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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-07-28, Page 3tl fl 1st 4.,4, 1 • • 1 4 • tet ,r , • , „ identsof Irtiron,PirthlOnd neighboring. pollution. Item "land activity and 'their in- vt. ieses get aIt aPliortUnity. jo,Offer their con- tensive study Is expected to he Completed by"the on pollution' and„posible retnedies to thoSe end of the year.. From July through September ms at a meeting on Great„Lakes pollution PLUARG is conducting public meetings in 16.. n GodariCk1140ThiAiSda,4.1 ' " - centres in. Canada .and Ube United States to •tmeirhattte-r,3'pee$0erepre*,.•entintseveral,;4,....de•VeloittitereSticn` ipalities offered their polltitionconegene„tel7 encottrafe......citizetix4a.;offer . recommendations of gpeeialiats •representing the-Vellutien - aridelternatiVes. Land Use 'Aetivity ...esCeirce Group Subsequent to the eighepublic meetings in ARG) PLUARG, is an offshoot of the Canada and,,the United States,eight panels will ational Joint Commission (IJC):--an be chosen to meet in eight regions of. Ontario, to menusigne. etween an da and the make recommendations• to PLUARG on • d between. C d States in 1972 to examineyollution in the remedying the water quality'problerns. The final Lakes sYsterh. PLUARG reporewill be submitted to theIJC 'who will submit its final recommendations to the agreement iecludecl a reference to study government for i Mple men teflon. er the Great 'Lakes were being polluted PLUARG has now conclucted three meetings in h land drainage from agriculture, forestry her land use activity. PLUARG will make Ontario, the first two in Sarnia and Chatham and- mendatioris to the IJC on remedial the third 'in Goderich laft Thursday evening. res to provide improvements in con- Those attending the meeting exPressed a variety g pollution from land usage. of concerns on pollution ranging from, the ARG was .forred in 1973 to examine the problems of open ditches, recycling waste to n 444 go • 4 • ":"--..'1‘Itt."r•• • •- .‘ • n PhosPhorotis runoff from fertilizers. One of the 'Main concerns in the Huron -Perth county area is the 4 PhOSPhorOUS runoff.. Phosphorous,' com- monly • found in most, soils and Jertilizers. is a. main agriculture pollUtant. They also discussed rearealledd , agenan.Jandaid--it, was pointed out that minerals, in time, seep into Wells- drainage pipes.and the surrounding water • table. ' Another major land use pollutant that also makes its way, into rivers and lakes through - runoff fs'the extensive use of road.salt during the winter. Over 300,000 tons of road salt are dumped onto the highways on the Canadian side of Lake,. Huron every year. On highways on the Canadian side of Lake-Ontarie in the Golden Horseshoe area _750,000 tens of salt are used on the roads each year. There is. also a distinct shoreline erosion problem along Lake Huron and a lot of soil is washed into the lake each year. But much,of the soil washed into the lake is sub -soil and, poses no 1•• real pollution danger to the water.. ' Seine of the major problems discussed af- • fecting pollution frotie land use . is the metal eontent in sludge from industrial waste and the location of land fill sites and sewage lagoons. ----;fridustrieVZiletattOntentritiVecr=gfe-te:4-pesinge, problem not only tolakes and rivers -but also many municipal- drinking water supplies. In eelation to landfill sites and sewage lagoons it was pointed out. that unless either are built on a good clay base then minerals will eventually seep into the drains and water table... .Sally Leppard, a 'member of the- PLUARG research team, explained that the public meetings have actually generated more response than aeticipated. Also due to the.public input and involvement the format of the meetings have been changed to accommodate a larger question and answer period. The main objective of PLUARG is to identify pollution in the Great Lakes, find out where it came fram, offer •remedies to the pollution wo-T‘esCiiOd: from swamped boat men were plucked from a 44 foot cruiser nt Clark Monday night minutes before the unk in 12 foot waves ion Lake Huron. The f the Coast Guard Cutter Rapid responded ayday call received in Goderich and d 60 -year-old John Doyle of 412 Rouge Hill, 11 and 34 -year-old Frederick Cele of 910 issioners Road E., London, from the ed boat. neral mayday call was received by the at 9:35 p.m. Monday and the coast guard t underway heading for Point Clark, 15 orth of Goderich. The ship's log showed nds were from the north at between 22-33 er hour and the waves were 10 to 12 feet roblem, according to Doyle, owner of the , was that one of the boat's engines broke nd the other overheated as he tried to e vessel headed into the waves. He said y he thought the problem was a burnt g in the stern and the smoke coming out engine area prompted him to shut the engine down. He said about three nal growing age, 1 on July 2, 1928. Publisher at that time ,D. MacKenzie. Three years later, g the death of Mr. MacKenzie, Mr. on took over the duties ef managing fee" .1`ArS ...MAPK.enz ie. The. Thompson urchased the newspaper in 1941. 3, following his graduation from Ryerson e of Technology in Toronto,, Don son joined his father in the newspaper s. In 1959, father and son formed a par - p. Campbell Thompson died suddenly in d Don Thompson purchased his mother's erest in the family business. For the past s;-Den-Thotnpsert-tras- -been editor and— er of .The Lucknow Sentinel. entinel has been printed at Goderich in nal -Star printing plant since July- of 1969. typesetting and preliminary work was ted at Lucknow, however, and this will nge under Signal -Star management. • tationery and job printing business will e to be operated at the present location by ompson and his wife, Bev. As well, the ons will operate a distributorship for ana tickets including the ...counties of• Perth, Oxford alnd Brant. Mr. Thompson pointed to this post one year ago, and that time has operated the lottery tion business in association with the per. quarters of an hour later he discovered about a foot of water, in the aft cabin and realized he was Sinking. The two were taken from the bow of the sinking vessel just minutes before it disappeared beneath the waves. Doyle said nother boat tried to help him out but couldn't get close to his boat and had to abandon the. attempt. He .praised the efforts of the Rapid claiming if they had been a few minutes later he and Cele would have been swimming. ' • "They picked us 'up just as we were going down," he said. "We had nothing left to hang on to." The Coast Guard reported that the two men were taken from the boat and that the upper deck and superstructure had been torn off by the heavy seas. The crew of the Rapid notified the Goderich police,to have an ambulance standing by at the Goderich harbor to take the men to the hosl)ital. Doyle was complaining about chest pains but Tuesday morning was listed in good condition and was resting at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. Goderich marina manager Bill Mclsaac said Tuesday the Doyle craft left Goderich about 6:15 and that the waves at that,time were about eight feet. Doyle said Tuesday he had spent about three years looking for the boat and lost it before he got much use out of it. He said he didn't know if he would take up boating again adding that he would have to "take.some time to think about it". Carbett guest speaker By Wilma Oke About 350 people attended the 25th anniversary and reunion of Huron County 4-14 Club Leaders', Association at the Blyth arena Saturday ' afternoon. Since it was founded in 1952 the organization has almost doubled the number of its leaders from 32 to 60 and today the 30 clubs in the county have about 400 members. Guest speaker, Bob Car- bert, a former farm editor for CKNX Wingham and now general manager of Ontario Agricultural Museum at Milton, described the foun- ding members as "far- sighted persons • who en- visaged the development of this association to cultivate Huron County's most im- portant crop". He said the quality of the county's beans, corn, hay, wheat, rutabagas and other crops are well known but the "most important product of the farms of this county is the young people you have raised, trained, educated and prepared for the challenge of the future". SU1VIIVI R 'MEAT - 1 THESE SPECIALS FROM ANSILIE'S EEcAI,J,REILicED BAcotioNLY11 .49 RESH MINUTE STEAKS AKETTE TYLE IELESS ROAST BEEF gm La 79,_,." IDER PERCENT HEADCHEESE L6 99g E MADE E MEAT iiFRESH. iiiill .49 iAisAGEs I° LEIS „79' '4°RilLADE STEAKS Le 78 .. '. -WE DELIVER -0 - DRESSED INSPECTED MEATS Al' WHOLESALE PRICES AINSLIE MARKET LIMITED 106 SHOPPERS sciumti ••524.8551 WE SPECIALIZE IN CUSitylti KILLING He said, ,•!`The greatest satisfaction that you must have as leaders is to see that crop already bearing fruit." Mr. Carbert said the organization is sometimes criticized because "in 4-H there is too much emphasis on winning, too much em- phasis on the competition. Well, human beings are a competitive species, and young people are the most competitive of the tribe." He said, "If you are not prepared to strive to do better, to accomplish more than the other fellow, then you aren't likely to get a great deal out of life or living." He said, "Thank God that 4- H is instilling a competitive spirit in our young, people, and teaching them that while winning is important, it, takes character to lose and come back and try again." Robert Hern‘ RR '1, Woodham, president, stated that 4-H with its wide range of clubs is .no longer just for young people with farm backgrounds but that urban young people cani enjoy it too.. Donald Pullen Huron's present Agricultural • Missing files returned In a story in the Here in Huron column last week concerning the closing of the Volunteer Bureau in Clinton it was reported that btireau co- ordinator Mary Ann Kowbuz contacted Clinton Police about missing files and in- dicated that several people had access to the office, in - eluding Bob Phillips, Pat Wheeler, Spence Cummings and Bob Taylor. The missing files have since been recovered. Phillips, who was hired by Experience '77, was com- piling a study on the operation of the bureau and to make recommendations on its successes' and failures took the files for study to avoid needless -trips between London and Clinton. However with the closing of the bureau Phillip's job became obsolete. Mrs: Wheeler told the Signal -Star that members of the. bureau's advisory committee, whom Kowbuz claimed . had access to the church, had no more access to. the Ontario Street United Church In ,Clinten than they Woad ha, to any other Church. representative, said that because of‘this large number of homemaking clubs, it had become necessary to have two home economists for the county beginning in Sep- tember. Miss Bea McClenaghan will be coming to Huron as home economist next week. She has been working in Ontario and York Counties . The second home economist will follow shortly in two - weeks, Miss Grace Bird, a recent graduate of Guelph University. They.will succeed Miss Jane pengelley who left Huron for Wellington County earlier this year. Gerry Montgomery of London, agricultural representative in Huron from 1951 to 1957 during the time the leaders' club was first considered in 1951 and formed in 1952, said he was rewarded by the successes and achievements of the young people he worked with during his seven year term in Huron. Douglas Miles, agricultural representative from 1957 to 1968, spoke of the assistance given by county council to the 4-11 leaders- club and said that extra grant money had meant so much to the leaders who were the strength behind 4-11 work. A comic skit by the 4-H Youth Council members added to the merriment of the happy occasion. Taking part were Alan Powe, Paul Pavkeje and Calvin Willard, all of Centralia; Sharon Colclough, Donna Dale and Rose Marie Flynn all of Clinton; Bill Armstrong of Wingham and Bob Eedy of Walton. Consider October fest Goderich recreation director Mike Dymond estimated the roll-a-thon held at • the Goderich Memorial Arena July 16 would realize $1,000 following expenses. The event was staged to raise money to help defray interest and carrying charges on loans used to pay for the reconstruction of the arena. The Recreation Board is now planning a new fund raising event is an effort to false the balance of the charges. The committee is considering holding an Octoberfestevening complete with German food and music. The event has been ten- tatively scheduled for October 1 but plans have not been finalized, , • • • ;, • 4 t I • , . . Mblem and the coat to enforce the-,•ree5im, rnendations. k Eight panels will be held in both',Ontarie arIci'l•:, the eight states bordering the Great Lakes and., •, each panel von ,,,formulate._,rec0423Men4•44041.1.:„, '-1-hu the the-, ,-etiairpersons-of,eatir;ptenei-in-hotW countries will draw up final recemmendations to be presented to the IJC. :', •:: Leppard said that it would be difficult for the IJC to ignare the recommendations in the report .•,' ':':•,, since they will represent 10 million people living. r‘•.. ', along the the Great Lakes. PLUARG will conduct five more public •,. etings in Ontario in the next two months and • 1 e public to a great degree and allowed people re.involved ppard claimed that the format has to express their concern about the Lakes. „ "People are pleased to participate with the project at this early stage," Leppard said. "People have to be educated since the Great Lakes affects much of Ontario but why do we have to wait so long' until it gets so bad?" • Believe it or not, Jim Schaefer, left, Joe Miller, at the piano and Gordon Wood- bury are on a gravel run. Their gravel run is actually a song in the Blyth Memorial History Show. The play, which opened last night, is written by Schaefer and the music is directed (News -Record photo) ; lay to be part f centennial 10 W \I.TFR' The village of Blyth is gearing up for its centennial celebrations this weekend, Friday, July ?9 to Monday, August 1. One of the very special events planned will be the staging of the Blyth Memorial History Show by the Blyth Summer Festival group. Jim Schaefer, Festival actor, "'writer, associate director and author of the play describes it as a "light, tight, bright show" geared for the centennial. He says it will be a "fast, frothy" show designed to get the audience right into the theatre and out again. There are only six shows. Opening night was last night. The remaining shows are July '29 at 8:30 p.m., July 30 at 3 p.m., July 31, August 3 and 6 at 8:30 p.m. The play is a chronicle of Blyth as a rural', Ontario village starting , at its historical roots in 1633, through pioneering, set- tlement and rail-roading down to 19,7. It will include tall. tales, silly songs and some true facts as well. Before coming to the I3lyth Festival, Schaefer was with, the Green Thumb Players in Vancouver. He has been in Blyth for over a year and says he really likes it. "There are only 860 people in this town and 1 think I've met almost all of them at one time or other. Even if I don't know them, they know me." He is constantly waving and shouting greetings to passers by. He speaks about the friendliness of the town. He says there is rapport and a line of communication bet- ween the village and, the Festival people. "Living in Blyth allows me to do what I want to do," says Schaefer. Last summer he lived in a truck. One night, he says, his truck blew up so he moved into a log cabin two miles west of Blyth. During the winter, Schaefer snowshoed, hitchhiked and walked back and forth to town. "I went through a cold winter," he says "and that is one common experience I can share with the people (in' Blyth)." Schaefer says he has eight chickens and a dog and is growing a garden full of weeds. Schaefer, who has written three other plays, Turkey. Tree and The Maitland River Mud Monster, received an Ontario Arts Council grant and was commissioned to write the Blyth MernOrial History Show for the Festival. Janet Amos of Theatre Passe Muraille fame was commissioned to direct the play and Schaefer says .they re both after the same final product. To write the show, Schaefer first researched Canadian history in general; then Huron County history and then the specific history of Blyth itself. He haunted libraries and talked to older people in the town to get some 'of the history at a more personal level. He . said he took many little events and exploded them into theatrical scenes. In September, once the research was completed, Schaefer says the hard part came. He sat down in front of his stove, drank gallons of coffee and tried to work out a theme and fit all his research in. "I brainstormed it and wrote and wrote until_ I was a zombie," he says. He had a January I deadline. Schaefer says he learned to write by sitting down and writing. He had some ex- perience with journalism at Western University but says the course stiffled him. He learned more by being the editor of the Gazette while at Western. Schaefer has a Canada Council grant to take a year off and write play.. The grant will cover his living wage and project costs. He says he has three specific plays in mind that he would like to write. Al) will take research and travel. Inc Miller, the Festival's music director collaborated with Schaefer on the music for the Blyth Memorial History Show. Schaefer wrote the lyrics and Miller wrote the music. Schaefer says the song. "I've Been Around This Town Too Long Blues" sung 'by Dianne Douglas in the second act should be a show_ stopper. Joe Miller, "crazy Joe" as Schaefer calls him, came to Blyth last summer and lives in an empty train station. He was only planning on staying two months but like Schaefer, he has had a positive, nur- turing experience in Blyth. He says Blyth people are incredibly nice, kind and generous. Schaefer says he has written the Myth Memoria‘ History, Show for the people of Blyth. "It's a high energy show that will need a big audience for the rolling emotion," says Schaefer. "Doing the play in front of a house of 30 people would be like doing it in your basement. - Tickets can be purchased at Campbell's in Goderich or at the. door of the Blyth, Memorial Hall. Special grant approved The Jubilee Three decorating committee learned Monday that an application to Wintario for a 000 grant to help offset costs for the town's Jubilee Three celebrations had been approved by the ministry of culture and recreation. Assistant deputy -clerk Larry McCabe said the money had been approved for Goderich but had not been received yet. McCabe said the grant was an unusual project sponsored by Wintario especially for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The special Jubilee grant matched tax dollars ac- cording to the deputy -clerk who said that Wintario demanded that the money go to any community celebration honoring the. Queen's anniversary, '44 • t • • • 4