Loading...
Clinton News-Record, 1985-4-17, Page 1MOHPORATINO-THE BLYTH STANDARD THE BAY FIELD 0 120TH YEAR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1985 50 CENTS NO. -16 ,0 I 0 for hospital CLIFTON - A skunk skin, an antique wat- ch, original oil paintings and a man's tie, were among the articles auctioned off on Saturday night to help raise $6,000 for the Clinton Public Hospital (CPH). The Third Annual Celebrity Auction and Dinner was deemed an overwhelming sue - cess. The event, held at the Goderich Township Community Centre was attended by 145 people. Funds raised from the dinner and auction will be used to help finance a new obstetrics wing at CPH. A gourmet dinner of cornish game hens and the auction, led by Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell and his brother Doug Riddell, highlighted the evening. Sixty items were placed on the auction block, including paintings, books, gift cer- tificates, quilts, and collectibles. The highest bid of the evening came for a gold watch, from the Archibald Estate, and donated by CPH. The watch sold for $550. A handcrafted quilt, donated by the Clinton Golden Radar Club sold for $275. The sale, the most successful held, raised $2,000 more than last year's $4,000 profit and included twice as many auction items. Last year 31 items were auctioned. Variety and a greater range of prices also encouraged more people to place a bid. Offerings ranged from an oil ..pain- ting,created by Dr. Brian Baker of Clinton, to luncheon for two, aboard a foreign vessel as guests of the ship's captain, donated by George Parsons of Goderich Elevator. Among the other unique items were: a dream flight, a half hour airplane ride donated by Jim Segeren; an autographed copy of "The Moons in Jupiter," by Alice Munro; artwork by Jack McLaren of Ben - miller; a puppet show for a child's party, donated by. Marian Doucette of Clinton; overnight hotel packages; restaurant din- ner vouchers; locally bred and grown pork for the freezer, donated by Hill and Hill Farms of Varna; many handcrafted articles and special donations from local businesses. A popular animal skin, donated by Rosemarie Cooke of Clinton, sold for $54. The skin was from a skunk. A last minute addition included in the auc- tion items was a pink and purple tie, owned by Dr. T.A. Steed. It sold for $26 to Norman Hayes, administrator at Wingham Hospital. Former reeve dies BAYFIELD - Franklin Elwood McFad- den, former reeve of the V. age of Bayfield, died in London's University Hospital on April 9. He was 77. Mr. McFadden was the first reeve of Bayfield when it was reorganized as a village. He served for two terms. As reeve he also served on Huron County Council and in that capacity he sat on the Library Com- mittee. He was also chairman of the Bayfield Arena Committee. Mr. McFadden took an active interest in his community in many capacities. He was a member of the Lions Club, a board member of the Bayfield Agricultural Socie- ty and also served on the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority for many years. He was also active in Bayfield's business community. From 1951 to 1969 he owned and operated the village hardware store, now owned by the Brandons. In 1969 he started the Bayfield Building Centre which he own- ed until 1975. Mr.McFadden was born in Tecumseh Township, near Alliston on June 2, 1907. He was the son of Freeman Elsworth McFad- den and Henrietta Crosbie. Mr. McFadden attended public school and high school in Cookstown. He then worked on the family farm. Before World War II he moved to the Toronto -Hamilton area and "We've got 75, do we hear 80!" MPP Jack Riddell ( right) and his brotherb oug acted as auctioneers during the Third Annual Dinner and Auction presented by the Board of Trustees of the Clinton Public Hosptial. The Riddell brothers, with the assistance of Steve Cooke and hospital administrator Dan Steyr', auctioned off a variety of merchan- dise donated by local residents on April 13 at the Goderich Township Community Centre. The event raised $6,000. ( Anne Narejko photo) Aimmimiemmodmaimiew Cuts may phase out Clinton program worked as a salesman at Simpsons and Firestone. During the war, Mr. the RCAF as a Flying Office a flying instructor he tra overseas duty. After the war he married Marion gin. The wedding took place on December 10,1949 at Calvary Baptist Church in Brant- ford. • The couple lived in London where Mr. McFadden was the manager and flying in- structor for the London Flying Club. In 1951 the McFaddens moved to Bayfield. Along with his wife, Mr. McFadden is sur- vived by three daughters - Mrs. Mary Bolton of Meaford, Mrs. Richard (Shirley) Riordon of Mississauga and Kathryn McFadden of Toronto. He is also survived by one grad- , daughter Mal'eia Bolton. Three sisters also survive Mr. McFadden - Mrs. A.E. (Vera) Lewis of Toronto, Mrs. Murray (Edith) Londry, Mrs. Elmer ( Dorothy) Ney and one brother Edison McFadden, all of Alliston. Funeral services were held at the Ball and Falconer Funeral Home in Clinton on April 12. Rev. George Youmatoff from Trinity Anglican Church in Bayfield officiated. A private committal service was held at the Bayfield Cemetery on April 13. w- „. - served in ,.. 4 d p' ..d • a. As for Youth dies in crash HULLETT TWP. - A 14 -year old boy was killed on the weekend when the pick up truck he was driving struck a tree. Donald Dean Hoelscher of 157 Princess Street W., Clinton, died the afternoon of April 13 when he lost control of the truck while westbound on Concession 12,13, cross- ed the south ditch and struck the tree. He was driving a truck owned by John Weirsma of RR 1 Blyth. He was the son of Glenda and Ronald DeLeary and brother of Kathy Austin, Gor- don Hoelscher and his wife Lisa and Michael Hoelscher, all of Goderich. He was the grandson of Ida and the late Mervin McAllister of Goderich, Marie Saunders of Kincardine and Harold DeI,eary of Phoenix, Arizona. Donald was also uncle to Kristina Hoelscher and Terry Austin. He is also sur- vived by four step brothers, Lonny, Darren, Brian and Rodney DeLeary, all of London. The family received friends and family at the McCallum Funeral Home in Goderich on April 15. The funeral service on April 16 and interment was at Maitland Cemetery. Candidates to address vital women's issues Town may lose Katimavik By James Friel CLINTON - Although the Clinton house lacks official word, there is a possibility that the present Katimavik group in town could • be the last, a victim of substantial cutbacks imposed, upon the program. "With the 60 per cent' cutbacks, the chances aren't great, I can certainly say that,” said Dwight Morley, group leader for the Clinton home. Mr. Morley has attempted to get information from the regional office, "but projects haven't been finalized yet" and a possibility remains the Clinton group could continue. Locations for phase two consisting of•nine projects and starting June 26 will be decided by April 8. Katimavik is undergoing a 60 per cent cutback in funding from the federal government. A $45 -million budget•during the program's eighth year in 1984-85 has been cut to $1.9.7 million in year nine, 1985-86. The restraint measure will result in a drop of about 2,000 people participating in Katimavik, from 3,888 in year eight to about 1,800 in year nine, and staff cuts of about 500 people across Canada. The staff reduction includes group leaders, district group leaders, district coordinators, regional office staff and national office staff. The reduction in participants and staff means fewer projects and sponsors benefiting from those projects. Currently, 324. projects are being conducted with 99 of them in Ontario. That will drop to 131 natiorla.11y and 23 in this province. Sponsors in Ontario will drop from about 300 to approximately 60. The Clinton Katimavik groups have a contract with the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) in 'Wingham to prune white pine crop trees in reforestation projects on private property or county lands. They also plant trees, spray for weeds and collect cones and seeds for future tree planting. The tree planting done by the groups would be done by private contractors if Katimavik 'was removed from the area, as would seed collecting, but without the same financial benefit to the ministry. "As far 'as pruning goes, it wouldn't be donee We could get private.contactors to do it but money has been cut back with restraint," said Murray Hall of the Wingham MNR office. "It has a real benefit down the road." Some pruning would be done by those now supervising the Katimavik groups, •but not on the same scale. "It's very worthwhile. Some groups are I better than others, but we've accomplished a lot of work." 4 Another place Katimavik has been providing the difference between good and better has been at area schools. Ron McKay, principal of Clinton Public School, said those helping at the school are "handy to have. We make good use of them when they're here." Mr. McKay said the school could do without the volunteers, but they are useful additions, helping teachers with special events, creating games and making posters, and working with exceptional students. "I guess I'm a fundamentalist. We can always get along,without them, but it's like having a refrigerator in your house. We got along without them before, but I'd sure as hell hate to be without one now." The prilcipal of Huron Centennial Public School offers his family's home as a place for a participant for the two week billeting period, as well as providing a space at the school. "The one we billet is used at the school," said John Siertsema. The Katimavik person helps. look • after small groups and exceptional students and is rotated throughout the school. The billet also works on special projects such as the backdrop for the spring concert to be held four weeks from now. And a French-Canadian participant was used in the oral French program. "We appreciate the fact they come from different areas of the country. We feel we're culturally enriched and they find out about the school operation and the students." Mr. Siertsema's home seems an ideal place for a participant to billet. He and his, wife Kathleen have three children, including two teens, a Finnish exchange student and until last week a foster child also called the Bayfield house home. "We try to accept them as one of the family," he said. "They're top-notch kids." Jarle Fisher and his family of Clinton also host a Katimavik billet. "We do carpentry and renovations so I have the billet working with me and do as I do. "They go with us to visit family, help on a weekend project and do dishes and other chores," said the Clinton man. "We try to be honest about finances - how hard it is to make a dollar and how easy it is to spend a dollar." The Fishers look to the Katimavik house as an opportunity to make new friends and to keep in touch with the country's younger people. "With about 10 people every three months, it adds up quickly. We've been able to meet a lot of young people and we're keeping in touch with a few of them." The Fishers have done some travelling and have been helped, during their journeys and "We want to reciprocate, riow we have the opportunity." Mr. Fisher added the program has a place in the community. "I think you'll find people will miss` it if they leave. The program is good for the participants, it's good for me and I think it's good for the economy. It's kind of unique because it appears to help everyone in the general public." He believes Katimavik to be a type of college or University, a nine month course covering a broad spectrum of areas in which participants earlgain some'proficiency. The chance to see other ways of living is an important experience for a person. "It's a reciprocal type of system - what we should be doing in the world." a CLINTON - Women Today, with the sup- port of the Huron Women Teachers' Association, will be sponsorin an all can- didates meeting for the riding of Huron-. Middlesex on Thursday, April 25 at 8 pm at the Clinton Arena. The purpose of this Meeting will be to question the candidates for provincial parliament on their stand on women's issues. Women and men interested in the views of the candidates on issues , relating to women's equality are invited to . attend. This meeting will provide an opportunity for voters to become aware of the politi- cians' vieWs on issues of equality for women and provide the opportunity for women to make the politicians aware of the issues that are of concern to them. Three candidates representing the liberal, New Democratic and Progressive Conservative parties of On- tario have agreed to attend the event. They are: Jack Riddell; Paul Klopp and Bryan Smith. Neither Women Today nor the Women Teachers' Association, . as organizations, have an affiliation with any particular political party. "Our purpose in organizing this event is (hot to tell women who they should vote for. Our purpose is to encourage women to be aware and involved in the political process and the political factors that directly in- fluence their lives. By becoming aware, knowledgeable and having experience with the political process we realize that we have the influence and responsibility to make change," Women Today spokespersons said at a press conference last week. "Women Today has had a history of taking on this kind of responsibility over the past four years. Our organization has written briers and made presentations to the Provincial Standing Committee on Social Development on the desperate need for quality, affordable and accessible day care in Huron County. We have carried out awareness campaigns to make people aware of and change their attitude to issues relating to violence to women. Issues of violence include women abuse; sexual harassment; pornography; rape and finally negative and limiting stereotyping of women's role in society." • This would include the opportunity and support for women to: start their own business; be recognized and adequately paid for their role in the agricultural in- dustry; be recognized for the unpaid labor of childrearing, and household tasks ('and not be expected to be totally responsible for these simply because 'of their gender; be guaranteed safety from violence to women in all its forms; have positions in equal numbers to men, on boards and councils that make decisions which affect communi- ty life, - such as - education, health, social services, municipal'affairs. Women Today and the.Women Teachers' Association expect to have a sucessful all candidates meeting on April 25. Members also believe that the process of planning the event is almost as important as the event itself. They want women to take notice of the provincial election and realize that they do: have democratic power in their vote.' "This power is only effective if it is in- formed and used along with the oppor- tunities it creates to voice our concerns. As women we learn from one another as we work together to plan and discuss the issues in our lives. As we plan together we create a 'network' of our talents, skills, knowledge and experience. The connections we make as we pool our efforts create a broader base of understanding and the potential for coor- dinated and effective -action," said Women Today member Nancy McLeod. "Our committee invites any women who wish to help organize the meeting to contact Women Today (482-9706) to find ways to be involved. Women interested in encourage-. ing others to attend the meeting can pick up flyers from the Women Today Office." She further noted, "we also urge women to come to the Clinton, Arena, April 25, at 8:00 p.m. • Women.who have difficulty in attending the meeting because of transportation ' or childcare difficulties should phone the Women Today office, 482-9706 between 9-5 on • Monday to Friday. Women Today's goal is to'raise the status and awareness of women in Huron county which includes working towards social change and a more positive and equal treat- ' ment of women. Women Today has taken on this responsibility in the past. They are organizing this "all candidates" m�rieeting to demonstrate our continued comrhitment to this tas Both omen Today and the Women Tum topage2• The latest, and due to government cutbacks possibly the last, Clin- ton tour of duty in town Feb. 27 and Katimuntil vik Maygroup tarted the fronts row are Patrick Doncet, Welland, stays until May Ont.; Jill Gathright, Victoria, BC and group leader Dwight Morley, Owen Sound, Ont. In the back are, left to right, Rick Komick, Bon Accord, Alta.; Martin Blanchard, Magog, Que.; Sue Gould, Etobicoke, Ont.; Anne Charbonneau, Brossard, Que.; Renee Beaulieu, Fort Coulombe, Que. and Luc Leblanc, Ste. -Julie, Que. (James Friel photo)