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Former Seaforth Mayor dies
Former Seaforth Mayor Edmund Daly
died Suhday, August 7, 19 l at the Strat-
ford General Hospital. He was 81.
The eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Daly, Mr. Daly was named Mayor
of Seaforth by Town Council in 1960 and
held the position ugtil 1962. He succeeded
the late Beverley F. Christie, and was the
34th citizen to serve as Seaforth's mayor
since incorporation of the town in 1875. He
also followed in the footsteps of his father,
the late J.F. Daly, who was mayor in 1931
and 1932.
Mr. Daly was particularly interested in
physics and electronics and at the age of 15
built the first radio in Seaforth. In the late
20s he built his own Ham radio set and kept
his license up to date to the day he died.
His interest inelectronics took him to
Washington in 1938 to take an advanced
course with the best brains of the United
States. As a result, when Canada declared
war in 1939 he was asked by the govern-
ment to become an original participant in
the airforce's secret weapon - which was
later called Radar.
In this capacity Mr. Daly built a radar Mr. Daly had a great interest in music,
station on the Isle of Skye as well as one in played several instruments and in his
the south of England. From there he went younger ys had his own orchestra.
He was know as a man of many talents
who quietly served his community and
never looked for any fanfares. He will be
greatly missed by „ is friends and
relations. t'
Mr. Daly is surviv i1 by two brothers,
Jack Daly and family of Toronto and
George Daly of Niagara -on -the -Lake; and
several nieces and nephews, Michael and
Lesley Daly of TorontoaCathy and Robert
Daisley of Owen Sound, John and Lynne
Daly of Queensville and Louise Daly of
Toronto.
He was predeceased by his parents, and
a sister Alice, wife of the late Joseph
McConnell.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held in
St. James Roman C 'tholic Church,
Seaforth with Father Choles Caruana of-
ficiating. Interment St. James Cemetery.
Pallbearers were George Daly, Michael
Daly, John Daly, D'Orlean Sills, Jim Sills
and Frank Sills.
around the south end of Africa and up to
Egypt via Bombay, where he took over
command of a mobile Radar unit in sup-
port of General Auchinleck's Army on the
desert. Up the desert and then back in •
retreat to within 70 miles of Cairo Mr. Daly
went, often finding himself and his unit
behind enemy lines because of the ever
changing war front.
Re -grouping, General Montgomery took
over at El Alemain and it was a steady
push for 2,000 miles against General Rom-
mel until the latter was forced out of
Africa. Mr. Daly was invalided home after _.
two years on the desert and spent the last
months of his service in British Columbia.
Following the war he built his own
telelvision set; carried on his Dad's Ford
garage; repaired radios and televisions;
and still had time to serve both as coun-
cillor and mayor of Seaforth. He also serv-
ed for several years as Public Utilities
Commissioner.
Public input sought for sewage project
A public information open house will be
held on Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Seaforth council chambers to explain a
sewage improvement project and address
any concerns.
The Town of Seaforth initiated a project last
summer that will ultimately result in im-
provements to the existing sanitary sewage
collection system and expansion of the ex-
isting treatment facility. This project was in
response to a number of deficiencies with the
existing system which had become evident.
These included:
1. Periodic overflowing of the Oak Street
Sewage Pumping Station.
2. High sewage flows.
3. Inadequate treatment facilities.
The limited capacity of the Sewage Treat-
ment Plant is of great concern because the
Ministry of the Environment has imposed
growth restrictions on the Town, preventing
new development.
The project is presently undergoing an en-
vironmental assessment under the Class En-
vironmental Assessment procedure for
Municipal Sewage and Water Projects. Under
this process, as the design of the overall pro-
ject is developed, an evaluation of the en-
vironmental significance of the proposed
work is carried out. This procedure is design-
ed to involve the general public and their in-
put is solicited during the planning process.
The end result of the procedure is a project
which responds to an identified problem with
an approved solution that is both technically
and environmentally well defined.
Two public Information Centres have been
held for this project; one in August 1987 and
another in January of 1988, to solicit input
regarding the problem definition and propos-
edinodifications. Public comments that were
received were considered in the development
of proposed improvements.
A great deal of investigation has, been
undertaken to date. Areas of the Town where
Seaforth to get
Seaforth consumers will soon have
another choice of where they buy their
clothes, and clothiers in Seaforth will be of-
fered some competition as a new merchant
goes into the garment business on Main
Street.
Marilyn Engel will be opening up a
fashion store for women and men called
"Norma Jean's". It will be located on the
northeast side of Main Street next to
Culligan Real Estate, and in Foto Pros'
former location.
Ms. Engel grew up in Seaforth but mov-
ed to Toronto to pursue an education as a
fashion designer. Aside from being the
name of her store, "Norma Jean's" is also
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another choice
her fashion label, aadfatore is going to
carry clothes Ms. Edge haedesigned.
Ms. Engel says Norma Jeans will be car-
rying clothes for both men and women,
and for a broad range of age groups and
tastes. She also hopes to bring Seaforth
some of the urban fashions.
"I see the styles from the city and I think
people from Seaforth could benefit from
them too," she explains.
The new merchant says she likes 'the
location of her new business, because it is
close to her competition on Main Street.
Norma Jean's will be opening in
October.
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BLOOD DONORS - The Seaforth Junior Farmers sponsored a and Joanne Sholdice were just two of the many people from the
Red Cross blood donor clinic on Thursday, and Steve Hildebrand Seaforth area to donate their blood, Corbett photo.
Blood d®nor clinic surpasses expectations
The Seaforth Junior Farmers blood
donor clinic, held Thursday evening at the
Seaforth and District Community Centres,
brought in more units than anticipated and
helped the Red Cress through a week when
there was blood shortage.
When the clinic started at 5 p.m. there
was a lineup of donors waiting, and the
stream of traffic continued steadily until
the clinic closed at 9 pm.
Two hundred and two people, many of
them coming from neighboring towns,
showed up to donate their blood. Of these
26 were deferred, leaving 176 donors.
Jim McNichol, a Junior Farmers their clinic. The Red Cross had been going
member who helped organize the clinic, through a shortage of blood because their
said the organizers were surprised by the other clinics had come in under quota, so
participation in the clinic. Seaforth's donation came at a good time.
"140 units was our -quota last night, so This is the second year the Junior
we're quite happy with 176," he said. With Farmers have run the clinic, and they
Thursday's high temperatures a low tur- hope to keep it an annual undertaking.
pout was expected, but this year's blood
unit total came in well ahead of last year's
total of 123 units.
Mr. McNichol said the Junior Farmers
received a call from the London Red Cross
who congratulated them on the success of
Sponsors of the Clinic were the Seaforth
and District Community Centres and Staff,
Seaforth Automotive, Lyons Food Market,
EMA, Whitney..Ribey Funeral Home,
McKillop Insurance, Tasty Nu _Bakery,
and Coca-Cola Beverages.
HIGHLAND DANCER - Carly Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Price of Egmondville,
has been taking lessons in Scottish highland dancing for the past five years. Over the
oast year she has began dancing competitively and has won 14 medals. Corbett photo.
Local girl keeps...
Scottish traditions alive
Carly Price, daughter of Bill and Gail
Price of Egmondville, helps keeps an old
Scottish tradition alive through highland
dancing. Carly has been successfully com-
peting in highland dancing through the past
year, and will be looking forward to bigger
competition yet in the near future.
At the Embro highland games she com-
peted for the first time and claimed a gold,
silver and a bronze. She then went to the
Dutton games where she won two bronze
medals. In the past year she has been in
several competitions and has won 14 medals
altogether.
Coming up is the Fergus games. This is
the biggest Highland games in Ontario and
45,000 people are expected to attend. And it
is expected there will be correspondingly
high competition for Carly. It's going to be a
big experience and she says she's looking
forward to it.
Carly, who is 10 years old, started dancing
at the age of five when her grandma Mary
Doig asked her if she would like to try it, as
part of keeping the family's Scottish
heritage and traditions alive.
Carly has stuck to it for the past five
years, and has been taking lessons at
classes in Goderich. These classes are
typically populated by mostly girls. This is
somewhat surprising because highland dan-
cing used to be strictly for men, and women
weren't even allowed to wear kilts. There
are about 30 or 40 girls taking lessons, but
most of them give up at about the age of 13
or 14 when they find other interests.
Mrs. Doig places a lot of importance on
remembering her family's heritage.
"There's a lot of people, especially
Americans who are trying to find their
original heritage and keep it up," she says.
"I would never force her to dance, but she
enjoys it and keeps it up. Now we'll just see
if she doesn't become boy interested like the
other girls." (But at this Carly makes a face
and shakes her head).
Carly recently she got back from a one
week camp in St. Mary's. She met a lot of
other highland dancers, worked hard on her
dancing, and heard critiques and got
pointers from instructors. There she learn-
ed how to perfect the dances she now knows:
the Highland Fling, the Sword Dance, Flora
McDonald's Fancy, The Scottish Lilt, and
Seantrubis.
Highland dancing is very disciplined. In
competitions girls lose points for having
hair out of place, kicking the sword they
dance around, and the fit of their shoes to
name a few. A sock falling down results in
immediate disqualification of the da„cer.
So far Carly says the dancing hasn't
taught her a lot more about Scotland, but
she hopes to visit relatives there in the near
future and she'll have at least one thing in
common with them.
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