The Huron Expositor, 1987-10-28, Page 3Seaforth visitor spent arecord- of
°. — Seaforth-hats-'•err*interesting`visitot-last-6
week. This visitor is a Guiness record holder
and has travelled the world on two wheels.
John Hathaway, who is famous in the
cycling world, was in Seaforth as a guest of
Mr. and Mrs. George Ribey, and while in •
town spoke at the Public School, and showed
a slide presentation of some of his many
travels. •
Mr. Hathaway's biggest cycling achieve-
ment, and the one that got him in the , •
• Guiness Book of World Records, is cycling
5000 miles: This tour took him to 52 coun-
tries in six• continents, and lasted 100 weeks
g from November 10, 1974 to October 6, 1976. It
is the longest marathon ride of its '• kind and
" (fulness dubs'fa wor en urance our:
But before Mr. Hathaway ever went on his
world tour he had 'a lot of other cycling
adventures. He has been cycling since' he
was eleven years old, • .and has• known no
other means of personal transportation he
prefers over it. He has never owned an
• automobile, except for a motor scooter,
which he had for five years, and when he
isn't •travelling by bike he is usually on a
.plane or a train.
Mr. Hathaway originates from 'England
where cycling is a lot more'common than it
is in North America. There he belonged to a
1ycling_club._that did competitive -touring.
THE HURON 'EXPOSITOR'; OCTOBER 28, 1987 3A
100 weeks on: bkyd�':
and racing. In the time he belonged to the
club, from 1943 to 1951, he was very active in
racing and he became the area champion.
He set the record for the 25 mile race in his
area, completing it in 1 hour 46 minutes.
But in 1952 Mr. Hathaway .came' to
Canada. He wanted to get away from rac-
ing. "I wanted to quit and to quit meant to
get. away from the club."
Mr. Hathaway landed in Montreal, but his
final destination was Vancouver. So he
started off on his bike, "It was the only way
I knew," He first went to Toronto, a trip that
• took five days. From there he setoff across
•
Canada for the western city. It took him four
Months to travel the 4,771 miles.
Mr. Hathaway's, intention was to settle in
Ocean Falls where he eventually found
t'grk. But by 1955 he decided to visit
'°ngland once again, and thinking that he
May not return to Canada,he set outt to see
luckersm.ith
•
' Tuckersmith Township Council has
• :authorized its road department to resurface
the Vanastra Road from Halifax Street to
:Highway No, 4,. and a small portion of Third
.Avenue from, the municipal office to• the
Vanastra road, The cost for these two sec-
tions of road is' estimated to cost approx-
imately $25,000.
The roads department is authorized to•
reconstruct a short portion of the 2nd con-
cession (Huron Road Survey) in frpnt of
Turner's. Cemetery at an approximate cost
.of $8,000.
Two tile drainage loan applications were
'accepted by council for $18,800 and $7,500:
The Council of Tuckersmith Township en
•dorsed the resolution of the Township of
.Hullet requesting the Ausable-Bayfield Con-
tservation- Authority tomakethe „required
iramendments that all member.
Hullett Township
Hullett 'township council will ask
Tuckersmith Township to clean out the Nott
Drain downstream of Highway 8, as a result
of a motion passed at its October 6 meeting.
In preparation for winter the council in-,
structed the road superintendent to open
tenders on snow removal for 1987-88, and
they accepted a tender from Radford Con-
struction for snowplowing at a cost of $46
per hour plus $15 per day for being on
standby.
RENOWNED CYCLIST John. Hathaway was •in Seaforth last week, and while here he
gave some classes at Seaforth Public School a•slide show presentation of some of the
Warsaw,. Berlin, Londoii,.,2aris,-Rome;-and ...A r, ..Hathaway..,became.,..unerripioy_ed.,_
Venice to name a very few. But it was 'the again, and seeing that his chances of getting
natural wonders that impressed .him the a job were diminishing as he will be turning
most. 63 in; January, he spent a year planning
"Nature always fascinates me," he says. another cycling odyssey. This one would be
"It's places like the, Grand Canyon and the a tour of all the high mountain, ranges in -
Himalayas, and every country has a certaineluding the Rockies, Andes, Alps,
amount of its own natural beauty." • Himalayas, and the Atlas mountains.
But there were also places where the tour Last August on Labor Day he started out,
was not always what would be called fun. and things were fine until February 27. The
"You don't enjoy a desert, but if it's part cyclist had climbed the Rockies, and the
of a route so bet," says Mr. Hathaway ad- Andes and was on his way to Buenos Aires. ,
ding, "you just'hammer in as.,many extra He was 500 miles from his destination when
miles as you can in a day to cut down your his tour came to a tragic halt. A truck struck
time in that area." Mr. Hathaway andsent him sprawling from
"The biggest adventure to it, if there is his bike. He was taken by train to Buenos
—any adventureris-meeting-people,"says.Me. -___Aires-wher-e-he_was-diagnosed.-as_hauing
Hathaway. He has made hundreds of friends damaged three vertebrae; two compressed
• many things he has seen in his travels.. Nancy •Stewart; Tracy Alexander; Matt Lee,
��IrQI�' Smele,-and MattVock.were some of the students wrio enioyad1he presentalton •
Corbett photo,
and acquatntenances in other countries. and one cracked.
Some, he keeps' in touch With for .a short
while, and others for a lot longer. But he
never hastoo long to get to, know them
because he never•stays in one'place too long. •
On the 700 day trip,, he would spend 55 days
riding for every 15 days resting. He would
always havea daily.goal in terms of mileage
to keep him on schedule, and he would try to
keep that schedule even if it sometimes
meant cycling after dark - something that•
he avoids if at all possible: '
FAIRLY LUCKY
In his -travels Mr -Hathaway- didn't ee-too—
much bad luck. He found in most countrie
the police and customs tried to help him a
much as possible, and there was very littl
hostility toward •him as a foreigner,
"If there is any hostility around it'
against individuals and what they do or say
but there are some people who get an anti
American attitude, but I was neve
bothered."
One' incident that could have been a pro
blem for Mr. Hathaway was when his bik
was stolen in England. But when it wa
advertised whose bike it was and What th
owner was doing, the thief gave, the p.olic
an anonymoue call telling them where h
had left the bike and it was returned.
Mr. Hathaway returned. to Vancouve
following his world tour. He remained in
volved With cycling and joined a club in Van
couver. He did, however, • quit racing and
hasn't been involved in it since.
portion of. V
North' America before his return to
England.
This North American tour took Mr...
. Hathaway to Mt. Rainier, Mt. Hood, Crater..
Lake in Southern Oregon, the California.
Coast, the Mohave Desert; Boulder Dam,
the Grand Canyon, Louisianna, Great..
'Smokey National Park, Washington, New
York, and back to Montreal.
ONLY A VISIT.
Mr. Hathaway returned to England and
the cycle club, but it provedto be only a.visit
and he was back in Canada after 18 months.
Upon his return, he again landed far from,
his destination of Vancouver, and this time
he cycled from Halifax to Vancouver. He
in 24 and a half days, which was good at the
time. •
Mr. Hathaway did settle down for a long
period of time. He married a girl in• Van-
couver and got work as a detail draftsman.
However, following the death of his wife in
1971, Mr. Hathaway got into long distance
cycling. And in 1972 he broke the Vancouver
to Calgary record, completing the course in
51 hours and 1 rninute.
It was in 1974, when he lost his job, that
Mr. Hathaway planned the route for his
world tour. In short order he was making his
way down the west coast teward Mexico.
The tour Mr. Hathaway, was taking would
take him to many of the great cities of the
world; Katmandu, Bangkok, Singapore, Fi-
broke the record for the trip, completing it ji, Hong Kong, Manilla, Tokyo,' Moscow,
Twp. council to resurface
municipalities and residents in the Bayfield order to obtain justice and satifaction to
portion of the Authority be included and en- legitimate demands.
titled to apply for and receive thosegrants
available to farmers of the Ausable Tuckersmith Township'Council agreed to
Watershed. - have high pressure sodium lights installed
Tuckersmith Council has requested an im- at the new township shed as recommended
mediate answer from Canada Post Corpora- by the engineer. They had considered mer -
tion and - first of all, that council wants to cury vapor lights. There will be an addi-
be guaranteed that the- municipality of tional cost of $130 each.
Tuckersmith will not have to suffer from a Council will contract with Business Com -
form of discrimination regarding the quail- puter Services for the preparation of the
ty of postal services. Also that Canada Post 1988 municipal tax bills.
, willnot negate its responsibilities for fran- Fifty . trees will be ordered from the
, chising or contracting out its services which Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority
it is required to provide, and secondly that for planting on the roadsides in the
rural communities, which have already township. The Authority has advised the
been badly affected by the reductions will trees available this fall are Norway maple
soon recover the complete services to which . and white ash.
they have, been accustomed. Tuckersmith Council has accepted,{ le resignation •of
Council.joins`the.Rural Dignity of Canada in Violet Kellar as volunteei`at the special day
requests drain clean out
The council also carried a motion that,
because grants have been made available to
farmers building liquid manure tanks from
various conservation authorities, and
because all municipalities in the Ausable-
• Bayfield Conservation Authority are assess-
ed in equal proportion, but grants are
available to farmers in the Ausable area on-
Iy, that . the council should petition the
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority to
Make any required amendments so that all
• member municipalities and residents in the
Bayfield portion of the Conservation
Authority be included and entitled to apply
for and receive those grants available now
•• to farmers in the Ausable watershed.
In other business the council accepted the
completion certificate of Burns Ross for the
street construction in Londesboro. And the
township will be purchasing wreaths for the
November 11, 1987 Remembrance Day Ser-
vices in Clinton and Blyth,
Elementary to
Huron County Public School teachers
were educated themselves Friday, when
they took part in a professional development
day that followed the theme, "The Outdoors
is -for -Everyone"..
Professor Bill Andrews, a native Clinto-
nian, and a practising ecologist and en-
vironmental scientist, kicked off the day
with a talk, some thought it a lecture, on
ethics in the'outdoors. Following the talk the
teachers were bussed off to various conser-
vation areas, including Bannockburn, the
East Wawanosh Nature Centre and the
Hullett Marsh where they participated in a
number of tours, hikes and educational
workshops. They were "Singling out the
senses", The Importance of Fencerows and
Waodiots, "Animal Adaptation", "Prepar-
ing a successful field trip and "Outdoor ac-
tivities in french. ,
Before leaving the teachers were urged by
Mr. Andrews to think ethically about
everything they would do in the day.
According to Mr. Andrews there has been
a change in people's behavior toward the
natural environment over the years.
Now instead of living in harmony with
nature, Mr. Andrews said mankind has the
idea it stands apart from nature, that it has
dominion over it.
r
others educated on ' outdoors
"It's that kind of ethic that has to be aban- killing? I don't think any other animal gets •
said.
"We can't live separate from each other
_ina=vaccum. L,veryane.has a role to play."
Mr. Andrews noted killing isn't done today
for the purposes of survival, but rather for
the sheer pleasure of killing.
"I'm not saying it's wrong" to shoot an
animal, but what are our ethics? Why are
we doing it? Why should a deer die on a river
bank with a bullet in its flank simply
because some guy • wants to have fun
shooting. If it's necessary for these animals
to be killed then leqs have it done scietifical-
ly or by an who won't wound them
first," he said.
, "Have we the right to get pleasure out of
donned or the human race is doomed," ,he pleasure out of killing," he added,
"You look at the salmon derbies. The
fishermen are out there with their vast ar-
rayy of equipment to catch one fish, which.
they wouldn't eat because the water is
polluted. They're out there to kill something
we're killing anyway because the lakeis
polluted. The same ethic is behind it." .
Mr. Andrews said that kind of ethic has to
be eliminated. He said children should be
'taught to have respect for all living things
for what they are, not for what they can do
for humans.
"Nature is beautful and we have an
obligation to keep it that way for future
generations. Every creature has intrinsic
worth," he said.
Secondary school teachers study
adaptation and transition theme
Adaptation and Transition' was tlie dual
theme when Huron County's 265 secondary •
school teachers met at Central Huron Secon-
dary School in Clinton for their professional
development day Friday.
The teachers had 16 workshops to choose
from covering a wide rai-ige of tiffs.
Among them were: "Improving student
evaluation practices" "Classroom
organization", "Helping students to help
themselves", "Human characteristics that
facilitate change", "New English cur-
riculum leading to OAC", "Adolescent ex-
perience", "Alternative schools", "The new
family study guideline", "Alcoholism and
drug abuse", "First aid", "Retiring with
confidence" and "Cooperative education
and adult education".
Among the presenters were Linda McKen-
zie from the Huron Board of Education,
Seafteli Police Chief Hal Claus, Lynn Gar-
rison and Janet Gattfnger from the Huron
Comity Health Unit, Lori Thompson from
the Huron -Perth Centres for Children and
Youth as well as personnel from the provin-
cial ministry and schools in Etobicoke,
Srarborough and Waterloo County.
TEACHER. ORIENTATION - Marg Whit-
more, a teacher. at Grey Public School,
learned the art of orienteering atone of the
workshops offered In conjunction with the
Huron County Board of Education's P'rofes-
sion'ai bevvelop Pent day for elenlentary
school teachers. The theme of the day was
"The Outdoors is for Everyone".
McUrea h photo.
TEACHERS IN TRAINING - Teaohers from Huron County's secondary schools were.
the students Friday at a Professional Development day held in Clinton. Teachers at-
tended a number of workshops based on the theme of Adaptation and Transition, Here
Seaforth District High School Principal Jim Ernpringham gets a chuckle out of a corn-
ment made in a workshop for improving student evaluation practices, Mcllwraith photo.
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"I'm lucky because he hit my luggage and
knocked•meto the side," he says. "If he had '
knocked me forward I would have been
' killed:''
It will be a long time yet before doctors
can tell Mr. Hathaway what sort of shape
his back will be in after it has finished heal-
ing. In the meantime he has slowed down
but he hasn't stopped by any means. He only
, recently finished riding the Cabot Trail with
Marion Orser and Anne Ribey,,All the time
he was in a partial body cast:
: "ttly- baek'.doesngt-bother4ne-when--Ian-
s •, riding, it's when I'm sitting," he says.
s Only last weekend he and Ms, Orser went,
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on.a ride to Goderich and Bayfield and back,
which came to about 90 kilometers.
If doctors tell him his back will hold up to
another^endurance run Mr. Hathaway will
consider another, but he says he.doesn't•
'have a great desire to go on another en-•,
durance marathon at the present time.
Mr. Hathaway uses cycling as a means to
stay in shape, as„it is one of the three best
activities you can do for cardio -vascular
fitness. He•also thinks it is the best way to. ,
travel. Ina car, he says, you go too.fast and
don't see anything. Travelling by foot is too
slow to get you anywhere..
Mr. Hathaway has llept a pretty accurate•
diary of his travelsand calculates in' his
lifetime he has put 530,000 kilometers behind
him on his bicycle. He will likely put on a lot
.s
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are centre at Vanastra and. of Tracey
Wilson 'as part-time teacher at both the
pecial day care and the regular day care
entres.
Mary -Lou Murray has been offered the
position of supervisor at the special day
care centre at a rate of $7.75 for the three
month probationary period with the salary
to be adjusted to $8,03 on completion of this
time.
Sue Bolger has been offered the position of
part time teacher at the special day care
centre, to be paid $6.32•per hour; and Karen
J. Piett has been offered the part time posi-
tion at $6.32 per hour at the regular day care
Drops clothes
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more,
anastra road
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and the special day care centres.
A tile drainage loan application for $5,000
. was approved by council.
Clerk -Treasurer . Jack 'McLachlan was
authorized th apply for a grant from the
Ministry of Energy to convert the balance of
the boilers at the Vanastra Recreation
Centre.
Passed for payment were the following,
accounts totalling $166,761.55: general ex-
penses, $108,002.16; day care centre at
vanastra, ;$8,862.01; special day care centre
at Vanastra, $5,062.84; roads, $30,473.86;
and Vanastra Recreation Centre, $14,360.68
The next meeting will be held October 21.
OCTOBER 29, 1937
Public Utilities Commission workmen are
rushing final connections on the new street
lights on Seaforth's Main Street, and expect
to have the lights ready for use by Friday
night. The standards are completely install-
ed and it only remains to complete the
necessary connections.
Five persons escaped injury Sunday night
when a motor car crashed into a wrecking
truck during a snowstorm. Both motor car
and wrecker plunged into the ditch',
According to investigations by Mitchell
traffic officers, Daly's wrecker from
Seaforth had been called to pull a car out of
the ditch on No. 8 Highway, between Dublin
and St. Columban, when a car driven by Ar-
thur Griffiths, Londesboro, crashed head on
into the wrecker. Griffiths was accom-
panied by his mother, father, and two
sisters.
When Epigram, favourite in the
' Cesarewitch run on Wednesday, failed to
gain a . place, Frank Taylor, Exeter auc-
tioneer, whose ticket in the Irish
Sweepstakes had drawn Epigram, was glad
he sold half the ticket for $7,300,
"I am not a bit disappointed,” he said,
after he learned that his horse Epigram, the
favorite in the race did not place and that he
had lost the chance of winning up to $80,000.
"I was nohe too sure of it;" he added. That
was why he sold a half interest in the ticket
in advance of the race for $7,300, he said. In-
stead of making something less than $2,000
on the race, he now has four times that
much because he sold his half interest. .
NOVEMBER 1,1962
Celebrating her 100th birthday quietly at
Queensway Nursing Horne, Monday Oc-
tober 29,, Miss Rachel Spencer was the reci-
pient of many congratulatory message:
from the Queen, John G. Diefenbaker,
Prime Minister of Canada, Hon. Chas S.
McNaughton, Minister of Highways and
MPP for Huron, and from the provincial
secretary and many Others.
Seaforth firemen were called out at 11
o'clock HalIowe'en night to extinguish a
blazing heap of tires and straw at the in-
tersection of Main and Goderich Streets.
The first stage in the Seaforth Community
Hospital Building Fund canlpaign got under
way this week when a canvass of members
of the hospital group was commenced. Can-
vass of other sections, such as commerce -
and industry and rural areas will begin in
succeeding weeks.
The objective for the hospital group is
$40,000, and the overall campaign objective
is $195,000.
Voting to elect a Snow Queen who will
reign over the Santa Claus parade here on
December 1 will begin this week. The can-
didates, eight of them, have been selected •
by Seaforth District High School Students. .•
The candidates are: Margaret Elgie, June
Higginbotham, Faye Little, Mary Scott,
Jean Shortreed, Pam Stapleton, Lois Tyn-
dall and Arlene Williamson.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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recreation office at 527-0882 or the Expositor at 527.0240, or mail the information to Communi-
ty Calendar, The Huron Expositor, 8ox 69. Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1Wo well in advance of the
scheduled date, Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor.
Wed., Oct. 28
1 - 3 p.m. Moms and Tots
1:30 - 4 p.m. Senior Shuffleboard
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Tween Ringette
5:30 - 6;30 p,m. Atom I Practice
7:30 • 9 p.m. Minor Broomball
8 p.m. Special Gospel Meeting every Wed.'
evening at Seaforth and District Community
Centres Community Room. Alt welcome.
8 - 9 p.m. Ladies Fitness at Arena
9 - 11 p.m. Ladles Broomball
9 - 10 p.m. Mixed Adult Volleyball
:Thurs., Oct., 2S
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Novice Practice ,
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Bantarn Practice
6:30 - 7:30 p.M. Minor Broomball
7:30 - 12:30 a.m. Men's Broortlball
Frid., Oct. 30
4 - 5 pan. Senior Houseleaglle Practice
5 - 6 p.m. Junior Houseleague Practice
6 - 7 p.m, Midget Practice
7 • 8 p.m. Junior Ringette Practice
8:30 P.m. Seahawks vs. Monkton
Sat, , Oct. 31
8:30 a.m. Canadians vs. Bruins
9:30 a,m. Oilers vs. North Stars
10:30 a.m. Flyers vs. Jets
11:30 a.m. Whalers vs. Leafs
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Mites ',redline
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Petite, Novice, Bunny
Ringette
1:30: 2:30 p.m. Story Hour at the Library.
Please pre -register.
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Public Skating
4 - 5 p.nt. Novice
5 - 6:15 p.m. Atom 1
6:30 - 8 p.rn. Pee Wee
6'p.rn. All Spooks are invited to visit the
Van Egmond House for a trick or a treat
Sun., Nov. 1
2:00 p.m. Seahawks vs. Brussels
5 - 6 p.m. Petite Ringette
6 - 7 p.m. Tween Ringette
7 - 8 p.m. Junior Ringette
8 - 9:30 p.m. Bruins vs`. Flyers
9:30 • 11 p.m. Penguins vs. Hawks
Mon., Nov. 2
4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Pigu're Skating
7:30- 6:30 p.m'. Wood Refinishing at S.D.H.S.
Tues., Nov. 3
5:30 - 6:30 p.nt. Pee Wee Practice
6:30 - 9,p.m. Bantams Practice•
8 - 10 p.m. Brussels vs. Midgets
7:30 p.m. Ringette Meeting at Arena
Wed • , Nov. 4
1 -3 p.m. Moms and 't'ot's
1:30 - 4 p.m, Senior Shuffleboard
4:30 - 5:30 p.rir. Tween Ringette
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Atom I Practice
6:30. 7:30 O.M. Centenaire Practice
7:3'0.9 p.m. Minor Broormiall
9' - 11 p.m. Ladies Broornbalf.
8 - 9'p,m'. Fitness is Fun
7:30 - 9:30 p.rn. Wood Carving
8-10 p.m. Mixed Adult Voileyb"atiat S.D.H.S.