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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-05-21, Page 1These Mounties always get their man. The Bay 150 band and majorette members were in City Western High School band featuring over Goderich last weekend and delighted a large audience at a free public concert Friday Shriners to invade the area BY JOANNE BUCHANAN You may notice an increase in population here next weekend. And some ' of that 'population will be wearing tall hats with tassles. The men under the hats will be Shriners. Approximately 2,000 of them will be arriving in the area on Friday evening, May 30 for their spring ceremonial. The ceremonial, which aiso,includes a parade in Goderich at 9:45 a.m. Syy rday, May 31 and one in Clinton at 3 p.m, th ::'Me day, will see 150 new members induct-, into the Mocha Temple, the Shrine Templi"hick takes in the whole • of southwestern Ontario including 18 clubs and 15 units. Spence4*figs of Clinton is the Illustrious Potentate of the Mocha Temple. The Bluewater Shrine Club is playing host to the ceremonial for the first time since 1963. It has taken the ,.Club 18 months of preparation and Leroy Harrison of Goderich is the co- ordinator. Harrison 'says over 500 hotel and motel rooms within a 60 mile radius of here have been booked for the Shriners and their wives and others will be bringing their own motor homes and campers. Some will becoming from as far away as Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan. A luncheon will be held at Goderich high school for the candidates to be inducted and the wives will be fed at the Legion Hall and then taken on a tour of the town. Food will also be available at the Clinton fairgrounds all day. Many will crowd local restaurants. Harrison estimates that the visitors will drop $100,000 plus in the area during their brief stay. While here, the various Shrine clubs will also be donating money for the Shriners Hospitals Turn to page 3 O INSIDE THE SIGNAL -STAR Greaser Day �roekside.—.P-ublic' School held a Greaser Day last week and the guys and gals got decked out in 50s style duds for the day. The shades and greasy look can be found in a picture on Page 5. Shriners coming 'Area Shriners will be holding a Ceremonial in the Goderich area May 31 and that will include a large parade. Joanne Buchanan takes a look at Shriners and the community work they perform in a feature beginning on Page 1A. Buckle up The Goderich Police Department has been cracking down on the five year-old seat belt laws and recently nabbed 68 motorists who failed to buckle"up. The complete story can be found on Page 12, Regular Features Tid Bits P 2 Editorial P. 4 Sports P.6-7 Classified P.8-9 Real Estate P 11 Community News P. 12 Columns P. Al Awards P. A:3 EntertainmentP. A5 Church P. A9 Farm P. A10 Art show P A 12 the evening at GDCI. These two Mounties are part of the majorette corps. More pictures inside. (photo by Dave Sykes) e out employeesgeek donciliation meeting:, The employees of Family and Children's Services of Huron County may soon be in a legal strike position if efforts for further con - meetings fan throagh: Gord MacDonald, negotiator for Local 1427 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said he was hoping to talk with management this week and set up a meeting to resolve the issues. "I am hopeful that the parties can meet and resolve this thing," he said. "We are willing to meet again and try to resolve the issue." If another conciliation meeting is not set up MacDonald said the union will then ask for a no - board report from the Ministry of Labour. The employees would be in a legal strike position 17 days after the no -board report submission. On Tuesday, MacDonald said he would contact negotiators by Wednesday to establish further conciliation efforts. The contract covering the 13 social and clerical workers at Family and Children's Services a tpired December 31. The last eon - ciliation meeting was held April 28 but the management proposal was rejected by staff May 5 with a. majority of employees voting in favor of strike action. The union was seeking a salary increase OI 15 per cent in a one-year contract. Management offered an eight per cent increase effective January 1 and a further oneper cent increase on July 1. Family and Children's Services co-ordinator, John Penn said the salary issue was settled but the union is still seeking provisions in reclassification and mileage allowance. Although reclassification and milegae allowance are the major points of contention - the union was also seeking more statuatory holidays and improved vacations. QIiriaidon weekend Despite some rather foul weather campers filled most of the parks and campsites, in the Goderich area over thelong weekend. While the weather limited activity to some degree it contributed to rowdysism and van- dalism at Point Farms Provincial Park four miles north of town. Clerk Doreen Anderson said that a total of 60 charges were laid for liquor `violations and offences under the Provincial Park Act. There were 30 charges laid for liquor offences and another 30 under the Park Act for vandalsim to campsites and park property. All of the park's 204 campsites were filled Friday evening as close to 800 people flocked to the park. Much of the rowdyism and vandalism oc- cured Friday evening when windows in a comfort station were broken, trees were chopped and glass and garbage was strewn about campsites. There was also some damage Saturday evening, although to a lesser degree. The OPP were not called in. Pine Lake Camp north of Bayfield opened the 1980 camping season with a parade Saturday afternoon. 132 YEAR -21 WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1980 35 CENTS PER COPY Prop BY JOANNE BUCHANAN y owners offered solution A group of property owners who are unable to develop or sell their land due to lack of services and a 20 -year-old town bylaw were shown a way of solving their common problem at a Housing Action Committee meeting last Wednesday evening. Seven people, including one woman from Windsor, owning lots in a big field, known as The Corn mons, north of Bennett Street and west of Mary Street, attended the meeting to hear suggestions from Commissioner of Works, Ken Hunter, on how to. get servicing for the land and therefore make it more usable. The land in question falls under a plan known as Plan 21 which dates back to 1905.. About 20 years ago, a bylaw was passed by town council which made all the lots touching each other into one big lot. In order to sell one separate lot, it therefore has to be severed from the others it touches. And it cannot be severed until it is serviced and rezoned. Presently, the land in the plan is zoned both residential and develop- mental. Hunter told the property owners that the servicing problem had to be solved before the zoning and severance problems could be worked on. He said there were three methods for obtaining servicing. All the property owners could get' together and service the land on their own. One person could buy the whole field and have it serviced as one big subdivision. Or a local improvement plan could be adopted. The property: owners present agreed that this. latter method would be the best. It involves signing a legal 'petition asking for services, sending this petition to council, hiring an engineer to design the services and splitting the cost among the property owners in accordance with how much property each owns. This cost can be paid in one lump sum or it can be charged through the property owners' taxes over a number of years. There are two property owners who would not benefit from the services since they receive their services from Bennett Legion commemorates liberation with Dutch "It was just like Christmas -morning and it– was a really warm feeling." Neil Shaw fondly recalled being part of a Canadian Division involved in the liberation of Holland near the end of World War ,.II and marching through the street of the Dutch town of Delden on the Twenthe Canal. It was a warm feeling then that bonded the Dutch people to the five divisions of young Canadian men who liberated that country from the Germans. It was a warm feeling that the Dutch extended to the 6,000 Canadians who lost their lives in the effort as they continue to tend to the soldier's graves. And there were warm feelings as the local Dutch community joined the Legion and many local veterans in commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Liberation of Holland with special ceremonies in town May 9. It is a bond that has endured 35 years of peace. The Goderich Legion Branch 109 sponsored a special Dutch night on May 9 and area veterans and Dutch -Canadians paraded to Dutch Memorial Fountain Park for a rededication ceremony. There the Laketown Band per- formed the Dutch National Anthem and Reverend Royal, the Legion padre offered a scripture reading. One of the highlites of the dedication ceremony was a speech by Reverend A. VanDenBerg of Clinton, who lived in Holland as a small boy during the war, The text of his speech follows. I feel very honoured to be invited to attend the rededication of this fountain to the memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during World War II, in their drive to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis. It has been 35 years since the Allied Forces, spearheaded by the Canadians, invaded that part of Holland north a-th.e.Rh.ineandats�xibutarie.s I, remember those Canadians in their Sher- man tanks, and their jeeps, and I was thrilled, when I experienced my first ever car ride with one such Canadian, in his jeep. I was the envy of all my friends. I remember, and I am sure those veterans present here today also remember the Dutch girls in their orange skirts with orange bows in their hair, standing along the roads. There were flowers everywhere. The windows, smashed during the previous years, were decorated with flowers in empty tins nailed to the window frames. I can also remember a few days previously when bom- bers had flown over, dropping food packages containing cheddar cheese, ham, milk and other koodies I had never tasted before in my life. The war, in that part of Holland, had lasted ' for a full five years, but the last winter was a cruel nightmare. There was no food, no fuel, and for so many, no shelter. We were fortunate though, because we had survived. Those were the memories of a five-year-old Althougn I realized war was bad, I had, of course, no idea of its ramifications. War, with its waste of life, material, and resources. All of us are aware of it, but somehow, mankind does not seem to be able to prevent those cir-. cumstances which are even now leading to a renewed threat of war. Today's events here in Goderich not only remind us, and honour the soldiers who gave their lives for freedom, but also bring back the memories of the cruelties of war. Let us, therefore, direct our thinking and doing toward lasting peace, and let us start small, by throwing overboard all grudging and revengeful feelings towards our fellow citizens. Today's event, in particular, shows the Turn to, page 3 m Street already. These two owners would not be charged. The local improvement plan requires that two-thirds of the property owners agree to it. In this .particular case, eight of the property owners, owning 23 of the 45 lots, would have to agree. Hunter estimated that it would probably cost about $5,000 per lot for services including sewers, roads, curbs, gutters and hydro but he said the town was not responsible for giving out figures. He said an engineer could probably come up with a better ballpark figure. Turn to page 12 Sheri Henry, a little camper from Beecher, was one of many participants in a parade held at Pine Lake Camp about 10 miles south of here on the weekend to mark the opening of the cam- ping season. The parade featured clowns, kids on decorated bikes, a few ponies and a pipe band. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)