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Thursday, May 23, 1974 , 109th Year 21
By Vanastra residents
Tuckersmith council praised for work
residents by the Association said they
wished "to take this opportunity to extend
appreciation to the Tuckersmith Township
Council for their sincere interest, co-
operation and support in the overall im-
provement of Vanastra."
The letter signed by A.D. Jutzi,
president, and the other seven members of
the executive, stated, "The most ambitious
undertaking to date is the acquiring of a
community hall, a curling rink, swimming
pool, and an outdoor recreational area in
Vanastra; all of which will eventually
serve the residents of Vanastra and, the
surrounding area."
"The Vanastra Community Ratepayers
Association was pleased to receive .accep:
tance for the total recreational develop-
1' •
A good cyclist
There was a small turnout atlast Saturday's bicycle, rodeo sponsored by the Clin-
ton Police Department, butthose children who came put their safety lessons to
good use. Here Constable Wayne McFadden checks Jeff Corrie of Clinton as he'
performs a skill. Jeff won first prize. (News-Record photo)
Restoration talk tonight
Heavg rains
float tank
The ground was so saturated with the 10 inches of rain that has fallen on the area in the last
seven weeks, that a tank on the Esso distribution property on Victoria Street in Clinton floated
to the top of the ground. Former Esso agent Harold Black and his son Gary look at the
damage caused when the empty 10,000 gallon gasoline tank floated up, snapping pipes and
breaking the platform. The agency is now run by Mel Bogie of Goderich. (News-Record photo)
14 OFY grants come to Huron
Readg for bettors
Racing secretary Frank Cook of the Clinton Kinsmen Raceway lookt Over the new
paving job around the mutual build at the raceway which Lavls Contracting of
Clinton coMPliatecl this Week in preparation tor the racing teaSon which Opens on
June 30th, The Kinsmen paid ior the paving, (NewS4lacord photo)
varied recreational activity at five senior
citizen's homes in the Clinton, Goderich,
Seaforth and Brussels areas. The project
lasts from mid-June until the end of
August. '
Seaforth received two separate grants,
one at $2,810, to a group of four young
people headed by Sue Hildebrand to run a
day camp for young children this summer,
and the other to a group of five youths
headed Iv Bill McCurdy worth $5,520 to
provide home improvement and
recreational aid to Seaforth senior citizens.
A Blyth group under the guidance of
Marsha McNeil received a $4,375 grant to
do planning and landscape the Blyth
Union Cemetery.
Two grants were given in Goderich,' one
worth $4,300 to a group of five persons
headed by Lisa Scholtz to provide summer
activities for mentally retarded youth, and
the other worth $6,600 to 'a group of eight
youngsters to paint the upper portions of
the Goderich Square buildings.
Other grants went to groups in Huron
Park, Ashfield Township. Grey Township,
Wingham, Lucknow and Zurich.
Nola Lee, head of the Clinton prOject,
said that their group is looking for children
between the ar of two and six years of
age who are frazy toilet trained.
She said the group of five young people
will attempt to enhance the creativity of
pre-school children in and around Clinton.
She said the children will spend three
hours a day at the playground learning
basic skills and concepts that will help
them in their _school years.
Parents will have the choice of sending
their children either in the morning from 9
a.rn. to 12 p.m, or from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and
registration will be held on June 7, and
8th. The project starts on June 17th and
ends on August 30th.
Included in the project are Nola, of
Queen Street in Clinton and Donna rhut-
smote of ReamSVille. Both have completed
one year of a two year course in early
childhood education at Niagara College in
Welland. Both Donna and Nola have
received their qualifications in St. John
Standard First Aid,
Also in the Clinton group is Marilyn
Cleave of RR 3, Hayfield, Marilyn Holmes
of Ontario Street itt Clinton, and Winnifred
13radley of Joseph Street in Clinton,
Miss Holmes has been accepted at Lamb.
BY WILMA OKE
A letter of appreciation Tuesday to the
members of Tuckersmith Township council
from the Vanastra Community Ratepayers
Association' took away the bad taste left by
the letter of resignation last week by coun-
cillor Vince Fowlie of Vanastra.
The letter written on behalf of Vanastra
By Jim Fitzgerald
Huron County has received approval for
14 programs under the Federal govern-
ment's Opportunities For Youth program
(OFY). The programs will receive funding
totalling nearly $57,000.
In Clinton, Nola Lee, along with four
other persons, will be running, "Creative
Wonderland", a day camp for Clinton and
area pre-school children. They received a
$4,695 grant.
In Bayfield, Rick Westlake will head a
group of four youths who will carry on a
Bayfield Clean-up campaign this summer.
The project, call "BRIC" received a $4,080
grant. The project started on May 13 and
ends on August 17th.
Evelyn Benjamins of RR 1, Blyth will
head up a $4,900 project that will provide
BY J.F.
After what seems like two solid months
of rain, the skies finally cleared on Friday
and (keep your fingers crossed) there
hasn't been a drop of rain since. It was a
very pleasant weekend to get back out into
the garden and many farmers are now
breathing a little easier, We were lucky in
these parts that the ten inches of rain
received in the last seven weeks never
caused any severe flooding as it did in the
Cambridge-Brantford area,
With the end of the heavy rain, the local
baseball buffs were finally able to get out
on the diamond this week. Clinton's all-
Ontario Juvenile "C" championship team
open their regular season this coming
Saturday night at B p.m, in Clinton in a
garne against,Seaforth. The Colts will also
open the season with a game on Sunday,
* *
We are hoping that there will be a large
turnout tonight at the Clinton Town Hail
at 8:30 p.m, to discuss the proposed
restoration project of the Clinton core area.
The renovation project seems to have
created More stir in the Town than any one
issue in recent years,
ment from 97 percent of the Vahastra
residents and taxpayers; all of whom were
advised at the time of petitioning that the
cost would reflect as an additional levy on
their taxes. To date the Community
Association has not received any negative
.reaction to, the assessment which appeared
ri the current 1974 tax notices.",
The letter concluded, "The Vanastra
Community Ratepayers Association looks
forward to a continuing, harmonious
relationship with the Tuckersmith Town-.
ship Council."
Mr. Fowlie in his letter of resignation
had condemned council for "the continuing
ruthless exploitation of the citizens of the
community of Vanastra".
Reeve Elgin Thompson commented,
"Council has worked long and hard to do
our very best for the residents of
Vanastra."
Joe Murphy of Clinton, one of the
owners of Huron Concrete Pipe Company
of Harpurhey was at the meeting to discuss
zoning as it applies to the property. The
Harpurhey area is designated residential
by the Huron County Planning Depart-
ment,
Fred Ginn of Vanastra, one of the
owners of property there, was at the
meeting to discuss current developments at
Vanastra and the transfer of his property
to the Township. The property involved is
the church which he is selling to the town-
ship for the community centre proposed in
the Recreation Plan, at a cost of $35,000
':and the curling rink, at a cost of $35,000, to
,be used for curling, hockey and skating.
, George, Radford of Blyth was awarded,
tender.fhb to stipPlY a id.'deliver grantilar.A.
and 'B and fill to the Hibbert Boundary
Road construction at a total cost of
$11,865. The Radford tender was the
lowest of three received.
Council 'approved a tile drainage loan of
$2,600 supplenientary to an original ap-
plication.
Building permits this year to the end of
May total 43, compared to 20 issued in the
same period last wear, Clerk James McIn-
tosh reported.
Building permit applications approved
Tuesday included: Bill Ross, Brucefield,
new house and livestock barn; John and
Arnold Van Miltenburg, RR 4, Seaforth,
addition to barn, milk house and grain
bins; Stanley Johns, RR 3, Seaforth, silo;
John Oldfield, RR 4, Seaforth, addition to
barn and silo; Gerben Wynja, RR 4,
Seaforth, dairy cow barn; Elliott Layton,
Brucefield, carport; Hugh Parsons, Hen-
sail, storage shed; Harvey Hammon,
Vanastra, garage; and Alvin Hoff, Egmon-
dville, •addition to house.
Wayne Smith of Vanastra will be asked
to remove an old building from his lot 35
which he moved there without a permit
and apparently intends to use it as a ken-
nel, which is not permitted in the residen-
tial *iron
The restoration and renovating of the
core business area of Clinton will be
discussed tonight (May 23) at a special
meeting at the Clinton Town Hall at 8:30.
Businessmen and interested Clintonians
will meet with Gordon Duern of Ratten-
bury Street to discuss the possible facelif-
ting of the town core with the idea of
preserving the old buildings, but fixing
them up to give the town a distinctive
Georgian architectural flavor.
One of the largest groups to attend a
Clinton council meeting in 20 years were at
the regular meeting of the Clinton council
last ' week to discuss the possibilities of
building a nevv. town _,yet.. bei.fu,nctional at
the saw time.
Mr. Duern, a qualified architect and in-
terior designer, had offered his services free
of charge to the Town of Clinton if they
decided to build a new Town Hall. Council
has not made any decisions on the old
Town Hall pending a feasibility study by a
London engineer. The report is expected at
the end of May. •
During discussion of the new Town Hall
proposal last week Mr, Duern suggested
that for a small fee, he would meet with
the businessmen of the town with the idea
of drawing up a proposal and studying the
possibilities of renovating the main core
area.
Mr; Duern said at the time that the
businessmen didn't have to wait for. the
Clinton council to make the first move,
they could proceed by themselves. He
suggested that a common pattern could be
set up that could be followed throughout
the core area, giving Clinton a distinctive
flavor, unique in this part of the country,
He said it would enhance the core area
immensely and also make it attractive to a
large tourist industry.
Mr. Duern, who said recently that Clin-
ton has a lot of hidden beauty, told the
audience at the council last week that the
January 1st, 1975 was set as the start of
the beard growing contest that will be one
of the highlights of Clinton's Centennial
celebrations next year.
The date was one of the items discussed
at a general meeting of the Centennial
committee last Wednesday night, (May 15)
in the Town Hall.
There were 16 persons present, one of the
best turnouts for some time, but still not
very good, according to chairman Russ Ar-
cher, He said that more Clintonians should
be attending the meetings,
The committee was also disappointed
that no representatives were present from
the Clinton Retail Merchants Association.
The Centennial committee had sent out
over 100 letters to area businessmen asking
them to attend the meeting to discuss
marketing of Centennial souvenirs.
As a result, the committee decided to
look into the possibilities of setting up their
own store to sell souvenirs during Centen-
nial year, Mayor Don Symons reported
that it might be possible to obtain a store
from Al Galbraith of Clinton on Retten-
bury Street.
The Centennial colors of baSie blue, gold
and red were officially adopted after those
present were shown samples by Mrs.
Zablocki.
Signs proclaiming Clinton's Centennial
are nearing completion, Roy Wheeler
repotted, and he also said that Gass
Boussey had been in touch with the Mit-
chell Centennial committee with a view to
purchasing their street decorations after
Mitchell's Centennial is celebrated this
year.
restoration program wouldn't be very ex-
pensive, because it only entails fixing up
exteriors, not completing renovating the
buildings. "What you do with the inside of
the building is your business," he said.
Mr. Duern also hinted that for a small
fee he would advise any other Clintonian
on how they could enhance their property
value by fixing it up or restoring some of
the fine older homes in town. He said he
has'really become fond of Clinton since he
and his wife moved here a year ago and he
was willing to do what he could to make an
even more beautiful place to live,
Gordon Duern of Clinton will meet tonight
with Clinton businessmen and interested
citizens to discuss the possibilities of
restoring the fronts of the buildings in the
core area. (photo by Muriel Trott)
Eric Switzer reported that the old fire
truck was nearly fully restored and would
be ready for the Fair parade. Mr. Switzer
said he had not received final word on
whether the Ontario Firemen's Association
would be participating in the Centennial
parade.
For at least the summer months, the
committee voted to have both the executive
and the general meeting on the same night,
with the executive meeting starting an hour
, before the general meeting. The next
general meeting is on June 19 at 8 r.m, in
the Town Hall.
All persons in Clinton who are 100 years-
old or older will receive a special gift from
the Centennial committee it was decided
and the first baby born in 1975 will also be
honored.
Town. hires
new help
Mrs. Margaret Maguire of High Street in
Clinton was hired last Thursday night by a
committee of the Clinton Town Council to
replace Marie Jefferson of Clinton who
resigned her post as the town's assistant
clerk-treasurer three weeks ago.
WA, Maguire' tarts work for the town as
an office clerk on the first of June, She was
one of four applicants for the job,
At last week's regular council meeting,
councillors had given the committee per-
mission to go ahead and interview the ap-
plicants and hire one of their choice.
ton College in Sarnia where she will be
taking an early childhood education
course, statiing in September.
Both Miss ,Cleave and Miss Bradley,
students at CHSS, hope to enter the field of
child care on completion of their high
school education.
Miss Lee said that any parents wishing
further information on the project could
contact her at 482-3858,
"Whiskers" talked at meeting