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CANADA M6S 1A2 tM Artist captures county's historic When RIC Riorl pn was living in Goderich asayoung boy, he admits that he never really appreciated the town's old architecture. Now living in London and freelancing as an artist, he has become increasingly fascinated by Huron County's historic buildings and has captured many of them on post cards, hasty notes, a commemorative calendar and a LACAC brochure which he recently produced for Bayfield. So far, Ric's areas of concentration have been Goderich and Bayfield but he is planning to draw some of Clinton's historic buildings in the near future too. Born in Goderich in 1957, Ric moved to London in 1970 where he attended H.B. Beal Technical School for five years, graduating as a special art student. After his fine art training, he pursued an apprenticeship at Design Associates as an graphic artist. After leaving Design Associates, he was employed by three other major art studios in London. Last year, he received two Gold Awards for his watercolor illustration "Poet and a Clown" and was nominated for the best in show at the Annual Advertising Art Society of London Exhibition and Awards presentation. The past four years have found Ric on his own in a successful freelance capacity, doing work for Theatre London, 3M and several other businesses. He also does commissioned work such as illustrations of people's homes and he is hoping to expand his entire Shop and Compare on your next furniture purchase HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETSIE 9 • Compare price, selec- tion and service. You'll find the best for less, in Clinton at Ball & Mutch Home Furnishings 71 Albert Street CLINTON 482-9505 Open six days a week 9 6, Friday till 9 pm. 0/ freelaBee,.hu tittegs soon. . Rle says his love for ,old architecture was partlytorn from his ,siu.of design drafting and pa frornhls connection with Huron County area which is rich in historical buildings. His attachment to Goderich and Bayfield are purely sen- timental he explains, the former because he was born there and the latter because he was married there (to Shirley McFadden, also an artist). Although now living in London, he and Shirley still spend a lot of time in this area. Two years ago, at the suggestion of his father-in- law, Ric drew some pen and ink sketches of Bayfield which he turned into prints for post cards to sell at the Bayfield Fall Fair. These post cards were later picked up and sold by the Bayfield Country Store. Last year, while selling his cards at the fair, several people requested his work in color and that's when Ric got the idea to produce a calendar. He spent $4,000 of his own money and came up with a calendar depicting Bayfield's main street businesses in the colors of the four seasons. "It sort of promotes Bayfield as a year-round vacation spot," says Ric who hopes to at least break even on the project. So far, he has sold about 400 calendars, including 50 of them at the recent Bayfield Fall Fair. They are available at the Bayfield Country Store, Gammage's Totality Gift Shop, the Red Pump Gift Shop and the Village Guild. This year, the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC) in Bayfield hired Ric to design and illustrate its brochure. Having completed this, he then produced four pen and wash illustrations of historic * * * * * * * * * * QUEEN'S * HOTEL * SEAFORTH * * Entertainment Wed. - Sat. THIS END UP DAILY LUNCHEON SPECIALS from $2.50 * Happy Hour * 4:30-6:00 * No Cover * 1 Goderich buildings, in- cluding the Huron County Pioneer Museum, the old CPR station, Goderich Town Hall and the. Huron Historic Jail. His favorite is the old CPR station because that is where his father used to work. These illustrations are now available in hasty note form at Squire Gifts an Kings Book and Gift Sho (for- merly Anderson' in Goderich. Ric hopes to draw The Livery and some other buildings eventually too. Any money he makes from these 'sidelines', as he calls them, will be put back into his business. The Bayfield House Art Gallery Ric's original drawings from the post cards, hasty notes, LACAC brochure and calendar are now on display at the Bayfield House -Art Gallery and Tea Room. Located on the main street in Bayfield (next to the Little Inn), the Bayfield House is one of the village's original historic homes, converted this year by owner Mary Rochon into Huron County's first fine art gallery. Since the gallery opened May 21, it has housed the original art work of 31 dif- ferent artists from throughout the province and has been well received by tourists and local people alike. As well as being exhibited, the art work is also for sale along with hand blown glass, sculptured work and one -of - a -kind ceramic pieces from award-winning ceramic artists. On some weekends throughout the summer, artists have been demon- strating their crafts in the blacksmith stable behind the house. This past weekend, the artist featured was a Newborn 4 news DINEEN Bill and Brenda wish to an- nounce the birth of Jessica Susan, on Saturday, August 27, 1983, at Alexandra Hospital, Goderich, weighing 9 lbs. 11 oz. A new sister for Jill, Kristy and Michael. OTTEWELL Richard and Barbara Anne (nee Thomas) are pleased to announce the safe arrival of their second daughter, Laura Beth, on Saturday, September 3, 1983 at Alexan- dra Marine and General Hospital, Goderich. Amanda's new sister weigh- ed 8 lbs. 13 oz. Proud grand- parents are Mrs. Doris Lee, Simcoe; Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ottewell, Exeter; and Mr. Griffin Thomas, Grand Bend. architecture work Artist Ric Riordon displays some of his local work, a Bayfield calendar, hasty notes and a LACAC brochure. His original drawings will be on display at the Bayfield House Art Gallery and Tea Room from now until Thanksgiving weekend. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) woman who hand spun and dyed wool. The Bayfield House also has a tea room and terrace where six varieties of tea, English scones, Columbian coffee and croissants are cSl served daily. Mary Rochon who directs as well as owns the Bayfield House, is from Oakville but has a summer cottage on Lake Huron. She herself is a painter who received her fine art ednwation at the University of Toronto. She teaches human resource management at Sheridan College, Oakville campus and works with the Art Gallery of Hamilton setting up tours and programs for the handicapped. Ric Riordoli's exhibit will close out the Bayfield House season on the Thanksgiving weekend until it opens again next May. Accidents costing Hydro customers millions of dollars for costly repairs BY JACK RIDDELL, MPP In the wake of the accident in Pickering's Number One reactor, which spewed 900 lit of heavy water a minute into a containment room, Liberal Leader David Peterson has called for the reconstitution of the Select Committee on Hydro Affairs citing the following cir- cumstances. On August 1, radioactive water poured from a gaping hole in a ruptured pressure tube at Pickering, on the fr- inge of Canada's most populous area, and subsequent incidents even- tually shut down three of the station's five reactors, aler- ting us to technical dif- ficulties, and the costly — potentially frightful -- con- sequence of Hydro's growing dependence on nuclear power. The "loss of coolant" (similar to the U.S. Three Mile Island incident) was the first within a CANDU reac- tor. Hydro officials had assured us that the zir- conium alloy tubes would always leak before ruptur- ing, permitting repairs to avoid a major accident. QUEEN'S PARK This rupture ovrshadow- ed two other significant Pickering accidents: a heat exchanger malfunction sen ding\6.8 litres of tritium - laden water into Lake On- tario, and an operator error, causing automatic shut- down. We are assured that radioactive discharge can be safely cotttp ped,,ytl t, rnliy full a�1anatto ' o the aver `r. dent will reveal the implica- tions of the rupture for the safety of the CANDU design. The extent of Hydro's nuclear commitment must be scrutinized. For example, this series of accidents will cost Hydro customers at least $15 million for replacement fuels: repair and down -the - line expenses could run the figure beyond $1 billion. Pickering is a recent troublespot. Accidents elsewhere have caused shut- downs and costly repairs: Bruce 2 shut down twice in 1982 — over $7.5 million was spent on replacement energy provision alone dur- ing a 75. ay period; Bruce 4 was shut down in March 1983 for repairs to leaky pressure tubes and the primary heat transfer pump; a hydrogen leak shut down Bruce 1 for 19 days in April '83; early this year, Pickering 1 and 3 were shut down for planned repairs. Down times mean 1983's BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT BARGAIN OPENS FRIDAY! -r i ,• 14 'r kr 'FREE GRANDSTAND SHOWS: Sept 9 4 P M Molson Motorsport Stunt Team 8 P M Demolition Derby • Sept 10 2 7 9 P M and Sept 11 2 5. 8 P M Garden Brotners International Circus • Sept 12 to 16 2 P M Livestock Parade, Heavy Horse Exhibition Drive. Variety Show • Sept 12 7 & 9 P M Sylvia • Sept 13 7& 9 P M T G Sheppard • Sept 14 7 & 9 P M Righteous :others • Sept 15 to 17 7 & 9 P M Cavalcade of Entertainment • Sept 17 2 P M Imperial Hell Drive ;::;1 rill Show s Sepl 18 I P M 13x.93 Country Roads Showcase Concert 3 P M Figure 8 Demolltio herby 8 P M Youth Talent Contest Finals • "FREE STAGE TEN • 'FREE MARCO POLO THEATRE • 'FREE GATE AWARDS • 'FREE NORSE SHOWS • 'FREE MOLSON LUMBERJACK JAMBOREE • 'FREE HERITAGE VIL- LAGE o FREE COMMERCIAL & GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS o 'FREE COLOURFUL PARADES ('FREE to Fairgoers included in gate admiss,ont 2 93 SEPT 9 -lit • 4i IA. 5'V. 1',r W5,011,,1y Moo ii, 5,. .41.4 is 14 Orn Pv A.1 r`• 0,'• L ri . "'f 4 ni 14, 'r.Y'„.t1Nv d•,i ,,41414y • ',irr6 A.M1.14y4 AV"; ; ti J'. 0r•82, 5tr'4[ millions of dollars in extra costs, and the serious unex- pected rupture raises the spectre of system -wide shut- downs and repairs, costing billions of dollars. There are no older full- scale commercial heavy water reactors on which to judge the future perfor- mance of Hydro's CANDU .reactors. The oldest are the four at Pickering A — only 12 years old. Hydro arbitrarily expanded their projected lifetimes from 30 to 40 years for borrowing purposes, but no one knows when the reac- tors eacttors might become embrittl- ed or wear out. Hydrp ttayejs uncharted waters u1 the .hope that On- tario's energy future does not run aground. Moreover, it would be folly to view the Pickering shutdown from the narrow perspective of costs. Planners within Hydro have embraced nuclear power as a child does a new toy, arbitrarily picking nuclear power as the force of the future, placing all its eggs in the nuclear basket. Hydro's Chairman has forecast that 66 per cent of our electrical energy will be from nuclear generation by 1990. Fossil fuel thermal plants are placed in mothballs as nuclear con- struction continues apace. Nuclear energy surpassed water power and coal as the largest power generator in Ontario in 1981. Non-nuclear installations worth billions of dollars have been — or will be — mothballed. Some ex- amples: the Lennox oil -fired station near Kingston, which cost $489 million to build, mothballed in 1980 and 1982; the Wesleyville oil -fired sta- tion cancelled midway through construction, at an ultimate cost of $460 million; two 300 -megawatt coal-fired units at Lakeview to be mothballed April 1, 1984; six R.L. Hearn coal-fired units shut down, with remaining two operating part-time until closure in 1985; Windsor's coal-fired J. Clark Keith Sta- tion scheduled to be mothballed by year end, after receiving $23 million in renovations; Atikokan and Thunder Bay coal-fired units tentatively scheduled for mothballing. Mothballing Lennox will prove terribly expensive. $60 million has already been paid not to take delivery of unneeded heavy oil, and Hydro is locked into a 15 - year contract with Petrosar, to buy 7.3 million barrels of oil annually, at a cost likely to exceed $900 million. Add to this, costly miscalculations which have ominously deepened Hydro's nuclear financial commit- ment: a 40 -year contract to pay about twice the world price for uranium, at an ad- ditional expense of $1.5 billion; $69 million spent on Bruce's heavy water plant C before it was discovered to be unnecessary; $396 million spent on heavy water plant D before construction was halted; mothballing costs run to $15 million, and an over -supply of heavy water will lead to the mothballing of one of Hydro's two re- maining plants. Mothballing, implying that plants can be used in the future, may be a misnomer, since federal studies show deterioration can prevent heavy water plants being recommissioned. Poor nutrition worsens emphysema Emphysema patients who are malnourished seem to have a greater than average decline in lung function. Weight loss occurred in all patients studied in spite of dietary counseling and high caloric supplements. These patients also appear to have a higher than average mor- tality rate. Presenting their findings at the joint annual meeting of the American Lung Association—the Christmas Seal People --and the American Thoracic Society, Diana R. Openbrier, R.N. and Margaret Irwin, R.N. of Pittsburgh said that "nutri- tional depletion in patients with emphysema may be due to a combination of in- adequate food intake and higher than normal energy requirements". Of the 14 patients in the study, eight were malnourished. None of the six better -nourished patients died, comparetrto three of the malnourished patients. "There was a high correla- tion between the degree of airflow obstruction and the degree of malnutrition," said the investigators. "Better -nourished patients also showed a decline in lung function, but this was not nearly as great as that in poorly nourished patients". The two groups were com- pared with respect to other factors that might contribute to their differing rates of decline. "Degree of short- ness of breath, level of depression, living ar- rangements, age, and knowledge of nutrition, were similar in both groups," said Irwin. "None of these factors, or caloric intake alone, which was somewhat low for both groups, seem to contribute to the differences observed". Commenting on the cause of "peaks and valleys" in the condition of emphysema pa- tients, Openbrier said that "the pattern of decline in lung function in emphysema patients is not fully explain- ed by infections or smoking habits. It is possible that nutrition is a factor in the decline". Most lung associations in Ontario conduct special pro- grams for adults with crippl- ing by disease such as em- physema. Contact your local lung association see what services are available in your community and ask for the book, "Help Yourself to Better Breathing".