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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1984-03-21, Page 16Volunteers needed to do sprtn Correspondent • MRS. BERTHA IVLseGREGOR • 262.2025 . The Three Links Seniors met on Tuesday afternoon with Vice -President ,Aldeen Vol - •land presiding. Mary Broadfoot presided at the piano and Dorothy Brintnell gave the financial report. The next meeting will be Apr. 10 at 6:30 p.m. with a pot -luck supper and Gertie Moir and Ruby Bell on the entertainment. The Committee including Mr. and Mrs. „Dick Taylor, Anita Bengough and Annie Reid 'decorated the hall for St. Patrick's Day for progressive euchre. The many friends of Mts. Carl Payne who 'recently underwent surgery in University • Hospital will be pleased to hear she is much Improved. Mrs. Alf Ross is a patient at Seaforth 'Community Hospital. where she is receiving treatment. Ira Geiger who has been a patient in South United Church on Apr. 30 at 8 fan. Wfth Huron Hospital, ENeter was able to return to plant auction - this will depend on the his home last week. participation of all the Inembera. • Blanche Chapman of London spent the District #8 annual meeting will be held at weekend with her sister Mrs. Jack Corbett Brusrels, Saturday Apr. 14. Anyone wishing and visited with Jack, who is'a patient in to go should contact Bill Gibson by Mar, 30, South Huron Hospital, Exeter. , Members are invited to the Bayfield Sim Roobol, who has been a patient M Garden Club meeting on Monday Apr. 9 at 8 South Huron Hospital, Exeter for the past p.m. in the Municipal Hall. Guest speaker three weeks returned 'to his home on will be Dr. Peter Wright, Royal Botannical Saturday. Gardens. Carla Dalton, Walton and Lorie Parker spent their vacation last •week with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The March meeting of the Hensall Horticultural Society was held at the Hensall Public School on Monday.evening. The Society received its Offitial Charter, which was presented by Bill Gibson. The next meeting will be held at Hensall President Kathy Mann announced whin, teers will be needed to do spring planting around the village - many hands are needed. Within the next month Hensall Explorers are taking orders for boxes of pansy plants. The Pansy being the official flower for Hensall's Centennial Year and they will be selling for one dollar per box, The Explorers are trying to make enough to go camping in May, . Each Horticultural Society is planting a Gr r r reat • March Savings! at Wuerth's Spring -4 Big Days • StorevAde SpeittAs Alliaches remaining Fall Dress & Casual Shoes 1/3 off Special Racks of Ladies Dress -& Casual Shoes All 1995 All Ladies Rhode Shoes Ftog. 35.95 - 41:;:t5 Nov, 0.1! 29" 10% off r Everything in the Store not already mentioned Special Purchase Bauer Running Shoes For every member of the family.Many colours in Velcro and tie fastenings Mens & Ladies 19" Boys & Girls sizes 3-618" Youths (II 2) 17" Any two pair $3495no tax Hurry!! Sale Ends Sat. Wuertb's SHOES Quality Service Since 1931 Exeter and Clinton J 0 Why' e4irtie Qffi i .1 13,ic ' Qr.', • • c ^ entennial ; Eileen Hamm ustrodueed the guest speak:. er HeWey,Langaliqpiastra, who gave Slide presentation ofi flowers and nanSie. irV, Martin. Kitchener presented a short video presentation on Norwegian Seaweed fertilizer and had,slaine for sale. • A lady from DUrhaM sent a hex of her herb samples and seasonings: Rev. Kenneth Knight 'Conducted worship': •'SdrVice' and tg os 14; hum o n Service in Carmel ' presbYterian Church on Sunday. Joan Keys •presided at the Organ. The Annual flymn Festival will be held in 0, First Presbyterian Church", Seaforth, Sunday: Apr. 1 at 7:30 p.M, ' Rev. Gordon Pickett of Goderich was guest minister at Hensall United 'Church on Sunday, Greeting worshippers at the door were Leslie Bailey and ushers Tim Mann, Darren Moir, Charles 'Mallett and Ray Jacebe. _ ' Remember the Bake Sale, by the Church Centennial Committee Saturday Mar. 31 at 11 a.m. Ladies Of the congregation are asked CLOWTO 6tf FIREFIGHTEM.thrdkighout Mendayordoht for the' first Mittual Ald to Please have their baking at the church by Huron County met at Seaforth Fire :Hall meeting of the year. .(1-lundertmark photo) '10 to 10:30 a.m. • The Annual Church Barbecue will be held Atir: 11, with servings at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. 'Kip.pen 4-H quilters -meet 5 Dr. Robert Mickle, Jamie and Craig of Ayr visited on Saturday with the former's mother, • Mrs. Laird Mickle. QUEENSWAY NEWS Ladies from Unit 3 were at the Home on Monday afternoon to play bingo With the residents. One of the ladies from the grotto d providemusic on the piano. • Tuesday morning those interested, in drama tried their hand at charades. Church service On Tuesday afternoon was conducted by Shirley hither. On Wednesday afternoon another ladies' group from..the Zurich Mennonite Church helped residents with variqus Crafts. Thursday morning .was "Muffin Making time" as the residents who are part of the Baking Club got together to bake. In the afternoon a movie about Australia was viewed. Friday morning the residents went bowl- ing. The high bowler was Neil Regan with a score of 122 and close behindhim was Albert Miazga, with a score of 113. ' • In honor of St. Patrick's Day a special, buffet supper was planned on Saturday evening. After supper the residents got 'together for a sing -song, A "special thank you" is extended to the unknown person who left Sharnreck pins at the Home for all residents. "Birthday greetings" are extended to Isobel Sproat and Cors Alcock who celebrated their birthdays this past week. Charles Male returned to Hamilton after holidaying for the past week With his mother Mrs. Laird' Mickle, MARGARET HOGGARTH . ' 262 •6 90 2 The fourth meeting of the Kippen 3 quilting club was held at the home of Eileen Townsend on Mar. 17 beginning,at 9 'a.m. The mindtes were read by Karen 1f96.1ong.:', The Members decided to call the club Theh; Calico Kittens. Eileen Townsend showed members a (milk and a pillew which had 'applique work and points as an edging: -Pressileporter Janice Moffat The Kippen Quilting Bees met once again at the home of Margaret Hoggarth' on Mar. 17 at 10 a.m. Members completed the fourth and fifth meetings and went through the steps that were required to finish the third " Brucefield-has M sample, which shOws the applique method. First they picked out materials and placed them on templates so that they could cut around them. Then they turned the edges in and ironed it ready for the applique stitch. Mattie McGregor, guest helper for the day, helped with the applique stitch. She • showed some of her quilts she had made using various techniques-tsome.were done on the quilt frame, and others were done on a hoop. ,Members Compared the two to see which one looked the best. Members discussed special projects and Mrs. McGregor showed the different steps to Ike to complete cushions using the cushion tops she had donated to the club. -Press Reporter Janet Hoggarth arch visitors ISABELSCOTT • • 48Z-7135 Cathy Mustard has', returned from a week's visit with'Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey and daughter at Red Deer,Alberta. Ina and Ellen Scott, of London visited with relatives on Saturday. Mrs. Glenn Swan spent the school holiday at Fort -Lauderdale Florida. ' Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wightman have returned 'front, a months holiday visiting with relatives" in 'Obit', Arizona and California and saw the petrified forest and Grand Canyon enroute. Mrs. Don Moffat and family visited with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Colwill tit Wallaceburg on, Monday. The family 'is remaining for the holiday. Discipleship was the theme of the worship at the Stanley-Tuckersmith unit meeting on Tuesday led by Ruby,Triebner and assisted by Marjorie Broadfoot and Isabel Scoff. A . momenfs prayer was offered in memory of Mrs. Lorne Wilson, a life member of the UCW. Letters from missionary couples working in Nepal Japan and Kenya were, read. Edna Paterson presided for the business, Mrs. Jack Henderson read the minutes and Retta Baird gave the card report. It was decided to quilt on Wednesday afternoon. Council advised to hire business analyst The reeve, councillors, clerk -treasurer and 'assistant nrid-thetvoth Stlikrinfendt were All smartly attired in thefr camel -col- oured Centennial jackets with tile village crest on he pockets when Hensall council met for their regular March meeting. Newly elected B1A president Joe Ben- gough attended the session to bring -a suggestion from his association that-Hensall consider the hiring of a professional huSiness development analyst to study means for bringing further business enter- prises to Hensall. Bengough said a study carried out in Grand Bend showed the immediate area contributed the most economically; S50 million was generated locally. S25 million was attributed to seasonal spending, and $6 million came from tourists. "We should develop our resources to help people in the area...or after the Centennial, we'll have a nice funeral," Bengough said. ttill Bengough, who also attended, said "Maybe we can't see the bush for the trees, add someone else would have a better perspective...we don't want to head gilrffn die Veit read, offind Weilladlti'litiVe ade a left turn a ways back." • , 1, ' All members of council agreed about the need. Further discussion led to a decision to call a public meeting. tentatively set for Apr. 2 and let the Huron County planning department share their expertise. ,. As the county has site control, county experts could answer a lot of questions about such matters as the best way to develop the land north and south of the village. Charles Hay also appeared before council to give personal impact to a letter he had written council concerning a parking ticket he had received at the arena. Hay conceded he broke the law by parking in the fire lane for approximately three minutes while obtaining a rental agreement for LCBO requirements in preparing for the Centennial dance, but "if it is Council's goal to kill all initiative and desire to see our community survive as well as drive all our repairs. residents, prospective shoppers and visitors Council also passed a resolution advising out of town, I suggest you hire a full-time. , the employment and development branch that approved funding of 532,360 toward town hall renovations will not be utilized as the project has been cancelled. , Council passed three by-laws. One makes official the agreement with MTC for maintenance and construction of the part of Highway 84 designated as a connecting link. A second authorizes an agreement with the townships of Osborne and Tucks for joint use of the Hensall waste A third set firemen's remun,...,,. ,e Chief will receive 538 per month plus 525 expenses. the deputy 531.50 monthly. and each captain 521. Fire enginemechanics will get $16.50 per month plus 53 weekly for mechanic duties performed on each truck. the fire depart- ment secretary will receive a monthly retainer of 516.50 plus 53 per week for secretarial duties and 'each fireman will receive a retainer of 514 per month. Every officer will be paid 58.50 per hour for time spent fighting a fire, on standby. Or for hose time. As the zoning by-law on the.Bob Caldwell property annexed north of the old boundary meets county approval and Council wishes to proceed. The . Huron County planning department will benotified to schedule a meeting to allow the public to air their views. A special meeting had been called on Mar. 1 to prepare a submission for the School Accommodation Review Committee pointing out the vital importance of a school in Hensall, and the fact a school closure would reverse all planning for growth which has been in motion over the last 10 years. The Hensall PUC has informed Council that beginning Apr. 1 the sewer billing charge per bill will increase from the 53 cents in effect since Mar. 1979 to 68 cents. Clerk Betty Oke was instructed to request an extension of the -Main Street improve- ment loan until Council and the B1A have an opportunity to meet and decide what should be done with the remaining amount. The building inspector will be asked to inspect the building formerly housing the hardware store for stiuctural soundness. Councillor Irene Davis said many of the ,bricks are flaking off in large pieces. and she is concerned about possible danger to passers-by. The Hensall Parks Board submitted an estimated budget for 1984 showing a deficit of $31,300. The budget was passed, after ouncillor Cecil Pepper coinmented that ; ilding the community centres was • the che.a pr part; maintaining them was expen- sive. ' The meeting adjourned shortly after 11:00 P.m - peke force, preferably non -taxpayers', fq enforce' the law to•the'letter at all times and not at the convenience of an over -zealous outsider working part time," his letter said. Hay said in fairness the parking by-law should be enforced 24 hours a day, not just when the by-law enforcement officer hap- pens to be driving by. "If you're going to penalize one, penalize all," he added. A report submitted by Herman Van Wieren showed 13 tickets issued between Feb. 6 and Feb. 28. Council passed a resolution that from now on those parked in a no -parking spot will receive a warning for the first offense, and a ticket if they are caught a second time. 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