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Time for a clean-up •
It's several months now Since Town,
council discussed problems of sanitary
sewage seeping into the Mary Street storm
sewers.
The problem is that somewhere along
the line, sewage from a residence was
getting into the storm sewer instead of the
sanitary system, This would be a major
cause of ,e(ollution under normal
conditions, ut with the Mary Street drain
it is worsethan usual, After crossing ,Erie
Street th sewer becomes an open drain
which /flows right , through a small
playground provided by the Huron Fish
and Grne Conservatidn Association.
The subject was brought to light by the
investigation of some of the councillors
themselves in the spring. At least at two
meetings the subject was brought up and
discussed by the council with views as to
how the_problem could be corrected, The
use of dyes to trace the leak and other,
methods of detection were mentioned.
Yet the problem still remains, Raw
sewage is flowing 'through an open ditch
in a • children's Playground. If children'
venture. into the water, as children often
do, the consequences could be alarming.
We have few enough playgrounds,
especially on the West Side of town,
vvithout,fouling one of the few we have.
And when the playgroUnd is even supplied •
by a thoughtful private organization the
situation is less forgivable.
The flow of sewage through the drain
should be stopped at once and the drain
should be covered in to prevent the sort
of accidents that can happen with
children playing around dirty water.
Sewage rates have just climbed 20 per
cent so there can be no excuse for sloppy
service.
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ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
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Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR,
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The congregation will worship at the Wesley-Willis
Church during the month of August with Rev. H.
W. Wenfer preaching.
Wesley-Willis Holmesville United Churches
REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A.; B.D., O.D, Minister '
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30
WESLEY-WILLIS
11:00 a.m. -- Morning Worship and Junior Con9regation.
(Ontario St. Church will worship with Wesley-Willis
Church during August).
Rev. H. W. Wonfor, preacher.
Sermon Topic: "THE OLD ORCHARD"
Soloist; Mrs. Lee McCallum, A.R.C.T.
Once upon a time, summer
travel was for the very,r rich.
They went to Europe 'on a
luxury liner, ate eight times a
day, stayed at fashionable places
on the continent, dressed for
dinner, and all that jazz, while
the rest of us sweated it out.
The not-quite-so-rich, but still
wealthy, flocked to the great
lodges and summer hotels: St.
Andrews by the Sea; Manoir
'Richelieu; Jasper and Banff.
They were safe there from the
hoi-polloi and subserviently
served by secretly insolent bell-
boys and' waitresses.
The moderately well-to-do
had a cottage, perhaps a day's
travel from home, with a back=
house, an ice-box with real ice in
dit, coal-oil lamps and a rowboat.
They lived quietly, simply, and
went to bed with the
whip-poor-wills,
The poor, the working class,
picnice'd in the park, attended
ballgames, and watched parades.
In the. evening, they sat on the
front porch, murmuring gossip,
drinking lemonade, and listening
to the cries of their young,
playing run-sheep-run or red-
light in the velvet dusk.
Things have changed. The
rich now' fly to the Greek
Islands, or Japan, or Rome,
where they can live exactly as
they could at home, but with
slavies Of whatever nationality
assuring them that they ate still
the very rich,
The not-quite-so-rich have
deserted the big hotels and
lodges, most of which are on the
verge of bankruptcy, These
places have, in desperatio4},
become a haven for conventions
and middle class poor tippers.
The original inhabitants have
fled to Mexico City, Scandinavia
or the Carribbean, where they
can still escape the hoi-polloi.
• The moderately well-to-do
still, in many cases, have a
summer cottage. But it is now
two' or three or more hours' of
maniacal driving. They now have
indoor plumbing, a refrigerator,
electric lights, and everything
from a power cruiser to a canoe.
Some are bereft because they
receive only one TV channel.
They seldom get to bed before
three a.m.
'And the working class, as
they used to be called when they
worked? They hire a trailer and
cover two thousand miles. Or
they rent a cottage and sand-
and-sun it for two weeks. Or
they get together and fly in to a
fishing lodge once reserved for
millionaires.
There are a lot of reasons for
the change. Everybody has a car,
Highways are better, Holidays
are longer and you even get
vacation pay. And, of course, air
travel on chartered flights has
made it possible for people with
nothing to go almost anywhere.
The only people who are
poor enough today not to travel
are the young people, But that
doesn't stop them, With
rucksack and sleepingbag, they
can cross the country On next to
nothing,
I'M not knocking all this. I
think it's great. But I'm just
beginning to wonder where and
why. I missed the boat, in this
travel boom.
We just got home from our
big trip for the summer — 110
miles to visit. Grandad. My sister
and her husband are in England.
My brother and his wife send a
card from a cruise on the Rhine.
A colleague, with four children,
drops a card from Virginia. A
reader, Bob Cunningham of
Omaha, has just encircled the
Great Lakes. An old friend and
wife are spending three weeks in
Europe, And, I sit in the back
yard, with a six-mile trip to the
beach as my Great Expectations.
There's something wrong
somewhere, Each and every one
of 'those people has been telling
me how broke he' is for years.
However, I mustn't be bitter.
Just because none of those
people can afford what they're
doing doesn't mean I should be
envious.
I was a bit burned by a card
from my daughter. She set off
two weeks ago to hitch-hike to
Vancouver with a friend. Her
card says. they are just about to
leave Cape Breton, by ferry, for
Newfoundland, Seems a rather
circuitous route to Vancouver.
With no money,
Well,, they may all think
they're really seeing the world,
but there are some pretty exotic
things right around here. For
example, We might slide out
tonight to a little fresh vegetable
roadside stand, four miles out Of
town, pick up some sweet corn,
eat it, and have a whiz,bang of
an evening watching a re-run of
Green Acres. There's not a one
of them who can do that.
The brave searchers
About once every couple of
weeks I set aside a day — this
being it — for the processing and
return shipment of poetry.
You just wouldn't believe
how many poets we have in
these parts or how many,
seeking an audience or a
judgment, nominate your
correspondent.
This puts a heavy
responsibility on a man. Good or.
bad, poets almostalways express':,
some private thought and, behi •
trusted with this, you justicaiVe
toss it lightly aside as you might
less personal correspondence.
You can't anyway, because
poets never give up.
A good many of the stanzas
that arrive on my desk have been
submitted first to the editorial
page people, politely and
properly rejected and
immediately sent to this
department as an appeal from
the original verdict.
I have, as a result, evolved a
form of reply carefully designed
to avoid any opinion on the
merits of the verse because I
have found that amateur poets
are very easily wounded and I'd
no more criticize their rhymes
than I would criticize their baby
pictures.
The subject was brought up
recently in the column of Sidney
Harris, the widely syndicated
Chicagoan whose low-key,
philosophical writing I generally
enjoy, but who turned ugly in
dealing with the bards.
"Practically anybody who can
75 YEARS AGO
The Huron News-Record
August 28,1895
The Town has built a new
stone crossing between Cook's
feed store and Miller'S
blacksmith shop at the
intersection of Albert and
Princess Sts.
Mr. D. S. Cook spent Sunday
at the Nile, where it is said the
sweet scented flowers and
attractive maidens do bloom and
flourish.
Mrs. Adam Cantelon, of
Gederich township, has come to
town to reside and moved into
the house owned by Mr. John
Johnston on Albert St, north.
While removing the scaffold
used in the construction of the
new school building at
Crambrook, Herman Gana was
struck on the forehead by a large
pole and knocked insensible.
The pole is all right yet, but
Herman's eyes are slightly
disfigured:
55 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
August 25, 1925.
James Manning has purchased
the picture show and is now in
charge.
Frank Perdue haS disposed of
his livery business to Charles
LOvett and Son, Who have now
taken possession.
Elliott's auto truck took a
load of young people to Bayfield
on Tuesclay night to a dance.
arrange alphabet blocks to spell
c-a-t thinks he is an embryonic
poet," Mr. Harris wrote.
"I have learned through bitter
experience never to suggest that
their literary efforts stink, which
they do. Only God can make a
tree, but any fool thinks he can
write a passable poem.
"The dunderheads who
bombard editorial offices with
their hideous hexameters forget
if they ever knew that
'poetry .is a craft,;,before,fit
`art and that a skilled OM
requires as much training and
preparation as a journeyman
plumber or carpenter.
"You can no more write by
sheer inspiration than you can
fix a leaky faucet by
inspiration."
End of Mr. Harris.
Well, how, there may be a bit
of truth in this unkind blast, but
it also seems to me a waste of
energy to get mad at poets. It is
like complaining about people
whistling on the street or
yodelling in the bath-tub.
Amateur poetry, it seems to
me, is something special. It does
not seriously pretend to be
craftmanship. The writer does
not submit it in the hope of
payment or fame, but simply
because he hasn't anything
better to do with it
It must be remenibered that
anyone who has been embraced
by the Muse has no way of
knowing he has given birth to a
monster. It looks exquisite to
him, blinded as he is by the
bitter-sweet joy of creation and
so he sends it off to the editor —
or to me — and that is the end of
it for him.
All he asks is that it be read
and that he may get back an
encouraging word — for which
he never, never encloses a
self-addressed envelope and
who can be mad at that?
What Mr. Harris has
completely overlooked is the
fact thatevrhile 'the' poetry may'
be%terrible, :and' usually is;2.theg
motivation for it is a-•shining,"
wonderful thing and should be
rewarded.
These "dunderheads" 'and
their vile verse are struggling to
express some personal
conception of beauty, trying to
pin down a transient emotion or
some imagined glimpse of the
deeper meaning of life.
Often they are groping
painfully to put down in words
something mysterious and
lovely, striving to pass on the
feeling of being suddenly aware
of truth.
They flop horribly, of course.
As Mr. Harris says, inspiration
isn't enough. 'Earnestness isn't
enough. The more you work
with words the more you're
aware of their limitations and
their obstinacy.
But it's the trying that counts.
For so long as a large number of
people are moved by that lofty
desire to express themselves, and
so to understand a little better
the joy and sorrow of life, then
all is not lost.
Toronto, was home for a weeks
holidays with her parents, Mayor
and Mrs. Agnew.
Miss Helen Ball spent last
weekend with Misses Gail and
June Manning, Londesboro.
15 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
August 25,1955
A ribbon stretching across
King Street, at the beginning of
the new pavement, will be cut at
each end simultaneously by
Warden Earl Campbell and
Mayor M. J. Agnew tomorrow
evening, in public, ceremony
which will officially open the
new stretch of highway.
The town crest in full color
has been added to the decor at
the front of the Council
chamber,
Reuben Brubacker, Elmira is
planning to move to' Clinton
with his wife and five children.
10 YEARS AGO
August 28,-1950
Work began this 'week by
Gaffney Construetion Company
Ltd,, Stratford, on a hew
building at the teat of Par-Knit
Hosiery Ltd., on land owned by
John S. Parker. The new
structure will be at the rear of
the new Public Utilities building
and will fate on Mill Street.
Though no official
announcement haS yet been
Made, it IS understood that the
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, 8.A., B.D.
Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
(On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.)
The Church of the Back to God Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
Everyone Welcome —
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
Interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal
We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A.
Church and Sunday School discontinued for the
month of August.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30
Sunday School: 10:00 a,m.
Morning Worship: 11':00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. -
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. — Prayer meeting
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30
TRINITY XIV
The congregation is asked to worship at St.
Thomas Church, Seaforth. Matins and Sernion.
CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
166 Victoria Street
Pastor: Donald Forrest
SUNDAY' AUGUST 30
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.'
Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p,m.
building will • be rented by
Brewers' Warehousing Ltd.
°Vet 50 descendants of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reid
gathered on Sunday, August 21
at the old Reid homestead, now
Occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Hill (nee Iteby Reid).
The occasion marked the 100th
anniversary of the building of
the atone house,
More recreation needed
One of the most disturbing revelations
of the government report, Design for
Development: Midwestern Ontario
Region, Annalysis, is the poor rating
Clinton is given regarding cultural and
recreational facilities.
The report says recreational and
cultural facilities are poor to moderate in
Clinton. Granted, the report compares
towns such as ours with larger cities such
as Guelph and Kitchener and granted too,
that we rated as high or higher than some
towns of like size (the same as Exeter and
better than Seaforth) but it is definite
that we have to improve if we hope to
adequately serve our present citizens let
alone attract others.
To be sure, a town our size can never
support the theatres, art galleries,
museums and symphony orchestras
needed to gain a good rating, but the fact
that Goderich, not that much •larger than
Clinton, gained a "moderate 'to good"
rating, make a great difference.
It would also be too much to expect
the town to go on a massive building
program to improve the situation.
Town-provided facilities such as the arena
and the swimming pool, are already
excellent. A major new park with camping
and picn,icing facilities is needed, but
anything more would provide too heavy a
burden for the already heavy tax load
Clintonians must shoulder.
The future of recreation in Clinton will
lie in other hands than those of the town.
It has already been a wonder in this
corner, why the second largest town in
Huron County has neither its own golf
club or curling rink. Hopefully a step will
be made in this direction soon.
In many other towns, service clubs
provide small playgrounds for children.
Such facilities are already available in
some sections of town but in others,
children have no playground they can use
without crossing a highway. Also needed
is a small park, preferably near the centre
of town, designed for the specific use of
senior citizens. Again a private
organization could help out.
Hopefully soon someone, be it town or
private organization, will build a tennis
court and bring tennis back to Clinton.
Then too, there is the service already
provided free by one of our clubs, the
Huron Fish and Game conservation
Association with their animal park in
Alma Grove. All possible assistance by
everyone in the community should . be
given to the club to help it improve its site
and selection of animals. Improving the
park could bring more visitors to Clinton.
Lots of towns have arenas and swimming
pools; but how many have their own zoo.
The jet "setters who stayed home
M. 'Lockhart, Auburn, has
been appointed magistrate for
North Huron. This is an
appointment made in the
interests of the temperance
party.
40 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
August 21,1930
The Erie Oil Company is
installing tanks at the CNR
tracks at the end of Mary Street
and will make this a distributing
point.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitmore
and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Elliott
and sons Melvin and Roy,
motored to Tobermory and
spent a few days there this week.
The White RoSe Horseshoe
Club has been holding a
tournament once a week for the
le.st six Weeks. The playoffs took
place last Friday evening. The
two successful competitors were
J. T. McKnight and Frank GleW.
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
August 23f 1945
Sky Harbour defeated Clinton
On ThursdaY night by the acme
Of 11.8 in a game that went 12
innings. Lineup Clinton — Steep,
A. Taylor, H. Hawkins, E.
Johnson, G. Ross, Bob Draper,
Bert White, Livermore, AleX
Kennedy, Bob Millet, Carter, E.
Taylor, W. Glew.
Miss Agnbs'Agnew, COMiatight
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