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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-08-19, Page 3CAN -AM BICYCLE TOUR -Twenty-six bikers from states close to the Canadian border .,, recently arritred in Seaforth for a brief stop on their two-weektour of Ontario. The group is made up of youth frein ,Presbyterian Churches in the United States which conduct this tour -every year during the first two weeks in August. Here, the some of the tour members rest by the donut shop which proposed by the Members to be their favorite resting stop. Blake photo. New electoral 13oundaries in effect THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 19, 1987 — A3 US bikers stop briefly 111 Seaforth "•An Open Road Bike tour made up of 26 cyclists from several Presbyterian phur- cheS in the United States stopped briefly in Seaforth Wednesday morning as part of their trip around southern Ontario. Coming from states such as Illinois and - Indiana, the troupe began its journey, which is • sponsored.by the West Minster Presbyterian curch in Munster, Illinois, August 4, when they drove to Sarnia by truck, • From there they began the bicycle trek to Owen Sound, Midland, Toronto, Brantford, aStratford,_Gaderich.and-then back • to Sarnia. iThe excursion will cover more than 612 miles upon its . completion Friday. • The event was started 16 years ago by the . minister of the church, Richard. Rogers, who believed youths needed a 'special event at which to make new friends and learn new experiences. " The cyclists are required to pay a:fee of • $200 to go on the excursion held the first two weeks in August. The entourage employs a crew to map out the daily route, a doctor, who also rides with the group, two cooks which. happen to be mothers of the some of the participants, and a man, nicknamed 'Jim Daddy", who drives the "sag" truck. The sag truck„car- ries thecrew's sleeping bags, clothes and bicycle repair equipment. ' While mapping out the route, the •road • crew also 'NUM churches for the troup to stay in overnight. Because the group came equipped with their own sleeping bags the only thing they needed was a roof over their heads. The cooks prepare meals of pasta and lots of high -protein food for the troupe to save the cost of eating out. Scott Robbins of Chicago, „a five year • "veteran" of the Open Road tour said the Longest tour in one day was when they • travelled from Midland to Toronto for a tntaLef.A6.miles..Headded.the-shortest-was 45 miles.. • Taking only paved roads which have little • traffic, the group Stays "sane" by singing songs and joking while at stopovers. So far, the event has met with only twb ac- cidents. Both occured within two miles of tional'Championship Race held in the United States and flew directly to Toronto after the race to meet the group. Preparation for the trip ranges from none to bicycling around their home town for the ,entire stunmer. But, Mr. Gould said, you are never really prepared an&added the first few days were tough because of leg pains,' weather and boredom. "The smart ones train, the dumb ones don't," said Kristen Bomberger, 22. • With 26 participants ranging in age from 15 •to 56, this tour is not the largest in the , —litsteTy the event711119797there were 80 men and women travelling the two -wheeled trip. Many of the participants are college or each Other on Highway 21 between Goderich and Owen Sound. Sometimes, said .,Geoff Gould of Illinois, the bikers just lose their „balance and fall over,. especially if they', can't get their feet out of the stirrups in time. Some of the bikers have used the ex- perience to achieve higher goals. Debbie Bradford participated in the tour several years ago, said Mr. Gould, and loved the sport so much she decided to race the vehicles. This year, she entered in the Na - university students. • Word of the tour' has spread from church .. to church over the years, said Mr. Gould, so that now many organizationdare involved Previous. tours have included-Michgan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, the Appalachians and Ontario to name a.few. . Mr. Gould said the excursion brings the ' members closer together arid added par- ticipants will meet at Christmas and New Year's Eve, reminisce about past trips and ' plan for future ones. They also show slides taken of the past trips. . •• He added they have an 80 per cent return rate for the event. tion on September 10, you' 'May find your .closely examined. The passage of the bill Summer school helps special students , When yeu go to vote hi theProvincial elec. . community groups and individuals are - riding has a new name or completely net* was the result.of three years of Legislative • •• •• , boundaries .as a. result of 'a bill passed by review, public hearings and study by all • theLegislature last July. The Representa- parties. The Ontario Electoral Boundaries • tion Act which revises the boundaries of On- Commission, which was responsible for the tario'selectoraLdistricts takes effect for the review, conducted pilblic • hearings first time in this 34th general election% throughout the province and received As well asincreasieg the number of seats almost 600 representations. by. five to 130, the bill made changes to most The Commission released its first „pro- ' existing ridings. However, the extent of the posals fpr change in February 1984 and change does vary. Fifty-eight ridings have public hearings were 'conducted in April and only slightly changed while51 'have - May of that year. Hearings were held in undergone more significant shifts. The Windsor, London, Kitchener, St, Catherines, changes do not affect you at all if you live in • Hamilton, Barrie, Peterborough, Kingston, one of the 16 ridings that have remained Ottawa, Toronto, Sudbury. and Thunder • intact. • Bay. •i If you realize the amount of time and work , A report was submitted to the Legislature that goes into a redistribution then you in November of 1984 and Members subse- won't be surprised that it only happens quently reviewed the recommendations and - `about every- eight to 10 years.. The last filed their comments. Debate on the propos- redistribution occurred in 1975 when the • ed changes began, in July 1985 and'continued number of seats jumped from 117 to 125. later in the year in October and December. • Population increases generally dictate, the Debate concluded in January of 1986 and a need for change. final report was issued in March. The bill As well, the interests- of municipalities, was passed.on July 10. 1986. • • BRIEFS 11111115131111113311.1111511k wromaroznicimmimoramemm Tuckersmith to start garage Tuckersmith Township Council will start ' construction of a new municipal garage this month. The garage will be located. on Con- cession 2 on the western outskirts of Egmondville. At a special meeting August 11 council ac- • cepted the tender of Kase VanDen Heuvel of RR2 Goderich for the construction. • The Goderich contractor's tender, one of three received,- amounted to $236,616 and will be submitted to' the Ministry of Transportation and Communications for its final approval. The engineer for the work is Bill Kelly of W.E. Kelly and Associates of Kitchener. At the request of council all gravel and fill material necessary during the ocnstruction is to be obtained from the township pit located nearby. Work is to start next week on the site and will be completed next year. •_Henson gets grant • The Henson and District Community Centre will be making some energy-saving improvements. A $4,893 grant was receiv- ed from the Ontario Ministry of Energy, under the Municipal Oil Conversion and Energy Conservation Program (MOCECP). The grant will be used to make im. provementh to the Centre's ice making plant by installing tooling water recircula- tion' and heat recovery systems. MOE approves PUC watermain Approval for the construction of the Ord Street watermain has been received from the Ministry of the Environment. Seaforth Public Utilities Manager Tom Phillips said approval was received August 10 and construction will begin this week. In other PUC business two new street lights were installed on West William Street, complete with new poles and fixtures. A transformer bank at the East Huron Produce in 'Dublin was also rebuilt. The wooden frame holding the transformer had almost rotted through and was sagging bad- ly when workers began the repair. Permission bas been given to the PUC to call for tenders for the reconstruction of the Victoria Street pump house roof. Environment Ontario ups grant $50,000 The grant for the expansion and im- provements to Seaforth's sanitary sewage works has been increased by $50,000. Based on an estimated cost of $1,562,000 for the project, the provincial grant will now be $1,184,000. Similarly the grant for the extension of the Highway 21 trunk watermain in the Township of Hay has been increased by $41,000 to $1,130,000; the grant for the ex- pansion of the sanitary sewage works in . •Clinton has been increased by $41,000 to $533,000; the grant for the extension of the existing sewer system in Lucan has been increased by $26,000 to $1,577,000 and the grant for the construction of a watermain on highway 21 in the Township of Stanley has been increased $66,000 to $1,424,000. A sununer school for Huron County Catholic students who need special educa- tion started at the St. James Separate School July 29 and,will end today, August 19. The program is organized by the Huron - Perth • Roman Catholic Separate School ' Board and is the second session this sum- • mer. The first was held for Perth County students. The summer school is held for students who need individual attention or who are ex- ceptional learners and need to further their education. Jean Brand, coordinator, said the pro- gram -also employs teachers' assistants who are college or university students who want to become teachers. Experience '87, which is funded by the Ministry of Skills and Development and by the Ministry of Educa- tion, sponsors the employment of these aspiring teachers. • Three special education classes for students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 focus on individualized programs set up by their "regular" teachers for the summer eurriculum. The classes include math, art and language art as well as physical educa- tion as part of the child's program. Bach child is given one-to-one attention to help speed up their learning skills, said Miss Brand. Two enrichment classes in dramatic arts and computers help the Students from Grades 4-8 learn about theatre arts and about the problems of the werld. In drama, the children learn how to analyze. a play, learn to produce their own play, and to analyze a play they go to see on a field trip. For. the computer class, the children learn • about the problems in the Third Werld, understand those problems and later use - that knowledge to make important decisions about the lives of the people in that country. . They do this by pretending to be the presi- dent of that country. • • Each child is recommended to the sum- mer school by the principal of their regular schools who sends an application in May or June to enroll those students in the pro- -gram. This year 95 students are enrolled. • The program began approximately 10 • years ago with the idea to help the children ' in the catholic _school system who need special attention. According to Miss Brand, not only do the children benefit from this program, but the student teachers also benefit by gaining valuable experience in teaching. Each summer teacher is required to make up three themes for each.of the three weeks of the summer school to occupy the children. •' 12 COMPUTER WHIZ KID -The Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board's summer school was held July 29 until August 19 for children in Huron County who need special attention of some manner. Gifted children from Grades 4-8 worked on com- puters to put out their own school newspaper. Here, Peter McDonnell, 12, works on the front page. Blake photo. SPECIAL EDUCATION -The Huron County part Of the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board's Summer school began July 29 until August 19 held classes for childeen who need special attention and those who need more education. Anne Ryan, theater's assistant, teaches moth to Wayne Cole. Blake photo. Brothers harvest the traditional way Tom Leiper and his brother use the method of stoking their grain into sheaves and processing those sheaves in a threshing machine, a practise used by their father A Winthrop area farmer and his brother do things the old-fashioned way when in comes to harvesting their crop of Mixed grain. 43; 1/41Ni OLD-FASHIONED HAtIVEgtii464ern Leiner and his brother do thingt the old- fashioned way on their farm one mile north of Wintrhop. Their 12 -acre crop of mixed • grain has been harvested using stOoks and a thrashing Machine for Over 50 years. The Leiper brothers used to take grain off for their neighbors as custom work More than 10' years ago. Now the neighbor, left, is helping Tom's brother load thestooks into the ' beginning in 1909. For over 50 years the Leiper brothers have been harvesting this way on their -farm as well as doing custom work for neighbor- ing farms. Tem Leiper said depending on the quality of the crop they can get 24 loads of Sheaves from 12 acres. The method of harvesting using sheaves is very easy. First the grain is cut using a scythe 'or a Lang -bladed mower and left to dry. The grain is then bunched into sheaves by summer workers and is tied amend the middle. The sheaves are stood upright in bundles of three or fold to let dry once More. Depending On how wet the grain was, the sheaves are left and picked up in a few days by workers exiled with pitch forks. liVith two men on the ground and two ori the Wagon the sheaves are thrown into a gigan- tic stack on a wagon with racks on each end. The net step to harvesting the Old- fashioned Way is feeding the threshing machine with the Sheaves. At one end of the huge machine is a "mouth" where the sheaveS are placed and dragged into the machine by a conveyer belt. Inside the Machine the sheaves are beaten so the grain is knocked off and is drawn up through a pipe leading into the grain bin Of the bath. The straw -is taken further into the threshing Machine and is cut inte tiny pieces before it isliciWn into the stramr mow of the barn. The dusty process allows the sheaves to be unloaded in about one or two hoer's. Mr. Leiper said he doesn't know Why he still harvests the Old-fashioned Way but add- ed he enjoys doing it. The Leiper's fatti is the only forth' in the Wintrhop area to reap the crops this thrashing maOhl ne.Blake photo, . o, •Inantler. SPECIAL NEEDS-Childrert from kindergarten to Grade 6 who need special attention and children from Grades 4-8 who need more education participated in the second half of the summer school program for Huron and Perth Counties. The program is spon- sored by the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board and Was held from July 29 until August 19. Three Kindergarten children, Donald Palmer, left, Michael Mur- ray and See Giatrin, practise their coloring skills. Blake photo. COMMUNITY CALENDAR If you're Organizing a non-profit event of interest to Other Seaforth area residents, phone the recreation office at 527-0382 or the Expositor at 527-0240, er mail the information to ComMuni- ty Calendar, The Huron Expositor. BO( 69. Seaferth, Ontario, NOK MO well in advance Of the scheduled date. Spate for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor. Wed., Aug. 19 Sat., Aug. 22 - 1:30 - 4 p.m. Public swimming Seaforth Senior Legion Golfs 2:30 - 8 p.m. Annual Flower Show, Seaforth 1-160idulttfral Society. Seaforth Legion Hall 6 - 8:30 p.m. Public Swimming Anniversary todrnament, seaforth Lawn Bowling Club Annual Fiewer Show, Seaforth Hoiiiculturai Society 6:30 - 8 p.m. Morn's & Tots Roller Skating 7 p.m. Men's Playoffs it • 9 p.m. Fitness it Fun Thurs., Aug. 20 7:30 p.m. TopnotCh vs. boilersMith 8:30 p.m. Beachwood vs. Komaskozy (Playoffs) Fri., Au'g. 21 1040 p.rh. Roller Skating, Sumner Programs End 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 1st Annum Seaforth Karate fOurnameht held at the Seaforth & bIstrict Community Centres. Interested competitors contact Rob Malloch at 482-5713 or personally at the Seaforth Fitness at 65 Main Street. Mon., Au-. 2.4 Men's Fasthail Mayo s , Tues., Aug. 25 730 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ladies Softball at Lions Park Wed.,, Aug. 26 Men's Fastball Playriffs