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14 • M, ,017 Ng' preliminarY
Winner$ SeafOrtit Lions Car
Club nine were drawn
Monday Night at a Valentine
Meeting at the in The
Conuntinity Centre, Winners,
• Whtt eltch• receive $25.*
WOrtt Wmi, Garvin of
Stratford, Bill, Strong,
• Seafertit, D. Landry of $t.
Catharine's and Bill Eisler of
searorth.
. stu. compiatokwho
was in Oharge of the draw,
• reminded nternbets that the
eliminatiort for the major
prize, a 1980 cempact car,
would take place., on,
September 8, In •the inean-
time eight more preliminary
• draws each fot S25,00 'would
take place; he said -
The Carleton $how Band
vvill be a feature of the Lion's
' Summer Carnival this year,
and will appear in Seaferth
On June 23, Harold Turnbull
who heads the Carnival
Committee, told the club.
•Guests Lois Hodgert and
TRY AND BEAT THIS RECORD—Harvey MollYtiairt of Seaforth brought -
his horse and cutter downtown on Friday to Prove although his colt is only
11 months old, it's already "traffic brOke," The colt, Which isn't named.
yet, is from sire Ambro Knox and Sun Goddess and is owned and trained
by Mr. McLiWain.
(Expositor photo)
Enforcement crt arena town's responsibility
As owners of the 'arena, the town is "It cetild mean more police proteetion is
ultimately thane, if Minors are served liquor neeessary,'' said couneillor Bob Dinsmore.
there. Ontario's liquor lieence board has ttild Mayer Sinnamon suggested litixiliary •police
' • could be used at dances ind re,,ter.1nrged
, -We're going to incur more expense for them "since the liquor rut tions are so.
because we have to wateli this," councillor strict.
Jim Sills commented, Council had hoped the -That's up to n's. We're responsible if
responsibility could be missed to persons.. there's drinking under age "s udcouncillor
renting the hall. Gerald Groothitis, chairman of the arena e
,eominittee. - • • •
Dariette Hetherington were
Winners in the Meeting Draw
and DianneVandervelden
eanressed appreciation to the
chill On behalf ,Of *hgus?
Trends ilk interior
decorating were diacuSoed by
Robert FlUntateel who
showed slides.series of
interiors that reflected
partientar decorating; styles. -
He emphasized, that to• 'he
':iaffgseitcliv:r icnetrtainba
er9ir desX11
Matli:t
•n
ralp ye nIt hgeMniiittst 4:4 na :oath :frrnon::tt! °pfirrYoe
petition and *color cern,
portion are equally important
are equally important he said
as also is the determination
of a focal Taint- and an
vaeprptri:liaatinoonof , diagorhi4eirilzinolen4taI,
,
President ,Olarchin Rirnmer
who was in charge Of the
meeting expressed
appreciation.
YOu're 'invited
The Van Egmond 1979. Seaforth Pub,lie School
Foundation Annual General Library. Everyone intnrdstft
Meeting 8:00 te,m, in the early history of this
•Wednesday, February. E. • area is welcome,
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Ttig HuRoN EXPOSITOR, F
IMAY i5.I 79
ng s.0y
„loam whifit
“Yetere, awfully brave
taking that kid ont• to re,-
staurantS'', my cousin's bus-
hand"s brother said, 5,unday.
nfrernoOn when we en -
°tottered him on or way
'•brittle frontia ,weekend ix
•Teton to.
"Nothing to it" we SW
eonchalantlYhaving just
come through our first try •t
big city life with baby a little
bloody but unbowed.
We didn't feel quite that
• get -Wits -tie friday night when
we left borne. In fact we went
through great anguish over
whether we should even try
•to take the baby with us or
not.
We had big city stuff Yie
•wanted to 40, Vat Out at a
few restaurantS, see •a play
and or a movie,- de some
shopping and looking! And
street wandering. She'd
cramp. our style, we feared
and we'd make her miserabls.
with funey hours, a strange
bed and too much running
•around. •
Engineer nomed,for-prolott.::
Taking no decision On a suggestioe
councillor .lim Sills that a town oegineer be
named, Seaforili council decided to have the
Goderich firm of 13urnS Ross set- up a
possible road and seive.r programfor to or
three years attend, IVIOndaV night,
Councillor, Sills transportation and
environment committee had .'iSked eouncil
for, directinn in naming tin engineer for
the projects, -We'd like to tender in the
spring and net reasonable prices,' '011
Lrhoe,•ern projeet lnd Wive others ready
• • •
for future yettrs, he said. The town has' Used
bOth the Ros.s thin' and.Janies. F. McLaren'
Bill Benneft heads committee • Ltd " the Plst
Former councillor :ind long time arena
committee head Bill Bennett has • been
named new chairman of Seaforth's
recreation committee.
Jean Hil(tebraiid is ,viee chairman. Peg
Campbell secretary and Mr. Bennett • and
Gary Montgomery members of the park and
•
pooi,committee.
L.
The comrnitte'e is planning the second
, annual internatimull games with sister city
West Branch., Mkhigen„ to be held this:July
• 27,28 and 29 here in Seaterth.
Areria hall,could
rn are citizen tells -co,unct.1 G. 1,E0 MURRAY Sinai Hos Mal. Toronto oil
'Both -tire allitle Slo ••
, Mr Sills said. and
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he suggeSted designating one firm town
engineer might avoid duplication and -Give
us better results. -
"
Is. there somebody else?".....COuncillor.
Mem asked. 'Can we compare charges?"' A
be used
Kitchcner tirm had offered its s,erN ices but
couneil deeided. to employ Burns Ross.
'
.,Lawn bowlers get refund
('hanging a policy that's been in effect
for the pzist tee years or so;.- .PilfOrth council
has refunded taxes paid in '1078 ($179) by the
local lawn bowling,elub and will give the elub
a gram equal to its 1979' taxes, • ,
The move was recommended by • the
finance. conimittee •which met .with • the
bowlers on January 29.
"They need this or they'll hive to close
Mayor John Simla mon told council. A
• new rnel and paint is needed at the
010)1 -muse, deputy reeve Bill Dale added.
"They' have made the 'grounds serv
attreettve. they have ongoing expenses and '..
are ,afl indirect henerit te tht. w
An-.
eeunetlior Jim Sills said.'
In future, the fin aece committee
recommended that the lawn bowlers apply
for a grant from the Men. -
er u
• Specolating that • week-
end of stionilation in the big .
eity would do her as much
1004 as tt'd dO us, We teok,
coorage and: packed un the
play pen (for sleeping),_ the
'diapers, the toys arid -the
• baby phis 4 little saiteaSe for
maw- and paw.
We weren't exaotly in
mood of gay abandon as we"
approached our first stop
The War1� tnNew 'Ham-
borgis a good restaurant in a
lovely old restored brick
house on the banks of. the
Nith. We've always wanted
to try it and even a 15 month
•old in the back seat wasn't
going to stop Us.
Although •the better half.,)
Inid made reservations four
•two big and, One little per•
sve approached the '
door aprehensively. We
needn't have worried.
• Gaby, bravely ready to trot
• dOwti- the front hall on her
.own„ was. welcomed, Food
and service ,were great and
We got the most tremendous
help frorn. .the bus boy that
I've ever VP inn). From
exchanging "hi'S" With 014
baby to loaning us a long
scarf to an e hcr her to 4
booster chair, lid Was a joy to
behold.
Gaby relaxed immediately
and her old parents started,
sIow1y,19 do likewise, after a
pre,dinner drink and a half
hour without an outburst,
She had such a good time Wei
bad to move her to the other
side of the table after she
startled a few toe many
romantic adult couples with
"hi" as they came, into the
dinning room. "We came
here to get away from that",
I could just hear the 'parents
• arnOng there thinking.
She ate Same of my food
aed smite of her dad's, lots of
melba toast and drank INN
adult size glasses of milk.
She sat still fpr the whole
meal, She even fell asleep
after it Was over and if we
hadn't been in a hurry to get
to Toronto we likely ,could
have lingered.awhile peace-
,feliy. ' •
She coped with Toronto,
• Seaforth's arena -hall
should be , used more for
general „ eoinniunity
activities. a citizen suggested
to council monclay night. '
,Regidar open cltilicesnot
necessarily with :a Aiquor
licence, • movies, gante.s,
variety nights with local
a nett eur entertaiimient could
111 be ,eonsored' on nights '
•
when the hall is net rented'
Gary Boyle said.
Mr. Boyle said he'd like to
see the hall Used more by the
general ptiblic. wno don't
belong to organized. groups.
If the • town's arena
C.Qmplittee had to pay
someone to run speinal
programs, costs couldbe met
through admission cli trues.
be said.
• Council passed •
his
seggestien to the arena
• committe:e.
Council also agreed 10
send a motien to •the
• Ausauble • Barfield
Conservation Authority
'asking it to dean , Up the
Silvet Creek green belt area.
Anyone for a fat Saint?. •
Hardly. •• '
. How about a lean and hungry looking one
then?
That's more like it. Everyoee knows saints
come in trim sizes, Fat and jelly don't fit the
job description of 'a saint. ,
Everyone figures a saint is well disciplined
He knovv$•how to pull hiinself away from the
table. And that table doesn't have to be piled
high in gOodies, 'Bread,and water from the
Lord is far better than a sumptuous meal, put
on by the devil. •
A, saint has far better things to attend to
than food. There are prayers, ,devotions,
litanieS, chants, hard work , and beck
reading. He minds his spiritual matters first
- and the thing a �f the body can wait. A body
is something he has to put up with - even
subdue. lila deprived leek denies the flesh
and means he's pressIng on toward heavenly
sights and sites. '
Some Eastern mystics even manage a
' transparent look - so frail arid fragile you
almost thirik their body is melting and giving
• Way' to the interior tOul. •
When 1 talked to Leslie Fiedler, that critic
of American literature, he didn't go for
. skinny saints it all.
"Give Me a fat saint any day," he said.
He warned Me right off that a saint wasn't
part of his working Nocabtdary, His Jewish
faith didn't make much recin1fOr holy saints.
That was a Christian idea. The Jews he said
never denied their earthliness, their bodies,
their materiality. They accepted it and lived
With it.
"1 like the nice fat sleek Buddiriti," he
Smiled. And the thought of that naked
bulging tummy with rolls of fat had me
grinning too. I netieed Fiedler wasn't
without his extra potinds aronind the Middle,
either.
"Or I'll take St. Thoma S Aquinat. Now
thett's a saint for you. That 300 pottnd,
thurell father of the Middle Ages. That
dumbrot of Sicily as he Was rail ,
ed. fiadler
thought Aquinas` Suprenth moment -of
triumph was hot that he gave Up the j00i
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
pounds, but that he could move it around so
well in his cell,
, When 1 pressed Fiedler for a saint in our
own day, he hesitated, He waited a long
time. He didn't Want to say it, but yes, he
would anyway It was his own grandfather.
He said his grandfather was an intelligent
man, but not atcatitated one. He worked in
a factory: And there another worker named
Smitty aeetised him of organizing a Union
among the workers - in secret
Smitty reported him to the boss and his
grandfather lost his job.
'Some years later fiedlees grandfather
asked his daughter to drive httn some plate.
He wouldn:t tell her where he wanted to ge.
And as they drove the streets in New Jersey,
the daughter guessed it. "You're going to
see Stnitty," she said.
"Yea," Said grandfather, "'want to try to
help &nifty find a job. Ile 't down on hia luck
right now."
"But wasn't that the man who e turned you
in?" his daughter protested'.
"Yes,'' said grandfather, but every-
body'S human.''
Fiedler never forgot that story or his
grandfather a grandfather who didn't
demand an ahkilute standard of goodness -a
grandfather who treated everyene better
than he deserved, in the hOne that they
would treat him better than he deserved.
For, as Shakespeare wrote,If We talked "
about what people deierved, no one would
escape hanging.
Fiedler Said he felt his grandfather was a
truly charitable man, but he hated to nse
that word. For he said charity was a
Christian word. Not that they practiced it all
that hutch, but at least the word was theits1
He told me that's why the JeWs remain
forever with US. They persist betause they
are the constant and nitiniate test of the,
Christian's charity.
Imagine! Pat saints and sleek Buddas ,and
forgiveness by a Jewish graildfather, The
hallowed halos of my Christian Sitititt got
, jetted in that hour and a half int -civic* with
• Fiedler. Their haks aten't sitting as straight
as they used to.,
Member of a. long time,
McKillop family. G. 'Leo,
Murrity died suddenly at his
residence RR' 2 Dubin) on
Thursday Febi•nary. 8.'
S\ 15 in, his 81st year.
-Bore in McKillop he was a .
son of the late John Miirray
and Latiise .Eckert. Educzited
in •McKillop he later f;irmed
'Hibbert until moving to St.
olemban 41 y Lars .ago.
Mr. Murray is survived by
his widow the former Lillie
,Staples to within he 'Was
married. at St Columban in
1922, He also is slit -rived by
• his son Joseph of Stratford
and slaughters Mrs. Gerard
• (Doreen) Marchand and Mrs.
Thomas (Ann) Dawe both of
. Windsor: by brothei.s
Matthew hod Stepnen,"both
of McKillop ''fownihip and
sisters' Mrs. Frank (Camilla)
Evans and Mrs. Wilfred
, (Helen) 04 Rourke, both of
Dublin and Mrs. Joseph,
(Marie) Melady. Hibbert
Township. • He is also
survived by • seveo
. grandchildren •and Otte
great-gramichildren. He was
„predeceased by a daughter
Mrs.' Gerald (Mary) Porter,
and by •Inothers, Thoinas,
John, Joseph and Michael
and sisters Mary aod Mrs.
Wilfred (Elizabeth) Maloney.
• The remains rested at the
• Whitney.Ribey Funeral
Home. Sealetth until
• Saturday at 11 a.m, whop a
• funeral. mass ‘vas conducted
by Rev. P.A. Oostvecir. Rev,
3 O'Rourke and Rev, Gordon
Dill M St, COlumban ROMMI-
Catholic Church. Temporary
entotubment will be followed f'
.11rburial in st, Cohimbao
. tioniati Ctitholie Cemetery.
•Pallbearers were Robert
• Murray. Paul Murray, Stet•e
• MOrtay, &atilt y Murray,
Greg• Marchand and Neil?
Ma itha nd. '
• •Hottottrary .pallbetirers
were Joseph Dorsey.
Douglas ,Bricho. Edward..
Melady. Alphoose 'Cronie.
Gerry CrOniti 'nett „loseph
Plowerbeittets w ere
Larry Murray and Jerry
StapleS,
MRS, ilinttLEY.R.
'IONS
Mrs. john ffexi
Riou PPpes. died hi Mot lit
1
Mendav February' 12. She
was In her 71st: year.
The former .Mtirgaret
Isabelle Close She Was born
111 TeekerStnitlf AOWnShip
(laugher of • the •.late
Wellington Close , and Apne
Jackson.
Educated in Tbronto she
trained aed graduated •
as a nurse in Buffalo .
'ret irnin to Toronto -to
practise her pro ession. In •-
,$epteinber 101 She Was.
Married to, Mr, Eppes who,
.predeecased het in 1961.: For
several -yea -7;r following filch.
Marriage the couple carried
on a photography business
in Seafotth.
Mrs. Eppes is" survived by
two Sons Douglas and Ricky.
and two, dziugb t ors auzanne,,
Mrs, 'Willis , Smith tied
Elitabeth;IITI s Briao BerrY:
all ofToroakolind by a 'sister
BettY.1rs, Norman
MacLean :lof • Eginondville.
She also is survived by seven
grandchildren and mie great
gt•atideluld.. She -was
predeceased hv a sen. obin '
•and.brothers Henry Jaeksen,
Close and 1411.141m Stevens..
Resting at the 11,S. Box.
• 'Foitei•al Home. Seniert h until
Wedtiesd ay When a .service
was cotultietea by Re‘.
James Broadfoot •of Si,
ThemaS Anglican Church.
TenitIONtry qt.ap:tUbme.11( "itt
ia1
he f0
g.i11.(1:1Adsli(ilfaect:cery
,t,(1:.):1;:i n
A FROSTY 'FRIDAY MORNINd*,There's
obviously A niPin fhb' air, as the tro2eft 'whiskers
01 •Harvey MtilWalh's horse derhOrtstrate
Oriday morrilhO,
(tx0osit0rph0to)
andour tearing •around
pqually well. The highlight Of
the trip for her •was, the '11'sYtt,
cats who liY4 u Ottr friend's
.anartment. They Were not
equaBY enthtlalitatie abOur
Not wanting Oa press eur
Wk. we, Set out • Saturday
night for dinner and • movie
,rte' Gaby was in bed,. In the
-care of a cousin Afies sten
before. •
But Sunday,she Went out
for brunch at the Under-
ground Railway and waited
with a lot more patienee than
we did for serviee that WAS
w4y too sloW.
1 can understand why s'orne
restaurants den.'t want
children. The- leSt thing I
want to hear when I'M OW for
a quiet evening is an upset
child. But what do you do
when you like to eat good
• food and you've got a child
along with sou?
So far we'vetZn lucky.
The day when eating out with
Gaby means we have to go, to
MacDonald's is the day111
tart staying home.
o
h t e e it
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survey was taken this was looked at and it
svas felt that Vanastra had the friest
potential. As to the deficit when spread
over the '1 ownship of Tuckersrnith it
;•amounts to very. 'very little per year per
household for such a facility' and it sure
would be a shame if it were lost At the
to nship
The driving from other areas trlatibe a
problem but I really can't see it, Most
people from the area drive a distance to
work. When the weather is bad most things
are closed so 1 believe this just an excuse
some people might use. No doubt there are
children in Vanastra who could be
nene: fited by Day' Care that are being
Tuckersmitil oko
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cared for by baby sitters but this is the
, parents' deeision. I de belleve that the Day
Care in Vanastra wit sorvive and eventual-
ly will not have a deficit. -
I think the people of Horon County and
Tuckerserith Township in particular should
be very proud of Vanastra, • '
This community has tertainly come a
long way and l' think the people of the
community deserve a great deal of credit,
They have lived down a lot of bad publicit>,.
some very undesirable people and have
stood up under it an and made the
community a great place th liVe.
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municipality wenn' want tO pick,up its 20 per
cent share of the deficit for each child if
sonte municipalities get by witheut paying,
."The municipalities do it on their hatter,"
Deputy ReeVe, Bell said. .
Council agreed to -Send out requests again
to the 'two municipalities who do not pay
their 20 per cent -Clinton. and Bayfield.
With tie*, eouneils•this year they might
have anew line of thought,- stated the
reel/C.
'
Connell agreed with Councillor Falconer
who said. 41 think it would be poor public
relations for us to ask Ashfield to pay for the
one child from that township when the
.rnother is one of out ereployeeS." (The
enipjoyee LS Diane Durnin. /recreation
manager.) Ashfield has never been billed.
Referring . to the' rent problems between
the day care and recreation. Deputy reeve
Belt asked, "Who „is subsidized more?"
Clerk ,MeLachlan replied, "There is '.no,•
doubttheday care reeeives more."
Reeve Sillery said that when the day'eare
can get an 80 per cent provincial grant to
help pay the coStS, it all comes back to help
the, cornthunitv. (Ans. deficit at the.reereation
centre roust be picked up by the residents of
Vanastra.).
On this basis council rtiembers, except for
Mr, atoWn. Consider it better to have the
recreation centre in good financial condition.
rather than day care.
Mr. Brown said he was more interested in
.reducing the $6.000 deficit that must be paid
bY all Tuckermsith residents, He said he was
against the tee. centre svanting io use the
, day care and paying nothing. He said in a lot
of people's eves the day care is 'la damn
expensive baby sitting thing."
Councillor Falconer seconded the Brown
mOtion to 'keep the rent the same. Saying he
felt the -council should not turn dosvn the diy"
.ctire centre hoard recommendation. (He was
a member of the board in 1978).
In other business council hired W.D.
Wilson, Brucetield, Oyer eight other ap-
plicants for the job of selling dog tags in the
township for $2.00 per tag,' The Clerk
-reported he was receiving' Many cOninlaiiits
about dogs, "It's terrible," he said as he
reported at Vanastrathere were people who
were afraid to go out walking On the streets
at night. Other complaints tante from, the
Egmondville and Brueefield areas.
Council accepted the resignation of Phillip
Bradley as animal control officer, effective
February 1 as he has a position out of town„
Because of illness previously he had net
salary
Betty McLean,
raises
'been able to work as control officer, Council "
wilI send him a letter of apprediation for the
work he has done-. The clerk was authorized
to advertise for ,semenne. to replace Mr.
Bradley. "
: Requests' for building permits were, .ap• i•
proved for Calvin Bisbaeleof Walton, . •
buildinga barn on part of a lot on
concession 1. Huron Road Survey; and for
alteration to the historic Van 'Egmond house
involving alterations to the house in a
restoration projc•et.
Passed for payment were the following
accounts totalling $23.669.88--Vanastra Day
Care. $4:088.27; Vanastra recreation..
$5.049.39: roads, $14,588.49; and
administration, $23,125,95.
A number of council, attend an
Economic Development seminar at the
Goderich Legion11 on March 28.
A report from the water resources
assessrnent unit Of Ministry ofenvironment
stated thattests made of the well water
supply shortage of Howard Shanks of
Kippen does not demonstrate any damage to
the well caused by ttie installation of the
Kippen Draninage system recently con-
structed.
Council turned down• a request by the
Vanastra Lions Club for discounts op the '
rental of the Vanastra 'Recreation Centre for
dances. •
Several objections were made by neigh-
bouring residents of a proposed motel unit tO
be
idb.uilt ,in Harpurhey„ A hea.,ring will be
he
. Council will assist a landowner with 25 per
cent Of the cost of any reforestation program'
done through the ministry of forestry.
' Council received notification of Tucker -
smith's share of • costs at the Seafotth
. landfill site amounting to $2,184, up from
$1,600 in 1978 due to costs of a man and
tractor hired to cover over garbage on a '
regularlad basis.
Itoprintendeet Allan Nicholson
reported the township garage had been
broken into again recently but he estimated
that the loss was small. He reported too that
three road signs had been stolen.
The clerk was authorized to open a •
separate account. for the Canada' Works
grant of approximately $19.000 to the
Vanastra Recreation centre, The grant is for
the hiring of three ,staff members for a
nine-month period' to set up recreation for
people with special needs.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 A.M.
Thursday.
Hensall counci
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which didn't° Cane up in 1978. so will likely
have to be included under the 1979 budget.
Savings in the surplus include $3600 ill.
interest sayings, subsidies frOtri the proy,
incial government which were under
-
budgeted, and the costs Of 2 it drain
whiell will be itteltided in this year's
Budget
Reeve Harold knight said. "There are
plaCeS it (the $30.000) definitely has- to go,
we just didn't tpettd it last year
Ceettleil approved grant Of 11t6 the •
Hunan Countiy PlaYhousei $10 to, the '
401'Ori COuntyliistoritalSotiety and PS te.1
Sr .lookben Aa vt sbet cnOtuet igc ou fp h hitt that'
as of October 15. 1978, SpOrts enUinnient
thretigh the Wintario nritt,eapital program
triaV only be applied for every two years,
Paul is ilaflds.and Harty Itlunget te.
'petted to ettincil Menthert Ott the ROMA
eotiventioti 1Sey Attended titilte this
winter before toe meeting adjourna,