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The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-18, Page 3° , 777-7-7,:o° BARN FIRE:—Neighbours Albert Postma, left, and Henry Qrost were just two of the people who helped clean up a 200 by 40 foot.barn that burned down last Sunday morning on the farm of Stan Vanderwal, south of Varna. Over 25,000 chickens were lost in the blaze, which caused an estimated $100,000 damage. (Photo by James Fitzgerald) Fire levels bp/on BY JIM FITZGERALD Fanned by high winds, fire last Sunday morning took only an hour to completely level a large chicken barn on the farm of Stan Vanderwal, a 1/2 mile south of Varna on County road 18. The thee -storey. 200 by 40 foot barn oantained 7.5,000 young chickens, which were also lost in the blaze. The fire was discovered about 11:30 a.m. in the north end of the barn in the furnace room. and the fire departments from Brucefield and Bayfield were unable to do anything but watch it burn to the ground. Damage is estimated at close to the 5100,000 mark, and was covered by insurance. A barn on the same fm also burned down seven years ago 'before Mr. Vanderwal purchased the farm. March of Dimes drive starts Jan.1 The kick-off date for the 1980 Campaign of Ontario March of Dimes' Ability Fund is Jan. 1. It will run to Feb. 15. Campaign chairman for our district is Thelma Coombs. assisted by May Habkirk. A team of more than 75 volunteers will be calling on homes in this arca. Remember. the Ontario March of Dimes' slogan is "We Can't Help Without Your Help". The Ontario March of Dirties faces an enormous job. Hundreds of people become disabled through accidents or diseases each year. For some. disability strikes in the prime of life whcn they are building careers or raising young families. Others are even younger • nearly half of all spinal cord injuries are suf- fered by people between 16 • and 25 years of age. Then there arc peop16 who were born with disabilities who need help as they reach adulthood. and those who facc disability for the first time when they reach old age. Council will reconsider BIA Scaforth council agreed Monday night to re -circulate its intention of passing a bylaw to establish a Business Improvement (BIA) Arca in Seaforth. Local merchant Tom Pappl& told council that those at a meeting he called last month had been "unanimous in favour of starting again on a BIA." He explained that quite few who had signed a petition objecting to the BM weren't really opposed to the idea. but wanted to make sure they have approval of any budget before it's passed. -The grapevine got going and things idt out cif hand.•• he added. "There still are a few objectors. but not that many." he said. In reply to councillor Gerald Groothuis' question about why the size of the BIA proposed back in the summer had been cut down. Mr. Papple said it was too unwieldy and had included manufacturers in the industrial park. A core area BIA can always be added to. clerk Jim Crocker commented. Other businesses in town will be asked to affiliate with the BIA if it is formed. Mr. Peppier who was accompanied by Ken Catclnotsaid. When disability strikes, the Ontario march of Dimes offers employment and job training and other aids. medical clinics. camping hol- idays. medical research. helping groups of disabled _people to better represent themselves on issues affect- ing their everyday lives - in fact, a whole range of services which help physic- ally disabled nolti and women to help themselves - One in seven people in Ontario is disabled. lassified Ads pa,. dividcnds• Bank closings Continued from page 1 departure of institutions like his bank would lead to the demise of small towns. He added the bank coutd continue its responsbility to the community by supprining projects such as community centres. SATURDAY MORNING? Althaugh the village residents had no hope of getting the bank to reconsider its decision. they did manage to convince its ,eepresentatives to consider some changes for convenience in Clinton. One possibility could be Saturday morning banking. In his address. Mr. Burrow said Saturday morning banking was initiated recently in Wingham and after six quiet weeks business began to pick up. He said tater it quite likely crnild he introduced in Clinton Lloyd, Lorri Continued from age I said Scott. who injured his back eaelier this season. grinned through all the pain during his performartee. bet was in tears in the dressing Novi afterwards. The skater, who placed third in the event, hadn't been able to practise his routine before the show due to hts injury bet still *turned in a top performance. In addition to pitting themselves against the weed's best,the junior worlds gave Lloyd and Larri a chance to meet fellow skaters fram around the world. "All the skaters were really friendly this year." Lloyd said. Canadian skaters. as hosts of the event. made a particular effort to make the other corripetitiors feel welcome. The only pairs skaters the local pair had met and competed against in previeus eompetitions were the Russians, Lanka Selerneva and Oleg lvlakarov, who won the gold medal. 1 rie Russians arrived in London on Dec. 1 which gave them an opportunity to adjust to the ebeht-hcarx time difference and acclimatize themselves to London. Lloyd said the Soviets, who study English in school, were "all very friendly" and chatted with other competitors be- tween events. Lloyd learned before official practises began the skaters were taken on including a McDonald's restaurant. Pen year the wertd saw one change which pieased needy skaters - a new method of scoring...which came into effect Dec. 1. Under the new system, marks (traditionally awarded on a scale of 0 to 6) become almost meaningless. Now what matters most is a judge's terming of a skater in relation to other competitors. The ranking of each corripetit- r by each individual judge is plotted and tee overail ranking deeertnined. Lloyd believes the system will "prove more beneficial to the skater who is consisteet." He thinks marking will be fairer now in future international competi- tions. But it wasn't the change in marking. as much as the 'incentive provided by the enthusiastic crowd in the Thompson Arena that inspired Lloyd and Lorri Thursday night. There were banners waving in the audience to add extra encouragement and Lloyd said he and his partners could hear the cheers of their fellow Preston Club skaters during their free skate perfor- mance. Both he and Lorri knew they'd turned in oa good petfonnance - "you don't know what the marks will be, but you know you've skated welt." They had- well enough to be classed among the world's tours of(some of London's attractions - Christtnae is just for kids. Row often have you heard that? It's enotfkh to dampen the spirits of the most optimistic Christmas lover of them all,rple- • It's cop-out but a natural line to take whet we're frazzled by the pre -Christmas preparations, and annoyed that our budgets Won't stretch , enough to let us give family members at least one thing each wants. On occasion even I give in to the traitorous idea that life would be a lot simpler if we ignored the whole thing. After all, it's just for the kids. (And this is from some- one who used to love to start shoriping for ..,egiftseee, in November atickpend alotrof time getting just the right thing01f-7—everyone. 'Then devote evenings to wrapping Presents with Christmas carols going full blast and weekends to baking and decorating and who thoroughly relished the whole shebang) But you're a lot busier now, I tell myself. Yeah, but you've got a daughter who'd Before plans for the recon- struction of Market St. can be finalized, engineers B.M. Ross want Seaforth council to outline parking and siOewalk requirements for the project. At their meeting Monday council referred the engin- eer's request to the transpor- tation and environment com- mittee which ,will report its findings at the January coun- cil meeting. B.M. Ross needs several questions answered. It asked council whether it wanted all sidewalks replaced (this deci- sion will affect road level), if it wants sidewalks on both sides of the street and wheth- er council requires a five foot walkway in the first block away from Mein St. The ordinary width is four feet, but since the stretch has a high yolumc of pedestrian traffic, the wider size is being considered. If council wants street parking between Main St. and High St. the engineers explained trees on the north side of Market St. will have to be renewed and the side- walk Oil the south side moved. After reviewing four appli- cants. the arena committee recommended that Donald Dupre be hired as arena attendant effective Dee. 29. Mr. Dupee will begin at the start level. 54.40 pet hour. of the 1980 salary grid. On Dec. 8 council. along with the to-een foreman. arena manager. recreation direc- tot, police chief arid clerk met in committee of the whole and hard four Comm- ittee reports. Mayor John Sinnamon said the meeting is an annual way of letting rew councillors' know about the workings of each department The transportation and en- vironment committee report- ed they had reviewed a request from the Junior Far- mers for permission to post signs at thb town limits bearing their motto "Dare to he Different." Council was Po foo Ci' So.motiOng.....0;•sitty love to share in the pre - Christmas ritual, Myself interupts. And so the inner dialogue goes. And the pre -Christmas stuff gets done, some of it, tuit under pressure of dead- line, not as joyfully as it used to. We bake the obligatory cookies my Gaby and I but I get too darn impatient when she pushes the decorations right through, instead of on top of the dough. Will her Christmas memories be of mother grouching while she tried to "help"? It's enough to get a Christmas lover down. Then I start paying at- tention to the theme of our Christmas issue, out next week. It's Christmas is for children, of all ages. And I remember some �f the terrific stories older friends and relatives have told about Christmas past, their faces lighting up with the telling. Something else that's by Susan White turned around my thinking this Christmas is an article in • the December Family Circle by Dr, Wayne Dyer. We have to reclaim, the joy of the season from the kids, he says. Take time to laugh and enjoy whatever you're doing, he says. And he's right, you know.. Christmas memories aren't fo the perfect cookies, the spotless house, they're of people getting together and • having a simple good time. Forget your elaborate plans and schedules, Dr. Dyer suggests. The kids will love it If mom and .dad act h little silly and more spontaneous than usual. He contrasts "childlike" and "older -but -not -wiser" attitudes about Christmas. The kids can't wait for decorations to go up down- town; their elders often say "Christmas is too com- mercial. Why do they rush it every year?" "I just can't wait" almost every kid says as December 25 approaches. "I don't think the holiday season will ever end. It's more dr gged out everyear", is(a "wiser" parent's apkortylt. And whito your child greets the new year •WItb "Mt do we have to take the tree' down already?", too often pfgentn say something like 'thank , heavens the holidays are finally overt" ( How have you been fooling lately, childlike or Ada but not 'wiser? There's still time to switch to the other 04. I'm trying. Dear Santa: How are yod and Mrs. Claus. I bet you are getting ready to leave for your big journey. The preasents thii you gave me last year where very, very nice. Last year I had fun playing with. the toys you gave me. This year I Christmas but I do know that 1 want a watch very,bad. 'I hope you have a very safe journey and MERRY CR1STMAS! Love Cathy Carter Dear Santa: 1 might go to the caboose Council briefs concerned about the size of the sign, five feet by four, and referred the request back to .the committee for further information. At the request of the Ministry of Transportation and Communication council has agreed to store road closing signs and barricades to deal with road closings during sever winter storms. Before roads are closed the town agreed to consult the OPP and the Ministry. The committee also re- viewed the 1980 expendi- tures and revenues and esti- mate a net surplus of 54,000. In his report to the trans- portation and environment committee, the town foreman noted the ,Ministry of Envir- onment haA,cletivered a port- able pump harbe used at the end of bak St. to handle spriug flash floods. The Min- istry will co-operate to build temporary housing for the six Inch pump. Councillor Gerald Groothuis questioned several accounts payable, including S87/.01 and a further amount of about 5500 to the Huron Expositor. Clerk Crocker said the bills were mostly for advertising. a good deal of it for the November election. The finance and general govertnnent committee has a bid on ten desks being sold by the Huron County Council The town's bid is being withheld until the January council meeting. Council supported a re- quest from the Seaforth Block Parent organization that the town purchase four "Block Parent Community" sings and install them at entrances to the community. The signs cost S40.18 each. Council agreed to a comm- ittee recomrneudation that bookeeper Dorothy Bassett be promoted from level two to three of the 1980 salary grid. The promotion raises her salary from 55.50 to 55.71 an hour. Council names committees Continued from page 1 Boyle. Rick Fortune. Terri Lynn Dale, Larry Plumsteel and Peg Campbell. Paul Ross volunteered to be council's representative on the board of Seaforth Community Hospital and Reeve Date will serve again on the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. Former reeve John Flannery will replace Leone Rowat as Seaforth's rep to the Ausable bayfred Conservation Authority. Councillors Paul Ross and Alf Ross were named to planning board, and theyjoin citizen appointees Lloyd Rowat and Ken Oldacre who'll serve til 1983 and Bill Martin who's term will expire in 1982. Already on the planning board are Alex Stephen, Ken Cardno and Jim Sills. The six non-ceuneil members form Seafotth's Committee of Adjustment. After councillors Hildebrand and Pan& Ross. declined. Reeve Date agreed to be cauncil's rep to the Local Architectural Con- servation Advisory Committee (LACAC). Citizen members are Winn McLean, Walter Armes. Ralph Smith. Piet Jews -netts, Betty Cardno and Maureen Scott. ceunci:lo s Dinsmore and Gm -eh -talc will represent the town on the landfill site study committee. with Hibbert and Tuckerstnith. Councillor Johnston will serve OTI the Huron Police Communication system committee. Councillor Groothuis will represent the town on the BIA study compittee. ' Mayor Sinnamon, Reeve Dale and councillor Hildebrand made up the striking comrnittee to re- commend standing comMittee appointments arid all were accepted. Citizen appointees were made be those who expressed interest. Town employees will again this year be paid a 550 Christmas bonus, a previous policy which council voted to continue this year. The protection to persons and property committee re- viewed the overtime included in the, police chiefs report and decided not to pay officers back overtime for interviews with the Ontario Police Commission duringthe the recent investigation. Mayor Sinnamon. coun- cil's rep to PUC reported the commission had set its 1981 budget and is awaiting Ontario Hydro approval for a rate increase in the new year. Dennis Medd has completed Pt. 1 of his line- man course at Ontario Hydro. After a good deal of dis- cussion, council defeated, by a 6-3 vote, a motion from the township of North Burgess which asked that provincial legislation be changed so that non-resident land own- ers could not run for office. Clerk Crocker commented that the township had a large number of cottagers who perhaps outnumbered per- manent residents. A majority of council ap- parently agreed with Paul Ross that the change in legislation would limit the rights of non-resident own- ers. "Let the electorate de- cide." he said. e. Council spent about a half hour in committee of the whole, discussing the current OPC investigation. Mayor John Sinnamon sad earlier in the meeting that a report may be made pub! c later in the week. Cleric Jim Crocker said Tuesday that council is seeking an in camera meet- ing with the OPC investiga- tors and Chief John Cairns, said and there should be a fof Christmas. ould you Please bring my toys there. So I willbe waiting for you. Love John Glanville eDear Santa Claus -HOW -ife-yliii-feelingr Thank -- you for the games and toys you gave me they were all very nice. We will leave you some milk and cookie O.K. Santa all I want this Christmas is Supper Star fashion face.buy.I have got to go. by Connie Mero 49 Huron St. statement after that meeting: A bylaw ''dedesignating" the severed, northern, part of Grant Currah's lot on Church St. was passed by council. A new home is under construction neat to the arch- itecturally protected brick re- sidence. At the same meeting, council passed a bylaw de- signating the Cardno Block, as reccominended by the local LACAC. • Got an opinion? Write a letter w the editor today Van Egmond gets development grant Two new staffers hired If a winter project at the Van Egmond House proves successful. the historic home will be known throughout southwestern Ontario. Susan Dunlop. project manager, said she and two other staff members will he promoting the home, both in its role as museum and as a community house The combination his- toric and recreational uses of the home mean the project is "unique' • in the province. Susan said The Van Egmond Founds - Oen is staffing the home with the assistance of a Commun- ity Devele-preent Program grant from the federal gov- ernment until next fall Susan. whose hometown is Elora, is a graduate of Queens University. Kingston where she studied Canadian and art history. Following graduation. she worked for a year and a half in the university at -chives. and was a member of the Kingston Historical Society. Susan moved to Seaforth this summer to work with Seaforth's Local Architec- tural Conservancy group in promoting the town's heritage. The second staff member, who started work Monday, is designer Joanne Doherty, who grew up in the Port Albert area. Joanne is a graduate of the interior dec- orating program at Fan- shawe School of Design in London. During her three year co-op program, she sampled a variety of work experiences. Her first job was with a lighting firrn. she A CHRISTMAS TOUCH—Van Egmond House staff members Joanne Doherty and Susan Dunlop add a Christmas touch to the fireplace mantle. The Van Egmond Foundation recently received a Community Development Program Grant to employ three staff people at the home until next fall. (Photo by Gibb) then worked building roads for BM ROSS and Associates of Goderich and her final term was spent as a de- corating consultant with a London kitchen firm. In addition to helping Sus- an promote the house. Joanne will be working with the foundation's interiors committee. Their project will be completing the Van Eg- mond Roomone of the upstairs front bedrooms. where documents. pictures and other historical artifacts of Egmondville and the Van Egmond family. will be displayed. Susan said she and Joanne will also be producing a heritage pak, similar to the art paks distributed by Gal- ery Stratford, on the back- ground of Colonel Anthony van Egmond, who led the rebels in the 1837 Rebellion. The pak will eventually be available to schools and other provincial museums. The third staff member on the project, Marsha Scott. af Kippen, will start work next week. Another program the three women are working on a series of lectures featthing Gallery Stratford staff at the Van Egmond House. The series will open on Jan. 15 when gallery director Paul Bennett, who calls himself an amateur collettot, will lec- ture on antique glassware and furniture. Following the lecture. aduience members can show Mr. Bennett some of their own tteasutes and he will discuss their value. Another event planned in January is a rummage sale, to raise funds for the oentinci- ing renovatiot program at the house. Anyone wishing to donate articles to the sale can drop them' off at the house during the day. Susan Dunlop also hopes to start cross-country ski les- sons at the house, making use af the ski path which runs along the Beyfteld River Skiers could end their out- door activity with hot choco- late and a chance to warrn tip at the house. The Vae Egmond Founda- tion, to encpurage commun- ity nse of die house for recreational, educational or other perposes, has spon- sored two craft programs recently. Steve Hildebrand taught a four week dried flower arran- ging coarse which included fall and Christmas arrange- ments. A three week Christ- mas craft program was also a success, with about a half dozen peopTe attending. The foundation is also still looking for people who have Van Egrnond artifacts or antique furnit* from the pre -1867 periodto give to the home on permanent loan. Linda Jones, a member of the foundation, is overseeing the furnishing of the house. .sa:Oo