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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1973-09-27, Page 1Maori h NO 39 FIRST WIT1-I THE LOCAL NEWS QUEEN OF THE FAIR - Miss Judy Miller, of Dashwood was crowned Queen of the Fair in Zurich at the annual dance held in the Community Centre, on Saturday evening. Last year's Queen, Miss Ruby Beierling crowned the Queen as Miss Debbie O'Brien, runner-up looks on. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2'7, 1973 Approve portable classroom (by Mrs. Wilma Oke) The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at a meeting in Seaforth Monday approved pay- ing to the Village of Zurich in one lump sum, $1, 785, the water services frontage charge fir 375 feet for St. Boniface School, in Zurich. The board approved the app- ointment of Mrs, Cecilia Mittle holtz as Grade 4-5 teacher at St. Boniface School. Joseph Tokar, of Stratford was appointed to the acting capacity of Superintendent of Education for the Board during the leave of absence (without pay) for the Superintendent of Education John Vintar, who is to pursue further studies toward a doctorate in educational ad- ministration. The studies will be at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, The Board approved the instal lation of a portable classroom for St. Boniface School at Zur- ich --to be installed as soon as possible. Mr. Vintar spoke of the prop- osal to introduce the use of the VD Kit in teaching Health in Grades 7 to 10. Mr. Tokar reported the Min- istry of Health had been conc- erned with the increase in VD cases in adolescents. As a result the Ministry of Health formul- ated the Kit which includes slides, tapes, transparencies, (continued on page 5) Perfect day f (by Wilma Oke) The sun smiled on Zurich when the 109th annual Fall Fair was held on Monday. It drew a crowd of 1200 people as well as 477 pupils from Zurich Public School, St. Boniface School and Ecole Ste. Marie, who were given a half holiday to march in the opening parade. Queen of the Fair, was Judy Miller, 18 -year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Miller, of R. R,1, Dashwood. The Grade 13 student at South Huron Dist- rict High School, Exeter, was crowned by last year's Queen, Ruby Beierling, at the annual dance at the Community Centre held on Saturday night. Debbie O'Brien, 15, of Zur- ich, was chosen as her princess. Miss Miller was sponsored by Stade Hardware and Miss Debbie O'Brien by Jack's Decor Centre, of Exeter. Other contestants were Leslie Hogg, sponsored by St. Joseph B, P.; Roberta Hogg, sponsored by Don Oke Home Improvement Centre; Kathy Grainger, sponsor- ed by Hay Township Mutual Fire Insurance and Julie Bedard by Hi -Fashion Beauty Shop. Mrs. Ross Johnston presented the trophy to Judy and Mrs. Irene Steinbach presented roses on behalf of the Zurich Agric- ultural Society. Activities got underway Mon- day afternoon with a parade led by the Zurich Centennial Band, local floats and costumed children. The Fair was officially open- ed by Jack Riddell, Huron MPP, and brief speeches were made b� Robert E. McKinley, Huron MP, Fair Board President, Claire Deichert, Hay Township Reeve Joseph Hoffman, Ontario Dairy Princess Heather Innes, of Embro and Tory Gregg, master of ceremonies for the horse judging events. During the afternoon the 4-1-1 Calf Club members competed and there was a pet show inside the arena. A cattle show along with the horse show were held. The Baby Show was held in the auditorium. In conjunction with the Fair the Huron Dairy Princess comp- etition was held in Zurich again this year. Margaret Eckert, 17, of R. R,1, Seaforth, was crowned Princess, by the Ont- ario Princess, Miss Innes. Miss SOME OF THE COSTUMED CHILDREN IN THE PARADE 15 per copy r Zurich Fall Fair Eckert defeated two other contestants, Christine Lee, 20, of Walton, and Margaret Franken, 16, of Auburn. The event is sponsored by the Huron County Milk Committee. Miss Eckert, a Grade 13 student at Draw inners The winners of the Lucky Draw at the Zurich Fall Fair held on Monday were Don Hulbert, of Grand Bend, $50;Mrs Verlyn Fisher, Zurich, $30, and Mrs. Reta Mommersteeg, R. R.2, Zurich. Seaforth District High School, will compete in the Ontario Dairy Princess finals next year at the Canadian National Exhib- ition in Toronto. In the cattle competition the best beef herd trophy went to Whitney Coates, of Exeter. Mr. Coates, who won the trophy last year, was ribbon -winner in the Hereford division. The other cattle winner was Frank Falconer, of Clinton in the Durham class. In sheep judging Russell Manson, of Zurich and Donald Dearing, of Exeter were top winners. BEST BUSINESS FLOAT; The Zurich Lions Club entry was judged the best business float in the Zurich Fall Fair Parade. Donald Oke president of the Zurich Club is shown with the Lions float depicting the work of the Lions. New season for CC (by Shirley J. Keller) The addition to the Huron - Perth Regional Assessment Off- ice is rising but not before sev- eral problems were overcome. For the benefit of Huron County Council meeting last Friday in Goderich, Harold Lobb, chair- man of the property commit- tee, reviewed the steps leading up to commencement of const- ruction. "Members of Council will recall that at the County Coun- cil session on June 29, 1973, " Lobb reported, "a rental propos- al was submitted for approval. This proposal had been under negotiation for a considerable amountof time having been finalized on June 19, 1973 with a definite promise that the doc- ument would be in the Clerk's hands prior to the June session. In order to receive this docu- ment it was necessary to tele- phone Toronto on June 28. " "Following the acceptance by County Council and the ver- bal acceptance by the Province, reported Lobb, "the session of county council was held on July 16, to award the tenders for the new addition at the Assessment Office. In the afternoon of July 16, the province was adv- ised by telephone that county council had approved the tend- ers and the rental agreement was in the mail. The county was advised that a maximum of two weeks would be required to finalize the transaction which would mean construction would start on or about August 1." "In reality, however, the final approval from the Provinc- ial authorities was not received until Tuesday, September 4, eight days prior to the expirat- ion of the accepted tender, " the report stated. "Therefore, one can see that any delay in construction was not caused by the county, " Lobb reported. "Construction has, however, now started and hopefully a great part of the building program will be closed in before the winter weather sets in." The Planning Board chaired by Girvin Reed has r,� ceived permission from county council tc hire a planning technician to assist Planning Director Gary Davidson and Planner. Nick Hill. !It is understood that the salary range for such an employee is between $8, 000 and $9, 000. Gary Davidson told council a planning technician would be able to do much of the routine work now handled by him and Nick Hill and would leave the two senior planners with addit- ional time to work on secondary plans for communities in Huron. He said 16 municipalities have asked for assistance with the preparation of secondary plans. The Ministry of Colleges and Universities has adjusted the Provincial grant to libraries for the year 1973 which in reality means an increase in Provincial (continued on page 13)