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Huron County librarian retires
after four years' service
Times-Advocate,.August 1$, 1974 Pogo 11
NEW NEIGHBOUR — Mrs. Mark Smith enjoys playing with her
daughter, Julie who is three and a half months old.
Finds town life different
"Working here," she said, "has
been the happiest period of my
professional life. I can only thank
the people for the happiness.
They are so warm and friendly
and the office staff here is second
to none."
Miss Dewar will be leaving her
Bayfield borne to return to
Belleville. She summered in
Bayfield for three years prior to
joining the county staff and
consequently was familiar with
life in Huron. She loves the little
village dearly and has a great
number of friends there that she
hopes to come and visit
regularly. Her retirement gift
from the library board was a
Jack McLaren painting of the
Bayfield pier. She says she will
treasure the painting always.
She leaves the county in Sep-
tember but she feels her new
lodgings in Belleville are rather
unique. "My new home js only
two blocks from the Belleville
Public Library where my career
began."
extensive history of the county
that she calls her Canadiana
section. The literature covers all
facets of life in the county in-
cluding farming books from the
last century,
The headquarters also serves
as a resource centre since no one
branch has adequate staff or
resources to handle the job. If a
reader wishes to borrow a book
that the county library does not
have, they can immediately
contact the Kitchener Public
Library. If that library does not
have the book, then the Regional
office would be telexed and they,
in turn, could draw on the
national resourceslin Ottawa. The
book could be located and sent
out to Goderich,
These efforts of Miss Dewar
and her staff to modernize the
library system have proven to be
extremely successful and the
chief librarian is more than
satisfied with her final efforts in
the field. She regards her work in
Goderich as "a marvellous ex-
perience,"
Street in Goderich and the
planning for the small office has
achieved maximum use for the
relatively limited space. It is
here that Miss Dewar's talent
and experience has blossomed.
The . headquarters on
Lighthouse Street is staffed by
six people, Chief Librarian, a
Library Technician, a secretary
and three library assistants. The
purpose of the centre is to control
the flow of the nearly 200,009
books owned by the county, These
books are constantly being
moved from one headquarters to
another through the headquar-
ters and all new publications
purchased are processed here.
A system of sliding shelves
purchased at Miss Dewar's
request allows for maximum use
of floor space. The shelves are
mounted on rollers and can be
moved across the room so that
there is only one aisle in use at
any given time,
Miss Dewar has scoured the
book catalogues since her arrival
here and has put together an
Many people compare small
towns to larger cities, finding
them quieter or cleaner or
friendlier,
But if you come from a farm or
a village, Exeter can take on new
perspective.
"It's hard to get used to town
life," said Mrs. Mary Anne
Smith, "having people so close.
We never even thought of it when
buying the house."
The Smiths moved into 222
South Sherwood Crescent in
June. Mark works for Guenther-
Tuckey Transports. They have
two children, Chris who is four
and Julie, three and a half
months.
Mark had lived on a farm all
his life and Mary Ann was raised
in the village of Egmondville.
The couple lived there for ten
months after their marriage and
then moved to a farm near
Dublin.
"It's no change to go from a
village to a farm, but it's a real
change from farm to town," she
said.
But the adjustment only took a
few weeks, she said, They are
quite happy living in town
although Mark would like to go
back to a farm in a few years,
They moved from Dublin
because of the distance.
"The driving got the best of
Mark," said Mary Anne. "He
would drive all day at work and
then have to drive home 20 miles
each night,"
Mary Anne enjoys making
small crafts and doing liquid
embroidery.
CHIEF LIBRARIAN RETIRES — Miss Ethel Dewar, chief librarian of the Huron County Library will retire at
the end of August. During her four years with the county library system she has steered it through a complete
change in the distri,bution system and initiated the library's new headquarters. Signal-Star photo
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4ve-itiglifFMR O ntario Place hosts
craft demonstrations
by THE OODERICH
SIGNAL-STAR
The chief librarian for the Huron
County Library is retiring at the
end of August after four years of
faithful service and there is a
possibility that a large number pf
people in the county did not know
who she was or what her job
entailed.
Miss Ethel Dewar had the reins
of the library handed to her in
1970 and since then has steered it
through a complete change in
distribution system and .has
planned arid initiated the
library's new headquarters on
Lighthouse Street,
Shy and humble, Miss Dewar is
what most people imagine a
librarian to be and yet there is
evidence everywhere that she is
capable of planning, organizing
and putting in motion her ideas of
what changes are necessary to
give residents of Huron County
good library service.
Her first job in a library was in
her hometown of Belleville where
she sold books for 25 cents an
hour. During this period she was
in training to add a Library
Degree to the Bachelor of Arts
Degree she received in univer-
sity. After completing library
school she was promoted tp
Children's Librarian at the
Belleville Public Library and
then moved on to the chief
librarian.
She has devoted her life's work
to library work and has been very
successful in the field, She has
served as chief librarian in
Cornwall, Victoria County and
Oakville Public Libraries and
just prior to coming to the Huron
County system had set up a
resource centre library for the
Lambton Kent Composite School
in Dresden.
Miss Dewar's arrival in Huron
"County was timed with the
retirementof the bookmobile that
had carried over 1,000 books to
readers throughout the county
since 1947. The rolling library
reputedly one of the first of its
kind in Canada and dubbed "Miss
Huron" was replaced by a station
wagon delivery van and a new
distribution system,
The new system required books
to be selected at headquarters
and sent out to the various
branches rather than a quantity
sent out to be selected locally.
Add to this the planning of the
new headquarters and the move
from the basement of the Court
House to Lighthouse Street and it
is obvious that Miss Dewar's
talents would be put to the test.
Improving the book titles in
stock in the libraries is a constant
challenge and Miss Dewar has
systematically weeded out the
worn out holdings and replaced
them with popular literature and
up to date reference material.
The library serves 1,295 miles
and over 50,000 people, largely
rural. There are five town
branches in Goderich, Clinton,
Seaforth, Wingham and Exeter.
There are five village libraries
and 14 deposit stations located in
halls, homes or separate small
quarters and are open from three
to ,eight hours per week,
Headquarters for this network
of book lending is on Lighthouse
A work of art is being created
in front of your eyes. The skills of
the potter, the weaver and the
woodcarver are on display for
visitors to Ontario Place. It's a
living exhibit called "Youthcraft
Ontario" where talented young
artists demonstrate their skills to
the public.
In an effort to raise handicrafts
above the status of being hobbies,
The Canadian Guild of Crafts is
sponsoring this attraction to
encourage the public to relate to
the amount of work and
knowledge put into original
works of art.
The lump of moist clay that will
be spun and molded into a vase is
within arm's reach. The
fragrance of the wood released
by the deliberate chipping away
of the woodcarver blends with the
p,ungent smell of smoldered
metal. The expert manipulation
of the jewellery maker's tools can
Show new film
at high school
The public is invited to the
showing of a newly released film
by the David Wilkerson Youth
Crusades, depicting the events
foreshadowing the last world war
at Armageddon.
The 45 minute full color film is
based on insights narrator David
Wilkerson, author of "The Cross
and the Switchblade" had of five
calamities coming to the world.
The film will be shown in this
area on Saturday August 17 at
South Huron District High School
in Exeter at 8 p.m.
be closely observed.
Sitting at her potter's wheel in
the hexagon-shaped building on
the West Island, Marlene Smith
will tell you that her craft is
therapeutic. A ceramics student
at Georgian College of Applied
Arts and Technology at Barrie,
she says that it gives a person a
feeling of accomplishment to
create something beautiful and
useful from a simple lump of
clay,
• Julia Redgrave echoes the
satifaction of involvement.
Teaching ceramics at Humber
College, she's used to explaining
to onlookers the procedure of
molding, shaping, and finally, of
baking clay. Kit Gutman, another
Georgian College ceramics
student, sculpts in clay to create
unusual ceramic pottery,
Across the floor, Dawn Van
Graft, a textile design teacher at
the Ontario Institute For Studies
In Education, sits at her hand
loom and creates intricate pat-
terns from yarns, ranging from
sheep's wool to human hair to the
fur of an orang-utang.
Paul Blender doodles on paper
before putting a knife into the soft
maple wood he uses to create
abstract carvings, A graduate of
Georgian College in sculpture, he
studies the grain to anticipate the
reaction of the wood to his artistic
concept.
"Youthcraft Ontario" is a
learning experience for the
visitor. Reach out and handle a
lump of clay . . or discover how
a place-mat is woven . un-
derstand better what a particular
craft means to its creator. The
exhibit continues daily through
September 2.
HURON COUNTY FAMILY PLANNING PROJECT
Invites you to attend
BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC
every Tuesday and Thursday at:
HURON PARK AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, OXFORD HAIL
from 6:30 9;00 p.m.
SERVICES INCLUDE:
—counselling
—discussion of contraceptive methods
—medical advice by physician
- pap smears
FOR INFORMATION CALL 228-6910 Tuesday and Thursday
evenings or 235.1014 weekdays. Thursday evening: counsell-
ing only.
All services Ore provided tree of charge.
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