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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-06-26, Page 1w ,. MICHAEL PALMER SHARON TIGERT JOAN SCHOENHALS DAVID ROSS KEN CUTT er RITA KNOOP PAT SHORE GLEN TIG1RT a . PAT CONLON 410 VLO SHELLEY TIGERT 9i4-75-Yeur-5 — - c.Iass.."tremendou" Goderich District Collegiate Memorial Scholarship valued Institute Principal John at $200 for obtaining the highest Stringer announced this week average in ear 5. daughter of that ten Year 5 (Grade 13) Joan students have been recom- Mr, and Mrs. William mended for Ontario Scholar- ol T�� Oe wasssecond high with an ships valued at $100 each. win an. Ontario Scholarship, a average of 86.7 percent. student mush have 80 percent or better in Yeaf' 5. . According to Mr. Stringer, this is the largest number of Ontario Scholars to be produced at GDCI in a single-- year since the Grade 13 provincial departmental ,examinations were discon- tinued.' Top Grade 13 student this year is Michael Palmer, son of Walter Palmer, Clinton, and Mrs. Eileen Palmer, 269 Warren Street, Goderich. Michael's average was 91.7 percent which also qualifies him for the Robert McKay Third topstudent was David Ross with an average of 84.7 percent. David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Ross, . 79 Wellington Street. Close behind was Ken Cutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Cutt, 102 Park Street, with' an average of 84.2 percent. Rita Knoop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Anthony Knoop, RR 3 Goderich, was an Ontario Scholar with an average' of 81 percent, Glen Tigert had an average of 80.7 percent in his final year at GDCI. His . parents are Mr;. and Mrs. John 'Tigert,'? RR 6 '''� Goderich. An average of ,80.3 percent was "tallied by, Pat Shore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold .Shore, 23 Britannia Road East. . Shelly Tigert had an average of 80.2 percent'and her twin sister Sharon Tigert had an average of 80 percent to make - them both Ontario Scholars. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Tigert, RR 3 Goderich. Pat Conlon, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Conlon, 82 Montreal St., Goderich, earned' Thief gets '916 at Craig.ie's ' store A 'thief made off with -$916 from Craigie's variety store Saturday_ afternoon while employees were busy serving customers. The Goderich Police Department said that $871 was taken out'of a money bag and $45 from an envelope from an open safe in 'the rear of the 28 YEAR -26 THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1975. SINGLE COPY 25c Hiige freighter arrives make harbor hist store. An employee had been in 80 percent in the office in the rear, working do average of .on the books and wait .to assist Grade 13 to qualify as -an in the store leaving the office Ontario 'Scholar: Pat was empty.' • • president • of the Students' The money, was discovered Council this year. missing at approximately 4:30' Mr. Stringer rdescribed this p.m.' ,Saturday and was ;years Grade 13' class as •"just believed to have- been taken trernendous' _. and noted that 'between 3 and 4:30 p.m!., many of the O,ftario Scholars • The Goderich Police this year were also students`' Department said the,rear involved in school activities entrance to the buildinwas throughout all their high school locked and it is believed the years. - thief ..Walde an exit through the Winners of other scholarships front door of the store while the , will be announced in time for employees were' serving cof`nmencemerit :exercises in customers. ^ September. • Ye:ars of growth uprooted_ rees in V mink MacDonald spent the day after last week's . stormling p felled e c tr after they s backyard. Mr: MacDonald and a neighbor, Bev Nivens, choppedu p p were uprootqd or sp1it;'by the stortn's,high winds. Mr. MacDonald planted the' trees 15 year's ago earefully watching their growth and caring for them the whole time. (staff photo) From calm to, gale in '10 minutes Thunderstorm damage estimate The thunderstorm that struck • the ‘Goderich area recently caused. about $3,000 damage to hydro equipment in town and toppled trees and limbs throughout the area. ,, the storm, one of the most severe to strike Goderich W Lnthe last decade, lasted about atl°'hour and dumped ,about a half an inch of rain through the night. The air prior to the storm was listed'.by the Sky Hastier weather station as dead,calm. About, ten. minutes 'after one Thursday morning.it picked up reaching 45 ii1o8 perhour and at tit ies gusted to 60 miles per hour. Tthe ain inore sheets rand was aceompani'ed by constant lightning from the cloud to the grou 21. The rain and lightning lasted' about, an hour prior to moving off but the air after 15 or 20 minutes was argain listed as dead calm by the Weathe't' office. The financial dfamage caused by the storrn was the result of Cher constant bolts' of lightning that lit the skin the early morning hours. Striating a,nywho;r,e from five, to , 15 Seconds apart the cloud to. ground hiests 'of nature's electricity were directed to houses, trees, street lights and power lines . • giving the municipal works and engineering crews,. and hydro 'workers plenty, of work to repairmthe damage: Public Utilities manager Dave Ralston estimated storm damages at about $3,000. He said he had his crews on the ;job cleaning up after the storm the next morning and had to leave the at the cleanup for two ,days, A major power line nn West Street was—struck by a falling tree limb an was`' shorted , and burned and a transformer in the north end of .town was struck by, lightning and had to be replaced/ Some street lights were out far two or three days because of lightning damage. ' n The West Street power line problem - brought} the PVC serial -truck out in The middle of the' night. to remove the limb and 'restore power to the north The largest lake freighter to , ever visit Goderich harbor, and one of the largest' freighters plying the° lakes, arrived here Monday,. morning to take on a load of salt bound for Toronte The Algosoo, ' one of the Vessels in the Algoma Central Railway fleet, nosed into thee. Goderich harbor basin Monday mgrning and., made nautical history here. The 730 foot, 16,093 ton vessel has a 75 foot beam and draws" 2.1 feet of Water when . empty. She is capable of handling 31,000 tons of cargo but left,Tuesday with. only 26,300 tons of salt from the Sifto pier. The new length rec <i the, harbor breaks the c e at $3,000 west section of • town;,,, High winds broke the limb off sen- ding.it crashing down over the lines. Pover surges through the 4,000, volt line started the branch and the line bur Ing until it shorted out sendin' six or seven bright hurm, of light into the air accompanied with loud bangs until the breaker blew killing the,hydro Repair crews saki the next day that: all the strands .in, the line had burned except two that were holding it up,' They said if the line had come down it could hgove resulted in a major repair job forcing many houses to go without power fora several hours. .- 0A nVntari-Cil - •0Arn'')ntari-Ci. lydro spokesman said • in 0 telephone interview another Algoma vessel, a the Algorail. About 650 feet from bow to stern °the Algorail was believed to.be.the largest vessel to tie up here. Docking the huge vessel vas no small feat, for the 'Algos.00- captain D. D. Shephard. The maneuver was nampered by thsandbar at the mouth of the harbor, a grain vessel tied up on the south pier and' two Goderich Elevator barges tied up in the north east corner of . the harbor basin. With only several feet to spare on either side Captain ht the freighter 5hepnaro oro into the basin nosing his bow up -within several feet of the stern f h Shelter Bay the vessel in for grain. The crew of the Bay gathered; on the stern to see if the Algosoo would' .clear the cramped quarters as three tugs from MacDonald Marine pushed her giant .stern section around allowing her to steam out to the Sifto pier for her load. The sandbar was not much concern for the Algosoo as she had plenty of power to push through the silty bar. In some tight spaces Captain Shephard can back his ' vessel in but eoncern for silt being pushed' . into, stern exhaust chutes prevented him from trying the rearapproach here. Mine manager • W. K. Coughlan expects .the, Algosoo to return. here several times throughout the shipping season. that their crews were at work restoring bower in" several areas of the county after the lightning - had played havoc with the power line, Woi•kniCn wentwn the .i„h about 3 :1111 i'h I h� Morning and repaired blown fuses until about, noon Thur - Way." No lines were downed as a result of ,the storm and the most heavily damaged areas " were Mullett, Grey rind Ellis townships. '9• The Goderich works and engineering department spent the better part ofweek cleaninn up fallen trees and limbs broken off by ,the, high winds'. Some st •eOts N were completely blocked "off • 1}y downed trees that had, to be' cut 4confinu'ed on gage 131 FLORA SIMPSON i)ON,ILIU COUG1;1Lr1N %L-rDREY VANDEN N'EUVEL JOAN COULTER ANNE MARIE HOWARD ,.e Prize winners To.p of the Calculations were made this was 93.4 percent. She is the week at Goderich District daughter of Coulter, 181 and Mrs. Collegiate Institute to deter -James on l`mine the top students in Yea,,rs 1 Street in Goderich.PetAdamson through 5. The winners receive The awards worth from about $50 to Memorial Scholarship given for $100 each. the highest average in Year 2 The most valuable (Grade 10) calculated from the scholarship awarded in June aggregate .of ..seven Year 2 goes to ;he Year 5 (Grade, 13)" subjects, goes to Anne Marie . student having the highest }toward with an average of 93.9 average. The Robert McKay percent. Anne Marie's prize Memorial Scholarship, worth will be. about .$65." She is the $200, goes. this year to Michael. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ° � Robert' Howard, ' RR • 3, Palmer, son of Walter Palmer, a,. Clinton, and Mrs. Eileen Goderich. Palmer, 269 Warren Street, Two Veteran's ' Memorial Goderich. Michael's average Scholarships are given in Year was91.7 percent. 1 (Grade 9) for the highest The Peter Adamson ,average 'calculated from the Meni,orial Sc'1iolarship is given aggregate of seven Year 1 to the;,student in Year 4 (Grade subjects. Each scholarship is 12) who has the highest average worth -about $65. calculated from the aggregate The first place winner is Doh of six Year 4 subjects. This, Coughlin, � fou hlan,f Mr. and 352 Mk Street, 'year'srs. winner is Mora Simp g song,. daughter of Mr• and Mrs. Goderich, with an average of Duncan ' Simpson, .RR 3, 88,6 percent. Goderich, with,.an average of The second dBene winn r ,is 89.3 percent. The value of that Audrey Vanscholarship is atout $130. daughter of Mr. and Mr§ 'Kase ' Joan Coulter is the winner of Vanden ':4Heuvel, RR the McKim Memorial Goderich, with an average of ° Scholtz ship valued at $50. Joatt 86.9 percent. , had the highest 'faverage in Other awards will bein-4 Year�„3 (Grade 11) calculated'• nounced 'inSeptetanber, P from the aggregate of seven cipal John Stringer said Year 3 subjects. Her average Monday. • f vr