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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-12-28, Page 4PAGE 4 ODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1978 SIGNAL -STAR The County Town Newspaper of Huron Pounded In 1040 and published every Thursday at Goderich, Ontario. Member of tPPe CWNA and OWNA. Advertising rateson request. Subscriptions payable In advance '14.50 In Canada: "39.00 to U.S.A., '3500 to all other countries, sfnglft copies 35'. Display advertising rates available on request. Pleose ask for Rate Card No. 0 effective Oct. 1. 1975. Second class moll Registration Number 0716. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of typographical error. the advertising space .accupled by the erroneous Item. together with reasonable allowance for signature. will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement will •be paid for at the applicable tote. In the event of a typographical error advertising goods or services al a wrong price. goods or service may not be sold. Advertising Is merely an offer to sell, and may be withdrawn at any time. The Signal -Star Is not responsible for the loss ar damage of unsolicited manuscripts or photos.' Business and Editorial Office TELEPHONE 524-8331 - area code 519 Published by Signal -Star. Publishing Ltd. ROBERT G. SHRIER — president and publisher SHIRLEY J. KELLER — editor DONALD M. HUBICK - advertising manager Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 220,. Industrial Park, Goderich Second class mail registration number — 0716 Reflections. With the new year just around the corner, it is time, to reflect on a year just passed. This week's Signal -Star attempts to do just that ... provide a capsulized, accurate record for you of the way things were in Goderich during the past 12 months. The staff of the Signal -Star hopes you will save this particular edition of the paper, put it away with your other memorabilia and pull it out on those special occasions when you are in a particularly reminiscent mood. All in all, one could say that 1978 was a good year. Citizens of Goderich had things pretty well their own way most of the time. While taxes remained high, perhaps, in relationship to other communities and there were what some people might call "unnecessary expenses" taken from municipal coffers, most people were employed at decently paying jobs; most people had adequate housing they could afford; and most people enjoyed a comfortable standard of living that would be the envy of many other folks, some of them right here in Canada. In the 365 days just passed, Goderich's businessmen again experienced a good turnover; Goderich's school children were educated in one of the best systems possible in Ontario; Goderich's senior citizens for the most part, lived with dignity and serenity; Goderich's 'fitness and recreation buffs had _a variety of activites from which to choose; Goderich's churches continued to offer spiritual guidance and comfort to all who sought it; Goderich's lawmakers kept the place safe and pleasant for everyone; and Goderich service personnel was on duty to meet the needs and the desires of citizens and visitors alike. When you get right ' doWn to it, Goderich has enjoyed many blessingsin_1.978. The townis not only the prettiest in Canada, it is one of the best municipalities anywhere in which to live, work, raise a family and play. Good work, Goderich. It's a big tip of the hat this � P week to all citizens of this fair town who through their joint efforts have made it all happen in '78. With this kind of a record in the year just passed, the new year looks brighter than ever. Stick around and see just how great it will be.—SJK After thought About those resolutions. BY DAVID HILLEN The beginning of another year is the logical time for resolution -making. It's a good time to sit back and look at ourselves, putting. our lives into focus and perspective, in- dulging in the uniquelyhuman activity of self- analysis. It's an opportunity to be realistic about our failings and idealistic about our hopes. As a minimum, we could at Ieast rise above the mindless, superficial, silly, frothy gaiety that passes too often in our society as a celebration of the New Year. For most of us, resolution -making is a valuable activity. Resolutions provide a standard by which to assess -•ourselves, our achievements, our self - realization. Resolutions give meaning to life, making the small details part of a larger whole. They provide a way of planning on getting strength from the good things in life in order to cope with the bad. They offer an opportunity to make tough decisions to strip away the futile parts of our lives, leaving more time for the important things. " They are a way to rise above the materialism in which our society is so deeply'set by clarifying our values and reaching out for intellectual and spiritual goals. They are a central characteristic of a Christian, an essential part of keeping God at the focus of ourselves. A huge gap separates wistful wishes from deliberate resolutions. Nothing comes from the former, but from the latter it's possible to believe that the universal desire to change things for the better has come one step closer to reality. It's crucial to set reasonable goals and thus ex- perience a sense of achievement when you reach them. It's helpful to set measurable goals for the same reason. Make'specific resolutions. Our resolutions should deal with the three sides of our makeup — physical, intellectual and spiritual — to avoid an unhappy imbalance. A lot of ob- servable progress can be made, as well, by focussing our resolutions on three other major areas: helping others, developing ourselves, and enjoying life. It would seem to be a serious spiritual error to put "enjoying life" first. If we first help others, then secondly develop ourselves, if follows —from being committed and by growing personally — that our enjoyment of life increases. If we seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, then "All these things are added on." Meaningful social revolutions occur through the multiplication of small personal revolutions. Our world will change when we change, when our successful personal utopias blossom into a general utopia. Let's all take .a few small steps toward the Promised Land this New Year!—The I..Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. I DEAR RE Look back and look ahead. That's what we do at this time oaf year. When it gets close to the new year, everybody starts to think about the previous 365 days ... and to wonder what the up- coming 365 days will be like. I'm not much different. Looking back on 1978 in Goderich is what we've been doing around the Signal -Star for the last few days. We've been looking back on the work of council for the last year, on the sporting events over 12 months and on the people features we've done in 52 weeks. -• ' 'And Jeff Seddon has been reviewing a year at the Huron County Board of Education . . . and what a year that was. A major strike that attracted province -wide attention and a book - banning brawl that focused the eyes of the whole nation of red -necked Huron County. . But one of the things Jeff also worked on was a kind of progress report .. . what has happened in the world of business, commerce, indsutry and development over the past year. We certainly hope ,you will find this new year's edition an interesting one. Dear Editor, The 1978 C.N.I.B. Campaign returns realized $ 174.25, ati increase of 'S254.71 over last year. Mr. R. W. Kennedy, District Administrator, has acknowledged the great effort put into the C.N.I.B. campaign in the area. "The dollars which were so generously contributed by the citizens of your area will greatly assist this agency to continue to provide services to the blind of Huron County. We are indeed grateful to you for convening the canvass again this year'and would ask' that you please convey our appreciation to all who assisted in any way," said Mr. Kennedy. Those who canvassed in Ashfield Township, Dungannon and West Wawanosh Township were: in West Wawanosh - 80 homes by The St. Helens Women's Institute with $160.30 collected, captain was Mrs. Harold Gaunt and canvassers were Mrs. Robert Ait- By Kim Varity t,. EDITOR cheson, Mrs. Harold Gaunt, Mrs. M. Curran, Mrs. M. Naylor, Mrs. Isabel Miller, Mrs. Sybill Chandler, Mrs: jE:ulu r Weber, Mrs. '. Truce Raynard and Barbara Tyler; south half of West Wawanosh - 90 homes were canvassed by St. Augustine's Catholic Women's League with $217.50 collected, captain - Marg Cyril Boyle, canvassers were Mrs. Bernadette Andrews, Mrs. Cyril Boyle, Mrs. Raymond Boyle, .Mrs. George Herbert and Mrs. Wm. Kinahan; Dungannon - 69 homes canvassed with $105 collected - captain was Mrs. Marvin Smith, canvassers were Mrs. Marie Park, Mrs. Alvin Kerr, Mrs. Don Nicholson, Mrs. Glen Olsen, Mrs. Jim Strong and Mrs. Marvin Smith; Ashfield Township - captain was Mrs. Carl Riegling and canvassers were Miss Brenda Brown, Mrs. Roy Bellinger, Mrs. Walter Clare, Mrs. Harold Cook, Mrs. Jack Clements, Mrs. Donald Curran, Mrs. Clarice Dalton, Mrs. Stan Doherty, Mrs,' Jim Gilmore, Mr. Duncan McTavish, Mrs. Alex Hackett, Mrs. Jim Hayden, Mrs'. .i'o•hn Howard; Mrs'. Shirley Hunter, Mrs. John Maize, Mrs. Marjorie Maclntyre, Mrs. Gene Lalonde, Mrs. Larry Park, Mrs. Larry Pen- tland, Mrs. Jim Sinnett, Mrs. Warren Wylds, Mrs. Carl Riegling. They visited 453 homes collecting $1,246.45. Four organizations in the community of Ash- field donated $45 to the Turn to page 5 • 75 YEARS AGO The Harmony Club hop at Oddfellows' Hall on Monday night was one of the most pleasant of the season. Miss Campaigne presided at the piano. The affair was got up as a farewell to Harvey Dietrich and Harvey Givens. There was a good gathering of Liberals on Saturday night for the purpose of choosing delegates from this town to the West Huron,Con- vention to be °helin Dungannon next week. Last Tuesday evening LOOKING BACK Maitland Lodge No. 33 A.F. and A.M. and Morning Star Lodge, Carlow, held a joint in- stallation of officers at the Masonic Hall, Goderich, there being about 100 members in attendance. Dr. Clark was chosen Worshipful' Master for the Maitland Lodge and S. Bissett was chosen Worshipful Master for the Morning Star Lodge. ,The Coronation Hockey team and the Collegiate team will celebrate New Year's morning by a match at the rink. We suggest you file it away with your other memories of 1978 for handy reference in the years to come. +++ Personally as I look back over 1978 as editor of the Signal -Star, I remember the effort the staff put into each and every issue. It isn't easy to keep a rigid schedule year round . . . late nights through the week ,and weekend assignments to boot. But the Signal -Star staff does it .. . and I take this opportunity to tip my hat to Joanne Walters Buchanan who in my opinion has added a large measure of enjoyment to the Signal -Star by her work in 1978; to Dave Sykes who is the Signal -Star sports editor .and a well- known columnist, and who can take an ordinary story and turn it into an event through his fine writing abilities; and to Jeff Seddon, Signal -Star's , news editor (and, another loved columnist), the kind of a fellow who never backs away front any news situation without giving it his very best shot. These three young people deserve my praise, but also the appreciation of Signal -Starr readers. Without them, 25 YEARS AGO A long awaited project has taken a step towards reality with the an- nouncement last week by the Department of High- ways that tenders were being called for work on No. 8 Highway west from Clinton for a distance of seven miles. Goderich's first rental housing sub -division finally has an official name: the Dunlop Memorial Subdivision. It was named after the town's founder. Goderich had its biggest blaze of the year last night as fire of un- determined origin swept through a large barn at the end of South Street being used by C & B Enterprises for laundry operations. A street recently opened up for the new housing development south of the Public School will be known as Strang Crescent in memory of Dr. H.I. Strang, who for many years was prim/ cipal of Goderich Collegiate Institute. 5 YEARS AGO The G'iacierich Police Force is back to full strength with the hiring of Constable George Lonsbary effective December 17. Erich Krohmer was back at Goderich Town Council' last Thursday evening with a revised proposal for his property at the end of Gibbons Street but council, though approving a zoning change from Develop- mental to R2 to permit four semi-detached units as proposed by Krohmer, indicated it would be a while before the developer would get permission to go ahead with the project. your" Signal -Star each week would b'e pretty empty. And I would be remiss, of course, if I didn't' put in a plug for our ad staff at the Signal -Star - manager Don Hubick, Anne Miller and Tom Thompson. Along with Advertising Director Ed Byrski, they work hard to sell the advertising that pays the bills ... and provides the white space on which our news stories and pictures are printed. And once you get going at this, you have to mention the production staff that works under Lloyd Lou'nsbury at the Signal -Star; the press crew and mailing staff under the leadership of John Buchanan and George Van- der•burgh; and the front office people with their leader, Tom Flynn. Thanks to everyone of you for a good 1978 at the Signal -Star. -i-++ Looking ahead into 1'909, . we're planning another cookbook, probably for November of 1970. The one we did this year was so successful we're hnping'to do a follow up version in the d ming year ... bigger and better. We're still getting requests for our cookbook from people who want to get copies for friends and relatives ... or for themselves if it happens they don't - subscribe to the paper (shame, shame). We're even getting out-of-town requests for the little publication so it has been a resounding hit. In the 1979 version, we're looking for more and more recipes to be submitted by our readers. So be prepared, ladies and men, too. We're also planning to continue, our Grade 8 graduation edition as well as our commencement edition for the senior studentat GDCI. By the way, I would publicly like to express my regret ,for the form in which the commencement edition appeared this fall. Usually we plan a separate little section but this year --because of technical problems m(or at least that's ""*hat we'll call them for lack of a better word) it was included within the regular second section of our paper. Those who wanted to keep it could slip it out of the paper, fpld it and cut it by hand as a keepsake,, but it really wasn't one of our best efforts. Sorry. 1