The Huron Expositor, 1975-01-02, Page 1•••••••P
THE CHASE — The men jh this picture are chasing the bucking cattle beast to the
right Ofilie-tree,-Jorrq-,Barlp ei(Olained. The cattle had just been delivered to,Jerry's
village in, Ghana after a rough ride in an old truck and• this particular cattle beast...,
was mad . The bull never did calm down and eventually had to be slaughtered fOr -
meat, Jerry said.
Home on leave, CO
volunteer talks about Ghana
keaforth has a new clerk-A
treasurer. Robert H. Franklin,
Si; of St. Williams near Wig
Point on Lake Erie, has accepted
*0 town clerk's job which was.
offered to'him following a special
council meeting last Monday
knight.
Mr. Franklin will come to,
Seaforth as deputy clerk on
February 3, 1975 and after a
learning period with present clerk
Ernest Williams, will take over as
clerk on March 20, when Mr.
Williams retires. The • new clerk-
treas,urer's salary will be $12,000
..per annum.
Mr. Franklin . was clerk-
treasurer of South Wallsingham
Township, a rural municipality in
the Long Point area for 10 years.
$is job was eliminated when the
'township was incorporated into'
,the Haldimand-Norfolk Region..
Since that time Mr. Franklin has
been deputy bailiff of the judicial
district there. He is married and
has a grown family.
The new clerk was one of nine
applicants for the job„ seven of
whom were interviewed by
council.
Space will probably be Mr'.
Franklin's prime , requirement
when he a looks for a .home in
Find-89 votes
re'count
cpi m i ..pu NG WINNER: Ten-year-old Steven Snell s
the winner of the annual Expositor Christmas
Colotging Contest: Steven shows his' winning picture
- judge ,by Miss Mabel Turnbull -as "first among the
hundreds of entries. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Snell of
, Dublin are Steven's parents. (Staff Photo)
Pension cheques stolen
at Brucefielci PO
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THE •HURON EXPOSITOR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2,1976 16 PAGES
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5enforth -names
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THE RAINY SEASON — Jerry Baan snapped-this icture of the Ghanaian mission
station where he lives during the April to September rainy season. The rain's
onslaught is pretty hard on the thatched roof building in the rear. Other buildings at
the mission have tin •roofs.
A• break-in at the Brucefield
Post Office ''Christmas Day
resulted in the theft of a money
order imprinter, 88, blank money
orders, 52 old age "security
cheques, approximately $395 in
-stamps and a small amount of
money.
Postmaster Arthur Dutton and
his 'family discovered the break-in
on their return 'VVednesday night
from a, Christmas Day visit.
Mr. Dutton said entry was
gained by breaking the only
basement window in the building,
and forcing a basement door to
the main floor.' They found the
steel • cabinet containing the
valuables had been looted and
$10 from the store's cash register
stolen.
"We have been here 24 years
ait's the first time We have
ben robbed. I believe it was
The ,Huron Expositor for the
first time in its more than 100
years history has - a woman
editor.
She 'is Susan White who for
some months has been assistant
editor. She succeeds A. Y.
McLean who continues as
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MIXING CEMENT — Gerald Baan and a groS of Ghanaiii men shovel sand which
will be mixed by hand into cement for a garage foundation. The group built the pew
garage‘at the Lutheran mission in BankpurugU where Jerry hat lived for two years.
The tin *age roof blew off during a storm recently, Jerry said when he was hoMa
WaltOrt on hOltday last Mond),
Photos by Gerald &Ian
This refrain 'is for the best of
years *pith a speci0 'chorus of thanks.
Froth all of u8 at
Seaforth, Mr. Williams said. 'The
new. clerk is an antique car buff
and he has eight, cars, including a
completely restored 19.5
Studebaker Silver Hawk and a.
1928 Franklin.
McKillop boy
wins contest
Tuckersmith
ok's tax
Thursday night, Tuckergruith
Council ' passed for payment
general accounts of $12,590.77,
road accounts of $12,884.87 and
Vanastra Recreation, $3,575.12..
Requests for tax refunds were
granted , to Alex Finnigan,
Egmondville for a write-off of
business ta, m $255.00 or
fort'assessment 12 months of
1974. ,
Mrs. Ray (Adrienne)
Hutchinson, Egmondville, for
cancellation of • $125.00 of
assessment on barn removed.
— Christian Reform Church,
Vanastra, for refund of 2 months
of 1974 taxes'on building block G
of Plan 22.
Six amending by-laws on final
cost of the following completed
drains Were passed: Big Drain
$41,190,.62(119,8, per cent of
estimated cost); Brock Drain
$15,392.35 (103 per cent of
estimated cost); Charters Drain
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someone who knew we were
away", Mr.Dutton said.
Mr. Dutton added that he
believes the thief or thieves were
in the building . as 'the family
arrived home and escaped out the
back door.
Constable Erie Gosse of
Goderich Detachment of OPF is
investigating the..brealc-in: at the
post office Which' is Ideatedip the
general store owned by the
Duttons on Highway 4 in the
villa • Angoet.her post
'office in
Dungannon was also broken in on
Christmas Day and, is being
investigated by •Constable Phillip
Gingrich. At Dungannon $454
was taken. Constable Gingpch
said he did not knoW trite two
,robberies were'by the same'
Person or persons but thought it
could be just a coincidence.
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publisher.
Mrs. ,White is the fourth person
to occupy that Expositor editorial
chair during the 104, years that
have elapsed since her great
grandfather, M. Y. McLean and
his brother Alan McLean
purthased the Expositor in 1879.,,
Lions have
50th Christmas
at Huronview
Members of the Seaforth Lions
Club carrying on a tradition which
'had its beginning fifty years ago,
entertained the residents of
Huronview at a -Christmas
concert on the Sunday before
Christmas.
. Arranged by R,J.Spittal,
.J.M.Scott and J.A.Stewart, the
program included Christmas
carols, selection by the Jr. Choir
of Northside United Church under
the direction of Mrs. Jack
McIlwain and with Mrs.
J. A . Stewart . as accompanist,
stepdancing by pupils "of Mrs.
Orville Storey, a piano duet by
Patricia and ,David, the Rimmer
twins of Seaforth and bagpipe
seledtions by pipers Doug Hoover
'and Geof and Greg McPherson.
Accompanists were „
J.A.Stewart, J.M:Scoit and
Helton Rowe.
Greetings from the Seaforth
Lions Club were extended by vice
president W.J.Thompson and the
Christmas message wits brought
by, Rev. EdWin Nelson ' of First
Presbyterian,,, Church., StafOrth.
Huronview administrator Chester
Archibald expressed glipreelatibli,
on behalf of the residents.
AS the audienpe•. the'
auditorium each was related
.with a gift;of fruit by Santa Claus
'as perarutified liy ?rcvli ,Johnstnit.,"
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"Home for the holidays" is a
popular phrase this time of year.
But one Seaforth area man has
already been home on furlough
and is gone again. Jerry Baan will
be spending his Christmas
holidays in a small village in
Northern Ghana, West Africa,
• , where he. is a CUSO volunteer.
CUSO is a non-sectarian
Canadian organization -which
operates •,in many' parts of the
world.
• Jerry, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Baan of Walton, was
'home" for . several weeks in
October and early November on
•,..\.his. first. visit since he„arrived.-in
Ghana in September 1972. Jerry
is full 'of enthusiasm about his
work in Africa. He is so
enthusiastic that he is seriously
thinking of going back to Ghana
or somewhere in Africa when his
time with CUSO ends a year from
now, after spending some time at
a Bible College in Canada.
Jerry is a deeply religious ,
person, and he feels that perhaps
work in AFrica might be one way
of putting his beliefs to work.
His'-present work in Ghana is
done in the spirit Of Christian o'
witness., it's obvious from a talk
with the serious young man
who is a graduate of SDHS.
, Jerry works as ,.,an
agriculturalistffie „is,a graduate of
Ridgetovvii College of
Agriculture) in. Bunkpurugu, a
village of about:2,000 people 'close
to' the Togo border in Northern
Ghana. He is a volunteer with
Canadian University Services'
Overseas but lives at a mission
station of the Evangelical
.Lutheran Church of Ghana with
an American missionary and his
wife and three children. The
missionary, and his farnilY‘ live in a
house in the AFrican sty le
compound. 'Jerry haS a room
near the mission, office and eats
ll his.:rneals with the missionary
and his family.
' There ate other CUSO
volunteers 'in Ghana but Jerry
says he has little contact with
those who areteachers "theY are
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Retired school teacher Miss
Mabel Turnbull ..has completed
her annual over the holidays job
of , judging the entries in' the
Huron Expositor •, Christmas
colouring contest. Miss Ttknbull
waded through the hundreds of
ent ries in the contest, which is
easily the most popular yearly
Expositor feature. '
Steven Snell of R.R.1, Dubliln,
the 10 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Keith Snell won first prize
for h is'colourivg -of a Christmas
poinsettia. Second prize winner is'',
Helena Tiesma, '10, of R.R.4,
Clinton, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Tjerk Tiesma. A Wingham
girl, Bonnie Ablett, 8, is thir d
prize winner. The winners prizes
will be mailed out to them from
the Expositor office.
Miss' Turnbull gave honourable
Mention to several other talented
colourerS. They are Janet Stuart
of Toronto, Lynn .Flannigan and
Betty Buchanan, bath of Seaforth,
Brian and Barry Moore of
Egmondville and Tanya Degroot
of. Seaforth;
The lost was found Monday
when a recount conducted by.
Judge Francis Carter of Goderich
last week results in 89 more votes
for Seafgith Town Council •
candidate 'Jim Parkinson. The'
recount, however, made no
,'sdifference4ii the eleetion results. n s Mr. parkinson needed 120 votes—yre v
to• gain a council seat.
Because of an election night A a special meeting on
error, the official voting results
had given Mr. Parkinson no votes
in Seaforth's poll 2. Complaints
by 011 2 voters that they had
voted for him led' town council to
ask for an official recount.
Only the Poll 2 votes were
recount ed and the procedure took
about two hours, Town Clerk
Ernest Williams said.
One council candidate, Wayne
Ellis, gained a vote through the
recount and' three' 'candidates,
Charles Campbell, George
Hildebrand ar.d John Sinnamon
lost one .vote each. The other
candidate's Poll 2 votes rehiained
the same as reported on -election
night.
The new totals for the
candidates in all the Seaforth
'polls now stand at Bill Bennett,.
657, Charles Campbell, 417., Jim
Crocker, 487, Wayne Ellis, 526,
,peorge Hildebrand, 466, Jim
Parkinson 388,' John Sinnamon,
8.50„and Doug Southgate 315.
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4th in 104 years
Expositor has new 'editor
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