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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 1981-04-09, Page 17VANASTRA the y ... by Jon Ferguson voice Nearly too warm ,Spiel ends curling This past Saturday, April 4th and Sunday, April 5th marked the last major function at. the Vanastra Curling Club. The event was the mixed bonspiel for the Reni Brochu family trophy. The event was divided into three draws 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. which com- menced on Saturday mor- ning. Problems developed during the 12 p.m. draw with the warm temperatures creating extremely "heavy ice conditons The second game for all teams was delayed by two hours while it was hoped that ice conditons would improve. After a super dinner catered by an Exeter Group, the games were resumed. Thank goodness for food because you needed all the strength you could muster to get the rocks down the other end. A dance was held after the last group finished curling around 11 p.m. Breakfast was served Sunday morning between 8:30 and 11 a.m. with Jack and Mary . Helen McLauchlan and Gayle and John Brownridge serving up pancakes, sausages, toast and eggs to all three draws. Everyone did a superb job of wishing for better ice con- ditions, because with the freezing weather on Sunday created better than ever conditions. The results of the game are as follows: 1st place on the 8 a.m. draw, Ron and Rosemary Sellars with Jim and Bev Broadfoot; 2nd place, Don and Eileen McGregor and Bill and Marylou McGregor; 3rd place, David and Julie Townsend, ', with Mark Cantelon and Connie Evans. Consolation went to Barry and Sheila Davis with Len and Isobel Theedom. Winners of the 10 a.m. draw went to John and Gayle Br6vlhiridge'' with Jack .and Mary Helen McLauchlan. This team was also second overall for the whole bon - spiel. Second place went to Alex and Eileen Townsend with Joyce and Stu Wilson; 3rd place to Cliff Parker, Kay Sharp, Ilan Lince and Trudy Hill; consolation Ken and Marg Rogerson with Olive and Stu Broadfoot. Winners of the 12 p.m. draw were: Ron and Bonnie Brown with Bev Purvis and Claire Cox; 2nd place, Don Michelmoore, Mary Moffat, Bob Allen and Marlene Bell. Del Mitchelrnoore sub- stituted for Marlene Bell for Sunday's game; 3rd place, Wayne and Cheryl Carroll and Lynn and Carl Crossett. Consolation went to Mel and Val Gilbert with Tim Collier and Cheryl Houston. Winners of the Rene Brochu Family trophy with miniature trophies and prizes were Ron and Bonnie Brown with Bev Purvis and Claire Cox. This spiel was sponosred by Labatts, Walkers, Geiser Kneale Insurance, Pete Roy Insurance, Hay Township Insurance, McKillop Mutual Insurance, and the Clinton Merchants donated door prizes. Prizes were won by Ann Adams, Ron Sellars, Ev. Falconer, Jean Taylor, Sharon Ellis, Ann Zwann, Marie McCutcheon, Ward Hodgins, Jan Ferguson, Brad Falconer, Bev Shad - dick, Mary Whitmore, Jim MacDonald, Cheryl Houston, Doris Cantelpn and Don Brodie. Sincdre thanks to Bob Allen for organizing the whole bonspiel. Don't forget the Annual Dinner on Saturday, April 18th at the Vanastra Recreation Centre. Tickets are available from any Executive member. Plans for the renovation of the club will be discussed. Christian Church plans service For the Lenten season we continue the series of messages on The Way of the Cross. The organist for Sunday April 5th was Chris Guette r. Last Monday night the action corrimittee met in a special meeting to discuss the nature and church membership of the Vanastra Church and a classical Home Missions Committee is scheduled for Thursday April 9th in the Stratford church at 9 a.m. Next Sunday, April 12th is Palm Sunday when the Sunday School children will be volouring Easter eggs for the community breakfast to be held on Sunday, April 19th at 9 a.m. The effort is being coordinated with the Tuesday and Wednesday Come Alive groups so there should be a great variety of baskets and eggs for the breakfast. All families are invited and are asked to bring muffins, rolls or hot cross buns. Coffee, and drinks for the children will be provided. There will be special music at the Good Friday service at 10 a.m. and Easter Sunday service after the breakfast. There will be no Sunday School on Easter Sunday. Public school news Education Week is the week of May 3rd to May 9th and this year's theme is "Celebrate Learning". We invite you to celebrate with us! At the present time, our plans include a day dedicated to the way Education was 50 years ago. On that day we will be mixing up the classes to Office closes create five "little red school houses". Children will be asked to dress the way that their grandparents dressed. We hope that parents will be able to find things in "grandma's attic" that will help make this day a suc- cess. Because last year's picnic was such a success, we will have another one this year. Hot dogs will be on the menu again and families will be encouraged to bring whatever else they will need Don HaEniltorr Real, taltq ; lete their meal. At Ltd. is closing its Seaforth office. The office, a branch of the Listowel firm, opened in Seaforth in 1979. Mr. Hamilton, owner of the company, said it's hard to say at the present whether the company will be re- opening an office here in the future. He said "at the moment" they won't. The two agents employed at Don Hamilton, Steve Murray and Bill Henderson, -will be joining Harold Work- man Real Estate Ltd., whose office is now located at 39 Main Street, South. Another office is located in Clinton. Henry Mero, the agent now employed by Workman, will be mottling the office to the formerpon Hamilton office. Mr. Mero will continue selling real estate, but the other agents will also be selling insurance for McMaster Insurance Company of Stratford. Frances Teatero will con- tinue as office receptionist. Mr. Murray said the changeover will be "im- mediate." rf 'Present,itne, we are hoping to have a talent show the same evening. On Wednesday, April 22nd, Mr. Hingley will be at. the school to do picture retakes. Personal glimpses Welcome home to Myrna Smith after her stay in Seaforth hospital. Get well wishes to Moira Robinson after surgery in Clinton Hospital. Peter Hummel's grandparents from Buffalo are here for a couple of week's visit. Beaver Leader Jim Ryan and beavers Jeff and Keith Ryan and Ronnie Ferguson went to Goderich with the Clinton Beaver pack to see the movie "The Aristocats" on Sunday afternoon. Happy birthday to Murray Jeffery on April llth. Glen Smith's brother from London Ted, his wife Marget and family visited on Sun- day. 0PTON.1CA Save $30. during April on this feature -packed stereo cassette deck orlowiCA RT -1144C STEREO CASSETTE DECK oApS$ (Auto program tetrarch System) flits unique devices actually "searches" o tope SUGGESTED LIST 245. ungl It locates a music cue (non -signal segment) end thereby enables quick easy handling of the following operations: 1. Shipping to automatic playback of nest musical selection. S. thieping to and stopping of nest mosical eetection. 2. Automatic replay of a musical selection. S. peturnln, to and stepping at beginning of eauskal program. olndtsIderal ptas and Equalisation Selectors oPdolby Nolte deduction System Marti perm allayhead for ostsoded high frequen- cy response. �6u11 auto step mechanism. oIlectronic controlled IIB motor far absolute speed stability and lops wow and floater. •Maga Illarrnlatatad MIf austere. sl.tae/alts Input seleftor switch. 1,44=teffal ignite control. arcs malty eft indicators. 411414e1 Caps teentat. OUR APRIL FEATURE PRICE $219. TILL APRIL 30 ONLY ETES 219 VICTORIA ST. CLINTON • 4A2-7021 By Wilma Oke A Tuckersmith landowner who applies for a building permit now is going to have to dig deeper for the money for the fee. Tuesday night council increased most of its building permit fees, doubling a couple of them, and reducing four. Bingo winners Winners from the bingo held at the Vanastra Recreation Centre on Tuesday March 24th were: 1st share -the -wealth, Terry Gibb of Clinton; 3rd share - the -wealth, Roy McGonigle of Seaforth; jackpot, by Annie Sallows of Vanastra. Winners of the Tuesday March 31st bingo were: 1st share the wealth, ,,Anita Fabor of Kippen; 2nd share the wealth, Lark Haskett of Vanastra; 3rd share -the - wealth, Dora Taylor of Seaforth. The jackpot was shared by Shirely Kilner of Granton and Evelyn Graham of Wingham. CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 9 ,1981—PAGE 17 g permit fees increase in Tuckers The fees are as follows with the old prices' in brackets: house, $125 ($65); house addition, $50 ($35); mobile home $35 ($35); barns $70 ($35); implement shed $40 ($35); car port $30 ($35); workshop, $40 ($35); silo $20 ($20); manure tank $30 ($50) ; apartment building $200 ($95); garage $40 ($35); deck $30 ($35); porch $30 ($35); pool $30 ($35); granary $25 ($20); renovations, house $40 ($35); renovations, apartment $125 ($35); mobile home in ap- proved park -$25 ($20); in- dustrial building $150 ($80); industrial building renovations $100 ($50): . Water rates have been it creased by the Clinton Public U.dlitiea Commission, for the water it sells to the hamlet of Vanastra - up 70 cents per one thousand gallons from 60 cents. Karen McEwing, Vanastra day care centre director, has been granted her request for an increase of salary of $1,000 because of the ad- ditional work she has in conducting special education classes in the day care centre for mentally han- dicapped children. Part of her salary is paid by the ministry of community and social services. Bob Marshall of the Vanastra recreation centre has put in his three month probation period and is now on permanent staff. Mr. Marshall's salary now $10,000 will be increased by 12 per cent. Passed for payment were the following accounts: Vanastra day care, $4,984.97; special day care classes at Vanastra, $7,223.18; Vanastra recreation centre $14,426.64; roads $12,310.66 and general accounts of $57,127.35 for a total of $96,072.80. Council approved the purchase of calcium chloride at $135.85 per flake ton from Pollard Brothers to be used on township roads after they have been gravelled this spring. Last year 190 tons were used on the rends but Allan Nicholson, road superintendent, said he hopes to use 200 tons on the roads this year. Weed spraying of township roadsides will be once again applied this year by the Township of Stanley at the rate of $25 per hour, up from the $22 paid last year. Council members, road superintendent Nicholson and Engineer Ross Jackson of the ministry of tran- sportation and com- munications will make a tour of the 100 miles of township roads to check out the condition of the roads and what is needed to keep them in good condition, Alta to be checked out are the bridges. Council endorsed a resolution from the township of West Nissouri in Oxford County requesting that the federal and provincial governments in conjunction with the Natural Gas Distribution Companies be encouraged to work together to expandand extend natarn.1 gas transmission lines into rural arid small urhan mnwmtl Clerk Jack McLachlan was authorized to attend the clerks and treasurers seminar on Friday, April 10 at Clinton and a meeting of the Industrial and Economic Development Committees in the county for a general discussion on the industrial development programs of ., the county on April 14 in Clinton. Reeve Robert Bell will attend the Huron County municipal officers' association meeting to be held in the Lucknow legion hall on Apri116. The township_ gave per- mission to the Van nitro/id Foundation to have a liquor and beer tent at the 7th annual ciderfest on Sep- tember26and27. The following grants were made by council: Vanastra recreation centre $1,000; Hensall Agricultural Society, 1150; Seaforth Agricultural Styty, and Huron Central Agricultural Society at Clinton each the same as Hensall; The Tuckersmith Federation of Agriculture was given a grant of 1700; Seaforth Icons Club for its pool and park program., POO; Seaforth Community Hospital, a grant of $3 per patient from Tuckersrpith in the hospital in 1981; Huron Pk,wmen's association, $50; Hensall recreation board 11,000; Seaforth recreation board $1,500 and Clinton recreation board $500; Huron County junior extension fund (4-H agriculture program) 1138, Van Egmond Foundation I.0o0-:: k8'_'"e_gtiest `-fOr- building program; and 1200 to the Seaforth pre-school learning centre which. requested the money to help purchase a portable classroom at the public school as they must move out of the Seaforth library. General Moors says STICKER SLASH You may never see Prices this low again • N' E II No g,nohassling justIowprices! 1 14.2% interest SALE ENDS SATURDAY, APRIL 11 And we goSTOCKIH!. Transports have been arriving daily with new fresh clean cars and Tight trucks. us*.NESS %)S' e The President of General Motors Canada has announced a price increase of an average 3.4% effective Monday, April 13. PRICES FOR A NEW 1981 PONTIAC START AS LOW AS.... ALL NEW VEHICLES DISCOUNT PRICED IN THE WINDSHIELD. DON'T FORGET - 7 % Sales Tax Rebate on Tight duty trucks PONTIAC BUICK 1=M TRUCKS PONTIAC BU ICK CADILLAC GMC TRUCKS