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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-05-25, Page 14Page 12 --The Wingham Advance -Times, May 25, 1983 ra WI wants to know abor.. t an iversary oney GORRIE—What has happened to the money from Howick Township's 125th anniversary celebrations which were held in 1981? That's what the Howick Junior Women's Institute wants to know and Howick Township Coun. Gordon Kaster says they have every right to know. "To tell you the truth, I'm surprised this question hasn't come up before now," he said. Coun. Kaster was the chairman of the Howick 125th anniversary com- mittee and he says he's been trying to have a meeting of committee members for some time but can't seem to get enough people together. Meanwhile approximately $4500 is invested and gaining interest. Ronna Lee Johnson of the township clerk's office said the Junior Women's Institute had suggested the money be used to install some kind of chair lift at the Howick Community Centre for the convenience of elderly persons going from the lower to the upper floor. Coun. Kaster said his committee had the same idea but abandoned it when they found it would cost somewhere around $10,000 and adversely affect in- surance rates. "We found the cost un- believable and we also had the suggestion we should install some kind of dumb waiter, but that was ex- pensive too," he said. Coun. Kaster assured his fellow councillors he would do his best to hold a meeting of the anniversary com- mittee and said, he would welcome suggestions regarding the use of the money. . "I think we can leave it in your capable hands," Reeve William Newton said. Landfill Site An inspection of the township's landfill site by the Ministry of the Environment has resulted in "a few matters" to be looked after. Overall, said Reeve Newton, the landfill site MS. MAMMA SOTNERN passed inspection. However the ministry had ordered a new trench dug "which we were planning on doing anyway", some brush burned off and the removal of the piles of wire and old tires. The latter request is causing council some problems, "There's no. market right now for old tires and wire, so if we are to remove it — where to?" the reeve won- dered. Another councillor noted that if there were a market for the items then the township dump wouldn't be getting the quantity it is. "But we're getting along pretty good," the reeve observed. Drainage Informed of a drainage complaint by road super- intendent Glenn Under- wood, council decided to turn the matter over to its drainage supervisor for in- vestigation. Mr. Underwood said Bob Gibson had asked him to repair a section of broken tile while construction work was being done on the sideroad in the area. Mr. Gibson pointed out the water draining from a neighborly -Kr farm contained the chemical atrazene and it was killing a section of his bush. Uncertain as to whether the drain involved was a private drain or a section of public drain, council decided to turn the matter over to its drainage supervisor. "I know the concern," Deputy Reeve Jack Stafford said, "but I think we should have it cheAted out. Is this a township responsibility? This kind of thing could mushroom, there could be a number of various cases." Dealing with the road accounts, council expressed surprise and displeasure at the amount of a billing for soil testing for a bridge project. The bill submitted by B M Ross & Associates Limited of Goderich was in the amount of $2,489.94 and council was astounded by its particulars which included $292.50 for moving equipment and charges of $29.50 per hour. "Did you buy the poor bugger his dinner?" Reeve Newton asked the road superintendent. Road accounts totalling $29,464.11 and including the soil testing bill were ap- proved for payment. Knox WMS meets at Belmore church BELMORE - The Wo- men's Missionary Society of Knox Presbyterian Church held its May meeting in the church schoolroom_ with Mrs. Elmer Jeffray presiding. She opened the meeting with a poem and a song. The roll call, "What my mother said", was answered by 14 ladies with bits of homely advice and af- fectionate memories. The offering was dedicated with a hymn: Mrs. Kenneth Dickson read from Isaiah 40 and Mrs. Notes from Fordwich Margaret/ Ball and Bernie Burnett of Waterloo were weekend visitors with Mrs. Marian Kirby. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wendt of Toronto spent the weekend with Mrs. E. A. Schaefer. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller and Lori visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Piercey in Elora. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Marriner attended the Bendix rally in Harriston over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Nickel and Mr. and Mrs. Don Coghlin spent the weekend at Pine Echo Camp at Belmore. John and Terry Tudan spent Monday in Port Colbourne with Mrs. Tudan and other relatives. Mrs. Eva Harris ac- companied her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris and family, to Washington where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Les Watkins and Erin. Mrs. Emmerson Fer- guson, J. W. Daunt and Rev. and Mrs. Bill Gray attended the Anglican Synod in Lon- don last weekend at St. Paul's Cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miller spent a couple of days last week in Toronto. Mrs. Andy Gibson of Wroxeter visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Vittie. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mulvey and Harry Mulvey of Belmore were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sothern: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stowe of Kitchener spent the holiday weekend at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ruttan have returned home after a two-week vacation in England. Congratulations to Mrs. Ron McClement who was the lucky winner of $L900 at a Las Vegas night sponsored by the Listowel Rotary Club. Margaret Dinsmore of London. Ed Dinsmore of St. Marys and Cecil Galbraith visited Sunday with Mrs. Elsie Strong and Mrs. Verna Galbraith at the Fordwich Nursing Home. Mr. and M. Hans Rybicki and fami visited over the weekend in Port Colbourne with relatives and also visited with the latter's grandmother. • Mrs. B. Falcione in the Port 1 Colbourne hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnston and girls of Toronto visited over the weekend with Jim Warrell. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Douglas spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Johnston at Arran Lake. Bruce • Darling based her meditation, "A Lesson from Nature", on that passage, closing the worship service with .prayer. Mrs. John Dickson, assisted by Evelyn Dickson, showed a film strip called "John Geddie and Com- pany". Using excerpts from Mr. Geddie's biography, the Presbytery of Pictou has assembled a visual presen- tation which graphically describes the experiences of the first missionary sent by the Synod of Nova Scotia to the New Hebrides in 1848. In 1911, the Presbyterian Church in Canada turned over this mission to the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, Australia. Miss Dickson and Mrs. Alvin Mundell led in a folk song from Fiji Islands, "This Is the Day". The meeting concluded with a hymn and prayer by Mrs. Jeffray. Mrs. Lloyd Simmons served cake and ice cream during the fellowship hour. 11 J. WOSSA JUNIOR BADMINTON F. E., Madill's badminton season came to a successful conclusion at the annual WOSSA Junior Badminton championships held in our gyms last Friday. Carol Blackwell and Stephanie Gaunt, playing girls' doubles, were the only members of our Junior team to qualify for WOSSA com- petition. Carol and Stephanie began their day with a loss to Lon- don Westminster. After this shaky start, they pulled themselves together and played the fine badminton they are capable of playing. Their next four matches were all victories, 18-16, 15-8 over Norwich, 15-5, 17-18, 15- 7 over London District Chris- tian, 8-15, 15-7, 15-3 over Lon- don Clarke Road. In the battle for the silver medal, Carol and Stephanie couldn't find the key to vic- tory, losing to their old foes from Westminster 15-0, 15-7. Nevertheless, it was a fine third-place, bronze medal performance for our girls. Congratulations Carol and Stephanie! —Mr. Brewster SOCCER On May 11, the Madill Junior soccer team played Central Huron to a scoreless tie. Madill played well defen- sively, with good goalkeep- ing. by Robert Gordon. The Seniors played Clinton the same day but were de- feated by a 1-0 score. On May -13, the Senior team won, its first game, de- feating Listowel by a 2-1 score. Jim LeGrand and Jim Van Osch' scored the goals for the Madill team. On the same day, Madill's Juniors travelled to Listowel to register their third tie game. The score was 2-2 with Madill's goals scored • by Grant Weber and Ed Sweeney. On May 16, the Juniors hosted a game to Stratford Central but. unfortunately a tie was even beyond reach. Both teams were scoreless at half-time. Stratford went on to win the game 4-1. Madill's only goal was scored by Trevor Peel. On May 16, the Seniors played to a scoreless tie with Stratford Central. Playing very well defensively were Art Clark and .Richard Day. George Alton also hada very good game in goal. On May 18, Madill's Juniors finished the season with a game against Sea - forth. The score was 3-0 in favor of Seaforth, unfortun- ately. May 18, ended the season for the Seniors as well. They finished with a bang by de- feating Seaforth with a 2-1 score. Jim LeGrand and Art Clark scored for the Mus- tangs. The team's record: two wins, one tie and five losses. TRACK AND FIELD On May 18, the first day of the WOSSA track meet was held at Annadale High School in Tillsonburg. The results were as follows: Jeff Walden, sixth in shot- put with a personal best throw and a school record; Dave Edisbury, sixth in pole vault; Suzanne Helfenstein, second in Senior girls' shot- put with a school record of 10,47 m. Nancy Armstrong, third place finish overall in the heats — she qualifies for the 200 m finals. In the 4 x 100 heats, the Midget girls' team of Susan Meyer, Laurie McPherson, Kelly Anderson and Nancy Armstrong ran their best race and set a school record of 54.45 sec- onds; they placed third. Carol Blackwell, Rhonda McPherson, Jill Berwick and Stephanie Gaunt ran their best race in the 4 x 100 set- ting a new school record of 55.28 seconds. .. From May 10 to 15 at F. E. Madill S.S., the Bookmobile made its second visit (and last visit of the year 198283). Although everything was stacked neatly, there was one change of plan. All the books were put in the student lounge because the floor of the Bookmobile was un- steady. The English department arranges these visits be- cause it gets 20 per cent dis- count on books" for school, classroom use. Also, the school gets a 10 per cent cash bonus on sales of books to students. Therefore, it is worthwhile. There was a good selection of books: romance, horror, reference, fantasy -science fiction and historical. Mr. Bland was heard to comment that the students of F. E. Madill were the ,best - behaved school students he has ever been around, other Ed® Anticipat "The thing done is no- thing; the doing is all." This famous quote came from the novel Fruits of the Earth written •by Frederick Phillip Grove. And this famous quote happens to be true. Imagine anything that you have done that has made you completely satisfied once it - was done. Maybe !he` build- ing of a house? But, what do. you do with a house except live there day after day once it is built? The fun is in the building! So, if the fun is found in the doing, then the excitement or anticipation can only be dis- covered in the waiting. Remember waiting for high school — wasn't it fun? (Maybe not!) Remember waiting for the weekend? Remember waiting for a certain question? Remem- ber waiting for . . . well, waiting for just about any- thing? People are just ormally built anticipating som thing. If you are not at the pr ent time waiting for something to happen, then you are not living. That is part of the ex- citement of life — the wait- ing. When a certain occurrence has not yet occurred, you can think of a million ways that it could happen. Say for example your first swim- ming lessons. Now, you could get a very handsome man (or woman) as a swimming instructor and you could end up going home with that certain person .. visits FEM than the boarding school stu- dents. Let's keep up the good work! —Michelle Hooftman Thank you An appreciative thank you goes to the following people for allowing us (the Madill Mirror) to print their editori- als in our paper: Lisa Arm- strong, Steve Gaunt, Karen Pennington, Kevin Saxton, Richard Day; Jack Simpson, Shirley Loree, Kendra Pur - don, Karen Beecroft, Hema Patel; Brent Van Osch, Helen ' Morrison, Paula Strong and Judith Mc- Michael. Guest editorials are both interesting and helpful to the appeal and length of our aprt of the Wingham Advance -Times. Thanks Grade 12s. —Lid etc. etc. Then again, you could get someone who makes the back end of a mile look good and that would be the end of that! But the hop- ing and the waiting are what makes an exciting life. So, if you have nothing to wait for;' if you are waiting for absolutely nothing to happen, create something creative and before you know it, something will happen! —Liz Wilkins MRs. ALLAN GRIFFITI1 Wroxeter 1 Peter Isabelle and his brother-in-law of Missis- sauga spent Sunday with Clarence Clement. Weekend guests with Mrs. Mac Allen were Mr. and Mrs. George Allan, David and Sara of Sarnia; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Allan, Heather and Christopher of Toronto; and, Sheenagh Imirie of England. Mrs. Allan Griffith visited Mr. and Mrs. Brian Manuel and Amanda last Monday evening. Friends of Mrs. Clarence Clement will be sorry to learn she was transferred from the Wingham and District Hospital to University Hospital in London at the beginning of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Adrien Poirier, Weston, were holiday weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Marks. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reffell, London, visited last Saturday and Sundaywith her father, Gordon Gibson. Mr. and- Mrs. Lou Abbot and children of Guelph visited at the home of Mrs. Mac Allan last Saturday. Mrs. Allan Griffith was a dinner guest with Mrs. Bert Scott and David at Gorrie last Sunday. Mrs. Martin Scott also was a dinner guest at the same home. Belgrave euchre Seven tables were in play at the Belgrave Euchre last Wednesday evening in the WI Hall. The winners were: high lady, Mrs. Ronald Coultes; novelty lady, Mrs. Garner Nicholson; low lady, Mrs. Clarence Hanna; high man, Lawrence Taylor; novelty man, Mel Jacklin; low man, Edgar Wightman. There will be euchre next Wednesday evening, May 25. . Everyone is welcome. SPECIALS IN EFFECT UNTIL CLOSING TUES. MAY 31 yOU----• • - witha M"',i:;':i', e by Clare? Exuiii Exi%iiiPu2 IF it now costs 81,000.00 to heat your home with a con- ventional OII, furnace, you could SAVE. as much as 81000 8900 8800 8700 8600 8500 8400 8300 8200 8100 oR 63%* IF it now cowls 8700 00 to heat your home with a con- ventional GAS furnace. you could SA%E as much as $3300R 47%* 81.000 X900 $800 700 8600 8500 8400 8300 8200 8100 THE IREG[ SAVE 1 can pay for itself In as little as 3 years. depending on current cost and methodAAof heating. 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