535-03 Page 48The Beachville station, a landmark for more than 100 years, closes toda
and the CNR has called for tenders for its sale and removal. (Photo by
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Beachville train s tation
to end operation today
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Free Press Woodstock Bureau more recent years was the shipping point for
BEACHVILLE — A landmark familiar to the limestone industry.
Beachville and area residents since the CNR express will be transferred to Inger-
Grand Tr k R 7 soll.
Call for tenders
on new school
planned this week
Free Press Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Tenders will be called
this week for construction of a three room St.
Jude's Separate School in West Oxford Town-
ship, south of Ingersoll.
Leonard Dickson of Woodstock, architect
for the Oxford County Roman Catholic sepa-
rate school board project, said MM2rijaijy the
deadline for tenders will be Swithm three .
weeks:-i97Y
Approval for working drawings was given
by the board, which also asked for the Town -'
of Ingersoll to extend a water main to the
school at an estimated cost of $3,760.
The board gave approval for .John Knox
Christian School to rent educational films -
from the joint film library operated by the
separate and public school boards. Oxford
County board of education gave its approval
earlier, subject to approval by the separate
school board.
LZi
Sod turned
for RC school
near Ingersoll
Free Press Woodstock Bureau
INGERSOLL — The new St. Jude's Sepa-
rate School in West Oxford Township will
open this fall, Ingersoll trustee, A. E. Boni -
face said Wednesda JVt %Al pb' f k 7 4
Mr. Boniface turned the first sod for the
$150,396 three-room school being built by Ox-
ford County Roman Catholic separate school
board. He was assisted by chairman J. P.
Copeland of Woodstock.
Frank Sloan, superintendent of schools,
said the open -concept school will house about
105 Grade 1 to Grade 3 pupils.
A portable classroom also is planned. Fu-
ture plans include enlargement of the school
to eight classrooms with a gymnasium and
library.
Cost of the building and furnishings has
been set at $166,800.
Mr. Sloan said the school board has 10
acres on Concession 2 of West Oxford Town- ;
ship, about one-half mile south of Ingersoll.
Keith Whittington of Cambridge has been
named principal of the school. .
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.Transport o close he for Canadian remove
the
Sewer,
ailways to close the agency and remove the � f ■
k possi u mldmg.
CNR has called for tenders for purchase
Znd removal of the building not later than
ay 31. The station was once the centre of
the area's grain and oatmeal industry and in i-
Council honors
village historian $
for latest work ri,l
Free Press Woodstock Bureau
BEACHVILLE — Village historian Marjor-
ie Cropp was honored Tuesday; y council for
publishing an updated hfsVW which begins
with the arrival in 1784 of Beachville's first
settler, John Carroll.
Reeve John Nadalin presented plaque to
Miss Cropp, a former teacher, and one to the
library where copies of her publications were
on display.
Five hundred copies of the history, an up.
dating from the 1967 centennial work, have
been printed. Oxford County board of educa-
tion plans to have a copy in each of its
schools.
Miss Cropp's grandmother, Elizabeth
Hacker, was an 1865 graduate of the Canadi-
an Literary Institute of Woodstock, the only
secondary school in Canada at the time
which admitted girl students.
Free Press {VOodstoek Bureau
BEACHVILLE — Construction of a sewer
system here could begin as early as "the lat-
ter part of 1976J' Beachville council learned
Monday.
P. J. Crabtree, supervisor of provincial
projects in the project development branch
of the ministry of the environment, said in a
j letter that "there is a great deal of work to
be done before the works can be constructed.
and it would be almost impossible at this
point to provide you with exact timing esti-
mates." He said plans will be made shortly for an
Environmental Hearing Board meeting to
discuss the proposal.
G. V. Kleinfeld and Associates Ltd. of Lon
don recently completed a study on the pro-
ject. They started the study in May, 1973.
Reeve John Nadalun said the study shows a
10-year projected population of 2,700 This,
lie suggests, is why the sewer system project
may be advanced. The study shows an al-
most three -fold increase in population from
the existing 934.
He said most vacant land in the villa,+°
has been purchased or optioned for subdivi-
sions.
The ministry of environment represenU,
tive told council engineering consultants
could complete their design report two
months after the public meeting.
Mr. Crabtree said a financial analysis will
i
be done by the project development branch
and tentative rates established by the minis-
terial staff.
An Ontario Municipal Board hearing would
be called if there are objections after bylaws
regarding rates and description of the..pro-
posed works are prepared.
Final plans and specificationswould take
an additional six to nine months after the
rates and the project have been accepted by
the village, Mr. Crabtree said.
Reeve Nadalin said. a 68acre lagoon sys-
tem and three pumping stations are being
considered. Residents would pay for the
service on a usage basis, he said.
He said the London engineering firm was.
hired in December to conduct a water survey
of the village. It is expected to take three
months.
He said village water comes from private
water wells, except in the Loweville Subdivi-
sion, where the developer installed a water
system which has been assumed by the vil-
lage.
Custom steel plant
sold by Con-Eng,3
INGERSOLL — Bell-Cannp Corp. Ltd., a
small custom steel fabrication plant on High-
way 19 near Ingersoll, has been sold by Con-
Eng Contractors of London to four area men.
The new owners, Martin Van Ryswyck of
Dorchester, Martin Bardoel of Ingersoll,
Herman Bardoel of Mossley, and Peter Slv-
Kerman of Ingersoll, took over the plant
Monday. The Bardoel brothers also own H &
M Poured Silo Co., RR 1, Mossley.
Mr. Slykerman, who formerly worked for
London Steel Industries, said the partners
hope to increase production and double the
work force. The plant, which produces feed
hoppers, conveyors, industrial elevators and
,solid waste containers, employs six.
Purchase price was not disclosed.