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The Huron Expositor, 1979-12-20, Page 1120th Year Whole No. 583 ,SEAFORTHt. ONTARIO., THURSDAY, DECEMBER*'d; 1979 42 PAGES. second •Sectiol: PAGE; 2.2€ $13 a yeah in adv*: Single Copy 30 cents AH URONVIEW CHRISTMAS - Santa did a few dance step! with Frank Crich of Huronview, formerly of Seaforth, when the Seaforth Lions Club entertained with 'songs anddances at .their 51st; Annual Christmas party . at HuronvieW More photoson pageIOA and 11A. (Photo by Oke) u BY WILMA OKE • Ratepayers across Tuckersmith, Township will be facing a levy of five mills on their taxes in 1980 to help pay, for the. S250,000 renovations and new addition to the Vanastra recreaton centre. The levy will raise S20,000 and an additional $48,000 will be. removedfrom the. township's , reserve account if necessary. These monies are Tuckersmith's share of the construction work. The decision to raise the money in this manner was decided at a specialdinned meeting held in, camera last Wednesday, December 12, At that meeting council accepted the tender of Reflinghaus Contracting. Company Ltd of Goderich to do the renovation and construction work at a cost of $227,480. In addition there will be costs of about S25,000 for architect's fees and an undetermined amount to buy new equipment. Community centregrants will pay about $188,000. In the regular meeting Tuesday night' council passed a by-law- to provide that the • outstanding operating deficit of $58,293:54 of the Vanastra recreation centre be paid out. of the township's reserve account. A second by-law provided that all future. capital and operation deficits at the. recreation -centre, ' over and above the S119,000 debenture•; debt, be paid by ratepayers across the township. . A furhter by-law authorized the borrowing of money in the amount of S250,000 as an interim loan to pay for the construction work on the recreation centre until receipt of provincial -grants and municipal tax revenue. A promissory note will:, be signed by the (Continued •on . Page 3) Bob 1vfeKini'ey,, the Progressive Conservative. MP who has, represented the Huron, riding, for the past 14 years, announced WednesdaY morning that he won,'t be seeking re-election in the upcoming federal election. Mr. McKinley, a'Zurich. area farmer. wits; first elected to parliament in 1965, and has been re-elected four times since then. In announcing he wouldn't seek re- election Mr. McKinley said the thought of a winter campaign was certainly a factor, in influencing, the decision. Mr. McKinley, who is still in Ottawa, said there also may be another ,minority ' Parliamentfollowing, the February election and that would mean there might be another election in a short time. The MP said he didn't make hisdecision, to step down until Wednesday morning, when be phoned CKNX in Wingham.. He said the new member elected in the Huron Bruce riding., wilt. "depend simply on the candidate" since voters in the riding tend to vote for the man rather than the party. ' Huron Liberals will nominate on 'Thursday evening January 3 at a meeting• in Blyth Community Centre. Graham Craig, Walton area 'farmer and technician who was the Liberal candidate in. the May 22 election has indicated he will again seek the nomination. Hon. Eugene Whelan, former minister of egriculture,will speak. The Huron County New nemocratic Pa;ty will be holding, an..orgenizational meeting: Thursday night to discuss their strategy in. the upcoming federal el',ection and to set a; date for their nomination, meeting. , CONTEST IN. PERTH In Perth riding two are seeking, the Liberalnominationbeing; held in North- western School, on Friday, January 4 with, Mr, Whelan as speaker. Bob McTav;sh,a civil engineer and Perth County school trustee will seek the nomination. Also seeking the nomination is Jim McMillan, a Stratford life insurance salesman. Perth Conservatives will nominate: Wednesday Jan. 9 at the Coliseum Annex and: the NDP for Tuesday, Jan .,8 at the Stratford' and' District , Labor Centre on .Rebecca Street. • Perth MP Bill Jarvis, the federal provincial relations minister in the last government,; isexpected to seek the. nomination against .no .oppositon, • .; Only the NDP has no declared candidate to date, NEW RETURNING OFFICER Art Bolton, nf RR! Dublin, has . been appointed returning officer for the Huron and Bruce'riding. Mr. Bolton learned of his. appointment late Tuesday and flew to Ottawa on Wednesday for a briefing,. •. His wife said she expects the returning. office will be located in Seaforth since this. !;puld be the most convenient location., Mr. Bolton well know, n: McKillop farmer 1, no stranger to returning officer activities, He has assisted his father Russel. T. ,Bolton,who until his retirement was :returning, officer for Huron - Middlesex provincial riding. Mr. Bolton succeeds Garnet Hicks, of Exeter who resigned in November having reached retirement age. Mr, Hicks hadl, 'served since 1966. There will be no: door-to-door enumeration of voters for the February 1980 "general election. Shortly. after Prime Minister Joe Clark called the election on Thursday, chief electoral officer, Jean -mare Hamel said that the Christmas mail rush would make it almost impossible to get materials in the hands of the more than 100,000 people . needed for the enumeration, Had enumeration gone on as in thepast, the enumeratorswould havehad to start their work on Dec. 31, Under the new plan, the voters' list from the last election will be considered the preliminary list for Feb. 18 Advance polling days are Saturday Feb. 9; Monday, Feb. 11; and; Tuesday, Feb',. 12, Voters unable to vote on Feb. 18 can do so at the advance.polling days between noon and. 8' p.m- . ' People unable to vote at any of the advance :polls or on polling day may vote in: the, office of the returning officer between Councillor Brown questions reeve As Tueke_rsmith Township .council prepared to get the meeting underway Tuesday night, councillor, William Brown of Egmondville asked' Reeve Ervin 'Sillery about remarks he :had, been reported as having made '. to a reporter from the Kitchener daily paper concerning him.. Councillor Brown ` saidthe reeve was quoted as saying: that "Brown has been a trouble maker ever since he got on council..". He handed th newspaper clipping to the reeve who read it and remarked, "she has it written rather strongly. I can't say whether I said it or not." The councillor,.replied,:.;`r,k„d;on''t; think V have been a troublemaker. I only do as I' see fit. I feel I have the ,right to my opinion." The article referred to the recent controversy over the proposed addition to Vanastra when Brown was the only member, of councilto vote against the addition. The reeve agreed that Brown had the _ right to differ. The .councillor' them 'asked" councillor Robert Fotheringharn what was meant by a remark quoted in a recent London daily paper by Doris Cantelon, a member of, the Vanastra Day Care Centre who had signed a letter asking that Brown be removed from the day care board, that she didn't know anything about it andthat the reporter should • ask Fotheringham. Councillor Fotheringham said he did not know about or sign the letter, but perhaps she said 'this because he is the chairman of the committee. Councillor Brownnext asked Councillor Frank Falconer if he would: like to enlarge on , his remark as ?quoted in .the paper that he knew the reason that Brown was asked to be taken off the day care committee. Falconer's only remark, was "Well.:," Brown asked if Falconer would like him to give the reason he believed he was taken off the. committee. He told Falconer he was sure • he would not like to hear it. When, councillor Falconer did not reply, and Brown said, "Well let's get on with the meeting?" Councillor Brown was removed from the committee on December, 4 when council accepted a•letter from, the fiveappointed members of the board; The womengave no reason for wanting him removed. Deputy Reeve Robert Bell replaced the councillor on the board. In other •business Steve ' Rathwell, a Vanastra businessman, asked council if consideration was being given to making changes in the Vanastra water'system and; .4/as ° told by the, reeve that there will be a `total review of the situation: „ Clerk Jack McLachlan told council that all but 18.47 per centof the township taxes had been paid to 'date. He said this was, an improvement over last year The clerk read a letter to counil signed by nine township residents from the Kippers, area saying they Were angered and bewildered that council' would go ahead with the addition to the Vanastra recreation centre :in; the face of the controversy over it and the ,fact that council was requested to take it to a vote of the people, "surely a projectsuch as this should be broughtto the ;taxpayers. They requested to know how many Tuckersmith residents used it and: said if it ' was used in the main by persons across the county, then the county should. pay for it. The letter ' requested that a reason be • given by - council :.for not holding "the plebiscite as requested by a majority of the ratepayers at the ratepayers meeting., i And why. was Brown, removed from'the day care centre?" it. asked. The letter to council concluded with the statement, "Let, us not become a bickering township, laughed at by the readers of the newspapers:'' Debbie Denomme asked. „fer another - BY YVONNE REYNOLDS Mary, Joseph and the new-born baby Jesus have been the subject of countless , •paintings, myriad •:Christmas cards, elaborateguileless theatricals Christmas church programs. The first Christmas was a family celebrati. t is: still, almost two thousand years later; a family celebration. ` .. The ghost .o t of Christmas. Past bcekons me back to observe a little girl g B waking before dawn on Christmas morning to slip stealthily' down the stairs, retrieve one long brown ribbed cotton stocking, and sneak back up to bed. The stocking, filled just to the ankle. with mixed nuts in the shell, English creams, .hard'. candies, California. grapes, and a big orange in the heel, was soon emptied'. P My sisters and I' waited. impatiently for 11 o'clock, our signal to put on our best dresses, pack the still unopened presents _, into the in a laundry basket, and all cram car and heard for our aunt' and' uncle's spacious, gracious old farm house for the annual family Christmas. As my aunt and. Uncle had no ,children of their gwn,>,they were delighted hosts to all their, 'nieces and nephews on this once -a -year day. I remember a long table that stretched from one end of the, large. dining room to the other, ironing , boards and planks p _ g seatin supported by nail kegs supplying s_ lice for strong young bodies that didn't need back support. Thecenterpricce was a liquid glass pitcher filled with a coloured quid in which Mothballs danced like giant-efferves cent bubbles. At each child's 'place was a snowman apple body, marshmallow head, blacka Christmas h' and gumdrop .to at - top hat which would soon be pulled apart` with a satisfying BANG to reveala crepe paper hat,.: a prediction for the future, a corny joke, and a prize -• perhaps a gaudy , ring; or a painted tin whistle. Each step of the ritual was enacted in slow motion.' Adultscatching up on the. latest news, cousins dividing first into male and female, then into smaller groups, •the girls exchanging girlish confidences and giggles, the boys surreptitious jabs and punches. The call to dinner, and eating so much our stomachs ached for hours. And then the dishes. Stacks and stacks Of them.. Everydish, from the giant turkey platter to the tiny salt spoon, had to be thoroughly:. washed and thoroughly dried- It seemed to take hours. By the 'time' everyone was again Seated in the livin$ room, the 'mantle dock was, striking four. Faintly at first. another sound echoed the chimes. Sleigh bells were approaching, Suddenly the' hall door burst open and in strode a figure dressed in a Coonskin coat, red stocking cap, and cotton batten moustache and beard. With ,r -Ho, Ho, Ho' and a plea for assistance, he began to 'ick the gifts off the tree and hand them to his willing helpers for instant' delivery' eager recipients. The long ,. � ge P anticipation made appreciation all the greater for a matching scarf, toque and mitts or a• Wet'ums doll, As the' years ' assed, so histicatcd! p P. teenagers: watched condescendingly the wide-eyed innocence of younger siblings, Didn't they recognize Uncle's, voice through the bedraggled beard?! • The next memories are of a young bride on a limited budget shopping carefully for ornaments for a first Christmas tree for new family, a young man and woman who became six months before. ,Each year one more item is addedto a growing tradition: a little white papier mache church that plays Silent Night, ..a plaster Nativity scene, .a golden angel with '• irridescent: wings for the top of the tree. The years pass. A home movie captures forever a two-year-old coming down the stairs in. his Doctor Denton sleepers, stopping in the living room doorway to pP stand awe struckat the sight: of the shimmering tree, then leaping into motion, rushing 'forward, snatching a silver bell .from the lowest branch . and: heading gleefully upthe stairs again ain with his prize, B ,y g And little ones ignoring the elaborate, ,p batte ryPowered robot while playing . hap- pily a P pily with the box and cardboard packing. I remember especially the elaborate knife with the :serrated edge and the simulated mot e r•of-pearl handle, a gift from a seven-year-old who` had obviously searched and searched to find the most beautiful knife in the world for his mother. I never told him of the two words etched in tinyletters on the blade - Bride's Knife. Too soon the children' are grown, gone and starting their own families and begining. their own Christmas traditions. Family get-togethers between parents and children are now on an' adult to adult level, although .1 still forget and: say things like "Be sure and put something on your head before you . go out into that cold". or "Dear,quickly. You'll, you're eating too q y. have heartburn in an hour."''The young people smile indulgently. They know l love P them.-. Christmas is a very special time, a time that brings out the best inns. Because God 8 so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, we .'too love and give and share. This emotion is universal. A friend who wasMew Delhi; a fewyears ago ho in N8 shared her thoughts with me, and I would,. like to share them with you byquoting the last paragraph of a letteshe e9nt me from'. India. • "Today 1 was looking' out of the window at a little sweeper woman crourhed on the pavement collecting dirt into a shallow basket with centuries of grace and rhythm behind cite. h dirty drapery and gesture. H little daughter came over and for a long time they faced: one another over the • 1' basket as the mother conhnuedttosw sweep. was too far away to see their profiles but there was something'; vaguely fainiiiar. about the tableau. Front adistance you felt love and devotion being expressed, but it was something else, Then it came to me: it was a Renaissance ;painting, of Madonna and Child, Odd how o can come half way d you around thewbrld to the dregs of civilization and understand why h it was that the Christ. was born in the hay." The angels' wish for us is still valid ' today. Glory to God m the highest, andon. earth Peace. Goode will toward men. • Ai maternity leave -17 weeks and she will return on April 29 to resume her duties as a teacher at the, Vanastra day care centre. Road superintendent Allan Nicholson was given permission to :purchase, a two-way. radio for around S1,000 to be used in the grader leased for snow removal this winter: He is to buy two wet suits for township toad crew and other necessary equipment needed to carry on his work. noon and 6 p.m. and from 7 p,m.to; 9p.m. between Monday Feb. 11 and: Friday, Feb. 15. • Inside. the Expositor this week A birth, announcement ,P. 3 St, Columb3n Concert. P. 5 Londesboro Concert, , . P. . 7 Dry skin, ;in Seaforth . " , P. 9 New secretary for Plowmen .. a . P, ;`13 A '50's Christmas Concert .. P, 15 „ Huron Centennial at .' Christmas , ' P. 17 Flowers for Christmas. P. 3A McKillop in . the good days,.,, P. 15A Come to church at Christmas.. r P. '20A r FOUR GUMBDROPS These four little Gumdrops were one of the groups skating at the Seaforth Figure Skating Club Carnival' Friday Night at the Arena when they presented their program The Magic of Christmas. Left Charoltte Laycox, Janice Rodney, Susan Stewart and Andrea Moore, - (Photo by Oke) Brodhagen man is warden Reeve Carl Vock of Logan Twp was elected Warden of Perth for 1980 by acclamation on. Monday. . Y He wasnominated by Reeve Richard Reeve R. '.: of Elma Townshipe e • Thompson and Robinson of Mitchell who had the ;ub of escortm him. to his new seat at the head of ...ii , council tollowmg the acclamation. Schr�ol fuses Two UnitedTrails schoolbuses collidedon. Monday morningwhen a busd. I ._ Mo day riven by Ina McGrath of Egmondville was stopped to pick up passengers and was struck in the rear by a bus driven by Sharon Medd also of Egmondville. Both vehicles were southbound on County Road 12, One km. north of Concession Road 4-5 just outside of Seaforth. Warden Vock received his chain of office from retiring warden, Reeve Ormond Pridham of Fullerton Township. Perth County Judge J.A. Muller adminstered the oath of office to the new warden. A resident of Brodhagen, he 'is a sales representative for the Huron and Perth Concrete Products. collide Several people in the Medd bus suffered minimalinjluries according to a spokesman P at United Trails. minimal injuries. vehicle Damage to the McGrathis estimated at $800:. to the right rear and at 52,000 to the right front of the Medd vehicle. Goderich O.P.P.reported limited visibility at time the accident e o£ the Ch r u Christmas coverar t The `di; stinctive snowman on the covet of the 1179 Expositor's Christmas edition Was painted by two grade 7D pupils at Seaforth Public School -Todd' Doig. and Charlie Malcolm, Although you can't see it in black and white; the snowman was • painted in brilliant turquoise shades, outlined in black. The class teacher, Mrs, "Georgina Reynolds',said the technique need in creating the printing, ng, which wen one of several used todecorate the Seaforth arena for the Figure g Skatin Club Show on Friday night. ni ht. ht. sponge painting. Students drew a simple wet a stretch. and then. used sponge► dipped in acrylic paint. to fill in the coloured` area: The drawing was then outlined in pastels to highlight the painting. The secret of the technique is you have t4 wort quickly.