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THE BAND DOES A DRILL People lined Main Street. last
Wednesday night to see the SDHS Girls Trumpet Band put on a'
thank-you concert to Seaforth people who h elped finance their trip
to 'play in Fort Myers, Florida in February. With flags flying the
girls did some of the drills that they performed in Florida.
(Staff Photo)
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Single gppy cents SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1976 20 PAG,3
HEADING . FOR A WALL THEY HOPE — Students from Wilfred Laurier
University are helping Royal Ontario Museum archeologist David Newlands on the,
third dig at the Huron Pottery site in Egmondville. Mrs. Loretta Huggett, who owns
the site watches Robert Bruce, Kitchener and Davis Jamei, Pickering, sorting
through pottery chips in the basement of the old pottery. They hope to discover a
basement wall to the north. Gordon Thompson is in the background. For the
students the dig is part of course work in archeology at WLU. They work for ten
days straight, have two off and work for ten more. There'll be an open house at the
dig and the Van Egmond house on Wednesday, May 19. (Staff Photo)
Trustee knocks PD day's
poor light upon our system. We
request, therefore, that your
statement be substantiated' or
formally retracted at the next
meeting of the Board."
In a written response to the
board Mr. Shantz repeated his
statement, "I will re-emphasize
the fact that I still do not support
P.D. days." He gave as one of the
reasetnt a recent eXatnple that he
knew of one of the teachers from
Mr. Turner's school who had
gone to London on the afternoon
of the last P.D. day on April 30.
Mr. Shantz said he had many
similar examples *described to
him and he had received a great
deal of flack from • ratepayers
about P.D. days.
Mr. Shantz said he represented
Stratford along with three other
trustees and he did not intend to
be dictated to by the principals in
the system whom he said he
thbught Wanted to be spokesmen
for the board.
Mr. Shantz said, "Lord knows
they have enough to do if , they
concentrated on the running of
our schools--we have yet to attain
perfection there.",
The - board accepted the.
resignation of Mrs. Amy.
Duskopy, a teacher of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel as of June 30.
The sports council of the board
made a presentation, outlining
the program they are carrying out
this year and what they propose
for next year. Making the
presentation were:Terry Craig,.
Seaforth; Jim Steffler, Wingham;
Mrs. Patricia Anderson and
Laurie Krafteheck, both of
Stratford; and Ed Cappelli, St.
Marys.
The board approved a request
of Rev. Aloysius Nolan of Sacred
Heart Parish, Wingham, to hold a
summer school of religion from
July 19-23 at Sacred Heart School
in the town. His request for a
grant of $200 to subsidize the bus
costs to transport the children will
be, studied.
The board granted the request
of Roger Labelle of the Stratford
Recreation group to use the board
owned Willow Street property for
1976. There is no school on 'the
property.
The next board meeting will be
held on Tuesday, May 25,
or early Thursday morning.
Apparently the thieves broke
into the Store by .prying open the
hack door and then carried the
store's safe into a building behind
the store where they smashed it
open with -a sledge hammer.
. "They nest ' hate been fair
husky fellows to carry that safe,"
said Elgin Young, manager of the
store. "It must weigh about 400
lbs. or more and they never left
a mark. If they had dragged it at
all they would haye left a mark on
,...the tile," _he said.
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Seaforth's reeve and deputy
:;reeye didn't get told how to vote
's:ton the plan to cut county council
mayors
ncil
membership from 45 to 29, when
they asked for direction at
Monday night's council meeting,
but they did get a new suggestion
from Mayor Betty Cardno.
Mayor Cardno asked Seaforth's
two ' representatives to county
council to bring up the suggestion
that the mayors of Huron towns
be members, "The heads of the
rural municipalities are there,
(the reeves of townships and
-villages) the heads of towns
aren't. This causes problems in
understanding urban affairs."
Mayors on county council had
been discussed before but
rejected because of a feeling that
mayors' workloads were heavy
mayor
Ka
enough almadyi*Mayor Cardno.
said. "But I don't think that's a
good—enough reason."
The reeves are faced with a
heavy workload now too, heading
their own municipalities plus
county council, the mayor said.
The towns have to get things
across more than they have been
`doing at county council, she said,
Better county wide communi-
.cation, is needed on many issues
including recreation, police and
garbage disposal.
Reeve John Flannery, who has
been both mayor and representa-
tive to county council, said he
agreed that when he was mayor
he didn't have enough
information about county council.
He also empbasized that county
council has become much more
complicated since 1969.
Deputy Reeve Dale said the
work load of a smaller county
council would be too h eavy. He
said if county council was cut,
Seaforth would logically have to
cut back to a five person council.
And serving on thattouncil would
be a fultAime job, he 'said.
The koposal -from a -county
coupoil4 committee would'
eliminate deputy reeves. Votes
would still be in a proportion to
the number of electors in each
municipality. No vote was taken
on the issue.
' PICKING UP .THE LEFTOVERS = Elgin Young,
manager of the Topnotch Feeds Ltd. store in
Seaforth, picks up the cheques and other contents of
the store's safe thieves left behind after the safe was
broken open with a sledge hammer early Thursday
morning. $200. was stolen and police are still
investigating the robbery. (Staff Photo)
,s0 Topnotch breakin nets $200
Some husky thieves only
managed'to Carry away about
$200 after they broke into the Top
Notch- Feeds Ltd. store .„ in
Seaforth and 'smashed the safe
open.either late. Wednesday night
cation squad was unable to
discover-any finger prints at the
Topnotch store. HOWeyer, police
say they do' have suspects and
investigation is continuing.
one third finished.
Sewer construction in Seaforth
is about 'one third finished,
Mayor Betty Cardno. reported at
Monday night's council m eeting..
About, $475,000 has been spent.-
Grading on streets that have
alrea dy, • been sewered is
supposed to start this week and
calcium is to he spread on other.
streets to keep the duSt doWn.
The sewer contract specifics that
streets have to be brought back to
their' original condition by the
contractor., who also has to
replace grass that is torn up in
connecting to house.
Reeve . John Flannery said
there were'no complaints coming
in from the high school area
where sewers • were recently
installed. "It's all John • and
Louisa Sts." "That's because
more councillors live there,"
Councillor Jim Crocker quipped.
Council passed two sewer
connection bylaws which fequire
that old septic tanks be filled in
within 60 days after connection is
made to the sewer and connection
to the sewer within nine 'months.
If a householder doesn't connect
within that time, the town will
make the connection and bill the
ratepayer.
A policy on drain stoppages
that has been in effect for some
time was officially adopted on the
recommendation of Reeve.
Flannery's public ‘.works report.
When.,,a drain stopage is on the
liouschalder''S land he or 'she will
pay all digging costs, including
any digging on town land and
when the stoppage is caused by
something in the town's part of
the drain, the town will Pay fcir all
the digging. on its land and the.
owners.
Mountable curbs for
wheelchairs will be considered for
any new construction ih town and
the public works committee 'will
try to get asphalt ramps poured at
a couple of exisiting, curbs,
council decided.
The public Works committee
recommended using a town
employee to staff the dump site
when it's open.
Spending $7500 to complete
kitchen renovations at the arena
was authorized. Walter Armes ..
and two, men who are working
with him on the LIP project hope
to have the kitchen, finished in
time for the Guy Lombardo dance
on May 24.
Rumour has it that Tuckersmith
Township Reeve Elgin Thompsoh
Will spend some •time in the jail,
until enough money has been
' raised in• pledges to "buy" him
out.
More than 100 big prizes will
be given'out to random callers, as
announced on the radio.
There will be amateur enter-
It starts with a pancake
breakfast at 7 a.m. and it ends
with a dance at the Seaforth Golf
and Country Club_at 9' p.m. But
it's what happens in between that
counts at the arena fund raising
Phonathon, on this Saturday at
the. high
Volunteers will take pledges
that are phoned in to 527-1330
and members of the Optimist
Club, co-ordinated by CB radio
volunteers will pick up pledges at
people's homes. The phonathon
will be broadcast all day over
CKNX radio.
Organizers hope that
challenges will make the day
interesting. There'll be a jail
outside the phonathon
headquarters and police will be
"arresting " people all day.
ounci1
debates
cutting tree
To cut or not to cut down a big
maple tree on Goderich St. West
was the topic of the first few
minutes of Seaforth .council's
meeting Monday night. Junior
Storey asked 'councillors why the
tree, which is on town property
but partially blocks his drive way,
hadn't been cut down.
A routine public works report at
the March council meeting had
indicated that the tree was slated
to go. Mayor Betty Cardno told
Mr. Storey that the policy was
that trees on town property have
to be 50 percent dead before they
were removed. "According to the
county bylaw, we can't destroy a
living tree," she said.,
Councillor John Sinnamon
objected that the tree was three
feet in Mr. Storey's road and he
asked councillors to take a lobk at
it. Mr. Storey said there is a
cement lamp post on one side of
his driveway and the tree on ,the
other makes , backing out very
difficult.
'..tMaybe thejamp post shabld
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tainment at the high school
throughout the phonathon,
including a musician' and body
painting organized by Councillor
Bill, Bennett. The Town and
Country. Four will sing harmony
and baepipers will play.
"We hope to have a Fourth of
July and a carnival atmosphere,"
recreation ,director -Clive Buist
said. They hope to spread the fun
through the Whole town.Gerald's
Datsun Ltd. h as donated a 1971
Austin Mini which will be
auctioned off to the highest
bidder by 5:30 and it will be
driven around town. Box
Furniture has donated a 19"
black.and white Admiral TV and
it too goes to the highest bidder.
Another top priority item for
bidders will be dinner with the
mayor. That goes to the highest
bidder by 5:30.
Mr. Buist said organizers hope
people will think up gags to keep
the phonathon moving and the
money coming in. In another town
one car dealer said he'd donate
$100 if his competition would
sweep the Streets for ar. %.our. The
competition did, with ,ne town's
street sweeper.
At a meeting of the
Huron-Perth County • Roman
Catholic Separate School Board in
Dublin Monday night criticism
was levelled by the school
principals at one of the board
members for fiis critical remarks
at the previous board meeting
about professional development
days for teachers.
Howard Shantz of Stratford
read a letter he had received 'from
Leo Turner, principal of Holy
Name of Mary School at St.
Marys, reporting . that the
Principal's Association, of which
he is corresponding secretary,
takes exception to a remark made
by him at the last board meeting
when he said he does not find
professional activity days for
teachers "too worthwhile",
Mr. Turner said: in, his
letter,"We feel that professional
activity days are a definite asset
to or system and the children in
our charge." He
contintied,"Statements such as
the one above, when printed in
the press (Stratford Beacon
Herald„ April 28) are
counterproductive and cast very
The break-in was discovered by
'employees when they came to
work shortly after 6 a.m. Mr.
Young said that he was notified of
the break-in about a quarter to
seven.
"I don't see anything around
the store they tonched, said Mr.
Young. figure the first thing
that would have been touched
would have been that little radio
orshe calculator. Apparently they
weren't interested in that sort of
stuff."
According to. Mr. Young there
was approximately $150 in the
safe from everyday .business and
sonic money from the feed
company's scales, but he wasn't
sure exactly how much.
"By the looks of it, they just
took the cash and scattered the
cheques all around," said Mr.
Young.
The door of the safe had been
completely knocked off the safe
and the contents scattered about.
The OPP identification squad,
from Mount Forest arrived to
investigate around 9:30 a.m. The
squad was busy as they had other
break-,ins to investigate in
Mitchell. Police sarOliere may be
a connection" betWeeri fhe break-
ins.
The :Mount Forest identifi-