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The Huron Expositor, 1976-06-10, Page 1.4. • Y10. 41#', 41tOrt"i.,,qxr0,41.1;('4:•:yak NOT JUST STONES-Barry Turner, '11 , found oUt That there are more than stones to be picked up In the fields cif his family's, farm on the second of Tuckersmith. 'Barry, who , is a "student at Huren Centennial School, found an Indian arrbwhead when he was piCking stones' with his dad recently. (Staff Phatb) SOME CRAFT FESTIVAL. SAMPLES — Doreen McCall of North Main Street, who is in charge of the third Seaforth Craft-Festival, sponsored this year by Unit 5 of Northside United Church Women, arranges samples of the kind of first rate crafts that will be demonstrated andon sale July 10 at the arena. Mrs. McCall, who does weaving and other crafts herself has helped organize shows in Ottawa and Vancouver. The etching is by Lindee Climo of PEI, the candlestick is• from Reechwood Pottery and the early coal oil lamp is a sample of the antiques that will decorate the festival. (Staff Photo). Saturday ) Ju ly 10 SA 5 craftspeople in shorn ••• SEAFORTH ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 10,1976 Whole No.5651 117th Year $19.00 a'Year iu Advance Single copy .25 cents been dry:sip:0 May 10: nou peop 111 get rain; ag The exceptionally dry weather in. late May and early June has :enabled most area ' farmers to ..000IY complete their spring 'planting, but if it doesn't rain soon farmers could run into 4irehlems, according to Don Huron . County 40.cultur al representative. l'he last rain the area received :#as May 16 according to.records kept by Mrs. Norman' Baird of prucefield. Last year in June the `area received 5.3 inches of rain, but we haven't received any to date this month. "Rain is needed almost imminently," said Mr: Pullen. "The dry weather is retarding the normal progress of crops. There is some capse for worry in the wheat crop if the dry weather continues as the heads fill out." Mr. ' Pullen said that the condition of the hay crop varies throughout the county, and in -litany areas the hay is shorter' than noririala ;The cold weather right after 4 the hot in April seemed. to set back the legumes," he said. The agricultural representative said that -with the dry spell there had been a fair amount of activity from the alfalfa weevil. 'He advises anyone who has the problem to cut early, as it is the only way to stop it. The dry weather will contribute to more insect damage, he also noted, as insects will be looking •for moisture. However, the problem shouldn't be mcuh worse than usual. The dry weather has meant there hasn't been any difficulty for farmers in getting the cereal grains and corn sewn in good time and from all reports the bean acreage this year will be slightly reduced, Mr. Pullen said. He warned that farmers should not compare this year's crop Situation to last years. "last year was an exceptionally good year. You don't see one like that very often and it would be unfair to compare any year to it." Mr. Pullen said that if the area receives rain, combined/with the warm weather, growing conditions would be excellent. He has, little doubt 'that" We will. "Chances are if enough people cut hay we will -get plenty of rain." Meals on wheels as served 2,400 "1, like the tree;„ am free to create", that'S the theme of the third Seaforth Craft Festival, coming up on July 10 at the' arena. Unit 5 of Northside United Church is organizing the show, and • Doreen McCall, chief convencrsays they hope to have about 45 fine craftspeople, some from the Seaforth area, others '4) from around the province and 'a few from other carts of Canada. Mrs. McCall, herself a very active craftswoman, moved to Seaforth late last summer with her husband Jack. ElVa Ellis, who headed a committee which had sponsored the show for two years approached the UCW about taking the job. "They said they would if I would," said Mrs. McCall; who has organized others shows at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and an outdoor show in Vancouver, Planning for the show started las' ,lovember, with about 25o. invitations and applications going w out to craftspeople across the country in January. The 18 members of Unit 5 are divided into advertising, display and other committees. They've made an , effort to feature true crafts, rather than bazaar type items at the' show and confirmed participants include a painter from PEI '(who rents Farley Mowafs sheep farm,) a well known nature photographer, possibly a glass blower, a Cheticarrip style rug hooker and several jewellery makers, Harold Vodclen, who is blind, will demonstrate chair caning; the Beechwood Pottery will have' a wheel and a kiln in'their display; and Alfie Dale, a quadraplegic, will do sketching with his pencil, held in his mouth. / There will also be leather work,_ petit pbint jewellery, wicker, wooden toys, weaving, and hand painted china for sale at the show. Two local ladies, Pat Bennett and Ethel Dennis will have a A lot of children will be begging their parents to let them go out to the field and pick stones for a day. That's what • Barry Turner's family jokingly told the Tuckersmith 11 year old when he found an Indian arrowhead when he was picking stones on his family's farm. But kids needn't think that a few minutes of stone picking always yields an arrowhead. "I've lived here for 76 years and never found one, says Barry's grandfather John, who' , has worked the farm's land On the second of Tuckersmith (and picked stone's) since he was a boy. Mr Turner Sr. Lives next door to the Turner homestead where he was born and where Barry lives with his sister Bonnie, 7, his mother,, Nancy and his father George and their dog Patch. Mr. Turner Sr. points to-an -oak tree in. a field behind .the large brick house, not in the sane field were Barry found' the arrowhead but not far away. That Oak Was once part of a clam pf three find John Turner remembers stories • 11 • and' 6 'on that. Saturday. The detorating 'committee plans to cover •all the -arena boards with barn boards and have Antiques scattered around to give the building an old country fair flavour. They are asking the Van Egmond Foundation to operate a general store and demonstrate some pioneer crafts. There'll be afternoon tea with home baked scones and muffins available from Unit 5, while a one plate luncheon is being served by Unit 1. Other Northside Units will have bake sales, along with Egmondville United and Friendship Circle of First Presbyterian Church. The McCalls won't even be living in Seaforth by the time 'the show is on. Jack, who has been working with the Seaforth Veterinary Clinic, has a new job as a veterinarian with the Ontario Racing Commission, and they're moving to Guelph at the end of this month. But they'll be back for the show. Doreen is a weaver and does other'crafts besides, was working with her mother at renovating a barn in PEI. into a craft and antique store when she met her husband. But she won't "be showing any of her things at the craft festival. She won't have time, that the site used to be an Indian camp. 'The Turner farm is just across the road from the Bayfield River where there was also Indian traffic. The Turner farm is loaded with history. Turners have lived there since 1833, a year after they came froth England. 1 ne house, which replaced a log one, was built in 1860 an 61. A year laterTurner's church was built on the farm land just down the' road. Both were built from light orange bricks made on the farm, on part-of the• property that's still, called the brick pond, Turner's Church was closed in 1969 when there were just 11 familiesfremaining in the Congregatiol4Two years later the church was torn down. You can just tell where the foundation was froth a slight rise in the grass inside the fenced church yard. The cemetery that surrounded the ora Turner's Church is still there, well eared for with' grave markers that. tell, stories of children dying young and disease hitting several families at the same time. Meals. on Wheels is . a quiet program that celebrates its second birthday this week. Since its founding in June 1974, about 24;00 dinners have been served to Seaforth people who aren't able to cook their own goad hot meal every evening. The founding executive, Mrs. Jane Vincent, Mrs. Beth Thom- son and Mrs. Margaret. McNairn have•carried on the program ever since. They are helped by about thirty. volunteers who pick up dinners, prepared in the Seaforth Community Hospital kitchens, anct deliver them to Meals • on Whecis customers. Those, who . gietoltiit10-tYay $1.25 ..sfoi", -soup, dinder and dessert, and the price has gone up only 25 'cents since the program began. ,T Meals off Wheels started in Seaforth on the urging of Mayor Betty Cardno who is also Home Care director for the Huron County Health Unit. Mrs, Cardno felt there were older people in Seaforth who were suffering from the lack' 'of sound nutrition who could use the meals. Mrs•. Vincent and Mrs. McNairn say that there are always more than 80 meals going out every. month. They have had as Many as 126 people taking meals over a month. More people use the service, which after initial .donations from local clubs has been self supporting, in winter than in, summer, the ladies find. In winter time more older people find they ''can't get out for groceries," •Mrs. McNairn says and • they contact Meals on Wheels. If it wasn't for the hospital staff, we wouldn't be anywhere," Mrs. Vincent, says. Ruth Peper and, her kitchen staff give extra help to the program "and they don't get extra pay." Mrs. ' MeNaim,„,whe is the group's treasurer, sells meal tickets to the senior citizens on • One day when Mr. Turner Sr. was about 14 plowing (he plowed 60 acres a year behind a horse drawn plow) in the field next to the cemetery his father told him to be careful because three Indians were buried in land just outside the cemetery fence, in unconsecrated- ground. h., Barry doesn't know yet whether his arrowhead dates front these nineteenth century IndiatIS or from a much earlier, pre.white settlement era. "it's still sharp," he'said and shaped as if ithad been tied on to a shaft. He Wonders whether an Indian dropped it in the field, if it was a shot that. •missed its quarry or whether it hit an animal whose bones have long since gone back to earth, Barry is interested in history; his • ,publie Speech at Huren Centennial this winter oil his fanilly*StOry was a prize winner, - HistOWSit 'his .blood. His uncle Harold tither, who died in 1975, was a well known historian and longtime president Of the/ County Historical Society. the program. "They can buy a month's or a week's tickets" she says, and unused tickets can always be turned in for refunds. The meal recipient gives his or her ticket to the volunteer driver who delivers° the meals to the house.. Mrs. Thomson schedules the volunteer drivers and Mrs. Vincent schedules the meals.. Mrs. McNairn stresses that those who get Meals on Wheels aren't tied down to the program. If they get invited out for dinner or are going to be away when they are scheduled 'for a day, all they have to do is phone Mrs. Pepper at the- hospital~ Before 9 atirV en the day when they won't be home. • The women who run Meals on Wheels feel that the program helps senior citizens stay inde- pendent and active. "Most people like to stay in their homes as long as • they can," Mrs. McNairn says. Mrs. Pepper will recommend the program to patients who are leaving the hospital and doctors and the Home Care program also refer people to Meals on Wheels. Special diets are available and the hospital will prepare the .meals just as they prepare them for patients, Meals on Wheels also serves people temporarily. Often people will take the meals for about a frionth after they get out of hospital, until they are able to manage again on their own, the ladies say. Mrs. McNairn herself got two dinners from Meals on Wheels when she got, out of hospital recently. "It was ...good, way to find out how we are doing" she says and laughs about the fact that when the volunteer brought dinner to her door, she, the ticket seller, didn't have any tickets. Meals on Wheels always has a (Continued on Page 3 ) Barry's grandfather and Harold's brother John, the last of the four Turner children in the fourth generation since the Turners came to Canada can't tell enough stories of the old days to his grandson. He tells about the church strawberry socials that used to be held on the lawn of 'the house and of being so busy stabli ng the horses at a church supper that when he finally got a break to eat the turkey was all gone. "They put a plate• of bones in front of me and laughed and laughed", he says. Then he had to go and unstable the horses so that people could leave for honie. There used to be a verandah across the front of the and fine brick house, and it was heavily used by several generations of Turner boys who wanted to.get out at night to go to the odd dance, actording to another, one of John Turner's stories. There's a lot of history at the Turner farm and it isn't all in the arrowhead. If you see a girl standing outside your house , jotting things down on a piece of paper or perhaps taking a photo of it, don't worry. She is not planning a robbery. She is Eha Sumberg, an art history 'graduate from' the University of Toronto who is helping Seaforth's Achitectural Conservancy Advisory. Committee (SACAC) do research on the town's oldest and most interesting buildings. Miss Sumberg is one of several students paid by the ministry of culture and recreation to help heritage planning' get underway in many Ontario towns this summer. • "I'm not a spy, I'm just getting information", when she takes out her pencil, sayS Miss Suinberg who took two years of courses in architecture-. She will workin Seaforth two or three days a week,' asssisting the committee, who hope to make St. Thomas Anglican Church, the town's oldest church, the first building to be designated ,,,, a heritage site. After the committee selects buildings which they would like to have designated as heritage sites, Miss Sumberg will find out all she can about who built them, when structural changes were' made and what is unique and valuable about their architecture. Miss Sumberg is enthusiastic about Seaforth's Main Street, with its second story brick facades 'and uniform Victorian flavour. She had seen a photo of Main. Si., with Cardno's Hall featured prominently, in a book called "Ontario Towns" before she had ever been here. Tour buildings July 17, 18 At least 10 early Seaforth buildings will be on view for those who take 'the Heritage Tour of Seaforth on Saturdayor Sunday, July 17 and 18. They range from Sills Hardware, 'built in 1869 and run by one family for 'three generations to the brick home of Tuckersmith artist William Cresswell, now ywned by Mr. and-. Mrs. Gerald Martene. Some houses will be open on Saturday and some on 'Sunday. The Seaforth tour, which is one of four being sponsored this summer in the county by the kuron Branch of the Architectural Consrvancy of Ontario, will leave by bus from the Van. Egmond house. There will be two tours, at 1:30 and 3:30 •each day. Each tour costs $3 for, adults' and• includes tea at the Van ' Egmond houSe of terwards. A ° ticket on all four county tours is tavailable at the special price of 110. Tie,kets' will be on 'sale soot 4 at the Huron Expositor, The Heritage Tour'of Clinton is *scheduled for July 10 and 114 Bayfield's. is on JulY18 l and and a - Garldtich Heritage Partnholtie Tour scheduled for" August 14. and • Eha Sumbergin 'front of Cardno's hall Student researches heritage buildings quilting frame,, set' and . -'demonstrate their thiliting. Other ,quiltS will be on sale and Unit 5 is taking reserved bids on' a special, donated quilt that will be sold 'on the day of the show. Dandelion Community Co-operative Ltd., from Enterprise, Ont. . will be demonstrating and selling recycled tin. can crafts. They'll also have pamphlets from Pollution Probe, telling _people how to recycle everything at the show. The Craft Festival, committee has 'used a lot of interesting• promotion ideas. Every members. of Northside United was asked to send 'out five copies 'of a . newsletter describing the show, to friends near and far. Thel advertising committee sent posters, flyers and maps to Craft Guilds and crafts people all over the country. "Seaforth is , really central'," says Mrs. McCall, and should draw. customers from all over to the show. It is also drawing crafts people who make their living travelling from one Show to another in the summer time. The crowds at the show won't just see the regular old arena when they pay their 75 ceift admission and show up between. Stone m plck•g ,turns up arrowhead . on Turner's Tuckersmith farm i ..116.140; „. ,