Clinton News-Record, 1977-02-10, Page 3•
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"Look mom, no house," is an apt description for the D.T.
Wallace home on Highway 4 south of Brucefield. Huge snow
drifts have covered the home, and only a small hole has
been poked out so the family can see out a window. (News -
Record photo)
Huron County selected as rural pilot study
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The University of Guelph
Rural Development Outreach
Project (RDOP) hats an-
nounced the selection of
Huron County as its first pilot
area. -
RDOP director Tony Fuller
states that Project
representatives will begin
working in Huron County this
year.
411 The RDOP staff describe
Huron as being the ` most
balanced county to represent
a traditional rural area.
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A second pilot area will be
announced this spring to
represent rural areas on the
urban fringe and undergoing
rapid change. The regional
municipalities .of Halton and
Haldimand-Norfolk among
others are being considered
for this pilot area.
Through the RDOP, ex- '
plains Prof. Fuller. the
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By Chris Zdeb
Do you suffer from the February Flahs? Have you
forgotten what spring is like and given up all hope of ever
living through another one? Have your started looking
over blueprints for putting up athree-bedroom igloo?
If your answer to one or all of the above is yes, rest
assured, you have the Flahs. Unlike the 24-hour flu, the
Flahs last for 28 days except every four years, when the
agony is extended for another day.
Running to your medicine cabinet for a bottle of Geritol
isn't the answer. "Y
Ten out of 10 doctors, agree the only true cure for the
Flahs is a spring thaw.
Meanwhile, Flah sufferers must -try and keep their
spirits up at all costs. They have to restore their belief
that spring is just around the corner. There are
horrendous obstacles to overcome, the first being
February 2, otherwise known as Groundhog Day. In all
my born days, not once has the rodent emerged from his
burrow to find no shadow. It's a little tough to keep up
your faith in spring when some little fella in a fur suit
goes around spreading the doom and gloom of another
month and a half of winter. '
However, if you're left down and depressed by
February 2, there's always February 14, Valentine's Day
to help you rebuild your spirits.
Ah yes, Valentine's Day. The one day in" the year on
which you get to make up for the times you didn't take
the garbage out, didn't help with the dishes, didn't iron
his white shirt properly, didn't sew a button on his coat,
didn't...
Caution: The soothing effects of Valentine cards,
bouquets of flowers and boxes of candy self-destruct one
second after the stroke of midnight, February 14, so be
fore -warned.
Another momentous occasion, depending on how you
look at it, is February 23, Ash Wednesday. It marks the
'start of Lent, and offers New Year's resolutions a second
chance. Here's your opportunity to give up for 40 days
and nights, what you said you'd give up for the New Year
and did - for at least six hours. When a New Year's '
resolution dooms you more or less to a lifetime of
sacrifice, Lent stipulates 40 days. In this case, sacrifice
is better the second time around.
With only five more days left to weather, many Flah
sufferers make the fatal mistake of thinking they're well
on the way to recovery, They begin to hear birds singing,
see buds beginning to push through the ground of their
indoor gardens, and begin planning their summer
vacations. -
Unfortunately, they are heading for a relapse. Why?
Because in the next day or two they will be hit for
anywhere from $32 to $40 for license plate stickers, and
will have received their T-4 slips.
When you suffer from the Flahs, you have to realize
that there is no way to cut corners to take on a miracle
cure. Prepare yourself for 28 days of depression and
hopelessness but bear in mind that March 1 will revive
you. ..,
Meanwhile, keep looking at the calendar picture for
February that hangs on the kitchen Wall: You knoW, the
one that shows snow melting, or spring waters gurgling
over mountain streams, or a girl in a bikini.
Visit your local green house and make believe you're
strolling through a tropical island. Get friends Ducky
enough to be cooking on a beach to send you post cardsto...._
keep your spirits up. 'Start a local chapter of Flah-
sufferers Anonymous.
Above all, THINK SPRING.
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NOTICE
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University of Guelph hopes to,
contribute to the process of
rural development in Ontario
by sharing more' of its
resources with rural people.
The Project was initially
funded in September of 1975
by a $557,350 grant from the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation of
Battle Creek, Michigan.
The purpose of this seed
money, says Prof. Fuller is to
find out what a university
community can do to meet
the needs of rural people and
whether or not such a type of
program should be part of a
university's role.
One of the major reasons
for choosing Huron is because
the county has already
opened the channels to reach
the people. Huron is currently
involved with rural planning
at the municipal level, ex-
plains Prof. Fulter, involving
township residents in the
development of township
planning. • '
• The, planners are -well
equipped ' to handle the
physical aspects of townships
planning, he adds, but they
feel unable to answer many
Greg Clark dies,
questions which deal with the
social and cultural im-
plications of rural planning
and development. The
proposed- integration of social
and physical planning will be
really unique in this province,.
says Prof. Fuller. "The idea
of rural -planning and
developing it with people in
the townships we think is
terrific, and we'd like to be a
part of that."
Through this initial contact
with people, the RDOP staff,
headed by Lynn Graham,
program assistant, hopes to
Launch other activities. 'The
involvement with township
planning will be limited to one
particular township, not yet
chosen but the RDOP will
also be involved on an overall
county level. Members of the
university community will
consider requests from any
village, community or in-
dividual in Huron County.
This, Prof. Fullerstresses as
one of the main objectives of
the RDOP; to offer assis.tance
where a need is defined and
expressed by the rural people
themselves.
was known here
The death ,of Canada's
'King-sized 'leprechaun',.
Gregory Clark, last Thursday
brought back
memories for a- few Clinton
residents.
A veteran newspaper man
and one of the country's best
known story tellers, Mr.
Clark spent many- summers
of his youthinClinton visiting
with -a grandmother, uncle
and Aunt Mabel Clark, editor
of the Clinton News -Record
from 1917 to 1937.
Mr. Clark who was 84, died
in Toronto hospital of a blood
infection after a brief illness.
Local resident Charlie Cook
said he remembered Greg
Clark going fishing with his
uncle, who lived across the
street from him.
Mr. .Clark took his last
hunting and•fishing trip at the
age of 77.
His newspaper career
began with the Toronto Star
in 191.1 and was broken only
by two years service in the
First World War. He later
joined the weekly Montreal
Standard, which developed
into the Weekend magazine.
In 1965, he was chosen the
first honorary Member of the
Newspaper Hall of Fame, and
was awarded the Stephen
Leacock , Medal for Humour
for one of his books, Gregory
Clark War Stories.
He will long be remem-
bered for his creative stories,
based on his personal ex-
periences..
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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1�977*r-RAGE 3
uckersinith goes home ...
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Board to prepare a comprehensive
zoning by-law for Tuckersmith to
replaoe a partial by-law passed in 1972.
Council learned that the Ontario Fire
Marshall's office has agreed to do a
study on fire protection needs in the
township as requested by council.
Mrs. Betty Cardno attended the
meeting to ask council that the members
of the singles club be permitted to
continue to hold their weekly dance at
Vanastra Recreation Centre on Satur-
day nights..,during the year as they did
last. `
Counci-1 agreed and. said the rental
charge would be $100 for the main hall
plus $25 for the kitchen if used, and plus
$25 for the Day Care Centre, if used.
Members of council took over in
January the running of the ,Recreation
Centre instead of the former Recreation
Board due to the financial difficulties at
the centre which had a deficit of $80,000
at the end of last year.
Council considered raising the yearly
remuneration paid to each member.
They will decide at the next meeting the
increase they will give themselves for
.:the coming year. Presently, the Reeve is
paid $1,185 per year and the rest of the
council each $880.
Passed for payment are the following
accounts: Vanastra Day Care .Centre,
$3,622.84; Vanastra Recreation,
$4,651.74; Roads, $18,241.67; general,
$76,168.89 for a total of $102,685.14. A
request for a tile drain loan of $12,000
was approved. -
Council will go along with the town of
Seaforth to do a survey of the township
for a senior citizens apartment project
when Ontario Housing does it for the
town of Seaforth.
Council was informed by a letter from
the University of Guelph that .tests done
by its Horticultural Department in-
dicated that there was "little doubt that
ozone concentrations in Huron County
are quite frequently higher than the
threshold for crop plant damage."
The report stated that tobacco plants
were used in the tests carried out in six
areas across the county (one on the
Robert Allan farm at Brucefield).
Councillor Fotherin'gham said the .test, -
results would have been the same if bean
plants had been use.,
"You can imagi a the results if -an
energy plant shop d be built in Huron,"
he said. (It has been- rumoured on
numerous occasions that such a plant
might be built in the St. Joseph area.)
Councillor Frank Falconer was named
to represent the township on the Huron
County Farm Safety Association for
1977-78. The meetings are held at the
Agricultural Offiee in Clinton..
It was learned a new chlorine pump
costing about $250 is required for the
Vanastra swimming, pool in order to
meet health regulations.
The 1977 budget for Vanastra Sewage
and Water Plant will also be considered
at the next meeting of council on
February 15.
Most of the classrooms at Huron Centennial Public School are dark because of the 15 -foot
snowdrifts on either side of the school, but there is no danger because very little snow is on
the roof. Blowers were called in to cut a path to keep snowmobilers from driving aver the
roof. (News -Record photo) -
Local MPPs seek storm clean-up .aid
Four Liberal Members of
the Ontario Legislature -
Murray Gaunt, Bob
McKessock. Jack Riddell and
High snowbanks
Ontario Hydro's regional
manager E.G. Bainbridge
issued a warning that some of
the hydro facilities, lines and
transformer stations; may
presenta hazard because of
the high"snowbanks.
"Large snowfalls and high
`i gifts have combined to
reduce the clearances bet-
ween electrical wires and the
ground, so that persons can
reach them more readily."
Mr. Bainbridge also said
that in some parts of South-
western Ontario snowdrifts
have piled along fences at
Clinton - OPP report.
Although Goderich OPP
had no incidents to report for
the. week, Seaforth OPP are.
still investigating a truck
stolen on Feb.. 7 from the
home of John Miller, 6
Toronto St., Vanastra.
OPP Constable Jim
McLeod said the keys had
been left in the vehicle.
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Eddie Sargent - urged last
week that Premier William.
Davis extend the terms of
reference of the committee to
a hydro hazard
transformer stations making
dangerous high voltage
equipment accessible,
especially to children.
"I've asked our seven area
offices in Western Region to
be on the lookout for these
hazards and arrange, where
possible, to clear the snow
away from the transformer
stations," he said.
Hydro urged customers to
avoid poles, lines, and other
installations, and to call the
nearest hydro or PUC office
when one of these hazardous
situations in noted. '
"Snowmobilers and skiers
should also be very careful,"
added Mr. Bainbridge.
A.
study the needs of snow
disaster areas, to include the
Counties of Grey, Bruce,
Huron and Middlesex.
In' a statement issued at
Queen's Park, the Members
said that "attempts to cope
with the disaster storm
conditions of the past week
are financially crippling to
municipalities, which have
neither the equipment nor the
funds to open roads which
have been blocked by the
huge snowdrifts. •
"We believe that the
Provincial Government
should give immediate
financial assistance to
municipalities, by means of
road subsidies for snow clean-
up and removal.
"Many farmers, par-
ticularly dairy farmers, have
experienced enormous dif-
ficulties in shipping their
milk and other commodities,
because of the disaster snow
conditions. A number of dairy
farmers have been forced to
dump their milk because of
impassable roads. We are
calling upon the Minister of
Agricuiture.to initiate, with a
minimum of delay, a
programme to compensate
these farmers for their
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