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The Huron Expositor, 1987-12-30, Page 3It was in with new, out with old • from page 2A been home but a few minutes when he was stricken. The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board finished up 1986 with a deficit of $338,000. The deficit is the result of the start-up expenses of converting St. Michael's Elementary School inStratford to - St. Michaels Secondary School. • MARCH 18,1987 Faced with a possible 1L75 per cent budget increase for 1987, Huron County Council has been asked for budget cutting direction from its executive committee. The committee has the formidable task of preparing a final- budget proposal for coun- cil's approval at a special meeting March 19. • Through the efforts of students at Huron Centennial School, the life of a family in Haiti is going to be a bit more pleasant. The students gathered money at the school dur- ing the month of February to support 13 -year-old Mirlande-Fleurant of Baussard, Municipalities making use of the Holmesvilie Landfill Site have been advised through the Landfill Site Committee to be prepared to pay their portion of substantial costs to. be incurred at the joinrlandfill site. -------- • --IVIARCH-25-,1987 Although Huron County Council decided to issue a $75,000 grant to the Seaforth Public Hospital over the next, four years, some councillors expressed a willingness to curb hospital grants citing it was a provincial • responsibility. • In a recorded vote of 21-10 at the council's budget meeting on March 19, the county ap- proved a grant of $75,000 for a new addition to the Seaforth Public Hospital for 1987, 88, 89 and 90 with the last two years subject to the new council's approval. • Barb and Al Bragg Brussels won $500,000 . in the March. 13Provincial Lottery draw. • . With their winnings they treated themselves to a new truck. The 'Braggs say they may . drive a better car, but they don't intend to act any differently and hope people will • treat them the same as they 'always have., A fire late Saturday night caused between $47,000 and $450,000 damage to a barn and livestock belonging to Lavery McClure of McKillop Township. , A potentially, treacherous situation was avoided Friday due to the super human strength of a local man. Witnesses say "wight (Dewey) Willis used the weight of . his own body to stop a truck which was roll- ing driverless onto Highway 8. APRII., 1, 1987 A Seaforth team captured the silver medal at the Provincial Broomball Cham- pionships held in Sudbury over the weekend. C. H. Express finished the weekend with a three win,' two loss record in the double elimination tournament which saw teams from, six regions of the province and one host team vying for the chance to travel on to the national competition. Nico Peters, a 36 -year-old Tuckersmith --Township-farmerrhas declared his intention to seek the Conservative nomination for the Huron Riding in the next provincial election. Huron County's leadership roll in Agriculture was emphasized at a Managing for Profit seminar for beginning .farmers here on March 28 when a couple was presented with a plaque for being the 200th applicant to start a new farm in the county. Minister of Agriculture and Food Jack Riddell told an audience 10 per cent of the province's new farmers are located in Huron County. Putting it in actual figures there are 200 out of 2149 beginning farmers in Huron County. APRIL 8, 1987 Ontario Premier David Peterson will, meet business and municipal leaders and tour an internationally successful industry during a visit to Huron County on April 16. "This visit will allow David Petersen to tour Champion Road Machinery, One of the county's most innovative and successful • Team in town last week to gather, study and businesses which is showing the way of the distribute information, about the revitalize - future of rural Ontario," said Ontario tion needs of Seaforth..The resource team Minister of Agriculture and Food Jack will help the community set its..priorities Riddell. and provide an action plan for revitalizing Huron County taxpayers will face a 6.9 per the downtown, • cent increase in their contributions to the The administrator of the Seaforth Manor public education system in 1987. since October 1984, and before that the The Huron County Board of Education, at Director of Care and a registered nurse at a special meeting in Clinton on -March 30, the nursing home, Anne Helm said she found approved its 1987 budget of. $44.5 million, an it difficult to say goodbye to the staff and the increase of about 9.7 per cent over last residents who have become like family over year's budget of $40.8 million. • the years. • Two Seaforth area men are among 30 •MAY 6,2987 • chosen to participate in the second Advanc- Ron Vercruyssen, the tallest member of ed Agricultural Leadership program. the Seaforth District High School basketball Bryan Vincent, of RR 1 Seaforth, and Bill team, signed Thursday with St. Joseph's Wallace, of RR 4 Seaforth, were chosen to University in Philadelphia. • participate in the "Best thing that's ever Nearly $2.4 million has been allocated to happened to me" - dubbed program based the Huron County Board of Education' and on a written application and a series of in- the Huron -Perth Separate School Board as terviews held in February and early March. part of a new provincial government capital ' APRIL 15,1987 funding project, Jack Riddell, MPP for The Board of Directors of the Ontario Egg Huron -Middlesex has announced on behalf Producers' Marketing Board has elected of the Minister of Education Sean Conway, Bill Scott of Seaforth as its new chairman. Huron -Bruce MPP Murray Elston and Mr. Scott succeeds Jim Johnstone who step- Perth MPP Hugh Edighoffer. • ped'down as chairman' of the board after 15 The 2nd Annual Excellence in Education years in the position. Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Huron Four local elementary school children will • County Board of Education and the Ontario compete in the ani;awide Science Fair to Secondary SZFoT1:1 l'e—a-CherreFEderation, was be held May 10 to 17 at the Erindale Campus held in Holmesville, April 29. Recipients in Mississauga. from Seaforth District High School were Andrew Kennedy, of Seaforth Public •Martha Hook, Mark Jones and Mary School, Tamml Medd of Blyth Public Margaret Kelly. Also awarded were, com- .School, Tom Cull of East Wawanosh Public munity representative Frank Sills, and School, and-. Derrick, McGee, of Zurich SDHS principal Harry Scott. • Federal Agriculture Minister John Wise. announced a controlled phase-out of the moratorium on foreclosures by Farm Credit Corporation Canada (FCC) effective May 1, 1987. MAY 13, 1987 A number of dignitaries attended the Knights of Columbus, Father Stephen Eckert's Council's 25th anniversary Saturday. The Huron County Board of" Health has hired Dr.. Maarten Bokhout, a New- foundland Doctor, as the new Medical Of- ficer of Health for the County. Two well-known area residents have been honored by the government for their volunteer work. Thirtyleight individuals, in- cluding Gladys Van Egmond of Clinton and Isabelle Campbell of Huronview and formerly of Seaforth, received 1987 Volunteer Service Awards at the public library in Owen Sound on May 6. The awards were presented on behalf of the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. May 20, 1987 Wage negotiations between the Seaforth Police Association and the Town of Seaforth will go to arbitration after both parties refused to give in to the others demands. One man is dead and two others injured after a tanker truck rolled while on its way to a fire on May 13. Brussels Stockyards Ltd. owned by Bruce and Ross McCall, has recently been sold to Klaus tienschell of Ingersoll. The sale was effective April 30, 1987. The . Seaforth Horticulture Society presented an award to one of its original members at its meeting -Wednesday night at Maplewood Manor. Effie Stephenson of Seaforth received a service certificate and a large silver cup for' her 14 years of dedica- tion to the society. Three men and two women who were the highest scorers of the five pin bowling leagee for the seniors games were chosen to represent the town of Seaforth at the District games here in June. Art and Mary Finlayson, Bert Walters, Bill Harris, and Betty, Halley were chosen over 18 people in the bowling event held April 10 at the Starlight Lanes. MAY 27,1987 The General Shoe division of Genesco Canada Inc. will close its Seaforth factory effective July 17, 1987. The closure will af- Public School, were ^chosen as area representatives by judges at the regional science fair held in Clinton on Friday and Saturday. Approximately 65 students with 43 different projects competed in the.fair. Film footage will be taken of approx- imately 90,000 students in the counties of Huron, Perth, Bruce, Wellington and Waterloo, as part of a child videotape 'iden- tification program sponsored by District C. of the Royal Canadian Legion. That number • includes 8,000 elementary students in Huron County. APRIL 22,1987 A meeting Thursday between Huron County Mayors and OntarioPreinier David Peterson was very productive according to the premier himself. The Premier told close to 400 people gathered at the Seaforth and District Com- munity Centres the mayors had made him very . mindful of the problems of Huron County. Over 400 Huron County Progressive Con- servatives turned out on a rainy night last week to select Nico Peters as their can- didate for the unannounced but expected Provincial election. Peters won by acclamation, and delivered his acceptance speech at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton last week. Seaforth residents will see their taxes rise 6.5 per cent as a result of a $1,954,287 budget set last week at the April meeting of council. The budget calls, for 34 per cent of town revenue to be collected through taxation, with 48 per cent. coming from grants and 18 per cent from user fees. As set out the budget.will see a projected deficit of $84.259. APRIL 29,A987' Farmers across the county must find a way to boost membership in their federation of agriculture, or they stand a good chance of losing one of their five voting voices at the provincial level. A boat, identified as belonging to two area men missing on Lake Huron since early. Saturday, was found by searchers at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, however the search for the missing boaters was still underway late Tuesday afternoon. No matter what its problems the town of Seaforth will always be intact because of the human care and concern there is for the community. That was the consensus of - members of -Heritage Canada Resource BOOK CLUB - The Seaforth Public Libtaty is sponsoring a book club for the first time. Bev Phillips, Laura MacPhail Mary Ken- nedy, Ellen Kirkby, Susan Dick, Peggy Perkins, Rita Delkin, Frances Bali and Imelda Reynolds have joined the club and go there everyseeond Thursday to have their luneh and discuss what they thought of the latest book. The group was recently visited by Shartin Cox, the acting librarian for Huron County, at their fitst session for a discussion on the book "Sherelinet" by Rey MaeGmgor. So far there are only wornen in the Seaforth club, but there is nothing preventing men from joining. A variety pf books are chosen for the club ranging from fiction to biographies, but there is an emphasis On Canadian authors. Corbett photo. Hullett township joins Rural Dignity Hullett Township Council is demanding an inifithdlate answer from the Canada Post Corporation and other elected represen- tatives regarding postal service ni the township. The township held its regular council Meeting December 1. The council said it wants to be guaranteed the municipality will riot have to suffer any fent of discrimination regarding the quali- ty of its postal services. "Catiatla Post must not negate its respon- sibilities by franchising or contracting out the service which it is required to provice," it said. Hullett's council added the rural com- munities which have already been badly af- fected by the reductions will soon recover the complete pedal tettices to which they were accustomed. The township is however, joining "Rural Dignity of Canada" iri the Meantirrie, in order to obtain justice and satisfaction to its "legitimate demands". "Whereas the Canada Post corporation has already started reducing services in certain rural ateas,and has confirmed its • intention to continue systematically closing an itriportant number of Post Offices itt rural areas, and whereas our municipal council is firmly opposed to any reductions of the 'normal settee to Which our pop - tion is entitled, we do not accept, and will not accept et any tithe, that our small corn- nitthities be penalized by the planned redecation," council said. In Other business council found a tem- porary Solution to truck problems backing into the mill. Council has instructed its road superinten- dent to spread "A" gravel on the west tide of Sarah Street, from the catch basin on the north to approxitna— tely 35-40 feet south of the fuel pitthp8. There Will be a nainizIttitn one per cent grade in the area where the gravel is spread. Ie other be:Airiest council rescinded by-law 1987-4 to raise $54)0,000 to aid lit the construc- tion of drainage works tinder the Tile Drainage Aet, RSO 1980, e. 506. A by-law Was passed to iinprise a special• Minitel drainage rate upon land lir respect of which money 18 boriti*ed Wider the Tile Drainage Act, 1971, in the amount of $5,000. Hid -lett eeencil will finite ratepayers in-- VolVed with the Storey Death to a meeting for diScILISiort ori February 16, 1908. A meeting will be held January 19, 1988 With residents of Londesboro involved,in the drainage problem in the Trueman Street area. Council also instructed its road superintendent 10 inform the Ministry of Transportation and ComMunicatioilt on the proper spelling of Hell& before they erect signs along Highway 4, and correct signs already in place. . At a special meeting held December 15 council decided to notify the county of its willingness to take part in the AMO Pay , Equity Progratn, to help lessen the cost to everyone. Connell also voted to accept the drain peti- tion frorn B. Greidrelus and R. McColl to et, terid the Kennedy Drain 2, and instruct Bill Dietrich of W.E. and AsSociatet as engineer to bring in a repOrt. • Coencil aceepted with regret the retigna- tion of Reg and Helen Lawson as caretakers of the Londetbint Community and pro - pet, and will also advertise fot a new caretaker. The Clerk has been instructed to apply for funding under the PRIDE pregtatri. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 20, 1987— 3, Jot • CHRISTMAS CREATIVITY - Unlike other store bought lawn decorations. for the Christmas season,this snow man, located at the James Palin home on East William Street, was not mass produced. Itwas designed by Rose Ann Machan of Blyth, niece o.f Mrs. J. Bannon of Seaforth, for Mrs. Bannon's daughter, Mrs Palin, then painted. feet approximately 70 people, mostly women, employed at the factory. Seaforth firefighters calmed a fire Friday night at' the RR 4 Seaforth farm of Brian Godkin. The blaze levelled the barn, killed a calf and also damaged a truck belonging to a friend of the Godkins. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Exchange students from Quebec arrived in Seaforth May 15, to spend a fun filled week with their Ontario "twins" and their families before goihg home Friday morning. Although one of the pair has never carpet bowled before, John Patterson and Rachel Riehl were able to win the senior Games event Wednesday afternoon at the Seaforth and District Community Centres. .Four couples competed. The seniors games tennis, table tennis, and darts winners were Charlie and Peggy Perkins, who only started in the games last year. They won three out of four events by default. Last year the Perkins brought home gold and silver medals from the district games for tennis and table tennis. JUNE 3,1987 Seaforth Tile, a subsidiary of Fletcher Tile Ltd., a company which has patented a breakwater unit which could save water- • front property, is now producing the units. Built to absorb the energy of waves, allow- ing them to deposit, rather than carry away, sand, they have been proven successful along the Lake Erie shoreline. Two Fountains have been installed in Silver Creek by the Seafotth Lions Club. The club hopes the fountains will reduce the amount of algae in the creek in Lions Park, The club worked with Huron Fabricators and Sills Hardware to install the fountains. The estimated cost is $3,000. The latest im- provement to the park is one of several the club is undertaking in its park improvement program. Town officials are working harder than ever to attract new industry to Seaforth after the recent announcement that Genesco will be permanently closing its doors July 17. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has charged Top -Notch Feeds Limited in Seaforth with two counts under the En- vironmental Protection Act. The Area Ladies Barbershop competition of Harmony Inc. was held in Barrie May 22, 23, and 24. The Seaforth Harmony Hi-lites chorus competed there and place second in the choir cimmetition. • JUNE 10, 1987 A battle over the hydro line to run through this area has been won by Ontario Hydro, but spokesman for some landowners say the war isn't over yet. The Ontario cabinet has approved Hydro's plans to build the 5,0043,000 volt lines from its Bruce Nuclear Power Development on Lake Huron south towardthe London area,The line would then run east to the coal-fired Nanticoke generating station on Lake Erie. A reception was held Friday to honor Grade 5-6 students at St. Columban school who, have completed the rainbow reading program. Students dressed up as their favorite literary characters to attend. • The Seaforth Community Hospital has an- nounced some of the changes planned for the facility in the near future. According to a hospital official, renovations include a new emergency and outpatients facility, a new physiotherapy department, and a new office and mental health facility. A report detailing desired improvements to Highway 8 has been submitted to the Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications for consideration. A brief on this subject was presented to MTC Minister Ed Fulton earlier this spring by the mayors of the five municipalities in Huron County. JUNE 17, 1987 A resident of the Seaforth Manor will turn 101 on June 22 to be the oldest man in Seaforth. Bill Miners has lived at the Manor for seven years and said he has no secret for living as long as he has. A vegetarian who doesn't like to kill defenseless animals, Mr. Miners said he doesn't smoke or drink. He also promised to beat the world's record of living to 114 -years -old by living to 115. Seaforth town council expressed disap- proval last week at the request from the town's auxiliary constables that they be paid. A concert, featuring one of Canada's top rock and roll bands, failed to bring in the money organizers hoped it would. The Seaforth District High school and the Seaforth and District Community Centres, co-sponsors of the event, are out a total of $7,081 as a result of poor attendance at the June 7 appearance of Tore Cochrane and Red Rider. A Seaforth area dairy farmer is playing host to a 19 -year-old student trainee frotn Holland from May 24 to August 15, as part of the Dutch -Ontario College exchange pro- gram sponsored by Centralia College and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Two other Dutch students are also in Ontario for the program. JUNE 24, 1987 More than' $805,000 in government funds will help to foot the bills to replace roofs and heating systems in four area schools. Area residents are invited to oarticinate in an historic town photograph as part of Seaforth Canada Day celebration Wednes- day July 1. A similar photograph of area residents lined up and down the town's main street was taken in the lath 1880s. The principal of the Seaforth District High School and his wife, a guidance counsellor there, have decided to retire. Harry and Maureen Scott have decided to spend the next few years travelling. Shinens Clothing Store, a part of Seaforth's Main Street history since 1924, has been sold. Bee and Doug Foreman, a young couple from Nairn. officially became Turn to page 54 • .MMUNITY CALENDAR If you're organizing a non-profit event of interest to other Seaforth area residents. phone the recreation office at 527-0882 or the 'Expositor at 527-0240. or mail the information 10 Communi- ty Calendar, The Huron Expositor, Sox 69. Seaforth, Ontario, NOK MO well in advance of the scheduled date. Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor, • ,Wed., Dec. 30 1:00-3:00 p.m. Moms and Tots 4:30 p.m. leen Ringette 530-6:30 p.m. Atom 1 Practice 7:309:00 pail. Minor Broomball 9:00-11:00 p.m. Ladies' BrOomball Thurs., Dec. 31 10:00 a.m. Novice Practice Fri., Jan. 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR Sat., Jan. 2 8:30 a.m. Bruins Vs. NOrth Stars 9:30 a.m. Canadians vs. Oilers 10:30 a.m. Jets vs, Leafs 11:30 ci.M. Flyers vs. Whalers 12:30-1:30 p.m. Mites 1:302:30 p.rn. Petite, Novice, Bunny Ringette 2:30-400 p.m. Public Skating 4:00-5:00 p.m. Brussels vs. Novice 5:00-815 p.m. Milverton vs. Atom 1 6:154:00 p.m. Milverton vs. PeeWees Sun., Jan. 3 1:30 p.m. Belmont vs. Centenairet 4:00-5:00 p.m. Atom 11 Practice 5:00-6:00 p.m. Blyth vs. Petite Ringette 6:00-7:00 p.m; Tween Ringette 7:008:00 p:m. Jr. Belle Ringette 8:00 p.M. Penguins vs. Hawks IHL 9:30 p.m. Bruins vs. Flyers IHL Mon., Jan. 4 • 4:30-8:30 p.m. Figure Skating 7:30-9:30 p.m. Wood Refinishing at S.D.H.S. Tues., Jan. 5 5:30.6:30 p.m. PeeWee Practice 6:30-8:00 p.m. Harriston vs. Bantams 8:00.10:00 p;rn. Midget Practide Wed., Jan. 6 t:30-4:00 p.m. Senior Shufflebciard 1:06-3:00 p.m. Moms A Tots 4:30-5:30 11111. Tweet' Ringette 5:30.4:30 p.m. Atom I Practice 6:30-7:30 Centenaire Practice 7:30-9:00 p.m. Minot BroombEill 9:00-11:00 p.m. Ladies' Brbodiball 8:00-10:00 p.M. Mixed Vtilleybell at SAIN.S.