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out to. Tuthberiy Township
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after slaty called :tnreport
flames . :in the
George U.nderwood's _v
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NEWCLERK-TREASURER--Byron Adams' started In the town hail last week to
learn the ropes of his new job as clerkitreasurer for Wingham. He will be working,
with retiring Clerk-TreasUrer .Bill Renwick until the end of the year.
Newcl.erk-treasurer
looks. for .rd tol�b
Byron Adanis is Molting on his many
years of working with figures' iti .industry
and education torp in . his new job as
clerk -treasurer of ghant.
"A lot of it is ,ati accounting job," he
observed. "There's a lot of budgetary
work, and .that's something I'm interested
in."
He said he doesn't expect,the new job to.
be too much different from his .previous
experience, although he will Work with a
smaller staff and with. 'a lot more
regulations and bylaws. gdtn :of it is new
and strange, and it wiil� take a While to
learn all the ropes, he added.
To help snake the adjustment he
currently is taking a correspondence'
course offered by the Ontario sasticiation
of municipal,o'terk-tr'sureirat and ciao
will enrol ib'iw a municipal aocbtittitiitig
Mr. Adams explained he has 'been
working in the accounting field for more
than a dozen years, and has been rectified
as a chartered accountant for 10. He.
started out by working in public ac-
counting for four years in London and a
year in Calgary. Next he taught ac-
counting, auditing and economics .for four
years at community colleges and, most
'recently, he has been in charge of finances
at Western Foundry Company Ltd.. in
Wingham for more than four years..
He said he looks forward to getting in-
volved with the town, noting Wingham is
his home town and the family goes back
for several generations here. As part of his
job lie plans to expand the town's ac-
counting system and produce regular
financial reports for the various depart-
ments.
The work looks interesting, he added,
and he doesn't ,mind -the idea Of Working
closely with the public
Mr. Adarris started IA the tetvn hall last
week. Bill Renwick, ;the retiring clerk -
treasurer, will work with hurt until at least
the endtof the year,
c1
ter,projectoshin,„ and sn, • ttratribn� t th+
lin§tr tments for 4s -rhythm ,radueo loneline
band, , carpet boiwlw.ginset, activity.
1p each
the com-
Fe time
'and in-
epo
dies in
accident
Brian D. Park; a 27 -year-
old reporter and Photo-
grapher with the North
Kent Leader in Dresden,
Ontario, was killed in a head-
, on collision near Chatham
Monday evening.
The accident occurred
along Highway 40. shortly
after 5 p.m. The driver of the
other vehicle, Mrs, Elizabeth
Ungvari -of . ' Detroit,
Michigan, also died in the
collision. • •
Mr. Park was employed by
the 'Wingham Advance -
Times for a short time in 1976
and later worked at the
Eledtrohome plant in town.
He left Wingham and moved
to Dresden in 1977.
Re was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Don Park of Sarnia ;
also left to mourn are a
brother and a sister. A
private funeral was held 'in
Sarnia on Wednesday.
e
0 v '' b ifs c t r liot
maim areon a ..coR {_
.��c ��.
stretching back, three generations, y..
One such is Caryn Mann of irsigham,
who is currentlyenjoying, visitBina her
Pen pal, Lynne Mathieson of Aberdeen,
Scotland.
alley have been trading letters for the
past seven years, starting when both were
,about 10 years old. However they are
carrying on a tradition whirls goes back
much farther.' •
The correspondence dates back to
Scotland in the early 1920s, where Caryn's
• maternal grandmother, then a young
woman, had a close friend. When she came
to Canada in 1923 she kept in touch withher
friend through the mail, and the twc
families have been in contact ever since.
Caryn's mother, Mrs. John Mann, was
next to take up the pen, corresponding with
thedaughter of her mother's friend. Their
correspondence is all the more
'remarkable since they have never met,
though they still hope to someday.
The granddaughters,. Caryn and Lynne,
are carrying on the correspondence in
their turn, andboth said they will en-
courage their own children to continue it.
It was six years before. the girls first
met, last summer, when Caryn paid a visit
to Scotland. How did it feel to meet for the
first time someone you knew only through
letters?
There was some awkwardness at the
start, Lynne admitted, though the girls
recognited each other right away from
•
They, leen a ot„ mo0re: oL - eacfii
'other from " meetings, Care. added
`Netters tell a _rpt, bul ...,
Whet do you.'ovri:abuut to nem
you've never Met? They shared eifn nor=
interests, the girls said, :sum. 3s, the pipes
• —Lynne used to.play iii apiipe u;nd - and
Highland dancing, and also' wive... -4- wt
the things •they were doing
"Some wordsshe'd'writeI didn't utidar -,
stand and T hadIo run 'to my Mother;'�"-
tarp' recalled. For -err nple; the' dime
Lynne wrote -She' was 'flitting', whiolt
„turned out to mean nuiving another,
house. .
When Lynne returns to. Scotland at,:
end of her holiday the .girls will ,resuM
their correspondepee, Writing once. 'sur.:.
twice a month, "depending on the.;ail':.,.
In the meantime they are having, a won-:
derful time discovering southern Ontario,
including Niagara Falls, the .;Stratford.
Festival, Georgian Bayand, ofcourse,ithe
Wingham Funfest.
Lynne said she was impressed by the
wide open, spaces of Canada as welkistie}
;�,,
thunderstorms and the beat. A:. thulider
storm such as the one last week Would hea.„,.v •
real event in Scotland, she said, sidcldt's`;
actually quite cool there now.,
She also enjoyed Wingham's small-town,„
atmosphere. "Everybody seems' _iso
friendly here;" she noted, "and people
know each other on the street." She said it
isn't the same in Aberdeen, a much bigger
and more bustling place. "It's really quiet
here compared to Aberdeen."
LOOKS tom) IN. THERE -John Chippa, appropriate.
ly dressed for the occasion, looks apprehensively at
the cold water inside before climbing onto the seat Of
the dunking tank in the Funfest midway, ,
THE CORONATION—Karen Wood, last year's Wing -
ham centennial queen, passes the crown to Janice
McMichael, winner of the 1980 Miss Funfest contest,
as runners-up . Kim Letteau and Gail Thompson
applaud