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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-04-06, Page 1l INDEX lir of 1Obituaries I {`■ 1 /trnior Walton -� A7...:.<...h Dublin -'A7 Sports - A8-11 - Al2 Farm - A13 Hensel! - A16 5 , �y k� � �. k�ah� Egster��. �� ,' \ �� ,s ; a+ � Y P �Fa ij ,P + t a A3• Model A is project for local car hobbyist. See A3. AC °, C Bel � � \ 4 rr o gol page A8. Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton Seaforth, Ontario HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1988 50 cents a copy Students present development proposal for Central Huron CLINTON - A"development proposal for a region of Huron County, prepared by university students, has been met with skepticism. At a meeting here at the town hall on March 30, nine students from the third year urban and regional planning course at the University of Waterloo presented a four part development proposal for an area named the Central Huron Community Development Area (CHCDA). This area includes the towns of Clinton and Seaforth, the Village of Blyth and the townships of Tuckersmith, McKillop, Hullett and Stanley. Through an invitation made by the Huron County Planning Department, the students have been working on this class project since September of 1987. Also, there are three other groups of students working on similar projects for Huron County in the north, south and Lakeshore areas. The goals the students had were to im- prove the economics of the Central Huron area, community involvement and govern- ment interaction between the municipalities as well as the county. At the meeting the students presented a summary of their final report (which will be available in one week). They listed four areas in the CHCDA ' which needed attention, - The need for co-ordination at the township level to facilitate interaction bet- ween the municipalities. - The need for more long-term views on the future of the community. - the trend towards an aging population within the area. - The lack of resource recognition, resulting in a need to identify what the community has to offer or can expect to offer. The students found that co-operation bet- ween the municipalities could be created through an administrative body called the Central Huron Community Development Committee. The committee would be made up of approximately 17 people. They would include elected members such as mayors and reeves and non -elected representatives from senior citizens groups, agricultural associations, rate payers groups and business associations. This body would be managed by a payed Community Development Officer (CDO). It would be the responsibilty of the CDO to enact legislation passed by the committee and to act as secretary. According to student Elizabeth Oelke the CHCDA needs a committee to create, "an intermediate voice that will organize Huron Crime Stoppers working Crime Stoppers has been in operation in Huron County for three weeks now and is already showing positive results. Police Co-ordinator Jeff Sabin said, ''we are getting calls all the time, some require follow-up by the police and others are just about general information". A case in point is the Crime of the Week in the Clinton News Record on March 30, 1 requesting assistance in finding a stolen piece of plumbing equipment worth $3,000. q;,; Crime Stoppers received a phone call by noon the day the paper came out and the police were in possession of the property by 12:30 p.m. Constable Sabin said as the public gains confidence in the program the results can only improve. "We have had great co-operation with the media, the police and the public, ma'1dng this program the success it is while still in its infancy stage," he said. 'ROUND AND 'ROUND - Seaforth's Uoyd Eisler spins skating partner Isabelle Brasseur during a warm up Friday afternoon, for that evening performance. Uoyd and Isabelle were the featured skaters at the Seaforth's Figure Skating Club's Carnival - Stars on Ice. The pair finished seventh in the world pairs competition held recently in Budapest, Hungary. Mcllwraith photo. Skating partnership blossoming Anyone who has seen them skate would never guess that theirs was a partnership that almost didn't happen. Seaforth's Lloyd Eisler and skating part- ner Isabelle Brasseur of St. -Jean -sur - Richelieu, Quebec have astounded spec- tators, skaters and judges able, with the quality and stroke of their technique as pairs skaters. They have only been skating together for 19 months and in that time cap- tured second place in the Canadian National competition to qualify for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where they were well received. More recently they returned from the World Figure Skating Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a seventh place finish fn the pairs competition. None of that however, would have transpired if it hadn't been for the per- sistence of the Canadian Figure Skating 1 Association. Anxious to keep Mr. Eisler in competitive pairs skating (he had won the pairs title four years ago with Katherine Matousek, and the following year the duo was ranked third in the world) th6 CFSA touched on Miss Brasseur as a suitable pairs partner. She had finished sixth in the Cana- dians the year before as a single. Miss Brassaur, however, told the CFSA in no uncertain terms she would not skate with Mr. Eisler. Despite that the CFSA arranged an on ice meeting between the two, and the rest is fast becoming history. "When they called her (Isabelle) she said, `I won't skate with him. He's too big, too fast and in three months I'll be in a wheelchair', then she slammed the receiver down," re- counted Bev Eisler, Lloyd's mother. It's now been almost five times that long, Turn to page 22A e townships into a united voice." The function of the committee would be to address any concerns they thought were prevalent in CHCDA. Also, the committee would be incorporated. To pay for the development committee Ms. Oelke stated that there could be a financial split three ways; between the federal, county and local governments. After three years the federal government would no longer contribute. In a telephone interview on March 31, Marie Jefferson, Clinton Clerk, responded to the notion of an inter -town committee. "It would be rather unwielding with a membership of 17. We have committees with seven people and usually four show up to a meeting. It would be too big of a com- mittee to get any results." Gary Davidson from the Huron County¢,.. Planning and Development Department gave a similar response, stating, "Seven- teen would be too many people. It would be too top heavy." The second issue the students dealt with was the need for long range views. In a hand-out the students wrote, "The objec- tive of a long range action plan is to ensure that a set of community goals are clearly defined...the plan beapplicable to allsec- tors of the community and is comprised of a series of short term strategic plans with. Turn to page 24' PUMPER 1,4 SEAFORT}i ' FIRE AREA 'L r ; SEAFORTH ATOM lssliouted "vii _to nutnber one" and sang vic- ride through town following their win on Sunday, and their receipt tory songs from ata .s ff}'i'truck as they wer"etaken foil' a of the All Ontario trophy. Corbett photo: Atom Is All Ontario champions The Seaforth Atom Is are officially the best Atom "CC" team in Ontario. The Atom Is took on Port Hope in the All Ontario finals on the weekend and beat them in three straight games to take the provin- cial Atom "CC" title. There are two things that make for a good hockey game, either there is a lot at stake or the players make the game through fine play. The final game on Sunday in Seaforth had both. Mike Watt opened the scoring for Seaforth, when he skated the puck into Port Hope's end and let go a slap shot from inside the blue line that would have done a bantam proud. Seaforth controlled most of the play throughout the first period, but was stopped time and again by the strong play and quick glovehand of the Port Hope netrninder. The visitors put in a tying goal, but in the last few minutes of the period Seaforth took the lead again as Wayne Schoonderwoerd blasted a low shot from the point which Mike Devereaux -who was all alone in front of the net- got a stick on and deflected between the goaltender's legs. Mike Weber also assisted on the goal. By the second period Seaforth had that Port Hope goaltender's number and more of its scoring opportunities started to register on the scoreboard. Mike Devereaux picked up another goal in the same fashion as he got his first, as Jason Henderson slipped him the puck in front of the net and Devereaux deked the goalie for Seaforth's third goal. Seaforth went on the power play four times in the second period, and Mike Weber got one power play goal for Seaforth, assisted by Mice Watt. Mike• Moylan in- creased Seaforth's lead to 5-1 only 25 second after the power play goal as he skated down bis left wing and beat the Port Hope goalie with a slap shot that caught the bottom cor- ner. The sixth goal was as good as they get, as Mice Devereaux carried the puck in almost on top of the Port Hope net -drawing the goaltender to him- then centred it to Joe Murray who put it in the wide open net. The Seaforth team was happy to ride out its considerable lead through the third Still need photographs The Huron Expositor is still in need of some team photographs to complete our special WINTER SPORTS EDITION, due out soon. Any teams who haven't had their photographs taken - or who already have a team photograph they would lice to sub- mit, should give Heather or Nei a call (or drop in) at The Expositor. Teams we know we haven't got include: Seahawks, IHI, hockey teams, Sunday morning crew, Bunny Ringette, YBC bowl- ing, Adult bowling and Curling. If you know of any others please let us know. Also, photographs of the houseleague hockey tearns are printed, if coaches would hie to drop by The Expositor and identify their players. Thank you. period. Port Hope still got a few chances, and although Adam Agar made his share of stops for Seaforth, one got by him to bring the visitor's tally up to two. The final score was 6-2 for Seaforth. All three games of the series were played over the weekend: Friday in Seaforth, Saturday in Port Hope, and Sunday again in Seaforth. The first game in Seaforth got off on the wrong foot, as a defensive error by Seaforth and strong forecheckzng by Port Hope resulted in a goal only 21 seconds into the game. Seaforth players had a hard time get- ting their passes to connect in the offensive zone in the early going, but eventually they got the "green machine fired up." Joe Murray opened the scoring for Seaforth with an accurate shot from a tough Turn to page 10 • 125 YEARS OLD - The main street building that houses Bob and Betty's Variety is 125 years old this week. The building was the first brick store in Seaforth. Mcllwraith photo Bob and Betty building 125 years old The main street building that houses Bob and Betty's Variety Store celebrates its 125th birthday on April 9, 1988. James Dickson, MP purchased the lot on the west side of the second block of Main Street, from Edgar I. Jarvis in 1863, and built Seaforth's first brick store. It was a small building used by his son Archibald who was post master from 1863 to 1865, and Archibald's son Samuel who was post master from 1865 to 1913. (The post office was moved to what is now the Lon staff building, built by Samuel Dickson, in 1869. In 1913 it moved to the building that houses it now, built by J.B. McKenzie in 1913.1 In 1875 a frame part was added onto the Dickson building. From 1907 to 1939 it housed Charles Aberhart's Drug Store, then R.R. McKindsey's Drug Store and the offices of Dr. M. W. Stapleton, M.D. and Dr. M.R. Buljubasic, D.D.S. In December 1967 the building was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beuttenmiller, who still own it toda