The Huron Expositor, 1988-08-03, Page 1Births - 7A
Obituaries - 7A
Sports - SA and 9A
Walton - 5A
Weddings - 7A
Queensway - 5A
Serving the communities
and areas of Seaforth,
Brussels, Dublin, Hensalf
and Walton
Seaforth, Ontario
HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1988
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his family flew into Goderich
Thursday for a harbor dedication ceremony, a brief tour of the
Huron County Pioneer. Museum and a pre-election pump -up
speech before about 1,000 people attending a PC picnic fun-
draiser at the Goderich Municipal Airport. Here, The PM and his
youngest son, Nicolas, greet the crowd after arriving at Goderich
Harbor. Mulroney dedicated the recent $17 million deepening and
expansion of the harbor. He also used the setting, with blue Lake
Huron in the background, to focus on environr;iental topics such
as acid rain and Great Lakes', pollution, which he said has beerl
improving, especially under recent agreements signed with the
United States. Photo by Bill Henry.
Busload leaves .for West Branch games
A busload of Seaforth area youths left
town on Friday bound for West Branch,
Michigan. There they would enjoyed a
weekend of friendly Canadian -American
competition in the annual Sister City
Games.
The Optimist clubs from West lirdnch and
Seaforth as well as the Seaforth Recreation'
Department organized the exchange, and a
number of Optimist members drove to West
Branch for the weekend's activities, and for
a social time with their friends in West
Branch.
The games went well, in spite of being
stopped on a few occassions due to heavy
rain and lightning storms. Saturday morn-
ing at 8:00 the 28 kids who went to Seaforth's
sister city were involved in baseball with
their american counterparts. Lunch was
served at a Junior High School and Saturday
afternoon was reserved for track and field
competition, with dashes, rallies, three leg-
ged races and the ball throw. The kids were
kept busy through the rest of Saturday, with
an awards ceremony follwng the. track and
field events, and a dance held for them from
7:00 to 11:00.
On Sunday the adults involved with the ex-
change competed in golf. Eight of them
competed, in a tournament to raise money
for the West Branch sister city program,
and later a pork barbecue, was held for the
competitors. Karen McLean won the longest
drive competition, and she and her partner
from West Branch had the ladies low score.
The kids who went on the trip wereleft to A BUSLOAD OF KIDS bound for West Branch, Michigan, Seaforth's sister city, left the
do things like play mini golf with their with community dente on Friday afternoon. The kids participated in baseball, track and
their billets on Sunday, and to get to know field competition, and held a dance on Saturday night during their exchange: Corbett
them better. . hoto.
Deb Phillips, whoattended the games available for store fronts to be painted and
with her husband Gord said the exchange repaired, and the street is done in a Vic -
went well again this year. torian style with replica gas lamps. She said
"I thought it was super. They couldn't do the only big difference between their main
enough for you and they're so much fun, and street and Seaforth's is that theirs is four
there was more than enough stuff for the lanes wide rather than two. -
kids to do," she says.
Mrs. Phillips noted West Branch and Mrs. Phillips enjoyed the exchange and
Seaforth have something in common in that says she expects it to get better as it
West Branch is also involved in restoring its becomes more organized and as community
Main Street heritage buildings. Grants are involvement expands on both sides.
50 cents a copy
Stude.Its awarded $17,600
Two Seaforth area students have been
awarded a combined total of $17,61 t in
scholarship awards from Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo. Lisa Preszcator of
Seaforth and Paul Van Bakel of Dublin are
the recipients of the scholarships.
Lisa, daughter of David and Rose
Preszcator, has been awarded $3,200, and
this is renewable for three years for a'total
of $12,800. The scholarship was based on
Lisa's interim mark of 95.3 per cent at
Seaforth District High School.
Lisa will be studying to become a teacher
at the high school level, with Mathematics
as her major and Physical Education as her
minor.
It was mid-June when Lisa found out she
had received the award.
"I was reading up on the scholarship and I
thought I had a chance, but I didn't think I
would get that much," she says. Campus
housing is automatically awarded with the
scholarship, and Lisa says that took care of
one of her biggest concerns. Lisa also men-
tionned that she did some dancing when she
heard she had won the scholarship.
In addition to her academic achievements
in the past school year Lisa was active in
sports and was the female athlete of the
year at SDHS. She was hoping to play varsi-
ty soccer, but now has to see if this extra ac-
tivity will interfere with her academic
reponsibilities. She has to maintain an A -
average to be able to renew her scholarship.
Lisa has been on campus at Wilfred
Laurier and says she likes what's there.
"'It's the smallest university around here.
It's no more than five minutes to any class
from anywhere on campus, and you get to
knowour professors better than at a larger
university."
Paul Van Bakel, son of Martin and Julie
Van Bakel, attended Mitchell District High
School and won an award for $1,200 which is
renewable for another three years for a toter
value of up to $4,800. The award was based
on Paul's interim mark of 94.7 percent.
Paul will be taking honors Business Ad-
ministration, and hopes to become a
chartered accountant. He will be taking a
four year co-op program at WLU, which in-
cludes three four-month work terms at
businesses and/or accounting firms. "I
was pretty impressed," says Paul. "I was
• expecting a little help but not that much. It
should be helpful to help me pay for my
education.
46 Centennial Award Scholarships were
awarded to first-year students with a
minimum average of 90 per cent, and a total
of 21 Centennial Anniversary Scholarships
were given to students with a minimum 91
per cent average who have chosen to study
in the faculty of arts and science or in the
JIM DALRYMPLE built this house of log and stone in Egmondville in his spare time
over the past eight years. Just this spring it was completed enough for him to move in-
to, but he is still making improvements to' the house's interior. Corbett photo. '
honours economics program in the school of
business and economics.
"We are very pleased with the calibre of
students being attracted to Laurier," said
Director of Admissions at WLU, George
Granger.
LISA PRESZCATOR of Seaforth has won a
$3,200 scholarship to Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo. The award is
renewable for an additional three years for
a total monetary value of $12,800, and was
based on her 95.3 percent average at
Seaforth District High School.
PAUL VAN BAKEL of Dublin was recently
awarded a Centennial Award scholarship
to Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.
The award is for four years and Is for
$4,800, and is based on Mr. Van Bakel's in-
terim mark of 94.7 percent at Mitchell
District High School.
Tuckersmith approves budget
The Tuckersmith Township Council
recently set a budget for 1988 that predicts
the spending of $1,867,756.10. This is a
decrease of $91,279 compared to the
$1,959,034.99 spent in 1987, or a 4.7 per cent
decrease. This is without the county or
school board levies.
Some of the major expenditures in 1988
are: roadways costing $548,600, day care at
$193,900, general government $188,350, debt
charges at $164,089 and the recreation cen-
tre ata$196,718.
• Revenue this year is also down. The 1988
budget anticipates $1,312,338 compared to
$1,483,699 in 1987. This is a decrease of
$171,361 or 11.5 per cent.
Some of the major sources of revenue are
expected to come from Ontario grants
totalling $717,946; $340,700 of this is for
roads. Parks and recreation are expected to
raise •141 000 and tile drains .:164 089.
The county levy will be $233,665. The
Huron County Board of Education levy for
elementary schools is $367,556 and the cost
for secondary schools is $278,671. The
Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate
School Board levy is $78,596 for elementary
and $58,665 for secondary. The levy from
both the school boards combined is up
$130,003 over 1987 for both secondary and
elementary education.
Also at the cquncil meetin on July 19
were Mr. Allan R. Tanguay, Regional
Manage of Champion Road Machinery
Limited; Mr. Dave Wallace, salesman of
Champion Road Machinery; and Maurice
Nesbitt of Southwest Tractor who attended
before council to witness the opening of the
tenders for the class six and seven motor
grader phis additional equipment.
Tenders received for the grader and
Jim Dalrymple builds rustic house
of log and stone in Egmondville
About eight years ago Jim Dalrymple of
Egmondville bought a log house six miles
north of Guelph. The house now sits in
Egmondville and is almost completely
restored, the work having been done by Mr.
Dalrymple's own two hands, and he moved
into it in the spring of this year.
"It's been a full time hobby," says Mr.
Dalrymple, who has been working on the
house since he brought the logs to Egmond-
ville in May of 1980, and it has occupied most
of his spare time since.
Mr. Dalrymple, who was well known as a
restorer of antique cars before he started
his log house project, began with the inten-
tion of building a house "with some
character." He had a concept of how the
house would look when it was done, but over
the past eight years that concept has been
changed and refined somewhat.
But this log house provided Mr. Dalrym-
ple with more than a hobby.
"It was something to do and it basically
forced me to save my money. It gave me a
place to spend my money where I would be
getting my investment back," he explains.
The building began in May of 1980, when
Mr. Dalrymple answered an ad in the
Toronto Star and bought his home. He plans
to look into records at the area registry to
find out the house's history, but he does
know it was built in the 1830s or 1840s by ear-
ly settlers, and that it was inhabited up int. i
10 years before he bought it.
The logs were all numbered, dismantled
and trucked to the building site in Egmond-
ville where they have been reassembled as
they were at the original site. The logs are
either elm or oak, and they make up the
shell of a 24 X 30 foot, one and a half storey
structure.
But thelogs weren't the only thing Mr.
Dalrymple salvaged in building his home.
He bought stone from a house which had
been gutted by fire four miles west of
Seaforth, and transferred it to the building
site to be used for a chimney, anything
above grade on foundation work, and for a
back kitchen which would be added to the
house to make for more room.
Mr. Dalrymple admits the house is bigger
than what he nee He sa, he built what he
wantrr' wanted to keep it a
ma r r t , L . ""sale. Andthe size
of I dictated a lot of
w ,tl
In the u, ,e downstairs is a large
living room, vit a cathe iral ceiling that
looms over feet above the floor. Mr.
Dalrymple has c < nstructed four arches in
the ceiling for aesthetic reasons and to give
the effect that the ceiling is lower. The living
room has been furnished with antiques Mr.
Dalrymple has found in the area, including
a parlor stove made by Charles Fawcett
Limited, a couch from the mid 1800s, an oid
fashioned pump organ, a parlor table, an
English wardrobe which is to be used as an
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