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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,
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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.
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6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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p<.. � .. ,
passed thrbu' h and find on a
David Harum at Box's ice.Cream
a you dividends. Have you tried
pay Y Y ,
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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
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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
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size. Not too big. And not too small,
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