w Adda May Goodalil l looking forw ard to reallzlng an ambition thîs Sunday, -- the celebration of ber lOth blrthday, at a party given by ber daughter, Marlon Mole, and Audrey Tutton, director of enteïr- 32 Pages Wlittington talnment for the Coiborne St. senior citizens residence where Mrs. Goodail maintains her own apartment. Free Press Staff Photo At 100, Adda May Goodali stili lives independantly By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff Whitby residents, Ad- da May Goodall will be 100 years old on Sunday. "It bas always been an ambition of mine to live to be 100" Mrs. Goodail said. Her father bad wanted to live that long but died at 89. 'I tried to live to 100 to pleasebhim. " At 'almost 100 Mrs. Goodail, who maintains ber own apartment in the senior citizen's residencq, on Coîborne St., still enjoys good health although she needs the help of a wallcer to get around ber apartment, and uses a wbeel chair wben she goes out. "My doctor says Pll live to be 120, but 1 wouldn't want that," she said. one o! the problems with living so long Mrs. Goodaîl said is that al friends and relatives from ber generation are dead. She does bave two cousins but they are in their early 80s and do not have ber good health. In the past century Mrs. Goodall, descen- ded on ber mother's side frorn United Empire Loyalist stock, bas seen a lot of different places. She started out in Por- tage La Prairie, Manitoba, where ber father, originally a teacher, had homesteaded. When she was 21, she taught school, first in a town school, but later moved ta a one-room country school in Southern Manitoba where she could save her money to get married. "lYou could save more rnoney living in the country than you could in town. I made $50 a rnonth." She met John while boarding at the chief of pollce's home. He was a marine engineer and had corne f romn England to visit is uncles, who had a homnestead near- by. John returned to England, then to Canada, and was called back to England to set- te an estate wben he asked Adda May, then 27, to marry hini and accompany bim to England. "I1 didn't really want to go among strangers, " she said, but she and John were married in ber home and tbey went to England on wbat became a six-montb boneymoon. Tbey spent the next twa years in Vancouver, wbere their son was born, but when Warld War One began, Britain asked ail skilled men ta return home. "He was a very loyal man," she said, SO they returned and she spent the next 32 years in England. It was there the ber daugbter was born, and there that ber busband died in 1936, as a result of a war injury. During that time she said she came borne on- ce. "I enjayed the sea trips, they were very CONT'D ON PG. 21) v-]p Caims By JAN DODGE "Wbittinl Free Press Staff they woud Would the real owner business ol of Lynde House please if they stand up? prepared tg Is the bouse, whicb is she said thi also the Whitby response Museum on the corner similar. of Dundas and D'Illier, Hugel, owned by the Whitby mental pl Historical Society sultant, sa (WHS) as was implied successful, at a recent general restore itE meeting of the society? consultingi Is the bouse owned by "The bu Whittington Investrnen- be availa ta as indicated by Roger> public. I w Lindsay, the executive part of it fo vice-president. "Tom In 1972, Whittington (regional Investments donated mentioned Lynde House to the meeting of society providing the the Centen bouse be moved off the was undei property somnetime would hi witbin the following 'location fc year. istaric ex] The bouse was neyer "If the rnoved.. - recycled, In a telephone inter- there and 1 view, Lindsay canfir- it bas beex med that lie bad notified one In hiç. a member of the WHS would war witbin the last two it, " she saii weeks, "that the titie "Anythir was probably still ours retain the (since the WHS didn't ting and1 fulfili their part of the ture togetl, deal) but once the to do. society came ta a "The Wl decision (on the future can't keel of the bouse) we could setting anc reach an amicable ture toget solution to the present have to in matter i.e. titie. " are willinE Lindsay said this next best ol meant tbey were willing "I'm gi% ta sit down and talk to, tion, by bu the society. and the hg: Sybil Stirling, vice- ting it ta us president of WHS "If the'W acknowledged receiving figbting I a letter from Roger Lin- would win1 dsay witbin the last two Hugel sa weeks, but bad no com- excitedz ment on the contenta. even more Another twist bas when she i, been added, to the present1 question of ownership, being dei by the appearance of a persuadinE potential buyer. developer Vera Hugel said she iota differg was in the process of seil bier tc negotiating witb J.J. bouse whi Barnicki, agent for sequentlyr Whittington Investrnen- Hugel, "Sa far I've been in toucb witb my awn lawyer wbo suggested I request from Barnicki an offer for purchase and sale. Thraugb this the agent would pravide a description af the land plus Wittington's can- ditions for sale. "I've not set any figure on the property. Wbetber there will be a figure set wben this in- farmatian carnes back from Barnicki, I don't know. If nat, l'Il corne up wth rny own. "I arn aptimistic about it. I received a good response f rom bth Wittingtan and Bar- nicki when 1 inquired if a portion af the (80- acre) praperty could be purcbased separately. Conservati Cornmitte only disse committee sement of1 ceptanceoc approval t( Hanse ta dens. "Mben1 what I wai phone cail people 1 d: ail, saying bear the willing ta board ofi take share chasing th the land,' could buyi Hugels two defini maybes fg but she disclose th, ngton said d not be in the af selling land were not o listen," and hat Barnicki's had been an environ- ýlanning con- ýid, "If I arn I, intend ta and use it for offices. diflding would âble to the would only use 'r my offices. Edwards councillor) à at the i the WHS that nnial Building Br utilized. It le a prime or the present Khibita. be ouse is it will stay be used. After Bn restored no is right mmnd int ta destroy id. rîg I can do ta ebistoric set- the arcbitec- ter, I will try IHS feels tbey pthe historic i the arcbitec- Bther if they move, 50 they ig ta take the option. iving that op- cying the land uuse and put- ie, " she said. NHS continued E think tbey aid, "I'm very about this," eshe said than rcad saved ber bouse frorn emolisbed by ig the to divide bis rently, and ta ,the decrepit ich she sub- ,restored. chairman of Architectural tion Advisory e, was the ;eter in that e's endor- the WHS's ac- of Len Cullen:s to move Lyndi Cullen Gar- people beard as doing, I got is, some from Iidn't know at g,'If you can't cprice, I'm b elp form a directors and es toward pur- he bouse with ,'so that we ,it jointly. " said she bad ites and two for this plan, declined ta heir identities. I WedesdyAugust 28, 1985 Vol. 15, No. 35 They didn't meet terms of gift..... Society no longer owns Lynde House, 7777777777771