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A sort of goodbye
Icame, I saw and
well, I reported.
I'm not done report-
ing but my position
with the Clinton News
Record has come to an
end. I will be starting at
the Goderich Signal
Star full time starting
this week. It's a bitter-
sweet endeavor to move
20 minutes down the
road as the News Record
represented my first full
time position as a
Column
Laura Broadley
journalist.
As I walked through
the door of the News
Record office seven
months ago I remember
being absolutely
terrified. In my previous
internships and posi-
tions I had always had
an editor looking at eve-
rything I did, scrutiniz-
ing, guiding and sup-
porting me every step of
the way. Here, it was
different.
I learned a lot and I
learned it quickly,
thanks to you, the
readers. There are too
many people who
deserve a "thank you"
and too little space
here, so I know I've left
many people out but
here are a few:
To the readers who
reached out after that
awful phone call to offer
me kind words of
encouragement, thank
you.
To Jane Groves, who
made me feel welcome,
thank you.
To the Mayor and the
rest of council, who
answered my last-minute
phone calls and
questions even if it was
something they didn't
want to talk about, thank
you.
To the people who
trusted me with their sto-
ries, thank you.
You'll still see my name
in the bylines sometimes
so you're not quite rid of
me yet. If there is any-
thing you want or need,
please feel free to contact
me at the Goderich Signal
Star.
Goodbye, sort of.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
15 years ago...
• Interim and long-term ambulance loca-
tion throughout the county were decided by
county council on November 30, the last
meeting held of the council who decided to
decrease the ambulance stations in the
county from two to four.
• According to a survey, Blyth Brook resi-
dents are willing to employ practices that will
protect water quality. A research project
called the Total Approach Initiative (TAI),
coordinated by the Maitland Watershed Part-
nership, concluded that farmers, land owners
and town residents are all interested in explor-
ing alternative methods of manure manage-
ment and sewage management options that
would be more environmentally friendly on
both a rural and village level, said TAI coordi-
nator and Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority General Manager Phil Beard.
• Richard Fitoussi, a former student of
CHSS, returned to speak to students. During
his presentation, Fitousse showed several
slides of the people and events he encoun-
tered in Cambodia. Manywere victims of the
land mines. Fitousse and four other students
helped to disable mines, using only pocket
knives, screwdrivers and other tools that they
could find. Fitoussi planned to return to Cam-
bodia with a donation to help buy the correct
tools in order to help disable more land mines
in the hope of eventually disposing of them
all.
25 years ago...
• It had been a busy year for Huron
County Warden Lionel Wilder. The ground-
work for two mega -projects, Huronview's
revamping and the organization of a waste
management strategy have marked Wild-
er's term which came to an end December
11 with the election of his successor. "It has
been a busy year alright. These mega -pro-
jects are the biggest this county has ever
seen," says Wilder. "I just hope that I can
leave the Warden's chair as comfortable as
when I took over."
• The reconstruction of a residential
garage remained suspended, following a
decision from the town's committee of
adjustment. After receiving a building per-
mit, Tom Tabor began extending and wid-
ening his Rattenbury Street West garage in
the fall. After it was discovered that the work
did not conform to Clinton's Zoning bylaw,
a stop work order was placed on the
construction late in October. Tabor had not
known that a minor variance had to be
requested to enlarge the structure. The
issues were impacts on the neighbouring
properties.
35 years ago...
• The Clinton Public School's choirs were
taped for CKNX Radio. They sang Christ-
mas songs such as Captain Santa Claus, The
Drummer Boy and White Christmas.
• The less than half dozen Clinton taxpay-
ers and business people present at Clinton
council's inaugural meeting seemed to be a
clear illustration to Mayor Chester Archiba-
ld's speech. Along with his hopes and aspi-
rations for the town, Clinton's new mayor
made some hard hitting points directed at
the apathy he sees in Clintonians. The larg-
est project undertaken in 1980 was the con-
struction of a new swimming pool. A con-
cern aired was that the local Horticultural
Society was struggling to find enough vol-
unteers to maintain the beauty spots of
town, such as a Cenotaph area and the
Radar monument gore. The Society had
wamed of a possibility that they would have
to disband and the town would have to take
over the maintenance.
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