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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-06-03, Page 15Rands, temperature and /time most important factors in safe fa • , • ••!: JOSIgiMi The illlidertanne of Watibleg 911-Vell#1101 can't be emphasized enough in tlla prevention of foodpoisonhig and other food borne illnessea This was the main message carried to about 25 women by Huron County Public Health Inspector, Klaus Seeger last Wednesday evening during a food seminar sponsored by the GoderichKinettes at the • Kinsmen Centre. Women attesiduncthe senurtar—Th. "daft! those working at the lunch counters in Woolworths and the. Metropolitan store, private caterers, homemakers and those catering for service groups such as the Legion Auxiliary and Kinettes. Seeger showed two films, answered questions, gave a quiz, displayed touch plates with various bacteria offthem and handed out pamphlets to those present. He stated that food poisoning and food borne illnesses are very easily spread and are often mistaken for the 24-hour or stomach flu. Although death does not usually result, very painftd symptoms can occurr. The very young and the very °bl- are most susceptible. There have been cases where elderly people have died from complications caused by salmonella poisoning. Botulism can alsoCausideath. The basic rules to follow to prevent food • poisoairigand illnesses involve, hands, temperature and time. the "Ilendsazetherheht-IM, use— we touch evereethialth Washing hantb• la the key," says Seeger. He also pointed out that most people do not wash their hands properly and said they must he washed thoroughly especially after going to the washroom, handling money, smothering a cough or sneeze or touching dirty surfaces. In an outdoor food booth where no rutag water is available for washing hands, he suggests using msollitteitrelletteilliltetret Ones instead of a pan filled with soap and water which can become contaminated, In the first filar shown by Seeger, the statement was made that "Unwashed hands can dish up death". Using statistics from the United States, it pointed out that 200,000 people become 111 from food served in public each year. Seeger pointed out also 'that 80 per cent of all food borne illnesses result in the home. Personal hygiene is extremely im- portant in food preparation. Besides keeping hands and nails clean, it is im- portant to wear dean dales and keep hair clean. , Temperature is another important factor. A rule to follow is "Keep it hot. Keep it cold. Or don't keep it." Hot foods should be kept at 140 degrees F or higher and cold foods should be kept at 40 degrees F or lower. Bacteria grows best • 1 Waxia eratures h meat fish; be frozen but are thawed* d glAvY, IimUltmandeggilishmarstsauees. Temperatures between 40 and 140 represent the danger zone where bacteria multiplies the f astert. ' Food can sh:11 be contaminated once cooked and left overs should be stored properly within one hour. Keeping food contact surfaces and utensils clean and sanitized is another important factor. listatdierrand don'ts gifinlySeeger melssufilleed; do keep °washedOut ofthe banasas*en podanger zone; do transfer fOods cooked in large quantities into shallow pans for faster and more thorough heating and cooling; do sanitize dishes properly -wash, rinse and sanitize; do thaw food in refrigerator even though it takes longer; do protect food from flies, coughs and sneezes; do store cups and glasses on shelves bottoms up; don't smoke while preparingfood; do use a fresh towell for drying dishes every day and use it only for dryingdishes; don't handle dishea by areas that touch the mouth i.e. don't touch a cup or glass on the lip; don't handle food with infected cuts; don't use foods film bulging, leaking er rested cans (there is a danger of botulism here); avoid prepaiag food if you have a cold; don't use chipped or cracked dishes; do refrigerate vaccum-packed meat and fish; don't buy foods that are supposed to foodthathasheen co4ifsbelythewedi-end do separate stuffing from left overcooked poultry before pttthtg them in the refrigerator. Where restaurants are cow wood, Seeger said the public has to help health • Winders by reporting poor food intik an& WOW& meal is not, awed- hot, it should he Mit- haat 011ie kitchen and it amid be !was good or better than what _ onecan prepareat ben* he said. He informed his audience that health inspectors will soon also be known as provincial offences officers and will be able to hand out Ones to restaurant Owners for improper food handling, etc. Seeger gave the wonlenpreeent at the • food seminar a list of ode. foods and a list of unsafe foods but pointed out that even the safest foods like orange Juice on also become contaminated If ' not handled properly. Usually_ sweet foods' are safer than acidic foods, he said but warned, "Don't get over-eonfident with any foods." I Seeger said food poisoning ot illnesses, cannot always be traced to the last meal eaten as sometimes tyrnitoinadea't %ear for48heurs. He concluded by informing his audience • that proper food handling in iffiest cases, •• 1-aply requires common senseandwilI helpehiminate foodpoisoning. •• 4 • • . .1‘ eadheedide — Huron County Public Health Instrector, Klaus -Seeger displays several test plates with various bacteria on them. At a food seminar in Goderich last Wednesday evening, he ex- 133 TEAR,22 ni.kkied lanui_asacfly Ihripterka earl' .get intim fond and hanaLapirkly_ it eon mmilltinly_byeause • - food poisoning and other food borne illnesses. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Weekend homecoming celebration planned. BY JOANNE BUCHANAN 'One hundred years is cause for celebration and that's how long St. George's Anglican Church has been standing at the corner of North and Nelson Streets in Goderich. The church building was dedicated on April 24, 1881. This year, on the Sunday closest to that date, Bishop M. Robinson held a special service at the church and a further celebration is planned for the weekend of June 27-28. St. George's Centennial Committee, under the chairmanship of June Taylor, has already laid much of the groundwork forthis homecoming celebration. Mr. and. Mrs. Mac Campbell of the in- vitation committee, have sent out ap- proximately 300 .invitations to former 'congregation members now living out of town, asking them to attend the celebration. The response to the invitations has been good so .far, says Mrs. Taylor and a large. crowd is expected at each celebration event. On Saturday, June 27 St. George's rectory will be opened from 2 to 4 p.m. for afternoon tea, The hostesses will' be June Hill, Gertrude Wilkes and Dorothy Crocker. Young girls wearing period dresses and bonnets will serve tea, coffee, fancy sandwiches and sweets. This event is open to everyonefor $1.50 admission at thedoor. For young mothers wishing to attend, a babysitting service is offered in the church - nursery and for the older children there will be penny fair -type activities under adult supervision from 2 to 4 p.m. These include games with prizes, a fish pond and pony rides. From 2 to 7:30 pm. buggy ridesnd tours -of the town will be given, beginiting in front of the church rectory. FrOm 5 to 8 pan. a smorgasbord salad supper will be held in the church hall. This supper is open to the piiblic (tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children and are on sale at Campbells of Goderich). The committee is anticipating between 300 and 500 servings continuously. A stage show including the Mary Lynn Telford dancers will be put on at the same time. Town AIRMIIMItt picnic benchesevill be set up On the church • lawn for those wishing toeat outside. • An old-fashioned home-made candy booth -will be set uponthe lawn of the church (or in the ball ff)lt is raining) by Nora Hugill and Phyllis Wilson. The candy booth and fish pond are church traditions dating back to the time when the Afternoon Guild held a garden party every July and included these two events. On Saturday evening, a barn dance for adults and teenagers of the parish will be held in Clayton Laithwaite's bant. On Sunday, June 29 St -George's regular 11 am. service will be turned into a very . special event. At the front door, everyone will be greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lee, host and hostess for the weekend. Ernie and Elizabeth McMillan will play 'a trumpet fanfare Which will lead to an organ fanfare which will then lead to a number by the choir. A choir of former choir members is presently being put together and will be under the direction of former choir master John Stephens. Invitations have been sent to former Rectors of St George's as well as Goderich boys who were later ordained as Anglican ministers. When all the relies to these invitations have been returned, a guest speaker will be chosen from among them to deliver the Sunday sermon. Following the service, at 1 p.m., there will be a get-together and luncheon in the church hall. All food for the weekend's events is being prepared by the church's catering group. Registration will be continuous all weekend, with each guest being asked to sign a special registration book for keeping. Although Mrs. Taylor took it upon herself toarrange the homecoming cen- demial -weekend, she says she couldn't have done it walled such a willing and capable committee. Take Ernest Lee for example, she says. He is the treasurer. All the funds and bills are channelled through him and he is doing a great job, she ex- plains. "They're all good workers," she says of her committee members. And thietSs the best ingredient for a well -organized, successful celebration. dEfilffits Freighters headed for new careers as storage barges BY SKIP GILLHAM Two ships that recently served the port of Gdderich are headed to Mexico for a new career. Each will be used as a grain storage barge at a yet unidentified port. Both freighters had over 70 years of ser- vice on the Gre.atLakes. One of these vessels is the LAC DES ILES. The 'career of this ship, which was built in 1905, was recounted in the Signal - Star last fall on the occasion of her retirement She is also remembered locally as the MARTHA HINDMAN. The other, MARLHILL, has not run since 1979. She made a number of trips that season to the local grain elevator for the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company. This bulk carrier had three major collisions during her lifetime. Each time the other ship was sentto the bottom. Harthill was built by Harry J. Berwind at Ecorse, Michigan in 1968. She began service for the Mutual Steamship Com- pany and operated in the ore and coal trades. The next year witnessed the first collision. It also involved the steamer Henry Steinbrenner with the latter sinking in Mud Lake on the St. Mary's River. Her cabins remained above water and the ship was sera ageZ Youngstown Steamships purchased the • Turn to page 2A • WEDNESDAY; JOIE 3, 1981 0 SECOND SECION St. G�rge's MgIica.nC1):0611. still standing after. 100 years One -hundred and forty seven years ago, in theautumn of 1834,lhe Reverend Robert Francis Campbell came to Canada under, the auspices of the Church of England in the Huron Tract. He was the first Anglican missionary in the Tract. Drawn by the horse which General Brock 0 had ridden on his fatal day at Queenston, Mr. Campbell and his family made their way along the freshly felled Huron Trail. It was a Sunday when the Rector arrived at his destination of Goderich where he was immediately taken to the house which Dr. Hamilton had secured as a Rectory. This was a house that Thomas Kneeshaw had built for himself, a rough, lath -and -plaster structure with fluted woodwork painted brown. The house faced North Street, situated dose to that street and about 100 feet from Nelson Street. • Here the Rector farmed, permitting his war -wounded horse and his geese to roam upon the commons then dubbed "goose - green", but now dignified as the Court House Square. There was no church building of any kind when Rector Campbell came to Goderich in 1834. Apglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics each held services in theschool house which stood just behind the town hall. While the Rector had, in all probability, performed many sacramental acts in the Huron Tract prior to 1835, his first recorded act was a Baptism on February 1 that year. His first recorded marriage was on the fifth day of that same month. After carrying on services in the school house for three years, the Anglican congregation removed to Dr. Hamilton's bairn on West Street. This building im- provised as a temporary church. Here, Bishoep Strachan (who declared Mr. Campbell to be the most beautiful reader he had in his Diocese) administered the sacred and apostolic Rite of Confirmation in 1842. Mrs. Campbell carried on the, Sunday school. In 1843 a site was selected for the per- manent church building on what is now know as St. George's Crescent. Under the Rector's supervision, a red brick edifice was erected and the land about was used as a burying ground. Unfortunately no known photograph of the exterior of the church is in existence, although in one of the early map -drawings of 'Goderich it is shown. It looked as mild] hike a factory as it did -a church. In 1849, Mr. Campbell resigned the parish of Goderich and became the first Incumbent of the perish of Bayfield. The church there, like the first church here, was built by him. On November 26, 1860, Mr. Campbell died and was buried in Maitland Cemetery. The Reverend Edward Lindsay Elwood was sent by Bishop Strachan to Goderich in 1849. The Bishop said he was sending him among his own people, his two sons, Judge Straiten and Alexander Strachan and his daughter, wife of Commissioner Thomas Mercer Jones living here. During the early period of his ministry, Mr. Elwood's parish included Seaforth, Clinton, Holmesville, Dungannon, Port Albert and other points as well as • Goderich. He held church and cottage services in seores of centres which he reached by horse -back and on foot. In those days it was not unusual for the Rectors of Goderich to baptize 100 or more persons in a year as the registers show. The Rectory to which Mr. Campbell came and which Mr. Elwood occupied for years, was replaced, m 1862 by theprooent Rectory. The grounds were then the pride of the parish and the children loved to romp and play in the gardens on the oc- casion of the annual Sunday School ige- n:es. Fruit trees, shade trees and or- ntal shrubs screened the Rectory from Nelson Street. In 1875 Cannon Elwood was appointed Archdeacon of Huron and Chaplain to the Right Reverend I. Helhnuth, the second _Bishop of the Diocese of Huron. The dell upon the church on St. George's Crescent having been eliminated, it was decided to have it consecrated. Bishop Hellmuth performed this ceremony on Sunday, November 16, 1879. On the mor- ning of the following Saturday, the church burned to the ground. During the interval which elapsed between the destruction of the old church and the completion of the present one, services were held in the Court House. Because it was more centrally located, a porilon of the property upon which the Rectory stood was chosen as the site for the new St. George's. It was a sad day when the trees on the Rectory lawn were heiSn down to make way for the church. Bricks, salvaged from the old church, were built into the new church. The new church, it was evidently determined, should not be destitute of the gothic lines of neheich the old church ap- pears to have been innocent The present St_ George's is a tribute to the ar- chitectural taste of the Rector' (the Reverend Richard Hicks by this time) and parishoners who were responsible for its construction. A Toronto firm contracted to build the church for $10,000 but relinquished the contract before completing the work. The building finished cost in the neighbourhood of $17,000 and was covered by a mortgage to carry a b rge portion of this amount The Bishop of the Diocese being in England at the time, the corner -stone was laid with Masonic ceremony by Grand Master Kerr in 1 se . The church was formally opened on the first Sunday after Easter, April 24, I;1, the preacher for the occasion being the Reverend James Carmichael, a personal friend of Rector Elwood and one of the most -welcome and frequent visitors to St. George's. Sub- sequent to the opening of St. George's, Mr. Carmichael became the Bishop of the Diocese of MontreaL Charles George Dyett, a parishioner, had promised the funds requisite to build a 00 • • • . • . tk, ,01,• • k 4 4 St. George's Anglican Church at the comer of North and Nelson Streets in Goderich was officially opened on the first Sunday after Easter, April 24, 1NI. The congregation is moulting the 100th anniversary of this opening with a homecoming celebration June 27-n. ( Photo by Joanne Ruchanani Sunday School Hall if the church was made without a basement He fulfilled his promise and the school house was built in 1882 as an attachment to the church. By 1917, the mortgage placed on the church in 1880, had been reduced to about $2,000 arid by 1920, it had been completely eliminated. Bishop Williams consecrated the church on June 1 of that year. Many additions and improvements have been made to the church since that time resulting in the beautiful building as Goderich citizens and visitors know it today -and the 1130th anniversary of its opening ie indeed cause for celebration!