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MacKay Hall conversion
Seniors look atrecreation cntre
'BY JEFF SE.DDON
A group of about 30
senior citizens in
Goderich wasted no time
taking advantage of an
opportunity to establish
their own recreational
centre in town, A public
meeting, recently
arranged by town council
to determine if any
seniors, wereinterested in
establishing ',MacKay
Hall as a recreation.
centre for senior citizens,
resulted in a steering
committee being formed
to prepare a report on the
centre and to estimate
costs.
Richard Hewitt, a
spokesman for the
federal department of
health and welfare, told
the seniors at the public
meeting that they may be
able .to fund. the con-
version .of -McKay- Hall
with grants available
under a New Horizons
program. New Horizons
is a federal program that
uses grants to fund
projects by senior
citizens for senior
citizens.
No estimates of costs
for the renovations to the
municipally owned hall
were made because the
seniors have yet to
outline what °all they
would like included in the
proposed recreation
centre. Hewitt told the
meeting •that several
centres had already been
established using New
Horizons' grants. He said
centres had been
established in Bayfield
and St. Mary's and had
included facilities 'for
music, art, lectures, card
parties, cooking and arts
and crafts.-. ' ... ....
Reeve Eileen Palmer
organized the meeting
after selling the idea to.
Goderich town council.
Palmer said she
discovered there was
money available for such
projects through the
federal grants and felt
that the town of Goderich
needed some kind of
recreational facility for
seniors.
"I guess I took the bull
by the horns and with the
permission of council
called the meeting," said
Palmer.
The reeve said the
seniors at the meeting got
"fired up" about the
project and formed a
steering committee to
take the next step.
Palmer, who was made
temporary chairman of
the steering committee;
said she planned to call a
meeting, of the steering
committee in two weeks
and hoped then to turn -the
-project--- over - to- -the
-
seniors. She said she
accepted a place on the
steering " committee to
help the project get
started but pointed out
that it "has to be a for the
seniors by the seniors
type of thing".
"They (the seniors)
have concrete ideas what
they want and council is
not involved other than to
help," said Palmer,
•
Hewitt explained to the
seniors that New
Horizons gr -ants are
made available by the
federal government for
the exclusive use of
senior citizens. He said
government studies
clearly show that active
"seniors are living longer
and that the grants are
considered as in-
vestments because the
activity tends to keep the
elderly healthier and out
of expensive hospital
beds.
One concern arising
from the conversion idea
is that to make MacKay
Hall a recreational
facility for the seniors
and to sink New Horizons'
money into thefacility
the seniors have to be
given control of the
building. At present the
town controls the rental
of MacKay and owns the
building,
Commissioner of works
Ken Hunter said the town
is not yet clear on the
ownership -control of the
building but said- it ap-
peared that the rental of
the hall would still be the
same except that control
would be given. the
Goderich area
MRS. EDITH
ESTHER BARKER
Mrs. Edith Esther
Barker of Maitland
Manor died in Maitland
Manor en __ Monday._
January 15 at the age of
92.
She was born in Blyth
on April 9, 1886 to Giles
and Anna Jenkins.
She was a graduate of
the London Normal
School and a former
elementary school
teacher.
On July 8, 1925 she
married Charles Baricer.
She lived in Goderich
following her marriage.
She was a member of
North Street United
Church, the U.C.W. and
taught a Sunday.. school
class for many years.
She was, predeceased
by her husband in 1975.
She was also predeceased
by an infant son, Roy
Melvin in 1926 and by four
sisters and one brother.
She is survived by
several nieces and
nephews.
A funeral service was
held at McCallum
Funeral Home at 2 p.m.
on Wednesday, January
17. The Reverend Ralph
King officiated.
Interment was in
Colborne Cemetery in
l' o l liorne_To_w ns
MRS.CORA MAY
WAGNER
Mrs. Cora May Wagner
of Huronview, formerly
of Goderich Township
and New Toronto, died in
Huronview on Sunday,
January 14 after a brief
illness at the age off 84.
She was born in New
Toronto on May 21, 1894 to
Driscilla (Mino) and
Ernest Smith.
She married Emanuel
Unger Wagner on
November 19, 1918 in
Dunnville. Following her.
marriage, she lived in
New Toronto.
She was predeceased
by her husband on August
1,1965.
After moving 'to Huron
County, she" lived with her
daughter in Goderich
Township for, a brief time
before going to Maitland
Huron County could
be site of new movie
Toronto movie -makers
are looking for a lonely,
abandoned. Huron County
farmhouse as a possible
setting for a film.
Ieinar Piller of Errant
Productions said Monday
his company wants the
site for a film to be called
The Murder of Maggie
Sykes. He hopes to shoot
it this summer,
The script is by Paris
author James Nichol,
best known to South-
western Ontario theatre-
goers for his stage plays.
One of these, Gwendoline,
was produced last
summer by the Blyth
Summer Festival.
Another, Ste. Marie
Ar'ang. The Ilui ons, was -
staged by Theatre
London in 1974 and
revived in 1977.
Piller,, former artistic
director of Theatre
London. said the film
script is based "very,
very loosely" on an ac-
tual incident in the
southern U.S. Two
children whose cousin
has disappeared accuse
their brutal parents of
murderingher, and
fabricate enough
evidence to get them
convicted.
The film can be shot for
less than $1 million, Piller
said..
,Efforts to arrange
financing for it were
given a boost last week by
word that U.S, actress
Patricia Neal had
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seniors and all ''rental
money would be given the
seniors to apply against
operation of the building.
Hunter added that costs
to establish the
recreational facility may
be reduced because of the
fact that the building' is
already there and
available to the seniors.
He said the bulk of ,the
cost in other centres
eaths
Manor `Nursing Home
and later moving to
Huronview.
She was an adherent of
the First Baptist Church.
Besides her husband,
she was predeceased by.
one son, Neil.
She is survived by five
daughters, Mrs.
W.(Ruth) Shaw of
Bowmanv'ille,
Mrs.J.(Doris) Hall of
Calgary, Mrs. R.(Lola)
Kelly of New Toronto,
Mrs. Shirley Espey of
Calgary, and Mrs. G.
(Adeline) Bell of R.R. 2
Goderich; one son, Noel
of Calgary; one sister,.
Mrs. Ellen Emerick of
Port Dover; 19 'grand-
children; and 11 great-
grandchildren.
A funeral service was
held at Stiles Funeral
Horne in Goderich at 2
p.m. on Wednesday,
January 17. Pastor E.J.
Anderson officiated..
Interment was in ° St.
Paul's Normanby
Cemetery - at Ayton,
Ontario.
STANLEY J.
ABEL
Stanley J.Abel of 212
Talbot Road, Fingal, died
suddenly on Saturday,
January 6 at the°family
residence in Fingal. He
was in his 58th year.
Born in St. Thomas on
June 21, 1921, he was the
son of Mrs. Kate (Flint)
Abel, 891/2 Gladstone
Avenue, St. Thomas and
the late Samuel W. Abel,
who died in 1974:'
He was a supervisor for
Clark Equipment
Company, Ltd. in St.
Thomas and lived his life
in St. Thomas and area.
A life member of the
officers mess of 'the Elgin
Regiment, he served
overseas during World
War II as a flight
lieutenant attached to the
R.A.F. radar division.
Following the war, the
late Mr A.bel._joined the
Elgin Regiment militia
and retired as a captain.
He was also a member
of the Sportsmans Club.
He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Jean (Cam-
pbell) Abel of Fingal,
formerly of the Goderich
area; a son, James S.
Abel at home; five
-.daughters, Mrs. Wayne
(Wendy) Bainbridge of
Fingal, Mrs. Neil (Jane)
Major of RR 1 Port
Stanley, Mrs. Edward
(Penny) Breen of RR 2
Goderich, Mrs. Peter
(Lori Lee) Bainbridge of
29 Woodworth Avenue, St.
Thomas, and Miss
Tammy Lou Abel, a
registered nurse of
Balcarres, Sa•sk.a4^_
chewan; two brothers,
John D. Abel, 20 Dieppe
Drive, St. Thomas and
Lawrence A. Abel, 34
Hughes Street, St.
Thomas; a sister, Mrs.
Jay (Irene) Chandler of
Kelowna, British
Columbia;. .three gran-..
dchildren, Kel'liand
,Aaron Bainbridge • of
Fingal and Corey Breen
of Goderich; and a sister-
in-law, Mrs. Ruth Abel of
Union.
A brother, Sidney E.
Abel predeceased him in
1974.
The funeral and
'committal services were
conducted Tuesday,
January 9 at 1:30 p.m: by
the Reverend Karl
Sievert of Fingal United
Church.
Private interment was
in the family plot of
Fingal Cemetery.
TOWN TALIVASHION'S
MID WINTER
This Thursday - Friday Saturday
January 18 - 19 - 20
financed through New
Horizons was the building
itself. He added that
there is no way of
determining yet how
much money will be
available to the Goderich
seniors.
The seniors are the
most frequent users of
MacKay but are by no
means the only users.
Bev Million, caretaker at
MacKay; said the
building is used seven
days a week. She said at
least 10 groups, including
the seniors, use the
building on a regular
monthly or weekly basis.
Goderich Little Theatre
uses MacKay for its
productions, taking
advantage of the building
on a weekly basis while
preparing for the play
and then on a daily ba§is
as its production date
approaches.
Hunter said nothing
will change at MacKay
except that rental money
will now go to the senior
citizens instead of the
town. He stresed the fact
that MacKay is "still a
public 'facility".
• "We're not kicking
anybody out", he said.
Reeve Palmer said the
steering committee will
be holding regular
meetings for the next few
months to prepare an
application for- a. New
Horizons grant and hoped
that the application
would be ready in a few
months. She said only
when..application is_made
ford the grant will the
seniors find out how
much money they are
eligible•for and, how much
they will get.
THE GODER ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARX 18, 1979—PAGE 7
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