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The Huron Expositor, 1974-05-30, Page 16': ,�,:•..�; .�,. „�. �, a �, . T elm lire enf ries i f deft 1F r - '.*4r�r.�u ,M.'7i'S't wt•+ aa,. ;�, b � �•mNs^,N' mmr>�. � � � ma, w Mrye• g.. x j y/ j r y���{7 p �yp�{ ooks, jams nd jellies and k.7 rvw'i .,m4 ... .� n ■4 tlY / CM,.. iti, T!1vf�+. ri:.�rt c b r F Seaf rth"s fir A, np �l •,� Craft Feta ' ers Elva? :s, Mrs. Doreen a wide variety of o'tit,�r films. and C fts Festival has ha ab4+l t; .{ 25 ent les submitted so fa dot' tft� Strong and . rs, lf0 h 1'ickar , several lacat artists including, a July 13 event. This sN , tnKl. said that applications for booth. Ned Boswell and Mary smith will F ' Craft Festival is and r the space in the arena for the Festival exhibit some of their work. auspices of the Seaforth Centex. are still being take.!, and are Seaforth native George Daly. a nial Committee which is planning available at the Recreation Direc-. designer and art director in # f if erlx: a weekend long Festival for 1975, tor's office or from committee Toronto, may also show some of Centennial year, members. his work. CKNX artist Don Vair will be Exhibitors in the Festival will The Craft Festival committee is showing and selling his sketches be coming from Brantford, Tees- selling tickets on a hand-madca at the Festival as will Goderich water, Hamilton, Orangeville, quilted bed spread. Tickets will Jim Marian whose drawing of the Peterborough, and other Ontario be available at several stores and ' Van Egmond house is well centres. Booths at the Festival offices 'along Main St. and from known. Mr. Marlatt will be will show leather work, ceramics, Committee members. The win- show ing inure sketches and post wood carvings, raggedy ann ning ticket will be drawn Saturday cards of the Seaforth area. dolls. antiques, wooden toys, and night July 13, at 10 p.m. ver, 0 Skippinaropesropes# marble LOCAL TERG4ATE?-- Ten high school debating teams, both junior and senior CRAFTS READY -- Elva Ellis, chairman of the July formed I moek parliament on Tuesday at SDHS after their awards banquet. They13 Seaforth Craft Festival shows samples of the debated "because of ur. unique parliamentary system, Watergate could never meant rin in S sketches, needlepoint and antiques that will be happen en in Canada." Lader of the opposition and member of the championship offered by craftspeople at Seaforth_ s first annual Junior debating team, esa Ondrejlcka of South Huron D.H.S. addresses the (BN Daisy Spain Kilmer) Concerts. with the job till it ended BUT IF 1 show and sale. A draw will be held at the conclusion government. Members the winning Goderich Senior team formed the Recently; on a lovely Spring It used to amaze me how he did, he'd buy me the biggest of the show for the quilted spread in the background. government The Senior Se forth team placed second. (Staff Photo) day, f revisited Seaforth. As we rode his bicycle safely through ice-cream dish in Seaforth- a (Staff Photo) NOW Is the time to ' get rid of those weeds in your lawn with WEED • and FEED PROTECT YOUR ROSES WITH ROSE DOCTOR 3 and 7 -lb. boxes or the economy 15 -lb. bag We Still Have SEED CORN available. FERTILIZER and SPRAYS BALER TWINE FOR YOUR GARDEN NEEDS Tomato and Potato Dust Flower and Vegetable Dust Ant and Grub Killer Green Elf Plant Food 40%-C'hlordane for Wire Worm _and grugs in Lawns. 09 6 W , Seaforth al I,1 \ l,ls )cell s lt)wtl. wdl ill, so t, . unc evening ride Parfour or a Banana Spilt at one. to 0. getIn addition, ctnlping. hiking, Willie Smith (the painter and C rich's on a Saturday evening, S wildlife view ing,, horseback paper hanger) and uncle of Ralph, Banan • a Splits epitomized the riding, nature study and Agnes and Glenn, seated with ultimate in sheer, bliss. When l rcforrslation projects are being Jim Robb in front of Uncle Richie was twelve, George Pinkney was Choicr�• ollsidered. "There is also Smith's store, boss of a group of women Toug potential for vvoodlot Of course we always stopped spreading flax for the old flax- dc•nlonstrations in the hardwood to talk to them, even -though I mill. My brother , Bill asked for a the forest and elusion control usually saw Uncle Willie every job for me, since I was too scared dculunstrations. .day. ,Jim Robb and I were Sunday to do it. 'rhe Ausable-Bayfield School pals, since he was The result was that George Conservaiiilil Authority currently treasurer and librarian and i was asked • if I was any good at has 1,000 square miles of the his helper. How everyone loved working. Receiving a reply in the Ausable and Bayfield Rivers' that man! No one could ever affirmative he -said he would try ``' • waicrshccl under its jurisdiction forget the elaborate drills he me out. 1 had to come around and and owns, approxin)ately 7,000 taught us and which we proudly see him and in the course of the o, acres of parkland and Authority performed on special days in conversation he said I was hired Forest lands. Victoria Park or at Sunday School but he wasn't too sure 1'd stick ...cnnake you money '* ..527~0240 USED CARS and TRUCKS 1968 Chev. Van, 6, Auto. 1969 Ford, 2 -door H.T. 1968 Rambler Stationwagola 1971 Meteor Rideau 1968 Dodge Truck 1971 Mercury Marquis 1969 Chev. Impala, 2 -dr. H.T. 1972 Chev. Belair, 4 -door `.. ti•�d.11r �-wwwwV� �`��w !'IV LVn,J.. �►� VL' ` FORD Phone 527-1140 Seaforth MERCURY I The best value in your next grass- Versatile enough to handle all the chores drove around the streets. I traffic and how much he could whole dollar s worth -a Banana because we want to•see you again, too much ? Is 12 enough ? o recognised houses I had once communicate with a gesture or a Split. i Ausabie�Ba Name the Date and ■ field We'll Demonstrate includes-sho,reline; known and visited long ago. Although I rarely spend time raised hand. When he was pulling•down the I thought he was joking but when the season ended and I And we'll help you fi6d the right �� vv isf�ing I could turn bark the old Apple Evaporator, next to our collected- my th•irtywdolI rs, 1 got clock, for a fleeting moment, l house. I went over to visit with my Super Sundae -it took me a, j fhe Ausable•Bayfield the Lake Huron shoreline within and Ail) give the Authority thought how nice it would be to be him. He t0d me, laughingly, that long, long, time to finish it but i Conservation Authority has voted rth Watershed, jurisdiction enabling it in the a kid again waiting foe Spring to if he had known he was going to did manage somehow, while my i in favour of enlarging itti area of 'rhe lakeshore addition make-, future to undertake shoreline arrive in Seaforth. demolish it, he'd never have put friends stood or sat around, during jurisdiction by including a portion the Authority the first u, have til, projects I began to long for it when all those nails in it when he built the marathon. No ordinary dish of Goderuh township as well as Lake Huron shoreline in its cope •fhe• purchase of a 550 acre those January, February it, held it..lt was served on a platter, pine c of property for 51.90.00(1 was bliiiards blew in for a three or Once when i was older, and For quite some time after my •, /////rriiay �<r..� . !,: „tri//i/sill/i%il . "!i %�iriia//�i///iyi�//ioi ,..../i��..zi �/�' also agreed upon at the full Authority meeting held on four days intervars from the Although every fire helping to serve at a tea on our lawn. he appe tite for Sundaes seemed to diminish but for long north-west. church was amazed that not and soon yIhursdav night in Exeter. The (three in all) was blood -red and such a slim girl as i could they were back again in -my -,good property is located ab6ut 2.3 miles belching -out heat, it still seemed- c_crn�.ume so many stuffed favour! northv;cst of London just north of chilly, y tomatoes and show no trace of One Spring, (in spite of the fact Classified Highwav 7 and is immediately We continucsusly shovelled a them. He, laughed, threw both that the sidewalks 'were bare;) upstream frorn the f arkhill path out U1 the highway, but just hands u in the ait, shook his . didn't run true to form (unscrvatiun Arca. rhe Ontario as fast it filled in again. Schools head in bewilderment and gave It was the first Spring after we Ministry of Natural Resources were often closed but once in up-, Every town should have a had moved to Gait. In Galt, we will he funding 75 percent of the awhile a few of us waded, Jim Robb to teach us something had purchased our new Easter purchase cost and the remaining hip -deep to reach school, only to about living. finery -a green coat with red fox 1I Ads 25 percent of' tile cost will be find a class of nearly forty Those long July days were fur around the bottom new black covcrcd by n using funds available ' diminished to mere ten.We took wonderful. No day was ever half patent pumps, and a reddish through the Authority'% our lunch and stayed at school till long enough for all the marvellous brown hat trimmed with a bunch Foundation. four o'clock and had to fight our things we -had planned. of red cherries. One of the main ,reasons for w•ay home again. However it was When i looked at the wilder 1 decided i would return in all acquiring ihiy property is for the fun even if our eyelashes froze on ness behind the Old Bell Engine my splendour and dazzle Sea- I n protection and preservation of vallcylancls for the future use by the homeward journey and we were soaked clear through, and Thresher Plant, I mourned a little for my old childhood haunts- forth. Arriving on the "late" train, l found the station in the general puhlic .in accordance W01 time passed somehow! 1 "fhe Shiner...„Axn.ent's pasture darkness, a blizzard blowing and ,6 l:! 11 with the Authority's general aims can remember making •a .peek- for the sawmill horses and Danny when I stepped down from the and objective% for management of hole, with my tongue, on out front Shanahan's cow pasture. The train. my new patent leater shoes file rcrrcwable natural resources parlour window and wondering.if blue flags, the buttercups, the were engulfed in snow up to my wilhin its watersheds. I'd ever live lung enough to see field daisies, sheep nose's tree knees. G'fhe The property consists of 190 spring again. and thorn apples all seemed All the Easter Holiday, I wore` acres of workable land as well as The great day arrived at last! suddenly far off in , time. my Aunt Minnie. Nixon's winter 50 acres of hardwood forest and How did 1 know? Well it was 1 was pleased to see our old coat. her galoshes, mitt s and Gabout300 acres of valte,.land really quite simple. Every barn and my Grandad Nixon's thick scarf and when we decided slopes and h tonlland. Roger merchant on Main Street 'was out Standing there just ,. as 1 (four of us) to go dancing at St. Maruti, ' Authority Resoorces with an iron crow -bar, and remembered them. Such fun we Columban we rode in a cutter and Manager• statist that there are shovels, hacking the winter's ice had there! almost perished coming and no specific plans set iti flow the off his portion of the pavement. Upon Jarvis Street, I saw the going. O land might be used by the When they had cleaned the houses my Great Grandfather Speakinilf the station; hfeft as- Aulhority, hurt that a number of street down to the cement, 1 knew Patrick Spain built and 1 felt good if 1 were losing an old friend when things are being considered. it was Spring. 'Crows and robins again. I read about the decision to Otic of the considerations is the might be harbingers to most There were still some links• for demolish it. it struck home when or•ganving of . a year-round pc•c)ple but i relied on a dry street me with the past and 1 was glad l i actually stood and looked at it, 0llI S1•rVal toU, field as a sure sign. had returned again for a short now half -gone: -What memories it �education erotic` oil irl% property. This Life began all over again. Out retreat into my childhood days, holds for Seaforth people! What Expositor would ensure the continuation came the skipping ropes, roller July days were hot and we heartache and ecstacy, what and expansion of the Authc sty's skates, marbles, -jacks and base- longed for money to buy ice- nostalgic longings it conjures up. present- part-time c•onscrvation- ball, bats. We could hardly to Cream. My idea of heaven was to 1• presume that some later education program operated at dragged home to ea! or sleep. fall into a large ice-cream con generations will wonder what a Camp Sylvan. The 550 acre It was fun to go uptown for the tainer and have to eat my way station was: / property has poles ial for this mail after the six o'clock train had out. The next best',. was to have a An Expositor Classified will Nur N+tir ane ul interest for such •a I I l.a p<.. � .. , passed thrbu' h and find on a David Harum at Box's ice.Cream a you dividends. Have you tried pay Y Y , 9 D• 1527 024 NOW Is the time to ' get rid of those weeds in your lawn with WEED • and FEED PROTECT YOUR ROSES WITH ROSE DOCTOR 3 and 7 -lb. boxes or the economy 15 -lb. bag We Still Have SEED CORN available. FERTILIZER and SPRAYS BALER TWINE FOR YOUR GARDEN NEEDS Tomato and Potato Dust Flower and Vegetable Dust Ant and Grub Killer Green Elf Plant Food 40%-C'hlordane for Wire Worm _and grugs in Lawns. 09 6 W , Seaforth al I,1 \ l,ls )cell s lt)wtl. wdl ill, so t, . unc evening ride Parfour or a Banana Spilt at one. to 0. getIn addition, ctnlping. hiking, Willie Smith (the painter and C rich's on a Saturday evening, S wildlife view ing,, horseback paper hanger) and uncle of Ralph, Banan • a Splits epitomized the riding, nature study and Agnes and Glenn, seated with ultimate in sheer, bliss. When l rcforrslation projects are being Jim Robb in front of Uncle Richie was twelve, George Pinkney was Choicr�• ollsidered. "There is also Smith's store, boss of a group of women Toug potential for vvoodlot Of course we always stopped spreading flax for the old flax- dc•nlonstrations in the hardwood to talk to them, even -though I mill. My brother , Bill asked for a the forest and elusion control usually saw Uncle Willie every job for me, since I was too scared dculunstrations. .day. ,Jim Robb and I were Sunday to do it. 'rhe Ausable-Bayfield School pals, since he was The result was that George Conservaiiilil Authority currently treasurer and librarian and i was asked • if I was any good at has 1,000 square miles of the his helper. How everyone loved working. Receiving a reply in the Ausable and Bayfield Rivers' that man! No one could ever affirmative he -said he would try ``' • waicrshccl under its jurisdiction forget the elaborate drills he me out. 1 had to come around and and owns, approxin)ately 7,000 taught us and which we proudly see him and in the course of the o, acres of parkland and Authority performed on special days in conversation he said I was hired Forest lands. Victoria Park or at Sunday School but he wasn't too sure 1'd stick ...cnnake you money '* ..527~0240 USED CARS and TRUCKS 1968 Chev. Van, 6, Auto. 1969 Ford, 2 -door H.T. 1968 Rambler Stationwagola 1971 Meteor Rideau 1968 Dodge Truck 1971 Mercury Marquis 1969 Chev. Impala, 2 -dr. H.T. 1972 Chev. Belair, 4 -door `.. ti•�d.11r �-wwwwV� �`��w !'IV LVn,J.. �►� VL' ` FORD Phone 527-1140 Seaforth MERCURY I The best value in your next grass- Versatile enough to handle all the chores cutting machine call's for tough ques- you have. We have to fit you right, tions. Push it, ride it, drive it? Is 5 hp because we want to•see you again, too much ? Is 12 enough ? o Even if it takep years. We've got some tough answers. No matter which iH equipment you choose — Cadet tractors or power mowers -- Name the Date and it'll be a sound choice. Because you'll get a tough piece of machinery that We'll Demonstrate gives more service because it demands r less attention. And we'll help you fi6d the right �� size. Not too big. And not too small, » either, i1MR1 iARYES'1'ER ARM EOUIP SENT LTD "TSE BUSINESS RELIABILITY BMLT” $27-0124 .AYR ..... 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