The Huron Expositor, 1982-09-08, Page 3FITNESS FOR SENIORS—A fitness class for•
those aged 60 and over has been organized by
area fitness buff, Drusilla Leitch'. She is shown
demonstrating an exercise to Gladys Doig and
Se
Viola Lawson, right. The
performed to "old time"
members can sing -along.
exercises
will be
music to which '
(Wassink photo)
s' exercise cl
BY RON WASSINK
It's a fad. which began several years ago.
Instead of fading it has jogged on at a steady
pace. More North Americans have jumped on
the fitness band wagon.
In an age of high technology. people are
participating in fitness programs.jogging a
Klock a day and dancing 'their way' to trim
bodies. The fact that manual labour is
decreasing and office type jobs increasing
has caused throngs to reflect fat used to be A,
health, but now thin is in.
Glancing at joggers as they puntpon'their
daily jaunts. nursing as 30 women untie apron
strings and jam keys on typewriters to attend
dance-cxereise classes, one notices most
participants are 50 and under.
The Seaforth area is receiving an extra
bonus in the fitness world with new classes
for those aged 60 and over. Instructor of the
class is Drus ilia Leitch. well-known instruc-
tor of seven fitness classes at Vanastra. She
also works with a diet group in Ethel. seven
nide!, east of Brussels.
Beginning Monday, September 13, Mrs.
Leitch will conduct exercise classes specially
designed for seniors. She said the types of
exercises are 's cry gentle'' with participants
sittin 00 chain or the floor.
Exercise fur seniors is no laughing matter.
What's good for the young. can also benefit
their elders. Mrs. Leitch explains. "If you
s:oconc heart heat per minute 'for one year,
over 535,600 heats will he saved." As an
example, she says a person. 10 years of age
should have a "working heart heat" of
approximately 100 beats per er minute. The rate
of resting and sleeping heart heats is
considerably less.
As a person grows older. sense of balance.
breathing and sleeping sometimes becomes
affected. She says the major reason is lack of
exercise. In addition to correcting these
problems. it is proven that stress factors also
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEPTEMBER 8, 1988 — A3
That Labour Day panic
after running an amateur day
camp all summer long.
You reap from the garden
instead of weeding it. The
grass grows slower. 'The
leaves, although they do pile
up on your lawn, are nice
colours. • It's time for cider,
fall fairs, walks in the woods.
Fall's the pause and reflect
time. And, if you can fit it in
around:the projects, classes,
assignments and insulation,
go ahead.
Trouble is, when you re-
flect this time of year around
here, the subject is likely to
be winter.
And that won't cure any-
one's Labour Day panic.
Salagedng t�0' day
by Sumn `W" G tit@
It's something I've gone
through for years and years..
But til recently 1 thought it
was just me.
Nobody else could possibly
greet Labour Day weekend
with the same apprehension
and depression. the sante
September -phobia as 1 do•.
But thanks to the Detroit
Free Press, the big city paper
that teaches me lots every
time 1 read it, I nos know my
phobia has a name: "Labour
Day Panic" or "End of
Summer Blues".
Not only that but it's
extremely widespread. One
Detroit psychologist says she
and her colleagues get more
referrals from depressed
people now than at any other
time of the year.
A variety of sauses are
suggested. You think about
all the projects you'd planned
for summer. You didn't do
one. That bright idea about
insulating the house assumes
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a bit more urgency as the
prospect of sky•high ail bills
gets closer.
The weather. no hell this
summer anyway, is much
colder and it gets darker
faster, (Michigan will lose 80
minutes of daylight this
month, another 80 minutes in
October. Here. farther north,
it only gets worse.)
All those courses you're
going to take, exercise class-
es you'll join, decorating
projects you've lined up for
"in tile fall", come back to
haunt you. The time for even
the best of vague intentions is
past. In the fall is now and
that calls for action.
Likely you've had the
annual summer vacation and
it's hard to summon up a
great deal of enthusiasm for
the 11 month wait until the
next one.
• And +a big contributor to
end of summer phobia in the
snow belt is I think, winter
anxiety: We remember five story says "People go to
straight weekends of being school for so long, it leaves an
snowed in at home last winter imprint."
(Getting to work? No problem It certainly does. The day
there.) and we shudder. after Labour Day can still find
But the real biggie as far as me quaking as if 1 still had to
I'm concerned, and the De- face some horror of a teacher
troit psychologist mentioned in Grade 2.
it too. is school. Labour Day Now I'm no advocate of
means back to school, hard wishing your life away. And
work, tests, schedules, regi- fall. once I'm over the Labour
mentation and the end to a Day panic hump, is a lovely
summer of freedom. time of year here. Some
And even though i've been parents appear to actually
in the work world hill time. off welcome back to school time
and on. for 16 years Septem- with open arms.
ber phobia is still school 1t gets the little dears out of
phobia for me, (Just don't tell their hair and into the system
my daughter. please. She fur a good nine months
starts kindergarten this straight. Homemakers have
week.) As the F-ee Press a little time for themselves
r
sects fire
ose
sses s
decrease with exercise. She notes when a
spouse dies. stress levels can reach 100 per
cent proportions. ''To get over stress, fitness
becomes important."
Having completed a Fitness Ontario
I.eadership Program and a C.P.R. course.
Mrs. Leitch feels "prevention is worth a
pound of cure."
During the eight week program partici-
pants arc invited to wear coinfortable
clothing. Mrs. Leitch says "older type
music" will accompany exercises. "Every-
one can sing along as they exercise." She
says people will not be pushed and prodded.
"Exercising is personal."
Classes will he held twice weekly. Monday
and 'Thursday in the Orange Hall.
If you have trouble reaching that top shelf.
your feet further away when you undo your
shoes, wish to strengthen sagging muscles or
are a little heavier than you'd like to be, this
,program is just what you need.
If you get a feeling. you feel Tike exercising.
don't lay down until the feeling goes away.
Exercise.
Continued, from page 1
Mr. Bernard said he couldn't believe the.
amount of time required to lay the hose and
noted, "it takes S00 gallons of water to fill it
(hose) once laid!" Changing the perspective
of the situation. he joked, "if we lay.the hose
and then light the fire. it would be fine."
Even if the department had enough hose,
Mr. Bernard said there wasn't a vehicle to
transport it. Little could be added to the
present fire vehicles.
Various suggestions were put forth by
council as alternatives to purchasing and
laying fire hose. it was decided to meet with
Bruce McCall. owner of Brussels Stockyards
to discuss the matter.
Fire agreements with the townships of
Morris and Grey were discussed. Bylaw eight
and nine. 1982, a bylaw permitting Brussels
to enter into fire agreements with .the
municipalities to provide fire protection and
provide use of fire fighting equipment, was
passed.
Two options were presented by Morris
Township. one providing payment of $200 per
Enrolment down in
most of Huron. Perth
BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE
Meiling enrolment goes on and on in
st hoots across Huron and Perth.
Hu Huron County Board of Education
anticipates a decline in student population at
both the .elementary and secondary school
It'ssIs. The hoard's 330.8 elementary t, ach•
yrs mas he teaching 0.232 students this week.
dew n from the 6,290.5 in September of 1981.
At the secondary school in Huron, 4.021
young men and women arc expected to arrive
at the doors this week, down from 4.032 in
September of last year. There will he 230
teachers to handle the numbers. .
The Huron -Perth Separate School Board is
also anticipating a decline in enrolment
Across the two counties. 2,560 students are
expected to•rush into the elementary schools,
last year there were actually 2.589 students
sitting at the desks.
I hose figures, w hen broken down into the
two counties. tell a different story. Huron
county'S,enrolment in the separate system is
expected to increase this year. while Perth's
centimes to go clown. Huron estimates 1.208
...Indents Yv 11 he at school opening day, up
front 1,195 last pear. while Perth expects
1,352 students. doiin from 1.394 in 1981.
Perth will has e almost 300 secondary
school students fewer this year than in 1981.
1 he hoard anticipates 4.421 teenagers will
enter the high schools this week, down from
4."20 lust year, There are 2'4.'5 teaching
positions at the secondary level.
The nnniher of elementary students. while
clown, Is about the same as last year. Perth's
3h-,5 teachers arc expected to face '.3"2
students this y ear, compared to ,448 in 1981.
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More kids lin school
Continued from page 1
teacher.
St. ,tastes. Separate School principal. Ray
Contois joked that more registrants was the
reason for an increased enrolment this year.
Thc new figures arc 144 enrolled for classes,
up 11 from 1981. He said the schodl boasts a
larger kindergarten class. Sister Eileen
Foran. grade four•ftvc teacher has returned
to Si. James follow ing a year at St. Patrick's
in Dublin. Nancv Holmes has been transferr•
ed from Clinton to teach the grade two -three
class.
St. Cnlumhan Separate School has had no
enrolment change from 1981. Students
registered numbered 61. Joining the staff are
Carolyn Miland, grade four.. five and six
teacher and Yaga McInnes. French teacher.
Enrolment at St. Patrick's Separate School.
Dublin. varied little from 1981 with 195
registered. This is a decrease of one from 196.
reported at the end of September. 1981. Rita
Core has been transferred from St. Patrick's
separate school in Kinkora to teach grade one
classes.
On an average. enrolment at area schools
has increased 29 students over 1981. The
increase is attributed to the number of grade
12 graduates returning to secondary school.
:hour and an annual $1,000 grant. In option
two. Morris offered to pay $300 per hour, fire
fighting time.
Council accepted the first option.
An offer by Grey Township to provide
payment of $300 per hour, fire fighting time
had been accepted at a previqus meeting.
In other' business: council received two
tenders for new sidewalk construction. One
block will be replaced on Turnberry Street,
measuring 365 feet and a 100 foot section in
front of the L.C.B.O. parking lot.
A tender by Henry Exel Construction was
$3.865. Council had budgeted $3.000 for
sidewalks. The tender of Leo Nicholson of
Stratford for $2.333 was accepted. Construc-
tion will commence on September 13 and be
completed by September 17.
Two building permits were approved. Bill
Stephenson is changing the front of his store.
Cost of the project. $1,000. Lois McCall,
laving a new roof. $900,
Accounts payable 'were approved as
presented.
Council adjourned at 10:15 p.m. until the
next regular meeting on Monday, October 4.
New sidewalk in Egmondville
BY WILMA OKE
Tuckersmith Township council meeting
during a five hour session Tuesday night held
Court of Revision on the Adams Municipal
Drain and approved the bylaw. There was one
objector. John Segeren of Highway 8. who
attended the meeting but withdrew his
objection following an explanation.
Council accepted the tender of Brickman
Drainage of Sebringville for $9,900 for the
work on the drain. It was one of two tenders.
The tender of McGregor Farms of Kippen
was accepted for snowplowing this coming
winter at a rate of $32.50 per hour and
standby pay of $20 per day.
Jansen of Egmondville will install a
sidewalk for 350 feet from Ziler's machine
shop to Bayfield Street West in the hamlet of
Egmondville.
Offered for sale will be the 1974 pickup
truck owned by the township and ads will be
placed in the Seaforth. Clinton and Exeter
weekly papers.
For the Ciderfest being held by the Van
Egmond Foundation in Egmondville on the
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weekend of September 25-26 council gave
permission for the use of its property across
the road from the old historic Van Egmond
house as a parking lot during the festivities.
Council approved raising the wage paid
to employee Robert Argyle to $5 per hour. up
from $4.50.
An application for renovations and im- t
provements at the Seaforth Lions Pool and
athletic field in the amount of 59.110.0' has
been approved by the Ministrykof Citizenship
and Culture. Located in the township council
must make the applications for government
grants for the Lions Club. A request for a
grant for• playground equipment, construc-
tion of new washrooms at the picnic pavilion
in the Lions Park and work on the river
designed to improve and enhance the entire
park as a recreational area is now underway.
Council will look into two requests for dram
work, from John Wood for clean-out of the
open ditch through his property and Douglas
Hugill for clean-out of the Nott Drain through
his farm.
Those famous
Seaforth Highlanders
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NEW SIDEWALKS FOR HIGH ST.—Residents on the west side of High
St. are getting brand new sidewalks to the corner of Market St. Here Don
Dupee and Paul Hulley are at work. (Photo by White)
BY HARRY HINCHLEY
I door's Note F'ormer+\Seaforth resident
Hari Htnchlcs now lives in Renfrew 1
1 title recent photo of the Seaforth
Ilighlinrlcrs Hand brings hack mans
memories. It was my happy privilege to
lytic belonged to the Seaforth Band in the
days "aw a) hack". Thc fellows in the hand
a err a great outfit and there was always lots
of tun
the Seaforth Highlanders Band really
had is beginnings w ith a "rube hand' that
Hill Freeman got together for a (iv 1,
Hohra. Victory celebration in 1919 11,11
Freeman and Ernie Box played the lead
parts on baritones 1%htch they were w ell able
to do from their experience on these
instruments in earlier hands. Walter
Robinson handled the trombone and Herb
Box took are of the Kass on the "big horn'
Thc nnut was the drummer. Dressed in
faded ocralls and wearing wide-hrimn'+ r
straw hats the hand took pari in the parade
tt Vitoria Park.
1 he instrumentation may have been a hit
unusual hut the effect was good. the Ivo\s
all play ed by music and the tunes used w e n•
from the official hook of regimental near, hi s
used by military hands. "Bonnie Dundee' .
"British (ircnedicrs". "CamphelLs arc
Cumin' " and many more well know 0
layemi(s were all m the hand's reportoirc
and played over and over.
SCHOOI. FAIR
Thc "rube bands" really seemed to guy
over very well. So well, that i1 was engaged
to play for the MeKillop School Fair In
Septentht'r. Rv now the boys were into the
spirit of and went on to re-organfm the
dormant ('itimns' Band. Dot Reid, Pat Box.
Mac Mel cod. Toni Scott, Bill Hoag. Dave
Gemmill, Mac McPhee, George Reeves and
other old reliahles all came hack. Their
numbers were also greatly strengthened by
1.Ihe return of the boys who had gone
overseas ysith the battalion hand of the
Ihlst Huron battalion in 1916.
'W°Q@
onvoftd
Das son Reid, played euphonium; Bill
Kerr. trombone; Thompson Scott. bass and
Harry Pearce, snare drum. 'T'hese boys had'
all been playing for years in the army and
after all this experience they were all
soloists
The hand practised faithfully alt winter
ith Bill Freeman as handmaster. By spring
it was well able to play out. They put on a
concert every Thursday night in the park
and played at many socials and garden
parties. In August they went with the fire
brigade to the Firemens Convention to
Welland.
rhe next year it was proposed that the
town should have a Highlanders hand
Official permission was obtained to call the
hand the Seaforth Highlanders, Authority
was also obtained to wear the uniform of the
famous Seaforth Highlanders Regiment
with kilts of the Mac'Ken,ie tartan. In late
summer the kilts were ordered from .
Scotland.
NEW UNIFORMS
In 1,922 they arrived and the'hand stepped
out in their new uniforms under the new.
name of Seaforth Highlanders. In August
the hand went with the fire brigade to the
convention to Oshawa.
By now the hand had grmyn in numbers,
Bill Freesias had brought in many young
plavcrs'and tlfey had developed into first
class bandsmen There were plenty of
instruments as many from the I61st hand
had been turned over to Seaforth.
There were over 30 nicmhcrs by now
which made it one of the biggest hands the
town had ever had. It was also one of the
hest and it played a high quality of music. A
new handstand had been built in the park
and with automobiles becoming more
,ommon the weekly concerts were attended
by people from far and near,
The hand became very well known and
had many \engagements. When the tow n
held the Old Boys Reunion in 1924 one of the
attractions of which the town was justly
proud was the Seaforth Highlanders Band.
With the beginning of
the buss fall season many
loyal clubs arc holding regu•
lar meetings again or plann
ing special events You can
lot your group's non•prnft
event tree the week before It
happens in The Huron Expos
nor srlou're Insttcd column
The deadline is Tuesday. noon
hefnrc publica11nn.
Correction
A story In last week's
Expositor said incorrectly
that Seaforth department
captain .rim Sills favoured a
Main Street location for a new
fireball. Mr. Sills favours an
uptown location.
In addition the story fatted
to point out that the cost of
purrhastrfg • the McNichol
building in the industrial park
for a fireball totals 51--.000:
5155.000 for the building plus
the Feeney lot w hich was
purchased earlier as a new
firchall site at a cost of
522.000, and which would he
turned o'er to Mr. McNichol.
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New owners for
print business
the Seaforth Women's In
smote will meet at the Hosie
01 (,larks Doig The co host
r'.5 %k III he Mrs. Florence
hay
The roll call will he the
highlight of vnur summer.
The speaker w ill he Mrs.
Manly n \lc Knight.. Her topic
yk III he .'OOO miles with a
teenage group The lunch w ill
be screed by Mrs Viola
1,nvson, Mrs Mildred Kerr
and Mrs Marx ,Nolan.
The opening meeting of
the hospital auxiliary w ill be
held m Egmondville United
Church on September 14.
1982 at 6:30 p.m.
It w ill he a pot luck supper.
Please bring your awn china.
Thc speaker will he Peggy
Rivers. Service for Family
Affairs Chairperson. Hhpe to
see everybody thele.
The name and the own•
ers are different but the
los ation in the Expositor
building is approximately the
same Onc door south from
the entrance to the Huron
Expositor. Tremcer Cont
mcrci.tl Printers and Office
Supply opened Sept I
Tremcer Commerytal
Printers Is owned bs Chris
tine Trcnicer w ho purchased
the century old commercial
printing and affiye supply
business from 51(1 can Bros
Publishers ltd ( hristine,
whowascmplokcdatMy1van
Bros and the Huron Fxpost
teir for sint•ral scan in the
'.1511(5 and has been part
time proof reader at the
1 xposnnr for the last year.
will he assisted in the bust
nos by her husband Das e. a
bather and farmer
The Trcmcers, who Ilse on
Ann St . hese three children.
t ki. Bill and Jeffrey Mrs
Tremcer is the former Chris
tine Prvcc. her mother, Beth.
w as bookkeeper at the Expo.,
nor for many Years
IN( Invnattons, office supplies
and yy ill be able t,' fill special
orders for customers
tom Haley. who's been
inyohe) with commercial
printing zroductton at Mc
Lean Bros for 2s scars. will
remain with the new owners
Tremeer Commercial Print
ers will carrx,a complete Iinc
Terry Fox
run here
again
'1 hc second annual ferry
Fos Run for the Marathon of
Hope has been scheduled for
Sunday September lu. Itis:
Seaforth run will he held
that dos, starting at the \ ar
1 gmond House at 9 a lei
Pledge sheets are as a'l, hlc at
Hi y kers Seaforth Tow n Hall.
and the three Seaforth
sy hoots Part ip,mts y an tun.
yy alk or 1„g . t their ,,w n pace,
Thus '.prrlal cyent roto
nlenlorates t he a, his emcnt of
the young (anadian hero
hose Marathon of Hope
n''pirtd the cruntn during
thy. summer of 1980 The
lands ^a+sed hs this run win '
be diro.t •d to the National
( anter Insutux for Re•
511 dr, 1e•
1 srptemhcr run is joint
Ik sponsored hs the Canadian
1 and Field Association,
F our Seasons Hotels. tlie"\..
l anadian Cancer Society
alone with Fitness and Amat•
cut sport. C anada
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