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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1981-11-11, Page 1..• •• • It • . . • • 444.••'•••%,t 4, 1:•;•?..44. •-• • 10,".•-•:" • . , . ; .....i. - PROEICIENcY WINNERS-mA ie lit of 01,800, in awards was givers dividual-pkoficiengy winners were: t ou1 fn i bursaries and scholars psC1, - at the commencement exercises DelOhert,,Prade "; Oelie0aticller; held. at -the F. E. Madill Seco 'dary School last Friday evening. In- and, Karen BradshaW. Grade rg. '. • crowd atte de 10; Ken Grade 13; The $1.1,800 in awards and bursaries given away at Wits Friday evening's •• coMsss mencement exercises was "a testimony to the interest in the community and district of Our young people," said Hobert Ritter,, principal of thedF1 E. Madill SecondartSChO01. A capacity crowd the MadW auditorlUtil for.' the , ceremony which awarded certificates.- of training, secondat, seboel geeduation th1)000; ateits'''..0echndarY -Schools •honer graduation diplomas tobsttudeets. • ficiency in Grade 13 wallies 'statics,: the K. E.• *Wood. Award for .sproficiency in Grade l3 physics, the R: P. Ritter Award for general proficiency in Grade 13, the W: S. Hall Memorial Scholarship in:Science arid - •the Mexander McKenzie Endowment Fund Award. He alto reeelyed the ,Queen's University Anniver- sary Scholarship and was an'. • Ontario scholar. achievingspercents ages of 80,per cent or over h Grade 13 were Lynn Miller, Faye Ann Forster, Marilyn Kieffer, Kathryn Underwood and Debbie Sjaarda. Miss Forster won • the award for proficiency in Grade 13 French, donated by Mr. R. Campeau, Mrs. M. Emerson and Miss 3. &Ital.' She else won the Mr. and Mrs. William MacDonald Award, donated; , by their Kathryn under.rd woj Ok, ItiCa I Wingham critical con- -Pia Hospital, -he was struck truck along Street in last Friday , 81, was -When she y the truck, ing driVen by an, 19, of RR actst. the award for proficiency 1,11 4.7.7*17"a Grade -13 English,p.,clonateit by Mrs. Audrey Tiffin. Miss Underwood also won the the Cal of Duty) Award, ARCD and Beyond, donated and presented by F. E.M,addle- - Debbie Sjaarda Won a scholarship donated. by the Pleaseturn to Pagell`, 1101$0.11 radii 1 - / • • Faye Ants: s.‘Poriatet, of .. Lucknow Was "clnitAr• cehL skrifinaisst ss. Ti i Grade 13: tiyilitlitineri. of Lucius -rows finished .first over all in , Grade 13, but, declinedbeing valedictorien. Mr. Miller won the W. 11. French Award. for pro- ficiency in ' Grade 13 chemistry, the J. ' H. Crawford Award for pro - Hits deer, woman :injured A Listowel woman was injured when the car she was driving collided with a deer early Saturday morning. Police at the Wingham OPP detachment reported Edith I. McIntosh was westbound along Highway 86, abqst four miles west of MoleswOith, when a deer ran onto the road in front of her. The car struck the animal and then left the road and rolled over. Mrs. McIntosh was taken to the Listowel Memorial Hospital by ambulance. She is reported to be in satisfactory tondition.• , The mishap occurred at about 2;50 a.m., Saturday and is the third instance in a period of three weeks in which a deer has been struck by a car. extensive The Wingham Business Association is planning an extensive Christmas pro- motion this year for shop- pers and children. Doug Layton announced to a gathering of approxi- mately 25,business men and women at last Thursday night's meeting that there will be nSanta Claus parade this kear. Instead, the • businessmen have decided to run a town pro- motion for Christmas, Dec. 5, 12 and 19. There will be free skating and free movie matinees for the children on those three Saturdays, said Mr. Layton. Santa Claus and his helpers also will be stationed in the former welfare office. He said the programs which are planned for the children will provide a free babysitting service and give the adults time to go out and do some shopping. Gord Walter agreed with the promotion, saying that bad weather can really spoil a parade. Murray Gerrie proposed having a church choir or groups of three or four people singing Christmas carols in the street. Shirley Walker suggested contacting the glee clubs at • the public and high schools because , she saidthe, thought, "the, teens and children would be the 'ideal ones." She also suggested having the carolers stand, at the Cenotaph to sing, but Archie Hill said he thought a roving choir would be more ef- fective. The Wenger Publications van will be available as well for taped music. Mr. Gerrie was assigned to look into getting a group of Christmas carolers together. Tice businessmen issued a plea to office workers and fellow merchants not to park on the main street during the month of December. Free parking in December is meant to be an incentive to draw shoppers into town. The estimated cost to the association for the promotion will be approxi- mately $1,000. A review of the Midnight Express sale of Oct. 22 was held also. Rob Sauve said he wants to see the sale discussed at a much earlier date next year, perhaps at the June meeting. Mr. Sauve said the sale was discussed at the Oct. 6 New senior housing project • takes another step forward The on -again, off -again senior citizens' apartment complex proposed for Wingham is on again — at least for the moment. The project to provide additional geared -to -income rental accommodation ' for local seniors took a small step forward last week, when a Ministry of Housing official finally agreed to proceed on a resolution passed by the town council in May. The resolution expressing council's interest in forming a municipal, non-profit hous- ing corporation to build and manage the apartments, now goes to a committee of the ministry for review. if approved, the town will receive a grant of about $3,000 to enable it to begin 4 forming the corporation. Once formed, the corpora- tion would be eligible for federal and provincial grants to build and operate the housing. • However the town has been warned the approval process will not be a quick one. The entire project will be reviewed as each new stage is reached, and if at any time the ministry decides the housing is not needed, the project can be abandoned. The agreement by Paul Dowling, community housing coordinator for the southwest mem( of the Mini- stry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, to take the resolution to the Community Development Committee for review. was a victory for the town council, which for several years has been pressing for • additional seniors' housing in Wingham. The battle was inherited from former mayor William Walden and the previous council, which saw plans for a new apartment complex go down the drain when the proposed site in Cruickshank Park was withdrawn due to public opposition. The agreement was reach- ed last Wednesday night, during a meeting between members of council's ad hoc committee on housing and representatives of the mini- stry, the Ontario Housing Corporation and the Huron Please turn to Page 2 .,, .4..44.4,4 .40444 41')a 444a .0g, ea,,aa,,,,t4ta +.4r, 4ra arr P? •,. 4., )4 " .12-1/.1.arttt_Vi rt their in-. accident is as of Tuesday charges had By the time all thebills are in, the Winghars Public Utilities CoMmission on; pects to have pad about s4h,000 for repairs to the town standpipe which were carried out this fall. However, despite the size . of the final bill, doMmistion members said 'they are satisfied with thedecition to go ahead with die repairs. The standpipe is six years old and as this virtuallY the only rriainte4ece it has ever required, the cost is not out of line, they said. The repair bill will be paid from accumulated net, revenue in waterworks and will not require aey • increase in water rates, PUCChaiirean Roy Bennett added. At a meeting last Thurs- day night, FIX Manager Ken Saxton told' com- missioners the repairs to the standpipe had been com- pleted that day and refilling would commence during the night. Barring any problems, the tower should be full of:Water onee again by the following MOrithig, he said. •The standpipe had been •drained about six, weeks earlier to allow experts to enter it and begin repairing small leaks in the Strecture and coaling it with an epoxy sealat. During the interval, water pressure was main- tained by PUC employees working roundAbe-elock Shifts monitoring the pumps. Originally the JO had been expected to, dike WO to three weeks and cest about $23;000, but once inside tbe problem of concrete "spelling" off the walls was found to he worse than anticipated . , • Metal jacking rods left • inside the concrete when it was poured were foiled to be the culprits causing chiinks of concrete to break away from the inside face Of the structure. According to the engineer responsible for the repairs, water seeping intns•curaece ''of the Miners join the r Tina created pressure and. :ead popped chunks of enncrete off the wa# adjacent to, tbe joint. Wfb1P,, 1110 41d11)e,s, was Still egheicifekitiee7. turally, sOund, over time dte. problem, if not repaired, could have weakened it He The repair, carried out by out,tr a firm spcalising„tO the somellen, pecess„, consisted of atpr remeeing andgrenting the to •••. joints and then00ating the would .- # - ,$ interiorde thentiShdPiPeWle t.". Ale vnoYieral01 anWhiteesi,diteberpeeobaasnottri11811gatitiVi61);' recur,Mr. Saxton saidhe optimistic. this'- will have Pe* • solved it. •'AMY* aitd'cl'aWingdee4tfebeOal;',wile#oleYh''a:t%ellekepatt47464 g • eidee/Oe'-"*Ath0-tepAit*: The standpipe will he cheaohi the Spring for any!' the wall caused an electro leaks Which have plagued:It,' lytic reaction between'. thei,"?v, over the years. If, aossh0 rods — steel pipes !Well to :tie ItoPPea, the ChIOrI raise the forms as the IeWet ,standpipe prebably will he was being poured ft • painted' outside with • a, ;Ifl Uic different type of steel Med e°. sealant, he said. • • • In other business, the ministry commissioners discussed a, toaddinor new water treatment ehemical'which ceold, replage the ',".combination of sodium silicate;and'chlorine =4; meeting, which gave the merchants two weeks to prepare for it adding that is • not enbugh time. • He missed the •sale en - Jr. Citizens hoping tolssive Santa parade' Although it has been abandoned by the Wingham Business Association, the local Junior Citizenastill are hoping to save The annual Santa Claus Parade. Adrian Keet, an advisor to the Junior Citizens, said the group was taken by surprise when the merchants an- nounced last week that they plan to drop the parade this year and replace it with some other special promotions. The Junior Citizens have done most of the work in organizing the parades for the past six years, he noted, and had already started preparations for this year's parade, under the im- pression the business association again would provide financial backing. He said the Junior Citizens still would like to have the parade if there is sufficient community interest. Anyone who would like to see the parade continue is invited to contact Mr. Keet at 357-3099. hersaid, but if it had been brought.. -up and • discussed,, earlier, he would have been involved: . • Mr. Walter said he felt the sale was a trereendous miccess. His store was crowded with "wall towall people" and he added it wet same in many stores.in town. • Mr. Walter also said it was good to. have the . grocery stores take. part. Jim • Snyder proposed getting the service' station owners involved • next year. He said one service station in Hanover offered a, reduced rate on gasoline this sum- mer, and it drew a' large number' of people into "the town. Mr. Hill expressed one concern. He said if the sale is advertised as a "midniht" sale, it should be run as such, not all day and for several daysg s suggested afterward.eeHf that's what the merchants want, "let's have a three-day sale and make a whopper of it." Mr. Layton said the association may decide to hold a three-day sale next year instead of a midnight sale because there have been se many evening sales in the area. The association would like to try something dif- ferent The next meeting of the Wingham Business Associa- tion is scheduled for Nov. 26. Tottenham man is killed in accident A Tottenham man died Sunday in an auto accident in Turnberry Township, about three miles northeast of Wingham. Ortwin Wimmer, 20, was killed when the car in which he was a passenger left the road • and rolled over, throwing him out and then pinning him underneath. The driver of the car, Mark Johnson, 18, of Lisle, also was thrown out but escaped without major in- juries, He was admitted to Wingharn and Diatrict Hospital for treatment. gt. Roy Anderson of the Ontario Provincial Police, Wingham, reported the two were heading east along Concession 6 of Turnberry at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred. As they crested a hill they met a truck and the driver lost con- trol, with the car going about 400 feet into a field and rolling several times. Mr Johnson has been charged with careless driving in connection with the accident Reportedly the two men were visiting this area to help some friends move. RACHEL BATTYE of Blyth holds the certificate she ,was awarded by the Royal Canadian Legion laSt month after her Remembrance Day poem (reprinted here) won se- cond prize in a Legion -sponsored, Canada -wide con- test. Earlier the poem had been juct9ed the top entry from Ontario. Rachel wrote the poem last fall for a high school English assignment. About the author Rachel Battye, whose Remembrance Day poem (reprinted here) won top honors for Ontario and second place for all of Canada in a writing competi- tion sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion, is a pretty, red-haired Grade 13 student at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, who modestly rejects the title of poet. Despite her success, she really doesn't consider herself a poet. Rachel said. She described this , as the first "serious poetry" she has written, though her mother added that some of Rachel's earlier poems won prizes at school fairs. The poem itself was written for a Grade 12 English assignment, and Rachel gives a great deal of credit to her English teacher, Mrs. Robinson, for the constructive criticism which helped her give it its final polish. She's a‘ really. hard, English teacher and I think every Grade 12 stte.1 should have her. It's hard to, get a good mark." Although its sensitivity and insight seem to speak of some personal exposure to the tragedy of war, Rachel said that is not the case. She has had no real connection with any wars — no one close to her has died.. However she added she always has been afraid of war and considers her poem definitely an anti -war poem. She felt this would be a strike against it, she said, and was surprised to hear it won. In the future, Rachel plans to follow in the footsteps of her mother, a teacher at the Blyth Public School. She said she looks forward to going on to study early childhood education at university, after which she hopes to get a job teaching elementary school youngsters. • 41:vdo • 4)., Theehemical, known as 9 Clean I, is reported to do a more effective job of cons trolling inin in the water, without the side effects of unpleasant Odor and taste. Mr. Saxton reported he spoke with a representative of the Guelph firm twhich manufactures the cheridcal and also received assurance it should be safe for ,use in drinking water. Why wear By Rachel Batty Please wear a poppy, the lady said • ,. And held (Me forth, but • shook my head. Then I stopped and watched as she offered them there, And her face was old and lined with care, But beneath the scars the years had made • There remained a smile that refused' to fade. A boy came whistling down the street, Bouncing along on carefree feet, His smile was full of joy and fun. Lady," said he, "may I have one?" When she'd pinned it on he turned to say, "Why do we wear a poppy today?" The lady smiled in her wistful way And answered, "This is Remembrance Day, And the poppy there is the symbol for The gallant men who died in war. Andbecause they did, you and I are free, Thats why We wear a poppy, you see. And I had a boy about your size. With golden hair and big blue eys. He loved to play and jump and shout. Free as a bird he would race about As the years went by he learned and grew And became a man. as you will too. He was fine and strong. with a boyish smile, Rut he seemed with us such a little while When war broke out and he went away. •ThensWerisquitelbi. Last week we carried in ' advertisement for Leisure Tow's • which included the • names of several total rep- • resented -Yes: The name of Maryanne. Buehlow was mistakenly • listed as Maryanne Buddow. • Our apologies to With Maryanne end Leisure TOUTS. • a poppy?, I still remember his face that day, When he smiled at Me and said, 'Goodbye, I'll be back soon, Mom, so .4 _please don't cry.' But the war went on and he had to stay And all I could do was wait and pray. His letters told of the awful fight, fl can see q still in my dreams at' dight With thelanks and guns and cruel barbed wire, And the mines and bullets, the bombs and fire. •, 'Tit at last, at last the war was won, And that's why we wear a • poppy, son.' The small boy turned as if to go. The said, "Thanks lady, I'm glad to know. That sure did sound, like an awful fight, But your son, did he come back all right?" A tear rolled down each faded cheek She shook her head, ' but didn't speak. I slunk away in a sort of hame, And if you were me. you'd have done the same; For our thanks in giving is oft delayed. Though our freedom was bought . -- and thousands paid' And so. when we see a poppy Let uS reflect on the burden borne,Bythes ewho gave their very all When asked to answer their eountry's call, That we at home in peace might live. Then wear a poppy. Remember -' and give. , 'r.114,4.•