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Legion Branch 109 kicked off Legion Week on Saturday with
a display at Suncoast Mall. Here, Les Riley and Rick Duck-
worth of the Branch, look over the display of Legion ac-
tivities put together by fellow member Neil Shaw. The
Legion Ladies' Auxiliary also held a bake sale in con-
junction with, the display. The annual Decoration Dag
service at the Veterans' Plot in Maitland Cemetery, which
had also been planned by the Branch, was cancelled Sunday
due to thk weather. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
This is Legion Week
Branch 109 serves veterans,
their dependents and community
BY NEIL SHAW
With this week
(September 18 to 24), pro-
claimed as Legion Week by
Ontario Command, the
Goderich Branch of the
Royal Canadian Legion
welcomes the opportunity to
focus on several aspects of
the Branch.
What follows is typical of
many of the 400 -plus Legion
Branches that are individual
units under Ontario Provin-
cial Command.
With a total membership
of over 900, Branch 109,
presently composed of 45
percent veterans of the arm-
ed services, 33 percent
associates (sons and
daughters of veterans) and
22 percent fraternal
members, has the physical
facilities, financial base,
personnel and contacts to
serve and -or support
veterans, their dependants
and the community.
Legion Branch 109, as con-
stituted today, has grown
well beyond what was con-
templated by the handful of
World War I veterans who
were chartered as Branch
109 of the Canadian Legion of
the British Empire Service
League in November of 1927.
Their prime purpose
(unchanged today) as part of
a national organization was
to continue to press the
government for assistance
for the veteran and those
they left dependent as well
as remembrance of the war
dead.
From a rented room in the
British Exchange Hotel
(now the, site of Woolwor-
th's), Branch 109 occupied
various locations until a
large influx of World War II
veterans forced the Branch
in 1946 to settle into perma-
nent quarters in the vacant
IOOF hall at 56 Stanley
Street.
A desire for more space to
accommodate the growing
membership saw the base-
ment excavated in 1959 and
converted into a lounge.
In 1975, the floor space of
the building was doabled
from the basement to the se-
cond floor.
Mid -October of this year
will see the completion of an
elevator at the northwest
corner of the building to link
all three floors. This will
make the building much
more accessible to the aged
and disabled as well as
allowing for easy movement
of supplies from one floor to
another.
Following World War II,
the Branch became aware
that no Branch can function
effectively without the
assistance of a Ladies' Aux-
iliary. The Ladies' Auxiliary
of Branch 109 was chartered
on July 25, 1947 and has pro-
ven to be an active and
valued asset to the Branch.
Besides providing dinner
and lunch facilities when re-
quired by the Branch and
community groups, the Aux-
iliary, through their own pro-
jects, finance their pro-
grams and often make dona-
tions to Branch projects. A
co-operative auxiliary is the
key to a successful Legion.
Utilizing its many
resources, the Branch and
Auxiliary contribute to the
community in many ways.
The Branch still manages
the 109 Homes project. This
project was the first senior
citizens' housing in town.
Each year since 1975, the
Branch has played an active
role in the annual inter-
change of visits with
Goderich's sister city, Bay
City. The Branch also active-
ly supports the town's
Canada Day activities.
During the past year, over
$1,000 was spent in support of
minor hockey, pee wee
baseball, the figure skating
club and track and field
events. In August, the
Branch awarded $3,600 in
scholarships and bursaries
to students taking post
secondary education.
Each year the literary and
public speaking contests
conducted by the Branch in
the local schools are proving
increasingly popular.
The minutes of the Branch
indicate that in the past 12
months a total of $13,377 has
been donated by the Branch
to various agencies within
the community. Over three
dozen donations from
various sources were made
in the past year and include
such major items as the pur-
chase of two sets of walkie-
talkies for the local hospital
ambulance service, $400 to
the Laketown Band, $1,000 to
Huronview towards the pur-
chase of a van, and $1,000 to
the St. John Ambulance
towards the purchase of a
mobile unit.
While the support of com-
munity agencies has grown,
the veteran whose average
age now approaches 65, is
not forgotten. Each year in
November, Branch 109 pro-
motes a poppy campaign, a
church parade and a service
of remembrance at the
cenotaph. In the summer, a
busload of vets from
Westminster hospital are in-
vited to Goderich to fish and
have dinner at the Branch.
Veterans are the honored
guests at the annual Vimy
banquet and World War I
vets of the area are taken to
the Zone reunion dinner each
October.
During the year, the sick
and welfare committee of
the Branch and Auxiliary
regularly visit all sick and
shut-in members and
veterans to bring news, good
cheer and gifts: Disabled
veterans and _ their
dependants are given an op-
portunity monthly trough
the Branch to contact the
Legion Service Bureau
which provides assistance
relating to pensions,
allowances and treatment
benefits.
Members of the Branch
and Auxiliary also enjoy
other advantages. The
Legion hall's modern
facilities include licenced
lounges and other recrea-
tional amenities open for the
use of members and their
guests to enjoy com-
radeship.
Regular dances and other
special events are routine
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and the annual Vimy dinner
is now a tradition of the
Branch since 1959.
The Branch has an "in-
house" sports program for
its members. Included are
darts, cribbage, euchre and
shuffleboard. Teams are
recruited to play other Bran-
ches at the Zone, District
and Provincial level.
Each Legion Branch is
operated by its democrac-
tically elected officers and
committee chairmen who
receive no remuneration.
. The hard working members
of the Branch are recognized
by their peers by being
elected to positions of ever-
increasing responsibility
and authority. In this man-
ner, the Legion is ensured of
sound leadership from.
Branch to Zone to District to
Provincial to Dominion com
'm -
and'level. '
The true strength of the
Legion lies not in its
material possessions but in
its ability to select from its
membership comrades who
are willing to plan and work
together for a common
cause.
Legion Week at Branch 109
this week concludes with a
pot luck supper in the
Jubilee Room on Thursday,
September 22 at 6:30 p.m.
and a dance in the Jubilee
Room on September 24.
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to ertencompe: teat err
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dor the overall enrolmen inn
e else insome Ht(rbr..Perth
teels.
da k enrolment
tc0." ted at the
Hurop-Pere pate
School Board;;s:SeptemSeberra12,
meeting show an overall'
enrolment upswing of 53
students. This is the first in.-
crease experienced by this
board in 10 years.
The increase is all in Perth
County which has mere
students enrolled this year
than expected. Actual enrol-
ment in the county increased
by 35 students, from 1,354 in
1982 to 1,389 students this
year.
In Huron, separate schools
report 13 fewer students than
projected. The actual enrol-
ment figures show a decline
of 23 students from 1,220 last
year to 1,197 students this
year.
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-' Superintendent -or edtu:i-
tion, John Mccauleyr said
some classes had over 35
students in them, on opening
day. Rearrangements aims
then haveleft 0.ehissea with
more than 35 students.
The 'superintendent added
that kindergarten classes
are being closely monitored
to determine where addi-
tional teachers may be add-
ed.
Pleased by the increase,
.Stratford trustee Ron Mary '
asked how many more
students are enrolled than
accounted for in the board's
budget.
Superintendent of business
and finance, Jack Lane,
answered 53 students at pre-
sent, but said the Ministry of
Education takes September
30 enrolment figures for
grant purposes. Per pupil
grants to the school board
are based on the September
30 enrolment,
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4:30-6:30 Pee Wee
5:30-6:30 Bantam
6:30-7:30 Midget
7:30-8:30 Juvenile
Friday, October 7
4:30-5:30 Novice
5:30-6:30 Atom
6:30-7:30 Midget
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2:30-3:30 Novice
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4:30-5:30 Pee Wee
5:30-6:30 Bantam
6:30-7:30 Midget
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