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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-11-13, Page 34 92 YEARS YOUNG—John Reid (front), of 73 James Street, Seaforth celebrated his 92nd birth Y recently. Mr. Reid, .who lives with his daughter Avril (far right) had two special visitors for his birthday celebration -his son Arnold and wife Barbara from British Columbia. Mr. Reid homesteaded in Western Canada for over 50 years after leaving the MCK1110"0"ToWnShip farm where he was born. (Photo by Gibb) 1twee or a:huge:plate' ef delicious lemb stew lest week, that the better half and 1 started eeflecting on how inflation is 'changing. our eating habits. And the change is proba- bly all -to the pod, :What We're itilying More Of, as costs rise and incomes don'ttis meets that have to be cooked slowly l What we're Patin& 'tee. is heevjer on vegetables (home grown some of them) and lighter on meat that it used to be. It was probably six rnonths ago - up til Sunday since We lied a roast of beef. • Looking at the change objectively, or reeding about ••• it Oise you are, my' first' reaction woeld likely be , "ypek," ,or. at least a quiet, eynipathetic sob. But, I've got to admit,as we talked about it we rea- lized we're really enjoying Or new etyle eating. • The stew used up riblets 'from half a Canadian lamb We've been rationing from the freezer. There wasn't a lot of meat on- them but what there was, was delkious and contributed to a gravy that was out of this world. LOTS OF MEAT On another recent night we had long -marinated and then simmered pork button ribs in a sweet and sour • NOVEMBER 13, by Susan 'Whitt , , Sallee, Lots of. Meat fairly cheap but You have to ettt up with the Miner inconvenience of staying alert for tiny bones. Ltinch at a local. hotel provided -further' evidence that econranical cuts of meat can taste terrific. Pork hocks in barbecue sauce might not sound mouth watering but believe me they are and convinced enough to cook -them at home as soon as I get a chance. Then too we've been eat- 0 S ing (slurping?) a Jot of cheap and chee!til soup since the bone chilling November cold started: Andy makes a mean Minestrone, 'Super 'lentil or pea soup and an onion soup that's so powerful you can't eat it on a week night, (Recipes supplied on request.) What all these dishes have in common is that they're Cheapetake a relatively long time to cook and also to eat. Those last two points are"the biggest benefits of this nou- velle culsiiie for our ',family. , - We. Venda let more time than We used to in the kitchen, elloPPingt 'talldna" tasting; and hrovin`g, our only big short' put is a pressure cooker which does a really ' good jot., of providing Jong simmered flavour fairly quickly. Then, as I .daid before, we are forced by the nature of the variety. of food on our plates to relax, and spend more time eating our meals.' Fast food, boneless, sauce- less, tastelees can be wolfed down. It's consumption doesn't encourage communi- 'cation. 10 ' .01;os,.;w1/04,.tirtel. 9mitt404,0;44,00,0: idea. that, 'mask Opmioniin times • do have theirv1 7;k: other as forced M AM1,` ways to stretch fo'oddoliars',' wh‘klid' for those o'v'ar t 1;fthing amutteringcah... ;the esesecret i ri gt "tgarebdf! tc• ient that really Makes our. simmered new meals isl; whole lot of home made wine. Thi rejects. .vine- gary, metallic, too sweet, whatever . . .go into our reedipes. Bon appetitl -Surprise upset in Stanley election BY ALICE GIBB After a decade of acclamations, there was an upsetin Stanley Township in Monday's municipal election. Deputy -reeve Pant Steckle-challenged longtime reeve Tom Consitt and won by 74 votes. Mr. Steckle polled 469 votes, and the former reeve. 395 votes. Tom Consitt, a Varna area farmer, had been township reeve for the past eight years. Mr. Steckle, deputy -reeve for four years, decided to challenge Mr. Consitt after Huron County council changed its policy, no longer • allowing deputy reeves from less populated • municipalities to sit on council. Two veteran councillors also opposed each other in the contest for deputy -reeve. Don McGregor, ef RR1,' Brucefield,' a councillor for the ,past six years, defecatedanother council veteran, Don Brodie •of RR1, Brucefield. Mr. McGregor Polled 460 votes to Mr. Brodie's 390 votes. Two newcomers and one incumbent were elected to township council in Hibbert. Howard Armstrong, of RR1, Zurich, a farmer, lopped the poll with 614 votes. He was followed by incumbent Clarence Rau, of R.R. 2, Zurich, with 588 votes. The third Homesteader John Reid moves back here • by Alice Gibb John Reid, with a twinkle in his eye, says he returned to Huron County to live because "they say all chickens come home to roost." Mr. Reid, who celebrated his 92nd bjrthday early this month, had lived in Western Canada for over 50 years when he decided to retire where his roots are. The Reids farmed west of Winthrop, but In 1910, when he was 21 years old, Mr. Reid and a cousin took a carload of horses west. "1 didilt sell all the horses so I bought a quarter section of land and put the horses to work," Mr. Reid says. His first farm was In northern Saskatchewan, near Prince Albert. He came home in the winters for the first few years, 'and firmed in the guntnier. until 1914, when he married a Saskatchewan girl. Eventually, both Mr. Reid's parents and his two sisters also headed west, although he still has several cousins in the Seaforth area. Mr. Reid and his relatives were all grain farmers, ind he stayed in Saskatchewan for 20 years. During that time, his four children were born - Avril, who still lives with him, and sons Wilfred, Arnold and John, who followed in their father footsteps and alto farmed. Then, about the time the drought was emaking life less than easy for Saskatche- wan farmers, Mr. Reid and his family moved to Hythe. Alberta, in the Peace River block not far from the B.C. border, took up another quarter -section homestead and tried his hand at mixed farming, after the land was broken. The common crop was wheat in those days, not "beans and corn" Mr. Ried points out, like we grow in Huron County. Mr. Reld's sons also settled In t4Peitte' River region and took up homesteads themselves. HOMESTEADING AGAIN , Al an age when most men would be considering retirement. John Reid decided to try homesteading again. 111'1951. he took up a quarter -section, in daughter Avril's name. near the town of Falher, Alberta. Falher is known as the honey capital of Alberta. Homesteading, Mr. Reid admits, entail- ed lots of hard work, but "I think We enjoyed it." The Fahler area was -filled with wildlife, including deer,. coyotes, moose and the odd timber wolf. Mr. Reid said while none of the animals "bothered us," the bears did sometimes tear holes in the granary during winter months. In, the years Mr. Reid farmed in the Peace, wheat was the main crop grown, as well as small seeds like fescue. Today, rape and flat :.nd barley have become popular crops in northern Alberta. In 1965, Mr. Reid, like the chickens who come, home, decided to return to Seaforth with Ms daughter. A w,idower, he married' Mrs. Rose Adams the following year. Rose Reid died three years ago. MISSES THE CHILDREN Although Mr. Reid misses "the children which include his sons. 14 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren. he's content to stay in the arca wbere be was raised. He's been back to the West four times for visits, and his son Arnold and his wife have been to Seaforth several times for visits. John Reid comes frldra a family where a ripe .old age is the rule, rather than the exception. His mother lived to 911/2 years of age, his sister to 93, an uncle to over 100 years and his grandfather to 104 years. Mr. Reid, who lives at 73 James Street, isn't taking his retirement entirely easy. Last year he tried his hand at wallpapering for the first time, and put a new ceiling in the kitchen. Another step in the remodel- ling process included turning a softwater cistern in the basement into a vegetable storage area. Once he'd started digging out the cistern, just kept ivhittling away at Mr. Reid says. , What does a man get for his 92nd hikhday? Well, in addition to lots of cards, and tots of good wishes. Mr. Reid had a special visit from Arnold and Barbara Reid, now retired themselves in British Columbia. They arrived at his door the day before his birthday. But. as Mr. Reid points out, it wasn't really a surprise • he'd just had a feeling they'd show= up. Accountants suggest administrative changes In a letter presented to council Tuesday night. the Town of Seaforth's chartered accountants outlined several matters which if improved would strengthen internal control of the town's business. The charteeed aCURIfitalit'S report results from an interim audit for the town 1980 fiscal year. Theis recommendations were: a) The town does not have a fixed asset ledger: which means property is not properly identified. Because of this, articles are not being inventoried. They 'also suggest marking the assets would be a benefit. b) They note systematic approval of the tiayroll register is not performed by the Town Clerk. They don't. see this as major problem, since ihe clerk is familiar with town employees, but they add internal control would be strengthened if the move were taken. c) The accountants found that not all invoices were being initialled by a council. member. This is a town policy, and again they suggest that internal control would be strengthened .if it were carried out. d) They suggest job des- criptions be filled out for town employees, which would be helpful if an employee were ill or left the town. e) Their final re- commendation was that the minutes for council meetings should be signed by the tnayor or clerk. Proposed BIA levies on file at town hall With about a week and a half left for objections to the designation of a Business Improvement Area (BIA) in downtown Seaforth to be filed. approximate levies against all the more than 70 members are available from clerk Jim Crocker at the town hall. Working with a proposed budget df 115.000, a maximum annual levy of 5500 and a minimum of 525. the figure that each business would contribute to the 131A has been established. At a meeting Thursday night. Seaforth's BIA study group proposed that seven members, about 10 percent of the member- ship. make up the BIA hoard of manage- ment. If council passes a, bylaw establishing the BIA on December 1. the group suggested holding a general meeting for all merchant members to nominate a board of management slate. Under provincial legislation only council can appoint the board. which must include one councillor.. If a BIA is established here. study group members said priorities should be parking. setting up business area promotions a year in advance. and planning physical improve- ments to the downtown core. Any merchant wanting to know what his or 'her approximate BIA levy would be can call clerk Jim Crocker. According to a notice in town sent lact month to all businesses inside the proposed Bl A boundary council will pass the BIA bylaw unless it receives a petition from one third of the businesees inside the area, who also represent one third of the commercial assessment. by November 25. SDHS band in Grey Cup Continued from page 1 _ I've been working on this since July." With the band's big banner right out front "we promote Seaforth every place we go." Mr. Kalbfleisch said. While the usual procedure is for the band to be paid for its parade work. the director says Grey Cup parade sponsors consider their event such great advertising that selected partistents must pay to take part. The four and a half mile parade will be breadcaet for at lea.st an hour, starting at! p.m., Saturday Novembert 22 on both CBC and 'cry networks. Closer to home, the SDHS band plays Saturday in London's Santa Claus parade which will be televised live on CFPL TV. The 70 member band gets requests to play from all over but will be in Seaforth's Santa Claus parade December 6 and later that day lielp welcome Santa to Brussels. The band is now booked for a number of events, including fall fairs, in 1981. But the highlight of the new year will be March break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to play in the CAFf-ANI parade at that resort. "We're taking 94 people there week"., including chaperones and b nd booster club members,' the director says. Outside of one big fund raising event, band membrs will pay the costs of the trip, including accommodation, themselves. _ Again next year the band wet tead the big parade at the Interational Plowing Match. How does the Huron County school system's only marching band keep its quality high enough to be in demand nationally and internationally? A great deal of hard work's involved, the director says. Practises are held once a week all through the school year. Before special events there are three practises a week in the big Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, which doesn't charge the band for its facilities. Every May the band recruits new membees from Seaforth area Grade 8 classes and they attend what Mr. Kallefleisch calls "rookie practise" all summer. The band plays all year round now, including f 1' summer engagements. The SDH and loses some members every year to part-time jobs and the director thinks that's a shame. "You're only young once and students need time to take part in school activities." he said, and added that Seaforth students have a terrific chance to learn in one of the area's few music programs. But the participation record at SDHS is still awfully good. At the small 400 student high school, Mr. Kalbfleisch points out one third of the girls are playing in the band. Area elections Poll Mayor Mero Sinnamon Counciflots G. Boyle D. DeVrte's R. Dinsmore G. Groothuts 1-1 Hildebrand 1. Johnston B. Martin A. Ross f. Ross P.U.C. Fryett Pullman Reeves Sills Seaforth A 41 42A 42B °3 14 60 37 42 100 20 111 5' 69 103 4 35 23 24 36 10 43 25 36 70 20 110 54 77 101 23 109 50 73 142 20 113 67 79 115. 28 125 69 79 134 10 91 44 52 89 18 117 70 76 161 15 99 54 60 117 11 18 9 9 28 14 142 70 88 153 4 20 14 22 30 22 133 79 83 148 14 85 16 T. 8581 6821 5975 45$574 20 39 32 213 50 49 48 331 75 go 77 600 105 101 83 695 81 84 83 642 96 82 95 708 62 57 63 468 99 113 78 732 61 80 78 564 18 106 13 107 TuckersmIth Poll A 11 12 13 14 Reese Robert Bell Deputy Reeve Brown 19 153 196 60 6" Fo theringham 10 63 51 152 79 Cotmelllort Broadfoot133 109 154 119 Brownridge _or '12 6' 65 112 44 Eisler 12 100 1'5 :38 48 Ferguson 6 32 29 53 22 McLean 3 20 38 35 16 Papple 12 176 169 1491118 Polls Toni Cunningham Joe Htetiking John Fhnn Ron Grose Melvin Knox Clare Vincent Poll Candidetes Herb Brown Ron Christie HULLETT 11 12 46 59 4" 22 e 52 33 56 63 61 73 66 46 • 13 14 55 131 49 90 88 116 54 164 49 131 67 178 18 14 125 100 166 779 21 21 je5 110 97 79 115 46 T Acclaimed 15 129 639 79 71 505 5" 49 639 4' 104 451 15 52 440 44 123 309 39 62 213 41 30 695 45 AP T 88 13 392 63 9 280 66 12 367 118 16 471 75 9 398 110 16 483 BIBBERT TOWNSHIP 11 AP 12 43 (Dublin, [Dublin] Staffs Cromarty 136 10 57 21 63 4 101 102 148 21 77 103 John Kinsman 100 5 133 Leo Kroonen 81 2 31 • Walter McKenzie 125 5 135 Robert Norris 53 6 , '90 Cor Van Der Pryt 126 2 41 15 • VILLAGE OF DUBLIN TRUSTEE& Matt McCreight Louis Maloney Jerry Murray . Don MacRae total 226 270 386 135 342 252 184 112 106 92 60 coupcil member ,is ,another newcomer to municipal politics, Jack Coleman of RR1. Zurich, who polled 454 votes. Bill Chipchase of Brucefield received 358 votes. • \ The township's first election campaign in a decade drew a 80.6 per cent voters' turnout, from voters who reside in thn toVenhip. Statistics weren't collected on the percentage of the township's more than 900 nonlesident voters who cast their ballots. • Cid* Mel Graham said one interesting result of the election is that representation in the township now comes entirely frotre the area west of Varna. In the past. represent - tion was divided from around the townihip. Paul Steckle, the newly -elected reeve, said he was pleased with the election results "obviously" but added. "I knew the campaign would be tight and close from the • fleginning." "1 stayed with the issues and felt the other candidate (for reeve) stayed with his issues." he said. He added both candidates tried to see everyone in the township during the campaign. Mr. Steckle said in his case. "1 had to address myself to severances more than other candidates." The reeve said. hope- fully. under the township's secondary plan, council won't allow any severed parcels of farmland for retirement purposes. He said council must consider the ensuing genera- tions in the farming community. The township's secondary plan is expect - .•3 ed to .come up for reeiew 'during the next year. \ When asked if council wouid be making any changes inethe coking term, the reeve said council might haVe.to review some of their administrative piocesses-for example, better working relations with agencies such as the recreation !committee and other committees which function outside council. Mr. Steckle said he would also like to see more openess, sp the public has more opportunity to see what's going on in council. He said he hopes township residents realize .council has "an open format of conducting business." Stanley Township's council meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. in Stanley Township Hall, in Varna, at 10 a,m. in the mofning from December to April and in the evening,. at 7, p.m. in the remaining.. months. Mr.. Seeckle said the race in Stanley townsylf, the first in a decade, had been "a hard-fought campaign". Write a letter to the editor today! You're invited The Seaforth and District Pre -School Learning Centre is havingen-Christmas Card: Gift Wrap and Novelty 'arty on Tuesday Nov. 18 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in the lower library > The public is cordial- mob ly invited to come and do some Christmas shopping. .,e.. , 3 This is a ftind raising project for the nursery school. The . regular meeting. will folio the party. Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston Looking ahead With Remembrance Day this week it' %ems to me that we should be thinktng about not only the people who died in past wars but m preventing the deaths of mittens in future wars. We are entering another of those periodtc times of great international mine= The etection of Ronald Reagan as president of the United States. a president dedicated to recapturing his country's past glories. adds a little extra tension to a world already nervous about its future Preeenting war is something easier said than done. 'of course. Only in hind sight can we be so smug as to say that if this or that had been done war could have been preeentedin the hectic pace of day to day veiled events such absolutes are few and far bete een. International diptomary te a ver, Inexact art These thoughts came to mind just prior to Remembrance Day as .1 was •reading tester B. Pearson's memoirs Pearson was the second in command at Canada House the Canadian embassy on London. Engtand rn those days leading up to the Second wesetel War As one of the senior men in the cat en external affairs department he parttripated in many of 'the international eonferences during the 1930's that at te' mpted to head off the cormng conflict HARD TO KNOW while he wa'S decisively critical of the actions of the Canadian government of William Lyon MacKenzie King during the period (much less so of the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett) Pearson admits that even being there first hard it was hard to know what was the proper course of action. It wasn't until about the time of the Munich meeting when British Prime Minister Neville -Chamberlain utter- ed the infamous phrase about having secured "Peace in our time" that people Eke Pearson became sure that war was inevitable. He was. for instance. home in Canada on vacation in the summer of 1939 When Hitter began to make noises about his interests in Poland. He decided he should rush back to England because he was are war was on the way and he would be needed at his job. Both his senior at the Department of External Affairs Dr. Skelton. and the Prime Minister more or less humoured him be telling him to go if he wisbed but they were sure there would be no war. He was back in London only a matter of da/..(and he flew over) when the war came. Nowadays. of course. it's hard to find anyone who didn't know war was inevit- able. Read the books and you will wonder if only the leaders of countries were stupid to • Yeeee - teeceoteete OelaetiiiViA7&teefo enough not to see they had to stand up to • Wet earlter All the ordinary people. It seems. knew from the early thirttes on that they had to stand up to Hitler It oasn't SO, of Mine The' mmonte of people dadn't want a war Thee int) remembered. renternhired the slaughter of the war that was to end all wars just a few years earlier e They wanted to avoid another one al at{ costs A TOUGH STAND Certalnly there were warning voices. Winston Churchill wanted a tough stand much earlier. But in understahding the fact people ignored Churchill we haee 10 look at our own times. Somebody is always advocating a tough stand Barre Goldwater wanted. the Americans to use the atomic bomb in Vietnam l'ndoutstedle then teen those who would have used it in Iran Only in hindsight can we tell the people with a clear vision of the future from the warmongers This history is Important in looking at current conditions in the world. There are mane similarities to the pre-% ar period of the 1930'e We are in eCOOOTOCC • trouble. Many countries have hecorne increasingly solationist And now we haee militate eversion going elm m Europe .and Asia The Soviets earlier sailed into Afgheni- stan Now the; ere making noises about veiling reform in Poland the 's aN they did in Hungary and Czechoslaeakia There is tension in the critical Middle Eastern version of the world_ There is no clearly right or wrong thing to do right now. Should we be aiming at detente. at new peace initiatives. as some people say? Are we being played for suckers by a wile,/ Soviet leadership who still have designs on taking oyer the world as other say? Should we be arrnMg ourselves to the teeth? Should we be thinking now of a nuclear war, not as sothethMg that is unthinkable anymore but as something that could be wen? For the ordinary citieen. its pretty hard to tell what is the right action. At times like this it is pretty hard to make democracy work properly. We've just seen an exampleeof that in the U.S. where a citizenry. witWtheir pride hurt. has given a landslide election victory to a politician who made things black and white for them again. who offered renewed glories for - their country. The rest of us can only sit back and pray that they have made the right decision. We can only pray that the leadership' of the most powerful nations in the world will use sane,, cool thinking to keep us frarn killing millions of people uselessly. _ AL!