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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-09-28, Page 6ti ti toa1ling ,lm1pre than lal , when It met in -rkguigirregular session September 19.01thia amount, $5,234 was for Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board taxes and $5,082 was for road superintendent payroll. Council also issued six building permits as follows; Don Taylor, house additions, lot 27, base line; G Van- derhaar, grain bin, lot 39, concession 5; John Hind - marsh, house porch, let 10, Co icesslon i; .0 r1x Bake t staragg' shed, 19t. t1, base lune; Charles Wain, gar e and. power storage, lot,, conee on 2; and. Mr. and MMrs.. Hugh (albraith, lot 15, Plan I4. By-law no. 0,1983, a by-law to establish stop signs at certain intersections, was given three readings and passed. A land severance was requested by Herman Stryker. Council passed a motion to deal with this as pe r-euestiona ire. fire i ekurtefl. that the subdiiattders; . agreement with Roth Investment hat not yet been, registered an Rodi requested:; that it not yet. be register i A Option was ,clerk that the take the necessary steps to ensure' that it is registered. A motion was also passed that the township parr. ticipated in the. Ontario Bicentennial program next year and that the clerk notify the Subsidies Branch of this intention. Council then adjourned until October 3 at 8 p.m. REST/AURA T Soper Spec/all FOR THE LOBSTER LOVER IN YOU... THIS SATURDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 1 WHOLE LOBSTER s69s� Served this Saturday 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Get a Whole Lobster, served with old-fashioned french fries, tangy Cole slaw, and fresh french stick bread. WATCH FOR OUR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND WIND-UP SPECIAL! Open Thursday and Friday 1 I a.m. - 9 p.m. Open Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Closed Monday - Tuesday Wednesday HIGHWAY 21 BAYFIELD 565-2554 HURON COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME V Applications are now being received for a volunteer interested in being appointed as the Goderich representritive to the Huron County Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors and/or Sub -Committees of such Board. Candidates should have an avid interest in sports, a knowledge of sports history in Goderich and a willingness to promote, support and encourage athletic achievements and excellence in the County of Huron. Please reply in writing stating name, sport Involvement and experience and why you would like to be the Goderich representative for the Hur.• County Sports Hall of Fame. Applications are being received at them Goderich Recreation Dept. 166 McDonald St. Goderich, Ont. APPLICATION DEADLINE OCT. 21ST, 1983 q lea tl H richman collects co experience on grainboat • seination with ships Charles' Ana, ' Or:, Goderich has tbeeta fascinated - by siui s ever since he sailed oidraf Upper Lakes grain boat $s a. ydung man. Today,, this fascination is manifested in -14s picture and post card colle tion, -mostly of old steam boats and freighters. He also has many of the Goderich harbor area, some of them dating back to the late 1800s. - Other cards in his collection offer. an in- , teresting pictorial history of Goderich in days gone by. He has one of the first CNR station ever built 'here; one of the Knox Presbyterian Church building which burned down and, to name justa few others, the Point Farms Hotel, the Polley's Livery Stable, the _ British Exchange, Hotel, the Colborne House, the Sunset Hotel and the West Street Lawn Bowling Clubhouse— all since long gone. The most recent addition to his collection is a card picturing the old stone building located on the George Laithwaite property which he 'found "just by luck" at a flea market in Grand Bend. Most of Mr. Anstay's post cards are purchased at flea markets or auction sales. He also belongs to two Marine Historial Societies where he gets many of his ship post cards. The cards usually range in price from.25 cents to $10 but the most Mr. Anstay has ever paid for one is about $3. Those featuring pictures of old passenger boats seem -to the be themost expensive, he says. He has also discovered that some people buy them just for the post marks. He has seen some post marked Port Albert, which of course, no longer has a. post office. Mr. Anstay has some post cards in his collection which feature embroidered pic- tures pn silk with cardboard backings. Such cards are very old and probably his most expensive ones, he says. At one time, Mr. Anstay had about 20,000 post cards, many of them featuring Goderich, Auburn, Clinton and Blyth main streets from' the horse and buggy days. However, after moving from a house to an apartment, he ran out of room and sold his collection to a dealer. He now has only about 1,000 cards, most of these pic- turing ships. He 'says some of his fascination for ships is wearing off now that the steam boats are gone. "There was . something special about them, just like the steam trains," he says. He figures he picked up his interest in boats from simply being born and raised in Goderich near the lake. While he later worked on several ships as a young man, he became a carpenter by trade. .Now retired, be finds his post card collection a rewarding hobby. 1VIr. Anstay first began his hobby of collecting post cards about 22 years ago after being given, a bunch by his daughter who found them in the attic of the old Peter MacEwan home on Maitland Road which she and her husband had bought. "That's what got me in- terested," he said. "You get a few and you want a few more and before you know it, you have a lot." Besides collecting pictures and post cards which he keeps organized in photo albums, Mr. Anstay also. collects books on the Great Lakes and he has a collection of old 78 records—boxes of between 400 and 500 of them. As may be remembered from a previous Signal -Star article, Mr. Anstay's wife collects dolls. She has bet- ween 350 and 400 of them now displayed in a specially built cabinet in their apartment. Because both the Anstays enjoy collecting as a hobby, things work out well. They go to flea marks and auctions and while Mr. Anstay tracks down old post cards and pictures, Mrs. Anstay looks for dolls. However, they joke that if they collect much more, they may have to knock a wall out their apartment to make room for everything! Club enjoys. Mitchell game The Goderich Duplicate Bridge Club played an eight - table Mitchell game on Tues- day, September 20. The average score was 84. Louise Hetherington and Jean Papernick led North-South with 93. Bill Cochrane and Bill Duncan were second with 92 and Mary Donnelly and Eleanor Erskine'came third with 90. Mai -g Hall and Frank Laverty finished fourth with 89. Joanne Duckworth and Lee Ryan were first in East- West with 991/2. Eveleen McDonagh and Frank Don- nelly were second with 96 and Edna Overholt and Fred Egener came third with 92. Barb Howe and Marian Lane placed fourth with 91. At a recent executive meeting, plans were com- pleted for the annual two - session Swiss Team of Four event. This year it will be a charity game with donations made to the Kidney Founda- tion of Canada. The game will start at noon on October 15 at the Canadian Legion Goderich Sailors Hockey Camp Opens WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5TH 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm Other practice dates FRIDAY, OCT. 7TH 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm TUESDAY, OCT. 11TH 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm "bring your own sticks 8 equipment" ALL POSITIONS OPEN -EVERYONE WELCOME SCOTTOWELS COTTONELLE PLUS BATHROOM TISSUE 2..$1.09 ...$1.19 KLEENEX SUNLIGHT FACIAL TISSUE LAUNDRY DETERGENT 200-2 PLY 6 LITRE 89 $3.99 G -NOTE COUPON BOOKS are In the mail REDEEMABLE UNTIL OCTOBER 15 Save MORE with G -NOTE Savings to • NAKAMURA PHARMACY SUNCOAST MALL, GOr iRlCil, 524-1195 A ..• ' Charles Anstay of Goderich spends many hours looking over his picture and post card collection which he began about 22 years ago as a hobby. Most of his pictures and post cards are of ships and the Goderich harbor area, some dating back to the late 1800s. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Future of daycare discussed. by Huron Services Council Daycare workers from Wingham and Tuckersmith Daycare Centres fear for the future off their centres if pro- posed funding cuts go through. Jane Lane, supervisor at the Wingham Daycare Cen- tre, explained, "Parents will be asked to pay in the range of $20 per day which is the actual per diem rate." The future of daycare and day nurseries was the topic of conversation at the September meeting of the Huron County Community Services Council. Valerie Bolton, chair- woman of the council, ex- plained, "Daycare is funded by three levels of govern- ment, federal, provincial and municipal, so the whole issue is very complex. But essentially what it 'comes down to is that the provincial government is phasing out its support to daycare and parents will be forced to pay the full cyst for their children unless they qualify for social. assistance." Getting social assistance will require having an inter- view with a social worker from Huron County social services and the family in- come has to be quite low to qualify. "It will close our centre," saidKaren McEwing, a supervisor of Tuckersmith Day Care Centre. "We have some children who are sub- sidized by Huron County social services but there will not be enough of them to keep the centre full." Most council members agreed that it is a humiliating experience for people to have to apply for assistance and give an ac- count of their family finances. Pat Bailey, Deputy Reeve of Wingham and member of the Wingham Day Care Cen- tre board of directors, is angry about the "proposed cuts. "Only a few years ago the government built this beautiful centre and funded it 100 percent. Now they are simply willing to turn their backs on it and let it close down." She encouraged council members to individually write Frank Drea and Bill Davis to protest the cuts in funding. Council members sup- ported the daycare workers by passing a motion to write a letter of protest and send copies to their MP and MPPs. In other council business, it was decided to hold another information day in November which will be open to the public. The infor- mation day will include workshops, films and displays from the various county agencies. New book focuses on today's farm women and families A newly formed activist group called Concerned Farm Women, has published a book documenting the uni- que financial and psychological stresses fac- ing today's farm family. The group hopes to make both rural and urban people more aware of their struggles and challenges since this dwindl- ing minority of four percent is responsible for the coun- try's entire food production. Entitled "The Farmer Takes a Wife", the book is the result of a study on farm women, recently undertaken by Concerned Farm Women. A 31 -page questionnaire was sent to 600 farm women in Bruce and Grey Counties, the data of which was prepared for computer analysis during the fall of 19l2. In December, five farm women were hired to analyze and disseminate the survey findings and prepare a manuscript for a book. Although the research focussed on one area of On- tario, author Gisele Ireland suspects the findings will strike a response in farm women across the country. The financial crisis, and the farm women's response to it, has exemplified the challenges facing farm women today and "The Farmer Takes a Wife" documents these struggles and challenges. Chapters 1 and 2, "Life on the Farm" and "Farm Operations", outline the ac- tivities of a typical day for the farm women, whether it be housework, child-rearing or working at her husband's side in the barn or on the fields. Chapter 3, "Finances", outlines with statistical charts, the difficult financial situation in which farm families find themselves, especially in the last few years when interest rates soared. Chapters 4 and 5, "Husbands" and "Children", emphasize the strong bond between farmer and wife, not just as a mar- ried couple but as working and business partners. The farmer's children learn the value of hard work and close family ties at an early age. In the final chapters, "Careers" and "The Farm Woman and Stress", the survey indicates that farm women "felt comfortable in their profession and took pride in what they produced. Only 11 percent of the women surveyed indicated a desire to leave the farm even thdugh 17 percent felt they were going to lose all or part of their farm in 1982". The actual survey is in- cluded in the 70 -page soft - covered book which will retail at $4. The book was published with the assistance of the Canada Employment and Immigra- tion Commission, Health Promotion Directorate of Health and Welfare Canada, the United Church of Canada Block grant and P.L.U.R.A. and is available by writing Concerned Farm Women, Box 457, Chesley, Ontario, NOG 11,0. Cattlemen vote no on refund question Results of an expression of opinion poll by Ontario beef producers on whether to make the Ontario Cat- tlemen's Association check- off non-refundable were an- nounced recently by. Dr. George Fleming, director of livestock inspection, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Of a total of 5,271 who cast ballots, 2,628 or 49.9 per cent voted "yes" and 2,643 or 50.1 per cent voted "no". The vote was held September 14, 15 and 16 at each of the m,f'nistry's 54 county an district '• offices plus one additional location in each of five larger coun- tio t and rlietriete Under the Beef Cattle Marketing Act, one-fifth of one per cent of the value of cattle sold for slaughter is checked off for funding the OCA. The fee is refundable at the request of the pro- ducer. Announcing the poll in June, Agriculture and Food Minister Dennis Timbrell said he would consider the legislation if two-thirds of the producers polled agreed to make the cheek -off non- refundable. All individuals, partner- ships or corporations who owned cattle for sale for beef purposes between June 15, 1981 and June 15, 1983 were eligible to vote.