The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-02-21, Page 1,4
Local firemen ' battle in vain in zero
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Fire gutted .a structure known as the Little Theatre Barn,
at the' residence of William Cochrane, 28 Nelson St. W., last.
'Wednesday, February 11. • - ^ . . •
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'.The Goderich fire department was called to the 'Scene cif
the blaze at 11.:45 p.m, by neighbours .across the 'street"."
Fire Chief Ted Bisset said that the fire department fought
the fire for about three hours in zero•'temperatures; using
three department; pumper trucfts. ' -•
•The barn housed furniture, props and wardrobe belonging -
to the.Goderich Little Theatre.
Loss has beenestimated, at $12,000.
With :a performance about one week away, the. GLT ha▪ s
had to start collecting new 'materia'1 as all •items in the 'barn
wee destroyed.,, •
• Several of the items lost wet -e% termed "irreplaceable" -by
the GLT.,
They included hats • and high -button shoes, donated by
local merchants who had them stored in 'shop basements
The blaze also destroyed irreplaceable old petticoats, pan-
taloons'and ,corsets. ,,
Eight pairs of velour drapes were lost. -Again, these' -cath=
not be repl"aced because velour is not shade' anymore.
A 12 foot by -16 foot. backdrop,,of a street•scene, painted by
Ernie Niblock,, was ,destroyed, 'along -with several pieces of
antique furniture.. „ •
Furniture, donated by local residents for the GLT's Green
Roorrr where meetings were held, was lost.
A GLT report said that despite the loss, "in true theatre
tradition, the next Production will be presented On schedule,
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February -28, March 1 and March 2."
The theatre group has obtained temporary°quarters at the
old convent on North Street. • ,
'The executive and 'member's of the GLT thank Rev,
Raymond Mciynahan and the parish council of • St. Peter's
Church for use of -the. Building.
Fire Chief $islet said nobody .was hurt in the fire.
• Cause of the blaze is -stilt not known. '
B WI trainee
back in camp
In a gruelling three and one
half hour session on Monday
evening God€rich Town Coun-
cil—reviewed a total of 74 letters
from local residents registerin'q;
objections tob. the recenfl:. -cir-
.culated Restricted Area•?y-.,
Law which will be the eni`tir`' ng„_
portion of the`towr's, new of-
ficial plan.
° Although many of the objec-
tions were filed with "nO ac-
�..t ruling ,by the, -town
t.f4t.'h$rs,af:� ofr1 hat to'ti";:
discussed, "
One major change will be for-
, thco'ni•ng .as a result of the ob-
jections reviewed Monday...
Municipal Planning Con-
sultant Dave Barber has been ,
instructed by the council to
prepare an • amendment to the
official plan which will change
a large ° area of ;. the
,nuthicipality,located near the
town core, from' its designated
zone of C4-1 to R2 in ari'at-
tempt to better reflect the
.character of the area which
lrpost entirely residential.
When the official plan, .was
first prepared in 1966, Mr. $ar-
4&er explained, it 'was deemed
advisable to Lone"athhe are$kC4-1'
'so the zoning could pro'ide for
'commercial development in the
core, area of the community;`
That was before shopping malls °
.."'Were planned. •
• Iry view of commercial
development now . being.
discussed in. the forrri-'of such ,
malls on. the •outskirts of the
comm -unity it was agreed that
the area°, should rein lin
residential and be so zoned.
Thirty-six of ° the 74 letters
registering • objections• dealt
with' that C4-1 area' which is
boutfded roughly by Britannia
For about one fnoi•1th, Russ Batten has been feeding birds
outsjde his home at, Sunset Beach, just outside Goderich.
The birds' have become,.so tame, that,thi5 ,chickadee.
along with •many of MIs friends, -takes, a' tuts::,perching on
Mr. Batten's pipe to receive sorttie: suet. ° Woodpeckers,
bluejay's and another type of bird, which Mr. Batten has
not yet been able `to identify, also visit at feeding time.
At 2:00 p.m. this Sunday,
Goderich Mayirtlarry Worsell
- will drop the puck to open 'one
of the most talked about spor-
ting events in the history of the
local arena. The Signal -Star
Paper 'Leafs' of Goderich 'will
meet the CKNX Try-Hards of
Wingham in hockey combat.'
' As the,.day of the big game
approached spokesmen for both
the Paper Leafs and the Try-
Hards were expressing great
confidence in their respective,
sgads, paper Leaf coach Ed
` y , A)1,_ said . _ his' confidence .,
stemmed from a long list of in=
juries the Try ->-lards have suf-
fered during', practice, recently'
which, in his opinion, should
slow an atrlready ` fess »'than
speedy team to a dead atop".
Try}1ards' "spokesr t ni. Ray
Baynton said he was` `teasing his
optiii ism on the poor showing
the Paper Leafsmade at their
Caribbean training camp
earlier thief fnonthwhen only
One player turned4up.
"Such lack of training is
• bound to tell in the scoring
ability of: the Paper Leaf for-
ward lines and iri the ability of
their defence -men to skate
down,• our scoring punch", he,
observed. ti
When asked why their con-
fidence , hinged'' on lack of
ability on the opposing team
and not from strong »points on
their own squads, neither Mr.
B'yrski .or Mr. Baynton would
'comment- tt
'Shortly after it was
discovered' that CKNX had-
failed to recruit players' from
the Wingharrt .Home for the
Aged • last week (since the
residents there refused to lower
...-.theirr standards of ..play to that''•`
Of the Try-Hards) it, was lear-
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expected shortly
A dispute over'who will use
;Agricultural Park on Friday,
August. 30, may be close to set-
tteinent. „ ,, '
The overlapping of
„timetables by . the ° Goderich
Trotting Association and the '
Goderich Industrial Softball
Tournament Executive" was
brought to the attention of
town council at its regular coin-
- mittee meeting last Thursday..
Doug Fisher, of the softball
executive, told council' that his
organization had» scheduled
three games,. two of them
major, for the Friday night in
dispute, as part of the four-day
Labor- Day weekend • tour-
nament.
The tournament•will be the
Sixth annual' tournamert't held
Goderieh, Mr. Fisher said.
The loss at the gate if the
three games. were -cancelled
• 'would be about $600, he main
Mined.
Don Masse, of the 'trotting
association, said ' that his
organization had scheduled .its
three-year-old' stake race for
" the. same Friday" night..
After' discussion, councillors
moved—to have Deputy 'reeve
,Stan -Profit hold a meeting bet
ween representatives of the two
organizations:- ^
The meeting was held ' last
Monday night. .
Mr. Profit •told the Signal=
Star on Tuesday that the soft-
ball executive and the trotting
association 'lad reached an
agreement ,in principle..,
The two organizations will
have -to receive approval from
both teams ,will have to „face
Sunday's game with what spor-
tswriters are describing as over
weight,under nourished and
short winded players. .
For the Try -dards . those
players include, John Strong,
Jim Swan, Gerry Chornyn, Ross
Poll, Dave Cowls, Ray Bayn-
ton,
ayn-ton, Steye Stapleton`, Bill
Stevenson 2'nd Wayne Brown,
The recruitment of Sports
Director 4Crawford Douglas is
still "up in the air" according
to team offirrall with final
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ned the Paper Leafs suffered a
,setback as well when; an at-
tempt to draft players from
'Tinkertown `Nursery School
foundered on a r..uling.frorn the
N.S.1-1.A. (Nursery School
Hockey Association) against-
the draftidg of players under
the age of five,
As »a result of these aborted
attempts at increased strength -
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Renovations complete
Renovations and repairs to the `Victoria and Grey Trust
Co. building, 100 Kingston St., were completed last wnek.
The building was ci'cimaged last summer when :a cur
smashed into the front of it,
Pear Jim windows, window frarnes and 0 new codrrter
have been installed, Lyle Zurhrigg,manager, said. '.'tyt
'rho 'libel• Ccrsanter was broken into three pieces', he said.
'New furniture and cic::sky, along 'with a point jolt have
given the building is "general face lift." he 'saint.
Mr. Zu.rbrigg s'oid,1ha1 the repairs'and replacements were'
negotiations on his contract
stalled' by Mr. 1)ouiglas'
derhand for hospital and health
insurance benefits in the five
• figure' range.
The Signal -Star will put
George Vanderburg, Tom
• Flynn, •• Dennis Vanderburg,
Bob Shrier, Jeff Seddon, Tom
Vanderburg, John Gorton;
Dave Williams, Brian Rumig,
° John Buchanan, Ron Shaw,
Jim ' Fitzgerald,- Patty Steep,
'Lloyd Lounsbury and Eric
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Road to the south,, Victoria
Street to the east, Bruce Street
to the 'north and Waterloo
Street, to the west. a
Many of the other objjcftblis
involved requests to have in-
dividual zoning on certain lots
chAriged in what Mr:„Barber in-
terpreted as an attempt to
provide for some development
” anticipated in 'the future but
tint✓ „vet 'irki;tbe planning stage.
He recommended -to .counFi,1
that to. make such changes, was
unadvisable since to leave them'
as outlined in the by-la.w,
which reflects the Official Plan,
meant council could' maintain
its control over development in
those areas...
"This .does not mean," head=
ded, "that ,council' could not.
.. grant zoning 'changes ,in the
•'future, but.tho5e changes would
be made an the basis • of a•specific ,p,jai,- 'presented to
council." • ` -. _ •
•Thi ;--he said,... would . mean
, council ,could co.nsid'er he w the
proposal fitted into the general
character of, the area • 'and
provide those living there''with
Mr., Fisher replied that there
were none in the area. '—
The ball ' diamond at
Agricultural Park is one of the
best in Ontario. The softball
tournament, is also one of 'the -
best in the province, he added.
"1 would rather,, suffer .the
loss if need be, than lower the
standard of the °tournament,"
he said, ° - '.
This . year, »the tournament
will involve teams from Sault ,
Ste. Marie, Windsor, Toronto,
London, • and Carlton Place,
Mr. Fisher said.
He indicated that the softball
tournament executive •-might
compensate the trotting
association if it changed the
stake race to another night.
'Board states
position in
sewer :dispute
• E. Cayley Hill, chairman of the
Huron County—Board of
Education reported ;Monday,
that a meeting is planned for
Friday ,with Dr. G.P Mills,
Medical Officer of Health for
Huron, other members of his
staff, school board, architect
con u'ltant, and other person-
nel, to discuss the problems of
sewage disposal at the Blyth
Public School. •'
D:J. Cochrane said that un
fortunately, part of a statement
made' by, him last week has
been misinterpreted as an at-
tempt to discredit the com-
petence of the Medical Officer
of Health for Huron County.
He said this was not the in-
tent of the statement and any
en barrassm'ent or incoa
venience caused to Dr. Mills
•-• and his staff is gincerelx regret -
their respective members.
Mr: Profit said he expects
finalization of •the agreement
next week.
It is of a financial nature, he
said. •
During the discussion at the
wuncil meeting, colincillor 13111
'Clifford akked Mr., Fiaher if a
different ball park could be
used, , ted.
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a chance to consider the effects
of certain types• .of development.
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Board agrees
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on complex:
The -Huron County Board of
Education has" :agreed -to "coy
operate with . the Goderich ,.
ReCrea'tion and Community
Centre 'Board on 'the sale or
lease of the approxdima•te, ten
• acres of land„situated_on• Ben
- nett. Street across from'V'the
Goderich High School,” with the
details to be worked' out later.
The pr'oposalfor the property.
includes a football field,:quar-
ter -mile -track, four lighted ten-
nis courts, picnic area,
auditorium, meeting rooms,,.kit-
chen; 1,nmunity hall, health •
club, swimming pool, .senior.
citizens room lobby and 'con-
cession .booth.
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Renovations to ,St Georges »Church ars will underway.
Bob Bein, atrl painter =wroth VG. Brown Church Interfotsr;-
froth Markham, works one an arch over the alter. The
renovations, which will cost' about $7,000, Inckid+r paitn.
ting, lighting Improvements and stained glass window
clasping, . Th• chiirch has only been 'spruced '°�' ,..
before since.1936. With all the scaffolding sit up in the
"-church, the°'congregation has mads. sortie' guljuStitill0101
during Sunday serylces. (_Staff photo) .
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