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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-11-29, Page 1$13 a year in. •advance: Pullin gle Copy 304en4 SEAFORTH, ONT ,i ,IO . THURSOAY NOVEMBER 29, 1979 [Second Section .P gi a .0. 20) -- 36 PAGES 120th Year Whole No. 5829; enan Construction commenced in Seaforth Monday at a South Main Street site for a new food market, But contrary to: expectations the new store, 'when it. ,opens next March,, will be leased by Knechtel Wholesale Grocers Ltd and be occupied by Roths Food Market, The switch in, tenants: from M Loeb Ltd on behalfof Seaforth IGA. to: Roths.- was announced Monday by,, Herman'Latisink and Ray McNicol of Lanco Developments who are developing the site. "We had waited for six months for Loebs Shan to confirm the proposal and we ,couldn't wait any longer. We had to look for another t a tenant,"Mr. Lansink said:. and. added they then had approached Knechtels Wholesale Grocers Ltd and in four weeks "had a deal".: Bruce Hoelscher of Seaforth. IGA, who initiated the project last spring, said that plans for the new store had been progressing' between. M. Loeb Limited who would lease the new store, and Lanco developers but continued to be delayed andthe developers couldn't wait any longer for a final decision by Loebs. Santa's coming Saturday Area youngsters should be warned - "you better not pout, you better not cry" because Santa Claus is coming to Seaforth this. Saturday. The jolly man in the redsuit will be escorted byy a parade down Main Street. The parade; featuring 18 floats, the Seaforth District High School bandand clowns galore will leave the Seaforth arena. at 10:30. am: A. number of local or- ganizations are now busy planning and" decorating their floats for the annual event,. Santa will pull up at the'Seaforth town hall at 11 a.m., and will be available for visits. from then unit, noon, and after lunch from 1 p.m, to 2:30; p.m: In addition to listening to Christmas wishes, there will also be favours provided for all of Santa's visitors. This year's Santa Claus parade is organized by the Seaforth, Lions Club, with the co-operation of the recreation committee and, the. Chamber of Commerce. Chamber of Commerce elects new executive.. Seaforth still has a Chamber of Commerce and the group has a new executive following an annual meeting last Wednesday night at. • which the possibility of disbanding the group was, raised: . "Do we want to continue the Chamber of Commerce? Is there enough .interest or. should we let ' it fold?" asked. Jerry Hetherington, chairman of the C of C's retail merchants' committee. After some discussion it was agreed to proceed with an election of officers "and that will provide an answer" said president, Betty ardno;' A new slate of officers was. elected: Bob Plumsteel is ' the new president; Nancy larone> the new vice president; Jim Gould returns as treasurer and Scott Thornton replaced longtime C • of C secretary Ken Oldacre. New directors are past president Cardno, . Mr. 'Hetherington; Mr. Aldacre; Gord Rimmer, Merle Hoover; Dave Hoover Otto Tippelt, Don Deighton; Susan White; Ken Lingelbach; . Peg Ellis, and Piet Loomans, While a number of others declined to be nominated, retiring secretary Oldacre com- mented the election was one of the best the Chamber has ever had. Chamber meetingsare held the first Tuesday night of each month at thetown hall and members discussed various ways of getting;more people to attend, "If people get mad enough they'll .get.., interested, and. turn out", commented Mr:. Gould. • A statement of income and expense for the year ending ' Oct. 31 from treasurer Gould showed the C of C has a bank balance of about S1,400 Income was 51,655.73 and. expenditures S1,971.78. 11. got downto Seaforth' business people attending the Chamber of Commerce: annual ua meeting here t g ee last, Wednesday night heard former Goder- ich mayor Deb Shewfelt say it took the threat of two malls on the town's outskirts to get downtown business people to work together,• in his town. Goderich has formed. a downtown, Busi- ness Improvement Area (BIA), as have, Exeter and Clinton and the step has been ' suggested for .;Seaforth, A BIA ' involves setting boundaries around the whole or part of a ;downtown improving pub -c services within the area . , lights, sidewalks, planters parketten for example and promotion of the • area as a whole. • Once aBIA hi r§ been approved by a town's council, it is funded through an assessment on all the businesses inside its` boundaries, Low interest loans . are • available from the province (Exeter is seeking the maximum amount $150,000 for its BIA), but Mr. Shewfelt said Goderich merchantspreferred, to spend only what could be raised locally. 1 • Ken Stashick, general manager of Loehr Limited, London division told the Expositor Wednesday that IGA ' would continue In, Seaforth and would have new and modern in the next few'weeks to. see what a ccom n av comodatio can be made.available. We c odatons before too to c _ . n "Wh r verydefinite are stain in.;Se .,'' e e expect to approach other.develope s t.,,ly .S staying, $•. . • afQ� � h said, Ken 'Roth of 'Roth Food Market said the new store which they expected to Occupy in late March, would provide 91.20- square feet rt, and parking for 35 cars. Mr. Roth, who opened Rothe Food Market here four years ago last July; had expanded the store at the corner of Main and John Streetson three occasions, the most recent only in September. He said the present IT'S' , BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! -PUC employees Jack Muir an Larry y Seymour raise the beautiful Christmas s `treedonated to the to n�yBill Trapnell. The tree was blown down in recent high winds. (Expositor Photo) The Goderich.:BIA has an annualbudget of about 525,000 and .a fiveY plan lan to revitalize ,its downtown. Before the threat of the malls, Mr. Shewfelt said; "many o le felt the Square uare Y people P q. didn t •g ive a damn and as a relative. newcomer, I'. have to 'agree." The malls, though got a downtown ' group going. A planner was hired to do an overall design, and after aear of disagreement on whether... Y the downtown needed improving or not, the: BIA wasassed byGoderich council P Even those who were against the BIA for Goderich in .the beginning like the new sidewalks etc. now, Mr. Shewfelt said.' ' Figures rove he added,that contraryto the g p new malls putting downtown out of business "the downtown core has the malls on the run." He said Goderich business people deserve le: a lot of credit because it was. tou h to hang g togetherandand fight ffor the B IA, a conn tro- versial issue at the beginning, The town had too court to olleet some Bl g to c A. of assessments when the plan first started. Now,the tow' ' clerk, who is •collector, says reek Y the delinquency rate is about 2. percent and those pay the day before scheduled court appearances. Does it take .the threat of a mall to get downtown businesses working together? asked audience member Wayne ears Ellis, who noted 67 Seaforth businesses were theof C meeting. o representedC not re reser e Pg It had • to happen that way in' Goderich, Mr: Shewfelt replied, . but a handful of people did the BIA. work there and`.' :are still carrying the ball." (Continued on 'Page 3) Few flooded basements here Seaforth town clerk Jim Crocker said only three or four flooded basements were reported • rted following.the .weekends heavy rains. He said the problems were 'related to blocked drains and the public works •crew was out working on clearing the 'drains. •. The clerk said he hadn't heard of any y problems With •sewers after the rainstorm::. Monday's high winds resulted in some Ontario Hydro feeders being knocked down, and power was as out in the 'Seaforth' area. for, `.about five minutes on Monday morning. Tome .PhilpP s, PUC •Mana Manager, reported orted his. g p crew had few problems as a result of the high 'winds. He said "we were very fortunate and: said the lack of serious damage was a credit to the tree trimming program carried out by the PUC crew earlier this year. bn Tuesday, the PUC crews erected a 40 -foot Christmastree in front of the town hall. The tree was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Trapnell after it was blown down in the. windstorm Monday: • m • premises would 1.. available for, other purposes as soon as the new store was completed and added he actively was. exploring uses to which the building could be put. He hoped it would be possible to attract a new business to the MainStreet. FURNITURE STORE WILL MOVE. In addition to the new food market the- South Main street development will provide, new accomodation for Robert L. Plumsteel Interiors. . Mr, Lansink said agreement had been (Continued on Page 4), the uroil. - Inside this week K of C turkey bingo The Royal Christmas recipes ., ; . ; Colouring contest . Lots of adults can't read ,,. •P. 5 P. 8 P. 2A , P. 5A .P. TA Write •to Santa here .► Santa Claus won't be coming to Seaforth to deliver his presents until Christmas Eve, but the Expositor wants to give Santa some hints beforehand on what to bring with, him: We've set up a special mail service to the North Pole, and we •hope area youngsters will take advantage of it. Children can write their letters to Santa in'careof the Expositor, and we'll put a big box in our office to drop them in. They can. also be sent to us through the mail and we'll forward them to Santa. Each week from now until Christmas, we'll print as many of the letters as we can, andwe'11 include the writer's picture, too, if space . and time 'permit. Then a few days before Christmas Eve rolls around,' we'll see that all the letters sent to us are delivered directly to the North Pole and given to Santain time for the big night. • Children write your letter to Santa care of the Expositor right away, in your own handwriting or printing if possible. Be sure to put your address and telephone number on the letter so we can make arrangements for pictures;' There's a big, bright red box waiting for your letters right here at the, Expositor office., hare your Christmas Christmas means many different things ;to different people. To some'it means baking, gingerbread boys and Christmas cake, to others :;it means decorating: ;the, Christmas tree with sparkling tinsel and P g shiny ornaments and to others it's a time to get together with family and friends, exchanging gifts and:sharin the joys of g g8 lY the holiday:. Readers of all ages are invited to share, their Christmas with other Expositor readers either with a drawing or story,: Thetheme thisY ear is Christmas food family, fun", The drawings should be done with;,: crayon' • orpencil crayons, on 8" by 10". y paper, and mailed into or dropped off at the Expositor office by Monday, Dec: 17. The deadline for Christmas stories is the same day, and both the pictures and stories will be published in our special Christmas issue. The best drawing will be given a very special place on the newspaper's front page., , We'd also like to share some of the..`. special moments of past Christmases by .. publishing pictures our readers have taken o ftheir familY celebrations over the years. If you'd like to share these memories, drop the picture into the Expositor office. We p pictures all will be returned safely.. The Expositor wilcontinue the tradition of it's annual Christmas colouring contest. The pictures to be coloured are inside this week, theg and deadline for. handling in the Po entries to the Expositor is December 14 n :We this year's Christmas issue will', be a very specialyou one for readers. Will.'`. help us make sure it is? a VOLUNTEER IN ACTION Mrs. Jan' Moor, a ,rent -volunteer of P , /kicker 3eatforth bllc School* helps Bo AlkeMade and Brent VanDen ' with a sentence drill" Mrs. Moore was assisting teacher Jill Johnston in teaching sentenceponstruction to Grade 1i students (Expositor Photo) Seniors, non -parents welcome Volunteers BY ALICE GIBB • While adult volunteers working' in the schools may be a, common phenomenon in larger centres, it's still a fairly new idea in Huron • County: But if the program's success at Seaforth Public School is any indication, then it's obvious volunteers in the schools are here :to stay. Right now 26 parent -volunteers are donating their time to work with students and staff at the school, but with' more teachers requesting volunteers Principal Paul Carroll is hopingto recruit more people from the community. Although the volunteers to date have usually been the parents of students, Mr: Carroll is, encouraging senior citizens, secondary school students and anyone else with some spare time and a liking for children to become a school' volunteer. Paul Carroll said the volunteer program isn't just a situation Where teachers at the help, extra getting school are g g a criticism . . P, sometimes levelled at the program. The principal said ' teachers .dare faced with four main duties • planning and preparing lesson ma erialx and programs; the actual teaching responsibility; super vision of students and mechanical or clerical ' jobs. By bringing volunteers into. the school to assist with sorti,e of these chores, Mr. Carroll said staff can increase the time they spend with individual pupils" The principal said the first and second' duties mentioned above are I the most important aspects of teaching. Supervision and completing clerical or mechanical chores are things which can be carried by people who aren't necessarily professional teachers: Two years ago the staff at the school. spent some time looking' at how they Were spending their time in the classrooms and how they could increase their time with the children: The result was the introduction of the p,rent -volunteer program, which brought arents into the school to assist in' the resource e and center, the school bffic in the classroom. One of the first programs tried was an individualized readingprogram for Grade 3 P B students. The parents came in to lighten the teacher's load, giving student more tired with the teacher on a Ione -to -one bass" needed at SPS Paul Carroll said the introduction of one more adult into the classroom can' actually increase the' teacher's contact with pupils. by as much as four times. AVARIETY 'Y Now, in the second, year of the program, volunteers are performing a variety of chores everything from mechanical activities such as flashcard • drills to assisting students with their reading Or math, assisting on field trips or working;; at clerical chores. I or example, the principal said, edu- cators have found when younger children are learning to read and Write, it's a good idea to have them respond to their own language itt print. Kindergarten to Grade 2 students can dictate stories either to older students'. or adults, 'Volunteers then take these stories and perform the . mechanical task of getting them into print and back to the students. Another example of a volunteer's role' happened in the Grade 2 class recently. After the teacher taught the students a lesson on counting change, the volunteer' went through the process with each: childs 114.411. something:'the teacher, just didn't have the time to do. After drawing mainly on parents as a source of volunteers, Paul Carroll is hoping the general public will take an interest in the program. He said, for example, ,children could experience a lot of social and emotional growth from working with ,a: senior citizen. The prerequisites for volunteer work are some spare time, and a' liking either for working with children or doing clerical work.EARLY LEARNING One ate where volunteers can provide valuable assistance is in the early learning needs identification' program Special education teacher Jill Johnston works with. the children to identify either learning .difficulties or else children who may need additional enrichment so they aren't bored in the classroom: Paul Carroll said if blase students aren't: helped, : seri" 'remedial problems may Keifer e . after the ableaaT ed never- bet , be remedial aars � the *dents who need (C`ontintl l on Page ' 31'