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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-08-19, Page 20Communis News Legion commits $3,00 to 109 Homes repairs The regular monthly executive meeting of Legion Branch 109 was held on July 29 with President Alvin Blackwell in the chair and seventeen officers and commit- tee chairman present. The branch does not hold a general meeting in July or August. The executive approved the following donations totaling $3,975 from the Nevada fund-: $100 to Community Living Central 'Huron, $75 to Canadian Mental Health Association, $200 to the Goderich Figure Skating Club, $100 to Awareness Day in Huron County, $400 Minor Hockey for goalie equipment; $100 to the Canadian Paraplegic Association and $3,000 for repairs to 109 Homes. Comrade Clarence Hoy presented the applications of T.B. White, B.J. Everett and R.J. Leckie for transfer into Branch 109. These were approved. Ordinary members John E. Taylor and J.R. Smith Webb were accepted. New associate members accepted into the Branch were David L. Cornish, Betty E. Hogg, Beverly Jeffery, Brian L. Larstone, Stephen A. McQuire, Gwen McKellar, Karilyn Parks and Grace Elizabeth Rivera. No memberships will be taken until after the September general meeting when an increase in the annual dues will be up for approval. The property chairman Bruce Sowerby is to look into the cost of improving our facilities for the disabled and elderly, as a grant is available to help defray the cost. Sick and Welfare chairman Ray Barker reported that cards, gifts and/or visita- tions were made to 25 comrades on the sick list. Those members on the sick list as of August 14 are in Alexandra and Marine: Harold Hibbert, Bernice Bedour, Orval Mcphee, John Hannah, Gordon Glousher and Ken Williams. Percy Sheardown is in Sunllybrook Hospital and George Leitch is in Clinton Hospital. In Parkwood are Lorne McAndrew, Jack Kempson, Murray Tennant, Bill Michie, Anna Wells, August Schmidt, Ian Callis, Ronnie Thomas, Herb Corballis and Wm. Lane. The wreaths on the cenotaph in Court House Square this month are placed there courtesy of Goderich District Optimist Club, Victoria Loyal Orange Lodge No. 182 and the Goderich Police Association. Sports chairman Al Fisher requested the same aid as in the past for the Branch 109 Invitational Fast Ball Tournament on August 16. One team will represent Branch 109 in District C playoffs in Stratford. BRANCH 109 Branch 109 had two teams itarticipating in Zone C all members slow -pitch tourna- ment. One team brought home the A cham- pionship trophy. The other team brought home the B championship tourney. PRO Neil Shaw reported that the Sully Branch 109 scholarship committee has selected .three students for an award of $500 each and it was moved that these three awards be paid from the Sully ac- count. The committee will meet in September to review the scholarship criteria and funding. The group photo of both the Branch and Auxiliary Executives will be taken at the executive meeting on Tuesday, September 29. Legion Seniors chairman Clare Bedard reported that he had made four trips to London, one to Stratford and one to Seaforth for seniors lacking transportation. The Legion canteen chairman Harold Beadle reported that the every Friday lunch in the canteen is doing well. In his property report the chairman Bruce Sowerby stated that there was a problem with water pressure at the Branch when the heat wave hit in the weekends. This problem now has been solved. The Branch has two of its canteen stewards taking part in the Waiters Race during Tiger Dunlop weekend celebration. These stewards Chris Smale and Terry Cowley, have their pledge sheets filled and the Branch will match these pledges. The Branch will celebrate its 60th an- niversary in November of this year, and a birthday committee chaired by 1st Vice Stan Profit has a master plan to mark this period from Nov. 11, 1987 to Nov. 11, 1988. The Branchms 60th anniversary will com- mence with a dinner dance on this coming Nov. 14 when the Dominion President will be the honored guest and speaker. A number of special events are planned for our anniversary year. Watch for the details in early September. The next executive meeting will be held in the Jubilee room on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The first general meeting following the summer recess will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 in the Jubilee room. Your at- tendance is requested and your voice in Legion activities is always welcome. Meals on Wheels program assists many seniors Helping people with home delivered food is as old as, neighbours. At times of sickness, bereavement and other emergencies, friends have brought food and sympathy. Before the organization of Meals on Wheels, seniors often, against their will, had to move to homes merely because they could not cook regular meals for themselves. Patients had to stay longer in hospitals because they were not well enough to cook for themselves. This meant a great strain on many institutions, and more important caused misery to thousands of people. In England in the late 1930's, the need for an organized service was recognized and Meals on Wheels was born. Reports of the success of the program came to Canada soon after the war but it was not until the early 1960's that the urgency of the situa- tion decided Hope Hohnsted (Canadian Red Cross) and Viola Haipenny (United Church of Canada) to visit England to see how the service was run. The Brantford Red Cross was the first to start in Canada. Meals were prepared in a church base- ment by volunteers. In 1965 the first pro- gram was set up in Toronto and in 1976 Meals on Wheels of Ontario Inc., was established. It was incorporated in 1983 and is a registered charity. Today there are over 170 Meals on Wheels agencies operating across Ontario, delivering nutritious meals to persons liv- ing independently in the community who are unable to attend to their own nutri- tional needs. Meals on Wheels in Goderich is spon- sored by The MacKay Centre for Seniors. It is run by Olive Knisley and Claude Kalbfleisch (co-ordinators) and Marion Shaw (treasurer). The meals are prepared . Musical fantasy at Playhouse by the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital and delivered to 15 people in Goderich. A team of 30 drivers deliver the meals five times a week. Mrs. Knisley and Mr. Kalbfleisch will be "retiring" their services this year, after eight years of dedicated service to this program. At the present time, Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteers to run the program in, Goderich. If you feel you could help, or would like to know more about this wor- thwhile service, call Kathleen Buckley at the MacKay Centre- 524-6660 (11 am - 3 pm) . This program is run entirely by volunteers and to make it work we need you. GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUS'K 19, 1987 -PAGE 3A The Goderich Rotary Club bid farewell last week to Naomi Miyamoto, an exchange student from Wakayama City, Japan. Naomi, 17, has been in Goderich for the past year and stayed at the home of Jim and Mary Donnelly. She received a bracelet from the Rotary Club. From left is Rotary Club President Gary Sholdice, Naomi Miyamoto and John Penn, chairman of the Rotary student exchange program.(photo by Yvette Zandbergen) Valuable relic saved A recent news item reported that the Alvin Clark had been sold by the Mystery Ship Preservation Society Inc. to The Group Investors Diversified for $92,500 (U.S.). This mundane - news becomes special when one realizes that the Alvin Clark is 141 years old and spent more than a century at the bottom of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. The Clark, a topsail schooner that cap- sized and sank in the middle of Green Bay in a violent squall almost exactly 123 years ago (June 29, 1864), today is a totally uni- que, full-sized artifact of mad -19th century Great Lakes commerce. She is the only existing example of the literally thousands of schooners that once prqvided links between lake ports. These workhorses of their day were often locally built in places like Goderich where there was a good supply of timber and a harbor adequate to launch them in. The Alvin Clark was built near Detroit, almost entirely . of white oak. Her hull measured 107 feet in length with a beam of nearly 24 feet. She was a two -master with squaresails on her foremast as well as a fore-and-aft mainsail. The saga of her discovery, raising and second life is almost as sad as her demise in that storm of 1864.. , Commercial fishermen had snagged valuable nets on an obstruction in Green Bay off Chambers Island, and asked sport diver Frank Hoffman, an area hotelier and tavern keeper, to retrieve them. In doing so, Hoffman, discovered the "snag" was the mast of the Alvin Clark which was sit- ting upright on the lake bottom in a near perfect state of preservation. After repeated dives on the wreck, Hoff- man and his crew decided to raise it. Unknown to him at the time, that decision would change his life and plague him with financial and health problems for more than a decade, maybe even to this day. 1't was an incredible task, raising a hulk of that size intact from the mud some 110 feet from the surface, suspending it MIPWATCHER; By Dick With beneath a big barge, towing the whole thing to Menominee, Mich., 30 miles away, and pumping her dry as 15,000 people look- ed on. But Hoffman did it, and was justifiably ecstatic when the old schooner reposed on the surface again, her sturdy planks and caulking still as tight as they had been 105 years'before. It took Hoffman two year of work and 3,000 dives .to bring the Clark to shore again, plus thousands of his own borrowed dollars. But his troubles were only beginning. Hoffman had achieved his goal, but he had no plan for the Clark after raising her. Despite the ship's historical value and ex- cellent condition, no institution or agency came forward, as he had expected, to take her over and repay his. costs. Meanwhile Hoffman, determined 'not to forsake the ship, sank deeper into debt and probably despair while the schooner rapidly deteriorated from lack of professional preservation. The magazine WoodenBoat in 1983 ex- tensively documented the stories of both the. Clark and Hoffman. At that time, he was keeping the schooner in a drydock called Mystery Ship Seaport on the Menominee waterfront. He lived at the site, having sold his hotel years before to pay debts and support the Clark a5 a tourist attraction. So the news that the Alvin Clark has' been sold might be good. Maybe Hoffman has finally been compensated, and maybe this valuable relic of a forgotten period will be around awhile. Next week, we'll re- count the story of the incident that sent the Clark to the bottom in 1864. Helping kids through art and play 'from page 1 true. It's often the limitations of a therapist and the therapist not realizing his -her limitations that makes treatment hard. Some therapists do not realize they can use a team approach in treating a client or that they can send the client to another therapist altogether. "Play and art therapy isn't the only way for the client to be healthy," Bedard - Bidwell crated. She also has background in Gestalt theory, bioenergetics and massage therapy. COURSE AT WESTERN Beginning this fall, the University of Western Ontario will be offering a pro- gram in art therapy at the graduate level. Bedard -Bidwell is one of the foun- ding members of the course at Western. She has also been asked to teach at the university and will if teaching times can be fitted in to her otherwise busy schedule. "If they can give me times which will still let me spend time with Jessie and Stephen (her one -year-old daughter and husband) and at the two homes, then I will probably be teaching," she said. She hopes to see play therapy offered in a university setting some day as well. "In my opinion, both art and play therapy are so connected. If you have only one aspect, then you can only work in the one area," she said. Since establishing and fulfilling her first goal, that of setting up a long-term care residence in the country, Bedard - Bidwell ;has since set another goal for herself to fulfill. "All I want to do now is train other people to carry play and art• therapy on, whether it is through the program at Western or whatever," she said. There is little doubt that she will indeed be successful in this goal as well. Blyth boy to go on tour BLYTH Ten -year-old Jerrod Button of Blyth is playing the role of Sandy in ANOTHER SEASON'S PROMISE at the Blyth Festival this summer. And then he's going out on the 10 week tour across Ontario and right through to Alberta! For a Grade 5 student who has never been farther afield than Niagara Falls and Toron- to, it's quite an adventure. Jerrod will be out of school the whole time and expects that Bernice Passchier, the Company Manager for the tour, will set him some lessons to work on. But he's not too worri d about fall- ing behind in class - he's a bright student and should make it up easily. When he first auditioned for the role, Jer- rod didn't think he stood much of a chance. 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