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SiDFIS tutors make a difference
Continued from page I . gtlblle school and Mrs. Byers. Teaching six, gainsin reading levels, at least an increase Family Studies students who partici-
Debbie wasa three. Now, I would give her half days ger week, 'peer tutoring gives me of one gr}de leve. It's not so much the actual pared include: Louise Nolan, Rosie Van Dyk,
an el ht or nine. The program has helped tae * and the students 7 additional hours of reading,but changes in attitude." Barb Deighton, Val Millson, Mary Jo Ryan,
decide to be a teacher's side." special education per week," says Mrs. Having said goodbye to her students, Christine Bennewies, Lynne Dodds, Cathy
tutor Trish Rimmer summed it up in one McGavin, Patricia Hackwell, Dianne Grid -
It was obvious Barbie had found a new Johnston. "It's a great benefit to the
sister. "She's nice. 1 like her a lot, better stridents. it's a program that should be word, "fantastic." ,tk, Rob Smith, Diana Claus, Mike Kelly,•
than my teacher. She's verygood friend." oantinaed." TO TRUST Ann Kramers, Trish Rimmer, Brendan Lane,
KEEP BotOU The high school tutors are required to "1 have never been so close to two kids in, Laurie McIntosh, Pauline Wallace, Cheryl
Debbie said she will keep in touch with keep elaborate files. Mrs. Johnston examin- my life. It was really` good. My one kid Fraser, Jeff Bedard, Tony Nielsen, Eddy
Sandra by writing letters. "A one-to-one Bathe files weekly and sets new goals for the learned to trust somebody, something he Nielsen, Jackie- Schenck, Pam Bell, Eileen
relationship is something students have students. "It's no easy project, not a breeze never did before. He told me on the first day Daffy, Greg Core, Sandra Finlayson, Nancy
missed prior to the program," says Sandra. by any means." he hated reading. Now he will sit down and MacGregor, Jayne Delaney, Debbie Render -
The program was co-ordinated by Jill Results of the program vary from student read a book. son. JeffHenderson, Janice Murray, Clen-
We have seen tremendous They're good kids. They're really good." don Coombs, Joe Boettcher, Joyce Sloan.
Johnston, special education teacher at the to student.
Merchants offer planer.ide for 98 in193
A HELPINO HAND--Studentsof'Seaforth public school have received tutoring from grade
13 students of the Seaforth high school, Diana Claus, left, assists Tammy Staples with her
\work. (Wassink photo)
JUNE 8,1883
While raising a barn for Geotge Wren of
Chiselhurst last week, a son of Henry Eyre
fell from the plate, a distance of over 20 feet.
It is a wonder Tom was not killed. Except for
some bruises we are glad to see him around
as usual.
Mrs, Jas Stoneman (of chiselhurst)
slipped and sprained her ankle. last week
while alighting from the wagon at the store.
If farmers will bring their wives to do their
shopping in their heavy wagons, they should
pay more attention to assisting them to terra
firma, or we would suggest that our obliging
storekeeper and postmaster erect steps in
front of his store.
Andrew Calder of Seaforth recently
purchased from Mr. Ballantyne of Downie a
magnificent young Ayrshire cow. The night
he brought her home she gave birth to a tine
heifer calf for which he has refused $25.
lw y@QQo agow
JUNE 12, 1908
The county council of Kent passed a
resolution to petition the legislature to
prohibit automobiles from running on rural
roads on Saturdays and Sundays.
The corner stone laying of the new
Presbyterian Church at Brucefleld will be
laid on Monday, June 15. After the
ceremony refreshments will be served by the
ladies of the congregation. A collection in aid
of the building fund will be taken up. All are
cordially invited and a good time is
expected.
Monday last, election day, passed bery
quietly. This appare t lack of, interest
resulted in a comps vely small vote being
polled in town. I he evening the election
returns were given in Cardno's Hall. The
service was provided iointiv byt W. Somer-
ville G.N.W. agent and Stewart Bros. CPR
agents. Before ten o'clock a vividly
comprehensive report had been received
quite sufficient to show that the Whitney
Government had been sustained.
JUNE 9, 1933
Seaforth merchants are having an aviation
day. To obtain a flight over Seaforth for .98c
shop at one of the following and be sure you
are given a sales slip or receipt: "Carters
Cash Grocery, Dungey's Commercial Hotel,
The Supertest Station; WR Smith Groceries;
J -J Cleary's Keatings Pharmacy, Daly's
Garage, Cardno's Groceries and Provisions,
The Huron Expositor, and Christies Meat
Market. This sales slip with only .98c will
entitle you to a trip by air. Make your
Westcort "puts things together"
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could, who counts ex -US president Gerald
Ford. a former prime minister of Britain and
(broadcaster Walter Cronkite as personal
friends. get from Seaforth to a position of
power and influence at Queen's Park?
SMALL TOWN HELPS
"It's a lot easier for a kid to come from'
Seaforth and do it than for somebody from a
city," he says. Something to do with
"native small town intelligence and the
ability to deal with people. all sorts of
people. that you get here.
But if there are some budding Clare
W estcott's out there, he warns that's less so
now days. "When I'm/as a kid, you really had
to hustle. Of course there were fewer
distractions...My father had the fourth
radio in town...Ed Daly had the first."
Get involved in politics. he suggests to
would-be movers and shakers. "People will
squawk but they won't get involved....)
don't ''care what politics...Don Scott and 1
used to have a fight every election because
he was a Grit and 1 waS a Tory." He's a
judge in Niagara now, and the two talk
regularly on the phone.
A history buff who admires the Seaforth
Agricultural Society's roundhouse and
hopes it'll stay put, he says "you've got to
put yourself on the line if you really want to
see something work." Life isn't worth living
without risk and "I bomb about once a
year."
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IT'S WORTH IT
The praise is "really zip, compared to the
degree of hell you get" when that happens.
But, he sighs, after telling the story of a
Toronto heritage project that was a very
close call, "it was really worth it."'
"Failure was not an option." says Clare,
when he left his wife and their first two
children here, and moved to make it in the
big city. He worked during the day, took
journalism classes at night and came back to
the family on weekends. After "scrapping
up the money to buy a house" the family
moved to Toronto in 1954, "the ,weekend of
Hurricane Hazel."
Seaforth memories include watching his
CLARE WESTCOTT
dad struggle to run a jewellery store in the
Depression when nobody was buying;
"Every spring sons would come in with
their fathers, the fathers always came. and
make a deal with meat and butter to buy a
wedding ring."
Charlie Reeves comes along and the two
remember their days in the PUC. "There's
only three of us left, you, me and A.Y.
McLean.
With another local greeter, Clare re-
members Russ Piper. "He taught me to ski
on skis he made himself. Give him my best,
will you?"
The man who runs the premier's office
can retire next year if he wants. "On a good
pension," but he's not at all sure what he'd
do if he did. He's had some offers.
And writing is a definite possibility.
"Theare a number of books. A Seaforth
book. A Queen's Park book. A book about
the last hundred days of the first world
war."
So many funny things. he muses. "And
enough people have 'died off that you can
tell them."
purchase Thursday, Friday or Saturday. The
plane is a new one, and will fly in Seaforth on
Saturday from nine a.m. until dark. Do not
overlook this great flying bargain.
JUNE 13, 1958
Mrs. R.S. Hays .vill celebrate her 90th -
birthday on Sunday. She is presently visiting
her daughter Mrs. William (Mary) Skinner f
of Detroit. She has been a resident of
Seaforth for nearly 70 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scarlett of Centre
Street celebrated their 50th wedding an-
niversary this week. The bride of 50 years is
the former Eva Maud Sholdice, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John Sholdice of
Walton. Following their marriage they
farmed the Scarlett homestead on the 13th
concession of McKillop township. Upon
retirement they moved to Seaforth and for a
number of years Mr. Scarlett was caretaker
of Seaforth District High School.
Fof Alooks at 50% rebate
Legislating the 50 per cent rebate program
for farm owners is a "satisfactory" alterna-
tive to the proposed 100 per cent tax rebate,
says the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's task force looking into the
proposed property tax changes.
The task force has presented six major
recommendations with an additional three
requiring further review by other agencies.
The recommendations were tabled at the
June 2 meeting of the Federation with
discussion to take place at its June 27
directors' meeting.
"The committee felt the present 50 per
cent rebate plan had addressed in part the
known inequities to farm owners. The
program has also common acceptance by the
farming community as a whole, and possess-
es an element of universality which is deemed
desirable," says the task force's report.
The five other recommendations are:
-That the farm house be assessed separate-
ly as a rural residence;
-That all the farm land and farm buildings
be assessed on their productive value;
-That educational taxes on all farm land
and farm buildings either be removed or
rebated;
-That farm residence will be taxed on the
same basis as other rural residential units
receiving the same services. including
educational taxes;
-That the concept of an acre of land under
the farm residence being assessed separately
for tax purposes from adjacent land is totally
unacceptable.
Other recommendations ' which the task
force feels should be handled by other
agencies are:
-Financial impact to the overall subsidies
program;
-Eligiblity criteria;
-Incorporated farming operations.,
The task force, made up of James
Armstrong of Wingham, Robert Boylan of
Ethel, Laurie Cox of Goderich, Tom Cunning-
ham of Auburn, Clete Dalton of Goderich, Bill
Trick of Clinton, George Underwood of
Wingham and John Van Beers of Blyth, was
formed to develop an alternative to the
present 50 per cent rebate and avoid the
proposed plan to rebate 100 per cent of tax on
farm land and buildings.
Copies of the task force report will be
circulated to other county federations and will
come up for discussion at the July Ontario
Federation of Agriculture meeting in Toron-
to:'
MVCA will build addition
Constuction of the 5368,222 spit -level
addition to the Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority's administration building in Wrox-
eter is expected to get under way by
mid-August.
The go-ahead for the construction of the
addition was given at a special general
meeting of the authority on June 1.
MVCA general -manager Bryan Howard
outlined the costs of the 5,940 square foot
addition. The basic construction cost,
induding labor and materials is 5269,222.
Other costs include 515,000 for renovations
to the existing building, 550,000 for
furnishings, equipment and outside im-
provements, 522,000 for architect's fees and
512,000 for construction supervision.
The authority will be taking advantage of
federal -provincial special employment pro-
grams to the tune of 5260,195. The
remaining 5108,027 is the authority's share
of construction.
"The question then is how does the
authority raise that kind of money in a period
of restraint?" commented Mr. Howard.
By taking advantage of government
employment programs resulting in savings
in the authority's 1983 operating budget is
one method.Mr. Howard indicated the
authority is making extensive use of labor
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MMMM GOOD—Caterers Kevin Campbell and Jeff Cardiff lift a roast of beef. Volunteers
served 900 diners in just 35 minutes immediately after the opening ceremonies.
(Wassink photo)
under the Parks Special Employment
program with wages paid by the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Commission and a further
subsidy by the province.
For 1983, the authority is anticipating a
building reserve of 556,800 as a result of the
employment programs. An extra 510,000 is
already in reserve from a 1982 fire insurance
claim. The remaining amount of the
authority's share is expected to be raised as
MVCA continues to use the various
employment programs in 1984.
There will be no special levy on the
authority's member municipalities for the
office expansion project, Mr. Howard said.
The general -manager also pointed out that
if the Ministry of Natural Resources
considers the architect's design fees to be
grantable, the authority's share could be
reduced to about 595,000.
MVCA chairman Dave Gower of Goderich
said the authority is fortunate to be able to
put together an employment project such as
the construction of the addition.
"Except for the architect's fee, 100 per
cent of the costs are going back into the
community," added vice-chairman Vince
Judge of Listowel.
The addition is expected to be completed
by March 1984.
Welfare rolls have decreased
Government employment programs and a
brighter employment picture in the south
end of the county have contributed to the
steady decline of the welfare rolls,
Huron County council heard the good
news for the third month running at its June
session.
Things are looking pretty good," said
social services administrator John MacKin-
non.
There was a total reduction of 29 cases
during the month of April, a trend that
started in February.
Just for the record
There were several errors
in last week's story on
Seaforth's 1983 budget. The
three year projection which
council adopted, forecasts a
tax increase of 6.1 per cent
next year and 7.2 per cent in
1985, rather than the 2.9 per
cent and 7.6 per cent that
was reported. The town will
spend 80 per cent of the
ONIP money it receives on
soft services, not 20 per cent.
Council deferred raising, but
not paying for, 546,000 in
capital expenses this year.
A separate story, about most
1982 council committees ex-
ceeding their budgets,
should have noted that some
of the increased expenses
were offset by revenue that
was greater than budgeted
for.
A photo of a team of horses
and wagon in Clinton's
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Jean and Ray Lassaline of London were visitors to town for
the arena opening on the weekend and with her parents, Clair
and Lila Campbell. '
Klompenfeest parade was
incorrectly identified. The
owner arid driver is Alvin
Dutot of R.R. 3, Clinton.
The Expositor apologizes
for the errors.
Tender accepted
Seaforth has accepted the
highest tender, from G.A.
Sills and Sons, for purchase
of the former public works
shed and lot at the corner of
Main and Railway Sts.
The three tenders received
were opened at a special
meeting of council May 24.
The amounts were Sills -
S11,400; Tom Schoonder-
woerd-58,750 and Louis
McNichol -S8,130.
The only bleak aspect of the statistics
presented by Mr. MacKinnon is that the
total caseload is still up over last year.
Assistance was issued to 283 cases during
April of this year compared to 212 cases
The administrator said 26 people have
been placed on employment programs from
the welfare role while others have found
other work.
"The south part is picking up, but in the
north part there is very little activity. They
(companies) may be hiring but not from
aur welfare cases," said Mr. MacKinnon.
Tuckersmith council says Romanik home
has historical, architectural value
BY WILMA OKE
Tuckersmith Tdwnship Council has passed
a bylaw designating the old Georgian -style
Romanik home built in the 1860's as of
historical and architectural value and
interest.
Mary Romanik, who attended the council
session, requested work on the road for one
and a quarter miles from their mobile home
park to Egmondville. She said the road is
badly rutted.There are 38 units in the park
and the traffic on the road is heavy she said.
Reeve Robert Bell acknowledged that the
road is in need of work.
"1 personally feel our road system is
slipping". He said government grants have
been cut.
Road Superintendent Allan Nicholson said
he has the road on his list for repairs but
could not promise anything at this time. He
is waiting for approval of the bridge work on
the road and until the ministry makes a
decision things are at a standstill for
consructlon in that area.
Diane Durnin, Director of the Vanastra
Recreation Centre, was at the meeting to
discuss the heating system for the swimming
pool area and the expenditures at the
Centre.
Councillor John Brownrldge was concer n -
ed that the centre is now 7 per cent
over -budget. Ways were discussed to cut
expenses if possible but no action taken.
Changes were suggested for the weekly
bingo games to help increase the attendance
and this is to be studied.
Drainage petitions were approved for the
Williams Municipal Drain by Ken Williams;
the drain serving Don Upshall and John
VanMiltenburg; and the drain serving
Randy Wilson, Fernand Vantygbem and
James McIntosh.
The Finlayson Drainage Report is to be
heard June 21 at 9 p.m.
Passed for payment were total accounts
amounting to 5384,903.33 including the Day
Care at Vanastra, 56,058.84; Special Day
Care at Vanastra, 54,032.55; Recreation
Centre at Vanastra, 516,676.03; roads,
575,652.55 and general accounts,
5282,483.36.
Allan Nicholson in his road report said
that the roads have been gravelled and that a
little over half of the calcium work on the
roads is done.
An anonymous letter complained of
conditions at Vanastra such as derelict cars
parked around at various sites in the hamlet.
The letter complained about snowmobiles,
dune buggies,bikes racing throughout the
area, even in the park areas.
The writer suggested that some of the
township employees working at the Recrea-
tion Centre at Vanastra should be used to
clean up the garbage scattered around.
Councillor John Brownridge, a Vanastra
resident, regretted that the letter writer had
not signed the letter so that he could hiform
the writer that bike racing is apo lice matter
and they should be notified. He asked
council to take action on the derelict care.
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THE SEAFORTH and District Community Centres was officially opened on Saturday.
Guests were Invited to elgn a guest book and register their name for several door prizes.
Signing In Is Ruth end Gordon BeuttenmIller. Lois Hodgert le seated. (Wassink photo)
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