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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-06-10, Page 53GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1987 PAGE 13 APPOINT The following girls received the most valuable player awards for their sport at the GDCI awards. assembly, June 12. The winners are: Ifront row left to right) Betty Schoemaker, vollyball; Joanne Campbell, senior girls track; Leslie Meyers, midget basketball; Co . u t er. history traced at radio club meeting held recently Local amateur, Fred Looker VE3ZL from the Bluewater Amateur Radio Club was guest speaker at the meeting in the recrea- tion building on McDonald St. June 9. Fred traced the history of computers from .the time .Amateurs first.became interested in them in 1965 to their present prohiferation where they touch, almost everyone daily, whether the touched one is aware of it or not. A computer is an electronic bag of-swit- cher, a memory, two or three registers and a number *of mail boxes controlled by a CPU central processing unit). Examples of computer control or supervi- sion include telephones, banking pro- cedures..toasters, home heating furnaces and many applications in autornobileS. • Devices with incredible stora a capactiy are now in use. One small CD - ROM (com- pact disc -read only memory) can store the data equivalent to the entire bible including seven translations, on less than' half' it's memory capacity. • In the last seven years, the number of peo- ple using' computers,.exceeds the number of people in the world who could read and write only 140 years ago. • After the meeting was -adjourned, a social hour with coffees and doughnuts was enjoyed. . - Members and guests were present from Kincardine, Wingham, Blyth, Clinton, .Hen - sal and Chiselhurst. Coming activities in- clude Field day., a ,demonstration during Tiger Dunlop clays as well as picnics 'in • Goderich ,and Oak Park, Michigan .and a corn roast in September. The next regular meeting will be held October 13. :Health kits distributed Health promotion kits on stress, smok- ing and fitness could soon be distributed to local industries in Huron County. ' members of county council yearned at c'ouncil's regular June meeting.. The Huron County Board of Health has . granted authorization for its health educator to co-operate with the. Perth County health Unit's health educator in producing the kits. Each of the three kits will 'involve the creation of posters, fact sheets and title banners and a graphic arts student will be hired to design posters and graphic layouts for the campaign. The board will apply for a grant from the Wintario Development Program to co er 50 per cent of the estimated total cost if $775 for the project. Huron County m'l then be responsible for 50 per cent of'th, remainder, or approximate) $194. County council learned f the plans to circulate the kits durin presentation of the hoard of health report by Goderich Township Reeve Grant Stirling, board chairman. Cathie Gallow, senior basketball; Krista Collinson, junior basket- ball; (second row) Miriam Weerasooriya, badminton; Jennifer MacKinnon, badminton; Mary Jo Evans, golf; (back row) Sanna Landenpera, cross country. Executive plaques were presented by Mr. Rittenger at the GDC awards' assembly June 12. The winners are Heather Murray (front left), Carol MacEwan, Angie Chisholm, and Katharine Murphy. The Reginai. found THE SHIPWATCHER For Lake Huron shipping buffs, the big news of the past year was the discovery of the wreck of the Regina. The Canadian freighter was lost with her crew of 15, along with 11 other ships and more than 235 lives, in the worst multiple disaster , recorded on the Great Lakes: theGreat ..Storm of 1913.. . . Last July, salvage diver Wayne Brusate of Marysville, Mich., was sear- ching .for the ,wreck of a commercial tugboat somewhere off the U.S. shore, probably almost directly opposite Goderich. But instead of the tug, he found what others had been seeking for years, the mysterious and long -lost remains of the Regina. Brusate announced his find late in 1986 and recently publicly presented some of his evidence. Built in Great Britain in 1907, the Regina was only 269 feet long with a car- rying capacity of 3,000 gross tons and was valued at $125,000. She was typical of the small package freighters of the day, being designed to carry a variety of cargoes into both Targe and small ports. She had a small, wheelhouse with bridge wings over her forward cabins and a tall, thin smokestack and E etvo lifeboats on her aft superstructure. r two masts had booms for handling freight through her deck hatches. Package freighters of that era were generally "sturdy, dependable .and pa- tient" in the words of one marine writer. The Regina was owned by the Mer- chants' Mutual Line and operated by The Canadian Lake Line of Toronto. , On Nov. 9, • 1913, the ship finished loading mixed freight at Sarnia. Included were eight railcar loads of canned goods from Leamington and a deck cargo of baled hay. Meanwhile, out over the open lakes a wicked brew of three separate storms was meeting, with violent results. By Dick With The Regina, like other vessels, steam- ed confidently into Lake Huron bound for northern ports. With his ship barely six years old, Capt. Ed McConkey probably figured he could weather, anything the lakes could dish up. But he had no way of knowing the severity of that storm: When the three systems collided over the lakes they pro- duced a combination of the worst condi- tions imaginable; screaming winds that constantly shifted, blinding wet snow,' and steep seas coming from several directions at once. ' A U.S. skipper, who. had prudently turned,about for the safety of the St. Clair 'River, was the last to see the Regina afloat. She was laboring up the lake about 15 miles below Harbor 'Beach, Mich. and probably foundered soon afterward. When the storm subsided the bodies of '10 crewmen washed in at Port Franks. A lifeboat with two victims was found later, followed by three more dead on the beach. The mysterious side of the tragedy emerged with the discovery of 12' bodies from a U.S. ship, the Charles S. Price, wearing lifejackets from the Regina! The captized hull of the Price was .found floating some miles above Sarnia where it later sank. There were no survivors from'either ship. Several theories have been suggested. Having dived ' on the wreck, Wayne Brusate Ms an opinion. In next week's Shipwatcr, we'll,learn what he found in Lake Huron's depths. Strawberries Fresh Picked Daily OR Pick Your Own We also have a wide selection of ... Fresh Fruits an ` Vegetables 'Bedding Plants •Shrubs • Gardening Supplies STOLLAND FARM MARKET Hwy. 21 - 5 miles North of Goderich 0 524-6419 EN DAILY G.M. MACHAN ENT (;len 1Iachan of 31:.11. 11.1('11.1 N t'ONSl'LTIN(a .1.NI) SV'S'1'E11 Sl'PPOKT is pleased to announce the appointment of Rhonda Bund' to his computer support and training staff. RHONDA has ail excellent background in a ~< ar•iety of business office settings, both using and installing .micro-conll►trter• applications. In order to set an appointment to discuss your computer hard - IA are, soft« are, .training or sup- . port requirements, please call GOD ERIt'll 52l-11822 or 'Coll Free Pager I-551.-1051. We have been pro\ iding s.erN ices and equipment to clients in Huron. and Perth counties since f9M3. t logic ,\board CONSULTING 2.18 Britannia Ind. W., (Aoderich TOWN OF GODERICH NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PASS .AN AMENDING BY-LAW TREM VE ' THE HOLDING SYMBOL FROM LANDS ZO ED • • • BY BY-LAW 38-1955 TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Goderich intends to pass an amending by-law .Under Section 35 of the Planning Act, 1983 to remove the holding provision from the tends described below The council of the Corporation of the Town of Goderich will consider the amen- ding 'by-laW mending'by-law not earlier than at its meeting of June 22, 1,987 at 7:30 p.m The proposed by-law will remove the holding symbol from the zoning on Lots 909 and.940 and. Part Lots 910 and 941. R.P. 457 (see attached map) to allow for the commercial development to proceed in compliance with the site standards on Key Map 25B of zoning by-law 38-1985.•The removal of the holding symbol changes the zoning from Core Area Commercial (C4 -4-H) to Core .Area Commercial (C4-4). ANY PERSON may attend the Council meeting and/or make written or ver- bal representationieither insupport of or in opposition to the proposed by=law. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed.amending by-law Is available for inspection 'between 8:30 aim, and 4:30 p.m. at the Municipal Office.. . - DATED AT THE TOWN OF GODERICH THIS 16th 'DAY OF JUNE, 1987. Zone change to' C4-4 ' (Core Area Commercial) from C4 -4-H (Core 'Area Commercial - Bolding) Larry J. McCabe Clerk -Treasurer TOWN OF GODERICH 57 West St. GODERICH, Opt.' 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