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The Seaforth and District Community
Centres fund has gone over the top, with
5518.000 -including cash and pledges -in this
week.
Tht's over 100 per cent of the 5516,250,
that more than 100 local volunteers set out to
raise when the campaign started this spring.
"We've done it!" says an enthusiastic
Marlen Vincent, chairman of the community
centres fund raising committee, "that's if all.
every one, of the pledges are honoured." Of
the 5518.000, $346,000 is in cash and the rest
of the amount is in pledges, most of which are
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THE END OF AN ERA—Ray Henderson drove the pick-up at right and
the west wall of the old Seaforth Community Centre came crashing down
Tuesday morning. Jack NicLlwain, whose firm has the demolition
contract, hadthe superstructure stabilized with a rope tied to a front end
loader inside at the back of the arena to "let it down easy." A small
crowd, including longtime arena manager, Roy McGonigle, watched.
Meanwhile just to the north, the floor was being poured in the new
community centre hall and work on the new building continues ahead of
schedule. More photos on page 3. (White photo)
End of Saturday mail bothers few
BY S11I121.EN' KELI.ER
Judging from an unolticial sorb% taken
n item•
the
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5 week 1
,s the Huron • s this ei'
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Intl or rural mail ,Ielitcrs on Saturdays will
cause little more hall a ripply fur the average
customer here.
Ihe final Saturdas for lurid m
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il delivery y 111
the Southwestern Postal District of which
Seabird) and arca is a parr, was to hay been
\ugust')) His eser, Sarurd,n deliers in the
rural areas sill) %tumults. mud September 25
In gist• dads newspapers in the region an
import units to determine alicrnatise delis ers
methods
the maul d,iili licit simper reaching this
lot:alio is 1 hr.l ;union f rev Press ( irtulation
ncpnrinm•nl spokesman I rr Ms "'VIA, said
Monday the ( anadt,tn Dads Nett spapet
\sv,t 1,tion is in Iltlawa 11115 stook in an rllnrt
In gel the deti''11 against S,turtlas rural
n"a"il (telly cry postponed indefinitely
Hill Mr ``1t Wrhh isn't lot, hopriul Iles sill
he accomplished. He said that since the Post
,Oflice is runt a Crown Corporation, the
Po.s(mastcr General Michael Warren ha,, the
s '
authnrits to make this derision yt ho ttt the
,ipprosal of the ('anaduui Parliament. '
Mr. MiWebb admits that on sonic rural
routes. his company has negotiated' directly
with the rural mail carriers to deliscr I'hs
st..cc� P tss rills has resulted u; no resa•nui
tor TSi: Post Office es en though 11 makes use
of a Post Office !untied carrier sus ice.
.\'ked it the Free Press could expect the
Inst 1litite to lend it ssnipatheut car in such
Lases, Pur Mt'WL•hh esplanted That the Post
011ier' should he rontcrned about Its
uslo1115rs who are also Free Press Ludo
mei,
• • Writ not sure lust ss hat's going In
happen." Mr McWebb taut
Ile suggested that a possible solution
smild be to offer ooh the day per ss tek
del0rrs of 1 hr l-rt'e Press in the rural areas,
It's work - that
Main St. purvey
Sitting t'n ,t law n th,ur a1 the corner til
Main and Gotten; h Sts night seem like an
rust was to pass a sunny summer day
Rio for l•sclsn I eek and Carol ('hapntaii.
it's stork Work that the two ss omen are
doing for Stratford art. hnet1 John flrotk, as
p.; rt of )Jost nuns n Si sforth's . Heritage
( on'.ers ;tiro I)t,trh 1 Sind'.
1hi's wore looking a1 tratfit rams "
esplams Robert Rd/ a tumor architet 1 tt 0th
the Stratford firm "We'se gotten traffn
figures from \1I( and the counts on the
number 01 schides that pass thr'.4h
Sc.ilnrtli What sr sant to Lind 1111 1' hays
mins turn don n Main ' 1 and hos ratans go
right hs " Mr Riti sass the figures should
help drtide ;1'01)5• sort of sign or its nation
Joy;sit dost 1111155n Seaforth is needed .1'.1p in
of the htrn,iet district plan l
\s sell. the two em{closets were makino
note rat the type ' traffic dawn Main 51.7
bei ally; there hay been sonic complaint'
Intl possibly large truck, could be rerouted.
although Mr al/ sass he doubts that s
nete'',;ns here
Work on the 51'.000 heritage disrnct
studs, funded hall bs the pmsInc( .mil h;ibf
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It's easier now to find
your way home
in Dublin /AS
The arena fund got a
big boost this week with
$5000 from Topnotch /A20
hs Ss,dorth, is going well. !sir 1411, sass
( ommrnts
from local people range from a
who "ares about Seaforth?- attitude to
poshIisc,tggesu0ns, 1 hos 1n 'morose the
looks and ss 'irking,. o1 the downtown core
One suggestion has been to make sides%alks
w tic
The firm is doing a detailed studs of the
( ardno block and how to make better use of
its building Mr RIV sus he's asking people
"ss hat mold sou ss ant in its piaci• if the
( ,irdno Klock burned'" Some say a nes
Molding others say a nes' building that's
similar to the old is lute others would like t.,
sec 11 rOplaced csactls as ;s Rebuilding the
( ardni block, he 11011115 int. would Cost a
fortune codas II sus built in 1ti - for oyer
$1(1,(11111.
Results of the heritage district studs sill
be released before Christmas. A local
veering committee is working soh the
1tit a1 Arthtt•stural Conscrsation Adsnirs
( onimitrte and the architects on the studs
Its nest meeting is Sept. 14 and Mr. Rui
sand dos mown business people are cspc
t ialfs ins ted to gel in'ibsed. iScc a related
story i idc the 1-spovtorl.
Those readers who want a Saturday paper She doesn't think a 1(1 per cent rcduCtion is
will need to get it at a news stand, he at all unfair either. She techs that when she
speculated. . takes into account the wear and tear on her
winter. it will be
rly through the int
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w n' •ar. 1ar11
inthe area ere t t R
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Ino surprised by the announcement of the enc�� a suhstanHul savings in her cost of delivery.
of Saturday delivery to rural customers.
Stuart Humphries who has been postmast-
er ;t Walton for 15 years. says he saw the
handwriting on the wall when Quebec's rural
mail delisery was discontinued in June of this
s ear.
was kind of booking for it," says Mr.
Humphries, "hut I was a little surprised
when I gut the notice Saturday morning.'
"It's going to save money and that's what
"I think n will work out." she laughs. 'If
you get a cheque on Saturday. you can't cash
it until'vlundio any stas And if sou get your
hills a dos in so later. 55 bol cares? -
Bean ice
ares'"Beatrice Campbell. ss ho helps her husband
Allan detyer the Rosa! Mail 111 McKillop
Township. doubts bit change to five-day per
week chlis cry will make much difference at
all to the maIorils of their eustomcrs.
She dirt suggusl Ilial SIMI: the dads papers
Carrier Pat MacRae looks forward to Saturdays off
11 is all about." says Ray Hutchinson.
postmaster to Egmondville for the past 11
scars. He wonders if the next stop will he to
lose some of the smaller post offices ui the
nation, such as the onein Egmondville.
YT's GROWING
\rtually. the F,gmondvillc pose nftitc
business is growing unlike some other
communities. Mr. Hutchinson claims. Some
ncss residents prefer the friendly economy 01
general delivery in the Hutchinson store as
opposed to the cost of renting a Post Otto,
Ism m Seaforth.
Mr. Hutchinson also believes that when
(tails nes spaper subscribers find it is cheap,-
to
heapr•to pick rap their papers at a news stand than to
hast tht•m delis crcd to the door hs the p'si
flit e. daily newspaper readers ss ill h,
happier In the long term.
Pat MacRae, a rural mail carrier in the
Onhlin area for sik years. says she is lonkmL
font and to Saturdays riff.
"It's a good idea ttxt." says Mrs. Mat Ra,
"'slondas mail delivery will he moot
st,hstannal and all that much more wort"
t h;)
'sirs MacRae admits she hoped that 55 11, ;
the Post Office became a Crown Corporation
Sen1r(las dellscrs in the rural areas would h,
dist onhnucd.
"Hut runic rural mail customers mat
disagree with me." she added.
1 ike all rural mail carriers. Pat MacRae ss
gel a 10 per cent Cut in the salary s1,
tontratted for with the Post Office,
"It ss mild he nice if there wasn't a cut at ail
but s hen s ria arc doing one less day's t ork '1
Is understandable ss hen your pas Is tut
Sirs MacRae pointed out,
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A •Gr':5
dclisercd rn Saiiird,is at, sit large .1,9x1 50
pnpua•Ir, n 'sill nl,ik, tint- st•nss 141 hast
Mondass ort
But speaking Iron ilio pont it slew of
Canada Pest, tons hill's sho is manager of
public ;fl,ti'slot Smiths\estern 1)1'4110. says
there has been ,; serious ds, lint til the saturate
Of maii handled on Sawrd,ns
Ihe Soot sn'rn 1h'tns1. comprising
csersthing in I)nlarin ,test 01 a lint' draw
from Oaks illi Ihioneh (nllingsnod. sal
aseount hat ,1 Lot , hunk til rhe total sayings
to he reale, d Its tisk. Post -001,e m ( ;nada.
1 h Sonlhsst v"1? I)iv nit has -hf, routes
w 11101 s ill he ,ittr, lett. resulting 11 sus rags to
the Post O1h, t 01 5 -so 111111 nearly one
quarter of t1, 5.J lI li 11 to I't sased across
the mourn
'Nr I),t'fl•s sats that it+t ,halite to a
fist dos r' r I, di 'arts ,tht dui(' H roti
ono ,s1 fist to, „kW s rho ( anal, Post
Corporation ,s 15)01,; 1,, r, J is, 11, 1,051' ,lid
10 trek. rt s.+n•,, t Ian n,odrrniiint2 and
itttprrnin❑ l)5, 5 '5 J, '•It I,o51511 SCI's kV
It 15 prsst•k 5. •,i, s1551',1511'it that Ontario
51ht 1181 1„,,1,,,o 1 •' rio wail dellen 011
S,turd,n5 i'•
Gem 1,e 1111,,.'. 8 pus ass flit/en from
Spnngtrrl Dwain, ,lost Ir \\,a'dvock, is
credited soh 11', stall 01 rural mail dt•hyen
Ito ( amnia Ili, lust 'coral route was out of
\neaslt'r. I Ir1l,u 1,, o1 I1, raiser I . 190ri
interesololis tnone'h i trill hr 4 years
later on 11, loth; ' ' 'i,1 lord! r•t,nl del;' en on
Saturday' ,it , 851 sill hr tis,'ntinuetl
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due in the next two years.
"We're still going full tilt and still hearing
from corporations outside town and tom.
former residents," Mr. Vincent says. Mon-
day m'orning's mail for example, brought a
donation from a woman ,in Victoria B.C. "1
have never been in Seaforth," her letter read,
"but my husband was raised there and this
donation•is in his memory."
Another donation came in this reek from a
Burlington man who played hockey here in
the 40s. He paid tribute to the community's
Please turn to page 3
'=ire estroys barn on
Tuckersrnith farm
Fire has destroyed the barn of the
Swinkles brothers at Lot 7 Concession 6 of
Tuckersmith Township.
Harry Swinkles who lives alone at the
farm. was wakened early Friday morning,
August 20 by an explosion. His brother John
Swinkles told The Huron Expositor this week
it is suspected that lightning touched off the
explosion in an oil drum located adjacent to
the barn.
There was no estimate of damage
available at press time. The barn contained
no livestock, only some farm equipment as
well as a snowmobile and an older model
car.
The loss is partially covered by insurance.
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brother and
his r
Jerome Murray
Murray lost a forage wagon and a Toad of
straw to a blaze on the Murray farm at Lot 5
Concession 11 of McKillop Township on
August 18.
Jerome Murray believes the fire started
from a spark thrown by the harvester at work
in the field.
There is no estimate of the damage. The
loss was covered by insurance.
An interested citizen saw smoke clouds at
the home of John Jew, Seaforth, on Monday ,
evening about 11 p.m, and turned in what
turned out to be a false fire alarm.
Smoke was caused by a smoldering stove,
newly lit this fall season.
The Seaforth volunteer fire brigade
answered alt three calls.
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ME AND MY TEDDY—Erin McNaughton, who's four, loves her teddy
bear, obviously. Friday she took him to the annual Teddy Bear's Picnic at
the Seaforth branch of the Huron County Library. Teddy's name Is
Corduroy. More kids, and teddies. inside the Expositor (Wassink Photo)
Treasure hunting is alive and
well in Seaforth /B1
Lucky Egmondville kids tour Virginia
and Washington /B 6