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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-06-14, Page 3THE CRAFTSMAN—Cecil Zurbrigg of. Listowel displays some of the wooden models' of. horses : and wagons which were featured in the' Seaforth Craft `Showon Saturday. (Expositor photo) Varna man seriously hurt. in fall from bike Frank Smith, 530 of Varna, was seriously injured Monday morning in a bicylce accident on the Bannockburn hill • between Varna and Brucefield, Mr. Hill.. who. was on his way to work at the• Varna, chopping milli wasridinga ten -speed bicycle downthe hill when he lost control of the bicycle. A motorist who passed Mr. Smith looked back to see the cyclist lying on the • • • • pavement. A hydro truck passing the scene, . of the accident radioed in for an ambulance. Mr. Smithwas taken by ambulance to Seaforth Community Hospital and later transferred to University. Hospital, London. • He received a concussion and other head injuries in the accident. Mr. Smith,' a bachelor, lives with his brother's family in Varna. Id Expositors now at. On' microfilm Researchers, genealogistsand history buffs can research local ! history or their family tree from`ntiicrofilmed copies of The Huron •Expositor,: now: aaiIabt at the Seaforth branch of Huron County Library : Trudy . Broome, assistant librarian, said. the library has microfilmed copies of the paper from the years 1921 to 1975. The ' microfilm reader and microfilms are a recent addition to the library. • The public can use the reader anytime during normal library hours. Microfilmed Pa are copies of other county; newspapers ' PP availablcat local libraries - for exam le back P. copies of The 'Clinton : News -Record are available at the Clinton. Library. In the past, many researchers have used the bound volumes of the Huron Expositor,. but many of these newspapers are becoming. too fragile for continued. handling. Logan .n accepts 9iaveI.:tend�t Logan. Township Council has accepted the ,tenderof James Murray Construction limited, Moorefield to load and haul 8000 cubic yard of gravel for theconstruction of sideroad 5 between conces- sions 14 and 16. Tenders were also opened May 14, for the construction of two municipal drains. The f contract t orcon construction t str coon fo teh Grey . B ac rah of the . NorthwM est unicipal Drain was awarded •to Wilson Drainage. R.R. b1 Newton for the closed • portion for $3,934. and to the. Robert Nicholson Construction Com- pany Limited, R.R. 1 Seb- ringville,'for the open portion for $8,046. Gollan Farm Drainage, R. R, 1 Listowel Was awarded the contract for. the Rohde Municipal Drain at $8,350 A. petition was received from landowners of Lots 28, 29 and 30, Concession 8 and Lot 28, Concession 7 stating. that these lands are in need of an improved drainage works as an extension to the Mogk Municipal' Drain, . Council instructed W.E. Kel- ley and Associates Limited of Kitchener to examine same and report back to Council. At the meeting on June 4, Logan Township Council ap- proved a ment of the : i"' payment i gen- eral accounts' n' the amount of $187,970.19. This included payments of $137,4750 to the Perth County School Board, due June 15, and $14,100,00 to the :Huron -Perth Roman Catholic' Separate, Schao1, Board due June 30. Other half " 'earl requisitions from• yearly q� the Mitchell and District. Planning Board, Mitchel and District Arena and COM, munity Centre Board, Mitch- ell and District Protective: Inspection . Committee and the ' Monkton . Community Centre Board were also included. The levies from the Maitland Valley Conserv- ation Authority; and the Up- per Thames River Conser- vation Authority wer paid. The: Council , and tall rep- resentatives on locallboards and occasional employees. to ees received their renumeration fpr the past 6 months. New washrooms have been instal- led ns al=led in the township hall at a cost of $5,000. Council felt that these facilities were long overdue. Road' accounts were ap- proved in the amount of $35,101.64. Additional ex - perse this month included payments to Pollard Bros. for supplying and applying cal- cium chloride to the roads and a part payment to Harvey Krotz Ltd., Listowel for the new Ford tandem truck which •the"'Township, has purchased. Tenders were, opened for the ;supply of a truck box, 2 plows ' -and related '.e equipment i meat for' the q p tandem u t tr ek The tender of Frink Canada Ltd.. Waterloo was accepted at a price of $22.295.00. Five tile • drainage loans were approved. It was noted that building ,permits: total- ling 5408,000. were issued in 8 May to residents of 'Logan Township.,. B Township. . Perth board hiress teachers rs The Perth County Board of•. Education accepted the res. ignations of seven teachers last Tuesday. At the same time it hired another 11 to replace 'them while rehiring another two. Resigning elementary teachers were: Cecile Demeulenaere, St, Marys North Ward School; Dorothy , • 11Sunseith, Anne Hathaway School; :Edythe. Petrie, South Perth School Grace Waikom $prucedale School is retiring. The resigning secondary teachers were:. John A. Mil- ler, vice principal at Stratford Central Collegiate and Paul Schalm, Listowel. District Secondary School. Robert M. Babcock, Listowel District Secondary School is resign- ing his position as the minor head of the moderns depart- ment but will continue 'teach- ing at the school, The board then went on to hire five teachers with Specialized training to fill positions in coutit P element- ary ary schools, Hired were: Philip J. Baldwin, Milverton Public School; Judith C. Baretiberg, North Easthope P.S. (half-titne); William J. Driedger, Mitchell P.S.; Yvonne E. Petit, Elma Town- ship P.S. And Hendrik ' R. Riedstra, North Easthope One secondary school full time teacher was hired by the board, Peter J. McAsh, St. Marys District Collegiate and Vocational &pool. Part-time : elementary teachers hired were: Joan •Dou gg las, Juliet P,S.; Pauline J. McCabe, King Lear Sr. P.S., and J. Marilyn Potts, Wallace P,S,• fki S.Susc,n Teted•:know my husband :if you saw him last week Ince was the ,one se ;rh the big grin on his lace, and the Balm, far away look in his t";:t„s. That's: because peace reigned at our place. The better hair and the baby w: ' the benefi iaries .w'hilr silently raged .and: ;gnashed: my teeth. The key word there is. silent. For four whole days I completely lost my voice. It's been back at about half' power since Saturday nicht but i`,tn uOt etrien . eon w ern ,fr!ntCt< it hitt zip, 'an unn.erving experte'',. lt.all $tarte(1, tali 4-. ple at work thought, v her; I ante hack from speakiwp x.e the Brucefteld L`C'W \ s tsttors'. day. (1 was *cad. haiarso ,from a sore throat lielore 1 :went there but this, r:'.tlscs a better story.) • "It must be thi of speaking from a Ner .' one wit here suggests .t!, wiwn I croaked hello. , Ilat:" lust the shock of h ..t..t to a chu.rch.'the pttbitsherpiped in. Well.. 1. cross ked n?y way through that day and went :to, bed early. Wednesday morning .I woke ,up cheerful but utterly silent. And that's: bOW 1 stayed alt day. My co-workers loved .it and made outrageous, suggestions, for that week's: paper to which I replied in increasingly quiet whispers" But back to the smiles on the home front, What bugged me the most was pot Hensall will review grants (Continued from Page 1) park and repairing and, paint- ing the bleachers, He said the ball) diamond is now "the best lit ballpark in Huron. County.". Council was also advised it will receive a grant for $1,800 under regulation 200 from the ministry of culture and. recreation to pay part of the arena maintenance costs and the salaries of recreation employees in. 1978. Council was also; notified, that a court of revision on the assessment on the Main Branch Black Creek drain, will be heard at the township hall on June 26 at 8 p.m, • Although council, members said, they felt the town's assessment was high, they didn't; feel a reduction in the assessment would merit the lawyer's' fees needed to. launch an appeal. Thecost for the village on roads and streets assessment is $3,225. Council received a request for financial assistance for the Field -Springer Disaster Relief Fund, Sturgeon Fall, fortheir flood disaster fund. The , settlement of eligible. 'claims from this spring's flood: in the area is expected to exceed $3 million. Hensall council voted to send $50 to the relief fund, and the province will ,match .this sum: on a four to one. basis,: After granting money to. the relief fund, council mem- bers voted not to attend the AMO annual conference in Toronto in August. Reeve Harold . Knight' told fellow council members, "We've. shot our wad as far as, conventions go:" , Clerk Betty Oke informed: council there is a holdup in. • the signing 'of the Bendi Corp. and Bolgerr storm sew- er easement. She said the Reid easement also hasn't. been signed. Council.,was, also notified that the village of Bayfield has applied for an arbitration of its 1979 education appoint- ment and a meeting of the county treasurers is sched- uled at the board of educa- tion :offices in Clinton on .lune 25. Clerk Betty Oke will represent Hensall at the hearings. Last year Bayfield ob1ected to its ,1978` appor- tionment PPor- tionment and won the appeal): Councillors endorsed a re - solution from th• te<wn of Seaforth "to tic':ta4.n the Attorney General at Ontario to conduct an aggressive and thorough stud .+f time consuming court r "e'rn proce- dures prevalent +' ()Maria courts and further „k analyse sentences beim: handed down from the na h for various crimes." Reeve Harold lr.night point ed out that dela.. in court' procedures are l arostilarly costly for townswith their own police forces, since the police are often paid over time to attend wart, and then cases are put "leer to a later date. The: reeve said, "Police sit in courtsat the expense of taxpayers." Coun cillors agreed that the lenien- cy of the .eettrts in passing sentence no longer a, t..d' as a deterrent for someone coni. mitting a crime. , ' Council will be meeting later this week -in .camera • to review the Assessment Act with Floyd Jenkins, district officer of the assessment division of the Ministry of Revenue, One June 25, council will again meet in committee -of - the .whole . with Hay Town- ship officials, and Roman Dzus of the Huron County planning department' to dis- cuss the annexation goes- tion, Councillor Harry 'Klungei: and Clerk Betty Oke ,were authorized to represent coun- cil at a regional planning meeting in London on June THE HUR:ptt ,EX IT twit 1111144 14r lis. being able :tit entertain the better half witht tong storeis about who said what during the workday. Communication was reduded; to the bare minimum with notes from me saying "call yourmother' ' or "did, you, reineinber to pick up the baby?". 1 wasn't •going towrite any long narrative$ and) he:kttew it and; loved 1 fumed, and rehearsed inside my head the first story 1"d tell: when my voice came back. Reactions varied but most people giggled when 1 le t them know I was voiceless.. Conversation, 1 teamed', dies when its' a one way street. Phone calls were a rio. • Perhaps the only benefit of losing your voice is that you can't take any calls at work and I loved having an entirely uninterrupted day Council approved a bylaw appointing•Roy Bell of Hen- sall to the vacant seat on the. Hensall .Parks Board, Mr.. ` Bell is taking over the posi- tion left vacant by Wayne Reid's resignation. Council also approved a bylaw to enter into anagree' men:t with the Ministry' of Environment for financial as- sistance up to $1,000 toward improving conditions at the village's waste disposal site. But being at borne ;alone is. another matter. frm still wondering who called last. Wednesday night and didn't say one word when I mouthed hello. And d l congratulate one very together friend who; when: I answered the phone whishpering "I've lost my voice," calmly extracted di- rections to a meeting from whispers and moans. I hear she found the meeting too. i he baby oddly enough seemed not to notice much although 1 felt really eat off from communication with her. (She just wouldn't read. my notes!) The only fear 1 had, through the ;whole experience was that she'd do suntet�hing • dangerous and 1 wouldn't be abie to yell out a warning. Just another one of her w'lerd experiements, the lit- tle dear was: likely thifking- She adjusted perfectly to having a silent mother. I was with her when my voice, came back Saturday night, and; croaked "MY voice". She got :all excited, but that was because she thought 111 said, "the boys" and she, insisted; her favourite playmates were downstairs, The return of Morn,LL'.s voice obviously doesn't tate next to "the boys." But the better , half's reaction wasn't nearly as easy going as hers, "Susan" tie said. as 1 chattered myself hoarse Saturday night, making up, forlost time, fi.". "why.don't you pretend your 'voice is • gone :again for awhile??" a e of It was the golden g silence and the smiles' gone from his face - ALL DRESSED UP Kimmie Raau daughter r of Mr. and. Mrs. Paul Rau of E9 mondville, is: all dceremonies r dressed. up for the graduation fo. Seaforth Co-op Nursery - students held at Seaforth Public School on Friday. (Expositor photo) member w,hen? A hotmeal was 35` Remember the dayswhen a hot meal at Crich's Bakery, a Main Street institutinit for many years, cost 35 cents? Or when :iii egg nog malted sold for two bits and .t piece of pie for a dime? For those of use who can't remember tits "good old days" in the late '1930's when these prices were the order of the day, f?.1. Taylor brought a menu he found into the Ex ositor last weekjust to remind , t P iiia us some of the past attractions of a meal .it. Johnny Crich's, First, the .35 cent luncheon speciitis included a boiled'dinner, Trish or chicken stew, chili con carne or Boston baked beans with bacon, all accompanied .. b � brad .yr J e toast: and coffee or tea, depending on your preference. . ' • The breakfast bill of fare included' everything from the 40 Cent•deluxe marl' which was juice, bacon and 'e s and toast $g with coffee to the 15 cent special of utast,• and coffee. • Now w•hile r a some diners dropped or far itito Crich s. Baker.. for mealt r a tt famous home baked bread and cakes a„ many stoppedb' for one of the celebrated r'tted Y.YY.,...., b. ". Pepperuppers. Milk shakes and malted milks,o` ular choices with the.youn g , 1? P younger generation, were 15 ccnts.and 20 'gents. Slice& oranges and bananas and Motive.. listed • 'a petizers also 5 Cents ed aix said for 1- cert , . PP while' coffee and test were t available for a thin dime, Refreshers like We cola, ginger , • ale and omen drink were six cents while milk was a nickel a glass. Late night partygoers who woke with • a bit of a hangover could order •alka'seltzer for six cents and brorno seltzer for' a dime with their morning coffee. But‘1h'leth'e Crich .baking was nndoubt- t. g IdlyPopular. the real attraction 'on the tuenu w, as saved for the back.: page under the heading w of soda fountain service,. Today, 'even reading the tneno is a mouthvv meting y treat. First, the choice of sodas is as varied as this reporter has ever seen. 'There Were bittersweet chocolate, honey fudge. chocolate and lemon,' coca cola andinea p' le fruit. The deluxe sodas' p 1P sold ft* the grand sum of 15 cents and the 'other sodas for a dime, Y Now 'vi . if ,a i:ttstattter could get past the soda selection. he was confronted with an even greater selection of sundaes. There was f rich s special a conglomeration of goodies, which sold kir the top price of 30 cents. 'T'hen there were the other treats like• banana nut salad, lutterscott.h nut, the merry -,go -round, French chocolate, the tin roof and the David Hatton, if this review ofthe Crich tttenu hasn't tirade vett Joste tittle bit nostalgic, then we don't, know that can. But one solemn note "s... schile. reslaiii"ttttt p'rls*es they seen, attractive today,. the late 1.930' v a v eck'sr 'n. s wages often averaged $10: •-$20. GIFTS FOR "11i1ISS JOANNE"' AND DAUGHTER -,- The, Seaforth Co-op , Nursery students could hardly wait, until their gtacluation ceremonies. were over Friday night topresent teacher Joanne Holland ;and her new daughter, Kristine Marie, with gifts. Mrs: Holland missed the last month.. of school on maternity leave and it's obvious the 'students missed Miss Joanne, (E)tpositor Photo); Sugar and spice. By Bill Smiley Cleaning together One of the best ways I know to knock the Mortar out from between the bricks of your marriage - to uncement things - is to join your spouse: in cleaning up the basement/ attic, Take your pick. One's as bad as the other.. My wife s been talking about'. cleaning Up ` our basement for approximately 15 years. I have avoided 'it by resorting to a number of subterfuges that I will `gladly' send you on receipt .of a certified cheque for five bucks. • That may seem a little expensive, but it takes a: .mighty lot' of subterfuges to get g } g through 15 years. But nemesis is unavoidable. It came last week in the form of an ad in the localPaP er town trucks pick'u' stating that the would p household junk on the following Thursday. J g It caused a lot of deep 'thinking in our town. What constitutes household . junk? Some chaps 1 know sat there, pretending to watch TV, while their dark andsecret minds conjured visions of ctilorof rming the old woman, putting'. her in a 'green garbage bag,and sticking her out } -ehe curb oil Thursday. I'm happy to say thatnothing of the sort oecurred to me (itsays here). But ,the notice did draw a deep and anguished groan, right front the heels. 1 knew what was coming. I thought l might he able tostall her until the Wednesday eveningbefore,when we could luthings afew outof the jungle that lies below, and leave the rest to rot, as it has been doing for 15 years, But :it was not to bp. With .complete disregard for my feelings about the sacred- ness, the almost; holiiiess, of weekends, n 5, she draggod•me down into the underworld on a perfect day' for playing gait; pointed,, and calcify said: ,Lets go. Oh, I could have sneered, picked up hiy g..o i. walked n obs, lkcd to the car, and driven off. t wish I' had that kind of guts. But 1 ;, knew I. d come boric to a living martyr and six months of sheer hell. I went. Down. 'That's when I began to envy those lucky devils who have converted their basements into rec rooms y have If you m ve one of those, you don't a unpack bo X, p. x... remove; the contents, and happily pP lYi hurl the u container down the cellar steps. get You rid of it in sone seemly fashion It's not the rubbiti through g gthrough and other assorted. dthat I. mind. Firsirt job I ever' had was cleaning ng out latrines, and 1 have no dignity ' when it g comes to dirt, What .gets the is the dialogue.. We were intwe different rooms, she the in li the mace w:.ere - 1 # to oil is fan , , , and the ' nias ttec stands, and the paint pots. all with'. alitltrt ' HMO to client, and the old drum and cymbals set,• and son Itugh's pots and pans and dishes. .troia time he was batching, and a lot of interesting: artifacts like that. 1"was 'out in the main 'cellar, 'where we normally shovel a path` from..the bottom of the steps to the furnace, the washer and. dryer. It was full of wet cardboard boxes, pieces of linoleum, ancient lamps without shades, ancient shades without lamps, mildewed purses and gunny sacks 'and jackets, warped curtain rods, ski poles without handles, skis with the harness missing, various pieces of torn plastic, great heaps of old, sheets, kept for ,dusting rags, and similar gitems,. g fascinating She hollers:"Bill' 8 1 think there's enough green here to touch up the woodwork." 1 have just lifted an anonymous'box full of dirt from when the furnace was cleaned! out. The bottom has dropped out, and I' am contemplating a one -foot mound of furnace P 8 excrement on the floor. • Me: "That's great. Shove it - uh - that's fine, dear." • She, appearing aroundthe door: "You're. notg oin . to throw; out that perfectly good g chunk oflinoleum! We might t need it to patch the kitchen floor!" Me, sotto voce: "Why don't you make a bikini out of it,you great seamstress, you?" Me, alarmed: "Hey, you're not going to throw out that gunny sack? I had that in Normandy in 44! She: "It has a hole in .it and stinks ; . aP,f mould, And what about these old med, als?" Old medals, my foot. They are precious. They are not exactly the V.C. and, the D.S.O. As a .m matter a of fact, one is for. joining up. another for getting across the ocean without ,being sunk,. ai.. third for stayingalive on wartime. rations, known as the Spam medal, and the fourth for getting home alive. a c. But the grandboys like to play with them. And on it' ., ,des. We fi ht aver v g every ry item, for sentimental or practical reasons. I hate to see a perfectly good breadbox go out, even though, it has no ,handle and doesn't match the kitchen, She gets upset when I want to discard the third -last vacuum cleaner We had, because it has the propensity of being a great spray -painting weapon for painting fences, if we had a fences and she could find a bottle exactly the size of the one that is missing, Like marriage in general, we8 ive a little here, take a little there, and both wind furious and exhausted. When it was all over, there wasn't much left but a bagful of mouldy, green love letters, 30 years old. She doesn't know it but I'm going.., , to get. up. at 'five On Thursda` morning,sneak Y thein out, and bu them amongthe .' . unk. • . � 7 1 simply couldn't stand hearing what' k: chump I was in those days.