THE INTELLIGENCER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1966 IJ Your 'Culligan Man' Plant Opened by Company's Head Your "Culligan man" in n Belleville has a new and per- | manent home. Saturday was official "open- | house" day at Culligan of Can- | ada's new Belleville location, | | and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., j more than 200 names were sign- I ed in a guest-book beside the 1 front door of the West College \ Street plant.. Ron Moorman, owner-partner 1 with his wife Audrene in the | enterprise, introduced Culligan's I soft water process to Belleville \ 11 years ago. The new plant will 1 accommodate Culligan's com- j plete water-conditioning pro- \ gram, including softening, fil- j tering and purification for 1 domestic, commercial and in- j dustrial purposes. The official opening of the 1 new plant was effected in a rib- [ bonrcutting ceremony by 1 George Freeman, president of | Culligan of Canada Ltd. Digni- I taries on hand to witness the I event included Mayor Jack El- j lis, Hastings County Warden 1 Clayton Hall, city industrial j commissioner Ernest Kneisel, and Chamber of Commerce president, Fred Deacon. Special guests at the open house were Mr. and Mrs. Bryson Leslie, who, 11 years ago, were the first of the Belleville area's 1,100 Culdgan customers. Mr. Moorman, now Culligan's sales manager for Eastern Canada, along with tine other members of his staff, explained the plant's operating procedure to open house guests. Besides having the opportunity to see a diverse display of waiter condiMondin-g equipment, visitors could try to figure out an apparent miracle of nature on the front lawn of the plant. WATER OUT OF THIN AIR? -- Children and adults alike were fascinated by this sight in front of Culligan's new Belleville location.