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The Huron Expositor, 1989-12-27, Page 9THE'HURON EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 27, 19$9 — 9A SEAFORTH CURLING CLUB Curling Every Friday 1:00 P.M. Starting Jan. 5 Everyone welcome. For more information call the club evenings 527-0590 or Gond Pryce 527-0917 FOR COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION SALES & SERVICE PHONE 262-2020 BAILEY'S OF HENSALL LTD. PRONOUNCE YOUR "O'S" Mrs Holmes urges her St. James' students, just as countless choir leaders through the years have done before her. The SI. James' students had then pageant dress rehearsal last week at the high school to get ready for parents and friends. Elliott photo Sto James students in festive mood for Christmas METHOD ACTOR • Some of the Grade 1 and 2 students really got• into the swing of thins in "Christmas Here and There" during •St. James' Christmas pageant dress rehearsal Elliott pnoto 1 989 •from Page 6 The council of Tuckersmith Township passed its budget for 1989 with a 4.03 per cent increase in the general municipal levy. In mill rates the increase will be .203 of a Mitt, to bring the total for general municipal purposes to 5.243 1 without county or board of education). School bands in Huron and Perth 'Coun- ties will receive nearly $9 million for school construction and renovation. The physiotherapy department of the • Seaforth Community Hospital was the reci- pient of almost $4,500 in equipment. MAY 3, 1989 • I extents of Seaforth's federal building take the post office) have yet to be of- ficially notified about Public Works Canada's intention to remove that building from its inventory, despite the fact that task is slated for completion by March 31. 1990. Landowners from the Townships of Mor- ns, Hulled and Grey, with properties abut- ting the railway line which runs between Goderich and Guelph, were advised to bring their concerns about future plans for that railway property before Queens Park. Approximately 80 property owners, all part ' of the United Groundhog's Day Commit along with Federation of Agricult members and representatives from township councils, met in Walton with members of an Ontario In Committee formed to address the issue abandonned rail use. The Seaforth Home and Garden Sin had another strong season, and next WOW ex ded to include a trade High School this e mer Seaforth Disinct Poor weather made for lousy fishing the annual trout derby at Seaforth's Li Park on Saturday morning. Klaus and Kristin Henschel, join charged with 10 counts of theft over $1,000 and nine counts of fraud over 41,000 in nection with the collapse of Brus Stockyards Limited, were remanded f pleas until May 17, when they appeared Provincial Court in Wingham on April 1 Eight Seaforth area residents - including five students from the Seaforth Di High School, two teachers there, and on member of the general public - were honored at the annual Excellence i Education banquet. Barry Comeau, charged with careless use of a fire arm and possession of a pro- hibited weapon in connection with a fw... - hour standoff at a Walton house last June, received a two-year suspended sentence in provincial court in Weigh= on April 19. 1Atle, DON'T WORRY, SANTA...Santa (Melissa Van Bake!) is despon• The St. James' students, these three from Mrs. Mclver's Grade dant upon teaming that her two brownies (Kim and Allison 2 class, put on their Christmas pageant dress rehearsal on Devereaux) are ted up with being overworked and underpaid. Thursday. Elliott photo. 'DRAPERIES •VERTICALS • VENETiANS 'PLEATED SHADES Tuckersmith Township Council bas receiv- ed verbal notification the municipality will be awarded a $200,000 PRIDE grant. • The latest Ministry of Education in- itiative has the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board trustees feeling like rubber stamps and they have decided to do something about it. Despite huge cuts in the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board's 1989 budget set at $18.7 million, trustees voted seven. to six to continue the annual staff banquet which cost the board about Increasing year. Increasing problems with school space are being confronted in Huron. The revitalized Walton Inn will soon be open for business. MAY 17, 1989 The Town of Seaforth has passed its 1989 budget, and while it shows an increase of 6.5 per cent ratepayers can .expect over a nine per Cent increase on their 1989 tax bill - depending on whether they support the public or separate school system. Walton native and Seaford] District High School graduate Ron Vercruyssen has made the hist string of the Canadian Na- tional Basketball team. Vercruyssen was in Victoria, British Columbia for the tryout Seaforth town council has been apprised ure of a businessman's disapproval of the the town's policy regarding contracted services two vs. town employees doing tasks. termrrusterial The Seaforth Public Utilities Commission of found it is into its 12th electrically accident -free year, having reviewed a ow report by the Electrical Utility Safety Year Association, show. After 13 years under the ownership of Dublin native Lou Maloney, the Dublin Feed Mill Ltd. officially changed hands at last Thursday. Ed Dotmage and sons Rick ons and Bruce Dolmage, owner/operators of school. and the final one-third will expenses and boost the student co account. The salary schedule' for Tuck Township employees was recently ed. Township Clerk -Treasure McLachlan says the average salary crease is approximately five per c The Huron County Board of Educ has announced that ministry and funds have been made available to p additional classroom • space at W Public School. With this addition. •s will be available for library, special edu tion, a computer lab, and much ne audio visual and general storage. cover wiL again seek the warden's chair •in until Huron County. F e first ersmith fie irctuef�in Huroef .George eCounty to have Garrick is e com- Gonfirtn- pleted the General Level Fire Protection r Jack Technology. Course. he course is offered ' in- at the Ontario Fire Co in Gravenhurst, ant, and makes Mr. Garrick . 'ed to serve ation • as a full time fire chief. board McKillop Township Coun has indicated rovide its opposition to the 19 p r cent county alton budget increase for 1989. pace The Huron -Perth Roman Catholic ca- Separate School Board trustees voted to eded support a neighboring board's campaign against TV vi-'--- • MAY 31, 1989. Construction of the Hensel' District Co- op's new McKillop township facilities. on Higbway 8 east of Seaforth, is slated to begin in mid-June and be finished by the first of September. The Civic Court .project, the first con- struction phase of Seaforth's Streetscape plan is almost ready to go to tender and is expected. to be completed in mid- September. The Civic Court is intended to • show Seaforth ratepayers what the Streetscape program will do for the town's appearance. Grade 10 Seaforth District High School student Meliska Whitmore of RR 4 Walton, has returned from a three-day youth leadership seminar in Sarna, where, among other things, she was chosen to represent Southwestern Ontario at an inter- national seminar scheduled for Baltimore, Maryland in late July. The recycling program in the Police Village of Dublin is working well, trustees report, and they wish to congratulate all the people who bave•been participating. A local man with new ideas about health X11 be opening an original business Main Street. Jerry Dejong, formerly of cefield, but now living in Seaforth,. is opening Health Matters, a business he feels give people the leading edge in erapeutic treatments and counselling. JUNE 7, 1989 Egmondville resident received an unexpected honor last week, during a pro - racial broomball banquet at Toronto's tura Inn. Norah Eckert, received the Ontario Coaches Award of the Year, her involvement in Junior Broomball. uckersmith Township council reviewed ckhoe tenders at a special meeting Tues- day night, but no action on the backhoe issue could be taken. To date $695,482 has been raised for the Seaforth Community Hospital building fund. Growing demand for its package led a computerized municipal accounting/infor- mation system, to open an office in Seaforth. The new office is located next to the hospital, in the medical centre on Centennial Drive. A Separposter te Schooll son tudentswn Adam Agar, will be displayed at the National Conference on AIDS, scheduled for Montreal this month. Minister of Agriculture and Food Jack Riddell bas announced that approval has been given to te a th the •Cawttyy of :Hiurongofaofficlspace ease �at the Huronview complex. JUNE 14, 1989 McKillop Township:.E erie IBieknnell d on DY will continue to p�businee s mill aas Brit normal. eon- Three Seaforth businesses are closing will Bels their doors, George of Brussels and Norma th or Jeanes will be off Seaforth's Main Street in by the end of May, while Phelan's Place 9. will be closing its doors in the near future, An rstrtet depending how its closing -out sale goes. Employee negotiations for the Town of v' e Seaforth have been completed for 1989, and Ven the outcome is an average increase of All e seven per cent in most wages. for Thousands of dollars worth of electrical T equipment was crushed in a garbage pick ba up snafu. MAY 10, 1989 Former Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross has been appointed as Chairman of the Ontario Producer Review Committee, one of four provincial committees set up under the Canadian Crop Drought Assistance Pro- suam, which aims to ucers who uifered extensive crop loss due sto severe drought conditions in various regions of Canada in 1968. McKillop Township Council passed its 1989 budget at its: NMy,meeting..While the budget calls for a 4.9 per cent increase for municipal ,purposes, ratepayers in she township can expect a l0,per cent increase on their overall 4989 tax +bill. $400,000 may be spent in Vanastra, as MAY 24, 1989 Tuckersmith Township has formed a comittee to deal with the issue of county government. Elizabeth .Bonen, has been awarded a scholarship valued at $5.000. The sebolar- ship represents a .sum close to the cost of the first-year tuition at Redeemer College, the only Christian liberal arts university in eastern Canada, and it is awarded to ap- plicants who have demonstrated Christian commitment and leadership qualities. A new public school board trustee must ,be found to replace former Hensel', Tuckerswiffi trustee Sally Rathwell, and tthe election elate bas been set for June 26. Students.et;Seaforth ;District trBigh Sehool held a :wgtk•, jhon and raised :$3;200. One- third of tliat -money will be given to the hospital 1udding ,hind, another oneythird tarilt go towards a :weightroom in the Seaforth District High School student Crystal Whyte was chosen as a Junior Citizen of the Year. A barn and small shed on the vaeant property across from the Tuckersmith Township shed were consumed by fire. An academic award has been establish- ed in metnory of the late Glenn Smith, a well respected bus driver for Brussels Public School. JUNE 21, 1989 Tuckersmith township has bought a backhoe. In spite of a petition of 165 signatures, a delegation of ratepayers op- posed to the purchase, and the general Turn to page 11A • Water Well DRILLING W.A. Hopper and Sons Ltd. 4 MODERN ROTARY RiGS Neil Dori 522-1737 522-0828 McLaughlin Chen -Olds Ltd. 13 Main St. Seaforth 527-1140 •Service • Selection • Savings • Satisfaction • Leasing *Complete BODY SHOP Service BERGSales - Service installation Free Estimates • Barn Cleaner; • Stabling • Bionic Feeders Donald O. 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