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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1978-11-15, Page 2Advance -Times. N9verAr 78 NEW LINE—When the Ernie King Music Centre opened last Friday in its new location across from Mac's Milk on Josephine Street, the changes included a new line of Yamaha guitars, more records, tapes and sheet music and a multi -track recording studio in the basement. Mr. King is trying out a new guitar. • • LATE FALL SKATEBOARDING. --After a long summer of skateboarding these young- sters are pretty good at it and were doing great feats Sunday on the Alice Street hill. Donald Casemore, 12, tackled the hilt while seated on his skateboard while Brad Hayden, 10, make it most of the way lying on his stomach. Behind, Jamie MacDonald, 7, and big Wither Todd MacDonald, 11, helped get the others started. Mas. JOE WALKER Bluevale Personal Notes The. Bluevale Mothers' Club will be having Constable Bill Wil- son from Goderich come to its Nov. 20 meeting to show a film called 'How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive'. The film will be shown at 8:30 p.m. at the Blue - vale United Church and the pub- lic is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Moffatt, Sandra and Greg spent the week- end with Mr. and Mrs. Ken Henry and family at Parry Sound. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elliott and Mrs. Alvin Gamble of Listowel attended the funeral of Jack Gamble of Brampton who passed away suddenly .on Nov. 7 in his 55th year. He leaves to mourn his wife Donna, son Craig and daughter and one grandson. Mrs. Harry Elliott is his aunt. Alfred Meahan of Surrey, B.C. passed away suddenly at his home at the age of 82. He leaves his wife Lavina, one son Earl, one daughter, Patsy and eight grand- children, two brothers, Earl of Elrose, Sask., and Wilfred of Detroit and two sisters, Annie, Mrs. Damrow of Detroit and Alice, Mrs. Harry Elliott of Blue - vale. Sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elliott on the bereavements in their family. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Edgar and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart will be in charge of the euchre party in the community hall, Thursday, Nov. 16. Banquet and Dance BELGRAVE & AUBURN CO-OP ANNUAL BANQUET AND DANCE in Blyth and District Community Centre on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Supper 7:30 p.m. - Dance at 9:00 p.m. Music by Moran Brothers Adults $4.00 - - - Children $2.00 Tickets available from directors or at the store Lots of additions in new Ernie King Music Centre A sixteen channel recording studio, new stringed -instrument repair facili- ties and a larger selection of records, tapes and sheet music are the main changes in the Ernie King Music Centre, which was moved last week. The centre was moved to its new location, across from Mac's Milk in the old Berean Chapel. The old- store was located in rented facilities adjacent to the Toronto Dominion Bank. Though the move came just last week, renovations to the old chapel had been underway since June. In the base- ment a soundproof studio utjliees about half the space which took a lot of work to put together. Rubber -mounted sound -absorbing carpeting is suspended inches away from the concrete walls. There is also carpeting on the floor so sounds won't deflect off the underlying concrete. Suspended egg crates provide plenty of dead air space above the ceiling. An adjacent control room is filled with Teac multi -track recording equip - meet, which will be operated by Harry Busby. When planning the studio it was de- signed to be a "semi -pro recording studio," Mr. King said Friday, the day the new place, opened. He said the idea of having a recording studio in Wingham is to promote an interest in area musicians and keep them interest- eclin music. He especially wanted ama- teur musicians to get a chance to use a recording studio and not pay huge studio fees. The move to the new store coincided with the acquisition of a Circle of Sound record and tape franchise. The result is a much larger selection of current re- cords, cassettes and 8 tracks, Mr. King said. Yamaha guitars are an addition to the selection of musical equipment the old store carried and one wall of the new location is nearly covered with sheet music. Music teachers from Kincardine, Teeswater, Goderich and Brussels rf" come to the music centre, Mr. King said,f his selection of sheet music. Good selec on and fast service are, the most impo tent ways of serving customers ho want sheet music, he said, so h picks up music of new tunes and special requests each week. The new studio will also be an ideal place for the guitar lessons given to 30 to 35 students each Thursday from 4 to 10 p.m. Two teachers are busy in that period. He is hoping to expand the teaching program to include other musical' instruments 'and get other teachers to handle those classes. There are already dancing lessons Wednes- day nights. Mr. King wipe doing more repairs to stringed instruments in the new shop and has set aside a place for adjust- ments as well as major repairs. He has been training in musical instrument re- pairs for about five years and wants to provide that service for a large area, as there is no one else in the area doing stringed instrument repairs, he. said. Business association Continued from front page windows with antique mer- chandise. He reported that following talks with centennial committees in other towns the group has decided to take a low key ap- proach to souvenirs, investing in a limited number of quality items. Other committees have been stuck with piles of souvenirs after *centennials are over, he noted, ` reporting the Clinton committee paid back a $10,000 debt to the town with "$2,000 in cash and $8,000 in souvenirs One area in which the association might want to get involved is the minting off cen- tennial coins, he suggested, showing members samples of the coins used by the Goderich and Harriston committees. The coins, minted from nickel, have a value of one dollar for a limited period of time, following which they have only souvenir value. The centennial committee doesn't want to' take this on - because it already has enough to do. Mr. Rintoul said. He - en- couraged the business associ- ation to get in touch with Harrist- on and Goderich to find out how they handled it, noting. "the more coins you buy the more you make". He said at least 10,000 would have to be bought to make any money on the project. In response to a question on who would get the profits from such a project Mr. Rintoul said they should revert to the cen- MUSEUM MUS/NGS The recent closing of the store in St. Augustine' marked the end of an era. It was the store that was so vividly described by Harry J. Boyle in his many books on life in rural Ontario in the twenties and during the depres- sion. With the store now closed along with the school and the beef ring, all that is left is the Catholic Church and the name of Boyle, which is known from coast to coast in Canada, If you have not read his homespun humor you have missed a lot. A word of warning, do not read his mouth watering descriptions of his mother's meals, if you are on a diet. Harry J. Boyle was born and raised on a farm in West Wawanosh; and later moved to St. Augustine, to live with his parents at the store. He attended Wingham High School, although he did not graduate. He excelled in one subject, English. Follow- ing his stay in Wingham, or Bing- ham as he called it in his stories, he attended St. Jerome's College in Kitchener. After that came odd jobs during the depression, along with his continual writing. He did some reporting for the Free Press in London, and also for a couple of Toronto papers. Back in Wingham 10BP had be- come CKNX, with no news- caster. Harry tried to land a job at the radio station, by suggest- ing they carry local as well as national news. After Harry had a microphone test, "Doc" Cruick- shank still hesitated. Finally to prove his point Harry broadcast the news two weeks at no charge. The result was he became a member of the CKNX team for a very small wage. From the habit of the announcer saying "Come in Harry", when the news broad- cast started his program was listed as "Come in Harry". Those were the days when the news began with the latest from Ma- drid, the civil war and the rum- blings of things to come in Europe. While at CKNX his writing con- tinued and a series of weekly articles appeared in the Wing - ham Advance -Times as well as city papers and magazines. A radio drama series was written and produced with the late Alton Adams ,as the serious Dr. Peter Harris. Harry had the first apartment in the old Spotton Business Collage in the Meyer Block. In 1937 he married the school teacher from St. Augus- tine. By 1939, when their daugh- ter was born, the Boyles were living in the apartment over the drug store, across the street from the radio station. In 1941 he left Wingham to become a feature writer with the Stratford Beacon -Herald, in Stratford. The foil t , '- _ year he was off to Toronto .nd the Can- adian Broadcasting 6,rporation. He accepted a positi.t., in the Farm Broadcast Del ; rtment- This was the first s , , up the ladder of success. His rise from one job to another ' : tory. He recently retired f - ' the chair- manship of the After such a successful career in the CBC and being the author of many plays and novels, one wonders what his teachers of the old Wingham High School would think of him now! tennial committee. Anytime' somebody is asked to do something for the centenary, "we're actually putting you on the committee", he told the group. All the profits should go back to the committee and then, when all parade and other ex- penses have been paid, the groups can sit down and divide whatever is left. He warned the group it takes two or three months to get the coins minted so a decision should be made soon, . by the first of the year at the latest. Association members were not ready to make a decision at the meeting, but Gord Walter agreed to check into the possibilities and report back. Audrey . Currie and Lorne Humphrey volunteered to represent the association on the centennial committee. SANTA CLAUS PARADE In other business at the meeting association members gave Wingham Junior Citizens the go-ahead on plans for a Santa Claus parade and settled on Christmas shopping hours. Sylvia Beard, president of the Junior Citizens, who attended the meeting together with Sheila Burke and Debbie Merkley, said plans for the parade are already well underway. It will start at 1 p.m. on Dec. 9 and the Junior Citizens have already found a Santa, booked some bands and are currently working at arranging for floats. They will be contacting businesses to see how many plan to enter a float in the parade, she said. She added that if the association will grant the same budget as last year, $1,000, it should be more than enough. The association agreed to back the parade for that amount. Following some -,discussion of proposed shopping hours during the Christmas season, members agreed to recommend that shops remain open every Monday as well as Thursday and Friday nights - for the month of December. .It was noted the decision whether to stay open or not rests with individual mer- chants and depends on the nature of their businesses. Also during the meeting Pat McKeown, advertising manager for The Advance -Times, present- ed a proposal for a series of Christmas promotions. He ex- plained the intention is to reach as many people as possible and try to get all the merchants unit- ed to create "a shopping experi- ence known as W-iagham" He told the merchants that figures show many . types of businesses do 20-30 per cent of their business during, the month of December and offered to work with individual merchants in drawing up advertising plans suggesting when and why to advertise for maximum results . 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