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The Huron Expositor, 1984-07-25, Page 17NEWTS AND FEATURES THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 1, 1984 — A3 Sitting Room features crafts For the second year in a row, the Van Egmond House in Egmondville is featuring quality crafts made by local artisans in "The Sitting Room." The Sitting Room is actually the living and dining room of the almost 140 year old house. The handiworks of 21 local artists and craftspeople are on display. Any number of interesting articles .are for sale, from hand-knit clothing to paintings, stained glass, quilts and even Ukrainian decorated eggs. All the contributors to the craft store are from Huron County, except for One woman who used. to live in the area but now works out of Florida, and sends her paintings in through her mother. Some of the more local contributors include Hazel Wood of Egmondville, who makes stuffed toys and rag dolls; Viola Taylor who makes doilies and braided rugs; Elaine Bakos who is selling seed plaques, and Thelma Bode, who has afghans for sale. The Van Egmond Foundation contacted the artists last year and invited them to display their work at the Van Egmond House, The House sells the articles for the contributing artists on commission. Carolyn Wood, who is managing the shop for the summer, says most of the artists were pleased with the sales and, exposure they received last year, and are participating again this year. Ms. Wood, a University of Guelph student from Clinton, was hired for the summer with the aid of a Summer Canada grant. Also hired to work at-4the Van Egmond House are Denise Ducharme from Seaforth, who attends Wilfrid Laurier University, and Darryl Fox, of Clinton, who attends the University of Western Ontario. ,Denise works as a tour guide for guests to the house, and Darryl's job is as researcher. He is working on a project to reconstruct a model of Egmondville as it Was about 100 years ago, complete with the merchants and buildings in the village at that time. The Van Egmond Foundation also re- ceived funding to finish the carriage house behind the homestead, which was built this year as a replica of the carriage house which originally, stood in the same place. The Foufidatioon hopes to rebuild a number of smaller outbuildings on the grounds with the aid of existing foundations and old drawings. The Van Egmond House is a two-storey Georgian home built in 1846-47 by Constant Van Egmond. He was the son of the Col. Anthony Van Egmond, who was involved in the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada. The house has been restored to its appearance when originally constructed. The rooms on the first floor are furnished in' pre -Confederation style, and the second floor is used as display space for museum exhibits and artworks. The Van Egmond House offers visitors a glance into history, and now with a craft shop and picnic grounds, it is a perfect place for a stop on a summer drive. The Sitting Room is open every day from 8:30 to 4:30 until Labor Day, and will possibly remain open until the end of Sept. The Van Eghnond House is open for group tours throughout the year. THE SITTING ROOM In the Van Egmond House features hand -made articles by local artists and craftsmen. Here, Carolyn Wood, a summer worker at the Van Egmond House, looks over theIarggcollection of stuffed toys. The room also has braided rugs, handknit clothes, afghans, paintings and other craft items. (Kloeze photo) Curfew bell affects kids in 1934 JULY 25, 1884 William'Murray. the veteran thresher has purchased another steam engine for thresh- ing purposes and will run two steam threshers during the coming season. Mr. Haughton has purchased the house and lot immediately opposite the waterworks from Dr. Gouinlock for $500. The lot contains one acre of land and the house cost more than the purchase money, Mr. Haughton has a good bargain. Mr. A.G. Van Egmond has added something new to his woollen mills in the shape of a whistle, which makes three 'different sounds, all at the same time. The Egmondville flouring mills have run constantly night and day for a year until last Saturday night when they were shut down and arc now being run only 18 hours each day. JULY 30, 1909 The rural free mail delivery will be inaugurated on Monday Aug 2 on Route til Huron. that is the Seaforth Harlock route. IN THE YEARS AGONE All the boxes are not to hand yet, but those who have boxes and that are in position will be served. The peculiar birds found in McKillop recently by James H. Hays are being exhibited in the show window of S. Everitt and Son. Most of the farmers of the Beechwood area are giving all their spare time to the work of preparing for the new church to be built in St. Columban in the coming months. JULY 27, 1934 Children returning to the public school in Sept. will be surprised to find that the double scats that have been in the school for nears have been turnereinto desks seating bui one student. The Board is having the old desks cut down by Harry Hart, First passed about 40 years ago, Sea forth's curfew bell bylaw is at last corning into its own after a rest of many years. The bell was rung first on Saturday night at 9 p.m. and is expected to have a beneficial effect on children 15 years of age and under. JULY 24, 1959 Patricia Marshall. 18 year old daughter of Explanation Mr. and Mrs. Ross Marshall. Kirkton won over three other contestants in the contest conducted by dairy groups of Huron for Dairy Queen. She will represent Huron in the milking contest to be held at the Canadian National Exhibition to select a Dairy Queen of Ontario. More than 12,000,000 eggs were handled by the produce division of Seaforth .Farmers Co-operative last year. The Co-op is holding an open house on Saturday when the public is invited to visit the new Co-op egg grading station, An article concerning the job of the Returning Officer in the federal election appeared in last week's Huron Expositor. Art Bolton, Returning Officer for the Huron -Bruce riding said further explanation was required on several points. in urban centres a voter's name must appear on the yoters list after the final revision. Otherwise they can't vote. In rural areas. the list is an open list. And it is possible for a voter to be vouched for on polling day if their name isn't on the list, he will. Enumerators in rural areas are nominated according to tradition. In Huron -Bruce, the tradition in rural areas is for the party in power to do the nominating. But in Goderich, an urban centre. both the party in power and the opposition nominate enumer- ators, said Mr. Bolton. UNQQUE WOOD DESIGNS on Cardno's manufacturers so Pat Dolan, left and Peter hand. Pat is shown filing and smoothing Opera Hall require much hand work. The Vereyken, supervisor of Cobrefl Construe- holes and Peter drills the holes with a brace decorative carvings are not available from__ tion of London have to carve every detail by and bit for the trim which will go on the top ROOF /FROM PAGE ONE land was set aside for park land. "That was the general requirement. But if the town feels it has enough park land, then the land set aside such as in Silvervici. Subdivision, can be sold and the town can take the money. "it's the same as if money from parking meters went to the police department. But it doesn't, money goes into municipal col. fers." said councillor Wayne Ellis. The recommendation to establish a parks reserve fund was not approved. COMPLETE DRAINAGE 13Y OCT. In a letter to council through his lawyer Paul Ross. Rod Lyons Said he was anxious to resolve the drainage problem at the parking lot adjacent to Lyons Food Market. The letter asked council to consider allowvine drainage to be completed by July 1. 1 notn and if the town observes a drainage problem before that time. then work would be carried out to correct the problem within .10 days. The finance and general goverrrKent committee said a two year delay in draining the parking lot is unacceptable. The committee recommended that drainage be completed by Oct. 31, 1984. Seaforth will not accept liability in allowing the extension on draining the lot. • COUNCIL PAY Monthly pay for attending June meetings., were as follows for council, Mayor Ross, 5315; Reeve Campbell, 5200; Deputy -reeve Bennett. 5200; Councillors Ellis, 5200: Hildebrand. 5200: Johnston, 5.155: Martin, 5380, Mero. 5355; Ross 5155. Preserving past for future job of LACAC of the clock tower. Exterior renovations to the hall are expected to be completed by September • (Wassink photo) SMOKING FROM PAGE TWO Today, experimenters are much more refined. 1 car's remember grabbing a stalk of orchard grass, lighting it and sucking like crazy. Just about burned my throat on the stuff. The old, behind the barn smokers, can probably recall experimenting with corn silk, cedarbark, tea, wheat chaff and assorted 'dried leaves. The whole mess was wrapped in a sheet of toilet paper (clean) and smoked. As Art says, then one always expected that Camel cigarettes had a high percentage of excreta from the same animal. Comes as sort of a revelation that elephant droppings can be smoked pure and be quite flavorsome. My most memorable experiment smoking experience was the time someone left a soggy White Owl cigar butt in an ashtray. Me and pa were outside, but brother and me had an idea, 1 found some matches and after some convincing. my brother started smok- ing the thing. He wasn't even in school yet. Ma was a sneak and she saw the whole thing through the kitchen window. She stormed inside and 1 immediately hid the agar behind my back. She sniffed the air and said, "Smells like someone's been smoking." My brother, little rat, was just ready to blurt out the truth, but 1 held him back with one of my proverbial lies. Determined to get to the bottom of the issue, ma said smoking can kill yon. And if a doctor wasn't called immediately we'd die. "Call the doctor," shouted my brother. That was the end of our cigar butt smoking days. But that experience is still good for a laugh today. BY USA NEWSY' As renovations to Cardno's Opera Hall continue into the fifth week, more and more Seaforth residents are becoming aware of the historic buildings on the main street in Seaforth. Buildings that may have been taken for granted in the past are now slowly gaining the attention of•mapy heritage -con- scious people. ne such group ofeople is the Seaforth Loci chitectural Conservation Advisory Committe more commonly known as the LACAC. The-LACAC has been active in Seaforth since 1976, when the first members were appointed by town'council. Their job was to advise nd assist council in matters pertainin to the Conservation of b'Wings of ' arc itectuJal or historical alue.. ; In the eight years since its formation, LACAC has-been involved in the designa- tion of 13 private residences, Victoria Park, the Town Hall, Cardno's Opera Hall and the -Commercial Hotel, With the aid of architect Nick Hill of Hill and Borgal, Architects and Planners in Goderich, a Heritage Conserva- tion District Plan was prepared for the area of Main Street from the railway tracks to the Queens Hotel. LACAC is now working toward obtaining government approval to designate this area as a Heritage Conservation District. Ap- proval of the proposed designation would mean that Main Street buildings would be preserved so that their architectural style, which is mainly Italianate, would not be altered. The building owners would also be eligible for grants which are available through the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture to aid in the restoration process. As in the case with Cardno's Opera Hall, grants for restoration are provided to repair or replace original features of the buildings but are not to be used to modernize the structure at all. The purpose of this restriction is to prevent important architec- tural features of the buildings from being altered and to improve the continuity of the street. The 19th century photographs of the Main Street shows that the old storefronts blended well with the upper facade of the building and a sharp contrast did not exist between the upper and lower portions of the buildings as it does to y. One example of a Building which has maintained much 'of its original character is the Sill's Hardware re. It's hoped that many of the other buildings in the proposed .Heritage Conservation District will r urn to this style in the future. LACAC provides an imports ser in Seaforth. The success of the c mi es endeavours are the key to prese ing the remnants of the past for the generations of the future. Newspapers accountable The Ontario Press Council adjudicated five complaints about editorial comment in 1983, compared with only four in its previous 10'/2 years, says the organization's lith annual report, just published. The Council upheld four of the five. The Council does not deal with complaints about editorials based solely on a dispute over opinions since grievances of that kind can be settled by publication of a letter to the editor, the report notes. Comment of all kinds attracted more complaints than any other form of news- paper content. with a record high of 29, including the five about editorials. Of the other 24, the Council adjudicated two, upholding each in part. The 60 -page report, ayailable free on request to the Council, contains reports on press council activity across the country including the experience of the weekly Mississauga News with a Community Advisory Board. a type of press council new to Canada. The Council received 116 complaints during the year about the conduct of the i press in gathering and publishing news, opinion and advertising. Of these, 23 went to adjudication and 22 were settled between the pa les. Nine were active at year-end and the r.t were withdrawn or abandoned. e total of 116 compares with 91 in 1982, an• the all-time high of 144 in 1977. ,The rep . e however, that only ,six, of the complaints in 1977 ended in adjudication and another 15 w. re settled between the parties. The Council's chairman, J. Allyn Taylor of London, wro e in his Foreword that his first two years i office proved an exciting time, featured .y a spectacular increase in the number of newspapers voluntarily making themselves accountable to readers through press councils. The Ontario report contains accounts of all adjudications reached in 1983 by it and all the other councils, except for Quebec which issues its own detailed annual report. People wishing copies of the Ontario report should write to the Council at 151 Slater St., Suite 708. Ottawa, Ont. K i P 5H3, or phone (613) 235-3847. To the Editor Quotas work for dairy To the Editor: As a dairy farmer and member of the Huron County Milk Committee I feel compelled to reply to an editorial in the July 11 issue oftheExpositor. It's unfair to generalize about and compare the quota systems of different commodities. Each has evolved to meet the particular needs of each commodity. I cannot comment on the other commodities mentioned, bpt will deal with what I am familiar with. milk quotas. it is true thc main reason for supply management and quotas is to set the price for the product while at the same time regulate production to meet requirements. , This system has given stability to the dairy industry. Producers have the required price stability to make the hundreds of thousands of dollars investment needed to get started in thc dairy industry. The editorial is absolutely wrong about People not being able to get into the industry. Last year. 589 new producers bought quota in Ontario. The average age of dairy producers is not approaching 50. in fact the average age is declining and according to a survey sent out to all producers was down to 41.6 last year and over 25 per cent of all producers are under 10 years of age. So when you look at the facts instead of hearsay you can sec that the milk quota system hasn't failed hut is doing an excellent job of distributing quota. A job that quota without value has never been able to do. Bill Wallace Thanks from Cancer Society Dear Sir: We would like to express our appreciation to you for 'your financial assistance in producing our annual edition of the 'Hope publication. More and more we are meeting folk who have a dose friend or relative affected M the cancer disease. It is only through continuing education and research that a cure is going to be found. Our motto this year is "We Have a Dream" and of course that dream is that • cancer will he beaten Thanks again for your continuing support 'tours truly, Melvin Farnsworth President Huron (utnt'. Unit Canadian lancer Societe COMMUNITY CALENDAR Space for ttre Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor. rWednesday, August 1 -1 p.m. Business' Swim 30-4 & 6-8:30 Public Swim o 5-6 p.m. Family Swim • 7 p.m. Creamery vs Turf, Lions Park. 8:30 Mainstreet vs Bears, Lions Park Thursday, August 2 12-1 p.m. Business Swim 1:30-4 & 6-8:30 Public Swim 5-6 p.m. Family Swim 7:30-10:30 p.m. Mens Ball Hockey League 7:30 Beruit Bbars vs Boiler Makers 8:30 Brewers vs Nations' 9:30 Queens Cavaliers vs Beechwood Devils Suslday,August S 1-4:30 & 6-8:30 Public Swim e • 7:30 - 10 p.m. Roller Skating. Manday,August 6ws 12.1 p.m. Business Swin, 1:30-4 & 6-8:30 Public Swim 5=6 p.m. Family Swim 6:30 p.m. Expos vs Tigers, Lions Park 7:45 p.m. Blue Jays vs Red Sox. Lions Park 4:00 p.m. Villagers vs Firemen, Optimist Park 5:30 p.m. Topnotch vs Queens. Optimist Park. 7:00 p.m. Mainstreet vs Firemen, Opti- mist Park 8:30 p.m. Topnotch vs Villagers. Optimist Park. Friday,August 3 12-1 p.m. Business Swim 1:30-4 & 6-8:30 Public Swim 5-6 p.m. Family Swim 8-10:30 p.m. Roller Skating at Arena. Saturday, August 4 1-4:30 & 6-8:30 Public Swim Tuesday,August 7 12.1 p.m. Business Swim 1:30-4 & 6-8:30 Public Swim 5-6 p.m. Family Swim 6:45 and 8:30 p.m. Ladies Ball League„,,,,, - Lions Park. Weduesday,August 8 8 p.m. The second public meeting to discuss the future of the Huron County Pioneer Museum at Goderich Twp. Hall. Hotmesville.