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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-08-03, Page 1!Y1 't • • :� ,C� i i•; Lee SRR :t :+ielee i ;r . +f: � f r .•f A r : i." 'r'l a:•: 4 yfr,r• • ' }, }q � y � , �t�cN y�r c f}'?35: •,7,�n,rr.i {�.'9�'•�S(.4+il+`} �'���'' f'lr�Yy�����+�•,'{''""c��?��%��U.•+�r�'�V�ri (C:L":�}:h:•.N?: ?i r+n 4:•:'f:X +s r'lr?. r:.,'1•r. n Lnv.,i' r S'rw:,,r:• n�.4:•?%vSGG•:ti?S:i n Lieut. - governor unveils p Iaque at Centennial Pauline McGibbon, lieutenant governor of Ontario, was in Blyth last Saturday to see the centennial parade and unveil a historical plaque. The plaque, erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, details some of the history of the village from the time the area was first settled in 1851 until incorporation in 1877. It will stand in front of Blyth Memorial Hall. Other dignitaries present for the parade and unveiling ceremony. included Blyth Reeve Don Noble, Huron County Warden Doug McNeil, MPP Murray Gaunt, MP Robert McKinley, R. Allan Douglas, curator of the Hiram Walker Historical Museum, Mrs. Doris Batkin of the Huron County Historical Society, Centennial Queen Debbie Hull and Senior Queen Mrs. Merle Henry. r -0 .r • 4 Atagif fe Wltit ;! r AYr" : !:�f C Sir; :eirt f { 0, •::;t;s+,;...•.... ..;. .:++�i:;:•??'•}�:•???r' .v: :+.:::•:fi:: }hv; ...4:L44v: •::i•":•?}?::: •.:..; .: .?,•,•. :{. :rv:'.;.:; :::: .•r r. ••..a✓.w>:fa'`:...1•a.:....Sretcc...f. LAND -SEA -AIR PACKAGE TOURS Business or pleasure- book now! TRAVEL Listowel, Ontario ' 291-2111 FIRST SECTION Wingham, Wednesdy, August'3, 1977 Call Toll Free 1=800-265-6332 Single Copy Not Over 30c Huron municipalities have choice of entering Home Support program A new program to provide home support services for elderly end handicapped adults is now underway in the Province of On- tario. Such services include heavy or, seasonal cleaning, gar- dening, painting, repairs or alter- ations to the home, transporta- tion for shopping and medical reasons and other related home cage services. The program is not intended to replace' any existing programs such as Homemaking, Home Care Services or the' Nur- Church service seen on cable Wingham Cable Television viewers watched a taped broad- cast of a morning service at the Wingham Pentecostal Church conducted by Rev. Ron Baker. The broadcast appeared at 7 p.m. Monday of this week. Next Monday evening, Aug. 8, at the same time an evening service from the same church will be shown. On Wednesday evening, Aug. 10, at 7 p.m. Cost. Harold Tighe of the Mount Forest Detachment, OPP, will appear in the first of a series of interviews titled -The Human Collision". Other 'churches in the com- munity are invited to make use of the local programming service of Wingharp Cable. You may con- tact Mike Dempsey at Country Cable Limited, Listowel, Ont. ses Services' Act. The new program has a two- fold objective. It will provide em- ployment for the unemployed while at the same time enabling the recipient of the services to re- main in his own home. John MacKinnon, administra- tor of social services in; Huron County, says it is a general. philosophy that keeping the handicapped and elderly•in their oen homes if t all posgi l P" than institu- tionalizing them. Mir'. MacKinnon says there is a. need for Home Support services program in Huron County and, that it is now just a matter of get- ting enough people to apply for it. He feels sure that the program will be well underway in the Trees uprooted BELGRAVE—During the sev- ere electrical storm on. Sunday afternoon, one of the oldest trees in the village was blown down and crashed into the home of Mrs. Cliff Logan, causing dam- age t� the eavestrough, roof and window. Several neighbors and friends came with chain saws to help clean up the debris. Another tree was uprooted at the home of Mr: and Mrs. Clarence Rath and a large limb was broken off at Mrs. Lawrence Vannan's. r . a sseis man kiiled while ri din bic A Brussels man was killed last week when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle along County Road 16. Bertrum Rowland, 63, of Flora Street in Brussels received fatal injuries when struck by the vehi- ,,e1e driven by Andrew I. Bremner, 73, of Ethel. Both vehicles were eastbound along the road at the time of the accident, the OPP re- port, and Mr. Bremner has been charged with careless driving. A number of persons received injuries in other accidents throughout the area recently. 'James Schiestel of Teesseater was treated at hospital for a puncture wound on the elbow after he a apparently lost control of his car, which then rolled over, on Highway 4 north of Teeswater, Monday. Richard and Barbara Taman of RR 4, Brussels, were both admit- ted to Wingham Hospital with head injuries following a single car accident on Highway 4 north of Blyth on Sunday. Mr. Taman was apparently driving the car, with his wife as passenger, when he lost control and the vehicle ran into a ditch. In another Sunday accident, Robert A. Legrand of Teeswater was' treated for an injured right hip and left shoulder after appar- ently falling off his motorcycle on Clinton Street, Teeswater. Georgena (Jean) Mason of Mil- veiton and a number o'f passen- gers were injured in a single car accident on Sideroad 15-16 south of Concession 8 in Morris Town- ship Saturday. Miss Mason was driving the car and apparently lost control. She was admitted to Wingham hospital with lacer- ations and abrasions. William Vock of Brodhagen', a passenger in the vehicle, was treated for possible head and in- ternal injuries and later transfer- rer to Victoria Hospital in Lon- don. Also injured in the accident were Louise Alcock of Brussels, Nelson Caldwell of Blyth and Robert Bennewies of RR 1, Born- holm. All were treated for lacer- ations and released. Several persons were also in- jured Saturday in a collision be- tween vehicles driven by Donna Willis of Brussels and Mrs. Lil- lian Appleby of RR 2, Blyth. The accident occurred on Concession 7 of Morris Township. Miss Willis was admitted to Wingham hospital with multiple injuries -and Rhonda Keffer, a passenger in the vehicle, was treated for a neck injury. Mrs. Appleby was treated for rib injuries and released. Brad- ley Ferguson, a passenger in the Appleby vehicle, was admitted to the hospital for observation, while the other passengers, Lori Ann and Larry Appleby and Ker- rilynn Ferguson, were all treated and released. county by September. Each 'municipality has a choice of entering'the new program. The province will pay $20 per day per employee and the municipality will be responsible for any wages and employee benefits in excess of the $20 per day and any trans- portation costs. Only labor is covered in the costs. Any mate- rials needed are not supplied. The costs associatedwith recruit- .ment, training, :arid. ,general,. supervision' areTe-resptinsibility of the municipality. The provincial' government is allowing Huron County to hire three persons on a temporary basis to look ,after the new ser- vices until the end of the provin- cial fiscal year (March 31, 1978). These people will be located throughout the cdunty,.possibly. in Wingham, Exeter, Clinton or Goderich. The number of people hired may be increased Yater de- pending on the number of muni- cipalities willing to participate in • the new program. ' The program is aimed, at providing full-time empldym < t and therefore the provincial•g } - '. • etn{nent ha§.•aslt'ed the m,; palities involired not to hire part- time or summer students to fill the positions. It is suggested that young, unemployed persons will- ing to make a longer commit- ment to the program be hired. Mr. MacKinnon says some refer - Three await trial on arson charges Three area men are awaiting trial after being charged with four counts of arson and two of mischief in connection with a ser- ies of fires in the Gorrie and Wroxeter areas July 18. Richard John Steuernol, 25, of Campbell Street, Lucknow, and Brian Donald Shaw, 20, of RR 1, Wroxeter, have each been re- leased on $2,000 bail, while John' Gregory Stephens, 22, of RR 1, Wroxeter, remains in custody until he can arrange payment. Bail for Mr. Stephens has also been set at $2,000. At a hearing. last week, the three elected trial by a county court judge. No date for the trial has yet been set, They were originally charged with one count of arson after a house and car owned by Jack Mc- Burney of RR 1, Wingham, were destroyed by fire July 18. They were later also charged with setting fires the same day to - a house owned by Leonard San-\ derson and a barn owned by Wil- liam Bennett, both of RR 1, Gor- rie,'and a pump house belonging to Harold Bell of RR 1, Wroxeter. There were no injuries in any of the fires. The two charges of mischief in- volve the burning of a converted school bus being used as a shelter by John Stafford of RR 1, Wrox- eter, and the smashing of win- dows at the home of Murray Hall of RR 1, Mildmay. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Steuernol have also been charged with the possession of two stolen drive-in theatre speakers valued at less than $200, belonging to William Young of RR 3, Harriston. Mr. Stephens was charged with possession of food stolen from Ronald Dickert of Lakelet and the theft of a tool box and tools valued at over $200 from Cam- eron Edgar of Queen • Street, Wroxeter. rats for these positions have al- ready come through his office from Canada Manpower. In order to determine appro- priate clients for .the program, in - "'formation has been sent out to other agencies likely to be in- volved. Local homes for the aged ;sand other institutions have been contacted, Those people awaiting admission to such institutions could, receive program services tdetvould be a eftd. during this time and possibly postpone insti- tutionalization. Mr. MacKinnon has a list of about 400 homebound people in the county who could use the ser - 'vices offered in the new home support program. He said how- ever, some of these .people may not want such services. The pro- gram is ' also dependent on a need's test and income test. Only needy people on fixed in- comes will be eligible for the pro- gram. If family members can provide services covered in the program, then those applying do not qualify. Mr. MacKinngqn says up until now, the Huron\ County Social Services work has been 90 per cent income maintenance orient- ed with such programs as welfare but the new Home Support pro- gram may be a shift toward the start of more social service work. PARKS ARE FUN—Tina, two years old, had fun at the Wingham Park Saturday on the swings. The weather was perfect for a lazy day of swinging. Wingham ptiblisher presented with editorial writing award Barry Wenger, publisher of The Wingham Advance -Times, received the premier award for editorial writing at the recent national convention of the Cana- dian Community Newspapers Association in Winnipeg. SOME MEMBERS OF Wingham town council appeared in Blyth's parade last Saturday, riding in a dune buggy and an Irwin "T" Councillors from other area municipalities also took part i'n thee Celebration of Blyth's centennial. The Jack Sanderson Memorial Award, sponsored by theCana- dian Bankers Association, is pre- sented each year to the writer ,of the best editorial on national or international subjects. The pre- sentation was made by Michael Gausden, director of public rela- tions for the Bankers' Association. The competition covers the entire CCNA group.of some 500 member newspapers from ten provinces. The particular editorial which was selected for the award was an article which took issue with Prime Minister Trudeau'.s state- ment, early last year, that the free enterprise system as we know it in Canada has failed. At the convention The Goderich Signal -Star won top honors for advertising excellence in the classification for papers with cir- culations between 2,500 and 4,000. The same publication was awarded third place for general excellence and third for its edi- torial page in the same classifi- cation. • The Brussels Post won a first for general excellence in the class for tabloid newspapers in the under 1,500 category. Arthur Carr, retired editor of The Palmerston Observer, was honored by the presentationof a Golden Quill award, testifying to his long service to the community newspaper field. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Wenger of Wingham- and Mr. and David Wenger of Mount Forest, represented the firm's news- papers at the Winnipeg meeting. sty& code fly works Despite all the flak ac- companying its introduction and the continuing problems with re- membering the correct sequence of letters and numbers, the postal code apparently does work, at least in the experience of one local businessman. Chris Gosling recently received a letter addressed to Gosling Chev-Olds in Wingham, Aus- tralia. However, the letter bore the correct postal code for Wing - ham, Ontario, and the letter zip- ped here from Texas in only three days. The plot is complicated by the fact there is a Wingham in Aus- tralia (as well as one in England) and the correspondent apparent- ly believed he was writing to Aus- tralia as he asks for post cards showing Australian vehicles. It is doubtful, though, whether an- other Chris Gosling is selling Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles there. On the darker side, one' acquaintance remembers all too vividly the time two years ago when it took a letter from Water- loo 10 days to reach him — in Kitchener. And no, it wasn't dur- ing a postal strike. Bicycle parade has 75 entries Shortly after the noise minute, which started the first annual Fun Fest in Wingham, a bicycle parade commenced its proces- sion from the .ball park at Jo- sephine Street. Seventy-five en- tries travelled to John Street, where they turned to go to the pool area and the Penny Carni- val. There were four categories in the parade and two prizes, most decorative and most original, in each. Recreation Director, Gary Lisle says he was very impress- ed with the entries. 7pI�n,'(� theFsix and under category,fC it deeorative: „prize., -Runners up were - Jennifer Hunter and Kim • Patterson. Most original went to Murray Lapp. The first prize for the most decorative in all categories was a silver dollar.. Runners - up re- ceived'a voucher fora 60 cent ice cream cone, donated by Belle's . Variety and Gift Shop. The win- ner of the most original received a theatre pass. The next category for seven and eight year olds saw Jeff Lay- ton win for most decorative and runners up Pam Patterson and Ellen Taylor. Most original .for this category was Jamie Robin- son. Most decorative of the nine and 10 year old Category was Winnie Visser and runners up were Christine Cerson and Robin Net- terfield. Most original was An- drew Kaufman. • Don McKay and Adam Des- lauriers won the most decorative in the 11 and over category. Run- ners up were Bill and Tharen Keil and Bradley and Dave Thorne. Most original went to Andy Con - gram and David Scctt. Games at the penny carnival included a bean bag throw, penny in a dish, balloon and parts, ring around the bottle, ball in the bas • - ket and a bean guess. Sewer work interrupts cable service Subscribers to the Wingham Cable Television service suffer- ed interruptions on Thursday and Friday ,of last week due to the fact •that a power shovel cut 'through the cable trunk lines near the Howson dam. A key piece of the distribution system is located close to the point where a construction company was exca- vating for a large sewer installa- tion. When the cable was cut the entire system within the town was effectively shut down. The trouble was complicated on Thursday by the factthat still another cable had been cut by excavators near Palmerston. In this case it was not cable TV which was affected but Bell Can- ada lines. Long distance com- munication with many points to the east was disrupted for several hours. Thus it was impossible to inform Country Cable workers at. Listowel that the Wingham Cable TV system was out of action until a messenger was sent by car. The interruption on Friday oc- curred at the same point in Wing - ham when the sewer installation once again interfered with the television trunk cable.