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Kindergarten class sends
out some Christmas cheer
Mrs. Badley and Mrs. Stackhouse's kindergarten
class, from Seaforth Public School, was recently
involved in a special project.
After a suggestion from a parent, the class
collected donations for Operation Christmas
Child, which sends shoeboxes packed with
toys, books, clothes and hygiene supplies to
needy children in Costa Rica, Guinea, Haiti,
Nicaragua, Chile or Senegal. The other two
kindergarten classes (Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Harris
and Mrs. Nelson) jumped onboard to collect
donations as well.
Mrs. Badley and Mrs. Stackhouse's class also
drew pictures to be included in each box. On
Monday, the parent who made the initial
suggestion came in to Mrs. Badley's classroom
to help the children pack the shoeboxes. The
class was able to collect enough donations to fill
19 shoeboxes.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Porker weighs in at 200 pounds at only seven months old, in 1889
Dec. 13,1889
• From the Expositor classifieds: $3,000 will buy Lot 7, Con-
cession 10, Morris township, one and a half miles east of
Blyth, contains 64 acres, good orchard, small house and
barn. Two-thirds of purchase money may remain on
mortgage at 6 per cent per annum.
• On Friday the 29th, Mr. John Balkwell, who lives near Port
Huron, Michigan, and brother of Mr. William Balkwell,
who lives on the London Road south of Exeter, received a
telegram stating that his brother William was dead and
the funeral would take place on Sunday. Mr. Balkwell at
once made preparations and left there on Saturday
morning, arrived at Exeter Saturday evening and to his
surprise found his brother enjoying the best of health.
The perpetrator of this cruel hoax is not known.
• James Spier of Morris killed a Berkshire pig, seven
months old, that dressed out at 220 pounds. That is not
bad for a porker.
• On Friday night a young lady applied at the bar of a lead-
ing hotel in Kingston for a bottle of brandy. She said a
doctor had ordered it. The keeper said he would like a
certificate. The young miss retired and did not return.
Dec. 18,1914
IN The Grand Trunk Railroad have replaced the plank plat-
form at Holmesvile station, by one of the cinder and
crushed stone and also extended it eastwards and wid-
ened it.
• The Goderich Knitting Factory has received an order from
the British Government for socks that will keep the fac-
tory running to its utmost capacity for the next four
months to fill.
• Toronto's boys at Salisbury Plains certainly won't go pud-
dingless this Christmas. Three trunks, one weighing 400
pounds, and all filled with puddings and plum cakes,
were sent off to England.
• Mr. Robert Dick, of the third concession of Hay, delivered
an exceptionally good flock of turkeys to C. Watson of
Kippen. Mr. Dick had 50 in the flock and they averaged 14
and a half pounds each. Mr. Dick is noted to be an excep-
tional fowl man.
Dec. 17,1964
• Tuckersmith council approved a bid of street lights in
Kippen. The installation is being initiated by Stanley
Township.
• Santa Claus brought joy to the hearts of hundreds of chil-
dren on Saturday when he arrived at the Hensall Town
Hall for the annual Christmas party for the children of
Hensall and district. Four hundred and twenty-ive treats
and 425 bottles of chocolate milk were handed out.
• A campaign to raise funds for the Pioneer Memorial Mau-
soleum, now under construction in Harperhey, got
underway this week when letters were mailed to area res-
idents. About half of the funds required already are on
hand.
• Despite the snow and cold which featured the weather
program here early this week, certain flowers seem to
have no difficulty in thriving. Latest example is a bouquet
of bright, cherry pansies which John Tremeer picked in
his Victoria Street garden on Saturday and brought into
the Expositor office.
• Prices at Willinson's IGA: Grade 'A' turkeys, 38 cents a
pound; Coffee, one pound tin, 99 cents; Smoked ham, 49
cents a pound; Sunkist oranges, 59 cents a dozen; Kraft
mayonnaise, 37 cents; Kidney beans, 8 tins for 99 cents;
butter, 57 cents a pound.
Dec. 13,1989
• At their meeting on December 5, McKillop Township
council approved a grant of $1,000 for the Rita Lutheran
Villa in Mitchell. The monies will go towards funding of
the extended care conversation project.
■ Hay Township Reeve Lionel Wilder is Huron County's
new warden. The none -year county veteran received 18
votes to McKillop Township Reeve Marie Hicknell's 14 at
Huron County's Inaugural Session Tuesday afternoon.
• An RR1 Seaforth resident is the 1989 recipient of the Mur-
ray Cardiff Citizenship trophy, awarded to the 4-H mem-
ber in Huron County who best exemplifies the goals and
aims of 4-H.
A tradition of teen dances may be beginning in Seaforth on
Saturday night. Wally Gaebel, who has been running teen
dances in just about every community between London,
Goderich and Stratford for the past four years, has organ-
ized a Beach Party Saturday for Seaforth teens, partly out
of a desire to serve a community that isn't already being
served, and partly because he was approached by local
teens to come to their community.