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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-03-30, Page 3-11 .ta tionsgammel THE HURON EXPOSITOR. MARCH 30. 1Rb3 — A3 Corn husks start fire, house burns MARCH 30,1883 On Friday evening last about 5 o'clock, the house of Messrs. Angus and George McKay, 2nd concession of Tuckersmith was burnt. The fire was caused by corn husks coming in contact with over -heated stove pipes. Every - thin*, was destroyed, including clothing. furniture etc. Hugh Love of Hills Green has sold one of his ••hung heavy draught imported stallions for the sum of 51500. On Tuesday of last week a party of 180 men principally from Kingston, passed through Stratford on their way to British Columbia to work on the Pacific Railway. A Targe number of them were skilled mechanics, carpenters. fitters etc. APRIL 3,1908 A serious train wreck occurred about three miles west of Seaforth on Saturday morning last, as the result of which an engine and several cars were smashed and the engineer Ow th@ y@opo ©cone and fireman were injured. The flood caused by the heavy storm on Friday night had undermined a culvert just back of the farm of William Dale. When the early morning train struck this spot it gave way. The engine got clear of the break but jumped the track and went down the embankment on the south side and turned over on its side. If the train had gone down the north side the engineer and firemen would have been drowned as the water was running very high and they were unconscious when found by the conductor and Thomas Jackson of Clinton, a passenger. The storm of Friday evening had been so bad that the bridge over Silver Creek at the east end of town was washed away and the portion of town south of the railroad track resembled a lake. MARCH 31, 1933 C.P. Sills has been re-elected president of the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. W.H. Golding MP for Huron South. made his initial speech in the Canadian House of Commons on Tuesday. Two hundred and fifty-eight meals were served transients in Seaforth in February, according to Mayor A. D. Sutherland. chairman of the relief committee. On Wednesday of this week two men had reported for shelter at five o'clock. and at eight o'clock the number had increased to 16. Included in this 16 were men from Nova Scotia to Alberta. The annual meeting of the Seaforth Golf and Country Club will be held on Tuesday evening in the Carnegie Library. APRIL 4,1958 Norman Long has completed 24 years as rural mail carrier for RR2 Kippen. In that time he only missed the train once. at Kippen. He then drove at 70 miles an hour to Brucefield to meet it there. He recalls that he , has had tMerawl on his hands and knees through five foot drifts of snow in order to reach mail boxes. Some winters he has driven the horse through snowdrifts six feet deep. A party was held in the Orange • Hall Thursday evening to honor Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chesney, Tuckersmith who were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Their friends and neighbours presented them with a chrome table and chairs, a bottle of perfume and a pipe. Seaforth Topnotch Feeds hockey squad lost b-4 to Monkton in the deciding *ame of the WOAA Intermediate "D" series for the championship in Mitchell Monday night. Brodhagen family decides not to remove UFFI l'he question everybody has been asking Reg Badley since a story on urea formaldehyde foam insulation in his house ran in the Expositor a month ago is "when are you going to take it out?" 'The answer. since' Reg attended, a government sponsored course on removing foam in Stratford. is that he isn't. At the short course. which he learned about through a Perth County group fol home- owners with urea formaldehyde insulation or HUFF!, he learned that experts don't recommend taking the insulation out of a Krick house like theirs, because even after it's gone, residue from the foam will be lett on the brick. Reg also learned that UFFI was never approved for use in brick homes. something that he'd never heard in the six years since an inch and a half of foam insulation was sprayed into the Badley's storey and a half house in Brodhagen. Compared to the .amount in most UFFI houses, the Badleys have very little of the stuff. which is now banned. That's another reason they've decided against removing it. "It's not bothering us and th,' work involved isn't worth the hassle," Reg says. The family hasn't gotten results back yet from the air testing fifty did in the house. TA course also suggested that home- owners take the amount of money they'd spend out of their own pocket (a grant of up to $5,000 is available, but Reg Badley had estimated removal costs, if he did the work himself', at $15,000) off the home's value on the real estate .market. "Say 'it costs you 510,000", he explains, "you could likely sell your house 510.000 cheaper right now and avoid all that mess." Reg says a number of people taking the course (and they are being held regularly, information is available from Phil Brown at 273-1117) conoluded they won't remove the UFFI from their homes. "Even some contractors who took the course with the idea of taking on UFFI removal jobs are not going to bother, because there's so much involved." The Badleys will however appeal their assessment. Like all other Ontario home- owners with UFFI insulation. they are entitled to a 35 per cent reduction. $500 RICHER --Young Teddy Sills, 9, front, right, is the winner of $500 in Seaforth and district minor hockey's big draw this year. Treasurer Shirley Cooper gives hirci his winnings while hockey players Paul McLlwaln, back left, and Jason Beuttenmlller look on. Teddy says he'll use some of the money to'bury a pair of Cooperalls and skates and "put the rest in the bank." He's the son of Jim and AnneSilIsof N, Main St. (Wassink photo) Board of education will look closely at its technical courses Technical education in Huron County secondary schools will be examined closely in the areas of curricu• lum, equipment and facilities over the next three years. Sixteen recommendations from the ad hoc advisory committee on technical edu cation were presented to the Huron Board of Fducation al its March 14 meeting The ntajor recommendation is to have six advisory committees set up over the next three years to look into individual technical programs. Automotive technology and electricity -electronics ad- visory committees may he set •up in May of this year and submit a report to the board in February of 1984. Machine shop and sheet metal weld- ing -metal fabrication corn• mittees may start a year later in May of 1%4 with a reporting date of February 1985. Building construction woodworking and drafting committees may be set up in May of 1Q85 with a reporting date of February t 986. These committees may he made up of one trustee, one technical director. two teach- ers of that technical program. three representatives of in- dustry, one community col- lege representative and one administration representa tive. Core objectives for each program were outlined by the ad hoc committee on techni- cal education with the addi- tional comment that local needs be met in indiviitllial schools. "Other topics might be ,added that suit the needs of particular areas." said Cen• tral Huron Secondary School teacher Bill Craig who was part of the ad hoc committee, - A special task force or an appointee of the hoard and technical directors from the schools niay study work ex- perience programs for sat, dents as suggested by the ad hoc committee. "We felt this is so much Netter." commented trustee John Jewitt who was a member of the ad hoc com- mittee. "hut we still have to work out arrangements." Othc, recommendations include updating technical equipment through a phase in process. The equipment needs are to be determined by the various program ad- visnry committees. the establishment of a central contingency fund to replace or repair equipment that breaks down oris vandal i,ed was also recommended by the. ad hoc committee. "It need not be a Targe fund," commented Trustee . Donald McDonald, Periodic tours of all shops by the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, par- ticit—ition by a technical staff nieniher 'on Conestoga Col- lege's advisory committees. presentation of a list of skills to graduating students who will be attending technical programs at community col- leges and establishment of a committee to look into the impact on technical 'ducation of a Ministry of Education report- Ontario -Schools in• termediate Senior - were all part of the recommendations. The ad hoc advisory com- mittee has been working since June of last year and besides trustees and teach- ers, representatives of the various industries have sat on the committee. Besides for- mulating the recommenda- tions, the committee also conducted tours of the vac Mus shops in the schools for representatives of local in dustries. • The ad hoc committee report was referred 10 the executive committee for en- dorsement or further recon• nicndaions, but��aQo RUSSELL DALLAS Russell James Dallas of RRI, Brucefield, died Fri- day, Mar. 25, 1983 in Sea - forth Community Hospital. He was in his 88th year. The late Mr. Dallas is survived by his wife,' the former Helen Way and by two Nibs, Preston and Bill, both of Brucefield. Six grandchildren and one great- grandchild also survive. He was predeceased by one son, John. The late Mr. Dallas rested at the Whitney Ribey Funeral Home, Sea - forth until 2 p.m. Monday, when funeral services were held. Rev. Don Moffatt of es Brucefield United Church officiated. Interment follows in Mgt - landbank Cemetery, McKil- lop. Pallbearers were Lloyd MacKenzie: Stuart Wilson; A. Haugh; W.D. Wilson and Elgin Thompson. Flower bearers were Jim, Roy and Trace Dallas. HUGH DIMALINE ' Hugh D'inialine of RRI, Clinton died at his residence on Friday, Mar. 25, 1983, in his 59th year. He is survived by his wife, the former Yenny Keuzink, and children: Gertrude Allan of Dundas; Brenda Hope of Hamilton; Katherine of Tor- onto; Don of Clinton; GNE Peter of Shilo, Manitoba and David at home. - His mother, Clara Dinna- line of British Columbia, sisters Ann Barr of British Columbia and Linda Laciby of Barrie and brother, Bob of Orillia. Another brother, Oli- ver. predeceased him. Funeral services were held Monday from the Whitney Ribey Funeral Home in Sea - forth with David McKnight of Egmondville United church officiating and inter- ment follows in Maitland - bank cemetery. Pallbearers were Bob and Brian Dinnaline, Tom De- weerd, Rod Eybel, Bill Uhler and Paul Southgate. Balloon was from Huron County Ohio school There's anoTher chapter in thc saga of the balloon from a Willard Ohio Junior High School which Jim Stephenson found on his Grey Township farm recently. Expositor subscriber, Lillian Kirkpatrick of New London, Ohio. wrote editor, Susan Whitc (Mrs. Kirkpatrick is a cousin of Mrs. White's husband) that since Willard is just 24 miles from New London, she. took the Mar. 16 Expositor story on the balloon to the principal. David Hirschy, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who says incidentally that Willard is in Huron County, Ohio, says the principal told her that balloons were released from his school at two different times, 10 a.m. and I p.m. The balloon found by Mr. Stephenson had been released at 1 p.m. which means it took only three and a half hours to reach Huron County, Ontario, not six and half hours as Mr. Hirschy thought when he talked to the Expositor. Reporter Ron Wassink sent a copy of the original, Expositor story and photo of the balloon to Willard Junior High but it hadn't been received at the time Mrs. Kirkpatrick dropped in. "The whole episode was quite interesting and shows what a small world we five in," Mrs, Kirkpatrick concludes in her letter. No need for consultants The Huron County Board of Education, will not be interviewing consultants to assist it in hiring a director of education. The Board. at its March 14 meeting. approved doing the work itself. The board had previously considered intef- viewing consultants to assist them in finding a replace- ment for retiring director of education John Cochrane. Advertisements for the po- sition will be placed provin- cially three times during the month of March with the executive committee to select a short list of four to six applicants. The Roard will then interview these appli- cantson April 30and make its final decision that same day. "This board should t,ot he to apprehensive about hiring a director," commented vice- chairman Eugene Frayne. "we've picked three top notch superintendents." ! 1 Queen's IoteI gets okay for outdoor patio licence Seaforth's first outdoor patio dining lounge will open in May at the Queen's Hotel, following licence approval by the Liquor f icence Board of Ontario (LLBO). At a:hearing March 10 in Kitchener, the Queen's management presented its plans for the outdoor area, which will seat 46. Cp=owa r, Joan Parkinson says the area where aapatio will be constructs is "a little sunken and lends itself to (landscaping aticelv." The patio. which will be located at the rear of the hotel, on the north-east corner of the lot, was a topic of discussion at Seaforth council's January meeting. At least two councillors did, not Want council to be seen as endorsing the plan. because ratepayers in the area night object to it. Council notified the LLBO that it had received notice of the' patio plan. Mrs. Parkinson says the LLBO didn't receive any objections "as far as 1 know" In January, Queen's manager Greg 0- ReAly told the Expositor there'll be no outdoor dance floor or music played outside. Interest free loans let students start their own businesses Students 'wishing to. start their own summer business may he eligible for an inter- est-free loan of up to $2,000. Phil Gillies, Parliamentary Assistant to the Honourable Margaret Birch. Provincial Secretary for the Secretariat for Social Development. has announced. "I.ast year we saw the number of businesses jump from 1 5 1 to 424. This year we are expecting even more students, to take advantage of the interest•frec loans." Mrs. 111rcti said. 1 tic progiain is open to students 15 and To a BIA meeting Tucs.. Apr. 5 at 8 a.m. at the Pizza Train to plan the next promo- tion. over who are returning to school in the fall. Those that have been uc- cessful in the past inclu c: painting, landscaping and security services, as well as computer software produc- tion. boat rentals and fast food vendine. "This program develops a student's entrepreneurial skills and offers young people the opportunity to gain prac- tical business experience," Phil (Allies, Parliamentary Assistant to Mrs. Birch said. The Student Venture Capb til 'Program is sponsored by the Secretariat for Social Development and admini- stered by the Ontario Youth Secretariat in cooperation with the Royal Bank and the Ontario Chamber of Com- merce. Students wishing to apply can obtain application forms from secondary schools. col- lege and university place- ment centres and the Ontario Youth Secretariat. 700 Bay Street. 2nd Floor. MSG IZ6. Remember/ If: takes but a moment to place an Ex- positor Want Ad. Dial 527-0240. Damage minimal in chimney fire Seaforth and arca fire fighters responded to a Sun- day afternoon alarm al the hone of Wes Coombs of RR2 Seaforth to extinguish a chim- ney fire. According to lire chief Harry Hak. the fire caused minimal smoke damage, with no structural damage report- ed. There were no other fire calls during the weekend. Without a Editor's Note: The following interpreta- tion of The Fantasticks has been con- tributed to The Expositor by one of the actors, David McKnight, minister of Fgmonclville United Church.) BY DAVID McKNIGHT Seaforth residents recently had the npportunih to see at the new arena, a production of "The Fantasticks"--which happens to he the longest contirlously•run- ning musical in modern history. Its long life. like Shakespeare's immortal plays. and the Bible. is due to tan things among others: the fact that every new seeing or reading of it reveals new meanings in its ingenious lines: and because its message is univer- sal -its story is our story. Like much lasting literature, "The Fantasticks'' is in the form of a fairy tale, or fable. or fantasy. Or of a parable. which it is. like the story of the "Prodigal Son" --whose message. !think. "The Fantasticks'' tells in modern form. For me, anyway. this memorable musical conveys much of the Gosepi in contemporary dress. There are no realistic sets. like the usual play or musical: only a few props to suggest the setting As with the old radio shows we listened to so intently as children, or the stories our parents read to us, childlike imagination is required. And that makes it better -for our minds, become more fully involved There are four "realistic'. characters: a boy and girl. Matt and Luisa. who live next door to each other; and their fathers, Bellamy and Hucklebee. And there are four "make-believe" characters. A mute girl who, never speaking, sets the stage and changes the scene. And two hilarious gentlemen, Henry and Mortimer -•vain. frivolous. buffoons--. who represent thc "worldly" people and experiences which await us all in life. and hurl us when we encounter them. And one of the most interesting and clever characters you will likely ever meet: a handsome. dashing Spainard•EI Gallo -who is a remarkable mixture of Christ and Satan, Jesus and Lucifer. For El Gallo represents the laws of our universe. those divine realities which we either acknowledge, to our benefit -•or hurt ourselves by disregard - in Et Gallo invites us --along with the boy and girl—to follow these great truths. But he also aids us••as he does Matt and Luisa-when we decide not to follow them. so that we can learn, even through our errors. the laws of life. As the "Shower-of- the- Wav"- -one of Christ's many names--Fi Gallo is like Jesus And as our assistant when we rebel against the divine laws of life, Fl Gallo is like Lucifer, that angel second only to Christ whose job it is. some have said. to test us through temptation••and thus through darkness to bring us back to truth. For Lucifer has been called "The Light -Bear- er". bringing us to God's light by the lessons of our failure. You will marvel at EI Gallo. this two-sided hero who teaches young Matt and Luisa, and their fathers. through both their wisdom and folly. Now "The T '-.tsetieks" is a love storv. hurt, the heart is hollow this tale of two fantastic children. And like all great love stories. it has three parts: love is horn. love dies --or almost dies: and, finally a deeper love is born anew. And that. 1 want to suggest this morning, is somehow also the story of Easter -•from Jesus' followers' viewpoint. For in the coming of Jesus. love was born in his disciples' lives. Then. on Good Friday. they lost this loving man. And lost him not so much because He died, as because they deserted Him. They stopped following. ran away••for they didd't really understand the love for which he stood. And then they found Him again. with caster's dawn: found Him, and love. in a deeper. truer way. Matt and Luisa's love story, as I see it, is in large part this same Easter story. And it's my story --and maybe yours. For we, most of us, find our first experience of love as children. when we receive life in all it innocence and purity and joyfulness, in the blessing of a home provided by loving. caring parents. That's Stage 1. Then adulthood arrives••Stage 2. And innocence and wonder and joyous play give way to dreams of building and acquiring and possessing. The precious gifts of childhood are replaced by the not -so -pure designs of our own making and striving. Adolescent rebellion may lead us to choose things not because they are good --but because they are forbidden, exciting, dangerous. Because our parents. like Matt and Luisa's fathers. say "Nol" Sound like Adam and Eve in the garden all over again?! Love, which never lets us down, can become "romance", which some say always lets us down --when "the honey- moon is over". Or we may become the Prodigal Son. seeking far-off delights only to find one day that we are not very happy, that we even hurt. And that we are veru far from home. Far from the home of our childhood; far from some daily -remember ed .Eden: far from the home of our heavenly Father. For our two fantastic young people. Matt and Luisa. who start out with such beautiful youthful love. that "far country" which takes them away from each other is adventure. parties, affairs. "dancing for- ever". Leaving one another, they set out to find something "more" --with El Gallo warning that they may "find a couple of surprises there", And aren't Matt and Luisa really me and you• -in whatever ways we have followed fruitless desires, foolish schemes. dreams in our heads. which sometimes take years to turn into the nightmares they really were from the beginning? Have you had such notions of what would make you happy•- at some time in your life? El Gallo calls them "moons of cardboard": those endless human fancies that lead us away from the truths of childhood, away from loving another when the honeymoon ends, away from trusting our Father's goodness and gifts. And so, as El Gallo tells the audience about our falling -out -of -love boy and girl, and their quarreling fathers: the "story is not ended, and the play is never done, until we've all been burned a bit, and burnished bs the sun". For instead of a shining. gleaning world. Matt and Luisa--and you and I? --find people who are scheming, hunger, sorrow. despair "out there". As El Gallo puts it. "That -pretty little world that heanis so bright. that pretty little world that semis delightfbl, can burn!" ' But fortunately, life gives also a second 'chance Stage 3. For some of us, that chance conies in the second half of life. when passing years have brought their pain. and disillusionments. and losses. Then --and it may happen at any age. really, and more than once -we find something being reborn in us. a deeper meaning in our living. a truer love of another. a new experience of our heavenly Father and His care. It's almost as if we "remember'. something we once knew. once had. Was it in childhood, when we lived in a world of wondrous gifts and trust and joy? Where was this God-given world we know existed, which came before the fragile world we made? • Yes: "Try to remember". El Gallo tells us, "when life was slow. and oh, so mellow: when grass was green and grain was yellow. Try to remember when life was so tender. that no one wept, except the willow --and love was an ember about to billow. Try to remember; and if you remember --then follow!" There- is a way home; and like Jesus. El Gallo says "Follow!" To our joy. Matt and Luisa do remember, and return to each•dther, battle -scatted and sorry—but singing to one another, in a simply beautiful love song: "Without you near me, 1 can't see. But when you're near nie. wonderful things come to be!" And so it's a "curious paradox", El Gallo says. "that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why spring is born out of wintc•'s laboring pain? " It's not easy. this business of finding each other: and finding ourselves: and finding God. We must give up something; the "romantic" fancies. the easy, quickly -dis- appearing pleasures --as well as the costly battles to achieve frail "security": the ego's way. Somehow we must go through the winter -snows of sorrow and defeat concern- ing things that are not real --a kind of dying• -in order to find our real selves. In order. like the Prodigal Son. to "come to ourselves". But in the winter -time of pain., an eternally -blossoming spring is waiting to be born, E1 Gallo explains. As he puts it in his final, touching song: "Deep in December, it's nice to remember: without a hurt. the heart is hollow. Deep in December. our hearts should remember --and follow!" "Without a hurt, the heart is hollow." There's the paradox, the surprisini fact of the matter. We might wish it otherwise. But for most of us. pain paves the way to peace. The hurting comes before the happiness. The Prodigel Son couldn't have found his way home, and himself. without getting lost. So, like that Prodigal Son in the winter of his life, far from home, we only need to "try to remember" --our Father. His never -end - i g care. and a kind of love we know is real and lasting. And follow! t 1