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SEAFOBTH, 6NTARIO, dune 6, 1974
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There is an increasing awareness in
this part of the country that small
towns are not just places to grout up in
and move away from but that they
have something unique and -valuable
to offer. Two Huron County towns,
Clinton and Godertch, are moving to
preserve and brighten up what is
rhost valuable and interesting about
theta — their downtown gores.
Downtown merchants in Goderich
were mobilized by the threat of a
shopping centre to take a serious look
at a deteriorating, hodge-podge
square. Out of their banding together,
and concern has come a scheme to
renovate the entire downtown area.
First photographs of the stores along'
the square as they look now were
taken and pasted together. Then
proposals for a renovation and face,
lift. were drawn. This summer, little
more than six months after thty
shopping centre seemed to threaten
the downtown core, store fronts are
being painter} in complementary
colours.
In Clinton a downtown renovation
scheme is just getting off the ground.
�. There the catalyst was a local
architect and designer who submitted
sketches for a new Clinton Town Hall
and offered his serviees as a •
consultant to help make, the most of
Clinton's brick store fronts and
downtown streets.
The Clinton Retail Merchants
Association seems to support
restoration for downtown Clinton and
a .recent meeting drew 54 people to
r discuss getting started.
In Brussels an official plan that has
just been ",developed includes
provision for a riverfront downtown
park. There is also interest in painting
downtown store fronts, planting trees
along the Main Street and providing
benches for. onlookers in the
downtown area.
All these Huron County towns are
recognizing the fundamental fact that
their future depends as much upon a
thriving, interesting commercial core
as on attempts to attract large
industry.
Commuters, who live and shop in
our small towns, and the agricultural
community which has helped support
many a small town over the years, car,
be just as important to a small town
economy a� many industries.
An a#tractive business section
brings people into town, tourists and
permanent residents alike. it's as
simple as that.
Seaforth's Main Street, while it is
certainly not falling apart, presents
many possibilities for restoration and
renovation. Our Main Street has a
group' of well designed brick
buildings which complement each
- other. Although many of the
downtown stores* have been
modernized out of harmony with
adjoining stores, the upper levels of
Main Street stores are pretty well
untouched. If you look up as you walk
along Seaforth's Main Street the view
is of a good, yrell c"rdinated design.
Our town, tot? could,benefit from a
N plant to renovate our downtown. If
other towns in Huron County steep
sprucing up:at .their present rates,
we'll have to do something soon int
order to compete.
But a renovation scheme is useless
without the whole town behind it. As
designer Gordon" Duern said about
the Clinton scheme, -the worst thing
- -that could happen would be for five
merchants to go ahead and for 25 not
to do anything.
What Seaforth perhaps needs to
spur restoration is a little push. Are
there any shopping centre developers
or public minded architects out there
who would like to take on the job?
Sugar and Spice.
By Bill Smiley
Well, were you alert enough to fill your
racket. Hydro sends you a bill, with a
gas tank and pick up half a dozen
certain "discount if ' it is paid within a
,five -gallon jerrycans of the stuff before the
certain date. That means that Hydro can
price soared?
get along quite nicely if everyone pays on
Were you smart enough to have your
time. Right? Therefore. the "discount" is
furnace -oil tank filled before the stuff
no such thing. It's a .penalty. Robbers.
turned to black gold?
Show me an income tax return and I'll
That's funny. Neither was 1. in fact. my
show you that I should have been paying,
wife informed me. the day after gasoline
and have not been. quarterly, in advance.
prices headed for the.moon, that we werern
penalized. --��
riding on a pint and a prayer.
Show me a full-page advertisement
"Dummy!". I stated. "Dummy yourself.
featuring a big sale. 50 per cent off,
she retorted. "Why didn't you tell me the
everything, and I'll show you that the
price was gding up?"
is ten days old and the sale ended
paper - .,.
"Tw'-dummy." I responded coolly.
last Saturday.
"Why don't you read the ruddy
Showme a big jump in the price of beef
newspapers?"
or lettuce, and I'll show you a craving f6r
"Thrice -dummy", was her unoriginal
red meat and salad.
answer. "Because you're always hogging
And my wife is just the same. Show her
them. and you, never talk to me. and I'm
six books of wall -paper samples - all good,
alone all day and"'never see anyone. and
st Urdu, durable, colorful stuff, and she will
you come home and bury your big fat nose
unerringly pick the one that's twice the
in the newspapers, and I'm sick and tired
price of all the others.
Of it.7
My swim suit invariably springs a leak in.
"Bull -ones•!'. i snorted, and we wereoff
July, before the August sales begin. My
on one of those half-hour deals so popular
.,.inter boots' spring the same thing in
with married couples. and from which I
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January. before the sales begin.
always emerge looking like Archie Bunker.
If I plunge for five shares of a sure -thing
And there wasn't a bit of truth in her
stock, a war starts. or Nixon says
tirade. I don't hog the papers. 1 let her
something stupid again. and there's a
havi the -.classified ads' section ., and the
stock market slump. -
;ports section. when I've finished with it.
I don't consider this to be a malignant '
She's not home alone all day. She has the
thing. I dont really believe. though it has
cats. She sees people - the postman and the
,,tossed my mind, that God has it in for me.
garbage men when they're not on strike.
Maybe it's Old Debbil: At any rate, it
And I don't have,2 big. fat, .nose. It's just
happens too often to be a coincidence, and
big.
I'm getting sick of it. by gum.
I'm disgressing'But I often do that when
A typical was the first Olympic
1 get talking about my helpmeet. my other
Sweepstake, i forgot to get a ticket. You'd
half. my chieadee. my lambie, the Joan to
think a guy's friends would remind him.
my, darby, that broad who is driving me
But oh. no. Not them. Too greedy. and I've
squitrely with talk about spring cleaning.
a sneaking notion I'd have won the million
What I ready- began to' discuss was my
bucks. Bov. would I show my so-called
native abilitv.,born knack. or sheer genius.
friends. if 1 vron'that. They wouldn't see
at missing chances to sale 'money. There
me for gold -dust.
aren`t many such chances. in these parlous
But there is ane little area in which my
times. but every time there is one. 1 seem
rife and i are infallible. when it comes to
to be out to lunch,
saying money. Every year, we pay our '
Show me a hydro bill. and 11! show you
house taxes in Januar. I think we save
that it's four days past the deadline for the
about eight dollars. That will show them,
discount.Bv the wa%. that's one sweet
we tell each other solemnly.
Former.
Staffa residents
send letter fr(?.m
Indra
Bruce and Jean Eaton and their family
theBangladesh •government,
from her. This has proved to be correct.
school this September, she is studying at
lived for over a year at R.R.2. Staffa prior
The C.O.R.R.Tubewell program is a
We have visited their shop and just this
home. Besides working at the Ontario
Co their move to India in August of last
experiment at the request of the
month were privileged to .see several of
Grade IX French corespondence course,
-special
year. Mr. Eaton is an ordained United
World Bank and the Bangladesh Planning
their items displayed in a national
she and Jean attend the Alliance Francaise
Church minister and had sewed in India
Commission aimed at making tubeweil
exhibition of handicrafts. Jean is pleased to
an hour a day for French lessons. Both are
for five years before. Their youngest son
irrigation facilities available to small
have been a part of it and enjoyed many
enjoying it thoroughly. One of the "Y"
was born in that country.
groups of farmers at a price they can afford
happy hours with the Bengali women.
women who comes to our house is in
Following is a letter they sent to friends
to pay. Wells are being drilled with simple.
Even though she couldn't speakBangali
purdah (completely concealed within a
in the Staffa community.
labour intensive home-rr}ade.rigs initially.
and none of the women could speak
cloak with a heavy veil.) .This is not
Dear Friends,
It is alsolanned to drill some using
English. they were somehow able to
uncommon for Moslem women. However
Greetings to you all from Bangladesh! In
modern drilling equipment made in the
communicate. These are very poor women
Hamida. Jean and Elizabeth were the
case you are hearing for the first time that
United States so that comparisons r. ay be
who had to prove they had some sewing
Ohjects of curiously interested stares when
we are once more working in this part of
made of the costs.yields and general
w
ability before they were taken into- the
they shared a cycle rickshaw without even
the world. here is a brief explanation.
suitability of each method. To secure the
project. Jean has once again become active
thinking of it one day on their way to
While Bruce was working as an
modern equipment. it was necessary for
in a pan of their program. A
French class. Andrew is working at his
independent volunteer in India for a few
Bruce andAndrew• Koval, Director • of
semi -industrial type of sewing machine
school work under Grandma Eaton's
months in the spring of 1973. he was
Catholic Relief Services who has
capable of handling heavy materials like
supervision and is moving along rapidly.
-
contaBangla-
by an organization in
spearheaded the tubeweil project. to make
jute has been brought from Europe, It is
We're very pleased with his progress. He
desh.
flesh. A short visit here in April resulted in
s resulted i
atrip to the United States in October. 1973.
equipped with the most modern of
enjoys going' to his Sunday School class
his appointment as Chief Drilling
Supervisor in the. C.O.R.R. (Christian
The new rig is expected to reach
embroidery facilities. needle -threader and
each week also.
Organization for Relief and Rehabilitation)
Bangladesh this summer; There have been
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most other attachments you could mention.
"at,it"
,Usually we worship at the Dacca
tubeweil and irrigation Scheme. He
many difficulties encountered. but we are
Jean spent several hours going on
"Y"
International Christian Church. Over a
returned to Canada in July and after
happy to report that several wells have
her own and has now had women
hundred people attend eve Sunda but
P . P every Y•
putting business and personal matters in
been completed to date and with
installation of the we
(Bengalis) in our home several. afternoons
learning the various procedures. She is
as these people are constantly corrin and
P P Y g
order, returned to Bangladesh with Jean
propellor pumps,
hope we shall.bagin to see green fields
thrilled with their achievements.
cin in their work assignments, we're
going Sn
regularly meeting new arrivals or visitors
re y g
and the two younger children, Elizabeth
and Andrew. Kimberly and Richard were
where lands have previously been bare at
Besides this she has taken on the
g
as well as several friends we had known in
brought as far as Qotacamund, South
this time of year.
responsibility of working with a retarded
P Y g
India. The service is held in a Roman
India, where we had enrolled them in
Bruce's responsibilities keep him on the
Canadian twelve Iyear old boy for three
Catholic college. There is an electric organ
boarding schools. At the end of November
run most -of the time since he not only
hours every morning (since November). It
and the music is very good • not only the
they. came "home" to Dacca to enjoy a two
supervises the drilling operations which
is an extremely slow process which
congregational singing, but vocal and
months winter vacation. They went back to
range from 90 to 250 miles away, but also
requires great patience. She also spends
instrumental solos also. Occasionally we
their schools on January 31st. Grandma
has to attend to many technical matters at
one hour a day tutoring a thirteen year old
attend services at the Roman Catholic
Eaton arrived in Dacca on December 30th
the office ',n Dacca. Most components of
Bihari boy who saw the rest of his family
Cathedral. A moderlt type of folk mass is
to enjoy the warmth for a few months with
the irrigation systems (such as filters and
killed during the recent war.
usually conducted by Canadian priests and
US.
casing pipe, pumps engines and so on) are
As a special favour to an American
we enjoy the music here also. We come
Although Brute is C.O.R.R.'s chief well
heti imported at this stage,
g P g but the hope
family. Jean to their home every"
from different traditions and nations but
driller, he is actuals a volunteer supported
Y PP
is that locally manufactured items can be
goes
Wednesday afternoon to give piano lessons
we celebrate the oneness that we have in
b international.Yolunta Services (I.V,S.;
Y rY
substituted in the long run.
to their three children. In exchange, the car
Jesup Christ.
having its headquarters in Washington, -
• Jean has also been very busy since our
takes her to the American School library
It is good to be back in this part of the
D.C. I.V.S, does not ordinarily make
arrival here September Ist. Before two
where she can stock up on reading -material
world where there are still so many
COt►traCt5 with volunteers having four
weeks had elapsed. she was working as a
for the family for the week. Also, she has
worthvihile things to do. Possibly Elizabeth
school age children, but Bruce's particular
volunteer at the • Y.W.C.A. using her
the use of their piano for an hour each week
a rvcca(1 It best for tis When she said
"maybe
skills were so urgently required that an
sewing skills to help implement their
before lessons begin. We don't have a
shortly after our arrival, it sounds
exception was trade and C.O.R.R. agreed
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Bengali handicrafts program. She spent
g p g p
piano here so that is a real treat.
silly. but i sort of feel like 1 belong here."
to Underwrite part of the fatnilys'
five mornings a week !here for six weeks. i
As Elizabeth has a lot of catching up to
Sincerely,
L-xpCtises. His a5stgotttent to C.O.-R.R. ryas
At this time she felt the women were
do in French and Latin before entering her
Bruce & Jean Eaton, Kimberly (15)
with the fill knowledge and approval of
catinhIc of carrying on wiflinuf fitrth" help
Grade IX etas,, in the British boarding
Richard (13) Elizabeth (i2) Andrew (7)
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In the ears AIVr
JUNE 9,19"
The.steam dredge which is at work in the
pine swamp, near Leadbury is as much of
an attraction for the boys as what
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Barnum's show would be.
Henry Bennewies of Leadbury has
purchased a new steam engine for use on
his farm.
Ati excellent afternoon and evening
was spent at the barn raising of John bale.
It was a big affair in every way. There were
over 200 men present. They were
captained by W. Morrison and Edward
Jones.
The Coleman foundry, which has been
standing idle for some time, is about to be
started again. Robert Bell Jr. of Hensall,
who purchased the property, has made
arrangements to start work.
A Cardno of town has placed a new
special delivery wagon on the road.
Mrs. Margaret Johnson of Harpurhey
has just finished a quilt that has 3,6 41
pieces in it. Th is is a pretty good record for
a lady verging on 70 years of age.
James Martin of Constance has
purchased the farm of H. Oke, for the sum
of$5,200.00. '
Thos, Keyes of Varna has raised the roof
of his house and is remodelling it. His son
Frank has the contract.
Lawn tennis is becoming quite a popular
sport with a number of the Hensall
villagers.
James Reid Jr. Who went to Dauphin
Manitoba, says he is doing well and likes,
the country. He has steady employment as
a carpenter and gets good wages.
JUNE 6, 1924.
John Scott of Roxboro has four good colts
and all got by British Hero,
J.G.McMichael's horse. This horse so far
has 40 living colts and is proving an
excellent sire.
The house of Geo. Munn was burned to
the ground on Mon da3r,afternoon.
The farmers are busy at Wm.
Trewartha's barn at Winthrop and expect
to raise it next week.
Ross Scott, of the Hay Stationery Co.,
London, has returned to Brucefield and is
taking charge of his father's business here.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jarrott and son
Gilbert, of Kippen, attended the
graduation exercises at Western University
when their son, James T. Jarrott graduated
and received the degree of M.D.
Robert Thompson of the London Road,
south of Kippen, is busy getting things in
shape to raise his barn.
The choir of Carmel Church, Hensall, .
looked quite. ,,pipe. in their ,.new mortar
boards• or caps..on Sunday last.
'a' Russel 'McKay of.-�Henstn'is.. receiving 5
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congratulations for a scholarship of $100.00 '
which he won at the London Medical
College.
A successful musicale was given by the
pupils of St. Joseph's School of Music in
St. James' Hall. Presentation of
certificates and medals was made by
Rev.Fr. Goetzt to Mrs. Edith Grieve, Rena
Reid, Gertrude Downey, Anna Hanna,
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MaryLane, Margaret Cardno, Hairy
McLeod, and Jack Campbell, Mrs.,
W.H. Bullard was the accompanist.
The Main St. pavement has' been
completed in Seaforth and work has been
started on North Main St.
Arch. L. Hays left for Toronto and will
spend the summer on one of the 51.
Lawrence River boats.
J.F.Daly has, leased, the store in the
Graves block and is moving his jewellr-y
stock here. Ic
J. M. McMillan of town has moved into
his new residence on Victoria Park, and has
one of the prettiest homes in town.
Geo. McTaggart, of near Brussels, has
moved his family into the residence he
recently leased from Miss Crosbie, on
Centre St.
JUNE 19, 1949
Miss Theresa Maloney, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter E. Maloney, McKillop,
graduated from St. Mary's School of L
Nursing, Kitchener. She received her early
education at Beechwood Separate School.
Donald Stephenson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leo St ephenson, Constance,
graduated from the University of Toronto,
with his Bachelor of Applied Science,
degree..
Mrs.H enry Taylor of town, celebrat ed i'
her 90th birthday at her home on George
St. She was formerly Elizabeth Leitch and $ i
spent all her life in Hullett and Seaforth.
John M. Govenlock, well known citizen
of Seaforth marked his 87th birthday and
despite his years continues to enjoy the .
best of health.
Dr. J.C.Goddard of Hens 11 was in
Clinton Hospital with several1roken ribs
after his car was in collision with a truck
near the R.C.A.F. Radio School.
To the Editor
Mail service again
Aie';
As of June 1st, I had not received your
issue of April 18th, 1974.
This morning it was in my box at the post
office.
It is good to see this improvement in mail
service. M
Could it be it is because there is an
election approaching?
Your sincerely, "� w
Harry Hinchley. V
$ox 11, Renfrew, Ont.,K7V 4A2