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OLD WALKER HOME -A Burlington couple who bought the Phillip and Marie Thomas hosted Alma Iderstine and her two
Walker home last: year were visited last week by the grand- daughters on a tour of the house Mrs. Iderstirie grew up in. The
daughter of Alexander Cardno, the man who built the house. couple also began to think of grants to help them restore the home
bit by bit to it original appearance. Blake photo. .
Couple restores home to preserve, Memories -
A Burlington couple, now .owners of the
historic Walker (formerly Cardno)home on
High Street, have turned their purchase into
what they call a "custodial" job. Phillip and
Marie Thomas plan to preserve the ap-
pearance of the home not because of a love •
of antiques but rather to preserve the
history of its former occupants.
The Thomases bought the house last year
after falling in love with 'the building on a
visit to Seaforth. Thinking they could use it
as a summer home and knowing it was
designated as a heritage home, the
Thomases made plans for its. restoration.
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Mrs. Thomas said by doing so, she and her
husband are preserving the memories for
former occupants.
Already at least' one person has revived
some memories by a visit to the home.
.Last week the Thomases were visited by
Alma Iderstine, formerly Alma Cardno,
who lived in the house as a child. She is a
granddaughter of Alexander Cardno, the
man who built the house in 1860.
Mrs. Iderstine came from her home in
Calgary, Alberta, and met her two
daughters, one from Mississauga and one
from Weston, in Seaforth. She wanted to
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INTERESTING FIND • Eight-year-old Tanya Peters of RR 4 Seaforth found two
balloons anda letter sent from Hope, Michigan in the family's corn field on Saturday.
Tanyasaid her family will reply to the letter and request more information about' the
balloon release. McIlwraith photo.
Area youth finds balloons •
Another balloon carrying a letter from the
United States has been found in the Seaforth
area,
Eight-year-old Tanya Peters found two
red balloons carrying a letter from someone
in Michigan, in her family's corn field at RR
4 Seaforth on Saturday.
Miss Peters was sitting at the kitchen
table when she saw,"two red things bobbing
in the field", approximately Ls of a mile
away. With the help of binoculars she
discovered they were balloons and went to
get them.
A letter attached to the balloons earried
the words Community Awareness
Emergency Response, a return address,
and a request for the finder to write back
giving details of where, when and how the
.balloons were found. No other explanation
was given.
The Peters plan to write back with the in-
formation as well as with a few questions of
their own.
show her children the house where her fami-.
ly of eight grew up, with a bakery and an.:
opera house, known as Cardno Hall, close
by.
One story Mrs. Iderstine recalled during
her visit with Mrs. Thomas, was of visits to
the bake shop when she was small. She used
to ask her aunt for cream puffs and usually
would not get the treat ,until her uncle
appeared.
Mrs. Iderstine also answered a lot of ques-
tions that the new owners had about where
doors, cupboards and trap doors were
located. Since the house has been converted
to three apartments since its initial con-
struction so many of the doors and cup-
boards would have been taken out to make
room for walls.
While visiting Seaforth, Mrs. Iderstine
also visited Ken -Cardno, who is a great-
grandchild of Alexander Cardno. •
Mr. Cardno showed Mrs. Iderstine and
her daughters, who are cousins of his and
whom he had never met before, Cardno
Hall. The visit' there also revived memories
and Mrs. Iderstine thought it a coincidence
that her family had owned a stage and that
both her daughters had experience with
dancing on stage.
Mrs. Thomas said she and her husband
. plan to restore parts of the house as needed.
The windows, floors and paint were the only
major renovations. A back porch that had
been torn down will eventually be rebuilt,
but Mrs. Thomas said she will wait until she
can receive a grant for its construction.
She said she relies almost totally on
grants since the building is historical, and
therefore renovations take longer than
ususal to complete.
Finding information about the house had
been a difficult task, said Mrs. Thomas. She
tried to get books from the Carnegie Library
but none were available. She tried to get in-
formation from the Town clerk's office but
again none was available.
It wasn't until she travelled to a historical
society in Toronto that she couldget infor-
mation and even then they told her the Town
should supply those facts.
Finally, back in Seaforth, Mrs. Thomas
tried the clerk's office and information was
received,.
The furniture that had once belonged to
the Cardno family is now under the care of
the Calgary Historical Society where Mrs.
Iderstine placed it when she moved to that
city. Mrs. Thomas has no plans to bring the
furniture back to Seaforth because she feels
it does not belong to her.
Policing
from page 2A
members of our present police force. Are
they going to be absorbed into the OPP or
cast adrift to seek alternative employment?
If they are absorbed into the OPP it is not
likely that they would agree to a salary less.
than they are now receiving and this salary
wouldlikely represent a significant portion
of the costs to Seaforth and it seems to me
that this would make major savings,
unlikely.
These are some of the considerations to:
which I would want to have answers before
any serious thought was given to changing
our policing policy.
Re elect • .
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