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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-09-07, Page 13Couple marries in St. Marys Richard Scott McBurtney and Cindy Marlene Martin, both of Stratford, were united in mar- riage in a double -ring ceremony Saturday, Aug. 20 at 4 p.m. in the St. Marys United Church. Mr. and Mrs. Allan McBurney off RR 5, Wingham and Mr. and Mrs. William T. Martin of St. Marys watched as their children were married by Rev. William J. Moore. Anita Ritchie played the wedding music. The bride wore a floor length white gown with a sheer train and carried white' daisies, yellow roses and baby's breath. She was given in marriage by her father. Kelly Reis of Stratford was. the bride's maid of honor while bridesmaids were Mrs. Doreen Martin and Mrs. Nellie Martin, sisters-in-law of the bride. They wore floor length yellow gowns and carried yellow roses, white daisies and baby's breath. The groom's best man was Danny McBurney of RR 5, Wingham. John Scott, RR 1, Belgrave and Ken Bell of Strat- ford were ushers. A wedding trip to Niagara Falls followed a reception at the Army, Navy, and Air Force Hall, Branch 265, St. Marys which was We pay You handsomely to invest! Even it we piti.d"you only eight per cent (and Our Current rate of interest payments is much higher than that) we. ‘VO uid douhie your money For you -in nine years: So bring your t11OnCV,toda\ to Victoria aid IIVl Vtl?IA and GREY VG 1RV5T COMPANv S1NCF 1969 Main St. E. Listowel; Ont, D.N. Lefebvre, Manager decorated with yellow streamers and white bells. The bride chose a brown pantsuit for her traveling costume: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McBurney, grandparents of the groom and Mr. and Mrs. William Martin, grandparents of the bride were special guests at the wedding. Out of. town guests were from Wingham, Bluevale, Belgrave, Goderich, Woodstock, Embro, Streetsville, Hamilton, Brant- ford, London, Orillia, New Ham- burg, Stratford, St. 1iIarys and Grand Bend. The couple will reside at 26 Oxford Stre*Stratford. Shower honors Maureen McCrea BELGRAVE — Maureen Mc- Crea' was honored at a shower on Monday evening, August 22, in the basement of Knox United Church. Guests were relatives, girlfriends and neighbours of the McCrea family `while they lived in Belgrave. The bride -elect, the bride's mother, Mrs. Amy McCrea and the bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Muriel Montgomery were seated in decorated chairs by the hos- tesses, Doreen Taylor, Donelda Lamont and Janice Coultes and lovely corsages were pinned on them. The girls conducted several in- terestinn and hmmnrn„s g:mcc and readings. Mrs. 'Laura Johns- ton read the address and Mau- reen was presented with many lovely and useful gifts. After she opened the gifts, she made a very fitting reply and invited everyone to see her things at her hone in Blyth, A delicious lunch was served. 1 i WINGHAM BODY SHOP SID ADAMS Complete RADIATOR SERVICE for Automobiles, Light Trucks, Farm Tractors New Rad Cores Rodding Cleaning & Flushing 14 North St. 357-1102 1 CUSTOM IMPRINTED 7 ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES °F 120.-- 100 80- 60 40 °C 50 --- 40 -30 —20 —10 0- 0Q — 20 O: 1— - — W.-10 Z` 0 a 20 o 20 —~z -- 30 OL 40—•;0---40 50 ....-_aa r — 50 O'HARA ADVERTISING GORRIE, ONTARIO \tip(519) 335'-34500 4st 1‘11( Self adhering Mylar NAMEPLATES, TRUCK SIGNS, DECALS - Calendars FENS" (all styles) - Thermometers - BOK MATCHES - Phone Dial Rings - ASHTRAYS, Beer Steins, Mugs - KEY. TAGS - Business Gifts - etc. 11pm' ANY •, /TAME P TIIPf I AN Af 335-3450 The Wingham Advance -Times, §eptember 7, 1977—Page 13 IN IT GOES—Kevin Carter relieves a household of another week's garbage, flinging it info the gaping maw of the big, white truck. You never know what will turn up in garbage collection business After 13 years spent collecting Wingham,'s garbage, Don Carter figures he knows everyone in town - not by name, but by the number of bags they put out or the color of their can. He gets to know people's habits so well, he,says, that on several occasions he has contacted the police when •a senior' citizen, living alone, who "never misses a week", doesn't have anything out to,,be picked up. . And over the years, Don adds, "I've picked up just about every- thing there is." Though his. loads comprise mostly conventional kitchen. and household refuse, this is not all he is palled upon to. carry away. A run last • Friday morning turned "up everything from baseball bats • to an aging armchair, 'some unstuffed"mattresses and a box full of dress patterns. Not all the unwanted items are in bad shapeand, since one man's garbage may be another's gold, some of the choicer ones may just find their way back to the Carter household, Don admits — that is, if no one else gets there first. On one occasion'„ he relates, a woman called to request that a mattress be- picked up. By the time he got there, it had already disappeared. This never knowing quite what he will find next has led Don to adopt a simple motto: If it's in the can or on the garbage pile, it goes • The practice was reinforced by a letter he read last year in the Advance -Times, he said. In the letter, a tricycle complained that though it badly wanted a ride on the garbage truck, it was con- tinually passed by. Don took the message to heart. The next week• he reports, ."an .awful hunch of tricycles went into the garbage." You see, the letter wasn't signed and we didn't know which tricycle wrote it, he explains, so to be sure of getting it we 'took every one found near the garbage. Mistakes do occur some"—es, Don admits. One time he found a wheelbarrow lying upside down over some garbage bags, so into the truck it went. Later its owner, upon inquiring after it and learn- ing its fate, explained he only meant to keep the garbage dry. Another time a husband set out his wife's laundry, mistaking it for a bag of garbage. Fortunate- ly, it was eventually. recovered intact. And on one memorable occasion, Don recalls, he sifted through eight tons of garbage to find something a merchant had thrown out` by'rriistake. , Other things that have turned up In the garbage have been even more interesting, Don reports, but he's not too sure they would look good in print. Once he even had a- request -to , deliver some garbage, Don said. The police who were conducting a surveillance of a house in town, wanted to investigate the gar- bage coming out of it. He thought he was getting another order when a woman phoned one day to ask what time he delivered; but they eventually got, it. straightened out that .she wanted her garbage picked up. Don broke •into the garbage business back in 196:t, joining his father, who at that, time had the town contract. He collected garbage in the mornings and worked the night shift at the foundry, he said. In 1969, when his father was elected to town council, he took over the business to become, at 19 or 20. the "youngest businessman in town" In addition to the contract for collecting in Wingham, on which he tenders each year, Don has the contract to. pick up garbage in Brussels. He also has individual " •contracts" with some residents in Belgrave and rents containers'to about two dozen industries and businesses in the Wingham and Lucknow areas. He is awaiting delivery. of 10 more containers, he said, Lasts year he "bought a new truck, which is the first in Canada to have both container loader and residential loader 'features, Don reports. He feels the truck is also much safer than a conventional one since the helper always • works beside the .vehicle rather. thanbehind.it and works,only one side of the street at a time, never crossing through traffic. • The' garbage collection busi- ness is a strictly regulated one, Don says. He is licenced by the waste management board, which Wants to know how much of vari- ous types of garbage is trans- ported. He also reports to the air pollu- tion board and to the board of health, which wants to know such things as the manner in.which restaurants dispose of their gar-. Page, An interesting sidelight to the regulations, Don notes, is .that while produce discarded by a grocery store may be taken home and fed to rabbits or whatever so long as it is picked up inside the --4's 'store, once it is put outside it is illegal for anyone but a licenced garbage collector to take it away. What would you call a person with a job like this? Well, bon says,. he lists his occupation as "sanitary engineer", but isn't too sure how you define that term. "Probably you've got to have papers." he joked. "The papers. I've got are newspapers." "BUT NOT THE BIKE..."—This motorcycle appears to be sitting on top of the trash heap at Lynn Hoy's awaiting its turn to'go into the garbage truck wit so, however: the trash went; the motorcycle stayed. It it had been otherwise it still wouldn't have surprised Don Carter. He says that during the past 13 years of collecting garbage in Wingham he's picked up "just about everything there ONE FEATURE Don Carter has on his new truck that isn't on other trucks equipped for residential pickup is the container loader. This allows fast and easy emptying of the refuse containers he rents to a number of local businesses and industries. 1T'S THE END of the line for this chair. Few things recover from a trip to the dump in Don Can'ter's garbage truck. Once the compacter gets through with them there's not much left. HERE'S WHERE it all ends up — at the town dump. The dumped garbage will later be covered with earth.