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The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 109, and the Goderich Lions Club recently worked
together to provide funds for new flooring in the dressing rooms 'at the Goderich Memorial
Arena. Presenting their cheques to recreation director Jane Netzke are (centre) Alvin
Blackwell, Legion president, and Bert Squire, chairman of the Lions community betterment
committee.. Each of the clubs gave approxiMately $3,000 towards the purchase.of Tuflex
flooring, a kindof rubberized flooring, for the arena dressing rooms. (photo by Lou -Ann
Hope) •
Former newsman
address Ledo ranch 109
The speaker at the Royal Canadian
Legion in. Goderich on. Saturday, April 4,
1987, will be Ken Smith, -a member of the .
Fort York •Branch in Toronto.. -His great
great grandfather, John,Srnith, who carne
from Scotlandto Peel County in. 1842, had a
brother who fought, at the Battle of
Waterloo'.
Ken Smith was'born and grew up in Mount
Forest in • Wellington County, in that
delightful part of Ontario known as the snow
belt. Goderich old-timers will recall that
George EWA' --of Mbunt Forel was a
longtime editor of the Goderich Sinal Star.
.Ken Smith is another former
newspaperman.
He served overseas with the Hastings &
Prince Edward- Regiment that traces its
origin to Loyalist settlements along the Bay
of Quinti .around .1800. Commissioned at
Gordon Head, B..C., in 19342; he took further
training at Camp Borden and Vimy Bar-
racks in Kingston. Overseas in the spring of
1943, he was assigned as a reinforcement of-
ficer for the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry,
but by the fall more reinforcements were
needed in Italy. Late in October he was
aboard the Santa Elena in a long convoy on .
his way to the Mediterranean.
Just 48 hours past Gibraltar; German
'torpedo. bombers roared across the convoy
at dusk. The Santa Elena was hit and even-
tually went down, but the 1,200 passengers,
including all personnel of .14 Canadian
General Hospital survived. Another ship
went on to Naples.
In late December, 1943, Ken Smith joined
the Hasty Ps near Ortona. On May 23, 194,
he was severely wounded leading his pl
.toon in an attack on the Hitler Line, about 10
miles west of Cassino. Smashing the Hitler
Line «mea.nt speeding the advance toward
Rome.
After a year in hospitals in Italy,,England
and in Canada, .he went to McMaster
University to complete his honour degree in
history and later to Queen's for an M.A. His
career in journalisrn began in 1949 when he
joined the Woodstock "Sentinel and then the
Hamilton Spectator, where he remained un •
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til 1956, mostly covering municipal govern-
ment. While in Hamilton, he was awarded a
years 'journalism scholarship in Britain -
wit•h three other newspaper men from
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all
ex-serv.iceinen. ••
In • 1957 Ken joined the Globe.. and Mail.
.During 1959 and 1960 he was the first Globe
reporter ever assigried�to the West Coast.
After that, for about 10 years he covered
real estate and construction for the Report
on- Business. Since the summer of 1971 he
has been the research director of the Toron-
to Real Estate Board.
• Ken Smith is the author of "Duffy's Regi-
ment", a book which focuses on the military
life of Regimental Sergeant Major Angus
Duffy who was the legendary' chief noncom-
missioned officer of the famous Hastings
and Prince Edward Regiment which saw
action in Sicily and Italy during World War
II. In the post war period Duffy was to
become Commanding 'Officer of this
regiment.
Legion Branch 109 looks forward to the
visit of Comrade Smith as guest speaker at
our Vimy Banquet on Saturday "April 4.
Tickets are available at the Branch canteen •
or y-rphoning 524-8488.
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Transmissionfacilities
could be built by 1990
New Southwestern Ontario transmission
facilities could bein place by August 1990 if
there are no major delays in the rest of the
approval process, Ontario Hydro Presi-
dent, Hobert Franklin said recently.
"'The line is , badly needed, because at
present, power from the Bruce Nuclear
Power Development cannot be fully utiliz-
ed. The need for these facilities was first
identified 15 years ago and it's critical that
the project be completed as soon as possi-
ble so that costs to our customers do not
escalate further."
In its decision, the Joint Board found
that Ontario Hydro presented a reasonable
range of alternatives for the transmission
routes and satisfied the requirements of
the Environmental Assessment
Franklin said.
Under the Consolidated Hearing Act,
there is a 28 -day period t from the date of
the decision, February 201 during which
Appeals may be made to the Provincial
Government, After considering any ap-
peals, the Ontario Government is responsi-
ble for granting firal approval through an
Order -in -Council.
Early government approval would be
needed in order to meet the August 1990 in-
service date. Once the Order -in -Council is
granted, Ontario Hydro will hold public in-
formation meetings to inform more than
1,000 'property owners along the
395 -kilometre route about all aspects of the
project.
According to the approved plan Ontario
Hydro is permitted to build:' -
A 560 kilovolt transmission line from the
Bruce Nuclear Power Development to a
new London area transformer station.
This line would pass east of Goderich and
Bsty'field and west of Exeter and Ailsa
('rail;.
A major new transformer station near
London `in Caradoc township and 230
kilovolt lines connecting the station to the
existing 230 kilovolt system.
A 500 kilovolt transmission line from the
new London area transformer station to
the Nanticoke Generating Station. This
line would pass southwest of the Caradoc
Indian Reserve and follow the existing
right-of-way east of St. Thomas to north of
the Nanticoke Generating Station.
For more information about the location
of transmission routes call collect
4161592-7943.
OMAF course presented in Clinton
The Working Together Better course on
March 24 was attended by six farm
employers. The course covered such topics
as hiring, interviewing made easy, tips on
selecting a good employee, communica-
tions, good working relationships, handling
conflict, and job motivation. The par-
ticipants ranged from an orchard ope ator
who has up ' to 18 employees to a dairy
farmer who hires seariohahle nart-limp
help.
Richard Hamilton and Cheryl Brine,
Rural Organization Specialists with the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture and Food .
OMAF 1 presented the course in Clinton.
Family Members As Wage Earners and
Paying Wages to Farm Employees are two
informative OM AF factsheets recommend-
ed for farm employers. They are available
Pram the Colinton OMAF nffire.
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