The Huron Expositor, 1979-09-20, Page 34s,an White
I've never been a great
'aver of fall. The coming of
that season has alwaysbeen
a 'bit depressing, chiefly
because I'm trying so hard to,
hang on to summer.
Admitting that fall i$ here
means: acknowledging; that
fresh strawberries and as-
paragus, swims in the lake,
supper outside on the picnic
table, picking fresh salad
greens. . d watching for
an t g the
flowers tQ bloom are gone for
another, whole year.
The only thing you: can.
look forward to in fall is
winter, bah humbug. Stalled.
cars and, snow shovels.
I'm a diehard summer
:person and I go to desparate
lengths to spread out my
favourite season. Just ask my
family about attempts to
sunbathe on Thanksgiving
weekends or meals served;
outside at which you have to
wear your snowmobile suit lei
be comfortable.
But we had a beautiful fall
day on the weekend that was
almost enough to make me
drop my autumnphobia and
enjoy the bounty that I'm
forced to admit the season
does offer,
Like vines heavy with wild
grapes. if 1 can't doo any of
the summer things listed
above,..I'in at my happiest
out picking wild fruit. My
haul every fallgives me the
illusion that I'm saving:
money (all that fruit that only
the birds. and I are remotely
interested in); getting some
badly needed exercise,
something creative (who els::.
do 1 know who'll fiddle with
the stuff and; make tiny,
batches. of jam. jelly .an...
wine?) and doing •something
for others (the lucky friends
and relatives who'll get the
afore -mentioned jars for
Christtnas presents.)
The ,crop this year is the
best 1 can ever remember,
Trees in the hedgerows where
weicked on Sunday y are
swamped! with wild grape
vines and the vines heavy
with good fruit, (1 can't get
too specific about where our
particular wild hoard is in.
case anyone else gets am;-
bitious enough to look for it.
This road has lots, for what.
we need but once all three
readers of this column find it,:
it could, get picked out.)
But any over -grown wild
.area' is likely to sport wild:
;grape vines. After a few tries
you can spot them at the side
of the road from a speeding
car. Ditto for haws .(our
family won't eat strong
tasting haw jelly anymore
,/.but I hear itmakes terrific
wine), rosehips (this year I'll
print the recipe for the sherry
ave make from,Ahose, since
we've given up on rosehip
jelly •too) and: wild apples
(those that aren't wormy
make a super jelly,).
But it's wild grapes that
are our favourite pick, and
once you try the jelly they
make. you'll agree. 1 use the
recipe in one of Blanche
Pownall Garatt's. wild, food
cookbooks, adapted'' by trial
•
e and error. butt you eeldtl use
any grape jelly recipe, with.
extra sugar.
d For wild grapes, are sour
enough to turn: you inside out
if you try to. sample during a
'road side picking, Another
'benefit as. far as I'm eon-
eerned ..there's nano of thiis.
one for Me and .one for the
basket stuff that 1 practise
when picking strawberries.
So we went grape.picking,
my two�year old; and 1 on the
weekend Weeach had a
container tied ,around our
waists, mine full of grapes
and hers of whatever "bew-
wies'" she coyld reach, and
some gravel from the road,
She's under strict instruc-
tions not to put any in her
mouth and she doesn't, Her
dad and I figure; that's better
than a total.prohibition on:
picking since she belongs to
this foraging family.
You feel at one with; nature
and all that sentimental stuff
when you pick wild grapes on
a warm, and sunny fall day.
it's one of the best ways to
spend a September weekend;
and so satisfying and relax-
ing that' after our Sunday,
I'm almost reconciled to fall
coming on.
Yes,our winters. are rough.
But this year we'll be.able to
cat wild grape jelly on tea
biscuits while the storms.
rage.
And I can always declare
spring and anticipate the
summer to come about the:
first warm weekend' in
February.
Resigning'; rec director
Comm.u.n.ity .roast dive
Clive Buist. Seaforth resreatio.n director
who is mo%it-g,o Fergus, was .alternately?
"roasted" awl praised at the Clive Burst
Roast 'Night held at the arena Tuesday.
Almost 100 people attended the evening to
say good-bye to Clive. his wife Susan and•
daughter •Candy, (son. Todd, 14 ;months,
stayed borne) and to, listen :as.
representatives of community organizations
recalled the highlights of Clives six years. as.
recreation director,
•The Lions Club, wasrespresented by
,Harold Turnbull, club president and Louis
MCNichellspoke on'hehaif of local broomball.
teams. Bob Beutenmiller presented a
"roast" on behalf of Minor Hockey
Association and Men's Industrial Ball. John
Cairns recalled highlights of Clive's involve-
mentwith the girls' oc er team. and Larry
Wesenberg represented the Seaforth
Optimists. Lloyd Eisler thanked Clive on
behaif:of the Industrial t•1o••kcy League and
presented Mr. Guist with a Sallow's: Cartoon:
f h'niself in his. 'hoekey gear.
Car Baker spoke for the Seaforth:Bea%crs.
Dtzug Barb, for the Seaford' Junior A's and
Shirley Van :Loon for the Ladies, lndesttiai
B 3t(1. Mary Finlayson• thanked. Clive for this
work at Sea forth Manor and Bonnie '.Fortune
thanked him for his assistance in es-
tablishing the Seaforth Figure Skating Clttb.
Bill Wilbee represented the Seaforth Legion
aid Part Carroll spoke for the Van lgmond
l-{itmdatla.n.
Barb Ws senberg represented Girls .Minor
11.(ii arse tulle Twynham spoke on behalf of
the summer program staff. Susan White
thanked Clive for his assistance .on behalf of
the Huron :Expositor staff and Rick Fortune
recalled some of the humorous highlights of
the summer programs he worked on with,
C1i.c.
Peg Campbell. representing the Seaforth
recreation committee. presented Clive Buist
and'his wife %lith a silver tray engraved with
a %Nord of appreciaton for his work in
Seaforth and community.
invited
London and. Area 'Pace-
maker Association Fall Meet-
ing on Saturday, September
29, 1979, at 2:00 p.m. Sharp
at Victoria Hospital, West-
"minster Campus (formerly
Westminster Hospital) 7th
• Floor Auditorium enter.
Grounds off Baseline Road
`east of Wellington Road,
Free Parking.,
Speaker is. Mr. Ronald
Gorrie, President of the
Toronto Pacemaker. Club,.
and fellow members ofthe
.
Executive. Followed by re-
freshments.
Northside U.C.W. thank,
offering Tuesday, Sept. 25 at.
8 p.m. Mrs. Frankie Ball will.
speak on her trip, to the
Orient.
Storyhour at Seaforth Pub-
lic Library will resume again
for another year, starting
Sat, Sept. 22nd, Stories,
songs, gamesand crafts are
prepared every Saturday
from 1:30 - 2:30 p,m..for
children ages 44, No regis-
tration necessary. ,
PARADE TO THE CENOTAPH-Seaforth
Legionm
em
bets and 55 World War 1 veterans:.
parade to the cenotaph in Victoria Park on p
Saturday afternoon, to lay wreaths'i,n memories.
of their comrades who fell in the first great war.
(Expositor: photo)
Expositor askst
Do. you Mink there's too .much violence.
inin'
.lm . or :hockey?` •
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
Following some concern recently
'about Violente in minor hockey Expositor
Asks this week decided to ask, "Do'yen
think there's too much violence in ,Minor
hockey?" •
Mrs. May Roe of 50 West William St, in
Seaforth said, Yes I do. 1 dont watch
hockey tha •
y t much wto
but my husband. does
and a both feel there is o much.viblencc
just from i.
J what we see on television.
Dyke Wheatley of RR 1, .Dublin said,, I
don't attend that many hockey games -bin
from what 1 hear I think there is"
Mrs. Resaline s i Higgs of RR 1, Brucefield
said, "Yes I do. 1 listen to. thenews and
things.'I think it's getting a bit too rough."
o .
Mrs. 'Norma' Steele
f RR 4, Seifert,'i
said, "1 don't attend theames but
g I
believe that there i Some
s, of the proper
authorities have been undertaking to look '
into the . matter. 1 I believe there is and 1 '
think that the children should be looked
after properly.''
She added that she had 'b a listening n ins to
the television discussion• on the pros. and
cons of the issue.
Mrs. Victor Ward of RR 4, Walton, said
"Yes i think there is, i've been to see quite
a fewgames. I think they're really too
rough,
She e added that there was a lot of body
checking and a lot of sneaky tricks.
Mrs. Anna Kochan : of 3 York Cr,: in,
Hensall said. "Well i think there is," She's
been to minor hockey games and she has
boys Who playhockey,
"They're not learning the rules, They're
learning to check with the body," she
said.•
. Hartman
Mrs. Hiusser of Egmondville
Said she thought there was More i
8 . re violence
in minor hockey just from what she had.
watched on .television.
"There is more vio
lence).:itovV than
there used to be.It'pretty' •hard
the
kids to get hurt;,. s P by on she said.
Council decides..
Not
t�'increase ff r
offer
' Ohi'er of $85W for the property Which is zoned
part industrial and art residential but
would
p u
tell it to the town 'fol± $7500.
"Th offer.on the property to begin in with
wa-
P tY g
s%
use
ake, Are c you
oin to
g.g
purchase
evert'o
Y P perly that rant be sold for a
purpose? asked councillor Henry Mero,
It won't increase its 55000 offer on the
Mary MacLean property in the northwest
arca of Town, Seaforth council decided
Monday night, leaving the MacLeans open
planning
to apply oto the pt g
board fora
re -zoning.
The NrA..CLttn s. told council they
r .
Its an
Count
'iMMOS EXPQS.TOR1 SEPTEMBEEJ #, 97
IT'S BEEN A GOOD SIX YEARS— Gar Baker, representing the Seafarth
Beaver's hockey team, thanks Clive Buist for his ,effor e behalfof
t . On a the,
club as Clive, wife .Susan and dau hCandyr
�. t .er p oye an attentive
audience. Clive. Buistvi
Is.loa ng Seaforth to become recreation director
for Fergus and area,
(Expositor Photo)
THANKS. ALOT, CLIVE — These weresome of
the Seaforth and: community residents who
attended the Clive Buist Roast Night held in the
arena 'Tuesday. The night was to honor
BY JOANNE BUCHANAN
September 24 to 29 has
oeen declared Public Health
Nurses' Week in the
province of Ontario. and
Huron County`s•: public
health nurses' are busy trying
topromote it.
Many people don't really
know what a public health
nurse it. Some people have
the notion that the.: public
health• nurse is only a nurse
for the poor. Others have
even expressed some
concern about the public
health nurse being a"real"
nurse at all (this confusion
could exist because : the
PHN"s don't wear uniforms).
"During Public Health ..
Nurses' Week, we 'will try to
get it across to people one
more time what we do," says
Huron 'Cunty PHN
'Madelaine,Reske.
Most people know at least
one aspect of public health
nursing. They may know'that
the nurses go into the schools'
to test pre schoolers but they
may not knw that these
nurses also make horde
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listed as a legal; non -conforming use at the
present time, which means it "has a right.
to be,there,:" If ownership ofahc building,.
changes, then the new owner could be
required"to conform to suggested uses for
the; site.
Survey `respondents didn't use all the
additional space on the survey to complain
- one man congratulated council and said
"keep up the good work of snowplowing.
and spraying chloride (on the gravel
roads)." '
Mr. Brown said he personally doesn't
think the roads in. the Village are'in a poor
condition, although he admits they get very
dusty. particularly in dry summers like the
recent one. He added he would like council
investigate the amount
.: . nt . b
...eing spe•-nt , on
gravelling the'Egntondville roads annually
to see if some of that moneyeouldn't be
used to, pave one or two of the village
streets each year.' .
Other EgmondvilIe residents suggested
that the Ba field River flats be cleaned a P `.
Y
Mr, Brown- said the Ausable.Bayfield'
Conservation Authority plans to undertake
this project in the future. but didn't include
it in this year's budget.
VANASTItA RBSPOI� -SES
Mr. Brown also received a number of
replies from Vanastra residents, including
the first critical response to date.
The. ratepayer complained the question=
naire hadn't been Written with Vanastra in
mind and added,. "business should be
encouraged tstay in Vanastra and Cottticit
should
Mr. Brown said the township eouticil is
trying to encourage industry to settle in the
former' base. He admitted council facds a
feeling on the part of many residents in
other parts of Tuckersmith that Vanastra is
getting the lion' s share of council`s
e;
atitt:nliot' tow
B w said ro n s. td he 'Personally would
like
to see Someone from Vanastra sitting on
council. Presently Mr. Brown himself is the
only'l'uckersrttlth councillor front an urban
visits, teach . prenatal
courses, counsel and act as
clinicians. •
In a pamphlet put out by
the Ontario ` • Nurses'
Association, . '. the public
health nurse is; defined as a
petson with .two strong legs
and a large purse who visits
schools,; people with,
problems,'old folks and new
babies, listens a lot andhas a
great sense of humour.
The pamphlet, which will.
be: distributed throughout
the ' county during Public
Health Nurses' Week,
states: A PHN is also able to
I assess, advise. and
recommend many options for
many problems. She teaches
pre -natal and, postnatal care,
mental health sand child•
health, and •deals with such:
things' as family. budgets,
'birth control, and how to get
along with, other people. And.
more likely she will get her
car stuck in an out-of-town
snowdrift at least once every
winter.
A PHN wears many hats.
As a home visitor she can
health
•
counsel a family who may be
heading for trouble, whether
it has to do with money, diet,
sex, drugs or illness.
As a school .nurse,. one
PHN may be responsible for.
two or three elementary
schools and may possibly 'be:
"on call" for a high school in
her district. Her role within
the educational setting is a
busy and varied one.. She
counsels students about then
Stress-related •problems such
as neck pain, lack of sleep
and, feeling uptight. She may
be called into diagnose
measles, mumpsand other
communicable diseases. She
may be asked to do some
health teaching or simply act
as 'a resource person. She
organizes: immunization
clinics in the- schools as.well
as clinics for vision, hearing
pre-school assessrnents,and
even scoliosis, (spine
curvature) detection.
Although .home visiting
and school nursing comprise
a major part of the PHN's
job, there are additional
functions for which she is
`Seaforth's recreationdirector and his family,
who have been such anim' ortantpart of
P. the:
community for thepast, six years..
(Expositor Photo)
nurse
responsible, There are free
family planning clinics
utilized by both married and.
single persons.'- There is an
obstetrical visitng program
which requires the PHN to
visit the maternity floor- of
the hospital andspeak with
mothers of newborn babies (.
a: district nurse is, available to
visit once the mother • and
• baby have arrived home' from,
hospital. There are prental
:classes which cover
nutrition, dental health
during pregnancy, the -la .bor
and delivery processes,.
bodily and mental changes
during pregnancy, care of
the newborn in hospital and.
at home.. and 'feeding and
parenting methods.
As an advisor, the PHN.
can tell mothers what
"needles" their children
need andwhen and where to
get them. Information on
immunization required. .by.
adults for travelling can also
be
received from, the PHN. �•
A PHN Werks'pretty much
on her own, although a lot of
her work is done in. concert
.goes right to the people:
arca. although Rob Gates of Vanastraetlid
try unsuccessfully for a;council seat in .the
last municipal election'.
One major concern of Vanastra residents
was ,improvements to the`'town'$ ditches.
Ole resident Wrote, "I' would like to set
theditches in Vanastra .'tilled in with
culverts• and catch basins, as they are a
hazard especially in the wintcr when filled
with• snow and they are hidden. Also the
Street lighting is absolutely ridiculous - half
the time the lights we do have are not
working."
Bill Brown • said. its too bad the
Vanastra base ever got the name it did
(after the base closed)" and said
) c. �ou ci
n t
lors and the public will have tit work
together to try and make the community
work"
Before he .sent out the questionnaires.
13i11 Brown's major contact with ratepayers
1 .
was when. they honed hint with it
complaint5 P. "dogs. usually about weeds"
noise br stinking rivers."
In Egmondville, another common com-
plaint is that thcvillage's water supply
"gets a little riled up every now and then«
and water pressure sonietitnes drops,
But 8111 Brown.wanted to hear more than
the occasional 'complaint, and he's still.
hoping more ratepayers will return their
questionnaires - hell even send someone
around to pick there up.
in the meantime, the: eo'tft til 'member
would like to see a few store members Of
the public turn out to council meetings" As
Clara Brown says, "the whole council
;meeting is open to the pt
blit, ,except for
the lunch."
Perhaps ... .
Perhaps ane Egn.oridv.�llc respondtnt
summed up the reaction of many respond.
ents : "W . is
e have It.e. .eel in titles and this
v
the first time an elected official has taken
thetrOUblc to ask the electors their wishes
thank you."
So. ifyou don't fill in that survey. then it
doesn't seen'. quite fair to complain the
Sketches show Main
as it could look if resto
with other community ,
services like Home Care,
Meals on Wheels and;
Children's SErvices. They
can . work in hospitals and
doctors' offices too and pass
on observations and
recommendations to. their
team back at the local 'Health;
Unit (their headquarters)
about the follow up on ' a
patient if that patient . needs
services in the home.
Most of the work of a PHN
comes from referrals from
other agencies or relatives of
an older person or families
with health problems. A ..
caseload (each nurse handles
anywhere' from . 20 to. 60
cases) may consist of a' .
selection: of people of all •ages;
each with a unique problem.
As univeristy-trained
Registered Nurses, .' PHN's ..
have the knowledge and
experience to deal 'with a.
wide range of problems that.
may not be serious enolugh
to puta person in hospital but
are of great concern to
families And individuals.
next' time ;a cloud of dust flies. up onyotlr
toad!'
Drawings of both sides of Seaforth
Main St.,coloured to emphasize their
unique architectural features, were shown' to.
Seaforth council Monday nightby" Jim.
Walker of Listowel, the design studeht who
Worked this summer for the town's Local
Architectural Conservancy Advisory
Committee.
Mr. Walker's streetsca es could p ul serve as
a_"reference plan, available to any merchant
who's thinking of redecorating", said Betty
Cardno, a LAC1C member who also:
attended, along with Patti Carroll and Dr.
Rodger Whitman. t til: drawings will be kept
at the town office.
The possibility of a heritage district for
Seaforth's Main St has to be looked at very
carefully and these inventories and sketches
are •a first step, Mr. ,Carroll said. ,. The
,LACAC should meet with the public and
merchants to talk about ways to make Main
St. viable and attractive, he added,
"The continuity We have right noW on
Main St. is admired throughout the
•."'.:he i. ,n for hang
province, said and guidelines g
term development could: avoid- Controversy
as
a, ", well as something that doesn't fit."
The LACAC m ntbers told council ,that if
Main St. were designated a heritage district,
g
d.eniolition'of a building could be delayed for
90 days. But, Mrs. Cardno said a heritage
plan can give merchants positive; ideas on
how their building fits into the Whole area,
and delay could improve building plans.
"We should preserve what heritage we
• P g
have. It's a worthwhile concept to seriously
consider." ,said Dr. Whitman. Reflecting on
a triPlast year to restored' towns in England,
"old he said. old stores are busy.,,
Mr. Walker. complimented Ken Roth of
Roth's 'Food' Market for his recent
renovations. "The color scheme and old
brick compliment what's there now." he
said.
SDHS
numbers u�
The enrolment at Seaforth District High
School it now up to 366 Students. There were
362stude
nts enrolled as of the first
day back
at dist.
In 1910, there were 3S6 students enrolled
atthe s o'er On he 'firs � da and " S number
c n t is u
t�i tit n macs
ha se > 363
d o
o n tstudents by the end Of
September.
This Means enroltriettit at the school is.
almostthe same-.:
a
a it w+as one: Year ago,.