The Huron Expositor, 1981-02-12, Page 1J
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122nd Year
Whole No. 5892
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Single Copy 40 Cents SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 198 t — 20 sPAGES
NO FENCE SITTING FOR' TRACEY—Tracey Bennett Seaforth was •
frying out her climbing skills on the fence of the Walton Community
Centre during Sunday afternoon's snow party, sponsored ,by the Seaforth
District Saddle Club. The afternoon's chilly outdoor 'events concluded'
with a warm dinner at the nearby Walton )nn. (Photo by Gibb)
re-school ma
ave to fold
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TWO OP THE YOUNdER ,SPECTATORS—Two of the younger
spectators at Saturday's events at the Brodhagen Winter Carnival were,
Raube Beuerman, whose father Bill was Chaitman of the carnival, and his
friend, Darrell Josling of Brodhagen. • (Photo by Gibb)
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request at its next meeting. "We have to do
something, it (the nursery, school) 'is a
worthy cause." •
—Mrs. ,Rodney said the nursery school is
applying every where possible for fueds,
including the social and community services
-ministry and Wintario.
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QuIeStt6n$' front, a • terither ''•tnenth4t,.of •
cOutteit• • , abont 'May* ,lohn , _cinnamon's
44419046 at &tondo., itighes• co wit-meeting
eclitleided 'With the release -of '1980 -•,PaY;
expense • and mileage ,‘igores 'for' •all
councillors. Clerk zlirit• Crocker said tabling Of
thelteinized Statement is recptircd this- year
for, • the first :aline, Under the Ontario.
Municipal Act. ,
As the meeting began, former councillor
Henry Mero questioned an leeideht in which
the mayor had charged gasoline for his own
car at a local gas station. Mr. Nitro
challenged the mayor unsuccessfully in the
November elections.
Mayor Sinnamort„explained he had been
on town business, and hadn't Charged' the
town for " attendance at one committee
meeting and said he'd actually saved the
town money.
Reeve Bill Dale said the proper procedure
was to Claim mileage for town' business after
the fact. "The auditors asked for this. . . it's
necessary that, we all do the same thing.-
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The 1980 figures show the mayor was paid
$110.1S3 in mileage, $110:16 for a car rental.
$4,737.50 in remuneration, $275 for re-
gistration fees,, $285. for hotel rooms and
$327.24 for miscellaneotts," which includes
meals and parking. Mayor Sinnamon said
he's attended two major conventions last
year. the AMO and one on- emergency
' There's little to add to -election develop-
ments in the Huron Middlesex riding this
week: Jack Riddell, the 'riding's Liberaf'MPP
who was first elected in an 1973 by•election; •
is expected to be acclaimed as party
candidate at the Liberal nomination meeting
in Exeter next Wednesday night. •
Mr. _Riddell. ° a Zurich area farmer,
announced last week he planned to seek
re-election in 'the riding. The ,MFPis the
Liberal Party's agriculture critic,, in the
• Ontario legislature.
No candidates have yet announced they
are seeking the PC norininatiotrin Huron-
Middlesex although Bruce Shaw, president
of the riding's Progressive ConservatiVe
Association, said three people are con-
sidering running.
Mr. Shaw declined to give the names of
the potential candidates, saying it was up to
the individual to announce, his intention to
run once the decision is made.
The riding president said one of the,
possible candidates was from Seaforth,
while of the other two, one is from the
middle of the riding and the other from the
Goderich area.
Mr. Shaw said the nominations process for
the provincial PC's was different. from the
federal party. In a federal convention, not
everyone can vote but provincially a new
member could join •the night of the
nontiriations and have a vote.
Canadidates have until 24 hours before
the nominations meeting, being held Feb. 19
at 8 p.m. at the Exter Recreation Centre. to
announce their intention to run.
The NDP Party ,in the Huron-Middlesex,
riding haVen't announced a date for their
nomination meeting, nor • have any
candidates announced their intention to seek
the NDP nomination. Valerie Bolton, of R.R.
Belgrave. the party, secretary. said she
doesn't have • any names .of potential
candidates at this time.. „
"THREE ,WANT PC NOD •
Three candidates have announced their
intention to seek the Progressive Conserva-
tive (PC) nomination 'in the Huron-Bruce
riding for the March 19 provincial election.
The nomination meeting will be held
Thursday in Kincardine., .
NW"' Snowbelen. a 33-year ofillariner
itOtu K.K. 1, Ripley• ho also
operates an elevator. is making his: first
attempt atprovincial politics although he hat
been active at the local level. He currently
serves • on the Bruce County board of
education and was reeve of Huron township
Good news,
Vior Lions
The Lions meeting Monday
night was packed with good
'news and' a surririse. •The
surpsie was. a birthday cake
and small celebration, for
member Ned, Boswell, who
turned 93 Tuesday. The good
••news' was in' the form of,A
-cheque for $2,500 to the
Lions Park Pool Fund from
Topnotch Feeds Ltd. See pg.
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A ,busy carnival
The action never stopped last
weekend in the Brodhagen
winter Carnival, which was
from 1976 to OW. He is a co-owner of the
Bruce energy centre joint venture.
associated with the Bruce Agriphark.
Ajso in the running for the PC nomination
are Robert Emerson. a 36-year-old be( ands
cash crop farmer at R.R. 3. Ripley and Gary
Harron. a dairy farmer near Elsinore in
Amabel township.
Mr. Emerson has seven years experience
in municipal politics at the local and county
level. He has been active in the PC •
erginiiation, and haS also been involved 'in
Minor sports in Ripley.
Mr. Harron is chairman of' the Bruce
economic development coreMittee, and has ,
served as Amabel township reeve In 1979, he
was warden of Bruce County:
HURON-BRUCE
Liberals in Huron-Bruce' riding will be
busy Tuesday night in 'Lucknow.
Their job is to select a successor to retiring
MPP Murray Gaunt from six 9edidates
seeking the Liberal Party, .nomination.
The six men in the running for the Liberal
nomination for the March 19 provincial
election are insurance agent Bruce
McDonald of Wingham. farmer John Jewitt
of Hollett Township,' 'Wingham lawyer
Murray Elston. school principal Dave Zyluk.
Rcnus Bailey, owner of the Sunrise Dairy in
Wingham add TenylohnstOne, manager of
the Lucknow Sentinel.
Muria.), Elstal. 31, was raised on a Morris
Township farm. He attended school in
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By Thursday night. Perth voters will know
who is running in the March 19 provincial
election in that riding, a Liberal stronghold
since 19.67.
The PC party held its nomination meeting
Wednesday-night at the Stratford Coliseum
annex. Colleen Misener, 5G, of John Street.
Stratford, a fourth term alderman in the city,
was seeking the PC party nomination. Mrs.
Misener, a, real estate 'agent tVith A Sz.
Realty. Stratford. and a PC party worker'fn
several electicfns, is running for the party
nomination for the first time.
Mrs. Misener said if she wins the party
nomination she plans to emphasize "it is
time" for the Perth riding • to have a
provincial representative on the side of
government. .
Hugh Edighoffer. the Mitchell business-
man who was first elected in `1967for the
4..h 9Q topAttenettiernemnigs last yearZ$22:0
In regiStretinn feest $100 Mi•1OV: $21S-30
raiScejlaneetis .ands 76 for rooms:.
Others with expedsessnief ark& abeve,pay.
for meetings included former Reeve John
Flannery who was Raid $1.780: plus $135. in'
registrations; and $150 for hetet remits.
Then deputy reeve, Bill "Dale, was 4/aid
$2,450 for attending meetings; $115 in
registration fees: $46 mileage; $150 for
re •rns and $40 miscellaneous.
irmer councillor Bruce ',Hoelscher, who
resigned in the summer, was paid $1775; $90
in registration fees: '$52:50 in mileage and
.526 for rooms. Councillor Gerald Groatintis
last year was paid $2.370: plus $9.60 in
mileage.
Other councillors. paid only for meetings.
were Irwin Johnston. $2770; Bill Bennett
$2.460; Henry Mero $2,530 and new
members Hazel Hildebrand $260: Alf Ross
$380 and Paul RoSs $230.
In 19801ne town paid out $24,632 Cr) in
remuneration to 'council members. W% in
registration fees; $429.59 in mileage and.
$1,411.54 in rooms, meals and mis-
cellaneous expenses.
Pay for non-council members 'of
committee meetings in 1980 totalled $1,640
for the planning board and committee of
adjustment; $530 for recreation and $340 for
LACAC.
Wingham and -later graduated in law from
the University of Western' Ontario. For the
past four years he has practised , in
Wingham. Mr. Elston has been involved in
recent federal ,and provincial campaigns;
and' is treasurer of the Huron-Bruce federal
liberal association,' He and his wife. the
former Trudy Macish, have two, young
daughters.
Mr. McDonald. 27, is a native . Ortity
ToWnship. He attended Seaforth DiStrict
High School and graduated with a buSinelS
administration degree from Wilfred Laurier
University. Waterloo. He is president of the
Huron-Bruce federal Liberal association. His
wife is the former Marlene Cunningham of
Clinton.
Mr. Jewitt. 41, is currently a member of
the Huron County board of education. He
has served 13 years on' Hullett township
council, four years as reeve. The candidate
and his wife, the former Barbara Pickett 'of
Londesboro, have five children.
Mr. Zyluk. 33, is principal at,St. Joseph's
Community School in Kingsbridgc. He
graduated from the University of Western
Ontario before convicting his Misters of
Education at the University of Toronto. Mr.
Zyluk has been active in various associations
and projects in"both Exeter and' Kincardine.
He was a delegate to the Ontario Liberal .
Conference
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in 1980. Mr. Zyluk and his a ife
Vickie have one daughter. Elizabeth.
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Liberals, is currently deputy speaker in'the
house; and has removed himself from
partisan politics. Iti,the last election in 1977.
Mr. Edighoffer won his greatest majority
ever, coming in 12.14„3 votes' ahead of his
nearest rival. Conservative candidate Vic ion
Jarvis. Mr.' Edighoffer is expected to lain
acclamation as. Liberal candidate at that
party's nomination meeting at NOrthwestern
Secondary School. Stratford tonight.
The only delcared NDP candidate in the
riding is 35 year old Mitchell lawyer Scott
Wilson. Mr. Wilson. a, resident of that town.
since 1973. is president of the Mitchell Lions
Club. He "said the two main issues he
foresees are. the Ontario government's
failure to preserve farmland and the high
cost of medical treatment.
The party's nominaton meeting was also
held' last night.•
Seaforth's nursery school, a parent run
co-op, will not be able 'to operate next year
unless it can 'purchase. move and equip a
portable claSsroom.
That's what nursery school president Pat
Rodney told Seaforth council Monday night
' and she estimated the cost at about $10,000.
The school, which has 63 students. has been
offered a site on ,Seaforth• • Public School '
grounds for a portable: The school has to
move out of the local library bisement
premises it occupies before summer.
Gwen Devereaux, aaparent of nursery
school children,.said about 90 per cent Of the
nursery schools in the London-Stratford area
operate in. churches and SO have few, capital
costs. She listed every hall, church., and
public building in the Seaforth area where
the nursery school had tried to . get
accommodation, without success.
On a question froin.elerk Jim. Crocker,
Mrs. Rodney said the group had hoped when
it approached council in November, to have
52.000 to $3,000 of the $10,000 in its own
funds. ; "It all • depends on fundraising,
including our dance on February 28. but we
hope so," Mrs. Rodney replied.
If' a fergiveable loan,' or One with „'ver,
spread-out, payments were available from
the town, the nursery school should be able
to pay its operating expenses from the fees it
charges, Mrs. Rodney told councillors v. ho
asked if the school would be making an
annual request fer funds.
"We 'can't keep the library' Waiting any
"longer," commented Reeve Bill Dale who
said his finance cotionittee would discuss the
Teachers
settle
Any possibility of a teachers' strike in
Huron County'~ secondary schools has been
eliminated, after teachers ratified a new
one-year contract, with the board in Clinton
Monday. The ' Huron County board of
education had already ratified the contract.
The new contract is for-the current school 0
year September 1980 to August 31. P)81.
The teachers have been working %% idiom
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tu'6.44y4 vie4i01 Sargt#gp" itre. •
diFte4Axigictbeppgbfik Most.Severeefthe
winter: dump .,d-both snout .und:raioon the
area. making drising hailltdOus,
The snow.. Up to 17 centimetres itt some
areas, started Tuesday morning, and by
mid-afternoon, 'roads in the area were
snow-covered.
The gusty winds Tuesday night left one
section of Seaforth without power for about
two-hours. PUC manager Torn Phillips said
the problem was "galloping phases" which
Means hydro wires flip in dip ,high winds,
hitting one anothe,r,„, •
He said residents in the area north of
Goderich. St. along 'East 1Williani Street -""
reported seeing lightening between 6:30 •
p.,M. and 9 p.m.. but the blue flashes were
caused by the power wires plowing against
each other., This resulted in a power outage,
in the area the arena, •
Mr.'!" Phillips said the PUC crew had to
dump the power on Main Station Two for 20
minutes around 11:30 am., until all the
power in town was restored.
The area of the town which was withoUt
power for .two hours„was north of Goderich
, 'Street, along East William to Main Street,
Mr. Phillips said the "galloping phases"
problem...was fairly widespread in the 'area
due to the "very gusty' easterly winds. The,
PUC , crew worked until after midnight
Tuesday 'restoring power.
Seaforth Public School principal Paul
Carroll said rural students were bussed
hoMe during the noon- hour Tuesday.
althoygh the schnel remained open the
remainder of the day for Seaforth students.
H'e.said about 150 students stayed on for the'
afternoon.
Seaforth Public School was the only town
elementary school in the county which was
closed Wednesday morning. Sc ools in
Clinton. ,Wingham_and, ,Goderi h were
open., for town students.
Mr. Carroll said 'when he drove around
town, he felt the condition of the streets,
which were ice-covered:` wasn't safe and
decided• to announce the school itAs closed.
'lie principal said it was difficult to make'
deciSion, and added no matter what decision
is made .on school closures, there are
complaints from parents.
• Students in area schools in the :Huron,-
Perth Roman , Catholic Separate School
Board (HPRCSS)system were also_ bussed
home Tuesday at about noon and the schools
were closed; On Wednesday. St. James in
SeafOrth. St. Columban and St, Patrick's in
Dublin, as well as most elementary schools
in the system remained closed.
United Trails buses between -Goderich and
Stratford were operating Wednesday
Morning, but the evening ° runson Tuesday
night. when' storm conditions were most
severe, were cancelled. •
Al Nicholson. Tuckersmith Township
roads superintendent.. . said all township•
roads were open Wednesday. but "are icy."
He said he and another members of the
roads crew worked on township roads.until 2
Wednesday Morning, when they couldn't
stay on the roads any longer. The other crew
.started back on the roads at -4 a.m. 'Mr,
Nicholson said the rain and slippery roads
made plowing more difficult since ice freezeg
on,the•plow's wing, making it more difficult
to keep the machine on the road.
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PreparedueSS.the tillMing ',Match, phis
many shorter.tneetings. "
Mr. Mere also asked• the player why he'd-
subMitted an account to the town for a PUC
convention* attended, •with expenses paid
by the contreissiOn, last March- ,The
mayor explained fled charged the WW1
Mileage ($501 because he had to return here'
for committee meetings and then drive back
to the convention in Toronto.
, "Is the normal procedure. to go. to that
expedse to Attend committee meetings,"
Mr. Mero asked.. ",Definitely." the mayor
replied mayor) if you miss committee
meetings you miss. the whole month,"
Mayor Sinnamon explained he'd asked to
have committee meetings moved ahead next
month so the conflict wouldn:t come up
again, but if council refused. "I'll cancel my
reservatiens in Toronto (for this year's PIJC 4
convention). I think committee meetings are -1
that important."
Councillor Paul Ross said he'd like to see
the mayor's account to the town and,Mayor
Sinnamon told him all accounts are available
from the clerk.
Later in the meeting, despite councillor
Bob Dinsmore's contention that the usual_
dates should be kept-,March committee and
council meetings were moved ahead a week.,
According to the statement tabled by the
clerk, councillor Bob Dinsmore Was paid.
cm—Inside this week
Kepn competition for nominations
in one riding, little in Other
erih Liberals choose
Nik
highlighted by snowmobile -
races and other cola weather
festivities. Top winner was.
Mrs. Mary Storey of
Seaforth, who won The drew
for the 'Florida trip. Sec
&nitres, events winners,. pg
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A good
tournament
The broomball tiairtiamein
held in Seaforth • m the
weekend was the Ire ti in the,
event's ten coy history,
according to ',le:mints.
Seaforth's Queen's Hotel
team ' captured the ladies'
championship While Ariss
Blue Roars 'took the men's
title. See pictures and story,
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Speaking of
Speaking
It is once again that time in
the school year when
students are are cornpeting
in public speaking contests.
It's no easy tasks especially
for those of Us given to
fear-induced fidgeting. This
week Kids, Teens and In
Betweens gives a hunioroos
account of the perils of
speaking. See pg. „ 1 7
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