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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-03-22, Page 3A LONG WAY DOWN' -4 A crowd of spectators. o erations near Grieevee's 1Na'tctleS the salvage p Bridge on Saturday morning. Bili Brown. of Egmondville and an..assistant• used a tow truck to winch: a oar belonging to Blain Rassman of Mllvertort out of the water and back up the tttl.h The ar plt.Mged into the river early Friday evening and Mr. Rassmanand: a paasen er were rescued • by passers-by, ` (Expositor Photo) THE Sf ECTATORS - "These are some of the people who spent, part of Saturday morning watching a 1973 Chevy Nova being' pulled out of the water near Grieve'sBridge, north of, Seaforth. Shirley Brown of Seaforth and Blain'Rassman of Milverton escaped serious injury early Friday night when the car plunged into the river after taking" off a guard rail: (Expositor Photo) Amin t $usar White where in the: heck did our winter go? l'tn -trotcomplaining mind, yutt, but that war a pretty abort and • relatively ,easy winter we just went through,: waSe't;it? In fact 1'In findingit pretty hard to make my usual case that the Canadian character IS strong, silent and full of martyrdom because of what we have to put up with from. nature for five or six months of the year. . No, this year we had a break. Why I only missed two days of workbecause of the . weather and 1' wasn't' totally snowed in anywhere eck did at all. Caret quite believe it. 1 must confess' what all those who live ant wok in town suspect: all along. We who live in. the country .and commute hope always, .every so slightly inour, heart' hearts. for just ai couple of extended weekends or snowed in sessions and enforced holidays. Maybe we don't enjoy them when we. get theta, Cooped up with the family, worried about work ,s but look forward to them, like. kids plan. to play hookey.'' Even the driving wasn't too terribly bad. 1 only went off the road once and that was on icethat sent my • rescuer and . several other people off Into •the ,ditch too. It was pretty wild but there was lots of sn **round stilt - to act asp a cushion and prevent any teal ttatuagg for the first time is Milani=, Irnany years:. 1 feel HO "winter We madly knew ye,: All the, cross country skiing I did was three or four" short runs to limber up, for the season. That never came:... The blizzard last week that inept people off the roads. On. Wednesday was a. low blow but by .Saturday things were balmy ' and people were shedding coats, boots and scarves. March was one . of my favourite .months when I was. a kid and for the last few years I've been trying to. OCCUPANTS ESCAPE INJURY - Driver Blain Rassman of Milverton and passenger Shirley Brown of Seaforth escaped serious injury on Friday night when the 1973 Chevy•Nova they were riding in missed a curve near Grieve's Bridge and plunged into the river, The ,couple were rescued from the roof of the car by'passers-by and on Saturday morning, Bill Brown of Egmondville salvaged the car, e. ti (Ea posits r Photo) „ r At ,LAST - After almott an hour of work, Bill' Brown and his our ., S. antk Mana ed to get the:. Ras$man vehicle back out on the bank. asslat .Q g (Expos for Photo) Daffodils will be on sale for Cancer Society stiting wilt be a little eict7ra Chkirrnan Says the students Airi ht in Seaforth this year' Will have 15,000 daffodils tit g.._ se SDHS students; will Sell in a. two day Mita, becau _.. fresh daffodils; Thursday' and "Fridays, March: �e selling _ ... . out B.C°. , for ,- 29 and.3((# flown infrom i_... . 'Canadian Cancer &SociMY. This marks the first tune s ter dsffodtl shies for the Bob Spittal, 5eaforth'S Cancer Society here, but the Center Society catnpit1Bl idea was hied. int• Godcricii ltifn Kart SChuessIei! • When you take a zero and add a five in front of it, that makes fifty. 50--a hefty number in' anyone's arithmetic when you're counting birthdays. Yes, it has come to pass• -in this .month of March I reach: my fiftieth year, the half century mark, At this age, I'm too old to cry and too young to laugh about it But ne'matter• what Amy age; there's • somethingin the air that makes me feel young all. over 'again. Maybe it's the nearby Thames. River that's starting to show moving water once again. Or maybe it's the daylight that goes past the dinner hour, or maybe it's the warm winds: that carry the smell of spring with 'them. But whatever' it is, I feel young again. And to prove it, 1 bit the open .road: In every man's young heart pounds the urge to leave home, to pull up stakes, get going into new. territory and invade the big open spaces: I did that last week in my beat opted pick up :truck. These young bucks cruising in theirvans have nothing on me. I won't let them put one milemver Me. -: Of course, my wife went to all the trouble,. to remind'me.. I'm grown, up now she said. Almost 50 in fact She told me about the gray' flannel suit hanging in the closet and about the shirts she, jtist/,,finished ironing. She pointed to all the ties on the rack. She wondered-. Wouldn't that be the way to dress when I went to Chicago? After all, I was making a .business- trap. 'CBC' was windshield. It wanted to go, places. D4 something. I started to dream about eating peanut butter sandwichea inside the cab while I- was-- driving:, I could see . all kinds of empty styrofoam coffee cups on the floor,' 1 could' see opened -up road maps on the dashboard with every red artery and blue vein promising a whole network of highways to •explotaa, • - "Pack me up some food, I announced, "I'm taking the truck. I'm ping to Chtca. in *real style," I put on my blue jeans and; my sloppy old.: turtleneck sweater. I pulled on my boots: I loaded in an extra supply of crunchy granola, sunflower seeds and .peanuts. That was' one way to get rid of the oversupply. I'd bought at closing out auction sale of Blyth general,. store: . I laid my tape recorder right beside me on the front seat I patted it. This little baby is staying right next to, me --all the time. The airlines want me to declare it as luggage and then take it away from me. Every minute I'M in the air I worry if they'll damage it or I wonder if it will arrive at the same time I do at the airport., Next to my tape recorder, I loaded in my tennis racquets and three cans of. new balls. Everything I' ever wanted or needed was right there on the front seat. ' This way 1 could leave when l wanted to. Stop' when i wanted and where I wanted No: sending, me there for an interview;:, waits in airports: No circle tours or layovers. I, didn't listen. 1 didn't want to hear all No cancelled flights. y p g Made that trip to Chicago in my red idlest the wa -res ectable and dignified men I of O years went to Chicago, truck. I wouldn't have missed:;: it for Of course, 1 should " travel in style. 'anything. Riding the highways, "n my truck Leave-the-driving=to-us.sort of thing. Let the shook me out of my fifty years'' It woke me airline girls bring inc food and drink.. Read a newspaper. Relax. Let the 'Mktg haul me all the way from the north side of Chicago to the .. far south and.the•University ofChicago.`And then let them .bring me all the way back again to the airport for the trip home: Of course this is ;the way a man df 50 should: travel Of course. But I sniffed spring in the air: I felt young again. My red truck wanted to get going.It smelled the tat of the roads. ,Itheard the call of the gas pedal and felt the sun on the: up from this long winters sleep. , It told me spring was : here once again. It. was time to be youn g again.. Spring is what the open roads are made for: Spring comes around every year to bring that good news. Young again. And you can bet; my, last birthday candle I'm not going to deny all those urges and surges and splurges of spring I'll grab at spring andopen roadeveryr chance I get That way- -eVen at 50-- I can say it's great to be young --yet. and Exeter last year with "some success",' Mr. Spittal said, The soc 's annual teinnvass will tak place itt AP ril'as usual. Advance orders for the flowers will be .taken' int t SDHS St 5274386, (Continued froin Page 1) the Vanastra ' periineteit road, . having five . township bridges surveyed and :marked. for the weight load limit, purchasing a new tractor to be used with the Mower for grass cutting and other jobs, some municipal drain work or equipment and housing for a proposed new township ga .rage; and other 'regular road- maintenance work..These proposals are subject to approval of the .ministry of transportation and comnitiuni cation as to which Will receive the go-ahead for this year. Council kited ..WilliamKim Hodgins of R.R.S. Clinton, aa the annual control officer for the township. He will be paid S4.50 per hour and mileage amounting to 31 cents per' mile. Dogs he picks up will be kept at the Seaforth Veterinary Clinic for the required time until picked up by owner or destroyed. Dogs running at large continue to be a P„ roblent in the township, especially'. at Vanastra, Egmondville and Brucefield, Robert Kyle of Vanastra Was hired SS50 per month for janitorial work at Vanastra Recreation Centre.. He will supply his own equipment for work, Connell approved the revised plan; for the' Doig subdivision, changing it from 14 to 12 lots, on eastern Outskirts of Egmondvtlic. Two a " PPlications for. 'bugildin permits were approved for Alain end Karen Geddes, Egmondville for a house and New Bedford Resources Development, part lot I1, plan 21 Vanastra for a building for facilities, compressor facilities. A request from the Vanastra Recreation Centre for a donation' was approved. A grant. of 5600 will be given, the same as last year. Drainage Works reports by Engineer Henry E.H.Uderstadt of Orangeville will be shidled; on Broadfoot and Clark drains on pril';'• 10 ,when .a,, special meeting; will be Clerk Jack. McLachlan was "authorized to. attend the annual meeting, in Toronto • on June 17-20 of the Clerks and Treasurers. Associa tion. Council received Ausabie-Bayfield Con- se: rva tion levy for township amounting to S6,000for 1979, compared to 56,670 in 1918, and it was approved for payment. Morgan's Mobile Homes Ltd. of Clinton was given" authorization to move 14 -foot wide mobile homes on township roads' "provided'. rot ad superintendent Allan Nicholson was given prior knowledge, A delegation ofRfive inembers of Huron County Federation of Agriculture attended the meeting to discuss the ,proposed: rent increase the Federation pays for an office in the 'township municipal office building at Vaniistra. Last year the Federation paid 5100' per Month: This year the township has upped the rent to 5125.00. Attending the meeting were Merle Gunby, president; Jetties McIntosh,. Beverley Brown, john VanBecrs and" Bill `Pullen. Miss Brown spoke for the delegation, . 'sayiing the federation is a non-profit organiz- a � fthe-� to do 'and lin the alt>e`o n ,outlined group i ounci the farmers and the min cipal c 1s in the county. She said they were interested in getting a long term lease for their ir o t1"ice Reeve Ervin Sillery Said, "We can't commit future councils the can only... sayfor this council" Clerk Jack McLachlan was late r° instructed 16 draw up a lease at 6125 per month until the end of December , 1980. Meeting adjourned at 1:00 a m.: Wcdnes- oars, nememi ,,r why. This year I .knpw The 'warm sun, the daylight when you ,get out of work at 5 p.m., the sound of shoe soles not •tntlffled old heavy rubber things, on, pavement make this a realty special time of year for me„ The dying days of winter and .early days of spring re ally do get me recharged. I get an upswing in energy (there'snot much room for nay energy to go down) . I get excited about trying new • things, stretching a bit, Now I'll get all kinds. of letters from t aders:.in the next months asking; where the evidence of all , this blooming enteadvity is in :the _ • -• newspaper, but what they heck .,.1'm taking Bea Malobey ,Fadden's adv* and leaving myself open. The creative upswing might be 4 Tittle Muted this year, . Seeing as how we really don't have all that much to recover from. But don't interpret that as a plea. for more winter. I't1 take these warm sunny days and enjoy them without a backward •dance. But 1' must admit. I had a tiny qualm about writing this column at all, March, if we tempt fate too much, could still go out like a: Lion. Eloys 5eaf arty paper Enclosed you will find cheque for'.one years renewal. For a number of years we were notgetting your paper; our boys were going to South Huron'' District High School and our interests were in that area at that time. Time changes things and as -1 -have many,- happy any+„happy memories of my days at the Seaforth' Collegiate Institute 1920-1925 and the people Who were there with me.i can still` find many things: which 'l can connect with ;those times In one issue on 19031' saw where Richard Gilligan had bought a house in Ha,purhey. My father had bought his farm in Hibbert Township in 1902, My parents always took the Expositor., My mother had got her Education at the Seaforth Colligiate Institute back in 1892 1.895a Now I have another interest in the educational system in Seaforth. My older son Patrick is the Vice Principal in, the Public School and my sister Elvis' youn8est girl teaches at St. Tames :Separate:.Schopl. 1 enjoy the columns, and. Mabel Turnbulls exerpts„ 1 was ,in school, with her brother and youngest sister and. also u•ithi Andy McLean: est W, isheS: Victoria,Bolton Soldan Look s for relatives. Dear: Editor: Kingston, Ont., K7K 4K1. Thank you yeti* Wil! an one. knowin of the wherabouts . much, y g ofthe descendents of the late William Getrond and Isobel Riekie from Edinburg, Scotland please inform me? He was a school teacher, and they resided in Seaforth possibly in the 1850's before leaving for Saskatchewan. Write to: Mrs; G. Clarke, 685 Alfred St. Yours very truly, Mrs. G. Clarke 685 Alfred Street .Kingston, Ontario K7K 4K1 C)n what basis would you vote?': BY DEBBIE RANNEY. • As a federal election 'seems to loom closet and closer Expositor Asks thought it would be interesting this week to ask people on what basis they would" vote --for the issues the i party favors, the leader of .. the- , party or would they: follow a family- tradition amilytradition of voting for a certain ;party.._ Mrs. Ken Miller of R. R. 0, ,Seaforth said they usually vote on ..the issues and what the different parties say they're going to try to do and for the one that seems to be . offering the most promising future. Dave 'Royof Varna said he votes for the. man and whathe stands for. Lloyd, Mrs: Robert Russell of R. R. #4, Walton says that in the federal election she votes" for the best ;man' for the, job and on the basis of what the man has done in the past. Mrs. Wendy Banks of R. R. #1, Hensall said, "I `I just: kind of go by the man that's • running," (and where he stands), ' _ Jane Taylor of 21 • Main St. N. in Seaforth said, "I generally vote for the than." 4 Mrs. Norman Eggert of fgmondville: said;thatshe didn't restrict her voting to tradition but that her vote usually goes to.' the man and the issues that he stands for. ' - Liz Mchjtosh of 13rucefie ld said, "Where the party stands.'' Lorre leave today ntinued from Page 1) 5"V u,� Mail early Marc • Bev Eisler said`' none of the rest of the Eisler family will be flying to Augsburg with Lloyd and'his partner, but it's certain they'll be waiuiig,results of the competition a little More anxiously than most Canadians. The other skaters going to the world competitiontor skaters . arejunior women s . champion Kay " Thompson of Toronto and third place finisher Kathytn Osterburg of Calgary, junior dance' champions Kelly Johnston and Chris Barber . of Toronto anelrad Meteor' of Port Moody, B'.C+ anet,Darrin Mattheson of Windsor.. tater tower '(Continue,'° from Page 1)" have installed another one at the same ' locatio9 , due to the.lbad at the Manor. Poleshave been instal, onrJames Street from Church.Street to Ad Street and trees tri the area have been trimmed. Work has begun on upgrading •the three phase primary on the street: Mr Phillips Stated when secondary services are upgraded the men will install new street lighting on the street which will be 175 -watt Mercury vapour' lights., After the meeting the manager reported on the annual meeting he and the, commis- stoners attended inti Toronto thi3' tiitinth of e O nt rto' Munici al Electrical Association the 0 a 1? � �.�-- for coinmissioners and .the Association of Electrical ll{tilities for managers. He said Robert. Taylor, chairman of Ontario Hydro spoke on load forecasting and ' surplus, capacity. Mr. Taylor said Ontario Hydro has. 3.400 megawatts:more than necessary, Sortie <, 17 per cent of the need - not the44 per cent that is;loged in some peoples, minds", On nservation Mr. Taylor wondered if ,.•c in h tit' . � o , • stro n. s om on t n o y �.:,.,ah �.. ,, g hi* Strong conse i .ton to'"'the detriment of the customer". " He said, "Ontario Hydro is getting.'strong messages that out advertising.g is being received in a negative way to stop using electricity." He stated,. "'That is not the idea' we intended convey, So we ate taking a close look at Conservation program to determine w e ct._ h Ih the: message needs a different thrust.'' ..• Londerborocondition . mon in' fair Prink Johnston. of Londes- taken in Aleikandta Marinethree injured workers, said borough remains tri :ai' and General Hospital where the -nen had "jest started i condition in University they were listed 'in satisfac• When the accident !Hospital, " roti A fourth mangy occurred, cb diti . aired Londb following tory d � �`ht~ Olen w reg n, o ori ,tit e Jf r an accident at the Sifto Salt Who was on the :scaffolding blasting the concrete dowtri a Mine, Goderich early Friday. and escaped injury, wasn't front a shaft siding. Mr. Lang. Mr. Johnston and three identified. said, he believed A' co-workers were working on The Men are employers of tech*nisch on the. ;held.. Scaffolding i8 feet off thf " , mttat ,: ,Chemicals :Gulp opin*ted scaffold ''broke, • d 1 i which rates the Sifto S*it tt t a.- groan ,when. the sca#fd d ng, dpe pp ng the, lit a10� the .. upped,- ,- thine but Were working fc►t• a " rest were thrown orf The other two, mein who, 'subeotitraeter, Cementation ''Thevhi,itii*try ef labOitt were injured *ere- Daiee- .(Canada) Ltd, of Brampton ` Investigating **Admit yroti Ce rfie tang at the timeof the acxidettgod their; :report both of toderichwho were .0eorge Lang, one tf, the ►: the tette ott)t s.