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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1980-01-23, Page 171.71 Pr7i;. '1i 'A' Ogg 4fP After lit -town tOVel.", ***O ' ot" actad;•',:•144,,•and 10,4000Mva, As of the end of thi Peofile, 00,/f4'„,dri Wingham for :or • • "••,. or to have their shoes, 1 404-.0.00 Pfigtet0 • localresidents further afield. • 7' " proiee' It's not-i.iiOnted it One before, . noting • that - five to he, .1Vir,)',R4011oOft#01441#0 .years ago have been wee*, l'WO:ctligi*fflOill,JIhe .0001Cted tor.4;0004,090, while the town and.antend*keep!dialt it would eosin tho,neighbor- ' neighbor - renovated hood of if done by the town Behnore, but their business is 1P001.8 to IlighWaY,,Market in Or e d be sewer tiL se "7" ' 14*explained that be didn't ope1--19PW10t$ 9,- St with •jj the tm$,,,11,a e problem j: 'ip and existedhemerecomA. *ell the joh, with the • Money lift over from the Charles Street project, which Was used ving to insteadito put down the first coat c. shoe Sof pavement. iandbag4 ac014111 and to end council to tt, this year," he go- „added:., Mgvi:Ftletlielkiaid, doest4 Kitehener. They are Wed of • the in- convenience and indignity of -having to walhdOwntm*nand ask", permission every time they want to-tise a;hati4VO1IIYT11!Y are tired of haying to bring . water from home in alLig eseli day. And; most of- Alithey are fed up with,c, what. they. See as the town'iutter taek Of interest in clang anything about the problem. Their problem stems from the fact that the Sectionof Read between John -and Victoria Streets ••is the unli.Part. Of town , which lacks sewer end ' Water services. For some reason the 'services were not installed there at the same time as in the rest of , • the downtown -core, and the o. omission. was never rectified. , • , Compounding 111e that4hiiil9t4§04#geiWne*gttel',:-,' permit. installation of a septic • • t,n Al0L ,i741 snEOLVe promised by the then -mayor, Jack Retivie, that serviceswould be ' installed when Josephine' Street was rebuilt, Mr. Podhorny said. So they waited, but when the street was done no move was made to .service Diagonal Road and when they asked they Were told the town had to money, he reported. s - contractor '. ' One: holdup .was the h iight47443r across the ,,,trie/lg)e'frqP,, Digonai Viet-Orte.i$Jreet, vi'4017,47Pest connection ,111041ctlh114*,.to just •be made, huseidh,T4-t9Ynki. gettzng that. It had been • P400( 41tqft! J and, ,019 explained; :Opt,/ de 40ed neetf ,r1•• • ... engineers street preje 0 wasn't' enoughf, sewage4o John Bateson,,..:•e-JY, member of town council, SajI . . . re as e ith he o, the lee the inain'it do here°, we04. • ' es while he was on council, he parted, and again recently ben the main street was rebtillt„ ut without much 4uccess. • Meanwhile although . the Odhornys are committed to • cpening their shop' in Highway, Market next month, they haven't closed the door entirely to. ossible return to Wiligl4M;'' ey like the small town better: han the city, Mr. PodherpY 5443 dn if it should happen 111:4' e• ervices are installed along Diagonal Road and his proper0r, lsn t sold by then, he just might come back. al ,44 waj the Prime a Iyhnis • 10. from 1 ,-the- Wingharnare Itisa The telephone 24-398t, This i 4fpicked up hy, announced Tuesday thaijr. Open -line radio program on FM - from the five federal ridings in ne in and ask questions: ster will be interviewed for tele - pen -line program on FM -102 is 1 - so the costs of telephoning Will be .4.4,. I.,:t." 4 '',4:',44':. •34.14',(4.4..., t"..X.. '.. LIFE ME MB E RSIIIP--,Mrs. Annie Baker was presented with cafe for the SalvatilinArmy Home League. Capt. lain Train9rV ; J, presented the award, explained that Mrs. Baker founded thelfifirighaffir Home L years ago. "As far as we know she is the re survivor nt, the founding. mm can eda ." *. • :‘r• .` They. waited. again ,and still nothing was done,' although he • noted the town had enough , onon0 last simuner to rebuild • Charles Street arid replace the sewera there. Now they are tired of waiting. Apparently the town council • thinks he'estuck here and has nowhere else to go so they can ignore him, Mr. Podhorny commented. But that's not so. He had as much business here as he • wanted,- with customers coming • from as far afield as Michigan, • but his special skills enable him to earn a living anywhere. He noted that Highway Market was SO happy to get him it began running advertisements in the Kitchener newspaper as early as November announcing that Alf's Shoe Repair and Orthopedic Shoes was coming hack to Kit- chener. Mike Chappell, commissioner of public works for Wingham, said he sympathizes with the Podhornys and would like t� get the problem cleared up. "I .can understand how he feels," he commented. "There • GoLF IN JANUARY?—Richard and Bert Askes rest their clubs aftercompleting nine holes of, golf Monday afternoon -They were the first p.laying,guests of 1980 -at the Wingham Golf and Curling Club. Richard AskesComment- ed after the game; "The greens were realty nice, but the balls did tend to bounce a bit" March 6 has been set as the date for an Ontario Municipal Board hearing on the bylaw rezoning a portion of Cruickshank' Park for senior citizens' apartments, members of the Wingharn Planning Board were tpld last week. The hearing will take place in • the town hall. Four separate individuals or groups have filed Church bytrflnsfe -. certificates cengreKOLefii bera are .1V1rs::' Richard in, Mrs. Torn Mille0 , and Mrs. Bill Thompson. Rev. K. "Barry Passmore formally welcomed, the new members at, service com- memorating " the ,Sacrament of Holy Communion on Sunday morning, In his Communion meditation, Mr. Passmore spoke of the miracle of changing water into wine at the wedding in Cana. He spike of Christianity being joyful andthefact that Christ always wanted to Contribute to people's happiness. The junior choir 'anthem was conducted by Mrs. liassinore and ' the senior choir sang an anthem under. the direction of organist and leader Hap SNvatridge. ate is set • orial !irk • • • • T• • objections to the bylaw passed last year by town council, acting on the recommendation of the planning board. The hearing will deterinine. whether council can go ahead with its plan to sell the south two- thirds of the park to the Ontario Housing Corporation for con- struction of a 19 -unit subsidized apartment complex. Minorinjury Opening date is set for in accident Clinton school addition Daniel Stacey of RR 2, Wingham, received minor in- juries when he was involved in a single -car accident on Con- cesion Road B at Arthur Street, Turnberry Township, provincial police report. There were five Motor vehicle collisions around the area during the past week, but this was the only one to cause injury. Damage in the accidents totalled an estimated $8,350. hld- 22 charges under the Highway Traffic Act _and issued 17 warnings. They also laid four charges under the Liquor peence Act and two under the Criminal Code. By Wilma Oke DULIN—The 118 pupils at St. Joseph's Schoel, Clinton, will be able to enjoy their enlarged and renovated school by the • end Of Feruary, when workmen will have finished work on the ad- dition, according to a report given to the Huron-PerthRoman Catholic Separate School Board • by its property committee. The addition will provide them with a general purpose room where they will have physical education classres and hold other events. It will also provide a roorri for special education classes. The board set the official opening date tor the addition as May 4, which is the beginning of Education Week. In other business at the meeting the board approved pay ment of fees of 124.60 the Canadian Cathqlic School Trustees' Association, 43,400.95 , to the Ontario Separate School Trustees' Association, and $1,202 to the Ontario School Trustees' Council, Pees total $4,127,55, which is $107.65 higher than last year.- The board provided the' property committee with $15,000 from which to draw to pay for maintenance work in the schools until the 1980 budget is set some- time in 'March. • • " Several individuals and the .Wingham Business Association have objected to having residential development in 'the memorial park. • In other business ,at the meeting Mike Chappell, town works commissioner, reported the go-ahead has been given for construction of foundations for the new plaza at the south ead of town. He said the application for a full building permit has been subrriitted, lint he needed ad- ditional information before it could be granted. Board members arso con- sidered who should' replace the twmz.tribtermsenew ending their one-year Applications for places on the board were received from Bill Crump, Anit 'Bodasing, Harper English and Stan Chadwick. Following a closed discussion, the heard forwarded a recom mendation to council that MT. Crump and Mr. English be ap pointed ibr three-year terms, to take the -places Of Auger Keay . and Lloyd Gilroy. Mr. Keay and Mr: Gilroy were • among the mepribers appointed to the ,board after a mass fsiriation left only the two c:oulatirdciiblVtoettilhebeyring ctioneathteedpthlaenyndiindg iideittioptyalitihtettmo fee an ad- . I week Annie . Baker,• . *ingliarn, was presented with a Life Membership Certificate to the- §atvatin Army Home League. She is one of Wingham's founding members; that was 63 years ago. Capt. lain Trainor, whb • together with his wife presented the -certificate, exp1ained4that the Home League was first in- troduced in Canada in 101i., just six years before it developed in .Wingham. As- far as he. knows Ms. Baker is the only surviving foounniinideroonf. 'any l,eague across the D Mrs. Baker, now residing in BrooldiavIn Nursing Home, said that she and her family moved to towrifrom Toronto in 1903. Three years later she married the late Nortnari Baker. While livipg in Toronto she and her mother 'wentto the Salvation Artily where shemet Capt. Sarah Soon after she moved to Wingham the captain became stationed here and. together they decided to set u a league. -Mrs. Baker explained the league's purpose is to raise money for the Corps;to cover its own operatingcosts and donate articles to the needy. In her day this Was accomplished by pur- chasing material, "for aprons tibria;ia dliarj.a,,mas and things like that and' selling theM at the fall When the league Was first set" Up funds were scarce but Mr. Haltereame up with an idea that solved the problem. She stiggested that members' waistlines be measured and each woman pay one tent for every inch. Apparently the pregnant women didn't like the idea, but it went ahead as planned Mbney raised from the suggestion and members' dues of 10 cents per week enabled the league to buy materials for the bazaar which took in about $400, she said. Mrs. Baker has many fond memories from her years with v.' • -alaa? the league ineltiding thelokagre, pancake .supiers, and annual picnics. "We had some wonderful times. I enjoyed it very flinch." • She continued being active in the league until 21- yearaago when she broke her. hip. Due to trouble climbing stairs and lack -of transportation, her attendance was cut down to about one a month until she retired. Notii..thete aren't ma), Vier who went when she was there. "A" lot of the oldtirners are all gone," She said. But old or new the Wingharn Home League of the ,Salvation Army has obviously not forgotten Annie Baker or her involvement . - during the formative years.. Holding up the, certificate se- ' proclaimed, "Tm Very proud uf, this." ' ccidOtal sh�otir lifoOf girl A tragic, accidental shooting claimed the life of a child in Ttumberry Township last week. Fouryear-old Lora Anette Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Shaw of RR 1, Wroxeter, died last Wednesday after she was struck by a bullet .froin a rifle which accidentally discharg- ed while she was at her, grand- father's home on the same farm. St. Roy Andersen of the Wingham detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police reported the grandfather, -Don Shaw, 52, had been showing some rifles to a friend and they were laid across the arms of a chair. The girl came into the room and Was climbing onto the Chester- field just as Mr. Shaw was lifting one of the rifles and it went off. He had used the rifle, a .308 sem-automatic, to destroy a dog some time- before and had removed the clip but forgot to clear the chamber, Sgt. Anderson explained. A semi-automatic will automatically insert a fresh cartridge into the chamber after one is fired, so the gun was loaded but Mr. Shaw didn't realize it. The eirl was rushed to Wingham and District Hospital where she died within the hour. Coroner J. C. McKim of Luclulow said no decision has been reached yet on whether an inquest into the shooting will be held. Lora Annette Shaw was born in the Wingbem hospital on May 5, 1975. Her mother was the former Lorraine 'Moore. Besides her sorrowing parents, she leaves to mourn one sister Carrie and one brother Mark, both at home; her. grandparents,Mr. and 1Irs. Don Shaw, RR 1, Wroxeter, Mrs: Eileen Pitchford, -British Columbia, and Frank ,Moore, Drayton; and great grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Cameron and Ulmont Moore. Complete funeral and com- mittal service was held Saturday at two o'clock at the M. L: Watts -Funeral Home, Gorrie Chapel, with Rev. ErneSt J. Fellows officiating. Lora's final resting place will be Wroxeter Cmetery. AsElliEgity tavo' Huron bd. ratifies contract with teachers By Dave Sykes The Huron County Board of Education last week announced ratification of a one- year deal with its elementary school teacher, giving them an average 7.3 per centsalary increase for 1979-80. The teachers had agreed to the new contract the previous day. It raises the ave;loto agesa8129ar,yoofoo.r teachers in el em en t ry sch00116-10 $20,762 with a range from taii sePoott;;inneoifoothisa e county's earning n24g theele$m5 menta5ry ho5 maximum rreePdra acrossthe Pthe aygrid, a idr,whtile the other an average of 834,460. The average increase on the Prn&eleatiltary grid was 6.75 per cent ai "101eAkeritary teachers had been with- -1771.1-7-rjatil e." out a contract since Sept. 1 and a fact - finder was appointed at that time to assist with negotiations. Brenda Schedler of Wingham, chief negotiator for the teachers, said the group initially sought an increase of close to •10 per cent, while the board limited its offer to four per cent. • "The old agreement was open to inter- pretations" She said, and we feel it wasn't until after the factfinder report that nego- tiations became serious." - Shirley Hazlitt, negotiator for the board, cited several reasons for the failure of the, tWo sides to reach agreement. She noted negotiations ere suspended over the summer holiday aid said the fact - finder was slow with his report. .41 "We were so close, but you can't go to a ratification meeting until it's finalized" Mrs. Sehedler said 75 per cent of eligible teachers -voted on the new contract and it was ratified by more than 80 per cent of them. Highlights of the contract include Am- proved transfer conditienswith-in -the county school system, as well as tenure and redundancy clauses. The teathers also have ah improved accumulative sick leave plan in which a teacher can accumulate 20 ck leave daYs per year to a maximum of 220 days. This brings the benefit into line . with that of the secondary school teachers. In December the board settled With its secondary school teachers on a one-year , contract offering a seven per cent in- crease.