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The Huron Expositor, 1982-11-17, Page 1Incorporating Brussels Post 50c per copy SE 3nrun FORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1982 — 22 PAGES xp ositor in 1 let. 11 There'll be ice in the new Seaforth and District Community Centre a little more than three weeks from today. in time for the opening event. a hockey game between Seal'orth's own oldtimer's club, the Beavers anti the NHL Oldtimers. Arena management chairman Ken Camp - hell says construction at the complex is right on schedule, with the lights •and boards going up this week. Cupboards in the new kitchen are also being installed. When the chiller that was salvaged from the old arena was tested, a hole' was discovered in it and a flea one had to be purchased at a cost of 515,000. But it was readily available and didn't delay installation work. :The- chiller was at (east 10 years old, Mr. Campbell says. So far the first booking in the new arena auditorium is for the Beavers' New Year's Eve dance, says rec director Bryan Peter. gut he added a lot of local people will likely he looking the whole complex over when they attend the opening hockey game. Among the NHL stars who'll play here are Andy Bathgate. Ron Ellis, Rod Seiling, Harry Howell and Dean Prenctice. Councillor Alf Ross reported at council last week that the arena committee as of Sept. 30 had more than $200,000 in the bank of which it is collecting interest. The group had expected to be in a borrowing position by now. Money is still coming in from people who did not donate in the spring, Mr. Campbell said and canvassers are still getting calls from people who want to give to the project., The building is "more impressive every time you go in the >lace. Mayor' John Sinnamon commented t council. The official opening o the new complex will be held in the spring, after the ice goes out. so that there's plenty of room for everyone who wants to see it, Mr. Campbell told the Expositor. Christmas buying has already started Seaforth merchants are preparing for Christmas and the increase in business related to the season with special prompt• ions and featured items. According to a random survey conducted by the Exposit- or. local merchants hope Christmas shopping dollars will help boost sagging sales in 1982. Charlie Campbell of Campbell's Crown Hardware says the sales in the month of— December fDecember make up from between lb and 20 per cent of his total sales for the year. He explains that he will be featuring gift items such as small appliance giftware and home entertainment products. "You have to look at Christmas as a gift buying time of year," he explains. "It is a time to adjust your purchasing towards the areas that arc potential gifts. he adds. NOT HEATERS In the weeks leading to Christmas. Mr. Campbell will he featuring the items that he has more inventory in. One big seller has been the kerosene heaters due to a large adscrtising promotion. However, Mr. ('ampheft admits that he has not hcen promoting the heaters. "1 personally don't believe in them." he explains. Mr. Campbell feels- that the heaters are excellent in an emergency situation but impractical for home heating. He explains that he is discouraging customers from., ourchasing . the heaters and will be featuring other items for Christmas. Bob Beuttcnmiller of Bob and Betty's Variety and Gifts and Radio Shack admits that he has several items he will feature for Christmas, They include the popular home computers. video games. and cartoon and movie characters. E.T.. the movie star. is already a good seller this season. together with Smurf and Garfield dolls. He has just recently ordered a third set of the dolls to meet demand. AD BLITZ An advertising blitz by the makers of computer and video games has made the two items sopght after as gifts for Christmas. That fact is supported by preliminary sales of the games and Mr. Beuttcnmillcr's own predictions. Please turn to page .1 New faces at HPRCSS BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE There will he seven new trustees on the Huron -Perth Separate School Board as five present trustees retire and two lost their seats an the Nov. 8 municipal election. Both current hoard chairman John 0'1 can' and long'timc trustee Greg Fleming lost their chance to rcnrescnl taxpayers on the Neighbours pitch in Year, ago. farmers combined forces. assisting each other in barn building. harvesting and various other chores, chis practise was revived last week when neighbours and friends of Marie and the late Harr\ Johnston completed hean and cern hancst1ng. confined to hospital in the latter part of September, Mr. Johnston was unable to onnnue his hean harvest. Friends with hean pullers, trucks and five combines took me tors into their own hands and combined G0I) acres of beans. Mr Johnston died on Saturday. Nos • ember h. fie day following the funeral. approsimatcly 30 friends and neighbours once again donated their time. machinery and manpower to harvest I50 acres of corn near Brussels, on Tuesday. November 9. Fisc combines acre used in Brussels and one assisted on a Seaforth area field. Grain buggie.., trailers and user 20'trucks lined the fiejrt as the oomhines han•ested 28 rocs of ,urn at once. Thc first combine started before 0:00 a.m, and the last one pulled out of the field at 4:00 p.m.. 150 acres later. Mrs. Johnston said she appreciated the assistance neighbours hale given. To list all the names would be difficult. she said because someone may he missed. • Children's library is now downstairs /Al2 separate school hoard. Mr, O'Leary was defeated by Louis Maloney by a 61 vote margin. Mr. Maloney. a former hoard member. received 272 votes and Mr, O'Leary received 201 votes. Mr, Maloney will represent the townships of Hihhcrt and Logan. Incumbent trustee Greg Fleming was defeated by Michael Ryan. Both are from the Mount Carmel area. Mr. Ryan received 199 %Hies while Mr. Fleming had 165 votes, The newcomer will represent Exeter and the townships of Stephen. Usborne and parts of Riddulph and McGillivray. Stratford's two representatives for the next three years will he incumbent Ronald Marcy and newcomer John Devlin. Mr. Marcy got 1.229 votes with Mr. Devlin had 1.140 votes. Please turn to page •t Santa's coming Santa is coming to town on Saturday, Dec. 4 And according to Santa Claus parade s hair rnan, Irwin Johnston. there's still room for more floats and other parade entries to c5sort him About 20 floats has entered so far. More are welcome and if your group or business wants to participate. call Mr. Johnston. Two hands. the SDHS Trumpet Band and the Scat orth•Dashwnod Community. Band will be there. and there's a possibility of a third. The parade starts at I p.m, outside the nes% community centre and moves south on Main St. At the Topnotch Feeds corner it will turn and head up Victoria St. to Victoria Park. Santa' will gist. out candy to young parades watchers at The Santa Centre following thc parade. Thc parade is sponsored by thc Lions ( luh. Seaforth's recreation committee and the BIA. Clowns. horses, and antique cars are «cleome, as well as floats. Mr. Johnston say 7s; 'A@' U SILENT MARCH—Members of Seaforth Branch 156 of the Royal Canadian Legion, march to the cenotaph for a memorial service on Remembrance Day. The Legionaires, veterans from both world wars, honored their fallen comrades. They were joined by several groups and approximately 200 town and area residents in a tribute to the war dead. Wreaths were laid by many organizations from Seaforth and area. PUC employees join a union BY KRIS SVELA The Seaforu, Public Utilities Commission's (PUC) four outside employees have received union certification. The group is represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IEW) Local 636. According to union representative. Doug Smale, the outside employees opted for the union because of difficulties with wages. Mr. Smale admitted that "there was a little problem" in the area of wages. although he declined to comment further on the matter. Wage negotiations are set to begin in the near future. "The union will draw up a contract (on wage bargaining) and take it to the ftcommission," Mr. Smale explained. Jvlr. Smale is uncertain whether the union will be held to the provincial government's 5 per cent guideline in the upcoming wage negotiations. He acknowledged that the coma fission has received notice of the certification. PUC manager. Tom Phillips, says that the utility has received word from the Depart- ment of Labour of the certification. The details 'of the union contract are presently under review by the Ontario .Municipal Electric Association (OMEA) which is the umbrella organization for municipal utilities to help clarify any points of the contract to the local commission. OMEA was retained on a consulting basis for the local PUC. . Mr. Phillips declined comment on the wage negotiations with the union until the full details of the government's wage restraint program and how they pertain to the bargammg are worked out. Mr. Phillips feels personally that there are Please turn to page 3 Ag Society wants to know how much you value the roundhouse BY SUSAN WHiTE It's a meal landmark. It's one of just awe, octagonal (eight -sided) public halls Icii in Ontario, But thc Seaforth Agricultural So( nay '5 roundhouse sits in what will he the parkme lot for Seaforth and district's brand revs community centre, and some 1sRal people worry about its future. Thc roundhouse is in a rather uruyu, position. Although it's smack in the rnidslit of the arena complex. it's ow ncd hs the Agricultural Society which also owns th. land it sits on. and about four feet around th, building. Officially. Ken Campbell chairman of the district community centre's hoard of 01.155 agement. says his group hasn't considert .1 what is to he done with the roundhooss "It's in the way hat we have taken no stand ort it. And we haven't asked anybody to do anything about it." BY SUMMER But Mr. Camphcll agrees. there'll has, 50 he a decision on the building's future by n. y• summer, when it's planned to hay, t', parking lot payed. There's quite a hit of public intcros• •n preserving the roundhouse. says \e', cultural Society chairman Ken Coleman I. dates back to 1902 and it's rare " Sir Coleman points out there's a great /11,11 .t display space in the two-storey huildne and he sacs SPS principal Paul Carrot thinks II., building could be filled with clem,tn,.r, school exhibits at fair time. ,lane Vincent. who heads the ,sonsi r • dbision of the Agricultural Society , sass is. school children's exhibits were plentiful at this year's fair. The roundhouse has also tradtftonally been used for baking. ,ret•, sewing. floacrs and vegetables, in , petition at the fair. all of which come unJ the women's 8isision. "There's a lot of room in it". Mrs. \ ns , tit points out. and she adds "it would sssst a f.r,' amount to replace something like that Na could use It and the ('ness) arena as yy, Rare calf born in McKillop /A15 Cost of course is the major factor in any decision about the future of thc roundhouse In a vers rough estimate Mr. Carroll sass $5000 could do it. Katimavik could supply the labour. Both Mrs. Vincent and Mr. Coleman say the Agricultural Society is looking into what grants are available to restore the building. THE COMMUNiT' "Thc Society has to look at the hest interests ot the community as a whole." Mr. Coleman says. That could mean keeping the building and restoring it. and perhaps moving it. Stressing that the Society is not for or against keeping the building al this point. he would like some input from the public. People should ask themselves. "did you visit the roundhouse at fair time''" and "do we want to do without that in the future'" Mr. Coleman suggests. If local people hay(' an opinion on whether the building should he kept it can he mailed to the Fspnsttinr and the newspaper will pass the ideas on to ahs Agricultural Society While acknosicdging the building nerds "quite a bit of work". Mrs. Vnccnt sass she's pleasantly surprised hors good the old building looks alongside the new compley SPS principal Carroll also thinks the budding has a lot of potential and he asked a Isea1 artist, Dianne Johnston. to do a amen•lour of what the roundhouse might look like if Its windows were replaced. a cupola added on the roof and the building landscaped ,and generally cleaned up Mr. Campbell of the arena committee says the building's future is up to the .\grirultural Societe. there ma s he no problem getting the building restored but then. he asks. w hat 'will it he used for? And he points out that the roundhouse windows were hoarded 151' in the first place only because of rcp'.ate•d vandalism. "I'f we're not going to use It. I can't see the point of a restoration." he sass Because the building has been designated under the Ontario Heritage Act hs SCafsrth council. on the ads tee sf the I oval Architectural Conservation Advisory Com- mitte(' ILACAC) it is protected from hasty demolition. Designation also means that any changes to the building must be of a style that harmonises with the original design. But the building could eventually be torn divan if there is no great interest in prescr%ing it. H,ns much ot that exists,in Seaforth and the arca is exactly what the local Agri- cultural Society wants to know. Perhaps many pcoplc agree with Paul (aro II that "w5th a minimum of and a gesture of creativity we can not only 1,,spiuisos ..isp.s..Ii harm hut also provide a tatting and complementary contrast to the new recreation complex". Others may feel the building is no longer needed to serve Seaforth and area and would he tetter demolished. Either way. the Agricultural Society is interested. Send your opinion to the Expositor. with a note letting us know whether or not we can publish your comments and your name. and we'll pass them along. As Ken Coleman says "the majority of the Society a ants to do w hat's best for the entire community." For that they need your opinions dmiessemego r --- A miniature barn builder /420 Birihs 'A22 Brussels news 46 Classified A'6 '- Dublin news as 5 Eoitonals 42 Enterta,nmen' 49 Family A'9 20 Farm A'5 Hensel) news 4'4 Keds page 4'2 People 49 Routs roe A2 Sm,iev A2 SoeriS 4'C rowrshe^d 4'8 Watton 478 8 J'