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iLbc Canadian Statesman Section Two Wednesday, January 23,1985 Furnishings Fascinate Teacher ÿ This waterbed is just one of Elliott Tremeer's homemade furnishings, custom designed especially to suit his own bedroom. Actually, most of the rooms in the Tremeer house are furnished with items created in the solitude of his backyard workshop. Making custom furniture runs a close second to conducting bands as far as Elliott Tremeer is concerned. Although the music teacher has been working working in the field for almost 20 years now, Mr. Tremeer's new love of working with wood is just as important to him. Pictured here is the bedroom suit Elliott designed for his young daughter. Non-Profit Housing Receives Approval When Elliott Tremeer isn't designing custom made ftirniture he's teaching music to budding musicians. The complete variation in Elliott's interests create a happy balance in his life, working between a noisy classroom of kids and the solitude of his personal work shop. by Catherine Denny As far as dedicated music teacher and innovative craftsman Elliott Tremeer is concerned, variety is truly the spice of life. Not only is Elliott an avid wood worker who spends most of his mornings and evenings in the backyard work shop, he is also a longtime longtime music tpacher who continues to teach everything everything from trumpet to flute each afternoop. The vast difference in his interests come as a surprise to most people, but Mr. Tremeer Tremeer considers the variety in his day a nice change of pace. "I enjoy teaching in a crowded classroom, but I also like to retreat to the solitude of my work shop," explained Elliott. "When I get tired of doing one thing I can turn to the other." A music teacher at Bow- manville High School since 1969, Mr. Tremeer took a year leave of absence this September in order to pursue pursue his hobby of designing and building furniture. However, being a music lover at heart, Elliott couldn't resist accepting a part-time job in the music department at M.J. Hobbs Senior Public School for the remainder of the year. The father of two became interested in wood working after successfully completing completing several doll houses and toys for his children. Today Elliott has furnished furnished most his home with hand-carved furniture and is constantly completing orders orders for people who want to purchase his unique custom custom designs. Although Elliott agrees that it is often less expensive expensive to purchase factory made furniture than it is to have it custom built, there is no comparison in the quality of the products. "Customizing gives you a made-to-measure piece of furniture consisting of high quality wood and workmanship," workmanship," explained Mr. Tremeer. Tremeer. Of course Elliott's enthusiasm enthusiasm for this involved but quiet pastime will never take the place of his love for music. In fact, Elliott Elliott admits that if asked to choose between his two interests, interests, he'd have a hard time deciding. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Claude Bennett announced recently recently that the Regional Municipality Municipality of Durham is one of 26 municipalities that has received approval to proceed proceed with municipal nonprofit nonprofit housing units this year. In addition to 50 family rental units being allocated to Durham Region, 25 other Ontario municipalities are also receiving allocations for municipal non-profit housing. Bennett said he was pleased that thè federal government had made an early decision about the 1985 social housing allocations allocations to Ontario. "This has enabled us to move quickly, identify the communities that will receive receive assistance, and distri bute the units to municipalities. municipalities. They, in turn, can start preparing for early construction construction starts," he said. A total of 1,843 rental units will be built under the municipal non-profit housing housing program which is administered administered by the province and funded under a federal- provincial agreement. Under this program, municipalities establish non-profit housing corpora- From Cornwall to Solina By Sheila James The Cornish Emigrant's Song Oh! the eastern winds are blowing; The breezes seem to say, We are going, we are going, To North Americay. There the merry bees are humming Around the poor man's hive; Parson Kingdom is not coming To take away their tithe. R. S. Hawker Volleyball Teams Capture Tournament Titles This volleyball team from Bowmanville Senior Public School won the grade seven boys' championship championship in a recent competition sponsored by the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club, at Clarke High School. In the front row, from left, are; Marc Peirce, David Aldridge, Dean Stel, Paul Wood- lock, and Dan Aiken. Standing are: Coach Mel Putnam, Putnam, Dustin Couch, Jason Wray, Brian Sweep, Kenny Pick, and Matt Depew. The Bowmanville Senior Public School grade seven girls' team also captured a volleyball trophy this month when it won the tournament sponsored by the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club on Friday, January .11, Shown in the front row are Amy O'Con nor, Jenny Lansdowne, Deanna Jones, and Kris I-Ioult. In the back row are Melissa Harness (student (student coach), Shanna English, Tammy Wraight, Janet Myers, Nichole Pollett, and Linda Hansen (Coach) Cornish men and women emigrated to this and other songs of a similar strain in the early and mid decades of the nineteenth century. They left the fishing villages, the mining towns and the farms of their native Cornwall, England, selling land and possessions in order to gain passage to the "New World", and a new life. The eastern winds blew many of these emigrants to Upper Canada, and the District of Newcastle, where the; place known today as Solina 1.becanje home to. several Cornish families. Nearly all of the Cornish people who travelled to Upper Canada were members of the working class, and were counted counted among England's Protestant Protestant dissenters. Dissenters of any type did not enjoy the same privileges and opportunities opportunities for worship as did members of the Church of England. The accounts of Upper Canada with promises of inexpensive and fertile Crown land, and of the freedom of religion was a great attraction to the Cornish people. While the emigrants would be far from home, Upper Canada had the advantage of being English, without actually being within England. Those who made the decision to emigrate faced a long and unpleasant sea voyage in vessels which were often designed to carry timber rather than people. They departed from ports like Padstow, Fowey and Penzance Penzance and landed after five to six weeks in Quebec City and Montreal. The next leg of the journey was neither as long nor as treacherous. From Montreal many of the emigrants boarded the flat-bottomed Durham boats, which were pulled by steam lug to Port Hope and Whitby, in the then District of Newcastle. By the time the first Cornishmen arrived, the land along Lake Ontario's shore had already been settled by the United Empire Loyalists. However, in the 1830's there was still much good Crown land to be had inland from the lake, and this led the early Cornish emigrants to Toole's corners, the village which became Pilclmrdtown and finally Solina. The Cornish people who settled in Solina over the thirty year period, generally from 1830 to 1800, were often related or acquainted, and were linked by a common faith and membership in the Bible Christian Church which was described as a strict, no-frills, no-nonsense sect. Usually one family would arrive and establish themselves, themselves, and then send word back to friends and relatives suggesting that they follow. Such it was in the early 1850's when several members of the Libby family followed the Whites. The Elfords emigrated emigrated in 18-10, following a sister Dorothy and her husband William Soucli, who settled in 183-1 and were among the earliest Cornish settlers in Solina, (then Pilclmrdtown, named in honour of the pilchard, a fish found in plenty off Cornwall's shores). Among the other families to come to Solina from Cornwall were the Reynolds, Vices, Langmaids, Ashtons, and the Werrys, one of the more visible families of Cornish descent in Solina today. Peter Werry, born in 1800 in Fowey, Cornwall, arrived with his wife Eliza and seven children in Solina in 1845. It was Peter Werry who donated the land for Eldad chapel, which was built in 1855 in the south-easternmost corner of his one hundred acre farm "Roselandvale." Eldad Bible Christian chapel became Eldad United Church in 1925 and continues to serve the needs of the Solina community today. Many of the faithful Cornish settlers are buried in the adjoining cemetery, including including Peter Werry, who died in 1880. His plot lies overlooking overlooking the farm which is now home to Ed and Clare Werry and their two sons Chris and Wesley. Mrs. Werry is quick to point out that her husband and hersons are the fifth and sixth generations of Werrys, descended descended directly from Peter and Eliza Werry, to live on farm "Roselandvale." The farm and its picturesque surroundings haven't changed much since Peter and Eliza's era. The original stone house and barns have been maintained maintained by the Werry family with the greatest of care. Solina, like any place, has changed over the years. Recently a number of new homes have been built within the village, bringing in a number of new families. Yet while the faces may change, some of the old names and places remain. History lives on in the people of the village, who have managed to preserve a sense of the community spirit and warmth which is the greatest legacy of their Cornish forbears. forbears. lions to develop and manage manage housing for tenants who pay market rents, as well as those who pay rents based solely on their incomes. .Through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Corporation, the federal government government provides rent reduction reduction grants which reduce reduce the effective interest rate on loans from private lending institutions to two per cent. When required, the province offers additional additional rent reduction grants of up to 100 per cent of the federal assistance. These rent reduction grants are used to maintain overall rents at market levels, and to subsidize rent - geared - to - income units whose low-income occupants occupants pay rents that are based on income, rather than on the size or type of accommodation. If additional additional funds were required, they would be shared on a 50:50 ratio between the federal federal and provincial governments. governments. Bennett said the allocations allocations to municipalities developing developing projects for families are based on municipal non-profit housing housing corporations increasing the number of rent-geared- to-income units in new buildings from 25 per cent to 35 per cent. An additional five per cent of the units may be allocated to physically-disabled physically-disabled and develop- mentally-handicapped persons. persons. The municipal non-profit corporations must also adopt a new procedure for measuring applicants' degrees degrees of need, and take part in community-wide housing priority lists for all applicants applicants wishing rent-geared- to-income housing. Rather than various housing agencies agencies keeping their own lists, information on applicants will be maintained on one central list, he said. "These measures reflect desires of both the federal and provincial governments governments that assisted housing be effectively targetted to those most in need," he said. In addition to the 1,843 municipal non-profit housing housing units, 137 rent supplement supplement program units will be distributed in about 20 municipalities. Low-in- come residents will be selected from housing priority lists for rent- geared-to-income assistance assistance and housed in privately-owned privately-owned accommodation. accommodation. The rent supplement subsidies subsidies -- the difference between between market rents and the rents paid by the tenants on a geared-to-incomc basis -- will be shared equally between between the federal and provincial provincial governments. Professor Speaks to Lions Club Mr. W.S. Young held his audience captive during his talk about the world of agriculture at the Lions Club January 14th. The guest speaker is a professor professor of Crop Science and the Co-ordinator of Agricultural Extension at Ontario Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph. Lions President Klaas Degroot (right) is pictured here welcoming Mr. Young to the club meeting. New Directors for Visual Arts Centre The Visual Alls Centre's new board of directors was elected on Thursday, January 10th. They are; (seated from left to right) Gary Jeffrey, Marianne Zakarow, Lloyd McRobbie, Jessie Slcmon, Patricia Patricia Best and (standing from left to right) Janet Hamilton, Judith Pierce, Patricia Hawkins, Eva Kraft, Ron Phillips, John Iligginson. Absent from the picture are Maureen Remington and Joan Greemvay,