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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-11-30, Page 1;xc_w„r„ _ 1,, _ A_ i. A Incorpora1In� • ae)tcb•fl ilieeand eve, ..1) ring.. • Inst} nee invespgatptyiwere'caIeu and`,.1140410S41111/01.11419, psraining,tte eco 4 Arrivin In Cinadti during the night, "all reOil should be completed this Week. .retar the mpf' says Mals RowclI(fe r� r)veltnew antdaty)Is roadssiheadltgh, 5 and �..'re not used t4 freeain_g8' rant and the • iisaurie Kryde•Ineellppicatt Row f e theinsideill ate h uke." f0%.1(ingsle ' I' weatheris cold compared to New Zealan'd," 'theroof was lifted at the.nortii--e ^F rl dvas' 1up aid ut 7:00 IMo ay). when Ole says. Kingsley;' We had a real *Sting tht' � in j. B !dtahltildiagand cx!indltfted at. F:r1w(se rete _ 'atl a1migltt shake.,,It was a intron ctiett to Canada,'" of the roof. "The windtook theft tr i jo�l L , }tiOUYDRO •around the edge of the roof attd; a "' tbou t tthere had.b an.ettrthquake Strong ealet winds uprooted trees, In were damaged.-; There was ab Uecauue t would 'have been my* first Egtnondoiile, S•eafdrth. Walton and I russels damage. - Vie, ew Zealand $ut tbeh 1 realized and hyo i"s out in some centres , "it must have been r fair gi plan s tlrentt that common in Ontario DaVe Marsh91) t 1itieforemaiii witli ntario *Ind." 'says Mr. Kruse.' rsQ Itjn'fthiiughttherebadbeer'slarge gust Hydro, in ;Cligton-said power is bac .on in • 1 o�rpind B t I:1ltioked around and realized the Belgrave,where -high . winds cau an • NORMALSTORM got housewits Wind would not be the type to outage. "Goderich was without hydro for There was no serious damage c rocked a wind. about an hour when a'115,000 volt 1 e as - ";.says ublic works foreman John e ryWb n t•" ecame li t outside,�I saw bein �`harrassed bythe wind. The -trees co� t ei Bh gg and was lust a normal wind, storm."..'¢fig through the throomwindow there was a wind caused the most problems. Most of the Public works employee's Alai* tree a ging against the house.. The tree had ice wass gone by daylight." . • truckloads of small branches off t "i cros'Min-jolt' th roof andopened,u the end Parts of Egmondville were withoin hydro Several large spruce trees near the-, it of the roof. Thr jolt Woke. the children and Monday when, a tree came down on a power Community Hospital were blown gi�gi 4.4 ';•; icyiSlastiotwlntert tuglrl YrtPst ,tttey;° ntsbyaurpride'butnobodtywas' -bCGrt .4/01,the',new`xealdeuts.of upas bip, K1n sley *4:•.41#00...th. t their three Chlldren !onatltan, ,tlsjt iu /'IL �• -'C- ' - •i!. thetf are'P+� u In a one' Mr re: •.Pieb�bdy was s f lr•il line. Pa lvIfil _ i .d' Coxed th t4fn►.. Gi't realised:. t'h-1 . had, "As of 3:3dy(Meett* , lot of ftttlt ielat hex hn (actin ilgtily Ni A rn, services Deli. tilts wits f'b'.aay t43!! 5° 1!ighalt ,l; 00' .0P.b l'cti�lllrerkid0, the whole mddent a1 id dldn°t realize topi $1tt We re omotend that fanners mea impact of the incident until Mr jnd 4094 1o4 at *Or Prey setvlcea'tu' bite•throne tb.vi§it them later oto nday 'sure they wttl Mand uix tq the coo ter, i eprogramwith dy and Susan ,";;;.111,. lug, �' it daugghter Gaby. Residents ofNItw s a shock for,Andy.ah usani says NO frOOF l sten, rlew Zealandi thefamily, K gsley 'Ibex were"' rettyslurbeft this '-nigh •wind .lifted the rooflat Rowdllfl ed in their new home Sunday be g their last day in Canatlti it"was rt'bt the , 'Motors. Moat of the toff w' , tict e Wh e's left fpr' New Zealand sort of thing they' were,wanting� .: around the building and nearby W • care is -second to n • "-though its 49violations of.the Nursing Home. Act have been corrected, Kilbai'chan Nursing Koine iq Seaforth was cited as the fourth •hihest'violator of the Act in Ontario by provincial NDP leader Bob Rae recently: Administrator of the nursing home Irwin Johnstonsays the timing Of the report is unfair. • I'm not going to dispute the number of violations. They were corrected two months ago. 1 don't think this is the time to be bringing it up. if we hadn't done anything to correct them, we should have been reported but not now," he says. The violations were published in a summary of the results of nursing home inspections across the province which were available to, the public this. year for the first time. Of; -the 49 violations. 75 per cent involved; painting.' decorating and mainte- nance, says Mr. Johnston. ''Only four were minor violations involving fire regulations. We fire second to,none in the 3t,a tne^ons s it homes across the province were minor. says Dog Enright, senior media official of the Ministry of Health. • "The report was done by an opposition. party that just added up totals and that. doesn't mean anything," says Mr. Enright. "There may be a very valid reason for some of the violations." The annual inspections done by the Ministry are very meticulous in an attempt to provide the best quality care for all residents of nursing homes. But, even the best homes are going to have violations, Mt. says. •• If a chair js riot in place aroom, no,. matterhiowvalereason, an, pectoryvill' report it. But, the homes ma cOrtestaH violations and if they don't - especiallythey.: affect the safety and care of the idents we SEE CARE ON AGES F Nh' s phi Plan almost corral The Seaforth heritage plan is nearing completion and will be presented to Seaforth council at their Dec. 13 meeting. "The Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC) will meet with me next Monday night to review the final ion," says Nick Hill architectural planner, e redo ci Wong; waefc t vai: >: i • .. r ' ' LACAC has a ll owed 12 eeks to complete the plan and Mr. Hill say completion is on schedule. Once approved by council. the plan, 'which takes in about 45 marntijf 'eet buildings, will besubmitted to'he mnslryof Citizenship and Culture for .$heir, rse- • met. Approval of a heritege Plan will qualify building owners to appiyit' tatesector giants Omagh the-PICA)"e Can Will be,\ WCopies of the approved plan available to the public at the inunicip office, says Mr. Hill. THE WHiTE HOUSE owned by Andy and Susan White, Concession ala, :McKlllbp _township, was damaged when tree fell onto the root. High winds caused power failures and uprooted many trees l the Seaforth area on Monday ' (Wassinkphoto). COMPUTERS' are used In local schools as learning tools and are quite popular with students. Parents, some who didn't know anything about the computers had the opportunity Tuesday night to get some hands-on experience at St. James Separate School. The main topic of the regular Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meeting, a combined 'Seaforth and St. Columban meeting was computer programming. Using a computer Is Gwen Devereaux, back lett, Louise and Reg Dick, and Father C. Caruana, right. (Wasslnk photo) New service club signs are already crowded The neat, newly repainted service club signs welcoming people to Seaforth at the edges of town may already be obsolete. The spaces are all taken," deputy clerk Luanne Phair reported to council Nov. 8 and at least one newer service club wants its logo added. Works superintendent John Forrest Wants to keep uniformity in the sizes of crests and sign design and asked council for direction. Since the heritage plan study showed people want signs leading to Main St., perhaps LACAC should be asked for comments, councillor Henry Mero said. When the signs were repainted service dubs paid for their own, deputy reeve Bill Bennett noted. Council referred the question to its public works committee. 'Members of the Seaforth Farmers Co-operative voted 'Tuesday, Nov. 22- in favor of a merger with the Hensall District Co-op,' Tie merger date is Tuesday, Dec. 1. Three dp Tr and 116 favored the merger, a solution co-op directors felt most favorable to save the co-op from possible bankruptcy. At a special meeting, Nov. 10, 100 Seaforth members were told that -the major problem was the Co-op could not repay member loans of S33,000 and $14,000 in interest. The loans were due Oct. 1 and could not be repaid because the Co-op had a deficit. Other factors causing a financial burden for the Co-op were high interest rates and farm bankruptcies which claimed over $200,000 owed to the co-operative. "The board decided to take the proper course of action before member equity depleted," said Don McKercher, secretary. Two weekslater, the members agreed. The majority agreed overwhelmingly (two thirds majority was required) that the directors had made the proper decision. "A merger is like a marriage," said Mw. Stewart, director. "With a merger, the Seaforth Co-op can offer a more complete line of services." Following the vote, Mike Connolly, Hensel! Co-op presidentsaid, "We will keep a good strong co-opin Seaforth Pm sure the= Seaforth , operation will work wen with Hensel!: Hopefully, they will give the same support tp Hensall as other areas have." Directors and managers of both co-ops felt the Seaforth operation will improve with the merger. "The support and vote shows the Seaforth members want a co-op. The merger will ba' mutually tienefiitiai to Hensall and Seaforth," said Earl,•- Wenger. Hensall manager. "There will be few.cltanges in Seaforth, but with improved efficiency. all members will seeincreased savings.' Some changes SeafortltanetnberPmay see. SEE MERGElteiN PAGE 3 Seaforth has two junior citizen nominations "Pin an award on a•kid who deserves it" is the theme of the third annual Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Awards. Deadline for nominations was Wednesday. Nov. 30 and Seaforth and area has two nominations. The event. sponsored by Ontario's Community newypapers and CP Air, resulted in a Seaforth public school student, Lisa Andreassi being chosen as one of the 1982;award winners. Lisa was chosen from , about 10Q, junior citizens aged 6-18 because of her involvement in school and community activities assisting in tutoring and prepar- ing a segment in the annual 'school Christmas concert. ' This year's nominees are David Cronin, 12, son of Jerry and Heather Cro,4`iin, R.R.2, Dublin, and Brenda Pullman, 17. aughter of Gordon and Marian Pullman, Seaforth, David is sponsored by several friends and former and present school principals for his quick thinking at the Seaforth Lions pool this summer. SAVES GIRL Using techniques he learned at swim - SEE CITIZEN ON PAGE 3 Parents.- learn computer language BY BON WASSINK Parents of St. James and St. Columban separate school students are bridging a coptmunications gap -- they're learning about computers. The two schools combined their regular Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meeting in the form of a mini -computer seminar in Seaforth Tuesday evening. The reason was to introduce parents to the micro -computer. Computers are used at both schools as well as the Seaforth district high school and Seaforth public school. About 55 parents were taught computer basics on the 26 computers St. James principal Ray Contois had borrowed from schools as far away—as Clinton and Stratford. "We wanted to give parents an under- standing of what their students are doing in the classroom and help them understand what their kids are talking about when they come home," says' Mr. Contois. "Some parents are thinking of purchasing a computer and now they will have some knowledge of what to rook tor in their purchase." The immediate reaction parents conveyed to the principal was they were pleased with the program and hoped there would be a repeat seminar. "They also hoped all future PTA meetings would be as intersting." There was a lot of work involved to organize the meeting, "but it was worth it." says Mr. Contois. Speakers at the meeting were Larry Cook, a Stratford principal, Debbie Kimber- ley, Stratford teacher and Terry Craig, a teacher in Dublin. NEW LANGUAGE Parents were told the first thing they would have to learn was a new language --computer language. "When they said i had to learn another language, 1 said forget it," says Father Caruana, paster of St: James Church, Seaforth. Father Caruana is a native of Malta. "Now i can at least understand what my son is talking about," says parent Christine Goossens. "1 gained a limited knowledge of computers. but i would be interested in more seminars. 1 found wdrking on a computer relaxing even though i didn't know anything about them." - Before the meeting, a lot of parents didn't have a clue about.computers. We don't have one at home, but are thinking about getting one in the next couple of years." Another parent, Anne Middegaal felt the meeting was informative. "I did learn a bit about computers, especially when you're completely green at it. it's something • person will have to get used to. I hope to learn more about them because the kids do. And if we ddn't, thennwe're msgooing to be lost." N TOTYPE The main obstacle most parents faced was they didn't know how to type a skill required in computer operations. Typing was the hard -part. It's frustrating and takes a lot orf time," says Don Nolan, a parent. "We don't have a computer, but it's on our list," says Mr. Nolan. "That's why we went to' the meeting." Pat Nolan, a typist, "found computers easier to operate than 1 expected. 1 thought maybe I couldn't do anything on them, but 1 did more than i had expected. Computers operate just like a typewriter." Like other parents, Mrs. Nolan found her children talking about computers, "and we don't know anything about them. I'm interested inDingmoreHERE them" LS Parents were taught the parts of the computer and how to load a program into them. "By the end of the evening, they were able to program a computer, using a simple program by producing. their name on the screen," says Mr. Contois. "The interest is there and many parents are. wondering what. type of computer to get involved with. Some came to the meeting wondering what they would be faced with. The unknown became known." he says. "Weare trying to build better communica- tion between the parents, students and teachers," says Mr. Contois. "It's a necessary part of the school ." Lined* VCS@O3 Lorne fell wins world competition /A8 SDHS girls' basketball team win 72-64 /MO Centenaires win two of three games 1A9 Pregnancy and the double standard /A$ BIrtha /A6 Brussels /A16, 17 Classified 1.418, 19, 20 Community Calendar /AS Dublin /A4, 6 Entertainment 1.414 f:amlly/A7 Form 148 Heiman IAN kids /ACJ L6ndiebom 1A8 Obltuarloo lAd, 7 74ople 7474' Spe►n /Ao, 10, it V • 4