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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-09-04, Page 3e by Nancy Ancirows First •iitpressionsI4eron1 lastin $5,090 Joan town Banker Eri#P, pyna - the *wig >vay-to go nboot: it -bm not having proper records ,' and the' bettei way by ,ahOwing the banker records which would demonstrate the farmer's ability, Another skit showed. Farmer, Ponold Hetabeing told by his son frftl Wrn ,a,411 icap,nakav 'that •he fiboilid not be fee 'ding liis 'Palf straw but should be fe ,ocliusotore nutritious feed. • 9f tb9, of Agriculture Clinton, was in charge of the exams which may,, count 200 points' out of the 1,000 points for 41-1 pxojecti Butcher Your BEEF or PORK at DUBLIN MEAT MARKET WE: -kill -hang -cut -trim -wrap -freeze WE ALSO: -make your lard -sausage -headcheese -cure meats CUSTOM KILLING DAYS BEEF — WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS PORK — MONDAY AFTERNOONS TEL. 34S-2360 BY APPOINTMENT EYES ON YOUR PAPERS ! — These kids are members of the Seaforth 4-H Silver Spurs Club, a horse and pony group. 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ROBERT DINSMORE Seoforth 527-1224 MAIK_ MIM__K___WW_M__WWW: It Is Time For A Change In' HURON,BRUCE hr.e. .;.v•te•r , .m•er:c 'fedi BILL WALDEN Progressive Conservative SEPTEMBER 18 Together it Can Be Bettfr! Bill Walden is dedicated to the full time service of your interests, The Progressive Conservative Party record has been "A Good Life For You" for the past 32 years o_v 4, is going on in the country. With Seaforth and Clinton, both having their Centennial this year, there was plenty to do. Besides, there was the annual carnival, fairs, craft and flower shows. One weekend a girlfriend came from London. We're both single and over twenty-one so we thought ive'd discover the Huron County night life. On Friday, we went to a dance at the arena, and onrSaturday I was still getting blamed for the shortage of single, unattached males, at the dance. There was a ,country singles dance on that Saturday, surely there would be single, eligible guys there. A definite curse would have fallen on my head, if we didn't have a good time, so you can imagine my stapification when I looked in the windows and saw the over fifty crowd. "Oh-h-h Nancy," my friend groaned. I should have suspected this, because doing my laundry at the laundromat, ' several . months before I heard one senior citizen ask another if he was going to the singles' dance that night. I thought it was some kind of joke and promptly forgot about it. One of the guys at the boarding house had been to one, and had said he had a good time. Why am I so gullible, I thought as I entered. Convincing my friend to come, I told her she'd never have to worry about seeing any of these people again. We walked in the door, and right off she recognizes one of the guys in the band as a university class-mate. After the music started, every- body was getting up to dance. Although the majority, were over fifty, there was still a fair number who hadn't seen 30. We danced all evening, and one thing that can be said, js those guys really like to dance. They might be oldies but they're smoothies. Here is an excerpt from .the letter my girlfriend wrote about her weekend in Seaforth. "The more I thing about it (and tell 'my friends) the more I realize it, Seaforth does have a lot going for it--the friendly people, the sun , and said good morning. I returnz, shine...and even the country LI ,Atie,,„miirg.P.14..414.--.R.WAile,,,,singles!‘,41ance,.."4.She.,went on to .uld _smile _first. and: ca y.geed. --say -she -met:al„ -elug-rnate who., thorning to a aplete stranger. played at the dance, and the first This is almost unheard of in the cities. Small towns are special, because even newcomers are welcomed.• If they don't. know you, they thing they should. How many Seaforth residents returned home to wonder whose daughter that girl was. The only thing that really irked , me about small town people is the way they tell a story. It begins like a regular tale, then the plot stops as the story teller asks, you must know so-and-so, he was the brother or the woman who married John Doe. The listener shakes her head. Their farm is two mile and a quarter out, the old farm of Jones or the Smiths. After about five to ten minutes of this, the listener often says. No, I don't know him. Then it's on to the next subject or the tale is completed. In a small town, news travels pretty quickly and it always seemed the reporter is the last to know. One morning was wasted trying to contact a fireman or the 0, fire chief about a fire that occurred. After having made num erous calls, with no results, a • girl in the office ,told me she knew all about it. This summer, I boarded at the Hunt's which is located on Goderich Street West. The house is run by Frank and Isabelle Hunt 'and we just happen to go to the same church. The Hunts have been the epitome of hospitality, welcoming my family and friends When they came for a visit. Most city people think nothing little better if you can get to Clinton, and arrange a ride from there. Every few weeks, it was necessary to beg, borrow, or steal a ride home. One Friday, I was so desperate, I put, up a "Ride Needed" sign in the Expositor window. Thankfully, a former boarder of Mrs. Hunt was going my way, so the sign came down. I was definitely doubtful of accept- ing a ride from any characters that might happen to see the sign. A bus leaves for London only early in the morning, so it made it pointless to get home Saturday afternoon, only to catch the returning bus Sunday afternoon. One Friday, the editor gave me a ride to Stratford where I just made the bus, which was a couple of minutes late. The employee said there was a two hour wait in London, As the bus drove into the London station, I could see a train either entering or leaving the London station. That could be leaving for Windsor, I thought, so I ran to the train station, where I heard the last call for Chatham, and Windsor. No time for a ticket, the train attendant The regular meeting of the Horticultural Society will be held in the Seaforth town hall on Wednesday, September 10th at 8 p.m. A film on Gardens of Vienna will be shown, and a report will be given from annual convention. ****** There will be a special meeting of the Ladies Aid of First Presbyterian Church, to celebrate their 75th Anniversary on October 7 1975 at 2:30 p.m. There will be no September meeting. ****** Seaforth Community Centre fund raising meeting to be held Tuesday September 9 at 8 p.m. at the lower library. • ****** Pot luck supper and meeting of the Seaforth Hospital Auxiliary on Tuesday Septerfiber 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the board room of the hospital. Please bring plate and cuttlery. New members welcome. ****** The Happy Citizens group of Seaforth will meet for Euchre said, asthe pointed for me to get on the train. Catching the train, just in time, I sat down to recuperate. "Ticket please," the conductor said. "I didn't have time to buy one, could I buy one now," I asked, breathlessly. "You didn't have time to buy one," the' conductor shouted and all heads "turned my way, "and we're an hour late!" The other passengers snigger- ed, I wasn't alone, another girl timidly went up to get her ticket from him. If my first impression of Seaforth, was of a cold, bleak, dying town, my lasting impres- sion of Seaforth will be of the warmth of the people. Places like Seaforth' give small towns their good name. Now some local residents might be sighing • with relief, after having skimmed down the column to see if I told that particular tale. I'll be taking a lot of happy and humerous memories with me when I leave and all I can say to reassure the skimmer s is those other anecdotes are not for publi- cation, "at this time." games in the Seaforth Legion Hall on Thursday September 4th at 2 p.m. Visitors Welcome, Ladies please bririg lunch. ****** About forty years have passed since the formation of the flensall Women's Institute. With the Fall begins a new year of monthly gatherings which emphasize the importance of women's education and contributions to the comm- unity. Every worhan in the 'Institute has the opportunity to, participate in a variety of ways whether arranging for guest speakers or a chance to make the democratic process work at the grass roots level. Helpers and leaders alike find in volvment every month. September's meeting will be a pot luck supper. An open invita- tion is extended to women to join us for supper on September 10 at 7 p.m. in the Legion Rooms. This is International Women's Year so we ask "Why Not" Why not come out this Fall and see what the li was elcani night for, 4f members in the south part of Huron Wednesday night. Over 151) members gathered at Huron Centennial School Bruce- field, to write down on paper what they had learned during the past term on the various projects they had been studying. Members of the Exeter 4H Calf Club presented a skit on The Advantages of Being a 411 member at the 4H Exam night at Huron Centennial School at Brucefield, Wednesday night. Miss Jane Pengilley, Huron County Home Economist, in commenting on the skit, which was divided into five small skits, said it was well-organized and well presented. One skit demonstrated how the 4H member learns control, and good nutri tion; another the importance of understanding banking procedures and the importance of having a good credit rating; the third demon- strated the value of attending conferences; the fourth the fun.of taking part in an exchange program and visiting another district and the final skit showed the recreation gained by members from the 4H clubs. One skit showed Farmers Wayne Shapton arrangingrfor. a Women's Institute is all about? ***** The Seaforth Women's Intitute will hold their September meeting on Sept. 9, 8:15 at the home of Mrs. R.M.Scott. Miss Belle Campbell will be guest speaker - Schools of Yesterday. The roll call is to bring school books for' a display and to tell something about them. Motto is education is not merely 'the road to earning a living but it is that which makes life worthwhile. Lunch is to be convened by Mrs. James Keyes. SDHS (Continued from Page 1) On the decrease side, of the ledger, Clinton public School was, down to S65 from 603 and Victoria in goderich was down 35 to 416. Director of Education Cochrane commented that total enrolment was down 991 from 1969 when the Huron board was first established. fir 4, '9, Throughout my summer in Seaforth, everybody and his brother has asked how I liked the town. Knowing this to be dangerous ground, I avoided answering other than by vague generalitites. Since this is my last , week. with the Expositor I thought I could # risk telling about a few of my impressions of Seaforth. I've got my suitcases packed anyway.. The editor, Susan White adver- tised for the postion of summer reporter at the University of Western Ontario in London, where I was just completing my third year. I'd applied at the Globe and Mail, at the Toronto Star, and by this time, through the process of elimination, things were definitely looking bleak. When I saw the name Seaforth, a picture of beach balls and sun tans must have, flashed through my mind, because I applied. My interview was in April, the week of the big snowstorm. Not having a car, I had to come when I could get a ride. Slowly the car inched the stretch of road from Kippen to Seaforth. The wind was 4 blowing the snow across the deserted highway. Then, we came to Seaforth! It's hard to believe how bad it looked to me that Saturday. Just coming from the barren stretch of high- way, Seaforth seemed like a settlement in the middle of no man's land. The dirty snow piled high, the cars slushing along, the old buildings, this town, I thought to myself, is on its way down. So, if Susan White had offered me the job then and there, I probably would have torn out of the office in a state of panic. The job situation, looks bleak, but it's not this bad, I thought. Susan didn't offer me the job right away, and, later when she called to suggest a week trial, I was more rational. I was impress- ed with the editor's many story ideas and her commitment to the community, so I decided to come for •the week, and take it from there. I'm not sorry. The first few days, I was amazed at the number of people Who met me on the street, smiled thing he mentioned was the single's dance and she added "but I don't regret going Imagine that!" The rural population must have been rather dubious when I started to write about farming. Attending an 'Ontario Federation of Agriculture meeting, and talk- ing to some bean producers, I innocently asked what kind of beans they were talking about, soybeans. "Where do you come from?" they replied. One night at the supper table, I asked one of the boarders who is a farm hand at a local farm if he was cutting hay in the front field, because I had passed it earlier that day. "Hay", he asked quizzically. "You sure it was' hay," he continued. "Hay, barley, wheat, it was yellow and lying on the ground, heck how do I know, what it is," I answered. There was shocked silence, then sniggers all along the table. Mrs. Hunt defended me in a way, "How do you expect a city girl to know the difference?". Well, I'm not exactly from the city, but a rural municipality..., I would mutter. My father doesn't farm, but has a few acres. "It wouldn't be so bad, if she had said it was' wheat," the farmhad shook his head soulfully. Transportation into and out of Seaforth was a real headache. From Windsor to Seaforth, is only an eight hour bus trip if you don't mind a three hour wait in Stratford on a Sunday night. It's a You're invited THE SEPARATE SHOPPE Main Corner Clinton• (NEXT TO CAMBELL'S MEN'S WEAR )