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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-03-06, Page 32PAGE 10----GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1975 +aW•wro 't::M ,�ro,fi'"�h,�,5, „ �p T. *AV ^*" w wit, 'S tit '- } 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 464 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 IF YOU IELP WE CAN HELP GIVE GENEROUSLY 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.. 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