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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-07-19, Page 11.244.4galr Wboe Net ;5$1O SEAFORTH,. Q•MTAIF.JOk THURSDAY* ;J) Or 19, 1.919 PAGES FIRST SECTION, PAGES 1 — 22 ----7"-"'".".17"1""HM117. $13, ► try nit Mien, iRsoak BY WILMA OKE: A by-law to; control the type of holding tank for animal waste that can be con structed in Tuckersmith Township, will be prepared by Clerk Jack McLachlan for council's consideration, at its next meeting; August 7, Deputy -reeve •Robert. Bell stated, "We'd. have a better municipality if we went to closed tanksfor animal waste - if closed, they are maintained..I think our people are. entitled to as much protection as others," Councillor Williant, Brown said, "l'm;not in favour of ;closing, the tanks in because of the expense, and we don't have figures on how much more the cover would increase the cost to the farmer." Councillor Robert Fotheringham.favoured closed tanks but said he would be satisfied with the cement holding tank with cement walls four feet above grade and the remaining six or eight, feet could be wooden or tin siding. Reeve. Ervin. Sillery suggested the walls. should be 12 feet rather than the minimum of 10 feet, Councillor Frank Falconer was absent from the meeting held Tuesday at Brucefield.. Council agreed no open lagoonsor pits,. dug out of the ground would be allowed in the future, Council did not discuss or take action on: requests from the Town ,of Seaforth and the Village of Hensall for money to help with their arena deficits, Seaforth asked for 51,50Qbased on the number of persons from; Tuckers'nith . who, participate in sports. programs at the arena - 20 per cent. from: Tuckersmith. The Seaforth arena has a' deficit of S31,097. The letter from Hensall was not read at the meeting. A letter from the Ministry of Transport- ation and Communications read at the meeting indicated full approval of the site of the proposed new township garage to be built on property bought from John Flannery on western outskirts of Egmondville for $6,000. 'The Ministry of Culture and Recreation has notified council that a Wintario grant -of $300 will be sent immediately for minor ball program at Vanastra. Council turned down a request for a . donation for the disaster relief fund from both the Township of Dover and the Sudbury Townships want to keep fire area, Seaforth's opting out Municipalities who are members of this present Seaforth Fire Area . Board (FAB) were expected to attend a meeting in Seaforth last night (Wednesday) on the invitation' of the town council to discuss the terms and implications . of the townships buying fire protectionfrom the town. . Seaforth has told the other. -FAB 'members, McKillop, Tuckersmith,• Hibbert and Hullett that it intends to withdraw from the fire arca and set up its own fire ', department In Dublin��st good crowd ha A good crowd was out t� take part in Dublinfest activities Saturday, which feat-' ured a talent show, pork barbecue and dance. The event was •Sponsored by the : Lion's Club, with a baseball tournament in the afternoon. Later was an amateur talent show and contest, with two categories; instrumental and dance. Bob Burchill of R.R. 2, Dublin was the M.C. Donna McQuaid of Seaforth placed first in the instrumental contest, and Steven Vander Veldon of Seaforth second The . McQuaid' sisters performed well Saturday, with Anne Marie taking first in the:. dance category, and sister Donna placing second. . Following a pork barbecue was a dance e 'a dins attracting,a+large with music by D. sl r crowd. January,1980. Don Owens of the Ontario, Fire Marshall's office. along with his supervisor, are expected to attend the meeting. Seaforth, clerk Jim Crocker said it was feltfollowing; themeeting: calledby the townships last. he wee : that the fire;m rsh ll could best a a answer some of the: questions that came up;' The meeting will be held without the press. Seaforth hasn't been formally notified, he said, whether' any of the townships want to buy. fire.' protection from the town's new. Sdepartment. The townships however want the FAB to continue and according to a press release issued by Ross McPhail, reeve of. Hibbert and chairman of the meeting: held in'Staffa last week, a committee has been formed to look atre-housing the equipment and staffing the brigade. This committee will report back tothe. councils concerned at a meeting on August 13. All of those present, including the Seaforth council, agreed that by withdraw- ing from the: fire area, in accordance with the agreement, .Seaforth loses all equity in the fire fighting cquipment that the FAB owns, the press release added. parate. area, both hitby:flood damage in the spring. Applications for building permits were aRpproved for Dwight Kinsman of .R. 2 , Kippen; Kenneth Gemmell, R.R, 2, Kippen. garage and family room; James Devereaux,. R. R. 4 Seaforth, granary; ,and Kenneth Doig ,and William Price, Egmondville, a house. Council expressed concern over the dump- ing of garbage in the southern part: of the township and will take further action if it continues to be a problem. The meeting adjourned at 10:15 p.m. READY, SET,OFF YOUR MARK For merHuron County warden Gerry Council picnic held int the Lion's Parkon Sunday� afternoon. More photos Ginn of GoderichTownship was the man who said the magic words to inside the Expositor. these girls, 11;years old and under, who were racing at the Huron County. . After Vancouver w Johnny Nielsen Johnny Nielsen, Seaforth athlete, left for France Tuesday, where he will represent Canda as partof the Canadian Junior Team, of the Canadian Track and Field Association. He will: compete against the ' French National Team in shot put after a training session overseas. The meet will be held. July 31. Before being, selected for the 'Canadian Team,' an athlete must place first or second in his category at the Junior Championships. BY WILMA OKE• The ;Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School board increased the fors ecommittee for 1979 budget tt prop rty EVERYTHING'S', UNDER CONTROL. --Lynn Whetham left and Patricia Maloney seem pretty confident despite the' fact that the pizza dough the g Y were mixing Friday at the Dublin Playground was In soggy p sha' e. More photos on the Dublin page. allots to help meet the costs of•tiiaintenance work needed in: keeping up its 19 schools: The budget was increased to 547;000 from John O'Leary of Staffa, chairman of the building and property committee, asked for the S12,000 increase at a board meeting in, Dublin Monday: Mickey Vere of Stratford, a member of the committee, said, ''This board must put more money into maintaining the schools. We have to have more money ,inthe budget." 'Mr. Vere warned that if the maintenance work is not carried out when neededthe schools will deteriorate badly: Mr. O'Learystated. "The finance commit- tee will have to sit down at an early date in the new year and assess the needs of each school. in the past the building committee has only got what is left." Johnny just returned from Vancouver, where he competed inthe championships, placing first in shot put, and fifth in discus. After the competition in France, he will be flying to England before coming home,, where he will be shot putting against the English and Italian: Junior National Teams: The Expositor hopes to feature a full interview with the high school athlete upon his return to Seaforth. rno "ale . uron'' as or• Inside this week +,,; Up, up and away,. linf 3 i. . Dub es n photos : works at Walton farm Girl or Hillsgreen lives Ted Geoffrey, Zurich, chairman of finance committee, said his committee does not decide where the money goes, administra- tion' does. Ronald Marcy, Stratford, board vice- ctairman said, "It's not intentional that the committee gets what isleft over, but that is what seems to happen." Michael Connolly, Kippen, asked where the 514 000 was coming from and wondered if consideration was given to selling the van,. (retired in June by 'a Kingsbridge handicapped boy who will be attending secondary school in the fall). He. was told the van', bought by governmentgrant, is a second hand vehicle now and would' not bring a worthwhile amount of money., The, board spent $30,262 of the property committee budget, when it awarded the They're coming! West Branch here next weekend Recreation director Clive Buist said billets in local homes have ' now been found fpr about 701 of the 100 West Branch visitors coming to town for the Seaforth/West Branch games on July 27. The Michigan children Will bein town from Fridays afternoon to: Monday, July 30 when they'll return to West Branch. Mr. Buist said the number of families volunteering to host some of the visiting athletes has picked up in the last week and a half: He said many Seaforth children want to have the friends they made in West Branch during last year's games stay With them for the three day event. Mr. Btiist said right now he 'isn't "'too worried" about the billet Situation: The Seaforth Optimists Club will also be allowing West Branch visitors to camp in the', Optimist Park during the weekend, Mr. Buist said the only problem has been:-' that the West Branch organizers don't yet' r, know which teams will be coming :over to compete in the games. Mr., Deist said he doesn't +suspect this will be finalized until sometinie Thursday. This means he isn't able to tell Seafert h children *halteams and a age group s will be coming over for the g B P m g ov e games. Families who take ht the West Branch athletes will be responsiblefor gettit g thent to events .held during the weekend. To help thehosts, the Optimist. Club will' be holding. breakfasts at the park on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. Also, on Saturday night there will be a party for the visiting athletes at the'Seaforth: arena from 9 p.m. to midnight with a disc jockey from London. A Heritage Walk along. Seaforth's Main Street and to the .Whitman house IS also being planned for Sunday, June 29 by the local LACAC. West Branch recently -had a Heritage Week in Seaforth's sister town. Clive Buist said the West: Branch athletes "can also attend any of the regularly scheduled events such aS roller skating at the. arena or swimming Cessions at the Lions Pool', He said the roller skating. may . be a novelty for the visitors since West Branch, 'doesn't have an arena. Also, Seaforth organizers are planning to hold a crosstown futi run duringthe three day event. The run, which will start froth; the; Optimist Park, will involve completing a five to seven kilometre route through town, Mr. Buist said runners Will be divided into 'categories according to their experience In g . p tinning. The run will be open tb anyone who Wants to take part, A.complete list of events for the weekend will be included in :next week's Expositor. P.`4,5 P. 1.6 P. .7A a infenance tender' for redesigning and replacing windows in- seven classrooms and the i al's office at Our principal's Lady y of Mount Carmel . school to Robinson Construction of Mitchell for contract cost of $17,767 plus architectural fees of 52,132 and, to the same, company for installing aluminum siding on. the upper part of St Mary's School, Goderich over deteriorating brick siding, for 59,253 plus architectural fees of 51,110. Both tenders were the lowest of four received. The board set . the date of • the hoard -employee banquet for Friday, October 19 at the Pineridge Chalet,,f lensail. Edward J, Florian was granted a leave -of -absence without pay for two months effective July 1, 1979 to August 31, 1979. Three board members who attended conventions in British Columbia in June gave . brief reports of them --Michael Connolly, John O'Leary and Tim McDonnell. Tour v'i:iIII�,,�k70t Mal'St buildings, heritage house BY JIM WALKER LACAC STUDENT Seaforth has a collection of unique buildings on its Main Street as well as some. magnificent residences in the town. These buildings are often 'glanced at but rarely appreciated as the fine examples. of archi.' tecture and history they .represent These fine examples will be on view with a detailed outline of some of their features on the Heritage Architecture Tour planned by Seaforth's Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee for Sunday, July 29 from 2 to 4 p.m. This tour is planned to help people of Seaforth, friends and guests of West Branch, Michigan, to see the architectural. styles of Seaforth. Tour participants will be showing interest in the craftsmen's pride in the fine examples they have left for present residents to enjoy. There 'Will be three interiors open for public viewing, The first interior opened' for the occasion is Sills Hardware on the corner of Market and Main Street. This store has been in the family for three generations and has many unique artifacts in the building that relate to the hardware trade. The other Main Street building that is being opened for the day is the famous "Cardno Hall". This building on thie exterior With its itililtisaid; MP( lino and clock tower stands out on the Main Street of g forth. C rdno, s Hall, lid longer se. d as a Concert hall because of new fire requirements, stands as an example of the past when ;travelling troups and local groups 'gathered at concerts', parties or dances. A 'unique feature is the stage and original stage curtain at the front of the hall. The other building open for the tour is the, Whitman-Colemartresidence at 58 Goderich Street East: This home. is a Georgian five bay house, because of the upper windows on the main facade. This home was the home of Seaforth's first Reeve and first Doctor, Dr. Coleman and is the present home of Dr. and, MA s podger Whittnan. ec al feature not to miss in the interior of this home is the beautiful staircase as, welt as the lovely gardens that surround this large property. Tour goers art invited to take, a peek in the greenhouse on the property built by a previous owner. • At this stop' refreshments will be served on the lawn. After the tour, and refreshments the Van Egmond I%nte in Egmondville will be open to tour goers. This home at 'present is under restoration by the Van Egmond foundation and viewers can see the many steps involved in restoration of this fine home. Seaforth's LACAC has planned this tout Of Main Street, the Whitman•Coleman: 'home tind the Van Egniond Home for everybody's enjoyment, Local people ate invited to come out and look at these buildings and possibly see something they have never noticed! before. The whole afternoon tour is free A speciiil invitation is issued to West'. P Branch Michigan visitors, Sxafortlet Sister City tit the United' States. The LACAC hopes they,as well as Seaforth residents, vrill enjoy seeing- some of the features of Seaforth that makes it unique,.