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The Huron Expositor, 1984-09-19, Page 3FALL CONVENTION—A parade to lay Convention of Zone C1 hosted by Seaforth, wreaths on the cenotaph proceeded the Fall Sunday. (McIlwralth photo) NINE / FROM PAGEF ONE peaceful. He was very comfortable and seemed glad to sit down. He was like any other visitor to Ste. Marie, but he was a very special visitor. "I explained the matrilineal system to him. It's a system where Indians traced their ancestry through the women, not the men. And we talked about the long house and the Mission. "When it was time to go, somebody behind the Pope handed him two white boxes in which there were rosary beads. The girls each gave him a corn husk doll, dolls they had made especially for him. "But I don't think he wanted to leave at that moment. He continued to sit. He really looked tired. But the most surprising thing was that nobody expected the Pope to sit with us. "All the time we talked in the long house, about eight minutes, I cpuldn't keep my eyes off him. It was a spiritual experience -an experience which made my faith stronger. "He is a very warm man. i always pictured him as a big man, but he's only my height --about 5' 7". And he has a real soft spot for children. He couldn't keep his hands ott the two small girls. He continually hugged ,and kissed them. "When he left, he thanked us for asking him into the long house. And we all hugged each other and started crying. • HURTS HAND The volunteers and 'tour guides at Ste. Marie all shook hands with Pope John Paul as he made his way to the popemobile. Seaforth area residents, who watched the event on television, said the Pope was rubbing his hands, as if sore from too many handshakes. But Mrs. McCue said the Pope suffered a minor accident as he walked to the popemobile. "He stumbled and hit his hand on a stet I post. It must have hurt because he kept rubbing it and showed it to somebody. But it didn't seem to be bleeding. WANTED TO VOLUNTEER "Just before he left, he told all of us that he too would like to volunteer to work at Ste. Marie -among -the -Hurons, but he said his superiors Wouldn't permit it. "'His visit was an historical event that we were part of. And it may be an event that never happens again. POPE/ FROM PAGE ONE finally had the chance to see him," says Mr: Contois. EXTREMELY HIND He said it was a real impact to see how large the Christian community is. "There were many non-Catholics around us who were just as taken by the sight of thc Pope. He struck me as being extremely kind. He seemed willing to stop and talk." One of 48 people who travelled by bus from Brussels to Toronto, Marg Kelly sacs she has waited three years to see the Pope. Three years ago, she had hoped to see him, but he was recovering from gunshot wounds and didn't make an appearance in Rome. Her wish came true on Saturday. "1 was wearing my mantilla. People used towear them when they went to sec thc Pope and 1 had one left over from Pope John's time. "1 had a desire to see Pope John Paul, While we were waiting, it was very cold and there was no way to leave. But when he passed by. he came se close I could have talked to him. I felt drawn to him because 1 was wearing my mantilla. "it was totally spectacular. 1t was a rewarding experience. But it was a double impact for me -he was real and at the same time he wasn't. 1 couldn't have had a better view other than to shake hands with hint." says Mrs., Kettr "Pope 'John Paul did look tired, hut as soon as he saw people, he came Ave, He appeals to all people. It's a wonderful experience to see two popes in this life." SEA OF PEOPLE Mrs. Kelly said the bus arrived in Toronto at 9 a.m. and she was at the Downsview mass site until 6:50 p.m. "We thought we were there early. but there was already a sea of people. The bathroom facilities were bad and we had to walk a long way. it was a hard day, but 1 have no complaints. it was a tremendous experience to see the Pope. The historic papal visit, a first time a pope has set foot on Canadian soil, has given a true sense of community in the church, says Mr. Contois. And because the crowds were small, everyone had a chance to sec the Pope in Midland. Over 200,000 were expected. hut it's estimated less than 80,000 made the journey. "It was quite a feeling to see the Pope -•a feeling that's hard to explain unless you were there, The popemobile never stopped, but if it had, 1 could have touched him. That's how close we were," says Mr. Ryan. "1 really enjoyed the Midland visit." sass Mr. Contois. 'It was everything 1 expected and more. A lot of work went into it -the communities in the arca really pulled together." "I would go sec him again if given the thanes," Mr. ( omnis sass. PLOW.ING/R0M PAGE ONE NEWS AND FEATURES John Pattison fe'atured at fall fair this year The fall season has arrived and with it comes local fah fairs. Seaforth will be host to its 139th annual fall fair this Thursday,, Friday and Saturday. The three day event features such events as the Seaforth Agricultural Society Dance Saturday night; antique tractor pull Saturday afternoon; children's mini pedal pull on .Saturday and the parade Friday morning. The fair will be opened Thursday night by Dr. Clayton Switzer, deputy minister of agriculture. The fair Queen contest will take place at the Seaforth and District Community Centres Thursday evening. There are 11 contestants including, Mary Lou Anderson, Judy Anstett, Diana ,Claus, Diane Gridzak, Debbie Henderson, Denise Dupuis, Michelle Huard, Sandra HuIlley, Marion Hunt, Dianne Nyenhuis and Sharon Wilson. The new Queen will be crowned by Lisa Beuttenmiller, 1983-84 fair Queen. An added attraction for the second consecutive year is the Stan Jackson were Paul Fear, Blyth, first: Paul Pentland. Dungannon: and Dennis Dietrich. RR .1. Dashwood. Class open to ali comers was won hs Rod McGillivray, Paisley; Brian McGavin. Wal• ton, second. Class open to tractors drawing four plows or more: John Becker, Dashwood, first: Larry Hackett of Lucknow• second and Bob Mathers of Listowel third. In the antique plow class, Ron Scotchmer of Mitchell, first; Paul Betties. Kippen, second and Clare Paton, Lucan. third. in the horse class, the winner was Edgar Howatt of Blyth, the only entrant. The class for politicians and other dignitaries. which was a horse class. was cancelled because of the rain and mud conditions. VALERIE JOHNSTON IS QUEEN Valerie Johnston, 19, of RR 2 Bluevale. was chosen Queen of the Furrow She is a student at Conestoga College in Early Childhood Education. The runner-up was Rhonda Lohb, 17. of Clinton. a grade 12 student at Central Huron Secondary School. Other competitors for the crown were: Mary Lou Anderson of RR 1. Seaforth; Corinne DeCorte, RR 2. Seaforth; . Lori Hayter. RR I , Varna; Debbie Henderson. RR 5. Seaforth; Donna McClure, RR 1. Seaforth; Lisa McClure. RR 4. Walton: and Kara Van Den Neucker. RR 4. Seaforth PARENTS/ FROM PAGE ONE them and if they can't get along after the break-up, it's three times as hard on the kids. You should try to at least be on talking terms," says Bob. Something not to do is to force a child to call a new step-parent Mom or Dad. "No one can replace the real parents and most kids won't let that happen." says Ms. McLeod. Out of the pain of a break-up, some parents and their children can see some good. Though he is probably growing up twice as fast, Bob says his son is becoming indepegndent and is learning to cook and take are of himself. Karen says her children have become more responsible. "The kids help out without being asked. i came home the other day and found they'd defrosted the freezer.' With money a little scarcer. Karen's children have also found ways to earn or make what they want. "Before we used to get whatever we wanted, but now we have to earn it or make it ourselves. We just made a water slide out of a piece of plastic instead of buying one that was already made," says her daughter. NEED EACH OTHER The breakup has also made both the parents and the children appreciate each other a little bit more. "1 found out 1 need them as much as they need me," says Karen. With time and support, wounds begin to heal and separated families look toward their futures with some optimism. Karen's children say things are starting to get better again. Though they used to wish their parents could get back together again, they're glad their parents aren't fighting anymore. Both Karen's son and daughter agree on their advice to other kids whose parents break up. "Try and help your parents. And, it's all right. It'll work out someday," they say. Memorial Hereford Show. And, of course there are various other livestock shows including the 4-H cattle show, horse show and western horse show Ftiday evening. Homemaking, school and 4-H exhibits will be displayed in the community centres and the round house. "There are 550 feet of commercial exhibits. We turned down many because we didn't have room," says Ross Ribey, a director. Featured Friday evening is a young Canadian ventriloquist, John Pattison. A finalist in the Du Maur -ter Search for Stars contest, Mr. Pattispn has succeeded in: creating an act that fits into an endless variety of situations. He is currently working with Jim Henson and The Muppets on the Emmy award winning television series, Fraggle Rock. The Seaforth fall fair promises to be a fun -filled event. And rain or shine, the fair will be better than ever. Seaforth lagoon to hove hydr'ogeologist tests done permission to use the Holmesville site as a The ministry of the environment property, temporary dumping site in case of entergen- more commonly known as the Seaforth lagoon site, will have soil tests done by hydrogeologists. The site is one of several being considered for a new landfill site for Seaforth and McKillop and Tuckersnsith townships. Earlier this year, a site north of Seaforth was considered to have inadequate soil structure to support a landfill site. Another alternative is to transport garbage to the Hoimesville dump located about 22 kilometers west of Seaforth. And the tri -municipality landfill committee are still looking at using the Holmesville dump if it's required. The ministry property, said coun- cillor Wayne Ellis, "would be better than going all the way -to Hoimesvill'e." Seaforth landfill- committee representa- tive, Reeve Bill Campbell said the committee is asking the ministry of environment for cy"We had a meeting with the ministry Aug. 30, but they couldn't commit themselves. Right now, it's only tentative," said Mr. Campbell. Do we know all the costs involved if we have to go to Holmesville?" asked councillor Wayne Ellis. Costs are not known, replied Mr. Camp- bell. "Right now we're just concerned in getting a temporary landfill site," WANT DUMP BRIDGE Seaforth council heard a request from Carolanne, Doig of the Seaforth Golf and Country Club who said the club wished to purchase the old dump bridge which is now not being used by the town. The request was referred to the finance and general government committee. Seaforth council accepts tender Tenders for a new sidewalk on Mill Street. Seaforth were opened at the Sept. Seaforth council meeting. The lowest tender was submitted -by D & K Construction of Dublin •• a tender that was almost 51,600 lower than the third lowest tender. Other bids were submitted by A.J. Jackson Construction of Stratford, 56,616.40; P.F. Jansen of Egmondville, 56,835; and Jim Holland Construction, Egmondville. 56,668. "Who is D & K?" asked councillor Wayne Ellis, "1 don't know," replied town clerk, Jim Crocker. "But I've seen their trucks in town and have seen their sign in Dublin." "They're cement workers," said councillor Henry Mero. When asked who inspects the work, Mr. Crocker said it was the responsibility of the public works foreman. "Does he check to see if it's the right concrete?" asked Mr. Ellis. "We would have to test it, which is hard to do because concrete samples have to be sent out of town," said Reeve Bill Campbell. "We have to trust them." The new sidewalks are to be completed by Oct. 15. Staff changes at school A number of staff changes have taken place to Huron County schools for the 1984-85 school season. At Seaforth Public School. Jean Turner has taken over the position of vice-principal. Other new teachers at that school include Julie Baldwin. French. Maggie Burton, Fancily Studies. Mary Carroll. grade one. Linda Bosman. teacher's aid and Carol Hoelscher. school resource teacher. At Huron Centennial School in Brucefteld, John Sierisema, formerly of J.D. McCurdy School in Huron Park, has taken over as principal. David Kemp. formerly of Seaforth Public School is the new vice.principal. Other new teachers include Donna Shaddick, grade one. Flo Keillor, grade eight and senior French, and Toni Lyon, grade eight. Rob Snell is the new vice-principal at Walton Public School. while Barb Redmond is a new teacher's aid, and George Love joins the custodial staff. • Joanne Drennan joins Vanastra as a French and grade five and six teacher. Helen Van Bakel is the new kindergarten teacher at St. James Separate School and Diane Rath moves from a temporary to full time position at Brussels Public School. She will teach remedial and grade one classes. County Board of Ed won't close Vanastra The Huron County Board of Education has made a commitment to keep the Vanastra Public School open. But if student numbers and costs mean it has to close . it should be the Ministry of Education tha closes it, said trustee John .lpwitt. The hoard. at its Sept. session. tiscussed a report which outlined the impaon the count \ if Vanastra Public School is closed. if the school building is purchase.' from Conestoga College. or. if the board continu to rent from the college. Trustee .loan Vanden Broeck said the board shouldn't waiver on a decision it has already made "We should make sure that the ministry is aware that it is our wish to preserve the school." The report presented by director of education Robert Allan outlined the financial considerations in the above three situations, "The financial considerations are directly related to enrolment trends." Enrolment at the school has steadily declined since it was first opened in 1977. The Airhoot started with 138 students that year and 1983 had only 92 students. Current costs, or the cost of renting the facilities frt,m Conestoga College for the 198485 school year is $35,897 up from the 1983-84 cost of 535,019. About half of this cost is paid by the Ministry. if the board owned the school thc total cost it has been estimated, would be $554,194. This includes one -time -only costs of $50,000 for the purchase and about 5475,000 for renovations. Mr. Allan said the purchase price is "speculation" on his part. if the renovating and purchase costs were eliminated, it would leave an annual operating cost of about 530,000. in this situation, if the Ministry approved renovating the school, it would pay about 20 .000 towards those costs. ApproxFinale ty 5105,000 plus the operating costs would be paid locally. • In the third consideration, if the school is closed, there would be an annual savings of about 5129,861. This cost represents the rental fee, pringy�ppal's salary, small school staff allocation (allowance of 552.820 and secretarial co The report does acknowledge that if the school closed, the board would face �3ditional transportation costs. if 30 per cent of the students went to Clinton Public School and 70 per centf the students went to Huron Centennial Public School, the total transportation cost would be approximately S32,595. The crunch comes, said Mr. Allan, when the board makes its annual request for capital grant money from the ministry in Nov. Whit the board may place the renovating t*Vana4tra as a top priority item for the 1985 budget/ the Ministry, which is expected to pay about 80 per cent of the renovating cost. may turn the project down. The director said the board's capital grant request is for*arded to the regional office in London. The regional office then ranks the Vanastra project with capital grant requests from the 23 other school boards in the Western Ontario Region. This decision is not made until March or April of the following year. A point against the Huron board's request is that it has to prove a need for improved facilities and Mr. Allan- said that enrolment this term in the county's elementary schools• is projected at 6,065. According to the ministry's figures, the Huron board has room for 9,696 students. Mr. Allan said the board has a rental agreement with Conestoga College until next summer. affeaMeMOsapize VENTRILOQUIST John Patttsbn will per- form at the Seatorth fall fair on Friday evening. Hullett opposes bridge legislation Hullett Township council moved ,to con- while counties are eligible for grants from the tinue its formal objection to a proposed .Ministry of Transportation and Communica- legislation governing the construction of tions (MTC) totalling 80 per cent of costs, bridges on local municipal boundary roads. municipalities are able to collect only 50 per The motion was adopted at the September 4 cent of costs from the ministry. council meeting. Clerk Lear said counties had been building The proposed change may see local the structures and then turning them over to municipalities paying for the construction of municipalities. bridges, a job presently undertaken by -Other munibipalities have lodged object counties. ions to the proposed legislation, said the Township clerk Harry Lear explained that clerk. CONFLICTING/FR0M PAGE IWO him that he does not realize the same of the farmers who he deals with. Times are tough for farm operators at the present, but things will get better just as they always have in the past, Mr. fiusinessteap is making money at thc present time, With his attitude about the people he deals with, 1 don't think that will continue. As for myself, 1 have written my last cheque to that company. IN THE YEARS AGONE Barn gutted SEPTEMBER 19, 1884 On Wednesday evening last. the barns. stables and sheds of twin Johnston of concession eight. McKillop Township. to• gether with their entire contents were completely destroyed by fire. ° James O'Brien threshed on t.hc farm of John Coyne, concession six of Hibbert recently about four hundred bushels of oats. the product of 11 acres in two hours. The machine used was a Clinton end shake driven by horsepower. Gilbert Dick of Kippen has shipped another carload of cattle to Toronto and we understand he also intends to go into butchering. On Wednesday afternoon as threshers were at work on the farm of Duncan Livingstone of Morris. near Brussels. fire in some way communicated from the engine m the stacks nearby, The flames spread rapidly and Mr. Livingstone's entire cmp for the season was destroyed. His hams and crops were destroyed by fire last year and thioss coming so soon after will be a severe low. SEPTEMBER 17, 1909 Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Dick of Kpen were in Seaforth recently visiting their on ,lames Dick. Mr. Dick can boast what fess can. and that is that he still resides on the farm which he first took out from the Canasta Company when it was all bush nearly 60 years ago. On Monday morning last. Mr. T.S. Blues delivery horse was standing in front of the store when an automobile came along. The animal became frightened and bolted onto the sidewalk, where it slipped and fell seriously injuring itself. Mr. Prime. GTR agent in Brucefteld has completed the time required by the company to secure superannuation. He will receive 520. per month during the remainder of his life. He has` served the company long and by fire faithfully and will now receive the reward •I faithful work. SEPTEMBER 21, 1934 Hon. Duncan Marshall. Minister of Agri culture in the Ontario Government S'111 officiate at the opening ceremonies of ,tic Seaforth Fall Fair on Friday. Kicked in the stomach by a horse tack Consitt, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ros (onsitm. Tuckersmith, lies in Scott Memorial Hospital here in serious condition. Mr. F.S. Savauge has at his home on Goderich Street, a Morning Glory vole that contains over a hundred flowers. most of which measure five inches across and all art of a most beautiful delicate blue in color Congratulations and best wishes an extended to Mrs. James Beattie who cbi' week celebrated her 80th birthdas at het home on Church Street. Mrs. Beattie is one of Seaforth's oldest and best known restdcnis Northside United Church was built hs her father, the late Mr. Buggan and she was ihi first bride to be married in the church •SEPTEMBER 18,1959 Ronald Mason. son of Mr. and Mrs Harvey Mason left Thursday for Canton " T' where he will attend St. Lawrence Uncversti s He is beginning a four year course in phs ss a education. having been awarded an alit, n scholarship by the university. Giving way to wreckers the 44 year oto building at the corner of the county road and No. 4 highway at Kippen will soon he but ,+ memory. The building was purchased hs tt,t Department of Highways to permit better t,sr vision at the corner. Until then it had beet operated by D. Emmerson Kyle for the previous 27 years. Mac Stewart. R.R. 5 Seaforth was tops the tuninr section of swine judging at ti., Canadian National Exhibition lact.b4eck OMMUNITY CALENDAR 0 you're organizing a non profit event of Interest to other Seatorth area residents. phone the recreation office et 527-0882 or the Expositor at 527-0240 or mall the Infoi:mation to Community Calendar, The Huron Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario NOK IWO well in advance of the scheduled date, Wednesday, September 19 IHL registration at Archie's Sunoco. Thursday, September 20 IHL registration at Archie's Sunoco Seaforth Fall Fair i Space for rbe Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Exposltor. 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