Times Advocate, 1995-09-06, Page 5Back in Time...
4 IT'S YOUR BUS 1NFLSS
By Ross Haugh from the archives of
the Exeter Times Advocate
10 YEARS AGO
September 4. 1985 - Another Exeter trucker has been refused per-
mission to park his vehicle in a residential area. Members of the
planning advisory committee turned down a minor variance request
from Don and Jean Papple to park a truck at their 59 Huron Street
West residence, despite the fact neighboring property owners were
on hand at the August 28 meeting to support the couple's applica-
tion.
Exeter has apparently won its appeal of a Hay township zoning
bylaw amendment which would have allowed an agri-industrial park
to be developed in the area of Huron Tractor on the town's northern
outskirts.
25 YEARS AGO
September 3, 1970 - A group of tourists from -many parts of the
United States will be among the large crowd expected to attend this
weekend's Midwestern Rodeo at Exeter Community Park.
On the recommendation of an official of the Calgary Stampede a
Toronto travel bureau agent made arrangements with Exeter offi-
cials to bring a group of about 40 travellers to the local event Sun-
day afternoon.
The travel agent was in Exeter Wednesday morning making final
arrangements with rodeo secretary Dalton Finkbeiner. The group
will include one visitor from Australia who wished to take in a ro-
deo sometime this week.
Two young ladies from Grand Bend Jean Jennison and Patti
Glenn will be attempting to win the Miss Mid -Western Ontario title
at the Lucknow Fair on September 18.
40 YEARS AGO
September 3, 1955 - South Huron District High School is prepared
to squeeze in a record 500 students when the doors open on Tues-
day.
Town employees started using the sanitary land fill method of gar-
bage disposal at the dump this week. The improvements were un-
dertaken after three ratepayers filed a writ in Supreme Court com-
plaining about the condition of the dump located beside Highway
83.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Koch have returned from the Doon School
of Fine Arts near Preston where Mr. Koch was taking a course in oil
painting.
SO YEARS AGO
September 4. 1945 - Mr. Albert Ostland, who for the past four
years has been stationed at Clinton Radio School has accepted a po-
sition as caretaker of the Exeter Cemetery.
Mrs. Muriel Sweet, Douglas and Helen of Estevan, Saskatchewan
have moved to Exeter into one of Mr. Elliott's apartments.
75 YEARS AGO
September 3, 1920 - The "Big Four" won the trophy at the St.
Marys bowling tournament last week. The rink was composed of
Woods, Stewart, Tamasland Seldon.
The Main street in Exeter north has been opened for traffic. Exeter
now has a cement pavement from the south boundary to the Lake
and Thames Road.
Mr. Ed Kestle has bought the 100 acre farm of John Blatchford on
Concession 2 of Usborne township for $7,100.
Clinton Model school will not be opened for three weeks owing to
repairs.
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100 YEARS AGO
September 3, 1895 - Mr. Alex McLaren of Hibbert township sold
to a local cattle dealer last week 17 head of cattle for which he re-
ceived $1,000. It pays to raise good stock and feed well.
Mr. William Penhale of Stephen township has. a corn stalk which
measures 14 feet long. We would like to hear from anybody who
can beat this.
On Friday last Coward and Brown of Winchelsea threshed for
George Heywood 125 bushels of wheat in one hour. In the same
time on another occasion they threshed 123 bushels of wheat for
William Coward. "Who can beat this?", they ask.
St. Marys pays its town officials salaries amounting to $1,430
while the machinery of Exeter is run for $700 at the outside.
OFA to elect directors
CLINTON - The Huron County
Federation of Agriculture (OFA) is
hosting its annual regional meeting
on Thursday. September 7 at 8 p.m.
at Hullett Central Public School in
Londesboro. The purpose of the
meeting is the election of the new
regional directors for the four dif-
ferent regions in Huron County.
The four regions include Huron
Central (McKillop, Hullett, Tucker -
smith. Stanley), Huron Northwest
(Morris, Grey, Howick Turnberry),
Huron Northeast (Ashfield, Gode-
rich, Colborne. East and West
Wawanosh) and Huron South (Hay,
Stephen, Usborne).
The directors for each of these re-
gions are expected to attend the
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OFA board of director meetings
and report back to the county level
at the monthly Huron board meet-
ings.
Also at this meeting elections
will be held for delegates to attend
the OFA annual convention in To-
ronto from November 20 to 22.
Any OFA member is eligible to run
for election for regional director as
a convention delegate.
The guest speakers will be Doug
Lisle, the new general manager of
the OFA, and Ken Kelly, the sec-
ond vice-president of OFA.
Come out, hear the speakers,
meet your fellow farmers and find ,
mut who your new elected represen-
tatives will be.
The addition and renovations to the Old Town Hall are coming nearer to completion. The
brickwork, pictured above, is done with careful! attention to detail in order to maintain the in-
tegrity of the heritage building.
Exeter employment
Centre evolving to
offer more services
EXETER - Faced with closing its office only tour months ago, the
Employment Centre in Exeter will be opened five days a week of-
fering more services to clients.
As of September 11. the Employment Centre will no longer he a
government office strictly focused on employment. Instead, it is in-
volved with other employment centres in Huron County initiating a
network of offices that will offer various levels of services.
Employment counsellor, Laura Overholt said Human Resource
Centres from Seaforth and Clinton will combine their services with.
the office in Exeter with more centres joining in the future.
"Our job will be to identify the needs of people walking through
the door and matching them with an appropriate service and fol-
lowing up on them in an ongoing long term basis." said Overholt.
The goal of the centre, tentatively called The Huron Employment
Resource Centre, is to ensure clients who are using the network's
services are finding jobs and are self-sufficient.
After the preliminary contact with the client, the entre in Exeter
will determine which office can better serve their needs and then
channel the services through the Exeter office.
"We know that transportation is a major issue for a number of our
clients and we hope this will make it more convenient for them and
more cost effective for the different agencies involved," said Over-
holt.
Although some services will no longer be available such as labor
exchange programs for employers, information will still be avail-
able through their office.
The office in Exeter is currently funded by the federal govern-
ment; however, Overholt said the participating members of the net-
work will eventually fund themselves. -
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