Clinton News-Record, 1978-12-07, Page 3•
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by Shelley McPhee
Nearly every woman has a collection
of odd earrings, gaudy brooches and
broken beads. They usually take up
space in a jewel box or become the play
things for granddaughters.
Margaret Thorndike of Clinton has
found a different use for her old
costume jewelry, and anyone else's she
could have. Mrs. Thorndike remodelled
a collection of old jewelry into a
Christmas tree.
,Set in a deep frame, the glistening
form of an evergreen tree is created on
a black velvet background. The
jewelled tree is composed of an in-
tricate network of beads, earrjngs,
bracelets, pins, and necklaces. Extra
sparkle is added to the 20inch by 26 inch
creation by a string of small Christmas
lights.
Although the month-and-a-half
project will hang on the wall of Mrs.
Thorndike's East Street twine, the
project was a joint effort between her,
along with friends and relatives.
"Everyone was giving me boxes of
old jewelry and I still have some left,"
Mrs. Thorndike explained while she
looked over her finished. product.
The tree seems to have some sen-
timental value to her many friends.
"Now the girls come over and look at
it and tell me that those were their
beads and that those were once their
favorite pair of earrings but one was
lost," she laughed.
"Other people are quite enthused
about it. It's a real conversation piece
now," she went on.
Not only did Mrs. Thorndike's friends
contribute to her project but members
of her family also got on the tree
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decorating. Her grandson, Dennis
Pratt, cut out the tree patter ri on
newsprint and once each piece of
jewelry was glued in place her brother
Charles wired the object with
Christmas lights. Now the pattern and
instructions for the tree are on their
way to California where Mrs. Thorn -
dike's 'daughter-in-law plans to make
one.
The pattern originated in California,
or at least that's where Mrs. Thorndike
first saw it. While visiting last year in
the state she came across the finished
decoration and later fOund the in -
Day care, dogs...
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geese. I'm sick of hearing these dogs
yapping during the night. This summer
three dogs came right into my yard
right at me. What if it had been a child
in that yard? I've seen as many as 20 to
25 dogs in a pack."
Reeve Ervin Sillery said the town-
ship dogcatcher is aware of the
problem and has been working on it. He
explained that he has a job so is not free
to leave his work to try to catch a stray
during the day. As well he has, a
- medical problem which will prevent
,him working on it this weekend, the
reeve stated. He said he did not feel
that as reeve he himself should be
acting as dogcatcher.
Mr. Ross said they were unable to
breed their mare this year because of
what would happen to the foal. The
Hammonds and Mr. Ross -agreed that
council must act immediately on the
problem.
"It's up to this council to do
something," Mr. Hammond stated.
The reeve replied they woald step up
their efforts and said he expected
results from the action council is
planning.
All agreed that Mr. Bradley, the
dogcatcher was most capable but the
circumstances of the problem were
causing the delay in solving it.In other
business, council was informed that
Joe Gibson of RR2 Seaforth was -the
area weed inspector.
Passed for payment were the
following accounts: general
$240,462.60; roads/$23,765.76; Vanastra
recreation centre, $8,1 77.83 and
Vanastra Day Care Centre, $3,588.77,
for a total of $275,994.96.
Council approved an application
from Alice Scott of Brucefield for land
severance by dividing a parcel of land
she owns in the hamlet of Brucefield.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:30
midnight without completing all the
matters on the agenda. The next
meeting will be December 19.
structions.
Mrs. Thorndike is quite proud Ober
holiday ornament but she's not sure
whether she'll attempt to make another
one.
Apart from the long hours, standing
over the project which bothered her
back, Mrs. Thorndike has,so many
other crafts on the go that she probably
doesn't have time for too many more.
In just a brief glance around her
livingroom, the variety of handiwork
she does can readily be seen. A small
loom sits by one chair, holding a half -
finished place mat. Christmas knitting
for some, of her 15 grandchildren lie in
another spot, while ' her lovely
crocheted afghans, pillows and doilies
are placed elsewhere.
Mrs. Thorndike has also crocheted
bedspreads and tablecloths and quilts.
She is working on a quilt for each of her
grandchildren.
While knitting and crocheting are
projects that can be worked on while
watching television, or just to occupy a
long afternoon, quilting for Mrs.
Thorndike is a community activity.
When the Thorndike livingroom is
filled with quilting frames, the word
quickly spreads.
"The girls hear that I've got a quilt
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up and they 'come down anci visit -and
help," she smiled.
"Quilt -ins" as Mrs. Thorndike refers
to them, is one way of haying a good
afternoon visit. But Mrs-. Thorndike's
social involvement does not stop there.
She has taken her knowledge and
interest- in hand Crafts to the annual
Mitchell Fair. She has judged in the
large needlecraft section there for two
years.
"I always waited to see the inside of
judging, so I took a cdurse and became
one," she said.
Mrs. Thorndike has been involved in
the ladies' auxiliary of the Royal
Canadian Legion for 37 years and held
the prominent position as zone corn-
m,axider for four years.
Along with being an avid bridge
player, Mrs. Thorndike loves travelling
and has been to Europe, England,
Spain, Africa, the Panama Canal, the
East Coast and has made nine trips to
California to visit her family.
"One never knows what I'll come up
with next," the active senior citizen
smiled.
"But I just couldn't sit with my hands
empty.
"It's a great life," that lady who
won't tell her age concluded.
stuck -in
the middle
Margaret Thorndike doesn't have the traditional idea of what a Christmas tree
should look like. Instead of green branches and candy canes, Mrs. Thorndike's
creation is made up of beads, brooches, earrings and other pieces of discarded
jewelry that she salvaged from her friends and family. (News -Record photo)
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supervisory staff were hypocritical He
said last May council began
negotiating with unions and were
telling people the idea was to stay
around four to six percent increases.
He said that this wage package given
supervisory staff was "not telling
people the price of beef was going
down".
Ginn explained to council that-lhe
AIB guidelines had been imposed
between the time the county settled
with union staff and supervisory staff.
He said three years ago, just prior to
AIB, union staff was given a healthy
increase (about 35 percent) and before
negotiations with administration could
be hdndled the AIB took dyer. Similar
increases for administration were
impossible and for three years those
increases had been withheld. He said it
was now time to catch up.
The ten department heads with their
salary reviewed were put on a five
level salary grid designed to put them
at the top of their level some time in the
'next three years. Increases varied
widely according to what the com-
mittee felt it would cost the county to
replace the person doing that job if that
person left.
Clerk treasurer and administrator
Bill Hanly is now making $23,222 and on
January 1 will receive an 8.6 ,percent
raise taking him to $29,588. Deputy
clerk treasurer Bill Alcock now makes
$23,712 and with his 5.1 percent hike
will be paid $24,986, Bob Dempsey, the
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county engineer will be given a 7.1
percent increase taking him from
$26,500 to $28,392. Dr. Brian Lynch,
medical officer of health, will get a 3.3
percent hike taking him from $36,000 to
$37,222. Bill Partridge, the county
librarian, received a 9.4 percent in-
crease and will be making $20,150 as
compared to the $18,408 he makes now.
Planning director Gary Davidson now
makes $24,414 and will be awarded an
eight percent increase bringing his,
wage to $26,390. Social services ad-
ministrator John MacKinnon will be
making $19,578 with his 9.7 percent
increase. The administrator of
Huronview got a 15.2 percent hike
taking his wage from $20,644 to $23,790.
Development officer Spence Cum-
mings is now paid $17,238 and with a 1.5
percent increase will be making
$17,498. Museum curator Ray Scot-
chmer got a 13.2 percent increase and
will now be making $16,848.
Along with the, raises given super-
visory staff county council increased
its own wage by two dollars a session.
For a full day of county work coun-
cillors will now be paid $50 and for half
a day they will get $32. The warden's
honorarium was also increa4ed. The
warden was being paid $2,750 a year
and is now getting $3,000 annually.
Mileage allowances for councillors '
was not increased. Ginn told council
the committee felt the present
allowance was acceptable adding that
it was one place the committee felt it
could "hold the line".
It seems that no sooner has
wveryone„ finished complaining
about the dry weather and the hot
and humid temperatures than it's
time to start griping about the cold
and shovelling the snow.
I'm as bad as anyone else when it
comes to being unhappy about the
weather, but I do show some
preference to the warm summer
months. It's this four months of
misery and white stuff that I can't
get used to.
I live in fear from November to
March, continually listening to
weather 'reports and peering out4
my window to make sure°11WA11:0,0
Street corner is in sight.
I am terrified of the snow, and
cars. 1 don't consider myself the beSt
driver, even when the roads are in
perfett,condition, so when those first
flakes start to fall and I feel even the
slightest breeze, the red bomb is
abandoned in my parking Mt, with
me on foot, until clear skies come
again.
On the stromiest nights I'm
always scared that the piercing fire
siren is going to go off. I sit waiting
for the moment when, in a second's
notice, I have to throw on my
warmest clothes, dig my car out of a
snow drift, get a camera ready,
drive along treacherously slippery
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streets and makelt to the fire hall in
five minutes flat.
I'm still not- sur p how the fire
fighters make it there in record
time; but I can't manage it,. even
though I live only one block from the
station.
In the dry months I can manage,
but in the winter, look out! - -• -
In my desperate attempts to get to
the station before the fire engine
leaves, I've taken countless nose
dives on the ice because my boots
weren't done up. I've scraped both.
ees and limped for a weekand had
tay away. from spicyfo�dfra
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month while my cut mouth healed:
"' I may have fallen and felt stabs of
pain through my body but I've
carried -on my way, grateful that I
saved the camera '(and possibly my
job) from a quick end.
I've unintentionally been a stunt
driver, skidding down streets
sideways as I've raced towards the
station. I've plowed into snowdrifts
instead of carefully parking the red
bomb when I see that action shot of
bright flames in the sky ahead.
Maybe I'll be lucky this year,
maybe that aggravating siren won't
blow in my ears this winter. I keep
telling myself that I've only got four
months to go.
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