HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-07-15, Page 5L'.
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Construction ne- .
completion. on.vtli'e corporate hangar - ronapany s•lear. jet,:.is built An Tari
belonging to Do inion' Road 1VIaehinery Company at Sky' Goderich. (staf(photo). • •
Harbor Airport: The hangar, ch.wil'1 be -used to house the'
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Coeat
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The town of . Goderich, and
jur other municipalities in
Duron • County, are :' being
asked to take a look a.t'a`plan
fol. Area Recreation. Services
to be dealt with on a county
- - wide basis and'., cornment on
• the possibility oo development
• of such services. -
Town council, as well as the'
councils of Clinton, Exe•tet,,
Seaforth and Winghani•, Were
sent copies of 'a report
prepared -by .' recreation
directors:and committees and.
the• county development and
o1annini; deaartnients• and
towns <a
Io�k at area rec
establishing an- area
recreation. scheme and lays'
down a few. suggestions as to•
how the . pr.ggram•'s . • can': be
•initiated.
.The basic theme of -•the
'report - i.s-i, to naeet ' the
-recreational - de:m'aitds.' of';.a.
Coinmunity that now has
more time ola,its..hands than it
eves did; The : result; :is
reflected in. an. increase in the
number of ..municipalities
employing ;fold^' time
recreation -directors ,and
establishing -committees:'to
handle rec services. Facilities
• asked to :comment on it. The have been: expanded, ^ both
report: outlines the',need^^ for. indoor and.outdoor, schoals
Lions expand
iva-Carniva!
ry•.
The success•..of•: this year's
Lions- .Club Aqua -Carnival
- :prompted. the Aqua -Carnival
committee to sponsor a'two
day event over .the Jufy 1
weekend next :year; an-
nounced Roy' Breckenridge,
co-chairman of next year's
eyent. The final -receipts'
not,yet b n counted. for this
year's. carnival "but , in-.
dication ....are that this year's
event, held July 3,-- was a -
resounding•success.
Mr., Breckenridge. will be
leased from the town •of
are being :used •extensively
both.sumymer and whiter and
rec programs -arebeing
developed consistently' an
staff hir.ed-to-operate-them
The, a, expansion of • these
services . has • -caused •'the
municipalities to feel a pinch
in -areas -of finance:s;_facilities
and staff. Municipalities are
being asked;°to provide .ser=
vices for their own..taxpayer.s
and, -due to the . increased
mobility of people, for. tax-
p:a''ecs in• • neighboring
communities. People are
driving :out of their area._ti
' make u�ee of .• facilities__.. and
prograins rains offered b y their
g. y
neighbors 'andthe inequities
that prompt these -moves are
• the, : reasans • the , area rec
service§ ' . are. being, in-
vestigated..' '
The : establishment 'of. the
, services wou•1 : enable have
not -communities :to provide
their taxpayers with the, same
•w--- - tic iti-e s, ....,'-the .: .,•have-
communifies have. accordmg
rvices
CODERICH.:SIGNAI,.STAR:.. THURSDAY, JULY
Cue Ball'. IVletonnefl
'AGE;
";Life seemed uncomplicated rel'ati:onship•s w• ith cus'tpmers. Express office, craigie ear -would visit each othe�Cwind •
then 4lttey -vas scarce, the_Men who wQuld.'slmply meet• Estate,' a theatre, a. ba ,bei ` everyone seemed 'to, nuke a
competition• was evident but in the pool room during bleajc shop and a .•restauran't: hat. Iiving'With no ill feeling:''
poT overly keen and when : depression days, later con- res rant, now Shore. Gifts,. He added that the first
times were rough a man's " tilued to "be4stomers. favourite spot Or tlieti„ noticeable • change . in
-.._d'. children after. skating:at the.,. Goderich 'life and •bus"i"ness
West Street. arena: took -place after World War elf ' .�
"After.;_.:the war, .o.the ..
During his 95 years ,of. population grew'''wtth they
Pr1ceguard! stores an the: ° . "We would 'give irren employment. Arnold hasseen• industry and there seemed to
be a dem to "changeover
Square. „and through .cigarettes or tobacc'o:with the numerous businesses ,die and
-=-yea-rs-;-ha-s -Seen-the- business .promise they would be paid "many more spring up but." even lathe iness:" , •
section of Goderich grow to for whenever. , they *had, . finds the biggest change in
its potential: • '•' money, We would.mark down the attitutdes of, businessmen. •Arnold has enjoyed his long."
n ,";'`The: 'competition • has what they :charged but the association.with businessmen
become ,_cutthroat but the" -men would•comein,onpayday - ','Every storepn the Square on The Square and_ is 'exp
Square:"is the, bestlmsiness:.'.and, tell' me what:they awed was filled in the thirties and _,'periencing: some difficulty in
'Wise .'now than- it .1- has • Pier '::inrl_they-were-nevir- :eng-=--=-there we'rtw rateIs arf'd • .stig q -HI eiri tivity-----
been:" he.. said, "It has,,; You couldn't • trust people billiard parlors ,but the.:men, • . -,..1 ,made •so maims friends •
become hest -'stropping -With hes'stropping with that kind of `credit today .were. ,rnore' friendly and and had So much" fun-" he
plaza. in North. America_ and. but -1tmade:them and 'their .__co:operative ..thaw -eomsaid
- been
. I g_ugss I have just.'
in all my Years there I have families loyal customers for • petit•ive." .be said. • "THey too active so Tong."
-never seen so .many cars or ,years after.
people as now." • The ..billiard parlors;arid
McConnell began work with there were three of them in.
Craigie B,
others'
n
o May 5
.g Brothers Goderich•at the time, became
192-
3 When he. returned etu
rued t
o meeting places e
sand everYone
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Goderich frothTpronto. Asa.. would gatheratnight waiting
young man he ,hard, worked at - for the . I0':30: p.m. train' with .
the . store on Saturdays and the Toronto Star. The mor- III a
• holidays and began full-time: ning 'paper: would. Usually
employment during the arrive in Goderich by noon- . C r•� t !cal •
depression years, and again. the men would • .
Craigies_ store was a:. gather for chat a smoke ••
Arnold McConnell reflected preciated by the people, but is.
upon 45 years of work with, " a sy'sterh that just couldn't: be
Craigie Brothers and -attern.pted today.• ^
uburn� g�ct rn
billiard. parlor anti tobacc•o:'•:`tt*a tingforthe paper. - 4 Ruth• JaneJuergens, 28'. Of- on July 8, Mr. •Gingrfth'was
shop and- understandibly Arnold_recalted that most RR '3, Auburn,.remsins 'in' driving on County Road: 12 in
during .depression years • men ..depended on the harbor, critical condition in 'Si. Tuckersmith`Township when
became a meeting place for -for a living,.,most working on Joseph's Hospital in London his `muffler 'overheated and
many•men: But the men who boats and some fishing, and after the car her .husband-,.: set `fire:to the floor of the car,,
`met -'there .ver often had no= as conditions of better the
- Y - ..g Y .-=Rienhart:-;ergens, 7.9, Was Although -the car wasn.bad•Iy,.:
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money. and yet their• credit would'play pool for. as long.as . •• .dr.ivin , was in collision with burnt, Mr. Gin rich esca ed
the inequities that now exist, was. as good astheir word and " 12 hours a day clueing the : ?a- pickup truck` driven by without injury.'
- :the report states. when part tome work could -be winter months.: 'Rene .Arsenault, 28, of RR 3, The-OPP reported total':
The. suggestion for. found, usually., loadnng. or . Most of the men used to ATihrr -- -Thi wl-0, on.Courity- damages of $.550 to vehicles
d' establishing • the services unloading, ships, the-: bills sail in summer and during the Road 25 three miles west of .. briven by Stern'•Nesbitt 10 of
' made in the report:,a•re.:bulked. would be paid. winter months they used •to AubuR-r. - 336 Britannia' Street in:
- _ji-- ``During the depression.
mto..four areas,• geography, p gamble at pool -and cards for. ' .,..,J'he Goderich. -detachment •Stratford''and Bernice. Looby, •
• =^ finance, administration and- ::timers were rough. in Goderich high. stakes."_he said.. "Some of the OPP yePorted that the ; • 48,. Of Dublin,. on: July 10.,The
•. facilities. -The report also 'and there. was no. -money of sailors would be the all day'vehicles p. Looby- was stopped on -
suggests
',�- s weFe "coxripletel.y Y Pp
timingfor, the any account but thins. ca except to a home' f •
,, ~ .: planY things m� P g e or meals �'dgmolished :after; .they 'met fi�laway 8 in Mc.KilloP .: .
• and,.claim' that• decisions on ,'.around, :Arnold sai�Cl, "If the and there •used -to be some . and collided in the -eastbound Township.,• allowing another
support, or: 'non support is men didn't have any. money good:storiestold atnight.'.'' lane, car to turn, when the ::Nesbitt
• needed, from : individual ;; we would let them p ° la
y pool ,The'Square •has •changed:. • Damages are estimated at vehicle carie" :frotiri behind •
cotnmunitiesby early fall and or buy cigarettes on .credit 'considerably. and "Arnold ., $4000 and Mr, Arsenault -has '-'; and.'failed to stpp•. No injuries
a, decision . from ..county 'and: once they got some part claims that the Bedford Hoff' • been charged' with careless were sustained .
council is needed before the 'nie work they would pay us is one of the only businesses and dangero1Ts driving • ' A • 1-9fig' Pontiac• car. .was.'
working - alongside • Bill
Chisholm for .the' planning of •
next year's . Aqua• -Carnival,
and said that there will be'
sports- and competitions on
both days,. as - weld, es • en=
tertainment on' Saturday and'
Sunday evenings.'
have . The 'LiQn's_ S�]i>Ji Anua"'
Carnival: Comrriittee would
also like 1,.„,1,0 inforri local
Organizations that the tent set
upat'the,.beach will be made
available to any group,for a
worthwhile _ purpose ' on.
Sunday', July 2. '
. to the report, The •have areas
are those with a large, enough'. director. ;
y --ear is out. back-." - • • that hasn'_t__:_either • changed A defecti�Ye muffler caused''` "found completely. destroyed �,
The' report suggests that ' . It u.as that loyalty and trust. `location or folded,, The block $2,000 worth of damages• to a by fire in Hay Township after.
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bounda'ries could be _a. 'among men' that A•r.n ld' that'Craigies Ston' ls_on now 'car driven_. -._b _ Harold ith:ad.been stolen from 1-Iuhy: .. .''.:.,
roblem. 'Trying• to establish fondly - recall bu ltd used to contain a CPR Gnil ', . ; ,.
P .a,•� .... � ..., ... ,.. .,......... ...... �i.:i.l�xch�. �3� .of;;.li��'::�.,:;.�uz:.icb:p.. . ,..�'.;
a dividbg - 1•jhe . between -
people in the. same com-
munity
orn,
munityto-have them travehiri
opposite directions to fulfill
their recreational needs ,will ..
be aproblern according to the'.
report. If- suggests that the • .
known . municipal boundaries
,,::used as ,a', guideline for
`es•t-ablishing_ rec: areas,
revolving them around. areas
that now,:employs a full time -•. •.
tax base to provide'residerits To encourage co-operation
with a -full-time recreation: between "municipalities''and
staff and.. adequate :facilities the creation of area services.
-while the have nots don't have the county could . provide an
that base. These inequities incentive. grant to the areas
have been overcome in areas: •'combining:- their services
of fire protection' and health , according to the report: It•
by means of community does not suggest how these •
-org-
antzationlancl__the: report. gr -ants will- --be structured
suggests that the same can be suggesting that the criteria
done in recreatijon. could be established later.
"Concern, coopera'ti-on'and Administration 'of the
coordination on an area basis` services would at the outset,
between various' be established•"�'' y the rec
municipalities in aparticular, directors currently employed
geographic area can start the - ' in the county. ' Their' offices
ball rolling toward resolving _''could serve, as 'focal points
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fromwhich organization,
deyeloprnent ` assistance, .
ideas,' need identification and
coordination that would avoid,
-duplication - of ideas would
come.
The facili.ties.. now ' being
operated:- in the- ountycould
be,_pressed into' service' .to:
handle , the needs of• areas:
.without such public buildings
-without pressuring,, the tax
...-dollar'- according .to , the
• report. 13y •cooperating with '
one •another and using some:
form • of development plan-
ning .these' facilities w,ould
' meet the needs ol..,thercoun
(y. Currently a surcharge is
levied • to people utilizing: •
faci-lities, in; - conimunfties
where they not live.
because they don't support .
the facility throughthe tax
dollarnTo avoid this there are
two possibilities, a per capita
contribution or payment by .'
percentage of use..• -
.The .repor.t-sets down some
deadlines for the support or
1.a..1(" of support for... the
• ^•recrea'titifi 'program .arn•re'd at ' .
getCrng._ 4 final draft of it to
cquiatycouncll by the end
Septerriber.. It 'calls for a
reaction by the five larger
„communities to be "sent to the
-committee by the middle of
July, the study committee to•
:analyze the results and lay,
down plans for action by the
end of July, the preparation
of a full. report 15y the study
comm: . 'ani the'
developmentitteecommittee by
the -end of August and'
coanc'il by September county
resentation ' t •
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OPEN THIS SUNDAY
And EVERY SUNDAY
__LEWIS WHITE.SLLCE_D___-
24.OZ. LOAF
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