
The National Kinsmen Club
Has had many projects over the
years. In 1944 during the war
years,, the War Committee was
established. Kinsmen supplied
65 tons of magazines for
Merchant Marines; averaged
$225,000 a week in war stamp
sales; provided 50 million
quarts of milk for.Britain; and
sent' $106,000 in food parcels to
Suncoast subdivision
revised plan okay
The Goderich Planning
Board passed a motion
Tuesday evening to agree in
principal to an amended
subdivision' plan presented. to
the board by Bert Alexander of
Suncoast Estates. A
Mr. Alexander had made a
presentation df a rough draft of
the subdivision at the February
6 meeting of the planning board
wpich called, for,the,bl:iilding of
.200 single family units, town
houses' . and apartment
developments on a 65 acre
' parcel of land south of Suncoast
Drive}to the duter limits of
' town. n. M '
At that meeting the board
recommended the plans in-
clude more parkland to service
the area and also compensate
for . a deficiency of parkland
that services the existing
community. The plan sub-
mitted to the board did make
the necessary provisions for the
parkland and complied with the
section of the planning act that
states that 5 per cent of the land
used for subdivision must be
parkland.
Although,the board members,
were not completely satisfied
.t,,with the utilization of land in'
the subdivision for parkland,
chairman Dave Gower
suggested that a further study
on the park situation in relation
to the subdivision be given total
analysis.
Board member Rick
Robertson stated -that the board
asked for ainehdments to the
Suncoast plan and that the plan
seems to have complied with
the board's wishes of the last
meeting.
The planning 'board also
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passed, two motions to.
recommena to town council the
zoning of two panels of land at
the north west and south west
corners of the Suncoast Plaza
on Highway 21 South to ac-
commodate a' gas bar and an A ,
and W Drive -In Restaurant,
The land would simply have to
-be zoned C3 or highway com-
mercial to permit the
developments since it does not
need an amendment to the
official plan.
The Northwest portion of'the
land on the Suncoast Shopping
plaza site, next to the
Bluewater Truck Centre, calls
for' the building of a gas bar by'
the Shelf Oil Co, of Canada, The
gas bar would feature a ,car
wash but the- type of service
would be determined by Shell.
Development of the south-
west' corner of the Suncoast
Plaza calls for the building of
an A . and , W Driv�e-In
'restaurant, The bUilding ould
feature a sit down restaurant at
the front of the lot for 45 people
with the drive-in portion to the
rear,
Board member Elsa Haydon
stated that she felt saddened
that the entrance to Goderich
on Highway 21 had to be
Americanized
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that same country.
The 50th anniversary of Kin
in Canada was marked in'1970
with the opening of the Kin-
smen National Institute on
Mental Retardation in Toronto.
Kinsmen raised $400,000 for,this
specific project with the
Kinettes adding. another
$35,.000. -
Last year, • Kinsmen and
Kinette Clubs across Canada
raised $15,000,000 for com-
munity service.
The Goderich Kinsmen and
Kinettes are involved in many
community' project$,, but of
prime importance right now is
the addition planned for the
local workshop for retarded
adults in the district.
The workshop is situated in
the Kinsmen Club House on
South Street. The facilities are
supplied gratis to the Goderich
and District Association for the
Mentally Retarded for' use ,by
retarded adults who carry on
many work projects there.
More space would be ap-
preciated by the Association for
the Mentally Retarded'. since
trainees are limited in the
projects they,can undertake in
the building. The Kinsmen are
now _workirfg to establish a
building fund so the addition to
the workshop can , become
reality. .
0
the service clubs in town asking
them to sponsor a garden
sumewhereinGoderich. `.
The committee hopes to gain
the services of a senior land-
scape architecture student this
summer to assist with the
improvement projects. The
Green Thumbers, a local
gardening club, have already
expressed enthusiasin for the
project and the Maple Leaf
I.O.D.E.^have donated $300 for
a rose bed at the top of" Salt
Mine Road.
The cleanup of the town is
entirely a public project in-
volving property. owners in
Goderich. The committee is
" hopeful that residents. in town
will become involved in' the
spring activities and make a
special effort to improve their
houses and property.
1\lrs. Haydon hopes that
possibly everyone in town could
put ina new garden or plant
sonie flower boxes to brighten
the streets of Goderich. She
added that any, painting ,or
home , improvement plans
scheduled for the summer
could be timed around .the
spring beautification to add to.
the overall atmosphere of the
ttfwn.
The music the committee
plans to bring to town this year
isthe singing of the Purple
Martin. The tiny bird, now
famous in the .United States,
thrives on tiny insects and
,mosquitoes and if given a
. nesting place will ;gather 'in
large numbers year after year.
The Martin requires a house
in an open area and the parks
born mittee hopes to provide the
lodging in four or five green
areas in town: The birdhouses
are -generally aluminum
structures with several in-
dividual compartments for the
birds to nest in. If they are kept
clear of sparrows and starlings
during the time the Martin
migrates, -they will be returned
to each summer by the birds.
Mosquitoes are the main
target for the hungry Martin.
Each bird can, consume as
many as 2513,00t itiosduitoes a
year and haV0 been,,described
,asa boon to residential . and
farming communities alike. By
feeding off the,jnsects the birds
canili mit ° the use of harmful
insecticides and. maintain the
balance of nature without
polluting the atmosphere.
The parks committee is very
excited about their spring
projects and ishopeful that the
citizens of Goderich will join in
the general improvernentof the
..town..
Members want the parks in
town to be available for people
of all ages for sports, picnics or
rest areas during the summer
afternoons and evenings.' With
a little help from their friends,
they can work this year to keep
Goderich green and clean.
Right now
mortgages
cost less ..
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The .money you borrow at today's
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