The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-10-10, Page 4T IE MOVA CE"TJMES A page of eoi .orip. opinion
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Gorrie Dam cost too highT AY CHILD
In "%a Sept. 5 issue of The Advance- benefiting municipality paying the amount New Books
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Tinttiss is was reported that due to unforeseen above and beyond the provinclial grants and
wVI; a;Zg circumstances the cost of the authority's five per cent. I jI1 the Llbraiy ->�
r"airing the old dam at Gorrie had in- This method has proved to be a just way 6Y HELEN ALLEN
creased from a $75,000 project to a possible of allocating cost for major projects where CyrCilil KKaM esh h AT WAR 6y
t►'M,000 expenditure. benefits are limited. For Minnie Rahe the most
The project in its original form was ac- If the executive of the authority had bitterly fought campaign of the At 13yj, Michael's greatest wish in life is to have a
cepted by the Maitland Valley Conservation given the municipal representatives an Second World War was waged in home where he feels he belongs. A generally honest boy
Authority (MVCA) as a whole, which meont opportunity to vote on the Increased ex- and around the streets of Lon- with a good sense of humor, Michael has experienced a
that the funds required beyond the 60 per penditure, and It had been turned down, then don's East End.The enemies of lot of rejection in his life so finds it hard to form close
cent which comes in the form of provincial the benefiting municipality, the Township of this splendid Jewish widow were friendships. He also has bouts of rebellious behavior
government grants, will be raised on a pro Howick, could have decided whether or not It bot only the Germans, but people caused ve this' betterhappy background.
wanted to However, he's better at one-to-one relationships, and
rata basis across the watershed's 32 munici- proceed, and If so put up the determined .that she and her especially responds to men he can trust. Two of his best
palities. money. family should starve to death. years were in a small school when he had male teachers
This will cost the taxpayers of Wingham Looking at the history of the Gorrie dam Armed with a sharp tongue and and lots of individual attention. He's not much interested
nearly $5,000, based on 51h per cent of the it should be noted that the MVCA took on the superbly outrageous logic, In p sports but does play some soccer and basebal,
$90,000 which will be the authority's share. little park and the dam and even purchased Minnie's battles against them and likes swimming.
The 5th per cent is Wingham's portion of the the old mill as an historic site In the early make this one of the funniest Michael badly needs a mature, nurturing family who
1960s. I t was accepted b the authority as a novels in a long time. would offer him the secure love and caring 6e has missed,
equalized assessment used by the authority cep Y Y and be patient and tolerant till he can believe he is really
as the basis for its levy on watershed muni- whole, for it was a project that provided a A STATION IN THE DELTA wanted as their son.
cipalities. picnic area and swimming, which could be of by John Cassidy To inquire about adopting Michael, please write to
On the same basis the Gorrie project will benefit to everyone In the watershed. It is the autumn of 1967. Toby Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser -
cost the ratepayers of Morris Township This same principle was applied to the Busch, a field officer in the vice, Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2112. In
about $2,650, East Wawanosh, $2,150, aqd major projects at Benmiller and in East clandestine service of the CIA, way ofes�rr tell something of your present family and your
Turnberry Township, about $2,000. Wawanosh Township as well as numerous arrives in My Tho, a town in the
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reforestation tracts. Mekong Delta. He. brings with
Normally projects of this magnitude are But a project requiring nearly $220,000 him the memory of a failed
approved by a full meeting of the authority which will do nothing but keep up the mission in Germany and here, in
representatives; however, in this case the esthetics of the area is something else again. the rice paddies, he seeks to
executive of the authority took It upon them- We cannot understand why representa- vindicate his past and salvage his
selves to make the decision, with only Bill tives from the municipalities up and down career. This is a compelling story
Crump, the representative from Lucknow of intrigue and war, love and Items frorr
P eP the river could In any way condone this ex -
and chairman of the water management penditure of taxpayers' money, or for that betrayal, disillusionment and
committee, objecting• matter, why the Ministry of Natural Re- rage.
The vast increase in the amount of sources approved the deal in the first lace. KING JAGUAR by Dan OCTOBER lli neighbors gathered to Ter their
PP P Adam Halliday, one of the appreciation to George Tervit for
money needled for the project came about Every municipal council should have been Sherman . oldest residents of Huron County, the splendid service given during
because the original engineering studies had up in arms over the matter. 14t The place is the. lush Xingu has entered his 100th year. He his long term as mail carrier on
not indicated the dam was in such poor The Gorrie dam cannot be classified as a Valley in the Amazon Basin, a celebrated his 99th birthday at Rural Route Three.
condition. By the time the difficulties came flood control project because engineering modern frontier where 'powerful the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. Gerald Edmunds, Joe
to light about $50,000 had been spent on dam studies have indicated that the water storage competing interests struggle to A. Dunbar, Belgrave. Nicholson, George Thompson,
repair. capacity is very limited due to silting of the get at a wealth of hidden oil and Miss Janet Allan of Wroxeter Betty Kaufman, Alba Shiell were
The question is, should the project have pond over the years. Thus, the only reason minerals. Behind this pillage by left on Wednesday to resume her named champions when the
been stopped right then or should more for continuing the project is to save face over modern-day conquistadores a duties as Assistant Dean of pupils of Bluevale School held
money be spent on a project that will do the money already spent on -to provide the love story is unfolding between a Women at Queen's University, their fourth annual Field Day.
nothing for anyone in the watershed exceptresidents of Howick and Gorrie with a super CIA, counter -intelligence agent Kingston. It is becoming necessary for all
the immediate residents of the Gorrie area? expensive reflecting pool, largely paid for by
and
hher primitive e f�Robin Tth ��-��d Meet between car owners ins when th to drain
It has been the practice of the authority those outside the immediate area. Blyth, Brussels, Fwas he and their gas tanks when their car is
to contribute five per cent of the cost of all Because the original dam was built on Turner
o more than he Wroxeter Schools was hid in placed inthea parked on
projects where there is either a single or log foundations the engineers will not give Wroxeter Park with Brussels side streets, as some person or
limited number of benefiting municipalities. any guarantee that even with the increased were O e ungey. Champions P�'�ua are � s business r
Such projects as the river retaining wall in expenditure the dam will stay in place dur- CORRECTION were Olive DBaey of Wroxeter draining all cars of their
Listowel, repair of the dams at Wingham ing flood conditions. Therefore it could well In last week's report on Morris and Jack Bates, Brussels gasoline.
and the dr be that the whole project could once again be Township Council the standby (junior); Marjorie Paulin, Miss Olive Terriff of
edging of the pond in that com- P j g rate for snow removal equipment Wroxeter, and Jim McCall of Whitechurch has purchased a
munity were funded in this manner, with the washed out. was reported incorrectly. The Brussels (senior). new Chevrolet sedan.
township will pay $12 per day for A pleasant evening was spent OCTOBER 1944
standby time, not $12 per hour as at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A wedding of interest to
- Po i n t I ess reported. source oanxiety reported.f � Tervit when about >m friends and Wingham residents took place in
Yet another kind of chain letter is again misfortune, even early death.
In circulation. This one doesn`t even promise A few months ago a very intelligent
financial gain. It simply tries to force young woman called us and asked our advice
co-operation through fear. when she received one of these letters. De-
spite her otherwise sound reasoning capac-
The letter carries- a prayer and the ity she'was convinced with some difficulty
recipient is asked to send copies along to 20 that no harm would befall her if she threw
new victims. All sorts of good. luck is the letter into the fire.
promised if the chain remains unbroken. The Whoever devised that particular chain
ugly angle is that the person who fails to letter probably sticks pins in dolls in spare
continue the chain is told to expect untold time.
Hard work would help
As the opening of the first Clark parlia-
don't shrink from manual labor, but they are
ment takes place there is increasing evi-
hard to find.
dence that we can expect to see some drastic
One of our employment problems lies in
changes. Naturally there will be consider-
the belief that every young person should
f ably less than unanimous agreement when
have the sort of education which fits film for
high level civil servants are replaced and
comfortable "clean hands" work In a three -
crown corporations are sold.
piece suit. Right at the present time there
are 6,000 jobs unfilled in the food industry —
Only time will tell just how wise these
chefs, cooks, dieticians, etc. Skilled ma -
decisions may or may not be, but In the
chinists are so scarce that employers are
process the body of self-government will
scouring the countries of Europe.
undergo a thorough purging. It is in the very
If we want to be prosperous there Is only
nature of democracy that when one party
one formula and that is good, hard work.
remains in power too long it gathers a
We'll be very hungry if we wait around to
strange and expensive host of parasites.
win a million dollars in a Canadian lottery.
Perhaps some of,the good will suffer along
with the useless, but at least a fresh start wi l l
be provided.
Nor are inefficient civil employees the
Their mouth s
only target of Clark's renewal program. He
has stated that one of the nation's paths to a
never
sounder economy must be a more productive.
close
aosowteiy right. Lanaaians nave naa iT son
and easy for too long. We seem to have as-
sumed a national attitude of expectir- every
luxury as recomoer+se fnr as little as
possible. 16
For axample, absenteeism — the fine art
of "goofing off' — is costing Canada some-
thing over $20 million annually. That's not
illness, ifs not legitimate vacation time;
it's not even work lost during strikes. It's
just plain not caring about getting the jobs
done.
It doesn't require a wizard to recognize
the incongruity between a million unem
ployed and page after page in the daily
newspapers listing job opportunities.
Amid the great outcry about the press.
ing need to provide employment for our stu-
dents, just try to hire one to cut your grass or
rake your leaves. Yes, there are a few who
Baseball is Oho n - ''
*,v e,w4 whirl -h
permits the viewer to take part, mentally at
least, in a game of precision and skill. A
great part of the pleasure in watching a ball
game lies in seeing the plays unfold and
speculating on the conclusion of a foresee-
able situation.
That's great, but the TV commentators
just won't QR the viewer have that Sort of
fun. Every pause in the action is filled to
overflowing with an endless stream of talk
from the announcers — usually two of them
in case one or the other should run out of
words. If they can't find anything to say
about the game itself they fall back on their
clip sheets of statistics from games long
since played.
How nice it would be to give the viewing
audience a chance to concentrate on the ball
game — or even to go to the fridge for a fresh
can of beer
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October 10, 1979
Old F*iles
Toronto when Irlma Albert received the award for the
Walker was united in marriage to highest standing among the
Roy Henry Morgan. The couple English-speaking students in
will reside in Wingham. attendance.
The annual Belgrave School Mrs. Ezra Scholtz was re -
Fair Music Festival and Public elected president of the Bible
Speaking Contest was held in the Society in the Wbitechurch area.
Foresters' Hall. Winning prizes Miss Marjorie Coultes was
for recitations were Shirley elected secretary -treasurer.
Bradburn and Clifford Coultes. Lucknow Public School Board
Winners for public speaking were has hired an additional teacher,
James and Barbara Irwin. Mrs. Irwin Carruthers of Kinloss
Brodie Craig and Anne Chamney Township, to cope with over -
were musical winners. crowded conditions due to a
Whitechurch welcomes Mr. record-breaking enrolment this
and Mrs. E. Wellington of year- Lucknow now has a six-
Goderich to the village. Mr. member teaching staff.
Wellington has recgived 'the A dream kitchen, which will be
appointment of station agent in the envy of every housewife in
the village. the area, is taking shape at the
Neighbors and friends new CKNX-TV studio in .the old
gathered at the home of Mr. and high school these days. It will be
Mis. C. Phippen to honor their used in various broadcasts for
daughter, Dorothy, who left the ladies.
Monday for Kitchener where she OCTOBER 19U
Will begin studies at Emmanuel Rev. Gordon Fish of Wingham
Bible School. has been appointed by
The annual High School field Presbytery to act as interim
day was held. Boys' chain- moderator until a permanent
pionehips were won by E. minister is found for the Belmore
Brophy; D. Lloyd, B. Kress and Presbyterian Church.
B. Wild. Girl champions were The Lakelet Library has been
Edna Brophy, Edith Cook, Irene moved to the residence of Mr.
Curie, Mary Lu Connell and Edna and Mrs. W. N. Harper with Mrs.
Templesnan, Harper as librarian.
For the first time in over two The first meeting of the 19
years, the window lights here Wingham Scout Troop was field
were all aglow on Saturday at the Scout House with 28 Scouts
evening. It was a welcome sight. and four leaders present. A.S.M.
Vivian MacLean., Harold Ross Hastings introduced
Pocock, Mildred Jones and Reg Murray FYidenburg as the new
Collar were elected officers when Scoutmaster, replacing
the Baptist Young People's Union Crawford Douglas who has had to
held its annual meeting., step down because of other
OCTOBER 1955 commitments. %
Rev. Leighton Ford, brother- Bruce Robertson, principal of
in-law of Billy Graham and a Howick Central School, was
member of the Billy Graham elected president of the Prin-
team, will conduct a two-week cipals Association of Wellington
mission in the Wingham United No. 4 and Perth No. 3 public
Church in November under the school inspectorate. He succeeds
sponsorship of the Wingham and Ivan Kreller, principal of
District Council of Churches. Harriston Public School.
Mrs. William gain was in- A bridge on the tenth sideroad
stalled as Noble Grand of the of Howick Township partially
Majestic Rebekah Lodge. Other collapsed when one girder was
officers include Mrs. Allan struck by a car driven by John J.
Walker, Mrs. Roy Bennett, Mrs. King of Wingham. The driver
William McKenzie and Mrs. was injured and the car badly
Wilfred Henry. damaged.
Miss Donalda MacDonald, Eleven tombstones were
daughter of Mrs. Roy. Mac- toppled by vandals at the
Donald, is attending the Wingham Cemetery over the
Presbyterian ' Deaconess weekend. Cemetery workers are
Training School in Toronto. repairing the. stones and the
Barbara Gaunt, daughter of incident is being investigated by
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gaunt of police.
Belgrave, registered at the At a nomination meeting in
University of Western Ontario, Fergus, T-1, ,u..* ..Ca -•__
London, for her fourth and final chosen to represent the New
year in Honors English and Democratic part; in the riding of
French. During the summer she Wellington -Huron for the
attended a course in Quebec and November 8 election.
What's new at
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Huronview?
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Intended for last week a painting uass each Tuesday
morning at 10 a.m. Come out and
Friday morning the blind resi- join the fun. Talent as an accom-
dents held their meeting in the plished painter is hot important.
craft room. Father Hardy came We have paint by number pic-
to Huronview Friday morning tures for those who are timid.
and conducted mass for the All residents are invited to
Roman Catholic residents. Bingo come to the craft room each
was played Friday afternoon, Wednesday morning at 9:15 a.m.
with prizes given out according to to bake. Bring your favorite re -
the number of bingos won. ripe.
The choir held its practice The van went to Stratford
Saturday morning. Rev. Wit- Wednesday afternoon. Golda
tick's sermon was based on 1st Tyler, Gertrude Cornell, EberLewis Verna Elliott, Bernice
Timothy, chapter Glousher, Mary Van Camp, and
Monday afternoonn Marie Flynn Florimond Cote enjoyed the ride
entertained at Old Tyme Music. and a chance to shop at the mall.
Tuesday morning wood- We need more residents to join
working shop is held in the base- us each Thursday morning in the
ment. All male residents are in- craft room to make Hallowe'en
vited to go down at 9:15 a.m. to decorations.
help with the various projects on The residents enjoyed Ed Stiles
the go. at the organ on Thursday after -
Mrs, Grace Peck is conducting noon