Clinton News-Record, 1973-02-15, Page 1Bonny Brady, Miss Dominion of Canada, crowns Clinton Whiter Carnival Queen
Heather McAdam of Clinton during opening ceremonies at the Legion last Friday
night. Official called it the biggest Winter Carnival ever. (News-Record photo)
Thursday, February 15, 1973
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Elgin Thompson heads Authority
Last lakefront property purchased near Bayfield
these tough bunch of SnabiViriObIle Mears are really a friendly
group of mayors and reeves who rated obeli Other at the Kin-
smen Snowmobile race* held in 01intOri last Sunday, Lott to
right are Goderich Reeve Dab Sheivfelt, Clinton Mayor Den
Symonsi GodetIch Mayor Harry WOreffill# Grey Reeve Charlie
Thomas, Mullett Reeve Hugh Flynn and tuckersinith Pigmy,
Reeve Erin Billety. Reeve Flynn Won the race, (Mewl-Record
photo)
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"Outstanding success" are the words
Linton Winter Carnival officials are using
o describe the first half of Clinton's Fifth
nnual Winter Carnival.
A last minute rescue attempt by the
eatherman was credited with salvaging
he Carnival and by Friday night, a ten
nch snowfall, clear skies and temperatures
n the teens had people out by the
housands. •
The Carnival was kicked off by a tor-
hlight parade by over 120 members of the
Ainton Snowmobile club which wound its
ay through Clinton last Friday night.
The Young People Society of the Clinton
hristian Reformed Church were host to
00 young people from the Trillium League
or their annual Wintercamp. After months
of preparation and hoping and praying for
snow, the event went off as scheduled.
Friday night, Feb. 9, young people from as
far as Owen Sound and Cambridge came to
the church for registration. They were en•
tertained by a singing group, "The Revisec
Version". After refreshments everyom
took off to find their hosts for the weekend
On Saturday morning Mr. Peter Vice
from the Sunbeam Homes in Kitchener
showed slides of his work with retarded
children. The ladies of the P.T.A. of the
Christian School served lunch. The after-
noon was partly spent in engaging in all
sorts of wintersports. But due to the low
temperatures the scene of action soon
changed from the slopes to the auditorium
of the Clinton Public School for some hours
1 st Column
Clinton Police Chief Lloyd Westlake in-
forms us that the dog tags for this year
must be purchased by March First for dogs.
There will be no extension this year.
* * *
There will be a referee school in Clinton
commencing this Friday night at 4 p.m. at
the arena. The course will be taught by Gus
Boussey and anyone interested is invited to
come. No skates will be required the first
week.
* *
Winners of the Mint Sets given away at
the Draw held in connection with the Olin-.
ton Figure Skating Club's ice show last
Saturday and Sunday night are: Mrs. Don
Brodie, Brucefield John Arts, RR 4
Seaforth; and Mrs. Ted Crich, Mr.
Gerofsky, and Mrs. Cliff Ashton all of Olin-
tone * * *
The Clinton Colts continue their play-off
series at Milverton this Friday night and
the Junior Mustang open their first playoff
game at Exeter this Friday night and are
back in Clinton this Sunday night against
the Hawks. See you there,
*
In today's paper you will find the last of
the Islews,Ilecord's "guess who it is con-
test," If you put all four pieces together
you can probably come up with a good
guess, Entries close next Tuestlay,February
20 at 12 noon, Winners will be announced
in next week's paper.
Later that night, the Legion was packed
to capacity for the opening by Clinton
Mayor Don Symons and crowning of the
Carnival Queen, a first for Clinton this
year. Heather McAdam, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Eugene McAdam of Clinton was
chosen from eight other girls and was
crowned by Bonny Brady; Miss Dominion
of Canada. Anne Crittenden was runner
up.
On Saturday a huge parade with over 50
entries made its way down Clinton's main
streets and was viewed by a crowd
estimated at several thousand. It was the
of square-dancing. A lovely supper was ser-
ved in the Legion Hall by the ladies of the
Fred Ginn of Rodoma Investments
which purchased Vanastra (the former
CFB Clinton) told the News-Record Mon-
day that residents of Vanastra can expect
their deeds in "three or four weeks."
A $100,000 mortgage payment was made
Clinton council boosted police salaries at
the council meeting last Monday night.
Stating that the new salaries would be
more in line with salaries paid to police in
other towns around Clinton, Mayor
Symons said "it was a good settlement".
Police salaries were lagging behind those
paid to other police in Wingham, Goderich,
Mitchell and the OPP.
Council also boosted salaries paid to
Public Works employees and the town
clerk and his assistant, Clerk Cam Proctor
said that full details of all salaries paid to
all town employees are available to anyone
who comes into the town hall and asks,
Chief Westlake also got a pay raise and
Twenty eight year old Goderich elemem
tary school teacher Paul Carroll was ac.
elaimed• as the New Democratic Party's
candidate in the upcoming March
Huron by-election when the party held
their nominating convention Monday
evening at the Clinton public school.
The March election will represent the
second time Mr. Carroll has placed his
name on the ballot having run for. the NbF
in the 1971 provincial election polling 20
percent of the total votes or 3,44
In his acceptance Speech to about 7(
party supporters Mr. Carroll said he stood
before the group as a former candidate,
member of the 'tiding Association
executive and as a community activist with
four years of municipal service and a
Settlement has been reached between the
provincial government and an unidentified
London resident to purchase a 119-acre
piece of lakefront land near Bayfield for
future development as a park.
The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation
Authority was told Monday at Exeter that
negotiations on the property, which began
shortly after the land was purchased at an
estate auction, were completed recently,
possibly as early as December.
Hullett Township Council decided at
their regular February meeting to ask
Clerk Clare Vincent to prepare a by-law
that would allow for the deduction of 1 /2 of
one percent per month for taxes paid on
the second installment after June 15 and
before November 30.
Council also decided to apply to the
ministry of transportation and com-
munication for a supplemental subsidy of
$75,000 for bridge construction on con-
cession 7.
Before the council meeting, Hullett
Council had met with the Huron County
Planning Board and the ministry of
natural resources to discuss the progress of
biggest parade in many years. Officials
said.
Londesboro Boy Scouts took home first
prize of $25, second prize of $15 went to the
float sponsored by the Huron Fish and
Game ConservatiL,n Club, while the
Christian Reformed Church of Clinton was
awarded third prize of $10.
Later Saturday afternoon, more than 750
children crowded into the Central Huron
Secondary School auditorium to see
talent show with 'Big Al' as MC, a fashion
show, and the crowning of the Prince and
Princess. Ron Plunkett of Auburn 'and
Glenna Ellis of RR 2 Clinton were choser
the winners. They represented Hullett Cen.
tral Public School. Runners-up were
Sharon Finlayson and Larry Coughtry of
Huron Centennial.
Saturday night and Sunday night, nearly
1,500 people crowded into the Clinton
Community centre to witness "TV on Ice"
put on by the Clinton Figure Skating
Over 150 children participated in the ice
show and,many of the audience marvelled
to Crown Assets and Disposal last Friday
and a $188,000 performance bond guaran-
teeing work on sewers and roads, is in the
hands of Tuckersmith Township and the
township and the company have signed a
subdivision agreement, Mr. Ginn said.
council agreed to pay 100 percent of all
town employees' medicare costs.
In one of the busiest council meetings in
some years, in which 40 motions were
passed, council also wrote off $1,834 in tax
rebates and exemptions for 1972. Most of
them were for buildings torn down or
moved or misassessed, The town now does
this duty instead of the assessment review
court.
' Council also received an estimate for
mercury streetlights and installation and
decided to discuss the matter further.
The PUC was granted permission to ask
Ontario Hydro to grant members $20 a
meeting and $25 for the chairman instead
)f the yearly honorarium of $200.
record of Commitment to those things in
which he had been involved.
"I also stand before you," he said, "as
the Paul Carroll who was alleged to be
changing his political affiliation so that he
might guarantee himself success. 1 stand
before you at this nomination meeting as a
New Democrat asking for your support."
"The political commentary of small town
weekly newspapers are in many pespects a
measure of the pulse in our lately rural
communities," he said.
"Of the five weeklies in our Hiding," the
candidate charged, 'there is only one
which continues to ignore the NDP as a
non entity hi Huron Riding, The other ac-
cept zts as a growing and dynamic political
• (Continued Oh page 13),
William Amos of McGillivray Township,
wile was succeeded Monday as authority
chairman, said he had heard the news only
in the past few days but did not know the
details of the settlement, including the
price the government has agreed to pay.
The new chairman is Elgin Thompson,
reeve of Tuckersmith Township.
Mr. Amos identified the present owner of
the land, known as the Stinson property, as
a Mr. Bacon.
the Hullett Wildlife Area, Council will at-
tend another meeting with the same of-
ficials on March first to discuss further
ideas and plans.
Council also issued a building permit to
Lorne Dale for a sow barn and decided on
an engineers recommendation to abandon
the Kinburn Drain, branch 'B'. They also
voted a grant of $50 to the Huron
Plowman's Association and asked the
Road Superintentant to apply for the
balance of the 1972 road subsidy.
At an earlier special council meeting,
Hullett discussed tax write-offs and
refunds, the Harding Drainage Works and
the up-dating of township by-laws.
at the show and the colorful costumes.
Sunday afternoon saw nearly 2,500
adults and children pack the Clinton
Raceway to watch more than 100 com-
petitors vie for $2,000 in prize money at the
Kinsmen Snowmobile races.
Hugh Flynn, Hullett Reeve, won the
Mayors and Reeves race and Corrie Van
Amelsfprt of Tecumseh was the .top money
4inrier: while Xeith Siemon of Seaforth
won the special 25-lap race,
A hockey game between the police and
the Clinton girl's hockey team on Monday
night was won by the girls by a 7-5 score.
Broomball was also played on Monday
night and a giant bingo at the Legion was
also well attended.
Events continue this Thursday with a
girls' hockey tournament and Friday sees
children's snowmobile rides, a giant out-
door wiener roast, a snowmobile dance,
and a Monte Carlo night at the arena.
) The Carnival will be climaxed on Satur-
day with a dance sponsored by the Legion.
The company is now known as Vanastra
Developments of which :2 /3 is owned by
260303 Holdings Limited and 111 by Denis
T. Donovan of Toronto. 260303 Holdings is
owned by Fred Ginn and John Van Castel.
Mr. Ginn said that his company would
be sitting down with Tuckersmith officials
this week and would straighten out the
problem of the back taxes owing on
Vanastra.
Mr. Ginn said that prizes for the "name
the base contest" would be presented when
the deeds come through.
Both officials of Stanley Township and
the authority have been interested in
acquiring the land for several years. The
authority participated in the estate auction
last summer but withdrew when it ap-
peared the bidding would go beyond the
limit approved by the authority's executive
committee.
One source said the tract of land aboUt
three miles south of Bayfield was pur-
chased for about $106,000. It has about
1,500 feet of frontage on Lake Huron and
the authority had hoped to develop it as a
public recreation area,
Following the auction, the authority ap-
pealed to the provincial ministry of natural
resources to conduct talks with the new
Clinton Council has ordered tha
engineering studies and cost feasability bt
done on several Clinton streets after cowl.
cil was presented with two petitions asking
that streets be paved, drained and
streetlighted.
Nearly all the residents on Raglan Street
with the exception of Councillor Brown,
Mayor Symons and Clerk Proctor signed a
petition asking that their street be properly
drained and paved from Princess Street to
Huron Pines subdivision.
Residents of Townsend Street between
William and Kirk also sent in a petition
with 25 names on it asking that the town
correct the "deplorable conditions" on the;
Street and provide streetlighting.
Council decided to ask for engineering
studies to determine if the town "can afford
to pave these streets. Council would also
like to pave Queen Street between Princess
and John-Streets. •
Council also decided to have further
By Wilma Oke
The Huron-Perth County Roman
Catholic Separate School Board meeting in
Seaforth Monday endorsed the resolution
from the Lincoln County Separate School
Board that it petition the Preniier of the
Province, Mr. Davis, and the Minister of
Education, Mr. T. Wells, to amend the
Separate Schools Act so as to require of
persons seeking election as Trustees of a
separate school board those same
qualifications required to those persons
seeking election as public school trustees,
namely: 1. that they be a Canadian citizen:
2. that they be of the full age of 18 years: 3.
that they be resident within the jurisdiction
of the Board (school zone) and 4. that they
be a ratepayer in the school zone.
Jack Lane, Business Administrator,
reported the house at 208 Queen Street,
Stratford, has been demolished and the
grounds levelled by the Krauskopf firm.
The property was purchased to enlarge the
Immaculate Conception school grounds.
Trustee Gordon Ball of St. Marys repor-
ted on the Pick-up Conference for newly-
elected trustees which he, along with
buyer and in a brief to the government
cited "the extreme importance of acquiring
this last piece of undeveloped lakeshore
frontage between Grand Bend and
Goderich."
Fred Jackson, finance and legal super-
visor for the ministry's conservation
authorities branch, said Monday that he
was aware of the settlement but could
provide no information on what price was
reached.
Mr. Jackson, a former resources manager
with the Ausable authority during its early
years and who attended the authority's an-
nual meeting here Monday, said it should
be known shortly if the ministry will
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negotiations with an unnamed company
that wishes to build a new plant in Clinton.
Final details should be worked out in a few
weeks council was told.
Council also approved 'the letting of a
tender for new washrooms at the arena.
The $13,500 contract was given to Don Bell
of Clinton and the 32 foot by 22 foot struc-
ture will be accessable from both the out-
side and the arena hall. Because the Kin-
smen will be using them for their Sunday
races, they have agreed torSplit the cost
with the town. Construction will start in
the near future,
Council also decided that if James
Hayman Construction of Lori'don had not
started to fix up the faults in the town's
new $40,000 Public Works by February 14,
then, council would seek to have the money
taken from the Hayman bond.
Clinton has refused to take over the
building from the construction company
because certain obligations have not been
Trustees Donald Crowley of Gadshill and
Francis Hicknell of R.R. 5, Seaforth, atten-
ded in Toronto on February 4,5 and 6.
Trustees Patrick Carty of Stratford, Ar-
thur Haid of R.R. 4 Listowel, and Ted
Geoffrey of R.R. 2 Zurich, were named to a
committee for a follow-up study of the
H.S.I. credit system and the response to
change bulletin published by the Ministry
of Education. This followed a special
meeting of trustees on January 29 when
they met to consider the credit system and
the bulletin. S.D. Oakes, assistant regional
director of the regional office of the
Ministry of Education at Waterloo was the
guest speaker at that meeting.
Trustees David Teahen of Stratford,
Vincent Young of Goderich and Gordon
Ball all members of the Personnel Commit-
tee will attend the Provincial Salary Con•
ference in Toronto on February 17. '
OsCar Kieffer, R.R. 1, Bluevale, chair-
Tian of the Property Committee, reported
the renewal of the preventative main-
tenance contract with Simplex Inter-
national Time Equipment for the servicing
of all program units in 17 of the 19
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Reformed church host 200 youth
Town boosts empoyees salaries
Carroll gets NDP nod
Early bird gets tax cut
Late snow makes Carnival the biggest ever
Vanastra deeds promised in 4 weeks
• Three Clinton streets
may get improvment
Separate board backs motion