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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1984-01-25, Page 3tl, THE HURONEXPOSITOR; -JANUARY 25, 1984 ®A """`.-'.... A• CHIMNEY fire at the Bill Reinlnk ecene,l=riday. There was no damage to the residence in McKillop town'bhip was out by house. the time Seaforth firemen arrived on the- ? (Wassink photo) Sign language lessons help families communicate BY SMILEY McPHEE Sign language lessons are helping two area families communicate better. Mrs. Henry TeBrinke of Clinton and Karen Geddes of Seaforth are learning how to speak to their children through a special course offered by the Roberts School for the Hearing Handicapped. The TeBrinke and the Geddes families have children who attend the special school in London and in an effort to develop better parent -student understanding, the school has set up basic sign language courses for parents. fdae Tuesday „morging llic)c Enright; a . family services consultant with the Roberts School, travels to the TeBrinke home in Clinton. There he meets with Mrs. Te Brinke, Mrs. Geddes and two other interested friends, Rinke Tiesma and Tena Van Dyke. From 9 a.m. until noon the group is involved in a learning session, basic sign language, a course that will run 10 -weeks. Mr. Enright explained that the parent education program was developed by the Roberts School in an attempt to establish better contact between parents, students Prov. grants g Community planning study grants totalling $27,900 have been awarded to the County o f Huron, Claude Bennett, Minister of Munici- pal Affairs and Housing announced recently. One grant of $14,400 will be used to prepare a new comprehensive zoning bylaw for the town of Clinton. The other grant, for $13,500, will assist in the preparation of a comprehensive zoning bylaw for the town- ship of Ashfield. and the school. The Roberts School is a reputed regional centre for the hearing handicapped. It services 13 counties and has an enrolment of 125. Some students are bused in daily and more than 60 live in residence at the school. Mr. Enright has worked at the Roberts School for 10 years and has accepted the new position as Family Services Consultant. His coverage area is large, but he hopes to hold sign language classes in all areas that the school services. The average class size is 10 to 15 people, but even small classes are accommodated. Mr. Enright noted thattiieCjiame glass was set up by specific request. Travelling distance and win r driving conditions were unavoidable fa rs in the limited size of the class. JJ While it -May be small, the foursome who are learning sign language in Clinton are enthusiastic students. In only two lessons Mrs. TeBrinke can already see an improved difference in attempts to communicate with her 14 -year old daughter. it no longer takes so long to get the message across," she enthused, iven to Huron Community planning study grants are designed to encourage municipalities to resolve• land use planning issues to reflect municipal and economic priorities. They may also be used for special studies to develop community improvement policies, to determine the feasibility of using data processing technology in the local planning process and to assist in implementing the Planning Act: DAY/FROM PAGE the type who think that if the clerks utter such slop in the Holiday Inn in Texas, they should do the same in the Holiday Inn in Toronto. And they're the guys I have it in for, not the poor underlings, forced to soil their lips with an artificial, cynical so -long that raises the hackles on the likes of me. At first 1 responded to this silly utterance with a reluctant and very concise "Thanks. You too." As i became more disgusted with the obvious falsity of such as the dentist absentmindedly muttering "Have a good day" just after he'd drilled two and yanked one, my response subsided to a grunt. Next step will be to took one of the idiots who issue this inanity right hi the eye and calmly ask: "Are you kidding? Who told you to say that? Do you mean it? What do you care what kind of day 1 have? i don't really care what kind you have." This might make' a few of the more sensitive ones blush. But most of them would just drop their jaw and wonder whether old Smiley had got into the sauce, to make him so snarly. it may take stronger measures, and 1 hope many of my readers who agree with me will join in putting a halt to this pernicious poop. If it happens in a public place, perhaps we should call the manager and say This young lady/man is interfering in my private life, in my democratic right to have a rotten day/weekend if I feel like it. Now you, buster, just tell her never to insult another customer with that silly saying, or i'll take my business elsewhere," This is the only language understood by the type of turkey who thinks such garbage as "Have a good day" is good public relations, flit him where it hurts. In the P.P. panic pocket. Perhaps I am overreacting. i have been known to do this in connection with Celsuis, metric, politicians of every hue, greedy unions, misleading advertisements, town engineers, school administrators, and about 12.000 other things, including the highway robbers known as garage mechanics. Maybe it will pass away, along with other such worn -to -the -heels expressions as "That'll be the frosty Friday" and "All righty" and the ubiquitous "Turkey," which seems to cover a multitude of mental and physical abberrations. But in case it doesn't, keep your dukes up, you purveyors of "Have a good...." HENSALL/FROM PAGE 2 Goddard researched the topic carefully. One of the facts brought forward was that any renovations done to the town hall after Jan. 84 would result in the necessity of meeting all building' code standards. A guesstimate of hundreds of thousands of dollars was suggested by the building inspector. Surely the council knew that fact prior to the meeting for it affects all decisions made concerning the town hall. We see three choices in the town hall dilemma. One is to vacate the building and either sell or demolish the structure (giving our main street yet another empty space). Secondly, plan some interior inexpensive renovations which will commit further councils to ca enelse .'ui.Uing code repairs, and thirdly do nothing at this time and spend no further money. In this time of restraint the answer is clear. We are sad to see that during our centennial year celebrations in Itensall that friendships might be strained as a result of council's action. We should always be trying to preserve a sense of community spirit, working together not against each other. We hope the•uext administration will be mere interested in running the village rather than leaving their mark on Hensel!. Peter and Janis Bisback 86 Queen St., Henselli _.c A universit1#9.• ma be" the key to t `'tS a et��of really giants til . be open dontss'i ob market but many •• -aeeo•UAtat!i ;buk is. averaBe of 7d; pet'Cent Seaforth: students are finding that key harder.:', iter k s f i t time t rou 0 grade 13 didn't and -harder to obtain. As entrance require 1,,1 i1 h n1 .a ' lace :;ip, } ttrles's ,business meats get tougher, more students are . ation c99 aq ttet;.,His guidance attempting grade 13 for a second time t4 .' Fcounse lorassured,ht a ,anlaverage;of 70 upgrade their marks, oqa a su f f cie'ntrimitt the cut-off mark w ent Rich* -Scroggs repeated grade 13 iii. e i } r to f rip , 1t e: Mit and be w;asn''t and gg graphy courses. this fall in hopes, ;] ep e at any` of the , re'e universities he raisin his average e from the '•mid; 69', �,. iC 1 r' t ,. ° rier orH aster. Though ,he applied to , Wilfred Lauriel r, a' d tie r N mmuni elle es University far tate business program 111#g w • usgi, I thong m ttaarks� were high year, he didn't reach the 75 per centr� tl fA iv s s '� �h ��..�ty A#',;�aurtea<'; they" requirement. This year hes applying for + ` P:. o• ° ,; `dpi -the .general arts ' general its progra . with a business opti p gr ut ' y+o ld age been takiiyg `$ince the ' ' recjurreil' average is lower:, IIe also applying to, several community colla 1'iM f' it t u from th� e u adversities, s�' f eeh i�' end d pe,,hc `at „`doing what o,• you have a but 1$ It 1 `q u%tb�ton fibllege He w6as ooffered a' p liar atn probably have n easier. tifne-getting into a the business course late in August but college since1100 rat grade 13," he says refused it since it was too late to Make living Through his Part-time job at Mac's Millet arrangements. Richard has decided he•wouldlike to manage He tried to upgrade his average but a business but his first unsuccessful attempt because he didn't wantto repeat a course at getting into university has made him he'd taken already at the Seaforth District reconsider his future. High School, Steve•. tried the grade 13 "I didn't really mind the year off because geography course in the fall. He didn't like it it's given me a chance to think about what I so he dropped it after two months. Instead of want to do With my life; And, I haven't had upgrading his Marks, Steve has decided to to deal wi the pressures of university this opt for Community college. year,he " options for Richard could be taking ".Itwee sort oe mbar essinggoingback.,to a ourse in mechanics or attempting to get see ool after graduatiuii porn, grade 13 but I int the business field through another route wase t the only one. I m thinking of taking suc as working his way up into a acq o`unting again hi the spring, he says. man ement position at a store. "It's been kind of hewing beingout of school Scaven JANUARY 25,1884 Robert Miller of Wroxeter has . shipped away in the neighborhood of 200 cords of firewood, on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce railway, eighteen cars having been shipped to Toronto, - The custom gristing. at the Egmondville Roller Mills last week amounted to 1760• bushels and the custom chopping to 500 bags. The mercury dropped to 12 degrees below zero on Sunday Morning being the lowest point reBistered this season. The 'old, well and' favorably known firm of Win.: Robertson &co., hardware merchants of this town has'been dissolved. The senior partner William Robertson of Oakville is retiring from the business. This firm has ' been doing business in Seaforth for over 20, years. Mr. Wm. O. Reid, the junior partner' in the firm and manager of the business for many years will continue with Robert Wilson. joining the firm to be known as Reid & ilson. JANUARY 22, 1909 A meeting for the organization of a beef ring was held in Sproat's schoolhouse last Friday evening. Skating on the river in the moonlight by Sproat's Bridge has been the chief attractio of the young people of the area. The first home game for the intermedia -, championshipin this district, was played 1h the' Palace' rink b6' ThlirsU4y evening last, between the old time rivals. Goderich and Seaforth. During the first half, honors were even. The second half was more in favor of the home team, but the final score was Goderich 5, Seaforth 4. Seaforth line up was: Goal, A. Westcott; point, J. McKenzie; cover, E. Murray; rover, C. Sills; forwards, T. Smithers, D. McLeod, and D. Reid. since most of my friends are away at school and I've gotten out of touch with books and studying. I'm really looking forward to going back " Steve got a job at the arena when he quit the ,geography class and has been working there for the winter. "I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't :accepted at 'a college. There isn't much letup ire working at the arena." 't,,, NO JOBS ',Wirth District High School, about 25, stuen„s,'•both upgraders and adults came. back"tograde 13 during the fall semester to; improve' their •marks, says principal Harry Scott. And, some of those 25 include' good students whose marks would "once have qualified them for university. "Ordinarily students wouldn't be coming, back; if they couldn't get into university or college, they would' get jobs. But, they can't get jobs so students are opting for more education and the universities are getting too many people," he says. , Preparations for university ,and a career must start much earlier if students are to ,he successful in both., Consequently, guidance courses in grades' seven and eight help students take the right courses in high school with university or college in mind. Despite the increasing pressures on students. to make the right choices for their futures, Mr. Scott says he doesn't see many students who are depressed. "Most students in Seaforth have a pretty positive attitude. When they hear about the difficulties they face getting an education and a job they tend to think they'll be included in the few who get the jobs," he says. As entrance standards for higher educa- tion go up every year, Mr. Scott says he sometimes' wonders what will happerieto�the average student; COLLEGES FULL 'there is a great concern that someday it will only ' be the elite students receiving university educations but I don't think it will get that far. Butt, you have to wonder when community colleges which were originally set ufor grade 12 graduates are even full now." In reaction to the rising standards, some schools try to help their students out by besting marks but that doesn't happen 'in Seaforth, "A person who's a good student here has maintained that in university or college; 'his marks don't vary very, much and we're proud of that:. You'relot, doing a student any favors by jacking up his marks - university is too hard and tee -expensive to-do' that," says Mr. Scott. Like ' it, or not, student¢ are just going , to have,to•keep working harder ifthey 'want to continue their. education. "Kids are.coming back to upgrade their marks just to try to 'keep even. If they stop, they're going to fall" behind," he says. Id 60 a mont 1.9_ • ., . 3•4 Still faced with two months of "winter, O @ Y®© Qgone JANUARY 26, 1934 Dr. Gilbert C.Jarrett, graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, University of • Western Ontario has purchased the medieal'practice of Dr. Charles MacKay Dr.` Jarrett is a TKiipespeenn old boy. He took over time ,practice on T.G. Scott and Walter Scott won first prize at the enjoyable stag euchre held in the Young Liberal Club moms. J. Wesley Beattte•won the prize for lone hands. The social committee with W.J. Free as chairman provided' lunch, The Seaforth Public Utility Commission held its inaugural Meeting in the Town Hall on Tuesday. e Conte] this year as in ,1933° with W.H. Golding M.P., E.L. Box and Mayor Sutherland. Bylaw 353 for 1934 Was given its third • reading and finally. passed on motion . of Councillor Broderick and Reeve Crosier. Some items were: that John A. Wilson be Town Clerk at a salary of $570, per annum. That John A. Wilson be Town Treasurer at a salaty,of $270. per annum. That Helmer Snell be Chief Constable, at a salary of $60. per month, and perform such other offices and duties as shall be directed. `That John C. McKenzie be Fire Brigade Chief at a salary of $75. per annum. ThelrJohn-MacTavish end Fred W.. Wigg shall be town auditors for the year 1934 at a salary of $25. each. That Thomas Storey be scavenger at a salary of $60. per month. JANUARY 23, 1959 Hallett township reeve William Jewitt was elected Warden of Huron County on Tuesday. The election was the first in which , members of county council selected a Y Th nj is the same More than 60 attend Hensall town A promise to make no changes to the existing physical structure of < ulna l's town hall without calling another public meeting first was extracted from Reeve Harty Klungel on Thursday evening. More than 60public-spirited village ratepayers had trekked to the conference room of the community centre to attend a meeting chaired by the reeve to discuss the future of the town hall. Mr. Klungel, after outlining the sequence of events leading up to the present, drew everyone's attention -to a drawing prepared by architectural technician Debra Veneer incorporating some of council's suggestions to provide for a large council chamber at the back of the building, and changes to the clerk's office. This sparked a lively discussion. Dr. John Goddard, while agreeing with the clerk's need for more space, pointed out the proposed alterations provided little mote room than the present arrangement. George Parker's quibble was not with money spent, but the way of spending it. He saw little sense in pouring more money into an old building. Many were critical of council's seeming desire for exc"ssively elaborate chambers, especially when most of the financial cost would be borne by local taxpayers, as no grants are available for altering muni al buildinThe possibility of moving the library either to a store on main street or to the public school was e;amined. The Huron County library board annually pays $3.48 per square foot up to a maximum of 680 square feet for local libraries, but would not pick up any of the costs for painting, carpeting, shelving hall meeting and related expensesif the Hensall library was moved -from its present location. Adrian Bayley's vehement statement that "we as taxpayers are saying do not spend money" received loud applause. Bayley said the worst thing council can do is "go ahead and vend* dollar because the government is going to match it; that's what every damn fool organization does!" Bayley's concluding advice to "quit wasting your time and the taxpayers' money to find people to talk about this that no one wants except one or two of you on oouncil" elicited another round of audible approval. The discussion turned again to the clerk's need for a private office. Betty Oke said people talking to her face to face or by phone had no assurance of privacy in confidential matters. She said people applying for Ontario Home Renewal Loans must come in, sit down with the clerk and "lay it all out on the table". She asked her interrogator if he would like to be in that position and have someone come in behind hind. Talk of putting up partitions prompted assistant clerk Kim Marsden to bring up the new fire code regulations which came into effect this month. The entire matter of town hall renovations became academic as soon as building inspector Herman Van Wieren said the minute one sheet of panelling is taken off, thewhole building will have to be brought up to fire code standards. He threw out a rough guesstimate of $300,000. The little thunderbolt ended the argument. The meeting adjourned as soon as Mr. Bayley pressed Mr. Klungel to promise nothing would be done without prior airing at a public meeting. Fire damages minor in three of four alarms With the exception of a car fire Monday morning, damages were ,, .' ,. al in three fire calls made by the Seaf, , , e department in theepast�eek. ,, o Firemen were call., to a chimney fire at 12:05 a.m., Friday, Jan. 13. There was no damage to a house owned by John i'Vester- veld of lot 21, concession two, McKillop township. On Friday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. the fire department was called to the home of Bill Remick, lot 17, concession three, McKillop township. A chimney fire was extinguished by the time firemen arrived on the scene: There was no damage: Steelte damage was the result of.* small fire at the home of Blanche Coady, 48 Huron Street, Seaforth on Saturday afternoon. "When we arrived on the scene, we found the these filled with smoke," said fire chief, H Firemendiscovered discovered a burning garbage container in the house. Cause of the fire is not known. The Seaforth, police department alerted firemen to a car fire at 2:35 a.m., Monday, Jan. 23, behind the Canadian Tire store. A 1971—Chevrolet 'Impala owned by William Henderson of Brdce eld was destroyed. The fire staked under the hood and may have been caused by a shorn circuit in the wiring. semen wet* on the ate fes half an hoar. warden by open vote. Climaxing a $35,000.buildieg'and renova- tion program which began 10 years ago, members. of St. Thomas Anglican Church on Monday evening burned the mortgage, marking the final payment. snowfall in the district so far diia,winter has Well .known in pe district, y Ben Rising, Centretreet will celebrate a their golden vv yyged�� ding anniversary . an Monday. Mr. Rishig has been the popular rural mail courier for Route 4 for the past 24 years. He continues to make his trips everyday despite his 76 years. exceeded the coin lete fall of last e ' Ryerson principal, Seaforth native digs Seaforth native Howard Hillen Kerr, who was instrumental in the development of Ontario's community college system and the establishment of Ryerson Polytechnical institute, died Tuesday, Jan. 17 in Toronto. He was 83. Born in Seaforth on Christmas Day, 1900, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Kerr, of McKillop and Seaforth. Following graduation from Seaforth Collegiate Insti- tute, he received degrees in engineering and education from the University of Toronto before teaching in Galt, Toronto and Oshawa. He served." l', y �icit '.1SLli9tr emergency program 'f' r ntario during the Second World War, organizing training- for anyone capable of learning machine work. He was quoted in 1942 as saying that he had trained men 65 years old. He also said that one of his greatest disappointments was that he could not find enough women to fill the machinists' classes. in 1944, he worked as an engineer -teacher in a job -training and rehabilitation centre for war veterans. He opened the Ryerson Technological institute in 1948 with 250 students, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute now has about 10, students. He was principa of Ryerson until '1966 when he was appoin ed the first chairman of the Ontario's con cel of regents, with responsibility for setting up Ontario's community college system. In 1972, he returned to Ryerson and served on the board until 1978. Mr. Kerr gained the reputation as, a quietly effective man who showed that post -secondary education outside the uni- versity can be popular, of high academic quality and valued by employers as well as graduates. He is sucvivedNry his wife, Beatrice, the former Beatrice Larkin, a daughter of the late Dr. F.H. Larkin, former long time HOWARD KERR minister of First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth. Also surviving are one daughter, Eliza- beth, Mrs. Jack Martin„ one son Ian, one brother, Leslie, four granddaughters, Anne Walker O'Keefe, Jean Walker. Nancy Kerr and Elizabeth Martin and five grandsons, Robert and Andrew Walker, Hugh Kerr and David and John Martin. He is predeceased by one daughter, Esme Walker. Funeral services were held Thursday, Jan. 19 at Rosedale Presbyterian Church, Toron- to, "Cremation. C©Mll1flf CALENDAR, If you're organizing a nomprofitny4nt of interest to other Seaforth area residents, phone the recreati6n office at 527-0882 or the' Expositor at 527,0240 or mail the information to Community Calendar, The Huron / Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario NOK 1WQ well in advance of the scheduled date" Wednesday, January 25 1:30-4:30 p.m. -Shuffleboard at arena Ladies open bonspiel at curling club 8 p.m. - Competitive curling at curling club 1-3 p.m. Parents & Tots Skating 8:15 p.m. Parr Line vs Winthrop 9:10 p.m. - Chiseihurst vs Queens 10:05 p.m. Perth vs Jr. Farmers Thursday, January 26 7 & 9 p.m. lamed curling at curling club 7:15 Hawks vs CCAT 8:05 Winthrop vs Easy •Riders 8:55-Chiselhurst vs Bendix — 9:45 Slabtown vs Egmondville 10:35 Jr. Farmers vs Grads 11:25 Dumpers vs Parr Line Friday, January 27 8 p.m. Mixed curling at curling club 7 p.m. Mitchell vs Belles 8:30 p.m. Thedford vs Centenaires Saturday, January 28 Sunday, January 29 Snowmobile Drag Races at Fairgrounds. Atom Hockey Tournament Final Games 12:00 noon (C) Consolation - Huron Park vs Oakridges' 1 p.m. (C) Championship - Lucan vs Parkhill. 2 p.m. (B) Consolation - Seaforth vs Clinton. 3 p.m. (B) Championship - Forest vs Walkerton, 4 p.m. (A) Consolation - Waterloo vs Thorold. 5 p.m. (A) Championship - Byron vs Paris. 7 p.m. Canadians vs Flyers 8:30 Rangers vs Penguins 10 p.m. Bruins vs Hawks. 10:30 a.m. Crankee Consort at library (8 yrs and up) Snowmobile drag races at fairgrounds 7:35 a.m. Canadians vs Oilers 8:30 a.'m. North Stars vs Kings 9:35 a.m. Bruins vs Nordiques 10:30 a.m. Leafs vs Jets 11:35 a.tn, Flames vs Penguins 1:30-3 p.m. Public skating 4 p.m. Milverton vs Novice 5:15 p.m. Elma Logan vs Atoms 6:30 p.m. Goderich vs Pee Wee Mens Open Bonspiel et Curling Club. 8:15 p.m. Clinton vs Midgets Monday, January 30 4 Cl4b p.m. - 6 p.m. Junior Curling at Curling 7 & 9 p.m. Men's Curling at Curling Club 3:45 - 8:30 .m. Figure Skating Tuesday, January 31 7 p.m. Ladies Curling at Curling Club • 9 p.m. Industrial Curling at Curling Club 6:30 p.m. Mitchell vs Bantams Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor r