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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 2015-05-06, Page 15Wednesday, May 6, 2015 • News Record 15 bracing family roots in Scotland Brenda Radford Special to the News Record The first item for this week falls into the cate- gory of "I wonder what- ever happened to" Regular readers of this space will remember that I occasionally remark at where life has taken one of our village residents. This week I want to tell you where Rob Johnston, son of Jim and Rosemary, spent his winter. Living in London Rob had driven a truck for Prance Trucking out of Exeter hauling a dump trailer, flatbed or tanker for eleven years when he was encouraged by a good friend, J J Hern, to head west. Along with another trucker friend, Vern Zur- brigg, Rob headed for Grand Prairie, Alberta last October where it was rumoured jobs in his field were plentiful and the pay enticing. Rob landed a job driving a 2013 Mack truck with a pneumatic `blow' tanker and hauling sand for Sand Boys Trucking Ltd. of Fort St. John near the Alaskan border. Temperatures there could fall to minus 45 degrees. This company hauled sand for Calfrac Well Services who used the sand for fracking. Fracking, hydraulic frac- turing, is a method of extracting gas from deep in the earth by creating fractures in the rock. The fractures are widened for- cibly by pumping a water/ sand mix into the well. This releases the pockets of natural gas. The six types of sand the truckers hauled arrived on site from the United States by rail. Rob had a week of safety training and orientation, which included CPR, an H2S sour gas and wildlife recognition. Fireproof coveralls and hard hats were daily attire and medivac units were always standing by. Rob and the other driv- ers travelled roads devel- oped by Progress Energy to the wells and many times needed tire chains. 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Johnston worked seven days a week until mid- March. Sometimes he manned the skid steer or retrieved trucks broken down along the route to the well. Taking a short time out at his parents' home in Londesborough Rob, who enjoyed the winter experi- ence, is headed west again to haul gravel up more mountain roads in Red Deer, Alberta for the summer. Speaking of Canada's north, our son Brent was on a short work assign- ment in Iqualuit recently and remarked that sitting out on the tundra under the northern lights was a marvelous experience. The Londesborough United faith community lost a valued member on Sunday, April 26. Dorothy Tamblyn had been a faith- ful member of Londesbor- ough United Church until she took up residence at Huronview a number of years ago. Sympathy and prayers are extended to her family and friends by the community. Martin Wilts has given up his scooter for a few weeks as he recovers from hip surgery last Tuesday. Best of luck with the heal- ing process, Martin. He'll be looking to get back to coffee time. Recently returned from the trip of a lifetime are Betty Hulley and Ken Car- nochan and Betty's chil- dren and their spouses. Eleven persons in all visited Scotland tracing Betty's family's roots. They left Wingham on March 31 and returned on April 11. Betty's great grandfather, George Addison, and his wife, Jane Webster, emi- grated to Canada about 1850. The couple settled in Bandon, one of those small communities that has ceased to exist now for it was dependent on water power for their mills. Betty, who owns the land of the site now, is able to recog- nize remnants of the settle- ment just east of Londes- borough off Bandon Line. In the summer of 2014 David and Fiona Addison of Falkirk, Scotland came to Canada to meet Canadian relatives. Addisons have settled in areas of Ontario other than Huron County. The couple spent some time in this area and were given the history and tour of Addison interests by Ken and Betty. There are some of these original Addisons buried at Hope Chapel cemetery. This visit encour- aged Betty and plans were soon being finalized to go home. The group flew into Amsterdam and on to Glas- gow, Scotland where they rented two large vans for travelling. Ian and Wayne successfully chauffeured the family despite driving on the wrong side of the narrow roads and encoun- tering roundabouts every few miles. They stayed three nights at Dumfries touring the southern part of Scotland. They visited the farm where Ken's family lived before coming to Canada in 1832. The 400 -year-old house, still in the family, has been added to and remodeled and been a bed and breakfast. On to Falkirk to be reu- nited with David Addison who acted as tour guide for some interesting travel. They visited Stirling Castle and Edinburgh Castle, along Loch Ness [saw no monster] to Inverness and on to Banff on the North Sea. This is the big farming area of the country and home of the Addisons. Farmers were busy planting their spring crops, mainly barley for the distilleries and also wheat and canola. Betty remarked that most farms were just 50 acres in size. They visited several cem- eteries where Addisons are buried. According to Betty very few of the Canadian Addisons have traced their roots home to Scotland. Daffodils by the millions were in bloom and much larger is size than ours. The weather was sunny and spring-like for their visit but has apparently reverted to wet and cold since they came home according to David. Betty is quite excited about the holiday so be sure to ask her about the trip and to see some of the many pictures they took. John and I met Denise in Stratford on Saturday and she, too, was still excited about the adventure. 33 Main St., AMY } J Seaforth McCLURE FREE:.1. Sales Rep. r - " E MATE 519.600.1577 519-525-3988 iLTDr KYLA MAUREEN Direct 519.272.5413 COOK WILDFONG ° THE SIGN THAT SAYS SOLD Broker Sales Rep. 519-520-9557 519-525-9954 er„4. 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